A pandemic engulfs the globe with deaths nearing 200,000 and millions of confirmed cases documented. So far no one, not even the World Health Organization can firmly say what caused the virus, how the virus is spreading or what the cure for the virus is. Everyone is simply experimenting and making cautionary statements that often […]

LTTE declared him anti-Tamil and anti-Hindu…. Sri Lankan’s question him on his bias and lack of integrity. What can we comprehend of his actions? Let’s go back a bit to understand. Amnesty International on 12 April 2006 issued a release regarding Ratnajeevan Hoole. It was issued immediately after his appointment as Vice Chancellor of Jaffna […]

LANKAWEB EDITORIAL. The tremendous asset that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has proved to be both in the past, as well as today, is portrayed visibly through his actions and words which resonate to a great extent and permeate the minds of his respectful subjects – the citizens of Sri Lanka irrespective of their backgrounds or origins. […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Continuing with his opinions the diaspora proxy Sumanthiran said that the COVID-19 threat could last for several months, if not a year or two. In such a context, it is absolutely essential that all arms of government function effectively to meet this threat. Parliament must immediately deal with the question […]

නීති පරීක්ෂණ කණ්ඩායම අප රටේ 1. ඉඩම් ප‍්‍රතිපත්තිය 2. ඉඩම් නීති 3*. ඉඩම් ආයතන සියල්ල වෙනස් කිරීමට දැඩි උත්සාහයක් දරති. මෙසේ කිරීමට ආධාර ලබා ගැනීමට අත්සන් තබන අන්තර්ජාතික ගිවිසුම් වල කැපීපෙනෙන කොන්දේසියක් වන්නේ ඉඩම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් අධිකරණයට ඇති බලය අහෝසි කර ඉඩම් හිමියන්ට උසාවියට පිවිසීමට ඇති මූල්‍යමය අයිතිය අවම කිරීමය. මෙය ගෝලීකරණ වැඩසටහනේ කොටසකි. ශේ‍්‍රෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරයෙකු […]

ඒ.ජේ.එම්.මුසම්මිල් පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයෙන් විපතට පත්වූවන්ගේ ජීවනෝපයන් ගොඩ නැංවීම සඳහා ලෝක මුස්ලිම් ලීගයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදුන් රුපියල් කෝටි 90ක මුදලකට සිදුවූයේ කුමක්ද යන්න ආචාර්ය ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත හිමියෝ විසින් මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී කරන ලද ප්‍රකාශයකට පිළිතුරු වශයෙන් වයඹ පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර ඒ.ජේ.එම්.මුසම්මිල් මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශයක ඒ මහතා මෙසේ සඳහන් කර ඇත. ආචාර්ය ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත හිමියන් […]

Dilrook Kannangara President Sirisena was the president, commander in chief, defence minister and the head of the national security council when the Easter Sunday terrorist attack happened. That is a very long list of highly responsible positions concerned with national security. He must take responsibility for the lapse in security provided to the people and […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern over the infection to a large number of media persons while they went on reporting about novel corona virus outbreak across India. It terms the news of over 50 journalists turning Covid-19 positive in a single city as horrible and requests every scribe on the ground […]

Dr.Sarath Obeysekera The current and future prosperity of Sri Lanka is intrinsically linked to its marine and coastal assets, with fisheries and tourism being the two main pillars of its economy, gross domestic product (GDP) and source of employment    Implementation of the Blue Economy, hitherto to be named as” Fisheries and Ocean Development Movement […]

ගෙවිඳු කුමාරතුංග සභාපති – යුතුකම ජාතික සංවිධානය පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප‍්‍රහාරය සිදු කෙරුණේ ඇයි, ඒ සඳහා පාස්කු ඉරිදා ම තෝරාගැනුණේ ඇයි, ඒ සඳහා මූලික ව ම කතෝලික දේවස්ථාන තෝරාගැනුණේ ඇයි යන ප‍්‍රශ්නවලට නිශ්චිත පිළිතුරු ඒ ප‍්‍රහාරයන්ට වසරක් පිරෙන මේ අවස්ථාවේ දී ද අපි නොදනිමු. එහෙත් ප‍්‍රහාරකයන් යම් අවස්ථාවක දී බෞද්ධ මුහුණුවරක් ගැනීම පිණිස සිවුරු හා සිල්රෙදි […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia US offers to help fight terrorism and the Catholic church reiterates commitment to religious harmony Colombo, April 21 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said in his message to make the first anniversary of the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in the island nation that he will identify and bring before the law […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Peliyagoda fish market will be closed for three days from tomorrow, Business Association of the Peliyagoda Central Fish Market said. The decision was taken after a fish vendor, who had visited the Peliyagoda fish market, contracted Covid-19. President of the association said that health authorities has informed them that all […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Health authorities had taken step to quarantine 66 individuals from eleven families in Piliyandala MOH area after a patient infected with COVID-19 was identified today.   Dr. Indika Ellawala said the individuals placed under self quarantine were those suspected to have associated the patient. He said the patient was fish seller […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror More than 1,000 people belonging to 242 families from Bandaranayake Mawatha in Colombo 12, have been sent to quarantine centres, the Army said. Accordingly, a total of 1,010 people would be sent to quarantine. Army said the decision was taken after 57 Covid-19 patients were reported from the Bandaranayake Mawatha.

