නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන (සමායෝජක)වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන උප්පැන්නයේ සිංහල ජාතිය ඉවත් කිරීම පිටුපස ඉන්නා සැළසුම්කරු ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ අලි සබ්‍රිය……එහි ඉලක්කය බුද්ධාගමට හිමි ප්‍රමුස්ථානය අහිමි කිරීමය… උප්පැන්නයෙන් සිංහල ජාතිය ඉවත් කිරීම ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝනය කිරීමේ ඉංග්‍රීසි ජාතිවාදීන්ගේ කුමන්ත්‍රණයක් පැවතියේය. එහි ඉලක්කය එල්ලවන්නේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 9 වන ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ පිළිගෙන ඇති බුද්ධාගමට ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානය […]

Hafizur Talukdar The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord has entered into two eras. The agreement was signed 24 years ago with the aim of ending the bloody clashes between the Bengalis and the government forces and establishing peace with the tribes and hills of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. After the agreement, it was hoped that […]

Courtesy Daily Times On Friday, a special prosecution team from Lahore will meet officials of the Sialkot police in the high-profile case of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara who was lynched by a mob. However, the team will visit Rajco Industries and inspect the factory site. The police will provide the prosecution with 12-hour CCTV […]

Courtesy The Conversation.com A Sri Lankan working in Pakistan, Priyantha Kumara, was lynched by a mob of hundreds of people on Dec. 3, 2021, over allegations of blasphemy, or sacrilegious act. After being assaulted, he was dragged into the streets and set on fire, and the lynching was recorded and shared widely on social media. Such […]

Courtesy World Asia Special cell to be set up by prosecution to monitor case trial Members of the Human Rights Council of Pakistan place oil lamps to pay tribute beside a photograph of late Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara, in Karachi on December 5, 2021, after he was beaten to death and set ablaze […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror On December 3, initial footage of a frenzied mob flocking around an individual on Wazirabad Road, Sialkot in Pakistan eventually beating him to death went viral on social media. The beating continued amidst chants of ‘kaafir ke bachche me Quran ki ayatein dustbin mein fainki hain’ which translates to ‘son of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The United States imposed human right-related sanctions on two more Sri Lankan military officials under Section 7031(c), gross violation of human rights, the US State Department announced on Friday. Those military personnel were: Chandana Hettiarachchi, a Sri Lankan naval intelligence officer, for his involvement in gross violations of human rights, namely, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has made two financial donations of Rs. 1 million each for the education of the two children of Priyantha Kumara, who was subject to a gruesome murder in Sialkot, Pakistan. The Opposition Leader made this donation after visiting the victim’s house  today. In addition to the cash […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka will stabilize its foreign reserves on its own and will not seek any assistance from anyone, Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa  told Parliament today. Winding up the committee stage debate of the budget in the House, Minister Rajapaksa said Sri Lanka will not seek IMF assistance if its conditions […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Special Committee on COVID-19 Control today decided to make the vaccination card mandatory when entering public places in the future,President’s Media Division(PMD) said. Legal advice has been sought with regard to preventing those who have not obtained the vaccine from entering public places in order to prevent the spread of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 754 today (December 10) as 187 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 571,426. As many as 544,200 recoveries and 14,573 […]

Courtesy Adaderana MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake today (December 10) made a staggering revelation during the parliamentary session regarding the agreement signed for the transferring shares in West Coast Power Limited (WCP) – the owner of Yugadanavi Power Plant – and to develop a new LNG receiving, storage and regasification terminal. According to the JVP leader, […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Court of Appeal today directed to consider the petition filed by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) seeking an inquiry into the dangerous incidents caused by the importation of substandard gas, on 14 December. The order was issued while considering the petition filed by civil society activist, Attorney-at-Law Nagananda Kodithuwakku before […]

