BY M D P DISSANAYAKE New Zealand has issued a new travel advice on 8 June at 11.59 pm, moving to Alert Level 1,  with the advice Do not travel overseas at this time. Transport and transit options to return to New Zealand have reduced significantly. Even booked flights may be cancelled.” The New Zealand […]

Engr. Kanthar Balanathan  DipEE (UK), GradCert(Rel-Eng-Monash), DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey), CEng. MIEE (UK) Former Specialist Engineer, Power & Control, NRG-GPS Australia If one wants to know the true record of the problems & concerns in SriLanka (SL), then that person should exercise patience and read the entire document. No point in blabbering with a lack of understanding of SriLankan […]

Courtesy RT The New York Times has admitted that the allegations of election fraud that led to Evo Morales’ ousting from the Bolivian presidency were “flawed.” These allegations caused Morales’ exile from the country in what critics say was tantamount to a Washington-backed coup. RT America’s John Huddy reports. Then RT producer and Latin America […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත්ගුණසේකර. මහනුවර (මෙම ලිපිය  2019 ජනාධිපති මැතිවරණයට පෙර  2019 අගෝස්තු 27 මවිසින් ළන්කාවෙබ් අඩවියට ලියනලද ලිපිය යාවත්කොට නැවත පළකිරිමකී) මහාමැතිවරණයට තරඟකිරීමට අපේක්ශාකරන සියලුම සිංහල දේශපාලනපක්ශ සහ අපේක්ශකයින්වෙත ඉදිරිපත්කෙරෙන කොන්දේසි 50 ක් සහිත විවුර්ත සන්දේශයක්. මේ වු කලී මින් පසු පැවැත්වෙන ඕනෑම මැතිවරණයක් සඳහා මේ රටේ භූමිපුත්‍රයින් වන සින්හලයින් විසින් සියලුම දේශපාලනඥ්යින්වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කරණු ලබණ […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL,B,, Ph.D. අගමැතිලා ජනාධිපතිලා නාස් ලණු දමා ගැනීම මෙහි දෙවන කොටස අවසානවූයේ මුස්ලිම් ජයග්‍රහණ ලැයිස්තුවකින්‌ය. ඒවා <ජයග්‍රහණ> වන්නේ ඒවා නැතිවූ අයිතියක් නැවත ලබාගැනීමක් නොව, අළුතෙන් සිංහල දේශපාලකයින් ඔහේ, ඇඟට නොදැනීම ඔවුන්ට ලබාදුන් වරප්‍රසාදවූ නිසාය. දිවුරුම් පෙත්සමකින් පුරවැසිකම් දුන් එකම රට ලංකාව නොවේද? මේවා බෞද්‌ධ දශරාජ ධර්‌මයක් රකින අයවළුන් විසින් මධ්‍යම ප්‍රතිපදාව අනුව යමින්, […]

Aswathi Pacha Courtesy Hindu A new Indian subcontinent sub-lineage emerges Studying the geographic distribution and evolution of the chikungunya virus over the period from 2005-2018, a team from ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, has noted India as an endemic reservoir for the virus with persistent global transmissions from the country. The paper published recently in Infection, […]

Courtesy WNOW

Sandun A Jayasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Power, Energy and Transport Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said he would urge President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Cabinet to conduct a thorough assessment of the interest rates charged by Finance Companies and those employed to seize vehicles from defaulting customers. While condemning the killing of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror As the method adopted by the leasing companies to seize vehicles of those who had failed to pay their loan installments is unlawful, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered the Police that no room should be left to continue this practice, the President’s Media Division said. Leasing companies do not inform the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 as at 5.30 pm today (13), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Two of them are Sri Lankan expatriates who returned to the island from Qatar. They are being quarantined at the facilities in Ampara. The other patient is a naval person at the Mullaitivu quarantine […]

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Courtesy Adaderana At a jungle-covered cave site in southwestern Sri Lanka, archaeologists have found a remarkable collection of ancient objects, including tools that they believe are among the oldest survival gear humans used in rainforests. The artifacts range in age from 48,000 to 4,000 years old and include 130 bone arrow tips—the oldest arrow tips […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake is expected to be reopened for tourists from August 01, says Minister of Tourism and Aviation Prasanna Ranatunga. The same procedure that is applied to tourists will be exercised on Sri Lankans returning to the country, however, prior to August 01, returnees will be quarantined upon arrival, […]

Courtesy Ada Derana