Mahinda Rajapaksa News

Sri Lanka on Saturday celebrated the fourth anniversary of the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels after 30 years of war and the government is expecting economic boom in the post-war country in the next few years, reports China's Xinhua news agency.

Whichever way you look at it, James Wharton will go far. One of Westminster's fastest-rising MPs, he is also one of its more well-travelled. A Conservative since his teens, he became chairman of his local party association at the age of 18 and entered the House of Commons when he was just 26.

President Yoweri Museveni and Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Kilibati Vice President Tiemo Onorio and Local Government Minister Adolf Mwesige pose for a group picture at the Commonwealth Local Government meeting By Vision Reporter President Museveni has said that the National Resistance Movement introduced the decentralization system of ... (more)

May 13, Kampala: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is in Uganda to attend the 2013 Commonwealth Local Governments Conference, and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni today opened the new High Commission of Sri Lanka in Uganda.

When Leader of Sri Lanka's Muslim-Tamil Alliance Azath Salley was arrested recently under the much-dreaded Prevention of Terrorism Act , we were told by the government spokesmen that he was a threat to national security as he was inciting the Muslims to violence against the state.

Vavuniya is the sort of place you go on the way to somewhere else. Though it's in the centre-north of Sri Lanka - a bindi on the country's forehead - it has the hallmarks of a border town, with trucks churning dust and policemen multiplying like mosquitoes.

May 12, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is on a four-day official visit to Uganda, met with his Ugandan counterpart, President Yoweri Museveni at the State House in Entebbe Sunday to hold bilateral discussions.

May 12, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has scheduled two crucial meetings with the coalition parties of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance and the major Tamil political party, Tamil National Alliance to mainly discuss the Northern Provincial Council election, government sources said.

May 12, Colombo: Sri Lanka's major Muslim party, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress , has requested an urgent meeting with the President Mahinda Rajapaksa to discuss their grievances.

Logiventures has invested in eight acres of land, near the Magam Ruhunupura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, to support its vehicle transit facility, which opened there in June 2012.

May 10, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Friday opened the new laboratory and office complex of the Government Analyst's Department in Pelawatta in Battaramulla.

By John Odyek President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka arrives in Uganda on Saturday to participate in the Commonwealth Local Government conference.

By Taddeo Bwambale The Police have deployed heavily along the Kampala-Entebbe highway and nearby suburbs, ahead of the 7th Commonwealth Local Governments Conference that starts in Kampala next week.

Sri Lanka cut interest rates more than economists estimated to spur growth, joining nations from Australia to India in easing monetary policy.

May 08, Colombo: Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who is on a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka, met with the Minister of Petroleum Industries Anura Priyadarshana Yapa today and discussed opportunities for developing energy cooperation between the two countries.

May 08, Colombo: Sri Lankan Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning declared the month beginning from today as the National Ranaviru Commemorative Month at a function held at the Temple Trees.

May 07, Colombo: The CEO and Executive Managing Director of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation Mr.

This is a Wednesday, June 6, 2012 file photo of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, right, as she shakes hands with Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa, left, as his wife Shiranthi Rajapaksa, center, looks on, during a reception prior to a lunch with Commonwealth Nations Heads of Government and representatives of the Commonwealth nations in central ... (more)

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his cabinet minister are at loggerheads over the proposed power tariff relief package intended to benefit low income and efficient consumers.

May 06, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government will declare a month starting from May 08th as the National War Heroes Commemoration Month to commemorate war heroes of the three armed forces and Police who perished and were injured in the three-decade long civil war.