Ratanapala 22 Feb 2018 Local Government elections have come and gone. The Sammuthiwadi Government tried their level best to postpone these elections but to no avail. It was like postponing death, but the day did come and it was as expected a devastating blow to the ‘pretenders’ of Yahapalanaya. The day of reckoning has to […]

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Dr Sarath Obeysekera President Maithripala Sirisena says he decided to establish National Economic Council to strengthen the national economy by formalizing the economic management in the country. He said that the objectives of NEC are to increase the export income and develop the local industry.  He pointed out there is a need for a stronger […]

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By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island On the instructions of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also minister of National Policies and Economic Affairs, his deputy, Dr. Harsha de Silva has initiated talks with the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy to iron out differences over proposed controversial National Payment […]

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BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE A bud is a metaphor and it is one that has naturally led to over-use because it is the party symbol of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the nelum pohottuwa. ‘The bud will bloom,’ they said with as much conviction as the rhetoricians of other parties predicted its withering. The results are […]

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ජන බල ප්‍රවෘත්ති රුසියාවේ හිටපු තානාපතිට එරෙහිව නැවතත් රතු නිවේදනයක්‌ නිකුත් කර ඇති බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලිසිය විසින් යහපාලන නායකයන්ට හේත්තු ගැන්වීමට පසු ඉන්ටර්පොල් රතු වරෙන්තුවක් නිකුත් කල බවට තොරතුරු රැගෙන ජේෂ්ඨ අතිරේඛ සොලිස්ටර් ජෙනරාල් යසන්ත කෝදාගොඩ මහතා හා පොලිස් මුල්‍ය අපරාධ කොඨඨාශයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ පොලිස් අධිකාරි පී.කේ.ඩී.ප්‍රියන්ත මහතා ඇතුඵ පිරිස 20 දින යළි බුඩායි නගරයට […]

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Passing away of a great monk ! Most Ven. Katukurunde Nyanananda Maha Thero passed away on the early hours of 22 February 2018 at the National Hospital of Colombo. He was an exemplary monk and a scholar. He was one of the few remaining students of late Matara Sri Gnanarama Maha Thero of Mitirigala Nissaranavanaya. Most […]

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