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President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe posing for a group picture after the Cabinet reshuffle on May 1.

The reshuffle was the fourth since the new government took office in August 2015

Where have all the workers gone?

Kantale sugar factory bribery scam: Top official’s deals exposed

VAT a way to attract tourists

Rs. 135 million paid every month to 8,691 local council members

President advises PUCSL to approve more coal power plants

Half a billion dollars spent on gold imports, much of it smuggled to India

Met Dept warns: Beware of the heat and stay hydrated

NSSL in fight to secure jobs for registered dieticians in state hospitals

World RTI conference in Colombo

Indian grant for Dalada Maligawa cultural academy

Underworld gangster dies in shootout with STF

Minority parties oppose 20th Amendment

Lester’s lifetime award found on bus rack

Sri Lanka bids adieu to the Doyen of Sinhala cinema

May Day and May Days in a political landscape like no other

Gas and milk double punch strikes families in the stomach

Lankan doc heads Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health

Oddball council results no bar to extending voting system to provinces

Regulator tells illegal hoteliers: Beach is public property

Hospitals to ban tobacco- chewing on premises

Parliament seating arrangement changes as 16 SLFPers join opposition ranks

The fruit of our Grow More Trees Campaign

Gold tax shocks jewellers as sales plummet

FEO condemns rampant abuse of captive elephants and wildlife

First there were three, then two and then none

All aboard, and damn the rules

A colourful display for Vesak

Pt. Pedro centre cries for alms to heal 30 years of grief

Pick of the Pix

Kataragama pilgrims harassed, abused by pooja watti touts

Unemployed grads say case hindering their teacher appointments

‘No-fire’ zone within Matale’s Wiltshire mountain area