Those that demanded Sri Lanka stop ‘triumphalism’ when the nation celebrated victory over LTTE in May 2009, have been triumphing victory over Germany & Japan since 1945 by even enacting battle victories annually. V_E Day Europe has been celebrated annually since 1946 on 8 May. The 6year war ended with Germany’s surrender. Sri Lanka’s LTTE […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර 1948 දී බ්‍රිතාන්ය පාලනයෙන් නිදහස දිනා ගත්තායයි පම්පෝරි ගහන සහ එසේම එදා  සිට මෙ දක්වා  මේ රට පාලනය කලායයි කියන කලු සුද්දන් විසින්, මේ රට පූර්ණ නිදහස් රාජ්යක් වීම සන්දහා  වසර 72 තුල අනිවාර්යෙන්ම ඉටුකළයුතුව තිබුණු එහෙත් සාපරාදි අන්දමින් එසේ කිරීම  පැහැරහැරිය පහත සදහන් අවස්යතා දැන්වත් සම්පූර්ණ  කිරීම කිරීම වහාම කලයුතුය 1 […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Significantly the gift from India arrived while Sri Lankans were celebrating the Buddhist festival Vesak. Colombo, May 8 (newsin.asia): As a special friendly gesture from the Government and the people of India in the on-going auspicious Vesak week, a 12.5 tonne gift consignment of essential medicines and medical items arrived in Colombo on […]

Courtesy The Guardian(UK) India’s ‘champagne of teas’ among those affected as country’s tea board estimates output could drop 9%, amid strain in China and Sri Lanka Trouble is brewing for the world’s tea producers as the coronavirus lockdown shut down the harvest in several important regions, including the picking of India’s champagne of teas”. Despite […]

Courtesy The Hindustan Times Gopal Baglay, who has served as spokesperson of the external affairs ministry and whose last stint was in the Prime Minister’s Office, was named the next high commissioner to Colombo in February. India’s high commissioner-designate to Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay, who was unable to join his post for more than two […]

Courtesy Financial Express The president emphasised the need to focus promoting medical tourism by highlighting the “successful efforts taken by Sri Lanka to contain the spread of the coronavirus.” Sri Lanka will target high-spending tourists to revive the tourism sector which has been shattered by the coronavirus pandemic, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said. Widespread travel […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror About thirteen Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests conducted by the laboratories other than the laboratories of the Health Ministry so far had been found to be erroneous, the Association of Government Medical Laboratory Technologists said yesterday. Association Chairman Ravi Kumudesh said that eight PCR tests conducted by the laboratory at Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana New COVID-19 positive patients have not been reported so far today (08), says Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. The total count of coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka currently stands at 824 with 240 recoveries. According to the Epidemiology Unit’s tally, 575 active cases are currently under medical care at the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The name of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appeared in the Quarterly Publication of the United States Federal Register of Individuals Who Have Chosen to Expatriate. The list containing the names of the individuals who have renounced their citizenship was published in the official website of the US Federal Register today (08). The US citizenship of […]

Courtesy Adaderana A hotel in Palamunai in Kattankudy, which had been used by the Easter Sunday attacks ringleader Zahran Hashim to recruit Islamic women to his extremist cause, has been raided on Friday (08). The raid was carried out by the Special Task Force (STF) and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The location was uncovered […]

Courtesy Adaderana An operational guideline introducing the procedure to be adopted by barber shops and salons that are serving customers during the outbreak of COVID-19 has been issued. Issuing the guideline, Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe stated that this guideline is an addendum to the main guideline – Interim Operational Guidelines on […]

