Courtesy Sputnik Last December, hundreds of Islamists lynched and set fire to the body of a Sri Lankan factory manager in Pakistan’s Sialkot district after he removed stickers of an extreme right-wing party featuring Quranic verses from factory machinery. Prime Minister Imran Khan had called the incident a “day of shame for Pakistan.”After Punjab police […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Mohini is an old popular ghost story. Apparently, she convinces men who are on the road at odd times to hold her baby until she adjusts her wraparound cloth. However, the minute the man picks the baby Mohini transforms into a fearsome monster. The story is so thrilling with […]

Courtesy Adaderana Solar Universe in Vavunathivu adds 10MW; Hiruras Power in Mannar 15MW 3Q Group consolidated revenue LKR 3.6 Bn; bottom line increase of 4% YoY Hydro power revenue up by 25%; solar has growth of 22% WindForce PLC, the largest renewable energy developer in Sri Lanka which released its 3Q results for 9 months […]

Courtesy Adaderana In an interview to The Indian Express, Sri Lanka’s foreign minister G L Peiris said India and Sri Lanka had reached a high point in their relations, and that concerns about the Chinese presence in his country had been consigned to the past”.  Peiris, who was in Delhi from February 6-8, said the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Maithripala Sirisena says that despite 12 years passing since the end of the conflict, Sri Lanka has still not found a firm power-sharing mechanism or fulfilled total reconciliation as expected by international standards. He said this while delivering the keynote address at the 2022 World Summit for Peace on the Korean […]

Courtesy Adaderana Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa is expected to visit India once again within the next two weeks to finalize the agreements on the financial assistance extended by the neighboring nation.  Speaking to reporters in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said that the Finance Minister’s recent visit to India for talks was […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 31 coronavirus related deaths for February 12, pushing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 15,808. The deaths reported today include 20 males and 11 female patients while two of the victims are below the age of 30 years. Eight of the […]

Mahinda Gunasekera Toronto, Canada Honourable Minister, This appears to be a politically spun web to make the whistle blower a suspect in a clear case of wrong doing by the corrupt officials and politicians in charge of the operations at the Lanka Sathosa by cooking up some false allegations against Mr. Thushan Gunawardena, former Executive […]

Jayantha Liyanage, General Secretary – Sinhaladeepa Jathika Peramuna I refer to the article that appeared in the Island Newspaper dated 08.02.2022 titled First step cannot be the last especially if reversed at the start”, by Dr. Jehan Perera from the National Peace Council (NPC) states the following.  Leonard Wolf, the British civil servant, who wrote” […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග විරාගය නවකතාව සිංහල සාහිත්‍යයේ හැරවුම් ලක්‍ෂයක්ලෙස සැලකිය හැකිය  මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ, විරාගයේ අරවින්දගේ චරිතය ඔහුගේ අභ්‍යන්තර අධ්‍යාත්මය ගැඹුරට හාරමින් සජීවී ලෙස නිරූපණය කරයි. අරවින්ද ගේ හැඟීම්, සවිඥානික සහ අවිඥානික මනෝවිද්‍යාත්මක ගැටුම් කතුවරයා විසින් සාහිත්‍ය ශෛලියකින් විස්තර කරයි. විරාගය සිංහල සාහිත්‍යයේ ප්‍රථම සහ හොඳම මනෝවිද්‍යාත්මක නවකතාවලින් එකක් ලෙස සැලකිය හැකිය. මානව චරිත විනිවිද […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති යම් ආරවුලක්, ව්‍යාකූල තත්ත්වයක්, වරදක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් විනිශ්චය ලබාදීමට අධිකරණවල පිහිට පැතීම අතීතයේ සිට ම සිදුවිය. ත්‍රිපිටකය තුළින් ද අධිකරණ ක්‍රම පිළිබඳ කරුණු දැනගත හැකි ය. විනය පිටකයේ චුල්ලවග්ග පාළියෙන් අධිකරණ වර්ග සතරක් පිළිබඳව විස්තර දක්වා තිබේ. විවාදාධිකරණය, අනුවාදාධිකරණය, ආපත්‍යධිකරණය, කාත්‍යාධිකරණ යනු එම අධිකරණ වර්ග සතරයි. එම අධිකරණ මූලික වශයෙන් අදාළවන්නේ භික්‍ෂූන්වහන්සේලාගේ විනයට […]

Written by Nirupama Subramanian Courtesy The Indian Express Peiris said the fishermen’s issue – Indian fishermen trespassing in Sri Lankan waters and getting arrested – was now a serious” flashpoint in ties with India. Sri Lanka’s foreign minister G L Peiris with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. (PTI/File) In an interview to The Indian Express, Sri Lanka’s […]

