Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent Courtesy The Guardian Government criticised for delay as suspects face charges relating to 269 deaths 30 months after attacks The trial has begun of the 25 men accused of masterminding the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, which killed almost 300 people when churches and luxury hotels were targeted by Islamic […]

Courtesy News18 Exercise Dosti was initiated in 1991 between the Indian and the Maldives’ coast guards. (Image for representation only: Reuters) Indian Coast Guard vessels Vajra and Apoorva have been deployed for the exercise. The coast guards of India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka are currently conducting a five-day military exercise to enhance interoperability and […]

Courtesy Sputnik MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Sri Lanka and Russia have agreed on the exchange of intelligence information and cooperation fighting against terrorism funding, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said following a meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.”Had a friendly discussion with the Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev today. We agreed on deepening bilateral cooperation […]

Shenali D Waduge On 21stApril 2019 exactly a decade after the defeat of LTTE terrorists, 8 Muslim suicide bombers blew themselves up in 3 churches, 3 hotels & 1 guest house after making a recorded pledge. This was the first Islamic suicide bombing in Sri Lanka. Was it because Zaharan & Co hated these churches […]

Shenali D Waduge Maaveerar Naal or Great Heroes Day has been commemorated since 27 November 1989 with a Heroes Week held annually from 21stending 26thNovember (Prabakaran’s birthday). It is a LTTE event to remember every LTTE combatant killed. While the LTTE propagandists shed crocodile tears to the world that the GoSL denies them to commemorate […]

MD Pathik Hasan Pakistan’s Gwadar port has brought a new dream for the region. This port is not only for Pakistan but also all regional states. Chinese Investment has accelerated the pace of aspirations in this regard. China’s multibillion dollar project “CPEC’ is linked with Gwadar port. This port creates some sort of possibilities and […]

තිසර සමල් – එප්පාවල ජාතික ඉතිරි කිරීමේ බැංකුවේ 50 වැනි සංවත්සරයට සමගාමීව එප්පාවල ජාතික ඉතිරි කිරීමේ බැංකු ශාඛාව මගින් එප්පාවල රජයේ රෝහල වෙත පුටු පරිත්‍යාග කිරීම අද (22) සිදු කෙරිණි. ජාතික ඉතිරි කිරීමේ බැංකුවේ වයඹ ප්‍රාදේශීය කළමණාකාර ඩෙනිස් ඔලබොඩුව මහතාගේ ප්‍රදානත්වයෙන් මෙම සත්කාරය සිදු කරණු ලැබීය. එප්පාවල ප්‍රාදේශීය රෝහලේ සායන කටයුතු වලට පැමිණෙන ගැබිණි මවුවරුන් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය දෙදහස් විස්ස අධ්‍යන පොදු සහතික පත්‍ර සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ විභාගයෙන් විශිෂ්ට සාමාර්ථ නවයක් ලබාගනිමින් දිවයිනේ ඉහළම ප්‍රතිඵල ලබාගත් ශිෂ්‍ය ශිෂ්‍යාවන් පස් දෙනා සහ ඉතිහාසයේ පළමු වතාවට විශිෂ්ට සාමාර්ථ 9ක් ලබාගත් දෘශ්‍ය ආබාධ සහිත දරුවන් දෙදෙනෙකු අද (22) දින පාර්ලිමේන්තු පරිශ්‍රයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමුවූහ. මෙසේ තමන් හමුවීමට පැමිණි අ.පො.ස සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති කුමාර කාශ්‍යප මාතාව කරණ කොටගෙන නිග්‍රෝධ ජාතකය දේශනාකර, අප මහ බුදුරජාණන්වහන්සේ අනුදැන වදාළ අත‍්තා හි අත‍්තනො නාථො, කො හි නාථො පරො සියා” නම් ගාථාවෙහි අර්ථය අපි සැවොම දනිමු. තමන්ට තමා ම පිහිට වන්නේ ය. තමා හැර අන් කවරෙක් තමන් හට පිහිටවන්නේ ද?” යනු එහි අර්ථයයි. අන්‍යයන් මත යැපීම බෞද්ධයන් වන අප හට […]

High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda visited the headquarters of the global Information Technology giant HCL Technologies in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The 50-acre campus houses 25,000 employees. High Commissioner Moragoda’s visit to the HCL Technologies headquarters in Noida came just days ahead of the first anniversary […]

Emeritus Professor Nimal Gunatilleke,  University of Peradeniya Courtesy The Island Natural forests provide a variety of services that include forest products of utility value, water regulation, biodiversity and soil conservation, climate amelioration and a range of socio-cultural benefits to forest-dependent people. In good governance of natural resources such as that of forests, transparency and inclusiveness […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Declaring that Sri Lanka was experiencing the worst ever post-independence economic crisis, Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday said Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s forthcoming visit to New Delhi might give the country an opportunity to explore ways and means of overcoming the overwhelming challenges. Prof. Peiris, who is also […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Following the success of last year’s #BudgetCheck, FactCheck.lk by Verité Research carried out live fact checking on claims made by Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa in his 2022 Budget Speech on November 12, 2021.  The team fact checked a total of nine statements from the Budget Speech. Of these, four statements were […]

Courtesy Adaderana There is no change in the government policy.” President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stressed that the country’s agriculture policy is only for a green agriculture that focuses on the sole use of organic fertilizers. President Rajapaksa said that the government will only distribute organic fertilizer and provide subsidies only for organic farming, the PMD reported.  […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 197 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today, increasing the daily count of new cases to 735.  Sri Lanka’s tally of Covid-19 cases reported increases to 557,361 with this while over 16,000 infected patients are currently undergoing treatment. The Director General of Health Services […]

Courtesy Adaderana Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has instructed the Secretary of the ministry to call for an explanation from the Registrar of Pesticides regarding the gazette issued revoking a previous gazette imposing a ban on the use and sale of Glyphosate and four other agrochemicals in several areas.  An Extraordinary Gazette notification had been published […]

Courtesy Hiru News Control of Pesticides act that was issued prohibiting the use, sale of Glyphosate, Propanil, Carbary1, Cholopyrifos & Carbofuran in December 22, 2014 has been revoked today by the Registrar of Pesticides through an Extraordinary Gazette.

