Courtesy Adaderana The price hike announced by Litro Gas Lanka Limited has been rolled back after the government refused to give the go-ahead to the move. Earlier, Litro Gas, the primary liquefied petroleum gas supplier in the country, announced that the price of a 12.5kg LP gas cylinder would be increased to Rs. 5,175, with […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror During a phone conversation with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, China’s Premier Li Keqiang assured China’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 The Daily Mirror Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today the no-confidence motion against the government was delayed following a request made by him. He said this when Leader of the House Dinesh Gunawardena asked as to why the opposition didn’t bring in the no-confidence motion against the government as planned earlier. “The opposition […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror PM and Cabinet should resign and form an all party govt- Dullas writes to Prez Former Minister Dullas Alahapperuma in a letter to the President says the Prime Minister and cabinet should resign immediately and form a new All Party government soon. In his two-page letter, the former minister stated that […]

Courtesy Adaderana A unanimous decision has been taken at the parliamentary group meeting of the ruling party to strengthen and continue with the government under Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the PM’s Office said.   The parliamentary group of the ruling party had convened a meeting at the parliament complex today (21) and unanimously approved the proposal […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි උත්තරීතර ස්වභාව ධර්මය තුල සාධාරණය හා අසාධාරණය දෙකරුනම අඩංගුව පවතී. විටෙක සාධාරණය ඉස්මතුවෙන අතර තවත් විටෙක අසාධාරණය ඉස්මතුව දිදුලන බවක් අපි දකිමු. මේ ලොවෙයි අගනා දර්ශනයන් රාශියක් ග්‍රන්තාරුදව ඇති අතර, මේ ග්‍රන්ථ අතර ඇති තවත් වටිනා ග්‍රන්ථයක් වන්නේ බයිබලයයි. මේ වටිනා ග්‍රන්ථය පරිශීලනය කිරීම තුලින් උගත හැකි පාඩම් සංඛ්‍යාව මෙතෙකැයි කියා නිම […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ජනතාව මුහුණ දෙන ප්‍රශ්න කඩිනමින් විසඳීම සඳහා රජය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන වැඩපිළිවෙළට වෘත්තීය සමිති තුළින් ලැබෙන සහයෝගය අගය කරන බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. ප්‍රගතිශීලී වෘත්තීය සමිති ජාතික මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ වෘත්තීය සමිති නියෝජිතයන් සමඟ ඊයේ (20) පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකින් අනතුරුව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. වර්තමානයේ පවතින අර්බුදය නිර්මාණය වුයේ සියලු […]

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Sugath Kulatunga In the past we had Civics as an important subject in the school curriculum. Later this subject was hidden in a broad collection called social studies. When one observes the palpable ignorance of the general population and even many politicians, on the Constitution of the country it behooves that the subject of CIVICS […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col),  සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන. මහජන ජාතික ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් (People’s National Constitution) කෙටුම්පත් කිරීම මේ දක්වා “Gotagogama” තරුණ පරපුර ආරම්භ කර නොතිබීම නීතිය නොදැනීම පිළිබඳ ප්‍රශ්නයක් පමණක් නොවේ. එය රටේ ජනතාවගේ නෛතික නිදහස පිළිබඳ මූලික ප්‍රශ්නයකි. ගෘන්නෝම”/ Grundnorm  නීති මූලධර්මය ගැන අවබෝධයක් නැතිකම පිළිබඳ ප්‍රශ්නයකි. […]

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C The Embassy of Sri Lanka to the United States has noted with disappointment the unjustified and undue criticism leveled against the eight member delegation led by the Minister of Finance who are currently attending the Springmeetings of the Bretton Woods Institutions in Washington DC. It must be emphasized that […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror *PM is now to table the 19th amendment in Parliament soon with some amendments to the clauses * One of the proposals to which consensus will be sought from all party leaders is for Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down as President A tug of war seems to have broken out between […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The International Monetary Fund said discussions with Sri Lanka on a potential IMF loan program are at an early stage and any deal would require “adequate assurances” that the island country’s debts can be put on a sustainable path. In a statement emailed to Reuters, IMF Sri Lanka Mission Chief Masahiro […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) today appealed to the general public engaged in protests to assist unhindered passage of transport movements without blocking roads and causing inconvenience to the public. In a special message issued today (21), the Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army, General Shavendra Silva stated that in […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor G.L. Peiris met with the Ambassador of China to Colombo, Qi Zhenhong, at the Foreign Ministry on Thursday (21). While welcoming the Ambassador, Minister Peiris appreciated China’s continued assistance to Sri Lanka which had begun even before establishing formal diplomatic relations between the two countries.  He […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka may take nearly three weeks to appoint advisers to guide an overhaul of its debt, according to the country’s finance chief, a move seen as key to unlock emergency funds needed to ease its worsening economic crisis. The country is aiming to choose financial and legal advisers in 15 to 20 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services today said the lifting of mandatory requirement to wear face masks outdoors is temporarily suspended, considering the large public gatherings currently taking place in the country. DGHS Dr. Asela Gunawardena therefore stated that face masks should be worn outdoors as done before. Issuing a press release, he […]

