Sarath Wijesinghe President’s counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s forum Covid 19 spreads worldwide as a world wildfire Covid19 is spreading worldwide affecting billions as a major pandemic changing the world drastically with the slowdown in economies, developments, living conditions, and all kinds of day to day and permanent lifestyles of all […]

Rohan Abeygunawardena On 25th of February 2021 ‘’Ceylon Daily News’’  published  following news item; ‘’An ancient Ola leaf original copy of the Mahavamsa” (Great Chronicle) currently kept at the library of the University of Peradeniya is to be declared as a UNESCO World Heritage. The decision has been reached by UNESCO experts upon verifying that […]

Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister I take pleasure in greeting all those celebrating the Maha Sivarathri Festival in Sri Lanka and World over a blessed day. Hindu devotees in Sri Lanka have a long tradition of living in harmony with all ethnic groups. Devotees of the Hindu faith will fast on the day of the festival […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාත්‍රාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය 2021 මාර්තු 11 ලොව පුරා හින්දු බැතිමතුන් සමඟ එක්වෙමින් මහා ශිව රාත්‍රී දිනය ඉමහත් භක්ත්‍යාදරයෙන් සමරන ශ්‍රී ලාංකේය හින්දු භක්තිකයන්ට  සුභාශිංසන පළ කරනුයේ ඉමහත් සතුටිනි. විවිධ ජනවර්ග සමඟ මිත්‍රශීලීව සහ එකමුතුව ජීවත්වීමේ දීර්ඝ සම්ප්‍රදායක් ශ්‍රී ලාංකේය හින්දු භක්තිකයන්ට ඇත. ඔවුන් සියලු දෙනා දැඩි අධ්‍යාත්මික හැඟීමකින් යුතුව ශිව […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Lord Naseby yesterday (9) said that in spite of the Core Group’s resolution being further watered down, the possibility of the government of Sri Lanka accepting it was unlikely. The Island raised the issue at hand with Lord Naseby, who unconditionally threw his weight behind Sri Lanka’s efforts to counter […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Rs 3.72 billion worth of pepper imported between 2015 and 2019 Investigations were underway to ascertain information about a nexus between spice traders and the Easter Sunday terrorists, Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena told Parliament yesterday. Minister Gunawardena said so in response to a question by SLPP MP Mohamed Muzammil, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General (AG) has directed the Inspector-General of Police to investigate five suspects whose names were disclosed by the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) which looked into the Easter Sunday terror attacks. Accordingly, probes will be carried out into Abu Hind, Lukman Thalib, Lukman Thalib Ahmed alias Abu Abdulla, […]

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 676 individuals have been arrested in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, Minister of Public Security Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera stated. Among the arrested, 202 have been imprisoned and another 66 persons are currently being interrogated under detention, he said. The Minister mentioned this speaking at the debate […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 04 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (March 10). As per the Department of Government Information, one female patient and three male patients are among the victims. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 515 in total. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka registered 140 more positive cases of COVID-19 today (March 10) as total novel coronavirus infections reported within the day reached 300. The new development has pushed the country’s confirmed COVID-19 case count to 86,685. According to COVID-19 figures, 2,964 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment […]

Courtesy Adaderana A five-member judge bench of the Supreme Court has been appointed by the Chief Justice to take up a petition challenging the 20th Amendment to the Constitution. Supreme Court Justices Gamini Amarasekara, Yasantha Kodagoda, A.H.M.D. Nawaz, Kumudini Wickremesinghe and Shiran Gunaratne will accordingly serve as the members of the bench. The relevant petition, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to conduct investigations in the import of several swords, daggers, and other such weapons into the country. This was in relation to the Writ Application filed by His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, stated the Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General, State Counsel […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court issues warrant on former MP Hirunika Premachandra for not appearing before courts over the case on the abduction of a youth in 2015. A 35-year-old man was abducted in 2015 at Baseline Road area in Dematagoda and assaulted by a group of individuals who had arrived in a Land […]

How come LTTE terrorist Aunty Adele is more important to the UK than Lord Naseby? Lord Naseby has asked a very pertinent question – why is UK not prosecuting Adele Balasingham for child soldier recruitment. The UK is not answering him? This is the same UK Government drafting resolutions against Sri Lanka for war crimes, […]

Operation Vadamarachchi that encircled Prabakaran was brought to a close by Operation Poomalai by India and Prabakaran was evacuated to India by helicopter and kept until the Indo-Lanka Accord was signed and Rajiv Gandhi returned to Delhi. By rescuing Prabakaran in May 1987 India is responsible for every killing by LTTE until finally Sri Lanka’s […]

