Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 1,093 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 4,483. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 407,768. As many as 348,930 recoveries and 7,948 deaths […]

Courtesy Adaderana The series of bomb attacks on Easter Sunday in 2019 was not an isolated criminal activity orchestrated by Zahran Hashim and his group within a short period of time, Inspector-General of Police C.D. Wickramaratne said today (August 25). Delivering a special statement on the progress of the investigations into the incident, the IGP […]

WION The so-called Islamic State may be on the retreat in Iraq and Syria but it would be premature to predict the demise of its ideology in India.

MD Pathik Hasan, The government has taken initiative to export 21 products from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka with duty free facility. At the same time, Bangladesh-Sri Lanka has started work to expand bilateral trade, increase investment, and develop the shipping and tourism industries. Ready-made garments, medicines, jute and jute products, ceramics, juices, food products, vegetables, […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් අප කුඩා කල සිට දහම් පාසලේ දී පවා උගත් ධම්මපදය මෙයට ඉතා සුදුසු සේ සලකමි. අප උගත් ධම්මපදයේ පාලි ගාථා 423 කි. බුදුන්වහන්සේ එක් සූත‍්‍රයක් ලෙස දේශනා කොට නැත. අවස්ථා තුන්සියයකදී පමණ දේශනා කරන ලද, පැවිදි ගිහි දෙපිරිසට ම අදාල මේ ගාථා පළමු සංගායනාවේ දී ‘ධම්මපද’ නමින් කාණ්ඩයක් ලෙස […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් සිහල අටුවා මාගධී භාෂාවට පෙරළයි දඹදිව ගයාවේ දී රේවත මහ ථෙරුන්ගෙන් ති‍්‍රපිටකය හදාරා දැනුම සම්පූර්ණ කරගැනීම සඳහා ලංකාවේ පමණක් තිබූ මිහිඳු මාහිමියන් විසින් සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් කරන ලද සිහල අටුවා හදාරා ලෝවැඩ පිණිස මාගධී භාෂාවට පෙරළීම සඳහා බුද්ධඝෝෂ හිමියන් පැමිණි බව සහ යෝග්‍යතා පරීක්‍ෂණයෙන් සමත් වූ පසුව ‘සියලූ සිංහල අටුවා […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ‘පූජනීය දළදා සංස්කෘතිය‘ අලි කුලප්පුවීමේ දේශපාලනය දළදා පෙරහැර හා ලංකා දේශපාලන අතර දැවැන්ත සම්බන්ධයක් තිබේ. ‘පූජනීය දළදා සංස්කෘතිය‘ දාහතරවන කලාපයට පෙරවදනක් ලියන්නට මම දළදා සංස්කෘතියේ දේශපාලනය අධ්‍යයනය කළෙමි. දළදා සංස්කෘතියේ දේශපාලන කතාව කියන්නට දළදා හාමුරුවන්ගෙන් අවසරයි!   ඇත්තු කුලප්පු හා මැතිවරණ දේශපාලනය   මහ­නු­වර දළදා පෙර­හැරේ අලි කුලප්පුවීමකින් 1959 අගෝස්තු 19 දින […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Sri Lankans have been given the impression that Sri Lanka is under the HRC. That is incorrect. Sri Lanka‘s connection to the UNHRC comes through Sri Lanka‘s membership of the UN. Sri Lanka became a member state of the UN in 1955 and since then is entitled to participate in all General Assembly […]

  KAMALIKA PIERIS The Human Rights Council of the UN is, as its name indicates, the UN body which deals with human rights. However, HRC has no power over UN member countries.  It cannot impose sanctions, but it can pass resolutions on a country, on majority vote, whether that country likes it or not. The […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් මෑත කාලයක සිට සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජනයා අතර මාගධී භාෂාව සහ පාලි භාෂාව ගැන අපූරු අදහසක් මතු කොට ඇත. ඒ අදහස නම්, බුදුන්වහන්සේ ධර්ම දේශනා කළේ මාගධී භාෂාවෙන් මිස පාලි භාෂාවෙන් නොවේ. මෙයින් මාගධී සහ පාලි භාෂා වෙන් වෙන් වූ භාෂා දෙකක් බව ප‍්‍රකාශිතව හඟවයි. මේ භාෂා එකක් ද? නැත්නම් […]

