By Observer Research Foundation Courtesy Eurasia Review File photo of India’s Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi with the Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa. Photo Credit: PM India By N Sathiya Moorthy The well-earned publicity that the ‘Integrated Country Strategy’ for Sri Lankan missions in India has received in the Indian […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s government rejected on Tuesday (Aug 10) mounting calls for an immediate lockdown to contain a surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths that is severely stretching hospitals and crematoriums. Government spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said the country had not reached a critical stage even as the island […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror People travelling to Dubai from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Uganda, and Nigeria do not need to produce a COVID-19 vaccination certificate on arrival, but need to register for pre-entry approval before arrival. Emirates airline has announced that entry to foreign nationals is only limited to valid UAE visa holders, who […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Attorney General has sent indictments to the Chief Justice to constitute a Trial-at-Bar to hear the cases against 25 suspects indicted for conspiracy over the Easter Sunday attacks. The AG has requested the Chief Justice to hear and determine 23,270 charges filed under the prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) including […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The inter province travel restriction will be strictly monitored from today and no one will be allowed to cross provinces other than essential and health workers, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva told Daily Mirror a short while ago. He said following discussions, it had also been decided to limit the number […]

Sophie Morris, political reporter Courtesy Skynews Herd immunity is “not a possibility” because the Delta variant is still spreading fast and infecting fully vaccinated people, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group has said. © PA Sir Andrew told MPs ‘anyone still unvaccinated at some point will meet the virus’ Professor Sir Andrew Pollard told MPs […]

Courtesy Adaderana Daily COVID-19 fatalities confirmed in Sri Lanka swept past the grim milestone of 100 for the second consecutive day as 118 more victims of COVID-19 infection were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Monday (August 09). This reportedly the highest number of deaths the island has reported in a day. The […]

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 912 more people were tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 10), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 2,904. According to the Government Information Department, the new cases reported today have been associated with the New Year cluster. The latest infections and delayed reported cases for the last week […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government has decided to remove all import taxes levied on milk powder, says the Cabinet Co-spokesperson, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella. Addressing a media briefing at the Government Information Department this morning, the minister said the decision was taken during the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers held on Monday (Aug. 09). Speaking further, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government has decided to allow imports of organic fertilizers, natural minerals, and plant nutrients for the Maha Season of 2021/22. Fertilizers, minerals, and nutrients in short supply locally will be allowed to be imported in this manner. The Cabinet of Ministers had approved the relevant proposal made by the Minister of Agriculture.

By Dr. Gamini Padmaperuma, PhD Background Graduating from a university or any higher educational institution marks a very important milestone in one’s life. It is a very significant event not only for the graduate but also for the family members and well-wishers who supported the student during the studies, morally, financially and otherwise. Studying for […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධුරයේ වර්ෂ පූර්ණය සහ කොවිඩ් වසංගතය හමුවේ පීඩාවට පත් ජනතාවට ආශිර්වාද පතා අද (09) උදෑසන ඉන්දියාවේ සාරානාත් මූලගන්ධි කුටි විහාරස්ථානයේ පැවති ශ්‍රී ලංකා – ඉන්දියා ආශිර්වාද පූජා” වැඩසටහනට ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ සිට සූම් තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ සම්බන්ධ විය. ඉන්දියානු මහා බෝධි සංගමයේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඉන්දු – ශ්‍රී ලංකා මිත්‍රත්වය […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති බෞද්ධ දේශපාලන න්‍යාය තුළ සමානාත්මතාවට ප්‍රමුඛ තැනක් ලබා දී තිබේ. සෑම කෙනකු ම සමාන ලෙසින් සැළකිය යුතු බවක් මෙයින් අදහස් නො කෙරෙයි. දක්‍ෂ, හැකියාවෙන් පිරුණු අය සහ අදක්‍ෂ, කම්මැලි අය එක හා සමානව සැළැකිය හැකි නොවේ. බුදුදහම තුළ උට්ඨාන සම්පදාව අගය කෙරී ඇත්තේ සසර කෙළවර කරගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් කළ යුතු දෑ සම්බන්ධයෙන් පමණක් […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Responding to former Prime Minister and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe over his remarks on Presidential Task Force on Prevention of COVID-19, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said that the decisions taken by the Task Force are collective decisions and not individual decisions. Mr. Wickremesinghe recently said that the Covid -19 Taskforce […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Chinese government has come forward to fulfil 80% coverage of vaccines in Sri Lanka making the vaccination programme a great success and thereby strengthen the country, Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said. She expressed these views at a special discussion held with the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong at […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Every hospital island-wide will be converted into hospitals where COVID-19 patients are treated within this week, Chairman of State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) Dr. Prasanna Gunasena said. He said it has been observed that people had shown a little reluctance to seek medical care when they feel unfit. People are kindly requested […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror At least 40,000 persons above 60 years of age have not received their COVID-19 vaccine in the Colombo city owing to several misconceptions, Chairman of State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) Dr. Prasanna Gunasena said. In a special discussion held at the Government Information Department, he said they had been several misconceptions like […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services today confirmed another 111 Covid-19 related deaths for August 08. Sri Lanka’s death toll due to the coronavirus has climbed to 5,222 with this.  According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims confirmed today include 56 males and 55 females. None […]

