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General Sarath Fonseka has been giving different reasons for leaving the army and none of them are tenable, the government said.Media Minister Anura Priyadharsahana Yapa, addressing the cabinet press briefing in Colombo, alleged that Fonseka as the then Chief of Defence Staff, was disappointed because "his request" to purchase military equipment worth US$222.4 million from China, three months after the war had ended, was turned down by Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa.
Sri Lanka has risen above the waves
President Mahinda Rajapaksa
says, on the fifth anniversary of the tsunami, which falls today
(26), that though the tsunami disaster had a devastating impact
on...Birth of Jesus in a crib on an office table
The Christian Association of the Labour Secretariat
made a Crib depicting "Christmas Serving in Public Service
Celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ" in their office. This Crib
was blessed and opened by the Rev. Fr. Shiran Fonseka (CssR)
Director of the Junior Seminary of Thimbirigasyaya.
This Crib was put up on an office table and Child Jesus was placed
on a file. The organiser was Mr. Chinthaka de Mel, employee of
Labour Secretariat. Other religious groups also helped him.
Mahinda Madihahewa, Secretary to the Ministry of Labour Relations
and Manpower, Pearl Weerasinghe, Additional Commissioner General of
Labour, M. A. Godawaththa, Chairman of ETF H. Gunarathna, Additional
General Manager of the ETF and Branch Heads of the divisions
participated.
The ‘red
van’ phenomenon
The joint opposition held its maiden rally in
Kandy, with what was described as an...
