Courtesy Adaderana A committee has been appointed to look into any lapses by tri-forces during the unrest at Mirihana on the 31st of March and the nationwide tensions erupted on the 9th of May. The committee comprises Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda, Marshal of the Air Force Roshan Gunathilake  and General R. M. Daya […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is looking to fast-track talks with the International Monetary Fund and agree on a loan by mid-June so that it can then approach other lenders for urgently needed funds. The bankrupt nation will slash its budget expenditure to bare bones” and hopes to break even or post a primary surplus of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Fourteen suspects in total are currently under arrest in connection with the killing of MP Amarakeerthi Athukorala and his security officer earlier this month, Sri Lanka Police says. Two of them, reported to be drug addicts, were taken into custody yesterday (May 25). One of them is a 28-year-old from Nittambuwa, employed in […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Foreign Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris met with Vimlendra Sharan, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative and Abdur Rahim Siddiqui, the Country Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) to Sri Lanka on Wednesday (May 25), at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The focus of the discussion fell on further […]

Courtesy Hiru News IMF staff has concluded their virtual mission to SL & state “IMF staff will  engage with the authorities to formulate concrete measures under an IMF-supported program to support a timely resolution of the crisis. We reaffirm our commitment to support Sri Lanka at this difficult time, in line with the IMF’s policies”. […]

Courtesy Hiru News Major General Vikum Liyanage is to be appointed as the new Army Commander of Sri Lanka on June 01 after General Shavendra Silva relinquishes his post, Army media said. General Shavendra Silva will assume office on 1 June 2022 as new Chief of Defence Staff after relinquishing the office of the Commander […]

වාගිස ප්‍රනාන්දු විසිනි. ඊයෙත් නැහැ. අදත් නැහැ. හෙටත් නැහැ. අනිද්දා ගැන විශ්වාසයකුත් නැහැ. අවුරුද්දට කලින් එකදිගට සුමානයක්ම නැහැ. ලිට්‍රෝ ගෑස් ගැන මෙහෙම ලිව්වත් ලාෆ් ගෑස්වලට වෙච්ච දෙයක් හොයාගන්නත් නැහැ. පසුගිය දිනවල මෙරටට ලගාවුනු ගෑස් නැව්වලින් ගෑස් ගොඩබෑම අයහපත් කාළගුණය නිසා ප්‍රමාදවෙන බව ගෑස් සමාගමේ සභාපති  පැවසූ නිසා වහාම ගැස් සමාගමේ ලොක්කන්ව කොප් කමිටුව ඉදිරියට ගෙන […]

Courtesy EasternEye According to reports, Sri Lanka inflation could surge to 40 per cent. FILE PHOTO: Police fire teargas and use water cannons to disperse the Sinhala extremist monks from Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) on November 19, 2018 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) By: Pramod Thomas THE World Bank said it […]

By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy Eurasia Review Studies reveal that by re-orienting the country’s agricultural policies and adopting modern technologies, the worst can be averted Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has sounded an extremely grim warning of a food crisis in the island beginning in August and stretching to March 2023. It will be aggravated […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says there are many job vacancies in countries including Japan, Poland and Romania for skilled workers in various fields and pointed out the need to implement languages and vocational training programmes targeting those available opportunities. The President made these remarks at a discussion held at the President’s House, Colombo, today […]

Courtesy Adaderana Today the country is in bane with many crises, as a result of concentrating power around the Executive, says Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) parliamentarian Eran Wickramaratne. He said the proposed 21st Amendment to the Constitution by the government, which appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister, gives the President the power to keep under […]

Courtesy Adaderana The World Bank on Tuesday said it is not planning to provide any new financing to cash-strapped Sri Lanka until an adequate economic policy framework has been put in place. In a statement, the multilateral development bank said it was repurposing resources from previously approved projects to help the Sri Lankan government pay […]

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Shenali D Waduge Electoral System must be changed before 2025 General Elections WHY: This is a key area that will clean up the Parliament from corrupt. A criteria to accept nominations, voting system changed to FIRST PAST THE POST system, seat allocation for province revisited & allocated as per population representation. This must include no dual citizen […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale A shortage of medicine caused by an economic crisis in Sri Lanka could soon cause deaths, doctors said, as hospitals are forced to postpone life-saving procedures for their patients because they do not have the necessary drugs – Reuters In a news item titled as above, Reuters have bared what many in […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 24 (newsin.asia): Three military officers who were Secretaries to ministries in the Mahinda Rajapaksa government have been replaced in the reshuffle carried out by the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday. In the partial de-militarization, Adm.Prof. Jayanath Colombage, Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been replaced by Mrs.Aruni […]