Raj Gonsalkorale Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan and Harry pulls in 17.1 million viewers on CBS. Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, speak with Oprah Winfrey for a two-hour telecast on CBS Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex and Meghan the Duchess of Sussex are troubled individuals. One cannot but feel for them in their hour of reflection, tinged […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය මාතර නගරය වාණිජ හා සංචාරක නගරයක් ලෙස දියුණු කරමින් එහි පරිපාලන නගරය කොටවිල ප්‍රදේශයේ ස්ථාපිත කිරීමේ කටයුතු කඩිනම් කිරීමට ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.03.09 දින උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. මාතර නව නගරය, අකුරැස්ස, දෙවිනුවර, දික්වැල්ල, කඹුරුපිටිය, කිරින්ද-පුහුල්වැල්ල, තිහගොඩ සහ වැලිගම නගරවල නාගරික සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනු ලබන ව්‍යාපෘතිවල පවතින ගැටලු සම්බන්ධයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කමිටු […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය විදේශ විනිමය උපයා ගැනීමට හැකි සාර්ථක ව්‍යාපෘති සැලසුම් කරන්නැයි මුදල් අමාත්‍යවරයා වශයෙන් ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ 2021.03.08 දින පෙරවරුවේ උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. ඉදිරියේ දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විදේශ විනිමයෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන ව්‍යාපෘති පිළිබඳ විදේශ සම්පත් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ප්‍රධානීන් සමඟ මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශයේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. විදේශ ණය ලබා ගැනීමේ දී […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror When looking at the final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the Easter Sunday attacks, the international community can decide that this attack was carried out by the Sinhala Buddhists, Deputy Secretary of the Asgiriya Chapter Ven. Narampanawe Ananda Thera said. The prelate expressed his views […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Sri Lanka (CBCSL) has urged the government to take immediate action to implement the recommendations in the report compiled by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry which investigated the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks. In a special statement issued following a special meeting held today (March 09), the CBCSL further […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka registered 149 more positive cases of COVID-19 today (March 02) as total novel coronavirus infections reported within the day reached 304. Department of Government Information says 283 of today’s cases are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. Five others were detected from the prison cluster and the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Four new COVID-related fatalities were confirmed today (March 09), says the Director-General of Health Services. Following the new development, the country’s death toll from the pandemic outbreak has risen to 511. According to the Department of Government Information, the details of the deceased are as follows: 01. An 81-year-old woman from Uduvil area […]

Courtesy Adaderana Seven more bodies of individuals who had fallen victim to COVID-19 were buried at Oddamavadi in Batticaloa today (March 09), says Army Commander General Shavendra Silva. The burials have been carried out by the Sri Lanka Army. Accordingly, a total of 38 corpses infected with novel coronavirus have been buried since the policy […]

Courtesy Adaderana Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka today filed a writ application seeking the Court of Appeal to revoke the recommendations of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) appointed to probe the alleged incidents of political victimization. The Attorney General, the Secretary of the PCoI and its three commissioners – Supreme […]

What kind of double game is India playing? How long does India think it can pretend to be friends of its neighbors while planning the downfall of its neighbors? Obviously this stems from a DNA that goes back to colonial rule wherein India was Colonial Britain’s trusted sepoy. India became India only after the Colonial […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The economic conference held in Colombo several years ago especially focused on economic issues such as foreign debt, regulation, and export performance. They were quite significant issues not only in Sri Lanka alone but also in many third-world countries.  The major macroeconomic attention of the conference was based on three vital aspects, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS One of Philip’s great success stories was potato farming in Nuwara Eliya. This had been tried before and failed.  The MEP government wrote off the debt on this failed attempt and tried again with better seed potatoes. The trial was a complete success, and a potato research station was established in Rahangala. In […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip Gunawardena is best remembered for the Paddy Lands Act of 1958. The main objective of this Act was to provide security of tenure of a permanent and heritable nature and regulate the rents paid by tenants. However its implementation was flawed owing to administrative deficiencies, observed Nimal Sanderatne. The first Paddy Lands […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති ජනරජයක් යනු ජනතාවගේ ආධිපත්‍යයෙන් පාලනය වන රාජ්‍යයකි. ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යය යන්න අර්ථවත් වනුයේ ඒ සඳහා රාජ්‍යය තුළ පවතින අවකාශයේ ස්වභාවය අනුව ය. මෙයට පෙර ලිපියකින් සඳහන් කළ ආකාරයට පරමාධිපත්‍යයට ජනතාවගේ උපදේශන බලතල, පාලන බලතල, සාමූහික අයිතිවාසිකම්, මූලික පුද්ගලික අයිතිවාසිකම් සහ ඡන්ද බලය ඇතුළත් වන්නේ ය.” මෙම පරමාධිපත්‍යය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම සඳහා අවැසි අවකාශය සැකැසීම […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය දෙදහස් විසි එකේ පෙබරවාරි 05 දින අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල සංදේශයට අනුව භූමිතෙල් සහනාධාරය ප්‍රතිපූර්ණය කිරීම සහ බොරතෙල් සඳහා වන වරාය හා ගුවන් තොටුපල සංවර්ධන බද්ද නැවත සකස් කිරීම සඳහා පත්කරන ලද අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල අනු කමිටුව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පළමු වරට අද 2021.03.08 දින පෙරවරුවේ මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශයේ දී රැස්විය. භූමිතෙල් සහනාධාරය […]