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Thousands of NPP supporters gathered at Galle Face Green on May Day but as happens whenever there is a massive gathering, they left behind a trail of destruction including damage to a turtle hatchery. Also ignored were warnings of crocodiles being present around the area with many taking a sea bath as part of the May Day celebrations.

 

Sarnath Buddha relics in Viet Nam

Outrage as Buddhist relics go under the hammer in Hong Kong

Hambantota refinery and Port City logistics centre projects face delays over new demands

Search op at BIA after India’s terror warning

Sirisena suicide attack suspects in remand for 16 years

Universities to get anti-ragging officers with added power

Felicitation ceremony to honour Ven. Pallegama Hemarathana Thera

SLFEA suspends air ticket purchases from private sector for workers travelling to Israel, S. Korea

Govt. plans talks with China Exim Bank to resume work on Central Expressway

In few districts, crop pest count verification not complete

Govt. confirms commitment to GSP+ obligations

Retired Appeal Court Judge appointed as an RTI Commissioner

The Sri Lankan mission speaks of its work in quake-struck Myanmar

‘‘It was God who saved me’’: a Sri Lankan’s hairbreadth escape in the earthquake at Mandalay

Homagama gets antlers in a tangle over deer

Election campaigning continues on Workers’ Day

Percentage eligible to enter university ‘a cut above’ last years

Sri Lanka to lose OGP membership due to non-submission of action plan

All logistical arrangements in place for LG polls, say officials and monitors

Local councils should be able to act independently as in other countries, says Election Com Gen

LG polls 1991: When Gladstone had to pack his bags and leave

Door opens for electricity tariff upward revision in June

SC unhappy that order to arrest Royal Park murder convict not carried out for more than a year

Bleak weather on the cards

Kandy’s 10-day garbage pile a lingering headache for council

Offering of enadangered Ran Dothalu by President stirs debate

Non native palm introduced 150 years back, becomes invasive

Friend’s disclosure linking Sabaragamuwa University student’s suicide to ragging triggers social media outrage

Revealing census on government and semi-government employees concluded

Largescale logging racket raided within buffer zone of Wilpattu

State Vesak Festival to dazzle Nuwara Eliya

Police to expand CCTV traffic offender detection islandwide

Overseas Sri Lankans pump Rs 543b into economy in three months