Courtesy The Daily Mirror A total of 841 COVID-19 patients were detected within today bringing the total number of cases in the country to 58,430, the Government Information Department said. Accordingly, the total number of active cases thereby increased to 8,466. Meanwhile, the total Covid-19 recoveries stand at 49,684.

Courtesy Adaderana Three more persons who were infected with Covid-19 have fallen victim to the virus, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed a short while ago. Following the new development, the total number of novel coronavirus-related deaths reported in Sri Lanka has climbed to 283. One of the victims is a 77-year-old woman who was […]

Courtesy Adaderana Covid-19 infections registered in Sri Lanka crossed the grim milestone of 58,000 as 492 more persons were tested positive today (January 24). In addition, 349 from the Peliyagoda cluster were also confirmed as active coronavirus cases earlier this evening. Thereby, 841 infections in total have been identified so far within the day. As […]

Courtesy Hiru News Members of ‘Muslim Dikkasada Pilibanda Viyath Hamuwa’ stated today (24) that they were wronged by the Kathi Courts. Meanwhile, Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekera stated that the issue regarding the Kathi courts will definitely be resolved in the new constitution.

Courtesy Hiru News Venerable Uduwe Dhammaloka Thero says that non-governmental organizations are engaged in a conspiracy to create chaos in the country. He was commenting on the crisis regarding the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port when Parliamentarian Tissa Attanayake visited him.

Sri Lanka is never short of controversy. Colombo East Container Terminal is at the centre of a major national crisis which would decide the future of the current government and would decide the country’s future. The issue has traversed this far partly as a result of clueless politicians, corrupt public officials, wheeler-dealer advisors and not […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala In continuing last week’s article on how lies manufactured and manipulated by charismatic leaders and mediocre theorists can distort the perceptions of the masses and lead societies to violence  I must make a brief diversion, before I come to the local context – my main purpose —  to focus on how […]

By Rohana R. Wasala We have all read or heard Aesop’s fable ‘The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey’: A man and his young son set out taking their donkey to market to sell it there. Listening to different censorious comments of a number of people they encountered on the road, they first rode the […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර  මේ රටේ සැබෑ නිදහස් දිනය පැවැත්විය යුත්තේ මැයි මස 22 දා මිස පෙබරවාරි 4 දා නොවේ. මන්ද පළමුව 48 පෙබරවාරි 4 දා අපගේ මව්බිමට හා සිංහල ජාතියට පූර්ණ නිදහස නොලැබුණු නිසාය.  දෙවනුව අර්ධවශයෙන් හෝ මේ රටට කිසියම් දේශපාලන නිදහසක් ලැබුණේ 1972 මැයි මස ජනරජයක් වශයෙන් ප‍්‍රකාශ කළ දා බැවිනි. 1972 සිට 1977 […]

MICHAEL HUDSON AND PEPE ESCOBAR Courtesy UNZ Review High-ended retailer Saks Fifth Avenue added private security, fencing and barbed wire ahead of a Black Lives Matter protest in New York, June 7. 2020. (Anthony Quintano, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar last month took a hard look at rent and rent-seeking at the […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය විදුර වික්‍රමනායක ජාතික උරුම ප්‍රාසාංග කලා හා ග්‍රාමීය කලා ශිල්පී ප්‍රවර්ධන කටයුතු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය. දශක ගණනාවක් පුරා ස්වර්ණමය පරිච්ඡේදයක් ඉතිහාසයට එක් කළ ජනමාධ්‍ය ලෝකය දික්විජය කළ කලාකීර්ති කලාසූරී ආචාර්ය එඩ්වින් ආරියදාස නම් වූ ඒ අසහාය යුග පුරුෂයාණන් අප අතරින් සමු ගත්තේ අපේ රටේ සියලූම දෙනාට උගත හැකි බොහෝ දේ ඉතිරි කර තබමින්. එමෙන්ම […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree I travel the world and the seven seas Everybody’s looking for something. Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of them want to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Ayurvedic practitioner Dhammika Bandara said he was not responsible for Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi contracting COVID-19, as she had failed to follow his advice on taking the syrup made by him. In a Facebook post, he said when taking his herbal syrup, people should avoid smoking, consuming  alcoholic liquor and avoid […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කොරෝනා වෛරසය සඳහා තමන් විසින් හඳුන්වා දුන් ඖෂධය සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිනි පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය භාවිතා කළ ආකාරය වැරදෙන්නට ඇතැයි කෑගල්ලේ ධම්මික බණ්ඩාර මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. තමන් විසින් නියම කරන ලද මාත්‍රාව අනුව හරියටම ඖෂධය භාවිත කලේ නම් වෛරසය ආසාදන නොවන බවද ඔහු පවසයි. නියමානුකූල පිළිවෙතට මෙම ඖෂධය පානය කළ අය මෙතෙක් […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the first batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines manufactured in India is expected to arrive in Sri Lanka on the 27th of January. Accordingly, Sri Lanka will be receiving the 500,000 vials of doses with the first vaccine consignment. The President’s remarks came during the ‘Gama Samaga Pilisandara’ programme held […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported two more coronavirus related deaths today (January 230, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. One of the deceased is a 69-year-old male from Mount Lavinia who had passed away at the Homagama Base Hospital yesterday (January 22). He had been transferred from the Colombo National Hospital upon being diagnosed […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 371 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that all 371 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. Accordingly, a total of 724 new cases have been reported within […]

