Shenali D Waduge The reason US invaded countries of Latin America for 39 years was bananas. However, the Nicaraguan operation was different. US was involved in 2 covert operations in Nicaragua & Iran (1984-1987) The 1stoperation was to use a Honduran rebel group called Contras against the Nicaraguan Government of Sandinista. The 2nd covert operation was […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS According to the general understanding, the government sector and the private sector are equally responsible for the management of the economy, however, since the 1956 election, the responsibility of the management of the economy was unequally transferred to the public sector and this process was incurred by the nationalization of private enterprises, […]

Shenali Waduge  The Decision Review System known as UDRS or DRS or the Player Referral concept is in vogue not only in cricket but in many other sports activities where the Third Umpire plays the role of an Appeal Judge. Who came up with this concept & when is a question the International Cricket Committee […]

Gamini Sarath Godakanda Sri Lanka and India agreed to explore further avenues towards greater cooperation in the food processing and dairy sectors, when Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda met with India’s Minister of Food Processing Industries Shri  Pashupati Kumar Paras today (01 July) in New Delhi. At the outset, Minister Paras accorded […]

Lanka Lead News මේ දිනවල කටාරයේ සංචාරයක නිරත වන විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍ය කාන්චන විජේසේකර මහතා ඊයේ(30) දිනයේ දී කටාර් චැරිටි සංවිධානයේ නියෝජිතයන් මුණ ගැසී කළ සාකච්ඡාවක් අතර තුර අදාල සංවිධානයට එරෙහිව ලංකාව පනවා ඇති තහනම ඉවත් කිරීමට තීරණය කර තිබෙන බව එම නියෝජිතයන්ට දැනුම් දී ඇති බව වාර්තාවේ. මත භේදයට තුඩු දුන් කටාර් චැරිටි […]

Lanka Lead News කැමැත්ත නොමැතිව ගැබිනි මවුවරුන්‌ වඳ භාවයට පත්‌ කිරීම හා ඒ සඳහා පෙළඹවීම ඇතුළු චෝදනා එල්ල වී ඇති වෛද්‍ය සෙයිගු සිහබ්ඳදීන්‌ මොහොමඩ්‌ සාෆි නමැත්තා තම අධිකරණය විසින්‌ නිදොස්‌ කොට නිදහස්‌ කර ඇති බවට මාධ්‍ය මගින්‌ අසත්‍ය ප්‍රවෘත්ති පළ කර ඇති බව ‘සනාථ කිරීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය සාක්ෂි අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත්‌ කරන ලෙස කුරුණෑගල මහෙස්ත්‍රාත්‌ බන්දුල […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo July 1 (Counterpoint): The Gazetted draft of the 22 nd. Amendment (22A) of the Sri Lankan constitution, which will be presented to parliament in the coming week, is a compromise between the interests of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. It is also designed to maintain the stability […]

Sri Lankans have taken to the streets over an acute shortage of essentials including food, fuel and medicines – Copyright AFP – Sri Lanka’s inflation hit a ninth consecutive record in June, official data showed Friday, rising to 54.6 percent a day after the IMF asked the bankrupt nation to rein in galloping prices and […]

Courtesy BBC Being the first in the queue is usually a coveted spot, but Ajeewan Sadasivam has no idea how long he’ll be stuck in this one. “I’ve been in line for two days already,” he says, as he waits patiently outside a petrol station in the capital Colombo. As a taxi driver, fuel is […]

Courtesy The Statesman MF has clearly mentioned that Sri Lanka needs to first reduce the prevalent corruption conditions and overhaul the taxation structure. Sri Lanka Economic Crises: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) shared its end-of-mission report on Thursday and highlighted the ‘corruption vulnerabilities’ in Sri Lanka. The IMF personnel had conducted a study after visiting Sri […]

Courtesy The Island AG, CJ asked to take action against lawyer for triggering violence The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has declared that a false allegation by President of the Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners (CPRP) Attorney-at-Law Senaka Perera that some prisoners were used to attack anti-government protesters outside Temple Trees and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Chief Incumbents of the four Buddhist Chapters have written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, stressing 10 matters, including the creation of economic stability and provision of relief to the people. In their statement, the chief prelates said the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution should be passed in the parliament without delay. They also […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Embassy of Japan in Colombo today (July 01) categorically denied a media report which stated that Japan would not support Sri Lanka at the moment due to mismanagement of funds. According to an article published by a local newspaper, the Ambassador of Japan to Sri Lanka reportedly mentioned this during a meeting […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka was always sitting on a time bomb. Our expenses were higher than our income/revenues, our imports were higher than our exports, we were living a superficial life on loans, taking more loans to settle loans and even loans to continue our lifestyle – it was only a matter of time […]