Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 27 (NewsWire) – Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry has released an updated version of the quarantine guidelines for travelers arriving in Sri Lanka. The new guidelines are effective from July 1st to July 31st. Subscribe to our Whatsapp channel for the latest updates on the news you need to know For similar articles, join […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 27: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed the highest Buddhist Council, the Maha Sangha, including the Asgiri Mahanayaka Thero, that he will not take back the decision to allow only organic. His aim is to endow a healthy future for the country, he told the religious leaders. The President also […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රසායනික පොහොර තහනම් කිරීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය තුළ මෙරට දේශීය සහල් ව්‍යාපාරිකයන් විනාශ කිරීමේ කුමන්ත්‍රණයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන බව රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය දයාසිරි ජයසේකර මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. කෙනෙකුගේ දෙන්නෙකුගේ ඉල්ලීම අනුව රසායනික පොහොර තහනම් කිරීම මගින් රට තුළ තිබූ සහලින් ස්වයංපෝෂිත තත්ත්වය නැති වී යනු ඇත බවද ඒ මහතා පවසයි. මේ හරහා සිදුවන්නේ සිංහල […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A probe has revealed that a total of 425 people from the Western Province had obtained the COVISHIELD second dose in Galle violating quarantine regulations on June 5 and 7, the Health authorities said. A total of 632 individuals had received the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Galle on […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed the Maha Sangha that he will not take back the decision to use organic fertilizer towards endowing a healthy future generation to the country, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said today. Further, he has assured that he will not allow any farmer to face inconveniences during the implementation […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says 522 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 today (June 27) increasing the daily count of positive cases to 1,767. Earlier this evening the ministry confirmed 1,245 more positive cases of novel coronavirus. All new cases reported within the day have been associated with the New Year cluster, which […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has recorded 39 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director General of Health Services on Saturday (June 26). The new development has pushed the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 2,944. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the new victims […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Sri Lanka had been experienced the control of various human epidemics since its human history There are contrasting opinions on this matter.). All epidemics were in Sri Lanka had been controlled by the use of the most powerful technique, social distancing. The term has a different meaning in a practical situation and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS United Kingdom led a global offensive at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva to prosecute ‘war crimes’ against Sri Lankan soldiers. Critics are now going at UK for its own violation of human rights and they are starting with the British Empire. Jallianwallah Bagh massacre of 1919,   Peshawar massacre of […]

Shenali D Waduge In April 1984 Nicaragua referred the US Government to the International Court of Justice claiming the US violated international law by supporting the Contras. The ICJ ruled in favor of Nicaragua in 1986 & demanded reparations be paid to Nicaragua. The US did not participate in the court proceedings. The US also […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The west, smarting after its defeat in Eelam war IV, raised a war crimes cry   against the Sri Lanka army. Critics returned the compliment by pointing out the war crimes of the west, starting with USA.  US armed forces have committed crimes which clearly   fall within the war crimes definitions of the ICC […]

by The Sri Lanka Study Circle Petitioner G L Peiris’ Intervention in Court Acknowledging that the Port City Bill was Unconstitutional while Peiris Continued to Assure the Cabinet, the Parliament and the People that it was Constitutional /Contd from Part 2 Were you, Mr. de Livera, a willing accessory to Prof Peiris’ chicanery? Prof G […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 26 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena received the newly appointed representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) to Sri Lanka Dr. Alaka Singh on June 25 at the Ministry. Welcoming Dr. Singh to Sri Lanka, Minister Gunawardena recalled the close cooperation between Sri Lanka and the WHO, being the […]

By Jeeva Sathasivam/www.journo.lk Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 23: In early March 2020, when the coronavirus started to spread in Sri Lanka, a loose curfew was imposed island-wide for over three months. Thus a large number of infections were not identified. Further, the death toll was not that high. The total death toll from the first […]

By Sugeewara Senadhira/Daily News Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 25: A rare cross-party agreement with a marked difference was seen in the Sri Lanka parliament earlier this week. Two parliamentarians with bitter experiences of spending time in detention, due to political witch-hunting according to them, saw eye-to-eye on the need for justice for those who are […]

