ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති කඩු පළිහ රැගෙන දුනුහිය කරපියා තමන්වහන්සේ පසුපස ලුහුබැඳ ආ අංගුලිමාල සොරදෙටුවා සිට මහණ, සිට මහණැ” යැයි කී කල්හි අඟුල්මල, මම සිටියෙමි, තෝ ද සිටැ”යි භාග්‍යවතුන්වහන්සේ වදාළ බැව් අපි සැවොම දනිමු. ඉදිරියට යා හැක්කේ නැවැතුණු අයට ය. ලෝකෝත්තර අරමුණු කරා යෑමට මෙන් ම ලෞකික වූ සමාජ – ආර්ථික අරමුණු කරා යෑමට ද මෙය […]

පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට අවේනික සහ දුර්ලභ ශාක විශේෂයක්‌ බස්නාහිර පළාතේ කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයෙහි වලල්ලාවිට ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාස සීමාවේ නාවලකන්ද වනාන්තර පද්ධතියට යාබදව පවතින්නා වූ ගුලවිට උතුර ග්‍රාමසේවා වසම තුලින් සොයා ගැනීමට පර්යේෂකයන් පිරිසක් සමත්වී තිබේ. Strobilanthes rhytisperma යන විද්‍යාත්මක නාමයෙන් හඳුන්වන මෙම නෙළු ශාක විශේෂය 1867 වර්ෂයේදී මධ්‍යම පළාත තුල සහ 1971 වර්ෂයේදී අවසන් […]

By Jamila Husain Daily Mirror Colombo, November 15 (Daily Mirror): China’s Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group, the fertilizer company caught in a controversy with Sri Lanka’s Agriculture Ministry, has warned that it will lodge a complaint against Sri Lanka at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) if the National Plant Quarantine Service (NPQS) does not rectify […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් චීනයට විකුණන ලද ද හම්බන්තොට වරාය ආපසු පවරා ගන්නා බවට පොරොන්දු වී බලයට පැමිණි අය අද රටේ දේපළ විකුණා දමමින් සිටින බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. අද වන විට චීනයට රටේ හදවත විකුණා දමා ඇති බවත් ඇමරිකාවට පෙනහළ විකුණා දමා ඇති බවත් ඔහු […]

Courtesy News18 Sri Lanka wants to reclaim its ancient glory by conducting a detailed scientific research into its aviation past. Many Sri Lankans believe that King Ravana was the world’s first seasoned aviator and that during his days, the island had aircraft and airports. Dismissing the argument that these are mythological beliefs with no scientific […]

Courtesy MailOnline Smoke billows from a chimney at the Sapugaskanda refinery Sri Lanka shut its only oil refinery Monday after running out of dollars to import crude, in an escalating economic crisis that has triggered shortages of food and other staples. The country’s foreign reserves had fallen to $2.3 billion at the end of October, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Mirigama-Kurunegala section of the Central Expressway will be opened this month, Highways Minister Johnston Fernando said today. He told Parliament that the Central Expressway from Colombo to Kandy will be completely opened during the next two years. The minister said this while responding to a question raised by Chief Opposition […]

Courtesy Adaderana The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka has surpassed the 14,000 mark on Monday. The official death toll reached 14,014, after 21 more coronavirus related deaths for November 14 were confirmed by the Director General of Health Services.  The deaths confirmed today include 15 males and 06 females while four […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Samagi Jana Balavegaya stated in Parliament today that the reason for the current financial crisis in the country is the loss of Rs. 800 billion in revenue due to tax concessions given in the last budget. Chief Opposition Whip Lakshman Kiriella made this statement while State Minister Shehan Semasinghe, Parliamentarian Ranil […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture stated that there is no agreement to retest the Chinese Fertilizer via a third party. Even if the Chinese company retest, rejected fertilizer will not be accepted according to plant quarantine regulations.

H. L. D. Mahindapala Right now, C. V. Wignewaran is labouring indefatigably to lead the next Tamil brigade to Nandikadal. Right now, there is no one in the Tamil political arena who represents Tamil extremism more than C. V. Wigneswaran, the unrepentant devotee of Swamy Premananda – a convict who died in a S. Indian […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today In the coming week the newlypresented Appropriation Bill 2022 (Budget for 2022) will come under the scrutiny of politicians of both divides, economists and other stakeholders. Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa is already on record that it is a ‘Somalia-like’ Budget. The Yahapalana Government’s economic guru, Dr Harsha de Silva […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart and Member “Viyathmaga”, 14th., November, 2021. Look at the way of their life style and the houses they have built while they are in Public Service. The Honourable Minister of Finance was very correct in saying that the Public Service is a burden […]

