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.

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 10 November 2020 Admiral Prof. Jayanath ColombageForeign SecretarySri Lanka Ministry of Foreign AffairsRepublic BuildingSir Baron Jayathilake MawathaColombo 01Sri Lanka Dear Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage: It was with great admiration that I read the Press Release from your Ministry which said – […]

By Rohana R. Wasala America is the most religious and the most nationalistic country in the world, in addition to being the only global superpower. When the Democrats who fought the election on a platform of ‘Truth and Science’ defeated the Republicans who were guided or misguided by a person/a cult figure (instead of a […]

By ASOKA BANDARAGE Courtesy Asian Times It is time for a more balanced way of living that respects the environment and upholds bioregionalism SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, has been spreading exponentially across the world over the last 10 or so months. More than a third of the global population has been placed on lockdown. The global […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අම්පාර, පොතුවිල් පිහිටි ඵෙතිහාසික මුහුදු මහා විහාරයේ නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවක් සඳහා ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් අද 2020.11.11 දින එක්විය. විහාරස්ථානයට පැමිණි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ආගමික වතාවත්වල නිරතවීමෙන් අනතුරුව ගරුතර මහා සංඝරත්නයේ  ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය. ඵෙතිහාසික මුහුදු මහා විහාරයේ විහාරාධිපති, නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක, වරකාපොළ ඉන්දසිරි නාහිමි, අක්කරේපත්තුව ශ්‍රී විජයරාමාධිපති දේවගොඩ සෝරත හිමි, බෞද්ධයා නාලිකාවේ […]

Ven. Walpola Piyananda Dear Sir/Madam,  Sri Lanka’s governments’ timely actions from when the COVID-19 virus first entered the country helped keep the situation under control for a long period of time. Recently the situation has quickly escalated and several Covid-19 positive clusters were found from the community. Therefore there is a quarantine curfew currently in […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය සොළොස්මස්ථාන වලට අයත් නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ පිහිටි වැදගත්කමින් හා විශාලත්වයෙන් ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානය ගන්නා දීඝවාපී පුද බිමෙහි ඇති චෛත්‍ය රාජයාණන් වහන්සේ ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණය කිරීමේ සමාරම්භක අවස්ථාවට ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් අද 2020.11.11 දින එක්විය. ප්‍රථමයෙන් ආගමික වතාවත්වල නිරතවූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අනතුරුව පිරිත් සඡ්ජායනා මධ්‍යයේ චෛත්‍ය රාජයාණන් වහන්සේ ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණය කිරීමේ සමාරම්භය වෙනුවෙන් මුල්ගල තැබීය. මෙම ඓතිහාසික අවස්ථාවේදී […]

ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය. ලේකම් අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. ලේකම්තුමනි, අධ්‍යාපනය පිළිබඳ ගැටඵ වලට විසදුම් සෙවීමේදී වගකීම් විරහිතව කටයුතු කිරීම සම්බන්ධවයි. 2019 අ.පො.ස උසස් පෙළ විභාගයේ ප‍්‍රතිඵල මත විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ප‍්‍රවේශය සඳහා වන සීමා ලකුණු (ජමඑ දෙෙ ප්රනි* ගැටඵව පිළිබඳ මෙන්ම මීට පෙර වසංගත තත්වය පහව යාමත් සමග පාසල් විවෘත කිරීම, අ.පො.ස උසස් පෙළ විභාග පැවැත්වීම […]

Courtesy hoteliers.global Georgia, a cute, talented and confident 11 year old competing in the Junior MasterChef contest in Australia, was crowned the winner this week. The announcement saw millions of viewers who were captivated by the little contestants flood the internet with heartwarming messages of happiness and appreciation. Georgia has Sri Lankan roots and is […]

Sunil Wimalawansa  Dear Editor:  It is very unfortunate that most of the comments by the author of the email below are unfounded, scientifically incorrect, and is geared to nothing else but character assassination.  Just because a person disagrees, there is no reason to attack him or her and engage in assassination.  This is scandalous and […]

Meera Srinivasan  Colombo |  Courtesy The Hindu BusinessLine Although the Sri Lankan government is yet to declare its final position on developing the strategic East Container Terminal (ECT) at the Colombo Port jointly with India and Japan — agreed in May 2019 by the previous government — Port worker unions that are resisting the project […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island …received official SL passport as Ranminithenna Chairperson Dissident Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) MP Dayana Gamage yesterday said that she had renounced her British citizenship in 2015 to launch her full time political career here. She insisted that she had obtained an official Sri Lankan passport in her capacity as […]

Courtesy Adaderana All passenger bus services that enter and exit the Western Province have been temporarily suspended.  State Minister of Bus Transport Services Dilum Amunugama stated that all passenger bus services have been suspended from leaving the Western Province until midnight on November 15 (Sunday). He also said that buses from other areas have been […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A total of 317 fresh COVID-19 cases were reported a short while ago increasing the total cases detected today to 626, Army Commander Shavendra Silva said. He said all the patients have been identified as close contacts of the Peliyagoda cluster.

