උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජාතික ජන බලවේගයට රජයක් පවත්වාගෙන යාම සම්බන්ධයෙන් කිසිදු අදහසක් නොමැති බව ඔවුනගේ ප්‍රධානතම ආර්ථික විශේෂඥයා වන සුනිල් හඳුන්නෙත්ති විසින් කරන ලද ප්‍රකාශයකින් පෙනී යන බව සමගි ජන බලවේග පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීය හර්ෂද සිල්වා මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ජාත්‍යන්තර ස්වෛරීත්ව බැඳුම්කරණ ණයට ගරු නොකරන බවට හඳුන්නෙත්ති මහතා විසින් ප්‍රකාශ කර ඇති බවද පවසන […]

Courtesy Adaderana UNICEF, together with the World Health Organization (WHO), has planned to support the Health Ministry in implementing a supplementary measles immunization activity (SIA) in Sri Lanka aimed at controlling the ongoing measles outbreak, midst over 700 measles cases reported in the country since May 2023.  The SIA will be launched in two phases; […]

By DARSHANA SANJEEWA BALASURIYA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 04 (Daily Mirror) – President Ranil Wickremesinghe said a decision has been taken to deploy a ship from the Sri Lanka Navy on the Red Sea area, contributing to the security of the region against Houthi activities. The decision comes amidst rising concerns among international shipping […]

Courtesy Hiru News In an extensive islandwide special operation conducted over the last 24 hours, law enforcement agencies arrested 1038 individuals. The operation, led by the Ministry of Public Security, aimed to curb criminal activities and maintain public safety. Among the results of the operation were drug seizures, including 417 grams of Heroin, 205 grams […]

Shenali D Waduge Any truth & reconciliation commission that shies from exposing the true players who trained, armed and funded militancy in Sri Lanka as well as provide covert & overt support that led to the 3 decade bloodshed should be denounced, named & shamed. These players include foreign nations, foreign politicians including the Church […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ශාන් විජයලාල් සිල්වා සමගි ජනබලවේගයට එක්වීම, ගාල්ල දේශපාලනයේ චිත්‍රය මුළුමනින්ම වෙනස් කිරීමට හේතු වන්නේය.   2020 මහා මැතිවරණයේ දී ගාල්ලේ වෙරළබඩ කලාපයේ එකම ආසනයකින්වත් (අම්බලන්ගොඩ, රත්ගම, බලපිටිය, හබරාදූව, බෙන්තර හා කරන්දෙණිය) සජබට 18% ඉක්මන ඡන්ද ප්‍රමාණයක් ලැබී නැත. අමු සිංහලෙන් කියන්නේ නම් ගාල්ලේ කරාව සහ සලාගම  කුල ඡන්දයක් සජබට තිබුණේම නැති තරම්ය. […]

Shenali D Waduge Hawaii was annexed by US in 1898. The reason for Hawaii to be annexed was the fear of Hawaii becoming part of European empire. US doesn’t want to see Sri Lanka tilt to China and is exerting tremendous pressure via Quad partners. Are we interested enough to protect our sovereignty? Before that […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම වියවස්තාවේ 10 සහ 14(1)e වගන්තිවලින් සියළුම ආගම් වලට සිය අයිතිය ලඛා දිය යුත්තේ නමවැනි ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් බැදී ඇති බුද්ධ ශාසනය ආරක්ෂාව සහ පෝෂණය සැලසෙන අයුරින්ය. යම්කිසි තැනක කවර අන්දම හෝ ආගම් ප්‍රචාරයත් හෝ බෞද්ධයාට හිරිහැර වන අන්දමේ ආගම් ඇදහීමක් හෝ බුද්ධ ශාසනයට හානියක් වන ආගමික ක්‍රියාවක් හෝ ආගමට හරවා ගැනීමත් හෝ අනවසර පල්ලි […]

බෞද්ධ කටයුතු පිලිබඳ විශ්ලේෂක දෙශාඅභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න ‘ජාතික බෞද්ධ බලවේගය කැදවුම් කරු හා සභාපති, ඒ අයි කිවහොත් දේශපාලන පක්ෂයේ ආරක්ෂාව ඔබේ චන්ද සම්මුතියේ ආරක්ෂාවයි. නමුත් රටේ නියම ආරක්ෂාව වන්නේ මේ රටේ සැබැ අයිතිකරුවන්ගේ හා එම ජාතියේ අනාගත පැවැත්ම හා ඔවුන්ගේ සුවදේශික සංස්කෘතියේ ආරක්ෂාවයි. එය තරමක වෙනත් විදිහකින් කිවහොත් ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව යනු […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Strengthening Bilateral Relations and Regional Cooperation The fourth Sri Lanka-Pakistan Defence Dialogue was successfully held at the Defence Headquarters Complex in Sri Jayawardenepura, Kotte today (Jan 3). The Sri Lankan Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne led the host delegation while the Defence Secretary of Pakistan Lieutenant General (Retired) Hamood […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit The outgoing New Zealand High Commissioner Michael Appleton paid a farewell call on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees in Colombo on Tuesday (January 2). He thanked the government for its decision to reopen its Embassy in New Zealand shortly. He said Sri Lanka has achieved remarkable recovery to […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Rambukwella Incriminating fresh statement from cancer drug supplier recorded The Cabinet Office has handed over the documents requested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) investigating the procurement of fake immunoglobulin by the Health Ministry. Authoritative sources said that the two sets of documents had been handed over to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Investigation activities concerning seven deaths that had occurred under similar suspicious circumstances within the last few days have been handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Police Media Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said. The bodies of a young female and a male who died of suspected poisoning were found by the police. […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that the nation cannot revert to a period marked by scarcity of fuel, lack of fertilizers, and economic collapse. The President further asserted that despite the challenges, the country’s economy can experience swift strengthening by persisting on the current trajectory, acknowledging the inherent difficulties. In his address at […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The contested sites” issue at   Kurundi was created by the Tamil Separatist Movement. Tamil Separatist Movement announced, untruthfully, that there was an ancient kovil on the site of the Kurundi monastery.  Tamil Separatist Movement said that for generations Tamil people believed that an old Hindu temple, known as Aathi Sivan Kovil, was located […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Hinduism is not a   world religion. It is confined to India. Hinduism was introduced to East Asia but failed to take root there.  Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia retained the Ramayana but rejected the Hindu religion. Hinduism was not allowed to enjoy its position even in India.  In India, there is an ongoing tussle between […]

