By Express News Service Courtesy The New Indian Express The parents of Advocate Sivakami Sundari said that it was the Madurai-based lawyer who first raised suspicion over the death of Sri Lankan underworld criminal Angoda Lokka. MADURAI: The parents of Advocate Sivakami Sundari said that it was the Madurai-based lawyer who first raised suspicion over […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has insisted that the construction of the Neluwa-Lankagama road should not cause environmental damages. The President meanwhile ordered the completion of the construction within 90 days, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said in a media release issued today (29). He made these remarks while engaging in an inspection visit at […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Justice, President’s Counsel Ali Sabry has pledged to bring an end to the issue of child marriages. He mentioned this while paying a courtesy call on the Chief Prelates of Asgiriya and Malwatta chapters today (29). All Sri Lankans have a responsibility and a duty to nurture Buddhism according to the […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa reiterates his intention of fulfilling public aspirations in such a manner that does not harm the environment.< The president today (29) inspected the renovation of the Neluwa-Lankagama road and spoke to the stakeholders about allegations that the work is harming the Sinharaja forest. Officials of the road development, wildlife, […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Member of Parliament Ruwan Wijewardena of the UNP reiterated that he would definitely contest for the leadership of the party. He was participating in a party meeting held in Anuradhapura. Former Member of Parliament Ashu Marasinghe was also present at the occasion.

By ASOKA BANDARAGE Courtesy Asia Times On August 5, a new government was elected in Sri Lanka, bringing down the previous regime associated with the Central Bank bond scam, the Easter Sunday bomb attacks and controversial international agreements. The new government has come into office with a two-thirds majority in parliament, promising to bring prosperity, security and communal harmony to […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Where is Lanka, a spot with lowest gravity on earth, located on these two maps of the ancient world? Sinhala [language]’s s survival as a clearly Indo-Aryan language can be considered a minor miracle of linguistic and cultural history” –James W. Gair, Studies in South Asian Linguistics: Sinhala and other South […]

Sarath Bulathsinghala 28 Aug 2020 From what we have heard so far down the grapevine, the power failure on 17th August 2020 has happened due to a single act of carelessness by an operative of the CEB who accidentally ‘grounded’ a 220kV electrical system during routine maintenance work. The interim report of the Independent Committee […]

Dilrook Kannangara Another way to look at the MCC is to consider how USA helped Sri Lanka progress towards its development goals in the past 200 years of close relationship” between the two countries. Can anyone name a port, airport, any major road or bridge, conference hall, power station, a dam or irrigation scheme, boat […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය දිවයිනේ සියලුම නගර සඳහා ව්‍යාපාරික හා නේවාසික ස්ථාන වෙන් වූ විධිමත් නාගරික සංවර්ධන සැළැස්මක් සකස් කරන්නැයි අග්‍රමාත්‍ය හා විෂය භාර අමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා  2020.08.28 දින පැවසීය. බත්තරමුල්ල සුහුරුපායේ පිහිටි නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස අමාත්‍යංශයේ පැවති ප්‍රගති සමාලෝචන රැස්වීමට සහභාගීවෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. නාගරික ප්‍රදේශවල  ජනතාවට පදිංචිවීමට […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය ධීවර ක්ෂේත්‍රය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා – නෝර්වේ ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සම්බන්ධතාවල  වැදගත්  අංශයකි.  මෙම ක්ෂේත්‍රවල ව්‍යාපෘති ගණනාවක් ඔස්සේ එම සබඳතා තවදුරටත් ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට නෝර්වේ රාජ්‍ය උනන්දුවෙන් පසුවේ. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා සමඟ 2020.08.27 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවේදී  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ නෝර්වේ තානාපතිනිය  ට්‍රයින් ජෙරන්ලි එස්කෙඩාල්  මහත්මිය  මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කළාය. ධීවර කර්මාන්තය අපගේ ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සබඳතාවල මූලික […]

HON PRIME MINISTER’S MEDIA DIVISION The fisheries sector has been an important part of the Sri Lanka — Norway bilateral relationship, and Norway is interested in further strengthening those ties through a number of projects in the fisheries and maritime sectors. During a meeting with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees yesterday (Aug. 27), […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය කොළඹ පෞද්ගලික රෝහලක  ප්‍රතිකාර ලබන ශ්‍රී ලංකා අමරපුර මහා නිකායේ උත්තරීතර මහ නායක අග්ගමහා පණ්ඩිත මහෝපාද්‍ය කොටුගොඩ ධම්මාවාස නාහිමියන් බැහැ දුටු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා 2020.08.26 දින උන්වහන්සේගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය. අග්ගමහා පණ්ඩිත මහෝපාද්‍ය කොටුගොඩ ධම්මාවාස නාහිමියන්ට ඉක්මන් සුවය ප්‍රාර්ථනා කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා නාහිමියන්ගේ අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ප්‍රතිකාර පිළිබඳව සොයා බැලීමට නිලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් ලබා දුන්නේය.

