ABC Science  By environment reporter Nick Kilvert and Jane Lee for Science Friction As a small child, Shreen Abdul Saroor remembers getting up before dawn with her father to spy on the masses of migratory birds that would visit her island. The birds were on their way down the Central Asian flyway — a migration path that crosses 30 […]

Dilrook Kannangara Government revenue as a percentage of GDP has steadily fallen down over the past three decades to close to 11%. The government has to prove all services it provides and repay loans and interest from this revenue. Debt repayment and interest expenses alone equals total government revenue. For the rest of government expenses, […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit With several countries having started COVID-19 vaccination, the United Nations has assured Sri Lanka its support for procuring, distributing and administering of the vaccine. This pledge was made today during a meeting between Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and a U.N. delegation comprising of U.N. Resident Coordinator Ms. Hanaa Singer, WHO Representative […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සමඟ අද 2020.12.22 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැති විශේෂ හමුවකදී කොවිඩ්-19 එන්නත සැපයීම සහ පරිපාලනයට සහය ලබා දෙන බවට එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ නියෝජිතයන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට සහතිකයක් ලබා දුන්නේය. එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ නේවාසික සම්බන්ධීකාරක හනා සිගර්, ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානයේ නියෝජිත වෛද්‍ය රාෂියා පෙන්ඩ්සේ මහත්මීන් සහ යුනිසෙෆ් නියෝජිත ටිම් සුටන් මහතා මෙම හමුවට […]

Courtesy Adaderana Total Covid-19 deaths recorded in Sri Lanka reached 183 today (22) as two more persons fell victim to the virus. Department of Government Information said the first victim is a 15-year-old from Dankotuwa area. He had been transferred from Apeksha Hospital in Maharagama to Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) where he passed away today. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Covid-19 infections registered in Sri Lanka crossed the grim milestone of 38,000 as 167 more persons were tested positive today (22), the Health Ministry said. The Government Information Department stated that the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. In addition, 260 more including 35 from […]

Courtesy Adaderana The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is studying variants of the coronavirus found in Britain and South Africa, adding there is no evidence they are deadlier or more severe than any more common strains, and the best thing people can do is work to suppress transmission. During the agency’s regular briefing at […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has decided to ban all flights from the United Kingdom in a bid to prevent the new variant of Covid-19 spreading across South England. President’s Media Division (PMD) said the move will be in effect from today (22). A group of passengers from the UK, scheduled to in the country today, […]

Courtesy Hiru News UN envoy to Sri Lanka Hanna Singer has stated that she fully supports to obtain the coronavirus vaccine in Sri Lanka. The Prime Minister’s Office stated that she stated her support during a discussion held with the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this afternoon. World Health Organization (WHO) Country Coordinator Dr Razia Narayan Pendse and UNICEF […]

Courtesy Hiru News The suspect involved in selling 30 new born babies, arrested from Matale, over child trafficking charges – Police Spokesman. The suspect is a 47 year old and has been promoting himself on facebook. He was arrested yesterday and will be produced in court. Police media spokesperson stated that the suspect has been […]

Courtesy Hiru News Speaking at the Cabinet press briefing today (22), Cabinet Spokesperson, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella stated that the Government is not looking to abolish the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), but to appoint an alternative organization similar to that. He explained that within a year, the Government has observed major incompetencies with […]

Ideological extremism leading to terrorism is a growing national security threat to Sri Lanka. The ideological extremism is being nursed by politico-religious & ethno-religious extremist groups who have covertly placed themselves in influential public & private roles. These extremisms take place openly & covertly in a synchronized action plan unaware to all. A covert buying-time […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE It seems large sums of funds spent by all governments to combat Covid has not produced the beneficial results.  Average persons continue to disregard the health warnings and put lives at risk.  To attract tourists $, Sri Lanka and its Tourism Minister is planning to open the Airports on the […]

Priyantha Hettige  People are asking – Are there any other worlds like ours out there – with life and people – or are we alone in the universe? We know that the stars we see are large, hot and dangerous; and the many exo-planets,” we have found so far orbiting those stars, are rocky bodies, […]

