Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health says 498 more people were tested positive for the novel coronavirus so far today (October 15). This brings the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in the country to 530,253. Reportedly, more than 24,800 virus-infected patients are undergoing treatment at the moment at […]

Courtesy The Economist The ruling Rajapaksas have strong ideas and expect everyone to adopt them Staring glumly at his paddy field in the depths of rural Sri Lanka, B. R. Weeraratne sighs. The regular incursions of greedy elephants have been bad enough. But the government’s outright ban on agrochemicals will, he fears, slash his yields of nadu and samba, […]

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කුමුදු ජයවර්ධන, තාරක සම්මාන්  මව්බිම දැන්   රජය විසින් මෙවර මහ කන්නය සඳහා ආනයනය කරන ලද පොටෑසියම් ක්ලෝරයිඩ් (KCl) පොහොර ඛනිජමය සම්භවයක් ඇති කාබනික පොහොර බවට කෘෂිකර්ම අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල්වරයා සහතික කර තිබේ. සිය ෆේස්බුක් ගිණුමේ සටහනක් තබමින් කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්‍ය මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කර ඇත. කෙසේ වෙතත්, රසායන විද්‍යාව සම්බන්ධ ආචාර්යවරුන්, ගුරුවරුන් මෙන් […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale The lesson for all is the need for nurturing critical thinking and to question information and its veracity. In explaining the thinking behind naming the new YouTube channel as Panshu, Ven Galkande Dhammananda said that the philosophy of the WRI has always had a positive outlook and it has focused on what […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතයෙන් රෝගාතුරව නිවසේ ප්‍රතිකාර ලබන රාජ්‍ය සේවකයන්ටත් අග්‍රහාර රක්ෂණ අරමුදලෙන් වන්දි ලබා දීමේ ක්‍රමවේදයක් සකස් කරන්නැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ(13) පස්වරුවේ අදාළ නිලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ වෘත්තිය සමිති සහ ඒකාබද්ධ වෘත්තිය සමිති නියෝජිතයන් සමඟ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාව අතරතුර අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව දැනුම් දුන්නේය. මෙයට පෙර රාජ්‍ය […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර රේගුවෙන් විනාශ කරන්නට නියමිතව තිබූ කසල තේ තොගයක්  කාබනික පොහොර වලට මිශ්‍ර කරන්නට ගෙනැවිත් එප්පාවලදී උණුසුම් තත්වයක්…. කාබනික පොහොර නිශ්පාදනය සඳහා කලවම් කිරීමට ගෙන ආ බවට පැවසෙන කසල තේ තොග වල ඇසුරුම් එප්පාවල ඇඳගල ප්‍රදේශයේ රජයේ වී ගබඩා වල ගිණි තැබීමට හේතුවෙන් අවට ප්‍රදේශවාසීන් හා එම ස්ථානයේ සිටි පිරිස අතර උණුසුම් තත්වයක් ඊයේ […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් එදා මෙදා තුර කෘෂිකර්ම ඇමතිවරු අතර විශිෂ්ඨතමයා මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ ම ය. එවැන්නෙකු  අගමැති, ජනපති ධූරයන්ට පත් නොකර කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්‍ය ධූරයේ තවදුරටත් තබා ගැනීම අපරාධයකි. අගතියකි.  අකටයුත්තකි.   නිදහස් ලංකාවේ කෘෂිකර්මයට වැඩිම අවධානය දුන්නා යැයි කියන ඩී.එස්.සේනානායක අගමැතිතුමා,  කාකි සූට් එක දාගෙන අම්පාරේ, පොළොන්නරුවේ ජනපද,  වගා බිම් හදපු ජාතියේ පියා ය.    ඩඩ්ලි […]

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Wind turbines tower over the water off the shores of Block Island, Rhode Island. The Biden administration is planning a large expansion of wind power off US coasts. (CNN)The Biden administration is planning to aggressively expand offshore wind energy capacity in the United States, potentially holding as many as seven new offshore […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 14: The third meeting of the India-Sri Lanka Joint Working Group (JWG) on Tourism was held on Thursday in the virtual mode. The meeting was co-chaired by S. Hettiarachchi, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism from the Sri Lankan side and Rakesh Kumar Verma, Joint Secretary (Tourism) in the Ministry of Tourism from […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 14 (SAM): India and Sri Lanka now appear to be shedding doubts and reservations about each other and getting closer in multiple ways simultaneously. India’s urgency to counter China and Sri Lanka’s economic compulsions have combined to bring about top-level ‘to and fro’ visits in quick succession.     Close […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ අඩු පිරිවැයකින් කර්මාන්තශාලා ආරම්භ කිරීමට ඉන්දීය ආයෝජකයන් කැමැත්තෙන් සිටියත් මෙරට දේශපාලකයන් විසින් කොමිස් හා අල්ලස් ඉල්ලන නිසා ඔවුන් එවැනි ආයෝජන සිදු කිරීමට අකමැත්තක් දක්වන බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී වී රාධක්‍රිෂ්ණන් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. තමන් පසුගිය දා ඉන්දියාවේ ප්‍රදේශ ගණනාවක සංචාරය කළ බවත් එහිදී එම කර්මාන්ත කරුවන් සමග කරන […]

