Courtesy The Daily Mirror Claiming that fuel can be purchased from Russia 35% lesser than the normal global market price, Parliamentarian Vasudeva Nanayakkara today urged the government to take steps to get down fuel from Russia. He told Parliament that India, Singapore and Thailand are buying fuel from Russia. MP Nanayakkara said the Russian Envoy […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should give credit to me as he was able to become the premier of this country because of him, SJB MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said today. He told Parliament that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called him hours before Mr. Wickremesinghe was sworn in and wanted him to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The next three weeks will be tough for Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today (June 07), urging the general public to use fuel and liquefied petroleum (LP) gas sparingly. Delivering a special statement in the parliament this morning, the Premier stressed the need to limit unessential travel for the time being […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Fiscal Officer of the Colombo Commercial High Court, who implemented the court order for the detention of the Russian Aeroflot flight at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), has been interdicted for over-riding his official duties.  The Ministry of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms said it has taken steps to suspend the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Countries around the world are facing recession as the Ukraine war hits economies already rocked by the Covid pandemic, the World Bank has warned. Less developed countries in Europe and east Asia face a major recession”, it said. The risk of high inflation and low growth – so-called stagflation” – is also higher, […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”  Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States The Prime Minister has been as frank as he could be about […]

Garvin Karunaratne, former GA Matara Dollars are sold to the highest bidder to keep on importing Luxury goods while refusing $ for food and medicines” reveals what is really happening today. In reality today dollars do come in to the banks and to the private currency dealers and the bank are charged with handing over […]

Editorial  June 6th 2022 The wise seers whose wisdom always prevails comprising mostly of past leaders political analysts of repute and intellectuals are of one mind that things go from bad to worse in Sri Lanka today on an almost continuous basis and perhaps it is, with all due respect to the true media ( […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 6: With the Colombo Commercial High Court issuing an order for the immediate suspension of it’s injunction against an aircraft belonging to Russia’s Aeroflot Airlines, the aircraft took off for Moscow with 191 passengers on Monday after a five-day detention which soured Russo-Lankan ties.   With the release of […]

Manusha Media විදේශ රැකියා අපේක්ෂිත රාජ්‍ය සේවකයින්ගේ තොරතුරු විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශයට ලබාදෙන්න – කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාරගෙන් රාජ්‍ය සේවකයින්ට පණිවුඩයක් විදේශ රැකියා සදහා පිටත්වයාමේ අපේක්ෂාවෙන් පසුවන රාජ්‍ය සේවකයින්ට ශ්‍රී ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශයේ ලියාපදිංචිවීමට අවස්ථාව ලබාදී ඇති බවත්, කාර්යාංශයේ වෙබ් අඩවියට පිවිස තමන්ගේ තොරතුරු ඇතුළත් කිරීමට හැකි බවත් කම්කරු සහ […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) (අධිකරණයේ ස්වාධීනත්වය, නීතියේ පාලනය, අපක්ෂපාතීත්වය, විවෘතභාවය, වගවීම, යහපාලනය ගැන වර්තමානයේ විද්වත් සාකච්ඡාවක් ආරම්භ වී ඇත. මෙම කෙටි ලිපිය ලියවී ඇත්තේ ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් නීතීඥ සංගමයේ සභාපතිවරයා සම්බන්ධයෙන්  සිඳුවිය යුතු නීති සංශෝධන වෙනුවෙනි.මෙය සභාපතිධූරයට පත්වීමට පෙර තමන් පෙනීසිටීමට බාරගෙන ඇති නඩු කටයුතුවලට අදාල නොවේ.) 1. සබඳතා අතර ගැටුම් අවම කිරීමට. […]

John Rozario Karnataka, India Sri Lanka’s prime minister has warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a devastating economic crisis and promises to buy enough fertiliser for the next planting season to boost harvests. Sri Lanka is appealing for food assistance from its neighbours as the country’s debt crisis spirals into a […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS As predicted, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has succeeded in re-establishing the pro-US Yahapalana government. The ‘Yahapalana 2’ puppet government  is now in progress, with Ranil Wickremesinghe back again  as Prime Minister, Gotabaya Rajapaksa  replacing Maitripala Sirisena  as President and Basil Rajapaksa as the key   strategist. Mahinda Rajapaksa is out once again. It is important […]

By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 6 (newsin.asia): There have been much commentary in the media about the recent statement in Parliament by former minister Chamal Rajapaksa who opined that his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa should have retired from politics at the end of his second term as executive president. Mahinda’s second term was to […]

Courtesy The Daily News The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) has presented a short, medium and long-term tourism revival plan leading up to March 2023 in a bid to attract 800,000 to 850,000 tourists this year, focusing on key source markets through joint promotional efforts SLTDA, Chairman Priyantha Fernando told the Annual General Meeting […]