Courtesy Adaderana Covid-19 positive Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi is currently receiving treatment at an intermediate hotel quarantine centre in Hikkaduwa, the minister’s media secretary said. Minister Wanniarachchi was tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday (January 22) in a rapid antigen test. She is the fifth Member of Parliament to contract the virus after State Ministers Dayasiri […]

BBC Newsnight Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. How does this affect the road out of lockdown? However, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers – and vaccines are still expected to work. The virus’s reproduction rate is estimated […]

BBC Newsnight Some viewers may find this film distressing As the UK coronavirus death toll reaches record levels, Newsnight returns to Salisbury District Hospital joining the ITU staff for a full 12 hour shift as they struggle to cope with the relentless influx of patients.

Was TNA created by the LTTE in 2001? Yes.Press release on 22 Oct 2001 was signed by Sampanthan for TULF, N.Kumarakuruparan  for ACTC, N. Srikantha  for TELO & K.Premachandran for EPRLF. Why was TNA formed by LTTE in 2001? 9/11 sparked fears of actions against terrorist movements so TNA as LTTE’s political wing came into […]

The Tamil National Alliance was formed in 2001 by the LTTE and became known as LTTE’s political wing. The rationale to create a political wing was probably the outcome of 9/11 and the US steered global ‘war against terror’. The TNA has contested 2 Parliamentary elections with backing of LTTE in 2001 and 2004 while […]

By The Sri Lanka Study Circle  https://www.msn.com/en-xl/northamerica/top-stories/why-scientists-are-more-worried-about-the-covid-19-variant-discovered-in-south-africa/ar-BB1d02fQ?ocid=msedgdhp Why scientists are more worried about the Covid-19 variant discovered in South Africa  On January 15, US public health officials warned that a more contagious variant of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 could dominate infections in the United States by March. That grim warning referred to B.1.1.7, a variant […]

Book Review Dr. Sudath Gunasekara B. A.  (Hons) (Geography) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Ph. D. (Agriculture) Book Review Dr. Sudath Gunasekara B. A.  (Hons) (Geography) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Ph. D. (Agriculture) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Visiting Lecture Univ. Peradeniya, Retired Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaarnaayaka (SLAS) 21.1.2021. Ven. Dr. Rambukwelle DevanadaThera Chief incumbent of Sri […]

Senaka Weeraratna Sinhala Buddhists are the most demonized ethnic group in South Asia, despite their tolerance of other races and religions. The following is an account written by an Englishman named Campbell in 1932, on his trip to Australia from Ceylon, accompanying a group of about 500 (largely Sinhalese), on the ship SS Devonshire, in […]

Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA Ex CEO Colombo Dockyard  Colombo dockyard previously a part of the port commission was owned by Sri  Lanka Ports Authority which was offered to a Japanese company called Onomichi Dockyard where 51 % ownership was transferred lot stock and barrel with two docks and fully equipped and skilled workforce with fully-fledged workshops […]

Courtesy Hiru News Unconfirmed reports state that Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi has tested positive for COVID19. This was based on a rapid antigen test conducted. However, the minister who was subject to a PCR test is awaiting results. False negative results tend to occur more often with antigen tests than with molecular tests.  This is […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government of Sri Lanka has conveyed that approval was granted for the emergency use of COVISHIELD vaccines, says the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka. In a tweet posted today (January 22), the High Commission said this clears the way to schedule the delivery of vaccines from India to the island nation. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today (January 22), as 441 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that 438 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. The remaining 03 were identified as arrivals from foreign countries; 02 […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two more Covid-19 related fatalities have been confirmed in Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Health says. Following the new development, total lives claimed by the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country has reached 278. One of the victims was identified as an 82-year-old man from Colombo 08. He had been transferred to the […]