By Rohana R. Wasala Vinod Munasinghe’s constructive feedback comments (‘A statue of Mandela will do no harm’/The Island/May 18, 2020) on my opinion piece of Saturday (May 16) titled ‘This is no laughing matter’ provided the cue for this attempt to submit my ideas, for reader scrutiny, about the subject hinted at in my title […]

Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage  Sri Lankan military did sacrifice to protect & unite the country for the future sons daughters of the country; to have a safer motherland which will prevail and prosper in the years to come”.- Defense Secretary General: Kamal Gunaratne May 19th is a significant day of Sri Lankan history of our country […]

Embassy of Sri Lanka  Washington D.C. The Government of Sri Lanka has introduced a new bank account termed ‘Special Deposit Account (SDA)’ for all Sri Lankans living in and outside the country to remit their foreign currency earnings, savings and investments to any bank of their preference in Sri Lanka. It is in the form […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මැතිවරණ කොමිසම විසින් නියම කරන ඔ්නෑම දිනයක මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීමට අවශ්‍ය කරන නිර්දේශ ලබා දීමට හැකියාව පවතින බව සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් වෛද්‍ය අනිල් ජාසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. මේ වන විට රට ක්‍රම ක්‍රමයෙන් සාමාන්‍යකරණයට පත්වෙමින් තිබෙන බවත් පවසන ඔහු මැතිවරණ කොමිසමට මැතිවරණ පැවැත්වීම සඳහා සහාය වීමට තමනට හැකියාවක් ඇති බවද […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two more individuals have tested positive for the COVID-19, the Ministry of Health confirmed a short while ago. The identified patients are Sri Lanka Navy personnel, stated the Ministry. Accordingly, 4 Navy personnel are confirmed to have contracted the virus within today (21). The total number of coronavirus cases identified within the day […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, today (21), reviewed the production, import, and distribution of pharmaceutical supplies, during a discussion with the Chairmen of the two State Pharmaceutical Corporations, held at the Presidential Secretariat. At the discussion, the President inquired as to how the medicines supply in the country is structured, stated President’s Media Division. In […]

Courtesy Hiru News The OIC of the Thalawakele Police has managed to save the life of a young girl who attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the Upper Kotmale reservoir . According to our correspondent, a 28-year-old father of two has drowned while trying to save the girl. The girl had jumped into the […]

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Courtesy aljazeera.com Three women trampled to death outside businessman’s warehouse for annual handout to mark holy month of Ramadan. A crime scene officer inspects the place where the stampede occurred in the capital, Colombo [Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters] Three women have been trampled to death during a stampede for an $8 cash handout in Sri Lanka’s capital […]

The Federal Government of Australia needs to take a firm stand on its elected representatives. While it should be the Federal Government on behalf of Australia that should make international statements, it is unacceptable when politicians representing small areas within a state issue disparaging statements of falsehood against a sovereign country. That Australia has failed […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Land is precious Israelis Lived in most hostile conditions at the initial stages Land is more precious in Israel being a small fraction of Sri Lanka consist of baron land with deserts with no water except Galilee at the extreme corner of the country. Most […]

රත්තනදෙණියේ මේධානන්ද හිමි චන්ද්‍රිකා කුමාරතුංග රාජ්‍ය නායිකාව සිටි කාලයේ රාජිත සේනාරත්න සහ ඔහුගේ සහෝදරයෙක් එක්ව සේනාරත්න අසෝසියේට්‌ නම් වාණිජ ආයතනයක්‌ පවත්වාගෙන ගියා. එමගින් කෙරුණේ පිට රටින් දන්ත වෛද්‍ය උපකරණ හා ඖෂධ ගෙන්වා ඒවා රජයේ ඔසුසලටත්, ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාවටත් සපයන කාර්ය කරගෙන යාමයි. ඔවුන් මේ ව්‍යාපාරය විශාල ධනයක් උපයන ජාවාරමක් ලෙස පවත්වාගෙන ගියා. රහස්‌ පොලිසියට ලැබුන තොරතුරක් මත […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to halt payment of Rs. 5,000 allowance to the families adversely affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, for the month of June. The move comes after a letter was directed to the Presidential Secretary P.B. Jayasundera by the Election Commission’s chairman Mahinda Deshapriya on May 17, requesting […]

A soldier of a National Army cannot be put on par with terrorist. Similarly, a mother of a solider cannot be put on par with a mother of a terrorist too. A war widow is the wife of a soldier laying down his life for the Nation. Wives of terrorists are not war widows (a […]

