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Sri Lanka’s main passport office at Punchi Borella in Colombo went into emergency mode last night to issue scores of rapid deployment soldiers new passports to go to earthquake-devastated Nepal in a mission to join relief operations there. Pic by Indika Handuwala. Inset shows people clearing rubble in Kathmandu’s Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was severely damaged by yesterday’s earthquake. AFP

UPFA insists on dilution of 19A

Lanka’s disaster-response team flies to quake-hit Nepal; death toll tops 1,200

UPFA splits for May Day: Two rallies

Kerry here Saturday; will open Vesak pandal

Asylum-seeker returns with shattered dreams

Just 6 years on and Sigiriya museum already gone to the monkeys

Research vessel’s crew ‘harboured’ for 18 months

Lanka frantic to win back billion-rupee EU catch

Belated festivities or public nuisance

End of war does not necessarily bring peace- CBK

Toothless NBRO challenged by new landslide

Port City company says it has required government approvals

Electoral Reforms: Minor, Minority Parties major stumbling block to consensus

Eng. Channa Fernando responds

150 people to get dual citizenship on Thursday

Dept. claims coral, beach defence plans in hand

Excise Dept. and Customs to jointly stop illicit entry of Ethanol

Rules to govern sale of Buddhist flags and atapirikara

Prime Minister handed over deeds to families

Probe attack on social worker’s family: Muslim academics

Sea claims mother, 3 children relaxing on the beach

Opposition to ask for sacking of CB Governor Mahendran when House meets tomorrow

Probe into corruption allegations continues

Summoning MR to Bribery Conmmission brings out sharp differences

Specialists desert GMOA to join AMS as latter holds AGM

Bill to include fingerprints in passport

Customs say deputy minister tried to get seized copper rods released

Alleged Rs. 4,000 m fraud by CSN: Yoshitha, Sajin Vaas summoned

Get to know what’s included and excluded in RTI Bill

Six and half feet long crocodile was released

Lankan-origin candidate at UK polls receives death threats

Two little lives lost in three -wheeler accidents

Vesak- festival of lights, in all its grandeur this year

Yahapalanaya: Potential statesman on a tightrope

Mahindodaya with borrowed funds by another name

Kelaniya Uni undergrads protest Intake Reduction

Cabinet approves Rs 42m for Dhamma school teachers’ uniforms

Japan offers Higher Education MEXT Scholarships Programme for 2016

Classroom comes to disabled student- Viva Visakha!

WP Deputy Principals ‘discount’ service to avoid transfer alleges AVK

Education Ministry interdicts Principal for ‘incorrigible’ insubordination