Mahinda Rajapaksa News

June 19, Colombo: Sri Lanka's diversified conglomerate Hemas Holdings Tuesday declared open its newest hospital built at Thalawathugoda in Battaramulla in the outskirts of capital Colombo.

Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said the Northern Province should be opened up for all communities to live in without further delay.

June 18, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed all ministers and MPs of the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party to cancel their foreign tours to devote time for the upcoming Provincial Council elections, government sources said.

June 17, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has called and assured a female school teacher, who was humiliated by a ruling party local politician in the school premises, that he would do justice regarding the incident.

June 16, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Saturday, June 15 declared open the newly constructed Iranamadu Domestic Airport and the reconstructed A9- Kandy-Jaffna Highway in Kilinochchi, the former rebel capital in the Northern Province.

June 15, Kilinochchi: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today promised the people in the North to restore everything destroyed in the region during the three-decade long war.

June 14, Colombo: Sri Lanka marked the World Blood Donor Day on Friday June 14 at a function held under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Temple Trees.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Sri Lanka's hosting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in November will focus international scrutiny on what progress it is making on human rights and reconciliation issues.

June 13, Colombo: A discussion on relocating the maximum security Bogambara Prison in the heart of Sri Lanka hill capital Kandy in Central Province was held today at Temple Trees with President Mahinda Rajapaksa presiding the meeting.

June 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Opposition Leader and leader of the United National party Ranil Wickremasinghe today requested the government to take measures to ensure a free and fair of the Northern Provincial Council scheduled to be held in September this year.

June 12, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Wednesday presided over an event to hand over scholarships under the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation's "Life Jathika Subapathum" scheme to school students.

Ahead of Sri Lanka's planned provincial election in a former war zone, the country's main ethnic minority Tamil party is pushing to have as much power devolved from Colombo as possible.

June 11, Colombo: The Chief of Defence Force of the Maldives National Defence Force Major General Ahmed Shiyam called on the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Monday evening at Temple Trees.

June 11, Colombo: The Parliamentary Group of Sri Lanka's major Muslim party, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress unanimously resolved yesterday to express opposition to any moves to make changes to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

The Government will mark the centenary of the war after next year's Commonwealth Games with a special service in Glasgow Cathedral followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph.

June 10, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed the relevant authorities to pay compensation to the families of the fishermen who perished in the sea during the monsoonal storms on Saturday.

New York, June 10 : Sri Lankan authorities should challenge a parliamentarian's claim as to the whereabouts of a political cartoonist who was forcibly disappeared in 2010 and provide information on his fate, Human Rights Watch said Monday.

Inequality and injustice is huge in Sri Lanka because of massive tax evasions in the country warned its Senior Minister of Human Resources and Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises D.E.W. Gunasekara.

June 09, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today instructed the relevant authorities to implement an early warning system to caution the fishermen of adverse weather conditions and other natural disasters.

June 09, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna says that successive governments since 1987 have failed to find a way out of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.