Sarath Wijesinghe (Former Ambassador to Israel and UAE/Former Chairman CAA –Solicitor in England and Wales/Attorney-at-Law) Digitization process in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is still lagging behind digitization when neighbor India and even Bangladesh has surpassed us. Bangladesh has introduced biometric ID’s for their 110 million citizens which is a base for digitization in other areas, when […]

N. A. DE S. AMARATUNGA Courtesy The Island October 2, 2018, 9:41 pm Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has come out strongly against powerful countries with imperial agendas, who use Human Rights as a bludgeon to make poor countries fall in line with their plan for domination of the world. He did not speak against the concept of […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Northern Province Governor Reginald Cooray, yesterday, said that the rapid deterioration of the standards of the national legislature reflected continuing uncertainty, instability and political chaos. The abolition of the executive presidency could worsen the situation further, Cooray warned in an interview with The Island at his Lily Mawatha office, Jayanthipura, […]

Sandun A Jayasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Cabinet Ministers, State Ministers and Deputy Ministers will strictly be restricted to use only two official vehicles, the government has decided. If a Minister uses more than two vehicles, the Secretary or the Chief Accountant of the relevant Ministry must take the responsibility of expenses for providing more than […]

Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Ministries of Finance, Development Strategies and International trade and Trade and Commerce and the Central Bank will, within a week, decide on the steps to be taken to keep the rupee stable in the wake of the global economic crisis, sources close to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday. […]

The Central Bank intervened by US$ 184 million on a net basis so far this year to defend the depreciation of the Sri Lankan Rupee. In 2015 under this government about US$ 3.2 billion was spent to defend the Rupee and the Rupee was depreciated by little under 10%.” So far we’ve had a 9.5% […]

By Tharindi Pabasara Courtesy Adaderana The incumbent government will be toppled before the upcoming Presidential Election, says UPFA MP Dinesh Gunawardena. He stated this responding to the questions raised by the media persons following an event held in Colombo. MP Gunawardena claims that their party will be taking over the state power before the upcoming Presidential Election […]

By Prof. G.L.Peiris Courtesy The Daily Mirror My approach in this article is to make as little comment as possible, and to let the documentation, consisting of authoritative Resolutions, Statements and other material, speak for itself. I. Address by President Sirisena at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) In his address at the UNGA on September […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily News The Central Bank has released US$157.7 million to the market within four days to stabilise the rupee which stands at Rs.170 against the US dollar, joint opposition (JO) MP Bandula Gunawardana today said. When the IMF is releasing US$169 million to Sri Lanka as loans, he said the evaporation of […]

පනාගොඩ – චම්පා ශිවන්ති, මාළඹේ – රාජිකා රණසිංහ උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම රටක නීතියක් නැතිනම් රටක් ඉදිරියට ගමන් කරන්න පුළුවන්කමක් නැහැ. මේ වනවිට රටේ පාතාලය, මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය හිස ඔසවලා. අද රටේ ඇමැතිවරුන් තරු හතේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයක් ගැන කතා කරනවා. ජනතාවට නිදහසේ ජීවත් වෙන්න බැරි නම්, අපරාධ සිදුවෙනවා නම් ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයක් තහවුරු කරන්නේ කොහොමද? ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයේ වැදගත්ම දේ තමයි ඡන්දය. අද ඡන්දය කල් […]

Courtesy The Daily News The Supreme Court has put an end to a three year long wrangling and all controversies over the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) by accepting the plea by one of the students graduated by the institute to be provisionally registered with the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC). Needless […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි රොහාන් වැලිවිට හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්  මාගේ නමට සමාන නමක් ඇති පුද්ගලයෙකු තමන් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්වරයා ලෙස පෙනී සිටිමින් අයථා කටයුතුවල නිරතවන බව මා වෙත වාර්තා වී තිබේ. මෙම පුද්ගලයා මාගේ සහ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ නම භාවිතා කරමින් කප්පම් ඉල්ලීම, පොලිසිය ඇතුළු රාජ්‍ය ආයතනවලට බලපෑම් කිරීම හා විවිධ […]