Ven Dr Omalpe Sobhitha Thero President Justice for Animals and Nature Minister-in-Charge,Department of National Zoological Gardens,Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatha,DehiwalaHon Minister, SHUTDOWN THE ZOOS IN SRI LANKA – GIVE FREEDOM TO CAGED ANIMALS Animals are made to serve a life sentence in miserable conditions in zoos without havingcommitted a single crime. Had any human being been placed […]

Daisy Hernandez Courtesy msn.com For the very first time, scientists have recorded the brain waves of a dying person. The recordings indicate that there could be some truth to the statement my life flashed before my eyes” when someone has a near-death experience. The findings, which have been published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, are not comprehensive because the patient […]

Anjalika Silva – USA I.                  Purpose:  To examine all avenues available to find appropriate avenues to address the current foreign reserves crisis with the help of a ready resource of foreign earners as expats for a long-term relationship beneficial to the country and individuals who are a strength that has not been tapped while many […]

Viewpoint by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The writer, Dr Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, is a Sociocultural and Medical Anthropologist based in Colombo. Her latest publication is ‘Multi-religiosity on Contemporary Sri Lanka: Innovation, Shared Spaces, Contestation”. (Routledge 2022) South Asia’s Arab Spring is here, amid global Cold War tensions and slow tectonic shifts in power and wealth east, to Asia […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ ‘ඉවසලා ඉවසලා බැරිම තැන එතනයි ඉවසිය යුතුම තැන’ – සිංහල වහරේ එන මෙම කදිම උවදෙස පුටින් නොදැන සිටියා විය හැකියි. නැත්නම්, 24 පෙබරවාරි 2022 දා යුක්රේනයට විරුද්ධව යුධ ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමට තරම් ඔහු අමන නොවනු ඇත. තමන්ට දිනන්න බැරි යුද්ධයකට ප්‍රවේශ වන්නේ මෝඩයෙකි.  සාමාන්‍යයෙන් දක්ෂයෙක් වන පුටින් මේ අවස්ථාවේ ඉතා මෝඩ තීරණයක් ගත්තේය. පුටින්ට […]

Press release The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres. The future demand for textile fibres is growing due to global population growth. Production of cotton, the predominantly used cellulose fibre […]

Senaka Weeraratna Close down the Dehiwala Zoo – wrongful imprisonment of innocent animals for life who have done no wrong and away from their natural habitat, is a blot on our moral conscience.  Animals cannot speak for themselves. We have to give Voice for the Voiceless. That is the test of our humanity and moral […]

හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය මුදල් ඇමති, මුදල් ලේකම්, මහ බැංකු අධිපති නැති රටේ අච්චු ගැසිල්ල දිගටම හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් කියයි 2022 අප්‍රේල් 6 (ඊයේ දිනයේ) පමණක් ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව රු. බිලියන 119.08 ක මුදලක් අච්චු ගසා ඇත. කැබිනට් බලතල සහිත මහ බැංකු අධිපති ධූරයක් ස්ථාපනය කර […]

Nebojsa Malic Supporters of NATO’s war on Yugoslavia have no right to talk about law, sovereignty or borders Nebojsa Malic is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT.  @NebojsaMalic@TheNebulator The remains of a building that was bombed by NATO […]

NICK GRIFFIN Courtesy UNZ Review The Bucha Massacre” has now become the driving force for the propaganda push for even more NATO involvement in the conflict in Ukraine. Yet the claim that this is a Russian war crime is so patently false that a rational observer can only be left astounded by the combination of […]

Courtesy ANI Colombo (Sri Lanka), Apr 08 (ANI): As Sri Lanka is reeling under an economic crisis, Indian businessman in the island nation is taking initiatives under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to help the people cope with the current situation.Sanjay Baid, Managing Director at a diamond cutting unit in Sri Lanka, said that he is […]

Courtesy The Daily Star Forex reserves drop to $1.93b People stand in a queue to buy liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders in Rathgama, Sri Lanka on March 27. Scarce supplies of food and fuel, along with record inflation and regular blackouts, have inflicted widespread misery in the country’s most painful downturn since its independence. Photo: […]

Courtesy The Bangkok Post Last Sunday — with two notable exceptions — Sri Lanka’s cabinet resigned en masse in protest against the government’s handling of the worst economic crisis to hit the island in decades, which has sparked widespread rioting, unrest, and arson attacks on police property. The two men stayed put were President Gotabaya […]

Courtesy VOA U.S. authorities said Thursday that they had arrested a Japanese yakuza organized crime leader and three Thai men who trafficked heroin and methamphetamine and tried to acquire surface-to-air missiles for rebel groups in Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Takeshi Ebisawa, Sompak Rukrasaranee, Somphob Singhasiri and Suksan Jullanan were arrested in New York on Monday […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror – GR appoints high powered advisory team to advise on IMF and debt management – Bandula Gunawardena’s name was proposed for Finance but he hesitates – Finance Minister, CBSL Governor, Treasury Secretary seats vacant – SL expected to be at IMF by second week of April Following the resignation of Ali […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Foreign Affairs Minister Prof. GL Peiris today pointed out that some of the demands by the demonstrators were not realistic and cannot be met and that they did not seem want a solution based on available options in keeping with the Constitution. While explainig the prevailing situation in Sri Lanka to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) says that a payment of USD 52 million has been made to a Singaporean company for 37,500 metric tonnes diesel in a tanker held at Colombo Port for the last two weeks. CPC chairman Sumith Wijesinghe said that unloading of the fuel stocks will commence tomorrow (April 07).