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Director General of Health Services has confirmed another COVID-19 death, bringing the death toll from the virus to 46 in the country.  A 63-year-old male from Imbulgoda has passed away while receiving treatment at the Maharagama Apeksha Hospital.  The PCR test carried out at post mortem has confirmed that he was […]

Courtesy RT The developers of Russia’s pioneering Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine say their formula appears to show 92 percent efficacy and no serious side effects, based on the preliminary results of a large-scale Phase III clinical trial. The vaccine is being tested in a large-scale double-blind survey involving 40,000 volunteers. Preliminary results based on the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Army Commander Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva stated that no one will be permitted to travel out of the Western Province with immedite effect until midnight on the 15th of this month (November)

Oliver Moody , Berlin Courtesy The Times On the morning of their wedding Ozlem Tureci and her groom Ugur Sahin turned up to the laboratory as usual. After a brief interlude at the register office they put their white coats back on and returned to work. It was this tranquil single-mindedness that made Dr Tureci, […]

Ranjiith Soysa Attn the HON ALI SABRY Dear Minister.kindly note the following.Thanks SCIENCE BEHIND BURYING COVID 19 INFECTED DEAD BODIES. ,,,,WHO RECOMMENDATIONS SUIT TEMPERATE COUNTRIES ,NOT TROPICAL HIGH RAIN HIGH TEMPERATURE COUNTRIES The Sri Lankan Scientist- – by Meththika Vithanage – – Prof. Meththika Vithanage (Ph.D. in Hydrogeology; Prof. in Natural Resources) Director, Ecosphere Resilience […]

Courtesy The Times Britain should be heading back to normal by the spring, scientists said yesterday, after the announcement of a vaccine that is 90 per cent effective in stopping the coronavirus. Jonathan Van-Tam, the deputy chief medical officer for England, said that the huge milestone” meant this wave of infection could be the last […]

Rhys Blakely, Science Correspondent Chris Smyth, Whitehall Editor |Kat Lay, Health Editor Courtesy The Times Vaccine developed by Pfizer and Biontech could be approved for use as early as next month. Getting it to clinics and into the arms of the British population will be one of the biggest challenges faced by a peacetime government. The […]

Courtesy The Times ((UK) Health service ready to give first doses next month, insists Hancock A million people a week could be vaccinated against coronavirus under NHS plans to ensure a jab can be administered as quickly as it is manufactured. All over-65s may be able to get the Pfizer jab before Easter if it is approved, […]

Press Release  The Pathfinder Indian Ocean Security Conference as a webinar Inaugural Session held on 10th, November 2020 and it will continue next two days as the three sessions. The first, on Maritime Security and Freedom of Navigation, will be moderated by Prof. Raja C. Mohan, Director-Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore; […]

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 මෙම ගිවිසුමට අත්සන් තැබූහ. මෙම ගිවිසුම 2005 වර්ෂයේදී වත්මන් ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ […]

General Services Employees Union කොවිඞ්-19 වසංගතය සඳහා යෝජිත ප‍්‍රතිචාර සේවක පක්ෂයේ සහ සේව්‍ය පක්ෂයේ නියෝජිතයින්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් ද්විපාර්ශවික සෞඛ්‍ය කමිටු ආයතන මට්ටමින් පිහිටුවීම සහ එමගින් සෞඛ්‍ය විධිවිධාන ක‍්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම පිළිබඳව නිතිපතා විමර්ශනය කිරීම සහ ඒ පිළිබඳව ඇඟළුම් කර්මාන්තශාලා හිමියන්ගේ සංසදය විසින් පිහිටුවනු ලබන ජාතික ද්විපාර්ශවික සෞඛ්‍ය කමිටුවට වාර්ථා කිරීම මෙම සෞඛ්‍ය කමිටුව විසින් පහත දැක්වෙන විධිවිධාන […]

Rohan Abeygunawardena,Nugegoda. The 32 year old six footer who thrilled the youths as well as adults in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in early sixties is no more. His full name is Thomas Sean Connery died on 31 October2020, five days after his 90th birthday. Sean became an overnight sensation when the English movie ‘Dr. No’ […]

Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobhita Thero President Justice for Animals & Nature Sri Lanka Hon. Joseph Biden We wish to congratulate the newly elected President of the USA, Mr. Joseph Biden on a spectacular victory, on behalf of the Justice for Animals & Nature of Sri Lanka, and extend our warmest wishes for a successful period […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Biden’s nuanced approach to China and his development-orientation will suit Sri Lanka under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Colombo, November 10: Going by the policy pronouncements made by the US President-elect Joe Biden during the poll campaign, it seems that Sri Lanka can hope for better understanding from, and fruitful bilateral cooperation with, the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government will only take a decision to bury Muslim citizens who died due to Covid-19 disease on the advice of a committee appointed by the Ministry of Health, Minister of Environment Mahinda Amaraweera said. Responding to questions on whether the government has taken a decision to bury Muslims who died […]