Courtesy Adaderana Laboratory tests prove that 95% of the Covid-19 positive cases reported in Sri Lanka are infected with the Omicron variant, the Director of the Health Promotion Bureau Dr. Ranjith Batuwanthudawa said. 

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 961 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 in the country today (28). This figure includes 04 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas while the rest are community cases. This is the third consecutive day that the daily count of new cases has surpassed […]

Hafizur Talukdar A total of 12 human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have written to the UN calling for the removal of RAB from UN peacekeeping missions. In December, the United States imposed sanctions on the Bangladesh Police Special Forces Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and a total of six former and […]

ප්‍රොටෙක්ට් සංගමය “සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම” ප්‍රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශය ඔස්සේ සමස්ත සමාජය ම සෞභාග්‍ය කරා කැන්දාගෙන යනවා යැයි එදා මැතිවරණ වේදිකාවල පාරම් බෑ ජනාධිපතිවරයාත් වතමන් ආණ්ඩුවත් මේ වන විට ජනතාවට උදා කර ඇති සෞභාග්‍යයේ තරම අමුතුවෙන් කීමට අවශ්‍යය නොවේ. මේ වන විට, ගෘහස්ථ ශ්‍රමිකයන් ඇතුළු එදිනෙදා දිවි ගැටගසා ගන්නා අවිධිමත් අංශයේ කම්කරුවන් ආර්ථිකමය අතින් බිත්තියට ම හේත්තු කරන්න […]

Ashish Pandey New Delhi Courtesy India Today Three arrests in Tamil Nadu in October 2021 over fake passports have drawn the NIA into the investigation. TN Police revealed that LTTE cadres are behind the fake passport racket. Three arrests in Tamil Nadu over fake passports in October 2021 has put the NIA on alert. (Representative image) […]

Debidatta Mahapatra Courtesy The Times of India The prevailing political climate may militate against such an idea, but here I make a case for a united Indian subcontinent. It may appear naïve to make such a case when polarization, identity-based violence, threats of war are looming large the world over. This is a futuristic outlook, […]

By Huang Lanlan in Shanghai and Chen Runze in Colombo Courtesy The Global Times Photo taken on Jan. 10, 2022 shows tourists viewing the scenery at the Marina in Colombo’s Port City, Sri Lanka. (Photo: Xinhua) After Sri Lanka declared an economic emergency and asked China for help at the beginning of the year, some Western and Indian […]

Courtesy ANI Ling Rinpoche, reincarnation of the teacher of Dalai Lama reaches Sri Lanka Read more At: https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/ling-rinpoche-reincarnation-of-the-teacher-of-dalai-lama-reaches-sri-lanka20220127210819/

by Arundathie Abeysinghe Courtesy Asia News For Sri Lanka, imports are increasingly expensive. China and India have granted lines of credit, but analysts note that they are short-term solutions. Due to the inability to buy fuel, the government announced daily power cuts. Colombo (AsiaNews) – In addition to a growing debt crisis and a shortage […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services today (January 27) issued new guidelines for travellers arriving in Sri Lanka from overseas during the pandemic of Covid-19. As per the guidelines, foreign national passport holders who do not possess a valid visa must obtain a landing permit/visa from the Department of Immigration & Emigration prior to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 942 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 27).  This figure includes 03 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas.  Sri Lanka’s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thereby climbed to 607,104. With this, the number of virus-infected people […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando CEYLON TODAY | FOCUS Early last Christmas morning following the teachings of Jesus Christ’s, of kindness, forbearance, and tolerance, the writer accompanied by two friends headed towards Naththandiya. The coconut plantations on either side of the road made the drive down delightful watching. However, we found it strange the prices of coconut […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM SL has laid out a plan that is in the public domain , for paying it’s loan commitments for 2022, 500 million paid 18/1 and about 5 Billion mid 2022 and beyond . Instead of securing bridging loans from the IMF , they have secured short term bridging  loans and currency […]

Media Unit – ඌව පළාත් මුල් ළමාවිය සංවර්ධනය පිළිබද NVQ-4  පාඨමාලාවේ සමාරම්භක උත්සවය ඊයේ දින ඌව පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවර ඒ.ජේ.එම්. මුසම්මිල් මැතිතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඌව පළාත් සභා ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී පැවැත්විය. ඌව පළාත් අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශයේ අධීක්ෂණයෙන්, ඌව පළාත් මුල් ළමාවිය සංවර්ධන අධිකාරියේ මෙහෙයවීමෙන් හා යුරෝපානු සංගමය (EU) මුදල් අනුග්‍රහය ඇතිව, එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන (UNDP) ආයතනයේ පළාත් පාලන ආයතන […]

