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News Archive for Mar 2025
Indian PM Narenda Modi Trincomalee Gokanna Temple is a Buddhist site not a Hindu kovilPM Modi is due in Sri Lanka on 5th April, the 44th anniversary of the JVP 1strebellion. JVP will be celebrating its 50thanniversary which commenced against Indian expansionist agenda & unlikely to proceed to its 100th year on the same theme. Unfortunately, that rebellion & thereafter the one opposed to the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987 sacrificed thousands of young patriotic lives. Nonetheless, the Tamil militancy that India armed, trained & funded was defeated in May 2009 though its separatist ideology lives on. This is evident in the takeover of a Buddhist vihara destroyed by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
The Supreme Court does not further inquire about Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka, and the Bill 104 Tamil Genocide Education Week Act (TGEWA) is not within provincial Jurisdiction Education under Canada’s Constitution Act s. 93
The Supreme Court does not further inquire about Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka, and the Bill 104 Tamil Genocide Education Week Act (TGEWA) is not within provincial Jurisdiction Education under Canada’s Constitution Act s. 93 The Supreme Court of Canada confirmed the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision, and no further inquiries were required. The decision was released on March 27, 2025. Both the Superior Court of Justice and Appeal Court of Ontario have not determined Tamil genocide. Supreme Court of Canada will not further inquire about Tamil genocide as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
අධිකරණ බලය, විධායකය සහ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය විසින් අපරාධ කිරීමට යොදවීම තරම් අපරාධයක් මිහිපිට තවත් නැත..!
අධිකරණය සහ නීතීඥවරුන් අතර නෛතික ගැටුම ඇවිලුවේ විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු අධිකරණ ඇමති ප්‍රමුඛ 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරිමේ පනත ගෙනා කණ්ඩායමයි. ඒ 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරිමේ පනත ගෙන එමින් අධිකරණයේ කරුණු දක්වන, නඩු පවරන නීතීඥවරුන් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කරවන නීති හඳුන්වා දෙමින් ය.ස්ව්‍යං ප්‍රත්‍යක්ෂ ලෙසම සදාචාරයට පටහැණි නීති iiවන ලෝක යුද්ධය සමයේ ජර්මනියේ හිට්ලර්ගේ නාසි පාර්ලිමේන්තුව සහ විධායකය විසින් යුදෙව්වන් සංහාරය කිරීමට පනවා ගන්න ලදී. එම වර්ග සංහාර නීති පනවන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
Colombo’s skyscrapers are built to withstand earthquakes – Seismologist
Colombo, March 31 (Daily Mirror) - Although Sri Lanka is not typically considered a high-seismic zone, the mushrooming skyscrapers in Colombo are safe from any unexpected earthquake, as they are built using such structural technology, a seismologist said. With the recent Myanmar and Thailand earthquake which claimed over 1,600 lives thus far mostly due to collapsing skyscrapers, doubts among the public were not small when it comes to an unexpected catastrophe in a country of a low seismic zone. An official from the Geological... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
Bid to include genocide allegation against Sri Lanka in Canada’s school curriculum thwarted
Dr Hewage Dr. Neville Hewage yesterday said that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada had determined that alleged Tamil genocide hadn’t taken place in Sri Lanka. The academic, who successfully moved the Canadian courts, said that, therefore, the much-touted Tamil Genocide Education Week Act (TGEWA), in terms of the ruling given by the Ontario... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
සත්‍ය සෙවීමේ කොමිසම බෙදුම්වාදී මර උගුලක් - පය තබන්න එපා! ජාතික සංවිධාන 55ක අත්සනින් ලිපියක්
සත්‍ය සෙවීමේ කොමිසම මර උගුලක් පය තබන්න එපා! ගෝලීය ශ්රී ලාංකික සංසදය විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද යෝජනාවක් අනුව ජාතික සංවිධාන 55ක අත්සනින් යුතු සංදේශයක් ත්‍රෛනිකායික මහ හිමිපාණන්වරු ප්‍රමුඛ මහා සංඝරත්නයට, ගරු ජනාධිපති තුමාට, මහජන නියෝජිතයන්ට සහ සමස්ත පොදු ජනයා වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම සදහා අත්සන් තැබීම ඊයේ (30) පැපිලියාන සුනේත්‍රා මහා දේවී පිරිවෙණේදී සිදුවිය. මහාචාර්ය පූජ්‍ය ඉඳුරාගාරේ ධම්ම රතන හිමියන්, මහාචාර්ය පූජ්‍ය මැදගොඩ අභයතිස්ස හිමිවරුගේ අනුශාසකත්වයෙන් පැවැති මෙම අවස්ථාව සදහා ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර, ජ්‍යේෂ්ඨ නීතිඥ කල්‍යානන්ද තිරාණගම, වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර , විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය අනුලා විජේසුන්දර ඇතුළු පිරිසක් එක්ව සිටිහය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
ජනපතිවරුන් 8 දෙනෙකු නොකළ, එහෙත් සූදානම් වූ, පාවාදීම ජනපති අනුර ලවා කරවා ගැනීම
1987 ඉන්දු ලංකා ගිවිසුමට පසුව භූ දේශපාලන තලයේදී ඊට වඩා භයානක ආරක්ෂක (Defence) ගිවිසුමක් ඉන්දියාව සමඟ අත්සන් කිරීම ඉතා භයානක ආරම්භයක් බව ජාතික සංවිධාන කියයි. ඉන්දියානු අගමැති සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජනාධිපති අතර අත්සන් කිරීමට නියමිත අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුම් 5ක් පිළිබඳව ලංකා ලීඩර් විසින් ජාතික සංවිධාන මතය විමසීමේදී වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා එසේ සඳහන් කළේය. තවදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ ඔහු සදහන් කලේ එම ගිවිසුම් මගින් ඉතිහාසයේ කිසිදු ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකු විසින් නොකළ මහා පාවාදීමක් සිදුවන බවය. ඔහුට අනුව ආරක්ෂක ගිවිසුමක් මගින් ඍජුව හමුදා ක්‍රීයාකාරීත්වයට මඟ පාදන බැවින් චීනයට එරෙහිව දියත් කෙරෙන ඉන්දු - ඇමෙරිකානු යුද ක්‍රියාන්විතයේදී ශ්රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
Namal calls on AKD to question Shani, Ravi Seneviratne over Easter attacks
While alleging that Shani Abeysekera, and Ravi Seneviratne have used political asylum by holding key positions in the government to avoid prosecution regarding the Easter Sunday attacks, SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa called on the President to question them. “Individuals like former CID Director Shani Abeysekera, and former Senior DIG in charge of the CID Ravi Seneviratne, who held key positions when the Easter Sunday attacks took place, are well aware of what happened and how. The government should question them first,” he said in a public meeting. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
Appeals Court orders release of lawyer remanded for contempt
The Court of Appeal has ordered the release of Attorney-at-Law P. Udayangani, who was remanded by the Puttalam High Court over contempt of court charges, Ada Derana reporter said. This order was issued by a two-member Appeals Court judge bench comprising Acting President of the Court of Appeal Justice Mohammed Thahir Laffar and Justice Priyantha Fernando, after considering a petition filed by the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Attorney-at-Law Rajeev Amarasuriya today (31). Meanwhile, the court also ordered the lawyer in question to appear before the Court of Appeal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
President vows recruitment of 30,000 youth to public service
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that 30,000 young people will be recruited into the public service, with the necessary funds already allocated for the initiative. Speaking at a public meeting in Buttala, held in the lead-up to the local government elections, the President emphasized the government’s commitment to providing employment opportunities for the youth. “We are recruiting 30,000 new young people with talent and ability. Now the money has been allocated. I have seen that many advertisements are being published in newspapers. We will provide jobs for those who apply,” he said.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
"මගේම කලිසම අගේට ඇඳගෙන ඌ උගේ වගේ යනවා...."'අලිමංකඩ ලුණු' ඇත්ත කතාව සාක්ෂි සහිතවම විමල් හෙළිකරයි !
https://youtu.be/grM3GrlfI2M... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
Ranil calls for army doctors to be sent to Myanmar, set up medical camps
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has urged the Sri Lankan government to dispatch a medical team, including military personnel, to Myanmar to assist those affected by the recent earthquake. Issuing a special statement, Wickremesinghe emphasized Sri Lanka’s long-standing ties with Myanmar and stressed the importance of providing humanitarian relief. “My proposal to the government is to send a medical team, including doctors from the army’s medical corps, along with essential medicines and equipment, to set up a temporary hospital in Myanmar,” he said. Drawing parallels to Sri Lanka’s past humanitarian... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
මියන්මාර් ජනතාවට සහාය දෙන්න අපිලගේ සාදු පිණ්ඩපාතේ ගිහින් සල්ලි එකතු කරයි - Hiru News
https://youtu.be/teeAllCE_CM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
ලෝකයම මියන්මාරයට උදව් කරද්දී ලංකාව උදව් නොකරන්නේ ඇයි ?
https://youtu.be/dp6QXIK6yBE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
Doomed Kings, Captain Cooks & Brown Sahibs: From Washington to London to Delhi to Colombo
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com “Before you study the economics, study the economists!” e-Con e-News 23-29 March 2025 * ‘If together we are not able to put enough pressure on Moscow, then how can we claim that we can defeat China?’ – EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas * ‘One of the first tactics in this US hustle strategy has been Trump’s executive order restoring the lawfulness of US corporate bribery for “gaining strategic business advantages... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
Does the UK government thinks we are still one of their Crown colonies?
UK Sanction on the Sri Lankan former military leaders, for defending the territorial integrity of their motherland and defeating the LTTE, the cruelest and savages’ terrors group in the world, that waged a 30-year terrorist war to overthrow the democratically elected government of the country is the latest naked western colonial interference and intervention with the sovereignty, independence and the freedom of this country. This high handed, exhibition of their past outdated colonial attitude clearly shows that even... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
Why All Israeli Prime Ministers Have Fake Names! w/ George Galloway
Did you know that Netanyahu's real family name is Mileikowsky? Did you also know that every Israeli Prime Minister changed their name to sound more Jewish or Middle Eastern? Investigative journalist Richard Medhurst describes the litany of Israeli politicians who abandoned their Eastern European names to create the pretense of a stronger connection to the Levant. Jimmy and Mother of all Talk Shows host George Galloway discuss this curious pseudonymous phenomenon among Israeli leaders. https://youtu.be/ed8eW1N4w88... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
US VP JD Vance admits West wants Global South trapped at bottom of value chain
29/03/2025 At a summit held by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that made it clear that the West wants to keep poor, formerly colonized countries in the Global South trapped at the bottom of the global value chain, through monopolistic control of advanced technologies. US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that made it clear that Washington’s goal is to keep formerly colonized countries in the Global South trapped at the bottom of the global value chain.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/25)
ලොවට සත්‍ය ධර්මය 01
සද්ධර්මය පිළිබදව සැමටම ගැටළු ඇත. ගැටළු නැති අයෙක් සිටිය නොහැක. එවැන්නෙක් සිටීනම් හෙතෙමේට සෝවාන් මාර්ගයට හෝ ආර්ය මාර්ගයට හෝ පිවිසිය හැකිවිය යුතුය. සද්ධර්මය අවබෝධ කරගැනීම සඳහා පලමුවෙන්ම තමාට සද්ධර්මය සම්බන්ධව ඇති ගැටළු ලිහා ගත යුතුය. මක්නිසාද යත් සද්ධර්මය පිළිබදව ආවර්ජනාවක යෙදෙන සෑම මොහොතකම තමතමන්න්ට ඇති ගැටළු මතුවී සද්ධර්මය තුල ඉදිරියට යාමට ගන්නා උත්සාහය වලක්වාලන බැවිනි. අදින් ඇරඹෙන මෙම සාකාච්ඡා මාලාවේ ප්‍රධානම අරමුන හා තේමාව වන්නේ සියළු දෙනාට පවතින ගැටළු ලිහාගෙන සද්ධර්මය තේරුම් ගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය පසුබිම සකස්කර දීමයි. ප්‍රථමයෙන්ම සද්ධර්මය පිළිබඳව ඹබ දන්නා දේත්, අපැහැදිලි, පැටලිලි සහිත දේත් පැතතකින් තබන්න. ඒවා කරපින්නාගෙන ධර්මයට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/25)
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එක බඩවැල කඩා ගෙන ආපු උන් බිම් අඟලටත් මිනී මරා ගන්නවා පොල් ගහනවා මිරිස් අඹරනවා.,හැබැයි කවුරු හරි ඉවසන්නම බැරිතැන දේශද්‍රෝහීන්ට ශාප වේවායයි කිව්වොත්එහෙවු උන්ම අරයා ගේ බෞධ්ධකම ප්‍රශ්න කරනවා.ඉඩම ඉතින් පෞද්ගලිකනේ රට පොදු දෙයක් නේ ,එක වෙන්නැති ! සින්හලද්වීපයත් බුදුසසුනත් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමෙන් සිංහල බෞද්ධයින් වැළැක්වීම සඳහා තම්බයියියා බුදු දහම පාවාදීම පොතෙන් උත්සාහ කලෙත් බෞද්ධයින්ට සටන අකැපයි කියා සිංහල බෞධ්ධයින්ගේ මොලසේදීමට . මෙයාලත් ඒ ජාතියේ .මේ මුග්ධයෝ මෙලහටත් පරලොව අපි ඒ න්‍යාය අනුගමනය කළා නම්.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/25)
Hindu Occupation and Management of Bodh Gaya Must End
Buddhists in India are protesting against Hindu occupation and management (rather mismanagement) of Bodh Gaya. Bodh Gaya is to Buddhists what Mecca is to Muslims and Jerusalem is to Christians and Jews. Buddhists are not appointed to the management of Hindu shrines; then why appoint Hindus to manage a Buddhist shrine? Only Buddhists should be in charge of the affairs at Bodh Gaya, not Hindus. India despite being claimed the world’s largest democracy is in fact worse than a dictatorship in mistreating its minorities. Some Hindus claim that Buddha was an avatar of Vishnu.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/25)
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https://youtu.be/01rQdfLzbyk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/25)
Several of those responsible for Easter Sunday attacks will be exposed before Easter this year - President
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that the investigations into the Easter Sunday terror attacks are being carried out speedily, and that several of those responsible will be exposed before Easter Sunday this year. He made these comments while addressing the gathering at a public meeting in Deiyandara today (30). Further commenting on this matter, the President added, “Investigations into the Easter attacks are being carried out systematically. April 21 once again marks the anniversary of the Easter attacks.” The President also noted, “The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is working to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/25)
India, Sri Lanka set to ink major defence pact next week
For the first time, India and Sri Lanka are set to sign an ambitious defence cooperation pact during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Colombo next week, in a significant move that comes nearly four decades after the IPKF’s intervention in the island nation. The two sides are also likely to firm up a currency swap framework and seal several other agreements including one on debt restructuring following talks between Modi and Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Disanayaka on April 5, people familiar with the matter said. An arrangement to develop the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/25)
අපිලගේ සාදු එළියට දැම්ම දේදුණු හඬපටය - "පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ඉන්න ඔක්කෝම සමරිසිද?"
https://youtu.be/GiSCpvSlJZk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/25)
Myanmar earthquake death toll rises to 1,644 amid race to find survivors – as it happened
Myanmar’s military rulers have called for ‘any country, any organisation’ to help as concerns grow over how rescuers will reach affected areas.
The death toll from the Myanmar earthquake has risen to 1,644, the ruling junta said on Saturday, with 3,408 people injured, according to Agence France-Presse. A statement from the junta’s information team said that at least 139 people are still missing after Friday’s 7.7-magnitude quake. Earlier on Saturday, the country’s military junta said the death toll had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/25)
Who can file accountability against Adele/LTTE on behalf of LTTE Child Soldiers/Women?
Prabakaran had a grouse but that grouse was against the Tamil caste system of which he was a victim. This explains why his first victim after he formed the Tamil New Tigers in 1972 was Tamil Mayor Alfred Duraiappah gunned down in 1975. Circumstances made him a pawn of geopolitics & turned him into a mass murderer after he & scores of other Tamils were secretly trained, armed & funded by India in India to start a guerilla movement, passing the separatist bid in Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka. Prabakaran became leader... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/25)
Tourism: Ideas for consideration if Tourism is to be developed
(Posted on November 17th, 2013; reprinted for kind consideration a decade later) A Spectacular Phenomenon Last week I went to Iceland, in search of the Northern Lights, a mysterious phenomenon – coloured shades of light in the sky taking various forms, at times even sequencing a dance.‚ Every tourist that enters Iceland is determined to see the Northern lights. This is the attraction that lures tourists to many countries in the far North like Norway. I have seen sunrise at Haleakala in Maui, Hawaii and there... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/25)
Naming Bear cubs in Dehiwala Zoo as Nilame and Menike.
Naming newly acquired bear cubs in the Dehiwala Zoo. I read that these two cubs have been named as Nilame and Menike.I regret very much this foolish decision made by the Zoo authorities. This is highly defamatory and malicious.Therefore, I demand this foolish and defamatory decision should be withdrawn immediately and corrected in the press and the YOUTUBE as it is an attempt made by some scruples donkey, to defame the Kandyans and humiliate them, with the intention of doing so or not. He should withdraw it immediately.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/25)
Udaya accuses Minister Herath of kowtowing to US Ambassador
Leader of ‘Pivithuru Hela Urumaya’ Udaya Gammanpila has alleged that US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, has omitted certain words from the statement issued by Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to the sanctions imposed by the UK government on former military chiefs. Commenting regarding the matter, Gammanpila said: “We think that Minister Vijitha Herath wrote the statement engulfed in patriotic thoughts, but US Ambassador Julie Chung, who has power over the government, must have omitted certain words and edited the statement.” “The Canadian Tamil... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/25)
President directs to expedite construction of Mirigama-Kadawatha section of Central Expressway
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake convened a high-level meeting today (28) at the Presidential Secretariat with senior officials from the Ministry of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation, as well as the Ministry of Urban Development, Construction and Housing. During the discussion, the President instructed the relevant officials to expedite the construction of the Mirigama-Kadawatha section of the Central Expressway, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. The meeting also focused on the Colombo Port Access Elevated Highway project, with deliberations on strategies to swiftly integrate its benefits into the national... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
Private company issued WoR certificates to import 38 medicines without NMRA evaluation in 2022 - COPE reveals
It was revealed in the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) that a private company named ‘Savorite’ was issued Waiver of Registration (WoR) certificates to import 38 types of medicines in 2022 without the evaluation of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA). The former Secretary to the Ministry of Health also informed the Committee that the former Minister of Health had given instructions to select this private company called ‘Savorite’ to import medicines in this way. This was disclosed when the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) of Parliament met in Parliament on Wednesday... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
Indian Colonialism in Sri Lanka
Following independence from Britain, both India and Sri Lanka emerged as leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement, which sought to advance developing nations' interests during the Cold War. Indeed, the term "non-alignment" was itself coined by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his 1954 speech in Colombo. The five principles of the Non-Aligned Movement are: “mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty; mutual non-aggression; mutual non-interference in domestic affairs; equality and mutual benefit; and peaceful co-existence.” Later, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi played a key role in supporting Sri Lankan Prime Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
Why is the Bar Association of Sri Lanka silent on UK Govt weaponizing Human Rights against Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces?
All citizens of Sri Lanka irrespective of party politics must stand together united in defense of Sri Lanka & its National Army. All those with the ability to analyze history, its legacies & the colonial crimes committed but unaccounted for should question the manner in which those who stand guilty of 500 years of colonial crimes and human rights violations of the non – European peoples, are now brandishing the weapon of Human Rights while having lost all moral authority to do so. The Bar Association of Sri Lanka which comprises over... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
YOU IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON SRI LANKA WHILE HELPING GENOCIDE !!!
