KAMALIKA  PIERIS BAMBALAPITIYA FLATS The cabinet has approved a multi-million dollar project to replace the Bambalapitiya Flats, a significant landmark in Colombo, lying on very valuable land. A plan was, floated in 2014 to redevelop the ten-acre land on which the Bambalapitiya flats now stand. UTL Global Projects registered in Singapore made the proposal.  A […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Traffic congestion, in the Colombo city, cost around one billion rupees a day, Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka told Parliament, yesterday.Participating in third reading of the budget debate under the expenditure heads of the Ministries of Transport and Civil Aviation and Ports and Shipping, the Minister said that the […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS REVISED 2.4.19 This essay is a follow up of the matters discussed in the first essay. It is confined to happenings in 2017 and 2018. NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD The head of the National Identity Card division was to be removed from office for opposing a racket, said Campaign for Free and Fair Elections […]

පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ලක්ෂ්මන් යාපා අබේවර්ධන විදුලි අර්බුදය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අපි කණගාටු වෙනවා. ලංකාවේ විදුලි බල පද්ධතියෙන් ජනනය කළ හැකි සම්පූර්ණ විදුලි ධාරිතාව මෙගාවොට් 4000යි. සියලුම අංශ උපරිමයෙන් ක්‍රියාතම්ක වුනොත් ජලවිදුලියෙන් මෙගාවොට් 1700යි. ගල් අගුරුවලින් මෙගාවොට් 900යි. තෙල්වලින් මෙගාවොට් 1200කුත් අනෙකුත් පරිසරකාමි විදුලි ජනක ක්‍රමවලින් මෙගාවොට් 200ක් විදියටයි මේ මෙගාවොට් 4000 නිෂ්පාදනය වෙන්නේ. අපි නොරොච්චෝලේ විදුලි බලාගාරය […]

සමස්ත ලංකා සුවසේවා සංගමය. – All Ceylon Health Services Union.ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි ඌව පළාත් සභාවට අයත් රෝහල් හා සෞඛ්‍ය ආයතනයන් හි සේවය කරනු ලබන සෞඛ්‍ය කාර්යය මණ්ඩලයන් විසින් නිම කර ඇති අති කාල දීමනා අඩු කර ගෙවීමටත්, ගෙවිය යුතු ගමන් වියදම් සීමා කර ගෙවීමටත්,අලුත් අවුරුදු අත්තිකාරම් මදල් අපේ‍්‍රල් මස 11 වන දින ගෙවීමටත් ඌව පළාත් පරිපාලනය […]

හසිත මානන්දුව ලේකම්. විධායක සභාව සහ බහුතර සාමාජිකයින්ගේ කැමැත්ත සහ ඉල්ලීම මත වෙබ් මාධ්‍යවේදීන්ගේ ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරය සමුහිකව විසුරුවා හරින බව මෙයින් දැනුම් දෙමි.  වෙබ් සහ සමාජජාල මාධ්‍යය තහනමට ලක්වූ අවස්ථාවේදී මෙරට මාධ්‍ය නිදහස වෙනුවෙන් ඉතා සක්‍රීයව සහ වේගවත්ව ක්‍රියාත්මක වූ වෙබ් මාධ්‍යවේදීන්ගේ ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරය කලක් නිහඬ සහ අක්‍රීයව පැවතීමත්, ඇතැම් ඉහළ නිලධාරීන්ගේ විනිවිදභාවයෙන් තොර ක්‍රියාකලාපයත්, පටු […]

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC The Thripitakabhivandana Week in the US that continued  from 16th – 24th March 2019 under the patronage of four Sri Lankan Buddhist Temples in Washington and Maryland came to a close with the completion of religious events at Nisala Arana Buddhist Monastery and Mahamewnawa Meditation Center in Maryland  on […]

by P. WEERASEKERA Courtesy The Island The issue of mass graves in Mannar continues to remain an inconclusive hot topic, despite the radio carbon dating analysis report received from the Beta Analytic Testing Laboratory in Florida, USA., which cleared the Sri Lanka Army of responsibility, by declaring the skeletal remains referred to the Laboratory pre-dates […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island UPFA MP Dullas Alahapperuma on Monday (March 25) said that the denial of a visa to Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka to attend the United Nations was as wrong as denying Lt. Colonel Ratnapriya Bandu an opportunity to visit Geneva, Switzerland. The Switzerland embassy, in Colombo, denied a visa to […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka’s total foreign debt burden had increased by over Rs 626 billion due to the depreciation of the rupee against the US dollar between January 2015 and November 2017, Parliament was told yesterday. State Minister of Finance Eran Wickramaratne revealed this in answer to a question posed by […]

By Umesh Moramudali Courtesy The Diplomat In the aftermath of political turmoil, Sri Lanka’s government will be hard-pressed to manage debt and growth in 2019. Following one of the most dramatic political crises in the recent history of South Asia, Sri Lanka’s government budget for 2019 was approved by the majority of the parliament on March 12. […]

Courtesy onemileatatime.com I’m a big fan of countries eliminating barriers to entry, whether that comes in the form of removing the hassle or cost associated with visiting. Over the past few months we’ve seen quite a few countries shake up their visa requirements, both for better and worse. It looks like the latest country to […]

By Prof. Tissa Vitarana Courtesy Ceylon Today The 2019 Budget comes as the last one of this Government. The people have experienced four years of an ‘open market economy’ and practically everyone in different walks of life complain that they feel dissatisfied, find it difficult to work and live the way they did before and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A heated argument erupted in Parliament yesterday between Hambantota District UPFA Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa and Deputy Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Nalin Bandara over the Hambantota-Oman Oil Refinery. Speaking during the committee stage debate in the House, MP Rajapaksa said the cabinet had given the approval for the project […]

Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardene  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Opposition MP Sarath Amunugama, who was a member of the Sri Lankan delegation to the UNHRC, told Parliament today that Sri Lanka did not agree to a time frame to implement what it promised through the resolution adopted in Geneva. We told the UNHRC that we […]