Courtesy Global Times US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press briefing in Washington D.C., the United States, April 22, 2019. (Photo: Xinhua)US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday kicked off his last foreign trip before the US presidential election, with India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Indonesia on his itinerary.  Top […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another person infected with Covid-19 died today, bringing the total number of deaths reported in Sri Lanka to 16, says the Director General of Health Services. The deceased was identified as a 70-year-old male from Colombo 02 area. According to reports, he was admitted to the Colombo National Hospital on the 23rd of […]

Courtesy Adaderana UPDATE: Covid-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka shot up again as 88 more individuals were tested positive for the virus. According to reports, 85 of the fresh cases have been identified as close contacts Peliyagoda Fish Market and several fisheries harbours. The Department of Government Information said 03 arrivals (01 from the United Arab […]

This question is being asked across numerous public portals and begs the Government to answer & relieve all doubts. Having got itself tagged as a ‘nationalist’ government (on top of all the other nasty words plucked out of the dictionary), no citizen expects the Government to do anything ‘anti-national’ especially in secret. The people’s apprehensions […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale With positive cases exceeding 7000, and a national daily high of 865 and cases being reported in many parts of the country, what is striking is the sound of silence from health officials. While it is understandable to have one spokesperson, many other countries have generally had a non-health person as the […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි  69 ලක්ෂයක්වූ ජනතාව මෙරට ජනාධිපතිවරයා වශයෙන් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාව තෝරාගත්තේය. ඒ ඔහු ද්විත්ව පුරවැසිභාවය අත්හැර දමා මෙහි දේශපාලන පිටියට පැමිණි නිසා නොව, ද්විත්ව පුරවැසිභාවය තිබුනද ඔහු මේ රටේ ඕනෑම කටයුත්තක් සඳහා සුදුසුම පුද්ගලයා ලෙස ජනමනස තුල දිදුලමින් සිටි පුද්ගලයා බැවිනි. බලයට පත්වූ එතුමාගේ බලතල ව්යාවස්තාවෙන් කප්පාදු කර තිබු බැවින් තමන්ට වැඩ කිරීමට […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය පත්තිනි මෑණියන්ගේ කරුණාව උදෙසා පැවැත්වූ නවරාත‍්‍රී උපවාසයේ අවසාන දිනය වන විජයදසමි දිනය භක්තියෙන් සමරන මාගේ ආදරණීය ශ‍්‍රී ලාංකික හින්දු භක්තිකයින්ට මාගේ හෘදයාංගම සුබපැතුම් පිරිනමමි. මිනිස් සමාජයේ මූලික අවශ්‍යතා තුන වන ධෛර්යය, අධ්‍යාපනය සහ ධනය ලබා දෙන මහා බලවතුන් වන දුර්ගා, සරස්වතී සහ ලක්ෂ්මි දෙවියන් වෙත අපගේ කෘතවේදීත්වය, නමස්කාරය පුදකිරීම සහ එම දෙවියන් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගත තත්ත්වය හමුවේ ගරු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා හා ගරු අග්‍රමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා ප්‍රමුඛ රට වැසියාට සෙත් පතා දින 07ක් පුරා පවත්වනු ලබන රතන සූත්‍රය සඡ්ඡායනා කිරීමේ පිරිත් දේශනාව නාරාහෙන්පිට අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරස්ථානය කේන්ද්‍ර ක‌ර ගනිමින් ඊයේ දින ආරම්භ විය. පිරිත් දේශනාව සඳහා සහභාගී වූ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා […]

Courtesy Asia Times Pompeo to visit Delhi, Colombo, the Maldives and Jakarta in coming days; US wants Rajapaksa government to loosen ties with Beijing, but it has already proposed a free-trade agreement with China Sri Lanka’s government bonds fell heavily on Friday after the United States urged the country’s government to make difficult but necessary […]

Courtesy CNA COLOMBO: Authorities in Sri Lanka on Saturday (Oct 24) closed at least two fishery harbours and many stalls after a surge of 609 cases linked to the country’s main fish market. The government also widened the curfew in parts of Colombo. At least 11 villages were isolated in the densely populated Western province, […]

Courtesy Lancashire Telegraph What More UK director Tony Grimshaw OBE has unveild the company’s new export destination ONE OF the county’s most notable exporters has announced plans to extend its international reach further still with a deal to trade with Sri Lanka. Padiham-based What More UK hopes that the deal, which will make its range […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Hilton Colombo has temporarily suspended operations after one of its employees has tested positive for COVID-19, the Daily Mirror learns. When contacted, the hotel confirmed that it had temporarily halted operations since Friday but failed to share more details. The hotel is expected to release a statement shortly. Health officers from […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Diana Gamage yesterday said she would continue to support President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to build the nation. Speaking during an adjournment debate in the House, she said she decided to support President Gotabaya as she felt he is capable of building the nation. During his tenure as the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that the Brandix Apparel Ltd. should take the responsibility for the second wave of the COVID-19, National Peoples’ Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said yesterday a thorough investigation should be carried out against the company and take necessary action. Moving the adjournment debate on COVID-19, he told parliament that Brandix […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror he World Health Organisation (WHO) had informed the Health Ministry that a vaccine approved by the WHO may be available for COVID-19 shortly and the ministry was preparing for that, Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said yesterday. In her reply speech on the adjournment debate, she told Parliament that the WHO had […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy Adaderana Even though the Government had shortcomings in their past decisions with regard to containing the COVID-19 virus, the recent decisions taken by the Government are satisfactory, and if it continues in this manner, the situation would gradually return to normalcy, Public Health Inspectors Union of Sri Lanka (PHIUSL) said. Its Secretary […]