දිල්රූක් කන්නන්ගර “ගොවිතැන් බතක් කරගෙන ඉන්න පුළුවන් තාක්කල් සිංහලයෝ ආණ්ඩුවට විරුද්ධව නැගිටිනවා බොරු!” (ඇතැම් ප්‍රදේශ වල, “බත් ගෙඩියක් බාගෙන කාලා ඉන්න පුළුවන් තාක්කල් සිංහලයෝ ආණ්ඩුවට විරුද්ධව නැගිටිනවා බොරු!”) මෙය සුද්දාගේ කාලේ සිට එන කියමනක්. කෙතරම් කෙනෙහෙළිකම් කලත්, රජයට එරෙහිව බහුතර ජනතාව නැගිටියේ නැති දුකින් ගෙතුණු කියමනක්. එය නිර්මාණය වුනු කාලයේ කිසිම කෙනෙකු හිතන්න නැතුව ඇති […]

Written and Compiled by Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD (in progress) Reincarnation is the belief that when a person dies, he is reborn again.  Reincarnation is regarded as the mental continuum of an individual. Belief in reincarnation is an ancient phenomenon and exists in many cultures. The Egyptians believed in the soul’s immortality. In India, the concept […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Dark suits with a Long Red tie over a white shirt is the TradeMark of Donald Trump. As a prospective Sri Lankan Presidential candidate, is Dhammika Perera planning to use his Red-Shirt students to be his Front Guard? Red Shirts do have a bad image. These are only guesses, but hopefully, he […]

Senaka Weeraratna https://das-buddhistische-haus.de/pages/images/stories/videos/DBH-Interview-062019.mp4   On the occasion of the New Year (2024), the German Dharmaduta Society wishes to thank all its members, well-wishers, and supporters including the Dayakayas (Patrons) of Das Buddhistisches Haus ( Buddhist Vihara in Berlin – Frohnau) for their help in numerous ways in the past years and takes this opportunity to […]

Alworth Institute – UMD Presented on 10/10/23 by Dr. Walter L. Hixson, historian and commentator, and former distinguished professor, University of Akron. Dr. Hixson will provide an explanation of and historical analysis of the Israeli lobby in the US which he argues is the the largest, most well-funded and influential lobby acting on behalf of […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon while attending the customary New Year’s Day ceremony at the Defence Ministry this morning (Jan 1) stated ‘Defence Ministry staffers are entrusted with significant responsibilities and all must endeavour to strive to achieve national goals with utmost dedication’. ‘As we […]

Haidar Eid Haidar Eid is an associate Professor at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. Courtesy Al jazeera War by war, Israel has slowly but surely normalised genocidal violence against the Palestinian people. [T]he reality of concentration camps resembles nothing so much as medieval pictures of Hell.” – Hanna Arendt In February 2008, Matan Vilnai, then Israel’s […]

Prime Minister’s Media • We have already moved forward from the past. We have to step into the future from the present- Prime Minister The Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena  announced that the Pensioner’s Fund and made it independent.”We have already moved forward from the past and we have to step into the future from the present”, […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon along with the Chief Incumbent of Somawathiya Viharaya made an inspection visit the flood affected Somawathiya sacred area yesterday (Dec. 31) to inquire into the well-being of the monks and people living there. This area is experiencing floods after heavy rains […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 02 (Daily Mirror) – With effect from 1 January, persons who have not obtained a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) will be subjected to a penalty not exceeding Rs. 50,000, the Department of Inland Revenue cautioned. With effect from 1 January, persons who have not obtained a Taxpayer Identification Number […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Ananda Palitha Even after imposing 18 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on fuel with effect from January 1, the government continued to charge Rs 50 on a litre of both petrol and diesel purportedly to recover losses incurred by the highly corrupt state owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) over […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Navy is slated to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Nuclear Security Administration of the United States regarding the prevention of illegal transportation of nuclear and other radioactive materials. The proposal presented by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his capacity as the Minister of Defence, to sign the […]

Courtesy Hiru News State Minister for Finance, Shehan Semasinghe, emphasized that the sustained single-digit inflation has significantly contributed to fostering business confidence within the country. During a press conference at the Presidential Media Centre (PMC) themed “Collective Path to a Stable Country,” held today (01) the State Minister disclosed that the state revenue accounted for […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් කෘෂිකාර්මික ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ රැකියා සඳහා විදේශගත වන සියලුම ශ්‍රමිකයින් යළි දිවයිනට පැමිණි පසු කෘෂි ව්‍යවසාකයින් බවට පත්කිරීම සඳහා අක්කර දෙකක ඉඩමක් ලබාදීමට රජය පියවර ගන්නා බව කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනූෂ නානායක්කාර පවසා තිබෙනවා. අමාත්‍යවරයා වැඩිදුරටත් පැවසුවේ ඉඩම් අමාත්‍යාංශය සමඟ එක්ව මෙම තීරණය ගෙන ඇති බවයි. ඔහු මේ බව පවසා ඇත්තේ […]