Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 98 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director General of Health Services on Thursday (August 05). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 4,919. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims […]

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 884 more people were tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 06), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 2,794. According to the Government Information Department, 2,792 of the new cases reported today have been associated with the New Year cluster. The new development has brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed coronavirus […]

Shenali D Waduge People have followed ideologies and their leaders but there has been no party that has been this disruptive & destructive of a country’s progress. While everyone has every right to choose their political ideology/principles etc, when a party infiltrates and influences the cream of the future, it is cause for concern. Just […]

Shenali D Waduge There are many lessons to learn from history. A look back in time will reveal occasions that companies forced governments to invade or create regime change in nations because government policies were impacting their profit & presence in countries. US corporates in South America, assassination of Iran’s Mossadegh are just a handful […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා ප්‍රවාහන අපහසුතා ඇති ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් නොමිලේ ගමන්වාර 50000ක් ලබා දෙන්නැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (05) දින කළ ඉල්ලීමට              ශ්‍රී ලංකා රතු කුරුස සමාජය (SLRCS) සහ ඌබර් ශ්‍රී ලංකා (UBER SRI LANKA) සමාගම  එකඟතාව පළ කළේය. කොළඹ, ගම්පහ,කළුතර සහ මහනුවර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයන්හි කොවිඩ් ප්‍රතිකාර රාජකාරීවල නිරත වෛද්‍යවරුන්, […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර රට හදන සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම බලගන්වමින් වාරී සෞභාග්‍යා ජාතික වැඩසටහන යටතේ ග්‍රාමීය වැව්/ අමුණු සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතියට සමගාමීව මිහින්තලය ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ සියඹලාගස්වැව ගම්මානයේ  වැව සංවර්ධනය කිරීම රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් සමාරම්භ කෙරිණි. ග්‍රාමීය කුඹුරු හා ආශ්‍රී ත වැව්, ජලාශ හා වාරී මාර්ග සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යංශයේ මූල්‍ය ප්‍රථිපාදන මගින් වාරී මාර්ග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මගින් මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. According to our Press Department U.K., thousands of British Muslims will gather together for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic for the UK’s longest running Islamic conference. Ahmadi Muslims from across the UK will descend on the 200-acre Oakland […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 5 (Daily Mirror): The Supreme Court on Thursday issued an Interim Order suspending the operation of Prevention of Terrorism (De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology) Regulations No. 01 of 2021, which was published by way of a gazette notification on 12 March, 2021. This Interim Order will be effective until […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් විද්‍යාත්මක කරුණු මත පදනම්ව යම් යම් තීන්දු තීරණවලට එළැඹිය ද කාබනික පොහොර භාවිතය පිළිබඳ රාජ්‍ය ප්‍රතිපත්තියේ කිසිදු වෙනසක් නැති බව ජනාධිපති ප්‍රධාන උපදේශක ලලිත් වීරතුංග මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. රසායනික පොහොර තහනම ඉවත් කළා ද” යන්න මැයෙන් අද (05) ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය කේන්ද්‍රයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුව අමතමින් ලලිත් වීරතුංග මහතා මේ බව […]

Keiji Morita, staff reporter, The Sankei Shimbun Everyone shouted as if they were cheering for their own country’s athlete. Some of them watched him in awe with their eyes shining with tears. In 1964, an unknown Olympian from a foreign country took Japan’s breath away.  The Olympian became known in Japan as Uniform Number 67,” the […]

Courtesy World Food Programme COLOMBO – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is supporting the Government of Sri Lanka with food items and funding to provide school children with take-home rations in lieu of in-school meals. With WFP’s assistance, the Government will commence the second phase of take-home rations distribution to 1.2 million children […]

Courtesy France 24 Sri Lanka’s government on Thursday walked back the lifting of an import ban on most chemical fertilisers over fears of a political fallout, despite warnings from farmers of food shortages and severe damage to the massive tea industry. The South Asian nation has been struggling with a cash crunch worsened by the […]

Courtesy Business Insider India IANSThe health authorities announced on Wednesday that 82 deaths were reported with 4,727 new cases. With the new figure, Sri Lanka’s overall caseload and death toll stood at 3,18,775 and 4,727, respectively. With the outbreak of the Delta variant and overflow of patients, the Ratnapura General Hospital and Karapitiya Teaching Hospital have declared emergencies. Due […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Delta variant of COVID-19 has been found to be spreading ultrafast in the Colombo area, medical experts pointed out. According to Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, 75% of the COVID cases detected in Colombo during the last […]