Courtesy Hiru News Control of Pesticides act that was issued prohibiting the use, sale of Glyphosate, Propanil, Carbary1, Cholopyrifos & Carbofuran in December 22, 2014 has been revoked today by the Registrar of Pesticides through an Extraordinary Gazette

Chanaka Bandarage Sri Lanka has one of Asia’s worst traffic problems. Prior to Corona, it was a nightmarish exercise to drive around Colombo during peak hours. In Colombo, people spent long hours in vehicles to travel from one place to another. Eg: prior to Corona, it took about 120 minutes to drive from Athurugiriya to […]

සමස්ත ලංකා ප්‍රවාහන සේවක සංගමය ගරු මුදල් අමාත්‍ය, බැසිල් රාජපක්‍ෂ මැතිතුමා, මුදල් හා ක්‍රම සම්පාදන අමාත්‍යංශය, කොළඹ 01. ගරු ඇමතිතුමණි, ශ්‍රී ලංගම සේවකයින් හට ප්‍රසාද දීමනා සහ පාසල් උපකරණ මිලදී ගැනීම සඳහා අවම වශයෙන් රුපියල් 30,000/- ක මුදලක් කඩිනමින් ලබාදීමට මැදිහත් වන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම. ශ්‍රී ලංගම සේවකයින් හට ප‍්‍රසාද දීමනා වශයෙන් රු. 15,000/- ක […]

තිසර සමල්    – අනුරාධපුර  අද රසායනික පොහොර ගේනවා කියලා තීන්දු කරා කියලා කියනවා.මම ඒ පිළිබඳව ඉහළ ඉඳන් පහලට ඉන්න නිළධාරීන්ට කථා කරලා බැලුවා.නෑ එහෙම තීන්දුවක් අරන් නෑ, දීලීර හා පලිභෝද නාශක වලට පමණයි ඒ තීන්දුව අරන් තියෙන්නේ.ඒ අවස්ථාව හරි ලබා දුන්න එක ලොකු දෙයක් යැයි රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතා පැවසීය.  අමාත්‍යයවරයා මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කර […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒ්කකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී තිස්ස කුට්ටිආරච්චි මහතා පසුගියදා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව අමතමින් කාන්තාවන්ට අපහාස වන අන්දමේ ප්‍රකාශයක් කර ඇති බව කැෆේ සංවිධානය පවසයි. එම සංවිධානයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂිකා සුරංගි ආරියවංශ මහත්මිය පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී තිස්ස කුට්ටිආරච්චි මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු වරප්‍රසාද වලට මුවාවි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රිනි රෝහිණි කවිරත්න සහ විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතාගේ බිරිඳට අපහාස වන […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Nov 21 (NewsWire) – The Government has decided to obtain an emergency loan of US$ 500 million from India to import fuel, which has become a serious crisis at the moment, Lankadeepa Newspaper reports. A senior government minister has told Lankadeepa that top government leaders have already begun discussions with the Indian […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror People queueing up near a Sathosa outlet to buy daily essentials Sri Lanka is mired in multiple crises. The country continues to be devastated by the pandemic, crippled by balance of payment problems that are only the surface of a long economic depression, and rising cost of living contributing to food insecurity.  […]

Courtesy MailOnline Sri Lanka has abandoned its quest to become the world’s first completely organic farming nation Sri Lanka abandoned its quest to become the world’s first completely organic farming nation on Sunday, announcing it would immediately lift an import ban on pesticides and other agricultural inputs. The island country has been in the grips […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Last week, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa quietly celebrated completing two years in Office. He was elected as president with an overwhelming majority, and shortly thereafter won a rare two-third parliamentary majority. However, it is obvious that the honeymoon is clearly over.  The President is being troubled by not only an […]

T.P. Lokuliyana Courtesy Ceylon Today Top economist Dr. W.A. Wijewardena stresses the need for revisiting all public policies that have been made without due appraisal. The former deputy governor of the Central Bank took to twitter welcoming the reversal of the chemical fertilizer ban. …though it’s welcome, it shows a grave deficiency in democratic economic […]

by Ifham Nizam and Prabhath Withana Courtesy The Island An investigation by the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) into a complaint of fraud, which caused a loss of over USD 18 million to the government coffers, has been stalled by a minister, according to police sources. The CCD commenced the investigation, several weeks ago, following a […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror TNA Parliamentarians M.A Sumanthiran and Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, who are presently in Canada, were driven away from a meeting held with a group of Tamil diaspora, who branded them as ‘traitors’ alleging the diaspora wanted a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka. Both Sumanthiran and Rasamanickam came under heavy criticism while the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says another 189 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, pushing the daily count of new cases to 697. Earlier today, the ministry had confirmed 508 new cases of the virus. This increases the total number of coronavirus cases confirmed in the country to 556,626. Over 15,000 infected patients are currently […]