By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Police headquarters said that that there was irrefutable evidence to link Attorney-at-Law, Hejaaz Hisbullah, who had been recently taken into custody by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings. Police spokesman Attorney-at-Law SP Jaliya Senaratne denied accusations the arrest had been made […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 23 – Sri Lanka’s Army Chief, General Shavendra Silva yesterday said that opening schools on May 11 may not be possible as several logistics would have to be put in place to ensure the safety of children in classrooms.As of now I do not foresee that it can be opened on […]

On 21st April 2019 multiple suicide attacks claimed the lives of over 300 innocent persons. These attacks took place despite 97 intel warnings from India the last coming hours before the first suicide bombing, giving venue, names of suicide bombers and even their phone numbers. No other country would have allowed the leaders elected to, […]

Article 92(b) and Clause 20(4) of the 19a and Article 91(1)(d)(XIII) of the Constitution says persons who are dual citizens are DISQUALIFIED from being elected as MPs or the President. If this is so the onus is on the Election Commissioner to ensure no MP submits nominations withholding that they are dual citizens. Has there […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay lists some of the many changes and improvements made by the MEP government of 1956.  These changes, carried out between 1956 and 1958 have not got the recognition it deserves. UNP government followed an anti-communist and pro western foreign policy. The MEP government, on the other hand, swung to a non […]

ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය. ගරු ආණ්ඩුකාර තුමා, ආණ්ඩුකාරවර කාර්යාලය, ඩික්සන් පාර, ගාල්ල. ආණ්ඩුකාරතුමනි, #කොවිඩ්– 19 (#Covid- 19) වසංගතය හමුවේ උද්ගතව ඇති තත්ත්වය නොසලකා ගුරු හා විදුහල්පතිවරුන්ගේ වැටුප් නතර කිරීමට ගෙන ඇති තීරණය සම්බන්ධවයි. #කොවිඩ්- 19 (#Covid- 19) වසංගත රෝගය පැතිරයාම හේතුවෙන් පාසල් වසා දමා ඇඳිරි නීතිය ප‍්‍රකාශයට පත් කර තිබූ අවස්ථාවක ශිෂ්‍ය තොරතුරු පද්ධතිය (SIS) […]

සමස්ත ලංකා සුවසේවා සංගමය ඌව පලාත් සෞඛ්‍ය ලේකම්තුමා පලාත් සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය, බදුල්ල. මහත්මයාණෙනි, සෞඛ්‍ය හා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය සේවා අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම්ගේ අංක අති.ලේ(පාලන) 02/03/2020 දරන චක‍්‍රලේඛණයට පටහැනිව කටයුතු කිරීම සම්බන්ධවයි #කොවිඩ්- 19 (#Covid- 19) වෛරසය හේතුවෙන් රට පුරා ක‍්‍රියාත්මක හදිසි තත්වය යටතේ සෞඛ්‍ය අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය සේවා පවත්වා ගැනීම සදහා සෞඛ්‍ය හා දේශිය වෛද්‍ය සේවා අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම්තුමිය විසින් […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya today rejected the reports that said he would reconvene the Parliament unilaterally. “While fighting Covid-19, Sri Lanka does not want another constitutional crisis. Therefore, rumours that I would reconvene the Parliament unilaterally are false. All efforts must be taken by the Executive to avert a crisis. In […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a guaranteed price for 14 main crops of Yala Season with the intention of strengthening the income of local farmers by uplifting the country’s agriculture sector. Minister Bandula Gunawardana stated this addressing the media briefing to announce Cabinet decisions today (23). Accordingly, the Cabinet has also given […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Police says that 36,008 individuals have been arrested in total for violating the curfew during the period of over a month since the curfew was imposed. Over 9,000 vehicles have been taken into police custody for curfew violations during this period, the Police Spokesman’s Office said. The curfew in Colombo, Gampaha, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Twenty-nine Navy personnel at the Sri Lanka Navy base in Welisara have been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19, Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said. The Navy personnel had been infected while on a recent search for suspects from Suduwella, Ja-Ela, the Army Commander said issuing a special statement. A Navy officer attached […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් මෙරටින් දැනට වාර්තා වී ඇති කොරෝනා රෝගීන්ගෙන් සියයට 20 ක පමණ පිරිසක් නිව්මෝනියා රෝග ලක්ෂණ පෙන්නුම් කළ ද දැඩි සත්කාර ඒකකයන්හි ප්‍රතිකාර ලැබීමට තරම් අසාධ්‍ය තත්ත්වයේ පසුවන්නේ සියයට 5ක පමණ පිරිසක් බව අංගොඩ ජාතික බෝවන රෝග විද්‍යායතනයේ කායික රෝග විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය එරංග නාරංගොඩ පවසනවා. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ හිරු ටී […]

By Rohana R. Wasala The November 2019 inauguration of president Gotabhaya Rajapaksa rekindled bright hopes of national resurgence. The visions of peace and prosperity that bloomed in the years following the end of nearly three decades of civil war in 2009 faded in the years 2015-19. While the people were eagerly looking forward to electing […]

Stanley Gunaratne. The Covid 19 situation is a terrible global crisis. In the island of Ceylon, where despite $3 billion a year wasted on Provincial Councils and Indian style politicians, we have managed to curtail the spread and combat it thanks to a relatively efficient administration which is in stark contrast to the usual modus […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA On 21st April Tuesday Sri Lankans belonging t all religions and of all walks of life mourned by lighting a lamp, ringing Church and Temple bells and Muslims held special supplications (Dua) and prayers in the mosques and homes at 8.45 a,m, for more than 250 killed and nearly 500 […]

