Kelanithissa Power Station shutdown as it ran out of fuel

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police officers are searching for four men they say fired multiple guns at a person at a gas station late last month. The incident happened at the Lukoil gas station market located on 600 N Delaware Avenue at 1:45 a.m. on Jan.

Quebec announces staggered reopening plan through to mid-March The most recent information shows 28,296 tests were given at screening clinics Monday.Quebecers continue to register their rapid test results on the government’s new website. More than 72,070 results have been declared, including 55,794 positive results.Meanwhile, 35,044 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered in the last day.

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Police in South Florida have identified the victim who fell to her death from a drawbridge that began rising while she was still on it.West Palm Beach police say the victim was identified as a 79-year-old woman from Palm Beach County, but would not release her name due to Marsy's Law, WPTV reports.The accident happened just after 1 p.m. Sunday on the Royal Park Bridge, when the woman was walking her bicycle westbound from Palm Beach toward West Palm Beach.PREVIOUS: Woman falls to her death from rising Florida drawbridgePolice said she was within 10 feet of the barrier arms that halt traffic when the drawbridge began to open."The woman tried to hang on.

WASHINGTON - The White House on Tuesday is launching an outreach campaign to get millions of families to file their tax returns in 2022 so they can receive the second half of payments from the expanded child tax credit.Vice President Kamala Harris, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and White House senior adviser Gene Sperling are hosting a "Day of Action" virtual event in the morning to encourage people to send their 2021 tax return forms to the IRS, including those whose incomes are so low that they might not have traditionally filed.The event, which begins at 9:20 a.m. ET, will include several lawmakers and nonprofits.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Talks between the Health Minister and the Health Trade Unions to solve a series of issues failed on Tuesday (8).Trade Union leaders have vowed to continue with their strike action.Earlier in the day, heavy traffic was reported along Deans Road in Colombo opposite the Health Ministry due to a protest by health workers.Hundreds of health workers marched from the Vihara Maha Devi Park in Colombo to the Health Ministry against the government’s failure to remove salary anomalies and address their grievances, despite recent token strikes.The unions demand that the authorities eliminate existing salary disparities in the sector just as they eliminated the teacher and principal salary anomalies.Health workers across Sri Lanka including nurses, and Public Health Inspectors are on strike citing multiple demands.They resorted to the indefinite trade union action from Monday (7).As a result of the strike activities at the Colombo General Hospital, Kandy General Hospital, 24 Teaching Hispitals, 26 General Hospitals, 46 Base Hospitals, 410 District Hospitals and 293 MOH Officers came to a complete standstill. 

Speaking to the media on Monday, Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly said police have targeted both the “funding” – in the form of the GoFundMe crowdsourcing effort, which was halted in part due to police action – as well as the “fuel” in a literal sense, banning any fuel from going into the demonstration site.

This image shows the gray Toyota pickup truck connected to a fatal hit-and-run on Feb. 5, 2022.  PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Police Department has released video of a truck wanted in connection with a fatal hit-and-run that took place on Saturday, Feb.

Coronavirus infection rates have fallen across all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, data has revealed.

battled COVID-19 in late 2020. His case was very severe, landing him in the ICU and leaving him with long-term side effects. Jeremih spent a good portion of the last year getting himself back to peak health in the wake of the illness“That was life-changing for me last year.

Maharashtra in the last 24 hours – a shark fall of 3,230 from a day ago – said the state health department on Monday. 

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka’s Public Utilities Commission said that the Ceylon Electricity Board has not requested permission for scheduled power cuts on Monday (7).However, the Ceylon Electricity Board noted that there may be power cuts if power plants run out of fuel or encounter a technical issue.Janaka Ratnayake, the Chairman of PUCSL said according to the available data is evident that the power generation is sufficient for the day and power cuts are unlikely for the next two days if sufficient fuel stocks are delivered.Sri Lanka’s Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila noted that fuel was provided to the CEB even after the agreed period for fuel delivery expired.‘The CEB publicly said that they would obtain fuel from IOC and India,’ said the Minister adding the CPC delivered fuel stocks to last for 10 days instead of 7 as requested by the CEB.The Minister further said that the Energy Minister has no issue if the CEB is in talks with IOC orr is making emergency purchases for electricity.