By Shivanthi ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today One would assume that by definition the privileged in any society would be refined, sophisticated, educated, proper and idealistic. In a scale of one to ten, the hardships encountered by this segment compared to the underprivileged would be zero. While the underprivileged would have to fight for every half […]

By P.k. Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today The UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe replaced Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister, and Basil, Chamal, Namal and Sasheendra Rajapaksa quit from the Council of Ministers. But on the other hand, Gotabaya Rajapaksa remained Executive President retaining the humongous powers of his office.  Therefore, what Sri Lanka got as the result […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa, MP, has issued a dire warning to the government over the unprecedented detention of an Aeroflot flight under controversial circumstances. The former Industries Minister has asked whether the three branches of government are working together to further worsen the crisis by antagonising […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Gotabaya Rajapaksa vowed to finish the remaining two years in his term despite monthslong street protests calling for his ouster, but won’t stand for re-election as he focuses on fixing a financial mess that tipped Sri Lanka into its worst-ever economic crisis. I can’t go as a failed president,” Rajapaksa […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister Prasanna Ranatunga has been sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment suspended for a period of five years by the Colombo High Court in the case filed against him over the Meethotamulla land dispute.  Meanwhile the minister was also imposed a fine of Rs. 25 million by the Colombo High Court, which laos […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa vowed to finish the remaining two years in his term despite monthslong street protests calling for his ouster, but won’t stand for re-election as he focuses on fixing a financial mess that tipped Sri Lanka into its worst-ever economic crisis. I can’t go as a failed president,” Rajapaksa said Monday […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Aeroflot airlines aircraft which had been detained at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake, has departed for Moscow a short while ago following the suspension of the court order. Aeroflot Airlines Airbus A330-300 flight SU-289 departed BIA at around 6.00 p.m. this evening along with its crew members, Ada Derana reporter […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Maithripala Sirisena says he is deeply saddened by the actions of the present government that threaten Sri Lanka’s deep-rooted historical relationship with Russia. The leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) was referring to the recent diplomatic row between the two nations over the Aeroflot flight detained at BIA in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Commercial High Court has issued an order for the immediate suspension of the injunction order issued against the aircraft belonging to Russia’s Aeroflot Airlines, which has been detained at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA).  On Thursday (June 02), the Commercial High Court of the Western Province issued an Enjoining Order on […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. ‘නීතිය (ව්‍යවස්ථාව) කියන්නේ අකුරු ගොඩක් !’ – ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හිමි හැඳින්වීම මෙය ලංකාවේ සිංහල කතාකරණ ජනතාව දැනුවත් කරණු පිණිස මා විසින් ලියනලද ලිපි පෙලේ අටවන කොටසය. මෙම ලිපිවල කිසියම් හෝ අසත්‍ය කරුණක් නොලියන්නට මම වගබලා ගත්තෙමි. අලි-මිනිස් ගැටුම, රටේ ගොවි ජනතාවගේ පෝර ප්‍රශ්ණය,  මාක්ස්වාදී ස්ටාලින්ලා ගෙනා ගුරුවරුන්ගේ වැඩවර්ජන, යනාදිය මඟින් ක්‍රමයෙන් […]

By Uditha Devapriya Courtesy The Island The world will not help Sri Lanka unless the Sri Lankan government restores some measure of stability. The world does not care who is at the helm. The IMF and the World Bank don’t want personalities; they want plans. Whether it’s a Wickremesinghe or a Rajapaksa calling the shots, […]

T. M. R. Rasseedin General Secretary, Ceylon Federation of Labour (CFL) Member of Parliament Dr. Harsha de Silva in several talk shows over the electronic media persists in spreading a canard that Dr. N. M. Perera was the first to seek the assistance of the IMF for Sri Lanka. Nothing is further from truth than […]

Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, during a meeting with representatives from the Joint Chambers of Commerce on Thursday, explained that the Government was targeting USD five billion for repayments and USD 1 billion to bolster the country’s reserves. During the meeting, Wickremesinghe elaborated that discussions with the International Monetary Fund are proceeding and […]

Courtesy NDTV Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe spoke to NDTV on the present situation in the island nation and also thanked India for its support during the time of crisis. https://www.ndtv.com/video/exclusive/news/world-exclusive-ranil-wickremesinghe-sri-lanka-pm-speaks-to-ndtv-636232 New Delhi:  Sri Lanka is grappling with its worst financial crisis in over seven decades with a severe foreign exchange shortage that has […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අපි ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ආවෙ දින 14 ක සංචාරයක් සදහා. අපි මේ වෙනකොට හිටියෙ හික්කඩුවෙ. හදිසියේම ඇති වූ මේ තත්වය නිසා අපට රුසියානු රජය දැනුම් දුන්නා , සංචාරය අත්හිටුවා ආපසු පැමිණෙන ලෙස. ඒ අනුව දින 14 ක සංචාරය දින 07 කින් නිමා කරල ආපසු රුසියාව බලා යෑමට , මෙම රුසියානු එරොෆ්ලොට් […]