Source: AT – By Anjana Jayashan in Colombo President Mahinda Rajapaksa Contesting For His Second TermPostal voting for the Presidential elections to elect the country’s sixth executive president will commence today and tomorrow (January 12 and 13), the Elections Secretariat announced. A total of 401,118 are qualified for the postal voting and ballots papers are […]

Source: The Hindu Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, seeking a second term two years ahead of his tenure in the election scheduled on January 26, on Monday morning unveiled a 14-point programme titled, `A brighter future’ with the promise to put Sri Lanka in a prominent position in Asia and the world and work towards […]

Source: Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma – Photos By Sudath Silva President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited Jaffna for his political campaign in the north of Sri Lanka today, 10th January. He visited Nallur Kovil for Hindu religious observances. He was blessed according to the Hindu traditions by the chief priest of the kovil. The President […]

Source: AP – By Krishan Francis MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka – More than 700 former Tamil Tiger rebels were reunited with family members Saturday after months in rehabilitation camps since the country’s decades-long civil war ended last year. President Mahinda Rajapaksa joined the hands of 15 men, women and children with relatives at a special […]

Source: Reporters Without Border “A year has gone by without any progress in the investigation into his murder,” Lal Wickrematunge said today to Reporters Without Borders, on the eve of the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of his brother, Lasantha Wickrematunge, the Colombo-based Sunday Leader’s well-known managing editor. It is Lal who has replaced […]