වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  පබ්ලියස් වර්ජිලියස් මාරෝ නොහොත්  වර්ජිල් ඔගස්ටාන් යුගයේ පුරාණ රෝම කවියෙකි. ඔහු උපත ලැබුවේ  ක්‍රි.පූ. 70 දී  උතුරු ඉතාලියේ බව කියවේ. වර්ජිල්ව තමන් ගේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨතම කවියා ලෙස රෝමවරුන් විසින් සලකනු ලැබීය.   රෝම සාහිත්‍යය ආරම්භ වූයේ ක්‍රි.පූ. 3 වන සියවසේ අග භාගයේදී ප්ලූටස්, ටෙරන්ස් සහ එන්නියස් වැනි විකට නාට්‍ය රචකයන් බිහි වීමත් සමඟ ය. රෝම කාව්‍යයන්ගේ […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island SLPP Colombo District candidate Wijeyadasa Rajapakse leaving Presidential Commission on ‘Political Victimization’ at the BMICH recently (pic by Sujatha Jayartne) One-time Justice Minister, Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, recently questioned serious shortcomings in the parliamentary as well as political party system to address contentious issues which may have major security […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General Dappula De Livera has returned another 38 ‘incomplete’ investigation files on suspects arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday terror attacks, to the Acting IGP C. D. Wickramaratne. On June 26, the Attorney General had returned 40 incomplete investigations files, pertaining to the suspects arrested in relation to the Easter […]

Courtesy Adaderana No amendment has been made to the ‘Special Interest Scheme for Senior Citizens’ program, says Minister Bandula Gunawardena. The Minister of Higher Education, Technology, Innovations, and Information & Mass Media mentioned this offering an explanation into a newspaper article published yesterday (06) under the caption ‘Senior Citizens Deposit Interest is falling to 8%’. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Inspector of Police (IP) Saman Wasantha Kumara, who is involved in passing drugs in the custody of the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) to drug dealers, has been detained for interrogation. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) will accordingly detain the suspect for 7 hours under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), Police Media Spokesperson […]

Courtesy Hiru News One more tested positive for COVID- 19, an arrival from Saudi Arabia, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 2081. Covid-19 positives go up to 2,080 With the finding of two more Covid-19 positive persons, the total infected in Sri Lanka have gone up to 2,080.

By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. Michigan State University Our President Gotabhaya has cleared finance for banks  by ordering the Central Bank to relax. This has been done. Can the availability of finance by banks in itself bring about development- create production, create employment and achieve the goal of poverty alleviation. Import controls that  have been imposed to save […]

UK banned LTTE in 2001 but continues to turn a blind eye to LTTE fronts openly campaigning for LTTE and separatism. No amount of diplomacy or goodwill can change that. UK has also been sympathetic to Islamic extremism. There is little point in appealing to the UK Govt or authorities to realize the dangers. The […]

Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage  Driving is not a right, it is only a privilege when the driving privilege has been abused that is about the violation of road discipline compromising of people safety, that needs to be dealt with heavy penalties by suspending the driving license. We loose huge human capital daily due to road accidents […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය – පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය 2020  මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය මෙවර මහ මැතිවරණයේදී දිගාමඩුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කය  ආශ්‍රිතව උණුසුම්කාරී මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාරයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක වනු ඇතැයි කැෆේ සංවිධානය අනුමාන කරයි. එම සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ධ අහම්ඩ් මනාස් මකීන් මහතා සඳහන් කලේ දිගාමඩුල්ලේ   ස්ථාන  තුනක් ” හොට්ස්පොට්ස්” ලෙස හඳුනා ගෙන ඇති බවයි. ඒ අනුව පොතුවිල්  සයින්දමරුදු සහ අක්කරපත්තුව යන ප්‍රදේශ මෙම […]

Lanka Lead News සමහර සිංහල අයට එම්.සී.සී. කමිටු වාර්තාවේ ඉංගිරිසි පිටපත් වුවමනා වී ඇති බව මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් මහතා පවසයි. කමිටුව සිය වාර්තාව දුන්නෙ රජයට – රටේ ප‍්‍රමුඛතම රාජ්‍ය භාෂාවෙන්. මෙතෙක් භාරදී ඇති වෙනත් බොහෝ වාර්තා තිබුණෙ ඉංගිරිසියෙන් පමණයි. කවුරුවත් තොරතුරු දැනගැනීමේ පනතින් ඒවායේ පිටපත් සිංහලෙන් ඉල්ලූ බවක් මා නම් දැන සිටියේ නැහැ.  ඉංගිරිසියට වහල් […]

– ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය අංශය පුත්තලම, කාක්කා පල්ලිය, මනක්කුලම පදිංචි 84 හැවිරිදි එම්.ඒ.එච්.පී මාරසිංහ විශ්‍රාමික ගුරු මව රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 02 ක මුදලක් කොවිඩ් අරමුදලට පරිත්‍යාග පිණිස ජනාධිපතිතුමාට පිළිගන්වයි. පොදුජන පෙරමුණෙන් මෙවර මහ මැතිවරණයට තරගවදින අපේක්ෂකයන්ගේ ජයග්‍රහනය තහවුරු කරනු පිණිස (06) පුත්තලම දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ චාරිකාවේ නිරතවෙමින් මාදප්පේ තනිවැල්ලේ ප්‍රදේශයේ පැවති ජන හමුවට සහභාගී වූ ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia China’s centralized authoritarianism and Hong Kong’s European traditions do not match and there are also geopolitical factors which force China to tighten its hold over Hong Kong When the British returned Hong Kong to China in 1997, at the end of a 99 year lease, China agreed to implement the concept […]

Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror ’We will select and accept only those who would be useful to the country’ A group of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) candidates will join the UNP after the conclusion of the general elections, UNP General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said today. Mr. Kariyawasam who was responding to journalists at […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) today said, under a government established by the SLPP, it will restructure laws to address pressing issues including underworld activities, drug smuggling and undeclared funds flowing in from foreign countries. SLPP Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris said a new SLPP government, backed by a […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another COVID-19 case has been detected among recent foreign arrivals hiking the number of cases in the country to 2,077. The latest case is a person who had arrived from the Maldives, as per the Department of Government Information. Currently, 149 active cases are under medical care at selected hospitals across the country. […]

Gandara John DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY OF THE RECOGNISED POLITICAL PARTIES Democracy is the unfettered exercise of universal suffrage by the people of a Sovereign State. Democracy in Sri Lanka has suffered; it has been hijacked by the political Parties in the country.  It has been our experience that a Party after being elected […]

By Garvin Karunaratne I would like our authorities to give deep thought to the salient points I have raised in an earlier paper of mine.  Our country is deeply in debt today by blindingly following the IMF It is sad that our dons in econ, the real people that matter on this subject are silent. […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS A recent statement of the Prime Minister, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa after meeting with executives of Ceylon Bank Employee’s Union regarding the investigation on the irregular credits of government banks during the Yahapalana Regime, expressed that the government is willing to appoint an investigation commission to consider the irregularities incurred in credit approval […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL,B.,Ph,D. කට කැඩිච්ච කතා සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතා විසින් චන්ද රැස්වීම් වල කරණ ප්‍රකාශ යූටියුබ් වලින් බලන විට මට සිතෙන්නේ ඔහු මෙච්චරටම මෝඩ කුමක් නිසාද යන්නය. යමෙක් එකම වරද නැවත නැවත කරන්නේ ඇයි? මේ දවස් වල දේශපාලකයින් විසින් කරණ කතා අතුරින් රටට ඉතාම වැදගත් කාරණා දෙකක් ලෙස මා සළකන ජරමර දෙකක් නම් 13-ඒ මර […]

  By Stanley Perera My dear Sajith, Re-Why you are an unsuitable person to rule Sri Lanka The writer 78 years old expatriate Sri Lankan domiciled in Melbourne Sri Lanka in the past 43 years who never lost contact with his country of birth with worldly knowledge and abundance of experience in Medical science wishes […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය – පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය 2020  මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය බොහෝ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ සිය මැතිවරණ රැස්වීම් වලදී මීටරයේ දුර නොව සෙන්ටිමීටරයේ දුරක් වත් තබා නොගන්නා බව කැෆේ සංවිධානය කියයි. කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂිකා සුරංගි ආරියවංශ මහත්මිය සඳහන් කළේ පවතින සෞඛ්‍යමය තත්වය හේතුකොටගෙන ආරක්ෂිත ලෙස මුහුන ආවරණ පැළඳ මීටරයක දුරින් ජනතාව රැස්කර මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාර කළ යුතු බවට සඳහන් […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia As part of the democratization of art sales, the Colombo Municipality allows artists to sell their works in the street outside the Viharamahadevi Park Colombo, July 5 (Xinhua/newsin.asia/www.theculturetrip.com): Open-air art shows at Green Path in Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka, had disappeared temporarily due to a nationwide curfew imposed by Sri […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today requested all voters to give them an overwhelming mandate exceeding even that of the presidential election of 2019, in order to put an end to narrow minded communalism in the politics of this country. Issuing a statement the Prime Minister said;The leader of the newly formed Samagi […]

Courtesy Adaderana The farmers in Polonnaruwa made a strong plea to the President not to allow the intermediaries to create an artificial rice shortage. They pointed out that there was a bumper harvest in the previous seasons.  ‘Hence, should not allow the attempts to create a rice shortage to succeed”, the farmers said.  The farmers […]

Courtesy Hiru News It has been revealed that the extremist preacher who influenced Safia Shaikh, the female who was planning a suicide bombing in London, had links with Abdul Latif Mohammed Jamil who came to blast Taj Samudra Hotel and the mastermind behind the Easter attack in the country, Saharan Hashim. Foreign media reported that […]

Courtesy Hiru News Two (02) more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection. The country total has increased to 2,076 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology unit of the Ministry of Health.

Courtesy Hiru News In a special operation conducted by the Senior DIG in charge of the Western Province Deshabandu Tennakoon, 57 suspects have been arrested today (05) by the police. Among them were nine women and 48 men, who were involved in 70 crimes including money laundering, forgery and polygamy. The police stated that the […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Managing a democracy in normal times is bad enough. Managing it in times of crises can be a horripilating nightmare. Choices have to be made between confronting imperatives demanding urgent and unpalatable decisions and the popular will that will invariably opt for the comfortable and the least painful way out. The […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph..D. in NonFormal Education & Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University It is sad that though we have the ideal climate to produce what we need, an intelligent people and  verdant land resources we yet are in short supply. Let us take coffee. Once we produced coffee for export. Today we import coffee. […]