Shenali D Waduge People have followed ideologies and their leaders but there has been no party that has been this disruptive & destructive of a country’s progress. While everyone has every right to choose their political ideology/principles etc, when a party infiltrates and influences the cream of the future, it is cause for concern. Just […]

Shenali D Waduge There are many lessons to learn from history. A look back in time will reveal occasions that companies forced governments to invade or create regime change in nations because government policies were impacting their profit & presence in countries. US corporates in South America, assassination of Iran’s Mossadegh are just a handful […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා ප්‍රවාහන අපහසුතා ඇති ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් නොමිලේ ගමන්වාර 50000ක් ලබා දෙන්නැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (05) දින කළ ඉල්ලීමට              ශ්‍රී ලංකා රතු කුරුස සමාජය (SLRCS) සහ ඌබර් ශ්‍රී ලංකා (UBER SRI LANKA) සමාගම  එකඟතාව පළ කළේය. කොළඹ, ගම්පහ,කළුතර සහ මහනුවර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයන්හි කොවිඩ් ප්‍රතිකාර රාජකාරීවල නිරත වෛද්‍යවරුන්, […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර රට හදන සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම බලගන්වමින් වාරී සෞභාග්‍යා ජාතික වැඩසටහන යටතේ ග්‍රාමීය වැව්/ අමුණු සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතියට සමගාමීව මිහින්තලය ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ සියඹලාගස්වැව ගම්මානයේ  වැව සංවර්ධනය කිරීම රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් සමාරම්භ කෙරිණි. ග්‍රාමීය කුඹුරු හා ආශ්‍රී ත වැව්, ජලාශ හා වාරී මාර්ග සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යංශයේ මූල්‍ය ප්‍රථිපාදන මගින් වාරී මාර්ග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මගින් මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. According to our Press Department U.K., thousands of British Muslims will gather together for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic for the UK’s longest running Islamic conference. Ahmadi Muslims from across the UK will descend on the 200-acre Oakland […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 5 (Daily Mirror): The Supreme Court on Thursday issued an Interim Order suspending the operation of Prevention of Terrorism (De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology) Regulations No. 01 of 2021, which was published by way of a gazette notification on 12 March, 2021. This Interim Order will be effective until […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් විද්‍යාත්මක කරුණු මත පදනම්ව යම් යම් තීන්දු තීරණවලට එළැඹිය ද කාබනික පොහොර භාවිතය පිළිබඳ රාජ්‍ය ප්‍රතිපත්තියේ කිසිදු වෙනසක් නැති බව ජනාධිපති ප්‍රධාන උපදේශක ලලිත් වීරතුංග මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. රසායනික පොහොර තහනම ඉවත් කළා ද” යන්න මැයෙන් අද (05) ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය කේන්ද්‍රයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුව අමතමින් ලලිත් වීරතුංග මහතා මේ බව […]

Keiji Morita, staff reporter, The Sankei Shimbun Everyone shouted as if they were cheering for their own country’s athlete. Some of them watched him in awe with their eyes shining with tears. In 1964, an unknown Olympian from a foreign country took Japan’s breath away.  The Olympian became known in Japan as Uniform Number 67,” the […]

Courtesy World Food Programme COLOMBO – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is supporting the Government of Sri Lanka with food items and funding to provide school children with take-home rations in lieu of in-school meals. With WFP’s assistance, the Government will commence the second phase of take-home rations distribution to 1.2 million children […]

Courtesy France 24 Sri Lanka’s government on Thursday walked back the lifting of an import ban on most chemical fertilisers over fears of a political fallout, despite warnings from farmers of food shortages and severe damage to the massive tea industry. The South Asian nation has been struggling with a cash crunch worsened by the […]

Courtesy Business Insider India IANSThe health authorities announced on Wednesday that 82 deaths were reported with 4,727 new cases. With the new figure, Sri Lanka’s overall caseload and death toll stood at 3,18,775 and 4,727, respectively. With the outbreak of the Delta variant and overflow of patients, the Ratnapura General Hospital and Karapitiya Teaching Hospital have declared emergencies. Due […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Delta variant of COVID-19 has been found to be spreading ultrafast in the Colombo area, medical experts pointed out. According to Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, 75% of the COVID cases detected in Colombo during the last […]

Courtesy Adaderana

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health reports that another 784 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 2,669. This brings the tally of confirmed cases of coronavirus identified in the country to 321,429. Sri Lanka’s total recoveries stands at 286,365 while over 30,000 covid […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services today confirmed another 94 coronavirus related deaths for August 04, increasing the death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus to 4,821. Forty-nine of the victims are reportedly males while the remaining 45 are females. Two female victims are below the age of 30. Nineteen are […]