By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 30 (Ceylon Today): Sir Edwin Arnold, a 19 th., Century Indologist,  journalist, poet and author of the immensely popular Light of Asia on the life of the Buddha, campaigned hard, both singly and in collaboration with the Ceylonese monk Anagarika Dharmapala, to retrieve the ancient Buddhist shrine at Buddha Gaya from […]

Courtesy Adaderana A program to distribute Ayurvedic medicines free of charge to the homes of COVID-19 infected patients and quarantined persons in the Western Province was launched today (August 30). The program is organized by the Western Provincial Department of Ayurveda. The patients were also provided with the necessary medical advice. The program will continue […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal to increase the salaries of principals and teachers. The proposal was submitted by the Cabinet Sub-Committee appointed to resolve the salary anomalies of teachers and principals. The salary increment will come into effect under several stages from the next Budget.

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 216 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Sunday (August 29). This marks the highest number of COVID-19 deaths reported in one day. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 8,991. According to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 974 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 4,562. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 436,081. As many as 371,992 recoveries and 8,991 deaths […]

Written by Zulfick Farzan Courtesy News 1st) COLOMBO (News 1st); The breakwater of the ancient Parakrama Samudraya is being bulldozed for the construction of a walking path. Video obtained by News 1st showed that bulldozers were being used to shove the rocks of the breakwater into the Parakrama Samudraya to construct a new walking path […]

Text and Pix By Karunaratne Gamage Courtesy The Island Project suspended after protests The Maha Sangha on Friday took a stand against the possibe destruction of the bund of the historic Parakrama Samudra, endangered by the construction of a new walking path. Bhikkus from multiple temples across the Polonnaruwa District made their way to the […]

Luke Andrews Health Reporter For Mailonline Courtesy Daily Mail A new Covid variant which has been branded the ‘most mutated so far’ may already be extinct, it was claimed today. Concerns were raised that the mutant strain — dubbed C.1.2 — could be more infectious than other variants and better able to evade vaccines. But experts […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS The UN Security Council was approached, without success by the Tamil Separatist Movement to get the Eelam war stopped and Eelam declared. According to the UN Charter the only UN body that can discuss the Eelam war was the Security Council. This was clearly stated in article 7 of the UN Constitution.   […]

MD Pathik Hasan, Source: Tribune Express Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Sri Lanka on February 23 and 24 at the invitation of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. This is his first visit to Lanka after coming to power. He said, ‘I go to cricket after finishing my studies, and you (Mahinda Rajapaksa) travel […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දශක හයක්පුරා මෙරට පුවත්පත් කලාවට විශිෂ්ට සේවයක් ඉටුකළ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්‍යවේදී එල්මෝ ගුණරත්න මහතාගේ  හදිසි අභාවය අසා මම බලවත් ශෝකයට පත්වූයෙමි. මාධ්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ බහුශ්‍රැතයෙකු වන එල්මෝ ගුණරත්න මහතා සම්මානනීය ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්‍යවේදියෙකි. එල්මෝ ගුණරත්න මහතා නීති ශිෂ්‍යයෙක්ව සිටිය දී එය පසෙකලා 1954 දී ජනමාධ්‍යවේදියෙකු ලෙස  සිය වෘත්තීය ජීවිතය ආරම්භ […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් දකුණු පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර   රෝගී සංඛ්‍යාවෙන් 50.5% ක් සඟවලා.  කෝවිඩ් දත්ත හපුතලේ කන්ද බහිනකොට වාශ්ප වෙනවාද? වසංගත රෝග ඒකකය ඌව පලාතේ කෝවිඩ් රෝගීන් ගේ සංඛ්‍යාව 50% කින් කපා දමා වාර්තා ලියා ඇත. පට්ටපල් බොරු දත්ත සහ සංඛ්‍යා මත පදනම්ව සම්පත් බෙදාදීම හේතුවෙන් ඌවේ සෞඛ්‍ය කාර්ය මණ්ඩල ඖෂධ හා උපකරණ හිඟයකට මුහුණ […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 29 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan Airlines is offering a ‘Buy One Get One Free’ ticket offer to Indian tourists travelling to Sri Lanka. The offer is only valid for Indian nationals travelling on a tourist visa. Exciting offer from SriLankan Airlines! Buy One Get One Free from #India to #SriLanka. Offer […]

Courtesy The New Indian Express Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday expressed his regret in the Assembly that he called the camp for Sri Lankan Tamils a ‘refugee camp’ when he announced the welfare package for them. A child at a camp for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees near Vellore | S dineshBy Express News Service CHENNAI: Chief […]

M.R. Narayan Swamy Courtesy The Wire But even after their death, the Tigers seem to have the ability to keep tormenting Sri Lanka’s Tamils. Ever since the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was militarily crushed in May 2009, it has been asked repeatedly: Can the group be resurrected by Sri Lankan Tamils? I insisted […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror About 34 children have been infected with the post-covid syndrome called Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children’ so far in Sri Lanka and five such children were receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of the Lady Ridgeway Hospital at present, a medical specialist said today. Consultant in charge of the Intensive […]