Courtesy Adaderana Another person has tested positive for COVID-19 bringing the total count of positive cases to 310, the Director General of Health Services, Dr. Anil Jasinghe confirmed this evening. This patient has been reported from Warakapola and according to reports he has had close contacts with another COVID-19 case. In the meantime, five other […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government would bring all culprits who planned, financed and supported the Easter bombing carnage that killed over 270 and wounded over 500 innocent people on last year’s Easter Sunday, to book soon, Defence Secretary Major General (Retired) Kamal Gunaratne has said. Issuing a statement yesterday that marked one-year of the coordinated bomb […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka today commemorates the one-year anniversary of the coordinated terror attacks that left the country devastated on the 21st of April 2019. A two-minute silence was observed at 8.45 am in remembrance of the victims of the tragic carnage which killed over 250 including foreigners and injured at least 500 people. On […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The world economy has been radically changing since the great depression experienced in the 1930s, meantime, the cold war also supported control of consumer demand and the market economic system forcing many countries to spend for defense activities than investments in development projects. The war mentality limited the production in various areas […]

On 21st April 2019 the people of Sri Lanka stood shocked. Exactly 10 years after defeating 30 years of terror Sri Lanka was to face a new form of terror. What is peculiar and notable about the Easter Sunday multiple mass murders was that the attacks on Catholic churches and luxury hotels by very rich […]

A.A.M.NIZAM The imbecile Sajith Premadasa’s Shameless Jabbering Bandits (SJB) suffering from an acute election phobia following mass isolation by credible political personalities in the village level is making desperate efforts to get the forthcoming election cancelled or to get it indefinitely postponed.  All the Bandits who played leading roles in getting the local government elections […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B, Ph.D. යහපාලන ජනාධිපති සිරිසේන මහතා යටතේ මාස 11 ක් උතුරු පලාතේ ආණ්ඩුකාරයාව සිටි, තමන් බෞද්‌ධයෙක් කියනා සුරේන් රඝුවාන්, ලහිරු මුදලිගේ හරි ටීවී හරහා පුදුම (අද්භූත?) ඉල්ලීමක් කලේය (අප්‍රියෙල් 17). දෙමළාට නිවන අකැපද යන ප්‍රශ්ණය නඟන රඝුවාන්, ලංකාවේ හාමුදුරුවරු උතුරේ දෙමළ ජනයාට බුද්‌ධාගම බෙදාදීමෙන් (ප්‍රචාරය) වැළකී සිටින්නේ ඇයිදැයි විමසා සිටී. මේ වනාහී මේ […]

Dr sarath obeysekera  The whole country has been grateful to Gotaghata Rajapakse when he spearheaded the war against tigers. Though some others have tried to take credit I believe that his tough decision making has been the reason for winning the war Now possibly after beating Corona spread and saving the country, he wants agro-based […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  මේ දින වල ෆ්‍රොයිඩ් පිලිබඳ Netflix හි කතා මාලාවක් බලමි. එහි බොහෝ අතිශයෝක්තියන් තිබේ.   මනෝ විශ්ලේශණය (Psychoanalysis )පිලිබඳව මා ඉගෙන ගත්තේ නැගෙනෙහිර යුරෝපයේ මහාචාර්‍ය වේව්ස්කයා(1992) , එංගලන්තයේ බාන්ස්ලි විද්‍යාලයේ ස්ටීවන් හීත් මෙන්ම කැන්සාස් හි Colmery O’neil Veteran Hospital වෛද්‍ය මහසෙන් ද සිල්වා (වෛද්‍ය මහසෙන් මනෝ විශ්ලේශනය ඉගෙන ගත්තේ ෆ්‍රොයිඩ් ගේ සිසුවෙකු  […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්             සුනාමිය නොහොත් මුහුද ගොඩ ගැලීම සිදු වන කල්හි එවකට සිටි පාලකයන් එම ව්‍යසනය කළමනාකරණය කරන ආකාරය දැන නොසිටියහ. අතීතයේ සිදු වූ මුහුදු ගොඩ ගැලීම් ඉතිහාසයට පමණක් සීමා වීම නිසා දේශපාලකයන් ඒ බැව් නොදත් බව පැහැදිලිය. සුනාමියට මුහුණ දෙන්නට අවශ්‍ය සංනිවේදන උපක්‍රම සූදානම් කර ගැනීමට මෙන්ම ආරක්ෂාව කල් තියා යොදා ගන්නට  ලක ලෑස්ති […]

Courtesy HomeopathyPlus India is not the only country using homeopathy as a preventative for COVID-19. Cuba with its population of 11.34 million is doing the same. Since early April, the Cuban Ministry of Health has been rolling out the combination remedy PrevengHo®Vir as a way to increase resilience in its population to viral diseases and respiratory […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Lankan Foreign Minister requests help to bring back Lankan students from India Colombo, April 20 (newsin.asia): The Acting High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Vinod K. Jacob called on Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka Dinesh Gunawardena in Colombo on Monday. During the meeting, the Acting High Commissioner briefed the Lankan Foreign Minister […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe/Ceylon Today The answers are already in WHO’s guidelines, points out Shivanthi Ranasinghe Last week the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Ahmad Shaheed wrote to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to emphasize the importance of upholding the right of freedom of religion or belief as well as the rights of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The COVID-19 outbreak is a good economic opportunity for the country, says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He mentioned this at a special discussion held with Chief Advisor to the President Lalith Weeratunga this evening (20), on the effects of COVID-19 outbreak in the country. With the halt of the industries that generate foreign exchange, […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is considering the idea of creating a new mechanism to purchase, store and distribute agro products by combining all districts in the country, stated President’s Media Division. Making observations during a meeting with the District Secretaries held at the Presidential Secretariat today (20), the President emphasized that government agents should […]

Courtesy Adaderana One more person has been confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus, stated the Ministry of Health. The newly identified patient is a fish vendor from the Piliyandala, said the Ministry. Sri Lanka has reported 33 new COVID-19 positive cases as of 7 pm today (20). This brings the total count of COVID-19 […]