KAMALIKA PIERIS There are two schools of thought in Sri Lanka regarding the UNHRC Resolutions against Sri Lanka. There are those who are delighted that their country is censured by the UNHRC and there are those who are not delighted.  They are indignant. The first group contains those who wish to see Sri Lanka […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සිංහල බෞද්ධ නායකයෙක් විසින් පාලනය කිරීම ඉතා අසීරු කටයුත්තකි. සුද්දා එන්නට පෙර දෙමළ රජෙක් පාලනය කල මේ රට, ඕනෑම පරයෙකුට පාලනය කිරීමට නම් කලයුත්තේ සිංහලයාව ගොනාට අන්දවා ගැනීම බව තේරුම්ගත් සුද්දා, සිංහලයාව දෙමළුන්ට පාලනය කිරීමට ඉඩදිය නොහැක, යන මතවාදය ඉදිරියට දමාගෙන කටයුතු ආරම්භ කළහ. ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම සුද්දා මෙහි එනවිට උඩරට […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්              ඇමරිකාවේ කොන්ග්‍රස් සභික ඩෙබෝරා රෝස් නම් කාන්තාව ලංකාවට එරෙහිව සකස් කළ බරපතල ලියවිල්ලක් එහි කොන්ග්‍රස් මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ.කරුණු ගණනාවකින් සමන්විතව තිබුණද එම ලියැවිල්ලේ ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් ඉස්මතු කරවන කාරණය නම් ලංකාවේ  උතුරුකරය ද්‍රවිඩ නිජභූමියක් බවයි. එම භූමිය ලංකා හමුදාවේ මිලිටලීකරණයට ලක්ව ඇතැයිද ඇය වැඩිදුරටත් චෝදනා කරයි. මෙම චෝදනා වල කිසිම අලුත් බවත් […]

By Laura Millan Lombrana  Courtesy Insurance Journal Contaminants released from the wreckage of a container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka could be dragged thousands of kilometers by ocean currents, impacting wildlife and humans in far-reaching latitudes. Authorities and salvage crews are now working to prevent the more than 300 metric tons of oil transported […]

Courtesy INDAILY A man who contracted the infectious Delta COVID-19 strain mistakenly opened his room door soon after entering hotel quarantine in Melbourne, but Victorian authorities are downplaying the chances this incident caused transmission.P Health officials have linked an outbreak of the Delta strain in Melbourne to the hotel quarantine case, a man in his […]

BY JON JACKSON  Courtesy The Newsweek State prosecutors in Sri Lanka‘s Colombo Magistrate’s Court on Monday accused the operators of the ship that caught fire with 25 tons of acid onboard of a cover-up. The Deputy Solicitor General alleged that Sea Consortium Lanka, the local agent for the ship, deleted several emails exchanged with the vessel’s captain […]

By Colonel R HARIHARAN (retd) Courtesy Rediff.com Xi Jinping is winning the war without firing a shot in Sri Lanka, observes Colonel R Hariharan (retd). IMAGE: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, right, bumps fists with China’s State Councilor and Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe in Colombo, April 28, 2021. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters More like this India’s […]

ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය අංශය කාබනික පොහොර භාවිතයට එළඹීමේ දී පැමිණෙන අභියෝග නොතකා මහජන නියෝජිතයන් ජනතා සුභසිද්ධිය පිණිස ඉදිරියට යායුතු බව ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා පවසයි. නිරෝගී සහ ඵලදායී පුරවැසියෙක් බිහිකිරීමට වස විසෙන් තොර ආහාර වේලක් සඳහා වූ ජනතා අයිතිය සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම” ප්‍රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශනයෙන් තහවුරු කර තිබේ. ඒ වෙනුවෙන් කාබනික පොහොර භාවිතයට කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය රැගෙන යාම රජයේ දැඩි […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov who had a telephone conversation with his Sri Lankan counterpart Dinesh Gunawardane said Russia was fully cooperative of the initiative to co-produce its Sputnik V vaccine here and asked the Sri Lankan authorities to expedite the process. Minister Gunawardane told Daily Mirror that the Russian […]

Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that five committees have been appointed to work on the procedures to demand claims from the X-Press Pearl vessel, Ports and Shipping Minister Rohitha Abeygunawardane said today steps were being taken to seek assistance of the international legal experts on the matter. The Minister […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror The reason for the flood situation in the Gampaha district was caused by reckless actions taken by the previous government during the construction of the segment from Kadawata to Gampaha of the Central expressway,  Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said. He told the Daily Mirror that the proposed segment from […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena today sought the immediate intervention of the US State Department to convey the concerns and the position of the government on the proposed resolution No. H.Res.413, which was introduced by Congresswoman Deborah Ross,to the Chair and members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee as well as the […]

TORU OTSUKI, Nikkei staff writer Courtesy NikkeiAsia Kankyo Daizen’s fertilizer wins over farmers in Vietnam and Cambodia ASAHIKAWA, Japan — An organic products company based in northern Japan hopes its environmentally friendly fertilizer made from cow urine will catch on with farmers in Southeast Asia. The liquid fertilizer, Tsuchi Ikikaeru — or “soil comes back to life” […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Ministry of Health has launched an investigation into the irregularities at COVID vaccination program at Unawatuwa in Galle, following the exposé by Ada Derana ‘Ukussa’ on Monday (June 07). State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals, Prof. Channa Jayasumana brought the matter to attention during the parliamentary session convened earlier today […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka on Tuesday (June 08) registered 54 more victims of COVID-19, marking the highest number of deaths recorded in a single day. The latest fatalities have moved the country’s death toll to 1,843, the, the Department of Government Information said. The Department of Government Information stated that 15 of the victims had […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 514 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,637. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 210,661. As many as 178,259 recoveries and 1,789 deaths […]