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Keys of the first house built under the ‘Hisata Sevanak’ Programme, initiated by the Udangawa Village Development Society (UVDS) in the Katana Divisional Secretatriat, were handed over to 36-year-old widowed mother of 2 schoolchildren, Shanthi Pradeepika, by Western Provincial Counsillor Lalith Wanigaratne, at a simple ceremony last week. Pic by K.L. Richard Walter Perera

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New York Times exposé on Rajapaksa: FCID seeks Police Chief’s advice

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Burton-Taylor yacht seized in Colombo

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Big rise in air accident compensation

Kerawalapitiya power plant project delayed by blatant tender manipulations

Protests in north over sexual abuse and killing of six-year-old

Rosy says no to proposed new meeting hall for CMC members

Silumina editor passes away

Sunday Times photojournalist makes final journey

New Bill recognises right to reparations and to commemorate the dead

2015 patient’s death: DGHS yet to receive second probe report

New Village Development Authority for plantation region

New whetting procedure for Samurdhi beneficiaries to prevent political bias

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After months of haggling, National Audit Bill debate on Thursday

200 gang murders and counting, cops seek public help

Commercialisation making life unbearable for Colombo residents

Micro-finance wolves strike again with two more debtor suicides

Mail services back to normal, but postal unions deliver fresh warning

Local retailers under threat by foreign invasion

Destruction visits Mahaweli flood plains park

The adventures of Bom, Chippy, Snooky and co.

No sites, no drivers, no will to reform – the garbage problem mounts

Colonel Ratnapriya Bandu and the lessons of reconciliation

Pick of the Pix

Traditional mat weavers in the lurch

Abandoned buildings disfiguring the city

Bad weather blamed for poor harvest, high prices of upcountry veggies