Yasiru Ranaraja, Maya Majueran Courtesy CGTN Yasiru Ranaraja is a maritime regulations and BRI developments expert. Maya Majueran is a Ph.D. candidate at the State University of Kalaniya researching the BRI. The article reflects the authors’ opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN. Sri Lanka is considered a vital part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) because of […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia An early start of the process of containment and subsequent innovative steps have helped keep the infection under control Colombo, April 26 (President’s Media Division): In a TV discussion with his Principal Advisor, Lalith Weeratunga, on April 20, on some key concerns regarding the COVID-19 epidemic, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa explained the […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka has reversed plans to end its virus lockdown on Monday (April 27), extending it for another week after a spike in coronavirus infections including at a naval base. Within hours of announcing that the nationwide restrictions imposed on March 20 would be lifted, the government revoked the order […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 18 more cases of coronavirus, taking up the total number of patients to 523, says the Ministry of Health. According to the tally, 63 positive COVID-19 cases have been confirmed within the day.  This is the highest daily surge reported in the country since Friday. The Epidemiology Unit says […]

Courtesy Adaderana The ongoing island-wide curfew will be in force tomorrow (27) to facilitate the Tri-forces personnel on leave to return to their respective camps, says the President’s Media Division (PMD). Accordingly, the curfew in all districts, except for Colombo, Kalutara, Gampaha and Puttalam, will be lifted at 5.00 am on Tuesday (28) and re-imposed […]

The calls to reconvene Parliament come from the same coterie of people who orchestrated regime change in 2015 capitalizing on a Presidential Election victory to bring to power a minority UNP government and place Ranil as PM without removing the sitting PM. A hurriedly cobbled ‘national government’ was created to dish out various roles to […]

Sri Lanka is facing multiple issues. At a global & local level there is pandemic health crisis impacting the lives of all. Governance of country has fallen into the hands of the President & the Public Sector which is why it is important to have elections to enable a fresh government to join in the […]

By Gandara John Battling COVID 19, the pandemic disease sweeping Planet Earth, Sri Lanka has done an excellent job thus far, in containing the spread of this highly infectious disease while limiting fatalities to a single digit.  At the helm of Sri Lanka’s anti-COVID operations has been Gota, credited by most for the success achieved […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Three current unavoidable circumstances that only anti-national forces could exploit to stymie the government’s progress in its anti-Covid-19 drive thereby contributing to general oppositional efforts to destabilize the Sri Lankan state are   (1) the recent announcement of a new date for the next parliamentary elections by the Election Commission, (2) […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B.,Ph.Ð. කොරෝනාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ඒබ්‍රහම් සුමන්තිරන්-මනෝ ගනේෂන් යන දෙන්නා ඉස්සරහට දමා උසාවිය මඟින් ලෝකයේ ප්‍රථම වරට අළුත් කොරෝනාතන්ත්‍රවාදයක් කෘතිමව නිෂ්පාදනය කොට ඒ හරහා 2015-19 යහපාලන සෙල්ලමට ආපසු යෑමට සජිත්, චම්පික, රාජිතලාගේ විපක්‍ෂය (හා මර්වින් සිල්වා පවා) ගෙන යන කූඨ ප්‍රයත්නය දැන් එහි රෙදි ගලවාගෙනම එලියට පැමිණ තිබේ. මෙහි පහතින් දැක්‌වෙන්නේ මේ කොරෝනාතන්ත්‍රවාදයේ රෝග ලක්‍ෂණ වල […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The Sunday Times Political Editor wrote in his weekly column on 19th April said that {President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa did not go to Medamulana this year to celebrate Avurudu (New Year) with his brothers and instead he held several meetings in Colombo on measures to be taken to curtail the spread […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera EDB of Sri Lanka should offer Trinco Harbour facility to park oil rigs and oil tankers to generate foreign income  A request to investigate thas been  sent to SLPA and to the Task Force  IMPACT OF COVID-19  Due to the adverse effect of Covid 19 virus to the economy of the countries in Asia. Africa and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Curfew in Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara and Puttlam districts will continue to remain until May 04 while curfew in all other districts will be relaxed from April 27, the President’s Media Division said. Accordingly, it said the curfew in Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara and Puttlam districts will be in force until 5.00 am […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three new persons have been confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus according to test results, says the Ministry of Health. With 32 new cases reported today (25), the country’s total number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 452. Sri Lanka reports 118 recoveries and 7 fatalities from the novel coronavirus. According […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has briefed the Maha Sangha on the measures taken by the Government to control the spread of COVID-19 virus and the progress made so far, the President’s Media Division (PMD) says.  During a meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (24), the President has explained about the control of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ongoing curfew in Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara and Puttalam districts will continue until 5.00 am on the 4th of May, the President’s Media Division (PMD) announced. In a press release, the PMD stated that the curfew in all other districts will be lifted at 5.00 am on Monday (27) and re-imposed at 8.00 pm […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් කොවිඩ් 19 වසංගතය හමුවේ රට තුළ පවතින තත්ත්වය සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ දේශපාලනඥයින් අදහස් පළ කළා

