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The Paddy Marketing Board has started issuing paddy stocks to the private millers in a bid to overcome rice shortages and keep prices under control. PMB chairman H.B.Dissanayaka said they will start selling stocks in most of the districts next week.

Christmas: The cattleshed and the crib

Huge fuel bill mars President’s Iran visit

Alleged corruption leaves 1,300 multi-day boats without vital equipment

Festival hampers or other gifts are bribes, state employees warned

President joins Polonnaruwa farmers in praying for rain

Alleged Indian embezzler wanted to open bank in Lanka

Drug stocks replenished to combat dengue

Photo focus: Horiwila -a new world heritage site for Lanka

Ads for prefabricated houses but opposition continues

SriLankan Airlines: No decision yet on who gets the deal

Motion to probe Central Bank purchase of overseas offices

Norway extends support for SLPI activities

An artificial or natural tree? That is the question

Unforeseen events but organisers say world’s tallest Christmas tree up

Christmas messages

Dengue crisis: Prevention and control too little, too late

Municipalities dodge public bullets in the fog of dengue war

No houses, no museum, only an unused cultural centre

Jobless and hopeless – 100 families turn their backs on Ampara homes

Yala National Park: Where man and animal were united in fear

Family bandyism takes up residence at Galle weekly market, traders say

Yapa Abeywardena (Jr.) charged with negligence, no licence, failure to avoid accident

Unanimous acquittal of all accused in Raviraj murder trial

Customs seize 1.3 m Chinese fags hidden inside mattresses

Govt. approves KKS-Nagapattinam ferry service for Hindu pilgrimage

PM presents Draft Bill against Enforced Disappearance to Cabinet

Time ticks by for tragic painted-snipe chicks

Aussie expert calls for action plan for Yala following Gemunu’s money gobbling incident

Sri Lankan wildlife plunder continues to be driven by the underworld

Pick of the Pix

2016: Unpublished pictures