by Melani Manel Perera Courtesy Asia News Due to the situation, many Sri Lankans can no longer afford even one meal a day. Between 600 and 700 people show up at the community kitchen run by Rev Geeth Chamara De Silva. Talks for a credit line continue between Sri Lanka and the International Monetary Fund. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror An official report on the possible mid-air collision avoided by UL 504 has been filed by the crew upon their return to the BIA yesterday which has confirmed that due to the vigilance and action taken by the crew, they had managed to avert one of the worst mid-air collisions. Sri […]

Courtesy  Mizzima The United Nations warns that Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis could develop into a dire humanitarian crisis, with millions already in need of aid.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror An Indian ship carrying urgent relief supplies including rice, life-saving medicines and milk powder arrived in Colombo on Sunday and the consignment was handed over to the government, the Indian High Commission said. High Commissioner Gopal Baglay handed over a large consignment of humanitarian assistance worth more than SLR 2 billion […]

Priyantha Hettige Courtesy Island Moscow has just been voted the third best city in the world to live in by the UN. But it beats all the competition in having the highest quality of life for its citizens, which includes the best medical care, the best education, attractive public spaces, public safety and, importantly, the […]

German Dharmaduta Society Colombo Most Ven. Homagama Kondanna Maha Thero It is with great sorrow that we convey the sad news of the death of Most Ven. Homagama Kondanna Maha Thero, one of Sri Lanka’s best-known monks for Buddhist missionary work overseas, and mentor and meditation teacher of several famous people including a former President […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) says the third generator at the Lakvijaya Power Plant in Norochcholai has been repaired after it broke down last month. Accordingly, 160 MW of electricity has been added to the national grid. This generator, which adds 300 MW of electricity in total to the national grid, experienced a […]

තිසර සමල් – එප්පාවල දිවියෙන් සමුගත් සිය දියණියට පිං පිණිස අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ ආර්ථික අපහසුතා ඇති පවුල් 100 කට අත්‍යවශය ආහාර මලු බෙදා දීමට කොළඹ 05 ප්‍රදේශයේ ව්‍යාපාරික මහත්මියක වන විශාකා වීරකෝන් මහත්මිය ඊයේ (17) දුරුතු පොහෝ දින කටයුතු කළාය. මීට දෙවසරකට පමණ ඉහතදී දිවියෙන් සමුගත් නදීරා විජේරත්න නම් දියණියට පිං පිණිස ඇයගේ මව වන කොළඹ […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 18:  The Buddhist festival Duruthu Poya was celebrated on January 17, the first full moon in January. It marked the first visit of the Buddha to Sri Lanka. This is a key religious and historic date in the calendar for Sri Lankan Buddhists as it marks Gautama Buddha’s first visit to […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, January 16 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan singer Yohani de Silva’s Menike Maga Hithe” which had taken the Indian music scene by storm, is now being used by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to boost the prospects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the […]

Courtesy The Telegraph (UK) The stone, discovered in the gem-rich area of Ratnapura, has been dubbed the ‘Queen of Asia’ A woman walks past the world’s largest natural corundum blue sapphire, weighing 310 kilograms CREDIT: DINUKA LIYANAWATTE /REUTERS Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday put on show what they said was the world’s largest natural corundum blue sapphire, […]

byD V Sridharan-Nov 16, 2021  Author J Sai Deepak and his book’s cover. Snapshot J Sai Deepak’s book ‘India That is Bharat’ is a rigorous survey of India’s political history since the Papal Bull of 1493. India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution. J Sai Deepak. Bloomsbury India. 2021. Pages 484. Rs 404. here’s a […]

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Courtesy MailOnline Sri Lanka is investigating a sharp rise in kitchen explosions caused by cooking gas that have reportedly killed at least one person and wounded dozens of others, parliament heard Monday. The island is in the grip of an economic crisis with serious shortages of fossil fuels and other essential goods because of depleted […]

Courtesy Adaderana Residents of Kuringankerni area have attacked the house of Trincomalee District MP M.S. Thowfeek of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) following the ferry accident which took place this morning. A tense situation ensued after a passenger ferry was capsized at the Kuringankerni lagoon in Kinniya, killing six people including four schoolchildren. The residence […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Mirigama-Kurunegala section of the Central Expressway will be opened this month, Highways Minister Johnston Fernando said today. He told Parliament that the Central Expressway from Colombo to Kandy will be completely opened during the next two years. The minister said this while responding to a question raised by Chief Opposition […]

By Adam Douty, AccuWeather, Residents evacuate an elderly woman to a safer place through a flooded neighborhood during incessant heavy rains, in Chennai, India, on Thursday. Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA-EFE Rounds of heavy rain that inundated parts of Sri Lanka and southeastern India this week caused severe flooding and mudslides that are being blamed for […]

