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| Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
chairman and veteran media personality, Hudson Samarasinghe,
who won the Strategic Business Communication Award at the
51st ABCI Comfest – 2011 held in Mumbai recently, met
President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees yesterday with
his award. Picture by Sudath Silva |
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| A special service was held at the All
Saints Church in Colombo 8 to invoke blessings on President
Mahinda Rajapaksa to mark his birthday and the first
anniversary of his second term in office. This service was
organized by the Sri Lanka Freedom Professionals
Organization. Among those present were State Resources and
Enterprise Development Minister Dayashritha Tissera, Social
Services Senior Minister Milroy Fernando, Urban Affairs
Senior Minister A H M Fowzie, MP Thilanga Sumathipala and
Lankaputra Bank chairman Upali Liyanage. Picture by Nissanka
Wijeratne |
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| A tree planting programme was
conducted at the “Lakdiya Medura”, at the Ministry of Water
Supply and Drainage premises under the patronage of Dinesh
Gunawardena, Minister of Water Supply and Drainage on
November 15 to commemorate the President’s birthday and the
completion of the first year of the second term of office of
the President and the planting of 1.1 million trees around
the island under the national tree planting programme. Here
the minister planting a tree. Deputy Minister of Water
Supply and Drainage, Nirupama Rajapaksa, Ministry Secretary,
A. Abeygunasekera, Working Director of the National Water
Supply and Drainage Board Nimal Piyaratne and several
officers were also present. Picture by: Mohamed Imitiyaz |
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