Courtesy Adaderana

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health reports that another 784 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 2,669. This brings the tally of confirmed cases of coronavirus identified in the country to 321,429. Sri Lanka’s total recoveries stands at 286,365 while over 30,000 covid […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services today confirmed another 94 coronavirus related deaths for August 04, increasing the death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus to 4,821. Forty-nine of the victims are reportedly males while the remaining 45 are females. Two female victims are below the age of 30. Nineteen are […]

Shenali D Waduge Both the World Bank and the IMF were founded in 1944 at the Bretton Woods conference. The World Bank is tasked to aid developing nations in reducing poverty and increasing their well-being. The IMF’s main purpose is to stabilize the international monetary system and oversee the world’s currencies. The World Bank offers […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර අනුරාධපුර කේ.බී රත්නායක විද්‍යාලයේ ජල අවශ්‍යතාව සපුරාලීම වෙනුවෙන් එම විද්‍යාලයට ජල ටැංකියක් සහිත ජල කුළුණක් ඉදි කිරීම රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් ආරම්භ කෙරිණි. එම විද්‍යාලයේ ජල අවශ්‍යතාවන් සපයා ගැනීමේ අපහසුතා පවතින බවට රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාට විද්‍යාලයේ විදුහල්පතිතුමිය ඇතුලු පාසල් සංවර්ධන සමිතිය කළ ඉල්ලීමක් අනුව මෙම ජල ටැංකිය […]

ALI SUKHANVER Abrogation of the articles 370 and 35-A in Indian illegally Occupied Kashmir has altogether changed the demography of the Jammu Kashmir Valley. The helpless people of the Jammu Kashmir valley, who were already in trouble at the hands of the Indian troops, now are in a state of more pain and more agony. […]

The Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka The Hon.Minister of Tourism and Aviation has instructed this office of the following: 1. For Passengers not arriving via the Sri Lanka Tourism Bio Bubble and who have not been vaccinated or only partially vaccinated can be carried by Airlines only up to a maximum of 75 passengers […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයේ විශේෂ රැස්වීමකි. මේ සඳහා ජනාධිපත්ජිවරයා කැඳවා තිබුනේ  ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහා බැංකුවේ, ඉහලම ශ්‍රේණියේ නිලධාරින්වය. රැස්වීමේ කටයුතු ආරම්භවීමත් සමග මදක් නිහඬව සිටි ජනාධිපතිවරයා, මහබැංකු නිලධාරින් අමතා, “මම අද ඕගොල්ලන්ව කැදෙව්වේ විශේෂ වැඩකට. ඕගොල්ලෝ පොඩ්ඩක් නිශ්සබ්දව මම කියන මේ දේ දෙස සාවධානව අහගෙන ඉන්න.” “මේක විශේෂ වැඩක්. මට ඕනි මේ කටයුත්ත කිරීම […]

By Eng. Parakrama Jayasinghe Courtesy The Island Email : parajayasinghe@gmail.com A Presidential Press release, dated 13th June 2021; clearly defines the policy on our Energy Sector. The direction indicated is congruent with the presidential policy declaration Vision for Prosperity and Splendour”. This is not a moment to vacillate and get embroiled in personal or political agendas. The […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Senior Vice President of the SLFP Prof. Rohana Lakshman Piyadasa says the continuing mismanagement of the affairs of the ruling coalition is causing turmoil. The deepening crisis we are in should be examined against the breakdown in basic discussions at party level,” Prof. Piyadasa, told The Island, underscoring the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 4 (DailyMirror) – Sri Lanka is heading for its worst medical tsunami in the coming weeks as there is a risk that the Delta variant is spreading beyond control, leading medical experts told Daily Mirror yesterday. Senior physicians at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic said that hospitals across the Western […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia August 4 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka paid a $1 billion bond last week, but the alarming state of its finances suggests it may have been just another step towards its first sovereign default. All the tell-tale crisis signs are there: bonds at nearly half their face value, debt-to-GDP levels above 100%, over 80% […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government has not granted permission to import chemical fertilizers for local agricultural purposes and has not made any changes to the decision taken by the President to use only organic fertilizers for local agriculture and will not make any changes to this decision in the future as well, Presidential Media […]

By Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Courtesy The Diplomat COVID-19, an economic crisis, and a majoritarian dynasty at the helm: Sri Lanka’s future hangs in the balance. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was swept into power with 6.9 million votes in November 2019 and subsequently saw his party’s control bolstered with a two-thirds majority in Parliament in the general […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government stated that it has not made any changes to the decision taken by the President to use only organic fertilizers for local agriculture and there will be no changes to this decision in the future as well. Issuing a statement, President’s Media Division stated that the government has not granted permission […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 823 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,543. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 318,755. As many as 284,524 recoveries have been confirmed […]