Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology Ranjith Siyambalapitiya officially handed over ro President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the award received from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's 2014 for Sri Lanka's e-Library Nenasala Programme at Temple Trees Thursday (21). The Secretary to the Ministry Gotabhaya Jayarathana was present at the occasion.

“While we have defeated the LTTE in Sri Lanka, the organization, its ideology and its operations are very much alive in a number of western countries. Immediately, this remains a challenge to speeding up the pace of reconciliation in Sri Lanka, and eventually, a potent danger to Sri Lanka as a rising nation,” so observed Mr Ravinath Aryasinha, Ambassador / Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva, Consul General of Sri Lanka to Switzerland, Ambassador for Sri Lanka to the Holy See, in his opening remarks to the Session Three on Day 2 (Aug 19) of the Army organized ‘Defence Seminar 2014’ as the Chairperson.

"Floating Market" at the Bastian Mawatha in Pettah will be ceremonially opened under the patronage of Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena on Friday (22) .