අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය පළාත් සභා මැතිවරණය කඩිනමින් පැවැත්වීම සඳහා අවධානය යොමු කර, ඒ සඳහා අවශ්‍ය නීතිමය කටයුතු සොයා බලන ලෙස ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2020.12.11 දින මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ සාමාජිකයින්ට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ සාමාජිකයින් හා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අතර අද පෙරවරුවේ විජේරාමේ පිහිටි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නිල නිවසේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. පැරණි හෝ […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 11 (Daily Mirror) – Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday called on health authorities to find an immediate solution to the burial issue of Muslim COVID-19 victims following serious concerns raised by the Muslim community over the cremation only policy.   Rajapaksa held discussions with Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi, State Minister of Primary […]

By Abha Bhattarai and Hannah Denham Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Washington, December 10 (The Washington Post): Early in the pandemic, Joo Park noticed a worrisome shift at the market he manages near downtown Washington: At least once a day, he’d spot someone slipping a package of meat, a bag of rice or other food into a shirt […]

Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today directed IGP CD Wickramaratne to conduct an immediate and comprehensive investigation into the death of a Dutch monk who was found at the lagoon in Rathgama. The body of the Buddhist monk, (59) who was engaged in meditation at the Polgasduwa hermitage in […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Intelligence reports revealed that Dr. Shafi Shihabdeen, the controversial doctor attached to the Kurunegala Hospital who was accused of performing sterilization operations had received funds from National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) organisation, former DIG in charge of Kurunegala District Kithsiri Jayalath on Thursday informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another Covid-19 related fatality has been confirmed in Sri Lanka, says the Director-General of Health Services. New development brings the total deaths from coronavirus registered in the country to 147. The victim has been identified as an 82-year-old woman living in Colombo 13 area. She was transferred to the Mulleriyawa Base Hospital after […]

Courtesy Hiru News According to the 2021 budget, the people of this country are to receive several concessions. Today (11) we inquired about the government’s plans to raise money to provide these concessions.

Courtesy Hiru News Another 226 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 in Sri Lanka. Previously during the day 536 persons including 75 from prisons tested positive for Covid-19 in Sri Lanka. Therefore the daily total has increased to 762. This is the 37 highest daily caseload reported in the world today (11) according to worldometers. […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය නව රජය ඇති කළ ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණය මේ රටේ ජනතාව ඉතාම සතුටින් භාරගෙන ඇති බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2020ග12ග10 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී පැවසීයග අය වැය තෙවැනි වර කියවීමේ විවාදයට එක් වෙමින් ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා කළ සම්පූර්ණ කතාව මෙසේයල ගරු කථානායකතුමනිල අයවැය තෙවැනි වර කියවීමේ අවස්ථාවටයි අපි සම්බන්ධවෙලා ඉන්නේග […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 10 (PMD): Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday instructed relevant authorities to look humanely at grievances of the prisoners and address them immediately by providing necessary assistance to them. More than 12,000 people are incarcerated due to drug addiction. President emphasized the need to pay special attention to them and […]

Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror There will be civic resistance if the government does not allow the burying of Muslims who succumb to COVID-19, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) MP, Leader Rauff Hakeem said. He, however, called for the avoidance of it. We have to avoid civic resistance so please change […]

INDIKA SRI ARAVINDA The Colombo Municipal Council yesterday began cremating bodies of unclaimed coronavirus victims after obtaining legal clearance from the Attorney General. At least 20 bodies will be cremated from today. Officials said it would take approximately two hours to cremate each body and the process would take a few days. 

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Only 22 out of 400 people were present from Marawa area in Atulugama, Bandaragama today for PCR and Rapid Antigen tests, Bandaragama Additional Health Officer Dr. Srimali Amarasinghe said. She said Marawa area was chosen to conduct PCR and Rapid Antigen Tests, as more than 2,800 people are living in that […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While raising the importance to establish a Presidential Task Force to resolve existing problems in prisons, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said a large number of people are in remand custody due to delays in the Analyst, Attorney General and Police Departments. President made these remarks at a discussion held at the Presidential […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today directed IGP CD Wickramaratne to conduct an immediate and comprehensive investigation into the death of a Dutch monk who was found at the lagoon in Rathgama. The body of the Buddhist monk, (59) who was engaged in meditation at the Polgasduwa hermitage in Rathgama was reported […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa instructed relevant authorities to look humanely at grievances of the prisoners and address them immediately by providing necessary assistance to them. More than 12,000 people are incarcerated due to drug addiction. The President emphasized the need to pay special attention to them and formulate a rehabilitation programme, the PMD said. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government Information Department says that 69 returnees from overseas have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the total number of new cases reported so far today to 538. The new cases include 41 arrivals from South Sudan, 11 from Oman, 10 from United Arab Emirates (UAE), 01 from India, 01 from Maldives, 01 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed two more Covid-19 related deaths in the country, increasing the death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 146. One of the deceased is a 66-year-old woman from Colombo 02 who had been transferred from the Colombo National Hospital to the Homagama Base […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government Information Department says that 169 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported. All new cases are close contacts of infected patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. In total 469 new cases of coronavirus have been reported so far today (10). This brings the total number of cases from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) says that another 300 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today. 279 of them are close contacts of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda fish market cluster while the other 21 are from the prisons cluster.  This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases from […]