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Trump, Be Warned, Yemenis, Like Vietnamese, Afghans Will Not Give Up
Dated: 22.03.2025 President Trump, who promised to end wars and never start one, has travelled 8,000 miles to bomb Yemen. If he continues, Yemen will be his Vietnam and Afghanistan. In many ways they are similar countries, populated by dogged fighters. Since the President and his team know not a jot about its history, sociology, topography, herewith, a brief note from my travels. At a height of 8,500 ft, the old city of Sanaa, capital of Yemen, has a magical air of leisure, its maze of lanes, lined with multistoried mud and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
Kandy’s Waste Management Crossroads: A Path to Sustainability, Dignity, and Heritage Preservation
Synopsis: Kandy, a UNESCO World Heritage city, faces a waste management crisis with environmental and social impacts from the Gohagoda landfill and unsustainable solutions like waste diversion. Issues of dignity and accessibility for vulnerable groups highlight the need for inclusive approaches. Immediate actions like waste segregation, community engagement, and infrastructure investments are essential. Collaboration with stakeholders, such as the Governor, Clean Sri Lanka Project, and JICA, can transform Kandy into a model of sustainable urban development. Kandy, March 2025 — The historic city of Kandy, a UNESCO World Heritage site,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
දෙමළ ඩයස්පෝරාව ඉදිරියේ කොන්ද නැමුණු පුනරුද ඇමතිගේ සංක්‍රාන්ති ලිංගික නිවේදනයට විමල්ගෙන් කණේ පාරක්..
https://youtu.be/PFPIqdl59V8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
Pathfinder Foundation & Ananta Aspen Centre Holds India-Sri Lanka Strategic Dialogue in the backdrop of Premier Modi’s visit
The India-Sri Lanka Strategic Dialogue, hosted by the Pathfinder Foundation in association with the Ananta Aspen Centre of India, took place in Colombo on 25 March 2025. Coming a week before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Sri Lanka on April 5, the Dialogue serves as a valuable platform to explore key bilateral and regional matters that are expected to influence the India-Lanka discourse. Bernard Goonetilleke, Chairman of Pathfinder Foundation, delivered the opening remarks, followed by Dr. Naushad Forbes, Chairman of Ananta Aspen Centre. Indian High Commissioner Santhosh Jha delivered special remarks. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
Property Market Shows Signs of Growth Despite High Taxes & Bureaucratic Hurdles
Industry experts at the Lanka Property Show 2025 expressed confidence in Sri Lanka’s real estate sector, highlighting its potential for growth despite past economic challenges. While factors such as rising interest rates, currency depreciation, and fluctuating taxes previously impacted the market, experts were optimistic that stabilizing interest rates, exchange rates, and tax policies will foster a more predictable and business-friendly environment for investors and homebuyers alike. Building on this positive outlook, the Lanka Property Show 2025 reinforced the sector’s resilience and promising future. The event featured 25+ premier projects, including highly anticipated... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
බි‍්‍රතාන්‍ය සම්බාධක ගැන විජිත හේරත්ගේ ප්‍රකාශය ජුලී චංග් වෙනස් කරලා…?
රිතාන්‍ය ආණ්ඩුව විසින් දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදින්ගේ ඡන්ද කුට්ටිය ඉලක්ක කරගෙන මෙරට රණවිරුවන් සිව්දෙනෙකුට පැනවූ තහනම සම්බන්දයෙන් විදෙස් ඇමති විජිත හේරත් මහතා ලබාදී ඇති පිළිතුර “පතෝල” පිළිතුරක් ලෙස තමන් දකින බව පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය නායකයා මේ බව සදහන් කර සිටියේ පිටකෝට්ටේ එම පක්ෂ මූල්සථානයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක් වෙමිනි. එහිදී නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් මෙසේ අදහස් දැක්වීය. බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ආණ්ඩුව විසින් දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදින්ගේ ඡන්ද කුට්ටිය ඉලක්ක කරගෙන අපේ රණවිරුවන් සිව්දෙනෙකුට පැනවූ තහනම පිළිබඳ කල් මරමින් හිටි ආණ්ඩුව වෙනුවෙන් විදෙස් ඇමති විජිත හේරත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
රනිල්ගේ නිවස ගිනි තැබූ සැකකරුවෙකු ලෙස නි. ඇමති එරංග නම් කෙරේ…
හිටපු ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ කොල්ලුපිටියේ පස්වන පටුමගේ පිහිටි පෞද්ගලික නිවසට 2022 ජූලි 09 වන දින එල්ල වූ ප්‍රහාරයේ සහ ගින්න නිවා දැමීමට පැමිණි ගිනි නිවන හමුදාවට බාධා කිරීමේ සිද්ධියේ සැකකරුවෙකු තරුණ කටයුතු නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය එරංග ගුණසේකර මහතා නම් කර තිබේ. ඒ අනුව එම නඩුව ඊයේ දින කැඳවූ අවස්ථාවේදී කොටුව මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණය ඉදිරියේ ඔහු පෙනී සිටියේ නැත. ගුණසේකර මහතාගේ නීතිඥවරයා අධිකරණයට දැනුම් දුන්නේ තම සේවාදායකයා අසනීප තත්ත්වයෙන් පසුවන බැවින් ඔහුට අධිකරණයට පැමිණීමට නොහැකි වූ බවය. තවත් සැකකරුවන් කිහිප දෙනෙකුගේ නීතිඥවරයා අධිකරණයට දැනුම් දුන්නේ තම සේවාදායකයින් අධිකරණයට පැමිණීමට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
Tamil Votes And British Justice: How UK Politics Drove Sanctions On Sri Lankan Military Leaders – Analysis
The imposition of sanctions by the UK on three retired Sri Lankan military officers—Shavendra Silva, Wasantha Karannagoda, and Jagath Jayasuriya—and a former LTTE commander, Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan (Karuna Amman), on March 24, 2025, reflects a significant interplay between UK domestic politics and international human rights policy. These sanctions, which include travel bans and asset freezes, were enacted under the UK’s Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime and target individuals accused of serious human rights violations during Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983–2009). While framed as a move to promote accountability... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
Sri Lanka's macroeconomic turnaround is 'remarkable': IMF op-ed
Insights Sri Lanka's macroeconomic turnaround is 'remarkable' though many households are yet to feel the impact, according to two IMF experts, who noted that the economy has rebounded strongly and quickly, growing by 5 per cent in 2024. The country's tradeable debt instruments are once again attractive to investors, credit rating was upgraded by at least three notches and high inflation has been halted. Sri Lanka’s macroeconomic turnaround is ‘remarkable’ though many households are yet to feel the impact, according to two experts from the International... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
USAID රෙජිම් චේන්ග් කිරීමට බරටම ඩොලර් ආධාර දීලාලු! මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයට පත්වීමට නියමිත ලේකම්වරයාත් ඒ අතර ඉන්නවාලු!- සමාජ මාධ්‍ය කළඹවන ලියවිල්ලක් කියයි
ChatGBT මත පදනම්ව, විවිධ සංවිධාන විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිදු කළ හැකි “පාලන-වෙනස් කිරීමේ” ක්‍රියාකාරකම් සඳහා USAID විසින් සපයන ලද අරමුදල් සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන ලියවිල්ලක් සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ සංසරණය වෙමින් පවතී. අදාළ ආයතන සහ එම ආයතන මෙහෙය වූ පුද්ගලයන්ද ඒවාට ගෙවූ ඩොලර් ප්‍රමානයන් ද සහිතව සංසරණය වන එම ලියවිල්ල මගින් අප රට සම්බන්ධ වැදගත් කාරණා හෙළිදරව් වේ. 2021 අගභාගයේදී සහ 2022 මුල් භාගයේදී, එම ලියවිල්ලේ සඳහන් වන ඩොලර් ලබාගත් සංවිධාන සමඟ සම්බන්ධ පුද්ගලයින් කිහිප දෙනෙකු සහ තවත් කිහිප දෙනෙකු එක්ව, ශ්රී ලංකා රුපියල වහාම ක්ෂය කිරීම, ස්වෛරී ණය පැහැර හැරීමක් සහ ප්‍රතිව්‍යුහගත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/25)
UK Govt – What about UK living White Tiger “Aunty Adele” trainer of LTTE Child Soldiers & British MPs abusing their office?
When British MPs who are regular mouthpieces for pro-LTTE demands & regular visitors to pro-LTTE events & regularly read of LTTE prepared speeches, abuse their office to sanction individuals on conjectured crimes, the Govt of Sri Lanka must first of all demand that the UK Govt investigate all British MPs who are voicing one-sided statements completely ignoring facts & evidence. The 4 names on UK sanction list perfectly highlights the bias. The Army Commander who led the military onslaught is excluded but just 3 officers who took orders from him are. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/25)
UK Sanctions against Sri Lankan armed forces Commanders
The United Kingdom govt. has announced sanctions including travel bans and asset freezes against Sri Lanka’s former Chief of Defence Staff Shavendra Silva, former Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda and former Army Commander Jagath Jayasuriya over unproven allegations of human rights violations during the war with the LTTE. It was I, as the Executive President of Sri Lanka who took the decision to militarily defeat the LTTE and the armed forces implemented that decision on the ground. Despite the 2002 ceasefire agreement, the LTTE had carried out 363 killings during... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/25)
ශ්රී ලංකාව විසින් බිහි කල විශිෂ්ටම මානව විද්‍යාඥයා- ගනනාථ ඔබේසේකර
වරක් මා විසින් ලියන ලද සිංහබාහු කථාවේ මනෝ විද්‍යාත්මක පාර්ශවය ගැන ලිපිය - Sinhabahu The Paradigmatic Myth Of The Sri Lankan Oedipusකියවූ ප්‍රංශ ජාතික මනෝ විද්‍යාඥයෙකු වන Eric Smadja මෙම ලිපිය මහාචාර්ය ගනනාථ ඔබේසේකර වෙත යවන්න යැයි කීවේය. ඒ මන්ද කියා මා විමසූ විට ඔහු කීවේ ගනනාථ ඔබේසේකර යනු වර්ථමානයේ ජීවතුන් අතර සිටින විශිෂ්ටම මානව විද්‍යාඥයා නිසා මෙම ලිපිය ගැන වඩාත්ම හොඳ විවරණය ලබා ගත හැක්කේ ඔහුගෙන් බවයි. පසුගිය වසරේදී මම ප්‍රංශ මනෝ වෛද්‍ය ලෝරන්ට් කරීලා සමග Nymphomania හෙවත් නාරිකාමෝන්මාදය ගැන පත්‍රිකාවක් ලියුවෙමි. මම ශ්රී ලංකාවෙන් බව දැනගත් මනෝ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/25)
The appointment of former Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya as Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the United Nations after his retirement, the impact on the independence of the judiciary, solutions and 22 brought to correct an error in 19.
Some people have forgotten that a President said at the opening of the New Court Complex in Galle that there is an error in the 19th Constitutional Amendment brought in 2015 regarding the presidential and parliamentary terms of office and that it was due to an oversight by a certain legal expert and that he would apologize to the people for it.Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe, other judges and government officials were seated in that audience.Also, the 22nd Constitution Amendment... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/25)
Sperm bank is not a good idea!
Sperm bank is not a good idea! Recently many appreciative articles appeared regarding a sperm bank being set up. Superficially looking at it, it sounds like a wonderful idea providing an opportunity for those who cannot have children due to the infertility of the husband and the fact that the sperm is from an anonymous donor is expressed as a great advantage. But in fact this is a very dangerous matter. While a person may donate sperms he will be having children on his own with his wife. Later on the children born... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/25)
හිටපු අගවිනිසුරු ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය මහතා විශ්‍රාම යෑමෙන් පසු එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ ලංකාවේ නිත්‍ය නියෝජිත ධූරය ලැබීම, අධිකරණයේ ස්වාධීනත්වයට කරන බලපෑම, විසඳුම් සහ 19යේ වැරැද්දක් නිවැරදි කිරීමට ගෙනා 22...!
2015 දී ගෙනා 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයේ ජනාධිපති සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තු ධූරකාලයේ දෝෂයක් පවතින හෙයින් එය එක්තරා නීති විශාරදයකුගේ අතපසුවීමක් බවත් එයට ජනතාවගෙන් සමාව ගන්නා බවත් ගාල්ල අලුත් අධිකරණ සංකීර්ණය විවෘත කරන අවස්ථාවේ ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකු පැවසුවා සමහරුන්ට අමතක වී ඇත.ඒ වේදිකාවේ ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය අගවිනිසුරුද, පාරින්ද රණසිංහ නීතිපතිද, තවත් විනිසුරුවරුන්ද, රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ද අසුන්ගෙන සිටියේය.එසේම ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ පවතින ඒ වැරැද්ද නිවැරදි කිරීමට නීතිපතිගේ අනුමැතියෙන් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 78 වන ව්‍යවස්ථාව යටතේ 22වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතද මේ වන විට ගැසට් කර ඇත.ඒ අනුව පැහැදිලි වන්නේ අනුර දිසානායක... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/25)
අයවැය හිගය පියවන්න රජය ඩොලර් බිලියන 7.3ක ණයක් ගන්න සොයයි.
වත්මන් රජය විසින් මෙම වසරට පමණක් ඩොලර් බිලියන 7.3ක ණය මුදලක් ලබා ගැනීමට බලාපොරොත්තු වන බව සමගි ජන බලවේග පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී එස් එම් මරික්කාර් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. කොළඹ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමින් ඒ මහතා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේය. ජාතික ජන බලවේගයට අමතක වෙලා තියෙනවා අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මැතිතුමා ජනාධිපතිවෙලා පහුගිය සිකුරාද විසි එක් වෙනිදට මාස හයක් ගිහිල්ලා ඉවරයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ ධූර කාලය මාස හයේ ඒවා දහයයි ඒ කියන්නේ 10%ක් ධූර කාලේ ඉවරයි. එතකොට මේඅය පොරොන්දු වුනා ජනතාවට විශේෂයෙන්ම මේ රටේ කාන්තා පරපුරට අධ්‍යාපනයෙන්, සෞඛ්‍යයෙන්, ආහාර පාන වලින් බදු බිංදුවට අඩු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/25)
Exposition of Sacred Tooth Relic of Buddha will ensure religious harmony: Cardinal
Colombo, March 26 (Daily Mirror) - The exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha will ensure religious harmony in Sri Lanka while it helps safeguard Buddhism which is the backbone of national heritage, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said today. “The steps taken by the government and the Venerable Mahanayaka Theras to initiate an exposition of the Scared Tooth Relic is a welcome move. Everyone should ensure its success. I request Catholics to consider this event as a special one which brings religious... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/25)
Hypocrisy is that Britishers ignore their own atrocities – Karannagoda on UK sanctions
olombo, March 27 (Daily Mirror) - In response to the UK sanction on the Sri Lankan officials including three former military leaders, former Navy Commander, Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda has accused the UK of hypocrisy, stating that while British colonial atrocities in Sri Lanka and India remain unaddressed, the UK is targeting Sri Lanka with human rights sanctions. Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mirror, Karannagoda pointed out that Britain has never apologized for its past actions and questioned why it remains silent on ongoing global conflicts like those in Gaza,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/25)
Sri Lanka’s Central Bank chief says policy rate is appropriate
Sri Lanka’s central bank governor said monetary policy is “appropriate” right now, as the South Asian nation’s economy and inflation are moving in line with their goals. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka held the overnight policy rate at 8% for the second straight meeting this year on Wednesday. The move was in line with the forecast of most of the economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The monetary policy is transmitting into the economy “nicely” and inflation will come back into “positive territory” from the second half of the year,”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/25)
Sri Lanka condemns UK's unilateral sanctions
The Foreign Ministry has condemned the UK government's decision to impose sanctions on four Sri Lankans, calling it a "unilateral action" that complicates the ongoing national reconciliation process. The ministry stated that Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath conveyed Sri Lanka's position to British High Commissioner Andrew Patrick during a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism. The ministry referred to the UK Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office's (FCDO) press release dated March 24, which announced asset freezes and travel bans on three former military commanders and a former... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/25)
Development unfortunately falls between two stools
When we became independent in 1948, we- the colonies were the market for everything produced in the UK. With independence, we had to change to enable development, production in industry and agriculture and foremost to alleviate poverty. We had commenced Land Development, Irrigation, and Agriculture. To enable people to be trained, we started a major Department- Rural Development and Cottage Industry. Rural Development Officers were everywhere. They organized development at grass grassroots level, Handlooms took the stage. A major Department of Small Industry handled cooperatives to weave and sell. Laksala emerged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/25)
සිංහල බෞද්ධ භික්ෂුවක් සිටිය හැකිද ?සිටී නම් ඔහුගේ කාර්ය භාරය
සිංහල බෞධ්ධභික්ෂුව කියන්නේ සිංහල නමින් අනන්‍ය වූ ජාතියක් විසින් වසර දහස් ගණනකට පෙර බිහි කල, වර්ධනයකළ, ආරක්ෂා කල , රටේ ඔවුන් විසින් බුදහමට අනුගතව හදාගත්තමන්ට අනන්‍ය වූ ජීවන ක්‍රමය හෙවත් සන්ස්ක්රුතිය මගින් නඩත්තු කරන ,ඒ සමාජයෙ සාමාජිකයන් අතරෙන්ම බිහිවූ ඒ සමාජයේ ගරුබුහුමන් ලබන භික්ෂුන්ට ය . ඒ භික්ෂුවගේ එක්වැ දගත් කාර්ය භාරයක් වන්නේ එකී සමාජයේ ලෞකික හා ලෝකෝත්තර යහ පැවැත්ම උදෙසා කල හැකි සියලු උපදෙස් දීමය .පටිච්ච සමුප්පාදය පමණක් නොව ලෞකික වූ මංගල හා පරාභව කරුණු ගැනත් මේ භික්ෂුව උපදෙස් දියයුත්තේ ඒ භික්ෂුව නඩත්තු කරන්නේ ඒ ජනතාව නිසා බැවිනි.ඉන්දියාවෙනුත් තුරන්ල කල බුදුදහම ග්‍රන්තාරුඩ කර ආරාක්ෂා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/25)
Namal questions Govt on UK sanctions against ex-military commanders
Colombo, March 25 (Daily Mirror) - In the wake of recent sanctions imposed by the UK government on four individuals, including Shavendra Silva and Wasantha Karannagoda, SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa questioned whether the new government, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, will defend the former military commanders when foreign powers target them. Yesterday, the UK government imposed sanctions on four individuals responsible for serious human rights abuses and violations during the Sri Lankan civil war, including extrajudicial killings, torture and/or the perpetration of sexual violence. The individuals sanctioned by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/25)
Mihintale Chief Incumbent on state officials who are hindering govt’s work
The Chief Incumbent of Mihintale Rajamaha Viharaya, Ven. Dr. Walawahengunawewa Dhammarathana Thero, claims that a situation has arisen where the President’s advice and directives are not being carried out due to certain politically-affiliated groups from previous governments that are continuing to “haunt” the country’s state institutions. The Venerable Thero further charged that certain officials are attempting to inconvenience the government without implementing the instructions issued by the President and the Presidential Secretariat. He made these remarks during a press conference held at the Mihintale Rajamaha Viharaya this morning (25). ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/25)
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness
First published Tue Nov 30, 2004; substantive revision Mon May 13, 2024 It is widely accepted that consciousness or, more generally, mental activity is in some way correlated to the behavior of the material brain. Since quantum theory is the most fundamental theory of matter that is currently available, it is a legitimate question to ask whether quantum theory can help us to understand consciousness. Several approaches answering this question affirmatively, proposed in recent decades, will be surveyed. There are three basic types of corresponding approaches: (1) consciousness is a manifestation of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/25)
Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere passes away
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Gananath Obeyesekere has passed away at the age of 95. Obeyesekere, a renowned Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, has done much work in his home country of Sri Lanka. His research focuses on psychoanalysis and anthropology and the ways in which personal symbolism is related to religious experience, in addition to the European exploration of Polynesia in the 18th century and after, and the implications of these voyages for the development of ethnography. Among his popular books are Land Tenure in Village Ceylon, Medusa’s Hair, The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/25)
Motion to remove Deshabandu from IGP post submitted to Speaker
A resolution to appoint a committee of inquiry for the removal of Inspector General of Police Deshabandu Tennakoon was handed over to the Speaker of Parliament, (Dr.) Jagath Wickramaratne, today (25). This resolution has been signed by 115 Members of Parliament, according to a statement issued by the Communications Department of Parliament. This motion was submitted to the Speaker under Section 5 of the Removal of Officers (Procedure) Act No. 5 of 2002. The occasion of handing over this resolution was attended by Deputy Minister of Labour Mahinda Jayasinghe, Deputy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/25)
Govt. asked to disclose ongoing development projects during election period
The Election Commission has informed the government to provide details of ongoing development projects during the election period. Accordingly, ministries and government departments are required to submit information regarding the relevant projects to the Election Commission for review. The commission stated that the disclosed development projects will be assessed, and a final decision will be made regarding their continuation during the election period. Additionally, if any of these projects are found to have a potential impact on the election, the government will be advised to postpone them until after the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/25)
ජාතිය හා ජනකොටස් අතර සමගියක් අවශ්‍ය නම්
එකමුතු වෙන්න ඕනනම් මුලින්ම කියන්න ඕන දෙමල හා මුස්ලිමුන්ට රට හැදු ගොඩ නැගු ආරක්ෂාකළ සිංහලයන්ට විරුධ්ධකම් නොකරන ලෙස.දෙමල මුදලියෝ පරංගි ආණ්ඩුකාර කොර්නේලියස්ට බොරු කියල උන්ගේ පැරණි නීති කියල තේසවලාමේ හදා ගන උන්ගේ පලාත්වල උන්ට විශේෂ නීති හදා ගත්ත. ලන්දේසි ඉංග්‍රීසි එය ස්තිරකලා, සිංහලයන් උන්ට කියා මර්දනය කරන්න. උතුරේ සිංහලයන් ඊට පස්සේ එලෙව්වා. වැඩි කොටසක් පරයන්ගේ බලය යොදා දෙමල බවට හැරෙව්වා. භික්ෂුවක්ව සිටි සෙනරත් රජු විසින් දේශපාලනයත් ආගමත් පටලවා ගෙනාදෝ පරංගින්ට බියෙන් බය බිරාන්තව සිටි මුස්ලිමුන්ට වැඩියෙන් මයිත්රි කරන්න ගිහින් උන් තම පළාත් වල පදිංචි කෙරෙව්වම 1916 වන විටම බොදු පෙරහැරටත් ගැහැව්වා විතරක් නොවෙයි සුද්දන්ට කත් ඇදසිංහල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/25)
මාස හතක බරපතළ සහල් හිඟයක් ගැන ජාතික ගොවිජන එකමුතුවෙන් අනතුරු ඇගවීමක්
මුළු රටට ම මාස හතක බරපතළ සහල් හිඟයකට මුහුණදීමට සිදුවන බවට ජාතික ගොවිජන එකමුතුවේ සභාපති අනුරාධ තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා අනතුරු අඟවයි. මාස් කන්නයේ වී වගාව අවස්ථා දෙකක දී ගංවතුරට හසුවීමෙන් සිදු වූ විනාශය සහල් හිඟයට බලපාන බව හෙතෙම කියයි. 2024/25 මාස් කන්නයේ දී හෙක්ටයාර් අට ලක්ෂ පනස්දහසක පමණ වී වගා කළ බව කී සභාපතිවරයා ගංවතුරින් බරපතළ හානි සිදු වූ උතුරු නැඟෙනහිර පළාත් ඇතුළු දිවයින පුරා වී වගාවට ඇති වූ හානියෙන් අපේක්ෂිත අස්වැන්න සියයට 20ක් රටට අහිමි වන බව පැවැසීය. අස්වනු නෙළීමට ආසන්න වී වගාවන්ට වල් අලින් ඇතුළු වන සතුන්ගෙන් හානි වන නිසා අස්වැන්න... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/25)
Sri Lanka’s first cable car project to launch by year-end
Colombo, March 24 (Daily Mirror) - Cable car projects that operate more than a kilometre between two mountains without any support are rare in the world. The Sri Lankan people will have the chance to experience this rare opportunity before the end of this year. The first cable car project in the country covering a distance of 1.8 km between Ambuluwawa Religious and Biodiversity Complex to the summit of Ambuluwawa Hill in Gampola and from there to Ambuluwawa Agrarian Tower is a joint venture of Chinese and American investors. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/25)
Adani not ready to budge on original tariff rate for Mannar wind project
Ready to resume project on initial terms only, open for other investments if SL seeks Colombo, March 25 (Daily Mirror) - India’s Adani Group is not ready to compromise on the initially agreed tariff rate and other parameters of the 484 MW wind and transmission project in Mannar, despite its agreement to execute the project if Sri Lanka requests, Daily Mirror learns. Adani Green Energy SL Ltd informed Sri Lanka’s Energy Ministry its position in this regard after the Sri Lankan authorities including President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/25)
UK sanctions Shavendra Silva, Wasantha Karannagoda, Jagath Jayasuriya and Karuna Amman
The UK government has imposed sanctions on four individuals which it claims are responsible for serious human rights abuses and violations during the Sri Lanka civil war. The individuals sanctioned by the UK today include former senior Sri Lankan military commanders, and a former LTTE military commander who later led the paramilitary Karuna Group, operating on behalf of the Sri Lankan military against the LTTE. The measures, which include UK travel bans and asset freezes, target individuals responsible for a range of violations and abuses, such as extrajudicial killings, during the civil... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/25)
GDP and GDP growth; Are they measures that really matter?
