Courtesy Hiru News According to the epidemiology unit 5 covid-19 patients have been reported so far today increasing the total number of confirmed cases in the island to 1889. According to the government information department all new cases are members of the navy. 35 individuals were discharged today increasing the total number of recovered to […]

Courtesy  Hiru News Former Parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera who recently withdrew his candidature from the Samagi Jana Balavegaya has met former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga  . This was at the Horagolla house.

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE New Zealand has issued a new travel advice on 8 June at 11.59 pm, moving to Alert Level 1,  with the advice Do not travel overseas at this time. Transport and transit options to return to New Zealand have reduced significantly. Even booked flights may be cancelled.” The New Zealand […]

Engr. Kanthar Balanathan  DipEE (UK), GradCert(Rel-Eng-Monash), DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey), CEng. MIEE (UK) Former Specialist Engineer, Power & Control, NRG-GPS Australia If one wants to know the true record of the problems & concerns in SriLanka (SL), then that person should exercise patience and read the entire document. No point in blabbering with a lack of understanding of SriLankan […]

Courtesy RT The New York Times has admitted that the allegations of election fraud that led to Evo Morales’ ousting from the Bolivian presidency were “flawed.” These allegations caused Morales’ exile from the country in what critics say was tantamount to a Washington-backed coup. RT America’s John Huddy reports. Then RT producer and Latin America […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත්ගුණසේකර. මහනුවර (මෙම ලිපිය  2019 ජනාධිපති මැතිවරණයට පෙර  2019 අගෝස්තු 27 මවිසින් ළන්කාවෙබ් අඩවියට ලියනලද ලිපිය යාවත්කොට නැවත පළකිරිමකී) මහාමැතිවරණයට තරඟකිරීමට අපේක්ශාකරන සියලුම සිංහල දේශපාලනපක්ශ සහ අපේක්ශකයින්වෙත ඉදිරිපත්කෙරෙන කොන්දේසි 50 ක් සහිත විවුර්ත සන්දේශයක්. මේ වු කලී මින් පසු පැවැත්වෙන ඕනෑම මැතිවරණයක් සඳහා මේ රටේ භූමිපුත්‍රයින් වන සින්හලයින් විසින් සියලුම දේශපාලනඥ්යින්වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කරණු ලබණ […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL,B,, Ph.D. අගමැතිලා ජනාධිපතිලා නාස් ලණු දමා ගැනීම මෙහි දෙවන කොටස අවසානවූයේ මුස්ලිම් ජයග්‍රහණ ලැයිස්තුවකින්‌ය. ඒවා <ජයග්‍රහණ> වන්නේ ඒවා නැතිවූ අයිතියක් නැවත ලබාගැනීමක් නොව, අළුතෙන් සිංහල දේශපාලකයින් ඔහේ, ඇඟට නොදැනීම ඔවුන්ට ලබාදුන් වරප්‍රසාදවූ නිසාය. දිවුරුම් පෙත්සමකින් පුරවැසිකම් දුන් එකම රට ලංකාව නොවේද? මේවා බෞද්‌ධ දශරාජ ධර්‌මයක් රකින අයවළුන් විසින් මධ්‍යම ප්‍රතිපදාව අනුව යමින්, […]

Aswathi Pacha Courtesy Hindu A new Indian subcontinent sub-lineage emerges Studying the geographic distribution and evolution of the chikungunya virus over the period from 2005-2018, a team from ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, has noted India as an endemic reservoir for the virus with persistent global transmissions from the country. The paper published recently in Infection, […]

Courtesy WNOW

Sandun A Jayasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Power, Energy and Transport Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said he would urge President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Cabinet to conduct a thorough assessment of the interest rates charged by Finance Companies and those employed to seize vehicles from defaulting customers. While condemning the killing of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror As the method adopted by the leasing companies to seize vehicles of those who had failed to pay their loan installments is unlawful, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered the Police that no room should be left to continue this practice, the President’s Media Division said. Leasing companies do not inform the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 as at 5.30 pm today (13), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Two of them are Sri Lankan expatriates who returned to the island from Qatar. They are being quarantined at the facilities in Ampara. The other patient is a naval person at the Mullaitivu quarantine […]

Courtesy Adaderana

Courtesy Adaderana At a jungle-covered cave site in southwestern Sri Lanka, archaeologists have found a remarkable collection of ancient objects, including tools that they believe are among the oldest survival gear humans used in rainforests. The artifacts range in age from 48,000 to 4,000 years old and include 130 bone arrow tips—the oldest arrow tips […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake is expected to be reopened for tourists from August 01, says Minister of Tourism and Aviation Prasanna Ranatunga. The same procedure that is applied to tourists will be exercised on Sri Lankans returning to the country, however, prior to August 01, returnees will be quarantined upon arrival, […]

