Courtesy Adaderana Cabinet Spokesperson Dr. Nalaka Godahewa says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, at the meeting of Cabinet of Ministers, agreed to step down from his position. He stated this during ‘Mokada Wune’ programme on TV Derana on Sunday (May 08). Speaking further, Dr. Godahewa pointed out that the President and the Prime Minister are of […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has told the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) that he would take into account acting constitutionally with regard to the proposals put forward by the BASL. This was conveyed during a discussion held between the President and BASL member earlier today (May 08). The management committee of the BASL […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has stated that it is considering the granting of USD 100 million to Sri Lanka in principle, the Ministry of Finance says. This was mentioned by the AIIB President Mr. Jin Liqun during a virtual meeting between the senior management of AIIB and Finance Minister Ali Sabry […]

Courtesy Hiru News Protests were organized in various areas against the state of emergency. The State of Emergency was declared in the country effective from midnight on May 06 Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense has issued a statement clarifying matters regarding the state of emergency. The Ministry of Defence has urged the general public to act […]

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Courtesy Hiru News circulating on social media recently stated that a doctor at a private hospital in Colombo had refused to treat  Minister Prasanna Ranatunga who had come to him for treatment. Several parties expressed their views regarding the refusal of a doctor to attend to the Minister. The Sri Lanka Medical Association says this […]

Shenali D Waduge On one side of the spectrum protests are calling for the stepping down of entire Parliament, amidst this are a bevy of piggy-bank protestors while the more important question should be where do we go from where we are now – an economic & political crisis. Is there light at the end […]

Senaka Weeraratna The British decimated the elephants and their habitats to plant cash crops and made resounding profits at the expense of the local Kandyan Sinhalese and the wild animals. The wild animals especially the Elephants who were well protected by the Sinhalese Rulers in their natural habitat in the hill country of Ceylon, were […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. ගෝල්පේස් අරගලකරුවන්ගෙන් පැහැදිලි කරගත යුතුවූ කාරණා/ගැටළු කීපයක් මෙම ලිපි පෙලේදී මුල සිටම මතුවිය. 1. මෙම <අරගලය> 2019 දී තාප්පවල චිත්‍ර ඇන්ඳ හා පුරන් කුඹුරු වගාවට ගිය ගම් වල සිංහල බෞද්ධ 69 ලක්ෂයට අයත් තරුණයින්ගේම අහිංසක අදහසක්ද? 2. එසේ නැත්නම් එය, රාසමාණික්කම් කොල්ලා විසින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී ඉල්ලා සිටි පරිදි, කොළඹ ජනතාව විසින් හයිජැක්කල, […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය උක්ත කරුණ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අධිකරණ සේවා සංවිධානය විසින් කර ඇති සන්නිවේදනය හා මේ පිළිබඳව යුක්තිය උදෙසා නීතිඥයෝ සංවිධානයේ නීතිඥවරුන් විසින් ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ අවධානය අද දින (2022.05.07) යොමු කිරීමෙන් පසු ඒ ගැන වහාම ක්‍රියාත්මක වූ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මැතිතුමා කඩුවෙල මහේස්ත්‍රාත් තුමියගේ ආරක්‍ෂාව මෙන්ම රට පුරා සියළු අධිකරණ වල විනිශ්චයකාරතුමන්ලාගේ ආරක්‍ෂාව වහාම තර […]

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By PTI  Courtesy The Week Govt faces criticism from Oppn parties and foreign envoys Sri Lankans block an intersection demanding cooking gas cylinders in Colombo | PTI The Sri Lankan government on Saturday defended imposing a state of emergency, saying it was required to tackle the unprecedented economic crisis plaguing the country, even as President […]

Courtesy The Hindu 40,000 tonnes of rice and other essential commodities to be shipped to Sri Lanka, says Sakkarapani Minister for Food and Civil Supplies R. Sakkarapani on Saturday warned of legal action against those who disseminate misleading information on social media about the initiatives to ship essential commodities such as rice to Sri Lanka. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A protest broke out, outside UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s house in 5th Lane in Colombo this morning, with protestors calling on the former prime minister to ‘Go Home’ and ‘Stay Home’. The protestors gathered outside after a statement made by TNA MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam in Parliament this week, saying that Ranil […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s main opposition, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) says it has decided to extend support to the proposals brought forward by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka to restore political and economic stability in Sri Lanka, which includes the abolishment of the Executive Presidency. The party said in a statement that it […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to resign from his post during the special cabinet meeting held yesterday (06), according to political sources. The source claimed that the resignation of the Prime Minister is scheduled to take place next Monday. A special cabinet meeting chaired by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was held at the […]