GDP Is the wrong tool for measuring what matters - It’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainability- Joseph E. Stiglitz A country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the standard measure of the total value of all goods and services produced within its borders during a specific period, typically a year. The "services" component of GDP includes the value of all final services produced, such as transportation, communication, finance, healthcare, education, and many others. Sri Lankan GDP was estimated to be USD 84.36 Billion, and it is reported... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/25)
Economists in Sri Lanka: Bribed in Printed US$s
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ Economists in Sri Lanka: Bribed in Printed US$s e-Con e-News 16-22 March 2025 * Minister Sirisena alleged that Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC) had offered him money ‘sufficient for 14 generations to live in a first world country’ (see ee Random Notes) * • Dear Julie: We’re sure, you consider yourself a true-red-blooded yankee – yet you act like one of them East Asian comfort women cruelly forced into servitude by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/25)
Heading into WW3 the Belligerents Spend Unsustainable Amounts of Money on Weapons Disregarding Climate Change, Ageing Population, Hunger and Poverty
The world is heading into WW3. It is a matter of when. The only way it can be avoided is if the debt trap trounces them first. It is not the fault of an individual, a nation or a few of them. It is a clash of competing priorities, access to scarce resources, changing world order and resistance to change and the continuation of same old European colonialism. And it did not happen suddenly. It gradually grew into this situation. Despite the end of the Cold War, the world was not peaceful. In fact,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/25)
1971 ඉපදුනු තෙන්නකෝන් පොලිස්පතිට, රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කිරීමෙන් පසු පොලිස්පති වීමට ඉඩ තිබේද යන්න කාලය විසින් විසඳිය යුතු ප්‍රශ්නයකි...!
1971 ඉපදුනු තෙන්නකෝන් පොලිස්පතිට, රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කිරීමෙන් පසු පොලිස්පති වීමට ඉඩ තිබේද යන්න කාලය විසින් විසඳිය යුතු ප්‍රශ්නයකි...!ශ්රී ලංකාව ජනරජයක් වුණේ 1972 මැයි 22 දිනය. ඒ 1970 පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයෙන් බලයට පැමිණි සමඟි පෙරමුණු ආණ්ඩුවේ ගරු සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිණියගේ නායකත්වයෙන්‍ රාජකීය විදුහලේ නවරඟහලේදී කෙටුම්පත් කළ 1වන ජනරජ ව්‍යවස්ථාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසින් සම්මත කරමින් එතෙක් ඩොමීනියන් නිදහසක්ව තිබූ 1947 සෝල්බරී ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව අහෝසි කරවීමෙනි. එවැනි සේවයක් කළ ගරු සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිණියගේ ප්‍රජා අයිතිය අහෝසි කරවූ අතර පසුව පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නැවත එකී ප්‍රජාඅයිතිය අහෝසි කරවීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/25)
Tata Motors’ Expansion into Sri Lanka: India’s Economic Diplomacy Amid China’s EV Dominance
Tata Motors, India’s leading automobile family, along with DIMO, launched a new range of passenger vehicles (Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles and Electric Vehicles in the country. On 12 March 2025, Tata Motors, India’s leading automobile family, along with DIMO, a Sri Lankan conglomerate and the only authorised distributor of Tata Motors in Sri Lanka, launched a new range of passenger vehicles (Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles and Electric Vehicles (EV)) in the country. In the launch event, Tata Motors successfully introduced a range of SUVs – the Tata Punch, Tata Nexon,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/25)
Dhammic Diplomacy for a Sustainable World
Audience at Maithriya Hall (Based on an oration by Mr Don de Silva to the Servants of the Buddha) The Servants of the Buddha, an organisation that discussed the Buddha’s Teachings on a weekly basis for 104 years, staged its second Annual Oration on Saturday March 15, 2025. This summary of the oration is prepared with the Orator’s approval. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/25)
Starlink on hold until national security concerns are addressed
New government wouldn't authorize services without right for data interception ensured There may be instances in which Starlink satellite communication services being used for any unlawful act by some individuals Discussion is still at preliminary stage Defence Ministry and TRCSL involved in discussions with Starlink Colombo, March 24 (Daily Mirror) - Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband services will be on hold in Sri Lanka until it guarantees the right for the government agencies to secure data or communication details in case of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/25)
My observations and comments on the letter by Mr. LKN Perera to the President are given below
The writer of the attached letter Mr. L.K.N. Perera, a lawyer and a retired judge by profession, is an authority on the subject of Tamil and Missionary activities in this country from 1505 onwards. I don’t see a single Sinhala politician, in this country, from the President down ward, including the so-called Parliament that is supposed to be in charge of the governance of this land of the Sinhala Nation, or at the provincial or divisional level who has the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/25)
March 23 – Ahmadiyya Founder’s Day. The Promised Messiah and Mahdi (peace be on him): Guiding Light for the Modern Times
(Given below is an excerpt of the Friday Sermon delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, on 21 March, 2025, gave a discourse on ‘True Significance of the Promised Messiah Day’ After reciting first part of the sermon with first chapter of Holy Qurán (Surah al-Fatihah), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (may Allah be his Helper) said that in two days, it will be 23 March, a date which holds special significance in the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. This is because on 23 March 1889,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
ජනාධිපති නුවර ගිය දා ආරක්‍ෂාවට පොලිසියේ දහ දාහක්.. ආරක්ෂක රථ සිය ගණනක්..
ජනාධිපති අනුර දිසානායක මහතාගේ ආණ්ඩුවේ වියදමක් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ හා රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහන ජනාධිපතිවරුන්ගේ ආණ්ඩු වලට වඩා කෝටි ලක්ෂයක් වියදම වැඩි බව හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී චම්පික රණවක මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඉදිරි පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය වෙනුවෙන් පැවැති ජන හමුවකදී ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුවේය. ලොකු වාහන පෙළපාලි නෑ කිව්වත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් කෑම නොගන්නා බව කිව්වද ඇතැම් දේශපාලඥයන්ගේ බොරු අල්පේච්ඡතාවය රැකීමට පෙරටත් වඩා වියදම් යන බවත් ඔහු පැවසුවේය. මෑතකදී ජනාධිපතිවරයාත් මහනුවර දළදා මාලිගාවට ගිය අවස්ථාවේ මාධ්‍යය පෙන්වුයේ ඔහු සමග පරිවාර එක් රථයක් පමණක් යනු වුවද දස දහසකට වැඩි පොලිස් බලඇණියක් සමග පාරක්ෂක වාහන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
PM Narendra Modi to visit Sri Lanka on April 5 to finalise key agreements, says President Dissanayake
Health minister Nalinda Jayathissa said that Sri Lanka and India reached an agreement last month to establish solar power plants in the island nation. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake announced on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the country on April 5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during his visit to New Delhi in December 2024. (X- Narendra Modi) The announcement was made during his statement in Parliament, according to the news portal Adaderana.lk. While speaking in Parliament,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
SJB tables in Parliament list of UNPers killed by JVP in late 1980s
Matale Dirstrict SJB MP Rohini Kumari Wijerathna yesterday tabled a list in Parliament naming 1,300 members, leaders, trade unionists, and activists of the UNP, who were allegedly assassinated by the JVP. The list was submitted during a parliamentary session as part of the government’s ongoing effort to document victims of political violence. Along with the names of the victims, MP Wijerathna also introduced over 900 family members of the alleged victims, providing further context to the extent of the violence. Speaking during the session, MP Wijerathna stated, “Child soldiers were recruited by the JVP even... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
ජනපති කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තා විස්සක් කුණු කූඩේ
විවිධ ආණ්ඩු විසින් පසුගිය වසර දහයක පමණ කාලයේදී වරින් වර පත් කෙරුණු ජනාධිපති කොමිෂන් සභා විස්සක පමණ වාර්තා තවමත් ක්‍රියාත්මක නොවී හමස් පෙට්ටියේ පවතින බව මහාචාර්ය නීතිඥ ප්‍රතිභා මහනාම හේවා මහතා ලංකාදීපයට පැවසීය. උදුලාගම කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාව මැක්ස්වල් පරණගම කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාව,ලලිත් ඇතුලත්මුදලි ඝාතන කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාව, විජය කුමාරතුංග ඝාතන කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාව, ජනරාල් ඩෙන්සිල් කොබ්බෑකඩුව ඝාතන කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාව එසේ ක්‍රියාත්මක නොවුණු වාර්තා කිහිපයක් බවද ඔහු සඳහන් කළේය. ප්‍රමාණවත් සාක්ෂි පවතී නම් මෙම කමිටු නිර්දේශ ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට හැකියාව ඇති බවද මහානාම හේවා මහතා පැවසීය. මේ අතර මෙම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල්වරයාගේ හැසිරීම පිළිගත නොහැකියි!- සිවිල් ක්‍රියාකාරිණී ජෙහාන් හමිඩ් නීතිපතිට ලිඛිතව දන්වයි
පසුගියදා මාතර මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වූ පොලිස්පතිවරයා සම්බන්ධයෙන් මහේස්ත්‍රාත්වරයා ඉදිරියේ ඔහුට ඇප ලබා දීමට විරුද්ධ වීමට කරුණු දක්වමින් අතිරේක සොලිස්ටර් ජනරාල්වරයා වෘත්තීමය නොවන ග්‍රාම්‍ය වචන භාවිත කරමින් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් සැකකරුවෙකුට හිමි අයිතීන් නොසලකා හරිමින් කටයුතු කර ඇති බව විවිධ පිරිස් විසින් සමාජ මාධ්‍ය තුළ අදහස් දක්වා තිබුණි. අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල්වරයාගේ හැසිරීම විවිධ පිරිස් හෙලා දකිමින් අප වෙතද අදහස් දැක්වූ අතර සිවිල් ක්‍රියාකාරිණියක වන ජෙහාන් හමීඩ් මහත්මිය නීතිපතිවරය වෙත සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අප්‍රසාදය පළකරමින් යැවූ ලිපියක් මාධ්‍ය වෙත යොමු කර ඇත. ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් ලියා ඇති එම ලිපියෙහි සිංහල පරිවර්තනය පහතින් පළවේ. ගරු නීතිපතිතුමා, නීතිපති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
SJB nominates Dr. Ruvaiz Haniffa as Colombo Mayor candidate
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has officially nominated Dr. Ruvaiz Haniffa as its candidate for the position of Mayor of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC). The party emphasized that the nomination reflects its vision for a “super developed city” and aims to uplift the lives of all residents within the Colombo Municipal Council area. In a statement, the SJB highlighted that the hope of the people in Colombo is to transform the city into a modern, thriving hub of development. Dr. Haniffa’s nomination marks the beginning of what the party described as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
Hassan Alaldeen named Sarvajana Balaya’s Colombo Mayoral candidate
Hassan Alaldeen has been officially nominated as the mayoral candidate for the Colombo Municipal Council by the ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ alliance. This announcement was made following an Iftar ceremony for Muslim devotees held in Dehiwala yesterday afternoon (March 21). Alaldeen, has previously served as a member of the ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ alliance’s Executive Council, as well as the party’s Media Secretary. The announcement was made by the leader of the ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ alliance, MP Dilith Jayaweera, who was accompanied by several party members and supporters at the event.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
GMOA: Budget provides positive solution to doctors’ allowances
The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has welcomed the 2025 Budget, stating that it offers a favorable resolution to concerns over payments for doctors’ additional duties. Addressing a press conference today (March 22), GMOA Media Spokesperson Dr. Chamil Wijesinghe said the budgetary provisions have addressed a key issue that had sparked widespread concern within the health sector in recent weeks. There had been speculation that allowances for health professionals would be slashed under the new budget proposals, leading to unrest within the sector. Several health trade unions had even resorted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
The Unfinished Promise: Why Sri Lanka’s Agriculture Policy Must Be Finalized Now
For decades, Sri Lanka’s agriculture sector has teetered on the edge of uncertainty, shackled by inconsistent policies and a lack of decisive action. Recognizing the urgent need for reform, agriculture professionals and university academics, with significant financial support from international contributors, undertook the monumental task of drafting two transformative documents: the Overarching Agriculture Policy and the National Agriculture Policy. These blueprints were meticulously designed to tackle critical issues such as food security, climate resilience, sustainability, and farmer welfare. Yet, despite the monumental effort and expertise poured... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
උමංදාවේ හොරකම් මාට්ටු ! සමාව ගන්න සූදානම්ද ?
