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With Police winning accolades for strictly implementing election laws during the ongoing campaign for general elections and not using bullets or teargas as they did before, our picture shows enthusiastic policemen queuing up outside a centre to cast their postal ballots in Matara. Pic by Krishan Jeewaka Jayaruk

PSD disbanded, STF takes over President’s security

Army chief bans party politics for troops

Polls chief cracks down on errant state officials

Separate passports for children also from tomorrow

Italian job visa scam: Rome orders full probe, investigation extends to embassy here

Saudi Ganu-Denu of Lankan maid scratches surface of problem

Deputy Justice Minister, 5 others absent from court, Magistrate orders notices pasted on homes

No Polling card by Aug.17, collect it from Post Office using NIC: PMG

Suspect and car used in Bloemendhal shooting in custody, says CID

Independent Group 9 pledges ‘Power of Recall’ of non-conforming MPs

Protection to victims and witnesses from Aug.15, six months after Parliamentary approval

No Paracetamol in State hospitals as MSD, SPMC point fingers

Basilica renovation runs into stormy seas

202 ex-MPs re-contesting, but how have they performed?

K’gala campaign: Between the rock and hard politics

Kalutara: The battle is on for 10 parliament seats

Gampaha: Posters come up where they should not

8 days more to go and violence could increase – monitors

Declaration of assets: Most candidates have met deadline say party seniors

Our voices have to be heard in Parliament — Dr. Perera

Polls Comm. Gives ok for revision of tri forces personnel pensions

Remembering his legacy as we head for polls

Vehicle invasion: A scene from the future

FCID probes Rs 2.2 billion fraud at Foreign Employment Bureau

Colombo Port to become regional cruise hub

Women have the vote, now give them the seats

Southern leftists back Tamil secession

Innocent animals die because we speed through their habitat

Maintain code of ethics when reporting, writing: NCEASL to journalists

The writing’s on the wall for election posters

10-hour shifts to produce ballot papers

UPFA’s “Tiger, Tiger” cry worked in 2010, but not now