By Charles S.Perera The Prime Minister  Edouard Philippe of France announced today that the first stage of  de-confinement of the French people who had been in confinement since 17 March,2020, will begin from 11 May 2020. People are allowed to leave their homes and go for a distance of 100km from their homes without having […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන විද්‍යුත් තැපෑලෙනි (2020.05.07) සී. ඩී. වික්‍රමරත්න මහතාවැඩබලන පොලිස්පති,පොලිස් මූලස්ථාන,කොළඹ 01, විද්‍යුත් තැපෑල :- igp@police.lk නීතිඥවරුන්ට අධිකරණ කටයුතු සදහා සහභාගීවීමට ඇදිරි නීතිය බලපැවැත්වෙන කාලසීමාවල දිස්ත්‍රික්ක අතර ගමන් කිරීමට වැඩබලන පොලිස්පති 2020.05.05 සහ ආර්ටීඑම් 175 පණිවිඩය මගින් (2020.04.28 ආර්ටීඑම් 999 සංශෝධන‍ය කර) නීතිඥ හැදුනුම්පතට අවසර ලබා දීම සම්බන්ධවයි. 1. ආර්ටීඑම් 999 සහ 2020.04.28 දිනැති පණිවිඩයට අනුව, අවදානම් කළාප […]

Dr sarath obeysekera  When I read the article below I thought that the theories forwarded by the Chamber of commerce using jargon that talks about U development and V development is quite confusing. U theory or V theory can only be implemented only if the people representing V need to change their mindset from welfare […]

Palitha Mapatuna Suppose that an individual has been authorised to get rid of an existing tree, which perhaps had been perceived by many as producing unpalatable fruit. Following such riddance, the replacement has been required to be made within a particular time. However, subsequent unforeseen circumstances had not made it possible to carry out the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මෙරට සමස්ත රාජ්‍ය යාන්ත්‍රණය කිසිදු දේශපාලන භේදයකින් තොරව කොරෝනා වසංගතය පාලනයට උපරිම කැපවීමෙන් කටයුතු කරමින් සිටිය දී විපක්ෂය ලොව කිසිදු විපක්ෂයකින් බලාපොරොත්තු විය නොහැකි කුඩුකේඩු – ආත්මාර්ථකාමී හැසිරීමක් පෙන්නුම් කරන බව ජානිපෙ නායක කර්මාන්ත හා සැපයුම් කළමනාකරණ අමාත්‍ය විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පැවසීය. බත්තරමුල්ල නෙළුම් මාවත පිහිටි ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පොදුජන […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Orders formulation of detailed plans for every sector including tourism. Colombo, May 7 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is optimistic that the economy adversely affected by the COVID – 19 pandemic, could be re-built on a solid basis, a Presidential press statement said on Thursday. The Presidential Task Force in charge of […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Modi says Buddha’s advocacy of selfless service is pertinent for fighting the pandemic. Colombo, May 7 (newsin.asia): Addressing the Virtual Vesak Global Celebrations on Buddha Purnima day on Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that Lord Buddha is synonymous with service and dedication. Those who are engaged in the service of humanity […]

Courtesy Adaderana Eighteen more persons were confirmed to have contracted the COVID-19 virus as of 11.55 pm on Thursday (07), while Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 cases count soared to 823. With the detection of 18 new positive cases, the total number of patients who tested positive for coronavirus within the day has risen to 26. In […]

At the heart of Buddha’s teachings is the accountability factor. You and only you are accountable for the good or bad one does.  Following the Dhammapada – path of the Dhamma we build ourselves a moral foundation.  The core of that is the 5 precepts of which ‘hurting’ and ‘killing’ all sentient beings plays an […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi Few days ago I was watching an interesting program hosted by ITN between 10pm and 12pm where the National Innovation Council chairman presented six innovations done by Sri Lankans. They were mostly the solutions related to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The chairman stated that about 250 innovation have been brought to the council […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර මේ රටේ ඉතිහාසය පුරාම ඉන්දීය ආක්‍රමනයන්ගෙන් රට බේරාගෙන ඇත්තේ රුහුණු පුතුන් විසින් වීම සුවිශේෂ සිද්ධියකි. ක්‍රිස්තු පූර්ව 2 වන සියවසේදී එලාරගේ 44 වසරක උතුරු ලන්කා පාලනයෙන් රට බෙරාගත්තේ දුටුගැමුණු මහරජතුමා විසිනි (ක්‍රිස්තු පූර්ව153) එදාද 10 මහා යෝධයින් අතර ඝෝඨඉම්බර (ඝෝඨාභය) සුවිශේෂී මෙහෙවරක් ඉටුකලා. විජිතපුර සටනේදී විජිතපුර දකුණු දොරටුවට කඩොලැතු පහර දුන් […]

