Aloysius Hettiarachchi, At last Sri Lanka seems to have got a sensible CEO to run our national carrier which has been a huge burden to the country. The clearest indication is the above action taken by the airline according to a news item in the News First. He has also suspended the services of non-essential […]

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Provisions for this so-called National list were introduced by amending Sec 62 of the1978 Constitution by the14th Amendment on 28.5.1988. Sec 62 of the 1978 Constitution provides only for 196 MPP. This was an increase of 28 from 168 seats representing 160 electorates in 1970. After I year of making the 1978 […]

By M  D  P DISSANAYAKE The Election Commission was back to the wall after the Supreme Court decision.   No doubt its members were disappointed.   Now the EC is ostensibly trying to curry favour the  President.   The Health Department Guidelines on the Covid19 to hold the elections were discussed at length and agreed.  The Covid 19 […]

by A. Abdul Aziz. Some atheists claim that this universe is in existence from ever and it will last forever. If this universe is in existence from ever, then it must have infinite source of power and energy, but we see that no material thing is infinite in this universe. The temperature of Sun is […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  මහා කවි හෝමර් විසින් රචිත ඉලියඩ් (The Iliad) හා ඔඩිසි (The Odyssey) නම් වූ වීර කාව්‍ය දෙක ලෝකයේ මෙතෙක්‌ පළ වූ කාව්‍යයන් අතරින් උත්තරීතර  කාව්‍යයන් වෙති. මෙම කාව්‍යන් දෙක මයිසීනියානු සංස්කෘතියේ නිෂ්පාදනයකි. ඉලියඩ් සහ ඔඩිසි සාම්ප්‍රදායිකව ක්‍රි.පූ 8 වන සියවසේ අගභාගයේ හෝ 7 වන සියවසේ මුල් භාගයට අයත් වේ.  බටහිර සාහිත්‍යයේ […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ අති උත්තම මැල්කම් රන්ජිත් කාදිනල්තුමා දේශපාලනය කරන බවට හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙකු වූ හරින් ප්‍රනාන්දු හිටි හැටියේම, කාදිනල්තුමා ඉලක්ක කරගෙන චෝදනාවක් දමා ගසන ලදී. ඔව්! කාදිනල්තුමා සිදුකරන්නේ දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාවලියක් බව ලොවම දනී. එමෙන්ම. පන්සලේ හාමුදුරුවරු කරන්නේද දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාවලියක් බව අපි දන්නෙමු. සෑම ආගමික දර්ශනයක්ම දේශපාලනය හා සම්බන්ධතාවයක් ඇත. මේ ලොව වාසය කරන සියලුම මිනිසුන් […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The panel’s report submitted to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be thrown open to the public for comments Colombo, June 25 (newsin.asia): The final report of the Expert’s Committee appointed to review the proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact (MCC) was handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat on Thursday. Later the […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Ceylon’s Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike got together six non-aligned countries to help India and China end border clash In the on-going Sino-Indian conflict over Galwan, no third country has taken serious steps to intervene. An off-the-cuff offer by US President Trump was politely rejected by both India and China, and Russia […]

Source: Xinhua Hu Wei (3rd R), charge d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy to Sri Lanka, hands over the list of medical aid donated by China to Sri Lanka’s Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi (4th L) at a handover ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 24, 2020. China on Wednesday donated its third batch of medical […]

Courtesy The Island Prof. Lalithasiri Gunaruwan, who headed a high level government inquiry into the proposed finalisation of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement yesterday (25) told President Gotabaya Rajapaksa that the previous yahapalana administration and the US had signed two agreements in 2017 and 2018 as regards two phases of the project. Prof. Gunaruwan said that though […]

Courtesy Adaderana Journalist Christopher Kamalendran who as a part of an investigative report on clashes between rival mosques in the Beruwala area had met with Zahran Hashim where he conducted an interview with the Easter attacks ringleader back in 2009. The journalist was called upon to provide his testimony on the details of the interview […]

Courtesy Adaderana The expert committee appointed to review the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement handed over its final report to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (25). The report was handed over at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. Chairman of the committee Professor Lalithasiri Gunarunwan had also presented the final report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three more coronavirus positive cases have moved the total count of cases reported in the country to 2,010. The latest patients have been identified as Sea Marshalls at the Boossa quarantine center, stated the Department of Government Information. A total of nine COVID-19 cases have been reported so far today (25) and all […]

Courtesy Adaderana The 80th meeting of the Constitutional Council was held yesterday (24) under the patronage of its Chairman Karu Jayasuriya at the Speaker’s official residence.  Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, along with the members of the Constitutional Council, Bimal Ratnayake and Thalatha Athukora attended the meeting.  In addition, civil society representatives Javed Yousuf and Prof. […]

By Gandara John  The Riddle  Voters are encouraged to resolve the riddle posed by the facts given in the box below and forward their answers to gandarajohn@outlook.com to help forecast the future geopolitical direction of the country, after the forthcoming General Elections. 05 Nov 2018 – This was the original date set, for the MCC […]