BY ANH DOSTAFF WRITER  Courtesy Los Angeles Times Hassina Leelarathna, a co-founder of the only Sri Lankan newspaper in the U.S. and an activist who spurred fellow immigrants to help when disasters struck their homeland, has died at age 73. Leelarathna died in Sherman Oaks on Oct. 17 after battling lung cancer for the last five […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Oct 17 (newsin.asia) – In the 2021 Global Hunger Index, Sri Lanka ranks 65th out of the 116 countries with sufficient data to calculate 2021 GHI scores. With a score of 16.0, Sri Lanka has a level of hunger that is moderate. For the 2021 GHI report, data were assessed for 135 countries. Out of these, there […]

Courtesy Channel News Asia COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s fishermen launched a flotilla of boats on Sunday (Oct 17) demanding that the government block Indian trawlers from poaching in the island’s prawn-rich northern waters. Boats flying black flags and carrying opposition legislators travelled 100km from the north-eastern fishing town of Mullaittivu to the island’s northernmost tip, Point […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර රේගුවෙන් විනාශ කරන්නට නියමිතව තිබූ කසල තේ තොගයක්  කාබනික පොහොර වලට මිශ්‍ර කරන්නට ගෙනැවිත් එප්පාවලදී උණුසුම් තත්වයක්…. කාබනික පොහොර නිශ්පාදනය සඳහා කලවම් කිරීමට ගෙන ආ බවට පැවසෙන කසල තේ තොග වල ඇසුරුම් එප්පාවල ඇඳගල ප්‍රදේශයේ රජයේ වී ගබඩා වල ගිණි තැබීමට හේතුවෙන් අවට ප්‍රදේශවාසීන් හා එම ස්ථානයේ සිටි පිරිස අතර උණුසුම් තත්වයක් ඊයේ […]

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Engineer Anton Nanayakkara Senior Deputy Director of Irrigation (retd) Courtesy The Island When it was realised that the over 100-year-old Dutch-built Gothatuwa bund was not able to protect the whole of Colombo from a major flood of the Kelani river, a suggestion to build a new bund on the left bank of the Kelani river […]

Dilini Madushanki Courtesy Ceylon Today Having grabbed international attention and spurring a flurry of renditions to her hit cover Menike mage hithe, Sri Lankan singer Yohani de Silva has entered Bollywood with the female version of the title track of the movie Shiddat. The song, originally sung by Manan Bhardwaj and released today (28), features Sunny Kaushal, […]

හිරු පුවත් ජාත්‍යන්තර ප්‍රමිතියෙන් හැඩ වූ, අසමසම, නිර්මාණශීලි, දඟකාර පුංචි නැට්ටුවන් පිරිවරාගත් ප්‍රාසාංගික නර්තනයේ රියැලිටි ටෙලිවිෂන් සන්නාමය වන “හිරු SUPER DANCER” සීසන් 03 අවසන් මහා තරඟය (Grand Finale) Hiru Life Studio මැදිරි සංකීර්ණයේදී අද (25) පැවැත්වුණා.

Sandhya D’Mello /Dubai Courtesy WKND Yohani de Silva, 28, has become an overnight sensation with her lilting Sinhalese song that has broken the internet Manike Mage Hithe, the Sinhalese viral track that has taken the Internet by storm, is transcending musical, cultural and language boundaries. Sung by 28-year-old Sri Lankan singer Yohani de Silva, the […]

Courtesy NDTV A father-daughter duo have remixed “Manike Mage Hithe” into a tribute to Mamata Banerjee, who has to win the Bhabanipore bypolls to keep her job Manike Mage Hithe (in my heart), a Sinhala song from Sri Lanka, recently became an Internet sensation in India, despite most people not understanding its lyrics. From covers to […]

පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයට අයත් මීගහතැන්න ප්‍රදේශයේ නාවලකන්ද ග්‍රාමය යනු ශ්‍රී ලකාව පුරා පවතින වනාන්තර පද්ධතියේ ඉහලම ජෛව විවිධත්වයක් හිමි සදාහරිත වැසි වනාන්තරවලට මැදි වූ සුන්දර ගම්මානයක් සහිත කඳුකර වනාන්තර පද්ධතියකි. මෙම ගම්මානය සහිත වනාන්තර පද්ධතිය ආවරණය වන පරිදි වනසංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අයත් රක්ෂිත කලාප කීපයක්ම ඇති අතර එම රක්ෂිත ප්‍රදේශ […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror UN expert, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, explains how Big Powers manipulate Third World economies  Since 2014, the OLOBC has been saying that the DBR and the EDB scale have had a disastrous impact on poor countries The World Bank announced last Thursday that it has paused” or temporarily suspended its Doing Business Report […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lankan faith healer Eliyantha White has passed away earlier today (September 22), sources told Ada Derana. He had been receiving treatment for COVID-19 at a private hospital in Colombo when he had passed away. White also served as a personal physician to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.