Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum Indian version that has led to clock down of UK next week Cvid 19 Pandemic has now become internalized and we must think international with the involvement with UN, WHO, effected countries and international organizations. It is a salutary step that UN […]

Senaka Weeraratna In the light of the growing problems with certain minority communities culminating in the Easter Sunday Massacre in 2019 that caused the death of 270 innocent men, women and children, and severe injuries to over 500 others, we have to ask ourselves whether the current social order we have today, based on ‘Multiculturalism’ […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activists, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart, Convener “The Muslim Voice” and Member “Viyathmaga”, May 20th., 2021. I do not think that even 25 of these MP’s would have read the bill or resourced material to understand the larger picture of the Hambantota Habour and the Colombo Port City […]

–වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ඔරුවල බන්දු යනු සුවිශේෂී හැකියාවන් තිබු ලේඛකයෙකි. ඔහුට විදේශීය බස හැසිරවීමේ දක්ෂතාවය තිබුනේය. විදේශයන්හි ජිවත් වීම නිසා ඔහුගේ ජිවන අත්දැකීම් විශාල වපසරියකට අයත් විය. එම අත්දැකීම් මෙන්ම ඔහු තුල තිබු විදේශ සංස්කෘතීන් අවබෝධ කර ගැනීම සහ එම සංස්කෘතියනට අයත් මිනිසුන්ගේ සිතුම් පැතුම් ග්‍රහණය කර ගැනීමේ හැකියාව මත මෙතෙක් කිසිම සිංහල ලේබකයෙකු […]

නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශ මීතොටමුල්ල ප්‍රදේශයේ වී අලෙවි මණ්ඩලයේ පැරණි වී ගබඩා පරිශ්‍රය කොවිඩ් රෝගීන් ප්‍රතිකාර මධ්‍යස්ථානයක්  ලෙස වෙන් කර ශ්‍රි ලංකා යුධ හමුදාව විසින් ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ කටයුතු සිදු කරන අතර එම ප්‍රතිකාර මධ්‍යස්ථානයට අවශ්‍ය සියලුම ඇඳන් නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශ අනුබද්ධ ශ්‍රි ලංකා […]

PM Media Division 2019 සහ 2020 වර්ෂවලට සාපේක්ෂව ලෝක වෙළඳ පොළේ ඉන්ධන මිල මේ වනවිට සීඝ්‍රයෙන් ඉහළ යාම පිළිබඳව අද (20) දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කමිටු ශාලා 08 හි රැස්වූ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ  ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පත්කළ අමාත්‍ය අනුකමිටුවේ අවධානය යොමු විය. භූමිතෙල් සහනාධාරය ප්‍රතිපූර්ණය කිරීම, බොරතෙල් සඳහා වන වරාය හා ගුවන් තොටුපළ සංවර්ධන බද්ද (PAL) නැවත […]

Adaderana Colombo, May 20 (Ada Derana) – State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) has made a commercial purchase of 14 million doses of the China-manufactured COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm. The Embassy of China in Colombo confirmed that 03 million out of the purchase will arrive in Sri Lanka in early June.

Courtesy The Mandarin Western Australia will be sending 18 ventilators and more than 10 million masks as part of an aid package to assist some of the worst hit nations battling COVID-19. WA premier Mark McGowan has moved to dispatch essential supplies to help manage the escalating public health crisis in India, Nepal and Sri […]

M R Narayan Swamy Courtesy The Hindu Rajiv Gandhi is greeted before his address at an election rally in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991, moments before he was killed by a suicide bomber.   May 21 marks the 30th anniversary of the grotesque killing of the former Prime Minister, who was believed to be on […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror Lord Naseby, who is also the President and founder of the All Party British Sri Lanka Parliamentary Group, warned the United Kingdom that Sri Lanka would be forced back to count on China and posing a threat to the Indo-pacific strategy if the United Kingdom chose to dictate. In a statement during […]

Courtesy Adaderana The committee stage reading of the Colombo Port City Economic Commission draft bill has been passed with amendments in parliament, with majority of 91 votes. Ada Derana reporter said that the third reading of the bill was passed with 149 parliamentarians voting in favour and 58 voting against the bill.  After presenting the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Parliamentary Council has approved the appointment of Acting Solicitor General Sanjay Rajaratnam as the new Attorney General of Sri Lanka. The Parliamentary Council decided to concur with the proposal of the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appoint Sanjay Rajaratnam, PC, Solicitor General (Acting) as the Attorney General upon the retirement of the incumbent […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reported that another 661 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, pushing today’s total count of positive cases to 3,441. All new Covid-19 cases reported today are associated with the ‘New Year’ Covid-19 cluster. The tally of coronavirus cases associated with the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda, prisons and New year […]

Courtesy Adaderana There may be three times more cases of COVID-19 infections in the society than the ones that are being reported, says State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle. She points out that there is a risk of these unreported infections spreading around the virus even further. […]