ග්‍රාමීය කලා ශිල්පි ප්‍රවර්ධන කටයුතු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය. ජාතික නාමල් උයන නිර්මාතෘ, වනවාසී රාහුල හිමියන්ගේ විශේෂ ආරාධනාවක් පරිදි ජාතික උරුම ප්‍රාසාංගික කලා හා ග්‍රාමීය කලා ශිල්පි ප්‍රවර්ධන කටයුතු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය විදුර වික්‍රමනායක මහතා ඊයේ (20) නාමල් උයන වෙත ගියේ ය. මෙම ස්ථානයේ ඇති ඓතිහාසික,ජෛව විවිධාත්මක සහ භූගෝලීය වශයෙන් කැපී පෙනෙන සුවිශේෂී ලක්‍ෂණ හේතුවෙන් ජාතික උරුමයක් ලෙස […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණය කළ අනුරාධපුර ජේතවන පුරාවිද්‍යා කෞතුකාගාරය සහ අභ්‍යන්තර මාර්ග පද්ධතිය විවෘත කිරීම බුද්ධශාසන ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය සහ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් අද 2020.12.21 දින සිදු විය. ඒ අනුව ජේතවනාරාම පරිශ්‍රයේ පුරාවිද්‍යාත්මක කැණීම් තුළින් හමු වූ සුවිශේෂී පුරා වස්තු අද සිට මහජන ප්‍රදර්ශනය සඳහා විවෘත වනු ඇත. කෞතුකාගාරය විවෘත […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අනුරාධපුර අරිප්පුව නව සංඝමිත්තාරාම සිල්මාතා පුහුණු අභ්‍යාස ආයතනය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2020.12.21 දින විවෘත කළේය. සිල් මෑණියන් වහන්සේලාගේ ත්‍රිපිටක ධර්ම ඥානය වර්ධනය කිරීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව ආරම්භ කළ මෙම පුහුණු ආයතනයේ දින හතක නේවාසික පුහුණුව සඳහා සිල් මෑණිවරුන් තිස් දෙනකුට පමණ අවස්ථාව හිමි වේ. පාඨමාලා අධීක්ෂණය, මෙහෙයවීම හා දේශන කටයුතු […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Ceylon Today Colombo, December 21: In the final phase of the separatist war when the European Union threatened Sri Lanka with withdrawal of the GSP plus duty concessions, President Mahinda Rajapaksa called a meeting. Rajapaksa asked Minister G L Peiris how much the country would lose due to the withdrawal of GSP plus. […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 21 (newsin.asia): Sri Lanka would want certain key socially relevant economic rights to be included in the agendas of foreign grants for human rights promotion in the country, a top government source said. He was commenting on the proposed US grant of US$ 1.75 million to US$ 2 million […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 21 (Daily Mirror)  – Sri Lankan authorities have gone on alert over the new strain of COVID-19 which scientists have warned is spreading rapidly in the UK, causing more serious illness, the Daily Mirror learns. Health officials from the Ministry of Health said they were monitoring the situation closely and had […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total count of Covid-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 37,625 as more persons were tested positive for the virus.  The Department of Government Information said 218 fresh cases have been detected within the day. All of the new cases are close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster, reports confirmed. With […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has sent a letter to the Minister of Justice Ali Sabri regarding the bodies of COVID-19 victims. This was in response to the proposal to place the bodies of Muslims who died of COVID-19 infection in refrigerated containers until a definite decision is made regarding their burial. The […]

Courtesy Adaderana State Minister for Money, Capital Market & State Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal stated that the Government intends to follow a fair and a consistent tax policy without killing the proverbial ‘golden goose.’ Speaking exclusively to Indeewari Amuwatte at the ‘@HydePark’ program on Ada Derana 24, the State Minister expressed the following: The most important thing […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Galle Additional Magistrate has ordered for the body of a COVID-19 victim to be refrigerated instead of being cremated. Considering a request made by the relatives of the deceased, the magistrate has ordered the body to be placed in a mortuary refrigerator at the Karapitiya Hospital until the decision of the Committee […]

Courtesy Adaderana The procedure for inbound travellers to Sri Lanka, introduced since March 2020 has been revised, based on the joint decision made by the Foreign Ministry, the Department of Immigration and the Civil Aviation Authority and as agreed by the Presidential Task Force for Economic Revival and Poverty Alleviation. The Foreign Ministry said the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 415 patients who were previously tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and discharged from the hospital within the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of Covid-19 recoveries in the country to 28,682. The majority of the recoveries were reported from Bingiriya Treatment Centre (36), […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Mass Media Keheliya Rambukwella affirms that there will be no registration of social media and digital platform users. Issuing a statement, the stated that the statement circulating with regards to the social media regulation has been portrayed in a garbled manner where the true meaning is not conveyed. He clarifies that […]

Dilrook Kannangara Compared to Sinhala JVP and Tamil LTTE caused death tolls, Muslims have been the most peaceful community. I was both amused and appalled when a powerful Muslim MP said Muslim youth will take up weapons if they are not allowed burial of COVID-19 dead. TNA as expected echoed this very same sentiment which […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි තුන්වැන ලෝක සංග්‍රාමය නිර්මාණයවී ඇත. එහි බලපෑමට ලක්ව සිටින ජනතාවට, මෙය ලෝක යුද්ධය ලෙස පෙනෙන්නේ නැත. සතුරා, පෙර ලෝක සංග්‍රාම වලදී මෙන් දක්නට නොමැතිවීම ඊට හේතුවයි. සතුරාගේ බලපෑම දැඩිව දැනුනද කිසිවක් කරගත නොහැකිව මියැදෙන්නට ජනතාවගෙන් කොටසකට සිදුව තිබේ.තුන්වන ලෝක යුද්ධයකට සුදානම් වෙමින් නිෂ්පාදනය කල සියලුම අවි ගබඩාවල දිරාපත්වෙමින් තිබේ. ඒවා කිසි වැඩකට […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදල මඟින් සීගිරිය පුරාවිද්‍යා පරිශ්‍රයේ ඉදිකරන ලද මහාචාර්ය සේනක බණ්ඩාරනායක පුරාවිද්‍යා ක්ෂේත්‍ර පුහුණු පාසල, ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය, බුද්ධශාසන ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් අද 2020.12.20 දින ජනතා අයිතියට පත්විණි. රුපියල් මිලියන 50 ක වියදමකින් ඉදිකරන ලද මෙම පුහුණු පාසල ඔස්සේ නවක පුරාවිද්‍යාඥයින් සඳහා නේවාසික පහසුකම් සහිතව ප්‍රායෝගික […]