Courtesy The Inian Express The Sri Lankan nationals were also booked under sections 14 and 14c of the Foreigners Act for violating the visa regulations by indulging in religious activities. ALIGARH (UP): Thirteen Tablighi Jamaat members, including two Sri Lankan nationals, were arrested here for allegedly staying in a mosque in violation of the coronavirus […]

by an unknown author We have taller buildings but shorter tempers,wider Freeways, BUT NARROW VIEWPOINTS.            We spend more, but have less,            we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families,            more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense,more knowledge, BUT LESS JUDGEMENT.            more experts, yet more problems,            […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් Courtesy BBC sinhala නව කොරෝනාවෛරසයට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ දියත් වූයේ සුවිශේෂී ක්‍රියාදාමයක් බවත් එය ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණයකදී කැපී පෙනුණු බවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා වෛද්‍ය සංගමය පවසයි. චීනය, ජපානය, හොංකොං, ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාව, ශ්‍රී ලංකාව, ඉන්දියාව ඇතුළු ආසියාතික රටවල් සහ බ්‍රිතාන්‍යය, එක්සත් ජනපදය ඇතුළුව මෙම සම්මන්ත්‍රණයට සහභාගි වූ රටවල් ගණන 42කි. අන්තර්ජාලය ඔස්සේ පැවැත්වුණු […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඊයේ දිනයේදී කොලොන්නාවෙන්, රාජගිරියෙන් හා ජාතික රෝහලෙන් හදුනාගත් තිදෙනාට කොරෝනා වෛරසය ආසාදනය වී නැති බව අවසන් වරට සිදුකරන ලද කොරෝනා පරීක්ෂාවෙන් හෙලිව තිබේ. අද දිනයේ ඔවුනට සිදු කරන ලද පරීක්‍ෂායවලදී මේ බව හෙලි වූයේ යයි සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්ෂ වෛද්‍ය අනිල් ජාසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. කොරෝනා සදහා සිදු කරන PCR පරික්‍ෂණයේ […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් බුදුන්වහන්සේ ගංජා දුම ආස්වාස ප්‍රාස්වාස කළේයැයි ආපනශාලා හිමියන්ගේ සංගමයේ සභාපති අසේල සම්පත් සඳහන් කරයි. තමන් මෙරට අංක එකේ ගංජා කාරයෙක් යයිද පවසන ඔහු මෙරටේ වැවෙන ගංජා බිව්වට වූවාට ප්‍රශ්නයක් නැතැයිද සඳහන් කරයි. මෙම පුද්ගලයා පසුගිය පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයකදී ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ නියෝජනය කරමින් ඉදිරිපත් වූ අපේක්ෂකයෙකුගේ ඇයි ද සඳහන් වෙයි.

By Sasanka Perera & Dev Nath Pathak Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The multi-lingual broadcasts over Radio Ceylon culturally united communities divided into nation states after decolonization. New Delhi, May 6 (newsin.asia): Radio, in our view is not merely a matter of technology through which music, entertainment, information, news and increasingly fake news and many other forms of […]

By Norman Palihawadane Courtesy The Island Acting Inspector General of Police has ordered the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) to conduct a thorough investigation into the Non-Governmental Organisation, headed by lawyer Ejaaz Hizbullah, who is in the custody of the CID, as a suspect in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks. The investigation into the NGO was ordered since it had been largely […]

Courtesy Adaderana The count of coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka has increased with the report of 2 new cases a short while ago. Accordingly, the total number of cases in the country stands at 797. The Ministry of Health added that a total of 215 coronavirus patients have recovered from the disease and were discharged […]