Courtesy Hiru News පෞද්ගලික මන්ත්‍රී යෝජනා ලෙස ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති 21 වන සහ 22 වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත් ඇතුළත් ගැසට් අතිරේකයක් නිකුත් කර තිබෙනවා. ඒ සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ මහලේකම් මන්ත්‍රී රංජිත් මද්දුම බණ්ඩාර සහ ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ ආචාර්ය විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ යන අය විසින්. මෙම පනත් ප්‍රකාශය පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම පිණිසයි නිකුත් කර ඇත්තේ. ඒ […]

Sugath Kulatunga  It was a pleasure to see Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka defending the post of President against the popular will of the party of which he is the Chairman. His argument was based on the significance of the post in national security on which his expertise cannot be questioned. The demand for the abolition […]

The Academics’ Movement to Safeguard Agriculture in Sri Lanka (AMSA-Sri Lanka) The Academics’ Movement to Safeguard Agriculture in Sri Lanka (AMSA-Sri Lanka) proposes thefollowing short-, medium- and long-term measures to address immediate and medium- to longtermthreats faced by Sri Lankan Agriculture.Immediate threat:An imminent threat of widespread crop failure in the next two seasons leading to […]

The Academics’ Movement to Safeguard Agriculture in Sri Lanka (AMSA-Sri Lanka) The Academics’ Movement to Safeguard Agriculture in Sri Lanka (AMSA-Sri Lanka) proposes thefollowing short-, medium- and long-term measures to address immediate and medium- to longtermthreats faced by Sri Lankan Agriculture.Immediate Threat:There is an imminent threat of widespread crop failure in the current (2022) Yala […]

Paul Kelso Courtesy Sky News Udaya Gammanpila has issued the warning after being sacked for criticising government policy that has taken the country to the brink of bankruptcy. Sri Lanka could run out of fuel and food in the next month, according to the former energy minister. Udaya Gammanpila was sacked earlier this year for […]

By Kandaswami Subramanian Courtesy The Indian Express How many more International Monetary Fund programmes will Lanka need to put itself through to reach that manna of economic stabilisation? This is not the first time that Sri Lanka has come out of a battle with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It is sufficiently battle-scarred over the years […]

Courtesy Adaderana A state of emergency will be declared by the President with effect from midnight today (May 06), the President’s Media Division said.  The PMD states that the state of emergency will be declared in accordance with the powers vested in the President by the Constitution to safeguard the well-being of the country and […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, with the backing of several Cabinet Ministers, has requested Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to resign from his position, during the special Cabinet meeting today (06), sources told Ada Derana. It is reported that several cabinet ministers had backed the request made by the President. However, it is also reported that […]

Courtesy Adaderana MP Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, who was re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of Parliament yesterday, says he has decided to once again resign from the position.  It is reported that he is expected to officially tender his resignation to the President shortly.  The SLPP parliamentarian was re-elected as Deputy Speaker of Parliament yesterday (May 05) […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says that he has never had deals with the Rajapaksa family. MP Wickremasinghe said that Mahinda Rajapaksa had plotted with LTTE leader Prabaharan to defeat him in the elections. The former Prime Minister made these comments in Parliament today (06) in response to the allegations made by […]

John Rozario, Kornataka , India Bangladesh’s medical and financial assistance to Sri Lanka increases its image and prestige. Once upon a time, Bangladesh was a ‘bottomless pit’ and a donation seeker in the international arena. Now it is a donor and lending country. It shows all-South Asian countries how to revive from ashes. Bangladesh establishes […]

Courtesy The Week MP Ranjith Siyambalapitiya was re-elected to the position from which he had resignedBy PTI Updated: May 05, 2022 14:21 IST(File) Mahinda Rajapaksa, on left, and Gotabaya Rajapaksa | Bhanu Prakash Chandra In a major victory for Sri Lanka’s embattled Rajapaksa clan, the government backed nominee on Thursday won the secret vote for the […]

ප්‍ර සමරසිංහ ආතල්ගමේ ප්‍රධාන අපේක්ෂාව වුනේ රටේ සියලුම හොරු එළවා රට පාරිශුද්ධ කිරීම. මේ අපේක්ෂාව මහ ඉහලින් සම්පුර්ණ වෙන්නේ 1977 න් පස්සේ රට හූර ගෙන කාපු හොරු රංචුවට අයත්, මේ දක්වා පැවති ආණ්ඩුවල මැති ඇමතිවරුන්ගේ ඉඳන් පරිපාලන සේවයේ නියතු නිලධාරින් සහ වෛද්‍යවරු,නීතිඥවරු, ඉංජිනේරුවරු, බැංකුකරුවෝ, ගුරුවරු, මාධ්‍යකරුවෝ, පූජකවරු කුදලා ගෙන ඇවිත්, කොළඹ ආතල්භුමියේ දි ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ පව් […]

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E Even in uncertain times, especially times of political turmoil marked by continuous and widespread agitation as well as unmistakable confusion regarding governance and indeed governability, there is clarity on certain matters. It is clear, for example, that for all the political brouhaha of parliamentary intrigue and agitational grandstanding, what brought the citizen out […]