Prelate invokes blessings on
President Mahinda Rajapaksa
President Mahinda
Rajapaksa yesterday participated in religious programes at
the Kelaniya Rajamaha Vihara and Vidyalankara Pirivena in
Peliyagoda on the occasion of his 66th birthday and the
first anniversary of his second term in office. Here
Parivenadhipathi
of Vidyalankara Pirivena and Chief Sanganayake Thera of
Colombo and Chilaw Ven Prof Welamitiyawe Kusaladhamma Thera
invoke blessings on President Rajapaksa by placing the
casket of Sacred Relics on his head. Pic: Sudath Silva
Asupini presented to
President
Water Supply and
Drainage Minister Dinesh Gunawardena presents the first
State manufactured purified bottled water to President
Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees recently. The water named
Asupini is bottled by the National Water Supply and Drainage
Board.
The National Physical
Plan of Sri Lanka by the Department of National Physical
Planning was presented to President Mahinda Rajapaksa by
Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common
Amenities Minister Wimal Weerawansa at the Sirimavo
Bandaranaike Exhibition Centre last week. It provides
details of development plans upto 2030.
Prime
Minister D.M. Jayaratne being greeted by the Dinamina Chief
Editor Mahinda Abeysundera at the felicitation ceremony,
‘Mahinda Abeysundera - Review of Media Brilliance in 50
years’ at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute.
A project was
launched to plant 1.1 million trees under the Deyata Sevana
Tree planting pro-gram throughout the country. Here Prime
Minister D.M. Jayaratne plants a tree at his Visumpa-ya
official residence to mark the event.
The Associated
Newspapers of Ceylon Limited marked President Mahinda
Rajapaksa’s 66th birthday and the first anniversary of his
second term in office yesterday by conducting a Sanghika
Dana which followed an all night pirith chanting to invoke
blessings
on the President and the country. Here ANCL Chairman Bandula
Padmakumara offers pirikara to the Maha Sangha. Editorial
Director Seelarathna Senerath is also in the picture. Pic:
Nissanka Wijeratne
ANCL Chairman Bandula
Padmakumara presents a memento to Dinamina Chief Editor
Mahinda Abeysundera
The Maha Sangha
arrive in procession for a Sanghika Daana (alms-giving) at
Lake House to invoke blessings on President Mahinda
Rajapaksa, the country and its people to mark the 66th
birthday of the President on Friday. ANCL Chairman Bandula
Padmakumara carries the casket containing the Sacred Relics.
Pic: by Nissanka Wijeratna
Fun and frolic on the Highway
The villagers in
Kahathuduwa watch elephants perform on the Southern
Expressway, which is open to pedestrians for a few days
before its grand opening to traffic on November 27. Pic:
dushmantha mayadunne
