Courtesy The Island February 3, 2020, 10:25 pm The CID, yesterday evening, launched a search for former SriLankan CEO Kapila Chandrasena and his wife, Priyanka Niyomali Wijenayake, over a questionable aircraft deal. A senior CID officer said an arrest warrant had been obtained and a special team deployed to look for the suspects. Attorney General, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Many moneylenders have expressed support and we will be in a position to comfortably roll over our debt service commitment for 2020, senior economic adviser to the Prime Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal said. “If we could shrink the amount in our debt servicing package for 2020, which amounts to some USD […]

Courtesy Ada Derana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa commended the SriLankan Airlines crew who flew to Wuhan, the epicenter of the Coronavirus, to bring back Sri Lankan students. The crew joined a luncheon hosted by the President at the Presidential Secretariat today (03), stated President’s Media Division. Led by the Chairman of the Airline Ashoka Pathirage, Board […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The Fort Magistrate has issued arrest orders on former SriLankan Airlines Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kapila Chandrasena and his wife on charges of money laundering. Previously, the Attorney General directed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to obtain a warrant and arrest the former CEO of SriLankan Airlines Kapila Chandrasena and his wife […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් 2015 ප්‍රශ්නගත භාණ්ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර නිකුත් කිරීමේ ක්‍රමවේදය සිදුකිරීමට හිටපු අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ තමන්ට උපදෙස් දුන් බව හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්‍රන් කෝප් කමිටුවේදී සාක්ෂි දෙමින් පිළිගත් බව එවක කෝප් කමිටු සභාපති ඩිව් ගුණසේකර මහතා පවසනවා. කොළඹදී පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවට එක්වෙමින් ඒ මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් කියා සිටියේ කෙසේ වෙතත් පසුගිය රජය එම […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Ceylon Today Direct State involvement is needed as conditions are unfavorable for self-employment and entrepreneurial development schemes Sri Lanka’s post-war livelihood strategies for women in the Eastern Province have failed, necessitating fresh thinking based on the experience garnered so far and the findings of researches conducted there. This is the impression one gets after […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Feb.3 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has granted a general amnesty for 512 prisoners to mark the Independence Day which fall on 4th of February. The amnesty has been granted in accordance with powers vested in the President by Article 34 of the Constitution and on the recommendation of Nimal […]

Courtesy RadioFreeEurope One of the two workers from Sri Lanka who has been allowed to continue working.Share  Print A bakery in a small Romanian village says it will continue to allow a pair of Sri Lankan employees to make bread at its shop in the face of protests from local residents fearing an influx of […]

Courtesy Hindustan Times The then Sri Lankan government in 2015 started including the Tamil national anthem as a means of achieving reconciliation with the Tamil minority community. For the first time since 2016, there will be no Tamil national anthem at the 72nd Independence Day celebrations in Sri Lanka and it will only be rendered […]

By Romania Journal One day after they had announced they will remove the two Sri Lankan workers from the manufacturing process of the bread at the bread factory in Ditrau, Harghita, following the locals’ protest, the owners of the plant changed their mind and gave in to criticism of the civil society, announcing the Sri Lankan […]

By Euronews with UER  •  Romanian authorities are investigating a case of incitement to hatred and discrimination after 350 villagers gathered to protest against the employment of two Sri Lankan workers at a local bakery. The two bakers were hired legally through a recruitment agency at a bread factory in Ditrau, in central Romania. But some of […]

Courtesy Oneindia.com London, Feb 03: A man shot dead by the Scotland Yard after he went on a stab frenzy on a busy high street in south London was a convicted Islamist terrorist, with family links to Sri Lanka, who was recently released from prison after serving half of his sentence period for preparation of […]

What do we think we are celebrating on 4th February every year? Our independence from colonial rule. But did we really get independence on 4th February 1948? We didn’t because we became by choice a dominion of the British Empire. It was only on 22 May 1972 that Sri Lanka shred all ties with the […]

Prof. Chandana Jayalath As a matter of way out of the subdued economic growth, the Sri Lankan government recognizes the need to increase the employability rates of the youth. To that end, the ministries in the subject of skills development, vocational training and youth affairs have been tasked with providing technical and vocational training to […]

