Dr .C.S. WEERARATNA Former Professor of Agriculture at Ruhuna and Rajarata Universities In 2019, around Rs 310 billion worth of food has been imported. Among these are rice, sugar, green gram, red onion, big onion, maize, etc., which can be locally produced. If we are to reduce our expenditure on food imports, it is essential […]

by Devaka Dias Courtesy Island 1. Vegetatively Propagated Teas are CLONAL HYBRIDS which requires high and correct nitrogen ratios to reach its potential yield of over 3,000 kg per hectare made tea per annum. 2. The required norm is 10 kg nitrogen for every 100 kg of made tea. If soil carbon ratios are good […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පාඨලි චම්පික රනවක මහතාගේ විශෙෂ නියොජිතයකු හා සජිත් ප්‍රෙමදාස මහතාගේ විශෙෂ නියොජිතයකු අතර දෙපාර්ශවයේ අනුදැනුම ඇතිව 11 දිනයේ විශේෂ සාකච්ජාවක් පවත්වා තිඛෙ. මෙහිදි පාඨලි චම්පික රනවක මහතාගේ පාර්ශවයේන් දැඩිව ප්‍රකාශ කර තිබුනේ ඉදිරි මැතිවරණයෙදි අගමැති අපෙක්ෂකත්වය එ මහතාට ලැබිය යුතු බවයි.තවද එය සානාත කරමින් මැතිවරණයට පෙර සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ නියොජ්‍ය […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් තමනට ඇමති ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වන්නැයි ලිපිය නිකුත් කිරිමට පෙර නෙළුම් මාවතේ ZOOM සාකච්චාවක් තිබූ බව බලශක්ති ඇමති උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ මහ ලේකම් සාගර කාරියවසම් හසුරුවන අදිසි හස්තය තමන් දන්නා බවත් එය සිදුවන්නේ විදේශයක සිට බවත් ඇමතිවරයා කියා සිටී. මේ ප‍්‍රහාරය එල්ල වන්නේ තමනට නොව මහින්ද […]

Courtesy The Daily News Tissa Wewa The Holy City of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka is a place unlikely to be the setting for a fascinating tale of flying objects and other mundane events. Anuradhapura, named after a King’s chieftain called Anuradha, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world. It thus means […]

Courtesy fibre2fashion.com Pic: ShutterstockSri Lanka’s Export Development Board (EDB) recently expressed concern over the resolution adopted by the European Union (EU) parliament calling on the European Commission to consider the temporary withdrawal of Sri Lanka’s generalised scheme of preferences plus (GSP+) status for the latter’s persistent failure to adopt and enact human rights reforms and repeal the Prevention […]

Courtesy Vietnamplus The Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese State always treasure the traditional friendship and fruitful cooperation with Sri Lanka, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has said. Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong holds phone talks with President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Galle Chief Magistrate Harshana Kekunawela today ordered health authorities to hand over the list of persons who were given the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccine at the Galle Health Services Director’s Office on June 5 and 7, to the police. The orders were issued after considering the facts provided by […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services confirmed that Sri Lanka has reported 57 more deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic. As per the Department of Government Information, the reported deaths had occurred on June 13. Among the deceased are 32 male patients and 25 female patients. Accordingly, the total number of deaths due to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka on Sunday (June 12) registered 67 more victims of COVID-19, the Director-General of Health Services. The latest fatalities have moved the death toll from the virus infection to 2,203, according to Government Information Department’s data. Meanwhile, Director General of Health Services Dr. Asela Gunawardena says that COVID-19 deaths will be reported […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 479 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,259. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 225,922. As many as 190,464 recoveries and 2,203 deaths […]

Media Release We, hereby, vehemently condemn the derogatory and misleading remarks made by Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya – who seems to be a consummate politician and is a medical trade union leader – during a recent media release, in which he challenged the Agricultural officers’ knowledge on organic agriculture. Furthermore, we believe that his conduct is […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The main charge against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC is that they deliberately killed thousands of civilians in the last phase of Eelam War IV. Rajiva Wijesinha was Secretary-General of the Sri Lankan Government Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) from 2007–2009. In that capacity Rajiva had access to war data. Rajiva […]

සමස්ත ලංකා හෙද සංගමය හෙද ගැටළු නොවිසදන්නේ නම් ඉදිරි සතිය තුළ නැවතත් වෘත්තීය ක්‍රියාමාර්ගයන්ට. #කොවිඩ් වසංගත තත්වය හමුවේ ඉතා අවධානම් සහ භාරධූර රාජකාරියක නිරතව සිටින මෙරට 38000ක පමණ හෙද කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයට බලපා තිබෙන වෘත්තීය ගැටලූ ගණනාවක් විසඳාගැනීම අරමුණු කොට පසුගිය මැයි 31වන දා තෝරාගත් රෝහල් ගණනාවක හෙද කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය එක්දින අසනීප නිවාඩු වාර්ථා කිරීමේ වෘත්තීය […]

