Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake ‘The Owl of Minerva takes flight only at Dusk’ –Walter Benjamin We have met the enemy, and he is us” — Pogo Comics quoted in the IS is US: The Shocking Truth Behind the Army of Terror.” April is the cruelest month: Four years ago as the Fahrenheit rose on a beautiful Easter […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The highly controversial Antiterrorism Bill is subject to amendments and changes in Parliament and as such no one should have any fear or feeling of threat from the proposed Bill, Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said. The government is aware of concerns raised by the global and local community on certain provisions […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Stern action would be taken against the organisers who organise indecent events at New Year festivals, Buddhist and Cultural Affairs Minister Vidura Wickramanayake said. He said a special team is enaged in collecting information on such New Year festival celebration events. The Buddhist and Cultural Affairs Ministry had received information that […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A 21-year-old Moulavi who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for making two false calls to the 118 emergency call centre about an attack on a mosque in Akurana and an area with a majority of Muslim community, was remanded till May 4 by the Hultsdorf Magistrate’s Court today. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Mission in Thailand has noticed recently that Sri Lankan nationals are being lured for employment in Thailand particularly for the positions in the Information Technology (IT) sector by dubious IT firms involved in call-centre scams and crypto currency fraud, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said. According to the statement, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, together with the European Union (EU), today (22 April) officially launched a new programme to strengthen food security in Sri Lanka by boosting the productivity and sustainability of the paddy cultivation sector. The four million Euro (approximately Rs. 1.5 billion) initiative funded by […]

Courtesy Adaderana The games at Sinhala & Tamil New Year festivals organized in the future will be regulated, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Vidura Wickremanayake says. Speaking further on the matter, the lawmaker rebuked organizing games that are deemed ‘inappropriate’ for the country’s culture and traditions. Wickremanayake said such events should be nipped in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The youth, who was arrested for giving an anonymous false tip-off to the police about a possible bomb threat to Akurana area recently, was remanded until May 04. The 21-year-old was produced before the Hulftsdorp Police earlier today (April 22). On April 19, he had called the 118 online emergency complaint system and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The High Commission of India in Colombo has issued an advisory for travellers to Sri Lanka on fraudulent visa websites. The Controller General of Immigration & Emigration of Sri Lanka has warned travellers to Sri Lanka about misleading websites that charge exorbitant fees for Sri Lanka ETA (Electronic Travel Authorization) visas. The high […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් තමන්ට තීන්දුවක් ගත හැකි, නියෝගයක් නිකුත් කළ හැකි, බලයක් සහිත කාල වකවානුවේ දී කිසිවක් නොපවසා, විශ්‍රාම යන මොහොතේ කුමන්ත්‍රණකාරී සිදුවීමක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු නීතිපති දප්පුල ද ලිවේරා සිදු කළ ප්‍රකාශය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අධිකරණ අමාත්‍ය ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂගෙන් විවේචනාත්මක ප්‍රකාශයක් නිකුත් වී තිබෙනවා. අද (22) පෙරවරුවේ මහනුවර අස්ගිරි විහාරස්ථානයට ත්‍රස්ත විරෝධී පනත සම්බන්ධයෙන් […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. ලංකාවෙබ් වෙබ් අඩවියේ මගේ නමින් පලවන ලිපි රටේ අගමැති, ජනාධිපති වැනි අයගේ ඊමේල් ලිපින වලටද යැවීම මගේ පුරුද්දය. යාපනේ නැඟී එන දෙමළ චේ ගුවේරා කෙනෙක් පිළිඹඳව එසේ යැවූ ලිපියකට, LankaWeb – දෙමළ චේ ගුවේරා? (Tamil Che Guvera)  දයාන් ද සිල්වා (aka දයාන් ජයතිලක) විසින් දැක්වූ  ඊමේල්  ප්‍රතිචාරය මෙසේය ..This can only […]

PRESS RELEASE Muslim Council of Sri Lanak The Muslims of Sri Lanka stand in solidarity and brotherhood with the thousands of Christiansand Catholics who were affected by the dastardly terrorist attack on April 21st 2019. Thesuspected terrorists were Muslims by name but Islam forbids suicide and killing innocentcivilians, hence Islam does not condone such acts […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has requested the private sector to submit proposals for becoming the engines of Sri Lanka’s economic growth.  During his address at the Business Today Top 40 Awards Ceremony at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo on Thursday (April 20), the Head of State highlighted the need for a strong, export-oriented economy. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Attorney General Dappula de Livera has been once again issued a summons to appear before the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID). He was initially informed to make an appearance at the TID on April 19 to record a statement pertaining to his controversial comment on a massive conspiracy behind the 2019 Easter Sunday […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has launched the project to build the largest commercial and logistics complex in South Asia in the Port of Colombo with an investment of USD 392 million. Agreements for the construction and operation of the South Asia Commercial and Logistics Hub (SACL) as a 50-year Build Operate-Transfer (BOT) project were formally […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka celebrated its 50 anniversary, by publishing, History of surgical services in Sri Lanka from the earliest times to 2021.”  The title itself shows that the College recognizes the existence of   a surgical service in the island, before the arrival of modern surgery.  The book does not […]

