Social and Equity

වාර්ගික පදනම මත සයින්දමරුදුහි වෙනම නගර සභාවක් පිහිටුවීම අන්තවාදයට උඩගෙඩි දීමක් මෙන්ම සිංහල දෙමළ ජනතාව තුළ කලකිරීමක් ඇති කරන කාරණයක් බවත් එවැනි සභාවක් පිහිටුවීමෙන් ආණ්ඩුව බරපතල වරදක් සිදුකර ඇති බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියෝ (19) පැවසූහ.

Former SriLankan Airlines CEO Kapila Chandrasena and wife Priyanka Wijeynayaka were further remanded until March 4 by Colombo Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake today.

International Organization for Migration(IOM), in partnership with Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Justice, Human Rights and Legal Reforms, has launched a public information campaign funded by the US State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons to combat human trafficking.

The appointment of popular artiste Iraj Weeraratne as Digital Marketing Consultant to Sri Lanka Tourism is still pending, with Cabinet awaiting approval from respective agencies.

The Director of the Neville Fernando Hospital Dr. Neville Fernando said he had decided to sell the hospital.

The Government led by the Ministry of Justice, Human Rights and Legal Reforms, and the Department of Prisons have launched a project in prisons island-wide in collaboration with Avant Garde Group of Companies to facilitate vocational training for 5000prisoners.

A group of scientists led by Dr. Sameera R. Samarakoon at the Institute of Biochemistry Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo has recently discovered a possible sets of United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs which can be used as prophylactic treatment for COVID-19 by using computer-based drug designing methods.

විවෘත වෙළෙඳපොළේ පොල් ගෙඩියක සිල්ලර මිල රුපියල් 85ක් දක්වා ඊයේ (18 වැනිදා) ඉහළ ගොස් ඇත. පොල් ත්‍රිකෝණයෙන් බැහැර දිවයිනේ ප්‍රධාන නගර උප නගරවල පොල් මිල මෙලෙස ඉහළ ගොස් තිබිණි.

WASHINGTON - The reported number of new coronavirus cases eased Tuesday in China, but the death toll from the infections still rose to nearly 1,900, including the director of a hospital at the epicenter of the outbreak.

Chinese officials reported 1,886 new cases, the first time the daily figure had dipped below 2,000 since late January, but the overall figure now totals more than 72,000. A total of 98 new deaths were reported, the first time the figure had dropped below 100 in a week.

Among the deaths was Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province that is at the center of the outbreak.

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Chinese coronavirus figures appear "to show a decline in new cases" but emphasized the new data "must be interpreted very cautiously."“

We don’t have enough data on cases outside China to make meaningful conclusions,” Tedros said. A Chinese pulmonologist predicted the number of infections will level off, rather than falling further, after hitting a peak later in February.

Tedros also said more than 80% of patients "have mild disease and will recover."

The coronavirus outbreak continued to wreak havoc around the world. WHO reported that outside China there are now 804 cases in 25 countries, with three deaths.

Russia said starting Thursday it would ban all Chinese from entering its territory.

Tatiana Golikova, the deputy prime minister for health, said the decision was necessary "because of the worsening epidemic in China and the fact that Chinese nationals are continuing to arrive on Russian territory."

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it took the United States “too long to get the medical experts into” China to help combat the outbreak.

On a visit to Africa, Pompeo said, "We hope that every country that has information, this includes China, will be completely open and transparent ... We are hopeful that the Chinese government will increase its transparency [and] will continue to share this information.”

Sri Lanka will categorically outline the flaws of the Resolution 30/1 which the previous government had co- sponsored at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and will look to completely close it after withdrawing from its co-sponsorship, a government source told Daily Mirror yesterday.

පාස්කු ඉරුදින බෝම්බ ප්‍රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිදුකරනු ලබන විමර්ශන පිළිබඳ කිසිසේත්ම සෑහීමකට පත්විය නොහැකි බව අගරදගුරු මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණෝ කොළඹදී පැවසූහ.

ව්‍යාජ වෛද්‍යවරුන් හතලිස්දහසක් පමණ දිවයිනපුරා ප්‍රතිකාර කරමින් සිටින බව රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය පවසයි.

Concerns were raised in Parliament today over the nomination of C.A. Chandraprema as Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Geneva.

The female Chinese Coronavirus patient, who has been receiving treatments at the IDH is to be discharged today, confirmed sources said.

The travel ban imposed by America was first imposed on former Army Commander Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka prior to the ban on current Army Commander Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva. The ban on Fonseka is still active, it is reported.

The Court of Appeal is to deliver the verdict on the case filed on unauthorized construction in the Wilpattu National Park against former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen and others on 3 April.

In the wake of the increasing supply of vegetables, there is a decline in the retail and wholesale prices of both up-country and low-country vegetables at the Pettah and Dambulla markets, the Central Bank reported.

චීනයේ කොවිඩ් – 19 වෛරසයේ බලපෑම හේතුවෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කාර්මික හා සේවා අංශ පසුගිය දෙසැම්බර් මාසයේ සිට ජනවාරි මාසය අවසානය දක්වාම මන්දගාමී වේගයකින් වර්ධනය වී ඇති බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව ප්‍රකාශ කරයි.