Courtesy The Daily News Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and newly appointed Sri Lankan High Commission to United Kingdom Saroja Sirisena held discussions on deepening and intensifying the longstanding political, economic and cultural relations between the two countries. This was revealed during a discussion between the Queen and High Commissioner Sirisena. Mrs Sirisena presented Letters of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lankan has temporarily suspended visas on arrival for foreigners until further notice in light of coronavirus scare.  The Government Information Department issuing a statement today (11) said that under the quarantine procedure currently in place with the aim of preventing the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, all Sri Lankans as […]

Courtesy Adaderana The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said via Twitter that COVID-19 was the first type of coronavirus to cause a pandemic. He said describing the ongoing situation as one did not change the organization’s assessment of the threat, or what WHO is […]

Courtesy Adaderana Kuwait has declared that it will be suspending all flights from Friday. The gulf country will, however, limit inbound trips for Kuwaiti citizens and their first-degree relatives. Cargo flights are also excluded.  It also announced a public holiday from March 12 to March 26. These steps have been taken to contain the spread […]

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 622 passengers who had arrived from coronavirus-affected countries such as Italy, South Korea, and Iran have been directed to the quarantine facilities in the country since yesterday (10). Chairman of Airport & Aviation Services (AASL) G. A. Chandrasiri mentioned this at a press conference held this morning (11).

Courtesy Adaderana Four students from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura have been arrested over the alleged ragging incident which resulted in critical injuries to a first-year student at the university, stated the Police. On March 05, Pasindhu Lakshan, a first-year student at the University of Sri Jayawardenapura was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් සමගි ජන බලවේගය වෙනම පක්ෂයක් ලෙස ගොඩනැගීමට කෘත්‍යාධිකාරි මණ්ඩලයේ අනුමැතිය හිමි නොවූ බව එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී වජිර අබේවර්ධන අද ප්‍රකාශ කළා. ඒ, සිරිකොත පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේ අද පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින්. කෙසේ වෙතත් ඊයේ කෑගල්ලේදි ජන හමුවක් අමතමින් සමගි ජනබලවේගයේ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස කියා සිටියේ සමගි ජනබලවේගය මෙන්ම එහි […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණෙන් එල්ලවන විවේචන හමුවේ ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවරණයට වෙනම තරග කිරීම පිළිබඳව නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ අවධානය යොමුව ඇති බව වයඹ පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර පේෂල ජයරත්න පවසනවා. පොළොන්නරුව ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේ අද පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළා. මේ අතර කුරුණෑගල – හෙට්ටිපොල ප්‍රදේශයේදී මාධ්‍ය වෙත […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE For the time being, we need to forget about arresting Arjun Mahendran through Interpol.  Sri Lankan Police have not been able to arrest Aloysius and Ravi within Sri Lanka.  As we understand, Aloysius was released on bail.  Then why not arrest those who provided the bail for the release of […]

The Gunaruwan Committee handed its supplementary report on the MCC to both the President & Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on 17th February 2020 and had made some recommendations and comments that should awaken the government to the dangers at stake for Sri Lanka which $480m could never cover. However, various media reports from Government […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane In computer science, artificial intelligence” or AI, refers to intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals. It is the ability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn. AI is one of the major developments of our time. Machine learning, and the implications that go […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel /former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority and former Ambassador to UAE and Israel World consumer day World consumer day is the opportunity for the consumer to show strength by flexing muscles agitating their power and rights of the consumer always in the receiving end worldwide- mostly in Sri Lanka with lack of […]

Sangkallpa දේශපාලන කෝළම් නිර්මාණය කර රංග දැක්වීම දැන් දිනපතාම සිදුවෙන, සිදුකරන කාර්යකි. මේවා පිරුපස සිටින්නේ සෘජුවම විදේශීය ඔත්තු සේවාවන්ය. මෙසේ රංග දක්වන අලුත්ම කෝළම වන්නේ නීතිපතිතුමා විසින් නිර්මාණය කර සමාජගත කරන ලද බැදුම්කර වන්නමයි. මෙය දේශපාලනය කරන යට ඉගෙන ගැනීමට ලැබෙන අලුත්ම පාඩම බැවින් සිදුවෙනදේ හොදින් නිරීක්ෂණය කර සත්‍ය වටහා ගන්න.

