The title crudely portrays the hypocrisy that prevails in the present government’s policy in not siding with the national army against a banned terrorist movement that does not enjoy any international legal provisions given its status as a banned non-state actor and a country has every right to take action against it in the larger […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara 30.7.2018 The Tun Rata: Ruhunu, Pihiti and Maya (Tun Sinhale) Best model of devolution and decentralization, both political and executive power to the periphery and the people. The whole Island and its territorial waters will be divided in to three Regions (Prantha) to be named ‘Ratasabha’; viz Ruhunu, Pihiti and Maya keeping […]

By James Petras   Courtesy Eurasia Review For decades and longer, the United States and Europe lectured and encouraged countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia to welcome and accept foreign investment as the virtuous path to modernization, growth and prosperity. With few notable exceptions western leaders and academics promoted unlimited flows of capital (and the outflows […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island August 3, 2018, 10:28 pm Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has done a President Maithripala Sirisena. Whenever the government takes unpopular decisions and riles the public in the process, the President, invariably, claims to be unaware of them. His stock excuse is that he has got to know about them from the newspapers. […]

By Hiran H.Senewiratne Courtesy The Island The government has imposed taxes on gold and vehicle imports to manage the country’s fiscal position, which has already resulted in some relief for the economy, Central Bank Governor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy said. “At present with the new tax imposition, gold imports have come down to manageable levels, while vehicle […]

Courtesy ANI Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh), Aug 03 (ANI): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, his wife and other ministers on Friday visited Tirupati Temple in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh. Wickremesinghe along with his wife Maitree Wickremesinghe among other ministers and their families visited the shrine to offer their prayers to Lord Venkateswara. His last […]

By AFP Courtesy Daily Mail The huge port under construction in Colombo straddles the world’s busiest east-west shipping route and also gives a strategic foothold to China in a region long dominated by India Sri Lanka’s central bank on Friday announced it had secured a $1 billion Chinese loan as the island, a key link in Beijing’s […]

Courtesy wionews A Communist Party on Friday said that Sri Lanka is a partner in China’s ambitious One Belt One Road initiative. This multi-billion initiative of Chinese President Xi Jinping focuses on improving connectivity and cooperation among Asian countries, Africa, and Europe. Guo Yehou, a Chinese Vice Minister, met Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe […]

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම රටේ නායකත්වයට පත් නොවී දෙවැනි පෙළ පුටුවේ කාලයක්ම වාඩි වී සිටිමින් රටට සේවය කළ මිනිසුන් බොහෝය. ඔවුන්ට අනුව රට ගොඩනැඟීම ප්‍රමුඛ වූවා මිස තමන් ගොඩනැඟී මුල් පුටුවට ඒම ප්‍රමුඛ කාරිය නොවීය. කෙසේ වෙනත් රටක නායකයකු වන්නට සිතා සිටින්නකු වෙත්නම් හේ මහත් ඉවසිලිවන්තයකු විය යුතුය. බැනුම් අහන්නට පමණක් නොව නොයෙකුත් අකටයුතුකම්වලටද මුහුණ දෙන්නට හැකි […]

කේ.එස්. උදය කුමාර්  උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම වත්මන් යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව මහජනතාව මත පටවමින් සිටින අධික බදු බර සහ ජීවන වියදම් ගැටලු තවත් එක් වෙසක් පොහොයකින් පසුව මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ නායකත්වය යටතේ පිහිටුවනු ලබන ආණ්ඩුවක් මඟින් අවසන් කරන බවත් එම නව ආණ්ඩුව යටතේ වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව විසින් මහජනතාව මත පටවා තිබෙන අධික බදු බර 20%කට වඩා අඩු කිරීමට කටයුතු […]

දෙනගම ධම්මික රණවීර – ආරියරත්න ගනේගොඩ  උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම සැලසුමක් නැතිව බලයට පැමිණි ආණ්ඩුවේ එකම ඉලක්කය දේශපාලන විරුද්ධවාදීන් මර්දනය කරමින් වෛරය පැතිරවීම පමණක් බව හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. හෙතෙම එසේ පැවැසුවේ ‘හරිමඟ’ දෙවැනි සම්මන්ත්‍රණයට සහභාගි වෙමින්ය. වැල්ලවත්ත එම්.අයි.සී.එච්. ශාලාවේදී පසුගියදා (01දා) පැවැති එම සම්මන්ත්‍රණය මුස්ලිම් ප්‍රජාව විසින් සංවිධානය කොට තිබුණු අතර එහිදී ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday warned foreign countries not to accept any asset offered by the Sri Lankan government saying he would ‘pay attention’ to these agreements when they come to power. Addressing the ‘Jana Bala Sena’ protest rally organised by the Joint Opposition at the Vihara Maha Devi Park […]

By Lucien Karunanayake Courtesy The Island The ever-dwindling Yahapalana Kattiya involved in Pubudimu Polonnaruwa and Colombata Kelimu were thinking of inviting Imran Khan for his first official visit abroad as Pakistan’s Prime Minister to Sri Lanka, to give support to his pledge to fight corruption. “What will be the theme of our invitation”, asked Yahapala. “That […]