https://youtu.be/5QxSawH61IA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
The Case of Karu Jayasuriya - III
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar……. Mark Antony speaking at the funeral of his assassinated friend Julius Caesar in the Shakespeare play by the same name My readers, alert as usual, may be wondering why this essay is entitled ‘The Case of Karu Jayasuriya’ instead of just ‘Karu Jayasuriya’. Well there’s a reason. Please read on. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
Harnessing the Power of Senior Voters: A Call for Unity and Action
As the world progresses, the voice of senior citizens has become increasingly pivotal, particularly in shaping the future of our communities and countries. An impressive 12% of a nation's population is composed of seniors—an influential demographic that, when mobilized, can wield significant power at the ballot box. Yet, the question remains: how can we effectively rally this crucial voter base? The answer lies in recognizing the inherent value of our collective experience and wisdom. Seniors have a unique perspective shaped by years of struggle, resilience, and triumph. This depth of understanding can... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
Defence Ministry of Japan Delegation visits Pathfinder Foundation
Rear Admiral (Ret) Hiroyuki Terada, Director of Defence Cooperation of the Indo-Pacific Region (Indo-Pacific Regional Policy Division), Ministry of Defence of Japan, visited the Pathfinder Foundation headquarters at Riverpoint in Peheliyagoda to meet with Founder Milinda Moragoda and other senior members of the Foundation. He was accompanied by Ms. Ayuka Horikawa, Officer of the Indo-Pacific Regional Policy Division of the Ministry of Defence and Captain Yuki Yokohari, Defence and Security Advisor of the Embassy of Japan, Colombo. This visit was a continuation of the regular interactions between the Japanese Defence Ministry... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
මේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ රටේ රජයක් පිහිටුවීමට ජනතා චන්දය අපේක්ෂාකරණ සියලු දෙනාම විසින් ජාතිය ඉදිරියේ අනිවාර්‍යෙන්ම පිළිගතයුතු ඓතිහාසික යථාර්ථය
(දැන් යලිත් ප්‍රාදේෂීය සභා මැතිවරණයකට නම් දී ඇති බැවින් මෙම අදහස් කාලෝචිත නිසා මෙය නැවත පළකිරීමකී.) සින්හල ජාතියේ උපත පිළිබඳ නව මතයක්; ඓතිහාසික යථාර්ථයන් “පාලි මහාවන්ශය ලිවිමටත් සියවස් එක හමාරකට දෙකකට පමණ පෙර ලියනලද කරන්ඩව්‍යුහ. දිව්‍යාවදාන ආදී සන්කෘත ග්‍රන්ථ වල සඳහන්වණුයේ බටහිර ඉන්දියානු ඉන්දුනිම්න ප්‍රදේශයෙන් ලක්දිවට පැමිණි සින්හ නැමැති වෙළඳ සිටුවරයාගේ පුත්‍රයාවන “සින්හළ” නමැති (ගෞතම) බෝධි සත්වයන් වහන්සේ විසින් මේරට මනුෂ්‍යවාස කොට සින්හල ජාතිය පටන්ගන්නාලද බවයි. සින්ධු නදී නිම්නයෙහි පොලව යට වැලලී තිබුණ අති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
Healing the War Trauma in Ukraine
Complex traumatic events are associated with armed conflict (Coventry et al., 2020), and it has a possible impact on mental health. These conflicts can cause physical, psychological, mental, and spiritual consequences for people (Moreno-Chaparro et al., 2022). Armed conflicts extinguish the social fabric and cause economic and cultural repercussions. Moreno-Chaparro and team report (2022) that a high prevalence of mental disorders has been reported in areas affected by armed conflicts. As indicated by Carpiniello (2023), women and children are the most vulnerable to the outcome of armed conflicts. The Ukrainian... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Calls on Deputy Minister of Defence
Commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), Admiral Samuel Paparo called on the Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd) Thursday (Mar 20) at the Deputy Minister's office. During the meeting, Admiral Paparo and Major General Jayasekara (Retd) engaged in discussions on a range of bilateral defence and security matters. Both parties emphasized the importance of strengthening defence cooperation to promote regional stability. Admiral Paparo emphasized the enduring security partnership between the U.S. and Sri Lanka while outlining the U.S. vision for promoting regional stability and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
Property Market Shows Signs of Growth Despite High Taxes & Bureaucratic Hurdles
Industry experts at the Lanka Property Show 2025 expressed confidence in Sri Lanka’s real estate sector, highlighting its potential for growth despite past economic challenges. While factors such as rising interest rates, currency depreciation, and fluctuating taxes previously impacted the market, experts were optimistic that stabilizing interest rates, exchange rates, and tax policies will foster a more predictable and business-friendly environment for investors and homebuyers alike. Building on this positive outlook, the Lanka Property Show 2025 reinforced the sector’s resilience and promising future. The event featured 25+ premier projects, including highly anticipated... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
Sri Lanka’s agriculture in crisis as rice, tea, and coconut productions drop while prices rise
Government action has so far not stabilised markets. Lower production is causing negative effects on inflation and the availability of products in stores. Some rice varieties have been unavailable for months. Signs of growth are visible only in rubber and some export crops. Colombo (AsiaNews) – Sri Lanka's agricultural sector is going through a severe crisis, with a significant drop in the production of major crops such as rice, tea and coconut. This is driving up inflation and contributing to higher food prices, worrying consumers and policymakers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
BYD’s first shipment arrives in Sri Lanka
John Keells CG Auto marks a new era in green mobility In a momentous event for Sri Lanka’s automotive landscape, the first shipment of BYD’s cutting-edge new energy vehicles (NEVs) has arrived at the Hambantota Port. This historic milestone, facilitated by John Keells CG Auto (JKCG Auto)—the authorised distributor for the BYD vehicles in Sri Lanka—ushers in a new era of sustainable mobility and innovation. The shipment includes a brand-new range of BYD’s most popular global models such as BYD SEALION 6, BYD ATTO 3,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/25)
Chikungunya wave hits Sri Lanka: Are you at risk?
Joint pain lasts at least a month The disease is not spread directly from person to person—only through mosquito bites Main symptoms include sudden high fever, severe joint pain, muscle aches, headache, nausea, fatigue, and skin rashes These mosquitoes are most active during the early morning and late afternoon Eliminating mosquito breeding sites is the most effective way to control the outbreak Colombo, March 21 (Daily Mirror) - Sri Lanka is experiencing a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/25)
Sri Lankan Truth Commission – Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces must not fall for this trap of story-telling & confessions for compensation!
South Africa’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission was NOT a tribunal & therefore had no powers to prosecute individuals as there were no judges, no lawyers & no intention to declare who was guilty & who was innocent. It was nothing but Restorative Justice created in 1995 by the Nelson Mandela govt claiming it would “heal” the trauma of apartheid. Nothing of the sort happened. We don’t need new healing, restorative justice, reconciliation 16 years after Sri Lanka’s conflict ended. Yes, we need truth – but that truth must name all the individuals... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/25)
Debunking the Myth of Militant Buddhism: A Defense of Sri Lanka's Ethical Legacy
The characterization of Theravāda Buddhism, particularly in Sri Lanka, as militant is a distortion of its historical trajectory and core philosophy. Charles Keyes, in his article Political Crisis and Militant Buddhism in Contemporary Thailand (rev 1999), projects a generalized narrative of "militant Buddhism" that fails to account for the unique cultural, ethical, and historical context of Sri Lanka. His misinterpretation of the Mahāvaṃsa undermines the profound commitment of Sri Lankan Buddhists to ahimsa (non-violence), compassion, and coexistence. Charles Keyes is a well-known scholar who, since the 1960s, has conducted extensive research... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/25)
L.K.N. PERERA (LL.B Cey) Attorney at law 1) Appeal to revoke the name change of Estate Tamils as Malayam Tamils
L.K.N. PERERA (LL.B Cey) Attorney at law 1) Appeal to revoke the name change of Estate Tamils as Malayam Tamils 2) Request to treat Rohingia immigrants not as refugees but as illegal immigrants. 3) Request to adopt Boomiputra Policy to protect interests of Sinhala Nation.1) Appeal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/25)
1948 සිට පත් වූ අගමැතිවරුන් සහ ජනාධිපතිවරුන්ගේ ස්ව චින්තන සැළකීමේදී අනුර දිසානායක ජනාධිපතිවරයාත් යටත් විජිත චින්තයේම දිගුවක්ද?
1948 සිට 2024 දක්වා ලංකාව පාලනය කළේ රට බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය කිරීටයට අර්ධව යටත්ව සිටි අවධියේ ස්ව චින්තනය නිර්මාණය වූ අගමැතිවරු සහ ජනාධිපවරුය. ඒ ගැන විවාදයක් තිබිය නොහැකිය.ඒ අතරින් ගරු සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිණිය එහි අපගමනයකි. ඒ අපගමනයේ ප්‍රතිඵලය වූයේ එතුමියගේ ප්‍රජා අයිතියද අහිමි කරවීමය. පසුව පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසින්ම එකී ප්‍රජා අයිතිය අහිමි කිරීම වැරදි බවට යෝජනා කර ගත්තේ ය.මෑත කාලයේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පාලනය අවධි 4කට වෙන් කළ හැකිය.1. 1815-1948 සෘජු යටත් විජිත සමය2. 1948-1972 ඩොමීනියන්/ අර්ධ යටත් විජිත සමය3. 1972-2024 යටත් විජිත චින්තකයන්ගේ පාලන සමය4. 2024... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/25)
New Age Militarists and Technology in America -Their Threat to Our Common Future
Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. In it, he calls for a renewed sense of national purpose and even greater cooperation between government and the tech sector. His book is, in fact, not just an account of how to spur technological innovation, but a distinctly ideological tract. As a start, Karp roundly criticizes Silicon Valley’s focus on consumer-oriented products and events like video-sharing apps, online... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/25)
Israel’s Ramadan massacre ends remaining western claims of moral leadership
20/03/2025 Benjamin Netanyahu’s horrific resumption of the war on Gaza shows that no US-backed ceasefire deal is worth the paper it is printed on At 2:20am on Tuesday local time in the Gaza Strip, Washington inaugurated a new era in world politics. This was the moment Israel timed its attacks on dozens of targets in the enclave to coincide with suhoor, the predawn meal eaten by Muslims in preparation for a day of fasting. The timing was designed to inflict maximum civilian casualties, as families across Gaza gathered... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/25)
Sri Lanka’s LG Election scheduled for May 06
The Election Commission has announced that the upcoming Local Government (LG) Elections in Sri Lanka will be held on May 06. The acceptance of nominations for the LG Elections concluded at 12.00 noon today (20). The nomination process for 336 Local Government institutions commenced on March 17, and the election date was confirmed after the conclusion of the nomination period. Additionally, the deadline for placing deposits for the LG Elections ended yesterday (19). Earlier, the Election Commission had announced an extension of key deadlines related to the elections,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/25)
Sri Lanka Police Media Spokesman resigns
The Sri Lanka Police Media Spokesman SSP Buddhika Manatunga has reportedly tendered his resignation from the position. He has already handed over his letter of resignation to the Acting IGP Priyantha Weerasooriya, according to sources. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/25)
Deshabandu Tennakoon remanded until April 3
Former IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon has been remanded until April 3 after being produced before the Matara Magistrate's Court today. Tennakoon, who had an open warrant issued for his arrest, surrendered to the court yesterday morning accompanied by a group of lawyers after being in hiding for 20 days. On February 27, the court ordered the arrest of Tennakoon and seven others on charges of conspiring to commit murder in a shooting incident in Weligama on December 31, 2023. The Court of Appeal recently dismissed Tennakoon's writ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/25)
ඇමෙරිකාවේ, එංගලන්තෙවත නැති සංක්‍රින්ති ලිංගිකයන් සම්බන්ධ විෂයන් අපේ පාසලට ගේන්න එපා - ආචාර්ය අජන්තා පෙරේරා (වීඩියෝ)
ඇමෙරිකාවේ, එංගලන්තෙවත නැති සංක්‍රින්ති ලිංගිකයන් සම්බන්ධ විෂයන් අපේ පාසලලේ විෂය නිර්දේශයට ඇතුළත් නොකරන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් ආචාර්ය අජන්තා පෙරේරා මහත්මිය ඊයේ (18) අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම්වරයා වෙත ලිපියක් බාරදීමට කටයුතු කර ඇත. එම ලිපිය බාරදීමෙන් අනතුරුව ඇය මාධ්‍ය වෙත අදහස් දක්වමින්මෙසේ පැවසීය. ‘‘මේ රටේ දෙමාපියන් තම දරුවන් ඉපදූනාට පස්සේ තේරුම් ගන්නවා. මේ ඉපදිලා ඉන්නේ ගැහැණු දරුවෙක්ද, පිරිමි දරුවෙක්ද කියලා. ඊට පස්සේ ඔවුන් නිසි වයස පැමිණුනාට පස්සේ අධ්‍යාපනය සදහා පාසල් වෙත යොමුකරනවා. ඒ නිසි පරිදි අධ්‍යාපනය ලබාදෙන්න. පාසල තුළ තියෙනවා විෂය නිර්දේශ ඒවා තමයි අපි දරුවන්ට උගන්වන්නේ. හැබැයි මේ මෑතක ඉදලා පාසල් පද්ධතියට ගේන්න උත්සාහ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/25)
Deshabandu Tennakoon remanded
Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Deshabandu Tennakoon was remanded until tomorrow (20) following his appearance before the Matara Magistrate’s Court this morning (19).... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/25)
Expected paddy harvest dropped by 5 million metric tonnes this year: Minister
Colombo, March 19 (Daily Mirror) - Claiming that the expected paddy harvest this year had diminished by 5 million metric tonnes, Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe said yesterday the government may have to import rice again to meet the demand. He told Parliament that the estimated paddy harvest this year was 2.9 million metric tonnes and that it has reduced to 2.4 million metric tonnes due to adverse weather conditions and floods. "If there is a shortage in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/25)
Health professionals’ strikes despite highest salary hike unacceptable - President
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that the trade union actions by healthcare professionals cannot be justified, considering that the largest salary increase in history granted by a government without any demands or pressure from professional associations has already been implemented. The President made these remarks during a meeting held today (19) at the Presidential Secretariat with the Public Services United Nurses’ Union (PSUNU), the PMD reported. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake highlighted that despite operating within a constrained economic framework, the government has prioritized increasing the basic salaries of public sector employees in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/25)
“I voted for you but we do not like Bill 104” said Vijitha Bulathsinghala (March 12, 2025) -This letter is my response to Deepak Anand, Conservative MPP for Mississauga-Malton, to whom Vijitha Bulathsinghala wrote.
Mr.Deepak Anand, (Conservative) MPP Mississauga-Malton7895 Tranmere Drive, Unit 11Mississauga, OnL5S 1V9 “I voted for you but we do not like Bill 104” said Vijitha Bulathsinghala (March 12, 2025) This letter is my response to Deepak Anand, Conservative MPP for Mississauga-Malton, to whom Vijitha Bulathsinghala wrote. 2066 Kings Grove Crescent Ottawa, Ontario . K1J 6G1 17 March 2025 Dear Deepak: I am Asoka Weerasinghe of Ottawa East, a Sinhalese Buddhist, from Sri Lanka, who has been domiciled in Canada since... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/25)
Dr. Daniele Ganser: Selling wars (Andy Steele)
During AE911Truth’s anniversary event, Swiss historian Daniele Ganser gave an important presentation on the history of false flags and deceptive U.S. narratives that have initiated wars, all the way from Pearl Harbor to 9/11. When interviewed post presentation by AE911Truth’s Andy Steele, Ganser commented on the U.S. government’s use of a PR firm to sell the lie that Iraqi soldiers killed newborns at a Kuwaiti hospital to drum up support in the U.S. for the first Gulf War: “People understand that stories are being sold, like the story, ‘You should buy this car’ or ‘You... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/25)
Explorations of the Thearavada Buddhist Heritage by, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha (Professor of German School of Medicine)
I must start off with the captioning of this phrase "that The name Lankawa was a direct imprint by Lord Buddha Himself"; through His doctrinal and philosophical declaration of the Lankawathara Suthraya from the top of Mount Sri Pada. It should be pointed out here, by me, that, although, through the passages of time vivid changes occurred in the body of Lankawa; yet, it sustained itself as the trader’s paradise of the Indian Ocean; with its remarkable “Thearavada Trading Economy”. And the remarkable Thearavada Philosophy; which was conceived to the Sinha Hela... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/25)
Vaishnaw: India rail fares far less than Sri Lanka, Pak, Bangladesh
The Indian Railways has not increased fares since 2020, he said, adding that the fares in European countries are more than five times. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw (PTI Photo) Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Tuesday that rail fares in India are lower as compared to neighbouring countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Replying to the discussion in the Lok Sabha on the Demands for Grants under the control of the Ministry of Railways for 2025-26, Vaishnaw said, “If we compare with neighbouring countries, our fares are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/25)
අල්ජසීරා, ඩයස්පෝරා - රනිල් ,අනුර නළුවන්ගේ බටලන්ද නාටකයේ අවසන් අරමුණ කුමක්ද? - ජාතික සංවිධාන එළිදරව්ව
බටලන්ද වාර්තාව මුල් කරගෙන විවිධ පාර්ශවය විසින් එකිනෙකට පරස්පර විවිධ මතවාදී පළ කිරීම් තුළ මෙම ක්‍රියාවලියේ අවසානය කුමක් විය හැකිද යන්න පිළිබඳව ලංකා ලීඩර් ජාතික සංවිධාන වල මතය නැවත වටයකින් විමසන ලදී. මේ වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතාගේ අදහස ඔහුගේ වචනයෙන්.. අල්ජසීරා මාධ්‍යවේදියා විසින් බටලන්ද බෝම්බය පත්තු කිරීමෙන් පසුව හදිසියේම අර්බුදයට ලක්වූ විවිධ පාර්ශ්ව විසින් හදිසි ප්‍රතිචාර ලෙස විවිධ ක්‍රියාමාර්ගවලට එළඹුණු ආකාරය සහ විවිධ ප්‍රකාශ සිදුකරන ආකාරය දැකගත හැකි විය. ඒ අතර රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා ප්රධාන අපරාධකරුවෙකු ලෙස ඔහුගේ ප්‍රජා අයිතිය අහෝසි කිරීම සහ අපරාධ නීතිය යටතේ ඔහුට දඬුවම් කිරීමේ උවමනාව විවිධ පාර්ශ්වවලින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/25)
පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයටත්, බටලන්දටත් වඩා අපරාධයක් භූවිද්‍යා සහ පතල් කැණිම් කාර්යංශයෙන් කරමින් සිටිනවා... ලහිරුගෙන් අනාවරණයක් (වීඩියෝ)
පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයටත්, බටලන්දටත් වඩා මහා පරිමාණ ඛණිජ සම්පත් ජාවාරමක භූ විද්‍යා හා පතල් කැණිම් කාර්යංශය නිරතව සිටින බව ලහිරු වීරසේකර මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු ඊයේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අනාවරණයක් සිදුකළේය. එහිදි වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ ලහිරු වීරසේකර මහතා මෙසේද පැවසීය ‘‘භූ විද්‍යා හා පතල් කැණිම් කාර්යංශයේ ඉහළ නිලධාරීන්ගේ උවමනාව මත මෙරට වටිනා කණිජ සම්පත් කුණු කොල්ලයට හෝ හිතවත්කම් මත විවිධ සමාගම්වලට ලබාදීමට කටයුතු කරලා තියෙනවා. මේවා අපේ රටේ අනාගත පරපුරට උරුම සම්පත්, මේ රටේ සිද්දධ වෙච්ච පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයටත්, බටලන්ද වැනි අපරාධ වලටත්වඩා අපරාධයක් මේ හරහා සිද්ධ වෙනවා.“ යැයි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/25)
ආණ්ඩුව කියන්නේ බොරුලු... රනිල් ආණ්ඩුවේ සල්ලි වලින් පවුලේ ගමන් ගිහින් නැතිලු ... රනිල්ගෙන් නිවේදනයක්
රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා රජයේ වියදමින් කිසිදු පෞද්ගලික සංචාරයක නිරත වී නැතැයි රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ කාර්යාලය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. රනිල් ආණ්ඩුවේ මුදලින් පෞද්ගලික සංචාර ගොස් ඇතැයි කෙරුණු සියලු ප්‍රකාශ සාවද්‍ය බව ද එම කාර්යාලය වැඩිදුරටත් සඳහන් කරයි. එම නිවේදනයේ මෙසේද සඳහන් සඳහන් වේ. හිටපු ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා සහ මහාචාර්ය මෛත්‍රී වික්රමසිංහ මහත්මිය රජයේ මුදල් වැය කරමින් වර්ෂ 2023 දී ලන්ඩනයේ සංචාරයක නිරත වූ බවට කෙරුණු ප්‍රකාශය සම්පූර්ණයෙන් අසත්‍යය. රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා 2023 වර්ෂයේදී තුන්වරක් ලන්ඩනයේ සංචාරය කරනු ලැබීය. ප්‍රථම සංචාරය 2023 මැයි 09 වැනි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/25)