සමස්ත ලංකා හෙද සංගමය මධ්‍යම පලාත් සෞඛ්‍ය ලේකම්තුමා පලාත් සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය මහනුවර. මහත්මයාණෙනි, #කොවිඩ්– 19 (#Covid- 19) මැඩපැවැත්වීමට අදාලව සෞඛ්‍ය ලේකම්තුමිය නිකුත් කර ඇති උපදෙස් නොසලකා කටයුතු කර ඇති තෙල්දෙණිය මූලික රෝහලේ වෛද්‍ය අධිකාරීවරයාගේ ක‍්‍රියාකලාපය සම්බන්ධවයි. මේවනවිටත් පාලනය කර නොමැති #කොවිඩ්- 19 (#Covid- 19) වසංගත තත්වය හමුවේ රට පුරා රෝහල් පද්ධතියේ කටයුතු පවත්වාගෙන යාමට අදාලව […]

සමස්ත ලංකා ප්‍රවාහන සේවක සංගමය. පොරොන්දු වූ පරිදි සේවක ඉල්ලීම් ලබා දීමට කඩිනමින් මැදිහත්වන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම. ශ‍්‍රී ල.ං.ග.ම. සභාපති කිංස්ලි රණවක මහතා සියලූම ශ‍්‍රී ල.ං.ග.ම. වෘත්තීය සමිති සමඟ 2020.04.21 වන දින පස්වරු 2.00ට ශ‍්‍රී ල.ං.ග.ම. ප‍්‍රධාන කාර්යාලයේ දී සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වන ලදි. * ශ‍්‍රී ල.ං.ග.ම. සේවකයින් හට මුඛ ආවරණ, අත්වැසුම් සහ වෙනත් වෛද්‍ය පහසුකම් ලබා […]

ALI SUKHANVER Natural calamities and disasters have ever been hostile to the peace and serenity of all human societies. Today it is the Corona, somewhere in the 14th century it was the Plague commonly known as the Black Plague and Black Death. That devastating epidemic resulted in the deaths of more than 200 million people […]

ගෲප් කපිතාන් ප්‍රකාශ් ගුණසේකර ( ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගුවන් හමුදාව විශ්‍රාමික , සිවිල් සේවා කපිතාන් )  B.Sc , MPA ලියයි මේ වන විට බොහෝ දෙනෙකුගේ කථා මාතෘකා  කොරෝනා මර්ධන වැඩසටහන සහ මැතිවරණයෙහි යුක්ති යුක්ත බාවය කෙරේ යොමුව ඇති සේයක් දිස් වෙයි. වසංගත මර්ධන වැඩ පිළිවෙල සහ මැතිවරණය උත්කර්ශයට නගන බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට ලග එන සාගතය ගැන වගේ […]

Dr. Sarath OBEYSEKERA April 21, 2020, 11:35 pm  When I read the above article I recollected experience about an incident 1972 in Russia I was sent to an industrial site in a City called Orenburg in Russia with about 40 male and female students who were doing a major degree with me in Drilling and […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය ගැන පැවැත්විය නොහැකි නිසා විස්සෝපයට පත් වි සිටින පිරිසකි.  ඔවුන් බහුතරයක් දේශපාලනඥයින් හා ඔවුන්ගේ හිතවතුන් ය.  අපේ රටේ මැතිවරණ වර්ග හතරක් කල් දමා හෝ අතහැර දමා ඇත. අධිකරණය ද, ඡන්ද ගැසට් බල රහිත කොට ඇත.  විසිරුවා හැරපු පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නැවතත් රැස්වී, ඡන්ද ගැන කථා කර ඇත. බහුතරයක් අවස්ථාවල දී, පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ද ඡන්ද […]

Sarath Bulathsinghala 21 April 2020 Free Education recipients of Sri Lanka, Brave Sri Lanka is weathering a storm of unprecedented proportions alongside other countries in the world – The Corvid-19 Pandemic. This is the gravest threat to the modern world in living memory. The human cost has been heartrending, the economic cost colossal and the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 22 (newsin.asia) — Sri Lanka Tourism plans for an early revival post-COVID-19, as the country starts opening up gradually from this week. A major step was the Cabinet approval of the critical five-year global promotion initiative last week and plans are underway to finalize the Terms of Reference and appointment of […]

By Feizal Samath Courtesy ttgAsia Tourists arriving in Sri Lanka in the future must be armed with Covid-19 health clearance certificates approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) and be subjected to rapid testing at the airport, under a set of new proposals to revive tourism in the country. Visitors must clear a WHO-designated health test […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a Presidential Task Force in charge of Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication, the President’s Media Division said. It said the new Task Force has been established under the powers vested in the President by the Constitution. “The Task Force is responsible for reviving the economy and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The available evidence indicates coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory as has been alleged, the World Health Organization said Tuesday in a news briefing in Geneva.  “It is probable, likely, that the virus is of animal origin,” WHO spokeswoman […]

Courtesy Adaderana Seven more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 330, according to the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health said. A total of 20 new coronavirus cases had been reported within the day. As of 11.30 p.m. today (22), a total of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Defence Secretary Maj. Gen. (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne said there was no necessity to seek assistance from other countries to deploy their military to contain the spread of coronavirus in Sri Lanka. He said Sri Lankan Tri-Forces and the Police had already proved their capabilities in containing the spread of coronavirus. Our military has […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three-wheelers will be permitted to carry only two passengers due to the coronavirus risks, says Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe.  He stated this during the media briefing of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID -19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) this evening. In the meantime, barber shops and salons, as well as […]

Courtesy Adaderana One more patient receiving treatment at the Polonnaruwa Hospital has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, said the Ministry of Health. Earlier today (22), 11 persons from Beruwala were also confirmed to have contracted the virus. They had been undergoing quarantine at a Batticaloa quarantine facility. The addition of the new case hikes the […]