අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ධාවනයෙන් ඉවත් කළ ලංගම බස්රථ, පුස්තකාල ලෙස ප්‍රතිනිර්මාණය කර පුස්තකාල නොමැති පාසල් සඳහා ලබා දීමේ බසයෙන් අනාගතයට” දෙවැනි අදියර ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ 2021.03.12 දින පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ඒ අනුව දිස්ත්‍රික්ක 20ක පුස්තකාල පහසුකම් නොමැති පාසල් 20ක් සඳහා මෙලෙස බස්රථ පුස්තකාල ලබා දීම සිදුවිය.  බසයෙන් අනාගතයට” පළමු […]

By Jude Sheerin Courtesy BBC, Washington Former President Donald Trump was often accused of having a complete disregard for the truth. Yet some of his predecessors’ falsehoods ranged from the bizarre to the horrifying. So how does Trump truly compare? When Saddam Hussein invaded the oil-rich emirate of Kuwait in August 1990, President George HW […]

By Rezaul H Laskar Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, March 13 (Hindustan Times):  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Saturday discussed cooperation at multilateral forums, days ahead of an expected vote on Sri Lanka’s human rights record at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Modi and Rajapaksa reviewed topical developments […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Document in its entirety handed over to AG The Presidential Secretariat yesterday (12) handed over the remaining 22 volumes of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) report, hitherto declared sensitive and withheld from Attorney General Dappula de Livera, PC. The delivery of those volumes which dealt with some aspects […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The advertisement on the sale of non slip doormats with the print of Sri Lanka’s national flag has been removed from the Amazon site after the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Beijing informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China on the matter. The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Beijing had […]

Courtesy Adaderana It is China’s consistent stand that the national flag is a country’s symbol that must be fully respected, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo stressed in a statement published on Friday (March 12). Carpets and footwear displaying the Sri Lankan national flag had been made available for sale on Amazon, one of the world’s […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Public Security Rear Admiral (Rtd) Sarath Weerasekara says he has signed the Cabinet paper banning the burqa in Sri Lanka. His remarks came during an event held at Munasinghe Aramaya in Kalutara today (March 13). Explaining the reason for the move, the Public Security Minister said the burqa directly affects the […]

Courtesy Adaderana A man has been arrested by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) for promoting Wahhabism and Jihadist ideology in the country. As per reports, the arrest was made in the area of Dematagoda on Friday (March 12). The suspect has been identified as Rasheed Hajjul Akbar who is a resident of Mawanella area, Police […]

Courtesy Adaderana Secretary to the Ministry of Finance S.R. Attygalle has insisted that there is no such thing as revenue loss in a tax deduction scenario. His remarks came during a media briefing convened earlier on Friday (March 12). The import tax on sugar was reduced from Rs. 50 per kilogram to 25 cents last […]

Courtesy Hiru News Another coronavirus infected death has been reported. Accordingly, the total death toll has increased to 526. The deceased has been identified as a 48 year old female residing in the Kanaththewewa area. She was transferred from the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital to the Homagama Base Hospital after being identified as Covid 19 infected. […]

Courtesy Hiru News 179 Covid-19 infected persons have been identified today.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A South African variant of COVID-19 known as B.1.351 has been detected from a patient in a quarantine center in Sri Lanka for the first time, Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of Sri Jayewardenepura University, Dr. Chandima Jeewandara said. He said the patient is a returnee from […]

Courtesy Adaderana Five more COVID-related fatalities have been reported in Sri Lanka, Director General of Health Services confirmed today (March 12). The new development has pushed the death toll from the virus to 525. According to the Government Information Department, four of the death were reported in Western Province while the remaining death was from […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka registered 182 more positive cases of COVID-19 today (March 12) as total novel coronavirus infections reported within the day reached 297. Department of Government Information says 236 of today’s cases are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. Six others were identified as arrivals from foreign countries and […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Hitler rose to power through the Nazi Party, an organization he forged after returning as a wounded veteran from the annihilating trench warfare of World War I. He and other patriotic Germans were outraged and humiliated by the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which the Allies compelled the new German […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කොළඹ මහ නගර සභා බල ප්‍රදේශයේ මහජනතාවට කොවිඩ් එන්නත් ලබාදීමේ වැඩසටහන අද 2021.03.11 දින පෙරවරුවේ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ නිරීක්ෂණයට ලක්විය. නාරාහේන්පිටි අභයාරාම විහාරස්ථානයට ගිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එහි පැවති 1200ක පිරිසකට කොවිඩ් එන්නත් ලබා දීමේ වැඩසටහන මෙසේ නිරීක්ෂණය කළේය. කොළඹ මහ නගර සභා මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් වන ගලගම ධම්මරන්සි හිමි, වෛද්‍ය […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය රට ජාතිය ගැන හැඟීම තිබෙන තරුණ ව්‍යවසායකයින් පිරිසක් ජාතික ඇඳුමෙන් සැරසී සිටිනු දැකීම විශාල ආඩම්බරයක් බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ 2021.03.10 දින පස්වරුවේ පැවසීය. කොළඹ ෂැන්ග්‍රිලා හෝටලයේ පැවති ලාංකේය තරුණ ව්‍යවසායකයින්ගේ මණ්ඩලයේ 22 වැනි සංවත්සර සැමරුමට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. හිටපු සභාපති චමත් කෝට්ටගේ මහතා එම තනතුරේ කාලය […]

