News of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka records the biggest ever daily increase of Covid deaths for the second day in a row, as new cases rise sharply The daily number of coronavirus deaths has reached 195 the highest since the pandemic began. The number of new cases rose sharply to 3839, after a fall earlier […]

RANJITH SOYSA  No sooner the US and Allied Forces left Afghanistan, the Taliban forces walked into the capital city and captured power. What was the mission of the US and allied forces in Afghanistan for 20 long years? The unfolding events paint a very bleak picture of the expectations of the war in Afghanistan, the […]

Ratanapala 20 Aug 2021 The President was elected by the people – 69 lakhs of them! It is true that his candidature was spearheaded by  Pohottuwa but  he is not the leader of this political party. He is  the leader chosen by a majority of Sri Lanka voters to be their President. At the inaugural […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 20 (newsin.asia):  The Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said in his address to the country on Friday, that given the dire economic situation in Sri Lanka, it is important to keep the economy humming with activity even as steps are taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 and to treat the […]

Courtesy Adaderana All citizens above the age of 30 years are expected to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the 10th of September, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said addressing the nation today (Aug. 20). In his statement, the President stated that nearly 98% of the population aged over 30 years have received the vaccine so far, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Army Commander General Shavendra Silva says that a decision has been taken to impose quarantine curfew across the island with effect from 10.00 p.m. today (20) until 4.00 a.m. on August 30 (Monday). He stated that essential services, export, apparel and agricultural sectors will be allowed to function as normal during that period […]

Courtesy Adaderana COVID-19 inoculation drive will continue despite the quarantine curfew, says General Shavendra Silva, the Head of National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO). The army commander noted that vaccine recipients who are scheduled to receive their second doses can get themselves vaccinated at respective clinics. An island-wide quarantine curfew came into […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka soared yet again as a record high of 195 new fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Thursday (August 19). This is the highest number of deaths reported within a day since the beginning of the pandemic. […]

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 1,014 more people tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 17), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 3,839. According to the Government Information Department, 3,835 of the latest cases reported today were associated with the New Year cluster. The remaining four are arrivals from foreign countries. Following the new […]

Courtesy Hiru News A report based on the total of 5775 Covid-related deaths reported until the 13th of August, 2021 in Sri Lanka has been released. According to reports over 5,000 Covid-related deaths reported (5,295) in Sri Lanka consist of people who have not received a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Therefore over 90% […]

Courtesy Hiru News Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine at Sri Jayewardenepura, Dr Chandima Jeewandara stated that for the first time in the world, patients have been found in Sri Lanka who are infected with three mutated strains of the Delta variant. It is reported that the patients were found in Colombo. […]

Rhys Blakely, Science Correspondent CourtesyThe Times (UK) Fully vaccinated people are far more likely to develop symptoms if they catch the Delta variant of the coronavirus compared with earlier strains, a large study has shown. Research that looked at more than 700,000 fully vaccinated adults found that more than half of those who became infected with […]

Courtesy Hiru News A British public health study has found that protection from either of the two most commonly used COVID-19 vaccines against the now prevalent Delta variant of the coronavirus weakens within three months. It also found that those who get infected after receiving two shots of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the AstraZeneca vaccine […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් බදුල්ලේ ඇත්ත කෝවිඩ් රෝගීන් සංඛ්‍යාවෙන් 42% ක් ජාතික දත්තවලින් හංගලා – බදුල්ලේ රෝහල් රෝගීන්ගෙන් පිරී ගිහින්.  ඖෂධ, ඔක්සිජන් මුහුණු ආවරණවත් නෑ. බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ කෝඩිව් රෝගීන් සංඛ්‍යාවේ රෝගීන් 6060 ක් වසංගත රෝග විද්‍යා අංශයත් සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයත් විසින් අතුරුදන් කර ඇතැයි හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පවසයි. බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ කෝවිඩ් රෝගීන් 14,373 ක් මේ […]

The worst Covid Management capability According to the data published by Worldometers.info website Sri Lanka reported being the worst Covid Management capability in the world except for a few African countries. USA Cases reported during the last 7 days 2937 per million population and death in the last 7days 16 per million population. UK Cases […]

Courtesy Adaderana Chief Prelates of the Malwathu-Asgiri Sects have written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa requesting a country-wide lock for a period of one week. The Chief Prelates pointed out that the entire country is facing a catastrophe due to the spread of the coronavirus disease. The letter also noted that the health sectors have warned […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ten allied political parties of the government have proposed to the President to lockdown the country for at least three consecutive weeks. In a letter to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, they have suggested seven measures to be taken to control the pandemic. The political parties say that, despite being aware of the economic impact […]

