The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has assured Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that it will assist Sri Lanka in overcoming a possible food crisis. Following a meeting between Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has assured that it will seek international assistance to address […]
By Aruna Boghawatte The country was in crisis and masses are suffering untold hardships because President Gotabaya Rajapaksa chose wrong advisers, SLFP General Secretary Dayasiri Jayasekera says. Addressing the media in Kurunegala, former minister Jayasekera said that President Rajapaksa had among his advisers who had not even passed Grade Eight. “Those advisers were from the […]
By Chaminda Silva A gazette notification making full COVID vaccination mandatory for people to enter public places had been lifted by the Health Minister, sources said. The gazette notification was issued prohibiting people who had not been fully vaccinated from entering public places from 30 April 2022. However, the Minister of Health Prof. Channa Jayasumana […]
A Lankan family of five, including a mother with a two-month-old infant, seeking refuge crossed the sea and reached the Tamil Nadu coast on a fiber boat yesterday (2), India Today reported. The IT report said: The family from Vavuniya had left Sri Lanka from Neduntheevu (Delft Island). They were rescued by Tamil Nadu Marine […]
BY CYRIL WIMALASURENDRE KANDY – Chief Prelate of the Malwatte Chapter of the Siyam Maha Nikaya Most Venerable Tibbatuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thera has decided not meet any politicians at his Vihare hereafter. The prelate has taken the decision since the political leaders had not paid any regard to the memorandum submitted containing important proposals as solution […]