By Frances Bulathsinghala/The Sunday Observer Colombo, May 16: This article will attempt to juxtapose the challenge of defeating terrorism that Sri Lanka faced and succeeded in May 2009 being the only country to defeat terrorism, with the challenge as well as potential we face to defeat a pandemic the world cannot. We defeated terror militarily […]

Courtesy Adaderana Army Commander General Shavendra Silva says that travel restrictions will be imposed across the island from 11.00 p.m. on Friday (May 21) to 4.00 a.m. on Tuesday (May 25). He stated that island-wide travel restrictions will be imposed once again from 11.00 p.m. on Tuesday (May 25) to 4.00 a.m. on May 28 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services confirmed that Sri Lanka has reported 19 more deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday (May 17). As per the Department of Government Information, the reported deaths had occurred between May 10 and May 17. They are identified as residents of Boralesgamuwa, Medakimbieeya, Waskaduwa, Maggona, Kalutara, Payagala, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 854 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,433. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 145,202. As many as 119,629 recoveries and 962 deaths […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that a decision has been taken to direct COVID-19 infected patients to treatment facilities or intermediate care centres closest to their residences, for the necessary treatment. The decision has been taken after considering the severe stress that affects individuals and their families when they become infected with the virus. The […]

By Nikhil Inamdar and Aparna Alluri Courtesy BBC News It took 31-year-old Sneha Marathe half a day to book an appointment online for a Covid vaccine. “It was a game of ‘fastest finger first’,” she says. “The slots filled up in three seconds.” But the hospital cancelled her slot at the last minute: they had […]

සුදත් ගුණසේකර. මහනුවර සිරිසඝබෝ රජතුමා (ක්රි.ව. 252 – 254) රට හා රට වැසියන්  රක්තාක්ෂි රෝගයෙන් රටවැසියන් මියයන්ට වූ විට  (රතැසි යකා)  තම අධිෂ් ඨාන බලයෙන් සිරියහන් ගබඩාවට ගෙන්වාගෙන  තම රටවැසියන් නොකා තමා කනමෙන් කියා යකා දමනය කල හැටි එලු අත්තනගළු වන්ශයේ සඳන් වෙනවා. සිරිසඟබෝ රජතුමා එදා ඇමතිමණ්ඩලය රැස්කොට කීවේ ඉමන් සරත්තන් පිසිතන් සරීරන්–ධාරේමි ලොකස්ස හිතත්ත […]

Senaka Samarasinghe Hemasiri Perera is among the few people with extraordinary qualities I have met in my life. He was a practising Buddhist and I would call him a true renunciant though a layman. I came to know Mr. Perera in Winnipeg, Canada where he migrated with his loving wife Prema to spend their retirement […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය කොවිඩ් රෝගීන්ට පිහිට වීම සඳහා තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සංකල්පයකට අනුව රට පුරා ක්‍රියාත්මක වූ දින 10න් ඇඳන් 10000ක් ව්‍යාපෘතිය අද (16) දිනයේ සම්පූර්ණ කිරීමට ඊට ස්වෙච්ඡාවෙන් සම්බන්ධවූ තරුණ තරුණියෝ සමත්වූහ. ව්‍යාපෘතියේ ඉලක්ක සපුරාලීමට ජාතික තරුණ සේවා සභාව හා ජාතික යොවුන් සේනාංකය පෙරමුණ ගත් අතර ඊට රාජ්‍ය ආයතන […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් සංචාරක බුබුලු හරහා මෙරටට පැමිණ යුක්‍රේන ජාතික සංචාරකයන් හරහා මෙරටට කොරෝනා පැතිරීමක් සිදු වූ බවට කිසිදු සාක්ෂියක් නැති බව රුසියාවේ හිටපු ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති උදයංග වීරතුංග මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. සංචාරක බුබුල නියාමන අවධියේදී කොරෝනා වෛරසය යුක්රේන ජාතිකයන් හරහා මහජනතාවට පැතිරීමක් වාර්තා වී නැතැයි ද ඔහු කියා සිටී. එනිසා ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 16 (Xinhua/newsin.asia/Economynext): People in Colombo and other parts of Sri Lanka are queuing up to get jabs of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine. As on May 16, Sri Lanka had 140,000 Covid positive cases and 941 had died. Currently, Sri Lanka has a stock of close to 600,000 Sinopharm doses which were […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 death toll saw an uptick today (May 16) as the Director-General of Health Services confirmed 21 more victims. As per official data, new fatalities have moved the total to 962. The deaths were reported from Anuradhapura, Motaruwa, Mirigama, Nebada, Badulla, Bulathsinhala, Imaduwa, Muruthgahamula, Ingiriya, Gelioya, Jaffna, Handapangoda, Habaraduwa, Emibilipitiya, Nakiyadeniya, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reported that 543 more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka on Sunday (May 16), as the daily count of new cases moved to 2,275. According to the Government Information Department, 2,212 of the new cases reported today are associated with the New Year […]

