lanka C news හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට එරෙහිව ඇමරිකාවේ නඩු පැවරීම පිටුපස ඉන්නේ අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මංගල සමරවීර ඇතුළු කොටි ඩයස්පෝරාව බව සන්ධාන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී කනක හේරත් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. මෙම කුමන්ත්‍රණය සඳහා තම පාර්ශ්වයේ ඇතැම් පිරිස් ද යටින් සහයෝගය දෙන බව මන්ත්‍රීවරයා සඳහන් කළේය. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ විපක්ෂ නායක කාර්යාලයේදී […]

ALI SUKHANVER Conversion from one religion to another most of the time becomes a serious issue because of the social pressure. Same thing happened a few weeks back when two Hindu girls embraced Islam in Daharki area of Sind. Their conversion to Islam was not accepted by their own people. Police took action and the […]

ඒකාබද්ධ ගුරු සේවා සංගමය අපොස උ/පෙළ, සා/පෙළ විභාග රාජකාරි සඳහා ගුරුවරුන් සඳහා ගෙවිය යුතු දීමනා ආණ්ඩුව මේවනතාක් ගෙවීමට කටයුතු කර නැත. එහිදී 2018 සා/පෙළ විභාගයට අදාළව ගුරුවරුන් සඳහා ලැබිය යුතු විභාග ශාලා නිරීක්ෂක, උත්තර පත‍්‍ර ඇගයීම් හා ප‍්‍රායෝගික පරීක්ෂණ නිරීක්ෂක යන රාජකාරී සඳහා ගෙවිය යුතු දීමනාද, 2018 උසස්පෙළ විභාගයට අදාල ප‍්‍රායෝගික පරීක්ෂණ සඳහා ගෙවිය යුතු […]

Courtesy Business Today The project was financed by the Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim Bank) and the contract was awarded to the China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation The Sri Lankan government on Monday inaugurated its fastest railway line, which has been built with the assistance of the Chinese government. Sri Lanka finished […]

Courtesy Renewables Now April 10 (Renewables Now) – The governments of Sri Lanka and Canada have signed a cooperation agreement for the construction of a 100-MW floating solar park in Sri Lanka’s Maduru Oya Reservoir. The pact between Sir Lanka’s Ministry of Power and Energy and Business Development and the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC), a federal […]

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By Garvin Karunaratne Power Cuts to the extent of 2 to 3 hours has been the order of the day and the news is just out that we are about to buy 500MW of Power from three Multinationals Agrico, V Power included, our estimated excess requirements for the next 5 years.. What is also important […]

Mahinda Rajapaksa Leader of the Opposition According to the provisions in the Budget for 2019, all government servants are to be given a special allowance of Rs. 2,500. Pensions are to be increased. Samurdhi benefits are to be extended to an additional 600,000 families. Existing Samurdhi beneficiaries are to be allowed to withdraw up to […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ විපක්‍ෂ නායක 2019 අයවැයට අනුව සියලුම රජයේ සේවකයින්ට රුපියල් 2,500ක විශේෂ මාසික දීමනාවක් දීමට නියමිතය. විශ්‍රාම වැටුප් ඉහළ දැමීමට නියමිතය. පවුල් 600,000ක් අලුතින් සමෘද්ධි ලාභීන් හැටියට බඳවා ගැනීමට නියමිතය. දැනට සිටින සමෘද්ධි ලාභීන්ට මෙම වසරේ තමන්ගේ අනිවාර්ය ඉතිරි කිරීම්වලින් අලුත් අවුරුද්දට හා නත්තලට වියදම් කිරීමට කොටස් දෙකකින් රුපියල් 30,000ක් මුදා හැරීමට නියමිතය. අලුතින් […]

By Prof. Tissa Vitarana Courtesy Ceylon Today BMost people in Sri Lanka are unhappy (Sri Lanka has dropped from the 116th place to the 130th place in the United Nations global ‘Happiness Index,’ out of 156 countries, this year), deeply concerned and bewildered by what is going on in our country. They keep asking what […]

HANSI NANAYAKKARA Courtesy Ceylon Today Deputy Solicitor General (DSG) Dileepa Peiris informed Colombo Fort Chief Magistrate Ranga Dissanayaka today (9) that underworld kingpin Makandure Madush, who is currently detained by the Bur Dubai Police, is to be deported to Colombo during the course of this week. He was representing the Attorney General when the case […]

Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily News Amid reports of lawsuits being filed against former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the US, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) said he had made an irrevocable decision to renounce his US citizenship despite it being the best source of protection against allegations of war crimes. At a news […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court today instructed the police to provide necessary security to anti-corruption activist and police informant Namal Kumara, under the victims and witness protection act. The attorneys representing Namal Kumara had requested from the court that police security be provided for their client, who is a main witness in the […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Written by Staff Writer    09 Apr, 2019 | 11:02 AM Colombo (News1st) : England and Wales have begun the process overhauling their divorce laws which are nearly 50 years old.The new amendments to the legislation are expected to allow couples to split faster and with less acrimony. The new rules will set […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera රථවාහන නීති උල්ලංඝණය කරමින් විවිධ නාදරටා සහිත ඝෝෂාකාරී  ශබ්ද සිහිත නළා පරිහරනය කරන සහ පීඩාකාරී ලෙස අලෝක රටා භාවිතා කරන  බස් රථ ඇතුළු වාහන වල රියදුරන්ට ජූලි මස 1 වැනිදා සිට දැඩිව නීතිය කි‍්‍රයාත්මක කරන බව රථවාහන භාර නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති  අජිත් රෝහණ මහතා පැවසීය. වාහනවල සවිකර ඇති මෙම නළා සහ ආලෝක රටා  […]

