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  • A submerged street in Akurana town after Saturday’s rain. Picture by Asela Kuruluwansa
    Floods in Akurana
    Akurana town and the adjoining area in the Kandy district were flooded following heavy rains on Saturday evening.Akurana and a two-kilometre stretch towards Katugastota on...
  • Currency devaluation not a phenomenon peculiar to SL - Hakeem
    The currency depreciation in the face of the US Dollar is not a phenomenon particular to Sri Lanka, but common in many countries in South and East Asia. Therefore, it is very...
  • The scene of the accident. Picture by Asela Kuruluwansa
    Accident at Ginigathena injures five
    A head-on collision of a van plying from Seeduwa to Nuwara Eliya and a Colombo-bound private bus from Hatton at Rampadeniya, Ginigathena, at around 7 am on Saturday injured...
  • JO divided into Mahinda, Gota camps - JVP
    The Joint Opposition group is now clearly divided into two camps known as the Mahinda Camp and Gota Camp , JVP leader MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake said.Since it is mandatory...
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  • Malwatte Mahanayake Most Ven. Tibbotuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thera & Asgiriya Mahanayake Most. Ven. Warakagoda Sri Gnanarathana Thera
    Mahanayakes seek Govt. intervention to defeat divisive forces
    The Mahanayakes of the Malwatte and Asgiriya Chapters yesterday called for the government’s intervention to defeat nefarious forces trying to destabilise the country by creating disputes among the...
  • Minister Lakshman Kiriella arrives for the opening of the new coordinating office. Picture Asela Kuruluwansa
    Minister slams MR for duplicitous India policy
    The whole country is now familiar with Mahinda Rajapaksa’s duplicitous policy of kicking up anti-Indian feelings locally and extending the hand of friendships to India when he visits that country,...
  • The crowd that gathered outside the cave in Ragala where the victims entered for hunting. Picture by Asela Kuruluwansa
    Bodies found in Ragala cave
    Ragala Police on a tip-off found bodies of two persons in a cave in the upper part of the St. Leonard forest area, yesterday morning.Investigations revealed that they had left their houses for...
  • Prices of 23 drugs drop
    Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said the government reduced the prices 23 pharmaceutical drugs including 10 expensive cancer drugs and some medical equipment, with effect from midnight on...
  • The Randoli Perahera of the Sri Dalada Maligawa. Picture by Sulochana Gamage
    Final Randoli Perahera today
    The final Randoli Perahera of historic Esala festival in Kandy will parade streets today.The Tusker, Nedungamuwe Raja carrying the Sacred Relics Casket of the Buddha will join the Perahera at an...
  • Veddah Chief Vishwa Keerthi Vanaspathy Uruwarige Vannila Aththo offers bees honey.
    Adivasis offer bees honey to Sacred Tooth Relic
    Sri Lankan Aborigines (Adiwasis) offered bees honey to the Sacred Tooth Relic at the Sri Dalanda Maligawa in Kandy led by Veddah Chief Vishwa Keerthi Vanaspathy Uruwarige Vannila Aththo yesterday...
  • Tuskers carrying the Sacred Relics during the recent Kumbal Perahera perahera. Picture by Asela Kuruluwansa.
    First Randoli Perahera today
    The first Randoli Perahera of the historic Esala Perahera will parade the streets of Kandy, today.The historic Esala Perahera got off to a start with the Kumbal Perahera parading the streets on...
  • Two youth die in motorcycle accident
    Two youth died when their motorcycle veered off the road and fell into a pond near the D’Alwis Roundabout at Galaha, Peradeniya, police said. The motorcycle had hit the side barrier of the pond and...
  • JO agitating for nothing - Minister Ganesan
    Minister Mano Ganesan said he could not understand why the Joint Opposition (JO) was so agitated about Kurunegala district MP Mahinda Rajapaksa being questioned by the Police as even the President...
  • Father, son thrown off Giant Wheel
    A father and his three-and-a half year-old son who were among revellers at the Esala Mela Festival at the Peradeniya Getambe Municipal Grounds were seriously injured and admitted to the Kandy...
  • Dalada Maligawa 3rd Kumbal perahera today
    The Third Kumbal Perahera (procession) of the Esala Festival of the Sri Dalada Maligawa will begin parading the streets at 7.41 pm today.The Perahera will start from the Southern division of the Sri...
  • Kandy Esala Maha Perahera begins today
    The ‘Esala Maha Perahera,’the most colourful cultural pageant held annually as a pooja to the Sri Dalada Maligawa and four Dewalas in Kandy will start parading the streets of Kandy today.Diyawadana...