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President pays homage to Sacred Tooth Relic
July 07, 2015President Maithripala Sirisena after attending the ceremony held to confer the title Chief Prelate of the Asgiriya Chapter of the Shyamopali Maha Viharawanshika Maha Nikaya on Most Ven.Galagama Dhammasiddi Sri Dhammananda Aththadassi Thera, paid homage to the Lord Buddha at the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, on Monday.
Handing over nominations for Galle District begins
July 07, 2015Acceptance of nominations for the Parliamentary Election commenced at the Galle District Secretariat on Monday (06) and will be continued up to 12 noon on July 13.
In view of the enthusiasm among the Tamils of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province to learn Hindi, the Indian Consulate General in Jaffna has asked the Ministry of External Affairs for funds to start regular Hindi classes at the Consulate, said A.Natarajan, the Consul General in Jaffna.
Following an invitation extended by the National Defence University (NDU) –Pakistan, a delegation of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU), headed by Vice Chancellor Major General Milinda Peiris visited Pakistan recently.
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