Hafizur Talukdar Debt-ridden Bangladesh a few years ago is now a country of unprecedented success in debt relief. The world today looks at Bangladesh in amazement. Bangladesh only borrowed from other countries or organizations. Now that history has changed and started giving loans. Bangladesh has given loans to Sri Lanka and Sudan. Bangladesh gave a […]

Courtesy Hiru News State Minister of Coconut, Kithul and Palmyrah Cultivation Promotion and Related Industrial Product Manufacturing and Export Diversification, Arundika Fernando stated that ammonium sulphate required for coconut cultivation is expected to be imported in the future. He expressed these views at Parliament today (08). The Minister of State made this statement in Parliament […]

Courtesy Hiru News The amendment to the Appropriation Act No. 07 of 2020 to increase the borrowing limit was recently approved by the Committee on Public Finance chaired by Member of Parliament Anura Priyadarshana Yapa. Accordingly, the borrowing limit which was Rs. 2997 billion will be increased to Rs. 3397 billion, it was revealed at […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති බුදුදහම තුළ සතිය සහ සම්ප්‍රජඤ්ඤයට විශේෂ තැනක් ලබා දී තිබේ. දීඝ නිකායේ පාථික වර්ගයේ එන දසුත්තර සූත්‍රයෙහි සතිය සහ සම්ප්‍රජඤ්ඤය හඳුන්වා ඇත්තේ බහුපකාර ධර්ම දෙකක් වශයෙනි. සතිය යනු එල්බගත් සිහිය ය. අර්ථ අනර්ථ විමසා අර්ථවත් මග ගැනීමත්, පහසුව සහ අපහසුව සළකා පහසු මග සළසාගැනීමත්, ගෝචර කරගත යුතු දෑ මැනැවින් හඳුනාගැනීමත්, අතරමග දී […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 9 (Counterpoint): Relations between Sri Lanka and China were excellent between 2010 and 2015 when the pro-China Mahinda Rajapaksa was President. During this period, China constructed the US$ 1.1 billion Hambantota port, an ultra-modern container terminal in Colombo, a state-of-the-art airport at Mattala, and had begun constructing the US$ […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් තමන් වයස අවුරුදු දහසයේ සිට කාබනික පොහොර භාවිතයෙන් ගොවිතැන් කරන බවට ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සහ හමුවේ ප්‍රකාශ කළ ගොවි නායකයෙකු රසායනික පොහොර තම වගාවට යොදන ආකාරය ගොවීන් පිරිසක් විසින් හෙළිදරව් කර ඇත. අනුරාධපුර ඇතුළු සමස්ත සුළු වාරිමාර්ග නියෝජනය කරන සමස්ත ලංකා ගොවිජන බල මණ්ඩලයේ සභාපතිවරයාගේ බඩඉරිඟු වගාවට රසායනික පොහොර […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror In order to make the public aware of the forthcoming budget the Progressive Women’s Collective (PWC) recently launched a budget forecast campaign titled ‘Who is the budget for? There’s a huge budget deficit and people are facing many challenges with the rising cost of living, scarcity of goods, loss of income […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 167 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 679. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country to 545,935 while over 16,500 infected patients are currently being treated across the island.  The Director General […]

MD Pathik Hasan Bangladesh’s ability to spend money has increased even earlier. Ability to borrow and repay foreign loans has also increased. In the meantime, Bangladesh has also written its name in the list of middle-income countries. Top 10 Mega Project in Bangladesh such as Padma Bridge, Dhaka Metro Rail, Dhaka-Chittagong Elevated Expressway, Dhaka to […]

රජිත් කිර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් දකුණ හා මධ්‍යම පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර ගෑස් හිඟය අසීමිත සම්පත් හොරා කෑමේ ප්‍රතිලයක් වැරදි ආර්ථික මිල පාලන ප්‍රතිපත්තිය සහ අසීමිතව මූල්‍ය අක්‍රමිකතාවයන් වෙළෙපොළේ දැවැන්ත ගෑස් හිඟයක් නිර්මාණය කර ඇත.  ඉස්සර බතුයි – පොල්සම්බලුයි ගැන කතා කරපු අයට දැන් සිගරට් – බුලත්විටත් නෑ” යැයි හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කිර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පවසයි. මාසිකව ලංකාවට ගෑස් […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 7 (News 1st):  Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group Co., Ltd., the Chinese Organic Fertilizer Manufacturer has sent a Letter of Demand (LOD) to the National Plant Quarantine Service. The Letter of Demand, seen by News 1st., says that Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group Co., Ltd., has suffered significant loss and damage in a […]

Courtesy Lankacnews Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Finance has stated that only one third of the lands cultivated during the Maha season have been prepared for cultivation. He has pointed this out at a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa during a discussion on the fertilizer crisis. At present paddy fields and other cultivations […]

Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group Co Ltd, the Chinese company that supplied the controversial stock of fertilizer, demanded   US $ 8 million from Additional Director- National Plant Quarantine Services Dr W.A.R. T.  Wickramaarachchi within three days starting from November 5 and warned of legal action otherwise.   Sri Lanka rejected the […]

by M. P. Dhanapala, Retired Director, Rice Research and Development, Batalagoda Email: ,maddumadhanapala@yahoo.com Tel: 071 8412444 The two critical facts relevant to rice farming in Ceylon/Sri Lanka that one might consider seriously when dealing with farmers are as follows: 1. Rice cultivation is the least remunerative of all occupations and that the farmers grow rice […]

by Nalin Gunasekera Courtesy The Island In many countries, an LNG project is the largest investment ever undertaken, and a country’s future creditworthiness may hang in the balance. Unfulfilled commitments for any reason can lead to millions of dollars of losses. LNG – A Non-Technical Guide by Michael Tusiani, 2011 The writer Nalin Gunasekera (nalin.gunasekera@hotmail.com) […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that 168 more persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases to 626. This is the third consecutive day that the daily count of new cases has exceeded 600.  The total number of coronavirus cases reported in the country thus far has risen to […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala The year 1505 is a memorable date etched in the minds of those who knows anything about the history of Sri Lanka. It is the year in which the Portuguese arrived and opened up a new chapter in the history of the nation. But hardly anyone remembers 1215 – the year […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda According to media reports, while addressing at the SLPPs 5th National Convention, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said the SLPP was duty bound to preserve the unity among its coalition allies who had fought for the same cause. Recalling the sacrifices made by those who contributed towards the SLPP’s historic victory, the PM said, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  SIR JOHN KOTELAWALA Sir John Kotelawala was Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1953 to 1956. He was strongly pro-USA.Nayani Melegoda records that the USA Secretary of State had visited Ceylon when Sir John was Prime Minister, date not given.  Sir John was firmly anti communist. He banned communist books and periodicals from arriving […]

MD Pathik Hasan Trade potential in multiple sectors: Many Bangladeshi products have bright potential in the Sri Lankan market. Similarly, there are huge possibilities for Lankan products in Bangladesh. Now it is high time to address the need to increase the participation of the private sector in the two countries. Sri Lankan entrepreneurs should invest […]

Palitha senanayake This is just about to happen, and this impending calamity is not taking place in some remote corner, in some ‘banana republic’ under a despot, but in the heart of democracy and between the two champions of modern civilized values; between the US and Britain. The case of extradition of Julian Assange is […]

Senaka Weeraratna There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India – as horrible as it may have been – was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that the empire was sustained […]

WORLD BANK VP HARTWIG SCHAFER WITH INDEEWARI AMUWATTE 

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 6 (newsin.asia): On the occasion of the 6th Ayurveda Day, Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center, the cultural arm of the High Commission of India, Colombo, organised a seminar on 2nd November, 2021 on the theme Ayurveda for Poshan”, in a hybrid mode. A limited number of participants attended the seminar at the […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 6 (Counterpoint): Gotabaya Rajapaksa came to power through the November 2019 Presidential election with a thumping majority. His party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), secured a two thirds majority in the August 2020 parliamentary elections. People had high hopes of rapid economic development under the stewardship of Gotabaya […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total number of people who died of COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka moved up as 20 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Friday (November 05). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in the country to 13,841. The latest victims include […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 617 today (November 06) as 135 more people were tested positive for the virus, the Epidemiology Unit said. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 544,630. As many as 514,912 recoveries and 13,841 […]

News Center ගෝඨාභය කියන්නේ පඹයෙක්, බලන්න පහුගිය කාලේ ගත්ත මෝඩ තකතීරු ගොන් තීරණ, නිදහසින් පස්සේ ආව ඕලමොට්ටලම කැබිනට් එක මේ, හරක් රැලක් ඉන්නේ- ආණ්ඩුවේ හවුල්කරුවෙක් හිටපු ඇමති ඩේව් ගුණසේකරගෙන් ජනපතිට දැඩි විවේචනයක්

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu Reaction to the recent Pentagon report on military developments involving China Reactingsharply to a Pentagon report on security developments involving China, flagging the Asian giant’s likely consideration” of overseas military bases in countries such as Sri Lanka, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo accused the United States of widespread military occupation. […]

By Kathleen Hefferon Henry Miller Courtesy European Scientist All of us have had the experience of learning things, as the saying goes, the hard way.”  That phenomenon has been captured perfectly by a meme found lately on everything from  to T-shirts to sign-boards: The message is blunt but insightful, and applies to both individuals’ and governments’ decisions. Predictable governmental […]