Courtesy MailOnlin Plastic in Sri Lankan landfills has become a major killer of elephants Sri Lanka will ban the import of most plastic products in a bid to protect wild elephants and deer that die eating the waste, the environment minister announced Friday. Plastic in Sri Lankan landfills is a major killer of elephants, with […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another new positive case of COVID-19 has been detected today (28) increasing the total number of positive cases in the country to 2,989. The novel coronavirus patients detected today are arrivals from the United Kingdom, the Department of Government Information confirmed. Earlier this evening, two arrivals from the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait […]

Courtesy Adaderana The committee studying the recent island-wide power outage has stated in its Interim Report, that no proper maintenance procedures had been followed in the routine maintenance task that resulted in the breakdown. It has recommended that a more detailed set of protocols be introduced when dealing with such high-risk procedures. Members of the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former senior members of the United National Party say that its leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is responsible for the downfall of the party. They point out that the party leadership should be handed over to former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya and the United National Party and Samagi Jana Balawegaya should unite. However, heated discussions […]

Courtesy Hiru News he former director of the State Intelligence Service told the Presidential Commission that the series of Easter attacks could have been prevented if all security forces worked togther and had arrested Saharan’s follower as a precautionary measure.

Courtesy Hiru News Former Inspector of the Police Narcotics Bureau Neomal Rangajeewa has stated in the Colombo High Court that the places and times in the information book on the raids carried out by the Police Narcotics Bureau were changed with the intention of preventing drug traffickers from receiving prior information. Our court correspondent stated […]

Daily News  Pearl Energy (Pvt) Ltd., signed an agreement with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka to launch ‘Hambantota LNG Hub’ – a floating storage LNG trading facility at the Port of Hambantota, bringing LNG to the doorstep of Sri Lanka, with a primary aim of trading LNG in the region utilizing the strategic […]

The MCC agreements binds Sri Lanka to make legislative changes before, during & after signing of its Compact. For a paltry $480m given to a private company that reports to US, is it worth it, is a question policy makers are evading answering. In so doing, this country is likely to land in a precarious […]

The People of Sri Lanka are supposed to feel elated that the US Government is giving a ‘gift’ of $480m across a period of 5 years. This gift comes with plenty of strings. Sri Lanka has to commit to a set of preconditions which include privatizing of all state land as well as agreeing to […]

Chandre Dharmawardana “Wigneswaran …..Presumably hoping for a wider, protracted debate on that element. The Govt side very effectively scuttled his hopes by nixing any such debate during event.” This sort of thing has gone on since the 1930s. In fact, the first Sinhala-Tamil riot in 1939 August occurred when G. G. Ponnambalam alluded to the […]

Malinda Seneviratne On December 26, 2004, just two days after Sri Lanka was hit by the tsunami, an infant was found among the debris on the Kalmunai beach. Abhilash was his name, but no one knew it. He was given a number, 81. There were various people claiming parenthood. The matter was eventually resolved by […]

By Dr Palitha Kohona Courtesy Asian Tribune What the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) succeeded in achieving was amazing. Covid19 wreaked havoc around the world but could not turn out the lights. The world continued to be lit up. But the CEB, either accidentally, due to an unmanageable cause or otherwise, succeeded in plunging the whole […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia While congratulating the Lankan army for its role in COVID control, the DG Indian army medical corps stressed the need for international cooperation in pandemic control Colombo, August 27 (newsin.asia): A virtual experts’ level interaction through webinar took place between the Indian Army and the Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps on August 27. […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dr.V.K.Valsan is to be Sri Lanka’s Deputy High Commissioner in South India, based in Chennai Colombo, August 27 (newsin.asia): Asoka Milinda Moragoda better known Milinda Moragoda, is tipped to be Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in India, reliable sources said. Dr.V.K.Valsan is to be Sri Lanka’s Deputy High Commissioner in South India, […]

Courtesy The Daily News Kitul to be planted in landslide prone areas:Strict laws to stop felling Palmyra trees:Two million home gardens to receive 4 million Coconut saplings: President plans to promote Kitul and Palmyra into main export crops- Time: 18:28 President Gotabaya Rajapaksa revealed his intention to develop Kitul(Fishtail Palms) and Palmyra Palms plantation into main export […]

by Melani Manel Perera Courtesy AsiaNews.it Centrally located on the island, the Kandakadu Rehab Centre has become a COVID-19 cluster, with 629 people infected. About 50,000 Sri Lankans have lost their jobs abroad from lockdowns and plan to come home. Colombo (AsiaNews) – The number of people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus continues to rise […]

Thameenah Razeek and Amani Nilar Courtesy Ceylon Today The islandwide power outage that occurred on 17 August was found to be the result of a mistake made by the officer responsible for general maintenance at the Kerawalapitiya Grid Sub Station. According to the Committee appointed by the Minister of Power, Dullas Alahapperuma to probe the […]