Courtesy MENAFN Date4/1/2019 10:30:09 AM  (MENAFN – Colombo Gazette) The then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi gave his bullet-proof jacket to LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran in Delhi, besides Rs 50 lakh as first instalment of Rs 5 crore aid to LTTE, and wanted the LTTE to allow implementation of the Indo-Lanka accord, AIADMK leader Panruti S […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 9: The Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) in which the China Merchants Port Holdings Company Limited is a partner, has reported handling 2.65 million teus for the 12 months ending 31st December 2018, recording a 13 percent increase in its annual throughput and contributing 38 percent of the Port of Colombo’s […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS UN Human Rights Commission has established with specific purposes and the commission has no right to go against the human rights of people based on the recommendation of its bureaucrats, who are not above the human rights declaration of the United Nations. I read an article in the Sunday Observer on 07.04.2019 […]

By Ananda Wickramasinghe View(s): In 2017, over 5000 young pregnant cows (heifers) imported from Australia and New Zealand, were sold to some farmers. They were assured that a cow would yield 20 litres/day. Within a few months, the farmers’ expectations started to shatter when the cows failed to produce the promised milk yields. Currently, farmers […]

අද (08) දින පැවැත්වූ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ මාධ්‍ය හමුව අද (08) දින පැවැත්වූ මාධ්‍ය හමුවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ සභාපති, මහාචාර්ය ජි. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන මහතා ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ සභාපති, මහාචාර්ය ජි. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ හා ශ්‍රීලනිපය අතර සාකච්ඡෘවල අනාගතය මේ වෙද්දි […]

By ;A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The first Muslim female Mayor of England, Kareema Marikar who functions as Mayor of Harrow since 2010 hails from a political family in Sri Lanka.  Reports said that one thing you notice in Kareema Marikar’s personality is her bubbly nature, infectious smile and down-to-earth simplicity. It said that despite creating history […]

FB මේ පත්තර වාර්තා වලින් දැක්වෙන්නේ නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවක්කු රේගුවේ වැඩ කරන සමයේ අල්ලස් ගැනීමේ චෝදනාවට ලක්වී රිමාන්ඩ් බන්ධනාගාරගත වීමේ පුවතයි. වැදගත් වන්නේ මෙපමණයි. නෙලුම් මලක් මෙන් සුපිරිසිදු, සුචරිතවත් ගැලවුම්කරුවාණන්ගේ චරිතයට පණ පෙවීමට මෙවර ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වීමට නියමිත මෙවැන්නන් ඔබට මවා පෙන්වන සුරංගනා ලෝක සැබවින්ම ඔවුන්ගේ භාවිතය සමග ගැලපෙන්නේද යන්න ඔබ බුද්ධිමත්ව සිතා බැලිය යුතුය යන්නයි. […]

Press Release  PATHFINDER FOUNDATION A senior delegation from the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) led by Dr Fu Mengzi, Vice President, visited the Pathfinder Foundation Office at Riverpoint” yesterday (08 April, 2019) to continue the bilateral cooperation dialogue between the two institutions.  The CICIR is a leading policy research institute in China and […]

Courtesy  travelmole.com Sri Lanka is to offer free visas on arrival to tourists from the UK and 30 other countries from next month. The country’s tourist office is hoping to build on a good performance for March, when visitor numbers increased by 5%. The free visa period will operate for six months from May 1. […]

by Beth Van Schaack Courtesy  justsecurity.org Human rights lawyers have sued Sri Lankan presidential hopeful Gotabaya Rajapaksa in federal court in the Central District of California. Rajapaksa, who is a joint Sri Lankan-U.S. citizen, was served with process in the parking lot of a Trader Joes, of all places. Plaintiff Roy Samthanam, who is a Canadian […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 8 (newsin.asia) – Over 240,000 tourists arrived in Sri Lanka in March, growing 4.6 percent compared to the same period last year, statistics from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority showed here Monday.India, United Kingdom, China, Germany and France were Sri Lanka’s top five international touristgenerating markets in the month of March […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Ceylon Today Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Relations between Tibet and the rest of China to back to ancient times. Tibetans and Tibetan Buddhism had influenced the beliefs, political systems and art forms of several Chinese dynasties. Karl Debreczeny, author of Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism (The University of Washington Press) says that from […]

N.A.DE S. AMARATUNGA Courtesy The Island Presidential system is a burden on the country and its people, and when it is like the present arrangement where the president and the parliament do not see eye to eye, it could be disastrous as being proved now. During the last four and a half years, nothing was […]

Courtesy The Island April 8, 2019, 8:06 pm  At the risk of sounding cliché, he started showing artistic talent at an early age, like most cartoonists featured in Pen Pricks. Although his childhood ambition was to become a doctor, his first comics were published in Veerakesari and the Indian newspaper, Swadesamitran when he was in […]

By Dr. Janaka Ratnasiri Courtesy The Island In response to the writer’s previous articles on the present power crisis published in the Island of March 28th and April 05th, he has received from an investor some new information which would shed light on the real party behind the present power crisis. This investor claims that […]