HE the President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces cordially welcomed the visiting India’s Chief of Army Staff General Bikram Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC Thursday (20) noon when the latter paid a courtesy call on him at Presidential Secretariat, accompanied by his Sri Lankan host, […]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited United National Party Parliamentarian and Bar Association president Wijedasa Rajapakshe’s house at Nawala yesterday after he came to know that Rajapakshe’s residence had come under attack, Presidential Media Coordinating Secretary Wijayananda Herath said. […]
Three more deaths from floods and and earth slips were reported yesterday, bringing the death toll to 23 while the number missing rose to 15 and injured to 34. The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said relief for those affected is being provided and rescue operations were being conducted by the Army, Navy and the Police. […]
Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva Ravinatha Aryasinha, who is concurrently accredited to the Holy See, presented his credentials to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI on the 13th of December 2012 at a ceremony held at the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. His Eminence Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State of […]
President Mahinda Rajapakse said that no one can erase the great history created by our ancestors, and no amount of money or might can change a country’s history. He said that we are living in an era in which certain elements are trying to rewrite the history through money power. […]
Sri Lanka and the Republic of Haiti established formal diplomatic relations on Friday (14). Dr. Palitha Kohona, the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, signed the Memorandum of Understanding on behalf of Sri Lanka, while Jean Wesley Cazeau, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Haiti to the United Nations, signed on […]
The Tiger Terrorist spokesman in Australia Dr. Brian Senewiratne has been deported to Australia by the Singapore government. The 81-year-old Australian doctor has arrived in Singapore planning to travel to Malaysia and Indonesia to speak at forums organized by the tiger terrorist activists in those countries. Reports said that he was scheduled to travel from […]
External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris, held bilateral talks with his Australian counterpart Senator Bob Carr, on the evening of 16th December at the Ministry of External Affairs prior to the inauguration of the first meeting of the Joint Working Group on People Smuggling and Transnational Crime on 17th December at the Ministry of Defence […]