Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Development Coordination and Supervision, State Ministry of Digital Technology and Enterprise Development. The State Minister of Digital Technology and Enterprise Development Hon. Namal Rajapaksa delivered the keynote address on the theme “Digital Inclusion and Transformation in South Asia” at a virtual event that took place on Friday, Aug. […]

Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Bangkok, Thailand The Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Bangkok, Thailand in collaboration with Sri Dalada Maligawa, Sri Lanka Tourism & Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya University (MCU) in Thailand presented the very first live telecast of Sri Lanka’s most historic and colourful cultural event Esala Perahera Randoli in Sri Lanka on MCU TV Channel in Thai Language […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 27 (NewsWire) – The decision to lift the nationwide lockdown on Monday (30) with gradual relaxation afterwards could contribute to an eventual Covid-19-related death toll of 16,700 in Sri Lanka, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has projected. According to The Morning Newspaper, a WHO-backed study has revealed that it will also […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardane has tested positive for Covid-19, becoming the ninth Member of Parliament to be tested Covid-19 positive within this month, the minister confirmed.  

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has extended the current island-wide quarantine curfew orders by a week, in a bid to curb the soaring COVID-19 figures in the country prompted by the rapid spread of the Delta variant. Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella tweeted that the extended quarantine curfew orders are effective until 4.00 am on the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong has called on Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Thursday (Aug. 26). During the meeting held at the Speaker’s official residence, the Chinese Ambassador reiterated that the Chinese Government would continue to extend its full support to the Government of Sri Lanka for the control […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka soared yet again as a record high of 214 new fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Thursday (August 26). This is the highest number of deaths reported within a day since the beginning of the pandemic […]

Courtesy Adaderana Daily COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka exceeded 4,000 for the sixth consecutive day today (August 27) as 779 more people were tested positive for the virus. According to official data, 4,591 novel coronavirus infections in total were detected within the day. The Government Information Department stated that 4,561 of the latest cases […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale The world needs an Emperor with full clothing to counter the increasing stridency of China. Unfortunately, the US has been progressively shedding its clothes beginning perhaps with the defeat in Vietnam. The many military incursions that followed, all basically abject failures in improving the lives of the people of the countries so […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The writer is confident that readers may have seen the picture of ‘praying hands’ umpteen times, mainly hung on Christian homes, but wonders how the story originated! As narrated initially by Ranjit Seneviratne, some time ago, the story was about a family in Nuremberg, West Germany, in the fifteenth century. […]

Mansur Shaheen  Courtesy The Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo A large majority of COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized during last winter’s surge still have not fully recovered, a new study finds. Researchers from the University of Michigan analyzed 253 patients who were hospitalized towards the end of fall 2020 and winter 2021. Nearly 85 percent of […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Since the election of Mr.Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka at the end of 2019, people expected from him he will launch Sri Lanka in an era of new policy implementation. People expected the eminence of the political administration compared to previous presidents. The excellent feature of his administration is […]

MD Pathik Hasan Image source: Internet Bangladesh and Bhutan  are situated in South Asia geographically. They share a common regional platform such as BIMTEC, SAARC. There are some harmonies between Bangladesh and Bhutan in sphere of mutual interest, shared history, culture. On December 6, 1971, Bhutan and India became the first countries to recognize the […]

Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Development Coordination and Supervision,State Ministry of Digital Technology and Enterprise Development. Minister Namal Rajapaksa to Deliver Keynote Address on “Digital Inclusion and Transformation in South Asia” The State Minister of Digital Technology and Enterprise Development Hon. Namal Rajapaksa will be delivering the keynote address on the theme “Digital […]

MD Pathik Hasan Bangladesh and Nepal  are situated in South Asia geographically. They share a common regional platform such as BIMTEC, SAARC. There are some harmonies between Bangladesh and Bhutan in sphere of mutual interest, shared history, culture. Nepal recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state in 1971. Then Bangladesh Built up ties with Nepal. The […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, August 26 (TOI) – Sri Lanka has reopened for fully vaccinated tourists from India — including those who have got Covaxin— SriLankan Airlines’ head of worldwide sales and distribution, Dimuthu Tennakoon, told TOI on Tuesday. Also, there is no requirement for quarantine for travellers who test Covid negative on arrival in the Emerald Island. Sri Lanka […]

Courtesy ABC News Australian quarantine is nursing a sacred sapling from a Sri Lankan bohdi tree that can be directly linked back to Buddha more than 2,300 years ago. Key points: Sapling from the famous bodhi tree in Sri Lanka is currently in Australian quarantine waiting to be planted in Bendigo The specimen is a […]

