Courtesy Sputnik MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Moscow Meegahalande Durage Lamawansa said on Monday he planned getting inoculated with Russia’s vaccine against COVID-19, dubbed Sputnik V, in the near future. “I am ready to receive Sputnik V vaccine in the near future, as soon as I come back from Sri Lanka. The vaccine […]

Suhasini HaidarMeera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu

By Xian Jiangnan (People’s Daily Online)   The continuation of protectionism by America, the largest economy body in the world, will only result in further contraction of the world economy and aggravation of unemployment, poverty and deprivation, said Luxman Siriwardena, president of the Sri Lanka-based Pathfinder Foundation. In a recent interview with People’s Daily Online, Siriwardena said […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island MP A.L.M. Athaulla displays a copy of a letter he sent to the then President Maithripala Sirisena and PM Wickremesinghe underscoring the need to do away with the 19th Amendment(Pic courtesy National Congress) … assures support for 20 A Those who had a hand in engineering President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government today reiterated that it has no decision to withdraw the 20th Amendment to the Constitution but said if needed, amendments to it can be made at the committee stage in Parliament. Speaking at a news briefing held at the SLPP head office, SLPP Chairman and Minister Professor […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that Sri Lanka expects that the United Nations will place due emphasis on non-interference in the domestic affairs of other states. The President expressed these views in a pre-recorded statement, at the High-Level Meeting to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations today (21). At a time when […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has filed indictments against former Minister Ravi Karunanayake and the Perpetual Treasuries Limited owner Arjun Aloysius at the Colombo High Court. Karunanayake has been charged under Section 19 (c) of the Bribery Act for taking up residence –all the while serving as the Finance Minister– […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Needling the South with provocative anti-Sinhala-Buddhist hate speech led the North all the way to Nandikadal. So why is C. V. Wigneswaran going down the same old path of divisive and  destructive politics? What does he hope to gain when the mightiest collective forces of the Jaffna Tamils failed to divide […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS In both JVP insurgencies, 1971 and 1987, JVP tried to infiltrate all four security services, police, army, navy and air force.  The 1971 insurgency this was not very successful in this. Only about ten persons became   JVP supporters in each of the four services in 1971 said Chandraprema., Some joined the JVP when […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ  ඉන්දියාවේ දඹදිව වැඩ විසු බුදුරජානන්වහන්සේ දෙසු ධර්මස්කන්ධය තමන්ගේ ධර්මය කොටගත්,70%ක ජනතාවක් වාසය කරන ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ, තවත් ජන කණ්ඩායමක් පෘතුගීසින් මෙරටට ගෙන ආ රෝමානු කතෝලික ධර්මය තම ධර්මය කරගෙන ඇත. තවත් ජන කණ්ඩායමක් ලන්දේසින් මෙරටට ගෙන ආ රෙපරමාදු ධර්මයද  තමන්ගේම ධර්මය කරගෙන සිටි. එංගලන්තයේ උපත ලැබූ එංගලන්ත සබාවේ ධර්මය හා මෙතොදීස්ත සභාවේ ධර්මය තවත් […]

සී. ඇම්. මද්දුම බණ්ඩාර  සම්මානිත මහාචාර්ය, පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය  පළාත් සභා ක‍්‍රමය ගැන වර්තමානයේ පවතින නිහඬ සමාජ අසන්තුෂ්ටිය තුළින් උත්පාදනය වන නව චින්තනයක් ක‍්‍රමයෙන් මෝදුවෙමින් පවතින අයුරු දැකීම සාමාන්‍ය පුරවැසියන්ගේ අමන්දානන්දයට හේතු වේ. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් මීට දින කිහිපයකට පෙර, අග‍්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමන් විසින්ද, පසුව පළාත් සභා ඇමැතිවරයා විසින් ද, කරන ලද ජනමාධ්‍ය ප‍්‍රකාශ වලින් පැවසුන චින්තනය, (ලංකාදීප සැප්තැම්බර් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කුඩා සහ මධ්‍ය පරිමාණ ව්‍යවසාය ක්ෂේත්‍රය අද අප රටේ ආර්ථිකයේ කොඳුනාරටිය වී ඇති බව” ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.20 දින පැවසීය. හම්බන්තොට මාගම් රුහුණුපුර ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මේලන මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ පැවති  කුඩා සහ මධ්‍ය පරිමාණ ව්‍යවසායක සංවර්ධන සම්මන්ත්‍රණය – 2020” සඳහා එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මෙම අදහස් පළ කර සිටියේය. කොවිඩ්-19 බලපෑමට ලක් වූ කුඩා […]

Bodhi Dhanapala For there to be a down fall of democracy, there should have been democracy in the first place. Do you think we had “democracy” when the UNP+TNA+SLFP rules the country? When you are at the very bottom of the well, perhaps you can only look up to see light. If what we see […]

By Rohana R. Wasala (The 156th birth anniversary of the Anagarika falls today, September 17, 2020. The following lines are in celebration of the event.) The pioneer of true national thinkingWas none other than the historical Hate-figure of anti-nationalistsGreat Anagarika DharmapalaWho engineered social reform through itTo kindle hopes of freedom from foreign rule. History will recognize […]

