Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 529 persons have tested positive for Covid-19. The new cases confirmed today includes one returnee from overseas. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country to 583,251 while presently approximately 9,252 infected patients are undergoing treatment.  The Director General of Health Services has […]

Courtesy Hiru News It is reported that Secretary to the President Dr. P.B. Jayasundara has sent a letter to the President stating that he will resign from the post of Secretary to the President after 31 January. In that letter, Dr. Jayasundera has requested the President to release him from the post of Secretary to […]

By Rohana R. Wasala (An opinion offered for critical examination) Addressing a gathering of jurists in Sinhala at a function in Colombo, justice minister Ali Sabry said (December 12): To me as minister for justice, and to us all as citizens of this country, people are the most important factor. It is because of them […]

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E The appointment of a presidential task force mandated to draft relevant legislation aimed at operationalising the ‘One Country, One Law’ concept precipitated howls of protests. The howlers weren’t exactly from those opposed in some way to a single corpus of rules; rather they by and large belonged to that small set of people […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර දේශපාලන අධිකාරියට, නායකත්වය දෙන්න පුලුවන් මතවාද හදන්න පුලුවන් හැබැයි මේක ගමේ ගිහින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන්න නිල වශයෙන් වගකීම හා අයිතිය තියෙන පිරිස තමයි රජයේ නිළධාරීන්,  රජයේ සේවය නැතිව අපිට මේ වැඩ කරන්න බෑ,අපි එහෙම නම් රණ්ඩු වෙලා හරියන්නේ නෑ, අපි යාලු වෙන්න ඕන, අපි යාලු වෙලා හරියන්නේ නෑ, අපි හොඳම යාලුවෝ විදිහට තවත් […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය  සාමයේ හා ප්‍රේමයේ සළකුණ මිහිමත තැබූ උතුම් නත්තල ජේසුස් ක්‍රිස්තුන් වහන්සේගේ උප්පත්තිය සිහිගන්වයි. දෙවියන්වහන්සේගේ ප්‍රේමය සහ මානව ගරුත්වය මනුෂ්‍යත්වය පෙරදැරි සමාජයකට විශ්වාසනීය පදනමක් විය. බෙත්ලෙහෙමේ දිළිඳු ගවලෙනක ගවඔරුවක උපන් ජේසු බිළිඳා යථාර්ථවාදීව ලෝකය දෙස බැලීමට සිය උපතේ පටන්ම ආදර්ශයක් ගෙන දුන්නේය. අසිරිමත් හදවත් ඇත්තෝ සාමය බෙදා ගනිති. […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando  Christmas 2021 approached with several restrictions from the Sri Lankan Health authorities due to Covid-19. Over two billion people celebrate the birth of Christ on 24 December every year. Christmas is the most joyful season in the year. Generally it’s an occasion for the family to reunite and everyone in […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Dec 24 (AdaDerana) – The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) set a new record today (December 24) as the All Share Price Index (ASPI) surpassed 12,000 points for the first time in history. The ASPI closed at 12,070.68 points at the end of trading today (November 16), marking an increase of 1.00% (119.45 […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando  During the past few weeks, wives, cooks at various hotels and restaurants and other family members were shocked by gas explosions originating from the domestic liquid petroleum (LP) gas cylinder. From 1 January to 5 December 2021 there were 244 explosions. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed an eight-member committee to investigate […]

රංජිත් රාජපක්ෂ – හැටන් මව්බිම දැන් ලබන වසරේ මුල් කාර්තුවේ යළිත් මේ රට තුළ එළවළු හිඟයක් ඇති වන බව සමස්ත ලංකා ඒකාබද්ධ විශේෂිත ආර්ථික මධ්‍යස්ථාන එකමුතුවේ සභාපති අරුණ ශාන්ත හෙට්ටිආරච්චි මහතා පවසයි. අද (‍දෙසැ. 24) දින මාධ්‍යයට ප්‍රකාශයක් කරමින් ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ ය. ලබන වසරේ මුල් මාසය තුළ ගොවීන්ට අවශ්‍ය රසායනික පොහොර ලබා […]

By Seneka Abeyratne Courtesy The Island Ruminations on Sri Lanka’s Ancient Past – Part VI The evidence assembled by C.R. Panabokke, in ‘Evolution of the Indigenous Village Irrigation Systems of Sri Lanka’ (2010), shows the transition from rainfed to irrigated agriculture took place mainly in the 3rd century BCE. A study by Rukshan Jayawardena, ‘Ancient Irrigation […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The main Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) has called for a thorough inquiry into the conduct of sacked Agriculture Secretary Senior Prof. Udith K. Jayasinghe by Auditor General W.P.C. Wickramaratne and other relevant authorities. Matale District lawmaker Rohini Kaviratne on behalf of the SJB said that the truth couldn’t […]

Courtesy The Island The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) said on Wednesday that measures being taken at present would ensure that by end of 2021, official reserves would remain above US dollars 3 billion. Thus the government and the Central Bank remain confident that expected inflows will materialise and the reserve position will remain […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka had not sought financial support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during a just concluded staff team visit to Colombo.  IMF’s mission chief for Sri Lanka, Masahiro Nozaki told Daily Mirror via email that the staff is still ready to discuss the option if requested.  Nozaki said a staff […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is on a two-day spiritual visit to India, on Friday offered prayers at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara in Tirumala in India’s Andhra Pradesh along with his wife Shiranthi Rajapaksa. PM Rajapaksa came to India on Thursday to pay his visit to the temple […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reports that 573 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in the country within today (24). This includes two persons who had arrived from overseas, the Govt. Information Department said in a release.  Meanwhile this brings the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka thus far to 582,722. Presently […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage has assured that there would not be a food shortage in the country next year. He says certain statements warning about a looming food shortage cannot be accepted as 90 to 95 percent of paddy fields in each district have already been cultivated now. The minister’s remarks came […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture Prof. Udith K. Jayasinghe stated that there was a fraud in importing nano fertilizer at a higher price. He pointed out that a bottle of nano liquid fertilizer, which could have been bought for USD 5.25, has been bought for USD 10. Meanwhile, farmers are […]

