Written by Sneha Mary Koshy Courtesy NDTV According to the details of inter-police communication, Kerala police officers hinted at the possibility of such a development. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:  India and Sri Lanka are likely to be under threat with terror group ISIS turning its attention to the Indian Ocean Region in the wake of losses across Syria and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 9.9.19 Analysts pointed out that turning Sri Lanka into a bilingual state would not be an easy task. It would take a long time.  In 2008, Raja Collure pointed out that in Canada, the process of bilingualisation has already taken over forty years.  And in   Canada, unlike Sri Lanka, the two languages […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane The Muslim community in Sri Lanka is a small non-indigenous minority settler community amounting at present, to about 10% of the total population of the country. They are the descendants of small groups of Arab traders, exclusively males, who came to the island at different times in the past. In the late […]

ALI SUKHANVER For the Muslims, for the Christians and for other minorities living in India things could be horrible, discouraging and disappointing but for the followers of the Hindutva philosophy, the present scenario after the elections in India is very much supportive and hopeful. The sweeping success of Mr. Modi has proved two things; first […]

වෛද්‍ය විජිත් ගුණසේකර එක්සත් රාජධානියේ වර්වික් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ සෞඛ්‍ය ආර්ථික අංශයේ පර්යේෂක  / ජාතික රුධිර පාරවිලයන  සේවාවේ හිටපු අධ්‍යක්ෂ සහ සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශයේ රසායනාගාර සේවා හිටපු අධ්‍යක්ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා පහසුකම් සැපයීමේදී සෞඛ්‍ය ආරක්ෂණ තාක්ෂණය යොදා ගත හැකි බව වෛද්‍ය විජිත් ගුණසේකර මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි. පසුගියදා එක්සත් රාජධානියේ සිට ZOOM තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ මාධ්‍ය ඇමතූ වෛද්‍ය […]

මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාව  ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ    අද (20) පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවට සහභාගි වු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රිනී පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීනී සුදර්ශනි ප්‍රනාන්දුපුල්ලේ මහත්මිය■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී තේණුක විදානගමගේ මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ඩි. වී. චානක මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය මේ ආණ්ඩුව යටතේ කන්න නැතුව දරුවො […]

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Dr D. Chandraratna Dear Mr Secretary of State. As a peace-loving citizen of Sri Lanka I would like to place before you the following facts as a precursor to the dialogue that you intend to conduct with the powers that be in my country. International cooperation loses its legitimacy if the transactions between states are […]

ලංකාව තුල මුස්ලිම් ජනගහනය වේගයෙන් වර්ධනය වෙනවා

Courtesy  Saudi Gazette COLOMBO — Sri Lanka is seeking a loan of nearly $1.0 billion from China for energy and highways as the island recovers from the devastating Easter Sunday bombings, the finance ministry said Thursday. Talks are underway with China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to raise the new loan in addition to the […]

Philip Pullella Courtesy Reuters ROME (Reuters) – The head of the Catholic church in Sri Lanka on Thursday issued a scathing criticism of the government over the Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people, decrying a total lack of interest” in determining why intelligence reports were ignored.FILE PHOTO: Security personnel stand guard in front […]

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA):  Terrorists from the Daesh group are likely to conduct attacks in India and Sri Lanka, a report says, citing intelligence. New Delhi Television (NDTV), citing three intelligence letters sent to police chiefs in the southern Indian state of Kerala, said on Thursday Daesh was now urging its operatives” to carry out […]

Courtesy Adaderana he Attorney General (AG)has directed the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) to carry out criminal investigations against several police officers lapses with regard to the Easter Sunday attacks, stated Attorney General’s Department. In the letter to the acting IGP Chandana Wickramaratne, the Attorney General refers to the final report of the special […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 20 (Daily Express): The Sri Lankan tourism industry is on the hard road to recovery from the devastation caused by two very violent episodes in April and May and the political crisis which these triggered. The April 21 multiple suicide blasts, allegedly carried out by local affiliates of the Islamic State […]

By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Sri Lanka faced and fought a terrorist threat for thirty years and prevailed, ten years ago. Just recently, on Easter Sunday, we were confronted by a new terrorist threat. So, Sri Lanka is not apologetic, when I say that we view all these problems through the prism of the existential […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Railway Locomotive Engine Operators Unions says they have decided to resort to a 48-hour strike action from midnight today (20). Speaking to reporters following the meeting held today with the Minister of Finance, trade union representatives said they will go ahead with their planned strike as they failed to reach […]

Courtesy Adaderana Representatives of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) claim that their party’s candidate for the upcoming presidential election is the former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. This was mentioned at two press conferences of the SLPP held today (20). United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) MP Pavithra Wanniarachchi stated that Sri Lanka should be handed […]