Courtesy Adaderana The main opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has put forward a set of proposals for the new amendment to the Constitution including the abolishment of the executive presidency and the repealing of the 20th Amendment. The draft resolution has been handed over to the Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, Opposition Leader Sajith […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම නෙත් ඉන්දීය විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය එස්. ජෙයිශංකර් විසින් නිකුත් කළ ට්විටර් සටහනක් බවට හුවා දැක්වෙන අසත්‍ය ට්විටර් සටහනක් මේ වන විට සමාජ මාධ්‍ය තුල හුවමාරු වෙමින් පවතිනවා. ” ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජනතාව කැමැති නම් ලංකාව ඉන්දියාවේ ප්‍රාන්තයක් ලෙස පිළිගැනීමට සුදානම්. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව මුහුණ දී සිටින ගෑස්, ඉන්ධන, කිරිපිටි, පොහොර ඇතුළු අත්‍යවශ්‍ය භාණ්ඩ ගැටලු […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS UNP loyalists were overjoyed when the UNP won a landslide election in 1977. They felt a sense of power, they thought they were going to be there forever and started to intimidate those opposed to the UNP. Wiswa Warnapala saw this in action in University of Peradeniya and wrote about it in his […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් අප බොහෝ දෙනාගේ ගම් වෙනස් වෙනව වගේ, ගෝටගේ ගමත් වෙනස්වන සුලුය. ඒවා මානව අයිතින්ය. ඉස්සරහට එංග ලන්තේ වෙන්නත් බැරි නැත. නියතය වෙනස් වීමය. ගම කොහේ වුනත් වැඩ්ඩ වැඩ්ඩමය. මැදවච්චි යනවා කියා ගියේ කිලිනොච්චිය. ඇමරිකාව සෑදී ඇත්තේ රතු ඉන්දියානුවන්ගේ ඉඩම් මං කොල්ල කාලාය, කෑ ලි  කෑ ලි  එකතු කරලා ය. මුළු ඇලස්කාවම ගත්තේ සෝවියට් […]

Senaka Weeraratna The Portuguese landed in Sri Lanka in 1505 and after a couple of decades in occupation started the inhumane Portuguese Inquisition intending to destroy Buddhism Temples and the Buddhist Civilization, and convert Buddhists to Christianity. Its inspiration was the Goa Inquisition which led to the Inquisition being conducted in almost all territories of […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ජාතික හෙද විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය ආරම්භ කිරීමට අදාළව අධ්‍යාපන හා සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය ඒකාබද්ධව කැබිනට් පත්‍රිකාවක් යොමු කරන්නැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (20) දින පෙරවරුවේ විෂය භාර අමාත්‍යවරුන්ට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. ජාතික හෙද විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය ආරම්භ කිරීමට අදාළව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පිහිටි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මෙම උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. තමන් විසින් මෙයට පෙර […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 19: With pressure mounting on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to quit, both in parliament and on the streets of Sri Lanka, the President and his Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, are proposing constitutional changes in the hope that these will satisfy the people, yearning for democracy.    While constitutional changes to […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 20: Sri Lanka’s top Buddhist clergy called Mahanayakes on Wednesday called upon the President, Prime Minister, the Opposition Leader and all Members of Parliament to implement the proposals put forward by them on April 4, to resolve the present crisis in the country. Issuing a joint statement, the Chief […]

Courtesy Business Standard Meanwhile China, whose large loans and investments to the island nation led to allegations of debt diplomacy, has said it will provide “emergency humanitarian assistance” to Colombo

Courtesy The Daily News Sri Lankan Ambassador in Kenya Veluppillai Kananathan sent a letter of demand to Hirunika Premachandra contesting her recent slanderous and baseless statement against him in a press conference on April 15, 2022.  Hirunika Premachandra said that Kananathan was the owner of the jet bearing number T7JSH on which Prime Minister Mahinda […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Inspector General of Police (IGP) C.D Wickramaratne said that  the Police had to use minimum force against the protesters in Rambukkana today. Following the Rambukkana incident, the IGP said in a statement that the Police resorted to minimum force to prevent a group from setting fire to a Bowser with […]

Courtesy Adaderana Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said discussions with Sri Lanka on a potential IMF loan program are at an early stage and any deal would require adequate assurances” that the island country’s debts can be put on a sustainable path. In a statement emailed to Reuters, IMF Sri Lanka Mission Chief Masahiro […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara says that the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) will provide security to trains transporting fuel and the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) will provide security to fuel bowsers, if and when necessary.  The minister had earlier assured safety for fuel bowsers and fuel trains while also requesting […]