Courtesy Adaderana A request has been made to prioritize Divisional Secretaries, Divisional Staff Officers, Samurdhi Development Officers, Agriculture Officers, and Grama Niladharis in the country’s COVID-19 vaccination drive. Speaking to the media in Dambulla today (16) the Minister of Public Services, Provincial Councils, and Local Government Janaka Bandara Tennakoon stated that he had made a […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala  When the first Israeli airstrike hit Gaza on Monday nine children and 13 others were killed, according to Washington Post. (Monday 10, May, 2021). By Saturday the  death toll had risen to over hundred and 33 of them were children. Simultaneously, Taliban bombs exploding in Kabul on Tuesday killed 85 Muslim school girls, […]

by Cassandra Willyard Courtesy Technologyreview.com The hype around scariants” is overblown. But we also shouldn’t be too complacent. On May 10, the World Health Organization added a new virus to its list of covid-19 variants of global concern. The variant, B.1.617, is being blamed for the runaway infections in India. It is the fourth addition […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය IMI Games සහ SLT මොබිටෙල් එක්ව පවත්වන ලංකාවේ ප්‍රථම හා විශාලතම Hyper Casual – eSports තරගාවලිය අද (15) සවස 5ට ආරම්භ වේ. ශ්‍රී ලාංකේය සයිබර් ක්‍රීඩක ක්‍රීඩිකාවන්ගේ කුසලතා ඔප්නැංවීම සහ සයිබර් ක්‍රීඩා නිර්මාණය කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය තාක්ෂණික පසුබිම හා දායකත්වය ලබාදීම මෙම තරගාවලියේ ප්‍රධාන අරමුණයි. තරගාවලිය ජයගන්නා 300 […]

By A. Abdul Aziz Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad calls on Muslim nations to show a united front and to stand against the cruelties and injustices being perpetrated on the Palestinians The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim, Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has strongly condemned the cruelties being perpetrated upon the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 15 (Bloomberg) – Sri Lankan government debt is leading gains in Asian dollar bonds this year as investors bet that the nation will avoid defaulting on its short-term notes, with the help of a Chinese funding facility. Italian investment manager AcomeA SGR S.p.A., which added to its holdings of the nation’s debt […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has vaccinated a total of 61,882 individuals with Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine on Friday (May 14), says State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Prof. Channa Jayasumana. The first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine has been given to 276,762 people so far after it was rolled out among Sri Lankan […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services confirmed that Sri Lanka has reported 20 more deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday (May 15). As per the Department of Government Information, the reported deaths had occurred between May 07 and May 15. Among the deceased are 09 female patients and 11 male patients. They […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 585 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,371. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 140,471. As many as 117,220 recoveries and 921 deaths […]

By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent China has successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars, state media announced early on Saturday. The six-wheeled Zhurong robot was targeting Utopia Planitia, a vast terrain in the planet’s northern hemisphere. The vehicle used a combination of a protective capsule, a parachute and a rocket platform to make the descent. The […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  A National Physical Plan for 2011-2030, was prepared under President Mahinda Rajapaksa   and gazetted in 2011. When the Yahapalana puppet government took over in 2015, this plan was discarded. Yahapalana said that the 2011 plan was now outdated as several key national and international developments have taken place since then. The Yahapalana government […]

Sarath Wijeisnghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel and President Ambassador’s Forum Foreign Policy (Henry Kissinger – America has no permanent friends or enemies- Only interests) Foreign policy is the set of rules or practices followed by a nation as a member of the global forum linked by the UN today as guidelines […]

BY MIKE ADLER Courtesy Toronto.com Tamil Canadians support bill, while some Sri Lankan Canadians say ‘there is another side to the story’ Anura Ferdinand of the Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition, and other members of the community objecting to Ontario’s passage of Bill 104, are shown during a Zoom call on May 10, 2021. – Zoom […]

කම්කරු අරගල මධ්‍යස්ථානය සභාපති, ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා රාජ්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු සංස්ථාව, අංක 130, ඩබ්.ඒ.ඞී. රාමනායක මාවත, කොළඹ 02. 2021/05/14. සභාපතිතුමණි, සේවක ගැටලූ කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමුකිරීම ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා රාජ්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු සංස්ථාව එක් කලෙක මෙරට ඉදිකිරීම් ක්ෂේත‍්‍රයේ දැවැන්තයා ලෙස වැජඹුණු බව  සාමාන්‍ය පිළිගැනීමයි. එහෙත් එහි වත්මන් තත්ත්වය අතිශය ඛේදජනක ය. මේ වනවිට ඉංජිනේරු සංස්ථාව තුළ අර්බුද රැුසක් පැන නැගී […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 14 (NewsWire) – The coronavirus vaccination programme will be conducted today, despite an islandwide travel restriction being enforced from today till Monday (17). The vaccination programme will be carried out in 56 vaccination centres in the Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara Districts. The public will be permitted to travel to their nearest […]

Courtesy Adaderana The vaccination program will be expanded to Kandy, Kurunegala and Ratnapura districts after concluding the process in Western Province, Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi said today. People in selected MOH areas of the aforesaid three districts will be administered COVID jabs, the she stated delivering a statement on the country’s inoculation drive. As […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reported that 1,380 more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka on Friday (May 14), as the daily count of new cases moved to 2,269. According to the Government Information Department, the new cases reported today are associated with the New Year coronavirus cluster. […]