– 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. […]
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 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 […]
(Reuters) – Libya’s Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been taken by force by gunmen from a hotel where he was staying in the capital Tripoli, security guards at the hotel said on Thursday. The circumstances were unclear, but guards at the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli said gunmen had taken the Libyan leader from the hotel. […]
– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by Nalin Hewapathirana – The first flag of the flag campaign launched by the Sri Lanka Council of Visually Impaired Graduates’ Association in line with International White Cane Day was pinned on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Tempe Trees this afternoon on 08 October. International White Cane Day will be […]
Indian Minister of External Affairs Mr. Salman Khurshid called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President’s House this morning. A number of issues of mutual interest were discussed during the meeting with the underlying objective of developing strategies for the two countries to coordinate more closely towards further strengthening relations. […]
Sinhalese people have this as their only country. They feel insecure that there might be some joining together of Tamil Nadu and north-eastern Sri Lanka. That insecurity, has sometimes resulted in anti-Tamil brutality but I aim to change minds on both sides, Newly sworn in Chief Minister for North CV Vigneswaran says. […]