Courtesy The Daily Mirror Those who don’t have even basic education shouldn’t be allowed to decide and act on the recommendations by the Presidential Commission of inquiries (PCoI) on Easter Sunday attacks, Archbishop of Colombo, His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said today. Cardinal Ranjith who joined a protest staged by the Catholics of Katuwapitiya together […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Chief Opposition Whip Lakshman Kiriella today questioned as to why the five-member commission appointed a ministerial committee to look into the recommendations made by the Presidential Commission, which probed the Easter Sunday attacks. Mr. Kiriella told a press conference that this committee should have comprised senior reputed judicial officers instead of […]

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Courtesy Adaderana It has been revealed that Zahran Hashim, the ring leader behind the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, had trained 15 women to become suicide bombers. Police Media Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana stated that the information was revealed during the interrogation of the girl who was arrested by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) recently. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka witnessed 10 more COVID-19 related fatalities as the death toll climbed to 445, Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (February 21). According to the Department of Government Information, all of the deceased were aged over 50 years. Details of recent coronavirus victims are as follows: 01. A 74-year-old man from Kolonnawa […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka registered 265 more positive cases of COVID-19 today (February 21) as total novel coronavirus infections reported within the day reached 519. Department of Government Information says 495 of today’s cases are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. Twenty-three others were detected from the prison cluster. The remaining […]

Some held portfolios during the thick of LTTE terror. Some held portfolios that could have stopped LTTE terror. Some held portfolios but simply watched LTTE carnage in silent. All of them did nothing to end the suffering 20million populace suffered when LTTE bombed and committed acts of terror. All of them woke up only after […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala The increasing interventionist role of the UN and its agencies, mainly the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in the domestic affairs of Sri Lanka, seen especially in the unwarranted excesses listed in the latest Michelle Bachelet’s report, threatening, for instance, to report Sri Lanka to ICJ, should come under unrelenting scrutiny […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart, Member of Viyathmaga and Convener – “The Muslim Voice”, February 20th., 2021. A visit by Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa to Islamabad in the near future, can pave the way for Pakistan’s engagement in Sri Lanka for the betterment of both brotherly Nations. Pakistan is a good friend of […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා ඇතුළු අනෙකුත් ආගමික නායකයන්ට කඩිනමින් කොවිඩ්-19 එන්නත ලබා දෙන්නැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද ‍රාජපක්ෂ මහතා උපදෙස් දී ඇත. ඒ අනුව මහනුවර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාට කොවිඩ් එන්නත ලබා දීම අද 2021.02.20 දිනයේ ආරම්භ කරනු ලැබේ. පූජ්‍ය පක්ෂයට කඩිනමින්  එන්නත් ලබාදීමට කටයුතු කරන ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා බුද්ධශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් මහාචාර්ය […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris states that the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Sunday Attack will be publicised. He stated this at a press conference held in Colombo today (15), The Minister of Education also acknowledged that the Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has […]

by Jamila Husain Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 20 (Daily Mirror) – Following complaints that several people who were not under the ‘vulnerable groups’ had received the Astra Zeneca vaccinations against COVID-19 in recent days, health officials at a meeting yesterday decided to get tough and strictly implement the programme according to the groups officially allocated. A […]

adaderana සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ විභාගය හෝ සමත් නැති අයට පාස්කු ඉරුදින ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාරයට වගකිවයුත්තන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් තීරණ ගැනීමට ඉඩදිය නොහැකි බව අගරදගුරු අති උතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් පවසයි. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව කියාසිටියේ, නව කමිටුවට එරෙහිව කටුවාපිය සාන්ත සෙබස්තියන් දේවස්ථානය වෙත කාදිනල් හිමියන් අද (20) හදිසියේ පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේ දීය. උන්වහන්සේගේ පැමිණිම සැලවු ප්‍රදේශවාසින් පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයට යුක්තිය ඉල්ලා […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Those who don’t have even basic education shouldn’t be allowed to decide and act on the recommendations by the Presidential Commission of inquiries (PCoI) on Easter Sunday attacks, Archbishop of Colombo, His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said today. Cardinal Ranjith who joined a protest staged by the Catholics of Katuwapitiya together […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 02 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (February 20). As per the Department of Government Information, both victims are male patients. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 435 in total.

