By Senior Lawyer  [e mail srilankastudycircle@yahoo.com] The purpose of this article is to present the   expert views and advice so far published on how to preserve our sovereignty, when nations which describe themselves as a ‘core  group’, comprising Canada, UK, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Germany, have proposed a resolution at the 43rd session of the UNHRC […]

 by Jamila Husain Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 8 (DailyMirror) – Health officials from the Colombo Municipal Council said that the COVID-19 infections in Colombo were on the decline in recent weeks and from an estimated 250 random PCR and antigen tests being conducted, an average one or two people were testing positive in comparison to the […]

By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy Urasia Review Following the unequivocal support extended by China to Sri Lanka on the Core Group’s draft resolution at the UNHRC, Sri Lanka questioned the reliability of the data in the report on the Uighur Muslims of China.   Following the unequivocal support extended by China to Sri Lanka on the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Parts of Muthurajawela Wetland cleared for private commercial constructions Intending to build public opinion against the foreign private enterprises taking over lands on a large scale and causing irreversible impact on the environment, a forum named ‘Our Land is Not For Sale’ was formed recently with the participation of environmental activists […]

P.K.Balachandran Courtesy The Daily Mirror Before Sri Lanka became predominantly Buddhist following the conversion of the 3rd. Century King Devanampiya Tissa (247 BC-207 BC), the island had an amazing assortment of religious cults, practices and faiths including animism, Jainism, Shaivism, Brahminism and Buddhism. There were many gods, goddesses and deities of local and Indian origin.  […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 177 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (March 08), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 334 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 86,039. Recoveries from […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 05 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (March 08). 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 507 in total.

Courtesy Hiru News The former OIC of the Kelaniya Divisional Crime Bureau and other officers who have been suspended for allegedly assaulting Migara Gunaratne, the son of former Governor Maithri Gunaratne, made a special revelation at a press conference today. He also released audio recordings of a threatening phone call he received after the incident.

KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip Gunawardene    was the creator of the Multipurpose Cooperatives Society. Until 1956, the cooperatives had been single purpose ones. There were separate cooperatives for food distribution, for savings and loan disbursement.  There were about   10,500 of cooperatives   and they were of 70 different types. Philip decided to weld them into one organization, the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip Gunewardene, who was very sympathetic towards the farmers, introduced a Crop Insurance Scheme which benefited the farmers immensely. I am not sure whether this insurance scheme is still operative, said Elmo de Silva in 2020 .  Philip   prepared a Crop Insurance Bill in 1958. It was necessary to protect the farmer from […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රටකි, දැයකි, ලොවකි ඇය” යන තේමාව යටතේ සමරන ජාත්‍යන්තර කාන්තා දින ජාතික සැමරුමට සුභාශිංසන පළ කරනුයේ ඉමහත් සතුටිනි. ලෝකයේ කාන්තා අයිතිවාසිකම් වෙනුවෙන් එක් දිනයක් සැමරීමට ලක් වුවද සෑම මොහොතක්ම කාන්තාවන්ගේ අයිතීන් වෙනුවෙන් වෙන්විය යුතු බව මාගේ විශ්වාසයයි. දියණියක, බිරිඳක මෙන්ම ලොව උතුම් මව් පදවියට පත්වන්නේ ද කාන්තාවකි. […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ජාත්‍යන්තර කාන්තා දිනයට සමඟාමීව පවත්වන ආශිර්වාද පූජාව කැලණිය රජ මහා විහාරයේ දී ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සහ එම ආර්යාව ශිරන්ති රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මියගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.03.07 දින පස්වරුවේ පැවැත්විණි. ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන කාන්තා පෙරමුණ මෙම ආශිර්වාද පිංකම සංවිධානය කර තිබිණි. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සහ ආර්යා ශිරන්ති රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මිය බෝධීන් වහන්සේට මල් […]

By Gitanjali Marcelline/newsin.asia     International Women’s Day, originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year. The UN theme for Women’s Day in 2021 is Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”. The theme celebrates the tremendous efforts made by women and girls around the world to […]

By P. K. Balachandran/Ceylon Today Colombo, March 8: India-Sri Lanka trade goes far into the past, to the Early Historic Era in fact. The island had also played the additional role of being a transit point, a hub, in the trade between the Eastern and Western worlds. The story of India-Sri Lanka trade in ancient […]

