By Anjali Caldera MTD Walkers PLC’s second largest minority shareholder Udaya Thuduwewatte accused MTD Walkers Malaysian ownership of conducting their Annual General Meeting (AGM) online yesterday illegally, with no notice being issued to its minor shareholders. In a letter drafted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Sri Lanka, Director General, Thuduwewatte, also the third […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 6: The Indian Foreign Minister Dr.S.Jaishankar said here on Wednesday that it is in Sri Lanka’s own interest that the expectations of the Tamil people, of equality, justice, peace & dignity within a united Sri Lanka, are fulfilled. And that applies equally to commitments made by the Sri […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කොරෝනා වයිරසය සඳහා කෑගල්ලේ ධම්මික බණ්ඩාර මහතා විසින් හඳුන්වා දී ඇති ඖෂධය කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයන්ට සායනික පරීක්‍ෂාව සදහා ලබාදීමට අනුමැතිය ලබා දී ඇත. සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් අසේල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැවසුවේ තමන් ඒ සඳහා අවසර ලබා දුන් බවයි. එම ඖෂධය සායික පරීක්‍ෂාවෙ සදහා ආයුර්වේද ආචාරධර්ම කමිටුවේ අනුමැතිය ලැබීමෙන් පසු මෙම අනුමැතිය […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වටේ සිටින්නේ බෝර්න් අගේන් කල්ලියක් සහ ඉස්ලාම් අන්තවාදී කල්ලියක් බව සිංහලේ සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය මැඩිල්ලේ පඤ්ඤාලෝක හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. ජනාධිපතිවරයා තීන්දු තීරණ ගන්නේ එම කල්ලි වලට අවශ්‍ය විදියට බවද උන්වහන්සේ පැවසූහ. එම් සී සී ගිවිසුම අවසන් නැති බවත් එම ගිවිසුම හොඳටම සිදුකර ජනාධිපතිවරයාට ළඟදීම ගෙදර […]

Courtesy Sputnik To counter China’s maritime influence in its backyard, India has been strengthening defence ties with countries in and around the Indian Ocean. India’s foreign minister recently assured that India will be a reliable partner for the island nation. India is ramping up efforts to arm countries bound by the Indian Ocean and has offered […]

By P.K. Balachandran* Courtesy Eurasia Review With Sri Lanka drifting towards China to get funds for infrastructural development, India is anxious to demonstrate that it also can contribute to Sri Lanka’s economic development. This came out clearly in the statement made by the Indian Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar to the media here on Wednesday after […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government has taken no decision to transfer the management part of the ownership of the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port to a foreign entity, says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Prime Minister mentioned this in response to a question raised by Jathika Jana Balawegaya MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake in the Parliament […]

Courtesy Adaderana India is willing to prioritize Sri Lanka when supplying the COVID-19 vaccine now being produced by India, the External Affairs Minister of India Dr. S. Jaishankar told President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The Indian Minister who arrived in the country yesterday (05) for a two-day visit, called on President Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat today […]

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 12,255 COVID-19 patients have been identified within the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) jurisdiction, says Mayoress of Colombo Rosy Senanayake. Speaking to the media, she also stated that 292 employees of the CMC have been diagnosed with COVID-19 infection. Yesterday we carried out 950 PCR tests. Twenty-five of them came out […]

Courtesy Adaderana Administration approval has been granted to conduct clinical trials on the anti-Coronavirus herbal syrup manufactured by Dhammika Bandara from Kegalle. Director-General of Health Services Dr Asela Gunawardena said the letter pertaining to this has been directed to the Teaching Hospital in Anuradhapura, Health Services Director of Anuradhapura District and Provincial Health Services Director […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two more COVID-19 related deaths reported today (January 06) has pushed Sri Lanka’s fatality count from the virus to 219 cases in total. As per the Director-General of Health Services, one of the victims is a 60-year-old male from the Dehiwala area. He had been transferred to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total count of COVID-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 46,248 as 269 more persons were tested positive for the virus.  Reportedly, all 269 of the new cases are close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster. According to the Department of Government Information said 521 fresh cases have been detected within […]

Courtesy Adaderana The four former Directors of Swarnamahal Jewellers Ltd and ETI Finance who were arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have been granted bail. The former Directors Nalaka Edirisinghe, Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjalee Edirisinghe and Asanka Edirisinghe were produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate today (06) where they were granted bail. Last evening (January […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 5 (Xinhua):  The Colombo Port City and the Hambantota Port will attract foreign investments to Sri Lanka and boost growth in 2021, the governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) said on Monday. Delivering a virtual address titled Road Map 2021, CBSL Governor W.D. Lakshman said Sri Lanka-China joint […]

Coutesy RT The Norwegian Medicines Agency has announced that two nursing home residents passed away days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, and that an investigation has been launched into the deaths. We have to assess whether the vaccine is the cause of death, or if it is a coincidence that it happened soon after […]

SOUTH ASIAN DEFENSE REVIEW Terrorism affected 161 Police Districts across the country, especially Maoist-hit states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Maharashtra, terror-hit Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and other Northeastern states in 2019, according to inputs submitted to Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) by Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) organisation in its Data on Police […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit UNDP Resident Representative in Sri Lanka, Mr. Robert Juhkam officially handed over the Global Human Development Report (HDR 2020) to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today at his residence in Wijerama. The Human Development Report (HDR), is the annual flagship report published by the Human Development Report Office of the UNDP that […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික් සම්බන්ධීකාරක ලෙස ඒ.එම්.ඩී.එච්. ධනසිරි අමරතුංග මහතා පත් කර තිබේ. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් විජේරාමේ පිහිටි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නිල නිවසේදී අද 2021.01.05 දින ඒ මහතා සිය පත්වීම් ලිපිය ලබා ගත්තේය. ඒ.එම්.ඩී.එච්. ධනසිරි අමරතුංග මහතා දෙහිවල ගල්කිස්ස හිටපු නගරාධිපතිවරයා වේ.

