By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando CEYLON TODAY | FOCUS Early last Christmas morning following the teachings of Jesus Christ’s, of kindness, forbearance, and tolerance, the writer accompanied by two friends headed towards Naththandiya. The coconut plantations on either side of the road made the drive down delightful watching. However, we found it strange the prices of coconut […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM SL has laid out a plan that is in the public domain , for paying it’s loan commitments for 2022, 500 million paid 18/1 and about 5 Billion mid 2022 and beyond . Instead of securing bridging loans from the IMF , they have secured short term bridging  loans and currency […]

Media Unit – ඌව පළාත් මුල් ළමාවිය සංවර්ධනය පිළිබද NVQ-4  පාඨමාලාවේ සමාරම්භක උත්සවය ඊයේ දින ඌව පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවර ඒ.ජේ.එම්. මුසම්මිල් මැතිතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඌව පළාත් සභා ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී පැවැත්විය. ඌව පළාත් අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශයේ අධීක්ෂණයෙන්, ඌව පළාත් මුල් ළමාවිය සංවර්ධන අධිකාරියේ මෙහෙයවීමෙන් හා යුරෝපානු සංගමය (EU) මුදල් අනුග්‍රහය ඇතිව, එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන (UNDP) ආයතනයේ පළාත් පාලන ආයතන […]

HELPLANKA PRESS RELEASE Helplanka, a UK Registered charity, has teamed up with Dimuthu Foundation of Pambala Kakkapalliya, Sri Lanka, kick starting their collaboration with a very special event to commemorate the 90th birthday of Dhanasena Siriwardene Goonetillake, who was born and lived in Kakkapalliya and who is the father of Sampath Goonetillake ( Sam)  the […]

by Sanath Nanayakkare Courtesy The Island From Left: Manjula Perera, Wind Power Developers Association Secretary, Thusitha Peiris, Small Hydro Power Developers Association President, Lasith Wimalasena, Ground Mounted Solar Developers Association President, Chamil Silva, Bio Energy Developers Association President, Kushan Jayasuriya, Solar Industries Association President. In the backdrop of dwindling foreign currency reserves and capacity shortages, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A Chinese company embroiled in a dispute with Sri Lanka over organic fertilizer, has made a formal complaint with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Qingdao Seawin Biological Group Co., Ltd, in an email to Daily Mirror sent through a local agent, said that the complaint was made […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s central bank governor told CNBC that the South Asian nation doesn’t need an economic lifeline from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Well, we don’t need relief if we have an alternative strategy,” Ajith Nivard Cabraal said on CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia” on Monday. He claimed Sri Lanka is able to finance […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Railway Trade Union Alliance has highlighted a 2018 purchase of 160 Indian railway carriages at a cost of over USD 80 million that now lie in various states of corrosion and disuse. They also claimed that the carriages cannot be run on the upcountry line due to their 65-foot length, prompting a […]

Courtesy Adaderana

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 927 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 26).  This figure includes 05 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas.  Sri Lanka’s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thereby climbed to 604,581. With this, the number of virus-infected people […]

Courtesy Hiru News A lawyer by the name of B.A.W. Abeywardena has sent a letter to all Members of Parliament, including the President and the Speaker, requesting permission from Parliament to end his life. He has stated that he arrived at such a decision following his dismissal from the Land Reforms Commission where he worked […]

වෛද්‍ය නීතිඥ පාලිත බණ්ඩාර සුබසිංහM.B.B.S (PERADENIYA), LL.B (O.U.S.L),වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරි, ජාතික රෝහල මහනුවර පසුගිය සතියේ දිනයකි. වේලාව රාත්‍රී 9.30 ට පමණ වන්නට ඇත. පොද වැස්සකි. මම මහනුවර දළදා මාළිගාව ඉදිරිපිට ඇති තෝසෙ කඩයක් ඉදිරිපිට මගේ ඇනවුම පිළියෙළ කරන තුරු වාහනය තුළට රැඳී සිටියෙමි.ඉදිරිපස වීදුරුවෙන් තෝසේ කඩය ඉදිරිපිට රැජණ හෝටලය අසලින් දිවෙන පදිකවේදිකාව පැහැදිලිව පෙනේ. පැවති සිහින් […]