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News in Pictures
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External Affairs Ministry launches
new service
President Mahinda Rajapaksa spoke with several Sri Lankan
embassies via Skype at Temple Trees last evening to launch a
new programme of the Ministry of External Affairs that
establishes video communication links between the Ministry’s
Consular Division and Sri Lankan missions and expatriates
abroad. The new programme enables Sri Lankan embassies and
Sri Lankan citizens living abroad to contact the Consular
Division of the Ministry directly to seek assistance and
obtain information. President Rajapaksa spoke with several
Sri Lankan ambassadors and obtained updates on matters
pertaining to Sri Lankans and matters in those countries.
Sri Lankan expatriates who need assistance on
consularrelated matters will be able to contact the Ministry
of External Affairs via Skype. The Ministry hopes to soon
make the service available 24 hours a day. External Affairs
Minister Prof. G L Peiris, External Affairs Deputy Minister
Neomal Perera, Monitoring MP of the External Affairs
Ministry Sajin de Vass Gunawardena and Secretary to the
External Affairs Ministry Karunatilaka Amunugama were
present at the launch. Picture by Sudath Silva |
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| Good Governance and Infrastructure
Senior Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka participates in a
ceremony to open a road at Horana constructed under the Eka
Gamakata Eka Wadak programme. Kalutara district
Parliamentarian Vidura Wickramanayaka and Horana Pradeshiya
Sabha vice chairman Ashoka Ranathunga also participated.
Picture by PRIYA DARSHANI KAHA WALA, Ingiriya central group
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| Large crowds flocked to the Sri
Dalada Maligawa in Kandy to pay homage to the Sacred Tooth
Relic and the four devalas and to seek the blessings of
deities for the New Year.Picture by Gamini Ranasinghe.
Below: Participants at midnight mass in Batticaloa. Far |
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The World Drama Wheel
constructed by the Brama Kumaris Raja Yoga Centre
unveiled near Koddaimunai bridge. Pictures by Sivam
Packiyanathan, Batticaloa group cor |
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An Ayurveda exhibition was held at
the Mirigama Pradeshiya Sabha to mark the fifth anniversary
of opening the Ayurveda Dispensary in Mirigama. The
exhibition was jointly organised by the Mirigama Pradesiya
Sabha and the Ayurveda Department under the patronage of
Indigenous Deputy Minister Pandu Bandaranayake. Here Deputy
Minister Bandaranayake. Mirigama Pradeshiya Sabha chairman
Ananda Ranaweera and Mirigama Ayurveda Dispensary Ayurveda
Dr Saman Priyantha and other officials participating
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| Five wheelchairs were donated among
elders in the Akkaraipattu DS Division by the Divisional
Secretariat at Akkaraipattu Central College under the Deyata
Kirula 2013 development programme recently. Ampara
Government Agent Neil de Alwis, Akkaraipattu Municipality
Mayor Athaulla Ahamed Zackie, Divisional Secretary M Y
Saleem and social services officer M I M Anver were also
present. Picture by I L M Rizan, Addalaichenai central
correspondent |
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| The annual carols organised by
Batticaloa, Kallay 231st Army brigade and Bishop’s House of
Batticaloa was held at Devanayagam Hall, Batticaloa.
Batticaloa Bishop Most Rev Dr Ponnaiyah Joseph, Eastern
region DIG Pujith Jayasundara, Brigadier S Thilakaratna,
Additional District Secretary K Vimalanathan, Mayor
Sivageetha Prabagaran, Deputy Mayor A George Pillai and
District Secretary S Giritharan participated. Pictures by
Sivam Packiyanathan, Batticaloa special correspondent |
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