Courtesy Adaderana Nine individuals who arrived from overseas have been confirmed to have contracted the COVID-19, stated the Department of Government Information. The new cases have been detected amongst individuals who recently arrived from Saudi Arabia. So far, a total of 20 COVID-19 cases have been detected within today (19). Thereby, the count of coronavirus […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has stated that plans are afoot to promote pepper cultivation as a major export crop. India is the major buyer of pepper from Sri Lanka and other countries. India purchases pepper on a quota basis. Increasing the quota given to Sri Lanka is one of the key elements of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana A new division is to be established under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), stated Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon. The unit will be titled ‘Illegal Assets Investigations Division’, said the Senior DIG addresssing a press conference held at the Police Headquarters this morning (19). The new unit will be in charge of probing assets […]

By Garvin Karunaratne,former G.A. Matara District Touring Northern California and Oregan now and  touring from Baltimore to Key West in Florida,  through Louisiana via Texas and Arizona to San Diego last Summer, I am passing through villages one after the other—each vibrant with life. There are Malls that have closed down due to the recession, but […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ බුවනෙකබා මහා රජතුමා ඉදිකළ කුරුනෑගල රාජ සැබෑ මන්දිරය පොලොවට සමතලා කර ඇත. මෙය මේ දිනවල දේශපාලන වේදිකාවේ රඟ දෙන අලුත්ම නාටකයයි. මේ නාටකයේ ප්‍රධාන නළුවා  බවට පැහැදිලිවම දකින්නේ, කුරුනෑගල නගරාධිපතිවරයායි.මේ නගරාධිපතිවරයා, මේ මහා මැතිවරණ සමයේ, අගමැති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා තරඟ කරන කුරුනෑගල ආසනයේ, ඉතා පුරානයයි සලකෙන බුවනෙකබා රාජ සමයට අයත් රාජ සභා ගොඩනැගිල්ල […]

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe Courtesy Daily Mirror The NMRA yesterday issued notices of cancellation of registrations and import licenses to five pharmaceutical companies including Hemas Pharmaceuticals and A. Baur (Pvt) Ltd for arbitrarily and unilaterally increasing the retail prices of 10 medicines. Notices of cancellation have been issued to the following companies under Section 65 of the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The ongoing interim school holiday has been extended by another week and the schools will be reopened for Grade 11, 12 and 13 students on July 27, the Education Ministry said today The week long school holiday declared during a sudden spike of Covid-19 transmissions earlier this month. The Director General […]

Courtesy Adaderana Entry of pilgrims into the sacred city of Kataragama will be limited two weeks starting from July 21 to August 04, in view of the Annural Esala Perahera of Kataragama Devalaya. Accordingly, the public will not be allowed to take part in religious activities or to watch the procession during the entire period […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another fresh case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Sri Lanka, increasing the total number of patients to 2,703. This patient, who is from Lankapura area, has been identified as a close associate of the virus-infected person linked to the Kandakadu COVID-19 cluster. Further, four close contacts of a coronavirus patient linked to […]

Courtesy Hiru News An archaeological committee appointed to probe the damage caused to the Royal Assembly Hall of the Kurunegala Kingdom dating back to the 13th Century visited the site today. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed a special 5-member committee to probe the damages to the building. Chairman of the committee, Director General of Archaeology, […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island The SLPP has called off  its scheduled  propaganda rallies for the time being in view of the rising threat of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its national organizer Basil Rajapaksa has instructed all party organizers to abide by this decision. This must have been a difficult […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Central Intelligence Agency of the USA, CIA was popularly seen  as a bungling agency, responsible for the many failures of US  policy abroad. But  it also has many successes to its credit. CIA  was powerful abroad.  CIA is responsible for planning, carrying out and providing cover-ups for USA assassinations.  CIA  can legally […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS USA was ready to take over as the centre of the capitalist world, at the end of World War II. The US President was spoken of as ‘Leader of the free world’.  But the USA   never had the easy run into a global power that Britain had. The USA was never able to […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Upon returning to Sri Lanka he started an intensive media campaign on this subject.   I reproduce below excerpts from this traitor’s writings and appropriate counter comments   Veteran journalist Malinda Seneviratne who was the Chief Editor of The Nation” wrote on 5th July, 2009 that Dayan Jayatillake, with respect to […]

ALI SUKHANVER More than 50 people had been killed and more than 250 seriously injured by the Hindu extremist groups in the last four years; says a recent report of the Human Rights Watch, most of the attacks on religious minorities in the Indian Occupied Kashmir are led by BJP supporters. Pathetically the only allegation […]

