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While Sri Lankans are scrambling for passports to go abroad, largely for employment, amidst a bungled passport tender scam, the second picture shows a group that has been rescued from Myanmar after falling prey to unscrupulous job agents who promised them good jobs abroad.

Pic by M.A. Pushpa Kumara

 

Sri Lanka rejects UN Human Rights Chief’s strictures

IRD warns of fake taxmen fleecing business community

Electoral reforms: No input from major political parties

Repeater shotguns for MPs

Social media platforms give content-removal assurance to EC

New passports within a month; until then only 1000 will be issued a day, says Immigration Chief

Hundreds of rallies to shore up support

Election violations: EC says over 900, PAFFREL says 222

I will make a decision after I speak to my people in Ratnapura, says Thalatha

In the election circus, parties pull rabbits out of the hat

Three dead, one missing in a week of thunderstorms

Rukman Senanayake, former UNP chairman, passes away

‘Do not fear us, we can prove ourselves only once we come to power’: NPP’s Vijitha Herath

Collective of university lecturers, attorneys, and professionals declares support for SJB candidate

EC checking on 13,134 polling centres and 45 counting centres

Fake EC website taken down, CCID probing host identity

A possibility of second and third preference votes coming into play

Municipal Councils, police all set to remove poll publicity materials that fall foul of the law

Election Media Monitoring and Voter Awareness Centre launched

Presidential candidates’ asset declarations are out but no mechanism to check accuracy

Indoor air quality: SL to launch vital study

India-Sri Lanka ferry service helps religious and business visitors

The world’s fastest bird that rules the skies of Colombo

2 million including Sri Lankans overseas, will not be able to vote

EU observers here; campaign monitoring work to begin next week