BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS It is regret to note that the coronavirus pandemic and associated unstable economic environment created in the world has caused to dramatically depreciate official currency units of developing countries.  Sri Lanka’s rupee value has depreciated to more than Rupees 200 to a US dollar and other developing countries also gaining similar results […]

By Orpheus Perera It is pathetic, some Sri Lankan’s are still pointing the finger at China for causing this deadly virus. Did they point the finger at Spanish people for Spanish Virus which killed 30 to 50 million people in 1918? Did they point the finger at America for giving AIDS to foreign countries too? […]

Anjalika Silva USA A new category of foreign investor…. What Sri Lanka can do…. The recent Covid19 Pandemic has devastated economies, lives and lifestyles worldwide. However, for Sri Lanka, it comes at a time when recovery from endless misfortunes affecting the financial strength of the country was barely turning around.  This has struck another blow […]

By A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA It is sad to note that attempts are being made by Hakeem and Mujibur Rehman to overcome their political desolation by instigating the Muslims over-performing funerals of some corona infected Muslims.  These so-called Muslim lovers who remained totally silent when Rodee Ranawaka and his companions Ratana and Gnanasara theros (saffron-robed thugs) […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  The TV news item today was about Sri Lankan specialist doctors undergoing training in the UK desperately want to return home. It is quite strange that they all want to come back when only a small percentage of the doctors return after going abroad. Some specialists trained in a lucrative specialty return […]

සමස්ත ලංකා හෙද සංගමය. භද්‍රාණී ජයවර්ධණ මහත්මිය ලේකම්, සෞඛ්‍ය හා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය, කොළඹ 10. මහත්මියනි, කල්මුණෙ අශ්රොෆ් මූලික රෝහලේ හෙදි නේවාසිකාගාරයේ සිදුවී ඇති මංකොලල්ය හා හෙදි නිලධාරීන්ගේ ආරක්ෂාව සැලසීම සම්බන්ධවයි 2020. 04. 11 (අද) දින අළුයම 1.30 ට පමන කල්මුණේ අශ්රොෆ් මූලික රෝහලේ හෙදි නේවාසිකාගාරයට ඇතුළු වු සොරුන් විසින් හෙදි  නිලධාරීන්ට මරණ තර්ජනය කර […]

සමස්ත ලංකා වරාය පොදුසේවක සමිතිය. අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ මණ්ඩලය, සේවක සමූපකාර බැංකුව, සේවක සුභසාධක සමූපකාර සමිතිය (EWC) ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරිය, කොළඹ. අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ මණ්ඩල සාමාජික මහත්ම මහත්මීන් වෙත, රට තුල පත්ව ඇති හදිසි තත්වය මත වරාය බැංකු සාමාජික මහත්ම මහත්මීන් වෙත සහන ලබාදීමට කළ ඉල්ලීම. මේ වන විට ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාව තුල බලපා ඇති කොරෝනා වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් පත්ව […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  After conquering the Kandyan  kingdom British established a regime where body tax, property tax, etc were implemented and there was no income tax. British police with Sri Lankan supporters of various Arrachchis’ has ruled the masses with a strict regime. The country was ruled with an iron fist and people had to […]

Sarah Boseley Health editor Courtesy The Guardian (UK) New quarantine and social distancing ‘suppression’ measures are based on modelling by Imperial College A week is a long time in a coronavirus pandemic. Within days of Boris Johnson and his advisers announcing that anyone with symptoms of a cold should stay at home for seven days but otherwise […]

By Lena H. Sun, William Wan and Yasmeen Abutaleb Courtesy The Washington Post In the absence of federal direction, states and America’s top experts forge the path ahead. A national plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and return Americans to jobs and classrooms is emerging — but not from the White House. Instead, a […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කොරෝනා වෛරස් ආසාදිතයන් හඳුනාගන්නා තැන පටන් ඔවුන්ගේ සියලු තොරතුරු දත්ත ගබඩාවට එක් කර ඇති බව ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් කමල් ගුණරත්න මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. තමන් දන්නා තරමින් ආරක්ෂක ආරක්ෂක බුද්ධි අංශ කොරෝනා මර්දන වැඩසටහනක් සඳහා යොදා ගන්නා පළමු සහ එකම රට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව විය හැකි බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. මෙම කටයුත්ත සාර්ථක කර […]

By PTI in Washington Courtesy The Telegraph In April last year, he erroneously wrote that ‘138 million people’ instead of 138 were killed in a string of blasts in Sri Lanka US President Donald Trump was at his blooper best when he mistook Good Friday for Easter and wished the world “Happy Good Friday”, triggering an avalanche […]

Courtesy India Today The Sri Lankan Navy has intensified its coastal patrolling to prevent the possible spread of the novel coronavirus through “infected” Indian fishermen that it fears might “poach” in their territorial waters. he Sri Lankan Navy has intensified its coastal patrolling to prevent the possible spread of the novel coronavirus through “infected” Indian […]

By Suryamithra Vishwa/Harmony Page-DailyFT Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Immunity-building which is fundamental to traditional Lankan medicine is the best answer to viral pandemics This article is part of the series the Harmony page is running on Sri Lanka’s indigenous medical heritage, medicinal-food culture and traditional lifestyle/values. We, the Harmony page team believe that this is the ‘now […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today The Navy has apprehended 7 persons in the vessel which was seized with a haul of narcotics worth over Rs. 3,270 million during a deep-sea operation. The vessel was without a flag. 260 kg of heroin and 56 kg of Crystal methamphetamine (ICE) were seized by the Navy personnel. The Navy also […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A new bank account termed Special Deposit Account (SDA) has now been introduced for all Sri Lankans living in and outside the country to remit their foreign currency earnings, savings and investments to any bank of their choice in Sri Lanka. It is in the form of Term Deposits either in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The second term of all government schools will commence on the 11th of May, 2020, stated President’s Media Division. Previously, the new school term was to commence on the 20th of April. However, considering the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, the government has decided to postpone the commencement of the second term. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another patient has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) today bringing the country’s infections tally to 198, says the Ministry of Health. According to the Epidemiology Unit, 137 coronavirus patients are currently under medical care. Out of the total number of confirmed cases in Sri Lanka, 54 patients have recovered completely while […]