Palitha Senanayake Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman, the former LTTE Eastern Commander, has got in to a difficult position with his recent utterances about the past encounters with the Sri Lankan forces. Sections of the people in this country, including the members of the Sanga are up in arms against this statement stating that it […]

ALI SUKHANVER Bahawalpur is a land of sandy plains in the South Punjab area of Pakistan. Last month on 21st May a protest was carried out at Deputy Commissioner Office Bahawalpur. This protest was led by two local residents Mansha Raam & Laskshman Raam. They were protesting against demolishing of their houses by the city […]

by Sustainable Pulse Bayer-Monsanto have announced that the company will make a total payment of $10.1 billion to $10.9 billion (€9.1 billion to €9.8 billion) to settle the non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Roundup litigation in the U.S.. Roundup is the most sold glyphosate-based herbicide in the world. The settlement covers approximately 75% of the current Roundup litigation involving approximately 125,000 […]

Courtesy Adaderana With three new COVID-19 positive cases being reported, the tally of confirmed cases in Sri Lanka crossed the 2,000 mark on Wednesday evening. Three more navy personnel from the Iyakachchi quarantine center have tested positive for Coronavirus. This brings the total number of confirmed patients thus far in the country to 2,001. Ten […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Separate indictments will be filed with the Colombo High Court against former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and Ex- Welikada OIC, ASP Sudath Asmadala over Rajagiriya accident case, Deputy Solicitor General (DSG) Dileepa Peiris informed the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court. When the case was taken up before Colombo Additional Magistrate Kanchana Neranjana […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror UNP candidate A.S.P. Liyanage today alleged that former Foreign Employment Minister Harin Fernando asked him to perform an illegal activity when he was the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Qatar and told that he would be removed if failed to do it. Mr.Liyanage who is contesting the General Election from the UNP […]

Lahiru Pothmulla and Dinesh Upendra Courtesy The Daily Mirror Referring to the controversial remarks made by former LTTE member Vinyagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said the former parliamentarian’s history was no secret to anyone. Speaking at a Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) rally held at Labuyaya, Kuliyapitiya on Tuesday, Mr. Rajapaksa said […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් හරීන් ප්‍රනාන්දු හිටපු මන්ත්‍රීවරයා කොළඹ අගරදගුරු අතිඋතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් කළ ප්‍රකාශයට අදත් පූජ්‍ය පක්ෂය සහ දේශපාලනඥයින් සිය අප්‍රසාදය පළ කළා. මෙම ප්‍රකාශය හෙළාදකිමින් අද මල්වතු පාර්ශවය විශේෂ නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරා.<br /><br />ඒ පිළිබඳව අදහස් දක්වමින් මල්වතු පාර්ශවයේ අනුනායක පූජ්‍ය නියංගොඩ විජිතසිරි හිමියන් සඳහන් කළේ කාදිනල් හිමියන් සතුව දේශපාලන […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ මුදල් මණ්ඩලයට ආචාර්ය රාණි ජයමහ සහ සමන්ත කුමාරසිංහ පත් කිරීමට අද රැස්වූ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සභාවේ අනුමැතිය හිමිවී තිබෙනවා. මුදල් මණ්ඩලයේ පුරප්පාඩුව පැවති සාමාජිකයන් දෙදෙනා සඳහායි මෙම පත්කිරීම් සිදුවන්නේ .

Courtesy Adaderana The Constitutional Council has approved the appointment of Dr. Ranee Jayamaha and Samantha Kumarasinghe to the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). A Constitutional Council meeting was held today (24) at the Speaker’s Residence under the patronage of its Chairman and former Speaker of the Eighth Parliament Karu Jayasuriya. […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has given one year’s time to Lanka Salt Limited which runs at a loss since 2018 to earn profit, the President’s Media Division said. The profit earned by the Lanka Salt Limited in 2016 stood at Rs. 70 million. In 2017 it declined to Rs. 32 million. The organization made […]

Courtesy Adaderana Responding to Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) leader Sajith Premadasa’s statement on the controversial comments made by Karuna Amman recently, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa charged that it was Premadasa’s father who supplied weapons to the LTTE”. Who provided weapons? Who supplied weapons to Karuna and others and the LTTE? It was none other than […]

Courtesy Adaderana Having identified the urgent need of reviving the businesses adversely affected by the COVID-19 outbreak and thereby to promote economic activity in the country, the Central Bank and the Government of Sri Lanka launched a novel refinance facility under the Saubagya (Prosperity) Loan Scheme, as announced today (24). The Central Bank has approved […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former minister Mangala Samaraweera says he is impressed by former parliamentarian Harin Fernando and praised the ‘courage of his convictions’. I am very impressed by Harin F who has the courage of his convictions to challenge the hypocrisy of sections of the Catholic Church who seems to have forged an unholy alliance with […]

Courtesy Adaderana The expert committee appointed to review the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement handed over its final report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today (24). The report was handed over to the PM by the chairman of the committee Professor Lalithasiri Gunarunwan at Temple Trees this evening. The report is expected to be handed […]