ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති ධම්මපදයේ සුඛ වග්ගයේ එන ආරෝග්‍යා පරමා ලාභා” යනාදි වශයෙන් වන ගාථාව අපි සැවොම දනිමු. මෙය පසේනදී කොසොල් රජතුමා අරභයා අප මහ බුදුරජාණන්වහන්සේ විසින් කළ දේශනාවකි. මිනිසුන්ට වැළැඳිය හැකි රෝග වර්ග දෙකක් ගැන අංගුත්තර නිකායේ චතුක්ක නිපාතයේ ඇති රෝග සූත්‍රයෙහි සඳහන් වෙයි. ඒ, කායික රෝග සහ චෛතසික රෝග යනුවෙනි. අප විසින් අනුභවකරනු ලබන […]

තිසර සමල් – එප්පාවල කොම්පෝස්ට් කියන්නේ දැන් ජනප්‍රිය වචනයක් විතරයි.වගාවට උත්තරයක් නෙමෙයි.අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ බඩඉරඟු අක්කර එක් ලක්ෂ විසි පන් දහසක් විතර වගා කරනවා, හැබැයි මේ පාර අක්කර විසි පන්දහසක්වත් වගා කරයි කියලා මම හිතන්නේ නෑ, පොහොර පිළිබඳව තියෙන අවිනිශ්චිතතාවය නිසා මිනිස්සු වගා කරන්නේ නෑ යැයි රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතා පැවසීය. ඒ මහතා මේ බව […]

සංවර්ධන නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය. ගරු. ෂෙහාන් සේමසිංහ අමාත්‍යතුමා, රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය. සමෘද්ධි, ගෘහ ආර්ථික,ක්ෂද්‍ර මූල්‍ය, ස්වයං රැකියා රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය. #Covid -19 රෝගය වැලදුන නිවෙස් නිරෝධායනය කරන ලද සමෘද්ධි සහනාධාරලාභීන් හට සමෘද්ධි සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ ප්‍රතිලාභ ගෙවීමේදී සිදුව ඇති අසාධාරණය සම්බන්දව. #Covid -19 වැලදුන සමෘද්ධිලාභී පවුල් වෙත සමෘද්ධි සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ අරමුදල මගීන් දිනකට රු.350/ බැගින් වර්ෂයකට උපරිම දින 30 […]

Palitha Mapatuna Watching recently a particular news channel, it seemed obvious that the reporting on the opening of schools was calculated to show the authorities in a bad light; the schools in which the attendance was low were focussed upon, whereas the others were almost entirely ignored. It seems that this type of reporting is […]

R Hariharan Courtesy Firstpost Sri Lanka dumps Chinese fertilizer and imports Nano Nitrogen liquid fertilizer from India,” screamed a Colombo media headline a few days back reflecting the growing exasperation with China’s increasingly high-handed conduct in the island nation. The news item referred to the soured deal of organic fertilizer imported from China last August, […]

By Hank Campbell Courtesy Science 20 It’s great for alternative energy groups to tout how much more solar and wind there is than 10 years ago, and how if some cosmic curve of installations continues indefinitely, fossil fuels and nuclear power will go extinct – but in the real world, where California has to jettison emissions […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror It has been more than six weeks since that epic moment when a ruling party politico who happened to be the state minister of prison reforms stormed the Anuradhapura Prison, and forced a group of Tamil inmates on their knees, threatening them at gunpoint. What happened since then was path defining.  […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A gem mining pit at Laggala Politicians attached to several parties and those wielding power are operating several gem mines in state and reserve lands by misusing the license obtained through the present system Villagers of Kiri Oya said that Minister Amunugama’s secretary had removed illegal gravels as the gravels in […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka’s decision to transform into a fully organic nation was applauded by many nations advocating for organic agriculture but many experts also warned that this decision needs a scientific and gradual approach. Overnight, the importation of chemical fertilisers including pesticides and weedicides was halted, throwing farmers into a dilemma. Even though […]

