අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ඉන්දීය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි මහතා හා ශ්‍රී ලංකා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සමුළුවක් අද 2020.09.26 දින පවත්වන ලදී. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි මහතා හා ශ්‍රී ලංකා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අගමැති ධූරවලට පත්වීමෙන් පසු වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ සිදු කළ පළමු ද්විපාර්ශවික සාකච්ඡාව මෙයයි. මෙම ද්වී පාර්ශවික සාකච්ඡාව ආරම්භ […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total number of positive COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country reached 3,349 as eight more arrivals from foreign countries tested positive for the virus today (26). In the meantime, the number of recoveries from the disease in Sri Lanka moved up to 3,186 as 28 persons infected with the virus were discharged […]

By Shiran Illanperuma Courtesy NewsIn.Asia “It will be the main income generator for the future of Sri Lanka,” Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said. COLOMBO, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) — In September 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping and then Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa jointly inaugurated cooperation project Colombo Port City, which planned to reclaim 269 hectares […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Underworld figure ‘Kosgoda Tharaka’, who is remand custody has made a statement to the Criminal Investigation Department that a Prison Commissioner had allegedly received monetary gifts from notorious underworld criminal Makandure Madush, while Madush was staying in Dubai, Deputy Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris said. Deputy Solicitor General made this statement before […]

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By Charles S..Perera What Sri Lanka  wants is not a democracy of the press, the freedom to write, the freedom to criticize the government, freedom to demonstrate. What we want is a democracy of the people for their right to live in peace and security, have the minimum of a decent living condition, right to […]

Chanaka Bandarage After the Southern Expressway was opened (aka Southern Highway), a poor villager in Kurundugaha Hethapma told the writer that to celebrate the opening he prepared and treated his fellow villagers with Kiribath. The writer met him again several years after.  He asked the villager whether or not he was benefitted by the expressway […]

Happy Soma Global Spiritual Art Center -Sunil Gamage-Director Happiness is the highest good everybody want to achieve. It is possible for everybody and it is inside everybody. We are not reaching out there either because of one or both of the following reasons. Either we are ignorant or we do not have the simple understanding […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ 1959දී එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ලංකා නියෝජිත ධුරය හෙබවූ සර් ක්ලෝඩ් කොරයා මහතාගෙන්, අගමැති බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතාට ලිපියක් ලැබුණි. එහි සඳහන්ව තිබුනේ, එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ආරක්ෂක සභාවට ඇතුළත්වීමට අවස්තාවක් ලංකාවටද උදාවී ඇති බැවින්, මෙවර රැස්වීමට අගමැති බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතාට පැමිණිය හැකිනම් එය තමන් අගය කරන බවයි.මේ අනුව අගමැතිතුමා 1959 සැප්තැම්බර මස 28 වෙනිදා එහි යාමට තීරණය කර තිබුණි. […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර. ලන්කාවේ විවස්ථා පුරාණය “ඉමන් සරත්තන් පිසිතන් සරීරන් –ධාරේමි ලෝකස්ස හිතත්ත මේව (මාගේ මේ ලේ මස් සහිත සරීරය ලෝකයාගේ (රටවැසියන්ගේ) හිතසුව පිනිසම දරමී සිරිසගබෝ රජතුමා. (පෙර රජ දවස මේ රටේ පැවැති රාජ්ය සම්ප්රදායයි ඒ.) නමුත් මෙදවස මේ රටේ එවැනි ජනතාහිතවාදී විසිෂ්ඨ සම්ප්රදායන් හෝ ජනනායකයින් නැති නිසා විවස්ථා පිළිබද විශේසග්නයකු නොවෙන පුද්ගලයකු විසින් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ඉඩම් කළමනාකරණ කටයුතු, රාජ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාර ඉඩම් හා දේපළ සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මැතිතුමාගේ ආදරණීය පියාණන් වූ අභාවප්‍රාප්ත ආර්. ඒ. ටී. ආර්. ජී. රණසිංහ මැතිතුමාගේ දේහයට අවසන් ගෞරව දැක්වීම සඳහා ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.25 දින එක්විය. පොළොන්නරුව, බැඳි වැව නිවසට ගිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ඒ මහතාට අවසන් ගෞරව දක්වමින් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කේ.ඩී.යූ. ඇඩ්වෙන්චර්ස් (KDU adventures (Pvt) Ltd) සමාගම වීරවිල ප්‍රදේශයේ ඉදි කළ නවතම තරු පහේ හෝටලය වන Double Tree” – වීරවිල රජවර්ණ රිසෝට් සංචාරකයන්ට විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට අග්‍රමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා ඊයේ 2020.09.24 දින එක් විය. වීරවිල වැව් ඉස්මත්තේ ඉදි කර ඇති මෙම හෝටල් සංකීර්ණය වර්ග අඩි 21000ක භූමියක පැතිර තිබේ. සුඛෝපභෝගී අවන්හල් […]

