November 2020

GENEVA- The World Health Organization (WHO) insisted Monday (30) it would do everything possible to find the animal origins of COVID-19, insisting that knowledge was vital to preventing future outbreaks. "We want to know the origin and…
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By P. K. Balachandran COLOMBO - India’s National Security Adviser, Ajit Doval, and the leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), R. Sampanthan, during a brief meeting on Sunday (29), talked about the economic development of Sri Lanka,…
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By Denise Grady WASHINGTON - The drugmaker Moderna said it would apply Monday (30) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize its coronavirus vaccine for emergency use. The first injections may be given as early as Dec. 21…
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By P. K. Balachandran COLOMBO - Now that the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government has finally decided to get India, Japan and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) to jointly develop the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) in the Colombo port, the…
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COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's government said Monday (30) it was building trenches and erecting electric fences to stop elephants eating plastic trash at open garbage dumps. Plastic in Sri Lankan landfills is a major killer of elephants, with…
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By Thomas L. Friedman With the assassination by Israel of Iran’s top nuclear warhead designer, the Middle East is promising to complicate Joe Biden’s job from day one. President-elect Biden knows the region well, but if I had one piece of…
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COLOMBO - Intermittent gunfire rang out Monday (30) at a Sri Lankan high security prison where a riot by inmates over a surge of coronavirus infections left at least eight dead and 55 wounded, police said. Hundreds of police surrounded…
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MOSOCOW - Prof. M.D. Lamawansa, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation, presented his letters of credence to President Vladimir Putin on November 24.  Keeping with traditions, the ceremony took place in the Alexander Hall of the…
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COLOMBO – The government suspects an ‘invisible hand’ was behind the riots that broke out at the Mahara prison Sunday (29), which left eight inmates dead and at least 55 injured. State Minister of Prison Reforms & Prisoners’…
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By Nalini Sivathasan LONDON - British mercenaries who were involved in the Sri Lankan civil war are being investigated for war crimes by the Metropolitan Police. Private security company Keenie Meenie Services (KMS) trained an elite…
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