Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C. The Embassy of Sri Lanka, in collaboration with its ‘Overseas Sri Lankans (OSL) Network’ in the USA, will celebrate Sinhala and Tamil New Year on Sunday, April 18, 2021, from 11.00 am onwards. Modeled on the Ratawata Aurudu” programmes done connecting main cities in Sri Lanka during the New Year, […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සිංහල දෙමළ අලුත් අවුරුද්දේ හිසතෙල් ගෑමේ නැකත් චාරිත්‍රය අගමැති නිල නිවසේ දී අද (17) දින පෙරවරුවේ ඉටු කළේය. පූර්වභාග 7.16ට දකුණු දිශාව බලා හිසට නුගපත් ද පයට කරඳ පත් ද තබා නිල් පැහැති වස්ත්‍රාභරණයෙන් සැරසී නුග පත් යුෂ මිශ්‍ර නානු හා තෙල් ගා ස්නානය කිරීම මෙවර සිංහල […]

තිසර සමල්   – අනුරාධපුර  සිංහල හින්දු අලුත් අවුරුද්දේ හිස තෙල් ගෑමේ උතු⁣රු මැද පළාත් රාජ්‍ය මහෝත්සවය උතුරු මැද පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර මහීපාල හේරත්, රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍ය දුමින්ද දිසානායක යන මහත්වරුන්ගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද (17) අනුරාධපුර ආයුර්වේද රෝහල් පරිශ්‍රයේදී පැවැත්විණි. පූර්ව භාග 7.16 ට දකුණු දිශාව බලා හිසට නුග පත්ද, පයට කරඳ පත්ද තබා නිල් පැහැති වස්ත්‍රාභරණයෙන් සැරසී නුග […]

By Qi Zhenhong, Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka On the evening of March 29, Chinese President Xi Jinping had an important phone conversation with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. This was the second phone conversation between the two state leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic,  and  a strategic communication with a backdrop of international and regional […]

By Shyam Nuwan Ganewatta Courtesy The Island The President of the country would always appoint members to the Colombo Port City Economic Commission, entrusted with running of that city under the proposed CPCEC Bill, State Minister of Money & Capital Market and State Enterprise Reforms, Ajith Nivard Cabraal, yesterday, told the media, in Colombo. State […]

Courtesy Adaderana Some restrictions will have to be imposed on arrivals from overseas taking into account the uptick in positive cases of COVID-19 among individuals arriving in Sri Lanka, says the Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Sudath Samaraweera. In a statement, he said Sri Lanka has registered 52,710 coronavirus infections so far in 2021 with 1,593 of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ministry of Health on Friday (April 15) confirmed 85 more new cases of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka as the daily cases count reached 253. According to the Department of Government Information, among the new positive cases are 49 individuals who arrived in the country from overseas. The new development has brought the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 death toll climbed to 617 today (April 17) as two more persons were confirmed to have died of the virus infection. One of the deceased is a 73-year-old woman Kelaniya area. She passed away while receiving treatment at the Colombo National Hospital on Friday (April 16). The cause of death […]

Courtesy Adaderana Five persons have been taken into custody for promoting the now-defunct separatist group LTTE, says Minister of Public Security, Rear Admiral (Rtd.) Sarath Weerasekara. The arrest has been made by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID). Three of the arrestees are from Jaffna and the other one is from Kilinochchi, according to Minister Weerasekara.

Courtesy Adaderana The Chairman of Deraniyagala Pradeshiya Sabha, who was taken into custody over illegal possession of 98 stolen water meters, has been remanded until the 19th of April. He was produced before Avissawella Magistrate’s Court under the provisions of the Offences Against Public Property Act earlier today (April 17). Deraniyagala Police had received a […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Public Security, Rear Admiral (Rtd.) Sarath Weerasekara says measures will be taken to forfeit the assets of proscribed extremist Islamic organizations. He made this observation responding to the queries raised by the media in Colombo. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on April 13, published an extraordinary gazette notification banning 11 extremist Islamic organizations. […]

Courtesy The Guardian India should be placed on the UK’s red list” for travel after the discovery of a new coronavirus variant, according to a leading scientist. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Prof Danny Altmann, from Imperial College London, says it is mystifying” and confounding” that those flying in from the country are […]

Shweta Sharma and Samuel Lovett  Courtesy The Independent An elderly woman gasped for air at the main 1,000-bed Covid hospital in Mumbai, India, even as a ventilator pumped oxygen into her lungs. She collapsed after hours of struggling for each breath, but came round again after doctors performed CPR to stimulate her heart back to […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia April 16 (AFP) – An 86-year-old car that once belonged to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is now the centrepiece of a seaside museum in Sri Lanka. The prince, whose funeral will be on Saturday, was a car aficionado who bought the 1935 Standard Nine for 12 pounds when he was based in Colombo […]