By Dr D. Chandraratna Courtesy The Island Issuing a statement to the media Mr Mahanama has urged the airport authorities to take steps to mitigate inconvenience to passengers in the future. According to his word our ex-cricketer has taken two out of the three vaccines in the UK. In the media statement he has released, […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island Striking health sector trade unions yesterday (11) declared that they wouldn’t call off their trade union action in spite of a Court ruling issued the previous day. Top spokesperson for the trade union grouping Government Nursing Officers Association (GNOA) head Saman Rathnapriya emphasised that they hadn’t been informed of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 1,162 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 626,966.  According to official figures, 594,738 positive cases have recovered. Following the […]

Hiru News

S. Akurugoda A leading news item appeared in the Divaina dated 08 February 2022, under the title (translated to English) The people must stand up against strikes – Dr Rukshan Bellana” has quite rightly exposed the hidden agenda of the strikes are being carried out by some trade unions affiliated to political parties (https://divaina.lk/ මේ-වර්ජනවලට-එරෙහිව-ජනතාව/) […]

Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. Michigan State University The Editorial of The Island tells it all: The challenge before us is to retrace our steps, figure out where we took wrong turns, and forge ahead in the right direction as many other nations have already done. Easier said than done, but there seems to be no other […]

Nandita Roy Bangladesh For a long period of time, Bangladesh has been striving to ensure food security at home by planning to shop farmland abroad. Recently, South Sudan, an African country, has expressed interest in leasing a vast area of its fallow land to Bangladesh in order to collaborate in agricultural production, processing, and marketing […]

The Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Bangkok, Thailand Commemorating 74th Anniversary of Sri Lanka’s Independence, Ambassador Chaminda Colonne highlights citizens’ national responsibility to work together to build motherland On 04th February, 2022, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Kingdom of Thailand and Permanent Representative to UNESCAP, C.A.Chaminda I. Colonne, Spouse  and Embassy staff […]

නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය Tantri Trailers සමාගම සහ නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන ශ්‍රී ලංකා වෘත්තීය පුහුණු අධිකාරිය (VTA) සමඟ අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කිරීම රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මැතිණියගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් 10 දින සිදු කෙරිණ. Tantri Trailers සමාගම විසින් ට්‍ර‍ෙලර්, ඉදිකිරීම් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය සමස්ත ලංකා ශාසනාරක්ෂක මණ්ඩලයේ දැනට පවතින ගැටලු විසඳීමට කටයුතු කරන්නැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ (10) පස්වරුවේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ලේකම්තුමා සහ බුද්ධශාසන ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම්තුමා ඇතුළු නිලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැති සමස්ත ලංකා ශාසනාරක්ෂක මණ්ඩලයේ සාකච්ඡාවේ දී ඉදිරිපත්වූ කරුණු සැළකිල්ලට ගනිමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මෙම උපදෙස් ලබා දුන්නේය. නාගදීප රජමහා […]

By R.M. Samanmalee Swarnalatha Courtesy Eurasiareview Sri Lankan government’s badly planned organic farming policy that has banned the use of chemical fertilizer in farms has upset farmers in this rice-growing heartland and a political stronghold of the ruling coalition. The policy has also drawn criticism from agricultural experts, who warn that Sri Lanka’s food security […]

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal Courtesy Fxempire COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange reserves are plummeting, essential imports are stalling and opposition leaders and some experts warn that time is running out to avoid a sovereign default that would further upend the economy. 71% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs […]

By Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sajith Premadasa  The main Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) together with its economic experts are currently in the process of formulating a solution to the present economic crisis and are discussing with local and international experts on restructuring Sri Lanka’s debt, the Leader of Opposition […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Indian movie superstar Gagan Malik entered the monkhood at a temple in Bangkok yesterday (10). Malik was ordained at Wat Thatthong and will spend the next 15 days as a monk. “One of the most important moments of life is going to come tomorrow [Thursday]. Becoming a monk for 15 days in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The island-wide strike action launched by 18 trade unions in the health sector, including those affiliated with nursing, supplementary and paramedical services, is continuing for the fifth consecutive day today despite the enjoining order issued by the court.  The Government Nursing Officers’ Association said they are yet to receive the enjoining order in […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (February 11) declared the Vavuniya Campus, affiliated to the Jaffna University, as a state university named ‘Vavuniya University’. Accordingly, the institution will be considered the 17th state university in Sri Lanka. The Faculty of Applied Sciences, the Faculty of Business and the English Language Unit affiliated to the University […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 1,259 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 624,545.  According to official figures, 594,348 positive cases have recovered. Following the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The chairman and the transport manager of Co-operative Wholesale Establishment (CWE) have been interdicted with immediate effect. The decree was made by Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardene until the conclusion of disciplinary inquiries against the duo.