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Villagers have started returning to their homes in the  flood and landslide affected areas. Some of them find their houses fully destroyed as the others try to retrieve their belongings in the houses which have collapsed. A scene captured in Yatagampitiya,  Nagahadola in Kalutara on Thursday.  Pic by Indika Handuwala

3-Month grace on loan repayments for disaster victims: Central Bank

NBRO extends landslide warnings; death toll reaches 224 with 78 missing

PM cleared medically in NY, will attend UN Confab next week

SC orders Rs. 1m compensation to Police torture victim

SRI LANKA ART & CULTURAL MUSEUM IN NEW YORK

GSP+ not a carte blanche; SL remains under scrutiny: EU Commissioner

Unpreparedness reigned as lives, properties were destroyed

Neighbour sails in to boost flood relief effort

All gone in an instant

Cracks appear in historic cave

US donates Rs. 350 million in flood aid

Troops came out for relief and rescue

Health Authorities launch anti-disease campaign in disaster areas

Local officials recount their plight

‘Hams’ step in where all else fails

Indebted Lankans paying heavy price on essential goods and services

Meethotamulla victims fear obscurity due to floods, landslides

Upsurge in dengue numbers

Lanka floods: International defence conference calls for rapid response mechanism

Three Heads of Mission hold dual citizenship

Hundreds of Lankans at unity rally in Rome

Drones to detect who’s building it right and who’s not

Percy Gunasena former chairman of Independent Newspapers passes away

Sudden demise of Appeal Court Judge

Yala National Park a mess due to political meddling

Sampur pilot whales stranding will remain a mystery

Muthurajawela becoming environmental wasteland

For some time is a healer, for others war remains a festering abscess

Environmentalists and academics bitter-sweet on sugar cane cultivation in Bibile

Pick of the Pix

Pity the freshwater fishermen of the NWP

Submit Report on GCE A/L Admissions- AVK directs Officials

45 Schoolchildren perished in the recent devastation

SL to host Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education summit in 2019

Displaced children’s Education at a standstill: MoE

Hindi classes at the Indian Cultural Centre

Largest number of Sea Scouts in the Negombo District for the first time

NIBM’s maiden ‘Business Executive of The Year 2016′, award ceremony

South.Prov. reports 8 schoolchildren dead, 8 missing

Pre-school Creativity

Health Camps for Disaster Victims

‘City free of Polythene’- a la Kilinochchi MV

Flood-affected schools to reopen at Principals’ discretion: MoE

An ‘island-school’ amidst flood waters

MoE initiates relief plan for schools and students affected by the disaster

Update related circulars to develop Schools’ Sports: AVK

GCE Ord. Level 2017 Application deadline extended to June 15

Plan for 50-less-students schools facing closure: WP Education Ministry