S.M. Chandrasena took oaths as the Cabinet Minister of Special Projects before President
Rajapaksa at the President’s House in Anuradhapura yesterday. North Central Province, Governor, Karunaratne Divulgane, Chief Minister of the North Central Province, S.M. Ranjith, Ministers Tissa Karaliyadda, Duminda Dissanayake and Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga were also present at the ceremony.

Prince Charles visited the Mencap A project where over 150 mentally challenged and differently abled children are being cared for by British Chris Stubbs MBE and his Sri Lankan wife Ranji. This project has run for over 25 years, even in Batticaloa and Trincomalee. Prince Charles in conversation with some inmates in the company of Stubbs
and others. Pic: P. Rajaratnam in Nuwara Eliya.

Sri Lanka and Sierra Leone established formal diplomatic relations on the sidelines of CHOGM 2013. External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris and Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister of Sierra Leone Dr. Samura M.W. Kamara signed the joint communique on behalf of the two governments. They expressed hope that the diplomatic relations will be a new beginning and would significantly contribute to the consolidation of bilateral relations, particularly the promotion of economic and cultural ties, and people-to-people contacts between the two countries.

The University of Hambury and the Sri Lanka Association of Hamburg organised the eleventh South Asia Day at the University recently. Here the Councillor of State of the Ministry of Economy, Transport and Innovation of Hambur, Dr. Bernd Egert and Sri Lankan Ambassador in Germany, Sarath Kongahage open the Sri Lanka pavillion.