උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කොරෝනා වෛරස් ආසාදිතයන් හඳුනාගන්නා තැන පටන් ඔවුන්ගේ සියලු තොරතුරු දත්ත ගබඩාවට එක් කර ඇති බව ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් කමල් ගුණරත්න මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. තමන් දන්නා තරමින් ආරක්ෂක ආරක්ෂක බුද්ධි අංශ කොරෝනා මර්දන වැඩසටහනක් සඳහා යොදා ගන්නා පළමු සහ එකම රට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව විය හැකි බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. මෙම කටයුත්ත සාර්ථක කර […]

By PTI in Washington Courtesy The Telegraph In April last year, he erroneously wrote that ‘138 million people’ instead of 138 were killed in a string of blasts in Sri Lanka US President Donald Trump was at his blooper best when he mistook Good Friday for Easter and wished the world “Happy Good Friday”, triggering an avalanche […]

Courtesy India Today The Sri Lankan Navy has intensified its coastal patrolling to prevent the possible spread of the novel coronavirus through “infected” Indian fishermen that it fears might “poach” in their territorial waters. he Sri Lankan Navy has intensified its coastal patrolling to prevent the possible spread of the novel coronavirus through “infected” Indian […]

By Suryamithra Vishwa/Harmony Page-DailyFT Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Immunity-building which is fundamental to traditional Lankan medicine is the best answer to viral pandemics This article is part of the series the Harmony page is running on Sri Lanka’s indigenous medical heritage, medicinal-food culture and traditional lifestyle/values. We, the Harmony page team believe that this is the ‘now […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today The Navy has apprehended 7 persons in the vessel which was seized with a haul of narcotics worth over Rs. 3,270 million during a deep-sea operation. The vessel was without a flag. 260 kg of heroin and 56 kg of Crystal methamphetamine (ICE) were seized by the Navy personnel. The Navy also […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A new bank account termed Special Deposit Account (SDA) has now been introduced for all Sri Lankans living in and outside the country to remit their foreign currency earnings, savings and investments to any bank of their choice in Sri Lanka. It is in the form of Term Deposits either in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The second term of all government schools will commence on the 11th of May, 2020, stated President’s Media Division. Previously, the new school term was to commence on the 20th of April. However, considering the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, the government has decided to postpone the commencement of the second term. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another patient has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) today bringing the country’s infections tally to 198, says the Ministry of Health. According to the Epidemiology Unit, 137 coronavirus patients are currently under medical care. Out of the total number of confirmed cases in Sri Lanka, 54 patients have recovered completely while […]

(A paper prepared by the Sri Lanka Geo-Political Study Circle to insulate Sri Lanka against extinction  from natural and man-made disasters in a globalised world.)  Situational Background Sri Lanka is a spiritual Nation, blessed with a land that is naturally fertile and whose eco-system, supports the waters flowing within and, sustains the birds, the animals […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Ven. Udakendawala Siri Saranankara ( January 7, 1902 – November 13, 1966) was an outstanding political bhikkhu of Sri Lanka. He is forgotten today. However, his name should not be erased completely from history. He was continuously active under a hostile British administration, and unlike most activists of the time, he was very […]

Dilrook Kannangara Bankrupt political losers of November 2019 are pushing for elections when no country in the world hold elections during the COVID-19 pandemic! They don’t even bother hiding their desperation and greed for power. Sadly, no national politician caught Coronoavirus and as a result, they don’t care for the plight of the nation. Looks […]

Chanaka Bandarage The previous government signed an agreement with a Chinese bank to obtain funds to build a Light Rail system from Malabe to Fort via Borella.  This is only the first stage of the proposed project. The idea was to eventually cover the whole of Colombo with Light Rail. The estimated cost for stage […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්                පවතින වසංගත තත්වය හමුවේ බරපතලම හානිය සිදුව තිබෙන්නේ දේශීය ආර්ථිකයටයි. නිෂ්පාදන ආර්ථිකය මෙන්ම සේවා ආර්ථිකයද බිඳ වැටෙමින් පවතී. මේ තත්වය හමුවේ දෛනික ආහාර වේල සරි කර ගත නොහැකි විශාල ජනතාවක් සිටිනු නිසැකය. අත්‍යවශ්‍ය සේවා පවත්වාගෙන යෑමට රජය විසින් දියත් කරනු ලැබූ වැඩ පිළිවෙල තුළ ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාවේ කාර්යය  අති විශිෂ්ට ලෙස සිදු වේ. […]

Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA  Central Bank has issued a promising circular 05 of 27tj March 2020 informing banks and businesses and also individuals who have either borrowed or obtain finance /leading facilities can apply for redress to reschedule loans and maybe even writing off interests for s limited period  Circular also stipulates that and legal action […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Preference for guns over butter is cited as a reason for America’s current plight Colombo, April 9: The absence of a State-funded or backed general healthcare system, huge expenditures on weaponry for wars which will not be fought, and neglect of new sources of threat like viruses have combined to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Some 20,064 COVID-19 test kits (PCR-Fluorescence Probing) donated by the Alibaba Foundation in collaboration with the Jack Ma Foundation will arrive in Sri Lanka tonight from Shanghai, the Chinese Embassy said. It said the kits are produced by the DAAN Gene Co and meet the requirements and standards indicated by the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Four more persons who tested positive for COVID-19 have been discharged as they have made complete recoveries. The Ministry of Health stated that the total count of coronavirus recoveries in the country now stands at 54. As of Friday evening, Sri Lanka’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally was at 190 and 129 out of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) says that Maximum Retail Prices have been imposed on several rice varieties with effect from today (10). A maximum retail price (MRP) of Rs. 125 has been imposed on a kilogram of Keeri Samba while a maximum price of Rs. 90 has been imposed on a kilogram of […]

Courtesy Adaderana No new COVID-19 infections were reported in Sri Lanka during the past 24 hours, says Director General of Health Services, Dr. Anil Jasinghe. He announced this during the media briefing held at the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 today (10). Speaking further, Dr. Jasinghe noted that in addition to testing patients […]

Courtesy Adaderana The operations of all rice mills in the country have been declared an essential service until further notice, the President’s Media Division said. Since the provision of essential foods and rice production, storage and distribution is imperative to ensure food security, services of the owners of all rice mills have been declared an […]

A citizen must be proud of his nation and the nation must have reason to be proud of him/her. One’s pride is shown not by waving the national flag or memorizing the national anthem or showing the power speech by plucking out the most difficult words from the dictionary. One’s love and pride for the […]

AJ+ The U.S. and South Korea confirmed their first coronavirus patients on the same day. Yet South Korea is containing its outbreak while cases in the U.S. have soared. South Korea learned from its traumatic experience with its MERS outbreak in 2015. But, this time, the country has contained COVID-19 with its Trace, Test, Treat” […]

By Takis Pappas, Political scientist, the University of Helsinki, Finland* Courtesy Greek Reporter When the covid-19 pandemic broke out in Europe, no government had any experience of how to face it and each tried to weather the storm in its own ways. Some governments fared better, some less so. By and large, there are three major […]

By MATTHEW SCULLY Courtesy National Review Customers select seafood at a wet market in Dandong, Liaoning Province, China, in 2017. (Philip Wen/Reuters) They’re more alike than not in their violations of moral common sense.NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLEAlthough no government is better than China’s at making troublesome people disappear, a strange leniency has been accorded vendors at the country’s live-animal […]

Audrey Enjoli Courtesy livekindly.co Doctors with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine say live animal markets should be shut down in the U.S. to prevent coronavirus-like pandemics in the future. Doctors are urging the U.S. Surgeon General to shut down live animal markets amid the current coronavirus outbreak. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)—a […]

සමස්ත ලංකා හෙද සංගමය පොලිස්පතිතුමා පොලිස් මුලස්ථානය, කොළඹ. මහත්මයාණෙනි, ඇදිරිනීති බලපතය‍්‍ර ලෙස රාජකාරී හැදුනුම් පතට අමතරව ආයතන ප්‍රධානියාගේ ලපියක් ලබාගත යුතු බවට වූ පුකාශය සමග හෙද සේවාවේ මතුවී තිබෙන ගැටළුකාරී තත්වය සම්බන්ධවයි උක්ත කාරනය නිසා දිවයින පුරා රෝහල්වල සේවය කරන හෙද හෙදියන් ඇතුළු අනෙකුත් සෞඛ්‍ය සේවකයින් බරපතල ගැටළුවකට මුහුණ පා ඇත. #කොවිඩ් – 19 වසංගතය […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  The TV news item today was about Sri Lankan specialist doctors undergoing training in the UK desperately want to return home. It is quite strange that they all want to come back when only a small percentage of the doctors return after going abroad. Some specialists trained in a lucrative specialty return […]

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C. Dear Fellow Sri Lankans, As you all are aware, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa established the COVID – 19 Healthcare and Social Security Fund” to strengthen the mitigation activities aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19 virus in the country and related social welfare programmes.  Accordingly, the Sri Lankan Embassy in Washington D.C. […]

Dr sarath obeysekera  We have seen the yeoman services rendered by the armed forces in controlling corona spread with  political backing where  relevant measures are taken to prevent  people from moving around by establishing control points Many youngsters who have been  employed and unemployed  are staying in boarding houses, frustrated cursing the patients as well […]

Senaka Weeraratna Title: Putting Buddhism to Work:A New Approach to Management and Business Author: Shinichi Inoue Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd. (Tokyo)Year of publication: 1997 Buddhist Economics: The Emerging Middle Path between Capitalism and Socialism Shinichi Inoue, a former President of the Japanese Miyazaki Bank and reputed economist, has proposed a novel approach to economic management […]