Courtesy Adaderana Patients with an infection of the highly transmissible B.1.1.7 (Alpha) UK variant of the coronavirus have been reported from multiple areas of the island. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=540754927097793&ref=watch_permalink&t=0 As per the biological samples obtained from COVID-19 patients, the cases are reported from Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Kuliyapitiya, Wariyapola, Habaraduwa, Tissamaharama, Karapitiya, and Ragama areas, Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, the […]

Shenali D Waduge Countries & governments of the world must begin to worry about a future scenario of Chinese in US seeking homeland in USA, Sikhs in UK seeking a homeland in UK, Muslims in US seeking a homeland in USA, Chinese in Australia seeking a homeland in Australia, Muslims in India seeking a homeland […]

  KAMALIKA PIERIS The United Nations  is not as pure as we think. The United Nations, along with the 193 diplomatic missions located in New York, have long been veritable battlegrounds for spying, wire-tapping and electronic surveillance, said Thalif Dean. (2021). At the UN, virtually all the big powers play the spying game. US National […]

Mahinda Rajapakse Prime Minister and Finance Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Ministers, Secretaries, Distinguished Invitees, Ladies and Gentlemen It is with great pleasure that I issue this message today as we celebrate the World Accreditation Day under the theme Accreditation: Supporting the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sri Lanka, along […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය විශ්‍රාම ගිය හෙද හෙදියන් අවශ්‍යතාව අනුව කොන්ත්‍රාත් පදනම මත නැවත සේවයට බඳවා ගන්නැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (09) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිනි පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මියට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. හෙද සේවයේ පවතින ගැටලු සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට රාජ්‍ය සේවා එක්සත් හෙද සංගමයේ සභාපති, බස්නාහිර පළාත් ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නාහිමියන්ගේ ඉල්ලීමකට […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර  රාජ්‍යය යාන්ත්‍රනය ඇත්තටම දැන් දුවන්නේ ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම්කාර්යාල ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා, සෞඛ්‍ය අංශ නිසා, මේ ටික අපි බේරා ගත්තේ නැත්නම්, මේක කඩා වැටුනොත් එහෙම ඊළඟට සේරම ටික ඉවරනේ, මේ ටික තමයි අපි ඉස්සරලාම ආරක්ෂා කර ගන්න ඔ්න. ඒ නිසා රාජ්‍යය නිළධාරීන්ටත් එන්නත්කරණයේදී ප්‍රමුඛතාවක් ලබා දීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් බළධාරීන් සමඟ සාකච්ජා කරන බව රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කාබනික පොහොර බහාලුම් කිහිපයක් පෞද්ගලික සමාගමක් විසින් මෙරටට ආනයනය කර ඇතැයි සමස්ත ලංකා ගොවිජන සම්මේලනයේ ජාතික සංවිධායක නාමල් කරුණාරත්න මහතා පැවසීය. ඔහු සඳහන් කරන්නේ කාබනික පොහොරෙ අඩංගු කන්ටේනර් තුනක් දැනටමත් කොළඹ තොටළඟ පිහිටි කන්ටේනර් අංගනයේ අසුරා තිබෙන බවයි. ඉන්දියාවේ සිට මෙම කාබනික පොහොර තොගය එම සමාගම විසින් ආනයනය කර ඇතැයි […]

By: SwatiRana Courtesy Easterneye THE Sri Lankan government aims to vaccinate its entire population against the coronavirus by the end of 2021 or early 2022, said Army Commander General Shavendra Silva. The country has been able to manage the pandemic without any delay in major development projects and infrastructure project, Silva said, adding, the health […]

By Zhaki Abdullah Courtesy Channel News Asia A Singapore-registered container ship sank off Sri Lanka last week, causing the worst marine ecological disaster for the South Asian country. SINGAPORE: As Sri Lanka deals with its worst marine ecological disaster after the sinking of a Singapore-registered container ship, questions have been raised about who bears the responsibilities in […]

Sanya Burgess Courtesy Sky News Evidence of oil seeping from the wrecked vessel can be seen in images taken on Monday, raising fears of the environmental impact. A large oil slick surrounding the damaged container ship in Sri Lanka has been captured in satellite images. The X-Press Pearl began to sink on 2 June after a fire […]

By Prof. ROHAN RAJAPAKSE Courtesy The Island ‘The best option available is to use a mixture of both synthetic and carbonic fertilizers, benefiting from their advantages to help farmers increase the agricultural output.’ Emeritus Professor of Agriculture Biology University of Ruhuna and Former Executive Director Sri Lanka Council of Agriculture Research Policy The Cabinet of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka on Wednesday (June 09) registered 54 more victims of COVID-19, marking the highest number of deaths recorded in a single day. The latest fatalities have moved the country’s death toll to 1,910, the Department of Government Information said. The Department of Government Information stated that 19 of the victims had succumbed […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 543 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,716. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 213,396. As many as 180,427 recoveries and 1,843 deaths […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Regional Director of Health Services and the Regional Epidemiologist of Galle District have been demoted and transferred over the incident of vaccinating many people from Western Province as revealed by Ada Derana ‘Ukussa’. This is the result of the preliminary inquiries carried out by the Health Ministry following the exposé by Ada […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s request made to the Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihide Suga, seeking to obtain 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine has been met with positive responses. This was disclosed during a meeting held between the President and the Japanese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Sugiyama Akira at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (June […]

