KAMALIKA PIERIS REVISED 16.7.20 The first US intervention in the 1970s, though not recognized as such, was the JVP insurgency of 1971. This was USA’s first attempt at destabilizing the state. It was premature and it failed.  It had jumped the gun .N.M.Perera straightaway said this was a CIA activity. Apart from this, US found […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. හැඳින්‌වීම රනිල්ගේ ලිච්චවි කාටූනය ක්‍රිස්තු පූර්‌ව 5 වන ශතවර්‌ෂයේ බෞද්‌ධ ඉන්‌දියාවේ පැවති ලිච්චවි පාලන ක්‍රමයට, දශරාජ ධ‌ර්‌මවලට, සමාන කලහැකි, යහපාලන සංකල්පයක් (ගුඩ් ගවර්‌නන්ස්-බෑඩ් ගවර්‌නන්ස්) ගැන යුරෝපයෙන් ඇසෙන්නේ, 14 වන ශතවර්‌ෂයේදී, ඉතාලියේ එක් බලවත් පුර සමූහාණ්ඩුවක්‌වූ සියෙනා පුරයේ පුර සභා (සිටි කවුන්සිල්) රැස්වීම් ශාලාවේ බිත්ති තුනක, අම්බ්‍රොගියෝ ලොරෙන්සෙටි නම් සිත්තරා ලවා, එයට […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ අපට ඇත්තේ යහපාලනය විසින් බලගැන්වූ මැතිවරණ කොමිසමකි. මේ කොමිසමට කිසිවෙක් නොසිතන ආකාරයේ බලතල රාශියක් පවරා ඇත. එබැවින් මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් තුමා බොහෝවිට කටයුතු කරන්නේ විධායක බලතල ඇති මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්වරයෙකු ලෙසය. එය සැබෑ ස්වාධින මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්වරයෙකුට නම් ඉතා හොඳ තත්වයකි. ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම ඔහු, ඔහුට අවැසි ආකාරයට සියල්ලම සිදුකරමින් සිටි. එසේ කිරීමට ඔහුට බලතල ඇත. තවද […]

Prof. Chandana Jayalath, University of Vocational Technology Finishing the unfinished effort of Millennium Development Goals is of national significance. Effectively, the MDGs are global benchmarks. Concurrent with that effort, it is important to have a focus on what Sri Lanka’s development agenda should look like beyond 2020. While completing the ‘unfinished business’, I believe, this […]

Courtesy fibre2fashion Katubedda, Sri Lanka laboratory of Bureau Veritas, a leading testing, inspection and certification provider for consumer goods and healthcare industry, has got ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for testing medical/surgical face masks. This will help face mask buyers and suppliers worldwide to test medical masks, including full EU market entry scope, in this lab. With […]

Courtesy WEBWIRE Colombo – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Standard Chartered Sri Lanka announced today that Brandix is the latest company to complete a drawdown from the Bank’s global USD1 billion COVID-19 financing commitment, underscoring its ongoing efforts to support local businesses in the pandemic response. Standard Chartered’s extension of USD12 million funding will assist the production switch […]

Courtesy MailonLine COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – For months he´s been anonymous, but now Prasad Dinesh, linked by Sri Lankan authorities to nearly half of the country’s more than 2,600 coronavirus cases, is trying to clear his name, and shed some of the stigma of a heroin addiction at the root of his ordeal. Under […]

Courtesy The Daily News Director General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr. Anil Jasinghe said there were only 19 Covid-19 cases reported yesterday and that they had no intention of hiding the actual situation in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Dr. Jasinghe said the health authorities were taking measures to reveal the actual number […]

Courtesy The Daily News Health authorities or Intelligence Services had not received any information that a third contact of the COVID-19 infected patients of the Kandakadu cluster had contracted the virus, DIG Ajith Rohana said today. He told a news conference that all the first and second contacts of the patients at the Kandakadu cluster […]

Courtesy The Daily News Whist stating that another prolonged lockdown will kill Sri Lanka’s economy, former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe proposed that political parties, health experts and other bodies discuss the Public Health Emergency Bill proposed by some opposition parties and enact as soon as new Parliament meet. Mr. Wickremesinghe came up with is proposal […]

Courtesy Adaderana Election Commission on Wednesday (15) said it would be extremely difficult” to hold the parliamentary elections on August 5 as scheduled without the government legalising the health guidelines, including social distancing, amidst a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in the country. The national poll panel also mentioned the political leaders were not adhering […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another individual at the Kundasale quarantine center is confirmed to have tested positive for COVID-19, stated the Health Ministry. The patient has been identified as a close contact of a coronavirus-positive at the Kandakadu rehabilitation center. This brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka to 2,671 cases. More foreign arrivals […]

Courtesy Adaderana Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe says that there currently is no reason to enforce another lockdown in the country, as the current cluster remains limited in its reach. With the upturn in the number of COVID-19 infections in the country, measures have been taken to place the area in Rajanganaya in […]