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Oktoberfest returns to City of Dreams for four nights from October 21
A Bavarian buffet and live music at The Podium, with tickets at Rs 9,800 nett. Despite the billing, it is the second edition at the same venue, not the first.
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Twelve injured as bus overturns near Mee Oya bridge on Puttalam-Anuradhapura road
A Colombo-Anuradhapura luxury bus left the road in rain at about 10.15pm Friday. All twelve injured were taken to Puttalam Hospital with minor injuries.
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Rs. 50,000 grants announced for spectacles for visually impaired children
Sri Lanka will give Rs. 50,000 to each visually impaired child under 18 to buy spectacles, under a disability assistance programme running through 2026.
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Tamil film composer Deva dies in Chennai
Deva, who brought Chennai's gaana style into Tamil film music, has died aged 75. Tamil Nadu will accord State honours at Sunday's funeral.
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Personalised number plates are back before a committee — as the DMT's own six-month launch window runs out
Parliament says name-bearing plates are under consideration. The Motor Traffic Department told COPF in April the scheme could launch within six months.
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Arugam Bay ranked Asia's best beach, with four Sri Lankan beaches in the top 20
Arugam Bay topped the Condé Nast Traveller readers' poll with 98.84, ahead of Thailand's Railay Beach. Bentota, Tangalle and Negombo also placed.
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Air traffic control says kites are flying at 1,500 feet — five times the legal limit
ATC senior manager Jude Peiris says LED-fitted kites have been mistaken for drones by pilots at night, and that each reported sighting pulls police and.
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A third of samples tested last week were influenza, and doctors are telling parents to watch the child rather than the thermometer
The Health Ministry's chief epidemiologist puts positivity at about 35% as a paediatrician warns a falling fever does not mean a child is recovering.
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US church charity donates Rs. 330mn in cancer drugs, and signs for 600 wheelchairs
Latter-day Saint Charities handed over oxaliplatin, abiraterone and methotrexate to the Health Ministry, taking its two-year total past Rs. 990 million.
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Nilwala flood alert for six divisions, and El Niño returns to the Met Department's reasoning
The Irrigation Department warns of minor flooding along the Nilwala. The forecast now names El Niño again — the thing September's flood warning left out.
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Sri Lankan hotels and SriLankan Airlines take at least 12 South Asian Travel Awards, a week after the ceremony
Hayleys Leisure won seven, Cinnamon Lakeside two and SriLankan Airlines one at SATA 2026 in Malé — though the airline was the only contender in its category.
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Lightning advisory narrows to five provinces as Colombo roads go under water
The Met Department pulled back from Wednesday's island-wide warning, then Colombo flooded by early afternoon. The stated cause of the rain has changed.
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Interview shortlists published for 23,006 teacher vacancies, 143 days after the written exam
The Education Ministry has named graduates through to first-phase interviews in November. June's plan had results in September and appointments before year-end.
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Severe lightning warning widened to all nine provinces, with heavy showers above 100 mm forecast
The Met Department dropped the upper bound on its rainfall figure and put the whole island under a lightning warning until 1 a.m. Thursday. Uva left the.
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Navy holds 171 relief teams ready as Deduru Oya reopens spill gates and a marine warning covers the Negombo–Galle coast
Five of 171 Navy disaster teams are deployed in Central and Sabaragamuwa. Deduru Oya is releasing 1,400 cusecs — the exact setting it opened at on 8 October.
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Australia blocks elephant dung fridge magnets carried in from Sri Lanka
A traveller declared the souvenirs on arrival and surrendered them. Officials warned animal waste can carry bacteria, parasites, insect larvae and weed seeds.
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DJ Snake to headline Senter Music Festival at Port City Colombo this month
The French producer makes his Sri Lanka debut across two days at the end of October, alongside local artists. The sole report comes from a station in the.
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Fire tears through a row of houses at Mahawatta, Grandpass
Six fire engines were sent to the Colombo neighbourhood. Police say about ten houses were destroyed outright and no one was hurt.
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Met Department forecasts 100–150 mm of rain in five provinces, with severe lightning in six
Showers are expected across most of the island from a low-level disturbance in the Bay of Bengal. The heavy-rain and lightning warning areas are not the.
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Mattress showroom gutted by fire in Panadura, lightning suspected
Six fire engines were sent to Thotawatta, Panadura. Both filings put the suspected cause as a lightning strike, hours after a severe-lightning warning for.
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Sri Lanka has 100 to 120 psychiatrists for the whole country, National Hospital consultant says
Prof. Chathurie Suraweera says migration to Australia and the UK is the main cause. One morning clinic sees about 150 patients.
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Colombo roads flooded and landslide warnings widen to seven districts as the rain arrives early
Sri Sangaraja Mawatha, Kinsey Road and Panchikawatta Road went under water on Monday. The NBRO warning now covers six districts plus three divisions in Kegalle.
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Youth from all 25 districts press the government to enact the Tobacco-Free Generation law
Youth campaign for Tobacco-Free Generation law; Health Ministry holds proposal banning sales to post-2010 births.
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Adam's Bridge marine park tourism launch set for Thursday draws claim it would be illegal
Northern Province officials say the DWC cleared tourism on the Adam's Bridge islands. An environmental lawyer says the Ordinance contains no power to allow it.