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Ranjith Naranpanawa President. The Global Peace Congress of Australia Incorporated  The Global Peace Congress of Australia Incorporated wishes to extend our heartfelt appreciation and congratulations to our Organisations Patron: COLONEL RATHNAPRIYA BANDU On his recent nomination for a seat in the Sri Lankan Parliament. Colonel Bandu is held in the highest esteem amongst the Tamil […]

By Dr Palitha Kohona Courtesy The Island March 10, 2020, 8:44 pm Historically, the West has always had an equivocal attitude towards China, not to mention the non-white world. A fear, a suspicion, a fascination, an uncertainty, a sense of superiority and even a loathing reserved for an undeserving competitor pervaded its dealings. Perhaps, resulting […]

Courtesy The Island Twenty six former ministers had not vacated their official residences, and the Ministry of Public Administration would file legal action against them, in the coming weeks, Secretary to the Ministry S. Hettiarachchi told the media yesterday. Hettiarachchi said that the former ministers were yet to vacate those official bungalows though four months […]

Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Mirihana Crimes Division is investigating into the incident where a first-year student of the Sri Jayawardenepura University was hit on the head with a tyre thrown at him by a group of senior students. The victim, 20-year-old Pasindu Hirushan, was admitted to the ICU at the National […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror PC Agency, a firm in UK has recommended Sri Lanka and the Caribbean’s as two of the safest places for UK citizens to travel to escape from the Coronavirus (Covid19) outbreak, foreign media reported.  The two countries where the heat is on, seemed to be reporting very few cases of coronavirus,” […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Earlier today, it was reported that group of passengers who are being directed to the Batticaloa Campus and Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre had raised objections over being charged a fee for daily provision of meals at the quarantine facilities. According to reports, the expatriates and foreigners, who are being quarantined at these two centres […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Permanent High Court-at-Bar today re-issued an arrest warrant on the Secretary of the Presidential Commission appointed to investigate alleged incidents of political victimization, Pearl K. Weerasinghe. The three-member judge bench ordered police to arrest the Secretary of the commission before March 12 and produced her before the court and warned that […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ඒකාබද්ධ වීමට එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය තුලින්ම කුමන්ත්‍රණ දියත් වු බවට සිදුකරන ප්‍රකාශ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ප්‍රසිද්ධ විවාදයකට පැමිණෙන්නැයි හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී පාලිත රංගේ බණ්ඩාර, හිටපු විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාසට අද අභියෝග කළා. ඒ, සිරිකොත එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ මුලස්ථානයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින්.    මේ අතර, සමගි ජන බලවේගයද අද මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් කැඳවා තිබු […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඇතිව තිබෙන අර්බුදකාරී තත්ත්වය පිළිබඳ දේශපාලනඥයින් අදත් මෙලෙස අදහස් පළ කලා.

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ පොහොට්ටුවේ නාමයෝජනා ලැයිස්තුව චමල් හෙළිකරයිඉදිරි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයේදී හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්‍රික්කය සඳහා වූ නාමයෝජනා පිළිබඳ අමාත්‍ය චමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ පැවති බෙලිඅත්ත ආසන බල මණ්ඩල රැස්වීමේදී මෙලෙස අදහස් පළ කළා.

Tourism Sri Lanka

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Modernization has been affecting the economic, social and cultural environment of Sri Lanka and it seems that the government policy framework also enthusiastic about going with modernization. Sometimes, people feel that modernization invaded many areas of the country creating distortion or a deformity in attitudes of people and the real behavior of […]

Chanaka Bandarage Prabhakaran was hell-bent on distorting Sri Lanka’s history. He launched a campaign with Anton Balasingham in the helm to attack Mahavansa. The LTTE discounted Vijaya’s arrival (more than 2500 years ago) and stressed that Tamils are Sri Lanka’s indigenous people.  According to them, Buddhism existed in Sri Lanka prior to Mahindagamanaya and that […]

Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage  Why is he hiding? If you have summoned by the court order to arrest, and if you are hiding; Mr. Ravi you could be charged; on top of the charges already in place against you. First, it could be disobeying to law and order of the country. The Second would be challenging […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. A blessing in disguise from the Yahapalana Maralaya was its deliberate attempt to kill the PC white elephant. Nobody wanted this death-trap then in 1987 or since then other than a collection of Colombo black-white and Marxists, who want Sri Lanka divided into two warring factions: Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala […]