On 11 February 2013 the UNHRC Head Navi Pillay presented A/HRC/22/38 report to the UNHRC. The idea of summarizing these reports is to showcase how Geneva hijacked what claimed to be questioning what happened inside a war zone to include a plethora of non-conflict related issues and scare the GoSL into accepting the lists of […]

C. Wijeyawickrema LL.B.,Ph.D One commentator pointed out that Medicine and Engineering are now gone English as if blood and cement have a language. Unlike medicine and engineering, the law is social engineering and social medicine. This is why Hakeem got an unusual number of law applicants admitted to that one particular year. This is also the […]

Palitha Mapatuna  In the selection of teams to represent Sri Lanka in international cricket, one comes across allegations of bias in favour of a particular religion and/or cult. Circumstantial evidence may suggest substance in these allegations (see ‘Episode 273 Salakuna of Hiru News’).  In the light of these allegations, and to maintain public confidence, action seems necessary […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Without any difference of the government and opposition policies, all prefer foreign direct investments (FDI) as they positively impact Sri Lanka’s economy. Especially foreign direct investments play a massive role to improve macroeconomic variables such as foreign reserves, employment, GDP growth, international trade, and terms of trade, and many others.  Foreign direct […]

By Garvin Karunaratne former G.A.Matara President Gotabhaya deserves a bouquet for his new programme Waari Saubhagya which commenced today(6/2), with the restoration of Mahameegasweva in the Palugasweva area of the Anuradhapura District. The restoration of the tanks in NuwaraKalaviya is an urgent need and it is a great feat to restore the tanks, the life […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මිහිඳු නිවහන”  ව්‍යාපෘතිය භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාගේ දෙමව්පිය හිසට පමණක් නොව ශාසනයටත් සෙවණ දෙන වැඩපිළිවෙළක්  යැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.02.07 දින පැවසීය. සියඹලාණ්ඩුව බුද්ධම පුරාණ රජමහා විහාරස්ථානයේ දී මිහිඳු නිවහන” ව්‍යාපෘතියේ සමාරම්භක අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස අමත්‍යවරයා වශයෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Don Philip Rupasinghe Gunawardene (1901-1972) was born at Boralugoda, Avissawella, in Hevagam korale.  Hewagam Korale, as its name indicates, had produced many brave hewayo. Philip’s father, Don Jakolis Rupasinghe Gunawardene was known as ‘Boralugoda Ralahamy’. Boralugoda Ralahamy was a vidane arachchi. The Boralugoda clan was known for their generosity and religious patronage, said […]

DW Documentary The “New Silk Road” is an enormous Chinese international development project. It’s a trade network that involves Asia, Africa, and Europe — and more than 70 countries are already involved. It may turn the old world order upside down. China is investing in bridges, port facilities, railroads, and roads around the world. Beijing […]

ජානක පෙරේරා පසුගිය ගිය බදාදා (පෙබරවාරි 4) අපි වසර එකසිය තිස්තුනක බ්‍රිතාන්ය පාලනයෙන් ලංකාව නිදහස් වීමේ 73 වන සංවත්සරය සැමරුවෙමු. ඒ ලැබූ නිදහස ගැන නොයෙකුත් අය විවිධ අර්ථකතන දෙති. ලංකාවේ අවසාන අධිරාජ්‍ය විරෝධී සන්නද්ධ සටන වූ මාතලේ සන්නද්ධ නැගී සිටීම මර්දනය කරන ලද්දේ මෙරට බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයන්ගෙන් නිදහස ලැබීමට වසර සියයකට පෙර, එනම් 1848 දීය. ඉන්පසු යටත් […]

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington, DC Ambassador Aryasinha announces launching of ‘Pan-US Overseas Sri Lankans Network’ The 73rd Anniversary of Independence of Sri Lanka was celebrated on 4 February at the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington D.C., with the participation of religious dignitaries, representatives from the US State Department and the Embassy Staff, with the […]

කාන්තා පර්යේෂණ මධ්‍යාස්ථානය (CENWOR) ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකයට කාන්තාවන් විසින් දක්වනු ලබන දායකත්වය ඉතා ඉහළ මට්ටමක තිබුනද විවිධ හේතු නිසා ඔවුන්ව නිසි ඇගයීමකට ලක් නොවීම දැකිය හැක. ජාතික තොරතුරු පිලිබඳ දත්ත පදනමක් ක්‍රමවත්ව නොමැතිකම මෙන්ම විශ්වාසදායක තොරතුරු අඩුකම නිසා මේ කරුණු පිළිබඳව ප්‍රමාණාත්මක තොරතුරු හිඟයක් පවතී.  කෘෂිකර්ම හා ආහාර නිෂ්පාදන ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ හා  විශේෂයෙන්ම එහි අවිධිමත් අංශවල […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 7 (newsin.asia): Indian sources acknowledged on Sunday that India has expressed its strong” concern about the location of three Chinese renewal energy projects in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province barely 48 km from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. The sources said that the projects were security a threat to India which […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 05 more coronavirus related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (February 07). As per the Department of Government Information, one male patient and four female patients are among the victims. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 356 in […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s confirmed COVID-19 infections count crossed the 69,000-mark (February 07) as 410 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Accordingly, Sri Lanka has reported a daily total of 772 cases today. Following the new development, total COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country have soared to 69,348. According to the Epidemiology Unit, […]