Courtesy Spear’s  As Sri Lanka becomes the first Asian country to welcome back UK visitors (following a negative PCR test 96 hours before arrival), ÀNI Private Resorts offers guests the incredible opportunity to stay in their exclusive private paradise at the stunning ‘Safe & Secure Level One Certified’, COVID-free resort: ÀNI Sri Lanka. ÀNI Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana Four new COVID-related deaths were confirmed in Sri Lanka on Monday (April 15), says the Director-General of Health Services. Following the new development, the country’s death toll has climbed to 608, according to the Department of Government Information. 1. The deceased is a 62-year-old male resident in Pannipitiya. He was transferred from Colombo […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ministry of Health on Friday (April 15) confirmed 40 more new cases of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka as the daily cases count reached 167. The new development has brought the total number of COVID-19 confirmed in the country thus far to 95,949. Meanwhile, the country’s recovery count is at 92,308 while 3,033 […]

Courtesy Adaderana A five-member Supreme Court judge bench has been appointed to hear the petition filed against the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill. Chaired by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, the bench consists of Supreme Court Judges Buwaneka Aluvihare, Priyantha Jayawardena, Murdu Fernando and Janak de Silva. The petition, filed by Chairman of the Association […]

Senaka Weeraratna I wish to respond to the article published on ‘ Lankaweb’ (April 06, 2021) under the caption ‘Was Portuguese proselytization ruthless as portrayed?’ byP.K. Balachandran, as I find the contents inaccurate, misleading and contrary to well established historical facts. The writer Balachandran relies on Sir James Emerson Tennent, Colonial Secretary from 1841 to […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The popular mood, after the 1956   elections, was such that everything was to change, the way institutions were run and certainly the persons manning them. The popular mood was not just for language change, though this had priority with an insistent lobby behind it, but it included a lot more, said Bradman Weerakoon. […]

Senaka Weeraratna The then Prime Minister (D.S. Senanayake ) was invited to participate at the San Francisco Peace Treaty Conference in September 1951 after World War II to propose punitive provisions and the enforcement of arbitrary restrictions and embargoes for Japan. At the time DS was not in a position to attend that meeting and […]

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තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර අනුරාධපුර මෙත්සිරි සෙවන කොරෝනා ප්‍රථිකාර  මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ කොවිඩ්-19 වෛසරය ආසාධිතව ප්‍රථිකාර ලබන පිරිස් වෙත හා රෝහල් කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය වෙත  අවුරුදු අසිරිය  රැගෙන    ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සංස්ථාවේ, රජරට සේවය හා කාගීල්ස්  ෆුඩ් සිටි ආයතනය  සමඟ රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතා එම රෝහල වෙත සුව අවුරුදු නෑ ගමන්” ගියහ. රෝග බියෙන් තොර, සුව සම්පත […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය සමස්ත රට වැසියන්ට සුබ අලුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා ! යැයි ප්‍රාර්ථනා කරමින් ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ආර්යා ශිරන්ති රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මිය ඇතුළු පවුලේ සාමාජිකයෝ නැකතට කිරි උතුරවමින් තංගල්ල කාල්ටන් නිවසේ දී අද (14) දින අලුත් අවුරුදු නැකත් චාරිත්‍රවල නිරත වූහ. පළා පැහැති වස්ත්‍රාභරණයෙන් සැරසී නැගෙනහිර දිශාව බලා ආහාර පිසීම, වැඩ ඇල්ලීම, ගනුදෙනු […]

Courtesy https://www.fibre2fashion.com/ Pic: ShutterstockSri Lanka is all set to ban the import of textile fabrics in a bid to protect domestic industry, the state minister for batik, handloom textiles and local apparel productions, Dayasiri Jayasekara, has announced. The relevant gazette notification has been approved by Parliament, and will be notified soon, the minister said last week. Jayasekara […]

Courtesy CGTN News China and Sri Lanka have enjoyed a close relationship for decades. With the pandemic still raging around the world, China is donating vaccines to Sri Lanka. 600,000 doses have recently arrived in the country. Top officials from both countries also vow to advance relations. To discuss China-Sri Lanka cooperation in the post-pandemic […]

Source: Viper Networks, Inc. TROY, Mich., April 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Viper Networks, Inc. (Pink Sheets: VPER), is pleased to announce that the Company has signed a Joint Venture agreement with BIET Technologies Group to partner on the deployment of renewable energy power projects in several countries including USA, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Malawi. […]

