by Garvin Karunaratne Former GA Matara May I hope that the incoming Budget includes funding for a major new Programme of Poverty Alleviation, cum creating Production and also obviating imports. Such a development programme implemented all over our Motherland will bring about  definite results in terms of creating employment, production- both agriculture, animal husbandry and […]

Pathfinder Advisory Services (Pvt.) Ltd Pathfinder Advisory Services (Pvt.) Ltd. recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with world’s leading information and communication technologies (ICT) solutions provider Huawei, to establish a framework to encourage, develop and ICT in Sri Lanka. The partnership will enable the two institutions to achieve a deeper understanding of the possibilities […]

Senaka Weeraratna We are all familiar with catchcries’ such as inter – faith dialogue and conferences and inter – ethnic peace talks and the like. This was being broadcast almost day and night as a panacea for all our mundane troubles ad nauseam, during the period of the previous Yahapalana Govt. Ever heard of Inter […]

සංගදාස අකුරුගොඩ එක්සත් ජනපද රාජ්‍ය ලේකම් මයිකල් පොම්පියෝ පසුගිය අඟහරුවාදා කොළඹට පැමිණියේ ඉන්දීය නායකයන් සමඟ සාකච්ඡා කර ඉන්දියාව සමඟ ගිවිසුමක් අත්සන් කිරීමෙන් පසුව ය. පසුගිය ඔක්තෝම්බර්  මස 9 වන දින ඉහළ පෙළේ චීන දූත පිරිසක් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සමෘද්ධිය සඳහා චීනය සිය කැපවීම යළිත් අවධාරණය කළ අනතුරුව මෙම සංචාරය සිදුවිය. ඇතැම් […]

ලංකා පිරිවෙන් ගුරුසේවා සංගමය අධ්‍යාපන ලේකම්තුමා අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශය ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. අධ්‍යාපන ලේකම්තුමනි, ගුරු අධ්‍යාපනඥ සේවයේ iii ශ්‍රේණියට බඳවා ගැනීමේ සීමිත තරඟ විභාගය පිළිබඳව. ගුරු අධ්‍යාපනඥ සේවයේ සසස ශ්‍රේණියේ සීමිත තරඟ විභාගය සඳහා පිරිවෙන් ගුරුවරුන්ටද ඉල්ලූම් කිරීමට අවස්ථාවක් මෙවර චක‍්‍ර ලේඛනය මගින් උදාකර දී ඇත. 02. එසේ අවස්ථාව සලසාදී තිබුණද පිරිවෙන් ගුරුවරයාට ඉල්ලූම් කළ හැකි විෂය […]

Chandra Fernando  During this unusual time, I want to share with you, the time, energy, and cost of participating in the US Elections. This is an example of the civic duty of US  citizens who take presidential elections seriously and try their best to have a voice in a democratic process important to all citizens.  […]

Courtesy Al Arabia British lawmakers on Tuesday adopted a bill to prevent “vexatious” prosecutions of military personnel and veterans over war crimes allegations. The prosecution of British soldiers for alleged past crimes in Northern Ireland, and more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, has dogged the military and government for years. For all the latest […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Weekend Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The decision to review the ban on the burial of Muslim COVID-19 victims and messages on the Prophet’s birthday indicate a change in attitude to the alienated Muslim community Colombo, November 6: Sri Lanka’s ruling party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Permuna (SLPP) appears to be moving towards a rapprochement with […]

by Melani Manel Perera Courtesy AsiaNews.it Sales collapsed after a viral outbreak at a Colombo fish market. Activists urge the authorities to counter public disinformation. Fishing industry workers are unable to pay debts. Advocates want the government to provide refrigerated sites and buy unsold stock. Colombo (Asia News) – Sri Lankan fisherman have started a […]

Courtesy The Hindustan Times The Lanka premier League will now be held from November 27 to December 17, 2020 and will only be played at the MRICS, Hambantota. Sri Lanka Cricket has announced that the Lanka Premier League has been rescheduled. The tournament will now be held from November 27 to December 17, 2020 and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A 23-year old male, died due to Covid-19 while receiving treatment at the IDH reporting the 30th Covid death in Sri Lanka. The Government Information Department said he is a resident of Modara, Colombo. He was suffering from complications associated with diabetic.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Government has issued a new set of Covid-19 guidelines on public activities based on Alert Level System. The Health Ministry said the new set of guidelines is supported by the previous guidelines issued by the Ministry on the relaxation of public activities in response to COVID 19. The COVID 19 […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Attorney General (AG) Dappula de Livera has directed the Acting IGP to inform him immediately of the Investigating Team appointed to investigate the Brandix cluster as no probe has been launched yet, AG’s Coordinating Officer said.