Shenali D Waduge It has come to a level that even the dead are manipulated for political gain. The blame is now subtly being shifted with a twist for political purposes. These antics are not in any way helping the dead rest in peace. Sri Lanka has witnessed many deaths throughout its post-independence history. Thousands […]

Jack D’Arbo Sri Lankans fondly hope to emulate the Singapore success story, and become another ‘Tiger‘ economy. But there are some major difficulties with that hope. The most glaring of these is the fact that the Chinese of Singapore are deeply engrained entrepreneurs and businessmen. To demonstrate that, in the 1950s and 1960s passenger cruise […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත්  ගුණසේකර. මහනුවර මුලු ලක්දිවම අරාජිකව ගිනිගෙන දැවෙද්දී ඝෝථාභය ඇමතිවරුන් සහ රාජ්ය ඇමතිවරුන් පත්කරයි” අද්යතන කියමනක් මුළු රටම අද ඉතිහාසයේ මින් පෙර කිසිම දිනක නොවූ පරිදි එදි නෙදාට අත්යාවශ්ය බඩු හිඟය, දැරිය නොහැකි බඩු මිල, දවසේ වැඩ අවසන්වි පැයගනන් පෝලිම්වල සිට සවසට නිවසට ගේන හාල් ඇටය තම්බා ගැනීමට  මෙන්ම පවස නිවා ගැනීමට තේ කහට […]

INSIGHT BY SUNIL KUMAR Amidst the unprecedented and dire economic crisis in Sri Lanka and massive anti-government street protests turning into all-night vigil as thousands of demonstrators gather daily at the Galle Face Green in the capital city of Colombo, there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel. The latest information is […]

By A. Abdul Aziz Having read the Biblical account of how Adam and Eve were punished, one cannot help wondering if the pain and throes of labour were unknown to woman until the beginning of the era of Adam and Eve. A scientist will be hard to come by, who believes in such fantasies. Again, […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය තමන් සුපුරුදු සුවෙන් සිටින බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා රෝහල්ගතව ප්‍රතිකාර ලබන බවට සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ සංවිධානාත්මක කණ්ඩායමක් විසින් ගෙන යන අසත්‍ය ප්‍රචාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් දක්වමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. රෝගීයකු බැලීමට හෝ මේ දිනවල තමන් රෝහලකට නොගිය බව පවසන අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, දැනටත් තමන් […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang has assured China’s continued support to Sri Lanka to assist in greater economic stability. During a phone conversation with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Chinese Premier said China empathizes with Sri Lanka for the difficulties and challenges it faces and asserted that China is ready to provide […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka is still in the early stages of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and it would take some time to secure funding, Finance Minister Ali Sabry noted yesterday (22). The Minister, who is in Washington, DC to hold discussions with the IMF, made this remark at an online Media […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island SJB says SLPP rebels’ proposal doesn’t reflect demand for Gotabaya’s resignation The main Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) and the SLPP rebel group haven’t been able to iron out their differences as regards the urgently required proposed 21 Amendment to the Constitution meant to address the current political crisis […]

Courtesy Adaderana The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday that its staff held fruitful technical discussions” with Sri Lankan authorities on the crisis-wracked country’s request for an IMF-supported loan program this week. The Fund said in a statement that the discussions included the need for Sri Lanka to implement a credible and coherent strategy” to restore macroeconoimc […]

Courtesy Hiru News During a phone conversation with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, China’s Premier Li Keqiang assured his country’s support to Sri Lanka to facilitate greater stability in economic and social development. China feels for Sri Lanka for the difficulties and challenges you face, and we want to do our utmost to provide help to […]

Courtesy  Hiru News The Leader of the United National Party, Parliamentarian Ranil Wickremesinghe states that the Indian loan scheme for fuel subsidies and the USD 1 billion credit line for essential commodities will be finished by the first week of May. He further stated that the country’s economy and banking sector will be at high […]

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa states that if an interim government is to be formed, it should be done under his leadership. He made this statement in an interview issued by the Prime Minister’s Media Unit. However, the group of 41 independent parliamentarians have focused on supporting the no-confidence motion brought by the […]

Courtesy Hiru News The youth taken into custody by the CID for allegedly attempting to set fire to the fuel bowser at Rambukkana, has been released on two surety bails of Rs.100,000 each by Kegalle Magistrate Court. However, no one placed bail. The youth who was arrested for allegedly setting fire to or attempting to set fire […]

Frances Coppola Courtesy Forbes The IMF has just published a new review of Argentina’s economy. It is grim reading. Argentina is in trouble: economic conditions have worsened considerably since the last IMF review, back in June 2018. But the review also reveals that the IMF could be in even bigger trouble. It is repeating the same mistakes […]