Covid-19 has caused thousands to temporarily lose their sense of smell but some might never get it back, a study suggests. Typically losing the ability to smell and subsequently taste lasts no more than a couple of weeks after catching coronavirus.

The actress Andrea Bordeaux says she was fired after she refused to get a COVID-19 vaccination for her Starz series Run The World.In an Instagram post from this weekend, the 34-year-old actress denied that she had chosen to leave the series, as was reported by Deadline on Friday, and instead claimed she had been kicked off the show.'Despite what the article says, I did not opt to leave the series and Lionsgate made no efforts to find a workable solution. I was fired,' she wrote in her lengthy caption.

PHILADELPHIA - A man has been killed in a hit-and-run that happened in South Philadelphia Saturday night. The incident happened at approximately 9:05 p.m. on the 1800 block of South Christopher Columbus Boulevard. Police were called to the scene when a passerby noticed a man laying in the highway. The man was suffering from a broken leg and head trauma.

Karnataka in the last 24 hours, taking the state's positivity rate to 6.5%, said state health minister K Sudhakar on Sunday.

education institutions, that were shut in late December and early January. 

Andrea Bordeaux is speaking out about her exit from Run the World.

Kirsty Gallacher said she has been feeling “pretty run down” as she took to Twitter to give her 429,000 followers an update last month.The 46-year-old-presenter last year stepped back from her role on GB News after she discovered a tumour in her ear.In a picture shared to a Twitter post last month, Kirsty could be seen soaking in the sun with her dog in a garden.The broadcaster penned: “After feeling pretty run down for a few days it’s so good to be feeling back to myself & out and about!“And what a beautiful day, the sun is out at last.

Canadian freestyle skier Mikael Kingsbury has won the silver medal in the men’s moguls event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

PHILADELPHIA - The 42nd Blue Cross Broad Street Run is set to return to its traditional spring date in just a few months and registration will open for some as soon as next week. After the COVID-19 pandemic has forced major changes to dates and formats over the past two years, the race is expected to look a little more normal this year.2022's iteration of the 10-mile race will be in person and participants must be fully vaccinated in order to take part. Runners will also have the option to participate in a virtual run.Masks will also be required for participants at the start and finish lines and volunteers will be required to wear masks throughout the race. Officials also say 'Cheer Zones' and finishing area activities have been suspended for the 2022 race, and spectators are encouraged to cheer runners on from home.Registration for the run opens at midnight on Monday Feb.

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Kerala, the state's COVID-19 positivity rate has decreased to 10 per cent, state health minister Veena George told news agency ANI today. She added that the state's fatality rate has also reached 0.9 per cent, which is also less than the national average.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka’s Energy Ministry says the Kelanitissa Power Plant will remain without fuel until a diesel tanker reaches the country on Monday (7).The country’s hydropower generation has already dropped to 32 percent.Data published by the Ceylon Electricity Board said there is limited fuel in thermal power plants.Power cuts were reported in many areas although the Ceylon Electricity Board had not made any announcement to that effect on Thursday (3).Although Sri Lanka’s power demand at nightstands at 2650 Megawatts, the CEB had been able to generate only about 2276 Megawatts.The CEB said that the Kelanitissa and Baththala power stations had not generated power as they had run out of fuel.The energy ministry’s secretary K.D.R. Olga said fuel had been supplied to the CEB as agreed.The secretary added that the power plants had run out of fuel before as more fuel had been used compared to the initial calculations.She added that the West Coast Power Plant had run out of fuel in 8 days despite being given fuel for 11 days.The Kelanitissa Power Plant was given fuel to run until Friday (4).The energy ministry says that the Kelanitissa Power Plant will remain without fuel until a diesel tanker reaches the country on Monday (7).It added that providing more fuel to the Kelanitissa Power Plant before that would create a shortage of diesel.

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 08: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a press conference at the Robert F. Kennedy Main Justice Building on Nov.

