Malin Abeyatunge President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, yesterday, faulted the top echelons of the Central Bank (CB) over their failure to come up with strategies to overcome the unprecedented economic crisis facing the country.  Without a wink, he had quite rightly hit the nail on the head. In fact, ordinary citizens might be wondering what’s these top […]

by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa MEDIA RELEASE (Translation of the text of a speech made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday, 18 June 2020) Venerable members of the Maha Sangha, clergymen of all other faiths, Hon. Ministers, former members of Parliament and friends,  After the Presidential election of 16 November 2019, we will be […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා (අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා 2020 ජුනි 18 වෙනි බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා කළ කතාවේ පිටපත.) අතිපූජනීය මහා සංඝරත්නයෙන් අවසරයි. සියලු ආගම්වල පූජකතුමනි, ගරු ඇමතිවරුනි, හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුනි, මිත්‍රවරුනි, 2019 නොවැම්බර් 16 ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් පස්සෙ   අපිට අලුත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවක්   පත්කරගන්න වෙන්නේ 2020 අගෝස්තු මාසයේ. 19 වෙනි සංශෝධනයෙන් අවුරුදු හතර හමාරක් යනකන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවා හැරීම වලක්වලා […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Ven. Ellawala Medhananda has explored the Buddhist ruins in  the North Western  Province. The North western Province consists of two districts, Puttalam and Kurunegala. Puttalam which is a coastal  district, contains Wilpattu and Pomparippu. Medhananda   has visited both places. Medhananda found a large monastery complex at Pomparippu, in ruins. This area is now […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් FB සටහනක් ‘රී – පොස්ට් කිරීම‘ සම්බන්ධයෙන් දකුණේ පළාත් පාලන කොමසාරිස් සේනක පල්ලියගුරුගෙන් නිදහසට කරුණු විමසන ලෙස, ම.කො. උපදෙස් පරිදි මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් ජනරාල් සමන් ශ්‍රී රත්නායක ‘ රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම්ට ලිපියක් යොමු කර ඇත. මැ.කො. ට ‘අගෞරවයට, අපහසුතාවට, අප්‍රසාදයට පත් වන අයුරින් හා මහජන විශ්වාසය බිද වැටෙන ආකාරයෙන් ලිපි මගින් හා […]

Courtesy Nithiyalk.blogspot.com දිසා අධිකරණයේ පවරා ඇති ගෙවල් කුලී නඩුවක  එම නඩුව පවත්වාගෙන යාමට නොහැකි බවට අධිකරණ සංවිධාන පනතේ 39වන වගන්තිය යටතේ මූලික විරෝධතාවයක් ගෙන ඇත. එකී මූලික විරෝධතාවය විමසීම ලිඛිත දේශන මගින් සිදුකළ අතර පැමිණිල්ලේ නීතිඥවරයා විසින් ලිඛිත දේශන සමග ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් නඩු තීන්දු සහ ලිපි කිහිපයක් අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත.ලිඛිත දේශන සළකා බලා නඩුව […]

Courtesy Adaderana Eighteen new cases of Covid-19 have been reported increasing the tally of confirmed cases in the country to 1,946. All 18 new cases are returnees from Dubai, according to the Government Information Department. Accordingly a total of 22 fresh cases were detected on Thursday (18). Around 514 patients infected with Coronavirus are currently […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Police have been directed to record statements from several influential figures of the former government including former President Maithripala Sirisena and former Ranil Wickremesinghe over the Central Bank (CBSL) Bond Scam. The Attorney General Dappula de Livera has issued these directions to the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) C. D. Wickramaratne today […]

Courtesy Adaderana An individual who handled Rs 490 million worth transactions of a bank account belonging to an organized criminal figure has been arrested when he surrendered to the Western Province (South) Crimes Division yesterday (17). On May 22 an individual was arrested in Ratmalana over the possession of 9 g 500 mg of heroin. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the Opposition has no allegations of repression to make against the current government led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Speaking on the Parliamentary Election 2020, the Premier said that the defeated party, while holding an artificial majority following the presidential election made numerous attempts to undermine the government […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government of Japan has given its consent to award an aid of Japanese Yen 800 million (approximately LKR 1,360 million) under Japanese non- project grant scheme for the supply of medical equipment required for strengthening the activities of prevention of COVID -19 pandemic situation in Sri Lanka. Under the scheme, Sri Lanka […]

Courtesy Hiru News Head of State Intelligence service, Major General Suresh Saleh submitted a report to the United Nations and the European Union stating that the Executive Director of the International Truth and Justice Project, Yasmin Sooka, had violated his fundamental rights by making false and slanderous accusations against him. He further stated that the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the forthcoming general election is a great opportunity to focus on the proven ability and to stop the good governance lies and to eradicate fraud and deceit. The Prime Minister says the general election is a hard-fought democratic right and the people should be mindful of […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia China’s acting envoy, Hu Wei, discussed Sino-Lankan investment and financial cooperation with Gotabaya Rajapaksa Colombo, June 18 (newsin.asia): The Acting Ambassador for China in Sri Lanka, Hu Wei, met President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday and handed over a letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping wishing President Gotabaya’s birthday which falls on June 20. […]

by Dilrukshi Handunnetti Courtesy Mongabay A new study has finally solved a herpetological mystery surrounding Dendrelaphis bifrenalis, a species of bronzeback snake endemic to Sri Lanka. Researchers have established, through morphological differences and DNA sequencing, that the dry-zone populations of the snake are the true D. bifrenalis, and the wet-zone populations are a species new to […]

ABU DHABI, Courtesy Trade Arabia Effective June 20, Etihad Airways will operate twice-weekly scheduled services for outbound passengers from Colombo to key destinations on its global network via Abu Dhabi. EY265 will depart Colombo on Thursdays and Saturdays at 1.35am, landing in Abu Dhabi at 4.30am local time. From Abu Dhabi, the service connects to […]