Courtesy The Daily Mirror Some 230 people have been arrested over various charges including  violation of curfew, attacking public, causing damages to public and private properties since May 9. Police spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said 68 out of them have been remanded. He said among the arrested, 71 were from the Western Province, 43 from […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The buses that were provided to support the struggle by our association on May 9 were burnt as if they were destroyed during the height terrorist activities. Therefore, the police should take action to arrest those involved the incidents, Lanka Private Bus Owners’ Association (LPBOA) Chairman Gemunu Wijeratne said. He told […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed a committee led by former Minister Ruwan Wijewardene to look into the security, health and other needs of “GotaGoGama” at Galle Face. The committee includes officials from the Colombo Municipal Council, Urban Development Authority, Health Ministry, Police and Army.

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s special statement addressing the nation commenced, a short while ago.  He stated that last Thursday, he had accepted the Premiership of Sri Lanka.  I did not ask for that position. In the face of the crisis situation in the country, the President invited me to accept this position,” he […]

Courtesy Adaderana The parliamentary group of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has unanimously decided to fully support all progressive steps taken by the new government and development activities through parliamentary processes, without accepting any posts.  The party said in a statement that the decision was taken at a meeting of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya’s parliamentary […]

Courtesy Adaderana During a discussion with the Prime Minister, the 10 political parties that quit the former government have assured that they would contribute to the new government’s efforts through the National Council and the Parliament Oversight Committees proposed to be set up. Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader MP Udaya Gammanpila stated this while speaking […]

අචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර  මහනුවර අද මේ රට හා ජාතිය පත්ව ඇති අර්බුධයන්ගෙන් ගොඩගැනීමට  ඇති හොඳම විසඳුම, පවතින මැතිසබයේ සියළුම පක්ශ,  වසර 74 ක් තිස්සේ අනුගමනය කළ පටු කුහක දේශපාලන වාද භේද සියල්ල පසෙක තබා,  සියලු දෙනාම එක්වී සර්වපාක්ශික අන්තර්කාලීන රජයක් පිහිටුවා කුඩා ඇමති මන්ඩලයක් මඟින් පළමුව ගිනිගෙන දැවෙන ජනතා ප්‍රස්න විසඳා ඒ ගින්න නිවී රට […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) (සමායෝජක) වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන 19 නැවත ගේන්න 21 ගේනකොට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවීම වසර 4 1/2ක් කල් යනව කියන්නෙ අරගලේ තව මාස 34ක් තියෙනව කියන එකද? ඒ වගේම 19ය නැවත ගේන විට ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ  85.2ත් ඉවත් වෙනව කියන එකද? (20වන සංශෝධනය යටතේ 70 ව්‍යවස්ථාව අනුව […]

New Books වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග විසින් ලියන ලද විශ්ව සාහිත්‍යයේ පැතිකඩක් කෘතිය විශ්ව සාහිත්‍ය පිලිබඳව උනන්දු වන සිංහල පාඨකයන්ට අතිශයිම සුදුසු ග්‍රන්ථයකි. විශ්ව සාහිත්‍යයේ පැතිකඩක් කෘතිය හෝමර් , වර්ජිල් ,  ඩන්ටේ අලගියරි, ජෙෆ්‍ රි චෝසර්, සර්වන්ටෙස්, විලියම් ශේක්ස්පියර්, වෝල්ටෙයාර්, ඇලෙක්සැන්ඩර් පුෂ්කින්, ගෝගොල්, චාල්ස් ඩීකන්ස්, වික්ටර් හියුගෝ, ගුස්ටාව් ෆ්ලෝබර්ට් , වෝල්ටර් ස්කොට්, විලියම් වර්ඩ්ස්වත්, ෆියෝඩර් […]

Pathik Hasan from Bangladesh Myanmar is one of the closest neighbors of Bangladesh. Which is also known as Burma. Before the Second World War, many people from Bangladesh used to travel to Burma in search of livelihood. Since then, the people of this country have developed an economic and social relationship with Burma. Apart from […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 15: Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has been subjected to jibes and invectives from political opponents, armchair pundits and the media, both mainstream and social. But political realties being what they are, the 73 year-old sixth time Prime Minister is more likely to survive in office than […]

Courtesy India Today The new Sri Lankan PM, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Saturday said that a committee has been appointed to look after the interests of the ‘Gota Go Home’ protesters who have been camping at Colombo’s Galle Face Green since April 9. In an unusual move, Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has extended […]

Courtesy The Telegraph OnLine Wickremesinghe appoints committee to look after interests of ‘Gota Go Home’ leaders camping at Colombo’s Galle Face Green since April 9. In an unusual move, Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has extended public support to the protesters, who have been camping at a popular beachfront here for over a […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island JVP General Secretary Tilva Silva yesterday (10) said that Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa shouldn’t have visited Galle Face during the SLPP goons attacks on protesters. Silva was commenting on protesters attacking the SJP leader and his colleagues as they walked towards the crowds. The JVP General Secretary said so […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror SLFP Leader Maithripala Sirisena has written to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today saying the SLFP will support forming a new government with Wickremesinghe, senior sources said. In the letter, Sirisena said party members had sought a meeting with Wickremesinghe and a time and date are now being worked out for the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Four suspects have been arrested on charges of the murder of MP Amarakeerthi Athukorala and his security officer during the recent unrest earlier this week. The arrests were made today (May 15). Two of the accused have been handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department for further investigations. The other two were produced […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Police says it has arrested a total of 230 suspects in connection with curfew violations, looting, assaults, public and private property damages and other offences following the unrest that broke out on the 9th of May. According to police spokesperson, 68 of the arrestees are currently in remand custody. In a […]

