Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Them belly full but we hungryA hungry mob is an angry mobA rain a-fall but the dirt, it toughA pot a-cook but the food no ‘nough A hungry man is an angry man — Bob Marley and the Wailers Nobel Prize-winning Economist, Amartya Sen, long ago showed that Famine is a political […]

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Dr. Tilak S. Fernando   Signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord India expected to resolve the Sri Lanka terrorist war out of the Indo-Lanka Pact. The Indo-Lanka Pact was signed in Colombo on July 29 1987, between late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayewardene. It was one of the conditions in […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ඊලාම් යුද්ධයේ දුර්විපාක සමාජය හඳුනාගන්නා කාලය තෙක් මනෝ විද්‍යාත්මක රෝගාබාධයක් වූ පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාවය (Post-traumatic stress disorder -PTSD)  ශ්‍රී ලාංකාවට ආගන්තුක රෝග තත්වයක් විය. වියට්නාම් යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව ඇමරිකානු සමාජය වියට්නාම් සින්ඩ්‍රෝමය හඳුනාගත්තාක් සේ ඊලාම් යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සමාජය පලාලි සින්ඩ්‍රෝමය හෙවත් සංග්‍රාමික පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාවය හඳුනා ගන්නා ලදි.  එහෙත් […]

Courtesy The Daily News India has said Europe must see not oil imports from Russia from a political lens. Speaking at Globsec 2022 Bratislava forum, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, We don’t send people to buy Russian oil, we send people to buy oil in the market, buy the best oil.” Jaishankar also highlighted […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් සෑම දිනකම මධ්‍යම රාත්‍රී 12.00  වන විට ත් පසු දින පාස්පෝට් පෝලිමට 350 කට වැඩි පිරිසක් එක්වේ.  මෙයට අමතරව 2000 කට වැඩි පිරිසක් කලින් වෙළාව වෙන් ගනිති. සේවා ලබා ගැනීමට පැමිණෙන ජනතාව මෙන්ම  පාස්පෝට් කාර්යාලයේ සේවකයින්ගෙන් ද මෙලෙස අමානුෂීය ලෙස වැඩ ගැනීම ජාත්‍යන්තරව පිළිගත් කම්කරු නීති, මානව හිමිකම් උල්ලංඝනය කිරීමකි. ආගමන හා […]

By KJM Varma Coutesy Rediff.com China on Wednesday praised India for making “great efforts” to help Colombo to tide over its worst financial crisis even as it refuted Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s remarks that Beijing has shifted its strategic focus from South Asia including Pakistan to South East Asia, saying the region still remained its […]

Courtesy Reliefweb Kuala Lumpur/Colombo, 8 June 2022 – The economic crisis in Sri Lanka is spiraling into a humanitarian emergency as millions of people face acute shortages of food, fuel, cooking gas and medicine, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) warned today. Responding to the unfolding emergency, the IFRC has launched an Emergency […]

Alasdair Pal and Devjyot Ghoshal, Reuters Courtesy Gulf Today It was the moment when two brothers who had dominated Sri Lanka’s politics for nearly 20 years finally went their separate ways. On May 9, when a crowd of ruling party supporters marched towards activists protesting against a crippling economic crisis, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered police to […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Intervention made by lawyer and fiscal officer in Aeroflot affair extraordinary. Justice, Prison Affairs, Constitutional Reforms Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa, PC, has warned that the abolition of the Executive Presidency hastily, will plunge the country into anarchy. The SLPP Colombo District MP said that as the Executive Presidential system […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While warning Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) trade unions not to go for a blackout, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today said he could not guarantee that India would help Sri Lanka to obtain fuel if they did so. The Prime Minister told Parliament that only India was helping Sri Lanka to purchase […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says he would do his utmost to secure the assistance of the International Monetary Fund for Sri Lanka by this September. The Sri Lankan Premier and Managing Director of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva have discussed the island nation’s current economic situation during a telephone conversation yesterday. The IMF chief […]

Courtesy Adaderana A Gazette Extraordinary has been issued declaring the supply of electricity an essential service effective from today (June 08). The communique was issued by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, by virtue of the powers vested in him in terms of Section 2 of the Essential Public Services Act, No. 61 of 1979.

Courtesy Adaderana China has been paying close attention to the current difficulties and challenges Sri Lanka faces and assisting the country within its capacity, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Wednesday. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the remarks at a daily news briefing when answering a relevant query. According to Zhao, China has announced emergency humanitarian […]

Courtesy Adaderana Business tycoon Dhammika Perera is tipped to enter the parliament through the National List of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), sources told Ada Derana. According to sources, Mr. Perera is also expected to take up a ministerial portfolio involving the investment sector. Reportedly, Mr. Perera will fill the National List parliamentary seat likely […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa has decided to step down from his parliamentary seat, political sources of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna told Ada Derana. According to sources, Basil Rajapaksa is expected to deliver a special statement in this regard tomorrow.