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It’s the holiday season in Nuwara Eliya and the annual horse races are among the highlights. Here a street pooch decides to make a dash across the track, stealing the show.

Power crisis: Top official tampers with committee report

IRD gets new chief; tax collection back on track

Govt. to repeal controversial Takeover Act

Child abuse: Backlog of 17,600 cases in AG’s Dept.

Lanka to double air space rates, landing and other charges

Don’t misuse media freedom through unethical conduct: President Sirisena at Media Awards ceremony

Teachers yet to get new biology syllabus book

Government Printer brought under Ministry of Lands & Parliamentary Reforms

Fishing industry rogues blowing up marine habitat

In New Year messages, leaders highlight virtues of tradition

More buses, more trains for the holiday season

Multiple moves end blackout for Avurudu

Water supply can’t meet hot-weather demand

Fierce sun warnings ignored by festival organisers

Ground burst open and swallowed their families

Enhanced traffic fines after Parliament approval: Minister

Permanent confiscation of Tamil Nadu fishing boats caught trespassing

“A person arriving in BMW should not get an operation free at NHSL”

Brace for yet more union gripes and disruptions to life and work

Pick of the Pix

Whales, dolphins draw tourists to Mirissa

Exporting electricity to India a once-upon-a-time Lankan dream

Ragama Hospital launches kidney transplants

Tiny orchid with the name of a giant

Police declare war on errant private bus drivers

The revolt against virtue

NGOs blast US for undermining International Criminal Court