ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති මුදල් ඒ ස්වරූපයෙන් ම නිෂ්පාදන කාර්යයට දායක නොවන බැවිත් අර්ථ ශාස්ත්‍රය තුළ මූල්‍යමය ප්‍රාග්ධනය” හැඳින්වෙනුයේ උදාසීන නිෂ්පාදන සාධකයක් වශයෙනි. මෙම උදාසීන බව නැතිවන්නේ නිෂ්පාදන කාර්යය සඳහා අවශ්‍ය භාණ්ඩ මිල දී ගැනීමට එය යෙද වූ විට ය. ගොවිතැන් කටයුතු වෙනුවෙන් මිල දී ගත් ට්‍රැක්ටරයක් එම නිෂ්පාදනය සඳහා යොදාගනු ලබන ප්‍රාග්ධනයකි. කෙසේ වුව ද, […]

 Pathfinder The Pathfinder Foundation produced a Report Pathfinder Beyond the Box; a New Economic Vision for post-Covid Sri Lanka,” can read full text on https://bit.ly/3iSRx1L which was presented to senior policy makers and made available to the public in May 2020. 14 months on, it is time to take stock. The Report presented a policy […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කළු ගලේ ඔළුව ගහ ගන්න එපා යැයි කතාවට කීවද තමන් ඇතුළු පිරිස හැමදාමත් කළේ කළු ගලේ ඔළුව ගසා ගැනීම බවත් නමුත් සිදු වූයේ හිස තුවාල වීම වෙනුවට කළු ගල් පුපුරා යාම බවත් බලශක්ති අමාත්‍ය නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටියේ ය. ඒ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කර සිටියේ දෙරණ […]

Yohan Basura Courtesy The Daily Mirror A serious issue has arisen in the Sports Ministry after tender procedures have been allegedly breached over the purchase of equipment for the Fitness Center (Gym) of the Department of Sports Development under the Ministry of Sports. Both companies that submitted bids for this tender have deficiencies in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed 71 more COVID-19 related fatalities that have occurred yesterday (June 21). The new development has pushed the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 2,704. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the new victims confirmed today […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says 751 more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 today (June 22) increasing the daily count of positive cases to 2,071. All new cases reported within the day have been associated with the New Year cluster.  This brings the tally of confirmed infections of coronavirus reported in the country so […]

Jevans Nyabiage  Courtesy The South China Morning Post Xi Jinping responds positively to direct appeal from his Brazzaville counterpart to renegotiate terms of US$2.4 billion loans A renewed agreement with Chinese lenders will help the central African country unlock funding from the IMF China has once again come to the rescue of the Republic of Congo, […]

උපුටා ගැනීම – දිවයින 2021.06.22 උදය ගම්මන්පිල තෙල් මිල වැඩි කිරීමේ ප‍්‍රකාශය කළේ ජනාධිපති සහ අගමැති ඇතුළු ආණ්ඩුවේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨයන් පිරිසක් සහභාගි වූ රැස්වීමක නිර්දේශය මතය. රැස්වීමෙන් එළියට පැමිණි ගම්මන්පිල තෙල් මිල වැඩි කරන බව ප‍්‍රකාශයට පත් කළේය. මේ අනුව අප පෙරද සඳහන් කරන ලද පරිදි උදය ගම්මන්පිල තෙල් මිල වැඩි කළේ සිය බිරිඳ, නැන්දම්මා සහ […]

Dr. Parakrama Waidyanatha Courtesy The Island Dr Anurudha Padeniya, President of the GMOA in a LankaCNews presentation overwhelmed this writer with trepidation and fear. What is his mission in public fear-mongering? The title of his talk (in Sinhala) was Agrochemical which is a mass-exterminator” kills ten times more than Corona”. He claims that while the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi was quoted telling parliament, Sri Lanka reports 230,000 new kidney and cancer patients annually due to use of chemical fertiliser and pesticides. Breaking down that number she had said 6,000 kidney patients annually and 54 cancer patients succumb daily to their tragic ailments. She had also told parliament […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The President is effectively hollowing out 25% of the earnings of these already cash-strapped communities. His gamble is pushing a good part of Sri Lanka’s farmers, who are living on the fringes of poverty, back into abject poverty. This is a crime! To be blunt, this is a crime worse than […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers have approved a proposal to import 100,000 metric tonnes of rice to counter the unusual price increase of rice in the local market.  The cabinet paper presented by Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena for this purpose has been approved by the Cabinet.

