By M D P DISSANAYAKE It is time for Sri Lanka to expand its own, but neglected land resources.   Katchatheevu Island, currently positioned with a landmark of St Anthony’s Church, should be developed as an economic hub specialised in the health sector for local and international travelers seeking health services at an affordable price.  The […]

Courtesy Hindustan Times Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had sought the currency swap facility from India, in addition to $400 million that Colombo had sought under the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) framework, during a telephone conversation with PM Modi on May 23. Days after Colombo sought a $1.1 billion currency swap facility from New […]

Courtesy Blue Swan Daily Sri Lanka‘s COVID-19 Prevention Task Force Committee reportedly submitted a proposal to Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to permit Sri Lankan airports to resume handling international tourist arrivals from 01-Aug-2020 (Colombo Page/Lanka Business Online/Daily Mirror, 26/27-May-2020). As previously reported by CAPA, scheduled arriving international passenger services have been prohibited in Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana Eighty-one more individuals have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, confirmed the Ministry of Health. The new cases jump the count of coronavirus cases reported in Sri Lanka to 1,453. All 81 cases are reported among persons who are undergoing quarantine upon arriving in the country from overseas. Previously today (27), 53 Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana General Secretary of the United National Party (UNP) Akila Viraj Kariyawasam says letters have been directed to party members who signed nomination papers for the forthcoming General from other political parties, demanding reasons for their conduct. Kariyawasam mentioned this releasing a statement on suspending the membership of UNP members who have violated the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Archaeological officials say they were threatened with death while marking the boundaries of the historic Devanagala sacred area. After the CIA revealed the illegal acquiring of lands around the sacred area, officials who visited the area made a public statement of these threats for the first time.

Courtesy Hiru News The hearing of the petitions filed before the Supreme Court challenging the date of the general election have been postponed until tomorrow. This was when the hearing was conducted for the 7^th day before the Bench comprising of Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya and Justices Buwaneka Aluvihare, Sisira de Abrew, Priyantha Jayawardena and […]

Post-War Sri Lanka: Fractured and unjust for Tamils’ is the article appearing on TheDiplomat by Visvajit Sriramrajan on 15 May 2020. The article is replete in conjecture, abound in unsubstantiated allegations and completely distorting the situation in Sri Lanka. We presume readers who have little or no background knowledge of Sri Lanka will be misled by […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala May 14, 1976 is one of the most underreported, underestimated, underexamined dates in the political calendar of independent Sri Lanka. It was the date on which the Tamil leadership which had gathered in Vadukoddai passed a resolution declaring war against the democratically elected state demanding a separate state. Stitching bits and […]

Kanthar Balanathan Former Specialist Engineer Power & Control NRG-GPS. Dr Hugh McDermott MP PO Box 2518 SMITHFIELD NSW 2164 Hon Dr. Hugh McDermott MP, Diagnosis of Genocide Account on Sri Lankan Affairs With due respect to you Dr Hugh McDermott, as a true Australian citizen of this great country that practice ideal democracy, and having […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංගවිශේෂ ස්තූතිය; විශේසඥ ප්‍රජා වෛද්‍ය ප්‍රසාද් රණවීර  මැලේරියාව යනු පරපෝෂිතයෙකු විසින් ඇති කරන රෝගයකි. පරපෝෂිතයා ආසාදිත ගැහැණු ඇනොෆිලස් මදුරුවන්ගේ දෂ්ට කිරීම් මගින් මිනිසුන්ට සම්ප්‍රේෂණය වන මැලේරියාව තර්ජනාත්මක රෝගයකි. සෑම වසරකම දළ වශයෙන් මිලියන 210 ක ජනතාවක් මැලේරියාව ආසාදනය වන අතර 440,000 ක් පමණ දෙනා මෙම රෝගයෙන් මිය යති.  සෞම්‍ය දේශගුණික තත්ත්වයන් තුළ […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. x.නීතියට ආත්මයක් නැත> – තිරන්ත වලලියද්ද x.නීතිය අපකීර්තියට පත් නොකල යුතුය> – කාදිනල් මැල්කම් රංජිත් x.මහජන විශ්වාසය හා ලබැඳියාව නඟාලීම> සුප්‍රිම් උසාවි මොටෝ එක නඩුකාරවරුන්ගේ ළමා කාලය කොසොල් රජතුමාගේ සීන දාසැය වනාහි, බයිබලයේ තිබෙන අනාගත වාක්‍ය වගේම මුළු ලෝකයම අලලා කරණ ලද විග්‍රහයක් මිස, එක රටකට, ඉන්දියාවට හෝ අනාගත ලංකාවට හෝ […]

I. de Silva Canada The EditorDiplomat MatazineOttawa, Ontario Dear Ms. Campbell:                                    Re: Post War Sri Lanka: Fractured and Unjust For Tamils by Visvajit Sriramrajan I am writing to correct the many falsehoods in this article. The first sentence indicates clear bias and false information that continues throughout the article. To support this statement I […]

Dr sarath obeysekera  During this difficult period, we keep watching how vegetables were wasted and rotten fish getting disposed Fruits rotting away due to difficulties in transportation  We should now think carefully about preserving food for a rainy day  In Russia, people keep preserving cabbage cucumber, carrot  and beetroot, etc and bottle them for consumption […]

Courtesy Adaderana Avant-Garde Chairman Nissanka Senadhipati has revealed that former Director General of the Bribery Commission had offered to release him from all legal proceedings if he implicates Former Defence Secretary and current President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the case. He stated this appearing before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing incidents of political victimisation during […]

Dr. sarath obeysekera   We have had Easter attack last year and now the Corona pandemic which has caused a heavy burden ion people But most   of the professionals in technical, financial and management fields are sitting at home and spend quite a life without infusing revolutionary ideas which are practical and workable to […]

සමස්ත ලංකා වරාය පොදුසේවක සමිතිය. සභාපති, ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරිය, කොළඹ. සභාපතිතුමනි, #කොවිඩ්- 19 #Covid- 19 හේතුවෙන් ආයතනය හා සේවකයින් මුහුණ පා ඇති ගැටලූ සඳහා විසඳුම් සෙවීමට පොදු යාන්තණ‍්‍රයක් සකස් කිරීම. #කොවිඩ්- 19 #Covid- 19 වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් වරාය හමුවේ ඇති අභියෝග ජය ගැනීමටත් ඉන් පැනනගින සේවක ගැටලූවලට හා සේවාලාභීන්ගේ ගැටලූවලට සාර්ථකව මුහුණ දීම සඳහා පොදු […]

Sepal Amarasinghe Buddika Kumari Amarasinghe1 day ago (edited)ඉරාජ් වීරරත්න ට , අමිත් වීරසිංහ ට ජාතිවාදී කියන අය මේවා දකිද්දී හරි නිහඩයි. ඉරාජ් , අමිත් “Block” කරන්ට දගලන සිංහල අයත් ඉස්ලාම් උනා නම් ඊට වඩා හොදයි. මොකද එහෙම අය මෙහෙම මේවාට කට අරින්නෙ නෑ ජාතිවාදය ඇවිස්සෙයි කියලා 😂 තිස්ස ජනනායක ගුරුතුමා කීවා වගේ ලැජ්ජායි සිංහල බෞද්ධ […]