  KAMALIKA PIERIS There are two schools of thought in Sri Lanka regarding the UNHRC Resolutions against Sri Lanka. There are those who are delighted that their country is censured by the UNHRC and there are those who are not delighted.  They are indignant. The first group contains those who wish to see Sri Lanka […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සිංහල බෞද්ධ නායකයෙක් විසින් පාලනය කිරීම ඉතා අසීරු කටයුත්තකි. සුද්දා එන්නට පෙර දෙමළ රජෙක් පාලනය කල මේ රට, ඕනෑම පරයෙකුට පාලනය කිරීමට නම් කලයුත්තේ සිංහලයාව ගොනාට අන්දවා ගැනීම බව තේරුම්ගත් සුද්දා, සිංහලයාව දෙමළුන්ට පාලනය කිරීමට ඉඩදිය නොහැක, යන මතවාදය ඉදිරියට දමාගෙන කටයුතු ආරම්භ කළහ. ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම සුද්දා මෙහි එනවිට උඩරට […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්              ඇමරිකාවේ කොන්ග්‍රස් සභික ඩෙබෝරා රෝස් නම් කාන්තාව ලංකාවට එරෙහිව සකස් කළ බරපතල ලියවිල්ලක් එහි කොන්ග්‍රස් මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ.කරුණු ගණනාවකින් සමන්විතව තිබුණද එම ලියැවිල්ලේ ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් ඉස්මතු කරවන කාරණය නම් ලංකාවේ  උතුරුකරය ද්‍රවිඩ නිජභූමියක් බවයි. එම භූමිය ලංකා හමුදාවේ මිලිටලීකරණයට ලක්ව ඇතැයිද ඇය වැඩිදුරටත් චෝදනා කරයි. මෙම චෝදනා වල කිසිම අලුත් බවත් […]

By Laura Millan Lombrana  Courtesy Insurance Journal Contaminants released from the wreckage of a container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka could be dragged thousands of kilometers by ocean currents, impacting wildlife and humans in far-reaching latitudes. Authorities and salvage crews are now working to prevent the more than 300 metric tons of oil transported […]

Courtesy INDAILY A man who contracted the infectious Delta COVID-19 strain mistakenly opened his room door soon after entering hotel quarantine in Melbourne, but Victorian authorities are downplaying the chances this incident caused transmission.P Health officials have linked an outbreak of the Delta strain in Melbourne to the hotel quarantine case, a man in his […]

BY JON JACKSON  Courtesy The Newsweek State prosecutors in Sri Lanka‘s Colombo Magistrate’s Court on Monday accused the operators of the ship that caught fire with 25 tons of acid onboard of a cover-up. The Deputy Solicitor General alleged that Sea Consortium Lanka, the local agent for the ship, deleted several emails exchanged with the vessel’s captain […]

By Colonel R HARIHARAN (retd) Courtesy Rediff.com Xi Jinping is winning the war without firing a shot in Sri Lanka, observes Colonel R Hariharan (retd). IMAGE: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, right, bumps fists with China’s State Councilor and Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe in Colombo, April 28, 2021. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters More like this India’s […]

ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය අංශය කාබනික පොහොර භාවිතයට එළඹීමේ දී පැමිණෙන අභියෝග නොතකා මහජන නියෝජිතයන් ජනතා සුභසිද්ධිය පිණිස ඉදිරියට යායුතු බව ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා පවසයි. නිරෝගී සහ ඵලදායී පුරවැසියෙක් බිහිකිරීමට වස විසෙන් තොර ආහාර වේලක් සඳහා වූ ජනතා අයිතිය සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම” ප්‍රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශනයෙන් තහවුරු කර තිබේ. ඒ වෙනුවෙන් කාබනික පොහොර භාවිතයට කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය රැගෙන යාම රජයේ දැඩි […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov who had a telephone conversation with his Sri Lankan counterpart Dinesh Gunawardane said Russia was fully cooperative of the initiative to co-produce its Sputnik V vaccine here and asked the Sri Lankan authorities to expedite the process. Minister Gunawardane told Daily Mirror that the Russian […]

Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that five committees have been appointed to work on the procedures to demand claims from the X-Press Pearl vessel, Ports and Shipping Minister Rohitha Abeygunawardane said today steps were being taken to seek assistance of the international legal experts on the matter. The Minister […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror The reason for the flood situation in the Gampaha district was caused by reckless actions taken by the previous government during the construction of the segment from Kadawata to Gampaha of the Central expressway,  Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said. He told the Daily Mirror that the proposed segment from […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena today sought the immediate intervention of the US State Department to convey the concerns and the position of the government on the proposed resolution No. H.Res.413, which was introduced by Congresswoman Deborah Ross,to the Chair and members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee as well as the […]

TORU OTSUKI, Nikkei staff writer Courtesy NikkeiAsia Kankyo Daizen’s fertilizer wins over farmers in Vietnam and Cambodia ASAHIKAWA, Japan — An organic products company based in northern Japan hopes its environmentally friendly fertilizer made from cow urine will catch on with farmers in Southeast Asia. The liquid fertilizer, Tsuchi Ikikaeru — or “soil comes back to life” […]

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