by Dr Palitha Kohona We have been hearing lengthy and, at times learned, discussions on Treaties in the last few months, especially in the lead up to the Presidential election. This rich discourse, occasionally not well informed, has not ceased. The Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) was the main focus of many and generated a highly […]

Asok Weerasinghe Ottawa Your Excellency David McKinnon: Kindly read my response to your Canada Day message to Sri Lankans 19 July 2020Your Excellency David McKinnonHigh Commissioner for Canada in Sri Lanka33A, 5th LaneColpettyColombo 3Sri Lanka Dear High Commissioner David McKinnon:Re your Canada Day (July 1)  Message to Sri Lanka We must stand together and embrace […]

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චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. හැඳින්‌වීම උඩරට සිංහල, පහතරට සිංහල, මලබාර් (දෙමළ), මුස්ලිම් යනුවෙන් සුද්දන් විසින් ජන ව‌ර්‌ග කොටස් සිටි රටක, ඉදිරිපෙල නායකයින් වුයේ කල්තියාම ඉංග්‍රීසි අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබූ හා බෙදා පාලන රීතියෙන් පල නෙලාගත් දමිළයින් පිරිසය. පොන්නම්බලම් දෙබෑයෝ එහි මුදුන් පෙත්තේම සිටියේය. එහෙත්, චන්ද බලය ව්‍යාප්තවීම ඇරඹීමත් සමඟ මේ නායකකම වැඩිකල් තබාගත නොහැකි බව ඔවුන්ට වැටහුනේය. […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් කුමරි නැතිනම් කෝමාරිකා යන නාමයෙන් හඳුන්වන පලෑටිය දේශීය ඛෙහෙත් හේත් වලට යොදා ගැනෙන බලගතු ඖෂධයකි.පිලිස්සුම් තුවාල සඳහා සම මතු පිට ගෑම ට මෙන්ම තෙල් ඛෙහෙත් සිඳ ගැනීමටද යොදා ගන්නා කෝමාරිකා ඌව පළාතේ ජනප්‍රිය ඖසධීය ආහාරයකි.සිංහල ජනතාව මෙම අගනා ඔෂධ පැලෑටිය සිය ගෙවතු වල වගා කොට රැක බලාගන්නේ ඉතාමත් ආදරයෙනි.මෑත කාලයේ දී කෝමාරිකා පැලෑටිය […]

By Norman Palihawadana Courtesy The Island The Kurunegala police were awaiting the report of the expert committee appointed to investigate allegations that an archaeological building in Kurunegala was bulldozed, to take necessary action, a senior police officer said. On July 14, Kurunegala Urban Council demolished a building that is said to contain historical artifacts. The […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island July 19, 2020, 9:51 pm Ongoing investigation into some officers and men of the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) dealing in heroin, has taken an unexpected turn with SLPP Gampaha District heavyweight Prasanna Ranatunga claiming that the Minuwangoda police made the initial breakthrough on information provided by him.  In a […]

Courtesy Adaderana Nine individuals who arrived from overseas have been confirmed to have contracted the COVID-19, stated the Department of Government Information. The new cases have been detected amongst individuals who recently arrived from Saudi Arabia. So far, a total of 20 COVID-19 cases have been detected within today (19). Thereby, the count of coronavirus […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has stated that plans are afoot to promote pepper cultivation as a major export crop. India is the major buyer of pepper from Sri Lanka and other countries. India purchases pepper on a quota basis. Increasing the quota given to Sri Lanka is one of the key elements of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana A new division is to be established under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), stated Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon. The unit will be titled ‘Illegal Assets Investigations Division’, said the Senior DIG addresssing a press conference held at the Police Headquarters this morning (19). The new unit will be in charge of probing assets […]