by Rathindra Kuruvita Courtesy The Island The fact that those aged over 60 had not been fully vaccinated by now reflected a flaw in the inoculation programme, Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) Secretary, Dr. Senal Fernando said. The GMOA Secretary said that the Epidemiology Unit should present statistics on senior citizens who had been vaccinated. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror At the onset of the pandemic everybody focused on the vaccine to avoid being infected. But recently the President himself said arrangements should be made to deliver indigenous medicine to the doorstep Medication differs from patient to patient as we focus on the patient and not necessarily the disease We are also educating […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to release an additional financing of USD 125 million to Sri Lanka under ‘Health System Enhancing Project’ to facilitate the management of soaring positive cases due to COVID-19 circumstances. The Government Information Department stated that the Cabinet of Ministers granted the approval for the proposal furnished […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s coronavirus fatality count shot past the 7,500th mark as the Director-General of Health Services confirmed another 190 deaths reported yesterday (August 23). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 7,750. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Daily COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka exceeded 4,000 for the third consecutive day today (August 24) as 1,131 more people were tested positive for the virus. According to official data, 4,446 novel coronavirus infections in total were detected within the day. The Government Information Department stated that 4,427 of the latest cases […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Definitions I would be the last to use the words ‘nation’ and ‘race’ interchangeably in the modern Sri Lankan context as some appear to do nowadays. There was a time in the past when in most countries, the two words could be used as synonyms. Each state was formed by a […]

  KAMALIKA PIERIS Yahapalana government signed resolution 30/1 in September 2015, and then it signed resolution 34/1 in March 2017 and in November 2017 reiterated a “very firm” commitment to fully implement the resolution within two years.  The commitment was made by the Head of Delegation to the HRC’s Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, Harsha […]

  KAMALIKA PIERIS revised 24.8.21 The government of Sri Lanka defeated the LTTE in May 2009, and the Eelam War IV came to an end. Soon after, the separatist movement went into its next phase of attack, which was UN action against Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka was to be punished for defeating the LTTE and […]

Dr Tilak S. Fernando There is an intensive drive by the Government to vaccinate people, irrespective of the type of vaccines. The adverse after-effects following vaccination are increasingly becoming evident worldwide. There is established proof that by vaccination, besides other complications like allergy etc., the formation of unusual blood clots (thrombotic complications) is a deadly […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති අවවාදයට වඩා ආදර්ශය උතුම්” බව අප සැවොම පිළිගන්නා කරුණකි. මෙම ප්‍රවාදයෙන් යෝජිත ආර්ථික ක්‍රමය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ද ඒ ඇසුරින් අපේක්‍ෂිත ප්‍රතිඵල ලබාගැනීමට ද ආදර්ශයේ පාඩම උපකාරි වනු නිසැක ය. පෙර ලිපියෙන් සාකච්ඡාවට ලක් කළ ගිනි පුපුරු න්‍යාය” සමඟ ද මෙම කාර්යය බැඳී පවතී. යෝජිත ආර්ථික කටයුතු ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට තෝරාගනු ලබන නිශ්චිත ගම්මානය […]

Courtesy Outlook India The three-match series was supposed to start in Hambantota on September 3 but commercial flights have been suspended in Kabul The ODI series between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been moved to Pakistan from Sri Lanka due to logistical issues. (More Cricket News) The three-match series was supposed to start in Hambantota on […]

Courtesy Hiru News The distribution of Ayurvedic medicines to COVID patients receiving home-based medical treatments began today (23) in several districts. Meanwhile, Consultant Judicial Medical Officer ( Specialist in Forensic Medicine) Dr. Channa Perera stated that there is a possibility of using indigenous medicine to prevent complications caused by Covid infection. He added that Western […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Department of Prisons has decided to launch an inquiry into the incident where a prison hospital doctor had allegedly been threatened by MP Rishad Bathiudeen, who is currently under remand custody. The inquiry will be carried out under the supervision of an Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, the Prisons Media Spokesperson said. A […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former minister Rishad Bathiudeen has been named as the fifth suspect in the case pertaining to the death of a 16-year-old domestic worker at his residence.  Meanwhile the four suspects including the MP’s wife who were arrested following investigations into the teenage girl’s death have been further remanded until September 06. They were […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 194 coronavirus-related deaths for August 22, increasing the death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus to 7,560. According to the figures released by the Govt. Information Department, the deaths reported today include 91 males and 103 females. None of the victims are below […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 1,132 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 4,355. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 394,355. As many as 344,381 recoveries and 7,560 deaths […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has moved up to the 13th position in the rankings of the global COVID-19 fatalities that occur daily. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka on March 11, 2020, the highest daily count of new COVID-19 cases was recorded yesterday (August 22); that was with 4,304 new cases. […]

Henry Lahore The coalition is attempting to eliminate many race disparities Concerning COVID-19 They should consider distributing bottles of Vitamin D to their churches. The churches could hand out emergency packets of vitamin D The Vitamin D would be taken at the first sign of COVID-19 symptoms. This emergency Vitamin D appears to reduce the […]

MD Pathik Hasan Image source: Internet The whole world saw the Rohingya refugee’s influx towards Bangladesh in 2017. The Rohingya people have been displaced from their homeland (Rakhine in Myanmar) by the Myanmar military Junta regime. Then, Rohingyas take shelter in Cox’s bazar area in Bangladesh. Bangladesh gives them shelter temporarily based on humanitarian ground. […]