Courtesy Ceylon Today President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has revoked the State of Emergency imposed in the country.  Issuing an Extraordinary Gazette Notification, the Head of State revoked the order issued with effect from midnight of 5 April. President Rajapaksa issued an Extraordinary Gazette, declaring a state of Public Emergency on 1 April. The decision was taken […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake came under fire in Parliament today by government MPs who claimed he was instigating violent protests.  Government MPs claimed that Dissanayake was seen chatting to protestors on his way from Parliament on Tuesday and echoing the sentiments of them. Referring to the claims, Chief Government Whip […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will not resign from office under any circumstance, Minister Johnston Fernando said today. The remarks of the Chief Government Whip came during the parliamentary proceedings this morning (April 06). In response to a question raised by Samagi Jana Balawegaya’s MP Lakshman Kiriella, Minister Fernando said I would like to remind […]

Courtesy Adaderana Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Harin Fernando today proposed fellow MP Harsha de Silva’s name as a caretaker President if no one else is up for the position. His remarks came during the parliamentary session earlier today (April 06). Fernando said Harsha de Silva, who is an expert in economics, should be appointed […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a Presidential Advisory Group on Multilateral Engagement and Debt Sustainability. Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Prof. Shanta Devarajan and Dr. Sharmini Coorey serve as the members of the said advisory group, according to the President’s Media Division (PMD).

Courtesy Adaderana Two shipments of fuel have been delivered to Sri Lanka in the last 24 hours under Indian credit line, the High Commission of India in Colombo says. Each consignment contained 36,000 metric tonnes of petrol and 40,000 metric tonnes of diesel. Taking to its official Twitter account, the high commission stated that this […]

Sugath Kulatunga  “The clarion call in Mirihana and many other demonstrations and opposition protest meetings was a clear message of Gota go. Even a few political commentators have gleefully echoed this call. Gota can be expelled only under Section 38 of the Constitution where he resigns or ceases to be a citizen of Sri Lanka […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ජනතාව විප්ලවයක් කිරීමට සුදානම්ව වීථි බසින යුගයක අප ජිවත් වෙමු. මේ වනවිට මෙරට ජනතාවට මෙරට විධායකය, ව්‍යාවස්ථාදායකය  හා අධිකරණය සම්බන්ධව තිබු විශ්වාසය සම්පුර්ණයෙන්ම බිඳ වැටී,මේ රාජ්‍ය යාන්ත්‍රනය බිඳ දැමීමට සුදානම්ව සිටී. මෙය සමාජ ප්‍රගමනයේ ඉතා වැදගත් සන්ධිස්ථානයකි. පාර්ලිමේන්තුව හා එහි වාසි 225ක මන්ත්‍රී සනුහරේම ජනතා උදහසට ලක්ව තිබේ. මේ තත්වය ප්‍රංශ විප්ලවය, […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 4 (newsin.asia) – Rallies against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his government have increased, with many protests taking place around the country today. The people have protested peacefully in numerous locations, calling for the President to resign as a result of the present economic crisis. https://newsin.asia/watch-protests-intensify-against-sri-lanka-president-demanding-resignation/ During the protests that […]

Courtesy The National News Protests continue over country’s worst economic crisis in memory and deepening mistrust in president’s leadership Sri Lankans participate in a protest in the capital Colombo, demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, shortly before the start of a nationwide curfew. APAssociated PressApr 04, 2022 Sri Lanka’s largest opposition party rejected an invitation […]

Ajit Ranade Courtesy mint A global shock on top of fiscal profligacy and a foreign debt overload could wreck large economies too. The entire cabinet of Sri Lanka resigned this week, collectively expressing its inability to handle the country’s worsening economic crisis. This was just hours after the lifting of a curfew that was imposed […]

Courtesy Adaderana In a letter to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the Chief Prelates of the four Buddhist Chapters have put forward several proposals including to dissolve the Cabinet and the setting up of an interim government.  In the letter, the Mahanayake Theros present six proposals to resolve the prevailing social-economic crises in the country. The joint […]

Courtesy Adaderana Leader of National Freedom Front (NFF) MP Wimal Weerawansa has called on the President to uproot the entire administration that has disgruntled the members of the public. He also requested the Head of State to set the scene to establish an interim government with a mandate of the majority in the parliament. The […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former State Minister Nimal Lanza warns that the government will lose its majority in parliament if it attempts to continue through various tactics. Accordingly, more than 50 Members of Parliament representing the ruling party are prepared to function independently in Parliament tomorrow (05), he said. Speaking to the media in Negombo today (04), […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Ajith Nivard Cabraal on Monday said he has tendered his resignation to the President.  In the context of all Cabinet Ministers resigning, I have today submitted my resignation as Governor, CBSL to HE President Gotabaya Rajapaksa,” he announced in a twitter post. All […]

