BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The economic conference held in Colombo several years ago especially focused on economic issues such as foreign debt, regulation, and export performance. They were quite significant issues not only in Sri Lanka alone but also in many third-world countries.  The major macroeconomic attention of the conference was based on three vital aspects, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS One of Philip’s great success stories was potato farming in Nuwara Eliya. This had been tried before and failed.  The MEP government wrote off the debt on this failed attempt and tried again with better seed potatoes. The trial was a complete success, and a potato research station was established in Rahangala. In […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip Gunawardena is best remembered for the Paddy Lands Act of 1958. The main objective of this Act was to provide security of tenure of a permanent and heritable nature and regulate the rents paid by tenants. However its implementation was flawed owing to administrative deficiencies, observed Nimal Sanderatne. The first Paddy Lands […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති ජනරජයක් යනු ජනතාවගේ ආධිපත්‍යයෙන් පාලනය වන රාජ්‍යයකි. ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යය යන්න අර්ථවත් වනුයේ ඒ සඳහා රාජ්‍යය තුළ පවතින අවකාශයේ ස්වභාවය අනුව ය. මෙයට පෙර ලිපියකින් සඳහන් කළ ආකාරයට පරමාධිපත්‍යයට ජනතාවගේ උපදේශන බලතල, පාලන බලතල, සාමූහික අයිතිවාසිකම්, මූලික පුද්ගලික අයිතිවාසිකම් සහ ඡන්ද බලය ඇතුළත් වන්නේ ය.” මෙම පරමාධිපත්‍යය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම සඳහා අවැසි අවකාශය සැකැසීම […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය දෙදහස් විසි එකේ පෙබරවාරි 05 දින අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල සංදේශයට අනුව භූමිතෙල් සහනාධාරය ප්‍රතිපූර්ණය කිරීම සහ බොරතෙල් සඳහා වන වරාය හා ගුවන් තොටුපල සංවර්ධන බද්ද නැවත සකස් කිරීම සඳහා පත්කරන ලද අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල අනු කමිටුව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පළමු වරට අද 2021.03.08 දින පෙරවරුවේ මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශයේ දී රැස්විය. භූමිතෙල් සහනාධාරය […]

By Senior Lawyer  [e mail srilankastudycircle@yahoo.com] The purpose of this article is to present the   expert views and advice so far published on how to preserve our sovereignty, when nations which describe themselves as a ‘core  group’, comprising Canada, UK, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Germany, have proposed a resolution at the 43rd session of the UNHRC […]

 by Jamila Husain Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 8 (DailyMirror) – Health officials from the Colombo Municipal Council said that the COVID-19 infections in Colombo were on the decline in recent weeks and from an estimated 250 random PCR and antigen tests being conducted, an average one or two people were testing positive in comparison to the […]

By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy Urasia Review Following the unequivocal support extended by China to Sri Lanka on the Core Group’s draft resolution at the UNHRC, Sri Lanka questioned the reliability of the data in the report on the Uighur Muslims of China.   Following the unequivocal support extended by China to Sri Lanka on the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Parts of Muthurajawela Wetland cleared for private commercial constructions Intending to build public opinion against the foreign private enterprises taking over lands on a large scale and causing irreversible impact on the environment, a forum named ‘Our Land is Not For Sale’ was formed recently with the participation of environmental activists […]

P.K.Balachandran Courtesy The Daily Mirror Before Sri Lanka became predominantly Buddhist following the conversion of the 3rd. Century King Devanampiya Tissa (247 BC-207 BC), the island had an amazing assortment of religious cults, practices and faiths including animism, Jainism, Shaivism, Brahminism and Buddhism. There were many gods, goddesses and deities of local and Indian origin.  […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 177 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (March 08), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 334 new positive cases of COVID-19 within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed so far in the country now stands at 86,039. Recoveries from […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 05 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (March 08). As per the Department of Government Information, one male patient and four female patients are among the victims. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 507 in total.