තිසර සමල්   – අනුරාධපුර   ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික් බල මණ්ඩලය ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ ජාතික සංවිධායක, රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අනුරාධපුර පිහිටි ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ ප්‍රධාන කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැත්විණි. එහිදී ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ දිස්ත්‍රික්  භික්ෂු පෙරමුණ, තරුණ පෙරමුණ, ගොවි පෙරමුණ, ගුරු පෙරමුණ හා කාන්තා පෙරමුණ ඇතුළු දිස්ත්‍රික්  අනුබද්ධ සංවිධාන සදහා නව […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කොළඹ 10 ශ්‍රී වජිරාශ්‍රම බෞද්ධ මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ වාර්ෂික කඨින මහා පුජෝත්සවයේ කඨින චීවරය අද (14) උදෑසන අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ සිට පෙරහරකින් වැඩම කොට සඝසතු කර පූජා කෙරිණි. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ උපදෙස් මත වස් ආරාධනයෙන් පසු කඨින චීවරය සඝ සතු කිරීම දක්වා මූලික දායකත්වය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ආර්යා ශිරන්ති වික්‍රමසිංහ රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මිය ඇතුළු දරු මුණුබුරන් සහ […]

Nava Thakuria Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condoles the sad demise of two young journalists in India and Afghanistan within 24 hours and urges the concerned authorities to probe the developments that led to their untimely deaths, and subsequently to book the perpetrators to justice. It may be […]

Courtesy RT Food banks across the United States are struggling to keep up with the number of Americans in need of assistance amid record inflation and the supply chain crisis, which have gripped the nation ahead of the holiday season. The Alameda County, California Community Food Bank was forced to make a lot of really tough […]

Courtesy RT A US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle descends after receiving fuel at an undisclosed location in the Gulf, August 9, 2019 © Reuters / US Air Force The US military tried to cover up a deadly attack on Syrian civilians that killed as many as 80 people, claiming that women and children could have been terrorist […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 14 (newsin.asia):  Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda sought avenues for further strengthening bilateral cooperation in the civil aviation sector with India, when he met the Civil Aviation Minister of India Jyotiraditya Scindia in New Delhi.  Minister Scindia accorded a warm welcome to High Commissioner Moragoda. The High Commissioner […]

Courtesy johnogroat-journal.co.uk There are two main types of cardamom: green (Elettaria cardamomum) and black (Amomum subulatum). Green cardamom, also known as true cardamom, is a sub-species of the ginger (Zingiberaceae) family. Green cardamom is native to Southern India and Sri Lanka. The botanical has long, pointed leaves and pretty, white flowers. The seed-containing pods are […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island General Shavendra Silva’s recently concluded visit (Oct 23 to Oct 30) to Russia should be examined against the backdrop of an unprecedented travel ban by the United States on the Sri Lanka Army Commander over hearsay war crimes accusations, including extrajudicial killings, during the last phase of the Vanni […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror As many as 8000 Covid-19 patients sought treatment at Ayurveda hospital in Navinna, Maharagama but none of them succumbed to the disease, a minister said. State Minister of Indigenous Medicine Promotion, Rural and Ayurvedic Hospitals Development and Community Health Sisira Jayakodi said it proved the efficacy of Ayurvedic medicine in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara says that the Budget presented by the Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa is an ‘extraordinary’ one and is beyond the tradition. He said the budget proposal has grappled with the main issues and it has provided certain measures and certain allocations in order to overcome some of the most important […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Annual Action Plan of the National Audit Office for the year 2022 has been approved by the Committee on Public Finance (COPF), the Communications Department of Parliament said. The Committee met under the chairmanship of MP Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, yesterday (13). In terms of Section 35 of the Audit Act No. 19 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 199 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases to 697. The fresh cases confirmed includes 02 returnees from overseas and 197 patients associated with the ‘New Year’ Covid-19 cluster.  This brings the tally of confirmed cases of the virus in […]

Courtesy Hiru News Chinese Ambassador says Sri Lanka has agreed to retest the rejected Chinese Organic Fertiliser via a third party. The ship in question – the Hippo Spirit – departed from China in September carrying 20,000 tonnes of much-needed organic fertiliser to Colombo. The order was placed after the Sri Lankan government stopped all […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS In Sri Lanka, the budget has been given the wrong impression to people that it is a way of decreasing or increasing prices of consumables or otherwise providing various reliefs to proletarians. However, it has not come to a reality as people expect. This impression came to people’s minds, as the many […]

Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka has just achieved a world record. Its national Budget has been presented in Parliament by a foreigner. Yes, yes – A Dual Citizen. Are you sure this Budget is not really meant to help US President Joe Biden to get over his problems? We must wonder whether our American/Sri Lankan […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 13 (Counterpoint): Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s maiden budget presented to parliament on Friday, is both growth-oriented and especially strong on the provision of relief to the general population which has suffered greatly due to a combination of a COVID-19 scare, lockdowns and incompetent governance. If the relief […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 13 (newsin.asia): The United States government disbursed $150 million in financing to DFCC Bank on November 12 to support sustainable development of Sri Lankan community-based businesses.  This is the largest loan disbursement by the U.S. Development Finance Corporation (DFC) for Sri Lanka, and it is part of a $265 million commitment […]