Courtesy msn.com LONDON (Reuters) -Russia warned the United States on Thursday that Moscow had the might to put the world’s pre-eminent superpower in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart.© Reuters/SPUTNIK FILE PHOTO: Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Medvedev gives an interview outside Moscow Dmitry Medvedev, […]

A Sad Citizen Some of our people need to have their heads examined! They were demonstrating in front of the Presidential Secretarial without thinking about what will happen if they remove President Gota. Who is the person who can replace him? Last year when the Covid 19 broke in Sri Lanka, thanks to the quick […]

Senaka Weeraratna Founder Member and Vice – President (JAN) We are a not-for-profit organization incorporated under the company laws of Sri Lanka as an Association (Registration No.GA236166). In order to create a just society anchored to compassion for all living beings and nature we are carrying on this public fb group, with a view to […]

High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi Concluding his two-day official visit to New Delhi, Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa today (17) witnessed the signing of the agreement pertaining to the Short-Term Concessional Loan facility of USD 1 billion extended by the Government of India to the Government of Sri Lanka through the State Bank of […]

හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් වෘත්තීය භාවය සහ බල ලෝභී දේශපාලන උවමනාවන් අතර ගැටුමකින් පමා වූ ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදල හරහා ලංකාවේ විදේශ විනිමය අර්බුදයට පිළියම් සෙවීමට අවසානයේ රජයට සිදු ව ඇත.  පරාජිත බිඳුණු හඬකින් ජාතික අමතමින් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂය තම තීරණය රටේ ජනතාවට පවසන විට රටට බිඳ වැටී, අඳුරේ ගිලී අවසන්ය. ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදල වෙත […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another three coronavirus related deaths for March 16, pushing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 16,419.  This figure includes two males and one female patient while all three deceased are over the age of 60 years.  Meanwhile the Health Ministry says that […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අධිබල යතුරුපැදි තුන්සියයකට ආසන්න ප්‍රමාණයක් ගමන් කරමින් තිබු යතුරු පැදි සවාරියකට පුත්තලම ප්‍රදේශයේ දී ජනතාව විරෝධයක් පෑහ. ඔවුන් කියා සිටියේ දැඩි ඉන්ධන හිඟයක් රටේ පවතිද්දී මෙවන් සවාරි සිදු කරන්නේ කෙසේද යනුවෙනි. කොළඹ සිට කල්පිටියට ගමන් කරමින් තිබූ මෙම යතුරුපැදි සවාරිය සමග අධි සුඛෝපභෝගී ජීප් රථ විශාල සංඛ්‍යාවක් එක්ව සිටියේය. සවාරියට […]

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Ilya Tsukanov Courtesy Sputnik The Russian military began to pull back the curtain on the scale and scope of the network of Pentagon-funded biolabs in Ukraine last week. US officials and media initially dismissed these revelations as “Russian disinformation,” but were forced to correct the narrative after undersecretary of state Nuland admitted that such labs […]

Written by Nirupama Subramanian Courtesy The Indian Express Rajapaksa, who arrived in Delhi on Wednesday for a three-day visit, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is scheduled to meet External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to finalise the credit line. AS INDIA prepares to sign off on a $1-bn emergency credit line to […]

NBCNews Anger is growing over a worsening economic situation that has brought fuel shortages and spiraling food prices, prompting officials to seek international help. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Opposition leaders led a march of hundreds of protesters through Sri Lanka’s main city of Colombo on Tuesday as anger grows over a worsening economic crisis that […]

Jubeda Chowdhury Dhaka city January 13, 2022, marked the 50 years of bilateral ties between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Myanmar recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state on January 13, 1972. But there weren’t any seminars, discussions, statements, reciprocation, felicitations between the two neighbors to mark the special day. There were many ups and downs between the […]