BY GIOVANNI GAETANI • Courtesy The Humanist.com Humanists, atheists, and non-religious people in Sri Lanka face discrimination and persecution every day, especially if they come from a Muslim background. Even though Sri Lanka is not a Muslim country (the majority of the population is Buddhist), the strong presence of Islamic militants, fundamentalists, and extremists is still very […]

Courtesy Adaderana Special Task Force (STF) personnel have found a large haul of equipment used for high-power explosives in the Matara and Gandara police areas. The raids had been carried out based on intelligence received by the STF Special Operations Unit. A stock of ammonium nitrate, gelatine sticks, service threads, and other items have been […]

Courtesy Adaderana All Sri Lankans over the age of 18 years will be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus before the end of November, Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella says. The vaccination of citizens over the age of 30 is scheduled to be completed by mid-September, the Minister said. Minister Rambukwella mentioned this during a […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reports that another 1,080 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases to 4,602. The new cases reported includes five returnees from overseas and 1,075 persons associated with the ‘New Year Covid-19 cluster’. This increases the total number of coronavirus cases confirmed in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed 209 Covid-19 related deaths for yesterday (August 25), marking the first time daily Covid-19 deaths have breached 200 since the start of the pandemic.  Meanwhile the death toll due to the virus pandemic in the country has also crossed the 8,000-mark, as the virus continues […]

By Michelle Roberts  Health editor, BBC News online Researchers say they are seeing some waning of protection against Covid infections in double-jabbed people. The real-world study includes data on positive Covid PCR test results between May and July 2021 among more than a million people who had received two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine. […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, Former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum. Ambassadors’ Forum will be holding an international Webinar in London, on 5th September 2021 based on two books published by them recently.  The two books are The Geneva Crisis: The Way Forward and the Port City Colombo and International Financial Centre. Altogether, […]

සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න සෙන්කඩගල සිංහ ද්වාරයේ සිට (වසර ගණනාවක් කිසිම බාධාවකින් තොරව ඇසුණු පිරිත ඔන්ලයින් මාරයා නවත්වන්න ඉල්ලයි !!!) පුංචි පැනයක් ? : කෝකද කලින් අවේ ? මාර්ගගත අධ්‍යාපනය ඊයේ පෙරේද අපේ රට ආ දෙයකි පිරිත එදා සිට? මිනිසා ලබාගත යුතු උත්තරිත ශකිතින් රාශියක් මේ විශ්වය තුල පවතී ඒ දේවත්වයේ සිට බුදු […]

මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන 1) එන්නත ලබා ගන්නා අයගේ නම 2) එන්නත ලබා දුන් දිනය 3) එන්නත ලබා දුන් ස්ථානය 4) ලබා දුන් එන්නතේ නම 5) ලබා දුන් එන්නත් ප්‍රමාණය 6) ඉදිරි එන්නත් විදීමට නියමිත දිනය / දින 7) එන්නත මගින් ආරක්ෂාව සපයන කාල සීමාව 8 ) එන්නත මගින් […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ඔබවහන්සේට ගුරු ගැටලුව විසදීමට අරයුම්කලානම් ? අපි මිනිසුන් නෙමෙයි.ඒ නිසා අපි හිතන විදිය වෙනස්. ඒ වගේම අපි ගැටළු විසදන විදියත් වෙනස්. දැන් ඔබ අපෙන් විමසන්නේ ඔබ රටේ මේ දිනවල කතා කරන ගුරු ගැටලුව විසදීම සම්බන්ධවයි. දැන් බලන්න! ආසන්න වශයෙන්, ගුරුවරු 2,50,000 ඉන්නවා. ඒ අය රටට ආදායමක් ගෙනදෙන අය නෙමෙයි. වියදමක් විතරයි. දැන් […]

By A. Abdul Aziz. (The Gist of the Address by the Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community the Fifth Khalifah (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered for the Ahmadi Ladies, on UK Convention 2019 – the gist of which as below) In the beginning, Ahmadiyya Supreme Head recited the verse of the Holy Qur’an […]

Fibre2Fashion News Desk Saudi Arabia is looking forward to more trading partners as it aims at increasing non-oil exports share in its gross domestic product (GDP). The kingdom is reportedly resuming free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with 11 countries: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, China, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, the Philippines and the United […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 198 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Tuesday (August 24). This marks the tenth consecutive day that the daily count of COVID-19 deaths surpassed 100. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 7,948. […]