By Sugata Ghosh Courtesy The Economic Times As Sri Lanka grapples with a severe foreign exchange crunch, the high street banks in India have turned cautious and selective about their exposures to the island nation. Several institutions have reduced discounting letters of credit (LC) – the basic instrument for financing trade – issued by many […]

Courtesy MailOnline Sri Lanka’s only oil refinery at Sapugaskanda has been shut down Sri Lanka imposed electricity rationing Friday with the main power utility unable to buy fuel oil for its power stations as a result of the island’s worsening dollar crisis. Oil normally accounts for around nine percent of electricity generation on the island, […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island The government’s announcement that a new Constitution will be unveiled within the next few months is in keeping with one of the ten key policy commitments in the President’s election manifesto. This announcement has encouraged several prominent constitutional experts to express opinions relating to constitutional reforms, perhaps in the […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island Friday 7th January, 2022 Has the country become rudderless? This is the question one asks oneself when one sees widespread chaos. The political authority does not take responsibility for virtually anything and baulks at taking decisive action. The cooking gas shortage, which has lasted for weeks, is not likely to be […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island Thursday 6th January, 2022 The sacking of State Minister Susil Premjayantha is indicative of the government’s desperation to suppress dissent, which shows signs of getting out of hand. It could be considered the beginning of a purge of sorts in the SLPP. Premjayantha got President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s goat, as it were, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror CB Governor denies such claims dismissing them as rumours spread by mischievous elements  New rules intended at wooing more services income and remittances appear to be backfiring  Some migrants say they would hold off repatriations beyond a bear minimum until the rules are scrapped  CB instructions appear to have caused some […]

Courtesy Adaderana A fundamental rights (FR) petition has been filed seeking the nullification of the agreement signed with India to develop the Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm. The petition was lodged before the Supreme Court by the Secretary of National National Bhikkhu Front, Ven. Wakmulle Uditha Thera. A total of 47 parties including the Attorney General […]

Courtesy Adaderana All lawmakers should unite as one group for the country’s future, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said today (January 07) during an event held in Monaragala. He made this remark addressing the augural ceremony of the 1,000 New National Schools establishment programme at the Siyambalanduwa Maha Vidyalaya this morning. It is their collective responsibility to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another 588 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 07), the Ministry of Health reported. This figure includes 07 persons who recently arrived from overseas while the rest are new community cases.  The total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far stands at 590,651 with the new […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් වී කිලෝවක් රුපියල් 75 කට මිලදී ගැනීමේ කටයුතු රජය ආරම්භ කළ බව කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්‍යවරයා පැවසුව ද එම මිලට හෝ ලබාදීමට වී තොග තමන් සන්තකයේ නොමැති බව ගොවීන් පවසනවා. මේ අතර, යල කන්නයේ මිලදී ගත් වී තොග මේ වන විට අවසන් ඇති බවයි වී අලෙවි මණ්ඩලයේ උසස් නිලධාරියෙකු කියා සිටියේ. කෙසේ වෙතත්, […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව වනාහි රටේ ජීවත් වන ගොවි ජනතාව දැඩි අසීරුතාවට ලක් කරමින්, ඔවුන්ට පොහොර ඉල්ලා පාරට බැසීමට ඉඩ සැලැස්වූ රජයක් බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ගයන්ත කරුණාතිලක පවසනවා. අද (06) පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් මන්ත්‍රීවරයා සඳහන් කළේ, රුපියල් 5000ක් වැනි මූල්‍යාධාරයක් ලැබීමට නම් ගොවි ජනතාවට ගෙවතු වගාවට යොමුවන ලෙසට රජය විසින් දැනුම් දී […]

Written by Staff Writer Courtesy News 1st COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lankan Trade Unions have raised concerns with regard to the agreement on the Trincomalee Oil Tank Complex, citing that the agreement could be an attempt completely have over the facility to India. Meanwhile, in Trincomalee in the presence of Minister of Mass Media Dullas […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Country should increase exports to China instead  SL lags behind Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal in exports to China  Exported only US$ 280 million; imports US$ 4 billion from China in 2020 Huge potential for SL products such as tea, coconuts, seafood, readymade garments   Colombo should catch the bull by the horns […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය, සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශය,ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය. තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මහජන චීන සමූහාණ්ඩුවේ තානාපති කාර්යාලය සමග එක්ව එළඹෙන ශීත ඍතු ඔලිම්පික් උළෙලේ සමාරම්භයට දින ගණනය ආරම්භ කිරීම හා ඒ සඳහා ක්‍රීඩකයින් දිරිමත් කිරීම සඳහා ඊයේ (05) දින කොළඹ පෝර්ට් සිටි හිදී පැවති වැඩසටහනට සහභාගීවෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අභියෝග හමුවේ වුවත් අද අප මේ කැපවන්නේ ඔබට සුරක්ෂිත දියුණු රටක් නිර්මාණය කරන්න යැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. කුරුණෑගල මලියදේව බාලිකා විද්‍යාලයේ නව තෙමහල් ගොඩනැගිල්ල සිසු දියණියන්ගේ අයිතියට පත් කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව පැවැති උත්සව සභාව අමතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අද (06) පෙරවරුවේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. මලියදේව බාලිකාවේ විදුහල්පතිනිය ඇතුළු ආචාර්ය මණ්ඩලය හා සිසු […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් නුදුරේදීම දිනකට පැය ගණනාවක විදුලි කප්පාදුවකට මෙරට ජනතාවට මුහුණ දෙන්න සිදු වනු ඇතැයි විදුලි බල මණ්ඩලයේ ඒකාබද්ධ වෘත්තීය සමිති සන්ධානයේ කැඳවුම්කරු රන්ජන් ජයලාල් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ලංකා ඛනිජ තෙල් නීතිගත සංස්ථාව විසින් විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලයට ඉන්ධන ලබා නොදෙන බවත් සපුගස්කන්ද බලාගාරය දැනටමත් අක්‍රීය වී ඇති බවත් ඔහු පැවසීය. රටේ ජනතාවට නොදන්වා […]