By P.K.Balachandran/The Citizen Colombo, April 16:  On Thursday, April 15, US President Joe Biden imposed a new round of sanctions against Russia. The Treasury Department blacklisted six Russian technology companies that supported the cyber program run by Russia’s intelligence services. Eight persons and entities associated with Russia’s actions in Crimea were also sanctioned as were […]

By https://www.news-medical.net/Dr. Tomislav Meštrović, MD, Ph.D Courtesy  By investigating antibody and T cell responses to a single dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, researchers from Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom have found that more than 90% of vaccinated individuals produced an adequate amount of antibodies after receiving only one dose of the vaccine – […]

Jiji Press   Tokyo, April 16 (Jiji Press)–The mother of a Sri Lankan woman who last month died at a detention facility in central Japan run by the Immigration Services Agency demanded Friday that the authorities tell the whole truth about her death.   The deceased woman was Wishma Sandamali, 33, according to a support group.   Meeting the press […]

Sri Lanka News Holidaymakers to Sri Lanka who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be given more freedom than non-vaccinated tourists.

Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said there were foreign forces behind opposition politicians whipping up public criticism against the piece of legislations to govern the Colombo Port City. The Minister told a press conference that the proposed law is well in consistent with the constitution as informed by the Attorney […]

Courtesy Adaderana

Courtesy Adaderana Seven new COVID-related deaths were reported in Sri Lanka today (April 16), the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. The new development has pushed the country’s death toll from the pandemic outbreak to 615. 1. The deceased is a 69-year-old male resident in Pasyala. He died on 14.04.2021 while undergoing treatments at National Hospital Colombo. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The national program titled ‘Jeeva Thuru Udanaya,’ organized by the State Ministry of Agriculture to make the general public aware of the nutritional and economic value of the Moringa (drumstick) tree, is expected to kick off tomorrow (April 17). Manusath Derana, the CSR initiative of TV Derana, will join hands with this program […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reports that another 30 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 bringing the tally of fresh cases detected within the day to 159. All new cases are close contacts of Covid patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. Accordingly, the total number of coronavirus cases from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda and prisons clusters […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara  Mahanuwara Although the Indian Politicians and Kavtillyan bureaucrats think they are masters of statecrafts they little realize that all ways it is not the case. For example they never thought Rajiv will be assassinated by the LTTE when the Indian Government subversively nurtured the Tigers to fight against the Sri Lanka government […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The political and social upheaval caused by the 1956 government received a mixed reaction in Sri Lanka society. 1956 had different connotations for different groups.  For the English speaking elites in Colombo  and elsewhere in the island, the world turned upside down. From 1948 to 1956 political power in Ceylon had been held […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. අලුත්ම දේශපාලන මාතෘකාව බවට පත්ව ඇත්තේ කොළඹ වරාය නගරයයි. අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන්ගේ හා ඉන්දීය ව්යාප්තවාදීන්ගේ ද්වේශයට ලක්ව ඇති ප්‍රධානම රටක් බවට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව මේ වනවිට පත්ව ඇත. එහි ඉදිවෙමින් පවතින කොළඹ වරාය නගරය ආසියාවේ දිදුලන වෙළඳ මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් බවට පත්වීම ලෝකයේ කිසිදු බලවතෙකුට වලකාලිය නොහැක.මේ බව දැන දැනත් එහි ඉදිකිරීමට එරෙහිව ගත හැකි උපරිම දායකත්වය […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් හෙට (16) ට යෙදෙන පැළ සිටුවීමේ නැකතට රෝපණය කිරීම සඳහා සුදු සඳුන් පැළයක් පරිසර අමාත්‍ය මහින්ද අමරවීර මහතාට කාල්ටන් නිවසේ දී අද (15) දින  ප්‍රදානය කළේය. සිංහල දෙමළ අලුත් අවුරුදු නැකත් චාරිත්‍රයේ පැළ සිටුවීම හෙට (16) දින පූර්වභාග 6.40 නැගෙනහිර බලා සිදු වේ. මෙම චාරිත්‍රයේ ප්‍රධාන […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. …the broadly held view the world over, [is] that the devolution of power to ethnic minority areas, making for a measure of autonomy, is the best vaccine against separatism.” -Dayan Jayatilleke, Advisor to Sajith Premadasa (Colombo Telegraph, April 7, 2021) If the Tamils’ cry for separatism is given up, the two […]

RANJITH SOYSA CHINA has released a white paper on poverty alleviation which outlines the success of policies implemented, the methods employed and her desire to share the unique social experiment with other developing countries. Sri Lanka being a friendly international partner of China should make use of this opportunity to study the program and plan […]

Courtesy https://www.amnesty.org/ At least 41 Sri Lankan women, the majority of whom are migrant domestic workers, have spent months on end arbitrarily detained at a deportation center in Saudi Arabia, awaiting repatriation to their home country, Amnesty International revealed today. The women have been held at a Deportation Detention (Tarheel) Centre in Riyadh for periods ranging […]