BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Sri Lanka has a critical debate about the number of representatives that should be in the parliament and the debate has focused on various matters concerning many matters of representatives such as minimum education qualifications, the limits of functional authority. The public has disappointed the value of services and the productivity generated […]

MD Pathik Hasan Present day, Bangladesh is one of the developing economies of the world. In 2015, Bangladesh graduated from LDC status and became a low middle-income country. Many Asian and European including American economists hope that soon Bangladesh will become one of the middle-income countries in the world. Today, Bangladesh is moving forward at […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය වරාය තුළ සිරවී ඇති අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ආහාර ද්‍රව්‍ය තොග වහාම නිදහස් කරන්නැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (24) දින “සූම්” ඔස්සේ රැස්වූ ජීවන වියදම් පිළිබඳ අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල අනුකාරක සභා රැස්වීමේ දී නියෝග කළේය. රටේ මහජනතාවගේ ජීවන වියදම් පිළිබඳව අවධානය යොමු කරමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ආනයන අපනයන පාලක ජනරාල්වරියට සහ රේගු අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල්වරයාට අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ සිට […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය විශේෂ අවශ්‍යතා සහ නිදන්ගත රෝග සහිත දරුවන් වෙනුවෙන් කොවිඩ් ප්‍රතිශක්තීකරණ එන්නත් ලබාදීමේ දීප ව්‍යාප්ත වැඩසටහන කොළඹ රිජ්වේ ආර්යා ළමා රෝහලේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ආර්යා ශිරන්ති රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මියගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද (24) දින පෙරවරුවේ ආරම්භ විය. විශේෂ අවශ්‍යතා සහිත දරුවන් සහ නිදන්ගත රෝග සහිත දරුවන්ට ප්‍රමුඛතාව ලබා දෙමින් කොවිඩ්-19 වැළදීමේ දී ඇතිවන සංකූලතා සහ මරණ […]

Courtesy Xinhua COLOMBO, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s Hambantota International Port (HIP) has entered into a memorandum of understanding with bus manufacturer Xiamen King Long United Automotive Industry Co., Ltd. in China’s Fujian Province, HIP said in a statement here on Thursday. The MOU was signed at the King Long Motor Group offices in […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror  Soft-rot in Potato and Onion caused by Erwina The company has produced an independent laboratory testing report obtained from Schutter Global Inspection and Survey Company Ltd. indicating that the samples do not carry Salmonella Senior Lecturer in Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture at the Univerity of Peradeniya Dr.(Ms) Warsui […]

Courtesy The Island Reams have been written in all local newspapers; much comment has traversed social media and persons have been bold to call for justice on two absolutely unrestrained and yes, evil, SLPP VIPs who have recently been dancing the devil as the saying goes. These evil doers seem to be pathologically unable to […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror There were no moves to create an artificial decline in COVID cases in order to get Sri Lanka removed from the ‘red list’, Director General of Health Services Dr. Asela Gunawardane said. Addressing a news briefing, he vehemently dismissed reports, which say that Sri Lanka reduced the number of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Special Committee on COVID-19 Control has decided to devise a comprehensive plan on the health recommendations and restrictions that need to be imposed on reopening the country with the lifting of the curfew. The plan will be prepared by three relevant authorities covering three areas. Under the guidance of the Health Ministry […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka moved up as 82 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Thursday (Sep. 23). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 12,530. As per the data […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reported that another 409 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, increasing the daily count of new cases to 1,332. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus registered in Sri Lanka to 511,372. Total recoveries have increased to 452,692 while currently 46,150 infected patients are under […]

By Rohana R. Wasala ‘Englishman Ordained as an Upasaka’ by Dr Tilak Fernando (Lankaweb/September 23, 2021) prompted me to write this response. The Englishmen that the writer mentions as having been impressed by Buddhism are no doubt highly knowledgeable about Buddha Dhamma, because, as he claims, they have read books about the subject. Western scholars […]

MD Pathik Hasan Re-establishing the Himalayan-South Asian connectivity can occur if political solutions can be found. Bangladesh’s 271km border with Myanmar can play a strategic role as a potential trade corridor between the two countries. However, at present, the area is militarized due to ongoing internal conflicts in Myanmar. Were this to be resolved, Bangladesh […]

