Following weeks of campaigning the final few hours before the country's decisive Presidential elections gets underway, these scenes were captured by our photographers.
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Preparations in Colombo for Presidential polls 2015[/caption]
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Ballot boxes being carried to polling stations in Colombo[/caption]
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Ballot boxes being unloaded near Royal College in Colombo[/caption]
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Ballot boxes being carried into DS Senanayake College[/caption]
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Captured here are scenes from Matale election officials seen walking towards polling stations[/caption]
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Ballot boxes being taken to polling stations in Matale[/caption]
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Scenes in Nuwara Eliya[/caption]
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Scenes in Nuwara Eliya[/caption]
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Minister of Power, Kumara Jayakody, stated that in the future, internationally funded projects, such as power projects, will only be carried out through government-to-government (G2G) agreements and competitive procurement.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Israel, a major player in the global diamond and jewellery trade, has invited Sri Lankan gem and jewellery businessmen and designers to collaborate with Israeli diamond traders.
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