Piyumi Fonseka Courtesy The Daily Mirror I wrote to the ICC in 2012 regarding this matter, yet they failed to respond” Some Cricket officials have purchased car companies, started new businesses after match loss” The Team changed in the last moment without prior consultation” An Indian newspaper knew about the team change before us, but […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror No matter who administers the country, Islamic extremism cannot be eradicated until the government leaders ban extremism across the country, Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary the Ven. Galagodaththe Gnanasara Thera told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) on the Easter Sunday Attacks. “Extremism in the country is like […]

Courtesy Adaderana Investigations into the coordinated terror attacks on Easter Sunday have revealed that the brother of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, Bathiudeen Mohamed Riyaj, has had maintained direct links with the bombers, says the Police Spokesperson. SSP Jaliya Senaratne stated this during ‘BIG FOCUS’ programme on TV Derana this morning (19), responding to a question […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Secretary to the Ministry of Sports has called for an immediate probe into the allegations made by Mahindananda Aluthgamage on ‘match-fixing’ at the 2011 World Cup final. Mahindananda recently made a controversial statement, claiming that he does not accept Sri Lanka’s defeat in the 2011 World Cup (final) as a defeat. According […]

Courtesy Adaderana Attorney General, today (19), told the court that issuance of arrest warrants by the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court on former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake and several other bond scam suspects has followed a lawful procedure. The writ applications filed by Ravi Karunanayake, PTL owner Arjuna Aloysius, Central Bank employees Sangarapillai Pathumanapan and Indika […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two more persons have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus today (19), the Ministry of Health said. On that account, the total count of coronavirus cases in the country has risen to 1,950. A total of three patients were discovered within the day, according to the Department of Government Information. Two of them […]

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed the contractors involved in the project to expedite the construction of the North-Central Expressway. The Prime Minister expressed these views while participating in an inspection tour of the second phase of the project on complaints that the construction of the North Central Expressway is not being […]

Courtesy Hiru News The total number of Coronavirus patients that have fully recovered from their infection in the country has increased to 1446 with 25 more people who have recovered being discharged from hospitals today. Also, an infected person who arrived from India has been reported today. According to the Epidemiology Unit the total number […]

Courtesy Hiru News Minister Wimal Weerawansa says that the government will never come to an agreement with the USA to sign the MCC agreement He said this while he was speaking at the Bellanwila Raja Maha Viharaya today. Minister Wimal Weerawansa commenced his election campaign by visiting the Bellanwila Raja Maha Viharaya today and received […]

Sri Lanka’s top intelligence head has issued a letter of demand to Yasmin Sooka and her entity ITJP alleging violation of ICCPR ACT. He also alleges she & ITJP are accessory to LTTE front agenda with likelihood of posing a risk to his life & that of his family. Complaints regarding Sooka & ITJP have […]

Malin Abeyatunge President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, yesterday, faulted the top echelons of the Central Bank (CB) over their failure to come up with strategies to overcome the unprecedented economic crisis facing the country.  Without a wink, he had quite rightly hit the nail on the head. In fact, ordinary citizens might be wondering what’s these top […]

by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa MEDIA RELEASE (Translation of the text of a speech made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday, 18 June 2020) Venerable members of the Maha Sangha, clergymen of all other faiths, Hon. Ministers, former members of Parliament and friends,  After the Presidential election of 16 November 2019, we will be […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා (අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා 2020 ජුනි 18 වෙනි බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා කළ කතාවේ පිටපත.) අතිපූජනීය මහා සංඝරත්නයෙන් අවසරයි. සියලු ආගම්වල පූජකතුමනි, ගරු ඇමතිවරුනි, හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුනි, මිත්‍රවරුනි, 2019 නොවැම්බර් 16 ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් පස්සෙ   අපිට අලුත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවක්   පත්කරගන්න වෙන්නේ 2020 අගෝස්තු මාසයේ. 19 වෙනි සංශෝධනයෙන් අවුරුදු හතර හමාරක් යනකන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවා හැරීම වලක්වලා […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Ven. Ellawala Medhananda has explored the Buddhist ruins in  the North Western  Province. The North western Province consists of two districts, Puttalam and Kurunegala. Puttalam which is a coastal  district, contains Wilpattu and Pomparippu. Medhananda   has visited both places. Medhananda found a large monastery complex at Pomparippu, in ruins. This area is now […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් FB සටහනක් ‘රී – පොස්ට් කිරීම‘ සම්බන්ධයෙන් දකුණේ පළාත් පාලන කොමසාරිස් සේනක පල්ලියගුරුගෙන් නිදහසට කරුණු විමසන ලෙස, ම.කො. උපදෙස් පරිදි මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් ජනරාල් සමන් ශ්‍රී රත්නායක ‘ රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම්ට ලිපියක් යොමු කර ඇත. මැ.කො. ට ‘අගෞරවයට, අපහසුතාවට, අප්‍රසාදයට පත් වන අයුරින් හා මහජන විශ්වාසය බිද වැටෙන ආකාරයෙන් ලිපි මගින් හා […]