Courtesy Adaderana Over seven million people in Sri Lanka have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccination as of yesterday (August 28), Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella tweeted. Accordingly, a total of 7,042,418 people have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus so far. Minister Rambukwella, in his tweet, has further said that Sri Lanka is […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi says that SriLankan Airlines will operate 4 weekly flights to Chennai, 4 to Mumbai and one to Bangalore under its new schedule, and is expected to introduce significant frequency enhancements after the country opened it borders to India. Under the new schedules, the airline will be resuming […]

Courtesy Adaderana Daily COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka surpassed 4,000 for the eighth consecutive day today (August 29) as 914 more people were tested positive for the virus. According to official data, 4,612 novel coronavirus infections in total were detected within the day and they have been associated with the New Year Cluster. The […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka soared yet again as 192 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Saturday (August 29). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 8,775. According to the […]

රැල්ෆ් නාරංපනාව අද පොලොන්නරුවේ ඇති පරක්‍රම සමුද්‍රය අරක්ශාකරන රලපනාව ගලවා ඒ වෙනුවට කොක්‍රීට්වලින් සෑදු මංතිරුවක් සෑදීමට රජය ගෙන ඇති තීරනයට විරුද්ධව බලවත් කතාබහක් සමාජය තුල ඇතිවෙමින් පවතී.බොහෝ දෙනෙක් රලපනාව ගැන කතාකරත් මේ ගැන හරි දැනීමක් නොමැතිබවක් සමාජ මාද්‍ය ඔස්සේ ඇතිවන කතිකා වලින් පෙනී යයි. රජරට වැව් සංකීර්නය ශ්‍රී ලංකා‍වේ වාරි ඉතිහාසය ක්‍රි.පූ. 6 වෙනි සියවස තරම් […]

Chanaka Bandarage News from Polonnaruwa states that a jogging track is to be built on the bund of the Great Tank (Wewa) – Parakrama Samudraya. Parakrama Samudraya is a gigantic tank (‘samudra’ means large as a sea).  Its archeological value is unspeakable/unmeasurable.  Parakrama Samudraya was built by Parakramabahu the Great, more than 1,500 years ago.  […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The United Nations delegated the subject of ‘war’ to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The UN Charter authorizes the Security Council to investigate any situation threatening international peace and take suitable action. UNSC is the only UN agency whose decisions Member states are obliged to follow. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) […]

Manusha Media රට තබන ලෙසට ඉල්ලීම් කරන්නේ පාපිෂ්ඨ සාහසික යැයි සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමැතිවරයා පවසන බවත්, ඒ අනුව මහානායක හාමුරුවෝත් පාපිෂ්ඨ සාහසික බලවේගයක්දැයි ඇමැතිවරයාගෙන් ප‍්‍රශ්ණ කරන බවත්, සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ මාධ්‍ය ප‍්‍රකාශක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී මනුෂ නානායක්කාර පැවසුවේය. මුදල් රාජ්‍ය ඇමැතිවරයා රටේ ආර්ථිකය ගැන සිතා රට විවෘත කළ යුතු යැයි පැවසුවත්, ජනතාව මළ සොහොන් බිමක්වූ විට ආර්ථිකයෙන් ඇති […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Please find below James Pilger’s,   The great Game of Smashing Nations”. This is how the foundations were laid to todays misery of Afghanistan  The unprincipled  , selfish, devoid of any moral qualms , designs that US and their western allies had then are now being duplicated  and being implemented in […]

By Rohana R. Wasala (continued from August 23, 2021) Sri Lanka and supranationalism Every Sri Lankan government since independence has acted on the tacit understanding that, while remaining politically independent of India without being overawed by its size or strength, Sri Lanka should maintain friendly relations with its big northern neighbour at all times. But […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS UN Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report on Sri Lanka in January 2021. https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/LK/Sri_LankaReportJan2021.docx. Sri Lanka   rejected this report.   Tamara Kunanayagam commented on the report in a television interview. http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2021/02/14/sri-lanka-cannot-compromise-at-the-unhrc-sessions/ Tamara said that this report has dangerous concepts in it. It is an attempt at precedent setting, to change the very […]

John Pilger: Courtesy The Consortium News More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the U.S., Britain and their allies” destroyed. As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their allies” destroyed. In 1978, […]

තිසර සමල්- අනුරාධපුර තෝඩාමඩුව එල්ලංගා පද්ධතියට අයත් අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ වැව් 27 ක් ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණය කිරීම සමාරම්භ කෙරෙමින් සිදු වන තෝඩාමඩුව මහ වැව ප්‍රථිසංස්කරණය කිරීම රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ නිරීක්ෂණයට ලක් විය. අතිගරු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන්ගේ සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම ප්‍රථිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශනය⁣ට අනුව කෘෂිකාර්මික කටයුතු සදහා අවශ්‍ය ජලය සපයා ගැනීම සදහා තෝඩාමඩුව එල්ලංගා පද්ධතිය⁣ට අයත් වැව් ප්‍රථිසංස්කරණය […]