By TOM LEONARD FOR THE DAILY MAIL Courtesy MailOnLine From the ethically sourced produce shops of Islington to the chemical-free acres of the Prince of Wales’s Highgrove farm, you could almost hear the cheering three years ago when Sri Lanka’s future president pledged a revolution. It wouldn’t be on the streets but in the fields — […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed who is presently in Sri Lanka, said former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa had not sought a safe haven in the Maldives and he had not met Rajapaksa during his current visit in the country. Speaking to Daily Mirror, Nasheed said reports stating that Mahinda had asked […]

Meera Srinivasan  Courtesy The Hindu Motorists waiting to buy fuel from Lanka IOC fuel station in Colombo on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: AFP Govt. tells non-essential staff to work from home to save fuel; social media saw many accounts of families being unable to access emergency medical care due to the lack of fuel Sri […]

Courtesy Pakistan Today Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told the people of Sri Lanka that he will fulfil the promises he had made to them when he assumed office last week after the fall of the Mahinda Rajapaksa government. In his first TV address after assuming office, Wickremesinghe listed the grave challenges ahead of […]

Courtesy USNews COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Tuesday he will present an interim budget within six weeks, slashing infrastructure projects to re-route funds into a two-year relief programme for the crisis-hit island nation. Wickremesinghe, who took office two weeks ago, warned that inflation would rise as the government gets […]

Courtesy CNA WASHINGTON : The World Bank on Tuesday said it is not planning to provide any new financing to cash-strapped Sri Lanka until an adequate economic policy framework has been put in place. In a statement, the multilateral development bank said it was repurposing resources from previously approved projects to help the Sri Lankan […]

Courtesy News18 A natural gas field was reportedly discovered for the first time here in 2011, but the country has not yet capitalised on this treasure trove, which could potentially solve Sri Lanka’s energy requirements, news portal Ada Derana has reported. he crisis-hit Sri Lankan government is planning to undertake a feasibility study on oil […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will closely work with other donors such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, G7 countries, and other stakeholders to support Sri Lanka during this extraordinarily difficult period, the agency’s administrator Samantha Power has assured Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. During a telephone conversation […]

Courtesy Adaderana The World Health Organization (WhO) has assured its fullest support for Sri Lanka to come out of the ongoing medical crisis. The organization has also agreed to provide USD 2 million to the island nation as a part of the initial phase of this assistance program. This was conveyed by WHO Representative to […]

Shenali D Waduge Anything done in haste is wasted and both 19th and 20th amendment as well as 18th amendment were clearly not done with country interest but with personal interest. This is undemocratic and unhealthy for a country & it is reason for so many confusions and contradictions and heated debates. These are all uncalled for and […]

Shenali D Waduge 21a is re-attempting to transfer the powers of the President to the Prime Minister. Ranil is only a caretaker PM. The newly appointed cocktail cabinet are only care taker Ministers. They are not part of the Government elected in 2020 which still has the numbers though the PM of the Govt was […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් ආරගලිස්ට්ලාට මාර්ගයේ එක පැත්තකට වී හෝ ගෝල්පීසයේ මුහුදු වෙරල මාඉමට  වී සාමකාමිව විරෝධතා පවත්වන්නට අවසර දුන්නත්, මහජන පොදු දේපලවලට, ව්යාපාර ආයතනවලට අලාභ හානි කරමින්,  බලහත්කාරකමෙන් ඒවායේ දීර්ඝ කාලීනව රැඳී සිටීම අවුරුදු දෙකකට නොඅඩු බරපතල වැඩ සහිත සිර දඬුවමකට සහ දඩයකට යටත් කල යුතුය. සෑම ප්රධාන මාර්ගයකම එක තීරුවක් පමණක් ආරගලිස්ට්ලා වෙනුවෙන් වෙන් කලාට […]

By. P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 23 (Ceylon Today): When Sri Lanka was teetering at the edge of a politico-economic abyss, some wondered if it was on the way to becoming a failed state. But mercifully, a political consensus emerged this week, and the new Ranil Wickremesinghe government is attending to the economic problem which […]