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By PK Krishnakumar Courtesy The Economic Times This happened at a time when pepper prices in Sri Lanka crashed to $2,800 from $3,800 per tonne, while the MIP in India was $7,000 per tonne (Rs 500 per kg).  ndia’s spice industry has raised concerns over increase in black pepper imports from Sri Lanka since August […]

Adrian Schofield Courtesy Aviation Week Network Sri Lanka’s airports have seen a dramatic recovery in traffic following a steep decline in demand caused by terrorist bombings in April. Immediately after the Easter bombings of churches and hotels, inbound traffic was down by 25%-30% of previous levels, according to Sanjeewa Wijeratne, executive director of Sri Lanka’s Airport […]

by Melani Manel Perera Courtesy asianews.it The group came from Jaffna peninsula, torn by civil war for almost 30 years, to pray for the recovery of the wounded and harmony between religious communities. Sirisena accepts the bishops’ request and appoints an independent commission of inquiry. Katuwapitiya (AsiaNews) – A group of Tamil women who survived the […]

Courtesy Prensa Latina Colombo, Sep 23 (Prensa Latina) The Sri Lankan Ministry of Health reported on Monday that about 3,317 patients infected with leptospirosis or rat fever were recorded during the eight months of 2019 in the country.The highest number of cases was recorded in May, according to the Department of Epidemiology. Leptospirosis, known as […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia President Maithripala Sirisena later on Saturday night appointed a four-member Presidential Commission to probe the April 21 Easter Sunday attacks in which nine Lankan Jehadi bombers struck at three churches and three star hotels killing nearly 300 men, women and children, locals as well as foreigners. This is the second panel […]

Courtesy The Hindu Keeping vigil: A soldier stands guard in front of St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo on Friday, following a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday.  MORE-INSri Lanka Easter bombings The committee would comprise two appeal court judges, two retired high court judges and a retired administrator Sri […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 22: Whatever the issue may be, a politician’s or a political party’s stand on it is determined by immediate political interests and not ideology, principles or long-standing commitments. Cold calculation marks choices ahead of the November 16 Sri Lankan Presidential election. This has come out clearly in the stand […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Dilrukshi Dias must reveal to the country the ignoble politicians who instructed her to file cases in a wrong manner, President Maithripala said yesterday (21). He was addressing the SLFP’s Matale District Convention held in Naula.Speaking of the voice recording of the former Director General of the Bribery and Corruption Commission,……which is […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් අල්ලස් හෝ දූෂණ චෝදනා විමර්ශන කොමිෂන් සභාවේ හිටපු අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් මෙන්ම, වත්මන් සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල් දිල්රුක්ෂි ඩයස් වික්‍රමසිංහට බලපෑම් කර ඇත්තේ අමාත්‍ය වජිර අබේවර්ධන බව මධ්‍යම පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් අද හෙළිදරව්වක් සිදුකළා. ඒ, හැටන් ප්‍රදේශයේදී මාධ්‍ය වෙත අදහස් දක්වමින්. මේ අතර, සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල් දිල්රුක්ෂි ඩයස් වික්‍රමසිංහ සහ ඇවන්ගාඞ් සභාපති නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපති […]

Source: Xinhua COLOMBO, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) — Over 6,000 people in Sri Lanka have died from kidney diseases between 2016 to 2018, local media reports, quoting the government said here Friday. Lands and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Gayantha Karunathilaka, answering on behalf of Health Minister, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne in Parliament said that 6,481 deaths had been […]

Dialogue with Yang Rui Courtesy CGTN “Your doing is working,” said Jayanath Colombage, former chief of the Sri Lanka Navy and director of the Pathfinder Foundation’s Centre for Indo-Lanka Initiatives, when attending International Seminar on Counterterrorism, De-radicalization and Human Rights Protection held in Urumqi, China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, early this September. “We were here […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS A recent statement of Mr Dayasiri Jayasekera, the secretary of SLFP published in news media that SLFP will bring back to original policy status and it is a good idea, but the likelihood of occurrence of the statement might be a statement with a negligible value.  Policy wise SLFP after the political […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Those opposing American rule in Sri Lanka has now woken up to the need to internationalise the matter. In August 2019, a group of Opposition MPs handed over a letter to the High Commissioner of South Africa in Colombo, to be handed over to the Secretary-General, Indian Ocean Rim Association,  Ambassador Dr. Nomvuyo […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS DRUG SHORTAGE Doctors held media conferences on 1.8.19 and 2.8.19 to inform the public of serious shortage of drugs. This was shown in television news. The doctors said that there were drug shortages at many hospitals. They included Ampara, Anamaduwa, Balapitiya, Chilaw, Galle, Kandy, Karapitiya, Kegalle,  Mahiyangana Matara Naula, Puttalam and Ratnapura. Lists […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Ottawa-Vanier 17 September 2019 Jag SahotaConservative Candidate for  the Calgary-Skyview Riding Campaign for Canada’s Federal election of October 2019, seeking Ananda Wijesinghe’s VOTE.. Hi Jag:I am not in your riding but in the Ottawa-Vanier Constituency. You might ask – Why the heck are you writing to me then?  It is a dam good […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  වෛද්‍ය චන්දන චන්ද්‍රසේකර  මිය ගිය බව මා මිත්‍ර සහකාර වෛද්‍ය දිනේජ් චන්ද්‍රසිරි මට පණිවිඩයක් එවා තිබුණි. ඔහුගේ අකල් මරණය සෝකජනකය.  මට මුලින්ම චන්දනව මුණ ගැසුනේ මා මීගමුව රෝහලේ නාරි හා ප්‍රසව ජේෂ්ඨ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරී ලෙස සේවය කල සමයේදී ය.  ඒ 1998 විය යුතුය. ඔහු මා යටතේ ඉන්ටර්න් වෛද්‍යවරයෙකු ලෙස ක්‍රියා කලේය. […]

Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA PRESIDENTIAL EXPORT AWARDS TODAY  AT BMICH…. Posted on September 14th, 2017 Dr Sarath Obeysekera EDB invited me as a boat builder to the award ceremony today and watched how exporters of Sri Lanka Tea ,Apparel ,fish ,cineman,coconut shells ,Gems ,few rubber products flowers ,ornamental fish ,herbal products,gift items  etc etc garbbing gold […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today It has taken nearly five months and it becomes crystal clear from the evidence emerging from the Parliamentary Select Committee, on the Easter Sunday carnage, where the authorities were to blame for the bloodshed that took place, while Catholic devotees were piously praying to God and foreign […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Aerospace Long-march International Trade Co. Ltd. (ALIT) says the advance payment paid by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) was only used for the purposes of the Lotus Tower project. Issuing a clarification concerning the company’s participation in the Lotus Tower project, the ALIT said the TRCSL had paid USD […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General must make a statement on the comment made by the former Director General of the Bribery Commission, Solicitor General Dilrukshi Dias Wickremesinghe during a purported telephone conversation that she has had with the Avant-Garde chairman, says Minister of Justice and Prison Reforms Thalatha Atukorale. The Justice Minister said she has […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena said it was his consistent policy that the Executive Presidency should be abolished and attempts to abolish it at a time when an election has been declared is a hoax. The President made these comments addressing the Matale District Convention of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) today (21), the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General is set to request the Public Service Commission to conduct a disciplinary inquiry into the telephone conversation between the former Director General of the Bribery Commission and the Avant-Garde Chairman. The Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General said the relevant request will be directed in writing to the Public Service […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Whilst not denying the fact that a conversation took place between Solicitor General Dilrukshi Dias Wickremasinghe and Avant-Garde Chairman Nissanka Senadipathi, Wickremasinghe called for the release of the entire phone conversation between the two parties. Posting on her Facebook page in the vernacular, Wickremasinghe asked Senadipathi to reveal the name of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror With reference to the Daily Mirror news story on the appearance  of the invalidated national identity card number of Gotabhaya Rajapksa in the electoral registers of 2017, 2018 and 2019, Mr. Rajapaksa said that although he filled the form with the new ID number and the Department of Registration of Persons […]

Courtesy Malaysiakini. ADUN SPEAKS | Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador’s latest comment that “no one will be spared from police action if found spreading terrorist ideologies“, is something that no Malaysian will dispute. But, how will the police define “terrorist ideologies” and what action will be considered as “supporting terrorist organisations” here? There are many Malaysians […]

Courtesy Eurasia Review Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chen Min-Er and President Maithripala Sirisena held this week a detailed discussion on a wide range of subjects on bilateral relations, economic cooperation and regional stability. Mr Chen Min-Er and a CPC delegation called on President Sirisena at […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි නෙලුම් කුලුන විවෘත කිරීමට සපැමිණි ජනාධිපති සිරිසේන ඒ උත්සවය ජාතික අවමගුලක් බවට පත්කොට ජාත්‍යන්තර මට්ටමේ බේගලයක් ඇදබා මුලු රටත් ජාතියන් අපට ආධාර දෙන මහජන චීන ජනරජයත් අවඥාවට ලක් කොට ඉන් පිටව ගියහ. මුදල් වලට ජාතික මට්ටමෙන් හා ජත්‍යන්තර මට්ටමේ බොරු බේගල් දෙසීම සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති ගේ ව්‍යාපාරයක් වන අතර ඔහු විසින් මෙරට ජනතාව […]

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.  Post traumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED) is a newly described reactive disorder. It is a special form of maladjustment reaction proposed by the German Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Linden of the University of Berlin in 2003.  PTED was introduced as a new concept for a subgroup of Adjustment Disorders. It can also be described […]

විද්‍යා, තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්‍යාංශය විද්‍යා, තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන ශ්‍රී ලංකා නව නිපැයුම්කරුවන්ගේ කොමිසම විසින් සංවිධානය කරන නවෝත්පාදනයේ ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය ප්‍රවේශය සහසක් නිමැවුම් – 2019, නව නිර්මාණ ප්‍රදර්ශනය සහ තරඟාවලිය විද්‍යා, තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්‍ය සුජීව සේනසිංහ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රදර්ශන හා සම්මේලන මධ්‍යස්ථානයේදී  අද දින (20) විවෘත විය. සංවර්ධිත […]