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  • The heroin haul and several tabs and phones of the suspects in Police custody. Pictures by Dushmantha Mayadunne
    Police Anti Narcotics Unit, STF bust int’l drug racket
    Police Special Task Force and Anti Narcotics Unit yesterday busted up an international drug-smuggling ring arresting five suspects along with 90 kilograms of heroin. Police said that Two Americans...
  • Attempts to grant Presidential Pardon to Duminda Silva, alleges Hirunika
    There are attempts to grant Presidential Pardon to former MP Duminda Silva on February 4, UNP MP Hirunika Premachandra said in Parliament yesterday.Taking the floor during the debate on the...
  • Rs.250 MN TO COMPENSATE ‘SENA’ HIT FARMERS
    The Cabinet has approved Rs. 250 million to compensate farmers whose crops were affected by the ‘Sena’ caterpillar.Leader of the House, Minister Lakshman Kiriella told Parliament that Cabinet has...
  • Lasantha, journalists and diplomats
    We find scarce little to celebrate in a sullied land, marking our days remembering the tragedies that tell our blood soaked history. In the troubled decades preceding, many, from the highest in the...
  • Kumar Dharmasena
    Kumar Dharmasena is ICC Umpire of the Year for second time
    Sri Lanka’s Kumar Dharmasena was voted as Umpire of the Year by international captains and ICC Match Referees, winning the David Shepherd Trophy for the second time at the annual ICC cricket awards...
  • Citizens' Mail (23.01.2019)
    Change university curriculum to produce industry related manpowerPrime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that he will advise Minister of Higher Education to change the university curriculum...
  • parliament
     Commissions of Inquiry (Amendment) Bill receives unanimous Parliament approvalThe Commissions of Inquiry (Amendment) Bill received the unanimous nod of Parliament yesterday.The Bill widens the...
  • Minister Navin Dissanayake at the factory
    Sanmik Food Group to invest Rs 700 mn for plant in Ipologama Anuradhapura
    Sanmik Food Group of Companies in Australia and Sri Lanka jointly invested Rs. 700 million to open Sanmik Food and desiccated coconut dehydration unit at Ipologama in Anuradhapura.In addition to...
  • Obituaries
     ABEYESUNDERE - MIRABELLE (MOIRA). Daughter of late Timothy & Lily Weerakkody,​ sister of late Winston & Rohan,​ beloved wife of late Elmo Abeyesundere,​ loving mother of Sheran,​ Roshan...
  • Education that never ends
    Head Prefect of Vidyaloka College, Galle, Sathnidu Wijayananda has key qualities that can be seen in the two men he admires the most – Lincoln and Lee Kuan Yew. One man is remembered for his humility...
  • A need to curb road accidents
    Drastic action is called for to check the large number of road accidents that has almost become commonplace today. In the latest road disaster, six inmates of a car were killed and three others...
  • The U.S. Capitol dome is seen past the base of the Washington Monument just before sunrise in Washington.
    U.S. shutdown enters second month
    US: The United States on Tuesday enters the second month of a partial government shutdown over a lack of congressional funding, with no quick end in sight to the historic crisis weighing on the...