Courtesy Adaderana The World Bank says it is ready to provide emergency support to Sri Lanka and protect the vulnerable people amidst the unprecedented economic crisis in the country. World Bank Vice President for South Asia Hartwig Schafer said he held talks with Sri Lankan Finance Minister Ali Sabry and Governor of the Central Bank […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Police says that a special team of 20 police officers has been appointed under the IGP’s instructions to investigate yesterday’s incident at Rambukkana, which resulted in the death of a protester and left several others injured.  Senior Police Spokesman SDIG Ajith Rohana stated this during a press briefing held today (20) […]

Courtesy Hiru News World Bank’s Vice President for the South Asia Region Hartwig Schafer states that he met Finance Minister Ali Sabry and CBSL Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe and discussed actions to address the economic crisis, support stabilization and recovery, and protect the vulnerable people in Sri Lanka

Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka’s government Treasury Bill yields increased to 24.36% at the auction today (20). Rs 97.5 billion was offered by CBSL and Rs 48 billion was accepted. The weighted average yield Rate was 23.21 % for 91 days 24.77% for 182 days and & 24.36% for 364 day Treasury bills.

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Maahnuwara This puzzle came to my mind as I was going through the list of Cabinet and State Ministries published yesterday. Having seen the overlapping and confusion found in the previous lists of Ministries, I was expecting some improvement at least this time. But it was even more disgusting and appalling to […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D අප්‍රේල් 9 දා සිට ගතවන දිනයක් පාසා ගෝල්පේස් වනාන්තරයෙන් එලියට පනිණ කරුණක් නම්, එය රටේ <රීසනබල්> මිනිසුන් හැම දෙනාම විසින් අවිවාදයෙන් පිළිගන්නා රට තුල <සිස්ටම් චේන්ජ්> උදෙසා කරණ අරගලයක් නොව, 2005 ජනාධිපති මැතිවරණයේ සිටම usa, uk, eu, india, canada, australia, unhrc බටහිර ඒජන්සිය යන ආයතන (පාලන තන්ත්‍ර, ආණ්ඩූ) විසින් ලෝකල් කළුසුද්දන් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, මේ වනවිට රට මුහුණ පා ඇති අභියෝගයන් පිළිබඳව මේ ගරු සභාවේ සිටින  මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ට හොඳ අවබෝධයක් තියෙනවා. අපේ රට ඉතිහාසය පුරා දිගු කාලීනව මුහුණ දුන් ආර්ථික අභියෝගය අද වනවිට ඉතා දුෂ්කර තැනකට පත්ව තිබෙනවා. ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, ආණ්ඩුවක් කවදාවත් කැමැත්තෙන් තමන්ගෙ ජනතාව දුෂ්කරතාවයට පත්කරන්නෙ නැහැ. එහෙත් අද රටේ ජනතාව දුෂ්කරතා රැසකට මුහුණ […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර අග්‍රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ස්ථිර ලේකම්, ශ්‍රී ලන්කා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-1994) සහ මහනුවර සින්හල බෞද්ධ ජෙස්ඨ පුරවැසියන්ගේ සන්විධානයේ සභාපතී   (මව් බිමට ආදරය කරණ පුරවැසියෙකුගෙන් මුලු රටටම අලුත් අවුරුදු තෑග්ගක්!) වර්තමාන අර්බුධයෙන් රට ගොඩ ගැනීමේ ඒකායන නොවුනත් හොඳම ක්‍රමය පුලුල් ජාතික වැඩපිලිවෙලක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට එකඟවන නව ජනාධිපතිවරකු යටතේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Down to 1, 000-2, 000 a day from 4, 000-5, 000 SL welcomed 43, 761 tourists from April 1 to 18 Cumulative tourist arrivals up to April 18 at 329,095 Sri Lanka’s tourist arrival rate has started to witness a dip in the month of April due to the ongoing economic […]

Courtesy Punchng.com The Chinese government has decided to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka to help the country cope with the current difficulties. The spokesperson for China International Development Cooperation Agency, Xu Wei, on Tuesday, said China had noticed Sri Lanka’s economic difficulties and was ready to help. Wei said, We believe that the […]

By Devjyot Ghoshal and Uditha Jayasinghe Courtesy FXEMPIRE COLOMBO (Reuters) – India and Sri Lanka have resumed talks on linking their electricity grids, officials told Reuters on Tuesday, a step that could aid New Delhi’s goal of reducing China’s influence on the island nation, now grappling with a severe economic crisis.Advertisement 71% of retail investor […]

Courtesy 5 Pillars Sri Lankan Muslim Mohamed Nafas says that Muslims are at the forefront of unprecedented public protests against the Rajapaksa government and are rebuilding their strained relationship with the majority Sinhalese community in the process. Sri Lankans – regardless of race, religion, ethnicity and political affiliation – have taken to the streets demanding the immediate […]

Courtesy The Manila Times COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Tuesday the constitution would be changed to clip presidential powers and empower parliament as protesters continued to call on his brother, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and their powerful family to quit over the country’s economic crisis. The premier told the legislature that the power […]

Vikas Dhoot Courtesy The Hindu NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand says ‘mind–boggling’ farm subsidies make sector dependent on State ‘crutches’ India could end up facing a Sri Lanka–type economic crisis if it doesn’t shun the culture of freebies” and subsidies in sectors like agriculture, NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand warned, stressing that the mind–boggling” support measures for farmers has made […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Finance Minister Ali Sabry and Sri Lankan delegation meeting Indian Finance Minister N. Sitharaman and a top level Indian economic delegation at IMF Headquarters in Washington IMF says will consider request for RFI even though outside the standard of circumstances Commends SL for the steps already taken in the direction of […]