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 271 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (February 20), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 528 new positive cases of COVID-19 within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed so far in the country now stands at 79,480. Recoveries from […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is prepared to face the Core Group’s resolution to be presented at the upcoming session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Dinesh Gunawardena. His remarks came during the Ada Derana ‘Big Focus’ talk show earlier today (February 20). Issuing a statement yesterday, the Core Group […]

Courtesy Adaderana A young woman, who attended classes conducted by the ringleader of Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019 Zahran Hashim, has been taken into custody yesterday (February 19). The 24-year-old was identified as a resident of Hingula in Mawanella, Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana said. She was arrested in a joint raid carried out […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE (FCMA-UK, CPA-Aust), CGMA, PhD) The President Gotabaya team has been on the job since September  last year, with a new Parliament.  Their tasks, activities, funding and target time lines have been  gazetted and explained at length. BEST AND WORST PERFORMERS: From the public eye, apart from the President and Prime […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Unconfirmed reports from India indicated that some people have expressed concern about the news that the BJP is willing to be opened a branch in Sri Lanka, and how it impacts politics in Sri Lanka may be an unexpected change of the nature of political issues in Sri Lanka, and many people […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් මෙරට පවතින වර්තමාන නීතියට අදාළව නීති අධ්‍යාපනය සංස්ථාගත කිරීම ආරම්භ කරන ලද්දේ වර්ෂ 1873 දී පමණය.නීති අධ්‍යයන සභාව පිහිටුවා 1874 දී ලෝකොලෝජිය ආරම්භ කර ඇත.ඉන්පසු 1889 උසාවි භාෂා පනත ප්‍රකාරව කටයුතු කර ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ හොඳ පිළිගැනීමක් ඇති.දක්ෂ දැනුමක් ඇති අය වෙනුවෙන් බැරිස්ටර්වරුන් සහ ප්‍රොක්ටර්වරුන් වශයෙන් බඳවා ගැනීමට 1900 දරණ ආඥාව මගින්   සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්‍යයන […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති ජනරජයක පරමාධිපත්‍යය හිමිවන්නේ ජනතාවට ය. ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යය බලය ලෙසින් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව තුළ එය හඳුන්වා දී තිබේ. දැනට අප රටෙහි පවතින ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් කියැවෙන පරිදි පරමාධිපත්‍යයට පාලන බලතල, මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් සහ ඡන්ද බලය අයත් වන්නේ ය. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් ප්‍රකාශ කොට පිළිගනු ලබන මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් ගණනාවක් වෙයි. එවායින් සිතීමේ, හෘදය සාක්ෂියේ සහ ආගමික නිදහස; […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මහනුවර ශ්‍රී දළදා මාළිගාවට පැමිණි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.02.19 දින පෙරවරුවේ දළදා සමිඳුන් වැඳ ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය. ශ්‍රී දළදා මාළිගාවට පැමිණි අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා දියවඩන නිළමේ තැන්පත් ප්‍රදීප් නිලංග දෑල මහතා විසින් පිළිගනු ලැබීය. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ශ්‍රී දළදා වහන්සේ වැඳ ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේ ඉන් අනතුරුවය. දළදා මාළිගාව වැඳ පුදා ගැනීමෙන් අනතුරුව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 19 (newsin.asia): A three-day international conference on Buddhist Philosophy and its Role in Inculcating Values among Youth” concluded on February 19.Held in the virtual mode, the conference had participants from 29 countries including Sri Lanka. It was organized in the virtual mode by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the […]

Courtesy NDTV In January, under India’s neighbourhood first policy, Sri Lanka received 500,000 doses of free vaccines. They were administered as a priority to frontline health workers and members of the Armed forces. Colombo:  Sri Lanka will purchase 10 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India, officials told news agency Press Trust of India. In […]

Anthony B. Kim  Courtesy The Daily Signal peaking on the 73rd Independence Day of Sri Lanka on Feb. 4, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa observed: The foundation of our citizen-centric economic policy is that the true potential of the economy cannot be unleashed without economic freedom.” He further noted that to achieve the government’s aims of eliminating poverty, providing equal opportunity […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The World Health Organization (WHO) has agreed to increase the percentage of vaccines and most likely would provide at least 27% to us, Army Commander Gen. Shavendra Silva said today. The WHO earlier assured Sri Lanka that it would provide vaccines for 20% of the local population free of charge. In […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Monetary Board has issued Rules as published in the Gazette Extraordinary No. 2215/39 dated 18.02.2021 in respect of receipt of export proceeds into Sri Lanka and conversion of such export proceeds into Sri Lanka Rupees. Accordingly, following Rules are imposed with effect from 18 February 2021 until further notice. 1. Every […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a committee to study the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Sunday terror attacks and the report of the Sectoral Oversight Committee (SOC) on National Security. The committee has been tasked with extensively studying the facts and recommendations of the two reports and to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has witnessed three new Covid-19 related deaths today (February 19), Director-General of Health Services confirmed. Thereby, the country’s death toll from the virus has climbed to 433.