Dilrook Kannangara Major problems, ailments and disasters brew slowly. There are unmissable signs of impending danger that are often disregarded for convenience. At other times humans simply do not want to hear them as they have enough on their plate. They wish the problems will go away or find an easy scapegoat. These are the […]

Senaka Weeraratna Today a Global Buddhist Summit was inaugurated in New Delhi by the Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. While the News is heart warming especially to Buddhists a content analysis of the Agenda of this Summit Conference is not.  International Buddhist Conferences usually fail to address the problems of Buddhist minorities in the […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය. ·        රජයෙන් වැටුප ගන්න සමහර නිලධාරීන් දුප්පතුන්ට  ආධාර දෙන සුබසාධක සමීක්ෂණ කටයුතු මග ඇරියා.   – අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කළේ අලුත් ගමක්- අලුත් රටක් ජාතික ඒකාබද්ධ සහභාගිත්ව සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහනේ බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික් ප්‍රගති සමාලෝචන රැස්වීම 2023.04.20  දින බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රීක් ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ පැවති අවස්ථාවේදීය.   එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා – […]

Sri Lankan High Commission in India High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India, Milinda Moragoda, met with the Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Conrad Kongal Sangma. The meeting took place at the Chief Minister’s office in Shillong, in the northeastern state of Meghalaya. Moragoda was in Shillong as a guest of the Indian Space Research Organisation […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම Lanka Lead News දැනට පවතින 365, 365 (a) නීති රාමුවන්ට සංශෝධනයන් එකතු කිරීමේදී 1995 අංක 22 පනත යටතේ හඳුන්වාදුන් සංශෝධනයන් ස්වයංක්‍රීයව අහෝසි වන බවත්, ඒ අනුව ළමා අපයෝජන, අපරාධ ආවරණය ස්වයංක්‍රීයව අහෝසි වන බවත් සමාජ ක්‍රියාකාරිනීයක හා නාගරික මන්ත්‍රීවරියක වන ශර්මිලා ගෝනවෙල මහත්මිය පවසයි. මේ පිළිබඳව ඇය පළකර ඇති අදහස් පහළින් දැක්වේ. දැනට […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Gunadasa Samarasinghe, has confirmed China’s request to import 100,000 toque macaque monkeys from the cash-strapped island nation amidst protests from several environmentalists against the deal. Speaking to Indian media, Samarasinghe said that a privately-owned animal breeding Chinese company, connected to zoological gardens, had made the request […]

Courtesy Adaderana Leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) MP Rauff Hakeem says that there was a request by the political party leaders with regard to making paper-marking activities of examinations an essential service. Speaking to the media following the party leaders’ meeting held today (April 20), the former minister mentioned that during the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The History of Surgery published by the College of Surgeon of Sri Lanka (2022) has   provided a very positive picture of the role of our general surgeons. The first surgeons in the island were General Surgeons” who were expected to   deal with all surgical cases that came their way.  All surgical operations were […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Surgical specialties were introduced to the state health sector in the late 1950s. The General Hospital Colombo was the first to get permanent special units, such as a thoracic unit, observed History of Surgery. But some specialties were started in the provincial hospitals as well.  Doctors who had trained in specialized surgery abroad […]

Prof.  N.A.de S. Amaratunga  The purpose of this article is to show how and why man created religion and how man himself is destroying it. Religion was created by man in his search for solutions to the human predicament, full of defilement, insatiable greed, uncontrolable hatred, ignorence, self-ego which caused immense mental dissatisfaction and sorrow. […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Vermicomposting is a process of composting organic waste materials using earthworms. In this process, earthworms consume organic waste, such as food scraps, paper, and other plant-based materials, and then excrete it in the form of vermicompost, a nutrient-rich fertilizer that is beneficial for plants. During the process of vermiculture, the earthworms […]

Manusha Media ඒත් සමහරු කලබල වෙලා තියෙන්නේ ජනතාව රවටන පටු දේශපාලනය තවදුරටත් කරන්න බැරි වෙන නිසා- අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මිනිස්සු ජීවත් කරවීමට, සිස්ටම් එක චේන්ජ් කිරීමට අපිට කලබලයක් තිබූ බවත්, ජනතාව රවටන පටු දේශපාලනය තවදුරටත් ඉදිරියට ගෙන යාමට නොහැකිවීම නිසා තවත් පිරිසක් කලබල වී ඇති බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය. […]

Courtesy Malay Mail KUALA LUMPUR, April 19 — The Immigration Department has busted a syndicate which used Malaysian international passports to smuggle Sri Lankan children to Europe, following the arrest of a local married couple. Immigration director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh said the couple were nabbed last Wednesday (April 12) when they turned up at the […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe today refused to allow the education of children to be taken hostage and said education would be made an essential service under emergency law if teachers refuse to return to paper-marking by next week. No one is going to hold the education of children as hostage. That I am not […]