KAMALIKA PIERIS Sarath Fonseka is credited with two achievements relating to the Eelam war. Firstly he single handedly, opposed the Ceasefire Agreement of 2002 (CFA) and secondly he played a major role in winning Eelam War IV. Fonseka had strongly opposed the Ceasefire Agreement. He was the only officer who had the guts to publicly […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Fonseka went in for self promotion once the war ended. DBS Jeyaraj observed that on July 9 2009, Fonseka spoke at a book launch about the war, in which he heaped compliments upon himself lavishly. Token lip service was paid to the President’s role. Gotabaya was virtually ignored. According to Sarath he and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Due to the much publicized animosity between the Army commander  Sarath Fonseka and the   head of the Navy,  Wasantha Karannagoda,  relations between navy and army was strained  during Eelam war IV .Officers in the army knew this and were wary and guarded in their actions, said Kamal Gunaratne . The animosity between the […]

Malinda Seneviratne Sometime in the year 1992, an Economics student at the University of Peradeniya confessed confusion over a comment by Dr S B De Silva regarding multinational corporations. Apparently he didn’t have an issue with MNCs and the student had been shocked. Elaboration cleared it all up. What he had meant was that it […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් ඇමරිකාණු තුවක්කු අයිතිය ලිඛිත ව්යවස්ථාවෙන් protected ය. කාන්තා අයිතීන්  එහෙම රකින්නට ව්යවස්ථාවේ ලියවී නැත. එබැවින් පහුගියදා ඇමෙරිකානු මහ උසාවිය කාන්තාවන්ගේ ගබ්සා කර ගැනීමේ අයිතිය උදුරා දමන්නට තීන්දු කළේය. ජේන් ෆෝන්ඩා කාන්තා සිරුර AK-47 හැටියට නිර්වචනය කරන කාලය ඇවිත් බව මතක් කරන්නේ එවිට ව්යවස්ථානුකුලව රැකවරණය ලබන්නට හැකි බව පෙන්වා දෙමින්ය. ඒ අදහසත් එක අතකට […]

ALI SUKHANVER From Nepal to Pakistan and from Sri Lanka to India, the South-Asian region is no doubt a paradise on earth, blessed with a lot of scenic beauty, mystic serenity and natural sublimity. Most of the people belonging to this region have hearts enriched with love, kindness and sympathy for the whole humanity. Though […]

Courtesy The Daily Star Sri Lanka should stamp out corruption and substantially raise taxes to rescue its economy, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday after bailout talks with the bankrupt island nation. Representatives from the global lender of last resort have just concluded a 10-day visit to the capital Colombo to map out a resolution […]

By Hussein Askary Courtesy The Global Times The global inflationary crisis in 2021 and more dramatically in 2022 triggered a Sri Lankan default on payment of $78 million in matured foreign bonds in April 2022. On May 18, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka declared that the country was in a preemptive default status. Political […]

by Melani Manel Perera Courtesy Asia News Due to the situation, many Sri Lankans can no longer afford even one meal a day. Between 600 and 700 people show up at the community kitchen run by Rev Geeth Chamara De Silva. Talks for a credit line continue between Sri Lanka and the International Monetary Fund. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The talks with Sri Lankan authorities made significant progress” on defining a macroeconomic and structural policy package, the mission team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a statement issued upon concluding its visit to the island nation. An IMF mission team led by Peter Breuer and Masahiro Nozaki visited Colombo from June 20 […]

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe instructed the officials to include the Samagi Janabalawegaya and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in the Cultivation program launched by the government to overcome the food crisis. This was when the Committee on Food Security met today under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister

Dr Sarath Obeysekera News below where ex minister talks about India invading Sri Lanka ? Shouldn’t they talk about Malik giving Hambantota on a platter to Chinese ? We should be happy that Trinco will be developed by our Neighbour Do w  ex have any other option ? රටේ සියලු වැදගත් දේ ක්‍රමයෙන් ඉන්දියාව සතු […]

Priyantha Hettige Courtesy The Island Lawyer and ex-KGB officer, Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, has pulled together the countries of the Russian Federation after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1979 -1980. He has helped them regain their prosperity. After the fall of Communism, Russia was in the mud, weak and anyone […]