Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel and the President Ambassador’s forum Friendship with Sri Lanka and Myanmar Friendship with Sri Lanka and Myanmar goes back to generations with friendly and cultural bonds on religion culture and long lasting friendships we had for generations. The cultural religious and political prelateship between Myanmar […]

Gamini Seneviratne             That is a term that historians of colonization are familiar with as a descriptive of the duplicity, treachery and the breach of treaties that marked England’s relations with the peoples it sought to colonize / loot particularly in the 19th century.             What this note addresses are the manifestations of trickery and […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ප්‍රඥාබන්‍දු” ශිෂ්‍යත්ව අරමුදල ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.03.16 දින පස්වරුවේ දී බණ්ඩාරනායක ජාත්‍යන්තර අනුස්මරණ සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේ දී ආරම්භ විය. සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ විභාගය විශිෂ්ට ලෙස සමත්වන අඩු ආදායම් ලාභී පවුල්වල දරුවන් වෙනුවෙන් අමාත්‍ය බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ සංකල්පයකට අනුව උසස් පෙළ හැදෑරීමට ප්‍රඥාබන්‍දු” ශිෂ්‍යත්වය පිරිනැමෙයි. ප්‍රඥාබන්‍දු” ශිෂ්‍යත්ව භාරයට අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මේඩ් ඉන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා” (Made in Sri Lanka) ලොව ඉස්තරම්ම සන්නාමය ලෙස ලොවට ගෙන යෑමට රටක් හැටියට අපි අත්වැල් බැඳ ගමු යැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ 2021.03.15 රාත්‍රියේ ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. වාහන නිෂ්පාදනය, එකලස් කිරීම සහ වාහන උපාංග නිපදවීම සඳහා වූ සම්මත මෙහෙයුම් පටිපාටියක් (Standard Operating Procedures) එළිදැක්වීම කොළඹ ෂැන්ග්‍රිලා හෝටලයේ […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ආණ්ඩුව යන ගමන සුබවාදී නැතැයි ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී හිටපු අමාත්‍ය විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ආණ්ඩුවට ඉදිරියේදී වීමට නියමිත දේ තමන් දන්නා නමුත් එය වළක්වා ගත යුතු නැති නිසා හෙළි කරන්නේ නැති බවද ඔහු කියා සිටියේය. හිරු රූපවාහිනියේ පැවති සලකුණ වැඩසටහන සමග එක්වෙමින් ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පල […]

By Hemantha Randunu Courtesy The Island The Terrorist Investigation Division has commenced an investigation into Rs. 980 million in an account maintained by an extremist group at a bank in Trincomalee. Preliminary investigations have revealed that several drug dealers in Sri Lanka too have made financial contributions to the extremist outfit. This was revealed when […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The cabinet approval was granted to convert the stocks of paddy purchased from farmers by the Paddy Marketing Board into rice and distribute them continuously through Sathosa branch network. The decision was taken after the Cabinet meeting today.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror New laws will be introduced to stop the felling of coconut trees without permission in the future, Plantation Industries and Export Agriculture Minister Ramesh Pathirana said. While addressing a coordinating meeting at Gampaha District recently, the Minister pointed out that there is a huge demand for local coconut harvest in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Governor of Western Province Azath Salley has been arrested this evening (March 16) by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The arrest was made on the advice of the Attorney General, his coordinating officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne said. Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana noted that Salley will be detained and interrogated under […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka registered 120 more positive cases of COVID-19 today (March 16) as total novel coronavirus infections reported within the day reached 274. Department of Government Information says 250 of today’s cases are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. The remaining 24 were detected from the prison cluster. New […]

Courtesy Adaderana Director-General of Health Services today (March 16) confirmed 02 more COVID-related fatalities in Sri Lanka. One of them is a 75-year-old woman from Kandy who died on March 15. She was transferred from Kandy National Hospital to Theldeniya Base Hospital after testing positive for the virus. The cause of death was recorded as […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested the former directors of the Swarnamahal Jewellers Private Limited – Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjalee Edirisinghe, Asanka Edirisinghe, and Nalaka Edirisinghe. The arrest has been made upon the directions of Attorney General Dappula de Livera. They have been arrested on the charges of money laundering, the Coordinating Officer […]

Courtesy Adaderana Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. will work with Sri Lanka’s John Keells Holdings Plc to develop a port terminal in the island nation, Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s first such standalone overseas project. India’s biggest private port operator got a letter of intent from Sri Lankan authorities to build and operate the […]