Courtesy Adaderana Most Ven. Napane Pemasiri Thero, the Mahanayake of the Sri Lanka Ramanna Maha Nikaya, says that he was not aware of the press conference held yesterday (12) with the participations of the Chief Secretary Thero of the Ramanna Maha NIkaya. The Sri Lanka Amarapura – Ramanna Samagari Maha Sangha Sabha, holding a press […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has dispatched 06 police teams to arrest MP Rishad Bathiudeen, the Police Spokesperson said. Earlier today (13), the Colombo Fort Magistrate ruled that the Police can proceed to arrest MP Bathiudeen and the two other suspects who are accused of misappropriating public funds during last year’s presidential election, […]

Courtesy Hiru News Total number of Covid-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka exceeds the 5,000 mark (5,038); 3328 recoveries & 1,697 still receiving treatment. Brandix Cluster update : 145 more coronavirus infected persons reported – Country total crosses 5,000 Another 145 from Minuwangoda Brandix cluster tested positive for Covid-19. Among them 48 are from quarantine […]

Courtesy Hiru News The government has decided to remove import duties on several essential commodities. Accordingly, import duties on dhal, canned fish, onions and sugar have been removed. The government has taken this decision considering the current cost of living and the difficulties associated with Covid-19. Due to the tax exemption, canned fish (big) can […]

Courtesy Hiru News Two CID teams sent to MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s Colombo and Mannar residences to arrest him.

Courtesy Hiru News Fort Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage today (13) informed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that a court warrant is not required to arrest a person on charges under the Public Property Act. The Cour stated the above was rejecting a request by the CID to issue a warrant for the arrest of three suspects, […]

Courtesy RT Through constant vigilance and some good fortune, astronomers have managed to capture the moment a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 215 million light-years away tore a star apart. The so-called ‘tidal disruption event’ (TDE) is the closest such death of a star humanity has ever witnessed.  Astronomers were alerted by the intense […]

Courtesy RT The World Health Organization has warned against the idea of allowing Covid-19 to simply spread through society, calling this herd immunity” approach to fighting the pandemic unethical.” Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone a pandemic,” WHO chief Dr. […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express To stem Chinese advance in Sri Lanka, US would like Sri Lanka to sign the MCC compact and SOFA, both of which have raised the hackles of nationalists. Colombo, October 11: The Sri Lankan government will not bend to the United States on the issue of the Millennium Challenges Corporation Compact (MCC) […]

Courtesy The South China Morning Post Island’s president asks Beijing for help to disprove that Chinese-funded megaprojects involved impossible repayments Financial injection follows visit to Colombo last week by Politburo member Yang Jiechi China announced Sunday that it was providing a US$90 million grant to Sri Lanka, two days after the island nation’s president sought help […]

MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR, Asia regional correspondent Courtesy Nikkei Asia Sri Lanka’s government led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa desperately needs cash to service over $15 billion in foreign debt. (Source photos by Reuters)  COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s ultranationalist government looks set to receive a financial lifeline from China rather than an International Monetary Fund bailout to avoid defaulting on foreign […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Ceylon Today Members of the opposition Samage Jana Balawegaya who make irresponsible remarks on the pandemic should follow the example set by its leader Sajith Premadasa. Colombo, October 12: The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most dangerous challenges we Sri Lankans have faced in our lifetime. It is a human crisis with […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Education Minister Professor G.L. Peiris today said there will be no legal requirement to go for a referendum in terms of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution’s draft when the government incorporates all proposals, if any, recommended by the Supreme Court. Speaking at the weekly SLPP news briefing, Minister Peiris said […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Maithripala Sirisena informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks today that several Non-Governmental Organisations and politicians were directly involved in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) inquires, hampering it from conducting independent inquiries during the former Government’s tenure. The former President made the above statement while responding to a question […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) yesterday said it decided to stop all public agitations against the proposed 20th Amendment due to the latest outbreak of COVID-19, its National List MP Eran Wickramaratne said yesterday. Mr. Wickramaratne said the party would carry out its campaign against this piece of legislation via social media […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Negotiations were underway for a 10 billion RMB (Renminbi) currency swap agreement between the Central Bank and the People’s Bank of China, a Minister said yesterday. He said the currency swap would boost liquidity in the country. Money, Capital Markets and Public Enterprise Reforms Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal told Daily Mirror […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General met with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)’s Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and officers today (12). This is as the Attorney General summoned the DIG in charge of the CID and its Chief Investigating Officer over the release of Riyaj Bathiudeen, brother of MP Rishad Bathiudeen, who was recently released after […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Maithripala Sirisena says that he fought a line battle, when the former government, in which he was President, attempted to imprison pioneers of Sri Lanka’s victory in the conflict with the LTTE terrorists. His comments came during the proceedings of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the 2019 Easter Sunday terror […]

Courtesy Hiru News Attorney General informs Acting IGP that stalling investigations in the case of Riyadh Bathiudeen by the CID is unjustified.

