Courtesy Adaderana A team of technical experts of the European Union (EU) will be assisting the Sri Lankan government to assess the environmental damage caused by the fire-ravaged container ship that sank off Colombo, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday (June 18). According to a statement from the ministry, the EU/ECHO – the […]

By Jaliya Wickremarachchi Ontario, Canada. Part I It was six months ago that American insurrection took place in Washington DC.  January 6th 2021, will undoubtedly go down in history as the darkest day of American democracy.  The world watched with horror as the most powerful beacon of democracy was coming apart by angry White mobs.  […]

Sri Lankan American Action Coalition. (SLAAC) a volunteer group functioning in USA Bills & Resolutions Forms of Congressional Action The work of Congress is initiated by the introduction of a proposal in one of four principal forms: the bill, the joint resolution, the concurrent resolution, and the simple resolution.  Bills & Resolutions | house.gov An […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum, currently in UK Pandemic war in the peak Pandemic war is in the peak and there is no option but to win it sooner or later depending on the world situation. President and the Government has taken all possible endeavours using the […]

අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල්  අගමැති මාධ්‍ය හා සන්නිවේදන වරාය හා රේගුව ආශ්‍රිත සේවා ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ඉහළම ප්‍රමුඛතාවය…..  අපනයන ව්‍යාපාර ව්‍යාපාරවල නියුතු ආයෝජකයින්ගේ ගැටළු විසඳීම සඳහා කඩිනම් පියවර ගතයුතු බව  තරුණ කටයුතු සහ ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය, ඩිජිටල් සංවර්ධන හා ව්‍යවසාය කටයුතු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය, ගම සමග පිළිසදරක්  ග්‍රාමීය  සංවර්ධන ජනාධිපති කාර්ය සාධක බළකායේ සභාපති නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. ශ්‍රී ලංකා රේගුව […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් දකුණ හා මධ්‍යම පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර මනාප ක්‍රමය තුල ලැයිස්තුවේ ඊලඟට සිටින්නා සෑම විටම තමන්ගේ අවස්ථාව එනතුරු බලා සිටීම අලුත් දෙයක් නොවේ. අලියා, පොහොට්ටුව, ද්‍රවිඩ – මුස්ලිම් පක්ෂ, ලොකු – කුඩා ඕනෑම පක්ෂයක මහජන නියෝජිතයින්ට ඕනෑම මොහොතක විනය චෝදනා එල්ල වී තනතුරු අහිමි කළ හැකිය. අද එජාපට මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් 2300 ක් ඇත. එයින් […]

Keynote Speech by Prof. Kishore Mahbubani At the INSIGHT FORUM” organised by Our Hong Kong Foundation, eminent global thinker Professor Kishore Mahbubani called on the US to hit the pause button” on its geopolitical contest against China amidst the raging global pandemic. Prof Mahbubani, who is a Distinguished Fellow at National University of Singapore’s Asia […]

By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Courtesy BBC UK coronavirus infections have risen slightly in the last week, with an estimated 119,000 people – up from 110,000 – now positive for the virus. The Office for National Statistics figures, up to 12 June, suggest one in every 540 people is infected. The more infectious Delta […]

By Patrick Wintour/The Guardian Courtesy NewsIn.Asia London, May 5: The US faces an uphill task presenting itself as the chief guardian of global democracy, according to a new poll that shows the US is seen around the world as more of a threat to democracy than even Russia and China. The poll finds support for […]

By: SwatiRana Courtesy Eastern Eye UK-based Oil Spill Response experts look for pollutants from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl, which is sinking after burning for almost two weeks in the sea off Colombo Harbour, at Sarakkuwa beach, north of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on June 10, 2021. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via […]

Courtesy The Hindustan Times The head of the National Zoological Gardens here said that they are in touch with India’s Central Zoo Authority to treat an 11-year-old lion named ‘Thor’ who has tested positive.PTI | , Colombo Sri Lanka’s zoological gardens authorities have sought assistance from India after a lion tested positive for the coronavirus at […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said today inaccurate figures on Covid death toll reported on June 11 led to the extension of travel restrictions and stressed that it was vital to provide accurate and updated information to make correct decisions. He said it was revealed through comprehensive investigations that only 15 deaths had […]

Courtesy Adaderana A decision has been taken to lift the islandwide travel restrictions currently in effect at 4.00 a.m. on Monday (June 21), Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said. However, the travel restrictions will be re-imposed at 10.00 p.m. on June 23 (Wednesday) and continue until 4.00 a.m. on June 25 (Friday). He said that […]

