Bandula Kendaragama, Dam Safety Consultant, Melbourne, Australia This article is written based on information collated through consultations that were recently submitted as a technical report to His Excellency Gotabhaya Rajapaksaand other relevant government authorities. The consultations were among those who had been interested in dam safety and were directly involved in managing the Narrowly-Missed” breach […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda According to media reports, while addressing a ceremony at the Sri Lanka Army’s 72nd Anniversary event at the Gajaba Regiment Headquarters in Anuradhapura President Gotabaya Rajapaksa assured that action would be taken to amend the Constitution and introduce a new Electoral System to the people as promised and urged the all Sri Lankans […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ   සිංහල බෞද්ධ අත්තිවාරමක් (foundation) තිබෙන ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිංහලයන්ට අමතරව ද්‍රවිඩ, මුස්ලිම්, බර්ගර්, ආදිවාසින් (මොවුන් සිංහල බෞද්ධයන්ගේම කොටසක් වැනි වෙති), මැලේ ආදීහු ජීවත් වෙති. ඔවුන් සියල්ල මෙහි ජීවත් විය යුතුය. එහි කිසිදු ප්‍රශ්ණනයක් නොමැත. අප සියළු දෙනාම ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයෝය. 1964 අත්සන් තබන ලද සිරිමා – ශාස්ත්‍රී ගිවුසුම එන තුරු පසුගිය 20 වෙනි ශත […]

by Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island The material presented below relates to the policies explored by successive governments to meet the rising demands for water and electric power. Consequently, the policies adopted are with the intention of either increasing demands for water and power generation capacities, directly or indirectly, as a byproduct of another policy. […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Sirima Nicole, I hear your voice with an awesome melody You speak to my heart, directly with a sparkling charm I am stunned; seeing your beauty and your magical voice Your songs narrate vivid stories about life and love Often, I listen to your part of me” and found all of you […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Expressing concern over the probable electricity crisis due to the shortage of coal supply to various power plants in the coming days, a northeast India based graduate engineers’ forum advocates for a long-term strategy to overcome the crisis focusing on non-fossil fuel power projects. All Assam Engineer’s Association (AAEA) specially bats for […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් දකුණු පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර ඌව පළාතේ කෘෂිකර්මයෙන් ජීවත් වෙත බහුතරයක් ඉන්න ප්‍රදේශවල පන්සලට දන් මුරය දීගන්න බැරි තරමට ජනතාව අන්ත අසරණ වෙලා යැයි හිටපු දකුණු පලාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පවසයි.  පස්සර, හාලිඇළ, ඇල්ල ප්‍රදේශවල දුෂ්කර පන්සල්, පිරිවෙන් හා භික්ෂුනී මධ්‍යස්ථාන ගණනාවක සංචාරය කිරීමෙන් පසුව අදහස් දැක්වූ තෙන්නකෝන් පැවසූවේ ‘ඌවේ ගොවිතැනින් ජීවත්වෙන […]

– තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා, සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා අධීක්ෂණ අමාත්‍ය සහ ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා – පසුගියදා ටෝකියෝ නුවර පැවති 2020 පැරාලිම්පික් උළෙලේදී පදක්කම් දිනූ හා උපරිම දක්ෂතා දක්වමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කීර්තිය ලොවෙහි රැන්දූ පැරාලිම්පික් ක්‍රීඩකයන් හට උපහාර පිදීමේ උත්සව අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් අද (11) දින තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ඩන්කන් […]

By Toby Antony Express News Service courtesy The New Indian Express The case related to the seizure of AK 47 rifles and ammunition was first registered at Vizhinjam police station which was later taken over by NIA. KOCHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sought information about suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) members from Sri […]

Courtesy News18 Rajapaksa will land at the new Kushinagar International Airport which will be inaugurated the same day by Modi. In what will be a major diplomatic visit next week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be in Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh on October 20. The Sri Lankan President will be accompanied […]

Mahinda Senevi Gunaratne, R. B. Radin Firdaus & Shamila Indika Rathnasooriya Humanities and Social Sciences Communications   Abstract This study explored food security and climate change issues and assessed how food sovereignty contributes to addressing the climate change impacts on entire food systems. The study aimed to contextualise food security, climate change, and food sovereignty within Sri Lanka’s current […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, during a meeting with the representatives of teacher-principal trade unions, has agreed to increase the salaries in three instalments in two budget stages as a resolution to eliminate their salary anomalies. The meeting was held at the Temple Trees this afternoon (October 12), the Prime Minister’s Office said in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total number of people, who died of COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka, moved up as 23 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Monday (October 11). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in the country to 13,377. Latest victims include 11 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry says 151 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 671. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 527,735. As many as 490,800 recoveries and 13,377 deaths have […]