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With heavy rains being experienced throughout the country from Wednesday, umbrellas have become important items on office workers’ check lists, as this picture taken at the overhead bridge at Fort yesterday shows. Pic by Amila Gamage

Windy Wednesday: 13 killed, 100,000 affected

Rs. 3.5 billion for local polls, heavy cost for training

NHSL heart operations stopped, theatre conditions dangerous

Green port city, with solar and wind power

Excise Dept. in high spirits: Hard liquor production soars

Aloysius calls: Ajith Perera’s complaint referred to Privileges Committee

458 employees shut out of Hambantota port; Labour Minister slams port company

SLNavy nets 20 Indian fishermen, 2 trawlers poaching in SL waters

SL Army got only half the promised sum for scrap metal of Farah III

CEA-Police raids on polyethylene factories to ensure compliance

Lack of education faculties means poor quality teachers

Examination centres to be fumigated before O/ Levels begin on Dec. 12

One depression gone, but another on the way

‘Treetise’ to prevent Colombo’s shade from casting a shadow

Nobody can predict a natural disaster, asserts world-famous Oceanographer

Fishermen caught between livelihood needs and the angry sea

President’s Korea visit takes ties to next level

The ignoble end of an iconic tusker

Another tusker killed

Probe centres on illegal elephant trade after Kataragama detection

Dedicated teachers in village school offer night classes for O/L students

Prison bars no barrier for true love

Tamil Nadu by-poll crucial for AIADMK

Urgent Government action needed to arrest hate speech

Pick of the Pix

Weather, carelessness and accidents

Relatives remember war dead in North at Maveerar Naal events

Solve burning issues before enacting Constitution: Malwatte Anunayake

Kandy residents say shopping complex will add to congestion