පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය පසුගිය රජය සමයේ කුප්‍ර‍කට ‘අරලියගහ දන්සල’ සිදු කළ ලෙසම, පළාත් පාලන ඡන්ද විමසීම සමයේ ද, අගමැති නිල නිවස දේශපාලන කටයුතු සදහා යොදා ගැනීම ආරම්භ වී ඇත. 2018 ජනවාරි 4 දින (බ්‍ර‍හස්පතින්දා) දින පාසල් සදහා ජංගම විද්‍යාගාර බෙදාදීම’ නම් උත්සවයක් සදහා යැයි කියමින් අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශයේ විද්‍යා අංශය විසින් දුරකතන ඇමතුම් ලබාදී දේශපාලන […]

Media Unit – CaFFE   It seems like the ‘good governance’ administration has started using the Prime Minister’s official residence, the Temple Trees, for election propaganda purposes just like during the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration.  Last Thursday (04) the Science Department of the Ministry of Education has convened around 3000 people from across the country to Temple […]

by Shridhar Prabhu  Courtesy Swarajyamag.com Snapshot It would do well for India to strengthen ties with Sri Lanka by not confronting China’s diplomatic overture, but by complementing it. India-Sri Lanka ties must be cemented in the larger interests of forging an Indic unity initiative worldwide. According to official estimates, Sri Lanka owes around $64 billion to its […]

By Charles.S. Perera. The Problem of Rohingya in Myanmar is more political than  religious.  These are new  problems taking  place in the developing countries which are more often deliberately exaggerated by the West  to blame the  ruling governments , and get the victim of the conflict organised as rebels to enable the West to intervene […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි ඇමරිකානු රූපවාහිනී නාලිකාවක් විකාශය කල වැඩ සටහනක් නැරඹීමි. එහි, සුදු ජාතික යුවලක් තම දියණියගේ පෙම්වතා තමන්ට හඳුන්වා දෙනතුරු භෝජන ශාලාවක පෙරෙත්ත වෙති. පෙම්වතා එතැනට පැමිනෙනු පෙනේ. ඒ දුටු දෙමව්පියෝ බෙහෙවින් කලබල වෙති. ඊලඟට තම දියණිය සහ බිරිඳ සමග යම් වචන කිහිපයක් හුවමාරු කරගත් පියා එතැනින් පිටව යයි. තුෂ්නිම්භූතව සිටින තරුණයා ලඟට පැමිනෙන මව, […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The Bond Scam Commission Report has created a strong whirlwind which has made everyone curious and wonder what the final outcome of it would be, whether it will be hushed up until at least the end of local government election and also it has made the UNP much worried forcing […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today    2018-01-06 When clouds gather in high skies, they are usually accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder. In the same manner, education too should be accompanied by wisdom, knowledge, and intelligence. Children of today are going to be the future citizens of this nation. The responsibility rests entirely […]

By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island [The writer was member of the team that applied the Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory framework at GlaxoSmithKline, London, in the aftermath of the Enron scandal.] There is now little doubt that a scam has been perpetrated with no remorse on Sri Lanka as a whole, by those who were meant […]

By Anura Balasuriya Courtesy The Island Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says the loss caused by treasury bond scam was much bigger than the amount stated in the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the bond scam. Addressing the Sri Lanka Podu Jana Peramuna’s inaugural rally in Kadawatha on Saturday, the former President said that […]

by Zacki Jabbar Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickreme-singhe said yesterday that he would request Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to summon Parliament fast to debate the Presidential Commission Report on the issuance of Treasury Bonds between February 2015 and March 2016. Addressing the UNP’s 70th anniversary celebrations at Campbell Park in Borella, Prime Minister Wickremesinghe stressed […]

BY RALPH VAN DOORN     http://blogs.worldbank.org Imagine there is a small fire in your house: someone forgot to put out a cigarette stub and accidentally set your rubbish bin on fire. You will need just one bucket of water to put it out. But up the ante, and it is no longer possible for an individual to handle […]

BY Kavindya Chris Thomas Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka has a long and vibrant history when it comes to formally inefficient inquiries and investigations carried out by various authoritative institutions. Yet, only a rare handful – let’s just say that it’s less than five and easily counted on the fingers of one hand – among the […]

WORLD By Abhishek G Bhaya Courtesy CGTN.COM Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono called for a free and open Indo-Pacific” region on Friday at the start of a two-day visit to Sri Lanka – the first in 15 years by a top Japanese diplomat to the South Asian country. Kono’s visit assumes significance amid growing concerns in Japan, […]

By Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today Chairman of the Podujana Eksath Peramuna and former Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday charged that it was the gross inaction on the part of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that paved the way for the now beleaguered ex-Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran […]

Sanjana Hattotuwa Courtesy The Island January 6, 2018, 7:08 pm As the credit and bank statements roll in, come January, the revelry of late December gives way to sober reflection and serious resolutions. This extends to politics. The final reports, handed over to the President, by commissions appointed to look into Central Bank bonds and corruption […]

සාකච්ඡාවකින් සකස්‌ කළේ පාලිත සේනානායක උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමේ නිර්දේශ අපට නොකියා කියන කතාව ම හබැංකු බැඳුම්කර ගනුදෙනුව පිළිබඳ සෙවීමට ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් පත් කරන ලද ජනාධිපති විමර්ශන කොමිසමේ වාර්තාව ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයේදී ඉකුත් 30 වැනිදා කොමිසමේ සභාපති ශේ්‍රෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරු කේ. ටී. චිත්‍රසිරි මහතා විසින් ජනාධිපතිතුමා වෙත පිළිගැන්වූ අයුරු. කොමිසමේ ලේකම් එස්‌. උඩුගමසූරිය මහතා […]

කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ත්‍රස්‌තවාදය නැතිකර දැමීමට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පලස්‌තීනය එක්‌වූ බවට මෙරට දේශපාලනඥයන් කීපදෙනෙක්‌ විසින් පසුගිය සතියේදී ප්‍රකාශ කර තිබුණි. එහෙත් කොටි ත්‍රස්‌තවාදය මර්දනය කිරීම සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකා හමුදාව මුහුණ පෑ අසීරුතම අවස්‌ථාවේ සහයට පැමිණියේ කවුද? මෙරට දේශපාලකයන්ට වසර 17 ක අතීතය දැන් අමතක වී ඇත. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ යුද්ධය පැවැති අවස්‌ථාවලද […]

කතු වැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින Insider Trading යනුවෙන් යෙදුමක්‌ ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙහි තිබේ. මෙහි තේරුම බැංකුවක, මූල්‍ය ආයතනයක හෝ වෙන්දේසියක අභ්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය තොරතුරු පිටතට විකිණීම යනුය. එම තොරතුරු මිලට ගන්නා තැනැත්තාට එම තොරතුරු පාවිච්චි කර මූල්‍ය වෙළෙඳපළ තුළ වාසි ලබාගත හැකිය. මෙය භයානක වරදකි. මෙවැනි තොරතුරුවලින් ප්‍රයෝජන ගෙන කෝටිපතියකු වූ ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සම්භවයක්‌ ඇති රා- රාජරත්නම් […]

Shenali D Waduge The Indo-Lanka Peace Accord was signed on 29 July 1987. JR Jayawardena signed on behalf of Sri Lanka & Rajiv Gandhi signed on behalf of India. What it achieved, what it did not achieve is just as important as what both countries need to now decide about its continuance! The scenario is […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island THE MASK OF ANARCHY. WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE MASSACRE AT MANCHESTER” was composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley during his sojourn in Florence in Italy on hearing about an unprovoked attack by a group of militia cavalrymen on a peaceful and orderly protest rally attended by some […]

By Sanchith Karunaratna Courtesy Adaderana The first political rally of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) headed by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was held earlier today (6), near the Kadawatha bus station. Thousands of supporters from the region attended the event marking the first of a series of rallies that will be held leading up to the […]

By Sanchith Karunaratna Courtesy Adaderana Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Front (ACF) Ven.Ulapane Sumangala Thero stated that the Prime Minister should accept responsibility of the Central Bank Bond scam without palming off his guilt to other individuals. Speaking to the media at a press conference today (6), Ven. Sumangala thero stated the Premier should take responsibility for the […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island The ‘special statement’ on the bond commission report made last Wednesday by President Maithripala Sirisena was, all things considered, the only statement that could have been made in the circumstances. To have expected anything else was unrealistic. The yahapalana project is something that goes beyond the President, the SLFP which he […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island January 6, 2018, 7:06 pm In the view of many, President Maithripala Sirisena has made a bad decision releasing a part version of the much awaited Central Bank Bond Commission report. Being a politician who has not been slow in taking the credit for appointing the commission in the first instance, it […]

Courtesy The Island January 6, 2018, 7:46 pm Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal yesterday said that Treasury Bond issues from 2008 to 20014 have “already been closely examined by the Auditor General (AG) in response to a request made Aug. 19, 2016, by then Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake under section 43(2) of the […]

Courtesy The Island President Maithripala Sirisena’s office has put out several versions of his bond commission statement in an apparent attempt to soften the blow to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his party. The first English translation of the President’s Sinhala statement was reasonably close to the original, but a subsequent version — Bond Report […]

Rajan Philips Courtesy The Island January 6, 2018, 7:07 pm The pundits have already declared the February 10 local government elections as a national referendum on the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government. The President’s statement on the findings of the Bond Commission report now provides a specific context or framework for that referendum. The implications of that framework will […]

අනුරාධා හේරත් උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම  පර්පචුවල් ට්‍රෙෂරීස් සමාගමේ ලාභයත් ජනාධිපති බැඳුම්කර කොමිෂන් වාර්තාව හෙළිදරව් කළ අලාභයත් අතර රුපියල් මිලියන 6,755ක පරතරයක් පවතින බව දූෂණ විරෝධී හඬ අනාවරණය කරයි. එම සංවිධානයේ කැඳවුම්කරු ජවිපෙ පාර්ලිමේන්තු හිටපු මන්ත්‍රි වසන්ත සමරසිංහ ‘ඉරිදා මව්බිම’ට පැවැසුවේ පර්පචුවල් ට්‍රෙෂරීස් සමාගමේ ගිණුම් වාර්තාවල සඳහන් පරිදි එහි මාස 30ක ලාභය රුපියල් මිලියන 18, 255ක් වන අතර […]

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Courtesy Ceylon Today A Bill, which will enable the State to recover a sum of Rs 8.5 billion, that was allegedly robbed by those involved in the Central Bank Treasury Bonds scam, will be presented to the House when Parliament convenes for the first time in 2018, Co-Cabinet Spokesman, Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera said yesterday. He […]