Sri Lanka Today – by Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: Sri Lanka was crippled by a strike by trade unions demanding the resignation of the Rajapaksa government The trade unions in Sri Lanka on Friday launched a crippling island-wide strike to demand the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his government over its inability to tackle the economic meltdown which has caused unprecedented hardships to the public. Sri Lanka’s government has been facing a wave of protests around the country with an increasingly furious public demanding its resignation. All trade unions of health, postal, port and other government services have joined the .. strike. However, several pro-ruling party trade unions have declined to join. Businesses remained shut and roads appeared empty in most usually crowded areas. “Today’s one day action is to tell the president that he should step down along with the government. If our pleas are not heeded ...
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COVID-19: HELA VEDEKAMA Vs WESTERN MEDICINE-by Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Source:Dailynews At long last Ayurveda Hospitals are permitted to treat the COVID-19 affected patients. This declaration came from State by Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control, Dr Sudarshini Fernandopulle. The State Minister of Indigenous Medicine Promotion and Rural and Ayurveda Hospitals Development stated that all coronavirus patients would be treated with normal ‘Deseeya’ (local) treatments such as ‘Kanda’ (porridge), boiled coriander water and inhaling steam-vapour of various kind etc. Yet again, some of the newspapers give a contradictory version regarding this matter. Various arguments for and against Western medicine vs Hela Veda Kama (Hereditary treatment coming down from generation to generation), particularly with the eruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, surfaced, from March 2020, due to the lack of medicine or a vaccine to cure the Coronavirus. Not a single person expected such a calamity to befall ...
Address issues posed by Geneva togetherax-By Jehan Perera Source:Island So far, it appears that the implications of the resolution on Sri Lanka passed at the UN Human Rights Council last week against the Sri Lankan government’s objections, have been taken with a pinch of salt. Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena’s reaction to the passage of the resolution by a 22-11 margin was to take note that 14 countries had abstained and, therefore, a majority of the countries had not given their support to the resolution. Two of the countries that abstained, India and Japan, are powerful and important ones to Sri Lanka, as indeed they are in the world, which makes them well suited to play a bridge-building role in the future within the UN Human Rights Council. The relative equanimity with which the passage of the resolution was received within the country as a whole would be on account of ...
Royalists elected to Parliament 2020 – Prepared by eLanka Royalists in Parliament. The Country is STILL in good hands!!! DISCE AUT DISCE DE!! Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. Photo Source:twitter.com Dinesh Gunawardana Photo Source:wikipedia.org Rinanjith Siyambalapitiya Photo Source:powermin.gov.lk Mahindananda Aluthgamage Photo Source:facebook.com Priyankara Jayaratne Photo Source:alchetron.com Dilan Perera Photo Source:twitter.com Kanchana Wijesekera Photo Source:agrimin.gov.lk Vidura Wickramanayake (Kalutara 1st) Photo Source:ft.lk Anuradha Jayaratne Photo Source:colombogazette.com Nipuna Ranawaka (Matara 1st) Anupama Pasqual Gavindu Kumaranatunge Photo Source:magzter.com Jeewan Thondaman (Nuwaraeliya 1st) Samagi Jana Balaweegaya Photo Source:businessnews.lk Sajith Premadasa Photo Source:facebook.com Gayantha Karunathilaka Photo Source:dailynews.lk Luxman Kiriella Photo Source:adaderana.lk Kabir Hasim Photo Source:facebook.com Rauff Hakeem Photo Source:facebook.com Harsha de Silva Photo Source:dailynews.lk Harshana Rajakaruna Photo Source:twitter.com Kavinda Jayawardena Photo Source:sundayobserver.lk Kins Nelson Photo Source:twitter.com Imran Maharoof Others Photo Source:colombotelegraph.com S.M. Sumanthiran Photo Source:ceylontoday.lk G. Ponnambalam Photo Source:dailymirror.lk CV Wigneswaran Photo Source:newsfirst.lk Duminda Dissanayaka ...