SC declares Gotabaya’s detention order unlawful
Colombo, March 18 (Daily Mirror) - The Supreme Court today ruled that a detention order issued by former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2020 under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) was unlawful and violated the fundamental rights of the petitioner. A three-judge bench comprising Justices S. Thurairaja, A. H. M. D. Nawaz, and Mahinda Samayawardena delivered the verdict, ordering the State to compensate the petitioner with Rs. 100,000. The ruling was in response to a Fundamental Rights petition filed by Kanchana Priyadarshani Madurapperuma, a resident of Pokunuwita, Henagama. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/25)
Sri Lanka’s economy grew 5% in 2024: CBSL
The Sri Lankan economy recorded a strong turnaround registering overall growth of 5% for 2024 amid renewed macroeconomic stability, says the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). Meanwhile, the country’s economy grew 5.4% in the fourth quarter of 2024, the Census and Statistics Department said in a statement. The International Monetary Fund had forecast Sri Lanka’s economy would grow by 4.5% in 2024. Sri Lanka’s agriculture sector grew 8.3% in 2024 from a year earlier, industrial output expanded by 25.5%, and services grew by 57.5%. Struck by a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/25)
The Cardinal who reports to Vatican cannot threaten to overthrow Sri Lankan governments
The Cardinal maybe a citizen of Sri Lanka, but he reports to the Vatican not to the Sri Lankan President. Thus, his orders are based on what the Vatican issues. His address relayed by numerous local media channels raises more questions than answers and whether even legal action can be pursued with regard to the open threat made against the State. Can the Church be used for political regime change – change govts & oust governments? This is what the media reported. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1371284874053560&rdid=0zyMWAJS7oTE98OU ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
Sri Lanka’s EWIS makes history: First homegrown laptops shipped to Zimbabwe
Top photo: EWIS dispatches the first-ever overseas export of locally manufactured laptops to Zimbabwe. Bottom photo shows the media briefing: (from left) - Nirmal Peiris - Director International Relations & Business Development EWIS, Roseanne Wijayanayaka – Director EWIS, Sanjeewa Wickramanayake – Chairman EWIS, Chamara Sahabandu - General Manager, EWIS. Company stresses ambition to surpass this milestone Eyes markets across Africa and beyond In a groundbreaking achievement for Sri Lanka’s IT and electronics manufacturing industry, EWIS Colombo Ltd, the country’s first and only local computer manufacturer, has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
Batalanda Commission faults JVP for acts of terrorism
Colombo, March 17 (Daily Mirror) - The commission which looked into what is called the torture chamber in Batalanda way back in 1989 has faulted Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in addition to the then government, for engaging in severe acts of violence, during the given period. The report said JVP has engaged in terrorism. “JVP had launched a fearful insurrection against the government from 1987 to 1990. This insurrection had made all essential services come to a standstill. People have been immensely affected by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
Govt. to initiate steps for offshore petroleum exploration
Colombo, March 18 (Daily Mirror) - The government is to undertake offshore gas exploration after the selection of a consultant firm to handle the international tender process in this regard, an official said yesterday. In Sri Lanka, a national policy on natural gas was gazetted in September 2020, outlining domestic demand creation strategies and providing operators with options to commercialise offshore gas. A new Petroleum Resources Act No. 21 of 2021 has also been introduced to regulate the process. The Petroleum Development Authority of Sri Lanka (PDASL) has also been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
Boossa Prison Jailor remanded over ‘Ganemulla Sanjeewa’ murder
A Jailor at the Boossa Prison, who had brought underworld figure Sanjeewa Kumara Samararathne also known as “Ganemulla Sanjeewa” to court on the day he was killed inside the Hulftsdorp court premises, has been arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD). Subsequently, he has been ordered to be remanded until March 21, after being produced before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court, Ada Derana reporter said. Presenting the suspect to the court, the Colombo Crimes Division officials have stated that the murdered suspect, “Ganemulla Sanjeewa”, had been brought to court by the arrested Jailer... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
'ශ්රී ලංකාව මාසිකව රු. බිලියන 700කට වඩා දේශීය වෙළෙඳපොලෙන් ණය ගන්නවා'' - ආර්ථික විශේෂඥයෙක් කියයි
2025 ජනවාරි මාසයේදී පමණක් ශ්රී ලංකා රජය භාණ්ඩාගාර බිල්පත් වැනි දේශීය වෙළඳපොළෙන් රුපියල් බිලියන 700කට වඩා ණයට ගත් බව ආර්ථික විශ්ලේෂක තලාල් රාෆි පවසනවා. රූපවාහිනී සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවක දී අදහස් දක්වමින් ඔහු සඳහන් කර තිබුණේ, අදාළ ණය ප්‍රමාණය වන රුපියල් බිලියන 700ක මුදල කොළඹ සිට කටුනායක දක්වා අධිවේගී මාර්ග අටක් ඉදි කිරීමට වැය වන මුදලට සමාන බවයි. “මෙය රජය පවත්වා ගැනීම සඳහා අපි මාසිකව ණයට ගන්නා මුදලයි. මෙය වත්මන් රජයේ හෝ පෙර රජයේ වරදක් නොවේ. ශ්රී ලංකාව ක්‍රියාත්මක වී ඇති ආකාරය මෙයයි,” යනුවෙන් පවසන ඔහු එහි දී වැඩිදුරටත් සඳහන් කර තිබුණේ, දළ මූල්‍ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
බටලන්දේ වද විදි බොහෝ දෙනෙක් සාක්ෂි දෙන්න සූදානම්.. වැරදිකරුවන් සියල්ලට දඬුවම් දෙනවා…
88-89 කාලයේ බටලන්ද වධකාගාරයේ වද විදි විශාල පිරිසක් ඊට සාක්ෂි දෙන්න සූදානමින් සිටින බව ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ ප්රධාන ලේකම් ටිල්වින් සිල්වා මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. තමන් නීතියට වැඩකරන බවත් කිසිවකුට මඩ ගැසීමේ උවමනාවක් නැති බවත් හෙතෙම කියා සිටියි ඒ අනුව ඉදිරියේදී මෙම වධකාගාර සිදුවීමට සම්බන්ධ බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට නීතිය හමුවේ දඬුවම් විඳීමට සිදුවනු ඇති බවද ඒ මහතා පැවසුවේය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ දේදුනු ජාතියක් බවට පත් කල යුතුයි..- සංස්කෘතික ඇමති
සුවපත් කිරීමේ සහ සමාව දීමේ සත්‍ය කොමිසමක් පිහිටුවිය යුතුව ඇතැයි ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු ඇමති සුනිල් සෙනෙවි මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. දකුණු අප්‍රිකාවෙන් නෙල්සන් මැන්ඩෙලා කලා සේ දේදුනු ජාතියක් ශ්රී ලංකාවේද බිහිවිය යුතුව ඇති බවත් ඒ මහතා පැවසුවේය. අයවැය පිළිබඳ කාරක සභා අවස්ථාවේ විවාදයේදී අදහස් දක්වමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා පැවසුවේ සුවපත් කිරීමේ සහ සමාව දීමේ කොමිසමක් පිහිටුවීමේදී තම අමාත්‍යාංශය ප්රධාන කාර්යභාරයක් ඉටු කරන බවය. දකුණු අප්‍රිකානු හිටපු ජනාධිපති නෙල්සන් මැන්ඩෙලා කළාක් මෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවත් එකිනෙකාට සමාව දිය යුතුයි. අප්‍රේල් 21 වන දින ළං වෙමින් පවතින අතර එදින පල්ලිවලට පහර දුන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
නිරාගමික අගමැතිනි සුදු ඔසරිය ඇඳගෙන අටපිරිකර අරගෙන යනවා..- දිලිත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව දෙවනත් කරයි…
https://youtu.be/DE4gqpC8xtI නිරාගමික අගමැතිනිය සුදු ඔසරිය ඇඳගෙන අටපිරිකර ගෙන එකත්පස්ව වඳින විට ඒ ගැන ආඩම්බරයක් දැනෙන බව සර්වජන බලය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී දිලිත් ජයවීර මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. සංස්කෘතික අමාත්‍යවරයා විසින් යෝජනා කරන ලද දේදුණු ජාතියක් යන්න සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැඩි විවේචනයක් එල්ල කළ ඔහු කියා සිටියේ ශ්රී ලංකීය සභ්‍යත්වය සහිතය ජාතියක් මිස දේදුණු ජාතියක් මෙරටට අවශ්‍ය නැති බවයි. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී සංස්කෘතික හා ආගමික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශ වැය ශීර්ෂයේදී ඒ මහතා මෙම අදහස් පල කලේය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
දේශපාලන සමීපත්වයක් පවත්වාගත් දෙපිරිසක් හදිසියේ ”බටලන්ද කොමිසමක්” කරළියට ගෙනෙමින් විරසක වීම පිළිගත හැක්කේ කාහටද? - විමල්ගෙන් ෆේස්බුක් සටහනක්
මේ දිනවල වඩාත් කතාබහට ලක්ව තිබෙන බටලන්ද කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා තම ෆෙස්බුක් ගිණුමේ සටහනක් තබමින් පවසන්නේ දේශපාලන සමීපත්වයක් පවත්වාගත් දෙපිරිසක් හදිසියේ ”බටලන්ද කොමිසමක්” කරළියට ගෙනෙමින් විරසක වීම පිළිගත හැක්කේ කාහටද? යන්නයි. ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් දීර්ඝව කරුණු පැහැදිලි කර ඇති එම ෆේස්බුක් සටහන පහතින් අල් ජසීරා මාධ්‍යවේදියෙකුගේ ප‍්‍රශ්ණ කිරීම මත කරළියට ආ ”බටලන්ද කොමිසම” පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ද ඉදිරිපත් කෙරිනි.එය ඉදිරිපත් කෙරුණු අවස්ථාවේ ගරු කථානායක තුමා හැඟීම්බර වී හඬා වැටුනි. බටලන්ද වධකාගාරය ගැනත් එහි කෲරත්වයට පත් කළ ශ්රී ලාංකික ජීවිත ගැනත් වඩාත්ම කම්පනයට පත් වූ බව පෙන්වූවේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
මහා පොලවට උහුලන්නට බැරි තරමට ජාති හා දෙශද්‍රෝහී වුවෝ
1978 සි ට 2024 දක්වා එජාප නායකයින් වන ජේ ආර් ,ප්‍රේමදාස හා රනිල් කළහැකි සියලු ජාති හා දේශ ද්‍රෝහී කම් කළහ . ජේ ආර් විවෘත ආර්ථිකය ගෙනාවෙම රටේ බහු තරයක් වූ සිංහල බෞද්ධයාගේ සුපුරුදු සැහැල්ලු පැවැත්ම ,අපිස් දිවි මග ,වෙනස් කර ඔවුන් බටහිරයන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතා සපුරන කා ම භෝගීන් කිරීමටය.එය බටහිරයන් විසින් ''යැංකි ඩි කීට' පැවරුන කාර් ය භාරයයි .13 ව්‍යවස්ථාව ගෙනවිත් පළාත් සභා අටවා ඔහු රට ගලවා ගත නොහැකි ප්‍රපාතයකට හෙලුවේය ඉන්දියාවට ඇරයුම් කර ඉන්දියන් හමුදා රටට ගෙනවිත් උන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික වර්ධන දිශානතිය Dr Sharmini Coorey | Dhananath Fernando
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IMF Managing Directors are All White
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 09-15 March 2025 Dear Julie – We who believe in karma, even when it takes its time, have a theory. It’s about why we find you – a lost, truncated ‘Korean-American’ – constantly scratching & poking about our country. Is it because our rubber exporters made lots of dollars off that US war on Korea (it’s not a ‘Korean War’) that officially began in 1949 and hacked that country into 2 pieces? That’s the US plan for Sri Lanka, no? Partition envy? Segregation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
ජාතික ආරක්‍ෂාවට තර්ජන දෙකක්… උතුර නැගෙනහිර සන්නද්ද කණ්ඩායම්.- ජනපති
‘සුපර් මුස්ලිම්’ යනුවෙන් හැඳින්වන සංවිධානයක් කල්මුණේ ප්‍රදේශයේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන බවත්, බුද්ධි අංශ මෙන්ම රජයේ ද අවධානය ඊට යොමුව ඇති බවට මාධ්‍ය විසින් වාර්තා කර තිබු අතර කැබිනට් තීරණ දැනුම් දීමේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවේදී මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් පළකෙරුණි. ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ද ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයේ වැය ශීර්ෂය පිළිබඳව විවාදය පැවති දිනයේදී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අදහස් දක්වමින් කියා සිටියේ සන්නද්ධ කණ්ඩායම් ක්‍රියාකරී විය හැකි ස්ථාන දෙකක් හඳුනා ගෙන ඇති බවයි. 2019 වසරේදී සිදුවූ පාස්කු ඉරිදා බෝම්බ ප්‍රහාරයෙන් පසුව විවිධ සංවිධානවල ක්‍රියාකාරකම් ගැන මෙරට ආරක්ෂක තත්ත්වය පිළිබඳව වැඩි දෙනෙකුගේ අවධානය යොමු වී තිබේ. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
Expressway expansions: Hitting a dead end?
RDA’s key focus is on completing Central Expressway Sri Lanka’s once-rapid expressway expansion has hit a dead end with every major highway project, except for the Central Expressway Project (CEP), having been put on hold indefinitely, with no clear roadmap for resumption. Amid a deep financial crisis and strict fiscal controls backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), infrastructure spending has taken a backseat, leaving commuters, businesses, and investors wondering when – or if – these expressway dreams will ever be realised. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe rejects Batalanda report as political mudslinging
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has rejected the Batalanda Commission report, claiming it was intended to smear him politically. "I wholly reject the report. It was published as a sessional paper in 2000, but no one, including the JVP, requested a debate," Wickremesinghe said in a special video statement. https://youtu.be/9VBq2tFtOtY He added that there is no precedent for debating a sessional paper 25 years after its publication. Explaining the background, Wickremesinghe said that following the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987, the JVP launched a violent campaign. He... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
Rasamanickam: Batalanda report tabled in Parliament to prevent split in JVP
Rasamanickam The government had tabled the Batalanda Commission report because its main element, the JVP, would otherwise have faced a debilitating split, TNA MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam told Parliament on Saturday. Participating in the third reading debate on Budget 2025, Rasamanickam said he believed that there would be further action in respect of the Batalanda report. “The problem is that all these reports, when tabled, rarely lead to any action. The Paranagama Commission report was tabled. The Udalagama Commission report was tabled. What actions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
Parliament to debate ‘Batalanda’ Commission report on April 10
The Parliamentary Communications Department has announced that the parliamentary debate on the ‘Batalanda’ Commission report will commence on April 10. Acting Director of Communications of Parliament, Mr. Jayalath Perera stated that the debate will be conducted in two stages. “From 11:30 AM to 5:30 PM, the debate on the ‘Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Places of Unlawful Detention and Torture Chambers at the Batalanda Housing Scheme,’ which was tabled in Parliament on March 14, will take place. It was also decided to allocate another date... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
CID directed not to arrest OIC of CCD and 5 others over 2023 Weligama shooting
An agreement has been reached between the Attorney General (AG) and the legal counsels of the suspects implicated in the 2023 shooting incident near a hotel in Weligama. In this regard, the AG has issued a special notice today (16) regarding the order to arrest former IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon and six other suspects in connection with the incident. Accordingly, based on the agreement reached, the AG has directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) not to arrest the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) and five other accused, excluding the former... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/25)
Ghosts of Batalanda return to haunt RW while pendulum swings towards AKD and JVP-led Govt.
Batalanda saga reminds JVP of painful past, pledges, and difficulties that lie ahead in ensuring justice Some of the accused of alleged atrocities against JVPers during 1987-’89 period now with NPP Eyewitness Indrananda recounts to ‘The Black Box’ his experience, black sites, and seeing RW in Batalanda Indrananda’s detailed affidavit of atrocities and persons involved sent to then AG back in the limelight Govt. tables Batalanda report in House after over 25 yrs., pledges action, seeks AG’s observations Calls for AKD... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
119 පිටුව බලන්න.. දේශපේ‍්‍රමී ජනතා ව්‍යාපාරය මිනී මැරුව හැටි බලන්න..- බටලන්දට රනිල්ගෙන් පිලිතුරු
ආණ්ඩුව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සභාගත කළ බටලන්ද කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් 16 වැනිදා විශේෂ ප්‍රකාශයක් කරන බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ පැවැසුවේය. මෙම කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාවෙන් තමන්ට චෝදනා එල්ල කර ඇති බව ප්‍රකාශ කළත් වාර්තාවේ 119 පිටුවේ තිබෙන කරුණු අධ්‍යයනය කරන ලෙස හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රිවරුන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටියේය. ‘‘කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාවේ 119 පිටුවේ තියෙන්නේ මම ගෙවල් දෙකක් දීපු එක නීත්‍යනුකූල නැහැ කියලා. ඒක නිසා මම බටලන්දට වගකිව යුතු බව කියනවා. වාර්තාවේ මට කිසිම දඬුවමක් නිර්දේශ කරලා නැහැ. මම සහ එවකට කැලණියේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ පොලිස් අධිකාරී නලින් දෙල්ගොඩ වක්‍රව වගකිව යුතු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
Islamic Extremism In Sri Lanka: A Rising Threat To South Asian Security – Analysis
Since the onset of Israel’s war on Hamas, the first incident of Israeli tourists facing terrorist threats abroad occurred in Sri Lanka. The war began on October 7 after Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking some 250 others hostage. In October, Israel’s National Security Council urged Israelis to leave Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay area and other beaches in the island’s south and west immediately, citing terrorism threats in the eastern part of Sri Lanka. This announcement from the Israeli Defense Ministry followed a warning from the US embassy in Sri Lanka, which... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to visit Sri Lanka in April to finalise key agreements
Foreign minister Vijitha Herath made the statement while responding to a question on budget allocation debate in the parliament Narendra ModiPTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Sri Lanka early next month to finalise agreements reached during President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's visit to Delhi last year, a minister said on Saturday. Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath made the statement while responding to a question on budget allocation debate in the parliament here. “We have maintained a close relationship with our neighbour India. Our... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
Batalanda Commission report tabled … finally
TheBatalanda Presidential Co-mission report was tabled in Parliament yesterday (14) by the Leader of the House and Transport Minister, Bimal Ratnayake. Minister Ratnayake announced that the government has decided to forward the report to the Attorney General for legal advice. Additionally, a Presidential Committee will be appointed to provide guidance and recommendations on how to proceed with the findings of the report. Ratnayake said that the Cabinet-of-Ministers, along with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has made a policy decision to take necessary action in response to the report. He reassured the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
Indian PM Modi to visit Sri Lanka in April, new agreements expected – Minister
Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Vijitha Herath has announced that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka in the first few days of April 2025. The Minister made this statement in Parliament today (15), and further stated that several new agreements are expected to be signed between the two countries during the visit.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
NPP women MPs want clear, definite standards for police, judges, media to handle crimes against women
Colombo, March 15 (Daily Mirror)- In the wake of the sexual assault on a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura Hospital, the NPP women Parliamentarians said that clear and definite standards should be put in place for the police, the judges and the media to handle cases of crimes against women. In a statement, they said that as a society, everyone needs to approach these crimes with empathy while protecting the privacy of the survivors without adding to their burdens and discouraging women from coming forward to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
බටලන්දෙන් එළියට ආ ඇඟ හිරිවැටෙන සාක්ෂිය - "මම වැසිකිලියට ගියෙත් බඩගාගෙන.. මේ මෙතනට අයන් එක තිබ්බේ"
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බටලන්දටත් වඩා ලොකු වධකාගාරය තිබ්බේ කොළඹ කැම්පස් එකේ | Patali Champika Ranawake
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The Case of Karu Jayasuriya - II
Continued from Friday, March 7, 2025 Leaders should lead us as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. H.G. Wells (1866-1946) Part I of this article ended with the following two sentences: “When countries are unequal partners, the weaker nations become subject to various forms of subversion (political, economic, cultural, etc.,) exerted by the stronger nations. Willing submission to international subversion seems to be Jayasuriya’s creed”. The last sentence might be offensive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
Sri Lanka’s First Woman Diplomat: The Trailblazing Journey
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Master Plan to restore the lost physical stability of the central hill country (HADABIMA of Sri Lanka), destroyed by the British colonial invaders for 133 years and to protect it from the ongoing environmental devastation by the Tamil estate labourers, and to prevent this country becoming the 29th State of India and finally, it ending up as a sterile desert sans life and civilization.