Courtesy Adaderana According to the Ministry of Health, 97.7% of those who succumbed to COVID-19 as of August 13 had not been vaccinated against the virus. As per the data, Sri Lanka had witnessed 5,775 deaths from the coronavirus. Reportedly, 5,295 of them had not received any COVID-19 vaccine. The remaining 480 victims had received […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reported that another 1,073 persons shave tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases in Sri Lanka to 3,793. All new cases confirmed today are associated with the ‘New Year’ Covid-19 cluster.  Accordingly, this brings the tally of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country thus […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 186 coronavirus related deaths for August 18, increasing the death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus to 6,790. This is the highest number of deaths reported within a day since the beginning of the pandemic.  According to the figures released by the […]

Courtesy Hiru News It is reported that there are plans to impose an islandwide complete lockdown to curb the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic. The government is being pressured by various parties including the Chief Prelates of the Asgiriya and Malwaththa Chapters to impose a lockdown for a short period of time. More than 25 cities on […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත්

Courtesy Hiru News The Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha has decided to launch a program to deliver Ayurvedic medicines at home to those who are currently being treated and quarantined at home for Covid infections. Accordingly, they have decided to deliver the relevant medicines to the homes every day from tomorrow (20). People in the Weligama Pradeshiya […]

Courtesy Hiru News Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena stated that a program has been launched to distribute a relief package of 20 essential items worth Rs.1,998 to the public for two weeks through the Sathosa from tomorrow (20). He was addressing a media briefing in Colombo today (19). The Minister pointed out that it is possible […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island In keeping with the Government’s commitment to address accountability a Domestic Mechanism was instituted by appointing a Presidential Commission of Inquiry headed by a Supreme Court Judge by Gazette No. 222111/55 of 21 January, 2021. The mandate of this Commission was: to investigate and inquire into, take necessary action […]

මාධ්‍ය අංශය වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීතිඅධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන, ජනමතවිචාරණයකට යා යුතුව තිබූ වගන්ති 7 ක්  සහිතව 2019 කොරෝනා වෛරස් රෝගය තාවකාලික විධිවිධාන පනත් කෙටුම්පත අලි සබ්‍රි ජනාධිපති නීතීඥවරයා ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත්තේ කාලිංග ඉන්දතිස්ස, සංජීව ජයවර්ධන සහ ඉක්‍රම් මොහොමඩ් යන ජනාධිපති නීතීඥවරුන්ගේ සහායෙන් බව 2021 අගෝස්තු 17 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තු හැන්සාඩ් වාර්තාව මගින් පැහැදිලි වේ. (2021 […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය ඉතා බලවත් යාන්ත්‍රණයක් වුවද, එහිද අවසානයක් තිබේ. මේ අවසානය ඉක්මන් කරවන්නේ,ඔවුන්ගේ, නොඉවසිලිමත්බාවයයි. වර්ෂ 1994 ජනාධිපතිවරිය ලෙස තමන්ගේ නියෝජිතවරියක් බලයට ගෙන, විපක්ෂ නායක ධුරයද තමන්ගේම නියෝජිතයාට ලබාදී තමන්ට අවැසි ආකාරයට මේ රට ඔවුන්ගේ ඉලක්කයන් කරා මෙහෙයවුවද, ඔවුන්ට තම ඉලක්කය වූ රනිල් ජනාධිපති කිරීම ඉක්මන් කිරීම ඉතා වැදගත් කාර්යයක් විය. 1994දී වැඩි චන්ද […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Early this month (August, 2021), a farmer in Vilavotei, Kilinochchi, whilst preparing his paddy field, detected a part of a uniform worn by Sri Lankan soldiers with skeletal remains. He promptly informed the Police. The investigators found besides the aforementioned also evidenced that strongly suggested a site used by […]

By JEFFREY D. SACHS Courtesy Ceylon Today The magnitude of the United States’ failure in Afghanistan is breathtaking. It is not a failure of Democrats or Republicans, but an abiding failure of American political culture, reflected in US policymakers’ lack of interest in understanding different societies. And it is all too typical. Almost every modern […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island There has been a mini Cabinet reshuffle. One is at a loss to understand the rationale, if any, behind it. People would have been happy if at least one half of the Cabinet had been sacked. What made President Gotabaya Rajapaksa reshuffle only a few members of his ministerial team? Pavithra […]