Courtesy Livemint.com NEW DELHI : With Sri Lanka buffeted by economic headwinds, Indian apparel exporters are beginning to receive orders from the UK, EU, and even Latin American countries where Indian textiles had little or no presence. Textiles and garments contributed nearly half of Sri Lanka’s exports but fuel shortages amid its worst financial crisis and […]

XINHUA COLOMBO (XINHUA) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) commended the steps already taken by Sri Lanka to stabilise its economy, the Sri Lankan Finance Ministry said in a press release yesterday. The ministry said Finance Minister Ali Sabry met with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Monday at the IMF headquarters. The IMF assured […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The STF has been deployed in Rambukkana as protestors continue to protest in the area. Eye witnesses on ground said the situation in the area remains tense and angry protestors are demanding justice for the protestors who were injured and killed as police opened fire earlier this evening.  Eight policemen have […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The 19th Amendment to the Constitution with necessary changes has to be implemented as an initial step to resolve the present political and economic crisis, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa told Parliament today. The Prime Minister also called for the support of all political parties representing Parliament to make this exercise a […]

Courtesy Adaderana Police curfew has been declared within the limits of Rambukkana police area with immediate effect. The curfew order will be effective until further notice, the Police Spokesman said. The move came after one person died this evening (April 19) following a clash between the protesters and the police during a demonstration staged in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Inspector-General of Police says the law enforcement officers had to resort to minimum force to prevent a group of individuals from attempting to set fire to a bowser containing nearly 33,000 litres of fuel during the protest staged in Rambukkana. In a statement issued on the casualties reported in police shooting during […]

Courtesy Adaderana UPDATE: The number of people injured during the Rambukkana protest has risen to 24, including eight policemen, the police media spokesperson says. One person died this evening (April 19) following a clash between the protesters and the police during a demonstration staged in Rambukkana against the recent fuel price hike. The injured individual, […]

Shenali D Waduge Where do we start? How about the US-engineered regime change in 2015. It remains a puzzle why the engineers of the regime change decided to end yahapalana shelf-life, just as it is a puzzle why the present US-linked leaders together with a coterie of pro-US advisors, US-inclined Secretaries & Public Officials should […]

Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. Michigan State University, Former G.A. Matara The experience of the Divisional Development Councils Programme(DDCP) of Sri Lanka(1970-1977) is currently of great importance in today’s situation of unemployment and also the inability to import goods due to the lack of foreign exchange.   This is because the DDCP is a programme that really creates […]

Article jointly by Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum  and Thumilan  Sivarajah –  Chair Blue Ocean group of companies (international) (Construction) Peace is valuable and rare but easy to achieve in realization Peace is valuable pleasant and rare. Freedom from war and disturbances bring peace, calmness, and Loving […]

International Ron Nixon writing to the New York Times in April 2011 says that the US democracy-building campaigns played a bigger role in fomenting protests” than was previously known. They key words here is than previously known. Which means we only come to learn of the involvement much later. By that time the expected damage […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS JR’s rule   was a period of lawlessness and corruption. Elections commissioner Punchihewa listed 3 elections as having the worst abuses in Sri Lanka’s electoral history. Two of these were held during the time of JR, the 1981 Jaffna District Development Council polls and the 1982 referendum.  His ministers were corrupt. Critics were beaten […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ජනතාවට වග කියන රජයක් බිහි කිරීම සඳහා විවිධ පාර්ශවයන්ගෙන් ලැබෙන ඉල්ලීම් ගරු අග්‍රමාත්‍යතුමාගේ අවධානයට යොමු වී ඇත. විධායකය, ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය සහ අධිකරණයට අදාළව, සාධනීය කරුණු ඇතුළත් ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයක් කිරීමේ යෝජනාවක් කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම සඳහා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බලාපොරොත්තු වේ. එම සංශෝධිත ව්‍යවස්ථාව මඟින් ජනතාවගේ අපේක්ෂාවන් සාක්ෂාත් කර ගැනීමට හැකි වනු ඇති […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය රජයට සහය පළ කරන නීතීඥවරුන් සහ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර හමුවක් අද (18) දින පෙරවරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. මේ වන විට රටේ උද්ගතව ඇති ගැටලු නිරාකරණය කිරීම සහ රජයට විරුද්ධව පවත්වන අරගල හේතුවෙන් රටට සිදුවන අගතිය පිළිබඳව මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා විය. ව්‍යවස්ථානුකූලව ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඉවත් කිරීම ඔවුන් පවසන පරිදි සිදු කළ නොහැකි […]

Politics 1) SRI LANKANS HAVE BEING EXPERIENCING TOO MUCH RESTRICTIONS AND TOO MUCH DEFICIENCIES FOR SOME TIME NOW. 2) WILL THEY ACCEPT NEW RESTRICTIONS NORMALLY?  WILL THERE BE ANY CLASHES FOR NOT ADHERING TO THESE RESTRICTIONS ?  VERY LIKELY. IF THE AVAILABLE STATISTICS ARE CORRECT, MORE THAN HALF OF THE POPULATIONS MAY BE INVOLVED IN […]