Government of India had made a commitment to provide emergency humanitarian assistance worth SLR 5 million, following the devastating landslide that occurred on October 29, 2014 in Haldummula Division of Badulla district in Uva Province. In pursuance of this,  A. Natarajan, Assistant High Commissioner of India in Kandy handed over relief goods, on behalf of the High Commissioner of India, to Hon’ble C. Nanda Mathew, Governor of Uva Province, on November 10, 2014 at the Governor’s Office in Badulla. Shashindra Kumara Rajapakshe, Chief Minister of Uva Province, Hon’ble Senthil Thondaman, Estate Infrastructure Development Minister of Uva Province, P. B. Amarasekara, Chief Secretary of the Uva Province and Rohana Dissanayake, Government Agent, Badulla were present at the occasion.

New Delhi,  21 new Ministers were inducted into PM Modi Cabinet.

Pensioners will receive the increased allowance with their pensions today as the first beneficiaries of the budget proposals.

In recognition of civic-oriented welfare projects being carried out by the Army in Jaffna, “We Are One Sri Lanka”, an organization based in UK showed its solidarity by donating 18 computers to Security Force Jaffna (SF-J) on Sunday (09) morning. Mohan Samarasinghe representing the organization handed over the computers, each to the value of Rs. 80,000/=, to Major General Priyatha Jayasundara, General Officer Commanding 52 Division at the “Harmony Centre” at Thalayalai, Kokuvil East.