Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has arrested two Madrasa school teachers on charges of giving weapons training to school children in Puttalam. The arrests were made following a directive from Attorney General Dappula De Livera, the AG’s coordinating officer said.

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Standards Institution (SLSI) today rejected as totally fabricated and false” the allegations in the media and social media claiming that senior officials of the SLSI had authorized the sale of unhealthy coconut oil imported to the country by four importers.  SLSI, being the standards body for quality to the nation, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Russia has decided to resume commercial flights to six countries including Sri Lanka from the 1st of April, the country’s emergency response centre said on Thursday (March 25). Accordingly, commercial flights to Germany (Frankfurt-Moscow/St Petersburg-Frankfurt/ Moscow-Berlin), Venezuela (Moscow-Caracas), Syria (Moscow-Damascus), Tajikistan (Moscow-Dushanbe), Uzbekistan (Moscow-Tashkent) and Sri Lanka (Moscow-Colombo) will recommence from the aforementioned […]

By Xinhua The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China March 2021 Foreword“I can’t breathe!” — George Floyd “The scenes (the U.S. Capitol building violence) we have seen are the result of lies and more lies, of division and contempt for democracy, of hatred and rabble-rousing — even from the very highest levels.” […]

Dilrook Kannangara Reconciliation and accountability. These are the two words the international community imposed on Sri Lanka since it defeated Tamil terrorists in 2009. However, it was a one-way street; or, two one-way streets. Only Sri Lanka had to do reconciliation while Tamils always torpedoed it. Only Sri Lanka was pushed for accountability while Tamils […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Colombo, March 25: Although the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution on Sri Lanka was adapted at the 46th Session with 22 members voting for it, 11 voting against and 14 abstaining. This means that the majority (25) were not for the resolution. Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena described the vote […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Under the programme titled  ‘power plant to the village’, the government has planned to complete installing 7,000 solar power plants within three years and contribute 700 MW to the national grid, Power Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said. Addressing the media to announce the plans to launch the first phase of the 7,000 […]

Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that all the Madrasas will not be banned, Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekara today reiterated that Madrasas that taught only religion and Arabic for children between the ages of five and 16 should be banned as they were against the National Education Policy. He […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka on Thursday (March 25) confirmed another 108 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus in the country as total infections detected within the day reached 271. This brought the total number of Covid-19 confirmed in the country thus far to 91,289. Department of Government Information said 20 of the newly -identified cases […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Foreign Affairs Dinesh Gunawardena the new resolution against Sri Lanka, adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) seeks to interfere in all matters that are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of a country. Sri Lanka considers the resolution to be unwarranted, unjustified and a violation of the relevant articles […]

Senaka Weeraratna Cuba is one of the most admired countries in the Global South. Cuba stood up for Sri Lanka at UNHRC, with a speech calling for defiance and resistance. These are the hallmark attributes of Cuba which have won global admiration.  Likewise, China, Pakistan, Venezuela, Philippines, Bolivia and altogether eleven countries backed Sri Lanka […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The general election of 1956 introduced to its joyful and triumphant public something they never ever expected, political assassination.  SWRD Bandaranaike was assassinated in 1959. This was not the first assassination of a Head of state in South Asia. Liaquat Ali,  Prime Minister of Pakistan was assassinated in 1951. Bandaranaike was probably the […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Last week, the Pakistan High Commissioner Major General (Retd.) Muhammad Saad Khattak, in an unprecedented and shocking move took to Twitter to make a comment on an internal matter of Sri Lanka. His Tweet appeared shortly after Public Security Minister Rear Admiral (Retd.) Sarath Weerasekera made the long pending announcement that he […]

 by Jamila Husain Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 24 (Daily Mirror) – Speaking to media soon after the resolution on Sri Lanka was passed at the UNHRC, Gunawardena said that the fact that only 22 countries had voted in favour of the Resolution while 11 voted against and 14 abstained, showed that several countries were against this […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy newsin.asia Colombo, March 23: India on Tuesday abstained from voting on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on Sri Lanka for a variety of reasons. The immediate reason perhaps lay in the April 6 elections to the Tamil Nadu State Assembly in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is contesting 20 […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Geneva, March 23 (newsin.asia): The Chinese Ambassador in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Chen Xu  speaking on the resolution against Sri Lanka commended Sri Lanka for its commitment to promoting and protecting human rights, advancing sustainable economic and social development, improving people’s living standards, safeguarding the rights of vulnerable groups, advancing national […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy Adaderana An artificial beach created along Kalutara’s Calido Beach, the Ratmalana-Angulana stretch and in Mount Lavinia, which raised strong protests from activists, has been successful, Coast Conservation and Coastal Resource Management Department Chief Engineer (Coastal Design & Research) Sujeewa Ranawaka said. He told the Dailymirror that the project was implemented to build […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Election Commission has decided not to register political parties whose official names portray affiliations to religions or ethnicities. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Elections Commission yesterday (March 23), Elections Commissioner-General Saman Sri Ratnayake said. He stated that a political party is registered as a national party as per […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 02 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (March 24). The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 554 in total. 01. The deceased is a 65-year-old female resident from Colombo 15. She died on 21.03.2021at her residence and […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 106 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (March 24), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 238 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 91,018. Recoveries from […]