Politics in Sri Lanka DID NOT JVP LEADER ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKA KNOW THAT FORMER PM RANIL WICKRAMASINGHA HAD MAINTAINED CONTACTS WITH MAKUNDURE MADUSH (THE BIGGEST NARCOTICS DEALER IN SRI LANKA, ) 1) THE COURT HAS RECENTLY GRANTED BAIL TO ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKA FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT IN POLITICAL VICTIMIZATION OF OPPOSITION POLITICIANS DURING 2015-2020 GOVERNMENT OF […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් අත්තනගල්ලේ  අමරසිංහ  මගේ පළමු වසරේ කටුබැද්ද  නේවාසිකාගාරයේ මිතුරු රූමාය. වර්ෂය 1974 ය. ඔහු එවිට පස් වන අවසන් වසර විදුලි ඉංජිනේරු  උපාධිය ඉවර කරමින් සිටියේය. අමරේ ගණිත ගැටලු විසඳන්න පාවිච්චි කලේ කාමරේ සිමෙන්ති බිම Chalk වලින් ය. ලියලා මකලා ලියනවාය. ගණිත ගැටලු විසඳුම් ලියන්න කඩදාසි ගනන්ය. උපාධිය ලැබීමෙන් පසු CEB electrical engineer රැකියාවක් ලබා […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ කතාව ඇසීමට අපි සියලු දෙනාම බලා සිටියේ නොඉවසිල්ලෙනි. කතාව නිමවීමත් සමග අපට මහත් හිස් භාවයක් දැනුනි. ඇයි මෙතුමාට මෙහෙම කලේ ? මේ පැනය අපි අසන්නේ එතුමාගේ උපදේශකයින්ගෙන් හා මේ කතාව සකස් කර නැවත නැවත කියවමින් ශෝධනය කල එතුමා වටා සිටින මණ්ඩලයෙනි. මේ කතාවෙන්, පෝලින්වල ගෑස් අපේක්ෂාවෙන්, ඩිසල් අපේක්ෂාවෙන්, පෙට්‍රල් අපේක්ෂාවෙන්, බුමිතෙල් […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ආර්ථික අර්බුදය පිළිබඳව නිසි තීරණයක් ගැනීමට නොහැකිව මේ වනවිට ආණ්ඩුවේ ආර්ථිකය හසුරුවන කණ්ඩායම දෙකට බෙදී ඇති බවත් බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂගේ කණ්ඩායම සහ මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයාගේ කණ්ඩායම අතර මත ගැටුමක් හටගෙන තිබෙන බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ආචාර්ය හර්ෂ ද සිල්වා මහතා අනාවරණය කරයි. කොළඹදී මාධ්‍ය අමතමින් මන්ත්‍රීවරයා පැවසුවේ මේ කඹ ඇදිල්ල නිසා ආර්ථික […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රටේ ආර්ථිකය කඩා බිද දැමීම සදහා මුදල් අමාත්‍යවරයා සිතා මතා සැලසුම් සහගතව කටයුතු කරණ බවට පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා චෝදනා කර සිටියේය. ඒ මහතා මේ බව සදහන් කර සිටියේ මුළු රටම හරි මගට යන තේමාව යටතේ බොරැල්ල එන් එම් පෙරේරා මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ දී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් හා […]

Courtesy MailOnLine COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – Sri Lanka´s president said Wednesday that his government was in discussions with the International Monetary Fund, other agencies and countries on deferring loan repayments and requested people’s support by limiting electricity and fuel consumption to cope with the worst economic crisis in memory. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in his […]

Courtesy Business Standard PM Modi conveyed to visiting Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa that India would always stand with the island nation as it occupies a central role in New Delhi’s ‘neighbourhood first policy’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday conveyed to visiting Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa that India would always stand with the […]

Courtesy MailOnLine COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – Anti-government protests roiled Sri Lanka’s capital on Tuesday amid demands that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign, as the country suffers its worst economic crisis within memory. Tens of thousands of people gathered outside of the president’s office in Colombo, led by supporters of the opposition party of the United […]

Written by Nirupama Subramanian Courtesy The Indian Express Rajapaksa, who arrived in Delhi on Wednesday for a three-day visit, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is scheduled to meet External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to finalise the credit line. AS INDIA prepares to sign off on a $1-bn emergency credit line […]

Courtesy The Island In the nineties with the emergence of the Newly Industrialised Economies (NIEs) or so-called Asian Giants or Asian Miracle, theorists all over the world began to talk about Easternisation” as against Westernisation”, Asianness”, Borderless World” and Blurring of Borders”. In present day Sri Lanka, we witness a new kind of blurring of […]

By Shamindra Ferdinandoa Courtesy The Island ‘Yahapalana Govt. paved way for 20A’ Former Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe has presented an eight-point plan to restore democracy, good governance and accountability. He has declared that far reaching remedial measures are required as an utterly corrupt political party system, has caused irreparable damage to the country. Wijesinghe’s proposals pertain to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Claiming that people have had to stay in gas, fuel and medicine queues because of the failure of Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya Leader former Minister Udaya Gammanpila said today people would not have to languish in queues if the import of non essential goods was restricted. He told […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Minister of Water Supply Vasudeva Nanayakkara said today he would not remain in the government, if it was seeking the assistance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and abiding by its conditions. The Minister told a news conference convened by the eleven constituent parties of the government that seeking assistance of […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he is very sensitive to the many sufferings the people have experienced over the past two months and said he is determined to make tough decisions to find solutions to the inconveniences experienced by the people. He stated this while delivering his special address to the nation on Wednesday […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 320 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 657,134.  According to official figures, 619,193 positive cases have recovered. Following the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Minister of Foreign Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris has pointed to inaccuracies” contained in the UK Travel Advisory on Sri Lanka in its successive revisions, resulting in the projection of a negative image” of the country.   He has conveyed the above to the UK authorities at a high level on Tuesday (March 15), […]

Courtesy RT Russia says neo-Nazi Azov” militants blew up building where they were holding hostages. Responding to claims by Ukraine that an airstrike destroyed a theater in Mariupol and killed civilians sheltering there, the Russian Defense Ministry said there had been no such strikes against ground targets in that city, and accused the neo-Nazi Azov” […]

Courtesy RT The Russian president says the myth of the Western welfare state, of the so-called golden billion, is crumbling” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin © Kremlin Press Service / Handout / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin has opined that the latest rounds of unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and […]