Courtesy Nithiyalk.blogspot.com දිසා අධිකරණයේ පවරා ඇති ගෙවල් කුලී නඩුවක  එම නඩුව පවත්වාගෙන යාමට නොහැකි බවට අධිකරණ සංවිධාන පනතේ 39වන වගන්තිය යටතේ මූලික විරෝධතාවයක් ගෙන ඇත. එකී මූලික විරෝධතාවය විමසීම ලිඛිත දේශන මගින් සිදුකළ අතර පැමිණිල්ලේ නීතිඥවරයා විසින් ලිඛිත දේශන සමග ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් නඩු තීන්දු සහ ලිපි කිහිපයක් අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත.ලිඛිත දේශන සළකා බලා නඩුව […]

Courtesy Adaderana Eighteen new cases of Covid-19 have been reported increasing the tally of confirmed cases in the country to 1,946. All 18 new cases are returnees from Dubai, according to the Government Information Department. Accordingly a total of 22 fresh cases were detected on Thursday (18). Around 514 patients infected with Coronavirus are currently […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Police have been directed to record statements from several influential figures of the former government including former President Maithripala Sirisena and former Ranil Wickremesinghe over the Central Bank (CBSL) Bond Scam. The Attorney General Dappula de Livera has issued these directions to the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) C. D. Wickramaratne today […]

Courtesy Adaderana An individual who handled Rs 490 million worth transactions of a bank account belonging to an organized criminal figure has been arrested when he surrendered to the Western Province (South) Crimes Division yesterday (17). On May 22 an individual was arrested in Ratmalana over the possession of 9 g 500 mg of heroin. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the Opposition has no allegations of repression to make against the current government led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Speaking on the Parliamentary Election 2020, the Premier said that the defeated party, while holding an artificial majority following the presidential election made numerous attempts to undermine the government […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government of Japan has given its consent to award an aid of Japanese Yen 800 million (approximately LKR 1,360 million) under Japanese non- project grant scheme for the supply of medical equipment required for strengthening the activities of prevention of COVID -19 pandemic situation in Sri Lanka. Under the scheme, Sri Lanka […]

Courtesy Hiru News Head of State Intelligence service, Major General Suresh Saleh submitted a report to the United Nations and the European Union stating that the Executive Director of the International Truth and Justice Project, Yasmin Sooka, had violated his fundamental rights by making false and slanderous accusations against him. He further stated that the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the forthcoming general election is a great opportunity to focus on the proven ability and to stop the good governance lies and to eradicate fraud and deceit. The Prime Minister says the general election is a hard-fought democratic right and the people should be mindful of […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia China’s acting envoy, Hu Wei, discussed Sino-Lankan investment and financial cooperation with Gotabaya Rajapaksa Colombo, June 18 (newsin.asia): The Acting Ambassador for China in Sri Lanka, Hu Wei, met President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday and handed over a letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping wishing President Gotabaya’s birthday which falls on June 20. […]

by Dilrukshi Handunnetti Courtesy Mongabay A new study has finally solved a herpetological mystery surrounding Dendrelaphis bifrenalis, a species of bronzeback snake endemic to Sri Lanka. Researchers have established, through morphological differences and DNA sequencing, that the dry-zone populations of the snake are the true D. bifrenalis, and the wet-zone populations are a species new to […]

ABU DHABI, Courtesy Trade Arabia Effective June 20, Etihad Airways will operate twice-weekly scheduled services for outbound passengers from Colombo to key destinations on its global network via Abu Dhabi. EY265 will depart Colombo on Thursdays and Saturdays at 1.35am, landing in Abu Dhabi at 4.30am local time. From Abu Dhabi, the service connects to […]

A.Dharmakulasingham, Retired Srilnkan Diplomat Hon.Chairman, Events unfolding in our beautiful island compels me to write an open letter  aimed at inviting  your  thoughtful attention to the mandate  entrusted on the election commission to conduct elections in Srilanka.I don’t need to remind the provisions of  supreme law of the country ,constitution and other binding laws and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Ven. Ellawala Medhananda paid special attention to the Buddhist archaeological remains in the North and east. He explored as much as he could in these two provinces, using his own resources He found that the north and east had many Buddhist ruins and many explorations were needed, before they could be fully examined […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහා බැංකුව පිහිටුවා මේ වනවිට වසර 70කි. මේ රටේ වසර 70වක කාලය පුරා විවිධ දේශපාලඥයින් විසින් සිදුකල සෑම සියලු දෙයක්ම සුපහදිලිව දන්නා එකම ආයතනය, මේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහා බැංකුවයි. වසර 70ක් පුරා මේ රටේ සිදුව ඇති සෑම සියලු ආර්ථික ක්‍රියාවලියකටම වගකිව යුතු ආයතනය වන්නේද  ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහා බැංකුවයි. වර්තමාන මහා බැංකුව […]