By Rohana R. Wasala Government MP Dr. Wijedasa Rajapaksa, a former Justice Minister and an ex-president of the  Bar Association of Sri Lanka, stated over a month ago that the Muslim  World League (owes) families of those who had perished or suffered injuries in the Easter Sunday terror attacks USD 5 mn.” (‘Wijedasa takes it […]

Laksiri Warnakula   Quite a few writers, even doctors among them, have expressed their  concerns with regard to the spread of the virus. The large numbers of people gathered around shops and places of worship during the ‘Avurudhu’ period, casting caution to the wind, was a recipe for disaster. And I fear that what is turning out […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි මේ විශ්වය තුල සිදුවෙන දේ ඉතා ගුප්ත ජනකය. ස්වභාවය, ස්වභාවයේ ධර්මතාවය,තේරුම් නොගෙන අයාලේ යන සියල්ලන්ම යතාර්ථය ඉගෙන ගන්නේ මහා විනාශයක් ලංකරගෙනය. හැමවිටම සිදුවන්නේ ධර්මය රකින්නා ධර්මය විසින්ම සුරැකීමයි. මේ රට පාලනය කිරීම සඳහා සුදුසුකම් ලත්, සේනානායක පවුල, බණ්ඩාරනායක පවුලට පසුව රට උදෙසා නිර්මාණය වුයේ රාජපක්ෂ පවුල පමණි. ස්වභාවය විසින් අවබෝධකරගෙන නිර්මාණිත මේ […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති ජනරජයක පරාමාධිපත්‍ය බලය හිමිවන්නේ ජනතාවට ය. එහෙයින් එය තුළ ක්‍රියාත්මක සියලු පාලන බලතල ජනතාවට හිමිවෙයි. දෙවැනි ජනරජ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව තුළ මෙම කාරණය දක්වා කර ඇත්තේ ජනතාවගේ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක බලය, ජනතාවගේ විධායක බලය සහ ජනතාවගේ අධිකරණ බලය යනුවෙනි. තව ද, ජනතාවගේ ඡන්ද බලය තුළින් තෝරාගනු ලබන නියෝජිතයන් මාර්ගයෙන් සහ ජනමත විචාරණයක දී ජනතාව විසින් […]

by Jamila Husain Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 4 (Daily Mirror) – Army Commander and Head of the National Operations Center for Prevention of COVID-19, General Shavendra Silva yesterday denied claims that his niece’s wedding had been held on Monday at a leading luxury hotel in Colombo amidst the pandemic, stating this was part of a campaign to […]

Courtesy Hiru News With the reporting of 54 foreign arrivals who were tested positive for Covid, a total of 1914 Covid-19 patients were reported today.

Courtesy Hiru News One more review session of COVID-19 Task Force members on the control of the epidemic, chaired by General Shavendra Silva, Head, NOCPCO, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army, together with Dr Asela Gunawardena, Medical Specialist and Director General of Health Services got underway this afternoon (4) at the National […]

Courtesy Adaderana More than 63 percent of the Sri Lankan population can be comprehensively vaccinated before the end of this year, Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi told the Parliament today (May 04). This remark came as a response to an accusation levelled by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa that, who took aim at the government’s handling […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Navy has foiled the attempt of 11 Indian fishing vessels, with 86 individuals on board, to enter Sri Lankan waters today (May 04). The interception was made during one of the special patrols conducted in the sea area close to the Palk Strait to prevent illegal immigrants from entering Sri Lankan […]

Courtesy Adaderana A decision has been taken to reopen the Dambulla Dedicated Economic Centre for trading from tomorrow (05), under strict health guidelines.  Ada Derana reported said that the economic centre would be opened for trading from 5.00 a.m. tomorrow. Major General Nishantha Manage, the Matale District Coordinating Officer for Covid-19 control, stated that permission […]