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services today confirmed another 52 Covid-19 related deaths that had occurred on June 20.  The latest deaths include 22 females and 30 males while one of the victims is a below the age of 30. Ten are aged between 30-59 while the rest are 60 years and above.  […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 367 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today increasing the daily count of positive cases to 2,098. All new cases reported today are associated with the New Year cluster.  This brings the tally of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country so far to 241,820. Presently […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Several   countries   which are pro-Eelam have   prevented senior military officials of the Sri Lanka army, from attending prestigious foreign courses and receiving scholarships, citing unsubstantiated war crimes accusations.  Maj. Gen Jagath Dias was not allowed to join an ICRC project in Australia.  US refused to accommodate Maj. Gen. Sudantha Ranasinghe, on a programme […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu It is not only the government that defended the move, but also Jaffna-based fisher cooperatives. Days after Tamil Nadu fishermen protested Sri Lanka’s efforts to build an artificial reef off Delft island, west of Jaffna peninsula, authorities defended the move aimed at enhancing fish breeding”. Last week, Sri Lanka’s Department […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The statement put out by SLPP (Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna)  General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam, critical of Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila over the latest fuel price hike, laid bare once again factions and frictions  in the government . It is commonsense that the fuel price hikes cannot be enforced without sanction of the […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror The concerns have been raised to such an extent over the contradictory figures on COVID-19 deaths and cases in the country that medical experts claim that to be a conspiracy. Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) President Dr. Anurudda Padeniya voiced against the controversy over COVID-19 figures. I say with […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed 47 more COVID-19 related deaths that have occurred yesterday (June 19). This pushes the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 2,581. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the new fatalities confirmed today include 20 females […]

Courtesy Adaderana Daily COVID-19 cases count hit 2,008 on Sunday (June 20) as 455 more people were tested positive for the virus in Sri Lanka. Earlier this evening, the Department of Government Information confirmed 1,553 new cases associated with the New Year Cluster. The new development brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS One way of erasing the Eelam victory is by declaring that the officers, who led the military campaigns, had committed war crimes.  Critics observed that army officers who led front line fighting formations in the Eelam war were relentlessly pursued on the basis of unsubstantiated war crime allegations, not proved in a court […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS It is necessary to examine thoroughly the allegation that the government denied food and medicine to the Tamil population in Vanni during Eelam war IV. This is a lie, Sri Lanka never deprived the north of food and medicine, reported Shamindra Ferdinando. Even during the Vanni offensive they received supplies. Never in the […]

Courtesy The Japan Today NAGOYA A criminal complaint has been filed with prosecutors over the death in March of a Sri Lankan woman who was being held at an immigration facility in Nagoya. Masaki Hirata, a Nagoya City University scholar and supporter of Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali, accused an unknown person of failing to provide […]

ආචාර්ය රසන්ජලී අබේවික්‍රම විසිනි Courtesy The Island අධ්‍යාපනය යනු කෙනෙකුගේ ජීවිතය වැඩිදියුණු කළ හැකි ආයුධයකි. එය සමාජයේ දැනුම ව්‍යාප්ත කිරීමට උපකාරී වන ඉතා වැදගත් මෙවලමක් වන අතර එය අධ්‍යාපනයේ වඩාත්ම කැපී පෙනෙන ප්‍රතිලාභයකි. තවද, එය දැනුම පරම්පරාවෙන් තවත් පරම්පරාවකට මාරු කරන මාධ්‍යයක් ලෙස ක්‍රියා කරයි. රටක ආර්ථිකය සහ සමාජය නංවාලීමට අධ්‍යාපනය උපකාරී වේ; එබැවින් එය […]

YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that under the leadership of the Communist Party, China had become the most powerful country in the world economy today and it was important for Sri Lanka to understand how the development of the future cyber age applies to Sri Lanka and how […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror With the Chinese Navy getting new port projects in Sri Lanka, a top Indian Navy officer said that it ‘could pose a threat’ to Indian interests in the region and there is a need to keep a close watch on such activities. In an interview with ANI, Navy vice-chief vice-admiral G […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has amended the functions, responsibilities and institutions coming under the purview of Industries Ministry and the Agriculture Ministry through a Gazette Extraordinary, effective from June 17. The communiqué was published on Friday (June 18), amending the Gazette Extraordinary No. 2187/27 issued on August 09, 2020. Thereby, Lanka Phosphate Company Ltd. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 749 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,169. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 237,588. As many as 199,393 recoveries and 2,534 deaths […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 54 more victims of COVID-19, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today. The latest fatalities have moved the death toll from the virus infection to 2,534, according to Government Information Department’s data. Reportedly, the victims have succumbed to the virus infection on Friday (June 18). As per official data, […]

Courtesy Adaderana According to the Genome sequencing results of the lions which tested COVID-19 positive at the Chennai Zoo, four samples have been identified as Delta” variants of the virus. As per the World Health Organization(WHO), this variant showed higher transmissibility and reduced neutralisation(by antibodies). This variant is first said to have been detected in […]