https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2024/10/14/a-master-plan-to-restore-the-lost-physical-stability-of-the-central-hill-country/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
ඖෂධ 170ක් හිගයි.. අදටත් අපි ෆේල්..- රජයේ වෛද්‍ය සැපයුම් අංශයේ නියෝජ්‍ය අධ්යක්ෂ
වර්තමානයේ ඖෂධ 170ක පමණ හිඟයක් පවතින බව වෛද්‍ය සැපයුම් අංශයේ නියෝජ්‍ය අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල් වෛද්‍ය ජී.විජේසුරිය මහතා පැවසීය. ඒ අතර හතිය සහ ඇදුම යන රෝග සඳහා ලබා දිය යුතු ඖෂධයක් මාස 03කට වැඩි කාලයක සිට නොමැති බවත්, මෙම ඖෂධය අවශ්‍ය අවස්ථාවලදී ලබා නොදුන හොත් රෝගීන් මිය යාමටද ඉඩ ඇති බවත් පොදු ව්‍යාපාර පිළිබඳ කාරක සභාව හමුවේ ඔහු ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. මෙම ඖෂධ ගෙන්වීම සඳහා ලියාපදිංචි සමාගම් ඉදිරිපත් නොවීම ගැටලුවක් බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් වෛද්‍ය සැපයුම් අංශයේ නියෝජ්‍ය අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල් වෛද්‍ය ජී.විජේසුරිය මහතා මෙලෙස අදහස් දක්වා සිටියේය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
බටලන්ද සභාගත කරයි.. කතානායක මූලාසනයේ හඬයි…
1988-89 කාලයේ සිදුවූ ඝාතනයන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන බටලන්ද කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාව සභානායක අමාත්‍ය බිමල් රත්නායක මහතා විසින් අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සභාගත කළේය. ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් දෙදින විවාදයක්ද ඉදිරියේදී පැවැත්වෙන බවත් හෙතෙම කියා සිටියේය. වාර්තාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඉදිරි කටයුතු කිරීම සඳහා ජනාධිපතිවරයා ප්රධාන කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය විසින් තීන්දුවක් ගෙන ඇති බවත් ඒ අනුව මෙම වාර්තාව නීතිපතිවරය යොමු කිරීමට පියවර ගන්නා බවත් ඔහු පැවසුවේය. මීට අදාළ ඉදිරි කටයුතු කිරීමට උපදෙස් යෝජනා කිරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් විශේෂ කමිටුවක් පත් කිරීමටද තීරණය කර තිබේ. එම වාර්තාව සභාගත කිරීම අවසානයේ කථානායකවරයා ඉතා හැඟුම්බර වූ අවස්ථාවක් දක්නට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
Massive TN fishing fleet poaching in SL waters: Only India’s Central Govt. can halt it – Minister Chandrasekar
Minister Chandrasekar Fisheries, Aquatic and Ocean Resources Minister Ramalingam Chandrasekar yesterday (13) emphasised that only the Central Government of India could prevent the Tamil Nadu fishing fleet from poaching in Sri Lankan waters. The Minister said that the Central Government of India in consultation with Tamil Nadu should without further delay deploy the Indian Navy and Coast Guard to prevent large-scale organised crossing of the Indo-Lanka maritime boundary. The JVPer said so when The Island asked him what he intended to do to curb poaching and the destructive fishing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
President focuses on streamlining, integrating and developing the manufacturing sector for greater efficiency
A meeting between President Anura Kumara Disanayake and officials of the Ministry of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development was held today (14) at the Presidential Secretariat. Discussions focused on enhancing the efficiency, integration and development of the manufacturing sector to strengthen the national economy, as well as addressing the challenges associated with these efforts. Key topics included government-led initial investments and proper regulation to empower small and medium-scale entrepreneurs, the establishment of local small-scale industries within investment zones and challenges related to business loans faced by small and medium-scale... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
CB Governor highlights key challenges and opportunities facing country’s construction industry
Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe Governor of the Central Bank Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe yesterday (14) emphasized the importance of promoting a sustainable and cost-effective construction industry in the country, highlighting key challenges and opportunities in the sector. Speaking at ‘Construction Expo 2025’, Dr. Weerasinghe underscored the need for Sri Lanka to align with global trends in sustainable construction, integrating cost-effective energy solutions and eco-friendly building practices. “I must say my views here are not necessarily as a Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, but as a person looking at this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
Ranil to make special statement on Batalanda Commission
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe is to make a special statement on the Batalanda Commission report which was tabled in Parliament by Leader of the House Bimal Ratnayke earlier today. Wickremesinghe's office said he will reveal some matters with regard to the Commission report on Sunday (16).... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/25)
Parliament to debate ‘Batalanda’ Commission report, presidential committee to be appointed
Leader of the House, Minister Bimal Ratnayake said that steps will be taken to forward the ‘Batalanda’ Commission report to the Attorney General and appoint a Presidential Committee for necessary advice to proceed. After tabling the commission report in the Parliament today (14), Ratnayake also said that a two-day debate will be held in the Parliament regarding the matter at a suitable time. Furthermore, the Minister stated that the report will be printed in all three languages and released to the public in the future.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/25)
How D’Oyly used espionage to conquer Kandy?
With the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom, the Kandyan Convention, ceremonially signed on March 10, 1815, completed the annexation of the island to the British Empire. This brought an end to the rule of Lankan Royalty. British propaganda successfully portrayed King Sri Vikrama Rajasinghe as a “cruel Tamil tyrant” despite evidence of his achievements in developing Kandy How did the British succeed in conquering Kandy when the others failed? To learn from the insights, we browsed through once again the pages of “The Doomed King: A... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
Ramadhan: Faith, Prayers and Righteous Deeds
(Given below is an excerpt of the Friday Sermon delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, on 7 March, 2025, gave a discourse on Ramadhan: Faith, Prayers and Righteous Deeds.) After reciting Tashahhhud, Ta‘awwuz and Surah al-Fatihah, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (May Allah be his Helper) recited the following verse from the Holy Qur’an: ‘And when My servants ask thee about Me, say: ‘I am near. I answer the prayer of the supplicant when he prays to Me. So they should hearken to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
The Land Blessed by Buddha's Footsteps and Sri Lanka's Theravada Buddhist State in Pliny’s Time
Synopsis: Sri Lanka, strategically located at the crossroads of ancient global trade, flourished as an economically vibrant and culturally independent nation. Its ability to engage in cultural exchanges on its own terms ensured the preservation of its unique spiritual and cultural heritage. The island’s thriving civilization, led by its Mahārath—visionary leaders and scholars—and guided by Buddhist principles, exemplified self-reliance and harmony. In this article, the profound cultural and philosophical depth of Sri Lanka explains why transformative figures like Jesus Christ and Prophet Muhammad may have focused their teachings... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
Could the new govt. guarantee the safety of all Sri Lankan women?
Following the incident many doctors took to social media, describing the hardships faced when posted to rural areas on transfers Two days after gala International Women’s Day events concluded, a dark day dawned in Sri Lanka when a female doctor was allegedly sexually assaulted at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital on Monday (March 10). The incident was revealed by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa in Parliament who raised concerns about the safety of females employed in the public service. The fact that a female doctor was threatened with a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
Heavy metals in the Kelani River put Colombo's water at risk
A copper and brass factory is contaminating the Kelani River in Pethiyagoda, harming the environment and the health of residents. Sri Lanka's fourth-largest waterway provides 80 per cent of Colombo's drinking water. Despite complaints, the factory continues to operate without the necessary environmental licence. Environmentalists complain that the damage is irreversible. Colombo (AsiaNews) – A copper and brass mining plant is dumping heavy metals into the Kelani River, Sri Lanka's fourth-largest waterway, near Pethiyagoda (Kelaniya), north of Colombo, contaminating groundwater and soil. Residents complain... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
බටලන්ද ගැන යුධ හමුදා හිටපු ඡායාරූප ශිල්පියාගෙන් අනාවරණයක්
භීෂණ සමයේදී තරුණයින් ඝාතනය කිරීමට එවකට තරුණ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ සම්බන්ධ බවට තොරතුරු වාර්තා වනවා. එවකට බටලන්ද ඇතුළු වධකාගාරවලදී තරුණයින් ඝාතනය කිරීමට ඒ සමයේ හිටපු තරුණ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ සම්බන්ධ බව පවසන්නේ ඉන්ද්‍රාන්ද සිල්වා මහතායි ඔහු රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ ඊට සම්බන්ධ වූ අකාරය තම ඇසින් දුටු බවයි පවසන්නේ. එම ඝාතන සිදුකිරීමට පෙර ඡායාරූප ලබාගත්තේ මෙම හිටපු හමුදා නිලධාරියා බවද පවසනවා. බැවින් මෙම අපරාධ පිළිබඳ වහාම පරීක්ෂණයක් පවත්වන ලෙස ජනාධිපතිවරයාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින බවයි ඔහු වඩිදුරටත් කියා සිටියේ. https://youtu.be/07sQljAMWQY... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
වංචාවට ගොදුරු විය හැකි සහ එකිනෙකට වෙනස් නීතිමය පනත් දෙකක අධිකරණ බලය යටතේ ඉඩම් ලේඛනාගාරයක් ඩිජිටල්කරණය කළ හැක්කේ කෙසේද?
ශ්රී ලංකාව සුවිශේෂී වන්නේ 1998 අංක 21 දරන ඉඩම් නීති පනත සම්මත කර ගැනීමෙනි - එය තවමත් පෙර ඉඩම් නීති සම්පාදනයේ අධිකරණ බලය යටතේ පැවතුනද, 1927 අංක 23 දරන ආඥා පනත යටතේ පවතී. නීති දෙක එකිනෙකට වෙනස් වන අතර, සියවස් කාර්තුවක් ගතවීමෙන් පසුව පවා මේ දෙක සමථයකට පත් කිරීමට කිසිදු බැරෑරුම් උත්සාහයක් ගෙන නොමැත. ඉඩම් ලේඛනාගාරය විසින් පවත්වාගෙන යනු ලබන ලේඛනය වංචාවට ගොදුරු විය හැකි අතර නීති සම්පාදනය කිරීම වංචනික විය හැකි වුවද ඉඩම් වාර්තා ඩිජිටල්කරණය කිරීම අවශ්‍ය වේ. ඩිජිටල්කරණය කිරීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවය රට තුළින් නොව පිටතින් පැමිණියේය; ලෝක බැංකුව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
A Master Plan to restore the lost physical stability of the central hill country
https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2024/10/14/a-master-plan-to-restore-the-lost-physical-stability-of-the-central-hill-country/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
භික්‍ෂු කතිකාවත් පනතේ යටි අරමුණු ජනාධිපති තේරුම් ගනු මැනවී
පසුගියදා අමරපුර මහා සංඝ සභාවේ මහනාහිමියන් වෙත ආක්‍රපත්‍ර ප්‍රදානය කිරීමේ උත්සවයේදී ජනාධිපතිතුමා විසින් භික්‍ෂු කතිකාවත් පනත කඩිනමින් සම්මත කිරීමට කටයුතු කරන බව ප්‍රකාශ කරන්නට යෙදුණි. මෙය තෛනිකායික මහානායක මහිමිවරුන්ගේ බලවත් විරෝධයට ලක් වූ සහ පසුගිය ආණ්ඩු විසින් එම විරෝධයට ගරුකර හකුලා ගත් පනතක් නැවත ගෙන ඒමට හේතුව කුමක් කුමක් ද පැහැදිලි නැත. එහෙත් ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ සහ මහා සංඝරත්නය ප්‍රමුඛ රටේ බහුතර බෞද්ධ ජනතාවගේ දැන ගැනීම සහ අවශ්‍ය පියවර ගැනීම පිණිස එම පනතට අදාළ අතීත කථිකාව නැවත මතක් කිරීම වැදගත් වේ යැයි සිතමි. මේ වෛද්‍ය වසනත් බණ්ඩාර මහතා විසින් සම්පාදනය කළ ලිපියකි. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
Sri Lanka revealed to be the world’s most family-friendly country for 2025
There are endless things to consider when moving to another country. What is the culture like? How easy is it to find work? How are the transport links? How happy are the locals? And for families hoping to move abroad, there are even more questions – think safety, healthcare, or education systems, for example. Remitly, an American remittance company helping users send money worldwide, has launched a new immigration index designed to help inform those considering relocating. The report, released in March 2025, ranks 82 countries across 24 factors, from healthcare quality and economic... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
විජේවීර පණ පිටින් චිමිනියට විසිකලා , කෙදිරිලි හඩ ඇසුනා | සියැසින් දුටු ඡායාරූප ශිල්පියාගේ හෙළිදරව්ව
https://youtu.be/4_-5rlULHV0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
රනිල් එක්ක ඡන්දේ ඉල්ලන කාලේ ජවිපෙට බටලන්ද අමතක වුණාද?
https://youtu.be/voBY3nUPb9g... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/25)
REPLY TO AUSTRALIAN BROADACASTING CORP ON THEIR PROGRAM ON THE TEA INDUSTRY IN SRI LANKA
BITTER BREW PRODUCED BY A TEAM OF WALL- EYED JOURNALISTS AT ABC'S FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE HAVING A TUNNEL VISION WHICH EXCLUDED CRITICAL FACTS AFFECTING THE TEA INDUSTRY IN THE PROGRAM. For them, nothing mattered, only that next spin whatever the consequences. The name used for the documentary on the Tea Industry of Sri Lanka smacks of prejudice when the ABC attempts to convey directly that the Sri Lankan cup of tea, is bitter. The ramifications Sri Lanka faced in her economy recently and critical issues the Tea industry confronted internationally were completely ignored as the agenda... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
As part of the 'Clean Sri Lanka' initiative, the Tri-Forces, under the Defence Ministry's supervision, are efficiently renovating schools nationwide
The nationwide project to clean and refurbish 1,000 selected schools as part of the government's 'Clean Sri Lanka' program is progressing with the dedicated involvement of the Tri-Forces. This initiative is being closely supervised by Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd) and Defence Secretary, Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha (Retd). The school cleaning and renovation project, which commenced on February 20, 2025, has now entered its second phase. As of March 10, 2025, renovations have been successfully completed in 432 schools with the contribution of Army personnel,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
REPORT OF THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF PLACES OF UNLAWFUL DETENTION AND TORTURE CHAMBERS AT THE BATALANDA HOUSING SCHEME
Batalanda-Commission-Report-Book-English-Final.pdf... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
බටලන්ද කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාවේ නිර්දේශ ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනු - සිවිල් සංවිධාන නියෝජිතයෝ ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයට
චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක ජනාධිපතිගේ සමයේදී මෙරට 88/89 සමයේදී සිසු වූ ඝාතන සම්බන්ධයෙන් සොයා පැලීමට පත්කළ ජනාධපති කොමිසමෙන් හෙළිදරව් වූ බටලන්ද වධකාගාරය සම්බන්ධ ජනාධිපති කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාවේ නිර්දේශ ක්‍රියාත්මක නොවී වසර ගණනාවක් ගතවී ඇතිබවත් කිසිදු අෘණ්ඩුවකින් මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් වරද කරුවන්ට දඩුවම් ලබානොදුන් බවත් මෙම කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාවෙන් හෙළිදරව් වී ඇති කරුණු අනුව මෙයට ඍජුවම සම්බන්ධ හිටපලු ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාට නීතිය ක්‍රියාත්ම කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා වෙත සංදේශයක් බාරදීමට අල්ලස, දූෂණය, නාස්තියට එරෙහි පුරවැසි බලය සංවිධානයේ සභාපති ජාමුණි කමන්ත තුෂාර මහතා කටයුතු කළේය. හිදී ඔහු මාධ්‍ය වෙත දැක්වූ අදහස් https://youtu.be/03J7fGlKhHI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
මාලිමාව පිටුපස සැඟවී සිටින මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදී සෙවණැලි ගැන ඥානසාර හිමිගෙන් සුවිශේෂී හෙළිදරව්වක්... (වීඩියෝ)
ආගමික කෘති ගෙන්වීමට තිබූ තහනම ආණ්ඩුව විසින් ඉවත්කරන බවට ඉකුත් දා මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා පළවී තිබූ බවත්, මෙම පොත්පත් ගෙන්වීමට ආණ්ඩුව තීරණය කළේ කුමන නිර්ණායක යටතේ දැයි හෙළිකළ යුතු බවත් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩ අත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියෝ පවසති. මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වමින් උන්වහන්සේ පවසන්නේ ඉස්ලාමය වැරදියට කියවාගත් ගෝලීයව ගොඩ නැගී ඇති ත්‍රස්ත උවදුර තවමත් පහව නොගිය පසුබිමක මුදලට මිනිසුන් මරන ජනඝාතක කල්ලි විශාල ප්‍රමාණයක් ලංකාව තුළ ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙමින් පවතින බවය. පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයෙන් පසුව සහ ඊට පෙරත් ලංකාවේ පාසල් තුළ පළමු වසරේ සිට 13 වසර දක්වා දමිළ සහ සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ලියා ඇති පෙළපොත්වල දරුවකුට ඉගැන්විය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
BBS questions Govt on lifting ban on religious book imports
Colombo, March 11 (Daily Mirror) - The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) today questioned the government on the criteria used as the basis for lifting the ban on the import of religious books into the country. Addressing the media, BBS General Secretary Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara thera said Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Deputy Minister Gamagedara Dissanayake had taken the above decision following the approval of the Defence Ministry. Earlier, the importing of religious books into the country was banned after the Easter Sunday bomb attacks,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
Tution teacher under investigation for assaulting students ignores NCPA summons
The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has launched an investigation into a case where a teacher at a private tuition class had forced a male student to kneel and then instructed another female student to assault the kneeling student with a cane. Additionally, a video showing the tutor assaulting other students in his classroom is widely circulating on social media. Accordingly, the NCPA has summoned the tutor who assaulted the students to report to its office today (March 11). However, it is reported that he has disregarded the notice and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
The future of the tea, rubber and coconut industry in Sri Lanka
Much research has been done by numerous experts on the future of the plantation industry involving tea, rubber and coconut. While very valuable strategic options have been provided and focus shifted to existing and emerging technology as a futuristic vision, critical grass roots activities have not been adequately addressed. Who will pluck the tea, tap the rubber and pluck coconuts in say 20 years’ time. How will they do it? A major, but yet unmet challenge exists with the tea, rubber and coconut industry even now but definitely futuristically as to who will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
Delegation from the Japanese Defence Ministry visits Pathfinder Foundation
A delegation from the Japanese Defence Ministry visited Pathfinder Foundation headquarters at Riverpoint in Peheliyagoda to meet with Founder Milinda Moragoda, Chairman Bernard Goonetilleke and senior members of the organization. This interaction was part of an ongoing dialogue and exchange of ideas between the Pathfinder Foundation and the Japanese Government on areas of mutual interest related to the Indian Ocean Region. The Japan has been a regular sponsor of the biennial Pathfinder Indian Ocean Security Conference a pioneering initiative that the foundation first launched in 2019.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
The JVP insurrection of 1971 as I saw it as GA Ampara
(Excerpted from Rendering Unto Caesar, by Bradman Weerakoon) In April 1971, there occurred the JVP insurrection which assumed significant proportions in the Ampara district. Rohana Wijeweera, the leader of the JVP at the time, had been arrested in Ampara, at the bus-stand a few months earlier and was in remand in far-away Jaffna. However, the cells he had initiated in the district schools, specially those with selected teachers and some of the best of the senior students continued to thrive — in Ampara those following science subjects were very active specially... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
Security and freedom: Counter Terrorism Legislation in Sri Lanka
Minister of Justice Harshana Nanayakkara speaking in Parliament. (File photo) By ProfessorG. L. PeirisD. Phil. (Oxford), Ph. D. (Sri Lanka); Rhodes Scholar, Quondam Visiting Fellow of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London; Former Vice-Chancellor and Emeritus Professor of Law of the University of Colombo. Civilisations since the dawn of history have engaged in search for the right balance between security and liberty — both elemental needs of society through dramatically changing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
Police transfers ahead of LG polls raise eyebrows
Thirty-seven senior police officers have been transferred with immediate effect. They include 28 Officers-in-Charge (OICs) and five Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs). Four SSPs have been appointed Deputy Inspectors General (DIGs). The police transfers have caused concern to the Opposition. Pivithuru Hela Urumaya leader and Attorney-at-Law Udaya Gammanpila yesterday asked the government to explain why it had transferred 37 police officers with an election only a few weeks away. The spokespersons for other Opposition parties, such as the SJB and the SLPP, said they were studying the issue and would make... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/25)
Sri Lanka Police launches new training to educate officers on LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion
Sri Lanka Police has launched its first-ever training program aimed at educating officers about the LGBTQ+ community. The course, held at the Katana National Police Training Institute, is designed to enhance officers’ understanding of LGBTQ+ rights and ensure fair treatment in law enforcement, the Police Media Division said. The inaugural session took place this morning (07) under the patronage of the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Sri Lanka, Ms. Bonnie Horbach, alongside Acting Inspector General of Police Priyantha Weerasuriya. The initiative is supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Sri Lanka, according to the police. A total of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/25)
Ex-CBSL Governor defends ISB borrowings, says it averted early default.
