Source :  AI Overview The Vatican was associated with the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), as it authorized the establishment of the Inquisition in the Portuguese territories and Popes sanctioned Portuguese conquests for the propagation of the Catholic faith. However, the Goa Inquisition was primarily an extension of the Portuguese Inquisition and […]

AI Overview https://share.google/aimode/pRSGiplqdOoCqgQu4 Question Jeewaka was the Buddha’s Physician. He is venerated in Thailand by its Medical Profession and statues of Jeewaka are a common sight in Thai Hospitals. Can Sri Lanka being another Theravada Buddhist country adopt the practice of remembering Jeewaka like in Thailand. What measures are required by the authorities in Sri […]

RANJITH SOYSA Vijitha Herat, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has stated that Sri Lanka did not attempt to join a losing race when he and the government decided to let the UNHRC to adopt the proposal A/HRC/60/21/2025 against Sri Lanka. He also added that they wanted to save funds by not getting involved in canvassing […]

Courtesy The Island Dr. Gamani Core / Dr. Carlos Maria Correa The ‘takes’ were numerous for the perceptive sections of the public from the Dr. Gamani Corea 100th birth anniversary oration delivered at ‘The Lighthouse’ auditorium, Colombo, by Dr. Carlos Maria Correa, Executive Director of the South Centre in Geneva on November 4th. The fact […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජනාධිපති අනුර දිසානායක විදේශ තානාපතිවරුන් කැඳවා රට වැටී ඇති ආගාධය ගැන ප්‍රකාශ කරන විට ඒ රටවල් සිය රට වැසියන් ලංකාවේ සංචාරය සඳහා එවනු ඇතිදැයි සර්වජන බලය නායක, ව්‍යවසායක දිලිත් ජයවීර විමසයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයාට ව්‍යවසායකත්ව මනසක් තිබිණි නම් මෙම ප්‍රශ්න රහසේ විසඳාගනු විනා ලෝක ප්‍රසිද්ධ කිරීමට කටයුතු නොකරන බවයි, ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ.  […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Nov. 6 (Daily Mirror) – A man who had spent eight years in prison under a death sentence for drug trafficking was acquitted by the Court of Appeal, which found that the raid and recovery of productions in the case had not met the test of probability. The Court of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Today is the budget day. The NPP government, under the leadership of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, will present its second maiden budget today when the country is at a critical juncture between hard-won stabilisation and the promise of sustainable growth. The past two years have been spent under the IMF programme, […]

Courtesy New food magazine When you dust a little cinnamon over your cappuccino, the last thing on your mind is fraud. However, scientists at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) have uncovered cases of mislabelling that could lead to potential health risks, as Project Coordinator Anastasia Vlachou reveals. Two cinnamons, one big problem Cinnamon […]

Courtesy Hiru News The National People’s Power (NPP) Councillor of the Peliyagoda Urban Council, whose husband and son faced drug charges, has resigned from her post. Accordingly, she has submitted her resignation letter to the Gampaha District Returning Officer, with a copy directed to the Chief Secretary of the National People’s Power. Disna Niranjala Kumari, […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පෑලියගොඩ නගර සභාවේ ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ නාගරික මන්ත්‍රී දිස්නා නිරංජලා කුමාරි යන අය නමගිය මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ජාවාරම්කරුවකු වන කොස්ගොඩ සුජීගේ” සමීපතම ඥාතියෙකු බවට තොරතුරු හෙළිව ඇතැයි පොලිසිය කියයි. මෙම තොරතුරු අනාවරණය වී ඇත්තේ එප්පාවල කටියාව යාය 10 ප්‍රදේශයේ පාසලක විදුහල්පතිවරයෙක් සම්බන්ධ සිද්ධිය විමර්ශනය කරන අවස්ථාවේදී බවද පොලිසිය සඳහන් කරයි. එප්පාවල කටියාව යාය […]