By Uditha Devapriya/Ceylon Today Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 11: Partly in spite of and partly because of the political leadership,  Sri Lanka never got to evolve a foreign policy of its own in the first ten years of its independent statehood. Scholars are divided on why exactly this was so, with some pointing at the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 11 (Economy Next): The People’s Bank of China has confirmed that a 1.5 billion dollar equivalent swap arrangement had been approved, State Minister for Capital Markets and Money, Nivard Cabraal said. He said Sri Lanka could draw down the swap at any time but it will be kept as a buffer.

By P.K.Balachandran/counterpoint.lk Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 11: With the date for voting on a resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) nearing, the scenario is grim. Diplomatic sources say that given the reality of international politics, the vote is most likely to go against Sri Lanka. But Sri Lanka is unfazed […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island … directs IGP to probe four persons including Sara Attorney General Dappula de Livera, PC, has informed the Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith that it is futile to proceed with the 2019 Easter Sunday case unless he receives access to all volumes of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror -Ibrahim brothers and several int’l orgs funded Thawheed Jamaath -Save the Pearl” had provided legal assistance to Zahran and his group -Wearing of the Burqa will be banned in public places. -Eleven extremists organisations to be banned The intelligence services have identified Naufer Moulavi as the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Wahabbism and Quasi Courts should be banned in Sri Lanka as it is recommended by the report of the Presidential Commission which probed the Easter Sunday attacks, MP Venerable Rathana Thera told Parliament yesterday. The Thera said those organisations which embrace Wahabbism, such as All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama should be probed […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror SLMC Leader Rauff Hakeem and ACMC Leader Rishad Bathiudeen have been associated with the Easter Sunday attackers, Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage told Parliament yesterday. Minister Aluthgamage said both Mr. Hakeeem and Mr. Bathiudeen visited those who were wounded in some incidents which took place prior to the Easter Sunday attacks. Mr. Hakeem […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed 05 more Covid-19 related deaths, increasing the death toll due to the virus in the country to 520. 01. The deceased is a 56-year-old female resident from Nawalapitiya. She was diagnosed as infected with Covid-19 virus while undergoing treatments at District Hospital Nawalapitiya and transferred to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government Information Department reports that another 134 fresh cases of Covid-19 have been detected today (11). All new cases are close associates of infected patients from the Peliyagoda Covid-19 cluster. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases reported so far today to 292. Meanwhile the total number of cases from the Minuwangoda, […]

Courtesy Hiru News Samagi Janabalavegaya MP Ashok Abeysinghe today expressed his regret before the CID over the statement made regarding the Easter attack. After failing to appear on the two previous occasions when he was called, he was at the CID for nearly five hours providing statements today. The Leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya […]

Does the UNHRC have a mandate to judge international humanitarian law in an armed conflict?Sri Lanka’s conflict is defined as a non-international armed conflict where governing rules are IHL. Why is the UNHRC taking Sri Lanka to task based on human rights alone and that too human rights that are outside of the conflict. When […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Sri Lankan Catholics, led by His Eminence Malcom Cardinal Ranjith, Bishop of Colombo, marked Black Sunday on March 7, with the participation of representatives from Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and Muslim religious communities, demanding justice for the victims of the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks carried out by local Islamist Jihadists two […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින * 19 ව්‍යවස්ථා කුමන්ත‍්‍රණය කළ අයට දඬුවම් කරන්න… ! 2002දී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ගෙන එන ලද 19 වන ආණ්ඩුක‍්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතේ 5 වන වගන්තිය අනුව ආණ්ඩුක‍්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 70 වන ව්‍යවස්ථාවට ඉක්බිතිව 70 (අ) ලෙස ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් ගෙන එමින් වසරකට පසු ජනාධිපතිවරයාට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසිරවීම අවශ්‍ය වන්නේ නම් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ නොපැමිණි මන්ත‍්‍රීවරයන්ද […]