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Muslims celebrate the Ramadan Festival this week, with large congregations being disallowed for festival and other prayers because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This lone devotee is seen praying at Colombo’s Devatagaha mosque.

Pic by Indika Handuwala

 

Govt. revises import ban; range of items exempted

CID, TID chiefs to be transferred

EC planning to count votes at electorate levels

Release stocks or face punitive action, Govt. warns millers

RDA calls bids for six road projects

Fertiliser shortage continues despite new shipments

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Deserted landscapes

Maligawatte stampede: Suspects face charges under Penal Code and Quarantine Law

Health DG writes script for film/tele-drama industry

Vesak under lockdown in London Viharaya

Driving licences valid till July 31

Sunday- Monday all-island curfew to be lifted on Tuesday in all districts except Colombo, Gampaha

Lankans in Bangladesh fear for their health and safety and want to come home

Health of people and health of democracy: Arguments continue as SC hears FR petitions

Where has all the turmeric gone?

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Tourism sector to hold talks for cautious reopening

Concern over drop in blood donations: Blood bank issues SMS passes to donors

How to spend EU grant of € 3.5mn: Tourism Authority and Tour Operators not travelling together

CP schools to form health committees

Keeping the nation verdant and abundant

Effect of the curfew on air quality in Colombo and Kandy

Relief measures for floods and landslides, in the face of COVID-19

Gearing up to hit the road: Fears over post-curfew traffic chaos

Economic activity crawls back from hibernation

Farmers fed up of waiting and waiting for non-existent, substandard fertiliser

The price of freedom remembered at salute to the fallen

Don’t open BIA until virus settles down abroad, urge experts

Rat fever raises its head again

Insidious COVID virus will leave a trail of untold mental mayhem