Dr.Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ The rapacious speech MP Vigneswaran , elaborated more there  after in the Colombo  Telegraph achieves most is to stoke the dying embers of racial disharmony in Sri Lanka to raise its dangerous flames that , over three decade period of war saw over a hundred thousand dead and many times […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) should aim at increasing the number of listed companies from the current number of about 200 to 500 firms, State Minister for Finance, Capital Market and Public Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal stated. The digitalization will take away from you, from the brokers as well as the market players a […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three more cases of novel coronavirus have been identified increasing the tally of confirmed cases reported in the country to 3,287. Three recent arrivals from Saudi Arabia have tested positive for COVID-19 while in quarantine. Accordingly, 185 patients infected with the virus are being treated at selected hospitals across the island. Meanwhile, while […]

Courtesy Hiru News The clergy and politicians expressed various views against the statement made by Harin Fernando. Ven. Magalkande Sudaththa Thero of the Sinhala Ravaya organization said that Sajith Primadasa’s group is in the group that hates religious leaders and is questioning the Leader of the Opposition Sajith Primadasa about the action to be taken […]

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa states that the small and medium scale enterprise sector has become the backbone of the country’s economy. The Prime Minister was addressing the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Conference held at the Magamruhunupura International Conference Center in Hambantota today

Courtesy Hiru News The archdiocese of Colombo says it condemns the puerile attempt by MP Harin Fernando to find excuses for his own grave misdeed and cast unjustified and unfounded aspersions on Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith. In a statement, it refers to remarks made by the MP at the presidential commission that inquires into the […]

The Yahapalana Government & US Government finalized MCC (development arm of US Govt’s Pivot to Asia) in 2018. It was to create a dynamic market for land and was a key component in Yahapalana 8-year National Development Plan – Vision 2020: A Country Enriched. Land & Transport were identified as tools with which MCC would […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The Vision Statement  issued by Mr Gotabaya Rajapakse,  had received overwhelming approval of the general public.  Then Mr Mahinda  Rajapakse faced the General Election without a new Vision Statement, but committed to comply with that of the elected  President. Now there are several  brickbats attempting to drive their own personal […]

චාර්ල්ස් එස්. පෙරේරා විසින්  මේක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස විපක්ෂ නායකයාගේ තවත් ඩයිනමෝවලින් වැඩකරන මොලේ විකුර්ති අදහසක්  විය හැකියි. විපක්ෂයේ සමගි ජනතා බලවේගයට ලැබුණු මුළු චන්දය  සීයට 23.90වයි( 2,771,980යි). රටේ ජනතාවගෙන්  බහුතරයක් සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතාට හා ඔහුගේ පක්ෂයට   විරුද්ධව චන්දය දුන්නේ.  ඉතින් කොහොමද පාරලිමේන්තුවේ විපක්ෂය ජනතාවාදී වෙන්නේ. සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස තාමත් කරන්නේ ජනතාව  රවට්ටන එක. මෙයිටවඩා හොඳ […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ ඔබට මේ ලෝකය හා ඇති විශ්වීය සම්බන්ධතාවය අවබෝධ කරගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය නම් මේ සිදුවීම සම්බන්ධව සිතා බලන්න. 1.එදා ඇමරිකාව හා ඉන්දියාව එකතුව එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සලයේදී, මානව හිමිකම් කඩකලා කියා සිරගත කරවීමට සැලසුම් කල ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂයන් මෙරට ජනාධිපති වූ විගසම කොවිඩ් 19 වයිරසය ආරම්භවීම. 2. එම වෛරසය ලොවපුරා පැතිරී ගොස්, ඇමරිකාව කොවිඩ් 19 […]

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අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය සමුද්‍රීය පරිසර ආරක්ෂණ අධිකාරියේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ගල්කිස්ස වෙරළ තීරයේදී පැවති අන්තර්ජාතික වෙරළ පවිත්‍රතා දිනය සහ ජාතික සමුද්‍ර සම්පත් සුරැකීමේ සතියේ සමාරම්භක උත්සවය සඳහා ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.19 දින එක් විය. අන්තර්ජාතික වෙරළ පවිත්‍රතා වැඩසටහනට සමගාමීව වෙරළ හා සාගර සම්පත් සුරැකීමේ සතිය සංකේතවත් කිරීම සඳහා සමුද්‍රීය පරිසර ආරක්ෂණ අධිකාරියේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් “නිකසල […]

Dilrook Kannangara The anti-Rajapaksa camp has a distinct advantage at presidential elections than in parliamentary elections. On the other hand, the Rajapaksa camp has a clear advantage in parliamentary elections than at presidential elections. Given this fact, it is unwise the empower the president at the expense of the PM. What should happen is the […]

Courtesy Scroll.in State Minister Arundika Fernando, in charge of coconut, fishtail palm, palmyra, and others, was hoisted up a coconut tree in his estate to address reporters.

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island The 20th Amendment (20A) to the Constitution has become a topic of spirited debate and discussion. Much of it is generated by misunderstanding the true intent of 20A. It should not be a durable amendment to the Constitution. Instead, it should be temporary, until a comprehensive new Constitution is […]

Yoshitha Pererav Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Maithripala Sirisena on April 24, 2019 informed former IGP Pujith Jayasundara that if he accepted responsibility for the co-ordinated terror attacks on April 21, 2019 and resigned from his position, he would be given the pension and a position as an ambassador in any country he wished […]