Battaramulla stretch back to monorail project No Japanese involvement Negotiations are currently ongoing with regard to all four originally planned monorail projects, which are to run from Battaramulla to Colombo, Homagama to Colombo, Moratuwa to Colombo, and Ragama to Colombo, despite the abandonment of the… Read More
By Jayadeva Uyangoda – Prof. Jayadeve Uyangoda The government has taken steps to draft a new constitution for Sri Lanka, which is likely to replace the existing constitution in toto, including its recently passed 20th Amendment. Thus, a Third Republican Constitution is underway for Sri… Read More
No orders placed by Govt. since first outbreak Chief Epidemiologist claims things under control Despite several Covid-19 outbreak scares and the rapidly snowballing new wave, the Ministry of Health has not ordered a single ventilator since the first local patient was detected in Sri Lanka… Read More
කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගත තත්ත්වය හමුවේ රටට හා රටවැසියාට සෙත්පතා දිවයිනේ සෑම විහාරස්ථානයකම රතන සූත්‍රය සඡ්ඡායනා කරන ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් මහා සංඝරත්නයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා. මෙම අර්බුදකාරී තත්වය හමුවේ දිවයිනේ සියලුම විහාරස්ථානවල සෑම දිනකම රතන සූත්‍ර සඡ්ඡායනා කරමින් රටටත්, ලෝකවාසී සියලු ජනයාටත් ආශිර්වාදය… Read More
ඊයේ (31) දිනයේදී කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයන් 239 දෙනෙකු අලුතින් හඳුනාගත් බව යුද හමුදාපති ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් ශවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වා මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටිනවා. ඒ අනුව දිවුලපිටිය සහ පෑළියගොඩ පොකුරේ සංඛ්‍යාව 7,185ක් දක්වා ඉහළ ගොස් තිබෙනවා. ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිකුත් කළ නිවේදනය පහතින්. …read more Source:: News Hub
The impact of the recent second wave of Covid-19 on the economy, and more specifically on the country’s exports sector, has been far less damaging than the impact of the first outbreak of the virus, The Sunday Morning learnt. The most recent spread of the… Read More
The Sri Lankan judiciary is well known for the pending cases piled up in its closet, which, according to statistics available, is estimated to be around 750,000 cases as at September 2016, with the largest number of some 535,000 cases in Magistrates’ Courts. As per… Read More
Duty Free stores at the country’s two international airports – Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) and Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) – saw their sales drop drastically since March this year due to the restrictions in international travel as a result of Covid-19. The stores, which… Read More
The Central Environmental Authority’s (CEA) investigations into the factories identified to be releasing pollutants to the Kelani River have come to a halt due to the Covid-19 prevention protocols that are currently in place. Speaking to The Sunday Morning on Friday (30), Minister of Environment… Read More
The recently amended National Environmental Act will be presented to Parliament in January 2021 with increased periods of imprisonment and higher fines for crimes committed against the environment, Minister of Environment Mahinda Amaraweera stated. “By January 2021, the amended Environmental Act should come into force.… Read More
A short supply of doxycycline and public negligence have been identified to be the main causes over the spike in leptospirosis cases reported this year, according to Ministry of Health Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Sudath Samaraweera. “Leptospirosis is prevalent in areas where there are a lot… Read More
There was no meeting scheduled between Prime Minister (PM) Mahinda Rajapaksa and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his brief visit to Sri Lanka last week as Pompeo had a very tight schedule before he flew to the Maldives, The Sunday Morning learnt. State… Read More
Three prisons ready if need arises Three prisons have been identified to be converted into Covid-19 treatment centres if the need arises, The Sunday Morning learnt. Commissioner General of Prisons Thushara Upuldeniya said that the Welikada Magazine Prison was among those selected for this purpose… Read More
The Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) expert committee, appointed under the directives of the Attorney General (AG), is to submit a quantification report at the end of this week to the AG over the anticipated civil liabilities that resulted from the bunker oil spill caused… Read More
No outsiders, public gallery to be closed Parliament staff to be reduced to half The next Parliament sessions would see additional Covid-19 measures being adopted in addition to curtailing sessions to a single day. Parliament Secretary General Dhammika Dasanayake told The Sunday Morning that a… Read More
Sports Ministry diary (12 Aug-30 Oct) 12 August – Namal Rajapaksa assumes duties as the new Cabinet Minister of Youth and Sports Affairs 20 August – the National Sports Council, headed by Mahela Jayawardene, is appointed 30 September – the “Road to Olympics” pilot programme… Read More
