By K. Sakyi-Addo Africa News Network (ANN). A seasoned Ghanaian journalist decided to cover today’s US.election like the Western media tends to cover elections in Africa: Millions of American tribesmen and women are voting today to elect a president and lawmakers.  Two white tribal elders are contesting to rule the Covid-ravaged wheat-exporting former British colony […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, මේ කරන්නේ කාරුණික ඉල්ලීමක් ආගමික අන්තවාදී ඉල්ලීම්වලට මුලානොවන්න ඇමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ පවා කොවිඩ් වසංගතය නිසා සිදුවූ මරණ අතරින් 230,000 කට වඩා මරණ සිදුවී ඇත්තේ ආගමික අන්තවාදීන් විසින් රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලනය ඉවතලා අත්තොනෝමතික ලෙස ඇතැම් ආගමික නායකයින් සහ ඔවුන්ගේ අනුගාමිකයන් මෙම භයානක වසංගතය පිටුපස ඇති විද්‍යාවට අවනත නොවීම හේතුවෙනි  – හෙන්රි මහතා… ආචාර්ය […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS LAND DEEDS To accommodate the acquisition of land for this proposed economic corridor, two new laws, namely the State Land Bank bill and Land Special Provision Bill, were to be enacted. The State Land (Special Provisions) Bill was gazetted on 27.03.19.” This is a Bill to grant absolute title to state lands held […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Prime Minister office made a statement on the MCC project in June 2019. The statement was made public.     The statement said: The Government of Sri Lanka, with the help of the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, conducted constraints analysis to identify constrains which hampered the economic growth in the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS TheMillennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a  foreign aid agency established by the U.S. Congress in 2004. The MCC Board is chaired by the Secretary of State. The Board members consist of the Secretary of the Treasury, US trade representative, four private sector representatives and a representative of USAID. MCC is  therefore not the […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් රු.මිලියන හයසීයක ඉන්දු-ලංකා ප්‍රජා සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘති ගිවිසුම අලුත්වෙයි -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ඉන්දියානු ආධාර ප්‍රදාන යටතේ රුපියල් මිලියන හයසීයකට අධික වියදමකින් මෙරට ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ප්‍රජා සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘති සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සහ ඉන්දියාව අද 2020.11.10 දින අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුමකට එළැඹිණි. මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම් එස්.ආර්.ආටිගල මහතා හා මෙරට ඉන්දීය මහ කොමසාරිස් ගෝපාල් බාග්ලේ මහතා […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The test kits give the result in 15 minutes  The Sri Lankan State Minister of Pharmaceutical Production, Supply and Regulation, Professor Channa Jayasumana has said that on November 9, Sri Lanka received 100,000 Rapid Antigen Test kits as a donation from India for the early detection of the COVID-19 virus. The donation has […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island ‘We shouldn’t seek exclusive rights during a grave crisis’ SLPP (Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna) National List MP Mohammed Muzammil yesterday strongly urged the government not to resume burial of Muslim corona victims under any circumstances, though a section of the Muslim community is demanding that Muslim covid-19 victims be […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s coronavirus death toll has risen as two more deaths were confirmed by the Department of Government Information. Both patients had been receiving treatment at the Mulleriyawa Hospital upon being diagnosed with COVID-19. One of the deceased is a 54-year-old male from the Colombo 12 area. His cause of death is determined […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States Jaliya Wickramasuriya says that the Financial Crimes Investigation Division has misled the court and obtained a warrant against him for political revenge. He was giving evidence from the United States via Skype technology before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing into political victimization.

Courtesy Hiru News Another 92 have tested positive for Covid-19. All are close contacts of previous patients. Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva has stated that another 277 have tested positive for COVID-19. All of them have been identified to be close contacts of previous patients.

Courtesy Hiru News 15 persons have been taken into custody after drone cameras detected them violating quarantine laws in Mutwal, Colombo. Police informed earlier during the day that drone technology will be used to track down violators of movement restrictions between provinces and stern legal action would be taken against any violators.

Courtesy Hiru News The All Ceylon Hindu Federation (ACHF) has stated that if Muslims have the privilege of burying the bodies of those who die of coronavirus infection without cremation, that privilege should be extended to Hindus as well. Its chairman Nara T Arulkantha stated this at a media briefing held in Kandy today.