By ‘The Socialist Vanguard Party for the Restoration of a Sovereign Unitary State of Sri Lanka’ Having inked the SOFA document permitting the American military to intervene in Sri Lanka with impunity, is an invasion by India, a US military ally (QUAD) in the region, imminent? Could this be one reason why India did not […]

Senaka Weeraratna Shashi Tharoor, the celebrated Indian writer, and author, recently expressed his views on the impact that the Decision Review System (DRS) has had on the modern game, and he stated unequivocally that it has been one of cricket’s best innovations. Tharoor further said that international cricket should never be without DRS in the […]

By A. Abdul Aziz On February 13th, 1835, in the small Indian village of Qadian, Punjab, India, a man named Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadwas born. He belonged to a well-known and noble family. All religions contain prophecies that foretell the advent of a special individual, who will come as a reformer in the latter days. In […]

ජයන්ත හේරත්  ඉන්දියාවේ ජනගහනය 1.5 බිලියන් ය. ලඟදි අපට බිලියන් 1 ක් දුන්නේය. ඩොලර් ය. අපේ හිතවතාය friend in need ය. friend indeed ය. ඉන්දියාව ලොකු රටකි අපි සිතිය යුත්තේ ඉන්දියාව අපේ කියාය. මනෝ පුබ්බන් ගමාය   අපේ අසල්වාසියා අපේය. අසල්වැසියාගේ ඉඩම් ධනය අපේය. අපේ යටත් විජිතයක් කියා හිතීම හොඳ නැත. ලෝක ගෝලය දකුණු-උතුරු කලාම ඉන්දියාව […]

-ප්‍රොටෙක්ට් සංගමය- ජාත්‍යන්තර කාන්තා දිනයට සමගාමීව ප්‍රොටෙක්ට් සංගමය සහ ‘හා(ර්)ට් සංවිධානය එක්ව සංවිධානය කරන ලද කාන්තා දින සැමරුම් වැඩසටහනක් සහ පාගමනක් පසුගිය දා (20 දා) හැටන් අප්කට් ප්‍රදේශයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. පාගමන අප්කට්, බාග්‍රෝ ඇසෙම්බ්ලි ඔෆ් ගෝඩ් දේවස්ථානය අසලින් ආරම්භ වූ අතර එය හැටන් මස්කෙලිය මාර්ගය ඔස්සේ දිනේෂ් උත්සව ශාලාව වෙත පැමිණියේය. පාගමන සඳහා හාරසියයක පමණ […]

හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කෙන්ද්‍රය ලංකාවේ වැඩිම ආර්ථික විශේඥයින් හා මුල්‍ය විශේෂඥයින්ට බාහිරව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව හා මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයට පිටින් උපදේශකයින් හා නීති උපදේශකයින් පත් කිරීමට ‘ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාවේ යෝජනාව‘, කෘෂිකර්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ නිලධාරීන්ගේ නිර්දේශ පසෙකලා අතුරලියේ රතන හිමි, වෛද්‍ය අනුරුද්ධ පාදෙනියගෙන් ‘කාබනික කෘෂිකර්මාන්තයට උපදෙස් ලබා ගැනීම‘ වැනි විනාශකාරී […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit The four storied multipurpose building of the Mahara Pradeshiya Sabha was declared open by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning (21). This multi-purpose building constructed at a cost of Rs. 108 million consists of the Pradeshiya Sabha Head Office, Library, Ayurvedic Center and other Pradeshiya Sabha administrative units. Mahara Neligama Sri […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit Nirmali Williams, Assistant Chief Commissioner of the Sri Lanka Girls Guide Movement adorned Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse the first flag at Temple Trees today (21) to mark the 105th anniversary of Sri Lanka Girls Guide Movement. A book on the history of the Girl Scout Movement was also presented to the […]

By Ruth Pollard   Bloomberg Opinion The Rajapaksa clan may have defeated the Tamil rebellion, but they’ve lost control of Sri Lanka’s economy after two years of worsening crisis. Ruth Pollard is a columnist and editor with Bloomberg Opinion. Previously she was South and Southeast Asia Government team leader at Bloomberg News. She has reported from India and across […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia March 22 – Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis is similar to that it faced in the 1970s, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka W.A. Wijewardena has pointed out. Wijewardena said Sri Lanka is facing shortages and queues similar to that what was reported in the 1970s. Subscribe to our Telegram channel […]

by Dr Parakrama Waidyanatha Courtesy The Island The Maha harvesting of rice is now nearing completion and the strong indications are that this season’s crop decline would be 40% to 50% due to lack of fertilizer. Concurrently, the yields of other crops too are dropping and the tea yields of 2022 could be the worst […]

Editorial Courtesy The Daily Mirror Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 this year and the war is entering its 26th day. Whilst one may sympathize with Russia’s anger at Ukraine and the Western countries led by the US for their attempts to expand NATO to Russia’s doorstep, and despite assurances that this would not take […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Last week President Gotabaya Rajapaksa addressed a nation in crisis. Instead of calming the masses, a good part of whose life is now spent in everyday queues, he managed to further enrage them. What could probably be the operating para of his speech was ‘this crisis was not created by me’. Our […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Married too young, many girls get married by 18 despite societies’ advancements and that will cost the developing world trillions of dollars Mama, why am I going with this strange man?For your safety, my dear   But Mama, he scares me, he’s hurt me, everywhere, I don’t feel safe   Oh honey, it’s […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Samagi Jana Balavegaya MP Harin Fernando said today that proposed Indian funded Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC) is to be set up inside the Sri Lanka Navy Headquarters will threaten Sri Lanka’s security. He said at a media briefing that a sub-unit will be set up in Hambantota and seven other […]