Courtesy Hiru News Update: Another 51 from Minuwangoda cluster have tested positive for Covid-19. Among them 15 are from quarantine centres while 36 are close contacts of apparel factory workers.

Courtesy Hiru News Former President Maithripala Sirisena says that Ranil Wickremesinghe had instructed the heads of state institutions including the Central Bank not to implement his orders. Giving evidence before the Easter Commission, he stated that under the good governance government, the CID conducted investigations under the influence of NGOs and politicians. Former President Maithripala […]

Hawaii was annexed by US in 1898. The reason for Hawaii to be annexed was the fear of Hawaii becoming part of European empire. US doesn’t want to see Sri Lanka tilt to China and is exerting tremendous pressure via Quad partners. Are we interested enough to protect our sovereignty? Before that do we understand […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, has recently made a public statement that the establishment of deviated schools for kids in different religious and ethnic groups was a major reason to deflect society according to religions and ethnic groups.  The policy created many issues in the process of building a […]

By Kalinga Seneviratne   https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/the-world/asia-pacific/3907-sri-lanka-bans-cow-slaughte-but-has-yet-to-pass-animal-welfare-bill This article is the 44th in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship agency of the Non-profit International Press Syndicate. Click here for previous reports. SINGAPORE (IDN) – The Sri Lankan government will be amending the Animals Act (1958) after the Cabinet approved a proposal by Prime […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන (2020.10.11) ලිපිය දීර්ඝ වීම වැළැක්වීම සදහා විසිවන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතේ 14 වන වගන්තිය (70 වන ව්‍යවස්ථාව) ඇසුරෙන් පමණක් විග්‍රහ කරමින් මෙම ලිපිය ලියා ඇති අතර අනෙක් ව්‍යවස්ථා 3 අදාලවත් අවස්ථානුගතව එය අදාල කරගත හැකිය. මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස 2015 ජනවාරි 08 තේරීපත් වීමෙන් පසු රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අගමැතිවරයා ලෙස පත්කර […]

Sarath Bulathsinghala 11 Oct 2020 Perhaps very few realize the dilemma Sri Lanka is in with respect to the Quad’s and their Indo-Pacific Strategy and its closest implications – earlier ACSA, SOFA and now MCC! When big powers move in they don’t necessarily ask your permission to walk through your country. They just walk in […]

N.A.de S. Amaratunga  As discussions on drafting a new constitution gathers momentum the ethnic problem may assume significant importance as it has been an intractable issue in the politics of Sri Lanka. Some political scientists believe that ethnic based conflicts could be resolved by power sharing methods that strengthen democracy (Hartzell CA, 2015) while others […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. යමෙක් අපට බලශක්තිය ලබාදෙන සුර්යා තුල  ජීවින් සිටින බවක් සදහන් කළහොත් ඔහුට අත්වෙන ඉරණම සම්බන්ධව අපට වටහා ගත හැක. සමාජයේ අති බහුතරයක් ඔහුට එරෙහිව නැගී සිටිනු ඒකාන්තය. ඒ නුතන විද්‍යාවට අනුව සුර්යා තුල ජීවයක් පැවතීමට කිසිදු ඉඩක් නැති බවට අප මනස තුල බලවත් මතයක් ගොඩනංවා ඇති බැවිනි. ඊට අමතරව අන් කිසිදු ග්‍රහ […]

By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent Courtesy BBC Scientists in the UK have begun testing the BCG vaccine, developed in 1921, to see if it can save lives from Covid. The vaccine was designed to stop tuberculosis, but there is some evidence it can protect against other infections as well. Around 1,000 people will take part […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia But the court has said that fundamental rights petitions can be filed against the Attorney General, in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by the President in his official capacity.” Colombo, October 11 (newsin.asia): In the determination on the 20th Constitution Amendment Bill leaked to the Sunday Times, the […]