Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to report facts and produce Attorney at Law Hejaaz Hizbullah before the court under several charges. The Attorney at Law is to be produced before a relevant Magistrate’s Court on charges under Section 2(1)(h) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister Udaya Gammanpila says that the discussion held with the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay regarding the Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm concluded successfully.  He stated that the discussion concluded with the decision to re-acquire the Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm and manage it under a company, of which the Ceylon Petroleum […]

Courtesy Adaderana It has been decided to make changes to the proposed Central Expressway without removing the controversial ‘Crudia zeylanica’ tree from its site. Secretary to the Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Conservation Bandula Harischandra said that the decision was taken during a discussion with the Secretary to the Ministry of Highways yesterday (16). Various […]

Catriona Harvey-Jenner courtesy msn.com Somewhat promisingly, the UK COVID-19 vaccination roll-out seems to be going well. More than 15 million people have received their first vaccination, and we’re currently on track for all adults to have received their first dose by early summer (you can find out roughly when you can expect an invitation for a vaccine here). © […]

by Garvin Karunaratne Sky rocketing prices of vegetables and fruit has happened to be the order of the day. Once we did have a method to control inflation by ensuring that traders cannot keep a fat margin. That was the system built up by Sri Lankan administrators RH Basset and BLW Fernando Commissioners of the […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale The Latin phrase Quo Vadis denotes an episode from the life of Saint Peter, as told in the New Testament Apocrypha and the ‘Golden Legend’. Peter fled from Rome during the persecution of Christians under the emperor Nero; as he was travelling along the Appian Way he met Christ in a vision. […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය යුද්ධය පවතිද්දිත් රටේ සංවර්ධන කටයුතු අඛන්ඩව ක්‍රියාත්මක කළා මෙන් කොවිඩ් වසංගතය හමුවේදිත් රටේ සංවර්ධන කටයුතු කිසි ලෙසකත් නතර නොකර ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.02.16 දින විශ්වාසය පළ කළේය. වයඹ පළාත් මහ ඇළ ව්‍යාපෘතියේ මහකිතුල හා මහකිරුළ ජලාශවල ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු යාපහුව ඉරුදෙනියාය කෝන්ගහ මංසන්ධියේ දී සමාරම්භ කරමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ජාතික ලොතරැයි මණ්ඩලය විසින් බිහි කළ සුපිරි ත්‍යාගලාභීන් සඳහා ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.02.15 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ චෙක්පත් ප්‍රදානය කෙරිණි. මාස 03ක් වැනි කෙටි කාලයක් තුළ ජාතික ලොතරැයි මණ්ඩල විසින්  බිහි කළ සුපිරි ත්‍යාගලාභීන් 09 දෙනෙකු සඳහා රුපියල් කෝටි 52ක් ඉක්මවූ මුදල් චෙක්පත් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ සුරතින් මෙලෙස අදාළ ත්‍යාගලාභීන් වෙත […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island AFormer UN Assistant Secretary General and the author of ‘the report of the Secretary-General’s Internal Review Panel on UN action in Sri Lanka’ Charles Petrie has declined to explain why the UN deliberately thwarted verification of unsubstantiated allegations against Sri Lanka by way of a controversial confidentiality clause.  The Island raised […]

Courtesy proactiveinvestors.com “Production will scale over 2021 and beyond,” said Bharat Parashar, the miner’s CEO Mining was interrupted mining twice in 2020/21 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic Ceylon Graphite Corp (CVE:CYL) (OTCMKTS:CYLYF) (FRA:CCY) has told investors it is set to resume output at its K1 asset in Sri Lanka now planned upgrades to the shaft […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island … recalls US Defence Advisor in Colombo contradicting battlefield executions President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Office yesterday (15) strongly denied a claim by former US Ambassador for War Crimes and Global Criminal Justice Stephen Rapp (2009-2015) that wartime Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa had admitted to killing LTTE leaders followign their surrender […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has recorded 06 more Covid-19 related deaths today (February 16), Director-General of Health Services confirmed. This brings the total count of novel coronavirus fatalities in the country to 409, the Department of Government Information said. One of the deceased is a 74-year-old man from Panadura area. He has passed away at […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 463 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (February 16), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 756 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 77,184. Recoveries from […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prof. Channa Jayasumana has been appointed as the Acting Cabinet Minister of Health, says the President’s Media Division (PMD). He is also the State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals. Prof. Jayasumana will serve in his new portfolio until Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi, who is under medical care for Covid-19, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister Udaya Gammanpila says that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has given a pledge that the dual citizens will be deprived of the right to participate in politics under the new constitution. The President has given the pledge to 10 political parties, says Co-Cabinet Spokesman Gammanpila. Addressing a Cabinet media briefing today (16), the Minister […]

Separatist Tamil politicians, the LTTE and the LTTE Diaspora have been painstakingly building up an argument that conforms to the UN definition criteria for self-determination to claim a separate state. That bid has now come to a standstill with India claiming Tamils to be their brothers & sisters. Sri Lanka was never under Indian rule […]

Of late, there are video clips emerging of winter-clothes clad teen brats with heavy accents ranting on about Eelam from US, UK, Canada, France & other EU nations. We like to given them a simple message, you ain’t gonna create Eelam living in these countries, so come on down to Sri Lanka and go into […]