Senaka Weeraratna Vice – President Justice for Animals and Nature A man preaches peace. He is world renown as ‘Prince of Peace’. Yet, ironically his birthday anniversary is celebrated worldwide with unlimited bloodshed of defenseless animals. Turkeys, cattle, pigs, goats, lambs, rabbits, and bird kinds such as ducks, hens, roosters, fowls are all lined up […]

සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර 22.12. 2021 දින  ලන්කාවෙභි ඉහත මැය යටතේ පලවූ ලිපියට තව එකතු කිරීම් කීපයක්. ජනාධිපති තුමනි 1 ඉහත ලිපියේ සඳහන් 60 දැනා දැනටමත් දිවයිනෙන් බැහරව ගොස් ඇත්නම් ඒ සියලු  දෙනාම වහාම ආපසු කැඳවන්න. 2 මේ ගමන් සඳහා ගුවන් ටිකට් පත් සහ වෙනත්  දීමනා සඳහා වැය කොට ඇත්තේ රජයේ මුදල් නම් එම මුදල් වහාම […]

MD Pathik Hasan Bangladesh is now one of the world’s developing economies. In 2015, Bangladesh graduated from Least Developed Countries (LDC) status and became a low-middle-income country. Many Asian, European and American economists are positive that soon Bangladesh will become one of the middle-income countries in the world. Today, Bangladesh is moving forward at a […]

Laksiri Warnakula  The Head of the Catholic Church of Sri Lanka Malcolm Cardinal Ranjiths’ proposal to keep the shops closed that sell the spirits of cheer (supposedly) during Christmas has met with stiff criticism coming from many members of the public Well on its own, it is always a sensible thing to do: to keep […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කොළඹ සහ ගල්කිස්ස කාල්ටන් පෙර පාසල් දූ දරුවන්ගේ වාර්ෂික නත්තල් කැරොල් ගී ප්‍රසංගය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (22) පස්වරුවේ මාලිගාවත්ත කාල්ටන් පෙර පාසලේ දී අති උත්කර්ෂවත් අයුරින් පැවැත්විණි. කොළඹ මාලිගාවත්ත සහ ගල්කිස්ස කාල්ටන් පෙර පාසල්වල දරු දැරියෝ මෙහි දී කැරොල් ගී ගායනා කරමින් සිය හැකියාවන් පිළිඹිබු කළහ. නත්තල් මිහිර විදහාපාමින්  […]

High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi. Sri Lanka and India discussed ways in which the two countries could further enhance bilateral cultural relations when Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with Minister of State for External Affairs & Culture of India Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi. The meeting between the High Commissioner of […]

Courtesy Radio Free Europe Iran has agreed to accept Ceylon tea in exchange for some $251 million in oil debt from the South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka, Iranian media report. Alireza Peyman-Pak, the head of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization, said on December 23 that “in recent negotiations, we reached a written deal to […]

Central Bank Sri Lanka The Central Bank of Sri Lanka wishes to inform the general public that the measures being taken at present will ensure that by end of 2021 official reserves will remain above US dollars 3 billion. Despite the headwinds of the economic impact of COVID-19 and challenges posed by adverse developments in […]

N Sathiya Moorthy Courtesy First Post The Sinhalas do not want to trust New Delhi on its word, and their competitive political leaderships keep packaging it differently, but to the same end as far as India relations go File image of Sri Lankan prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Reuters Once again, much […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් රට තුළ පවතින තත්ත්වය තුල ඉදිරියේ දී ආහාර හිඟයක් ඇතිවීම ස්ථිර බව කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්‍යාංශයේ හිටපු ලේකම් මහාචාර්ය උදිත් ජයසිංහ ප්‍රකාශ කළා. ඒ හිරු ප්‍රවෘත්ති සමග විශේෂ සාකච්ජාවකට එක්වෙමින්.

Courtesy Adaderana Udith K. Jayasinghe, the former Secretary to the Agriculture Ministry, says he is disappointed by the dismissal even after dedicating his time, labour and knowledge to serve in the post. Speaking to the media, Mr. Jayasinghe said he is not aware of a specific reason for his sacking and that he is yet […]

උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප ලයිසෙන්කෝවාදය (Lysenkoism) නම් ව්‍යාජ විද්‍යාත්මක තර්කයක් ඉදිරිපත් කරමින්, විසි වැනි සියවසේ සෝවියට් සමාජය තුළින් ඉස්මතු වීමේ නොතිත් ආශාවකින් පෙළුණු, නිර්ධන පාන්තික විද්‍යාඥයකු ලෙස තමන් විසින්ම හඳුන්වාගත් ට්‍රොෆිම් ලයිසේන්කෝ (Trofim Lysenko) නමැත්තාට සමාන කළ හැකි චරිතයක් අපේ රට තුළ ද බිහි වී ඇතැයි සිතේ. වර්ෂ 1930 ගණන්වලදී ලයිසෙන්කෝ විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද, ශාක වර්ධනය […]