Kris Thomas & Pallavi Pundir Courtesy VICE.com Sri Lanka’s court says the politician’s family is powerful enough to influence the investigation. SRI LANKAN PARLIAMENTARIAN WAS NOT AT HOME WHEN THE 16-YEAR-OLD DOMESTIC AIDE AT HIS HOME SUFFERED FROM BURN INJURIES IN JULY 2021. PHOTO BY LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/ AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Before she burned to death […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror How did we get here? Sri Lanka is in crisis. Since April 2021, Sri Lanka saw a sharp increase of Covid-19 positive cases and deaths. Despite health authorities warning the public to limit celebrations and shopping sprees during the traditional new year festival, large gatherings and cross border travels resulted in […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror About 263 Community Vaccination Centres manned by tri-forces and health authorities will be operational countrywide today. Accordingly, vaccination centres are operational in 22 locations in the Colombo district, 17 in the Gampaha district, 33 in the Kalutara district while remaining vaccination centres operational in the Kurunegala, Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Matale, Badulla,MOneragala, […]

Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror Another crucial meeting will held this morning between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Presidential Task Force on Prevention of COVID-19 to decide if travel restrictions will be imposed over the weekend to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Army Commander General Shavendra Silva told Daily Mirror that the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Another 156 Covid-19 related deaths for 11 August have been confirmed by Director General of Health Services. This has increased the total number of deaths in Sri Lanka to 5,620. 956 deaths were reported in the first 10 days of this month. Therefore, with the deaths reported today, the total number of […]

Courtesy Hiru News Another 619 persons tested positive for COVID-19. With 2,420 cases reported earlier today, the daily total of COVID cases increased to 3,039. Accordingly, the total number of COVID patients in the country increased to 345,118

By Chandre Dharmawardana.National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa and Department of Physics and Astronomy Université de Montreal. The largest drain on Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange earnings is in purchasing  fossil fuels for power and transport,  and in feeding  the 22 million people who depend on a mere million hectares of arable land, as compared to […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Microfinance for various small businesses (including agriculture) has been a vital support for the economic development and the growth of Sri Lanka since the beginning of the economic activities of the country. Microfinance helped non-economic purposes such as giving dowry, spending for weddings, funerals, and many other purposes helped in the management […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The major areas of regulating microfinance should be included. Before regulating the operation process of microfinance, it requires identifying the lender and the business format of lenders that may be a sole proprietorship, partnership or a private company, or public company. Many micro-financing businesses are not identified as business owners due to […]

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නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය තාරුණ්‍යයේ වටිනාකම ලොව සියලුදෙනාගේ අවධානයට පාත්‍ර කරමින් සෑම වසරකම අගෝස්තු 12 වැනිදා සමරනු ලබන ජාත්‍යන්තර තරුණ දිනය  – 2021” නිමිත්තෙන් සුබාශිංසන පළ කරනුයේ ඉමහත් සතුටිනි. ”මානව හා ගෝලීය සෞඛ්‍ය උදෙසා ආහාර පද්ධති පරිවර්තනයට තරුණ ප්‍රජාවේ නවොත්පාදනයන්” යන්න මෙවර එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ජාත්‍යන්තර තරුණ දින තේමාව වී තිබේ. කොවිඩ් වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit New Zealand first resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka  – Mr Michael Edward Appleton –  together with Mr. Andrew Traveller the Deputy High Commissioner  called on Hon. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this morning (11th August 2021). The Ambassador conveyed his pleasure to be the New Zealand first resident […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අය-වැය 2022 සම්පාදනය කිරීම සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ පසුපෙළ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගේ යෝජනා ලබා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් වන පළමු සාකච්ඡාව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද (11) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. මුදල් අමාත්‍ය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සංවිධානය කළ මෙම හමුවේ දී ග්‍රාමීය, ප්‍රාදේශීය සහ දිස්ත්‍රික් මට්ටමින් ඉටුකළ යුතු කාර්යයන්, ජාතික මට්ටමින් අවධානය යොමුකළ […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය 2011 වර්ෂයේ අගෝස්තු මස 12 වන දින කැනේඩියානු ජාතික චිත්‍රපට නිෂ්පාදිකාවක් වන ප්‍රිටිසියා සිටි මයිකල් ක්ලාක් සහ අලි නැවක හඳුන්වාදීමේ පදනමේ ලේකම් වන සිවපෝන් ධර්දරානන්ද යන මහත්ම මහත්මීන් මූලිකත්වයෙන් අලි නැවත සිහි කිරීමේ පදනම” මඟින් සෑම වසරකම අගොස්තු මස 12 වන දින ලෝක අලි දිනය (World Elephant Day) ලෙස නම් කරන ලදී. […]

