By Rohana R. Wasala The November 2019 inauguration of president Gotabhaya Rajapaksa rekindled bright hopes of national resurgence. The visions of peace and prosperity that bloomed in the years following the end of nearly three decades of civil war in 2009 faded in the years 2015-19. While the people were eagerly looking forward to electing […]

Stanley Gunaratne. The Covid 19 situation is a terrible global crisis. In the island of Ceylon, where despite $3 billion a year wasted on Provincial Councils and Indian style politicians, we have managed to curtail the spread and combat it thanks to a relatively efficient administration which is in stark contrast to the usual modus […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA On 21st April Tuesday Sri Lankans belonging t all religions and of all walks of life mourned by lighting a lamp, ringing Church and Temple bells and Muslims held special supplications (Dua) and prayers in the mosques and homes at 8.45 a,m, for more than 250 killed and nearly 500 […]

සමස්ත ලංකා හෙද සංගමය මධ්‍යම පලාත් සෞඛ්‍ය ලේකම්තුමා පලාත් සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය මහනුවර. මහත්මයාණෙනි, #කොවිඩ්– 19 (#Covid- 19) මැඩපැවැත්වීමට අදාලව සෞඛ්‍ය ලේකම්තුමිය නිකුත් කර ඇති උපදෙස් නොසලකා කටයුතු කර ඇති තෙල්දෙණිය මූලික රෝහලේ වෛද්‍ය අධිකාරීවරයාගේ ක‍්‍රියාකලාපය සම්බන්ධවයි. මේවනවිටත් පාලනය කර නොමැති #කොවිඩ්- 19 (#Covid- 19) වසංගත තත්වය හමුවේ රට පුරා රෝහල් පද්ධතියේ කටයුතු පවත්වාගෙන යාමට අදාලව […]

සමස්ත ලංකා ප්‍රවාහන සේවක සංගමය. පොරොන්දු වූ පරිදි සේවක ඉල්ලීම් ලබා දීමට කඩිනමින් මැදිහත්වන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම. ශ‍්‍රී ල.ං.ග.ම. සභාපති කිංස්ලි රණවක මහතා සියලූම ශ‍්‍රී ල.ං.ග.ම. වෘත්තීය සමිති සමඟ 2020.04.21 වන දින පස්වරු 2.00ට ශ‍්‍රී ල.ං.ග.ම. ප‍්‍රධාන කාර්යාලයේ දී සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වන ලදි. * ශ‍්‍රී ල.ං.ග.ම. සේවකයින් හට මුඛ ආවරණ, අත්වැසුම් සහ වෙනත් වෛද්‍ය පහසුකම් ලබා […]

ALI SUKHANVER Natural calamities and disasters have ever been hostile to the peace and serenity of all human societies. Today it is the Corona, somewhere in the 14th century it was the Plague commonly known as the Black Plague and Black Death. That devastating epidemic resulted in the deaths of more than 200 million people […]

ගෲප් කපිතාන් ප්‍රකාශ් ගුණසේකර ( ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගුවන් හමුදාව විශ්‍රාමික , සිවිල් සේවා කපිතාන් )  B.Sc , MPA ලියයි මේ වන විට බොහෝ දෙනෙකුගේ කථා මාතෘකා  කොරෝනා මර්ධන වැඩසටහන සහ මැතිවරණයෙහි යුක්ති යුක්ත බාවය කෙරේ යොමුව ඇති සේයක් දිස් වෙයි. වසංගත මර්ධන වැඩ පිළිවෙල සහ මැතිවරණය උත්කර්ශයට නගන බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට ලග එන සාගතය ගැන වගේ […]

Dr. Sarath OBEYSEKERA April 21, 2020, 11:35 pm  When I read the above article I recollected experience about an incident 1972 in Russia I was sent to an industrial site in a City called Orenburg in Russia with about 40 male and female students who were doing a major degree with me in Drilling and […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය ගැන පැවැත්විය නොහැකි නිසා විස්සෝපයට පත් වි සිටින පිරිසකි.  ඔවුන් බහුතරයක් දේශපාලනඥයින් හා ඔවුන්ගේ හිතවතුන් ය.  අපේ රටේ මැතිවරණ වර්ග හතරක් කල් දමා හෝ අතහැර දමා ඇත. අධිකරණය ද, ඡන්ද ගැසට් බල රහිත කොට ඇත.  විසිරුවා හැරපු පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නැවතත් රැස්වී, ඡන්ද ගැන කථා කර ඇත. බහුතරයක් අවස්ථාවල දී, පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ද ඡන්ද […]

Sarath Bulathsinghala 21 April 2020 Free Education recipients of Sri Lanka, Brave Sri Lanka is weathering a storm of unprecedented proportions alongside other countries in the world – The Corvid-19 Pandemic. This is the gravest threat to the modern world in living memory. The human cost has been heartrending, the economic cost colossal and the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 22 (newsin.asia) — Sri Lanka Tourism plans for an early revival post-COVID-19, as the country starts opening up gradually from this week. A major step was the Cabinet approval of the critical five-year global promotion initiative last week and plans are underway to finalize the Terms of Reference and appointment of […]

By Feizal Samath Courtesy ttgAsia Tourists arriving in Sri Lanka in the future must be armed with Covid-19 health clearance certificates approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) and be subjected to rapid testing at the airport, under a set of new proposals to revive tourism in the country. Visitors must clear a WHO-designated health test […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a Presidential Task Force in charge of Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication, the President’s Media Division said. It said the new Task Force has been established under the powers vested in the President by the Constitution. “The Task Force is responsible for reviving the economy and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The available evidence indicates coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory as has been alleged, the World Health Organization said Tuesday in a news briefing in Geneva.  “It is probable, likely, that the virus is of animal origin,” WHO spokeswoman […]

Courtesy Adaderana Seven more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 330, according to the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health said. A total of 20 new coronavirus cases had been reported within the day. As of 11.30 p.m. today (22), a total of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Defence Secretary Maj. Gen. (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne said there was no necessity to seek assistance from other countries to deploy their military to contain the spread of coronavirus in Sri Lanka. He said Sri Lankan Tri-Forces and the Police had already proved their capabilities in containing the spread of coronavirus. Our military has […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three-wheelers will be permitted to carry only two passengers due to the coronavirus risks, says Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe.  He stated this during the media briefing of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID -19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) this evening. In the meantime, barber shops and salons, as well as […]

Courtesy Adaderana One more patient receiving treatment at the Polonnaruwa Hospital has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, said the Ministry of Health. Earlier today (22), 11 persons from Beruwala were also confirmed to have contracted the virus. They had been undergoing quarantine at a Batticaloa quarantine facility. The addition of the new case hikes the […]

A pandemic engulfs the globe with deaths nearing 200,000 and millions of confirmed cases documented. So far no one, not even the World Health Organization can firmly say what caused the virus, how the virus is spreading or what the cure for the virus is. Everyone is simply experimenting and making cautionary statements that often […]