By Dr.Nirmala Chandrahasan/The Island Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 9: The recent discovery of name- boards in public institutions which have omitted one of the national languages, namely Tamil, only to replace it with Mandarin Chinese has caused a furor with Tamil members of Parliament and other politicians voicing their protests. Certainly, this is most unfortunate […]

Courtesy Gulf Times The Federation of Sri Lankan Muslim Associations Qatar (FSMA-Q), under the guidance of the Sri Lankan embassy in Qatar, has provided 60 medical oxygen cylinders to help in the fight against Covid-19 back in Sri Lanka. The Federation of Sri Lankan Muslim Associations Qatar (FSMA-Q), under the guidance of the Sri Lankan […]

Courtesy NewsX The Tamil Nadu state police and Central intelligence agencies have been on their feet and high vigilance after threats of an armed group trying to infiltrate from Sri Lanka were received. The Tamil Nadu state police and Central intelligence agencies have been on their feet and high vigilance after threats of an armed […]

Courtesy The National News Citizens from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are affected Bahrain has indefinitely suspended giving work permits to people from coronavirus red list countries who are outside the kingdom, a representative of the Labour Market Regulatory Authority told The National on Sunday. For the time being, individuals who are in India, Pakistan, […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Energy Udaya Gammanpila, addressing the criticisms over the recent price hike of fuel, says that all he did was informing the public of a collective decision made by the government including the President and the Prime Minister. Holding a press conference today (June 13), the Minister of Energy responded to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Daily COVID-19 cases count hit 2,329 on Sunday (June 13) as 443 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 223,606. As many as 188,547 recoveries and 2,136 deaths have been confirmed in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The construction work on the Central Expressway in the Gampaha District will be temporarily suspended, said Minister of Tourism Prasanna Ranatunga. The work will be suspended until a final decision is reached after reviewing the construction plan, he said. A number of areas in the Gampaha District have been inundated due to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The latest fuel price hike is a step taken to stabilize the national economy, bank interest rates, and foreign reserves as well as to secure and improve the health and welfare of the public, President’s Media Division said. Issuing a statement, the PMD stated that the Cabinet Sub Committee on Cost of Living […]

Courtesy Adaderana World leaders meeting in Cornwall are to adopt strict measures on coal-fired power stations as part of the battle against climate change. The G7 group will promise to move away from coal plants, unless they have technology to capture carbon emissions. It comes as Sir David Attenborough warned that humans could be on […]

S.AKURUGODA As per the main news item that appeared in The Island dated 9/06/2021 under the title ‘Covid time bonanza: Luxury SUVs for MPs coming, after all!’, the government was not in a position to cancel the order placed for the import of luxury vehicles for the 225 MPs as the opening of Letters of […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Darusman Report (2011) which was commissioned by the UN Secretary-General pointed out that that there was a need for the UN to review its actions in the Eelam War IV. Clearly, it was felt that the UN had failed in its task of manipulating the Eelam war. Sri Lanka had won the […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය, තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය සියලුම නිදහස් වෙළඳ කලාපවල සේවක සේවිකාවන් සඳහා ජූලි මස මුල් සතියේ පළමු එන්නත් මාත්‍රාව ලබාදෙන බව තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (12) දින පැවසීය. තිස් වැනි සංවත්සරය සමරන කොග්ගල නිදහස් වෙළද කලාපයේ කර්මාන්තශාලාවන්හි ආයෝජකයන් සහ එහි කළමණාකරුවන් සමඟ එම වෙළඳ කලාප පරිශ්‍රයේ පැවති හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය,තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය කොවිඩ් වසංගත තත්ත්වය හේතුවෙන් මාර්ගගත (Online) ක්‍රමවේදය ඔස්සේ අධ්‍යයන කටයුතුවල නිරතවන රටේ සියලුම දරුවන්ට අන්තර්ජාල සේවා ගාස්තුවකින් තොරව e-තක්සලාව හරහා නොමිලේ අධ්‍යාපන වරම් ලබාදීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය කඩිනම් කරන්නැයි තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය, ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. E-තක්සලාව ක්‍රමවේදයේ දැනට පවතින දුෂ්කරතා අවම කරගනිමින් වඩාත් […]

By Jonny Tickle Courtesy RT Covid-19 has mutated significantly, and the virus is now much harder to treat than it used to be. That’s according to the head of Moscow’s Kommunarka Hospital, which last year became the city’s main coronavirus treatment facility. Speaking to Moscow radio station Ekho Moskvy on Thursday, the hospital’s chief physician, Denis […]

Courtesy RT According to recent US research, Covid-19 may lead to the type of brain changes common in Alzheimer’s disease, and a team of scientists has identified the mechanisms by which it may be causing such impairments. Cognitive disorders, including dementia, are increasingly being reported as a complication of the highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus that […]