Dr Sarath Obeysekera I listen to President’s speech where he righty vouched to drastic take  action to severe connections with any International agencies if these agencies act against our war heroes  We also have to admit that the Sri Lankan’s working and remitting foreign funds which we desperately need are also performing yeoman service to […]

Dr. Gamini Padmaperuma, a Chartered Professional Engineer and a former Senior Lecturer at OUSL, The term Blended learning” is used frequently along with the term e-Learning”. Is it just another buzz word or an old wine in a new bottle?  It is relevant to review the present situation in the country with reference to computer […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia India eager to participate in Lanka’s post COVID economic recovery, through development projects and cooperation as per Lanka’s requirements. Colombo, May 29 (newsin.asia): The High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay, paid a courtesy call on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat on Friday. Pointing out the contribution of Indian […]

Courtesy Adaderana A 24-hour curfew will be in force in Nuwara Eliya District on Saturday (30), says the President’s Media Division (PMD). As mentioned in the updated curfew notice issued yesterday (28), a countrywide curfew will be imposed on May 31 (Sunday), the PMD said further. From June 01 onwards, the curfew will come into […]

Courtesy Hiru News Ten (10) more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection. All of them are returnees from overseas. So far 28 patients have been identified today and seven (17) from the Navy and eleven (11) returnees from overseas. The country total has increased to 1,558 according to the latest information by […]

Courtesy Hiru News Minister of Tourism and Aviation Services Prasanna Ranatunga stated that they have decided to conduct PCR tests on all incoming passengers from overseas will be subjected to a PCR test at the airport to ascertain for coronavirus is infection. He said that the decision was taken when Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi and […]

Courtesy Hiru News Hatton District Judge and Magistrate J. Trotsky, today ordered a post mortem examination of the black panther who died while undergoing treatment at the Udawalawa Veterinary Hospital to be conducted in the Peradeniya Veterinary faculty. This was after considering a request made by Prabash Karunathilaka of the Wildlife Conservation Department of the […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Despite all the convoluted threads of history and politics running through the Vadukoddai Resolution there is only one simple meaning in it: it is a classic case of a crime against peace, the first crime listed in the Nuremberg Charter on which the Nazi war criminals were tried by an international […]

President’s Media Division Excellencies, I thank the Prime Ministers of Canada and Jamaica and the Secretary General of the United Nations for convening this meeting. Global trade, tourism, investments and employment have come to a standstill. The pandemic has suddenly disrupted once sustainable businesses and economies, to unsustainable state of affairs. Countries which have been […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The President’s Media Division announced that island-wide curfew will be imposed on May 31 as well as on June 04 and June 05. Issuing an updated notice on the curfew, the PMD that the curfew will be effective in the island till Saturday, June 6th and afterwards as follows: Curfew will be in […]

Courtesy Adaderana Six more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Sri Lanka increasing the tally of confirmed cases reported in the country 1,530. This brings the total number of new cases identified within Thursday (May 29) to 61.  Today’s confirmed cases include 18 returnees from Kuwait who are under quarantine in Trincomalee, 17 returnees […]

Courtesy Adaderana The United National Party (UNP) Working Committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow (29) to decide on the suspending of the party membership of over 100 UNP members who had handed over nominations from the ‘Samagi Jana Balawegaya’. However, the General Secretary of the SJB Ranjith Madduma Bandara today stated that the ‘Samagi Jana […]

From 150 Tamils living in Canada prior to 1983, just over 35 years later, Tamils in Canada constitute close to 300,000 or more counting the illegals. Official statistics as per 2016 census claim 157,000 Tamils living in Canada with 122,000 in Toronto. Toronto holds the largest Tamil speaking population outside Asia, while Montreal holds the […]

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 […]