KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay  is on the findings of  Ven Ellawala Medhananda.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 […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Medhananda also went on exploration to the Northern Province and wrote his findings in his book Pacina passsa, uttara passa, nagenahira palata ha uturu palate Sinhala Bauddha Urumaya”. Ven. Ellawala Medhananda was not able to explore the North as much as he would have liked, due to LTTE control. The Northern Province consists […]

Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage  My family beginning to feel safe & confident in the country more than ever before, and feel the value of peace you have been creating in the country” -Tamil Civilian People don’t want constitutional mockery & fights in Legislative Assembly I have been trying my best to educate the public in terms […]

By-Dr.Sripali Vaiamon  On the 25th of July(2020) President had held a meeting with MAHA SANGA and also with the new Director General of the Department of Archaeology. According to news papers very important matters have been discussed. Results could be expected without much delay. In view of this other responsible  officers will furnish more detailed […]

Chula Rajapakse  Ayubowan, Wannakkam, Asalam Malaikum, Kiora, Good Evening PAMINA sitina OBA sama DENAMA, eksath SRI LANKA SANGAMAYA VENUWEN, ethamath SADARAYEN saha GAURAVAYEN piliganimu” Honorable Ministers, Members of Parliament, Honorary consul of Sri Lanka, ladies and gentlemen. on behalf of the United Sri Lanka Association, we welcome you, to this inaugural Sri Lankan Parliament Day. […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් නිත්‍ය නියෝජිත/සමගි ජනබලවේගය 2020 ජූලි 28 1.      මහින්ද දේශප්‍රිය මහතා, සභාපති. මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව. 2. රංජිත් ආරියරත්න මහතා, තැපැල්පති. මහත්වරුණි,   නිදහස් තැපැල් මගින් ලිපි බෙදානොහැරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවේ අද පැවැති රැස්වීම හා බැදේ හෝමාගම තැපැල් කාර්යාලය වෙත බාර චක්‍ර ලේඛන ප්‍රකාරව බාර දෙනු ලැබූ (ලැයිස්තුව අමුණා ඇත) මෙම ලිපි බෙදා […]

Viraj Kithsiri  There are many a reason why someone should vote for a particular party at this election. As usual we will be in a quandary to choose the right one if not yet decided. But what should really be the reason to make your final decision? The yahapalana regime  may not have shown the […]

By Rebecca Armitage, Lucia Stein Courtesy ABC News With governments around the world actively pursuing contact tracing of COVID-19 cases, it’s becoming more common to see a certain term emerge around specific clusters. The people at the centre of these outbreaks are being called superspreaders — which has been loosely interpreted to mean an individual responsible for infecting […]

By Upali de Saram Courtesy The Island A three-member committee appointed to probe the alleged financial malpractice at the Central Cultural Fund has found that over Rs. 11 billion was misappropriated during the three-year period from 2016 to 2019. The committee handed over its report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday (28).  The report has […]

lanka C news 2016 – 2019 යන කාල සීමාව තුළ මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ රුපියල් බිලියන11ක මුල්‍ය වංචාවක් සිදුව තිබෙන බව මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ කාර්යයන් විමර්ශනය කිරීමට පත්කළ කමිටුවේ වාර්තාව මගින් පෙන්වා දී ඇත. 2016-2019 දක්වා කාලය තුළ මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ සිදුවූ අක්‍රමිකතා සහ අවභාවිතාවන් සොයා බැලීමට අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බුද්ධශාසන හා සංස්කෘතික ආගමික කටයුතු […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror A financial misappropriation amounting to Rs.11 billion had taken place at the Central Cultural Fund (CCF) during 2016 to 2019, a committee appointed to probe financial irregularities at the CCF said in its report yesterday. The three-member committee appointed by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Buddha Sasana and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The committee appointed to probe the financial misuse of at the Central Cultural Fund has handed over its report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today (28). The report states that Rs. 11 billion was misappropriated during the three-year period from 2016 to 2019, the Office of the Prime Minister said. It further reveals […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Former Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), Nilantha Jayawardena has told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing Easter attacks that the National Security Council was kept informed of all threats posed by Zahran Hashim but no action was taken to arrest the ringleader of the carnage. Senior DIG Jayawardena was the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The high court has ruled at the conduct of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is an attempt to harm the United National Party (UNP, says the party leader and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. He made this remark defending the decision taken by the UNP’s Working Committee on Tuesday (28) while addressing a public […]

Courtesy Hiru News A Malaysian court has sentenced former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 12 years in jail after finding him guilty on all seven counts in the first of several multi-million dollar corruption trials, the BBC reports. Najib had pleaded not guilty to the charges of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse […]

Courtesy Hiru News Prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa stressed that the law should take its due course, when he answered a phone call pertaining to the demolition of an archaeological site in Kuruengala town, says minister Wimal Weerawansa. The minister referred to this when he attended the ‘Salakuna’ programme of Hiru TV last night

Courtesy Hiru News Riyaz Bathiudeen, the brother of former MP Rishad Bathiudeen, who is in the custody of the CID, was brought to the Police Investigation Unit of the Presidential Commission appointed to Investigate the Easter Attacks at around 9 am today to record a statement. Our correspondent stated that he was taken back at […]

Courtesy Hiru News The total number of coronavirus infections in the country has increased to 2809 with the reporting of two more cases.

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that in order to save the youth from the menace of drugs, the underworld must be suppressed first. The Prime Minister stated this while participating in a public meeting held in Kurunegala. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday participated in several public meetings organized in the Kurunegala District […]