උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පොහොර අර්බුදය හමුවේ ඉදිරියේදී අනිවාර්යයෙන්ම ආහාර හිඟයක් ඇති විය හැකි බව හිටපු කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්‍යවරයෙකු වන මහින්ද අමරවීර මහතා ද පවසනවා. කෙසේ වෙතත්, කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්‍ය මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ මහතා පවසන්නේ, කිසිදු ආහාර හිඟයක් ඇති නො වන බවයි.

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පොහොර නො මැති වීමෙන් වී,  බඩඉරිඟු ඇතුළු භෝග රැසක මහා කන්නයේ අස්වනු අඩුවනු ඇතැයි ගොවි ජනතාව පවසනවා. වගාවන් සඳහා අවශ්‍ය පොහොර නො මැති වීමෙන් ප්‍රදේශ රැසක ගොවීන් තවදුරටත් අපහසුතාවට පත් ව සිටිනවා.

Courtesy Adaderana The Chinese supplier of controversial organic fertilizer consignment says the reports of a Singaporean laboratory that tested its products shipped to Sri Lanka has confirmed that no plant, animal or human pathogens including Erwinia was detected in the samples. MV Hippo Spirit carrying 20,000 tonnes of organic fertilizer from the Qingdao Seawin Biotech […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Commercial High Court’s decision on extending or revoking the interim order preventing the payment on Letter of Credit to the Chinese company that shipped a disputed consignment of organic fertilizer to Sri Lanka is expected to be delivered on January 06. Accordingly, the relevant court order, which prevents the payment to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 554 today (December 23) as 82 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 582,149. As many as 558,527 recoveries and 14,832 […]

by Tudor Wijeratne I would like to share my memories of a group of young boarders barely out of their teens, who later became household names in the fields of Arts, Music, Linguistics, Sinhala Literature, Journalism, and Medicine. They were boarders in my grandfather’s house in Mt. Lavinia, in the period 1940s – 1950s. Most […]

Insight by Sunil Kumar Dec17th. 2021 The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) -strong supporters of the deposed Tamil tigerTerrorist  in their never ending cacophony about separatism and minority rights which are obsolete and abstract in multicultural Sri Lanka, as usual has called on the Government of Sri Lanka to reflect on recent messages conveyed by the […]

Ivan Amerasinghe Receiving a basic degree or even a PhD is no reason to shun those who teach the Dhamma.   Colombo University has for decades been the hunting ground for INGO and Marxist anti-Buddhist mercenaries. The international agencies and the Western Embassies have a permanent gravy distribution station in Colombo campus. Paragoda Hamuduruwo sings hosannas […]

MD Pathik Hasan The name ‘Bay of Bengal’ is a book of pride for Bengalis! Large cities like Madras (Chennai), Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar in all areas or states, are located on the shores of the Bay of Bengal, but the sea is not named after them. Again, it was not named after a region like the […]

සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර මම මේ රටේ ජනාධිපතිනම් මොවුන්  සියළුදෙනාම  යවන්නේ අපායට මැති ඇමතිවරුන් 60ක් ඔවුන්ගේ පවුල්වල අයද සමග මේ දිනවල ඇමෙරිකාව එන්ගලතය වැනි රටවල  නිවාඩුවක් ගතකිරීම සදහා විනෝද සවාරියක් පිටත්ව ගිය බවට ප්‍රවෘතියක් පලවිය. මුලු රට මෙන්ම මුළුජාතියම විසාලා මහනුවර මෙන් රෝ බිය, දුර්භික්ස බිය,රෝගබිය සහ දේසපාලන යක්සශබිය  යන සිව් බියෙන් හා, බඩගින්න, අහස උසට […]

MD Pathik Hasan The name ‘Bay of Bengal’ is a book of pride for Bengalis! Large cities like Madras (Chennai), Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar in all areas or states, are located on the shores of the Bay of Bengal, but the sea is not named after them. Again, it was not named after a region like the […]

Courtesy Business Recorder COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s inflation hit a record 11.1 percent in November, official figures showed Wednesday, and authorities warned a worsening economic crisis could prompt further food rationing. The island’s tourism-dependent economy was hammered by the pandemic and the government imposed a broad import ban to shore up foreign exchange reserves, triggering shortages […]

Carla Mozée Courtesy Business Insider Sri Lanka reached an agreement to send tea to Iran to settle a $251 million oil debt, according to reports.  Sri Lanka wasn’t able to pay the debt via other means as US sanctions prohibit dealings with Iranian banks.  But Sri Lanka said its tea-barter plan does not violate UN […]

