By Gandara John  The Riddle  Voters are encouraged to resolve the riddle posed by the facts given in the box below and forward their answers to gandarajohn@outlook.com to help forecast the future geopolitical direction of the country, after the forthcoming General Elections. 05 Nov 2018 – This was the original date set, for the MCC […]

Palitha Senanayake Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman, the former LTTE Eastern Commander, has got in to a difficult position with his recent utterances about the past encounters with the Sri Lankan forces. Sections of the people in this country, including the members of the Sanga are up in arms against this statement stating that it […]

ALI SUKHANVER Bahawalpur is a land of sandy plains in the South Punjab area of Pakistan. Last month on 21st May a protest was carried out at Deputy Commissioner Office Bahawalpur. This protest was led by two local residents Mansha Raam & Laskshman Raam. They were protesting against demolishing of their houses by the city […]

by Sustainable Pulse Bayer-Monsanto have announced that the company will make a total payment of $10.1 billion to $10.9 billion (€9.1 billion to €9.8 billion) to settle the non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Roundup litigation in the U.S.. Roundup is the most sold glyphosate-based herbicide in the world. The settlement covers approximately 75% of the current Roundup litigation involving approximately 125,000 […]

Courtesy Adaderana With three new COVID-19 positive cases being reported, the tally of confirmed cases in Sri Lanka crossed the 2,000 mark on Wednesday evening. Three more navy personnel from the Iyakachchi quarantine center have tested positive for Coronavirus. This brings the total number of confirmed patients thus far in the country to 2,001. Ten […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Separate indictments will be filed with the Colombo High Court against former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and Ex- Welikada OIC, ASP Sudath Asmadala over Rajagiriya accident case, Deputy Solicitor General (DSG) Dileepa Peiris informed the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court. When the case was taken up before Colombo Additional Magistrate Kanchana Neranjana […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror UNP candidate A.S.P. Liyanage today alleged that former Foreign Employment Minister Harin Fernando asked him to perform an illegal activity when he was the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Qatar and told that he would be removed if failed to do it. Mr.Liyanage who is contesting the General Election from the UNP […]

Lahiru Pothmulla and Dinesh Upendra Courtesy The Daily Mirror Referring to the controversial remarks made by former LTTE member Vinyagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said the former parliamentarian’s history was no secret to anyone. Speaking at a Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) rally held at Labuyaya, Kuliyapitiya on Tuesday, Mr. Rajapaksa said […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් හරීන් ප්‍රනාන්දු හිටපු මන්ත්‍රීවරයා කොළඹ අගරදගුරු අතිඋතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් කළ ප්‍රකාශයට අදත් පූජ්‍ය පක්ෂය සහ දේශපාලනඥයින් සිය අප්‍රසාදය පළ කළා. මෙම ප්‍රකාශය හෙළාදකිමින් අද මල්වතු පාර්ශවය විශේෂ නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරා.<br /><br />ඒ පිළිබඳව අදහස් දක්වමින් මල්වතු පාර්ශවයේ අනුනායක පූජ්‍ය නියංගොඩ විජිතසිරි හිමියන් සඳහන් කළේ කාදිනල් හිමියන් සතුව දේශපාලන […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ මුදල් මණ්ඩලයට ආචාර්ය රාණි ජයමහ සහ සමන්ත කුමාරසිංහ පත් කිරීමට අද රැස්වූ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සභාවේ අනුමැතිය හිමිවී තිබෙනවා. මුදල් මණ්ඩලයේ පුරප්පාඩුව පැවති සාමාජිකයන් දෙදෙනා සඳහායි මෙම පත්කිරීම් සිදුවන්නේ .

Courtesy Adaderana The Constitutional Council has approved the appointment of Dr. Ranee Jayamaha and Samantha Kumarasinghe to the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). A Constitutional Council meeting was held today (24) at the Speaker’s Residence under the patronage of its Chairman and former Speaker of the Eighth Parliament Karu Jayasuriya. […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has given one year’s time to Lanka Salt Limited which runs at a loss since 2018 to earn profit, the President’s Media Division said. The profit earned by the Lanka Salt Limited in 2016 stood at Rs. 70 million. In 2017 it declined to Rs. 32 million. The organization made […]

Courtesy Adaderana Responding to Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) leader Sajith Premadasa’s statement on the controversial comments made by Karuna Amman recently, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa charged that it was Premadasa’s father who supplied weapons to the LTTE”. Who provided weapons? Who supplied weapons to Karuna and others and the LTTE? It was none other than […]

Courtesy Adaderana Having identified the urgent need of reviving the businesses adversely affected by the COVID-19 outbreak and thereby to promote economic activity in the country, the Central Bank and the Government of Sri Lanka launched a novel refinance facility under the Saubagya (Prosperity) Loan Scheme, as announced today (24). The Central Bank has approved […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former minister Mangala Samaraweera says he is impressed by former parliamentarian Harin Fernando and praised the ‘courage of his convictions’. I am very impressed by Harin F who has the courage of his convictions to challenge the hypocrisy of sections of the Catholic Church who seems to have forged an unholy alliance with […]

Courtesy Adaderana The expert committee appointed to review the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement handed over its final report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today (24). The report was handed over to the PM by the chairman of the committee Professor Lalithasiri Gunarunwan at Temple Trees this evening. The report is expected to be handed […]