by Senaka Weeraratna Build your wealth on right living and not through causing injury or destruction to the lives of innocent animals. Remember that kill and eat is not a Buddhist tenet. Snuffing out the life of a defenseless animal is not sporting conduct. It is contrary to all tests of fairness. The animal has […]

MD Pathik Hasan Sri Lanka and Bangladesh should set up a Free Trade Agreement as soon as possible for ensuring their own business interest.  Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as South Asian Countries share some common economic platforms. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were parties to the SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA), South Asian Free Trade Area […]

Hafizur Talukdar ‘Bangladeshis shot dead by BSF near Lalmonirhat border: Families still waiting for bodies’ This was the headline of Bangladesh’s leading daily ‘Daily Star’ on September 26, 2021. BSF shoots Bangladeshi youth dead along Satkhira border (July 12, 2021, Dhaka Tribune) A horrible picture was found in Dhaka’s leading daily ‘Dhaka Tribune’s article titled […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Lower Hutt NZ’ Minister Udaya Gammanpila has to be roundly congratulated and thanked  for promptly accessing media to explain the truth to the world and demolish the well organised &  well funded propagation of misrerepresentations, deliberate lies and myths when ever they arise. This is a desperate requirement in SL where […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය පාකිස්ථානයේ බෞද්ධ උරුමය අලළා නිර්මාණය කළ ගාන්ධාර” වාර්තා චිත්‍රපටය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පසුගිය දා (16) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී එළිදැක්විණි. පාකිස්ථාන අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ඉම්රාන් ඛාන් මහතාගේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංචාරය අතරතුර අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සමඟ පැවති ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සාකච්ඡාවේ ප්‍රතිඵලයක් ලෙස මෙම වාර්තා චිත්‍රපටය එළිදැක්විණි. ඒ සඳහා බුද්ධශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශයේ […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී පවුල් 100ක් සඳහා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ (19) දින පස්වරුවේ පානීය නල ජල පහසුකම් ලබාදුන්නේය. නල ජල පහසුකම් ලබාදීම සංකේතවත් කරමින් පවුල් 5ක් සඳහා එම අයිතිය ප්‍රදානය කිරීමේ උත්සවය අනුරාධපුර මිරිසවැටිය රජ මහ විහාරස්ථානයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. පෙරේදා දිනට යෙදුණ සිය ජන්ම දිනයට සමඟාමීව අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී පවුල් සඳහා […]

Courtesy The Island The 22nd of October 1902, was a busy day for Muhandiram Dionysius Sepala Panditha Dahanayake. The Dayaka Sabha of the Wijayananda Viharaya at Weliwatta, Galle, of which the Muhandiram was the Pesident, was holding a special pooja. Suddenly in the middle of the ceremonies, Muhandriam Dahanayaka got an urgent message from his […]

Courtesy The Island The beginning of November is known for its Remembrance Events — All Souls, Poppy Days and in our political past the Suriyamal Day too. But as we move to mid-November it marks the highlights of Political Power. Who could forget the election of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as President of Sri Lanka, by 69 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The COPA disclosed that foreign direct financial aid has been spent on four projects without informing the External Resources Department of the General Treasury. The revelation came as officials of the Ministry of Environment were summoned to the Committee on Public Accounts to examine the Auditor General’s report for the financial years 2017, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Necessary measures have been taken to import stocks of fertilizer required for tea cultivation, says Plantation Minister Dr. Ramesh Pathirana. Responding to a question raised in the parliament today (November 20), the minister stated that Sri Lanka is currently receiving the fertilizer shipments previously ordered by the government. We had given a very […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 725 today (November 20) as 229 more people were tested positive for the virus, the Epidemiology Unit said. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 555,929. As many as 526,353 recoveries and 14,108 […]

Courtesy Hiru News With the policy decision taken by the government to expand the use of organic fertilizers by restricting the use of chemical fertilizers, a serious crisis situation has arisen regarding fertilizers in the country. Against such a backdrop, the Hiru CIA today (20) revealed about a new racket in the Kurunegala area that […]

Courtesy Hiru News A stock of high explosives smuggled from India has been seized by the Police Special Task Force (STF) following a intelligence information received by the Navy. The STF arrested a person with a stock of illegal high explosives during a search operation conducted in the Shanthipuram beach area in Mannar today (20). […]