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– by Janaka Alahapperuma – President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is in New York to participate the 68th United Nations General Assembly met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the summit on Tuesday September 24. […]

President Rajapaksa met US President Barack Obama and US First Lady […]

It is disturbing to observe the trend within the international arena of some countries interfering in the internal affairs of developing nations under the guise of security and human rights, President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated while addressing the United Nations a short while ago. […]

An officer of the Police Special Task Force (STF) has committed suicide by shooting himself inside the Peliyagoda fish market complex this morning. […]

FILE PHOTO – Mr. Lalith Weeratunga is on a Twitter Q&A session President Mahinda Rajapaksa will answer questions on a Twitter Q&A from New York following his address at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). President Rajapaksa is scheduled to deliver his address on the afternoon of Sept. 24. The Twitter […]

Douglas Devananda, Minister of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development and Secretary General of the EPDP said that the Tamil National Alliance having accepted the mandate received from the people at the Northern Provincial Council election should honour the promises made to the Tamil speaking people, and in such an event he too is agreeable […]

Sri Lanka’s main minority Tamil party that recorded a landslide victory in polls held in the country’s northern part in over 25 years said it was ready to work with the government but would not join it. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix By: Sudath Silva – President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in New York on 22 September (yesterday) to participate in the 68th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Session. He was warmly welcomed by UN Sri Lankan representative Dr. Palitha Kohona, his Deputy Major General Shavendra Silva, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to […]

Former MP Dayasiri Jayasekara gained the highest preference votes in the Kurunegala District with a massive 336,327 votes as fellow UPFA candidate and rival Johan Fernando managed to secure less than half that number. […]

The ruling United People’s Freddom Alliance (UPFA) recorded another landslide victories in North Western (NW) and Central Provincial Councils elections held on September 21.. In North Western Province, the UPFA obtained 705,188 votes which 66% of the total votes cast in the province. […]

DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday hailed the victory of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in the provincial council polls held after a gap of 25 years in the former Tamil Tigers-ruled Northern Province in Sri Lanka. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, along with First Lady Shiranthi Wickramasinghe Rajapaksa, left this morning on a five-day visit to New York during which he will address the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), taking place at the UN headquarters in New York City. […]

The SriLankan flight UL503 operating from Colombo to London Heathrow Airport was diverted and landed at Stansted (STN) Airport due to a “bomb threat” initiated by a passenger on board which is now appeared as “false claim,” an official said today. […]

Voting at the North, North Western and Central Provinces began at 7.00 am this morning  and will continue till 4.00pm in the evening today. […]

Some UNP supporters who were present at a meeting at Waikkal, Wennappuwa, booed at Minister Mervyn Silva on Wednesday (18), when he happened to go past the venue of the meeting, which had been organized by the Leader of the Opposition, Ranil Wickremesinghe. […]