Courtesy Hiru News The Governor of the Central Bank Ajith Nivard Cabraal stated that he hopes to restructure loans in a manner that is beneficial to the country. He was addressing a discussion on the budget organized by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka held through video technology. Some of the proposals made by the […]

By Anbarasan Ethirajan Courtesy BBC Why is a ship carrying cargo from China refusing to leave Sri Lankan waters despite being asked to do so by authorities? The answer is a crucial shipment gone horribly wrong, leading to a rare diplomatic tussle between two close allies, the blacklisting of a bank, and a group of […]

නාමල් උඩලමත්ත FB කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්‍යාංශය රසායනාගාර වාර්තා 51ක් වෙනස් කර ප්‍රමිතියෙන් තොර පොහොර මෙට්‍රික් ටොන් 81,000ක් ගොවීන් අතර බෙදා දී ඇති බව 2020 විගණකාධිපති වාර්තාව මගින් හෙළි වී ඇතැයි මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා කර තිබේ. මෙම වාර්තා සකස් කළේ කවුද ඒවා වෙනස් කළේ කවුද ශ්‍රී ලංකා ශාක නිරෝධායන ආයතනයට එහිලා පැවරෙන වගකීම කුමක් ද යන්න පිළිබඳ විමර්ශනයක් […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General’s advice is to be sought with regard to the letter of demand issued by the Chinese company which supplied the controversial stock of organic fertilizer. Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group Co Ltd recently directed a letter of demand to Dr. W.A.R.T. Wickramaarachchi, Additional Director of the National Plant Quarantine Service of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka would not be defaulting on its debt repayment, says Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa, who addressed a special media briefing convened by the Finance Ministry on Saturday (November 13). During the press conference, he addressed an array of questions on the budget proposals tabled in Parliament the day before. With regard […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 716 today (November 13) as 204 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 549,500. As many as 523,503 recoveries and 13,972 […]

Chandre Dharmawardana, writing from Canada Sri Lanka is heading towards an agricultural disaster similar to that created by Stalin who was guided by a so-called Dialectical Materialist” version of agricultural science announced by Lysenko, a party scientist”. Sri Lanka’s leaders also have ideologues who have various scientific and medical backgrounds and are ready to present justifications” for […]

ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ව්‍යවහාරික පීඨයේ මහාචාර්ය මෙත්තිකා විතානගේ  උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප යටත්විජිත තත්ත්වයෙන් නිදහස් වෙද්දී අපේ රට සමග සමපාතව සිටි රටවල් රැසක් අද අපේ රටට වඩා ඉදිරියට ගොස් ඇත. නිදසුනකට සිංගප්පූරුව, කොරියාව, බංගලාදේශය හා ඉන්දියාව වුවත් අපට වඩා ගව් ගණනාවක් ඉදිරියෙන් ඇත. මීට ප්‍රධාන හේතුව නම් ලංකාවට ජාතික ප්‍රතිපත්ති වෙනුවට දේශපාලන පක්ෂ හා බද්ධ වූ […]

MD Pathik Hasan There are many ongoing developmental projects in Cambodia. The council for The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has been declaring and approving these developmental projects. These projects can create jobs amongst locales. Cambodia could more benefit from utilizing these projects if they follow the ‘Bangladesh’s Thriving Through Mega Projects’ model. […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය, සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා අධීක්ෂණ අමාත්‍යාංශය,ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය ආමාත්‍යාංශය. පීපල්ස් ලීසිං ඇන්ඩ් ෆිනෑන්ස් සමාගම (People’s Leasing & Finance PLC) ‘PLC Touch’ නමින් ත්‍රයිභාෂික ජංගම යෙදුම (Mobile app)  හඳුන්වා දීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමින් තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා, සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ අමාත්‍ය හා ඩිජිටල් ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා  අද (11) […]

Tom Fowdy is a British writer and analyst of politics and international relations with a primary focus on East Asia. Washington has highlighted ‘corruption’ as justification for a new array of sanctions against Phnom Penh, but in reality this bullying manoeuvre is another step in its ongoing efforts to contain China. Earlier this week, the […]

Truth with Chamuditha බරපතළ වංචා සහ දූෂණ සෙවීමේ ජනාධිපති කොමිසමේ හිටපු ලේකම් ලැසිල් ද සිල්වා. Lacille de Silva, former Secretary to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Serious Acts of Fraud and Corruption On Truth with Chamuditha

Courtesy Colombo Today එක රටක් එක නීතියක්” ජනාධිපති කාර්ය සාධක බලකාය පත් කිරීම සඳහා ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අති විශේෂ ගැසට් පත්‍රය නිකුත් කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව එම කාර්ය සාධක බලකායේ සභාපති පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩ අත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමි ඉලක්ක කරගෙන පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ දේශපාලකයන් මෙන්ම සිංහලයාගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් දිනාගැනීම සඳහා යැයි පවසමින් පෙනී සිටි සංවිධාන දැඩි ලෙස පහර ගැසීමට පටන් […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Colombo, November 12: Considering that half of the world’s container ships, one-third of the world’s bulk cargo traffic and two-thirds of the world’s oil shipments traverse through the Indian Ocean, the importance of peace and security of the ocean cannot be overestimated. Furthermore, maritime transport and logistics are a major component […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The acquisition by Reliance ensured that amanté would benefit from Reliance’s scale and retail expertise, and that the brand we created and our employees in India and Sri Lanka will continue to benefit from being a part of a well-established retail company” Colombo, Nov 12 – MAS Holdings announced that one of its […]

