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 […]

Opportunity for Sri Lankan Tamils to revisit their priorities”by N S Venkataraman certainly raises the question, if India is rolling out a new modus operandi, towards Tamils & Sri Lanka. If that is so, it necessitates all Sri Lankans to be alert. Ignorance and belief that India would not play any role in Tamil militancy […]

A.J.M. Muzammil Media Unit  වයඹ පළාත සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ පස් අවුරුදු සැලැස්ම වයඹ පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර ඒ.ජේ.එම්. මුසම්මිල් සහ වයඹ පළාතේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් පී.බී.එම්.සිරිසේන මහත්වරු එක්ව ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී ජනරජයේ ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත පිළිගැන්වූ අවස්ථාව … ජාතික කොවිඩ් මර්ධන අරමුදල වෙනුවෙන් පළාත් සභාවේ කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයේ එක් දිනක වැටුප වශයෙන් එක්රැස්වූ රුපියල් මිලියන 22.6 ක මුදලක්ද […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  There are certain opinions among the people today that intellectuals should go to parliament and run the country. The Collective recently formed and held the first inaugural meeting with the participation of the minister of industries has a different opinion. Interlevuals  should allow the politicians to go to parliament and support constitution […]

Vegan Muslim Initiative No, I am not going to sacrifice an animal this Eid-ul-Adha nor am I going to pay someone to do it for me. Instead, my sacrifice is going to be of a non animal nature and yes, it is religiously sanctioned and justified. I saw animals being slaughtered when I was a boy […]

Senaka Weeraratna   We grieve for dead Leopards, dead elephants while remaining mum and in total silence over the impending mass slaughter of innocent animals during Hadj  festival beginning tomorrow i.e. July 28. Millions of animals are killed all over the world in the name of religion with none so poor to say in public that […]

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By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express The ruling SLPP will highlight the need for a strong Executive Presidency with a system of checks and balances sans contradictions and dysfunctional aspects. Colombo, July 27: In the run up to the August 5 Sri Lankan parliamentary elections, only the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has been openly saying that […]

Courtesy Firstpost Indians are supposed to accept without compelling scientific proof the existence of Jesus or Mohammed, but a Ram or a Krishna cannot break the glass ceiling of mythology Irony had a hearty laugh last week, skipping across the chain of shoals that links India with Sri Lanka. Embracing Ramayan, the epic that binds […]

by Malaka Rodrigo Courtesy Mongabay COLOMBO — With its blends of soft red, pink and yellow, the fragrant cannonball flower (Couroupita guianensis) is a favorite of Sri Lanka’s Buddhists when making floral offerings during religious activities. They call it sal, with religious tales linking the tree to the birth and death of Gautama Buddha, the founder of the faith. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has directed the Minister-in-Charge to accelerate the construction works of the Central Expressway project, the President’s Media Division said.  It said construction of the section from Colombo to Kurunegala has been disrupted due to issues relating to the compensation payment process. The President instructed Minister Johnston Fernando to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Twenty-two new cases of novel coronavirus have been detected increasing the total number of confirmed cases reported in the country to 2,804. The new cases include 17 inmates of the Senapura Rehabilitation Center and 05 returnees from Qatar, who are under quarantine.  Accordingly 672 patients infected with Covid-19 are presently being treated at […]

Courtesy  Hiru News With the report of another coronavirus infection, the total number of infected people in the country has increased to 2805

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that although his government suppressed terrorism and the underworld, those activities were reactivated during the subsequent period of good governance. The Prime Minister stated this while participating in a public meeting held in Dodamgaslanda – Rideegama area

Courtesy Hiru News The Presidential Commission appointed to inquire the Easter Attacks today commenced questioning the then Director of the State Intelligence, Nilantha Jayawardena, who was the first to receive prior information and warning on the series of terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday. At the request of Nilantha Jayawardena and the Attorney General’s Department, which […]

Courtesy Hiru News Here are some of the views expressed by various politicians. Former parliamentarian Daya Gamage stated that although they presented Sajith thinking that he could win, in the end the UNP was defeated. Former UNP MP Hesha Vithanage stated that there were thieves in his government as well. Addressing a public meeting Prasanna […]

Sri Lanka has almost completed the E-Land Register.Do we need MCC funds with demands that require constitutional changes?This supposed ‘gift’ comes with a set of conditions & pre-conditions that even warrants the MCC Compact to be passed by Parliament & made into domestic law. The MCC demands include ownership of Sri Lanka’s intellectual property rights, […]

චාර්ල්ස්  එස් පෙරේරා  විසින්  ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ නායක අනුර දිසානයක  ස්වර්ණවාහිනී නාලිකාව ඉදිරිපත් කල  Sri Lanka Next  වැඩසටහනේ පෙනීසිට ඉදිරිපත්කල ඔහුගේ තර්ක  ජනතා විමුක්තිපෙරමුනේ තවත්  දේශපාලන අසරණ බවක් පෙන්නුම්කරන  ලංකාවේ දෙසපාලනයට ඇතුලත් වීමට තාමත්  අපහසු  නොමේරු  ගැටවර බවක් පෙන්නුම්කලා.  ඔහු කියනවා   ජනතාවට  දේශපාලනය  තිත්තවෙලාලු .  ඔහු  කියන ආකාරයට ලංකාවේ කාටද දේශපාලනය තිත්තවෙලා තියෙන්නේ ?  […]

Nimal Rajakaruna, Melbourne, Australia Most of us have seen news of another fatal accident in which a Sri Lankan army soldier has died on the Nugegoda fly-over recently when the army vehicle he was driving was hit by one private bus which tried to take over another. I strongly believe that the issue is with […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ කඩා බිඳ දමා ඇති මේ රට ලෝකයේ ධනවත් හා බලවත් රාජ්‍යක් බවට නැගී සිටීමට අවශ්‍ය වන්නේ බලයයි. මේ රටේ සියලුම ජන කොටස් වලට අවශ්‍ය තරම් බලය ලබාදෙන්නේ කෙසේද? ඒ සඳහා සැලසුම් කල යුත්තේ කුමන ආකාරයටද යන්න අපි සාකච්චා කරමු. මේ රටේ මිනිසුන්ට විදුලි බලය නොමිලේ ලැබෙන්නේ නම් කුමක් වේවිද? එය එසේ කල හැකිද? […]