What kind of double game is India playing? How long does India think it can pretend to be friends of its neighbors while planning the downfall of its neighbors? Obviously this stems from a DNA that goes back to colonial rule wherein India was Colonial Britain’s trusted sepoy. India became India only after the Colonial […]

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E What if the British High Commissioner in Colombo Sarah Hulton met with the Ambassador of South Korea Woonjin Jeong on Tuesday, the 2nd of March, 2021? What if he was accompanied by former Foreign Minister and the man who happily tossed Sri Lanka under the UNHRC bus driven by a warmongering Uncle Sam? […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip took a deep interest in paddy production and studied it from all angles. He complained repeatedly about the paucity of statistics on paddy cultivation. There was no information on the size of holdings, yield, ownership and so on. Thanks to Philip, in 1962, Department of Census and Statistics started an agricultural census. […]

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E ‘If you are not with me, I will assume that you are against me,’ is a prudent rule of thumb, but only in certain situations. Not all questions can be answered with either ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ Complex realities don’t often offer such luxurious indulgences. This is true of people, it is true of […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip Gunawardena was given the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the MEP government of 1956. The portfolio included peasant agriculture, animal husbandry and the plantations. He was ably assisted by GVS de Silva as Permanent Secretary.  The combination of GVS and Philip offered the country a socialist vision, said Garvin Karunaratne. I […]

Concerned citizens of Sri Lanka To:              UNHRC member nations at the 46th Sessions in Geneva, to be shared with your representatives at the meeting. From:         Concerned citizens of the small and nonaligned nation of Sri Lanka dispersed around the world. (Author’s identity is withheld for personal safety.) Date:           March 2, 2021 We seek support […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ඝාතකයා සමග යහන්ගතව, විනාශය කරා ගමන් කිරීම, මේ රට තුල සිදුවෙන සාමාන්‍ය ක්‍රියාදාමයකි. එය යලි යලිත් සිහියට ගන්වමින් ඉතිහාසයේ තවත් වාරයකදී ඝාතකයා හා සරණ බන්ධනයට යන යුවතියක අප අද දිනයේදී දකින්නෙමු. කතෝලික ප්‍රජාව අද කළු ඉරිදාවක ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කර, කළු සරණ පැතීම අද දින සිදු කරයි. එය නම් කොට ඇත්තේ කළු ඉරිදා වශයෙනි. […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මොණරාගල DAG ඇඟලුම් කර්මාන්ත ශාලාව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.03.06 දින පෙරවරුවේ විවෘත විය. ඩී.ඒ.ජී ඇඟලුම් පෞද්ගලික සමාගම (DAG Apparel (Pvt) LTD) රුපියල් මිලියන 500ක මුදලක් ආයෝජනය කරමින් මෙම නව ඇඟලුම් කර්මාන්ත ශාලාව ස්ථාපිත කර තිබේ. එමගින් නිර්මාණය වී ඇති සෘජු රැකියා අවස්ථා ගණන 600කි. තවත් 3000ක පිරිසකට වක්‍ර […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 170 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (March 06), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 360 new positive cases of COVID-19 within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed so far in the country now stands at 85,336. Recoveries from […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 04 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (March 06). As per the Department of Government Information, two male patients and two female patients are among the victims. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 497 in total.

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the government will take necessary measures to punish the individuals who were responsible for the Easter Sunday terror attacks. Quoting the report of Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) which investigated the explosions, the President said previous government has not given priority to national security since 2015. The inefficient government […]