Zunana Zalif Courtesy raajje.mv This first ever engagement would be mutually beneficial to both countries Ship and boatbuilding as a priority area for Sri Lanka NBAM and the the Representatives of the Sri Lanka Boat and Ship Building Industry held a virtual meeting on Monday . The meeting was hosted by the Foreign Ministry in collaboration with […]

By Rediff News Bureau head of next Wednesday’s India-Sri Lanka summit in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, which Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi and Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will attend, General Manoj Mukund Naravane, chief of the army staff, is in in Colombo. In an unusual gesture, General Shavendra Silva, Sri Lanka’s army chief, received General Naravane […]

By Dr. Tilak S Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today By Dr. Tilak S Fernando The nature of a crime is an inter-reaction with society. There is nothing, philosophical, to distinguish one crime from that another. There are various murders, but it does not include all human beings alone but covers a broader range of killings involving […]

 කාංචනා විජයබණ්ඩාර මව්බිම දැන් ඇතැම් අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල පත්‍රිකා නිසි ලෙස සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට ප්‍රමාණවත් කාලයක් නොගෙන වහා ම සම්මත කර ගන්නා බවත් එලෙස ක්‍රියා කිරීම සුදුසු ක්‍රමයක් නොවන බවත් කර්මාන්ත අමාත්‍ය විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. පවතින පොහොර ගැටලුව සම්බන්ධයෙන් සලකා බැලීමේදී ද ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගත් තීරණ මෙම වසංගත කාලය තුළ ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ හැකි ද? ඊට ගොවි […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total number of people, who died of COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka, moved up as 21 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Wednesday (October 13). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in the country to 13,429. Latest victims include 15 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reported that another 146 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, increasing the daily count of new cases to 673. This pushes the tally of coronavirus cases confirmed in the country thus far to 529,755. 24,722 patients infected with the virus are currently under treated across the island while total […]

Courtesy NBC News By Reuters CASABLANCA, Chile — Down a dusty farm track in Chilean wine country, behind a wooden gate wrapped in chains, forestry experts are nursing a plantation of saplings whose bark holds the promise of potent vaccines. Quillay trees, technically known as Quillaja saponaria, are rare evergreens native to Chile that have long […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Ricardo San Martin, a Chilean expert on the Quillay soapbark tree and its industrial uses (Reuters) These rare evergreens native to Chile have long been used by the indigenous Mapuche people to make soap and medicine One company has enough extract to develop 4.4 billion vaccine doses in 2022 Down a […]

by Melanie Manel Perera Courtesy AsiaNews.it The All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama published a leaflet against extremism calling on the faithful to practise moderation”. Saddened by the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, they criticise those who instigate hatred and forget the contributions of Muslims to the nation. Colombo (AsiaNews) – All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) said it […]

by M. P. Dhanapala Former Director, Rice Research and Development, Department of Agriculture Courtesy The Island maddumadhanapala@yahoo.com, Tel. 0718412444 Some groups emerge time to time from different professions, with the enthusiasm of promoting traditional rice varieties free of toxic contaminants for consumption. Traditional varieties are highlighted as healthy and nutritious, but with little or no […]

Courtesy The Island A. Baur & Co. (Pvt.) Ltd., widely known as Baurs, a diversified business group and one of the pioneering innovators in agriculture in Sri Lanka, recently shared preliminary key insights and solutions for the country’s farming industry to successfully master the conversion from conventional to organic, backed by scientific evidence and sound […]

By Maya Anthony Courtesy Ceylon Today By Maya Anthony  The remnants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are regrouping in the UK. Like Osama bin Laden groomed Hamza bin Laden to succeed him, the LTTE leaders and members are grooming their own children.  Prabhakaran too set an example by training and grooming his […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Reviving Kantale Sugar Factory Defunct vehicles and unserviceable machinery – Pix by Samantha Perera The Kantale Sugar Factory was a Czechoslovakian Government aid grant commissioned during Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s tenure However, privatisation adversely affected its operations. Inefficient management and issues reported by workers, eventually led to its closure Critics point out that the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Referring to the recent video by a tourist that went viral on social media, the Airport & Aviation Services Sri Lanka said that what was said in the video is misleading and not the real picture at the airport. Posting a video on social media recently, a tourist from US has […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily total of COVID-19 cases moved to 680 today (October 13) as 167 more people were tested positive for the virus infection in Sri Lanka, the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry says. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 528,415. According to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka must gear up for cyber warfare by augmenting its capabilities to meet the demands of 21st-century national security, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy said on Wednesday. Visiting Sri Lanka on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s invitation for Navarathri celebrations at his official residence, Temple Trees, […]

Courtesy Sri Lanka News Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage says that 30,000 MT of Organic Potassium Chloride fertiliser purchased by the 02 Govt fertiliser institutions arrived at the Colombo port a short while ago.  If only a small amount of potassium is required, naturally-derived potassium chloride can be used as a fertilizer. Potassium chloride is highly soluble, but the chloride content […]