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Comments by Dr. Sudath Gunasekara former Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Badaranayaka and President Sinhala Bauddha Jestha Puravesiyanage Sanvidhanaya Mahanuwara and member viyath manga Kandy Branch. Your Excellency the President of Sri Lanka, hearty cheers and congratulations on your bold and patriotic decision to appoint a set of vibrant and proactive professionals who blends patriotism […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island The long awaited date of the parliamentary election has been announced and the beleaguered Elections Commission has been able to somewhat vindicate itself. The August 5 date is not too far off nor too close for more accusations to be hurled at the EC. Up to the time of writing, […]

Courtesy The Island President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said the Central Bank has failed in its duty and cannot evade responsibility for the alleged irregularities in ETI Investments, the Presidential Media Division said. The inquiring committee appointed to investigate alleged irregularities in ETI Investments met with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat on Thursday. The Committee […]

iflscience.com The earliest human inhabitants of Asia’s tropical rainforests were packing some serious heat, according to a new study in the journal Science Advances, which describes the discovery of 130 arrowheads dating back 48,000 years. Found in a cave in Sri Lanka, the bone projectiles are the oldest weapons of their kind to be found outside […]

Courtesy theconversation.com/ Archaeological excavations deep within the rainforests of Sri Lanka have unearthed the earliest evidence for hunting with bows and arrows outside Africa. At Fa-Hien Lena, a cave in the heart of Sri Lanka’s wet zone forests, we discovered numerous tools made of stone, bone, and tooth – including a number of small arrow points carved […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today At the recently concluded Ranawiru Day commemoration, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa vowed “not to allow anyone to exert undue pressure and harass our war heroes who have sacrificed so much for the country” to return to the status of peace and tranquility to the people and our country.  He then […]

By a Special Correspondent Courtesy Ceylon Today Having lost his diplomatic post in Russia, poor Dr Dayan Jayatilleka is now singing lustily for his supper. Having burnt his bridges with the Rajapaksa camp, his latest sonnet A knee on the neck of the next Parliament”, published in DailyFT on 11 June 2020 is his attempt […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Cabinet has decided to provide relief to the tourist industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said. He said this at a discussion held at Temple Trees on the problems faced by the tourist and hotel industries and on how best to resuscitate the tourist […]

Courtesy Adaderana As the method adopted by the leasing companies to seize vehicles of those who had failed to pay their loan installments is unlawful, no room should be left to continue this practice, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered the Police, says the President’s Media Division (PMD). Leasing companies do not inform the Police prior […]

Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage  I am accountable and responsible for the people of this country” Presidnet of Sri Lanka Hon. Gotabhaya Rajapakse       President Gotabhaya has been introducing a new discipline to our nation, his legacy is progressing, the socioeconomic and cultural progress will bloom through that vision and as patriots we need to ensure his […]

Shenali D Waduge Why you should worry about MCC Sri Lanka On April 25, 2019, the MCC Board of Directors approved the five-year Sri Lanka Compact. It was days after Easter Sunday mass murder. The controversy of this bilateral-corporation agreement should worry all Sri Lankans. MCC has to be signed & passed by Parliament of […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 21.6.20 Historians agree that between the rule of King Devanam Piyatissa (247-207 BC) and king Dutugemunu, (161-137) there was a separate kingdom in Ruhuna. The founder of this Ruhuna kingdom was king Mahanaga, brother of Devanampiyatissa. Mahanaga left Anuradhapura after a disagreement with his brother and set up a separate kingdom in […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ජෙෆ්රි  චෞසර්  මධ්‍යකාලීන යුගයේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨතම  තම ඉංග්‍රීසි කවියා ලෙස සැලකේ. ඔහු “ඉංග්‍රීසි සාහිත්‍යයේ පියා” ලෙසටද හැඳින් වේ. ඔහු තම කාලයේ ලේඛකයන්ට පොදු වූ ලතින් හෝ ප්‍රංශ භාෂාවට පටහැනිව තම ස්වභාෂා ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් ලියූ ලේඛකයෙකි. ඉංග්‍රීසි කාව්‍යයන්ට එළිසමය හඳුන්වා දීමේ ගෞරවය ඔහුට හිමි වේ.චෞසර්  සමහර විට ඉංග්‍රීසි ස්වභාෂා සම්ප්‍රදායේ ප්‍රභවය ලෙස සැලකේ.   ජෙෆ්රි […]

BY LASANDA KURUKULASURIYA Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka’s handling of the Covid-19 outbreak has, comparatively speaking, produced commendable results. Tracing the trajectory of the response, it may be seen that early moves, to prepare for what lay ahead, served well to mitigate the outcome. A Task Force, drawing on expertise of all relevant sectors, was […]