Courtesy Channel News Asia COLOMBO :The Sri Lankan government will reduce the budget deficit to around 8.8per cent of gross domestic product in 2022, finance minister Basil Rajapaksa said in his budget speech on Friday, though it missed its deficit target for 2021. The government will also roll out a goods and services tax announced […]

By Hussain Shazzad* Courtesy Eurasiareview Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina and China PM Li Keqiang in Beijing, China. Photo Credit: VOA video screenshot Bangladesh, the second highest recipient of China’s investment in South Asia after Pakistan, imports the highest volume of goods from China making it Bangladesh’s largest trading partner. This is the beginning of the story […]

Courtesy MailOnline Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa said vehicle accidents will be taxed under new revenue proposals Sri Lanka slapped a tax on road accidents in a drastic austerity budget unveiled Friday as the country faces a major foreign exchange crisis. Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa said vehicle accidents will be taxed under new revenue proposals to […]

[By Dr. Chulanee Attanayake] Courtesy The Maritime Executive Adani’s multimillion-dollar investment in Colombo not only makes commercial sense, it’s a strategic game-changer, too. On September 30, Adani Group, India’s largest private port operator, signed what has been reported as a $700 million agreement to build a new container terminal in Sri Lanka. The deal to jointly develop […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Finance has published the full budget speech delivered by the Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa at Parliament today (12). Basil Rajapaksa delivered his maiden budget speech as the Minister of Finance today. It is the 76th Budget of the independent Sri Lanka and the second budget of the government of President […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 23 new coronavirus-related deaths for November 11, pushing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 13,950. The deaths confirmed today include 11 males and 12 females. One of the victims is between the ages 30-59 years while another is aged below 30 […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත්

Courtesy Hiru News Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Finance, presented the Second Reading of the Appropriation Bill for the financial year 2022 in Parliament today (12). The Bill was introduced in Parliament by the Minister of Finance on 07 October. This Appropriation Bill was published in the Gazette on 29 September 2021 for matters relating to […]

Senaka Weeraratna Christianity is the defining characteristic of Europe. The European Union is a set of countries bonded by Christian culture, heritage, and values. It is Christianity that gives the collective identity of Europe. Islam is the defining characteristic of 57 countries that call themselves Islamic countries and thereby have acquired membership of the Organization […]

Nava Thakuria Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the relentless murder of scribes, citizen journalists and digital media users in Pakistan for exposing anomalies in the government, administration, and society through various media outlets and demands fair probes into all those assassinations. Local media outlets […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය නවීන තාක්ෂණික පහසුකම් සහිතව සිවු මහල්ව ඉදි කළ ගීතාංජලී අමරසූරිය විශාඛා සියවස් සමරු පුස්තකාලය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් අද (11) පෙරවරුවේ විවෘත විය. විශාඛා විද්‍යාලයීය පාසල් සංවර්ධන සමිතිය සහ අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය එක්ව රුපියල් මිලියන 96.5ක මූල්‍ය දායකත්වයකින් යුතුව මෙම නව සුහුරු පුස්තකාලය ඉදිකර තිබේ. විශාඛා විද්‍යාලයේ විදුහල්පතිනි සඳමාලි අවිරුප්පොල මහත්මිය ඇතුළු […]

C. Wijeyawickrema It appears that even the minister of justice and the Bar Association have not properly understood the meaning of the above concept.. Boy TNA parliamentarian  Rasamannikam thinks  one law means applying law equally to all. I am writing a series of essays on this subject in Sinhala now appearing on the Lankaweb website. The […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Nov 11 (DailyMirror) – President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, today at an event questioned the public as to why they elect politicians who they had once chased away and urged them to look for new people without electing the same set of people. He said after governing for 5 years, the opposition had failed […]

By Uditha Jayasinghe Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dekatana, Sri Lanka, November 10 (Reuters): Knee deep in mud and sprinkling rice seeds over two acres of land in Sri Lanka late last month, D.M. Rupasinghe said he was worried about his crop following a government decision to ban imports of chemical fertilisers. The ban on chemical fertilisers, as […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ලබන වසරේ මෙරට පොහොර අවශ්‍යතාවයෙන් 50% ක ප්‍රමාණයක් යූරියා ලබාදීම සඳහා තමන් ජනාධිපතිවරයාගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කරන බව ඉඩම් ඇමති එස්.එම්. චන්ද්‍රසේන මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඉන්පසු ක්‍රමිකව එම පොහොර ගෙන්වීම නතර කර දැමීමට තමන් ඉල්ලා සිටින බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. පොස්පරස් සහ පොටෑසියම් පොහොර මෙරට නිෂ්පාදනය කර ගත හැකි බවද පැවසූ ඔහු පොහොර […]