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy, addressed allegations regarding the surge in International Sovereign Bond (ISB) borrowings during his tenure that led to the country’s debt default, clarifying that much of the debt was used for liability management and to avert an earlier default. Speaking at a public lecture on “A New Paradigm in Macroeconomic Management,” Dr. Coomaraswamy responded to claims that his administration’s borrowing policies contributed to Sri Lanka’s eventual default. He acknowledged that ISB borrowings increased from USD 5 billion in early 2015 to USD... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/25)
The tragic story of the Kandyan Sinhalese and the betrayal of the motherland and the Sinhala nation to Indian Tamils by our unpatriotic and cowardly politicians. Part 1
https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2025/01/21/the-tragic-story-of-the-kandyan-sinhalese-and-the-betrayal-of-the-motherland-and-the-sinhala-nation-to-indian-tamils-by-our-unpatriotic-and-cowardly-politicians-part-1/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/25)
Shame on Mehdi Hassan: Organizing Pro-LTTE rump against former President Ranil Wickremasinghe
A much-looked forward to interview was aired. Prior to delving into the details of the interview, it was clear by the panelists & a quick look at the audience that the interview was not only well planned but questions were also well prepared & RanilW was unknowingly entering the tigers den. All of the questions were sensational sans any trace of evidence, claims were pure conjecture and clearly a witch-hunt. Ranil must have wondered why a diaspora that threw bouquets over decades were now throwing bricks! Some food for thought for the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/25)
US Blackrock’s Capture of the State of Sri Lanka
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com * ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ * US Blackrock’s Capture of the State of Sri Lanka e-Con e-News 02-08 March 2025 * ‘Dear Julie, I am writing to you in the softest electronic print, just in case you don’t already know what we are writing you about… We notice you are constantly running here and there in Sri Lanka, in places we don’t really expect to or should see a foreign diplomat, showing off... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/25)
“SETTLER COLONIALISM” AND TAMIL EELAM Part 7D
MADURU OYA FIASCO 1. The Maduru Oya settlement project of September 1, 1983, led by Dimbulagala Hamuduruwo started well. Gamini Dissanayake, Minster of Mahaweli Development had suggested it and the Mahaweli Ministry staff responded enthusiastically. It was a settlement created at Ministry level. It should have been a great success. But it was not . The organizers blundered, the settlers were removed and the project crushed. The Dimbulagala led Maduru Oya settlement venture was completely crushed. The settlers were chased away from the Right Bank.[1] They were then assembled in groups of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/25)
“SETTLER COLONIALISM” AND TAMIL EELAM Part 7E
MADURU OYA FIASCO 2 Tamil Separatist Movement was not able to nip the Maduru Oya project in the bud. India sent an envoy, G Parthasarathy in August 1983 to scuttle the project. His visit was secret. He met Gamini Dissanayake and discussed the issue of Mahaweli settlements. [1] But Gamini did not give in and the settlement took place as scheduled on September 1st. Tamil Separatist Movement had to go to India again to get the settlement removed. JR definitely knew of the project. Gamini Dissanayake had informed him. It was only... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/25)
The question of women’s rights
The question of women’s rights has long been a contentious issue, with debates often swinging between the realms of religion and secular society. Each side seeks to establish its superiority in promoting women’s liberation. This controversy is not unique to any single faith but is a subject of debate among various religions, each aiming to demonstrate its egalitarian principles. While other faiths may quarrel over theology, Islam speaks with one voice: “But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/25)
Deshabandu Tennakoon's assets may be frozen - Deputy Minister
Deputy Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs Sunil Watagala has stated that the assets of former IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon may be frozen if he continues to evade court appearances. Despite an arrest warrant being issued several days ago, police have yet to locate Tennakoon. Watagala emphasized that if the former IGP fails to present himself before the court, legal steps to freeze his assets may be taken.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/25)
Inconsistency, Thy Name is UNHRC
The incumbent Government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake can thank its stars and also the West-dominated ‘Sri Lanka Core Group’ at the UNHRC for the latter extending ‘diplomatic goodwill’ towards Colombo and welcoming the ‘peaceful elections and smooth transition-of-power’, as if they were expecting/anticipating something different this time (too). They have acknowledged that the new Government ‘has only been in place for four months’, a grace-period they have always given in the past during every ‘regime-change’, especially when the Rajapaksas were the losers. Yet, without losing their ‘focus’ from the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial-Tech Complex: The Warfare State Paved the Way for Autocracy
Posted on February 27, 2025 Hey, it’s the MIC, right? I’m thinking, of course, about the military-industrial complex. In this century, it’s taken more taxpayer dollars than perhaps any other part of the government, with a Pentagon “budget” that’s now heading for $900 billion a year. At this moment, President Trump has dispatched Elon Musk to do some cutting there (as at so many other places in the government) and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is planning to lend him a hand. I have no doubt that they’ll find some immediate funds to slash... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
At the IMF: Global North Has Nine Times More Voting Power Than the Global South
Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Yes, the headline of this newsletter is accurate. As far as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is concerned, each person in the Global North is worth nine people in the Global South. We get that calculation from IMF data on voting power in the organisation relative to the population of the Global North and Global South states. Each country, based on its ‘relative economic position’, as the IMF suggests, is given voting rights to elect delegates to the IMF’s executive board,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් වැඩකරන්න යන ඉංග්‍රීසි මව් භාෂාව නොවන අයට වනදේ ගැන යුක්‍රේනයේ ජනාධිපති ව්ලැඩිමීර් සෙලන්ස්කි සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ කියා දෙන පාඩම....!
ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් වැඩකරන්න යන ඉංග්‍රීසි මව් භාෂාව නොවන අයට වනදේ ගැන යුක්‍රේනයේ ජනාධිපති ව්ලැඩිමීර් සෙලන්ස්කි සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ කියා දෙන පාඩම....!ලෝකයේ ජාත්‍යන්තර භාෂා 6ක් ඇත. ඒ ප්‍රංශ, ස්පාඤ්ඤ, චීන, රුසියා, ඉංග්‍රීසි සහ අරාබි යන භාෂාය.බ්‍රිතාන්‍යය යටත් විජිත ලෙස තිබූ රටවල් ලෙස සැළකෙන වර්තමාන ඇමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය, ඉංදියාව, ශ්රී ලංකාව ඇතුලු රටවල් ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවට විධායක, ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සහ අධිකරණ ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ප්‍රමුඛත්වය ලබා දී ඇත. එසේ වුවත් ජපානය, කොරියාව, චීනය, රුසියාව, ප්‍රංශය වැනි දියුණු රටවල් ඒ රටවල භාෂාවෙන් විධායක, ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සහ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
Batalanda Commission Report: Cabinet to rule on ex-Prez this week.
Report resurfaces after 25 years RW’s involvement a ‘common truth’: Jayatissa CBK shielded RW from Batalanda fallout: Nagamuwa Calls to revoke RW’s civic rights After 25 years since its compilation, the Government led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is set to discuss the controversial Batalanda Commission Report, a long-contested document detailing human rights abuses and alleged political involvement in torture and extrajudicial killings during the late 1980s and early 1990s, at this week’s Cabinet meeting, according to Minister of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
අශෝක රන්වල මහ පරිමාණ කුඹුරු ඉඩම් ගොඩ කිරීමක..?
ඉල්ලා අස්වූ කතානායක වත්මන් ජාතික ජන බලවේග පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී අශෝක රන්වල මහතා නීති විරෝධී ආකාරයෙන් කුඹුරු ඉඩමක් ගොඩ කරමින් පවතින බව හිටපු පළාත් සභා මන්ත්‍රී වරුණ රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. කැලණි ගඟ මිටියාවතේ ඉඩම් බියගම දකුණ, රාජසිංහ ඇල මාර්ගය ගලා යන ඉඩමක් මෙසේ ගොඩ කර ඇති බවටත් ඔහු චෝදනා කරයි. ඊට අදාළ පින්තූර ද ඔහු තම අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාව ඔස්සේ වීඩියෝවක් මුදා හරිමින් පෙන්වා දෙයි. https://youtu.be/iwVssf2L8I0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
‘Major powers should not bully the weak’, China’s foreign minister says
Beijing will “resolutely counter” U.S. pressure on tariffs and the fentanyl issue, China’s foreign minister said on Friday, adding that major powers “should not bully the weak”, in a veiled swipe at the Trump administration’s foreign policy. Top diplomat Wang Yi also presented China as a reliable global power in the midst of geopolitical turmoil and U.S. President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from international institutions, part of a clear appeal from Beijing to Europe and countries in the Global South. The U.S. levied an additional 10% tariff on Chinese imports... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
Bill to ban corporal punishment of children to be introduced soon – Justice Minister
Minister of Justice and National Integration Harshana Nanayakkara has announced that steps will be taken to swiftly pass a bill prohibiting the corporal punishment of children. The Minister made this statement in Parliament today (March 8) during the Committee Stage Debate on expenditure head of the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs, in response to a statement made by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa. During the debate, Premadasa emphasized the importance of incorporating children’s and women’s rights into the country’s fundamental rights chapter. He proposed amending the Constitution to guarantee these... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
කොටියෝ රනිල්ට කෙලියේ ඇයි ?
https://youtu.be/03z3ZD-gnYk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
How Can a Land Registry Prone to Fraud and Under the Jurisdiction of Two Disparate Legal Enactments be Digitalized?
Sri Lanka is unique in that she adopted a piece of land-legislation – Act 21 of 1998 – while it yet remained under the Jurisdiction of the previous land-legislation, Ordinance 23 of 1927. The two laws are dissimilar, and no serious attempt has been made to reconcile the two, even after a lapse of a quarter century. The register maintained by the Land registry is prone to fraud and legislation requires the digitalization of land records even though it may be fraudulent. The necessity to digitalize came not from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
The Case of Karu Jayasuriya - I
After Ranil Wickremasinghe and Anura Kumara Dissanayake became president one after the other (in 2022 and 2024 respectively) without any sign of full-hearted public approval, though, their social media admirers shared posts that claimed that they both had made a substantial contribution to ending the separatist terrorism that had plagued the country for decades. They may have their arguments to support their claims. Those who know the facts, however, would hardly agree with them. But there is one distinguished UNP politician, who was opposed to the SLFP-led UPFA, about whom such a claim can probably... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
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'' රට පාවා නොදුන් රනිල් - දේශපාලන වහල්ලු වසන් කරන තිත්ත ඇත්ත...''
https://youtu.be/TJZweXYj0Ys... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/25)
“SETTLER COLONIALISM” AND TAMIL EELAM Part 7c
TAMIL SETTLEMENTS Tamil Separatist Movement steadily established new Tamil settlements in the north and east after Independence. The purpose was to strengthen the Tamil population on the Eastern coast. The northern and eastern provinces were under populated and there was lot of empty space which had to be filled up. J. D. Arudpragasam’s father, J. Arulappu, bought land owned by the Catholic Church in Kannadi near the Madhu Church and set up his own farm in 1964. That encouraged others to migrate to the agriculturally rich Vanni. [1] Vavuniya ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/25)
“Papare Pan, Pan Pan” The Evolution of “Papare” Music
Music has been essential to human culture for thousands of years, evolving through different civilisations, technological advancements, and cultural influences. From ancient tribal chants to the digital streaming age, music reflects human emotions, traditions, and innovations. My attempt to explore the historical development and transformation of Papare music in Sri Lanka takes me back to the day I first witnessed the Royal Thomian cricket match at Colombo Oval in 1961, the year I entered Royal College. My dad thought I was too young to go for the big match alone and arranged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/25)
Public disillusionment grows over NPP government, says Chandima Weerakkody
Chandima Weerakkody Former MP Chandima Weerakkody, speaking at a press briefing at the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) headquarters on Wednesday, claimed that public expectations of President Anura Dissanayake and the National People’s Power (NPP) government have now faded. He stated that many who had placed their hopes in President Dissanayake and the NPP for change were now feeling disillusioned. “What has happened to many groups today is similar to moths drawn to light. All the country’s teachers united to elect Anura Dissanayake as President. Advanced Level... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/25)
ඩිජිටල් ආර්ථිකය අඩපණ වී ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ නියුතු අය රට හැරයාමේ ඉහල අවධානමක්.... ආණ්ඩුවේ ලොක්කෙක් අනතුරු අගවයි
මෙරට ඩිජිටල් ආර්ථිකය අඩපණ වී එම ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ නියුතු අය රට හැරයාමේ ඉහල අවධානමක් ඇති බව කොළඹ තාක්ෂණ නගරයේ නිර්මාතෘ ආචාර්ය හර්ෂ සුභසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. අද වන විට සියල්ල තීරණය කරමින් ඇත්තේ මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයේ සිටින අය බවද පවසන ඔහු මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය ද ආර්ථික සැලැස්මක් නැති බවද කියා සිටී. ඒ මෙරට සිට ඩිජිටල් සේවා ලබාදෙන පුද්ගලයන් සඳහා බද්දක් පැනවීමෙන් හේතුවෙන් බවයි ඔහු පවසන්නේ. එවන් සැලැස්මක් තමන් අද වනතුරැ දැක නැති බවද ආර්ථිකයේ ගමන් කළ යුත්තේ ආර්ථික සැලැස්මක් අනුව බවත් එවන් සැලැස්මක් තමන්ට නොපෙනෙන බවත් ඔහු තවදුරටත් පවසයි. හිරු නාලිකාව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/25)
Ranil unhappy with Al Jazeera interview, questions integrity of panelists
Colombo, March 6 (Daily Mirror) - Expressing his dissatisfaction with the interview with Al Jazeera which was broadcast today, former President Ranil Wickremeisnghe raised questions on the integirty of the panelists who were part of the interview. Speaking to the media soon after the interview was released, Wickremesinghe claimed that two of the three panelists, who joined broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, had pro-LTTE stances. “I was informed that Human Rights Lawyer and Former Commissioner of Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka Ambika Sathkunanathan will participate... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/25)
Ranil slams ‘politics’ of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church, denies ‘Batalanda’ accusations
Former Sri Lankan President and six-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe denied shielding ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa from prosecution, during an interview for Al Jazeera English’s ‘Head to Head’ that aired today. He also rebuffed renewed accusations that his own administration failed to credibly investigate alleged government links to deadly terrorist attacks that rocked Sri Lanka in 2019. Wickremesinghe, who was voted out of office in 2024, threatened to leave 8 minutes into the hour-long interview with Mehdi Hasan, but ultimately remained seated for a heated debate that also covered the government’s handling of war... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/25)
"පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයේ මහමොළකරු මම දන්නවා" - ඥානසාර හිමි
පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයට සම්බන්ධ මහමොළකරු කවුරුන්දැයි තමා දන්නා බව බොදුබල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන් පවසනවා. මහනුවරට පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේදී මාධ්‍යට අදහස් දක්වමින් උන්වහන්සේ පැවසුවේ මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා සහ ආරක්ෂක අංශ භාර නිලධාරීන් ප්‍රථමයෙන් දැනුවත් කරන බවයි. බොදුබල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන් අද (06) මහනුවරට පැමිණ මල්වතු මහ නාහිමියන් බැහැ දැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තා. අනතුරුව උන්වහන්සේ පැමිණියේ අස්ගිරි මහා විහාරයටයි. එහිදී ඥානසාර හිමියන් අස්ගිරි පාර්ශ්වයේ මහා නායක අති පූජ්‍ය වරකාගොඩ ශ්රී ඥානරතන මහානා හිමියන් බැහැදැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තා. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/25)
The Challenges of Sri Lanka's Ageing Population: Economic, Health, and Social Struggles
Sri Lanka is facing a significant demographic shift as its population ages rapidly. Currently, about 12.3% to 12.4% of the population is over 60 years old, but this figure is projected to rise dramatically to 22% by 2037 and potentially reach 25% by 2041. This rapid ageing poses substantial economic, healthcare, and social challenges for senior citizens, exacerbated by the ongoing economic crisis. Economic Vulnerability Senior citizens in Sri Lanka face higher poverty rates compared to other age groups. Limited coverage of social protection programs and pension schemes, particularly for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/25)
GPC urged to clarify its stand on Bhaona controversy
Guwahati: Expressing annoyance over the latest development, where a State minister allegedly made unwanted comments on Bhaona and later his clarification denying it with a strong message for suing the propagator, Press Club of Assam (PCA) urges the journalist concerned to clarify his stand. Many media bodies including Gauhati Press Club (GPC) have already condemned minister Ashok Singhal for his ‘irresponsible views’ on the traditional performing art form and now they remain silent after Singhal out-rightly refuted the accusation, stated a PCA release.The controversy erupted following the recent social media post by a television journalist, associated... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/25)
The elephants and the plantations. Posted on March 3rd, 2025
Concerning the above post elephants and the plantations Posted on March 3rd, 2025 Otara Gunawardene personally contacted me through Instagram and thanked me for having highly esteemed her; but she is not willing to take on any projects of such nature,now as she has finished her task for the people and has retired fom such busy life. Therefore she said, "it is not correct for me to have requested such involvement at this time of retirement". Therefore I really, feel very sorry and hope she... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/25)
Senaka Weeraratna – The Seminal Figure of the Cricket Reformation
I am prompted to write this article after reading an eye-opening article by Lorenz Pereira ( 'Sunday Island' – March 02, 2025) —the cricket legend. https://island.lk/senaka-weeraratna-the-unsung-architect-of-modern-cricket/ I felt compelled to add a crucial missing element, the idea of Cricket Reformation through the advent of the Decision Review System (DRS). While Lorenz’s piece covered many aspects of modern cricket, it overlooked how DRS has fundamentally reshaped the way the game is played and perceived. Riyas Aluher …................. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/25)
නම විතරයි මතක.. උදේට කාපුවත් මතක නෑ.. 2013 ගණුදෙනු කොහොමත් මතක නෑ..- අවුරුදු අනූ හතක් වයසැති ඩේසි ආච්චි අධිකරණයට කියයි…
හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පුත් යෝෂිත රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සභාපතිත්වය දැරූ කාල්ටන් ස්පොර්ට්ස් පුද්ගලික සමාගමට එරෙහිව මුදල් විශුද්ධිකරණ චෝදනාව යටතේ අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විමර්ශනයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කර තිබුණේ දෙදහස් දහසය වසරේ සිටයි. රුපියල් මිලියන පනස් නවයකද අධික මුදලක් සහිත ස්ථිර තැන්පතුවක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් එහිදී අනාවරණය වූ අතර එම බැංකු ගිණුම පවත්වාගෙන ගොස් තිබුනේ යෝෂිත රාජපක්ෂ සහ ඔහුගේ මිත්තනිය වන ඩේසි ෆොරෙස්ට් වික්රමසිංහ නමිනුයි. අදාල විමර්ශණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ප්‍රකාශයක් ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා අනූ හත් හැවිරිිදි ඩේසි ෆොරෙස්ට් වික්රමසිංහ මහත්මිය අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව හමුවට කැඳවා තිබුනි. ප්‍රකාශ ලබා ගැනීමෙන් අනතුරුව අත්අඩංගුවට ගත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/25)
Why Sri Lankan activists opposed Adani wind energy project in Mannar
A flock of migratory brown-headed gulls (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus) in Mannar with windmills in background. | Image courtesy of Lahiru Walpita, via Mongabay. Indian industrialist Gautam Adani’s Green Energy Limited, or AGEL, has withdrawn from the second phase of a proposed wind power project in northern Sri Lanka. The project, which was planned to generate 250 MW through the installation of 52 wind turbines in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/25)
SL economy still vulnerable despite positive developments – IMF mission chief
Despite positive developments and recovery expected this year, Sri Lanka’s economy is still vulnerable, and it is critical to sustain the reform momentum for long-term growth, a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said yesterday. Addressing a virtual press conference, Senior Mission Chief for Sri Lanka Peter Breuer said that the IMF Executive Board approved the third review under the 48-month Extended Fund Facility Arrangement with Sri Lanka. It provides the country with immediate access to US $ 334 million to support its economic policies... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/25)
Stop your fishermen from destroying Sri Lankan fishing industry: Bimal tells India
Colombo, March 5 (Daily Mirror) - The Central government of India and the state government of Tamilnadu should enforce the law on its fishermen who are destroying the livelihood of Sri Lankan fishermen in the North, Leader of the House Bimal Ratnayake told Parliament today. “The best assistance India should provide for the Northern Fishermen in Sri Lanka is to enforce its laws and prevent its fishermen from destroying the livelihood of Sri Lankan fishermen in the North,” Ratnayake said. “The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/25)
Sri Lanka moves ahead with 100 MW solar project
The Sri Lankan government has approved the land transfer for a 100 MW solar project in the south. The site will be handed over to the Sustainable Energy Authority to advance the project. Image: Oskar Kadaksoo, Unsplash Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved the transfer of land to the country’s Sustainable Energy Authority for a 100 MW solar project. The Siyambalanduwa PV array will be built on 220 hectares in Sri Lanka’s Uva province. The Cabinet approved transferring the land to the Sustainable Energy Authority to allow... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/25)
Transcript of Press Briefing on the Completion of the Third Review for the IMF Extended Fund Facility for Sri Lanka
Mr. Breuer: Thank you, Randa. Good morning, all, thank you very much for being here and for your interest in Sri Lanka’s IMF-supported economic reform program. I am pleased to announce that, on Friday February 28, the IMF Executive Board approved the third review under the 48-month Extended Fund Facility Arrangement with Sri Lanka. This provides the country with immediate access to about US$334 million to support its economic policies and reforms. It brings the total IMF financial support dispersed so far to about $1.3 billion.The IMF continues to support Sri Lanka's efforts to restore and maintain macroeconomic stability... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/25)
Hungary’s Stunning Move: Joins China And BRICS, Ditches EU?
