A.Dharmakulasingham, Retired Srilnkan Diplomat Hon.Chairman, Events unfolding in our beautiful island compels me to write an open letter  aimed at inviting  your  thoughtful attention to the mandate  entrusted on the election commission to conduct elections in Srilanka.I don’t need to remind the provisions of  supreme law of the country ,constitution and other binding laws and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Ven. Ellawala Medhananda paid special attention to the Buddhist archaeological remains in the North and east. He explored as much as he could in these two provinces, using his own resources He found that the north and east had many Buddhist ruins and many explorations were needed, before they could be fully examined […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහා බැංකුව පිහිටුවා මේ වනවිට වසර 70කි. මේ රටේ වසර 70වක කාලය පුරා විවිධ දේශපාලඥයින් විසින් සිදුකල සෑම සියලු දෙයක්ම සුපහදිලිව දන්නා එකම ආයතනය, මේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහා බැංකුවයි. වසර 70ක් පුරා මේ රටේ සිදුව ඇති සෑම සියලු ආර්ථික ක්‍රියාවලියකටම වගකිව යුතු ආයතනය වන්නේද  ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහා බැංකුවයි. වර්තමාන මහා බැංකුව […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised  20.6.20 Medhananda also went on exploration to the Northern Province and wrote his findings in his book Pacina passsa, uttara passa, nagenahira palata ha uturu palate Sinhala Bauddha Urumaya”. Ven. Ellawala Medhananda was not able to explore the North as much as he would have liked, due to LTTE control. The Northern […]

නිදහස් වෙළඳ කලාප සහ පොදු සේවා සේවක සංගමය අතින් භාරදීම. 2020 ජුනි මස 17 වන දින. ආර්.පී.එA. විමලවීර මහතා කම්කරු කොමසාරිස් ජනරාල්, 03 වන මහල, කම්කරු මහ ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, නාරාහේන්පිට, කොළඹ 05. ප්‍රිය මහත්මයාණෙනි, කෝවිඩ් 19 වසංගතය බලපෑම මත යයි පවසමින් ආයතනවල ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වය නිසා පහත නම් සඳහන් ආයතනවල සේවකයින් මුහුණ දි ඇති ගැට`ඵ උක්ත කරුණ […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Sri Lanka should open up to Bangladeshi investments to reciprocate the welcome accorded to Sri Lankan investments in Bangladesh says Bangladesh envoy Riaz Hamidullah Colombo, June 16: The lockdowns and barriers imposed in countries across the globe following the outbreak of COVID-19 have crippled economies. But COVID or no COVID, […]

By a Special Correspondent Courtesy Ceylon Today Having lost his diplomatic post in Russia, poor Dr Dayan Jayatilleka is now singing lustily for his supper. Having burnt his bridges with the Rajapaksa camp, his latest sonnet A knee on the neck of the next Parliament”, published in DailyFT on 11 June 2020 is his attempt […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Investigations have confirmed that banned foreign terrorist organisations had funded the Easter Sunday bomb attacks took place on 21 April, 2019, Police Spokesperson SP Jaliya Senaratne said.  He noted that further investigations into the attack are being conducted by the Criminal Investigation Department and the Terrorism Investigation Division. Furthermore, he added that […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two more individuals are confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus, hiking the total number of cases recorded in the country to 1,923. Accordingly, a total of 08 positive COVID-19 cases have been reported within the day so far. Previously today (17), 05 arrivals from Chennai and 01 Sri Lanka Navy personnel were […]

Courtesy Adaderana

Courtesy Adaderana The case against IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando over the 2019 Easter attacks have been set to be taken up on October 23, as per an order of the Colombo Magistrate’s Court. The duo is accused of allegedly committing a criminal offense by failing to prevent the coordinated terror […]

Courtesy Adaderana A three-member committee has been appointed to inquire into illegal activities of finance leasing businesses and unauthorized finance bodies, says the President’s Media Division (PMD). The committee is chaired by the Director General of Legal Affairs of the Presidential Secretariat, Attorney-at-Law Harigupta Rohanadeera. Director of Legal and Compliance Department of CBSL K.G. Sirikumara, […]

Courtesy Hiru News Opposition and ruling party politicians today expressed their views regarding the request made by the President to the Central Bank officials

Courtesy Hiru News Government intends to raise a Foreign Currency Term Financing Facility up to a limit of USD 500 million in 2020, to finance the budget according to the Finance Ministry. The Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) intends to raise a Foreign Currency Term Financing Facility (FTFF) denominated in United State Dollars (USD) up […]

Courtesy Hiru News When archaeological officers visited the site to identify historical sites after Hiru exposed the land plunder at Muhudu Maha Viharaya , an organized group has obstructed the work of the  government officials.  Meanwhile, archaeological officers are currently working to mark 30 acres of land without demarking the 72 acres of land that […]