The MCC is not just any ordinary agreement. It is an agreement that is signed between 2 Governments, passing 10 land registries to a newly created company called MCC Sri Lanka Pvt Ltd. So a government to government agreement creates a company to which funding is to be disbursed and this company whose aims & […]

The shift of balance from West to East is nothing anyone can deny except that it also means the challenges for the East are all the more overwhelming unless policy formulators derive ways and means to handle, mitigate and foresee the threats their nations will experience both directly & indirectly in numerous forms & formats. […]

හර්ෂ කුමාර් සුරියආරච්චි  මහජනතාවගේ දේශප්‍රේමී චන්දයෙන් පත්වූ ජනාධිපතිතුමාත් එම නිසාම බලය ලැබුණු වර්තමාන රජයත් තවත් මැතිවරණයක් අත ළඟ තිබියදී ජනතා විරෝධයක් ඇති කර ගනිමින් නිදහස් දිනයේදී ජාතික ගීය දෙමල භාෂාවෙන් ගැයීමට ඉඩ දේවියැයි යම් හෝ දේශපාලන විග්‍රහයක් ඇති අයෙකු නොසිතනු ඇති. නමුත් අපේ ජාතික සංවිධාන එවන් සැකයන් මතු කරමින් සහ වෙනත් සරල කරුණු මතු කරමින් […]

By A.A.M.NIZAM Matara During the reign of President R.Premadasa in accordance with a directive of the Minister of Communications the broadcast of National Anthem in Tamil in the Tamil channels of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation was banned and instead onlythe musical notes were broadcast. When this directive was issued by Premadasa none  of the […]

By Senaka Weeraratna (Note: Mr. Senaka Weeraratna, Attorney – at – law, delivered the keynote address at a Symposium held on the premises of the Japanese Parliament (Conference Room No. 101 of the Diet) on 14th November, 2018 on the topic titled ‘ Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour ignited the liberation of Asia from Western […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane   Language is the defining element of any advanced culture and it gives the strongest form of identity to a community and a nation. The large majority of people of Sri Lanka are distinguished by their language, which is Sinhala. From about the 6th century BCE or more than 2500 years ago, until […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has called for an investigation into alleged financial misappropriation that took place between Sri Lankan Airlines and Airbus Consortium. Accordingly the president has instructed officials to expedite the investigation and prepare a comprehensive report in this regard and submit it. Meanwhile the Chairman of Sri Lankan Airlines Ashok Pathirage […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් MP Dr Harsha De Silva says that a loss of 9,000 Million rupees has been incurred to the government through central bank issued bonds according to the report of forensic audit.

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් ජයගත නොහැකි බවට බොහෝ දෙනා මත පලකළ බෙහෝ දේ රටක් විදියට ජයගැනීමට අපිට හැකි වුණා. රටක් විදියට අපි ලබා ගත් තවත් එවැනිම ජයග්‍රහණයක් ගැන අද මුලු ලෝකයේම අවදානයට ලක්වෙලා. ඒ, කොරෝනා වෛරසයේ තිඹිරිගෙය වන චීනයේ – වූහාන් හි සිර වී සිටි ශ්‍රී ලාංකික පිරිස නිරුපද්‍රිතව යලිත් සිය මාතෘ භූමියට රැගෙන ඒමේ […]

-කසුන් වික්‍රමගේ- හීනයක් නෙමේ ඇත්තටම අපි ලංකාවේ!-දියතලාව යුධ හමුදා පුහුණු මද්‍යස්ථානයේ සිට- කොහෙන්කොහොම පටන් ගන්නද කියල හිතනව තාම.😊අපි ලංකාවේ.😳 හීනයක් නෙමේ ඇත්තටම අපි ලංකාවේ.දේශයේ මුර දේවතාවන්ගෙ අඩවියක සැපෙන් සැහැල්ලුවෙන් නිරෝගීව.අප්‍රමාණ සැලකිලි හමුවේ🤩.මේ ලියන මොහෙතෙත් අපේ කිසිම කෙනෙක්ට කෙනෙක්ට නිදහසක් නෑ.ඇයි අපිව ආමි කෑම්ප් එකක නිසාද.නෑ අපිව එනකන් බලන් හිටපු,අපිව ලංකාවට ගන්න කැපවුනු,අපිව ආරාක්ශා කරල දෙන්න […]

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 […]