Courtesy Islamic Republic News Agency Tehran, IRNA – Iran and Sari Lanka have signed an agreement on working out ways to settle the latter’s oil debt to Iran. Chairman of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran Ali-Reza Peimanpaak and minister of trade of Sari Lanka signed the agreement in a meeting, according to the Wednesday report […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Chinese government has donated 8 lifesaving kidney dialysis machines worth Rs. 20 million to hospitals in the Northern and Eastern provinces. Ambassador of China to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong symbolically handed over the donation to Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa on Wednesday (December 23). The medical equipment was donated after a request made by […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three new cases of Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 have been detected in Sri Lanka, says Dr. Jude Jayamaha, Consultant Virologist of the Medical Research Institute. This was disclosed at a media briefing at the Health Promotion Bureau today (December 22). According to Dr. Jayamaha, two of the new cases of this highly-mutated variant […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 673 today (December 21) as 215 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 581,595. As many as 558,226 recoveries and 14,811 […]

Courtesy Hiru News 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. <br /><br />Despite the headwinds of the economic impact of COVID-19 and challenges posed by adverse developments […]

Lankaweb The Committee appointed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to probe the recent gas explosions, concluding that the change in the composition of gas was the primary reason for the recent gas-related explosions. But this conclusion contradicts the basic law of gas explosions. Here is a simple demonstration. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. The demonstration was […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita and Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Presidential Committee contradicts Litro Chairman A simmering controversy over gas-related explosions has taken an unexpected turn with Prof. Shantha Walpolage, the Chairman of the Committee appointed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to probe the recent gas explosions, concluding that the change in the composition of gas was […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The main reason for the recent gas related accidents has been identified as the change in the composition of gas, Prof. Shantha Walpolage, the Chairman of the Committee appointed by the President to probe gas-related accidents, said. He told media today that they got this finding verified during their on-site inspections […]

උපුටාගැණීම අද දෙරණ ආර්ථිකය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අසත්‍ය ප්‍රචාර සිදුකරමින් සිටින විවිධ පාර්ශවයන් රටට විශාල හානියක් සිදුකරමින් සිටින බව මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතා පැවසීය. එසේම ණය වාරික ගෙවීමට සහ අනෙකුත් කටයුතු සදහා මෙරට සතුව මුදල් සංචිත පවතින බවයි මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා සදහන් කර ඇත. මේ අතර ශ්‍රී ලංකාව මුහුණ දී සිටින විදේශ විනිමය අර්බුදයෙන් […]

Courtesy Adaderana Headline inflation, as measured by the year-on-year (Y-o-Y) change in the National Consumer Price Index, increased to 11.1 per cent in November 2021 from 8.3 per cent in October 2021, according to the Statistics Department of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.  Meanwhile, on an annual average basis, the NCPI increased to 6.2 […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (21) released a thousand ecological floating islands to Beira Lake initiating the purifying process of the lake. Beira Lake has been polluted due to unauthorized urbanization and improper upgrading of sewerage infrastructure in the city of Colombo. The Ecological floating islands” method was implemented under the guidance of Chairman […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that a total of 713 new cases of coronavirus have been identified within today (21). This includes one person who had arrived from overseas, the Govt. Information Department reported.  Sri Lanka’s total count of confirmed cases of Covid-19 has climbed to 580,922 with this.  8,212 patients infected with the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The root cause for the recent domestic liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder-related incidents in the country was a result of the change in the composition, the presidential committee appointed on the matter says. Chairman of the said committee, Prof. Shantha Walpolage of the University of Moratuwa revealed this during a press conference held […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ලබන කන්නය සඳහා හෝ රසායනික පොහොර ලබාදෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් දිවයිනේ බොහෝ ප්‍රදේශවල අදත් (21) ගොවි විරෝධතා පැවැත්වුණා. ඔවුන් චෝදනා කරන්නේ, පොරොන්දු වූ වගා හානි වන්දි කඩිනමින් රජය විසින් ලබාදිය යුතු බවයි. එමෙන්ම වී ගොවීන් බොහෝ පිරිසක් මෙවර කන්නයේ වගා කටයුතු ආරම්භ කළේ ද මාසයක පමණ කාලයක් පමාවීමෙන් අනතුරුවයි. ඒ අවශ්‍ය පොහොර […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda US President Joe Biden’s much-advertised ‘Summit for Democracy’ held in early December, is an example of how the champions of so-called democratic world misuse the name of ‘Democracy’ to promote their geo-political interest. As pointed out in an article appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, the composition of the summit reflects a combination […]

MD Pathik Hasan France has historical relations with Bangladesh. Bangladesh’s contact with France dates back to the war of liberation. Relations between Bangladesh and France have historically been cordial. The foundation of this relationship was laid in the distant past. The contribution of the French in the liberation war of Bangladesh is also memorable. The […]

by Hafizur Talukdar Debt-ridden Bangladesh a few years ago is now a country of unprecedented success in debt relief. The world today looks at Bangladesh in amazement. Bangladesh only borrowed from other countries or organizations. Now that history has changed and started giving loans. Bangladesh has given loans to Sri Lanka and Sudan. Bangladesh gave […]