Courtesy Adaderana A four-member ministerial committee has been appointed to look into the teachers’ and principals’ salary issues. The committee has been appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers today (August 09), Minister Keheliya Rambukwella stated. The newly-appointed committee consists of Ministers Wimal Weerawansa, Prasanna Ranatunga, Mahinda Amaraweera, and Dullas Alahapperuma. The Committee is to study […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health reports that another 1,010 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 2,938. This brings the tally of confirmed cases of coronavirus identified in the country to 332,947. Sri Lanka’s total recoveries stand at 295,518 while over 32,318 […]

Courtesy Adaderana An integrated homecare-based treatment program for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients commences from today (August 09). The program which was carried out as a pilot project in the Western Province until now will be launched island-wide from today, the Ministry of Health stated. Under the program, patients between the ages of 2 and 65 years, […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today How to resolve the issues of the principals and teachers is no longer the question. The real question is whether we should allow these individuals to teach, influence and mould the character of our children. A teacher by definition would be an educated person. However, the ongoing trade union […]

Courtesy Adaderana Nearly about 45,000 of the total coronavirus cases reported so far (out of 329,994 of total) in Sri Lanka have been children, Dr. Nalin Kitulwatta of Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital stated. He pointed out that a total of fourteen children have died from COVID-19 in Sri Lanka Dr. Kitulwatta says that the COVID-19 […]

BY RAJEE SURI Courtesy The Epoch Times People who have recovered from COVID-19 retain broad and effective longer-term immunity to the disease, according to a new study. Findings of the study, which is the most comprehensive of its kind so far, have implications for expanding understanding about human immune memory as well as future vaccine development for coronaviruses. […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  යුනිවර්ස් හෙවත් ලෝක ධාතුව තුල චක්‍රාවාට නොහොත් ගැලැක්සීස් බිලියන 125 (1.25×1011) පමණ තිබෙනවා. සත්‍ය අගය මීට වඩා වැඩි වෙන්නටත් පුලුවන්. මෙහි විශ්කම්භය ආලෝක වර්ශ බිලියන 93 පමණ. අපට පෙනෙන ලෝක ධාතුව එනම් ඔබ්සවර්බල් යුනිවර්ස් එකට වඩා තත්‍ය ලෝක ධාතුව අති විශාලයි. අපට පෙනෙන ලෝක ධාතුව ෆුට් බෝලයක සයිස් එකක් නම් තත්‍ය […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 8 (The Citizen):  Unsustainable claims put forward by the Sinhalese and the Tamils on language, religion and ethnicity, have muddied Sri Lankan politics in the post-independence era. The Sinhalese loudly proclaim that Buddhism is quintessentially and exclusively, a Sinhala” religion. The Tamils, on the other hand, claim with equal vehemence, that […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 94 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Saturday (August 07). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 5,111. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims confirmed […]

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 726 more people tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 08), bringing the daily count of positive cases to 2,956. The new development has brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally to 329,9942. As per official data, as many as 293,357 patients who were infected with the virus have returned to […]

By Rohana R. Wasala I have always strongly endorsed the necessity for actors to possess a reasonable degree of social responsibility. The actor who is adored by millions of people owes something to the society, which has given him an elevated and highly respected position. Dilip Kumar  Dilip Kumar was born in Peshawar (which is […]