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With the dengue outbreak reaching epidemic proportions, hospitals in Colombo and other parts of the Western Province are overflowing with patients as portrayed in yesterday’s picture at the Base Hospital in the Gothatuwa New Town. Emergency operations are being conducted by public health officials, assisted by the security forces, to ensure that dengue mosquito breeding places are cleaned up. Pic by M.A. Pushpa Kumara

The July festival celebrated

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Plan to grant licences to limited number of Indian trawlers

Madushanka case: Maldivians can’t question family here

BIA duty-free complex: Confusion over tender deadlines

Salawa fire: Compensation for about 1,225 houses and businesses

CBSL crisis ends: Indrajit Coomaraswamy new Governor

Chinese workmen protest

Military boffins now into R&D to meet peacetime situations

We lock them up and throw away the key

Retired top cop’s death may point to medical negligence

NPC orders inquiry into STF Chief’s remarks threatening the media

Now Lankan boat owners in North take to bottom trawling

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‘Fleeced’ patients cry foul but hospitals have their way

Lankan snakes appear in bogus Rwanda stamp issue

A word in SC judgment adds confusion to the contentious coal saga

Drug traffickers getting smart, but authorities smarter

Homeowners in Colombo play hide-and-seek with dengue teams

Seven areas at high risk of dengue epidemics

Pallekandal shrine going ahead with alleged destructive plans

Pivituru Hela Urumaya Leader out on bail in misappropriation case

Namal charged with contempt of bribery body by failing to appear before it

16 elephants, eight people killed as human-elephant conflict rages in Hambantota

Photo focus: The crypts at Maggona

Shame of 100,000 children labouring in farms, homes and factories

CEB engineers’ union unhappy over power policy switch

Proposal to seek NBRO approval for any building islandwide in cabinet soon

Court stenographer injured by file HC Judge allegedly flung at her

Welder dies, son injured by collapsing temple overhang