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  • Kandy Esala festival begins on August 12
    The annual Esala festival in Kandy will begin with Kap planting at four Devalas on August 12, Diyawadana Nialame Pradeep Nilanga Dela said.The first Kumbal Perahera will parade the streets on August...
  • ‘MR cannot be SLFP Co-chairman’
    Some people argue that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa should be made SLFP Co-chairman, but it cannot be done in terms of the party constitution, SPFP General Secretary Prof. Rohana Lakshman...
  • ‘Laws will be enacted to protect Buddhism from discredit’
    Laws will be enacted soon to prevent the discredit and dishonour made to Buddhism by distorting the Tripitaka, Buddha Sasana Minister Gamini Jayawickreme Perera said.An Advisory Committee with the...
  • Mahanayake Thera berates strikers
    It is the public who are ultimately inconvenienced due to the unending spate of strikes faced by the country. Solutions cannot be found to issues and problems unless there is flexibility on the part...
  • Seven foreign tourists saved from drowning
    Seven foreign tourists including a woman were rescued after their boat capsized in the Mahaweli river near the Haloluwa Seemamalakaya.People in the area with the assistance of the Police and the Navy...
  • Harmful human activity polluting Mahaweli river
    The Mahaweli River faces the danger of joining the band of the 10 most polluted rivers in the world within the next decade due to harmful human activity, a research done by the Peradeniya University...
  • Two underworld figures killed in shootout with STF
    Two underworld gang members were killed in a shootout with the Police Special Task Force (STF) in Madawala, Katugastota in Kandy on Saturday.According to the Police, they were close associates of two...
  • Paracetamol proves deadly sweet
    A four-and-a-half year old boy who had mistakenly eaten Paracetamol tablets thinking it was peppermint died on Tuesday morning, in Maskeliya.He was identified as Sri Manokrishnan Merdi of Nottingham...
  • Police dog Cora dies
    Cora, one of Sri Lanka’s most successful drug sniffer dogs, died in Kandy yesterday.In the last Sri Pada season alone, Cora helped the Police to nab over 500 people who tried to climb the sacred...
  • Some houses affected by ground subsidence. Pictures by Asela Kuruluwansa
    Houses sinking near Lindula hospital
    Following torrential rains, four houses had sunk and another six houses are on the verge of sinking in a land near the Thalawakelle-Lindula hospital.With rains continuing, the threat of ground...
  • Some of the houses affected by the ground subsidence. Pictures by Asela Kuruluwansa
    Houses sinking near Lindula hospital
    Following torrential rains, four houses have sunk and another six houses are on the verge of sinking in a land near the Thalawakelle, Lindula hospital.With rains continuing, the threat of ground...
  • Minister Palani Digambaram at the opening of the newly built plantation houses. Picture by Asela Kuruluwansa
    New houses handed over to estate workers
    The only thing ministers and Parliamentarians who crossed over to the opposition did while they were in the government was to inconvenience the government from within at every turn, Up Country New...