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, […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala To understand contemporary national politics and its complex combinations and permutations it is imperative that any student of politics must first get a firm grasp of the two political cultures that divides the North and the South. The gap is much wider than the Palk Straits that separates us from India, […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but is he peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise. Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame – Buddha It appears that labelling oneself […]

By Laksiri Fernando  Dr. Laksiri Fernando On 27 January 2021, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report  on behalf of the Commissioner, titled ‘Promotion [of] Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka.’ As we can typically see from recent activities of this Office, the report is more of […]

Courtesy Hiru News ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නියෝජනය කරමින් විදේශ රටවල් සඳහා තානාපතිවරුන් පත්කිරීමේදී සුදුස්සන් පත් කළ යුතු බව අස්ගිරි පාර්ශ්වයේ අනුනායක පූජ්‍ය වෙඬරුවේ උපාලි හිමියන් පවසනවා. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සදහන් කළේ මහනුවර ප්‍රදේශයේ කොන්සියුලර් කාර්යාලයක් විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින්. විදේශ අමාත්‍යාංශයට අයත් ප්‍රාදේශීය කොන්සියුලර් කාර්යාලයක් මහනුවරදී අද විවෘත කෙරුණා. ඒ විදේශ අමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්. […]

By Camellia Nathaniel/Daily News Colombo, February 6: The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) accuses Sri Lanka of being in a ‘state of denial about the past’, details how the failure of domestic mechanisms has further entrenched impunity, exacerbating victims’ distrust in the system. Among a litany of failures, the report addresses the rollback of […]

  by Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy The Island Circus Pacifica, Apollo Circus and of course the amazing Chinese Circus — readers of an earlier generation will no doubt remember these. The Apollo Circus however planted itself on Pedris Park for quite awhile, but the others were rare. Perhaps the antics of politicians, political parties, activists of […]

RANJITH SOYSA Courtesy The Island I am addressing this note to you as I believe that you are man of the world with a road map for the Nation. I have listened to your pre-election speeches, delivered in Australia, and read your orations, in Sri Lanka, which outlined your vision for the country and the […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Ahead of the 46th sessions of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) scheduled to begin later this month, newly elected US President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party has raised Sri Lanka accountability issues in a recently submitted Resolution, with the focus on appointment of military officials, including that […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror There is a mechanism in place to vaccinate all Sri Lankans within three months and to become the first country in the world to complete that task, Secretary to State Ministry of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID-19 Disease Control Dr. Amal Harsha de Silva said yesterday. He told Daily Mirror […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services confirms eight (08) more Covid-19 related deaths have been reported increasing the death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 351. The victims include a 77-year-old woman from Kochchikade, who was identified as Covid-19 positive while being treated at the Negombo District Hospital and was […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that 383 new cases of novel coronavirus have been identified increasing the tally of positive cases reported within the day to 726. All are new cases are close contacts of patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. The total number of Covid-19 cases from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda and prisons clusters […]

Courtesy Adaderana Pregnant women and children aged below 18 years will not be vaccinated against COVId-19, says Chief Medical Officer of Health of Colombo Municipal Council Dr. Ruwan Wijayamuni. He noted that people should not have undue fears about getting themselves vaccinated. Speaking to media today (February 06), Dr. Wijayamuni said people with chronic health […]

Courtesy Adaderana World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on more pharmaceutical companies on Friday to share manufacturing facilities to help ramp up the production of COVID-19 vaccines. The WHO also said its technical advisers would meet next week to assess versions of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII), the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Investigations will be carried out into certain banks debiting money without informing account holders, says State Minister of Finance and Capital Market and Public Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal. Complaints regarding similar incidents have been received, the State Minister said adding that strict action will be taken against such banks. Cabraal noted that […]

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 […]

Malinda Seneviratne The Committee on Foreign Relations of the US presented an analysis on Sri Lanka to the Senate on December 7, 2009, i.e. almost seven months after the war on terrorism ended with the world’s most ruthless terrorist outfit, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) being comprehensively defeated by the Sri Lankan security […]