Courtesy Adaderana Several new Cabinet Ministers have been sworn in before the President this morning (04) as a temporary Cabinet, according to the Leader of the House Dinesh Gunawardena.  Accordingly, Prof. G.L. Peiris has been sworn in as the Foreign Minister, Ali Sabry has been sworn in as the Finance Minister, Johnston Fernando as the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The document which is being circulated on social media which says Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa will be sworn in as Prime Minister shortly is a fake one, SJB General Secretary Ranjith Madduma said.  “The document which is circulated in a letter head of SJB and signed by me is false. […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 3 (DailyMirror) – Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is likely to step down from his position in the coming hours after both he and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to form an All Party interim government, the Daily Mirror learns.  Following a meeting with the 11 party alliance members, a proposal had […]

Courtesy Adaderana All Cabinet Ministers have decided to resign from their respective ministerial portfolios, SLPP parliamentarian and Leader of the House Dinesh Gunawardena said. He said the ministers have tendered their letters of resignation to the Prime Minister. However, he confirmed that Mahinda Rajapaksa will continue to serve as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. […]

Shenali D Waduge 29 People enter Parliament without contesting elections & without the franchise of the People. This negates the principle of parliamentary democracy where the will of the People has been digressed without the consent of the People. The principle behind including a national list was to enable experts & professionals who could not […]

Rohan Laksiri General Secretary Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA).  We are currently experiencing the worst economic and political collapse in the history of Sri Lanka post-independence. The present government, consisting of a two-thirds majority in Parliament and an executive president with unlimited powers obtained through the infamous 20th Constitutional Amendment, has, in a short […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ දැන් සිදුවන විදුලිය කැපීම අද ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඇත්තේ අති දැවැන්ත විදුලිය කැපීමකි.  ඇතැම් ප්‍රදේශවල දිනකට පැය 12ක් වැනි කාලයක් විදුලිය කැපේ. මෙයට විවිධ හේතු රජය සපයයි. ඩොලර් අර්බුදය මෙයට ප්‍රධාන හේතුවක් බව කවුරුත් දනීයි.   අද රටේ සහයට ඉදිරිපත් ව ඇත්තේ නොරොච්චෝලේ ලක්විජය විදුලි බලාගාරයයි. නොරොච්චෝලේ ධාරිතාවය වැඩි කර, මුළු රටම වැටිය හැකි […]

Premalal Mirihagalla Refrain from anger, Act peacefully, This too will change.

Courtesy The Telegraph (UK) Over 600 protesters arrested in Colombo for violating nationwide curfew Defying curfew orders, lawmakers from Sri Lanka’s principal opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) on Sunday staged an anti-government protest here against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s move to impose a state of emergency and other restrictions amidst the worst economic crisis in […]

Courtesy ANI Colombo (Sri Lanka), April 03 (ANI): The roads of Colombo on April 03 wore a deserted look following the imposition of the 36-hour Nationwide Curfew. The Nationwide Curfew has been declared by the Sri Lankan government ahead of an ‘Arab Spring’ style protest scheduled to be staged later in the day. Ahead of […]

Courtesy The Week He has been demanding an end to power outage A 53-year-old man killed himself in front of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house in Mirihana, even as the 36-hour curfew imposed in the country failed to deter protestors from venturing out and staging agitations. According to media reports, the man killed himself […]

Courtesy The Week Amid continuing disenchantment with the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government in Sri Lanka, a media outlet reported on Sunday that relatives of a prominent minister had left the country. Sri Lanka has been under curfew since Saturday as part of attempts by the Gotabaya Rajapaksa dispensation to prevent protests over the ongoing economic crisis. […]

Courtesy TRTWorld Sri Lankan forces moved to stop a protest by opposition lawmakers and supporters attempting to march to the capital’s Independence Square from the home of opposition leader Sajith Premadasa. Armed troops in Sri Lanka have blocked an opposition protest march staged in defiance of an emergency curfew to protest the island nation’s worsening […]

Courtesy News18 In Fake Whatsapp Forward, Sri Lanka’s Left Radical JVP Claims Indian Army Arrived in Colombo, Govt Denieshttps://www.news18.com/news/world/in-fake-whatsapp-forward-sri-lankas-left-radical-jvp-claims-indian-army-arrived-in-colombo-govt-denies-4937102.html

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka is faced with an economic crisis. The people are facing many economic & cost of living difficulties. The people blame the government for keeping them in the dark (pun intended) & not managing the situation which their advisors/consultants would have had foreknowledge about. So the blame game has led to […]