Courtesy Adaderana Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe has been appointed as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) and Mr. K.M. Mahinda Siriwardena has been appointed as the new Secretary to the Ministry of Finance.  They received their letters of appointment from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo today (07).  […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) on Thursday said there is an acute shortage of essential medicines, reagents, equipment and consumables in government hospitals and the private healthcare sector in Sri Lanka.  In a letter addressed to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the SLMA Medical Intercollegiate Committee called for urgent corrective measures for the crisis […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Surcharge Tax Bill has been passed in Parliament with amendments and without a vote, a short while ago.  The committee stage of the Surcharge Tax Bill had taken place this morning (07). The second reading of the Surcharge Tax Bill had been scheduled for today. Last month, the Supreme Court informed Speaker […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka is experiencing an unprecedent state of events. Taken as a whole, there is much to analyze. Sri Lanka has seen governance pass from one colored party to another. Opportunistic politics has been the hallmark of governance of every government that has come to power. This has been the case of […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS There were demonstrations at Colombo, Kandy, Galle,   Jaffna, Anuradhapura, Kurunegala, Dambulla, Gampaha Matara, Panadura, Ratnapura, Welimada Nuwara Eliya, and Ampara.  There were protests also at Homagama, Piliyandala, Polgahawela , Ragama Minuwangoda Nittambuwa, Jaela, Kantale, Nikaweratiya and Peradeniya, The public  also protested at  Bogawantalawa and Deraniyagala, at Dehiattakandiya and Galnewa, at Kochichikade, and  Meerigama, […]

Shenali D Waduge The subject of corruption” is taking prominence throughout the recent protests taking place in Sri Lanka. This has led to the people claiming that they wish to reject entire 225 member Parliament. Corruptions cannot be committed by politicians on their own. They are assisted by the Secretaries, Public Officials & Advisors. The […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The public must realize that that their beloved Pohottu took over from Yahapalana   only to complete the USA scenario for Sri Lanka. Pohottu is Yahapalana 2, more deadly than Yahapalana 1, because the USA is now in a mighty hurry. The US   feels it must move fast and secure Sri Lanka. China is […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් මේ අපි අත් දකින්නේ පසු කරන්නේ විදුලි බලයේ විප්ලවයයි. වේගවත් අදුරදර්ශී අනපේක්ෂිත සන්වර්දන වෑයමක   ප්‍රති ඵල විපාකය. විමලසුරේන්ද්‍ර ට මිනිස්සු ලක්ෂයකට විදුලි ආලෝකය දෙන්න ඕන උනේ 1918 දීය. හිතපු සැනින්  වැඩේ කෙරුනේ නැත. කැළණි ගඟ මුදුනින් පටන් ගත් ජලාශ බලාගාර පද්ධතිය හදන්න පටන් ගත්තේ 1950 ස්  ගණන් වලය. එතනම 40 ක් පරක්කුය. පසුව  […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි රට අර්බුදයකට පත්කර හමාරය. රට අර්බුදයකට තල්ලු කල අයට, රට ගොඩ ගැනීමට එක්වෙන ලෙස ජනාධිපතිතුමා ආයාචනය කරයි. මේ ආයාචනය කිසිදාක පලගන්වෙන ඉල්ලීමක් නොවේ. ඔවුන් සිදුකලේ ඔවුන්ට පැවරු ව්‍යාපෘතියකි. ඔවුන් කල යුතු ඉතිරි කොටස කුමක්දැයි තීරණය කරන්නේ ඔවුන් නොව, ඔවුනට මේ කාර්ය පැවරු හාම්පුතාලා විසිනි. ඒ අනුව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සිටින සජබ, ජවිපෙ, මුස්ලිම් කොන්ග්‍රසය, […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara I draw the attention of my readers to the following news item highlighted in the Sunday Times of 2 .4..2022.  Kandy’s old prison now a no man’s land a news item by By L. B. SenaratneKandy. During a visit to the eight-acre Bogambara Prison complex that now seems to be a no […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ 1505දි ලොරෙන්සෝ අල්මේදා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණිලි වෙලේ කෝට්ටේ රජ කලේ ධර්ම පරාක්‍රමබාහු රජතුමායි (8වන පරාක්‍රමබාහු). ඉතා කපටියෙකු වූ අල්මේදා තමන් පෘතුගාල රජුගේ දුතයන් බවත්,  තමන්ට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අයිති කරගැනීම පිළිබදව කිසිම ආශාවක් නැති බවත්, ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සමඟ වෙළඳ සහ වාණිජ කටයුතු සිදු කිරීමට පමණක් කැමති බවත් කියා සිටියේය. රජතුමා මේ සම්බන්ධව සිය ඇමති […]

Courtesy UCA News Catholic clergy join calls for president’s resignation over the worst economic crisis in decades. Catholic nuns hold placards during a demonstration against the government amid the worsening economic crisis in Colombo on April 5. (Photo: AFP) By UCA News reporter, Colombo Published: April 06, 2022 09:04 AM GMT Catholic bishops, priests and nuns […]

Courtesy BDNews24 Bangladesh’s economy is robust” and the government has been exercising extreme caution” so that the country does not face a crisis like that of Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. She made the remarks after Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader expressed concern over the risks facing Bangladesh’s economy in parliament on […]