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය හපුතලේ නව නගරාධිපති උපුල් දිසානායක මහතා ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඉදිරියේ විජේරාම පිහිටි නිල නිවසේදී අද 2021.01.05 දින දිවුරුම් දුන්නේය. හිටපු නගරාධිපති සම්පත් ළමාහේවා මහතාගේ ඉල්ලා අස්වීමෙන් පුරප්පාඩු වූ  තනතුරට උපුල් දිසානායක මහතා පත්කෙරිණි. 1997 නාගරික මන්ත්‍රීවරයකු ලෙස සිය දේශපාලන දිවිය ආරම්භ කළ උපුල් දිසානායක මහතා මෙයට පෙර ද හපුතලේ නගරාධිපති […]

අශෝක අභයගුණවර්ධනඋපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින දේශීය වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යාවේ විසඳුම් කුණුබක්කියට යෑමට ප‍්‍රධානතම හේතුව නම් දේශීය වෛද්‍යවරුන්හට කොරෝනා රෝගීන් සමඟ කිසිදු විධිමත් පරීක්ෂණයක් කිරීමට අවස්ථාවක් නොතිබීමයි. අපේ රටේ කොරෝනා රෝගීන් පිළිබඳ සම්පූර්ණ වගකීම බටහිර වෛද්‍යවරුන් හට පැවරිණි. සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ පවතින ආයුර්වේද රෝහල් වල වත් මෙම රෝගීන්ට ප‍්‍රතිකාර කිරීමට ඉඩ දුන්නේ නැත. කොරෝනා වෛරසය මහා විප්ලවයක් සිදුකර, […]

ගාල්ල – එස්. කේ. කළුආරච්චි ලලිත් චාමින්ද රවීන්ද්‍ර චන්ද්‍රලාල් උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින – විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය අනුරුද්ධ පාදෙනිය එන්නතක් ගැන විශ්වාසයක් තබනවාට වඩා ප‍්‍රතිශක්තිකරණ පද්ධතිය ශක්තිමත්ව තබා ගැනීම මත කොවිඞ් වෛරස් රෝගයට සහ බෝනොවන රෝග වලින් බේරී සිටීමට මාවත විවර වන්නේ යයි රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයේ සභාපති විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය අනුරුද්ධ පාදෙනිය මහතා පැවසීය. ගාල්ල දිස්ත‍්‍රික් වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ […]

 එරික් ගාමිණි ජිනපි‍්‍රය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදීන්ගේ බලපෑමට යටවී ආණ්ඩුව මිනී වැලලීමට අවස්ථාව ලබාදුනහොත් ඒ තුළින් මේ ආණ්ඩුවේ අධ්‍යාත්මයට මරුපහරක් වදින බව දේශ හිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයේ මහලේකම් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පැවසීය. වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා ඒ පිළිබඳව සඳහන් කර සිටියේ ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුව විසින් පසුගිය 31 වන දා පැවැත්වු මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමිණි. එහි […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror All those who dealt with the Ukrainian tourists including Udayanga Weeratunga and safari drivers have been included in the bio bubble in order to be separated from the society, Minister of Tourism and Aviation Prasanna Ranatunga told Parliament today. He said that the measure had been taken to prevent them from […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet approves a proposal to enter into agreements with COVID-19 vaccine producers under the COVAX facility. The COVAX facility is a global initiative that brings together governments and manufacturers to ensure equal distribution among the countries, subsequently to the manufacturing of secure and effective COVID-19 vaccines. Through this facility, the production and […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two more COVID-19 related fatalities have been confirmed in Sri Lanka today (January 05), says the Director-General of Health Services. According to Department of Government Information, the new development has pushed the country’s death toll from the virus outbreak to 217. One of the victims was identified as a 68-year-old woman from Matale. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total count of COVID-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 45,726 as 260 more persons were tested positive for the virus.  Reportedly, 255 of the new cases are close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster. The remaining 05 were identified as arrivals from foreign countries – 03 from Jordan, 01 from […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three former Directors of Swarnamahal Jewellers Ltd. have been arrested for running an unauthorized finance business, says the Attorney General’s Coordinating Officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne. Attorney General Dappula de Livera, earlier this evening (05), had directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to conduct a criminal investigation against the Directors of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to conduct a criminal investigation against the directors of the ETI Finance and Swarnamahal Jewellers. The Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General, State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne, said that the investigations will be carried out over the unauthorized acceptance of deposits worth Rs […]

Sri Lanka News A suspect has been arrested for vandalizing a Buddha statue in Mawanella, says Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana. He was identified as Priyantha Sampath Kumara, a 30-year-old who was residing in Hettimulla area in Kegalle. The incident had taken place in the area of Imbula in Mawanella on the night of December […]

By Rohana R. Wasala I would like to kindly alert  readers to certain distorted versions of my articles,and forged documents falsely attributed to my authorship appearing in a fakeFace Book account created in my name by an unknown person, who is probably assuming a pseudonym. However, there are an unknown number of genuine social media […]