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් මෙරටින් වාර්තා වූ කොවිඩ් 19 හෙවත් නව කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයින් සංඛ්‍යාව 452 දක්වා ඉහළ ගොස් තිබෙනවා. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවෙන් අද දිනයේ මේවන විට වාර්තාවී ඇති ආසාදිතයන් සංඛ්‍යාව 32ක්. මෙරටින් හඳුනාගෙන ඇති වෛරස් ආසාදිතයන් 452 අතරින් 327ක් රෝහල්ගතව ප්‍රතිකාර ලබමින් පසුවනවා. එසේම, අද දිනයේ 9 දෙනෙකු ද ඇතුළුව ආසාදිතයින් 118 දෙනෙකු මේ වනවිට සුවය […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane  Today, about 21% of the global population are in the so-called Western industrialized countries and 79% in developing countries. This small % of excessively greedy white men of the Western industrialized consume about 80% of the world’s natural resources and are also responsible for the production of about 80% of all waste […]

Chanaka Bandarage There is widespread condemnation of clearance of the precious Wilpattu National Park to resettle Muslim IDPs. If the allegation is true, the last two governments (2010 – 2019), and the ex-Muslim Minister who is in the centre of the allegation, have committed a serious offence.  News emanating from the North now shows that […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA It is imperative that a country should have an unwavering, unshakable, and firm determined and dedicated leader with a firm backbone if that country is to progress. Unfortunately in the recent past, we have had three Presidents and a Prime Minister who have shamelessly and cowardly genuflected in front of […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය  සභාපති තුමාමැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවමැතිවරණ කාර්යාලයරාජගිරිය ගරු සභාපති තුමනි තැපැල් ඡන්ද අයදුම්පත් භාර ගැනීමේ අවධානම්කාරි බව පෙන්වා දීම මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව අප්‍රේල් 28 වන දිනය තැපැල් ඡන්ද අයදුම්පත් භාරගැනීමේ අවසාන දිනය ලෙස මේ වනවිට ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කොට ඇත. පවතින වාතාවරණය අනුව  එම දිනය වනවිට තැපැල් ඡන්ද අයදුම්පත් භාරගැනීම දැඩි අවධානම්කාරී බව අපගේ […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera CEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard       Apr 23 (FT) Over 200 enterprises in the Free Trade Zones, employing over 30,000 workers, are currently in operation and contributing to economic development, despite partial shutdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, Govt revealed. Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia As of today in Sri Lanka, there are 417 confirmed COVID19 cases in the Island from which 107 have recovered and 7 deaths reported. COVID-19 cases count in Sri Lanka has hit 417 as another person tested positive for the virus as of 10.45 pm today (24), the Ministry of Health says.  Colombo, […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Three risk categories, high, moderate and low, identified for a phased lifting of lockdown restrictions Colombo, April 24 (newsin,asia): The College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka (CCPSL) on Friday submitted a scientific exit strategy to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for the COVID-19 affected Colombo Municipality area, which the most densely populated and economically important area […]

By: PTI | Courtesy Financial Epress Tourism is the third-largest earner of foreign exchange in Sri Lanka. The decline in tourist arrivals has hit the island nation’s tourism industry in a big way. Sri Lanka is set to enter into an agreement with the Reserve Bank of India for a currency swap worth USD 400 million […]

Courtesy Adaderana COVID-19 cases count in Sri Lanka has hit 417 as another person tested positive for the virus as of 10.45 pm today (24), the Ministry of Health says. According to the tally, Sri Lanka has confirmed a record surge in coronavirus cases with 49 new infections within the day. The 49 coronavirus patients […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another 30 naval personnel from the Navy Base in Welisara have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as of today, says the Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva. Addressing the media briefing of National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 this evening, he said that the Welisara Navy Base has […]

Courtesy Adaderana මහාසංඝරත්නය ජනපතිට කියූ දේ…

Courtesy Adaderana The total number of coronavirus infections in the country has soared to 368 cases, according to the tally of the Health Ministry’s Epidemiology Unit. With two new recoveries today (23), the tally of recoveries reported in the country is at 107 cases. Sri Lanka’s fatality count from the novel coronavirus rests at 7 […]