By R.S. Dharmakeerthi Professor in Soil Fertility and Nutrient managementUniversity of Peradeniya Safeguarding the food security is a prerequisite for ensuring national security. We can produce enough food or generate enough foreign exchange to purchase food to achieve food security. If we fail to secure these two, we will have to abide by the conditions […]

Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror The consignment of nano nitrogen fertilizer had been imported from India against the Cabinet Paper submitted by the Agricultural Minister, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said today. Former JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti told a news conference that the Subject Minister sought the Cabinet approval to import the said fertilizer […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has announced revised guidelines for activities in public and work settings with effect from midnight today. Accordingly, the travel restrictions which were effective between 11.00 p.m. and 4.00 a.m. were removed by the Health Ministry. In addition, weddings will be permitted with a maximum 1/3 of the usual […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reports that another 149 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 561. This increases the tally of confirmed cases of the virus in the country to 536,645 thus far.  19,302 infected patients are currently being treated across the island while total recoveries […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 29 coronavirus related deaths for October 24, increasing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 13,640. According to the figures released by the Govt. Information Department, the Covid-19 deaths confirmed today include 12 males and 17 females.  One of the victims is […]

Courtesy Adaderana Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), Major General Suresh Sallay has filed a complaint with the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) regarding the allegations made by Father Cyril Gamini and several others pertaining to the Easter Sunday attacks.  The complaint refers to the statements made by Rev. Fr. Cyril Gamini Fernando, who is […]

Courtesy Adaderana The nationwide rollout campaign of ‘LANKAQR’ – an integrated payment system developed by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, was launched today by Minister Namal Rajapaksa.  LANKAQR is a project initiative from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to ensure all QR codes and QR based transactions in Sri Lanka are standardized and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court today (October 25) served indictments on former Western Province Governor Azath Salley over the controversial statement he had made during a media briefing early this year. When the case was called before High Court Judge Amal Ranaraja this morning, the incarcerated leader of the National Unity Front (NUF) who […]

Kagama Sirinanda Thero – කාගම සිරිනන්ද හිමි තෙරැවන්සරනයි අපේ පිංවත් ස්වාමින් වහන්සේට නිදුක් න්රෝගි සුවපත්බව ලැබේවා. ඉතාම කාලෝචිත දේසනාවක් මෙම දේසනාව අපේ ජනපතිතුමාටත් අගමැතිතුමාටත් අහන්න ලැබේවා අපේ ස්වාමින් වහන්සේට විශ්වයේ බලවත්ශක්තින්ගේ ආරක්සාව රැකවරනලැබේවා

Charaka Eranda Gamage Courtesy FB මෙරට කෘෂිකර්මාන්තයේ වර්තමාන අර්බුධයට ප්‍රධානම හේතුව මෙරට කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය ගැන මෙළෝ දෙයක් නොදන්නා, ජීවිත කාලය තුළ කුඹුරකට හේනකට ගොස් නැති, වගා කරන්නේ පොහොර භාජනයක යැයි සිතා සිටින, කෘෂි රසායනික වගාවට යොදන්නේ ව්‍යංජනයකට පොල් කිරි දමන ආකාරයෙන් යැයි සිතා සිටින, යළ මහ කන්නයන් ගැන නොදන්නා , බොහෝ විට ගෙදර ප්ලාස්ටික් පෝච්චියක මිරිස් […]

Sunil J. Wimalawansa Abstract and Figures Chronic kidney disease of multifactorial origin (CKDmfo), also known as CKD of uncertain origin (CKDu), is a tubulointerstitial disease. CKDmfo is an environmentally induced, preventable occupational disease that predominantly affects male farmers in tropical countries. Several causative factors have been proposed, including agrochemicals, heavy metals, medications, microbial/cyanobacterial toxins, illicit […]

