Shenali D Waduge On 21stApril 2019 exactly a decade after the defeat of LTTE terrorists, 8 Muslim suicide bombers blew themselves up in 3 churches, 3 hotels & 1 guest house after making a recorded pledge. This was the first Islamic suicide bombing in Sri Lanka. Was it because Zaharan & Co hated these churches […]

Shenali D Waduge Maaveerar Naal or Great Heroes Day has been commemorated since 27 November 1989 with a Heroes Week held annually from 21stending 26thNovember (Prabakaran’s birthday). It is a LTTE event to remember every LTTE combatant killed. While the LTTE propagandists shed crocodile tears to the world that the GoSL denies them to commemorate […]

MD Pathik Hasan Pakistan’s Gwadar port has brought a new dream for the region. This port is not only for Pakistan but also all regional states. Chinese Investment has accelerated the pace of aspirations in this regard. China’s multibillion dollar project “CPEC’ is linked with Gwadar port. This port creates some sort of possibilities and […]

තිසර සමල් – එප්පාවල ජාතික ඉතිරි කිරීමේ බැංකුවේ 50 වැනි සංවත්සරයට සමගාමීව එප්පාවල ජාතික ඉතිරි කිරීමේ බැංකු ශාඛාව මගින් එප්පාවල රජයේ රෝහල වෙත පුටු පරිත්‍යාග කිරීම අද (22) සිදු කෙරිණි. ජාතික ඉතිරි කිරීමේ බැංකුවේ වයඹ ප්‍රාදේශීය කළමණාකාර ඩෙනිස් ඔලබොඩුව මහතාගේ ප්‍රදානත්වයෙන් මෙම සත්කාරය සිදු කරණු ලැබීය. එප්පාවල ප්‍රාදේශීය රෝහලේ සායන කටයුතු වලට පැමිණෙන ගැබිණි මවුවරුන් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය දෙදහස් විස්ස අධ්‍යන පොදු සහතික පත්‍ර සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ විභාගයෙන් විශිෂ්ට සාමාර්ථ නවයක් ලබාගනිමින් දිවයිනේ ඉහළම ප්‍රතිඵල ලබාගත් ශිෂ්‍ය ශිෂ්‍යාවන් පස් දෙනා සහ ඉතිහාසයේ පළමු වතාවට විශිෂ්ට සාමාර්ථ 9ක් ලබාගත් දෘශ්‍ය ආබාධ සහිත දරුවන් දෙදෙනෙකු අද (22) දින පාර්ලිමේන්තු පරිශ්‍රයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමුවූහ. මෙසේ තමන් හමුවීමට පැමිණි අ.පො.ස සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති කුමාර කාශ්‍යප මාතාව කරණ කොටගෙන නිග්‍රෝධ ජාතකය දේශනාකර, අප මහ බුදුරජාණන්වහන්සේ අනුදැන වදාළ අත‍්තා හි අත‍්තනො නාථො, කො හි නාථො පරො සියා” නම් ගාථාවෙහි අර්ථය අපි සැවොම දනිමු. තමන්ට තමා ම පිහිට වන්නේ ය. තමා හැර අන් කවරෙක් තමන් හට පිහිටවන්නේ ද?” යනු එහි අර්ථයයි. අන්‍යයන් මත යැපීම බෞද්ධයන් වන අප හට […]

High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda visited the headquarters of the global Information Technology giant HCL Technologies in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The 50-acre campus houses 25,000 employees. High Commissioner Moragoda’s visit to the HCL Technologies headquarters in Noida came just days ahead of the first anniversary […]

Emeritus Professor Nimal Gunatilleke,  University of Peradeniya Courtesy The Island Natural forests provide a variety of services that include forest products of utility value, water regulation, biodiversity and soil conservation, climate amelioration and a range of socio-cultural benefits to forest-dependent people. In good governance of natural resources such as that of forests, transparency and inclusiveness […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Declaring that Sri Lanka was experiencing the worst ever post-independence economic crisis, Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday said Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s forthcoming visit to New Delhi might give the country an opportunity to explore ways and means of overcoming the overwhelming challenges. Prof. Peiris, who is also […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Following the success of last year’s #BudgetCheck, FactCheck.lk by Verité Research carried out live fact checking on claims made by Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa in his 2022 Budget Speech on November 12, 2021.  The team fact checked a total of nine statements from the Budget Speech. Of these, four statements were […]

Courtesy Adaderana There is no change in the government policy.” President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stressed that the country’s agriculture policy is only for a green agriculture that focuses on the sole use of organic fertilizers. President Rajapaksa said that the government will only distribute organic fertilizer and provide subsidies only for organic farming, the PMD reported.  […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 197 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today, increasing the daily count of new cases to 735.  Sri Lanka’s tally of Covid-19 cases reported increases to 557,361 with this while over 16,000 infected patients are currently undergoing treatment. The Director General of Health Services […]

Courtesy Adaderana Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has instructed the Secretary of the ministry to call for an explanation from the Registrar of Pesticides regarding the gazette issued revoking a previous gazette imposing a ban on the use and sale of Glyphosate and four other agrochemicals in several areas.  An Extraordinary Gazette notification had been published […]

Courtesy Hiru News Control of Pesticides act that was issued prohibiting the use, sale of Glyphosate, Propanil, Carbary1, Cholopyrifos & Carbofuran in December 22, 2014 has been revoked today by the Registrar of Pesticides through an Extraordinary Gazette.

Courtesy Hiru News Control of Pesticides act that was issued prohibiting the use, sale of Glyphosate, Propanil, Carbary1, Cholopyrifos & Carbofuran in December 22, 2014 has been revoked today by the Registrar of Pesticides through an Extraordinary Gazette