Courtesy The Daily Mirror In a significant development, the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong met his U.S. counterpart Julie Chung in Colombo on June 13 and held discussions on broad topics of mutual interest” and pledged support in helping the island nation mitigate its crippling economic crisis. Sri Lanka is currently facing its […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Pir-Hossein Kolivand, Head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has said that the society is ready to send medicine and physicians to Sri Lanka. Kolivand made the remarks in a meeting with the Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran G.M.V. Wishwanath Aponsu, noting that the IRCS, in […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is currently going through the worst economic crisis since gaining their independence in 1948 and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe believes that it is the fault of the previous governments and the politicians.  In an exclusive interview with WION’s Managing Editor Palki Sharma, Wickremesinghe called it a man-made economic crisis” and pointed […]

Courtesy Adaderana US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has agreed to assist Sri Lanka and to promote investment after the conclusion of the talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  This was during a phone conversation with Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today In a twitter message, the Prime Minister said that he […]

Courtesy Hiru News In an exclusive interview of Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe with Palki Sharma on WION’s Global Leadership, he said, this is the most challenging appointment I ever had and someone had to take up the challenge. Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that India helped the island nation way more than […]

Courtesy Hiru News On June 13, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung attended the signing ceremony for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Sri Lankan Department of Agriculture, for a $27 million project that aims to double the milk production of Sri Lankan dairy farmers participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food […]

Courtesy Hiru News CEB Chairman M.M.C. Ferdinando has tendered his resignation to the Minster which has been accepted. Vice Chairman Nalinda Ilangaokoon has been appointed as the New Chairman of CEB. MEANWHILE INDIAN MEDIA HAD REPORTED THE MATTER , the following is the NDTV report. In a spiraling controversy over an energy project contract in […]

Shenali D Waduge There was no term called Dravidian until a British missionary arriving in India in 1838 created it to serve several agendas of the Church. The next 40 years was spent in converting Hindu Tamils, promoting a fictitious history and setting natives against each other. Much of the conflicts, confusions and contradictions present […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. අපට වෙච්ච දේ !!! පියදාස සිරිසේන (1875-1946) මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ ගේ පාත් ෆයින්ඩර් පාරේ යමින්, MCC ට්‍රෝජන් අශ්වයා හරහා රට කැඩීමට දෙන්නට ගියේ ඩොලර් බිලියන් භාගයකටත් අඩු අල්ලසක් පමණය. ඒ වෙනුවට, UNO වල තමන්ගේම ටයිගර් කොඩිය සහිත ඊළම් රටක් පිහිටුවා ගැනීමට ලංකාවේ උතුර–නැඟෙනහිර පලාත් දෙක දීමට  කැමති වෙනවා නම්, ඒ සඳහා  සිංහල […]

Federation of  University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) Summary The political and economic crisis that the country has been facing for the past few months has intensified. The state’s attempt to suppress dissent has brought much violence and exacerbated the prevailing crisis. Following the events of May 9, when violence was unleashed on peaceful protestors leading to […]

MIKE WHITNEY Courtesy The Unz Review The ferocity of the confrontation in Ukraine shows that we’re talking about much more than the fate of the regime in Kiev. The architecture of the entire world order is at stake.” Sergei Naryshkin, Director of Foreign Intelligence Here’s your ‘reserve currency’ thought for the day: Every US dollar is […]

අචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර “අල්ලස් මුදලක් ඉල්ලා වරදකරු වී අධිකරණයෙන් දඩ ගැසුම් කා අත්හිටවූ සිර දඬුවම් ලැබූ පුද්ගලයෙකු ඉදිරියටත් රටේ නාගරික සංවර්ධන සහ නිවාස ඇමැතිකම් සේම පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ සංවිධායක ලෙස ද කටයුතු කරනු ඇත”! සිහි බුද්ධිය ඇති ජනතාවගේ (පක්ෂ වහලුන්ගේ නොවේ) බුද්ධියට නිගා දෙන, ඔවුන් සමච්චලයට ලක් කරන මෙවැනි ‘පාර්ලිමේන්තු ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී’ යයි  කියාගන්නා වෙනත් […]

Pathik Hasan, Dhaka, Bangladesh June 06, 2022 marked the fifty years of bilateral ties between Cambodia and Bangladesh. Cambodia established friendly relations with Bangladesh on June 06, 1972.  The bilateral relations were established in 1972 through the late King Sihanouk of Cambodia and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh. But full-fledged formal diplomatic relations between […]