Courtesy Adaderana Daily COVID-19 cases count hit 2,327 on Friday (June 18) as 767 more people were tested positive for the virus in Sri Lanka. The new development brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 235,401. As many as 197,259 recoveries and 2,480 deaths have been confirmed in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed 55 more COVID-19 related fatalities, according to the Government Information Department. The new development brings the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 2,480. Reportedly, the victims – 23 females and 32 males – have succumbed to the virus infection on […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ministry of Agriculture says the government will offer Rs.10,000 per hectare to each farmer who produces organic fertilizer. The decision was reached at a meeting held at the Agriculture Ministry regarding the production and supply of organic fertilizer required for the upcoming Maha Season. During the discussion, it was revealed that 500kg of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Gazette notifications have been published announcing that 59 local government members have vacated their posts as they have ceased to be members of the United National Party (UNP). The declarations were issued by the returning officers of relevant Pradeshiya Sabha, urban councils and municipal councils. These local government members who represented the UNP […]

Courtesy Transparency International Over half of people in the EU think their government is run by a few private interests The Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – European Union released by Transparency International today reveals that almost two thirds of people in the EU think that government corruption is a problem in their country. The GCB, which surveyed more than 40,000 people in […]

Courtesy Transparency International Countries in the European Union (EU) are known for being wealthy, stable and democratic. However, this clean image is undermined by issues ranging from regional inequality and erosion of the rule of law to corruption problems. Transparency International’s new Global Corruption Barometer – EU 2021 is one of the largest, most detailed surveys of […]

Courtesy DW A new survey by Transparency International has found that 29% of EU residents used well-connected friends or family to receive medical care during the pandemic. At least 6% of people paid bribes to access health care. The survey said 26.4% of respondents believed that corruption in Germany had increased over the past year […]

Dr. A.K. Karunarathna, President/PUATA Dr. D.M.S.B. Dissanayaka Secretary/PUATA PRESS RELEASE The Peradeniya University Agriculture Teachers’ Association (PUATA) hereby express our grave concern and displeasure on the baseless allegations made by Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya as a participant in the Urumaya” programme televised live on 14th June 2021 by the Independent Television Network (ITN). Dr. Padeniya’s comments, […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි මේ රටේ සාමාන්‍ය පොදු ජනතාවට අයත් දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක් අවශ්‍ය යයි සිතු අප අපේ තාරුණ්‍ය සම්පුර්ණයෙන්ම කැප කොට ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ ගොඩනැංවුයෙමු. අද එය අපට හිමි නැත. “අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයට විනාශය -ජනතාවට විමුක්තිය “යන සටන් පාඨය මුලිකත්වයෙලා තැනු ඒ දේශපාලන පක්ෂය, මේ වනවිට අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන් විසින් මිලයට ගෙන අපිට එරෙහිව ඔවුන්ගේ ප්‍රධාන මෙවලමක් ලෙස මෙහෙයවයි. සතුටකට […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය, ඩිජිටල් හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය ආයෝජන කලාපවල සේවක සේවිකාවන්ගේ සෞඛ්‍ය ආරක්ෂාව වෙනුවෙන් කොවිඩ් එන්නත්කරණය කඩිනම් කරන බව තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය සහ ඩිජිටල් හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ (16) දින පැවැසීය. බියගම අපනයන සැකසුම් කලාපයේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. කොවිඩ් වසංගත තත්ත්වය […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය ඇතැම් වෙළඳුන් හිතුමනාපයට එළවළු හා පළතුරු මිල ඉහළ දැමීම නිසා පාරිභෝගිකයන්ට සිදුවන අපහසුතා මගහැරිය යුතු බව අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මුලසුනෙන් අද (17) දින පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී රැස්වූ ආර්ථික පුනර්ජීවනය හා දරිද්‍රතාවය තුරන් කිරීම සඳහා වන ජනාධිපති කාර්යසාධන බලකාය තීන්දු කර ඇත. කොවිඩ් වසංගතය හමුවේ එළවළු හා පළතුරු මිල ගණන් […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Madras High Court, on Thursday, allowed Nalini Sriharan and her husband Murugan, convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to make video calls to Sri Lanka and London. Nalini’s mother Padma had filed a petition before the Madras High Court, seeking permission to allow Nalini and Murugan to speak to […]

Courtesy Adaderana

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka today confirmed that the highly-contagious Delta variant of Covid-19, first identified in India, has been detected from community samples obtained in Colombo. This was revealed by the Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura Dr. Chandima Jeewandara. He said the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has endorsed the idea of Sri Lanka joining the Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative – a new global infrastructure investment of USD 40 trillion undertaken by the G7 countries to challenge China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In an exclusive interview with WION, the Opposition Leader said, Sri Lanka […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reported that another 526 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, increasing the daily count in the country to 2,361.  All new cases reported so far today are associated with the ‘New Year’ Covid-19 cluster.  This brings the tally of coronavirus cases confirmed in Sri Lanka to 233,064. Presently […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed 51 more Covid-19 related deaths that occurred yesterday (16), according to the Government Information Department. This pushes the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 2,425. According to the data released by the department, the 51 deaths confirmed today includes 20 […]