Thursday, 21 January 2021 - 11:11
International media has reported regarding the Covid syrup developed by Dhammika from Kegalle stating that it has turned sour.
The reports stated that a self-styled Sri Lankan holy man’s supposed miracle potion to prevent Covid-19 has turned sour after a minister who publicly drank it was taken to hospital with the virus. Thousands defied public gathering restrictions to swamp a village in central Sri Lanka last month to get the syrup made by Dhammika Bandara.
The women and child development minister, Piyal Nishantha de Silva, was among several politicians who consumed the concoction, but parliamentary officials said he had since tested positive for coronavirus and was taken to a treatment centre according to the reports.
Tuesday, 12 January 2021 - 17:16
The supreme court verdict holding the charges on contempt of court against MP Sadda Vidda Rajapakse Palanga Pathira Ambakumarage Ranjan Leo Sylvester Alphonsu Alias Ranjan RamanayakaRanjan Ramanayake has been released.
The verdict states..
The charge levelled against him is that he committed the offence of contempt of court when he made the statement on 21.8.2017 outside the Temple Trees. He admitted in his evidence that he said the following words when he made the above statement. “Majority in Sri Lanka are corrupted Judges, corrupted lawyers. They work for money.”
We have earlier rejected his defence. For the above reasons, we affirm the Rule served on the Respondent and hold that the charge of contempt of court levelled against him has been proved beyond reasonable doubt.
Sunday, 10 January 2021 - 19:33
Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekera stated that Jaffna University is not the exclusive domain or property of one community.
In a message that was shared on his private Twitter account, he pointed “It belongs to all law-abiding #SriLanka(ns) alike.”
Continuing he added that no one will and should be allowed to commemorate dead terrorists of a proscribed organization under the guise of remembering innocent civilians and create disharmony.
Meanwhile, In protest to the incident that took place at the Jaffna University yesterday (09) night, five students of the Jaffna University has launched a hunger strike.
The monument which was erected in 2018 to commemorate the 10 years since the end of the war in Sri Lanka was removed by the university administration in the midst of the protest of the gathered.
Saturday, 02 January 2021 - 10:29
England fly to Sri Lanka on Saturday evening with a psychologist in their ranks and an insistence from their captain, Joe Root, that the emergence of any Covid-19 cases will not automatically trigger an end to the tour.
The two-Test series that begins on 14 January, rearranged from March when the pandemic cut short the trip. This kickstarts nearly three months on the subcontinent for the men’s national teams, with a full tour of India to follow that features four Tests, five Twenty20s and three one-day internationals.
Root described the South Africa cancellation as “a unique situation” and stressed the decision was made above their heads. But he added that Sri Lanka and India represents “a level up” as regards the challenge of touring during the pandemic.
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 - 7:33
A total of 50 journalists were killed worldwide in 2020, according to the second part of the annual round-up of abusive treatment and violence against journalists, published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
While the number of journalists killed in countries at war continues to fall, more are being murdered in countries not at war
Many were killed for trying to expose crime and corruption.
The review shows that journalists are increasingly being targeted and killed because of their work. Some 84% of journalists killed this year were deliberately targeted, up from 63% in 2019.
This year s data covers January 1 to December 15.
Journalists publishing investigative stories were particularly vulnerable to attacks.