Courtesy Adaderana Cabinet of Ministers has given the nod to purchase 7 million Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines from Russia, the Department of Government Information said today (March 24). The relevant proposal has been tabled by Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi. National Medicine Regulatory Authority (NMRA) recently approved the emergency use of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccines […]

by Garvin Karunaratne Today at the UNHRC in Geneva we have seen the UK and other Developed Countries sponsor a vote against our country. In detail,  this resolution involves the UNHRC establishing a programme to document human rights violations and find and preserve evidence against our war heroes for prosecution in International courts for incidents […]

Courtesy Adaderana The draft resolution L.1/Rev.1 brought against Sri Lanka by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has failed to condemn the crimes committed by the LTTE against Sri Lankan people, Pakistan says. The Pakistani representative stated this speaking before the vote on the UNHRC draft resolution L.1/Rev.1 on Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human […]

Courtesy Adaderana The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday adopted the draft resolution against Sri Lanka tabled at council by the Core Group. The vote on draft resolution L1/Rev.1 titled Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka” concluded, a short while ago, and was carried out via electronic voting during the […]

සබුද්ධි කවය සබුද්ධි කවය සංවිධානය කරන, ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික පුස්තකාලය (NLSL) හා ප්‍රලේඛන සේවා මණ්ඩලය ප්‍රමුඛ සංවිධාන ශක්තියෙන් එක් වෙන ”NLSL සබුද්ධි පොත්ගුල” මාර්තු වැඩසටහන අනුරාධපුරය මහවිලච්චිය තක්ෂිලා මහා විද්‍යාලයේදී ලබන සිකුරාදා පැවැත්වේ. ඒ විද්‍යාලීය විදුහල්පති චමින්ද සේමසිංහ මහතාගේ අධීක්ෂණයෙන් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ෂෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙනි. වැඩසටහන උදෑසන 07.45ට ආරම්භ වෙයි. NLSL සබුද්ධි පොත්ගුල ක්‍රීඩාව සහ […]

LankaPropertyWeb LankaPropertyWeb, Sri Lanka’s number one real estate portal will be hosting the first ever Lanka Property Show 2021 Virtual Conference. The event will be held alongside the Lanka Property Show 2021 Virtual Expo that is set to go live from the 26th to the 28th of March. The virtual conference will be conducted by […]

JANAKI CHANDRARATNA Courtesy The Island The UNHRC is an intergovernmental organisation, reporting directly to the United Nations General Assembly, with a mandate to promote and protect human rights in member countries, by making recommendations to address situations of human rights violations. It is to be expected that institutions that have authority to make recommendations, in […]

Donald Chandraratna Courtesy The Island The pile-on over Sri Lanka by UNHRC is a blatant use of human rights as a political weapon in the geopolitics of today’s world. Many have argued in these columns that Sri Lanka cannot capitulate merely on the grounds of allegations, which are serious in nature, levelled without regard to […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් සිංහරාජ රක්ෂිත වන රක්‍ෂිතය ආසන්නයේ ආන්දෝලනාත්මක ඉඩම තුල ඉදි කරමින් ඇති ගොඩනැගිලි හෝටලයක් නොවන නිවාස තුනක් බව මධ්‍යම පරිසර අධිකාරිය පවසයි. අධිකාරියේ සභාපති එස්. අමරසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරන්නේ එම නිවාස ඉදිකිරීම සඳහා ප්‍රාදේශීය සභාවෙන් අවසර ලබාගෙන ඇති බවයි. එම ඉදිකිරීම් සඳහා මධ්‍යම පරිසර අධිකාරියේ කිසිදු මැදිහත්වීමක් සිදුකළ නොහැකි බවත් ඔහු […]