By Rohana R. Wasala As evident in the social media, His Eminence Archbishop Malcom Cardinal Ranjit is taking heavy flak from certain quarters for urging the authorities to bring to justice the culprits behind the suicide bomb attacks on three churches and four hotels on Easter Sunday last year on the basis of the findings […]

Thalif Deen Courtesy The Daily News United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Will four strong contenders for permanent seats in the UN Security Council (UNSC) – Germany, India, Japan and Brazil—help break the monopoly now being held by the big five, namely the US, UK, France, China and Russia? But if they do eventually succeed in […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS After Eelam war IV ended, Tamil Separatist Movement returned to the topic of the Sinhalisation of North and East. They were concerned about three matters, Sinhala settlements, Buddhist temples and archaeological sites. Sinhala colonies, Buddhist temples, and Buddha statues were being aggressively constructed with military sponsorship, said Tamil Separatist Movement. The purpose was […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. හොරකම. වංචාව හා දූෂණය, සම්බන්ධව කථා කිරීම, කාලාන්තරයක් පුරා අඛණ්ඩව මෙරට සියලු වේදිකා දෙදරවමින් කතාකල මාතෘකාවකි. හොරකමට විරුද්ධව, වේදිකා දෙදරවූ පල් හොරුන්ද, එම පල් හොරුන්ට එරෙහිව උස් හඩින් කථා කල හොරුන්ද, මෙරට සුලභය. කොටින්ම කිවොත් මේ මුළු රටම හොර ගුබ්බෑයමක් කීවද වරදක් නැත. මෙම මිනිස් සමාජය, ජාත්‍යන්තරව හා ජාතිකව බොරුව,සොරකම්, දූෂණයන් හා […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය සෑම වසරකම දෙසැම්බර් 10 වැනි දින සමරනු ලබන ජාත්‍යන්තර මානව හිමිකම් දිනය අදට යෙදී තිබේ. 1950 වර්ෂයේ දෙසැම්බර් මස 04 වන දින එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ 317 වන මහා මණ්ඩල රැස්වීමේදී ජාත්‍යන්තර මානව හිමිකම් දිනය විධිමත් ලෙස ස්ථාපිත විය. එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මහා මණ්ඩල යෝජනා මාලාවේ 423(V) යෝජනාව ප්‍රකාරව සියලු […]

ප්‍රවෘත්තී නිවේදනය නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය නිපුණතා  සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා  නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශයෙන් නව නිර්මාණ  කරුවන්ට ඇරයුම්             තාක්ෂණ, පර්යේෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන සම්බන්ධ සේවාවන් ජනතාවට සමීප කරවීමට මෙන්ම එම ක්ෂ්‍රේත්‍රයට අදාලව ජනතාවට ඇති ගැටඵ නිරාකරණය, තාක්ෂණික මාර්ගෝපදේශ කඩිනමින් සැපයීම, නිර්මාණ ප්‍රචලිත කිරීම හා වාණිජකරණයට සහයවීම ආදී  අරමුණු සහිතව  සම්බන්ධීකරණ ඒකකයක් ලෙස නවෝත්පාදන […]

by Melani Manel Perera Sri Lanka’s first state-owned wind farm is inaugurated. It is expected to generate 100 megawatts and save 20 billion litres of diesel in 20 years. A Chinese company will build a car tire factory near a port operated by a Chinese company. The country’s dependence on Beijing is growing. Colombo (AsiaNews) […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කෑගල්ලේ ධම්මික බණ්ඩාර මහතා විසින් හඳුන්වා දී ඇති කොරෝනා මර්ධන ඖෂධය කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයන් ට අතිරේක ආහාරයක් ලෙස ලබා දීමට දේශීය වෛද්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශයේ කොරෝනා මර්ධන ජාතික කමිටුවේ අනුමැතිය හිමිව තිබේ. රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය සිසිර ජයකොඩි මහතා මේ බව තහවුරු කලේය. එම ඖෂධය සදහා ආයුර්වේද දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ද අනුමැතිය හිමි වී තිබේ. අදාල ඖෂධය […]

Courtesy Adaderana Britain’s medicine regulator has advised that people with a history of significant allergies do not get Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine after two people reported adverse reactions on the first day of rollout. Starting with the elderly and frontline workers, Britain began mass vaccinating its population on Tuesday, part of a global drive that poses […]

Courtesy Adaderana Director-General of Health Services has confirmed two more Covid-19 related deaths in the country, says the Department of Government Information. New development has brought Sri Lanka’s total fatalities from the virus to 144. The first death is that of a 20-day-old infant from Colombo 15, who passed away yesterday (08) while receiving treatment […]