Courtesy The Straits Times Colombo, March 7 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lanka Port Workers’ Union General Secretary Niroshan Gorakahenna told the media on Saturday that the workers are opposed to handing over the port to the Adanis and asserted that the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) itself should undertake to build the WCT. It can do […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots, a health agency said on Sunday, Reuters reported. The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) has received two reports […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Recommendations made by the Presidential Commission, which probed the Easter Sunday attacks should be implemented soon while more investigations should be carried out to determine as to who organised and facilitated the attacks, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said today. Cardinal Ranjith who was speaking to the media after participating […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today said, they are ready to accept responsibility for not being able to prevent the Easter Sunday attacks as a member of the previous regime. He also called for a proper probe to identify the real perpetrators who were behind the attack. Speaking during the Opposition Leader’s […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith says he will continue to protest until justice is done for the victims of the Easter attack. He mentioned this speaking a peaceful protest in front of St. Anthony‘s Church in Kochchikade carried out in parallel to the ‘Black Sunday’ protest declared by the Archdiocese of Colombo. The Catholic […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s COVID-related fatalities crossed the grim milestone of 500 today (March 07) as five more individuals fell victim to the virus infection. Thereby, total lives claimed by the pandemic outbreak in Sri Lanka now stand at 502, the Department of Government Information said. Details of the deceased are as follows: 01. A […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka registered 183 more positive cases of COVID-19 today (March 07) as total novel coronavirus infections reported within the day reached 359. Department of Government Information says 321 of today’s cases are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. Sixteen others have been detected from the prison cluster and […]

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 […]

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E What if the British High Commissioner in Colombo Sarah Hulton met with the Ambassador of South Korea Woonjin Jeong on Tuesday, the 2nd of March, 2021? What if he was accompanied by former Foreign Minister and the man who happily tossed Sri Lanka under the UNHRC bus driven by a warmongering Uncle Sam? […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip took a deep interest in paddy production and studied it from all angles. He complained repeatedly about the paucity of statistics on paddy cultivation. There was no information on the size of holdings, yield, ownership and so on. Thanks to Philip, in 1962, Department of Census and Statistics started an agricultural census. […]

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E ‘If you are not with me, I will assume that you are against me,’ is a prudent rule of thumb, but only in certain situations. Not all questions can be answered with either ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ Complex realities don’t often offer such luxurious indulgences. This is true of people, it is true of […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip Gunawardena was given the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the MEP government of 1956. The portfolio included peasant agriculture, animal husbandry and the plantations. He was ably assisted by GVS de Silva as Permanent Secretary.  The combination of GVS and Philip offered the country a socialist vision, said Garvin Karunaratne. I […]

Concerned citizens of Sri Lanka To:              UNHRC member nations at the 46th Sessions in Geneva, to be shared with your representatives at the meeting. From:         Concerned citizens of the small and nonaligned nation of Sri Lanka dispersed around the world. (Author’s identity is withheld for personal safety.) Date:           March 2, 2021 We seek support […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ඝාතකයා සමග යහන්ගතව, විනාශය කරා ගමන් කිරීම, මේ රට තුල සිදුවෙන සාමාන්‍ය ක්‍රියාදාමයකි. එය යලි යලිත් සිහියට ගන්වමින් ඉතිහාසයේ තවත් වාරයකදී ඝාතකයා හා සරණ බන්ධනයට යන යුවතියක අප අද දිනයේදී දකින්නෙමු. කතෝලික ප්‍රජාව අද කළු ඉරිදාවක ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කර, කළු සරණ පැතීම අද දින සිදු කරයි. එය නම් කොට ඇත්තේ කළු ඉරිදා වශයෙනි. […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මොණරාගල DAG ඇඟලුම් කර්මාන්ත ශාලාව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.03.06 දින පෙරවරුවේ විවෘත විය. ඩී.ඒ.ජී ඇඟලුම් පෞද්ගලික සමාගම (DAG Apparel (Pvt) LTD) රුපියල් මිලියන 500ක මුදලක් ආයෝජනය කරමින් මෙම නව ඇඟලුම් කර්මාන්ත ශාලාව ස්ථාපිත කර තිබේ. එමගින් නිර්මාණය වී ඇති සෘජු රැකියා අවස්ථා ගණන 600කි. තවත් 3000ක පිරිසකට වක්‍ර […]