Courtesy Ada Derana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has met with a group of protesters near the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo today (07). Workers assisting in the government’s dengue prevention programme had engaged in a protest near the Presidential Secretariat, stating that the former government had employed them under contract basis and that those appointments have been […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The Government of Good Governance had splashed Rs.2.8 billion on luxury vehicles during its tenure, according to a revelation made during today’s parliamentary session. Minister Johnston Fernando gave an elaborated explanation on the matter to the House, adding that the highest spender was former President Maithripala Sirisena. He also criticized JVP Parliamentarian […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The previous government had spent Rs.2.8 billion to purchase vehicles for the use of ministers since 2015, Chief Government Whip Johnston Fernando said in parliament today. He said a sum of Rs.1.6 billion had been spent on the vehicle purchase of ministers while Rs.652 million had been used to purchase vehicles […]

Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Civil Aviation Minister Prasanna Ranatunge said today steps would be taken to obtain compensation from those involved in the SriLankan airline’s Airbus deal after obtaining legal advice. He said this in Parliament when responding to a question asked by JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake on the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් කොරෝනා වෛරසයේ උපත සත්ත්වයන්ගෙන් සිදුවූ බවට බොහෝ පාර්ශව මත පළ කලද කොරෝනා වෛරසය ඇමරිකාව විසින් නිර්මාණය කළ ජීව අවියක් බවට රුසියානු විද්‍යාඥයන් පිරිසක් පෙන්වා දී තිබෙනවා. චීනයේ ආර්ථිකය අඩපණ කිරීමේ ප්‍රබල අරමුණින් මාරාන්තික කොරෝනා වෛරසය ඇමරිකාව ගොඩනගා ඇති බවයි අදාළ විද්‍යාඥයන් ප්‍රකාශ කර ඇත්තේ. රුසියානු විද්‍යාඥයන් විශ්වාස කරන්නේ මෙම වෛරසය හමුවේ […]

Oshan Wedage, Patrick Roberts, Patrick Faulkner, Alison Crowther, Katerina Douka, Andrea Picin, James Blinkhorn, Siran Deraniyagala, Nicole Boivin, Michael Petraglia, Noel Amano courtesy MAX-PLANCK Institute for the Science of Human History Abstract Sri Lanka has produced the earliest clear evidence for Homo sapiens fossils in South Asia and research in the region has provided important insights into […]

Interlinked to the MCC US Government grant of $480m are some crucial topics that the ruling government, the judiciary and citizens cannot ignore. 84% of Sri Lanka’s land belongs to the state. What happens if this 84% state land is privatized? Will the Govt be able to impose tax and gain revenue. Will the bulk […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  අද දෙරණ බැඳුම්කර වංචාවන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් මේ වන විට ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කර ඇති වෝහාරික විගණන වාර්තා සම්බන්ධයෙන් තමන්ගේ නම සම්බන්ධ කර තිබීම පිළිබඳව පැහැදිලි කිරීම සඳහා හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතා ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවක් කැඳවා තිබුණේය. මෙහිදී අදහස් දක්වමින් කබ්රාල් මහතා කියා සිටියේ, තම ඥාතීන් අතුරින් කිසිවකුත් මෙයට සම්බන්ධයක් නොමැති බවත්, සම්බන්ධයක් තිබෙන […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Rev 7.3.20 When Sri Lanka, then Ceylon was getting ready for independence, it had to find a national anthem, since all modern states were expected to have one. National anthems rose to prominence in Europe during the 19th century. D.B.S. Jeyaraj says that when the national anthem was discussed in the late 1940s, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Rev 7.3.20 There are two opposing sets of views on the matter of the Tamil version. One group firmly wishes to see the anthem sung only in Sinhala. It is imperative to sing the national anthem in one voice not two, they said. A national anthem is a symbol of unity. When you […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදන –Media secretary to Arjuna Ranatunga (MP) ක්‍රිකට් ගැන කළ වෝහාරික විගණනය විශේෂ වාර්තාවක් වුණේ කොහොමද ?තරග පාවාදීම් ගැන තොරතුරු ඇතළත් හඩපට රන්ජන් ළඟත්ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනයේ දවස් හයක සි. සි. ටි. වී දර්ශන මකා දැමුවේ ඇයි…?ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනයෙන් මාධ්‍යවේදීන්ට තර්ජනක්‍රිකට් ආයතනයට කඩා පනින්නැයි ජනාධිපතිතුමාගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක්… පසුගිය ආණ්ඩු කාලයේදී විගණකාධිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනය ගැන කළ වෝහාරික විගණනය […]

සාකච්ඡා කලේ වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධානයේ සිටි  ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ සාමාජිකයෙකු වූ රහීම් ( ශ්‍රී කුමාර් කනගරත්නම්) වර්තමානයේ ජීවත් වන්නේ කැනඩාවේය. ඔහු සහ සිංහ රෙජිමේන්තුවේ කැප්ටන් ජයන්ත කොතලාවල (පසුකාලීනව ලුතිනන් කර්නල්) අතර අපූරු මිතුදමක්ද තිබුනේය. රහීම් හෙවත් ශ්‍රී කුමාර් කනගරත්නම් තමන්  එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධානයේ ගත කල කාලය පිලිබඳව මෙසේ මතකය අවදි කරයි.  1) ඔබ එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ  සංවිධානයේ […]

ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමය. ප‍්‍රවෘත්ති කර්තෘ/ ප‍්‍රවෘත්ති අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක රූපවාහිනිය/ගුවන් විදුලිය/පුවත්තපත ගරු රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන හා ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය,   ජනක බණ්ඩාර තෙත්නකෝන් මැතිතුමා, රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන හා ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය, නිදහස් චතුරස‍්‍රය, කොළඹ 07. ගරු අමාත්‍ය තුමනි, අභ්‍යාසලාභී උපාධිධාරීන් ස්ථීර කිරීමේ දී මාස 04 සේවා කාලයක් අහිමි කිරීම අසාධාරණ ක‍්‍රියාවක් බව දන්වමු. 2018 අගෝ්ස්තු 20 […]

Setting The Scene: Threats to us and our survival For true freedom, people need transparency in all things. The fact is, for democracy (and freedom) to survive we need good information; we need to understand what is around us – our climate, our government and politics. When government hides things or give us false information, […]

RAVI LADDUWAHETTY Courtesy The Daily News The Government will shortly invest Rs. 500 million for the rehabilitation of the Mattala Mahinda Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) to bring it back to international standards within six months. Despite the Government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa building the Mattala Airport to international standards, the ruination which was taking place […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Feb.6 – The Sri Lankan government will soon commence construction of a new terminal at the Bandaranaike International Airport in order to accommodate a larger number of arrivals, Xinhua news agency, citing local media reported here Thursday. Chairman of Airport and Aviation Services Sri Lanka Ltd (AASL), G.A. Chandrasiri told the Daily […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Feb. 6 – Sri Lanka will soon commence construction on a world class theme park along the country’s southern coast in order to promote adventure tourism, local media reported here Thursday. Leading international theme park developer and operator, Sim Leisure Group Ltd, entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sri […]

Courtesy Ada Derana Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SriLankan Airlines Kapila Chandrasena and his wife, who were arrested on money laundering charges after they surrendered to the CID this morning, have been remanded until February 19 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court. The Attorney General on Monday (3) instructed the Director of the CID […]

Courtesy Ada Derana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that his government will work with a commitment to save the country from the present chaotic situation without pointing fingers at the past for prevailing problems. He said that he accepted the challenge of rebuilding the country with a clear understanding that the economy had collapsed. The President […]

Courtesy Ada Derana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, today (06) at the Presidential Secretariat, gifted a consignment of world-renowned Ceylon Black Tea to the Chinese Ambassador Cheng Xueyuan to be sent to those affected by the Coronavirus.  Ambassador Xueyuan deeply appreciated the gesture, stated President Media Division.  The Ambassador, on behalf of President Xi Jinping and the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Cabinet approval has been granted to the programme of the government to provide government jobs for all graduates. Co-Cabinet Spokesman Minister Bandula Gunawardena said that President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa presented the relevant Cabinet Paper to the Cabinet yesterday. It has been planned to grant these jobs at the Ministries of Education and Health […]

Courtesy Hiru News It has been revealed that the incident of a discovery at Vavunathivu – Mullamunai, of the body of Police Sergeant of Vavuniya is a murder . A top official engaged in carrying out investigations said that it is conjectured that the murder had been committed due to a conflict regarding a land. […]

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By Janaka Perera The biggest falsehood some of our politicians and some historians have been spreading over the past 70 years is that Sri Lanka won her independence from Britain in a ‘bloodless struggle’. The hard fact is that there was no independence struggle as such after the Matale uprising of 1848 was brutally suppressed. […]

By A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The racist evil trio Sambandan/Sumanthiran/Wigneswaran who are highly dismayed over the GR victory are making use of every petty issue to discredit, defme and project Sri Lanka as an oppressive and autocratic country and the latest issue they have taken as the punching pad to hit at Sri Lanka was their […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane As a global religion, Buddhism today has expanded worldwide.  What is significant to note is that this expansion has always been characterized by a spirit of tolerance, harmonization and assimilation. In the process, Buddhism has absorbed pre-existing beliefs to a point where a clear distinction is often difficult today. This is clearly […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B,. Ph.D. රට ගොඩගන්නට වෙහෙසුණු කළුකොඳයාවේ මහනාහිමි හැඳින්‌වීම හාමුදුරුවරු දේශ-පාලනයට ඒමට විරුද්‌ධව කතා කරන අළුත්ම උදාහරණය වන්නේ කිරිබත්ගොඩ ඤාණානන්ද හිමියන් ය. 1802 පමණ සිටම නෝත් ආණ්ඩුකාරයා විසින් ආරම්භකල පන්සල කොරු කිරීමේ තර්‌කය එහි උච්චතම හා කැතම ගෙනාවේ රංජන් රාමනායක විසිනි. ඔහු එය කලේ යහපාලන-විදේශ බලවේග වල මෝඩ ඒජන්ත වශයෙනි. ලංකාවේ සුද්දන්ගේ හා 1931 […]

Courtesy The Island Environmental organizations urge thegovernment to reform the Land Development Act as it is misused by affluent and powerful politicians to acquire vast extents of land illegally. Sajeewa Chamikara of Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR) said that the present law should be amended to prevent such rackets. Chamikara said: “The Land […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, flanked by Lt. Gen.Shavendra Silva and Vice Admiral Piyal de Silva, at the 72nd Independence Day celebrations, on Feb 4, 2020, at the Independence Square, touches his medals.(pic by Kamal Bogoda) In January, 2015, Sri Lanka gave up its right to celebrate the victory over the […]

Emma Davies Courtesy  Proactive Investors Australia he Mannar Island project has power, road and rail infrastructure, is backed by a government supportive of foreign investment and is ideally situated for product export to Asian markets. Panning of RC aircore samples from below the water table at the Mannar Island project Titanium Sands Ltd‘s (ASX:TSL) initial assay […]