By Charles S.Perera  Sajith Premadasa contested the Presidential election from the UNP led coalition of political parties. The Yahapalanaya Government was then in place with a  majority. When Sajith Premadasa  was defeated at the polls and  Gotabhaya Rajapaksa won the Presidential election with 69 lakh of popular votes, Sajith Premadasa if he  was a  wise […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Glory of technology is such that no one will object to introducing technology to land registries.  But will the land owners have their rights protected? We only admire the glory of technology as a duck gliding on water without seeing the paddling underneath. Land owners need to be alerted that their ownership rights may […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS S.W.R.D Bandaranaike was Prime Minister for a very short time, 1956- 1959. Throughout this period, he was soundly ridiculed. Praise for Bandaranaike came several decades later when the MEP period came into historical review and it was found that changes initiated had become entrenched, also that they were good. Then they started to […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart, Member “Viyathmaga” – April 13th., 2021 Providing the consumers/citizens a bottle of quality, local cocunut oil at a control price of Rs. 450/= through Sathosa and Cooperatives, is much welcomed by the “Nation”. But what will be the volume of Coconut Oil in […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කැවිලි පෙවිලි රැගෙන තංගල්ල කාල්ටන් නිවසට අවුරුදු නෑගම් පැමිණි ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂයේ පසුපෙළ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් අද (13) උදෑසන ඉතා සුහඳව පිළිගන්නා ලදි. ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඇතුළු පවුලේ සැමට උදාවන සිංහල දෙමළ අලුත් අවුරුද්දට  සුබ පැතුම් එක්කිරීම සඳහා ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂයේ පසුපෙළ මන්ත්‍රිවරු මෙලෙස කාල්ටන් නිවසට පැමිණ සිටියහ. […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 13 (newsin.asia): The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka, Maj.Gen.(R) Md.Saad Khattak, on Tuesday met the Venerable Uduwe Dhammaloka Thero, the Chief Incumbent of the Alan Mathiniyaramaya at his temple in Kirulapona and wished him on his birthday. They cut a cake to celebrate the occasion. In their discussions the […]

By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy Eurasia Review The visit has significance due to China’s growing ties with countries in the region and the US policy of containing China through the Quad. The visit to Sri Lanka of China’s Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe later this month, may be described as a routine ministerial visit”. But seen […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has confirmed 32 more new cases of the COVID-19 on Tuesday (April 13), as the daily cases count reached 185. Ten of the latest positive cases have been identified from the prison cluster, the Department of Government Information said. The new development has brought the total number of COVID-19 confirmed in […]

Courtesy Adaderana An Assistant Superintendent of Sri Lanka Customs has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the falsification of documents to re-export 23 containers of dried Indonesian areca nuts to India as Sri Lankan areca nuts. The arrest has been made by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), according to the Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith […]

Sarath Wijesinghe Sarath Wijesinghe former Chairman Consumer affairs Authority, President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s forum Introduction of digitalization during the festive season for sustainable educational framework World is fast changing despite dangerous ‘’Covid19’’ – a Pandemic leading towards success in Sri Lanka through education on vistas of prosperity and spender […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය සමස්ත ශ්‍රී ලාංකේයන්ගේ නැවුම් බලාපොරොත්තු ඉටුවන සිංහල දමිළ අලුත් අවුරුද්දක උදාව නිමිත්තෙන් සුභාශිංසන පළ කරනුයේ ඉමහත් සතුටිනි. අපේ රටේ ජනතාව අනාදිමත් කාලයක සිට හෙළ චාරිත්‍ර වාරිත්‍රවලට මුල් තැන දෙමින් හෙළයේ මහා සංස්කෘතික මංගල්‍යය සමඟ එක්වෙති. ගොවිතැන මූලික හරය කරගනිමින් මිනිසුන් අතර බැඳී පවතින සංස්කෘතිකමය වටිනාකමකින් යුතු සමාජ […]

Thomas Babington Macaulay What happened? On 2 February 1835, British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay presented his ‘Minute on Indian Education’ that sought to establish the need to impart English education to Indian ‘natives’. This minute is a very important document for UPSC history. Aspirants should know the gist of this minute and its impact on […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 12 (newsin.asia): In his Sinhala-Tamil New Year message the Chinese Ambassador in Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong has said that tangible outcomes have been constantly achieved in the development of the China-funded Colombo Port City and Hambantota International Port prjects. Qi described these two projects as the new duo engines of Sri […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 12 (newsin.asia): On Monday a USD 500 Million Foreign Currency Term Financing Facility (FTFF) was signed in Beijing between the China Development Bank (CDB) and Sri Lankan Finance Ministry. This is the second tranche of the total RMB 2 billion plus (USD 1 billion) FTFF pledged by the Chinese side to […]

Nazvi Careem Courtesy The South China Morning Post The 19-year-old is hoping to make it big in tennis, moving to Spain six years ago to play on Europe’s competitive ITF circuitFormer Renaissance College student says Hong Kong is her home and she hopes to represent the city in all the major team competitions Adithya Karunaratne […]

Courtesy Aviation Business news Sri Lankan Airlines operated various ad-hoc charters into Entebbe – a destination it doesn’t usually fly to. Within 24 hours NAS Nairobi managing director Sarah Wangui and the wider Entebbe team took advantage of the opportunity and generated a load consisting of fish maws across 135 pieces. Fish maws are considered […]