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President says must protect ideology that brought him to power

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the ideology that brought him to power must be protected. He says the individual Gotabaya Rajapaksa is not important but what matters is the ideology and force that made him President. “We should protect that ideology. The aim of the false propaganda now being carried out by the hostile forces is to defeat this ideology. All false propaganda discarded, what my purpose is to fulfill the promises I made to the people during my tenure,” he said. The President ha

04 Apr, 2021

MS and RW apologized to brother of tourists killed in bombings

Then President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had apologized to the brother of two tourists killed in the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks. David Linsey, the brother of Amelie and Daniel Linsey told?Daily Mirror?that Sirisena and Wickremesinghe had apologized to him when he met them a few months after the attacks in Colombo. This year marks two years since the deadly Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka in which over 260 people were killed, including some tourists. Among

02 Apr, 2021

Sri Lanka temporarily suspends Covid vaccination

By Easwaran Rutnam The Government has decided to temporarily suspend the Covid vaccination programme. State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control Sudarshani Fernandopulle told Daily Mirror the vaccination programme was suspended from Wednesday night. She said the Covid vaccination programme was temporarily suspended as there was a delay in securing more AstraZeneca vaccines. The Serum Institute of India recently suspended exports of the AstraZeneca vaccine. St

02 Apr, 2021