President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s nomination for the forthcoming Presidential election was accepted by the Elections Commissioner short while ago.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa reiterates his call to break through the shackles of bureaucracy and pursue a co-operative, action-oriented path, thus leading SAARC towards a framework for more robust cooperation which would result in tangible benefit to the people of South Asia.
England's James Taylor hit a maiden international half-century to carry the tourists to 265 batting first in the fourth one-day international against Sri Lanka on Sunday.
Denying claims that it was the Jathika Hela Urumaya who pushed President Mahinda Rajapaksa towards the final phase of war, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said that the timelines of the final battle was decided by the President himself.
