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The Mattala airport built at a high cost and opened with much fanfare in 2013 lost its only scheduled flight on Thursday when Fly Dubai decided to terminate its services. The last flight is seen at the abandoned international airport. Pic by Rahul Samantha Hettiarachchi

Hambantota project: Chinese firm holds back US$ 585m

Medical specialists threaten to withdraw from private hospitals over “unfair” taxes

KDU Act to be amended to absorb SAITM students

Highest level task force to expedite North-East development

President requests Britain to arrest or deport editor of LankaeNews

CB tells Aloysius companies to disclose payments made from 33 banks

AG: TNL used unauthorised Channel; TNL Counsel: Action taken due to critical newscast

GPPAC-RCSS Week for Conflict-Prevention and Peace-Building

SC judgment calls for law reforms to expand grounds for divorce

2 alleged gangsters killed in shootout with STF

Adverse weather affects 12,000 acres of agricultural lands

Karandeniya PS deputy chairman shooting: One suspect arrested, other on the run

Riding with open umbrella proved fatal

Biyagama plant struggling with putrid water

SL Navy bags Crown-of-Thorns starfish haul

Days of downpours, winds ahead for several provinces

Script writer behind favourites such as Yashoravaya, dies

Roofs over their heads: When will that day dawn for 15,639 landless people in Jaffna?

It’s the flu, it’s not a new virus so don’t panic

A case of the jitters at crumbling, facility-less court in Hulftsdorp

Riding with open umbrella proved fatal

Karandeniya PS deputy chairman shooting: One suspect arrested, other on the run

Yashodha Range Bandara under guard in hospital

50 years ago Sri Lanka got its first ICU

Strike after strike cripples public utility services

Union says too many women running railway off track

Too much monkey business causing havoc on many fronts

Anti-corruption parliamentary caucus imperative to arrest spread of corruption

Pick of the Pix

The idyllic Katuwana Fort lies idling