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Hindu devotees, some of them carrying pots of fire, their cheeks pierced by ‘Vel spikes’, taking part in the annual ‘Adi Pooram’ festival of the Mayurapathi Badrakali Amman Kovil in Havelock Road, Colombo. Pic by Indika Handuwala

Wide-scale abuse of DPL bags

Lanka offers unqualified apology to India over MoD website article

Major highways on pillars in and around Colombo

Poaching crisis: Lanka takes tough stand

Customs probe alleged vehicle racket by state-bank subsidiary

New envoy presents credentials to Indian president

Candidates’ lists near completion as UPC nomination day draws close

Dead witness described councillor’s fury

A world without oil, gas and coal: Champika to launch his book

Premakeerthi’s wife drops bombshell at road-naming ceremony

Environmental destruction under our noses

Monday of misery in crime wave

Talk of Rs. 10 million marriage dowry prompts kidnap plan

Editors’ Guild honours Sam Wijesinha for defending press freedom

Govt. dismisses UN refugee agency’s concerns over repatriation of Pakistanis

Falsified reports, forged signatures galore in jambo registrations

Resounding call for media freedom after journalists claim harassment

Ben Eliatamby P.C. passes away

BASL Executives seek meeting with IGP regarding its President’s security

Probe report on baby elephants awaited

SL joins others in evacuating its nationals from Libya

Doctors’ dispute now shifts to law courts

CAA imposes maximum retail price on rice

Esala perahera: People complain they are being de-seated from the pavement

Boom times paid for in blood

Adult movies, loud music in private buses to stop

Five veterans who will be felicitated on Tuesday

Families, animals, suffer in a parched land

Champika’s claim of DCD in dansal ice cream raises heat

Big demand for Lankan spices abroad but supply not enough: Minister

Health services, health tips: Call 1959

Dengue campaign re-starts on Thursday