Social and Equity

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.

The Bandaranaike International Ayurveda Research Institute, has informed the Health Ministry that a possible cure to the coronavirus may have been found, but they are unable to test it due to the lack of a coronavirus patient in Sri Lanka, the Daily Mirror learns.

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.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - China has published new data on more than 44,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19, which show the disease is not as deadly as previous coronaviruses including SARS and MERS. The World Health Organization reports more than 70,000 cases, including 1,772 deaths, mostly from China's Hubei province, where the outbreak first surfaced. Cases in 25 countries outside China have increased slightly to 694, including three deaths, one each in the Philippines, Japan and France.

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.

අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මගින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් හිටපු කර්මාන්ත හා වාණිජ අමාත්‍ය රිෂාඩ් බදියුදීන්ගේ සොහොයුරෙකු වන හිටපු උතුරු පළාත් සභා මන්ත්‍රී රිෆ්කාන් බද්යුදීන් ඇප මත මුදාහැරීමට කොළඹ ප්‍රධාන මහේස්ත්‍රාත් ලංකා ජයරත්න මෙනවිය අද (17) නියෝග කරනු ලැබුවා.

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.

වැලිකඩ ඇතුළු බන්ධනාගාර කිහිපයක රඳවා සිටින ප‍්‍රබල ඝණයේ අපරාධකරුවන් 130 දෙනෙකු කොළඹින් පිටත රැඳවීමට ආරක්‍ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයේ අවධානය යොමුව තිබෙනවා.

අධිකරණයට අපහාස කළ බව කියන සිද්ධියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් බොදුබල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර හිමියන් අද අභියාචනාධිකරණය හමුවේ පෙනී සිටියා. මෙම නඩුවේ සෙසු විත්තිකරුවන් දෙදෙනෙකුද අද (17) අභියාචනාධිකරණය හමුවේ පෙනී සිටි බවයි නෙත් නිවුස් අධිකරණ වාර්තාකරු පවසන්නේ.

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.

සයින්දමරුදු නගර සභාවක් කිරීම නිවැරදි තීන්දුවක් බව බොදුබල සේනා සංවිධානය පවසයි.

Sri Lankan security forces and intelligence agencies have intensified surveillance and threats against families of victims of enforced disappearance and activists supporting them since Gotabaya Rajapaksa became president in November 2019, Human Rights Watch said today.

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.”

හමුදාපති ශවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වා මහතාට ඇමරිකාවට පැමිණීම තහනම් කර ඇත්තේ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ හිටපු නිලධාරිනී යස්මින් සුකා ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයට ගොනු කළ පිටු 137 ක යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා මත යයි අනාරවණයවී ඇත.

A COPE Committee member had requested the report of the Special Committee appointed by the previous president to probe corruption, fraud and misuse of public property of Sri Lankan Airlines, Sri Lankan Catering and Mihin Lanka, be handed over to the CoPE Committee, according to parliament sources.