Professor Dr. Bijaya Gouri Khanal. from Kathmandu, Nepal South Asian neighbors Bangladesh and Nepal share common regional platforms such as the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Nepal recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state in 1971 and the bondage between the […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) What does the Russian embassy say about the law in the aeroflot plane case which One in Sinhala and another in English? Что говорит российское посольство о законе в деле самолета Аэрофлота, один на сингальском, другой на английском? රුසියන් ගුවන් යානා තහනමේදී  සිංහලෙන් එකක් කියා ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් වෙන එකක් […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror It is over 50 days since the ‘GotaGoHome’ campaign kicked off. The campaign which started off as non violent protests by groups of residents in Colombo against the lack of fuel, cooking gas, shortages of medicinal needs and a skyrocketing cost of living.   The situation has become so desperate, hospitals have […]

Courtesy Wanderlust With over 2,500 years of recorded history, those in search of archaeological and cultural treasures in Sri Lanka soon learn the Pearl of the Indian Ocean more than lives up to its name. Get ready to experience Sri Lanka’s version of a full moon party,” warned Viraj, my story-loving guide, as we headed […]

Courtesy The Island First resigns from the boards of a clutch of quoted companies Mr. Dhammika Perera, who was widely tipped to enter Parliament on the SLPP National List, on Friday tendered is resignation from a clutch of public listed companies where he served as chairman or director – both executive and non-executive – with […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Walasmulla Magistrate on Thursday directed the Weeraketiya Police to launch an inquiry into the complaint that the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the Weeraketiya Police Kelum Sangeeth has received death threats warning him not to investigate the charges filed against SJB MP Dilip Wedaarachchi’s son and daughter-in-law.  Ravindu Wedaarachchi and his wife […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Daily Mirror journalist Jamila Husain was threatened by a group of protestors at the protest in front of SLPP MP Dhammika Perera’s house today morning, obstructing the journalist from carrying out her duties. Some of the individuals who had joined in the protest had approached the journalist while she was on […]

Courtesy Adaderana Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday hit out at the Modi government over its alleged interference in a Sri Lanka Power Project. Taking to his official Twitter handle, Gandhi said, BJP’s cronyism has now crossed Palk Strait and moved into Sri Lanka.” Along with his tweet, he shared a report where […]

Courtesy Hiru News COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Sri Lanka may be compelled to buy more Russian oil as fuel runs low amid its worst economic crisis, PM tells the AP. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he would first look to other sources, but would be open to buying more crude from Moscow. Western nations largely […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera says that they will start a process to acquire all paddy lands that have not been cultivated and abandoned.  These lands will be acquired for a period of 5 years in order to cultivate suitable food crops.

Shenali D Waduge Colonization was when people were sent to occupy territories and claim them as their own drawing artificial borders and christening them with artificial names. Neo-colonialism prevailed using international systems created by the colonials. Digital colonization is when multinational tech companies extract, analyze and own user data & then claim to bring laws […]

Vichara There was tremendous excitement and expectation in the country when Aragalaya appeared in Galle Face. Artists and media fantasized about it. Intellectuals romanticized it and read into the Aragalaya lofty ideals of systems change, ensure accountability, and bring forth an ideal democracy of the people and for the people of Sri Lanka. Even Professor […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Why did the attackers not attack the President’s residence in Mirihana, asked Shenali Waduge, though the residences of Mahinda Rajapakse in Tangalle, Medamulana, Carlton House & Kurunegala were burnt down as well as the monument to his father. The attackers were very selective when it came to burning houses. Houses of SJB and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The south was the most affected when MPs houses were burnt.  In Galle there was a series of attacks on the houses of the former Ministers, Members of Parliament and the government supporters including a number of heads of Local Government Institutions. Former Minister Ramesh Pathirana’s house in Kithulampitiya, Galle was set on […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS From May 9th and May 14, 2022 the houses of nearly 80 MPs,  of which 74 were Pohottu MPs were burnt down.  Houses of some Pradeshiya Sabha and Provincial Council members were also burnt. The activity started around 5.00 p.m. on May 9th, on the same day that the Galle Face protestors were […]

Courtesy Outlook Sri Lanka’s fuel purchases have been totally dependent on the ILC(Indian Line of Credit) – a USD 500 million credit line initially which was supplemented with another USD 200 million later. The last of the fuel shipments due under the Indian Line of Credit are arriving in Sri Lanka this month with no […]

Courtesy  Mizzima The United Nations warns that Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis could develop into a dire humanitarian crisis, with millions already in need of aid.