Courtesy Adaderana Quarantine curfew is imposed in several more police division in Colombo with immediate effect, stated the Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva. Accordingly, Maligawatte, Keselwatte, Dam Street, Barber Street, and Foreshore Police Division will be under quarantine curfew from here on. The decision will be in effect until further notice. Nine other police […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ninety-two more individuals have tested positive for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said. According to the Army Chief, all of them are close contacts of the coronavirus patients linked to Peliyagoda Fish Market. Meanwhile, a total of 368 cases of COVID-19 positive cases have been identified within the […]

Courtesy Adaderana A team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers has recovered a T-56 rifle and a revolver, which allegedly belong to the notorious underworld figure ‘Podi Lassie’. The firearms have been found from the house of the suspect’s grandmother in Telwatte, Ambalangoda, according to reports. The CID officers had led ‘Podi Lassie’ to the […]

By Rohana R. Wasala The Sinhalese in independent Sri Lanka have been nationalistic, but never narrowly communalistic; they have never illtreated non-Sinhala minorities on the basis of race or religion. Those who are wallowing in a sea of misinformation having been swept there by tides of hostile propaganda over the decades, may bristle at this, […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Nought from the Greeks towards me hath sped well. So now I find that ancient proverb true, Foes’ gifts are no gifts: profit bring they none – Sophocles (496 – 406 BC), Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth is a proverb about not questioning the value of a gift. The proverb refers […]

Maithripala Sirisena was not born with a silver spoon. He was no presidential material but he controversially became President with a thumbs up by 62lakh voters in January 2015 aided even by foreign governments & a coterie of civil society organizations & NGOs. Today, these entities regret that decision. His impassioned address to the Nation […]

There are some ground realities all of us need to come to terms with. While in Sri Lanka, only the TNA chants ‘Eelam’ & Pro-LTTE slogans, that too closer to some election or event, to give themselves some cheap publicity, all of the demands for Eelam are coming from Tamils living on foreign shores. Not […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE First year of President Gotabaya Rajapakse is almost coming to an end. Firstly he had to work without a parliament, then Covid 19 followed by 19A, The poor performers of the government in the first year had a field day during the period without parliament.  Then these inefficient Ministers used […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Part 2 of this series is on international relations. The series starts with India. Despite its impressive size, India is a very young sovereign state, dating only from 1947. Before foreign rule, India consisted of a number of separate kingdoms. These vanished under Muslim and British rule. The responsibility of creating the new  […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ලෝක සාමය හා ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කරන ප්‍රමුඛතම සංවිධානය ලෙස ජාතීන් අතර මිත්‍ර සබඳතා වර්ධනය කරමින් ජාත්‍යන්තර සහයෝගීතාවය සාක්ෂාත් කරන එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ 75 වැනි සංවත්සරයට සුබ පැතුම් එක්කරනුයේ ඉමහත් සතුටිනි. දෙවැනි ලෝක සංග්‍රාමය අවසානයේ ලෝක සාමය සහ ආරක්ෂාවේ අවශ්‍යතාවය  පිළිඹිබු කරමින් යෝජනාවන එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ප්‍රඥප්තිය නිල වශයෙන් බලාත්මක […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit Oct. 23, 2020 Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, participating in the celebration to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, reiterated Sri Lanka’s commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. We are firm in our commitment to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, and create a greener and […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit Calling on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this evening, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea Woonjin Jeong called Sri Lanka one of the safest countries,” and said he is actively encouraging Korean investors to explore opportunities in Sri Lanka. Several decades ago, Korea was one of the largest investors […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය දෙදහස් තිහ වසරවනවිට ගෝලීය තිරසර සංවර්ධන ඉලක්ක සාක්ෂාත් කර ගැනීම උදෙසා ශ්‍රි ලංකාව කැපවන බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.10.23 දින පැවැසීය. අන්තර්ජාල වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ 75 වැනි සංවත්සර දින සැමරුමට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. අනාගතය උදෙසා හරිත හා තිරසර පරිසරයක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමේ […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මෙරට කොරියානු තානාපති වුන්ජින් ජියොන්ග් මහතා සහ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අතර හමුවක් අද 2020.10.23 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. මෙම හමුවේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ආරක්ෂිත රටක්” ලෙස පැවසූ කොරියානු තානාපති වුන්ජින් ජියොන්ග් මහතා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආයෝජනය කිරීමට ඉදිරිපත්වන්නැයි කොරියානු ආයෝජකයන්ට ආරාධනා කළේය. දශක කිහිපයකට පෙර කොරියාව මෙරට විශාලතම ආයෝජකයෙකි. මේ වන විට […]