By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The writer and his partner were invited on 1 January 2022 by Ceylon oldest living Olympian boxer, retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, Sumith Liyanage, with some guests. Our conversation at the lunch table discussed details of Sumith’s career in Sri Lanka’s Police force. During the 1960 Olympics in Rome, […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය වරාය ගොඩනැගීම මඟින් මේ රට නාවික කේන්ද්‍රයක් බවට පත්කරමින් ආසියාවේ බලවත් රටක් ලෙස ඉදිරියට යාමට  තැබූ බලාපොරොත්තුව අත්හැර නොමැති බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. දකුණු ආසියාවේ සමුද්‍රීය කේන්ද්‍රස්ථානය කොළඹ වරාය නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු ආරම්භ කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (12) දින පෙරවරුවේ මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. නැගෙනහිර […]

Mehjabin Bhanu  Rajshahi Bangladesh No one has the right to kill a citizen at the border. This is a clear violation of human rights and international law. We need to intensify our foreign policy and diplomatic efforts to reduce border killings to zero. According to Human Rights Watch, between 2000 and 2019, the BSF shot […]

ලංකා ගුරුසේවා සංගමය. ගරු අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය, දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා, අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. අමාත්‍යතුමනි, අධ්‍යාපන විද්‍යාපීඨවල 02 වන වසර සිසුන් නැවත මාස 03 ක නේවාසික පුහුණුවට කැදවීමේදී පැනනැගී ඇති ගැටඵ සම්බන්ධයි. කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් 2020 ඔක්. 10 වෙනි දින වසා දැමුණු අධ්‍යාපන විද්‍යාපීඨ පළමුව නිරෝධායන මධ්‍යස්ථාන බවටත්, පසුව ප්‍රතිකාර මධ්‍යස්ථාන බවටත් පත් කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව එහි […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 12 (newsin.asia): China has plans to revise schedules for the repayment of loans given to Sri Lanka, in response to the request made by the Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa during his meeting with the visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi here on January 9, the Global Times said. The Communist Party-run Global […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO (REUTERS) – The Sri Lankan government will meet all debt repayments in 2022 and work on a more comprehensive plan to address its dwindling foreign exchange reserves, said central bank governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal on Wednesday (Jan 12). Sri Lanka managed to boost its reserves to US$3.1 billion (S$4.2 billion) at […]

By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy Eurasia Review A part of interest-free loans may be the first to be rescheduled while arrangements for other loans will have to be negotiated China has plans to revise schedules for the repayment of loans given to Sri Lanka, in response to the request made by the Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa […]

Courtesy Financial Express Last week, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa told the visiting Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi that Sri Lanka would be helped if the debt could be restructured. Sri Lanka is currently experiencing a shortage of almost all essentials due to a shortage of dollars to pay for the imports. Sri Lanka is negotiating a […]

Sandun A Jayasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka’s economy is gradually but surely on the road to recovery and the country will record a GDP growth of over 5% in 2022, Governor of the Central Bank, Ajith Nivard Cabraal said today. The government is in the process of negotiating with India and China to […]

Courtesy Business Recorder COLOMBO: Sri Lanka ruled out an IMF bailout on Wednesday and said it plans to seek another loan from China to address an economic crisis that has led to food and fuel shortages. The island’s tourism-dependent economy has been battered by the pandemic, with supermarkets rationing goods and rolling blackouts imposed by […]

Riyaz ul Khaliq    Courtesy Anadolu Agency Rasheed Hajjul Akbar was arrested in March 2021 by counterterrorism police, say sources. The former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Sri Lanka was released on bail by a Colombo court on Wednesday, sources said. Our lawyers had challenged the detention of Usthadh Rasheed Hajjul Akbar as illegal under fundamental rights […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 653 today (January 12), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 02 individuals who recently arrived on the island. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in […]