Courtesy Hiru News Although the front page of the agreement stated that the sale of shares in the Yugadanavi power plant will take place, it will include the transfer of the monopoly power of supplying LNG to all power plants in the country to New Fortress Energy. Also, the Leader of the Jathika Jana Balawegaya, […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The conflict between India and China had not been reported in extended history as we understood, and it recorded in the current era after the independence in 1947, why was an unending conflict originated was also a difficult question to answer, and whether it will be ended soon or later is a […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය පොළොන්නරුව ඓතිහාසික සොළොස්මස්ථාන පූජා භූමි සංවර්ධන කටයුතු කඩිනම් කරන ලෙස බුද්ධශාසන ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (09) දින රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ට  උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. පොළොන්නරුව ඓතිහාසික සොළොස්මස්ථාන පූජා භූමි සංවර්ධන කටයුතු පිළිබඳ සොයා බැලීමේ සාකච්ඡාව අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවති අවස්ථාවේ  අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව දැනුම් දුන්නේය. සොළොස්මස්ථාන පූජා භූමිය විදුලියෙන් […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit During his first courtesy call on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa since recently assuming duties in Sri Lanka as the new Ambassador of Japan, Ambassador Mizukoshi Hideaki said that the Government of Japan is interested in attracting skilled workers from Sri Lanka. In the past few years, Sri Lanka and Japan signed […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය දෙදහස් විස්ස වර්ෂයේ පහ ශ්‍රේණිය ශිෂ්‍යත්ව විභාගය සමත් වූ සේවා නියුක්තයන්ගේ භාර අරමුදල් මණ්ඩලයේ දූ දරුවන් 9000කට ශිෂ්‍යත්ව ප්‍රදානයට අදාළ පළමු අදියරේ මුදල් චෙක්පත් ප්‍රදානය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද (09) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. පළමු අදියර යටතේ දූ දරුවන් 6000කට ශිෂ්‍යත්ව ප්‍රදානය සඳහා මහජන බැංකුවේ සිසු උදාන බැංකු ගිණුම් විවෘත කිරීමට […]

Nava Thakuria Geneva/Guwahati, 9 December 2021: Afghanistan and Mexico are the most dangerous countries for media work this year, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said in its annual report in Geneva on Thursday in view of Human Rights Day. Since 1 January, 76 media workers have been killed in 28 countries around the world. Afghanistan […]

Courtesy Daily Times Special Representative to the Prime Minister on Religious Harmony and Middle East, Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi Thursday said the Ulema and religious scholars and other segment of society would observe ‘day of condemnation’ today (Friday) to condemn lynching of Sri Lankan national in Sialkot on accusation of blasphemy. In a statement, he […]

SAMAA | Samaa Web Desk Results will be available within a few days The Punjab Forensic Science Agency has conducted a photogrammetric test of 34 prime suspects arrested for lynching Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara over alleged blasphemy in Sialkot on December 3. So far, 139 people have been arrested by the police. The anti-terrorism court on Wednesday […]

Saad Masood courtesy Daily Times Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana is a name that will be remembered in Pakistan for a long time. Or will it? Our short-term memory is just that, short! Lest we forget, only recently the Sri Lankan was dispatched to hell (Urdu vernacular: jahanam raseed kar diya) by a mob of steadfast faith […]

Brigadier (Retd) Atif Shafique Courtesy The Daily Times (Pakistan) Much has been written, reported, said and talked about the horrendous incident in which a Sri Lankan national working in a factory in Sialkot was brutally killed and his body was burnt in the middle of Wazirabad road. Police arrested a number of accused offenders and […]

By Rediff News Bureau Priyantha Kumara, the Sri Lankan national who was lynched by a mob in Pakistan’s Punjab province on December 3 over allegations of blasphemy, was buried according to Buddhist and Catholic rites at Ganemulla, a suburb north of Colombo, on Wednesday, December 8. More like this Pak arrests 100 in Sri Lankan national’s lynching casePakistan’s […]

By Dr.Tilak S. Fernando Recently the surgeon Dr. Athula Withanage translated into Sinhala for the first time, ‘Evgeni Onegin’ a Russian romantic novel written in verse and a masterpiece of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.  Simultaneously, he translated it into English, making it the 46th English translation. This achievement by  Dr. Athula Withanage can […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island SLPP MP Gevindu Cumaratunga says a section of the ruling coalition is pursuing political strategies contrary to the mandate received by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna at the 2019 presidential and 2020 parliamentary elections. MP Cumaratunga also strongly criticised the conduct of the Parliament as the highest institution in the country […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror There are 1,374 waste disposal sites in the Kelani River area from Seethawaka to Peliyagoda, Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said. The Minister expressed these views while participating in an inspection tour of the Kelani River today to inspect the places where the Kelani River is polluted. The observation tour was organized […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Pakistani national Malik Adnan, who received the highest bravery award from his Prime Minister Imran Khan for shielding Priyantha Kumara from the unruly mob in Sialkot last Friday, revealed yesterday that Priyantha was unaware of what was written in the posters pasted on the factory walls as it was in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa says the importation of vehicles and recruitment of public sector employees will not be carried out in 2022. Addressing an event, the lawmaker stressed that the government will have to impose restrictions on the aforementioned. Accordingly, new vehicles will not be imported and approval will not be given for […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says there is a mismatch between the education generally on offer in Sri Lanka and what is necessary for the country to develop in the 21st century.  This is why I have constantly called for educational reforms, especially in our tertiary education system,’’ said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, addressing the General […]