Courtesy MailOnLine Sri Lankan police on Friday arrested three people suspected of trapping and killing an endangered leopard and trying to sell its meat as a cure for asthma. The trio were detained after police raided their home following a tip-off that they had used a snare to catch the creature in the central highlands. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The final PCR test carried out on the Russian national, who was detected with COVID-19 yesterday (24), has confirmed him to be negative for the virus. This was confirmed by the PCR test conducted at the Hambantota Hospital today, the Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said. One of the 15 […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former State Minister of Defence, Deputy UNP Leader Ruwan Wijewardene testified before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing the Easter Sunday terror attacks on Thursday (24). Responding to a question raised by the panel, he said the former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe often times left during the National Security Council meetings. He […]

Courtesy Hiru News 12 more tested positive for Covid-19, arrivals from the UAE, Qatar, a seaman from Albenia, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,345

Courtesy Hiru News The Minister of Justice Ali Sabri stated in Parliament today that the present government will not make calls and exert pressure on the judiciary like the previous government. He was responding to a question raised by Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Chaminda Wijesiri regarding the case of Dr. Safi Sahabdeen who worked at […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Sinhale National Organization states that a committee should be appointed to ensure justice to all parties affected by the judgments that were created by fabricating false evidence during the period of good governance. It’s General Secretary Ven. Madille Pannaloka Thero stated this at a press conference held in Colombo today.

19A inclusion of Dual Citizenship was specifically targeted at preventing Gotabaya Rajapakse from contesting Presidential Elections and requiring to revoke citizenship which created a thorny situation with US declaring him and Shavendra Silva as war criminals. Geetha Kumarasinghe had to forfeit her Parliamentary seat as she was honest enough to declare she was a dual […]

Chanaka Bandarage Impressions Edward Henry Pedris is one of Sri Lanka’s least recognized National Heroes.  He was killed by the British more than 105 years ago in Welikada Prison, on the charge of Treason. True a statue of him was unveiled by the Prime Minister Premadasa in 1987, and a playground and a stadium were […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS JVP was given a new lease of life when the UNP came to power in 1977. Under the previous SLFP government JVPers were brought before the Criminal Justice Commission, (CJC) a special tribunal set up through a special Act of Parliament. JVPers were charged with waging war against the lawfully elected government, breaking […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අමරපුර මහා නිකායේ සිරිසුමන පාර්ශවයේ මහා නායක ආචාර්ය කොලොන්නාවේ සිරි සුමංගල මහා නාහිමියන්ගේ ඡන්ම දිනය නිමිත්තෙන් පන්නිපිටිය ශ්‍රී දෙව්රම් මහා විහාරයේ ඉදි කළ සුවිසි විවරණ මන්දිරය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට අද 2020.09.24 දින ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා එක්විය. පළමුව ආගමික වතාවත් සඳහා එක් වූ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අනතුරුව දුටුගැමුණු රජතුමාගේ […]

By Ishara S. KODIKARA Courtesy Japan Today Sri Lanka’s president has ordered the termination of a $1.5-billion Japanese-funded light rail project, saying it is not a “cost-effective solution” for the congested capital Colombo, officials said Thursday. The deal signed under the previous government is the largest single foreign-funded infrastructure project in Sri Lanka, and was […]

Courtesy Hiru News Two arrivals from Qatar & 02 from Kuwait tested positive for COVID- 19, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,333.

Courtesy  Hiru News The Russian national who was diagnosed with coronavirus while staying at a hotel in Matara was taken to the Hambantota Hospital. The hospital director Suranga Ubeysekara stated that with the second PCR test conducted the reports has come negative. However, he said they would take biological samples tonight and conduct another PCR […]

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly & Association and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression are receiving letters to tell Sri Lanka to allow LTTE to commemorate a dead ‘martyr’. Who is LTTE? An internationally banned terrorist organization. Who is Thileepan – a member of that internationally […]

By Garvin Karunaratne,former G.A. Matara  My craze for motoring in the forsaken neglected Sinhala areas where poor unequipped buddhist monks struggle to guide  the people  following the dictat of Lord Buddha: Charita Bhikkae Charikan Mahajana Hitaya, Sukhaya” took me this time to Sandamal Eliya, five miles before one reaches Tanmtirimale.   The    Sandamal Eliya Temple is run by […]

N.A.de S. Amaratunga Prof. Gamini Keerawella (GK) in an article titled Genealogy of Concept and Genesis of 13th Amendment” (The Island 16th & 17th Sept. 2020) attempts to show that the 13th A was not something forced on us by India, that it was a concept discussed by political leaders starting before independence and that […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Two issues had rankled Buddharakkitha. One was the Prime Minister’s refusal to hand over a lucrative shipping contract to a company named Colombo Shipping Lines that was co-founded by him in the name of his associate HP Jayawardena to import rice from Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand. The second was over a sugar […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Wiswa Warnapala declared that violence was first injected into the politics of Sri Lanka by the JVP. JVP was a violent murderous movement from the very beginning. They were guilty of gruesome killings. Despite JVP ‘s attempts to identify itself with Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara,  JVP had more in common with the […]