Courtesy The Daily Mirror Chairman of Sinopharm Group Liu Jingzhen has expressed his enthusiasm in setting up a vaccine refilling plant in Sri Lanka,the Sri Lankan embassy in Beijing said. According to the embassy, Sri Lankan Ambassador Dr. Palitha Kohona, met with Mr. Liu and the Senior Management Group on September 7, 2021. He also […]

Courtesy Hiru News Police have arrested several persons who had come to the vaccination centre of Sangamitta Vidyalaya in Galle and tried to leave by marking on the card that they had been vaccinated without actually administering the vaccine. Hiru Correspondent stated that a group of residents from Athiligoda and Kongaha areas in Galle have […]

Courtesy Hiru News The United Rice Growers’ Association alleged that there is no systematic approach in the government’s rice procurement program. Speaking at a media briefing held today (09), the President of the Association Mudith Perera stated that in order to control the price of the rice properly, a new price of rice should be […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 175 coronavirus-related deaths for September 08 (yesterday), increasing the official death toll in the country to 10,864. According to the figures reported by the Department of Government Information today (09)the victims include 96 males and 79 females while only one are below the age of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 910 persons have tested positive for coronavirus, increasing the daily count of new Covid-19 cases identified today to 2,856. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thus far to 477,636. The number of infected patients currently under medical care […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has decided to impose a 100 per cent cash margin deposit requirement against the importation of selected goods of non-essential/non-urgent nature made under Letters of Credit and Documents against Acceptance terms with Licensed Commercial Banks and National Savings Bank, with immediate effect.  The decision has been made […]

Courtesy Adaderana Defence Secretary Gen. (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne urged the public not to be misled by the various false claims being made regarding the Easter Sunday attacks and that police investigations have progressed rapidly.  A certain group is attempting to create a public opinion that this is a conspiracy by the President to come to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The University of Peradeniya has developed a new low-cost test kit to diagnose SARS-CoV-2 infected patients in a relatively shorter time with a higher accuracy. Developed by a team led by Dr. Ruchika Fernando of the Department of Veterinary Public Health and Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, this COVID-19 test […]

Courtesy Adaderana The World Health Organization called Wednesday for countries to avoid giving out extra Covid jabs until year-end, pointing to the millions worldwide who have yet to receive a single dose. I will not stay silent when the companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines think the world’s poor should be […]

Wishmitha Wedakama – විශ්මිත වෙදකම අපේ රටේ හොදින් වැවෙන පළතුරක් වන කටු අනෝදා ශාකය මෙන්ම දේශීය පළතුරු සහ හෙළ ඔසු රට තුල වගාකිරීමට අපි සැවොම එක් වෙමු. එම ඖෂධීය බෝග භාවිතයෙන් නිරෝගිමත් රටක් බිහිකරමු. සියලු හෙළයන්ට බුදු සරණයි!!!