Larry Elliott, Phillip Inman and Helena Smith in Athens Courtesy Guardian (uk) The International Monetary Fund admitted it had failed to realise the damage austerity would do to Greece as the Washington-based organisation catalogued mistakes made during the bailout of the stricken eurozone country. In an assessment of the rescue conducted jointly with the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European commission, […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් අපේ කොල්ලන් කෙල්ලන් අරගල  කරන්නේ, පිටි කිරි බොන්න නැති නිසාය . highway එකේ රේස් යන්න ඉන්ධන නැති නිසාය පැය 24රේම විදුලි පංකා වැඩ නොකරන නිසාය වායු සමිකරණයේ සමිකරණය විසඳා ගන්න බැරි නිසාය tv එකේ, අයි ෆෝනයේ එල්ලී ගෙන ඉන්න විදුලි-බලය නැති නිසාය පිටි කිරි වෙනුවට පොල් කිරි සෝයා කිරි කොට්ටම්බා කිරි මයියොක්කා කිරි […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka is in a crisis. How much of that crisis is to be blamed on every government that ruled Sri Lanka since 1978 who have gone to monetary lending institutes for loans for loan repayment/development & meet budget deficits? From 1980s to 2009 much of the country’s expense went to defeating […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, […]

By Harsha Kumar Suriyaarachchi Movement of Citizens for Our Values Proposals to have a corruption free government which will not disrespect the generations of values of the Sinhalese society that protected and saved this country for last 2500 years We have seen our motherland deteriorating very seriously in economic, political and technical aspects along with […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D ජේ.ආර් මරමු! ජේ. ආර් විසින් ඔහු අතගැසූ හැම දෙයකින්ම රට ජාතියට ගෙනාවේ විනාශයය. එහෙත් ඔහු විසින් කල එක ක්‍රියාවකින් රට දෙකඩවී යාම වැළකුණේය. එය නම් මහල්ලෙක්වූ ඔහු  රජීව් ගාන්ධි නම් කොළුගැටයා ඉදිරියේ දණ ගැසීමය. එසේ නොකරන්නට රජිව් හා ඩික්ෂිට් උතුර හා නැඟෙනහිර අල්ලාගෙන එය ප්‍රභාකරන්ට පූජා කරන්නේය. ප්‍රේමදාස හා චන්ද්‍රිකාද ප්‍රභාකරන්ට […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුතුව ආණ්ඩුව ශක්තිමත්ව පවත්වාගෙන යෑමේ යෝජනාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කමිටු කාමර අංක එකේ අද (21) පස්වරුවේ රැස්වූ ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ මන්ත්‍රී කණ්ඩායම් රැස්වීමේදී ඒකමතිකව සම්මත විය. රටේ උද්ගතව ඇති තත්ත්වය හමුවේ ආණ්ඩුව ඊට ශක්තිමත්ව මුහුණ දිය යුතු බවත් ඒ සඳහා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුතුව ආණ්ඩුව ඉදිරියටත් පවත්වාගෙන යායුතු […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ආර්ථික හා සමාජීය සංවර්ධනයේ ස්ථාවරත්වය සඳහා චීනයේ සහාය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබා දෙන බවට අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සමඟ අද (22) පැවති දුරකථන සංවාදයකදී චීන අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ලී කෙකියැන්ග් (Li Keqiang) මහතා සහතික විය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව දැනට මුහුණ දෙන දුෂ්කරතා සහ අභියෝග පිළිබඳව චීනයට අවබෝධයක් ඇති බවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජනතාවගේ ජීවනෝපාය වැඩිදියුණු කිරීම සඳහා අප […]

Jubeda Chowdhury The United States recently released a report on the human rights situation on 198 countries in 2021. The country’s state department made various allegations of human rights violations against Bangladesh. The US State Department’s annual global report on human rights was launched on April 13, 2022, by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government leaders have been chest-thumping over the dictatorial powers awarded to the President through the 20th Amendment to the Constitution adopted in October 2020 and its two-thirds majority in Parliament gained at the general election held in August 2020 The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) government is no longer a […]

CNA Ayres Investment Management LLP, DecisionBoundaries LLC and Perella Weinberg LP are among firms seeking to provide financial advice to Sri Lanka’s creditors, sources said, as the country heads towards a revamp of its $12 billion of external debt. Some bondholders are weighing their options after the South Asian island nation unilaterally suspended external debt […]

Courtesy Business Standard India has extended the duration of the $400-million currency swap facility which had been concluded with the island nation in January.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Visiting Israeli film crew at Bandaranaike International Airport with Frames TV & Film Productions and Sri Lanka Tourism officials Feature film is expected to be screened in Israel and over 50 countries across Europe   UCM, Sri Lanka Tourism and Frames TV & Film Productions to co-produce film SLTPB says project is […]

Courtesy https://www.reuters.com/ GALLE, Sri Lanka, April 22 (Reuters) – With its ancient fort and sandy beaches, the city of Galle on Sri Lanka’s southern coast should be awash with holidaymakers at this time of year. Instead, another power cut has plunged the city into darkness, and the historic quarter lies mostly deserted except for a […]

Courtesy MailOnLine +1View gallery Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has led to clashes at nationwide demonstrations calling on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down Sri Lanka’s unprecedented shortages of food, fuel and vital medicines will worsen before an international bailout is negotiated, its finance minister warned Friday as inflation hit another record high. Ali Sabry, who […]