Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .K1J 6G 10 April 2021 Hon. Marc Garneau, PC CC CD MPMinister of Foreign AffairsGovernment of CanadaHouse of CommonsOttawa. Honourable Minister Marc Garneau: Re Canada welcomes UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Sri Lanka That statement of yours stymied me, foxed me, googlyed me,  made me […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS REVISED 12.4.21 The 1956 achievements are popularly credited to SWRD.  Ananda Meegama rectified this and showed that it was Philip who was behind most of the changes. It is now acknowledged that Philip was responsible for most of the progressive measures instituted in the MEP regime, said WTA Leslie Fernando. Philip contribution to […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip was universally considered a man of high principles, honesty and integrity.  He was very austere in his ways. DB Dhanapala recalled that he found him a mild kind of man who liked to listen to you with as little comment as possible.  Everyone who knew him remarked, that   in private he was […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart, Convener “The Muslim Voice” and Member “Viyathmaga”, April 11`th., 2021. This is a wonderful move by the President and a most effective way of implementing a “MONITORING SYSTEM” to follow-up on all decisions and instructions given by the president/taken at the Gama […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. මහනුවර සිoහල බෞද්ධ ජේෂ්ඨ පුර වැසියන්ගේ සන්විධානයේ සභාපති සහ අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ඉස්තිර ලේකම් -මහනුවර  (මෙම ලිප්පිය ලිවීමට මා පෙලඹවූයේ ලබන ජූනි මස පමණ යලිත් පලාත් සභා මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීමට අගමැති තුමා උපදෙස් දුන්” බවට පුවත් පත්වල පලවූ පුවතකි). එදා 2009 මැයි මස නන්දිකඩාල්හිදී ලොවම පරාජය නොකල හැකියයි කී ලෝකයේ දරුණුතම […]

සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය.   අතිගරු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා, අලුත් අවුරුද්ද වෙනුවෙන් අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී හා සමෘද්ධිලාභී පවුල් හට රු.5000/ දීමනාව හදිසි තීරණයෙන් සමෘද්ධි සේවකයින් වෙත වු පීඩාව පිළිබඳව. සිංහල හා හින්දු අලුත් අවුරුදු උදාවට පෙර සමෘද්ධි හා අඩු අදායම්ලාභී පවුල් වෙත රු.5000/ දීමනාවක් ලබා දීමට ආණ්ඩුව ගෙන ඇති තීරණය දැනුම් දෙමින් මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයෙහි මාධය […]

Courtesy HealthyMuslim. Coriander, or cilantro, is a remarkable healing plant and it is unusual in that its leaves are used as a herb and its seeds as a spice. This versatile ingredient not only tastes great, but it also has many health-protective properties. Coriander contains antibacterial compounds that protect against food poisoning and numerous bugs, and is an effective anti-inflammatory. What’s more, coriander has an amazing ability for […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO (NYTIMES) – Last year’s winner of Mrs World, a beauty pageant for married women, said she would return her crown after she snatched one off the head of the 2021 winner of Mrs Sri Lanka World, claiming that she was divorced – a violation of pageant rules. Ms Pushpika de Silva […]

Courtesy The Hindustan Times Sri Lanka has unveiled draft legislation for a Colombo Port City Commission which allows for sweeping tax breaks, tax-free salaries and to be an offshore financial centre.ANI |PUBLISHED ON APR 11, 2021 04:36 PM IST US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, Alaina Teplitz on Saturday warned Sri Lanka of unintended […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 02 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (April 11). As per the Department of Government Information, both victims are male patients, aged 60 and 72 years. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 598 in total.

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka on Sunday (April 11) confirmed another 55 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus in the country as total infections detected within the day reached 225. This brought the total number of Covid-19 confirmed in the country thus far to 95,131. According to the Epidemiology Unit, 2,902 patients infected with the virus […]

Courtesy Adaderana The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa may evade the protection provided by Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is very low and the research has not been peer-reviewed. The study, released on Saturday, compared almost 400 people who had […]