Courtesy Adaderana Army Commander General Shavendra Silva says that steps have been taken to repatriate Sri Lankans living abroad under two methods. In addition, steps have also been taken to reduce the fares of those who choose hotels to remain during their quarantine period, he added. The National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala After giving leadership to his futile and disastrous insurrection to remain in the White House Donald Trump, the lame duck President of America, has agreed at last to move out – I wouldn’t call it a peaceful transition of power — on January 20,  leaving America in shambles. There are more […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, PhD Michigan States University   Introduction  The Central Bank Governor’s statement:  The New Economic Model deviates from notorious Structural Adjustment “(Sunday Times: 20/12/2020) marks a watershed in the economic policies of Sri Lanka.  He has added that ” Sri Lanka will move away from an import oriented market economy towards a production-oriented strategy”.  It is also stated that working within […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්              වර්තමාන වසංගත තත්වය පාලනය කිරීම සඳහා තිබෙන එකම විකල්පය එන්නත්කරණය යයි දැඩිව විශ්වාස කරන ආණ්ඩුවක් අප ඉදිරියේ තිබේ. කුමන හෝ එන්නතක් විදේශයකින් ගෙන්වා ගැනීම සඳහා විශේෂ නිළධාරියෙකුද පත් කර ඇති මෙම ආණ්ඩුව වෙනත් විකල්පයක් ගැන නොසිතන තරම්ය.වර්තමාන සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිවරියත් වසංගත පාලනය සඳහා පත් කර ඇති රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිවරියත් විකල්පයක් ගැන කතා කිරීමත් කාලය […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Colombo, January 16: What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet,” said Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. True as this may be in many cases, there are situations in which the name means a lot. It may have a desirable or an […]

Courtesy The Print In major metros, the rate of Covid spread has slowed significantly. An epidemic is considered to have been arrested when the R value remains below 1 consistently. New Delhi: India’s effective reproduction number ‘R’ for Covid-19 — a key parameter to measure the rate of infection — has reduced to 1.16 this week […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A total number of 12,339 prison inmates have been released from prisons across the country since December 1, 2020 upto today, in order to reduce congestion privailing in prisons. Prison spokesman Chandana Ekanayake said accordingly, 1,100 remanded male prisoners and 26 female inmates were among the released. Moreover, 10,832 male suspects […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The US State Department has amended its Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTO) list and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remains to be a banned organisation in it, the State Department said. Under the Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, the LTTE can be seen listed as an organisation designated since 10/8/1997. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka reports another death from the coronavirus pandemic, pushing the total fatality count to 256 cases, the Director-General of Health Services stated. The deceased is an 82-year-old woman residing in the Ethulkotte area, the Department of Government Information confirmed. She had passed away today (January 16) at the National Institute of Infectious […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 372 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that 357 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. The remaining cases are reported from the prison cluster. Accordingly, a total […]

Courtesy Adaderana The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat. The milestone was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The number […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale The words of Abraham Lincoln to honour the soldiers that sacrificed their lives in order that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” were spoken at Gettysburg, but these words apply as well to the countless soldiers that died for the cause of democracy in […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Indian Ocean is the third-largest ocean in the world. It is 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) in extent. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west, Australia to the east and Antarctica to the south. The Arabian Sea, the Laccadive Sea, the Somali Sea, Bay of Bengal, and the Andaman Sea […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Former Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka Introduction The objective of this essay is to briefly explain the story of the origin of the Sinhala nation and how the valiant Sinhalese have defended their motherland  and its culture against all invaders over the millennia  and the history of the never-ending chain […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය රත්නපුරේ ජනතාව දශක කිහිපයක් බලා සිටි මැණික් කුලුනක් ඉදිවීමේ සිහිනය අද පටන් යථාර්ථයක් වන බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.01.15 දින පැවසීය. රත්නපුර, දෙමුමාවත මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජාත්‍යන්තර මැණික් කුලුනට මුල්ගල් තැබීම නිමිත්තෙන් අන්තර්ජාල වීඩියෝ  තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ සුබ පැතුම් එක් කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. ඒ අනුව […]

RT Documentary COVID-19 has dramatically changed the lives of many. A disinfection technician used to be the boss in his old job. But as the pandemic broke out, he wore a gas mask and armed up with a sanitiser spray. He never regretted it. Neither did an entertainment entrepreneur who wore a hazmat suit and […]

RT Documentary Pavla Nikolaevna is a ‘chumworker’, a housewife in the tundra (Thundra is subarctic flat land with permafrost ground). Together with her husband, they continue their family ideal of driving reindeer herds in the far north. Instead of a regular flat this Russian family prefers a chum, a reindeer fur-covered hut. Even in winter, […]

Despite decades of development of formal laws and tools for modelling legal knowledge for land rights by lawyers in developed countries, Sri Lankan lawyers stagnated preferring to work with statues of 1888 to 1927, Penal code 1883, Registration Ordinance of 1927 & Notaries Ordinance of 1907.The said countries have systematically moved on to digital land registries […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය දේශීය සිනමා කර්මාන්තය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ගත් තීන්දුවට අදාළව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජනාධිපතිවරයා වශයෙන් කටයුතු කළ සමයේ දී ලබා දී පසුගිය යහපාලන රජය විසින් අවලංගු කළ බදු සහන නැවත ලබා දීමට ඊයේ 2021.01.13 දින තීරණය කරන ලදී. මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම් එස්.ආර්. ආටිගල, බුද්ධශාසන ආගමික හා  සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම් මහාචාර්ය […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The Sunday Observer (10/01/2021) reported that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka is going to review economic liberalization policies, it is a good and overdue task. Economic liberalization policies initiated by President J. R. Jayewardene and it would have done when Mr.J.R.Jayawardane ended the presidency, and he was the right person to […]

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E Whenever predictions are made about repercussions from the international community for things said or left unsaid or else things done or left undone, I am reminded of Libya. Muammar Gaddafi was for decades the bad boy. He decided at one point to try being the good boy. We all know how he was […]

By Rohan Maskarola/DailyFT Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 11: I have always maintained that shipping and ports businesses are truly global, networked with multiple parties. No country which wants to be in the global shipping can compete single handedly without international partnerships. It is irrelevant whether a nation is developed or developing or has cargo and […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් හෙළ බොදු සවිය සංවිධානය විසින් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත යොමු කරන ලද ලිපියක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමාජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයකොළඹ 01 ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, නීතිඥයන් පොලිස් පරික්ෂකවරුන් ලෙස බදවා ගැනීම වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේ අධිකරණ අමාත්‍ය මොහොමඩ් අලි සබ්රි විසින් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා වෙත කරන ලද ඉල්ලීමකට අනුව නීතිඥවරුන් 150ක් ප්‍රධාන පොලිස් පරීක්ෂකවරුන් […]

Courtesy Adaderana Four new COVID-19 related deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka today, says the Director-General of Health Services. Four new COVID-19 related deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka today, says the Director-General of Health Services. Following the new development, total fatalities from the virus registered in the country have hit 251. One […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today (January 14), as 316 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. Accordingly, a total of 670 new cases have been reported within the […]

Harindra Jayalal අවුරුදු 27දී ඉංදියාව,නේපාලය ඔස්සේ ලංකාවට පැමිණ පැවිදි වූ ඕලන්දේ ආනන්ද හිමිගේ ඇත්ත පැත්ත|

Prof. N.A.de S. Amaratunga  TNA has submitted its proposals to the Experts Committee appointed to  draft a new Constitution. What they have asked for is far in excess of the devolution package granted in the 13th Amendment. The powers that are demanded exceeds those granted to the states in India which is a federal country. […]

Mahinda RajapaksaPrime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka It is with immense pleasure that I wish all Tamil devotees in Sri lanka and all over the world a very happy Thai Pongal festival. In the Hindu-Tamil Calendar, the first month of the year is known as ‘Thai’, and ‘Pongal’ infers a new […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේඅග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ලොව පුරා දමිළ ජනතාව බැතියෙන් සමරනු ලබන තෛපොංගල් උත්සවයට සුභාශිංසන එක් කරනුයේ ඉමහත් සතුටිනි. හින්දු දින දර්ශනයට අනුව පළමු මාසය තෛ” යනුවෙන් හැදින්වෙන අතර පොංගල් යන්නෙන් උදාව යන්න අර්ථවත් වේ. කෘෂිකාර්මික කටයුතු සාර්ථක කර ගැනීමට හිරු දෙවියන් ඇතුලු ස්වභාවධර්මය දුන් ශක්තියට කෘතගුණ සැළකීම මුල් කරගෙන නව වසරේ උදාව සමරනු […]

ඌව පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවර ස්වභාව ධර්මයට කෘතගුණ සලකණු වස් සමරනු ලබන තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය වෙනුවෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවාසී සහ ලෝකවාසී සියලූ හින්දු බැතිමතුන් වෙත මාගේ තෛපොංගල්  සුභ පැතුම එක් කිරීමට අවස්ථාව ලැබීම පිළිබඳව බෙහෙවින් සතුටු වන්නෙමි. මානව සංවර්ධනය ආරම්භයේ සිට ස්වභාව ධර්මය හා බැඳුනු මිනිසා, ස්වභාව සෞන්දර්යය ප්‍රථාපවත්  කරන හිරු දෙවියන් වන්දනා කිරීම කෙරෙහි තබා ඇති අපරිමිත විශ්වාසය […]