Written by Amani Nilar  Courtesy News 1St COLOMBO (News 1st); Adequate chemical fertilizer will be imported in time for the upcoming Yala season, says Minister of Agriculture, Mahindananda Aluthgamage.  Speaking to media, the Minister admitted that as there is not enough time to purchase chemical fertilizer and use it for the existing Maha season, the […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Politicians of the government, as well as the opposition and the Maha Sangha, expressed their views regarding the current political situation and various crises today (06)

Courtesy Hiru News Highways Minister Johnston Fernando states that although there are reports of gas explosions islandwide, there are no reports of gas explosions in Colombo 07. The Minister pointed out that no such incidents have been reported in the Northern Province or in areas such as Kandy and Kurunegala and that doubts have arisen […]

Courtesy Hiru News People’s Bank to pay USD 6.7 million to the Chinese fertilizer company tomorrow (07)

Courtesy The Daily Mirror SSP Thalduwa made these claims to the media in relation to the incident where an activist was questioned by the CID for posting a video on social media of the public verbally protesting against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as he was travelling through Mirihana. FactCheck.lk assessed these claims by analysing the provisions […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A total number of 11,380 tourists had arrived in the island in the first four days of the new year Russian tourists head the list with 2,032 visitors, Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said. Moreover, 1,809 tourists, from India, 1,041 from Ukraine, 775 from Germany, 709 from the UK, 506 from Kazakhstan, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Agreement to develop Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm was signed this evening, Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said.He said in a twitter post that signatories were Treasury Secretary, Land Commissioner General, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), LIOC and Trinco Petroleum Terminal Ltd.”85 of the 99 tanks will come under Sri Lanka’s purview, which were […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reports that another 584 persons have tested positive for coronavirus within today (06), as the country’s tally of confirmed cases crossed the 59,000-mark on Thursday. This figure includes 12 persons who had arrived from overseas while the rest are new community cases.  The total number of Covid-19 cases registered […]

By Aanya Wipulasena Courtesy LaPrensaLatina.com Colombo, Jan 5 (EFE).- The severe economic crisis affecting Sri Lanka, with record inflation and the possibility of the country failing to pay its financial debts, has forced families to give up meals due to shortage of food and steep prices. Our only option was to cut down on food […]

Rev Walpola Piyananda  Dear friends, Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara organization has planned to give the opportunity to a team of youngsters (age 17+) to be sponsors and organizers of the 2022 Kathina ceremony. Our goal is to give full responsibility to this young team for conducting all the tasks and events from the initiation- Kathina […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර   මං කථාව සැරට කරලා පෙන්නුවේ අපිටත් සැරට කථා කරන්න පුලුවන් කියලා පෙන්නන්නයි.මොකද සමහර අය හිතන් ඉන්නවා බෑ කියලා.සමහර දේශපාලන පක්ෂ දැන් ආණ්ඩු හදලා දිනලා ජනාධිපතිත් වෙලා ඉවරයි.සමහර අයට ලොකුවට දැන් බලය තියෙනවා කියලා ටිකක් උඩින් යන ගතියක් දැන් ඇවිත්.මේ රටේ දේශපාලනයේ 1956 බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිතුමන්ගේ ආණ්ඩුවේ ඉඳලම මේ ආණ්ඩුව වෙනකම්ම සියලු ආණ්ඩු සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩු, […]

By Ozair Islam* Courtesy Eurasia Review Recently, Thailand has decided to provide the duty-free, quota-free (DFQF) market facility for Bangladeshi products in its market until 2026 to increase two-way trade volume. The declaration came as such facilities to Bangladesh by Thailand expired on 31 December 2020. It is high time to analyze the market situation of Thailand to […]

By Jubeda Chowdhury BIMSTEC or Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation has 7 members – India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. The grouping is more than 20 years old and was formed in 1997. The last summit took place in Kathmandu in 2018 with PM Modi and other member-leaders […]