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President Mahinda Rajapaksa made a surprise appearance amidst the crowds gathered in the city of Kandy to see the fourth Randoli Perahera about two hours before it began to parade the streets. Even the security personnel were surprised at the President’s sudden arrival opposite Queen’s Hotel. Having walked there from the President’s House in Kandy he spent about twenty minutes in conversation with the people who were overjoyed to see him. Having met the people the President walked back to the President’s House through the crowds that had come to witness the perahera. Picture by Sudath Silva

Today is Nikini Pasalosvaka Poya day, a very important day in the Buddhist Calendar. In Sri Lanka, it also marks the conclusion of the Esala pageants of the Sri Dalada Maligawa and the Ruhunu Maha Kataragama Devalaya. Here group of devotees attached to the Anuradhapura Ruwanweli Seya Viharaya carrying a long yellow robe to be draped round the Ruwanweli Seya as a mark of veneration under a program held under the patronage of Viharadhipati Ven. Pallegama Hemaratana Thera. Picture by Saman Sri Wedage

Set aside political, communal differences:

Actively rebuild the Nation

President tells masses:

The people irrespective of their political or communal differences should actively be involved in rebuilding the country after it was liberated from the clutches of terrorism , said President Mahinda Rajapaksa. He said the Security Forces without having an inch of land of their own made the supreme sacrifice for the liberation of one third of the country’s land area which was delegated to the terrorists by a title 2 1\2 years ago.

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Pasyala bus crash injures 44

School children among injured, nine critical:

Rafik Jalaldeen and Anuradha Kodagoda

At least 44 including several schoolchildren were injured when a school bus and a passenger bus collided head on in Pasyala last morning. Nine of the injured are in a critical condition. Police spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunasekera said students of Thakshila Vidyalaya from Gampaha on a trip to Kandy met with this accident in Pasyala along the Colombo-Kandy highway around 7.30am. The ill-fated private bus was plying from Mawanella to Colombo.

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Drug world out to grab LTTE cartel

Eventhough the LTTE’s drug smuggling activities are currently at a standstill due to the total annihilation of the terrorist outfit in Sri Lankan soil, other drug lords will soon vie for the drug market the LTTE created, says a former Director General of India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).

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Global outsourcing destinations for IT/BPO :

Sri Lanka ranked among Top 20

The consulting giant, A.T. Kearney’s Global Services Location Index (GSLI) has identified the top 50 countries for outsourcing globally. The Global Services Location Index (GSLI), first established in 2004, analyzes and ranks the top 50 countries as the best destinations for providing outsourcing services, including IT services and support, contact centres, and back-office support.

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