Hungary’s High-Stakes Gamble: Breaking from the EU for BRICS? Is Hungary setting the stage for an unprecedented shift in global alliances? As tensions rise within the European Union, Budapest appears to be charting its own course—one that veers away from Brussels and toward the BRICS economic bloc. This strategic pivot raises urgent questions: Is Hungary risking its place in the EU to forge stronger ties with Russia, China, and other BRICS nations? What’s driving this recalibration, and how could it shake the foundations of European unity? In this video, we dissect Hungary’s growing divergence from EU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
දිගම නම තියෙන අකුරු දෙකේ ලොකුම සර්.. | JB සර් එක්ක Fly with Yenu කතාබහක්
https://youtu.be/IFYj76O5rW8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
Pathfinder Foundation & Heritage Foundation examines US-Sri Lanka Relations under the Second Trump Administration
The Pathfinder Foundation, in collaboration with the Heritage Foundation (USA), hosted a joint briefing session titled “Prospects for US-Sri Lanka Relations: Impact of the Second Trump Administration." The event took place as a webinar, attracting over 100 pre-registered attendees from the government, academia, civil society, think tanks, and the development and corporate sectors, among others. Interaction between the two foundations dates back a decade, and they have come together once again to hold this discussion on a topic of much interest to Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean region. The Pathfinder Foundation,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
Sri Lanka should avoid tax exemptions, focus on passing budget, IMF says
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka should avoid tax exemptions and focus on passing a national budget that is in line with parameters set by the International Monetary Fund to continue with a $2.9 billion program from the international lender, an IMF official said on Tuesday. Sri Lanka mounted a “remarkable” recovery from a deep financial crisis triggered by a record shortfall of dollars three years ago, the global lender said after approving a fourth tranche of $334 million under a Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program. However, the South Asian island nation must... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
Buddhists Join Global Faith Leaders in Prayers for Pope Francis
From thecatholicherald.com Buddhist monks held an interfaith prayer service for Pope Francis at Agrashravaka Temple of the Mahabodhi Buddhist community in Colombo on 25 February. The temple, considered one of the most sacred Buddhist sites in Sri Lanka, was visited by Pope Francis in 2015. During that visit, he became only the second pope in history to enter the temple, where he observed Buddhist monks chanting and praying. In a rare gesture of respect, the temple’s relic casket, typically displayed only once a year, was opened for the Pope to venerate. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
IMF warns Sri Lanka trade unions against strike over pay demand
AFP - Sri Lanka's fragile economic recovery could be hampered by threatened trade union strikes over reduced benefits for government employees in this year's budget, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday. Leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's maiden budget raised public sector salaries but also made deep cuts to longstanding perks in a continuing effort to repair the island nation's tattered finances. Sri Lanka's main doctors' union is considering a strike from Wednesday to protest against cuts to their allowances, while teachers are also considering stoppages. IMF team leader... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
“SETTLER COLONIALISM” AND TAMIL EELAM Part 7a
ATTACK ON KENT AND DOLLAR FARMS 1984 Revised 10.3.25 The Kent and Dollar farms were located near Manal Aru. Kent and dollar farms are 11 minutes drive from Kurundi vihara and 8 minutes drive from Tannimuruppu kulam. The farms were bought on a 99-year lease from the state by a wealthy Tamil in 1965. In 1978 the owner donated the two farms for the resettlement of estate Tamils, who had fled the central hill country during the anti-Tamil riots of 1977. Gandhyian Movement of Rajasunderam, and the Tamil... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
“SETTLER COLONIALISM” AND TAMIL EELAM Part 7b
LTTE MASSACRES AT KOKILAI AND NAYARU 1984, 1985 Revised 10.3.25 On 1 December, 1984 LTTE cadres, including women fighters, attacked two Sinhala Catholic fishing villages, Nayaru and Kokkilai, killing 59 fishermen. [1] Kokkilai lagoon is an estuarine lagoon on north-east Sri Lanka .The town of Kokkilai is located on a sand bar between the lagoon and the Indian Ocean. Nayaru is 15 kilometers north of Kokkilai. [1] T Sabaratnam Manal Aru becomes Weli Oya https://sangam.org/articles/view2/633.html A string of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
The IMF and World Bank Await Elon Musk
I think that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been misinformed. I don’t disagree with their shutting down USAID, but I think it’s rather small fry. There are much, much bigger fish to fry if you want to really save U.S. government money that is being wasted in programs that are mischievously justified as aid to the poor people of the world. Elon, hear me out: if you walk northwest from your headquarters at the Eisenhower Executive Building along Pennsylvania Avenue, you’ll come after one long block upon two ugly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
The elephants and the plantations.
Firstly I should start off by saying that "people are with many grievances"; but they are walking through the passages of political and media, popular propaganda. To my knowledge, these are all-time-related fake visuals. For example on the 21st of February 2025, at Samanthurai during this paddy harvest season; hundreds of elephants are seen crossing through the carpeted roads to find food from these fields; as these elephants are starved without food and congested in an environment of dry landscapes. As I have mentioned many times in many popular... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
ඊළග වාරියට පෙර බිලියන 900ක් උපයනු.. බදු අනුකූලතාවය වැඩි කරනු.. විදුලිය මිලකරණය නැවත පිහිටුවනු..- IMF
විස්තීරණ ණය පහසුකම් වැඩසටහන යටතේ පස්වැනි වාරිකය ලබාදීමට පෙර රුපියල් බිලියන 900 ක ආදායම් ඉලක්කයක් සම්පූර්ණ කිරීමට මෙරට රජය කටයුතු කළයුතු බවත්, රජය ආයෝජන වැඩිකර ගැනීමට කටයුතු කළයුතු බවත් ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල විසින් මෙරට රජයට දැනුම්දී ඇතැයි අනාවරණය වේ. ආර්ථිකය කෙරෙහි අවදානම තවමත් පවතින බැවින් ආර්ථිකය යථා තත්ත්වයට පත්වීම දීර්ඝ කාලයක් පුරා පවත්වා ගැනීමට සහ ණය තිරසරභාවයක් කරා යන මාවතකට ගෙන ඒම සඳහා ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ න්‍යාය පත්‍රය තිරසරව පවත්වා ගැනීම ඉතා වැදගත් බවද ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ නියෝජ්‍ය කළමනාකරන අධ්යක්ෂ කෙන්ජි ඔකමුරා සඳහන් කර තිබේ. ප්‍රතිපත්තිමය වැරදීම් ඇතිවීම සඳහා ඉඩක් නැති බවද ඔහු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
ITAK MP: Person interdicted for fraud now in NPP Cabinet.
Shanakiyan The credibility of a government that claimed to be fighting corruption was at stake when individuals involved in financial misappropriation held Cabinet positions, Batticaloa District ITAK MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam told the House yesterday. Speaking during the committee-stage debate on expenditure heads of the Ministry of Energy in Budget 2025 proposals, Rasamanickam stated that an individual who had been interdicted over a financial fraud in the Fertilizer Corporation was now a member of the NPP Cabinet and sat in the front row of the government side.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
GMOA to launch strike tomorrow over allowance cuts unless …
Dr. Sugathadasa The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday (03) warned the government of a countrywide strike unless it restored holiday allowances to the previous level for doctors. GMOA Secretary Dr. Prabath Sugathadasa emphasised that as the cuts imposed through Budget 2025 weren’t acceptable to the GMOA, the government should take immediate remedial measures and its failure to do so would drive the GMOA to resort to trade union action to win its demands. Dr. Sugathadasa said that in case the government didn’t respond positively to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
Naked man arrested for riding motorcycle to Kandy from Colombo
Colombo, March 03 (Daily Mirror) - A man was arrested this morning by Kadugannawa police for riding a motorcycle from Colombo to Kandy while naked. Police said the 23-year-old man was arrested after a great effort by law enforcement. Several police officers observed the man riding the motorcycle along the Kandy-Colombo road and attempted to apprehend him, but none were able to catch him. The Kegalle and Mawanella police also pursued the man but were unsuccessful. After alerting the Kadugannawa and Peradeniya police, officers in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
Nominations period for 2025 LG Elections announced
The nominations for the 2025 Local Government Elections will be accepted from March 17, 2025, the Elections Commission announced. The commission said that the relevant nominations will be accepted until 12 noon on March 20, 2025. Accordingly, the notices regarding the acceptance of nominations for the election of Mayors, Deputy Mayors, Chairpersons, Deputy Chairpersons, and members for 336 local government institutions across the country have now been published in the respective local authorities. The Election Commission said that these include 28 Municipal Councils, 36 Urban Councils and 272 Pradeshiya Sabhas.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
Govt. mulls action against SLTB drivers bypassing schoolchildren and citizens with season tickets
Discussions have been held at the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation, regarding Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) bus drivers who operate services while bypassing schoolchildren and citizens with season tickets. During the meeting, the Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation, Bimal Rathnayake, stated that any citizen could report such incidents by calling 1958. He further emphasized his awareness of the said issue and assured that stringent measures would be taken against such misconduct. He also mentioned that SLTB drivers and conductors had been duly informed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
Colombo sees 7.7% land price surge
Property in Sri Lanka’s Colombo had risen 7.7 per cent in the second half of 2024 from a year earlier, according to a Land Valuation Indicator. According to the report, industrial land had risen 3.9 per cent in the first six months compared to a year earlier. Residential land had risen 9.9 per cent, and commercial land had risen 9.4 per cent. The highest increase was observed in the Residential LVI, followed by Commercial and Industrial LVIs. Per perch, bare land prices are semi-annually obtained from the Government Valuation Department. The Land... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/25)
Ceylon Tobacco Company & the Hijacking of State Banks & Ministry of Agriculture
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 23 February – 01 March 2025 * ‘Our economy is running on conditions. There is no economic independence or sovereignty – it is under probation and being monitored.’ – President AK Dissanayake, 2025 * ‘The nature of the political life of our island must be understood. We were a colony, a benevolently administered dependency. So long as our dependence remained unquestioned our politics... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/25)
We will downsize security forces: President
Colombo, Feb 28 (Daily Mirror) - Number of persons in all three armed forces will be reduced while they will be made sophisticated with equipment, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Parliament today. "The Sri Lanka Army will be confined to 100,000 personnel, Sri Lanka Navy to 40,000 and Sri Lanka Air Force to 18,000, the President revealed. "Our aim is to acquire modern equipment to the forces. Almost all aircraft in the Sri Lanka Air Force are becoming outdated. Therefore, we will acquire new aircraft. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/25)
Special Exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic from April 18 to 27
Colombo, March 02 (Daily Mirror) - The special exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic for the public will be held from April 18 to 27, the President's Media Division (PMD) said. It said the exposition to the public will be on April 18 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and thereafter, from April 19 to 27, daily from 12:00 noon to 5:30 p.m. A preliminary discussion on the event took place today at the President’s House in Kandy, under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. President Dissanayake... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/25)
Former Speaker denies allegation on fuel usage
Colombo, March 02 (Daily Mirror) - Denying the allegation by Leader of the House Bimal Ratnayake that the former Speaker had used fuel worth Rs. 33 million within nine months from January 1, 2024 to September 24, 2024, which amounts to Rs. 4 million per month, former Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said spreading falsehood to gain power will not be successful every time. The following is a statement issued by former Speaker Abeywardena in this regard: "I would like to state... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/25)
Govt. doubles up measures for deal with Qatar for petroleum purchases
Colombo, March 03 (Daily Mirror) - In a bid to avert any energy crisis in the future, the government is hurriedly taking measures to purchase both petroleum products, including LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) from Qatar under a government-to-government agreement, an official said. Chairman of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) D.A. Rajakaruna told Daily Mirror that two rounds of talks had been conducted with Qatar Energy, formerly Qatar Petroleum, to explore the possibility of importing such products at cheaper rates under a government-to-government deal. He said Qatar Energy is a state-owned... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/25)
Ex-Army Intelligence personnel arrested over Keith Noyahr abduction granted bail
The two former Sri Lanka Army Intelligence personnel, who were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the abduction and assault of journalist Keith Noyahr in May 2008, have been granted bail by the Mount Lavinia Magistrate’s Court, Ada Derana reporter said. Accordingly, the two suspects were ordered to be released on two surety bails of Rs. 1 million each. The two suspects had been arrested yesterday (01) in the Nawagaththegama and Elayapaththuwa police divisions by officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) based on investigations into the assault on journalist Keith... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/25)
Discussion held with manufacturers to reduce salt price
A discussion has been recently held between the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) and salt manufacturing companies at the CAA’s head office. The discussion had taken place on February 25, and its purpose was to make the necessary interventions to release high-quality salt for industry and food use into the market at a reasonable price. Accordingly, based on the pricing surveys conducted by the CAA regarding salt prices in the market, the varying prices of salt over the past period, the seasonal shortage of salt, and the challenges faced by the salt industry... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/25)
'' මේවා මොළ නෙවෙයි, මොළ ගෙනියන නැව්...''
https://youtu.be/U2v1hAfNNeM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/25)
CHATGPT list of US agencies funding Govt & Civil Society warrants immediate investigation & disclose to Sri Lankan citizens by the GoSL
US funding for GoSL entities & Civil Society 2015 to present Click to open list With “artificial intelligence” now becoming the buzzword, citizens should utilize it to gather information while knowing that it is not completely correct. It is an entity giving us information that is in public domain cutting time spent on searching. However, if incorrect data had been fed it is likely that the output we receive will undoubtedly be questionable. Therefore, while we cannot presume ChatGPT to be entire factualy what it is giving cannot... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/25)
‘අභිචෝදක තනතුර’ නීතිය දේශපාලනයට යටකිරීමක්.. එය බරපතල වරදක්..- සරත් එන්. සිල්වා
රජය විසින් යෝජනා කර තිබෙන නව අපරාධ නඩු අධ්යක්ෂ ධුරය (රජයේ අභිචෝදක තනතුර) නීතිය දේශපාලනයට යටකිරීමක් බව හිටපු අගවිනිසුරු සරත් එන් සිල්වා මහතා පැවසීය. මෙවැනි තනතුරක් 1970 – 1977 ආණ්ඩු කාලයේ ක්‍රියාත්මක විය. එකල නියෝජ්‍ය අපරාධ නඩු අධ්යක්ෂ පදවිය දැරූයේ තමා බැවින් මෙම කරුණ පිළිබඳව තමන් හොඳින්ම දන්නා බව පැවසූ සරත් එන් සිල්වා මහතා නීතිපතිවරයා සතු අපරාධ නඩු පිළිබඳ බලය විෂය භාර අමාත්‍යවරයා විසින් අපරාධ නඩු අධ්යක්ෂ ලෙස පත් කරනු ලබන වෙනත් බාහිර නීතිඥවරයකු යටතට පැවරීම බරපතළ වරදක් බව සඳහන් කළේය. මේ සඳහා ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවද සංශෝධනය කළ යුතුය. එදා මෙම පත්වීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/25)
Fuel shortages: Long queues return at fuel stations
Fuel distributors stop new orders, warning of shortages tomorrow Panic buying escalates as public fears fuel shortage CPC reassures public of sufficient fuel reserves despite protests Petroleum dealers suspend credit to Govt. institutions Govt. defends pricing formula, rejects calls for higher profits Fuel distribution as usual at LIOC, Sinopec, RM Parks stations: Min. Long queues at fuel stations have been reported across the country since last Friday (28 February) night, as a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/25)
IMF releases US$334mn to Sri Lanka
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced its Executive Board has completed the third review under the 48-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement, allowing the authorities to draw SDR 254 million (about US$334 million). This brings the total IMF financial support disbursed to SDR 1.02 billion (about US$1.34 billion). IMF Deputy Managing Director Kenji Okamura issued a statement saying that reforms in Sri Lanka are bearing fruit and that the economic recovery has been remarkable. Inflation remains low, revenue collection is improving, and reserves continue to accumulate. Economic growth has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/25)
Foreign travel ban and arrest warrant issued for former IGP
The Matara Magistrate's Court has issued a foreign travel ban on former IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon, along with a warrant for his arrest issued earlier. The court has also ordered the arrest of eight suspects, including Tennakoon, in connection with the shooting incident that occurred on December 31, 2023, in front of the W 15 Hotel in the Weligama-Pelana area of Matara. The suspects have been ordered to be produced before the court as investigations continue.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/25)
මෝදි, රනිල්ගේ වටිනාකම කියන අතර රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ කියන්නේ හොරෙක් හිගන්නෙක් කියා අධිකරණ ඇමති හර්ශන නානායක්කාර පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙදී කියයි
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ඉදිරි දර්ශනය තමා අගය කරන බව ඉන්දීය අගමැති නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි මහතා පවසයි. ඉන්දියාවේ පැවත්වෙන “NXT Conclave 2025″ සමුළුවට සහභාගි වීමට ඉන්දියාවට ගොස් සිටින රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේ ඉන්දීය අගමැතිවරයා එහි ඡායාරූපයක් තම සමාජ ජාල ගිණුමේ පල කරමින් මේ බව සඳහන් කර තිබේ. ” මගේ මිත්‍ර රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා NXT සමුළුවේදී හමු වුණා. මම සැමවිටම අපගේ අන්තර්ක්‍රියා දෙස බලා සිටි අතර විවිධ ගැටළු සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔහුගේ ඉදිරි දර්ශනය අගය කර ඇත්තෙමි” ඒ අතර රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ යනු තනිකර හිඟන්නෙක් සහ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/25)
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