Courtesy Hiru News 05 more arrivals from Saudi Arabia tested positive for Covid-19, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,147.

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Finance has instructed the heads of state banks to adopt a lenient policy in granting loans to the people who are facing various crises. He was participating in the progress review meeting of the ministry.

Courtesy Hiru News Former Chief of National Intelligence Sisira Mendis has admitted that it was a mistake to prioritize reconciliation without prioritizing national security during the previous good governance government in which he served as the Chief of National Intelligence. This was when he testified for the first time before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Supreme Court Judge Upali Abeyratne has stated that the suspended former Kaduwela Magistrate Dhammika Hemapala will be charged by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Political Revenge, if he does not appear before it on the 11th. This was when a complaint lodged by former Secretary to the Ministry of Economic […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa directed relevant authorities to rehabilitate 5,000 tanks scattered across the island following a mechanism combining ancient technology and modern scientific methods. In parallel to this initiative, the National Food Production Contribution Programme” covering 120,000 abandoned paddy lands will also be launched. Tanks will be rehabilitated under Wari Saubhagya” programme. […]

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Chandre Dharmawardana Tamil Nationalists are making their myths, extending their history to ancient times and claiming that they were in Sri Lanka (and even in Babylon and Egypt)  since the beginning of time, and that Tamil language is the source of the ancient  Sumarian language. Wigneswaran has captured the lime light recently, with such fairy […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph,D. නොබෝදා කොටි ඩොලර් උපාසිකා යස්මින් සූකාට සිදුවූ අකරතැබ්බයක් ලංකාවේ මාධ්‍යවලින් වසන්‌කර තිබුණේය. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ ජනාධිපතිධූරය වැනසීමේ ව්‍යාපාරයට උඩගෙඩි දෙන මැය, ලංකාවේ ඩොලර් කාක්කන් සමඟ හවුල්වී පින්තූර සටහනක් සදා එය ලංකා ටෙලිග්‍රාෆ් වෙබ් අඩවියේ නැවත නැවත පලකරවා ගත්තේය. එය ඇගේ ජාත්‍යන්තර ලංකා සත්‍යය හා යුක්තිය නම් සංවිධානයේ වැඩකි. මේ උපාසිකාවකගේ සත්‍යය හා […]

By Dr. Nilanga Samarasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Father Sleemanpillai Joseph Emmanuel is back in Sri Lanka and appealing to the immigration for leave to remain. He wants to die in Sri Lanka, a country that he spent the last three decades demonising. In spite of his record of supporting the LTTE and glorifying violence by […]

Michael Roberts Courtesy Thuppahi’s Blog After the British imperial power consolidated its conquest of the island of Ceylon in 1815 and 1817/18, they began to ‘stitch the island together by commencing a road building programme; while the Colebrooke Cameron Commission which visited the island recommended the creation of five Provinces.” As the Wikipedia account notes,[i] accordingly, […]

Gerald Peiris Courtesy Thuppahi’s Blog The concept of the ‘Traditional Tamil Homeland’ as promulgated by its exponents is based on the notion that, from the distant past, the island of Sri Lanka comprised the territories of two distinct nationalities that were arbitrarily unified in the formation of British Ceylon in the early 19th century.  My survey, which […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් ඩේවිඩ් හොලි මහතා හා ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර හමුවක්   2020.09.07 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්වුණි. පසුගිය මැතිවරණ ජයග්‍රහණය සහ නැවත අග්‍රාමාත්‍යධූරයට පත්වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙහිදී මහ කොමසාරිස්වරයා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට සුභ පැතුම් එක් කළේය. මේ අතර COVID-19 වසංගත තත්ත්වයට සාර්ථකව මුහුණ දීම සඳහා ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු රජය විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබා […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit Australian High Commissioner David Holly called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees yesterday (Sept. 7) afternoon. While congratulating Prime Minister Rajapaksa for the election victory and reappointment as Prime Minister, Ambassador Holly thanked Sri Lanka for the mutual support in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Australia has provided […]

ලංකා ගුරුසේවා සංගමය. ගරු අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය, ජී.එල්. පිරීස් මහතා, අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශය, ඉසුරුපාය. බත්තරමුල්ල. අමාත්‍යතුමණි, සබරගමු පළාත තුළ දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ දරුවන්ට විද්‍යා හා ගණිත විෂය ධාරාවන් හැදෑරීම සඳහා පාසල් නොමැතිවීම සම්බන්ධවයි. සබරගමු පළාත තුළ අ.පො.ස. උසස් පෙළ විද්‍යා, ගණිත විෂය ධාරාවන් හැදෑරීම සදහා දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ සිසු දරුවන්ට තම මාධ්‍යයෙන් ඉගැනීමට අදාලව කිසිදු පාසලක් නොමැති වීම පිළිබදව […]

Naya Daur, September 2, 2020. SOUTH ASIAN DEFENCE REVIEW According to data compiled by a social media user, at least 42 cases pertaining to blasphemy were registered across Pakistan in the month of August. Most of those accused of blasphemy belonged to the Shia community, who have been booked under 295-A and 298 sections of […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Dismissing criticism of the proposed 20th Amendment that it would pave the way for a dictatorship, Education Minister Prof. Peiris yesterday (7) told the media at the SLPP office, Battaramulla, that it would be presented to Parliament next October ahead of the presentation of Budget 2021. Prof. Peiris, who […]

Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Ratnapura District MP Premalal Jayasekara said yesterday he was convicted on false charges levelled against him by the yahapalaana government to take political revenge from him. In his maiden speech in Parliament he said he was sent to jail for a crime he did not commit. […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader, MP Rauff Hakeem had requested former president Maithripala Sirisena and former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to create a separate administrative district for Tamil-speaking people in the Eastern Province, the PCoI into the Easter Sunday attacks was told on Monday. He said he had […]

Courtesy Adaderana A proposal to ban butchering of cows in Sri Lanka has been approved by the parliamentary group of the ruling party. A parliamentary group meeting of the governing party was held at the parliamentary premises at 11 am this morning (08). The proposal has been submitted at the meeting by Prime Minister Mahinda […]

Courtesy gCaptain By Waruna Karunatilake COLOMBO, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s navy said on Tuesday that an oil slick had been spotted a kilometre from a loaded supertanker off the country’s east coast, as efforts to extinguish a fire on board continued. Sri Lankan officials are working to assess any damage to the environment […]

Courtesy The Hindustan Times The Bombay high court last week refused bail to a 60-year-old Finnish national arrested for helping a Sri Lankan national to illegally migrate to Europe. Justice Sarang Kotwal rejected the bail plea of Miira Mirva Helena Pasma observing that there were strong circumstances against her. Pasma was arrested after Sri Lankan […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala The abuse of history has been one of the major contributory factors that led to the exacerbation of the North-South relations. If our political/social scientists had balanced the mono-ethnic extremism of the North with the Southern forces rising against the provocative politics  of the peninsula (Example: 12% Jaffna Tamils demanding 50% […]

The International Truth & Justice Project (Sri Lanka) administered under EU funded Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa, has apologized to Brig. Ravindra Dias for wrongfully using his picture claiming it to be Maj. General Suresh Salley, the Director of Sri Lanka State Intelligence Service. This apology came 2 months after a letter of […]

Courtesy RT The first batch of Russia’s pioneering coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V has been greenlighted for public use and has already entered civilian circulation, the Russian Ministry of Health has announced. The vaccine, developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, has undergone necessary quality tests” and has entered civilian circulation,” the ministry said in a short […]

Courtesy RT Kirill Dmitriev is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund – one of the world’s leading sovereign funds with a reserve capital of $10 billion under its management.Since the launch of the Sputnik V vaccine, developed by scientists from Moscow’s Gamaleya Center, Russia has seen immense interest and expressions of hope from many […]

Team at E-Future Tech Systems E-Future Tech Systems (Pvt) Ltd Celebrates 3rd Anniversary with a Bang  In addition to ensuring a safe and healthy working environments, Sri Lankan businesses must innovate and adapt workplaces as the Covid-19 Global Pandemic has brought forward a transition in to on-line work practices while creating new vistas for freelancer […]

ඊ–ෆියුචර් ටෙක් සිස්ටම්ස්   කණ්ඩායම ඊ–ෆියුචර් ටෙක් සිස්ටම්ස් තෙවන සංවත්සරය උත්කර්ෂයෙන් සමරයි කෝවිඩ් 19 ගෝලීය වසංගතය හේතුකොටගෙන ඇතිවු නව වාතාවරණයට මුහුණදීමට ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය ව්‍යාපාර ආරක්ෂිත හා සෞඛ්‍ය සම්පන්න සේවා පරිසරයක් සහතික කරලීමට අමතරව, ව්‍යාපාර නව්‍යකරණය හා සේවා ස්ථාන සහමුලින්ම පරිවර්තනයක් සිදුකළ යුතු බව work.lk, jobpal.lk සහ rubik.lk නිර්මාතෘ අංජන රත්නායක මහතා පවසා සිටි. කෝවිඩ් 19 ගෝලීය […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher & SLFP/SLPP Stalwart, September 6th., 2020. The law of salvage is a principle of Maritime Law whereby any person who helps recover another person’s ship or cargo in peril at sea is entitled to a reward commensurate with the value of the property salved. […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති අපේ රටේ විධායකයට අදාළ විධිවිධාන පනවලා තියෙන්නේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 7, 8 සහ 9 කියන පරිච්ඡේද තුනේ. 7 වැනි පරිච්ඡේදයෙන් කියන්නේ ජනතාව විසින් තෝරා පත් කරගන්නා විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා ගැන. 8 වැනි පරිච්ඡේදයෙන් කියන්නේ ඒ ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් පත් කරන අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලය ගැන. 9 වැනි පරිච්ඡේදයෙන් කියන්නේ රාජ්‍ය සේවය ගැන. ඉතින් මේ බෙදීම ඉතාමත් පැහැදිළි […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ගෝලීය නවෝත්පාදන කේන්ද්‍රස්ථානයක් බවට පත් කිරීම සඳහා  නව රජය තොරතුරු හා සන්නිවේදන තාක්ෂණ ක්ෂේත්‍රයට ප්‍රමුඛත්වය දී ඇති බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.07 දින පැවසීය. ඉන්දියාවේ තෙවැනි විශාලතම තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ සමාගම වන එච්.සී.එල් (HCL) ටෙක්නොලොජීස් හි පළමු ගෝලීය බෙදාහැරීම් මධ්‍යස්ථානය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආරම්භ කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය […]