By P.K.Balachandran/Weekend Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Muthuvel Karunanidhi’s decision to support the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to the hilt when he was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu between January 1989 and January 1991 had several adverse and wide-ranging consequences. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government, which he headed, was sacked citing collusion with the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් චීන මහ බැංකුව වෙතින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුය වෙත ඩොලර් මිලියන එක්දහස් පන්සීයක ණය පහසුකමක් ලබා දීමට තීරණය කර තිබේ. මෙරට ඇති වී තිබෙන විදේශ සංචිත හිගය කළමනාකරණය කර ගැනීම සඳහා කෙටි කාලීන ගෙවීම් පහසුකම යටතේ මෙය ලබාදීමට නියමිතය. ඉන්දියාවෙන් කෙටි කාලීන ගෙවීමේ පදනමෙන් ලබා ගන්නා ලද ඩොලර් මිලියන 400 […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo High Court today served indictments against former Minister Ravi Karunanayaka and PTL owner Arjun Aloysius over a Bribery case.  The case filed by the Bribery Commission was taken up before Colombo High Court Judge Aditya Patabendige today. The two accused were released on a cash bail of […]

Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror After allegations about railway carriages were manufactured in China, the Chinese company involved in the project said these carriages were delivered in 2008, and after the warranty period of 3 years, in 2011 they were handed over to Sri Lanka railways for normal operation.  National Machinery Import & Export […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror In response to internet media reports about India asking for the settlement of US $ 400 million currency swap as an act of retaliation for the cancellation of the port project, the Indian High Commission said a rollover facility for the settlement of had been granted for the Central Bank of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 399 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (February 05), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Department of Government Information said 393 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases detected from the Peliyagoda cluster. The remaining 06 are arrivals from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Thereby, Sri Lanka […]

Courtesy Adaderana Total COVID-19 related deaths recorded in Sri Lanka climbed to 343 today (February 05) as four more persons fell victim to the virus. According to the Department of Government Information, all four victims are over the age of 60. One of them is a 75-year-old man from Colombo 03 area who died at […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (February 05) inaugurated the construction work of the 28km-long ‘Irrigation Tunnel’ which will be the longest irrigation tunnel in South Asia upon completion. The event took place at Palugaswewa in Anuradhapura, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. The tunnel will be built under the first phase of the North […]

Courtesy Adaderana Russia has offered to assist Sri Lanka with manufacturing Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines, says Dr. Amal Harsha de Silva, the Secretary to the State Ministry of Primary Health Services, Pandemics and COVID Prevention. In a statement, he said the Chairman of State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) Dr Prasanna Gunasena is making necessary arrangements to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has settled its currency swap facility with the Reserve Bank of India as scheduled, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) announced today (05).

අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col), නීතිඥ සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්‍යාපන සභාව, මුස්ලිම් අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරු සමග එක් වී නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ පුරවැසියන්ට සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් නීතිය හදාරා නීතිඥවරු වීම වළැක්වීමට ගන්නා දේශපාලන තීන්දු ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 3, 4(ඇ), 4ඈ), 9, 18, 21, 23.(4) සහ 24 ව්‍යවස්ථා  උල්ලංඝනය කරන ආකාරය. ගරු සිරිමා බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිණියගේ 1970 සමගි පෙරමුණු ආණ්ඩුව සමයේ ස්වභාෂාවෙන් වෘත්තීය […]

Sri Lanka has undergone 3 phases of mass killings against unarmed civilians. These were no individual incidents or spur of the moment killings. These were all premeditated murder. Colonial crimes in then, Sinhale covers the period from 1505 to 1948. All developing nations were subject to mass genocide, plunder by the very countries relentlessly preaching about […]

The Diplomats and UN officials and members of the international community always enjoy visiting the TNA every time they come to Sri Lanka and even invite TNA to their countries as well. At the same time these diplomats and UN officials spend a lot of time speaking about human rights, children’s rights and a plethora […]