By Garvin Karunaratne While renewable energy should be the aim in power generation, it has so happened that we are currently walking in the opposite direction. We are ignoring the resources that Mother Nature has provided for us. The news item: Small Hydro Power Developers Association calls on the President for protection”(FT:29/1/20)  tells me of […]

By NAN LWIN 27 December 2019 Courtesy The Irrawaddy Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (center) and Japanese Upper House MP Natsuo Yamaguchi (right) pose for a photo after a meeting in Yangon on Dec. 23. / Myanmar State Counselor’s Office YANGON—Amid mounting international criticism of Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi over […]

By KYAW PHYO THA 23 December 2019 Courtesy: The Irravaddy When Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led Myanmar’s delegation at public hearings before the 17-member bench in the Great Hall at the International Court of Justice on Dec. 10, she was at the center of international media attention. Impassively” became the word of the day as, under […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B,. Ph.D.  කොසොල් රජතුමා දුටු සීන දාසැය සිංහල බෞද්ද්ධයින් ඇතුළු ලාංකිකයින් බොහෝ දෙනෙක් ඇමෙරිකාවට සංක්‍රමණය වීමට ප්‍රධානම හේතුව වන්නේ ඉන්දියාවේ පසේනදී කොසොල් රජතුමා විසින් දැනට අවුරුදු 2,500 කට පෙර දුටු සිහිනවලට දුන් අනාවැකි ඔවුන් උපන් රට තුල සැබෑවෙමින් තිබීමය. ආර්ථික දුෂ්කරතා වලට වඩා ඊට බලපාන්නේ රටේ දේශපාලකයින් රටට කරණ මහා විනාශය නිසා ඇතිවන […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකාසීනිවුස් මහ බැංකුවේ බැඳුම්කර නිකුත්කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් වෝහාරික විගණන වාර්තා සකස් කිරීමට භාර දුන් ඉන්දීය සමාගමේ ප්‍රධානියා ධුරයෙන් ඉවත්කර තිබේ. ඔහුට එල්ල වූ දූෂණ චෝදනා මත තනතුරෙන් ඉවත් කර ඇතැයි ඉන්දීය මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා විසින් වාර්ථා කරයි. BDO sacks partner in corruption case Courtesy The Economic Times Audit firm BDO has expelled a partner after […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy Island *  Forensic audit tries to dilute 2015/2016 bond scam*  Lack of independence vitiates legal utility of forensic audit*  Forensic auditors facing fraud charges in India February 1, 2020, 6:37 pm The forensic audit into the issue of Treasury bonds by the Central Bank has been released in five volumes. What is […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකාසීනිවුස් චීන වූහන් නගරයේ සිටි ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සිසුන් 33 දෙනා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ගෙන ඒම සඳහා ගිය යානය මේ වන විට මත්තල ගුවන් තොටුපලට ගොඩබස්වා තිබේ. එහි සිසුන් 33 දෙනා දෙසතියක කාලයක් නිරෝධායන මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ රැදවීමට නියමිත බව වාර්තා වෙයි. රෝගය පැතිරීම පාලනය කිරීම සඳහා මෙම පියවර ගෙන ඇතැයි සඳහන්ය. එමෙන්ම එම ගමන සඳහා සහභාගි […]

 Editorial Staff   Courtesy  HotNews.ro Two workers from Sri Lanka who have become the target of protests in a Central Romanian town were eventually removed on Saturday from the production process at the bread factory where they were working. The situation, prompted by a wave of xenophobic attitudes among the local population in the town of […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The 33 Sri Lankan students who were flew out of Wuhan in a special charter flight have arrived at the facility set up at Diyatalawa army camp’s Base Hospital for quarantine a short while ago, says Ada Derana correspondent. The Sri Lankan Airlines flight (UL 1423) carrying a total of 33 Sri […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Cabinet spokesman, Minister Bandula Gunawardana said yesterday he would file a case in the Supreme Court challenging the economic and monetary decisions taken by Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera and Treasury officials under the Yahapalanaya government. “The current economic disaster faced by the Rajapaksa government is the legacy of the previous government. […]

Courtesy Ada Derana Airbus, Europe’s largest aerospace multinational, is to pay a record £3bn (USD 4 billion) in penalties after admitting it had paid huge bribes on an endemic” basis to land contracts in 20 countries. Anti-corruption investigators hailed the result as the largest ever corporate fine for bribery in the world after judges declared […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The female Chinese national, the first patient who was tested positive for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Sri Lanka, has recovered completely, says the Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. Addressing a media briefing held today (01), Dr. Jasinghe added that the Chinese woman in question, who was admitted to […]