By Nilakshan Perera Courtesy The Island (Intake 3 KDU) On July 3rd, 1990, 30 years ago “Operation Eagle” was launched to evacuate a team of critically wounded soldiers of 6th Singha Regiment (6SR) and policemen from the Jaffna Fort, where they had been trapped for more than three weeks and to deliver urgently needed weapons, […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror A committee comprising experts has been appointed to investigate allegations of a archaeological building in Kurunegala was bulldozed on July 14, the Government Information Department said today. It said the Committee was appointed by the Buddhasasana, Cultural and Religious Affairs Ministry Secretary on a directive of subject minister Mahinda […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Extraordinary Gazette Notification on health guidelines for the General Election 2020 has been published, says the Government Printer. COVID-19 (Elections) Regulations was prepared by the Minister of Health and Indigenous Medical Services under section 2 and 3 of the Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Ordinance (Chapter 222). The gazette contains guidelines that […]

Courtesy  Hiru News Eight (08) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,697. Eight (08) more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection. Six (06) are inmates from Kandakadu & Senapura Rehabilitation Centres and the other two (02) are their contacts who have tested positive for Covid-19. The country […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Minister Rishad Bathiutheen has filed a Fundamental Rights petition before the Supreme Court asking to issue an order preventing his arrest by the CID over the Easter Sunday attacks

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa states that the Samagi Jana Balawegaya is contesting this election not to gain power in the government or the opposition but to gain power in Sirikotha. The Prime Minister expressed these views while participating in a public meeting held in Kotte this afternoon.

While ACSA was signed in August 2017, the contents of that agreement has not been made public and no one in Government appears to know either. There is a leaked SOFA agreement while MCC agreement was also published after much outcry. ACSA allows US military the use of Sri Lanka’s entry points – Airports & […]

Colombo East Terminal is generating much controversy these days for reasons that should clearly showcase the need for a sovereign government to take a hold of the situation & uphold its sovereign status. No country puts its strategic assets and resources to the auction table. An island nation must realize that its strength comes in […]

Sri Lanka Study Circle” The Sri Lanka Study Circle thanks the efforts of some patriotic people for the images reproduced below If Gota does not open HIS mouth now and categorically and unambiguously say NO to MCC, SOFA and ACSA, the images below may well serve to be a prediction of the fate of Sri […]

An Anguished Citizen Recently Ranil has been going around the country doing Pooja’s and celebrating his 40 years in politics. As far as I can see he was a miserable failure as a politician. It was like 40 years of mayhem. He failed to win elections 29 times, tried to win in 2010 with Sarath […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA While the fractured opposition UNP/SJB is in a perennial bout to defeat each other and capture/retain power in the Sirikotha the foreign servile JVP, NGO vultures and the TNA as well as the racist constituents of the SJB seem to be making all efforts to thwart the imminent possibility of […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  චිනුවා අචෙබේ අප්‍රිකාවේ  බලගතු ලේඛකයෙකි. ඔහු අප්‍රිකානු සාහිත්‍යයේ ස්වාධීනත්වය තහවුරු කිරීමට වෙහෙස ගත්තේය. නූතන අප්‍රිකානු සාහිත්‍යය නිර්වචනය කිරීමේදී ඔහුගේ බලපෑම ප්‍රබලය. අචෙබේ ගේ නිර්මාණ ලෝක සාහිත්‍යයට ස්ථාවර හා කේන්ද්‍රීය දායකත්වයක් සපයයි. හාවඩ් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ දාර්ශනික කේ. ඇන්තනි අප්පියා  පවසන පරිදි  චිනුවා අචෙබේ “අප්‍රිකානු සාහිත්‍යයේ ආරම්භක පියාය.  චිනුවා අචෙබේ  1930 නොවැම්බර් 16 වැනිදා නයිජීරියාවේදී උපත […]

A.J.M. Muzammil Media Unit  දේශපාලනික වශයෙන් අස්ථාවර නායකයෝ දේශපාලනයට ගෙනැවිත් තමන්ට අවශ්‍ය විදියට මේ රට පාලනය කරන්න පුළුවන් කියලා සමහර රටවල නායකයෝ විශ්වාස කරනවා යැයි හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. කුරුණෑගල දිස්ත්‍රික් තරුණ මුස්ලිම් සම්මේලනයට ප්‍රධාන ආරාධිතයා ලෙස සහභාගි වෙමින් නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ අදහස් ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.  කුරුණෑගල බ්‍රයිට් බ්‍රාවෝ හෝටලයේදී පැවති […]

Gamini Sarath Godakanda As part of its post-COVID investment strategy, Pathfinder Capital of MMBL-Pathfinder Group has launched the ‘Pathfinder Vimana’ initiative aimed at developing advanced civilian drone technology solutions for Sri Lanka. The project will entail Pathfinder Capital creating a network of alliances and partnerships, with advanced drone technology providers across the globe. In the […]

Courtesy Hiru News The number of coronavirus infections reported in the country has increased to 2687. This was with the identification of another infected person today. The infected person was from the United Arab Emirates and was being quarantined.