Courtesy Adaderana The insurers of fire-ravaged MV X-Press Pearl have agreed on a payment of Rs. 720 million as interim compensation payment for the fisherfolk affected by the disaster, says Minister of Justice Ali Sabri, PC. Sri Lanka is now witnessing one of the worst marine environmental disasters due to the massive fire that erupted […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has recorded 43 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director General of Health Services on Friday (June 25). The new development has pushed the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 2,905. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the new victims […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 715 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 1,801. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 251,727. As many as 216,840 recoveries and 2,905 deaths […]

Courtesy Adaderana State Minister of Prison Reforms today (June 26) stated that attention is being paid to commute the sentences of 253 prisoners who have been condemned to death. State Minister Lohan Ratwatte said that the relevant report has been submitted to the Minister of Justice. He said, We have forwarded that request to the […]

Courtesy Hiru News A pilot project to use prison inmates to produce organic fertilizer in the country commenced today (26) from the Batticaloa Prison.The event was presided over by Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage. This program has been initiated by the State Ministry of Prison Management and Prisoner Rehabilitation. Meanwhile, farmers in many parts of the country […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Former Colombo District Parliamentarian Duminda Silva, who was imprisoned for the murder of former Parliamentarian Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra was released on a Presidential pardon yesterday. Former Member of Parliament Duminda Silva played a significant role in uplifting the living standards of low-income earners in the Colombo District. An exchange of gunfire between […]

Courtesy Hiru News Internal sources stated that four national list MPs of the Sri Lanka People’s Front have agreed to give their seat to former Minister Basil Rajapaksa to enter Parliament. It is reported that the Secretary of the People’s Front MP Sagara Kariyawasam, Jayantha Ketagoda, Marjan Faleel, as well as Prof. Ranjith Bandara, are […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale It was always known that the self-appointed icons of democracy only pay lip service to democracy and that self- interest and the singular desire to control a global agenda of their choosing takes precedence over everything else. The recent G7 meeting confirmed this. The G7 countries and their invitees gathered in the […]

Sunil Kumar For a nation that enjoyed the prestige of world recognition regarding how the Covid virus situation was handled Sri Lanka seems to have rolled to the bottom of the pile as the nation today rests in circumspect speculation of what to expect next. While It is no easy task however to maintain stability […]

The Joint Front to Protect Open University The JFPOU (the Joint Front to Protect Open University) would like to state with pride that its historic struggle to reverse the arbitrary decision of the President to reject the legitimate shortlist for the Vice Chancellor position of the Open University of Sri Lanka has been realized. We […]

කීර්ති හේවාගොඩ Environmental Activist  මහනුවර දිස්ත්‍රික්කය ට අයත් දොලුව ප්‍රාදේශීය කොට්ඨාසයේ ,ජයරත්න යාපා පුර ගම්මානයට නුදුරු හාන්තාන කදුවැටියේ  පරිසර සංවේදී ඉඩම් අක්කර  5 ක් පමණ යම් පිරිසක් විසින් සංවිධානාත්මකව හෙලි පෙහෙලි කරමින් , භෝග වගාවට අනුයුක්තව කටයුතු කරමින් සිටින බව ප්‍රදේශයේම තොරතුරු මාර්ගයෙන් දැන ගැනීමට ලැබුණූ අතර පසුගිය ජුනි 13 වන දින මේ සම්බන්ධව මධ්‍යම […]

Courtesy Maritime Bulletin un 25 1310 UTC UPDATE: 1 crew is reported missing. Photos by Sri Lankan Navy Jun 25: Container ship MSC MESSINA reportedly suffered fire in engine room in Indian ocean halfway between Sri Lanka and Malacca Strait, at around 1930 UTC Jun 24. The ship was disabled, and as of 0415 UTC […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Commenting on the controversy over stopping the importation of chemical fertilizers, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said it was not a hasty decision. Prior to the implementation of the said decision, stocks of fertilizer required for the forthcoming season had been imported. Already 300,000 metric tons of fertilizer required for 1 and 1/2 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government has decided to suspend the importation of compost fertilizers, says the Director-General of Agriculture. Earlier this month, the Cabinet of Ministers had approved a proposal to import compost. The approval came after the government decided to ban the import of chemical fertilizers in a bid to promote toxic-free diets. However, the […]