By Garvin Karunaratne There are two methods of subjugating a country. One is by direct armed intervention. The other is by making a country indebted. Direct intervention is obvious, an  invasion, while making a country indebted is done covertly and a gradual process. The Pauperization of Sri Lanka took four decades. The people were taken […]

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara 3.40 Am on 1st November 2021. Mahanuwara. Minister Ali Sabry should make a public apology to the Sinhala nation and the Buddhist clergy of this country and resign from the post of Minister of Justice immediately in view of his following uncalled for anti-government, anti-President and anti-Sinhala Nation comments purported to have […]

MD Pathik Hasan Upcoming December 16, 2021 is knocking on the door. Bangladesh will celebrate its 50th anniversary of victory day with full spirit. On December 16, 1971, almost 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered in Dhaka, leading to the creation of the sovereign nation-state of Bangladesh. Dec. 16 is Victory Day in Bangladesh. On this day […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය දුෂ්කර අවස්ථාවල එක් අරමුණක් වෙනුවෙන් සටන් කළ පක්ෂ ලොකු කුඩා වුණත් මේ කවුරුවත් අපට ඈත් කරන්න බැහැ. ඒ අය අපේ අපේ ආධාරක නෙමෙයි. අපේ කිහිලිකරුත් නෙමෙයි. ඒ අය අපේ අතකොළුත් නෙවෙයි. ඒ නිසා එදා හිටපු සියලු පක්ෂ එක රෑනට එකට ඉන්න ඕනෑ – ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ නායක අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා තාප්පවල […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය රට ගොඩනඟන ‘සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම’ යන රජයේ ජාතික ප්‍රතිපත්තියට අනුකූලව බාධක රැසක් ජයගනිමින් අපි ප්‍රබුද්ධ සංවර්ධන මාවතක් උදෙසා ගමන් කරමින් සිටිමු. අපේ ජාතිය සෑම ක්ෂේත්‍රයකම ප්‍රගතිය දැකීම අප කාගේත් අපේක්ෂාවයි. අද ලෝකයටම තර්ජනයක් වී ඇති කොවිඩ් 19 වසංගතයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය ජනතාව ආරක්ෂා කර ගැනීම සඳහා අපි ප්‍රගතිශීලී සහ ඵලදායී ක්‍රියාකාරකම් රැසක් සිදු කරමින් […]

Hafizur Talukdar The 26th World Climate Conference (COP-26) kicked off on Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland. About 30,000 people, including leaders from around the world, climate experts and arbitrators, are expected to attend. The participating countries are expected to present their plans to reduce carbon emissions by 2030. The countries that signed the Paris Agreement in […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ ලොකු කුඩා වුණත් දුෂ්කර අවස්ථාවල එක් අරමුණක් වෙනුවෙන් එකට එක පිලේ එක් අරමුණකට සටන් කළ අය මේ කවුරුවත් අපට ඈත් කරන්න බෑ. ඒ අය අපේ ආධාරක නෙමෙයි. අපේ කිහිලිකරුත් නෙමෙයි. ඒ අය අපේ අතකොළුත් නෙවෙයි. ඒනිසා එදා හිටපු සියලු පක්ෂ එක රෑනට එකට ඉන්න ඕනෑ. ඒ සමගිය රකින […]

Courtesy Hiru News Internal sources have confirmed that the controlled price imposed on sugar will be removed, while a decision was also taken to import rice stocks. Vice President of the Sugar Importers’ Association, Nihal Seneviratne stated that the decision was taken following a discussion with Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa. Expressing his views to Hiru […]

Courtesy Hiru News The second batch of nano nitrogen liquid fertilizer imported to Sri Lanka is scheduled to arrive in the island today. However, an airport official noted that he was notified that the relevant flights will not arrive in the country today (02). Meanwhile, the farmers’ hunger strike held in Bakamuna town demanding a […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 573 today (November 02) as 75 more people were tested positive for the virus, says the Epidemiology Unit. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 542,212. As many as 513,540 recoveries and 13,770 […]

Courtesy Adaderana Father Cyril Gamini Fernando has filed a fundamental rights (FR) petition seeking an injunction order preventing him from being arrested by the police. The petition was filed before the Supreme Court. Last week, the Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), Major General Suresh Sallay filed a complaint with the Criminal Investigation Department […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) has launched investigations into 702 Sri Lankans who are allegedly linked to the members of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) operating from India. The TID has informed the Colombo Additional Magistrate of the matter on Monday (November 01). According to Ada Derana correspondent, details of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The trial against former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and two others over the 2016 hit-and-run case in Rajagiriya has been fixed for November 30. The matter was called before the Colombo High Court this morning (November 02). The case was filed over the alleged hit-and-run incident which took place on February 28, 2016, […]