BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Many expressed displease about education reforms in Sri Lanka and it could assume that academics appointed to perform the role of reforming education failed to do the task as required by the country, and the development of policies for education reforms have stagnated because the appointed experts are lacking the understanding of […]

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By Dr Tilak S. Fernando The Central Postal Exchange Division officers of Sri Lanka seized parcels addressed to Borelesgamuwa, Wellawatte, Minuwangoda and Thalamgama areas sent from the United States and Canada. A person came to collect the packages. When the customs officials inspected them in front of the person who came to collect the parcels […]

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Prime Minister’s Media Division Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena held extensive discussions with Prime Minister of Thailand Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha on bilateral relations. The meeting took place at the Government House in Bangkok during the three-day visit of Prime Minister Gunawardena to Thailand. The visit was to attend the United Nationas Vesak Day celebrations and to […]

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Media Release Sri Lankan High Commission in India Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda recently undertook a visit to the Headquarters of the Akshaya Patra Foundation in Bengaluru, Karnataka to study their renowned mid-day meal programme for school children. Established in 2000 as a non-profit trust of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රටක් ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතිකව විනාශ කළාම ඒ රටට ඉදිරි වන්නේ වහලුන් පිරිසක් යැයි බුද්ධ ශාසන ආගමික කටයුතු හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු ඇමති විදුර වික්‍රමනායක මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඇතැමුන් ආගමට සංස්කෘතියට පහර දෙන්නේ ඒ නිසා බවද ඔහු මෝඩිභිවාදනයෙන් උන්මාද වූ තරුණ පිරිස් විසින් එම තත්ත්වයට සමාජය පත්කරමින් ඇතැයි කියා සිටියේය. කිසිම ආගමකට […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් තමන් වහන්සේට ජීවිත තර්ජන ඇති බැවින් මේ වන විට සැඟවී සිටින බව පූජ්‍ය බලංගොඩ කාශ්‍යප හිමියන් සඳහන් කරති. මෝඩාභිමානී”ප්‍රසංගය සහ මේ දිනවල බෞද්ධ ආගම සම්බන්ධ කොටගෙන ඇති වී තිබෙන සිදුවීම් පිළිබඳව කතා කිරීම හේතුවෙන් තමන් වහන්සේට ජීවිත තර්ජන සිදු වෙමින් පවතින බව උන්වහන්සේ පවසති . එමෙන්ම මංජු නිශ්ශංක නැමැති පුද්ගලයාට […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Bruno Divakara, the owner of the YouTube channel ‘SL-Vlogs’, has been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), a short while ago.  He was arrested by the CID after being questioned for over eight hours regarding the recent controversial comments by stand-up comedian Nathasha Edirisooriya, who was also arrested recently, Police Spokesman SSP […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Government has refuted recent allegations made pertaining to the lack of funding towards the Anuradhapura Poson Programme, stating that Rs. 28.8 million has already been granted for this purpose. Accordingly, two Ministries and one Department have, thus far, contributed a sum of Rs. 28.8 million for the Anuradhapura Poson Programme this year, […]

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Courtesy Adaderana A gazette notification has been issued bringing several state-owned institutions including the Colombo Lotus Tower Management Company, Sri Lanka Cement Corporation, State Engineering Corporation, Sri Lanka Telecom and its subsidiaries and allied institutions under the purview of the Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilisation and National Policies. The gazette has been issued by President and Finance […]

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