– by Janaka Alahapperuma from London – Press Office at Clarence House, London SW1A 1BA announced today (15 October) that Prince Charles, The Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall will make a three day official visit to Sri Lanka from Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th November 2013. […]
– by Janaka Alahapperuma – pix by: Sudath Silva – President Mahinda Rajapaksa called on Chief Incumbent of the Mallikarama Viharaya in Ratmalana, Rajakeeya Pandith, Vinaya Visharadha Dhammakeerthi, Most Venerable Weligama Sri Gnanarathana Nayaka thero whose 101st birthday fell on 14 October. The President visited the Mallikarama Viharaya to look into the well being of […]
UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera surrendered to the Matara police through his lawyers a short while ago. The Matara Magistrate court ordered the arrest of 11 persons including Samaraweera yesterday over the clash between two groups of UNP supporters in Matara on October 5 which left several persons injured. […]
– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Another highly successful blood donation campaign was organised by the Security Forces Head Quarters in Jaffna (SF-J) recently to mark the 64th anniversary of the Sri Lanka Army, responding to a blood necessity of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital blood bank. […]
– by Shenali D Waduge – When the armed forces sacrificed their lives to give Sri Lanka peace it was expected that the governing establishment would take over the task to ensure incursions and challenges to Sri Lanka’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and the rights of the people were not threatened. The Government is well […]
Minister of Resettlement, Gunaratne Weerakon, has ordered the controversial association, Sihala Ravaya, out from Kurundugahahethekma, after a group led by a controversial monk held a protest against a Muslim businessman opening a business establishment in the town. Pandemonium reigned in the Kurundugahahethekma town within the Elpitiya Police Division in the Galle District on Saturday (12) […]
Prince Charles has offered to help in the effort to win justice for a British man who was murdered in Sri Lanka on Christmas Eve 2011, according to a report in The Guardian/The Observer yesterday. It said: The high-profile case of Khuram Shaikh, a 32-year-old Red Cross worker from Rochdale who was killed in 2011, […]
Private bus fares will be increased by 7 per cent with effect from November 01, Minister of Private Transport Services C. B. Rathnayake said yesterday. A statement issued by the ministry states that relevant cabinet paper submitted by the Minister has been granted approval. […]
– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva – H.E. Ambassador Nawalage Bennet Cooray officially assumed duties as Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the Italian Republic at the Embassy of Sri Lanka on 09th October. He will present credentials to H.E the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinale- Presidential Palace in Rome in […]
– by Shenali D Waduge – Though there has been a number of initiatives in recent times relating to the theory and the practice of reparations for human rights and humanitarian abuses committed in various parts of the world, many of the violations committed of genocidal proportions in Asia, Africa, and North and South America, […]
– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Chandana Perera – The newly built seven storied building for Bikku hostel of the Sunethra Devi Pirivena in Pepiliyana was vested in the Bikku community this afternoon (10 October) under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The new hostel will accommodate student bikkus from different parts of the […]
– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva – Nine new MPs were sworn in as Deputy Ministers before the President at the Presidential Secretariat this morning on 10 October. They have received the letters of their appointments at the oaths ceremony. Most of these MPs gained large number of preferential votes at the […]