The Gangarama Navam Maha Perahera will take place today (Feb 18) and tomorrow from 7 pm onwards.
The perahera will commence from the Gangarama Temple and proceed towards Perahera Mawatha, Temple Trees and then towards Sri Jinaratne Mawatha and return back to the Temple.
UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to engage in religious rituals as well as placing of the relic casket at the beginning of the perahera.
A total of about 45 elephants are expected to participate in the perahera which also displays a pageant of fine cultural performances involving hundreds of dancers.
The perahera is being organised under the directives of the Chief Incumbent of the Hunupitiya Gangarama Temple, Chief Sanga Nayaka of the Colombo Hathkorale and Ven. Galaboda Gnanisara Thera.
The Committee on High Posts has approved the nomination of Former Air Force Commander Air Chief Marshal (Retd.)
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
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