Oliver Ileperuma,1 Stanley Weeraratne,2 Sunil J Wimalawansa We read with interest the article titled above on the chronic kidney disease (CKD).1 We agree with authors’ conclu-sions that the available data and the mortality pattern presented suggest addi-tional factors beyond those hypothe-sised, including heat stress–dehydration as possible causation of chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu).2 […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Organic farming is the best method that should apply in agriculture, but immediately changing the current practices may create problems for farmers in Sri Lanka. In history, there were no inorganic fertilisers and agrochemicals. Since the late 1950s, farmers have been used chemical fertiliser and agrochemicals with supports of government advisors and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 25.10.21 The Tamil Separatist Movement is very much in existence today, in the Pohottu period. The webinar Sri Lanka: Quest for Justice, Rule of Law and Democratic Rights”, co-hosted by the Global Tamil Forum (GTF), Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice – New York University, Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS revised 25.10.21 The government of Sri Lanka did not follow up on the victory and as a result, the Tamil Separatist Movement   continued, with greater strength than before. Eelam War IV crushed the LTTE but not the Tamil Separatist Movement. The TNA said, this is not the end of Tamil Separatist Movement, thought […]

by Asoka Weerasinghe  (Introduction) I want to take you back 51 years to present to you an important vignette in Sri Lanka’s military history,  The year was 1942.  Sri Lanka was then known as Ceylon. Sir. Winston Churchill, in his monumental work on the Second World War referred to an incident that took place somewhere […]

සමස්ත ලංකා ප්‍රවාහන සේවක සංගමය ගරු ජනාධිපති, ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ මැතිතුමා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ – 01. ගරු ජනාධිපති තුමනි, ☭▸ ශ්‍රී ලංගමය ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට, සේවක අයිතීන් සුරක්ෂිත කිරීමට 2022 අයවැය ලේඛනය තුළින් ප්‍රවාහන අමාත්‍යංශය යටතේම ශ්‍රී ලංගමයට පුනරාවර්ථන වියදම් හා ප්‍රාග්ධන වියදම් සඳහා රුපියල් මිලියන 16 000 ක මුල්‍ය ප්‍රතිපාදන ලබාදීමට කඩිනමින් මැදිහත් වන ලෙස […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 24 (newsin.asia): Six ships of the Indian Navy’s First Training Squadron arrived at Colombo and Trincomalee on October 24 for a training session with the Sri Lanka Navy. These ships are helmed by Capt. Aftab Ahmed Khan, Senior Officer of the First Training Squadron, the Indian High Commission said. The visit […]

by Professor W.A.J.M. De Costa Senior Professor and Chair of Crop Science, University of Peradeniya Courtesy The Island Five months have elapsed since the government’s, in all probability the President’s, decision to ban inorganic fertiliser and synthetic agrochemicals to immediately transform Sri Lanka’s agriculture into totally ‘organic’ (or ‘green’ as the President referred to in […]

නිර්මාණි ගුණරත්න උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ආණ්ඩුව කඩිමුඩියේ නැනෝ නයිට්‍රජන් දියර ගෙන්වමින් බරපතළ වංචාවකට මඟ විවර කොට ඇති බවත්  අදාළ ගෙන්වීම සිදුකොට ඇත්තේ රාජ්‍යතාන්ත්‍රික පදනමකින් හෝ නිසි ප්‍රසම්පාදන ක්‍රමවේදයකින් නොවන බවත්  විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස පවසයි. හතු පිපෙන්නා සේ හදිසියේ මතු වූ ආයතනයකට මේ රටේ බදු ගෙවන්නන්ගේ සහ අහිංසක ජනතාවගේ මුදල් රුපියල් කෝටි 29ක් වංචා සහගත ලෙස […]

Courtesy Adaderana Secretary to the President Dr. P.B. Jayasundara today strongly denied the allegations leveled against him in ‘false’ news reports citing a statement made by an opposition MP regarding the opening of a personal account with a state bank for the importation of fertilizer from India.  Issuing a statement today, the Secretary to the […]