The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Colombo - President Mahinda Rajapaksa Monday announced new elections for January, two years ahead of schedule, a cabinet minister said. Rajapaksa made the announcement to the leaders of his coalition partners, and told them that he had decided to run...
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Nov 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today decided to hold the next Presidential Election ahead of the schedule after meeting with the ruling alliance members.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Nov 23, Colombo: New diplomats to Sri Lanka from four countries presented their credentials to President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President's Office this morning.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today participated in several events at educational institutes.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 22, Anuradhapura: President Mahinda Rajapaksa worshipped Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi and Ruwanweliseya in Anuradhapura on his way to Kekirawa to open the housing scheme for soldiers.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa ceremoniously opened the "Rana Jayaviru Housing Village" this morning at Ipalogama, Kekirawa in the North Central Province.
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother and advisor Basil Rajapaksa MP on Saturday announced that the Tamils held in the internment camps of Vavuniyaa would be free, starting from December 01, to go and live wherever they want to or to choose whether they want to continue to remain inside the camps. Tamil sources in Vavuniyaa view the announcement with scepticism describing it as an 'election...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Colombo government bows to international pressure to close internment camps that have held civilians since end of civil war with Tamil Tigers Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the internment camps that are home to more than 130,000 people locked up since the end of the country's bitter civil war six months ago. Two days after the UN's top humanitarian official,...
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Nov 20, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa assured the visiting top ranking Unite Nations official that the resettlement of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the north could be completed within the next few weeks.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Nov 20, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today participated in the opening ceremony of the "Rajatha Dekma" photographic exhibition held at the National Art Gallery by the official presidential photographer Sudath Silva.
rediff News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Sri Lanka's former top general Sarath Fonseka, who resigned last week following a spat with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has vowed to protect democratic freedom and human rights, amid reports that he may contest the presidential polls as an opposition candidate.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Nov 19, Colombo: Justice and Law Reforms Minister, Parliamentarian Milinda Moragoda has formed a new party, Sri Lanka National Congress, to support the ruling alliance. Moragoda presented his party's doctrine to President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Temple Trees today.
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Widely speculated as a drama backed by ‘high-powers,' leaders of most of the Tamil and Muslim political parties in the island of Sri Lanka are meeting for the first time in Zurich, Switzerland, Monday to Wednesday. The move is said to be for ‘extracting' a joint proclamation of them necessary for further power manoeuvres in the island. A couple of years ago it was such a behind-the-scene...
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Nov 18, Colombo: The United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes is scheduled to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa tomorrow.
rediff News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Sri Lankan cabinet has failed to take a decision on the timing of the Presidential elections in the country, amid reports that the country's former top General may be the opposition candidate to challenge incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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