State of Sri Lanka’s Economy – Research Team Since early 2020, the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government appeared to implement a plan with several components for the external sector. These components included securing of multi-lateral and bi-lateral loans, monetization of selected assets, obtaining Central Bank SWAPs, promoting Hambantota Industrial & Pharmaceutical Zones, Colombo Port City and other […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් හරක් පිටි කිරි ප්රශ්නයක් වී  ඇමෙරිකාව තරමක් සැලෙන්නට පටන් ගෙනය. මිචිගනයේ බේබි ෆොර්මියුලා සමාගමක නිශ්පාදන සිරුරට අහිතකර විස මුසු වීමක්  අඳුනා ගැනීමෙන් සමාගම වසා දමා වෙළඳ පොලේ මේ දක්වා තිබු නිශ්පාදනද රිකෝල් කර ඇත. බේබි ෆොර්මියුලා නැති ළදරුවන් අඬන හඬ ඇහෙන්න පටන් ගෙනය. ගෝ බ්‍රන්ඩන් කියන හඬ  වෙනස් අර්ථයකින් නොඇහෙනවා නොවේය. අවුරුදු 50 […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM United Sri Lanka Association. To: Hon Nanaia Mahuta, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs . NZ Parliament. Dear Minister, I am writing to say how pleased I was to read your tweet and that of NZ High Commissioner  in Colombo, informing us  of your decision to make the above […]

The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka Press Release The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka wishes our Buddhist brethren peace and contentment on the auspicious day of Buddha Jayanthi (Vesak) where millions around the world follow the teachings of the Buddha and commemorate the birth, attainment of enlightenment and the passing away of the Buddha. Vesak”, on […]

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E Crises prompt proposals for management, recovery and future prosperity. Of the many we’ve seen, perhaps on account of public profile, the set of proposals submitted by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) is one which calls for serious consideration. Indeed, the BASL proposals have been approved by multiple political groups/individuals including the […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. ඩබල් ගේම් මෙහි ඉහතින් ඇති රූප සටහනේ පිට රවුම තුල තිබෙන ලෝභ-ද්වේෂ-මෝහ යන ක්ලේශ තුන ලොව සෑම පංචස්කන්ධයකටම පොදුවේ අදාලය. පන්සිල් පද පහෙන් අවම වශයෙන්වත් බලාපොරොත්තු වන්නේ මෙම ක්ලේශ හැකිතාක්  දුරට පාලනය කර ගැනීමය. මෙත්තා-කරුණා-මුදිතා-උපෙක්ඛා යන ගතිගුණ ප්‍රගුණ කර ගැනීම මෙන්ම, ලාභෝ-අලාභෝ, අයසෝ-යසෝච, නින්දා-ප්‍රශංසා, සුඛන්ච-දුක්ඛං යන අෂ්ට ලෝක ධර්මතා භාර ගැනීමද […]

 Saeed Naqvi   Whatever the aspiration of the protesters in Sri Lanka, the chaos they created has caused the messiah to appear in the form of the IMF. For the IMF to be effective, it needed a government it could vibe with. That there could not have been a better choice for the job of Prime […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale The phoenix is an immortal bird associated with Greek mythology (with analogs in many cultures) that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion, others that it simply dies and […]

Jubeda Chowdhury, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Myanmar military wants now strategic engagement with Bangladesh military for various reasons. Myanmar-Bangladesh must have mutual strategic engagement as they share common border. Myanmar-Bangladesh have some common problems which need to be resolved bilaterally as soon as possible. Myanmar, Bangladesh need defense diplomacy for cementing their ties with neighbourly spirit. Myanmar […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence on Saturday denied reports of ex-LTTE cadre regrouping to launch attacks” in Sri Lanka, as reported by The Hindu, citing sources in Indian intelligence. The article is completely baseless. We have received no intelligence warning of such a security threat,” a Ministry spokesman said. The report, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s new prime minister has told the BBC an economic crisis that has brought misery and unrest is going to get worse before it gets better”. The country is facing fuel shortages and soaring food prices, with some Sri Lankans forced to skip meals. Anger over the government’s handling of the crisis […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has decided to support a government established under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The ruling party pledged their support during a meeting of its parliamentary group held under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa this morning (May 14). 

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the support of the country’s youths is expected when finding solutions to overcome the current crisis situation. He stated this, delivering a statement following bilateral talks with several ambassadors and high commissioners to Sri Lanka today (May 14). The prime minister met with the ambassadors of South Korea, […]