ලංකාවේ වෙනදේ ලෝක වෙළඳපොලේ කිරිපිටි කිලෝ එකක මිල අද ඩොලර් 3.6කි. එනම් රු. 720කි. මේ වන විට හිතාමතාම ෆොන්ටෙරා සමාගම විසින් වරායේ ගුදම් තුළ රඳවාගෙන සිටින ප්‍රමාණය මෙට්‍රික් ටොන් 4200කි. එනම් කිලෝ මිලියන 4.2කි. මේවා මෙට්‍රික් ටොන් 28 බැගින් වූ කන්ටේනර් 150ක ඇත. මේ සඳහා දැනට අයකරන කිලෝවකට රුපියල් 15ක් වන බද්ද ඉවත් කළහොත් රජයට […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Hambantota, August 10 (Xinhua/HIP): Sri Lanka’s Hambantota International Port (HIP) signed a 58-million-U.S. dollar deal with Maldivian company Sea Horse Yachts on Monday to assemble and export yachts from HIP’s industrial park. Namal Rajapaksa, minister of youth and sports and state minister of digital technology and enterprise development, told Xinhua that the project […]

Sri Lanka Tourism Courtesy The Island Foreign investment is a key driver of economic growth, as is the revenue generated via tourism. As one of its primary exports, tourism remains Sri Lanka’s calling card to the world. Over the last fifteen months (March 2020-June 2021) the government has attracted over $950 million in investments, dedicated […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Nearly 150,000 persons have not received their COVID-19 vaccine in the Colombo district, Colombo District Secretary Pradeep Yasaratne said today. He said a total of 99,373 persons between the age 30 to 59 have forgone their vaccine while about 46,600 elderly above 60 have not taken their vaccine in […]

Courtesy Adaderana Providing home-based care for COVID-infected children aged above 02 years has commenced, says Dr. Channa De Silva, Consultant Paediatric Chest Physician at Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo. Accordingly, symptomatic or mildly symptomatic children can also be referred to medical supervision, he added. Dr. De Silva noted that children who undergo home-based care should not […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi says that around 95 percent of the country’s population above the age of 30 have received at least a single dose of one of the Covid-19 vaccines.  The government had recently decided to extend the current Covid vaccination programme to include those below 30 years of age. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 124 coronavirus related deaths for August 10, pushing the country official death toll due to the virus pandemic to 5,464.  This is reportedly the highest daily count of Covid-19 deaths recorded in the country while this also marks the third consecutive day that the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reported that another 736 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, increasing the daily count of new cases to 2,890. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country thus far to 341,982. Over 36,000 infected patients are currently being treated for the virus while […]

Courtesy Hiru News A meeting to obtain the proposals of the backbenchers for the 2022 budget was held under the patronage of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees today (11).< At this meeting organized by the Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa, suggestions were obtained from the backbenchers on the work to be done for […]

Courtesy Hiru News State Minister of Agriculture Shasheendra Rajapaksa states that permission was not granted to import carbonic compost fertilizer. he State Minister was responding to a statement made by Co-Cabinet Spokesman Ramesh Pathirana that the Cabinet had approved the importation of carbonic fertilizer following procurement methods

Courtesy Hiru News Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has organized a mobile vaccination program for citizens who are immobile and or bedridden and cannot go to a vaccination centre. Any citizen of Colombo who is residing in Colombo 1-15 and in need of this special service, can register for the service. To request vaccination, please email […]

Courtesy Hiru News It has been revealed that there is a discrepancy in the statistics on COVID infections in the Gampaha District and the Eastern Province. The Gampaha district has the second-highest number of infected persons in the country with 58,943 cases. Against this backdrop, the Gampaha District COVID Control  Committee met at the Gampaha […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse FRACP/FRCP  MNZM A podcast  today from a front line doctor involved in Covid Control in Sri Lanka ,ended with call to seeing and staying positive I agree with this doctor that a most important requirement  for Covid contra in SL was staying positive. Sadly, the biggest impediment  to this as I see […]

Pathik hasan Colombo Security Conclave is a greater regional initiative taken by Indi a, Sri Lanka and Maldives simultaneously to tackle the maritime threat in Indian ocean. Then Sri Lankan defence secretary (Now President) Gotabaya Rajapaksa took this significatory initiative. The head quarter is established in 2020 in Sri Lankan capital city Colombo. Maritime threats […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara  A Final call to all Patriots. Looking at the way how our political parties in this country have ruined the country during the past 69 years that was the richest in South East Asia by 1948, and are continuing to do so alternatively even now. As for me, therefore I have no […]

Courtesy Japan Today TOKYO Japan’s immigration agency said Tuesday a probe has found that an immigration center in central Japan mistreated a detained Sri Lankan woman who died in March, and it has reprimanded the facility’s top officials and supervisors. The Immigration Services Agency of Japan’s final report on developments leading to the death of […]