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities have arrested a suspect who is accused of intentionally hitting a Philadelphia father with his car a week ago in Port Richmond.According to FOX 29's Steve Keeley, 29-year-old Michael Colgan is accused of intentionally driving an SUV into 40-year-old Jason ‘Jay’ Panas on Jan. 28.Police responded to the 3200 block of Cedar Street after midnight and found Panas and another victim, 28, had both been struck by a white Cadillac SUV.Both victims were transported to Temple University Hospital where Panas later died and the other victim was listed in stable condition. Police later said Panas had engaged in a verbal dispute with the occupants of the Cadillac.

Coronavirus infection rates have continued to fall further in all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, according to the latest figures.

Hollyoaks after they feel he is not coping following the death of his abusive parter PC George Kiss.After raising a glass to the late Sylver McQueen ahead of the funeral, he revealed to Cher McQueen (Bethannie Hare) that he cannot stop thinking about George.Im upcoming scenes, John Paul loses sight of his little nephew Bobby Constello when they are in town, causing Mercedes McQueen (Jennifer Metcalfe) to panic even more.Fans will have to see what this means for John Paul and the McQueens.Since joining the Channel 4 soap in 2006, actor James Sutton has become a fan favourite.The star has led a very interesting life too, including an unusual career path, romance and a stint in a rival soap.Although James is well known to viewers as John Paul McQueen in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks, the actor has also had another role in a rival soap.The actor played Ryan Lamb in Emmerdale between 2009 and 2011, before leaving the village after his on-screen mum Faye departed the Dales too.Previously speaking to Holy Soap, James explained that his decision to leave Emmerdale was due to his desire to seek out new career projects, saying: "I came from Hollyoaks before that, so I've done five-and-a-half years on soaps now. "I'm privileged to have had that training and experience, but I'm 28 and I need to know what else is out there.

EXTON, Pa. - Authorities in Chester County are investigating a theft incident that was caught on video inside of a local mall. The incident occurred around 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Macy's in Exton Square.Police described the incident as a 'grab and run,' saying that three suspects entered the store, grabbed merchandise, and quickly exited the store and mall.The suspects, 2 females and a male, exited the mall and left the scene in two vehicles that had missing or covered license plates. RELATED HEADLINES: Another customer, who followed the group all the way into the parking lot, caught the incident on cell phone video.

MENLO PARK, Calif. - Facebook's daily active users dropped by roughly 1 million last quarter — a first in its history.Facebook parent company Meta posted a weak fourth-quarter earnings report on Wednesday due to a sharp increase in expenses. Forecasting revenue for the current quarter — which fell below analysts’ expectations — also sent its stock plunging 24.5% on Thursday, erasing more than $220 billion in market value and marking the largest drop in history.The fourth-quarter earnings report also revealed a drop in its daily active users (DAUs) — or the total number of people that engage in some way with the product on a given day. The social network’s daily active users fell from 1.93 billion in the third quarter of 2021 to 1.929 billion in the fourth, which a company spokesperson confirmed is the first quarter-to-quarter decline for the app in the company’s history.Facebook's daily active users rose 5% in 2021 compared to the year prior, while monthly active users increased by 4% in the same year-over-year period. CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned of slowing revenue growth due in part to increased competition from TikTok and other rival platforms vying for people’s attention.

The World Health Organization has offered Europe hope of a "long period of tranquility" and even "enduring peace" in the war on coronavirus, with a growing list of nations lifting almost all Covid curbs.

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka said that the Ceylon Electricity Board has not requested approval for scheduled power cuts.The PUCSL on Thursday (3) said that if such power cuts take place, the PUCSL will be forced to act based on the provisions of the Electricity Act.

Sweden will lift pandemic restrictions next week despite record levels of infections as it banks on booster shots and high rates of past Covid-19 infections to keep hospitalisation rates manageable.

New Zealand has announced a phased reopening of its border that has been largely closed for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but travel bodies have said self-isolation rules need to be removed to revive the struggling tourism sector.

