H. L. D. Mahindapala The pioneering Indo-Aryan settlers, who came to be known as Sinhalese later, never stopped making history from the time they stepped ashore. The mission of making history came naturally to them. It was their innate penchant for making history that gave birth to a new civilization which rose to the heights […]

LUXMINDRA JAYASEKARA  PANIC SELLING In recent days, China broke many records, and earned absolutely everything, $ 20 billion in the first news and bought about 30% of the shares of companies that belong to the West in China. President Xi Jinping has surpassed Europeans and intelligent American Democrats. He played a wonderful game in front […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති කොරෝනාවේ අවදානම දැන් අපේ රටටත් ඇවිල්ලා. ජනවාරි මාසයේ ඉඳලා චීනයේ කොරෝනාව පැතිරෙද්දි ඒක හැදිච්ච අය ඒ ගමන් ම මැරිලා වැටෙනවා කියලා කියපු අයත් අපි අතර හිටියා. ඒත් අපේ රටේ අය නම් ලෙඩේ හදාගෙන හතර වටේ රෝන්දේ ගහ ගහා අනිත් අයටත් ලෙඩේ දීලා හරි අපූරුවට කකුල් දෙකෙන් හිටගෙන ඉන්න බව අපිට පේනවා. ඉතින් […]

සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න සෙන්කඩගල සිංහ ද්වාරයේ සිට මේ දිනවල පිරිත් සජ්ජායනය කිරීම විහිළුවක් හා හිතළුවක් කරගත් දේව වාදී අදහසකින් පෙළෙන ඔබ ලෝකයේ ඕනෑම ලෙඩක් හොඳ කිරීමට සමත් යැයි කියන දෙවියන් හොඳින් දන්නා බව අප හොඳින් දනී. අද මේ කොරෝනා  වසංගතය හමුවේ  තිබෙන මහත් ව්‍යාසනය දැක නිශ්ශබ්ද සැඟවී සිටින නමුත් බුදුදහමේ සඳහන් අනිත්‍ය […]

H.P. Gunawardena and H.M.P.R Wijebandara Courtesy The Daily News Forests cover one third of the Earth’s land mass, performing vital functions around the world. Around 1.6 billion people—including more than 2,000 indigenous cultures—depend on forests for their livelihoods, medicines, fuel, food and shelter. The fact that Sinharaja forest reserve is a precious gift to us […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., P.hD. හැඳින්‌වීම –හාමුදුරුවනේ, ආණ්ඩුව සරණං ගච්චාමි කියා ශික්‍ෂා පදයක් නෑ නොවැයි- -අගමැති ඩී. ඇස්. සේනානායක –හාමුදුරුවනේ, ආණ්ඩුවේ රෙගුලාසි අනුව මේ පොලිස් නිලධාරියාව මාරු නොකරම බැහැ- -ඩොනමෝර් ස්වදේශ කටයුතු ඇමති ඩී. බී. ජයතිලක මෙහි ඉහතින් දැක්‌වෙන්නේ, පිළිවෙලින්, හේන්පිටගෙදර ඥානසීහ හිමියන්ව හා කළුකොඳයාවේ ප්‍රඥාශෙඛර හිමියන්ව, සිංහල දේශපාලකයින් දෙදෙනෙකු විසින් රැවටූ අවස්ථා දෙකකි. හාමුදුරුවරුන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට […]

WRITER: STEVEN R GALSTER Courtesy BangkokPost As Thailand and its neighbors scramble to contain the pandemic and panic, we urgently need to start building a response to the source of Covid-19, or risk having new outbreaks hit us even harder. There is good reason to believe that we know the source — global wildlife trade — […]

Courtesy CNN Moscow (CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week his country managed to stop the mass spread of coronavirus– and that the situation was “under control,” thanks to early and aggressive measures to keep more people from getting the disease.Does Russia have coronavirus under control? According to information released by Russian officials, Putin’s strategy seems to have […]

Courtesy CubaSi Cuba has full capacity to supply Interferon alpha 2B and other 22 medicines to the national health system in the fight and treatment of COVID-19. It is also s working on a vaccine against that disease. Biocubafarma Business Group is studying how some existing medications of its production line can contribute to the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia 130 persons booked for defying the curfew Colombo, March 21 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan Police on Saturday announced that the island-wide curfew which was imposed over the weekend will be extended till Tuesday, after the total number of positive COVID-19 cases went up to 77.The 77 includes a senior doctor and a child. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Board of Directors of Citrus Waskaduwa (Waskaduwa Beach Resort PLC) took into account the current crisis faced by the Nation and the world at large. The Board noted that the occupancies of the hotels in the Citrus Group have dropped to a bare minimum and considering the global and local travel restrictions, […]

Courtesy The Daily News Hemas Holdings Plc has offered its Club Hotel Dolphin in Negombo as a quarantine centre to the Government if the need arises, as part of wider public-private sector efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Speaking to Daily Mirror, Mr. Abbas Esufally, Chairman of HEMAS Leisure stated that, we feel that […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Hotels Association of Sri Lanka (THASL) today said that the Association is willing to work with the membership to offer selected hotel facilities in the battle against preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the country. THASL President Sanath Ukwatte said the members of the association have been following with deep […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another person has tested positive for Covid-19 in Sri Lanka, bringing the total number of infected persons to 77, says Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi. Earlier this evening (21), four new positive coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in the country. Accordingly, the Covid-19 case tally in the country now stands at 77. The majority of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another inmate injured in the Anuradhapura Prison shooting incident has succumbed to his injuries, stated the Director of Anuradhapura Hospital. This brings the total number of deaths in the incident to 2, stated the Hospital Director. A tense situation occurred at the Anuradhapura Prison this evening (21) leading to a shooting incident. Previously, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Police Media Division stated that 180 individuals have been arrested over violating the curfew within the time period between 6 pm yesterday (20) and 9 pm today (21). The government yesterday (20) imposed an island-wide curfew from 6.00 pm until 6.00 am on Monday (23). The curfew was enforced as a means to […]