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(News 1st): India initiated talks with the Taliban militants, the Indian foreign ministry said, which marks the first formal diplomatic engagement since the hardline Islamist group took over Afghanistan. Indian envoy Deepak Mittal met Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, the head of the Taliban’s Political Office in Doha, at the request of the Taliban, the foreign ministry said. The foreign ministry added that the two sides discussed the safety of Indians left behind in Afghanistan and the Indian envoy also conveyed India’s fears that anti-India militants could use Afghanistan’s soil to mount attacks. “The Taliban representative assured the ambassador that these issues would be positively addressed,” the foreign ministry said.

Novak Djokovic's bid for tennis history at the US Open got off to a bumpy start against 18-year-old Danish qualifier Holger Rune. Novak Djokovic survived a scare in the US Open first round but won 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-1Danish qualifier Holger Rune, 18, won the second set against the world No 1 on Wednesday'I got to say it's never nice to finish a match like that. It wasn't the best of my performance but he played well and I didn't serve well in the decisive moments of the second set. It was a curious set from Djokovic, with five double faults and 15 unforced errors telling its own story. Canadian Shapovalov raced into the second round with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Federico Delbonis of Argentina in just one hour and 49 minutes.

September 1, 2021 11:21 amA special three-member panel of judges has been appointed to hear the case regarding the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. Reportedly, the Chief Justice has appointed the aforementioned special bench. High Court Judge Damith Thotawatte will act as the presiding judge of the case. Judges Amal Ranaraja and Navaratne Marasinghe will serve as the remaining judges.

September 1, 2021 by Aazam Ameen No CommentsChief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya has appointed a 3-Bench Trial-at-Bar to hear the case relating to the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks of 2019. Accordingly, the Trial-at-Bar will consist of Justices Amal Ranaraja, Nawaratne Marasinghe and Damith Thotawatte. Justice Thotawatte will head the Trial-at-Bar.

Master tea maker Herman Gunaratne, one of 46 experts picked by Rajapaksa to guide the organic revolution, fears the worst. He says the country’s Ceylon tea has some of the lowest chemical content of any tea and poses no threat. Organic tea costs 10 times more to produce and the market is limited, Gurunada added. He said Sri Lanka’s food security had been “compromised” and that without foreign currency it is “worsening day by day”. Tea plantation owners say that on top of the loss of earnings, a crop failure would cause huge unemployment as tea leaves are still picked by hand.

The Ministry of Health will continue with its COVID vaccination programmes in many parts of the island today (September 01). Accordingly, the Sinopharm jabs will be administered to people in Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Nuwara-Eliya, Matale, Ratnapura, Kurunegala, Puttalam, Polonnaruwa, Anuradhapura, Monaragala, Badulla, Jaffna, Mullaitivu, Batticaloa, Kalmunai and Trincomalee districts. Meanwhile, the second dose of the Moderna vaccine will be rolled out in all MOH areas in the Kandy District. AstraZeneca first doses are delivered in the Kegalle District through all MOH offices and mobile vaccination teams. More details on the inoculation centres operated by the Health Ministry can be obtained from its official website.

British officials have opened talks with the Taliban about getting UK citizens and allies out of Afghanistan, it emerged last night. 'I would just say that since April when we have been planning and instituting this, over 17,000 British nationals, Afghan workers, vulnerable special cases are out. 'I know that the number of UK nationals, the particular responsibility of the Foreign Office, is now down at a very low level.' I can tell you that for UK nationals we've secured since April over 5,000, and we're in the low hundreds (remaining).' It is unclear how many of those British nationals who are still in the country have decided to stay of their own volition.

Photo: Thaiview (Shutterstock)The COVID-19 vaccines have become somewhat notorious for their side effects: fatigue, sore arm, maybe a fever. In a few rare cases, there are more serious complications, like inflammation of the heart. So is it riskier to get a vaccine or to take your chances with COVID itself? A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine set out to answer this question, comparing the moderate to serious symptoms people experience after the Pfizer vaccine with those that people experience with a COVID infection. But the way the Delta variant is currently raging, COVID is not a rare disease at all.

This marks the first occasion a Sri Lankan had been bought by a pro kabaddi league auction in the history of sports in the island. Kabaddi is almost synonymous with one of the oldest traditional sports in Sri Lanka named Chaggudu or Gudu. The PKL player auction was held from 29 to 31 August (yesterday) in Mumbai. Babar, who had studied at President’s College, Embilipitiya, plays kabaddi for the Sri Lanka national team and Navy. Like IPLThe PKL is a professional kabaddi league, launched in 2014 and is broadcast live on TV with considerable fan following.

Nicknamed ‘iron lady’ of the national cricket board, her versatile abilities had been very much known among the local cricket administrators for a long time. She had been suffering from a chronic kidney disease and was 56 years at the time of her demise. Pitigala had been working in the Marketing Department of SLC and, in 2012, was suspended from work unceremoniously for allegedly exposing some corruption of the then officials of the SLC Marketing Department. Later, Pitigala worked again at SLC in different other departments. Her funeral was held yesterday (31 August) in Colombo.

Nelson Mandela went onto the pitch wearing the team’s traditional green cap and jersey following South Africa’s unlikely 1995 Rugby World Cup win under Captain Francois PienaarSport has the power to change the world. Nelson Mandela saw the value in sport. He saw an opportunity to heal and unite an increasingly divided South Africa, wrote Sunil Sharma in February 2019. Mandela went onto the pitch wearing the team’s traditional green cap and jersey following South Africa’s unlikely 1995 Rugby World Cup win. Mandela saw the power of sport early on but in a number of different ways.

Participating in the Olympic Games is the dream of all sports persons. In that scenario when a teenager, and barely a teenager at that, qualifies and takes part in the Olympics, it certainly is an anomaly. Sky Brown is only 13 years old and is already an Olympic bronze medallist. By winning this medal, she has become the youngest Olympic medal winner in the history of Great Britain. When Sky won her medal, she won it less than a month after celebrating her 13th birthday.

By Pete Jenson and Ollie Lewis For MailonlinePublished: 11:32 EDT, 31 August 2021 | Updated: 15:43 EDT, 31 August 2021Antoine Griezmann has sealed a dramatic move back to Atletico Madrid' on loan from Barcelona with the obligation to buy. A deal between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid for Antoine Griezmann is closeThe Frenchman is open to a return to Atletico after a tumultuous time with the Nou Camp sideDe Jong will give Koeman another option up front with the cash-strapped club having lost Lionel Messi and now Griezmann, two of their marquee names. Griezmann had been linked with a swap deal involving Saul Niguez, who is set to join Chelsea, but hope of that was soon extinguished earlier in the transfer window. Despite the departure of superstar Lionel Messi this summer, Griezmann has still been linked with a Nou Camp exit. Earlier on deadline day, Mundo Deportivo reports that Griezmann could be returning to Atletico Madrid in a swap deal involving a different star, Portugal international Felix.

As the United National Party (UNP) approaches its 75th anniversary, Chairman Vajira Abeywardena has announced that a National Plan for the Building of Sri Lanka will be detailed during the anniversary celebration. The UNP is the parent political party that created various political parties in Sri Lanka. September 6 marks the 75th anniversary of the United National Party. UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe will make his address through Zoom and Facebook technology from 5 pm to 6 pm on September 5. Further, after September 6, 75 meetings across Sri Lanka using Zoom technology will take place.