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KAMALIKA PIERIS The fourth country that supported Eelam was Canada. Sri Lanka was handled at the UNHRC in the 1980s by Canada, said Pathfinder Foundation. Canada is part of the Core group which put forward resolutions against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC in Geneva in 2021.  Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands of […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS In 2019 a Private Member’s Bill (Bill no104) titled An Act to Proclaim Tamil Genocide Education Week was placed before Ontario Legislative Assembly, Canada   by Vijay Thanigasalam, MP for Scarborough-Rouge Park. Vijay Thanigasalam is a LTTE supporter.  The move had been facilitated by the Committee on Regulations and Private Bills coming under the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS At the June 2021 session of the UNHRC in Geneva, Canada led an alliance of 44 States (mainly Western and European countries), demanding that China allow meaningful and unfettered access to investigate credible reports of widespread human rights violations against China’s Muslim minority Uighur in Xinjiang province. Immediately after this China delivered a joint […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර මහවැලි අධිකාරියෙන් සෑම ගොවියකුටම කාබනික පොහොර නිෂ්පාදනයට නොමිලේ ජපන් ජබර ට්‍රැක්ටරයක් හා පොස්පේට් පොහොරත් ලබා දීම හේතුවෙන් මහඉලුප්පල්ලම ගොවියෝ කාබනික පොහොර ඒකක සකසා මහ කන්නයට සූදානම් වෙති.. මහවැලි එච් කළාපයේ, මහඉලුප්පල්ලම කොට්ඨාශයේ අක්කර 10 200 ක භූමි ප්‍රමාණයක් වෙනුවෙන් පසුගිය කන්නයේ  රසායනික පොහොර ලෙස යූරියා කිලෝ 880 000 ක්, ටී.එස්.පී පොහොර කිලෝ […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ටෝකියෝ නුවර පැවැති පැරාලිම්පික් 2020 තරගාවලියේ දී හෙල්ල විසි කිරීමේ ඉසව්වෙන් නව ලෝක වාර්තාවක් තබමින් මාතෘ භූමිය රනින් සැරසූ දිනේෂ් ප්‍රියන්ත හේරත් සහ ලෝකඩ පදක්කමක් දිනාගත් සමිත දුලාන් කොඩිතුවක්කු අද (08) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමුවූහ. පැරාලිම්පික් තරගබිමේ නව වාර්තා තබමින් ඔබ ලැබූ ජයග්‍රහණයන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා අභිමානය […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය, සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා අධීක්ෂණ අමාත්‍යාංශය,ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය. ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රීඩා ඉතිහාසය තුළ රන් සලකුණු තබමින් මළල ක්‍රීඩාවෙන් ලද ඉහළම ජයග්‍රහණය රැගෙන දිවයිනට පැමිණි ජාතික පැරාලිම්පික් කණ්ඩායම අද (08) දින තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමු වූ අවස්ථාවේදී අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව පැවසීය. ජපානයේ ටෝකියෝ නුවර පැවති […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ඉතාලියේ සංචාරයකට එක්වන ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එම සංචාරයේ දී අතිඋතුම් ෆ්‍රැන්සිස් පාප් වහන්සේ වතිකානුවේ දී බැහැ දකින බවට පළවන මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා මුළුමනින්ම අසත්‍ය වේ. බොලොඤ්ඤා විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ පැවැත්වෙන අන්තර්ජාතික සමුළුවක ආරම්භක සැසියේ ප්‍රධාන දේශනය පැවැත්වීම සහ රාජතාන්ත්‍රික හමුවීම් පදනම් කරගනිමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ ඉතාලි සංචාරය සැළසුම් කර තිබේ.

By Dr.Tilak S. Fernando In 1927 the Secretary of State for the Colonies announced a special Commission under the Chairmanship of the Earl of Donoughmore to visit Ceylon and submit an account of the Constitution with any difficulties of administration that needed to be surmounted at that time. The Secretary wanted the Earl of Donoughmore […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The writer met with the most Venerable Aggamahapandittha Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Mahanayake Thera in London, when he was 99 years old. The Venerable observed the rainy season (Vassana retreat) in London at that time. The Buddhist Centre organised a religious ceremony on account of his 99th Birthday, on 23 August. […]

Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror UNP MP Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday urged the Speaker to take action against Lawyer Nagananda whom he claimed had insulted Parliament. Mr.wickremesinghe said the particular Lawyer had made a false allegation that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution which was passed in Parliament way back in 1980s was a false […]

Courtesy Adaderana

Courtesy Adaderana Another doctor of the Health Ministry’s COVID-19 Technical Committee has stepped down from his membership from the committee. Reportedly, Specialist Dr. Ashoka Gunaratne has resigned from the committee in this manner. This is the second medical professional to quit the COVID-19 Technical Committee of the Health Ministry. Recently, Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama also stepped […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 648 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,917. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 474,780. As many as 389,969 recoveries and 10,689 deaths […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total number of people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka soared yet again as 185 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Tuesday (September 07). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 10,689. According to […]

Courtesy Hiru News The government has taken over the stocks of rice owned by large-scale rice mill owners in the Polonnaruwa area today. Accordingly, the acquisition of stocks of Nipuna, Lathpandura, Temple, Hiru, Nivratna, and Suriya rice mills was carried out under the direct supervision of the Commissioner General of Essential Services, Major General Senarath […]

Courtesy Hiru News The CEO of Epic Lanka Technology, Tharindra Kalpage, who had won the tender to maintain the database of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA), has been arrested by the CID a short while ago. The arrest was made in connection to the incident where the data was lost recently from the database […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Sri Lanka is at the precipice of an economic disaster. The country’s foreign debt is suffocating the country, it is its biggest immediate problem, and the problem for the foreseeable future unless urgent and drastic action is taken, now. The crisis arises due to several factors, the primary factor being the high […]

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Retired Secretary to PM Sirimavo Bandaranayaka, Part 1 Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Retired Secretary to PM Sirimavo Bandaranayaka, Past President Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association (1991 Nov 1994 nov) and President Mahanuwara Sinhala Baudha Jestha Purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya The Preamble  (The task before you is to give a new lease of life, to the […]

By Garvin Karunaratne  I wonder what the Government Agent at Polonnaruwa was doing while the relapanawa was removed or damaged to make a walkaway. Walk ways have to be appreciated but to damage the irrigation heritage that our forefathers have bequeathed to us is unforgivable.  The G.A’s residence is on the bund and he must […]