UNP Chairman and Highways and Road Development and Petroleum Resources Minister Kabir Hashim and UNP Assistant Leader and Petroleum Resources Minister Ravi Karunanayake are seen lighting candles in the presence of Party Leader Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Deputy Chairman and Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana
The Viyathmaga Annual Convention-2019 was held at the Shangri-La hotel in Colombo this evening. Viyathmaga Chairman and SLPP presidential candidate nominee Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa and many other invitees attended the event. Representatives of the business community, MPs, professionals, academics were among those attended the Convention. Pix by Nisal Baduge
The AIDEX 2019 annual sports festival for amputees who are users of the Jaipur limb organised by the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society held today at the Air Force headquarters, Rifle Green Sir Chittampalam A.Gardiner Mawatha, Colombo 2. Pix by Nimalsiri Edirisinghe
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe participated in the opening of the Enterprise Sri Lanka Exhibition in Jaffna on Saturday. Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera, State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran, TNA MPs M. A. Sumanthiran. Mavai Senathirajah and Dharmalingam Siddarthan were present at the exhibition. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe opened the new Pradeshiya Sabha office in Baddegama today. Ministers Vajira Abeywardana, Gayantha Karunatileka and Daya Gamage were also present on this occasion. Samurdhi certificates were given to a few people during the ceremony.
The SLAF was able to douse a forest fire at Panangala in Ettampitiya today, the Air Force said. It said of 20 personnel lead by Squadron Leader Malinda Marasinghe of the Disaster Assistance and Response Team of Sri Lanka Air Force Combat Training School at Diyathalawa were able to put out the fire. Pix by SLAF
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is seen giving Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa advice on the upcoming election heated period during the convention on tea and rubber smallholders and cultivators of minor export crops, held at the Sri Lanka Exhibition and Convention Centre (SLECC).
Heavy traffic was reported on the Baseline Road in Colombo due to a protest march staged by Government Development Officers. The protest march started from the Borella Cemetery Roundabout and continued towards the District Secretariat in Narahenpita.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe attended the 4th Indian Ocean Conference at Paradise Island in the Maldives on Tuesday. Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed, their Foreign Affairs Minister Abdulla Shahid, Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar also participated in the event. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana
A press briefing was held in Negombo today on combating illegal maritime migration with the participation of Australia’s Operation Sovereign Borders Commander Major General Craig Furini, Sri Lanka Navy Operations Director General Rear Admiral Niraja Attygalle and Australian High Commissioner David Holly. Pix by Nisal Baduge
The Sri Lanka Police Cricket team, who won the international Police Twenty20 Cricket Carnival by beating the Western Australia Police team in the final in England, was felicitated at the Police Headquarters today under the patronage of IGP C. D. Wickramaratne.
The 4th SLAF Aviation Contingent in MINUSCA carried out four major civil-military co-operation (CIMIC) activities and several drug donation programmes during the last month in order to support the local people and to bring pleasant childhood memories to the children who are victims of conflicts in several villages situated around Bria, Central African Republic. Pix by SLAF Media
The special convention organised by the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) led by MP Udaya Gammanpila was held on Sunday in Battaramulla. SLPP nominee of presidential candidacy Gotabaya Rajapaksa and SLPP Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa attended the special convention. Pix by Nisal Baduge
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