Malinda Seneviratne If something deserves to be called ‘Event of the Week’ it would be the ‘Pothuvil to Poligandy (P2P) March’ which ended on Sunday, February 7. At the end of the march there were around 2,000 people. Most significantly, it was an event that saw the participation of both Tamils and Muslims. The basic […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති සිංහල ජාතියේ ඉතිහාසය සහ මෙ රට ශාසනික ඉතිහාසය එකිනෙකින් වෙන් කළ නො හැකි ය. බුද්ධ පරිනිර්වාණ දින තමන් වන්දනයට සපැමිණි දේව සමාගමයෙහි මුල් තැන් ගෙන සිටි ශක්‍ර දේවේන්ද්‍රයාණන් අමතා තථාගතයාණන්වහන්සේ පැවරූ වගකීමකින් සිංහල ජාතියේ ඉතිහාසය ඇරැඹෙයි. තථාගතයාණන්වහන්සේ ශක්‍ර දේවේන්ද්‍රයාට වදාරා ඇත්තේ සිහබා රජ පුත් විජය කුමරු සත්සියයක් පිරිවර සහිතව ලාට රටින් විත් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය වයඹ, මධ්‍යම, ඌව හා දකුණු පළාත්වල ක්‍රියාත්මක ජල සම්පාදන ව්‍යාපෘතිවල ප්‍රගතිය අද 2021.02.15 දින ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ විමසුමට ලක් විය. මෙම පළාත්වල ජලසම්පාදන ව්‍යාපෘති  ප්‍රගතිය, ඒවා කඩිනමින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ යුතු ආකාරය හා 2024 වන විට එම සියලු ව්‍යාපෘති අවසන් කිරීම පිළිබඳව අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී සාකච්ඡාවක් කැඳවා තිබිණි. පසුගිය ආණ්ඩු සමයේ […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මහා නගර සභා, නගර සභා ආඥා පනත් සහ ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා පනතේ යෝජිත සංශෝධන කඩිනම් කරන්නැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.02.15 දින පෙරවරුවේ දැනුම් දුන්නේය. පළාත් පාලන ආයතනයන්ගේ සංසදයේ නියෝජිත හමුව අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැති අවස්ථාවේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. ඒ අනුව අදාළ සංශෝධනය සඳහා දැනටමත් සූදානම් බවත් ඊට අදාළ […]

Press Release  The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), the electricity sector regulator approved the power purchase agreement to build 300 MW Kerawalapitiya Liquid Natural Gas power plant in Sri Lanka under the new chairmanship and the board members last week (13 Feb 2021). The power […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්‍රි ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ශෝක පණිවිඩය හිටපු කථානායකවරයකු, අමාත්‍යවරයකු මෙන්ම ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයකු වූ වි.ජ.මු ලොකුබණ්ඩාර මැතිතුමාගේ හදිසි අභාවය සැළවීමෙන් මම අතිශය සංවේගයට පත්වූයෙමි. හෙළ හවුලේ සාහිත්‍යධරයකු ලෙස හෙළ සාහිත්‍යයට අනූපමය සේවයක් ඉටු කළ වි.ජ.මු ලොකු බණ්ඩාර මහතා දේශපාලඥයකු ලෙස සිය මාතෘ භූමියේ අභිලාෂයන් වෙනුවෙන් අමිල මෙහෙවරක නිරත විය. මහජන සේවය උතුම් කොට […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 15: Tripura Chief Minister Biplap Kumar Deb has claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) honcho and current Indian Home Minister Amit Shah had once revealed to him that the BJP has a plan to form governments in neighboring Nepal and Sri Lanka. This may be laughed off […]

UCA News reporter, Colombo Cardinal Ranjith calls for the government to regulate extremist groups after a spate of high-profile conversions Veteran singer Victor Ratnayake claimed he regained his lost voice with the blessings of God via a religious sect. (Photo: YouTube) Anna Mary, 32, and her assistant display religious magazines in public places four days a week. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Army Commander Shavendra Silva says that COVID-19 vaccinations will commence from today (February 15), as per instructions of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Accordingly, arrangements have been made to vaccinate the general public against the COVID-19 virus using the Oxford Astra Zeneca vaccine. The vaccination process will initially commence from the Western Province for the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Vaccination of sanitation workers within the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) limits commenced today (February 15), says Dr. Sudarshani Fernandopulle, the State Minister of Primary Healthcare, Epidemics, and COVID Disease Control. Speaking to media at the Ministry today, Fernandopulle said that it has been decided to vaccinate high-risk groups and the communities in high-risk […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), the electricity sector regulator, approved the power purchase agreement to build a 300 MW Kerawalapitiya Liquid Natural Gas power plant in Sri Lanka under the new chairmanship and the board members last week (13). The power purchase agreement will be signed by the Ceylon Electricity […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has surpassed the grim milestone of the 400th death caused by coronavirus today (February 15), the Department of Government Information confirmed. As per the Ministry of Health, a total of 06 new COVID-19 deaths have been reported today. Among the latest victims are five male patients and one female patient. This […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 463 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (February 15), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 774 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 76,428. Recoveries from […]