LOS ANGELES - NASA says it plans to extend operations of the International Space Station until 2030 after which it plans to retire the station and crash it into a remote region of the Pacific Ocean commonly known as Point Nemo. "The International Space Station is a unique laboratory that is returning enormous scientific, educational, and technological developments to benefit people on Earth and is enabling our ability to travel into deep space. The Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to extend space station operations until 2030 will enable the United States to continue to reap these benefits for the next decade while U.S.

In June 2020, the Manchester Evening News spoke to five patients who were suffering from the debilitating effects of long Covid.

Beijing Olympics ever has tried the slope that’ll be used with medals at stake. Not yet, anyway.They might have given it a look — either via footage that made the rounds last year or, in recent days, because the course can be seen from where Winter Games participants are training.No one, though, is allowed to ski on the actual track that will be used for racing until Thursday, the first of three official training days planned ahead of the men’s downhill, which is scheduled to open the Alpine program on Sunday.

COVID-19, a decrease of 14 compared with the previous day.The province also recorded 3,816 new novel coronavirus cases. The government says this number is not representative of the situation, though, because official testing is limited to certain high-risk groups such as health-care workers and teachers.

COVID vaccines.The actor hit out at the podcaster in light of COVID misinformation spreading on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, which Rogan works on in an exclusive deal with Spotify.More than 270 members of the science and medical community signed an open letter, which called Rogan’s actions “not only objectionable and offensive but also medically and culturally dangerous”.“COVID is not an opinion-based situation and Mr Rogan thinking that his opinion or disclaimer for the lives he personally has affected and caused losses of – it’s not an opinion,” Stone said to TMZ.“Mr Rogan is risking people’s lives with his idiocy and his professing that his thoughts about COVID are opinions.“Infectious diseases are science, and they are fact-based situations, so the pretence that these are opinions is dangerous.“He should put a disclaimer that he’s an asshole and that his behaviour is dangerous and affecting people’s lives and deaths.”Rogan publicly responded to the situation earlier this week (January 31), as many artists have started removing their music from Spotify in protest.In a video clip posted to Instagram, Rogan addressed “some of the controversy that’s been going on over the past few days”.He told fans: “I don’t always get it right. I will do my best to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people perspectives so we can maybe find a better point of view.”Admitting that it is a “strange responsibility to have this many views and listeners,” he promised “to do my best in the future to balance things out”.

UPPER DARBY, Pa. - Police in Upper Darby are looking for a pair of males who have allegedly conducted armed robberies at area Wawa stores. The first incident happened on Jan. 29 at approximately 4:48 at a Wawa on State Road. Police say two males entered the store armed with handgun and demanded cash.

anti-money laundering watchdog plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic, new figures show, a deeply “troubling” sign for authorities tracking dirty money, financial crime experts say.The data from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) showed money laundering audits in real estate dropped from 146 in 2019-20 to just 53 in 2020-21 – a decrease of 64 per cent. That’s down from nearly 200 audits of real-estate entities in 2018-19.The new numbers, obtained through an access to information request, come as Canada’s housing market has been on fire for the last two years, with prices reaching historic levels fuelled by ultra-low interest rates and a lack of supply across the country.

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Sharon Stone was critical of Joe Rogan amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the spread of COVID-19 misinformation, and Spotify's decision to add a warning to all podcasts on its platform discussing the ongoing virus.Stone, 63, spoke Tuesday in Beverly Hills, California with TMZ, where she was asked about the ongoing developments over Rogan and his podcast, which drew attention last month after rock icon Neil Young pulled his music from the platform in protest of Rogan's content in regards to the pandemic.Rogan, 54, garnered controversy after a December 31 podcast of The Joe Rogan Experience in which he chat with Dr. Robert Malone, an anti-vaccine proponent who was previously banned from Twitter over the spread of COVID misinformation.

Photo taken on Oct. 26, 2020 shows the Tesla China-made Model 3 vehicles at its gigafactory in Shanghai, east China.

A pub landlady and brewery firm are set to go on trial after the death of a customer.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 20: Dr. Mehmet Oz attends The 2022 Champions Of Jewish Values Gala at Carnegie Hall on January 20, 2022 in New York City. A TV personality and former faculty member at Columbia University, Dr.