Palitha Sennayake May 18th is a significant day for Sri Lanka because that was the day the country finally overcame terrorism that plagued the nation for three decades killing more than one hundred thousand people and pushing the country back economically by three decades. It is since that day that people could get about their […]

Courtesy Adaderana SP Shantha Wickremasinghe, in charge of Colombo Central District 01 at the time of Easter attacks, admitted to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry that although there were instructions given prior to the bombings to increase security at catholic churches, no action was taken believing that such warnings would have created public panic. This […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another person has tested positive for COVID-19 as of 10.15 pm on Wednesday (20), says the Ministry of Health. The total count of coronavirus cases in the country thereby reached 1,028. This new positive case is a returnee from Kuwait, who is currently undergoing mandatory quarantine. In the meantime, coronavirus recoveries in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana No community infections of the novel coronavirus, apart from among Navy personnel, are being reported from the country, says Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. Thereby, it is clear that, apart from Navy infections, the COVID-19 outbreak situation in Sri Lanka is under currently under control, he said. Further, the focus is […]

Courtesy Adaderana The law will be strictly enforced against those who were arrested over intentionally violate curfew regulations, said DIG Ajith Rohana. Nearly 6,000 individuals who were arrested as such have been imposed with penalties so far, said the DIG. Meanwhile, 60,425 persons have been placed under arrest for violating the curfew since March 20 […]

By Garvin Karunaratne It has so happened that in Sri Lanka, instead of creating employment for the youth we have had the unfortunate experience of being forced to gun down the youth twice. In the April 1971 uprising at least ten thousand and in the late Eighties some Seventy or Eighty thousand had to be […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart and Convener – “The Muslim Voice” – 19th., May, 2020. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THAT THESE INTERNATIONAL FRONT LOBBIES OF THE LTTE INTERESTS COULD GET THE CORRECT MESSAGE PROPERLY.   A wonderful speech and gesture in honour of our War Heroes. President Gotabaya […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel and former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Start-up Company If you have an apple and I have an apple then you and I have an apple each and then you and I will still have each one apple but we exchange apples and we exchange ideas we have two apples and […]

RANJITH SOYSA ATTN-   Mr  HUGH McDermott ALP member for Prospect YOUR MISLEADING STATEMENT ON THE 11TH ANNIVERSARY OF SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT’S VICTORY OVER THE TAMIL TIGER TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IS A DIRECT INSULT TO THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEACEFUL AUSTRALIANS OF SRI LANKAN ORIGIN WHO STILL MAINTAIN THEIR LINKS WITH SRI LANKA. WE WOULD LIKE TO […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera When reading The the attached communication issued by the President’s office I wonder why they cannot   use the other two ports as well We proposed to develop Trinco as a location for oil rig lay-up facilities and requested the government to restructure quarantine procedure to accommodate the crew changes of rigs […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he will not allow anyone to exert undue pressure on the country’s war heroes or harass them and also assured he will not hesitate to withdraw Sri Lanka from any international body or organization that continuously targets the country and its war heroes using baseless allegations. He made these […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry confirmed that two more patients have tested positive for COVID-19 increasing the total number of cases reported in the country to 1,023. Accordingly 31 new cases have been confirmed so far within the day. The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry says that 445 active cases are currently under medical […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Defence urged the public not to be misled by certain posts circulating on social media platforms regarding threats posed in Sri Lanka by extremist elements. There is no truth in news being circulated in social media networks. The intelligence agencies have not received such information related to extremist threats in […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, with the concurrence of the Ministry of Defence has promoted a total of 177 Officers and Senior Officers have been to their respective next ranks, stated Sri Lanka Army. The promotions have been granted with the recommendations of the Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva. This is one […]

Courtesy  Hiru News The Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe believes that the curfews in Colombo and Gampaha districts can be eased within a short period of time. He made this observation while participating in the Hiru TV program “Rata saha Heta”.

Ada Derana විශ්‍රාමික මේජර් ජෙනරාල් කමල් ගුණරත්න – ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් ශවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වා – යුද හමුදාපති අද්මිරාල් ඔෆ් ද ෆ්ලීට් වසන්ත කරන්නාගොඩ – හිටපු නාවික හමුදාපතිමාර්ෂල් ඔෆ් ද එයාර්ෆෝස් රොෂාන් ගුණතිලක – හිටපු ගුවන් හමුදාපති