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“It gives me great pleasure to send Your Excellency Maithripala Sirisena my congratulations on the celebration of your National Day, together with my best wishes for the good fortune and happiness of the people of Sri Lanka in the coming year,” Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britian states in a letter to President Sirisena on the occassion of Sri Lanka’s 71st Independence Day.

From war to peace and better tomorrow!

PM, top ministers to fast-track appointments

No Treasury money for 25,000 UN houses in the North

Billion lost daily due to Customs go-slow

Drama at Westminster court over Lankan diplomat’s case

Mix-up over Maldivian leader’s visit to Lanka

CSE questions share price hike of MTD Walkers

Treasury releases Rs. 1 billion to buy essential drugs

Customs work-to-rule sees containers pile up

New heads at CEB and subsidiaries

SC halts Chinese law firm from offering legal services

LNG contract: Ministry extends deadline for companies to counter Korean offer

Independence Day Messages

‘Independence’ is a state of environmental, economic, political, social and spiritual coexistence: PM

Bleak side of a colourful parade

Getting ready for tomorrow

Unions dangled a ‘dream’ wage for tea workers but reneged on promise

Across the border cooperation gives muscle to battle against drug trafficking

Travel allowance case: Bogollagama’s lawyer to raise preliminary objections

Child dies in double motorcycle crash; alleged drunk rider gets bail

Destroy Indian trawlers caught poaching in Lankan waters: Experts

‘Will you still need me, will you still feed me?’

Move to free trishaw drivers from idleness trap

South African rugby, Sri Lankan education and the challenge of affirmative action

Undersea data cables should be legally protected: Experts

Laws’ delays and the scourge of justice denied

Buildings coming up in city without approval from KMC: Kandy Mayor tells Champika

Sigiriya declared polythene and plastic-free zone

Pick of the pix

Trouble brewing between otherwise- abled and training institute

Sena marches on as defeated farmers look on

Kinniya sand mine clash: Protesters who attacked Navy personnel face arrest

Autos, their drivers and humour

Dankotuwa temptress runs out of tricks

Sterlisation programme goes east