The role of ICT in reconciliation is a significant part of the global dialogue on reconciliation and it is a main aspect of bringing about reconciliation in a nation torn by decades of conflict, Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga said.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday invited all adults to join hands on World Children’s Day to work towards creating a better world for children in realizing the its theme ‘Children’s World is for Children’.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday asserted that there is no political interference of any kind on the country's judiciary as some have alleged.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday assured to provide all the benefits enjoyed by the people in the southern part of the island to the resettled people in the North.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday this will be the last and the final instance where the largest number of preferential votes polled by a member will be made a criterion to offer Chief Ministerial posts in the Provincial Councils.

The Newly elected 64 United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) representatives of North Central, Eastern, and Sabaragamuwa Provincial Councils were sworn in before President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Presidential Secretariat today (24).

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President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday exhorted the newly elected Provincial Councillors to dedicate themselves to convert their electoral victory into a people’s victory instead of treating this as a personal victory for themselves.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa returned to the country yesterday after a successful three-day visit to India despite the protests staged by the pro-LTTE Tamil Nadu political parties.

The Buddha’s message of tolerance and understanding is of great relevance today, as we see the tragic results of enmity and hatred towards other faiths leading to violence and destruction, and great loss to societies. It is of equal importance in the East and West alike, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the ‘Sanchi University of Buddhist and Indic Studies’, at Madhya Pradesh, India, today.

President will leave for Sanchi this morning to participate in a ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the University of Buddhist and Indic Studies.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday held meetings with the Indian President and the Prime Minister and discussed key issues of mutual interest to the two nations.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived at the Palam Air Force Station in New Delhi yesterday for a three-day State visit.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa left for India a short while ago at the invitation of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan.

The UPFA councilor Mohamed Najeeb Abdul Majeed, was sworn in as the New Chief Minister for the Eastern Province before President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Temple Trees yesterday.

Bilateral relations between China and Sri Lanka is at its best now and two nations will always have friendly sentiments for each other, Chairman of the National People's Congress of China, Wu Bangguo said.

The proposed visit of President Mahinda Rajapakse to Sanchi next week for laying foundation of a Buddhist University will not be changed, the Madhya Pradesh government stated.

United States District Judge For The Southern District Of New York, Naomi Reice Buchwald, deferred to the Suggestion of Immunity issued by the U.S. State Department and dismissed the lawsuit brought by Vathsala Devi, the wife of a former LTTE leader Ramesh.

Sri Lanka and India should have greater parliamentary exchanges between the two countries, Speaker of India's Lok Sabha Meira Kumar said when she called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Six new Ambassadors and two High Commissioners presented credentials to President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat today (14).