HELPLANKA PRESS RELEASE Helplanka, a UK Registered charity, has teamed up with Dimuthu Foundation of Pambala Kakkapalliya, Sri Lanka, kick starting their collaboration with a very special event to commemorate the 90th birthday of Dhanasena Siriwardene Goonetillake, who was born and lived in Kakkapalliya and who is the father of Sampath Goonetillake ( Sam)  the […]

by Sanath Nanayakkare Courtesy The Island From Left: Manjula Perera, Wind Power Developers Association Secretary, Thusitha Peiris, Small Hydro Power Developers Association President, Lasith Wimalasena, Ground Mounted Solar Developers Association President, Chamil Silva, Bio Energy Developers Association President, Kushan Jayasuriya, Solar Industries Association President. In the backdrop of dwindling foreign currency reserves and capacity shortages, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A Chinese company embroiled in a dispute with Sri Lanka over organic fertilizer, has made a formal complaint with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Qingdao Seawin Biological Group Co., Ltd, in an email to Daily Mirror sent through a local agent, said that the complaint was made […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s central bank governor told CNBC that the South Asian nation doesn’t need an economic lifeline from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Well, we don’t need relief if we have an alternative strategy,” Ajith Nivard Cabraal said on CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia” on Monday. He claimed Sri Lanka is able to finance […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Railway Trade Union Alliance has highlighted a 2018 purchase of 160 Indian railway carriages at a cost of over USD 80 million that now lie in various states of corrosion and disuse. They also claimed that the carriages cannot be run on the upcountry line due to their 65-foot length, prompting a […]

Courtesy Adaderana

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 927 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 26).  This figure includes 05 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas.  Sri Lanka’s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thereby climbed to 604,581. With this, the number of virus-infected people […]

Courtesy Hiru News A lawyer by the name of B.A.W. Abeywardena has sent a letter to all Members of Parliament, including the President and the Speaker, requesting permission from Parliament to end his life. He has stated that he arrived at such a decision following his dismissal from the Land Reforms Commission where he worked […]

වෛද්‍ය නීතිඥ පාලිත බණ්ඩාර සුබසිංහM.B.B.S (PERADENIYA), LL.B (O.U.S.L),වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරි, ජාතික රෝහල මහනුවර පසුගිය සතියේ දිනයකි. වේලාව රාත්‍රී 9.30 ට පමණ වන්නට ඇත. පොද වැස්සකි. මම මහනුවර දළදා මාළිගාව ඉදිරිපිට ඇති තෝසෙ කඩයක් ඉදිරිපිට මගේ ඇනවුම පිළියෙළ කරන තුරු වාහනය තුළට රැඳී සිටියෙමි.ඉදිරිපස වීදුරුවෙන් තෝසේ කඩය ඉදිරිපිට රැජණ හෝටලය අසලින් දිවෙන පදිකවේදිකාව පැහැදිලිව පෙනේ. පැවති සිහින් […]

by Senaka Weeraratna January 25 is India’s Republic Day. It will be celebrated on a grand scale this year as usual but with a marked twist. The Govt. of India will formally salute Netaji Subash Chandra Bose as the father of India’s freedom struggle displacing Mahatma Gandhi from a pedestal that many thought was unassailable. […]

by Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Should the journalist-editor-proprietors continue to have government sponsored personal security officers (PSO) even though they do not have visible threats to their lives ? Are PSOs slowly becoming status symbols for many celebrated media persons in India ? Should not  they withdraw the policemen at the earliest and hire private security […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විදේශ තානාපති කාර්යාලවල නියෝජිතයින් හා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර හමුවක් අද (25) දින පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. තනාපති සබඳතාවලට අදාළව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා හා තානාපති නියෝජිතයන් අතර  මෙහි දී සුහඳ සාකච්ඡාවක් සිදුවිය. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ලේකම් අනුර දිසානායක, විදේශ අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් අද්මිරාල් (විශ්‍රාමික) ජයනාත් කොළඹගේ, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්ය මණ්ඩල ප්‍රධානී […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 891 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 25).  This figure includes 03 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas.  Sri Lanka’s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country climbs to 603,654 with this while 11,784 patients infected with the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Earnings from exports in November 2021 have recorded the highest monthly export value in history, notching up a total of USD 1.211 billion, says the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). According to the press release issued by CBSL’s Economic Research Department, this brings the cumulative export figures for the January to November period, to […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Diplomat Sri Lanka has a lot to learn about entering agreements with  international companies – and the repercussions of violating them. In September of last year, the Sri Lankan government banned a shipment of 20,000 tons of fertilizer, worth $6.9 million, from China’s Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group Co., alleging that there […]

By Harsh V. Pant, the director of research at the Observer Research Foundation, and Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy, a research assistant at the Observer Research Foundation. The Maldives and Sri Lanka show how they can bargain with bigger powers to their advantage. JANUARY 24, 2022, 2:31 PM This month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Sri Lanka and […]