කිර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ඩොලර් නැති ආණ්ඩුව ගොවියාගේ රත්තරං ඉන්දියාවට පටවලා ‘තහනම් බඩු‘ රට පුරා බෙදනකල් බලාගෙන ඉන්නවා   කාබනික වගාව සාර්ථකයි කියා රට-ලෝකය රවට්ටන්න,  රජය බෝට්ටු කෘෂි රසායන ජාවාරමකට අනුග්‍රහය ලබා දෙනවා.  ලියාපදිංචි කඩවල්වල කෘෂි රසායනය නෑ.  හැබැයි, මහ ගස් පවා මරණ, පසට ඇසිඩ් ගැහුවා වගේ පිච්චෙන ‘බෝට්ටු බඩු වල් බෙහෙත්‘ ඕනී තරම් තියෙනවා යැයි හිටපු […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් යුගදනව් බලාගාරයෙන් කොටසක් ඇමෙරිකානු සමාගමකට පැවරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ආණ්ඩුවේ පක්ෂ නායකයන් සහ අග‍්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර පැවැති සාකච්ඡාව අසාර්ථක වී තිබේ. සාකච්ඡාව අවසානයේ මාධ්‍ය වෙත අදහස් දැක්වූ හවුල්කාර පක්ෂවල නායකයන් කියා සිටියේ ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මෙරටට පැමිණි වහාම මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ඡා කරන බවයි. ආණ්ඩුවේ සෙසු පක්ෂ විසින් දිගින් දිගටම […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන සන්ධානයේ පක්ෂ නායක රැස්වීම ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද (23) පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය හමුවේ රජයේ කටයුතු අඛණ්ඩව පවත්වාගෙන යාම, 2021 අය-වැය යෝජනාවලිය ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලබන පනත් කෙටුම්පත් එලෙස ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට පෙර ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් දැනුවත් කිරීමේ ක්‍රමවේදයක් සැකසීම  පිළිබඳව […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා, සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා අධීක්ෂණ අමාත්‍ය සහ ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා – ත්‍රිකුණාමලය දිස්ත්‍රික්කය තුළ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘතිවල වත්මන් ප්‍රගතිය අධීක්ෂණය සඳහා එක්වෙමින් ඊයේ  (22) දින අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව පැවසීය. අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමන්ගේ සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම ප්‍රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශනය මගින් ඉදිරිපත් කළ ආර්ථික හා සංවර්ධන සැලැස්ම […]

Sandhya D’Mello /Dubai Courtesy WKND Yohani de Silva, 28, has become an overnight sensation with her lilting Sinhalese song that has broken the internet Manike Mage Hithe, the Sinhalese viral track that has taken the Internet by storm, is transcending musical, cultural and language boundaries. Sung by 28-year-old Sri Lankan singer Yohani de Silva, the […]

Courtesy NDTV A father-daughter duo have remixed “Manike Mage Hithe” into a tribute to Mamata Banerjee, who has to win the Bhabanipore bypolls to keep her job Manike Mage Hithe (in my heart), a Sinhala song from Sri Lanka, recently became an Internet sensation in India, despite most people not understanding its lyrics. From covers to […]

Dr. C.S. WEERARATNA Courtesy The Island The importation of inorganic fertilisers, synthetic pesticides and herbicides (agrochemicals) was banned from the end of April 2021, to promote the use of organic fertilisers (OF) and natural pesticides. As a result, inorganic fertilisers such as Urea, Triple Superphosphate, Muriate of Potash and other agrochemicals (insecticides, fungicides, etc.) became […]

By Paneetha Ameresekere Courtesy Ceylon Today The State-owned National Plant Quarantine Service (NPQS) has confirmed that samples of imported organic fertilizer from China have tested positive for gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, as well as a specific harmful pathogen, the Sri Lanka Agripreneurs’ Forum (SLAF) alleged on Wednesday. Gram bacteria are known as pathological causes of […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The party leadership meeting of the Sri Lanka People’s Freedom Alliance was held under the patronage of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this afternoon (September 23). The main focus of the meeting fell on the role of the party in supporting the government in the face of the COVID-19 epidemic and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Minister of Justice has appointed former High Court Judge Kusala Sarojani Weerawardane to conduct an independent inquiry into the recent incidents at the Welikada & Anuradhapura prisons. Former State Minister of Prisons Management and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation Affairs Lohan Ratwatte made headlines last week following his riotous behaviour at the Welikada and Anuradhapura […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka moved up as 72 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Wednesday (Sep. 22). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 12,448. As per the data […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reported that 450 more people were tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka today (Sep. 23), moving the daily total of new cases to 1,368. All new cases have been associated with the New Year Cluster. This brings the tally of coronavirus infections confirmed in the […]

BY  SHENALI WADUGE · 22ND SEPTEMBER 2021 Whether anyone likes or dislikes Mohan Pieris is irrelevant. If due process was alleged to be denied to CJ43 Shirani Bandaranaike, was due process applied to CJ44 Mohan Pieris. This is the question and the response must be based on principled facts. If entities like UNHRC and BASL took up the […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Lord Buddha said on his deathbed: Do not believe what others say just because others say so! Do not believe it because you heard it from a wise being, but only believe something when you know it in your Heart.” The Heart is supposed to be the seat of sentiment, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Jaffna public library was rebuilt twice. The library was fully renovated in 1984, with donations from well-wishers around the world.  But the LTTE took up residence inside it and it was bombed. At the start of the project, the Municipal Council of Jaffna decided not to repair the burnt building, but to […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS LTTE was also a suspect in the burning of the Jaffna library. What was the LTTE doing while the Jaffna library was burning” someone asked on social media. Came the reply, In 1981, LTTE was not as strong as it became in later stages. They were just using hit and run tactics. So […]