Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake A shortage of exorbitantly privileged American Dollars, the global reserve fiat currency, which is not backed by gold, silver, oil or drugs, is the purported reason for Sri Lanka’s compounding crisis and the international media narrative of ‘famine’ in the country. The financial crisis that has brought the strategic Indian Ocean island […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS When two people get together there is a question that each other ask. The question is what actions by the government would take against the Rajapaksa regime? Many information published on social media may not be true and it would be a willful fabrication. But, Sri Lankans believe that no smoke could […]

දෙශාභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න සෙන්කඩගල සිංහ ද්වාරයේ සිට බල්ලෙක් බවු වවු ගෑවේය. මැදියම් රැයේ එම අශික්කිත ශබ්ද්දය ඇසුණු මම පොඩ්ඩක් බයවුනි ඒ ඇයි කිවහොත් අර කාන්තිමත් පෙනුමක් ඇති හිනිනෙන් දුටු ලාල් අය්යාගේ ගොලයෙකුවත් මේ රෑවෙලා ගෙවල් පැත්තෙවත් කැරකෙනවද මන්දෑ කියාය. ගෝටා ගෝ හෝම් මල්ලිලා අයියලා රටටම දවල් තරු පෙන්න ගහපු ගැහිල්ල මතක් […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera During the reign of Brezhnev in Soviet Union a currency called valid roubles” was introduced by Russian government  All foreign embassy staff and foreign Employees in Soviet Union were given a quota of a printed note called Valid Roubles ( vlutnaya rublaya) and the government established special shops in the city These shops […]

ම. ප. තමීර මංජු, මව්රට ප්‍රධාන කර්තෘ සහ ප්‍රකාශක, මව්රට පුවත්පත සහ මව්රට වෙබ් අඩවිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අමාත්‍ය මනූෂ නානයක්කාර මහතා අද (05) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී සිදු කළ ප්‍රකාශය සම්පූර්ණයෙන් ම  ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කෙරේ. මව්රට පුවත්පත සහ මව්රට වෙබ් අඩවිය ස්වාධීන මාධ්‍ය ආයතනයකි. ‘සමඟි ජන බල වේගය’ දේශපාලන පක්ෂයට හෝ එම දේශපාලන පක්ෂය හා බැඳුණු පාර්ශ්වයකට මව්රට පුවත්mතේ […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ Sadly, much of the loss of confidence in Sri Lanka today , at the heart of it’ current misery ,  is the consequence of well organised, well funded and well orchestrated propaganda specifically designed to achieve Loss of Confidence In Sri Lanka , among expatriate workers and international community […]

By Dr. Tilak S Fernando  Minister of Tourism Harin Fernando appointed Priantha Fernando as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTB). Priantha Fernando is a professional with many years of experience. He qualified for an M.Sc. in tourism at the University of Surrey. Also, he gained experience in Hotel Management and Tourism […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The late Gomin Dayasri declared he didn’t want to be a President’s Counsel. Appearing on Sirasa Pathikada, the outspoken lawyer said that there was no point in requesting such a title. Dayasri said so during a conversation with the late Bandula Jayasekera, who invited him on several occasions. Dayasri […]

ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ විපක්ෂයේ සිටියත් තමන් ඇතුළු ස්වාධීන පක්ෂ එකමුතුවේ නායකයන් විදේශ රාජ්‍යයන් කිහිපයක් සමග සාකච්ඡා කරමින් තෙල්, ගෑස්, ගල් අඟුරු හා පොහොර ලබා ගැනීම පිළිබඳ අර්බුදයන්ට විසඳුම් ලබාදීමේ දැවැන්ත මෙහෙයුමක නිරතව සිටින බවත් ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්‍රතිචාරය අයහපත් නොවුණහොත් එම උත්සාහය තව දින කිහිපයකින් සාර්ථක වනු ඇති බවත් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, හිටපු අමාත්‍ය විමල් වීරවංශ […]

Courtesy The Points Guy The British government has again warned against all but essential travel to Sri Lanka as the island nation plunges deeper into economic turmoil. Hours later, as tour operators scrambled to respond to the country’s worsening situation, Tui became the first to cancel all holidays to Sri Lanka until 18 July. Britain’s […]

Interfax MOSCOW. July 6 (Interfax) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has called Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone, the Kremlin press service said on Wednesday. “Current aspects of bilateral trade and economic cooperation, including energy, agriculture and transport, have been discussed,” the press service said. In the context of the 65th anniversary of […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should step down from his Finance Minister portfolio, Minister Dhammika Perera says. The parliamentarian told a media briefing today that Sri Lanka’s finance minister plans for disaster.” The finance minister has no plans to resolve the current dollar crisis in the country, he continued, explaining that all of Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sought an offer of credit support from Russian President Vladimir Putin to import fuel to Sri Lanka to ride out the current economic challenges. Taking to his official Twitter account, the Head of State said he had a very productive telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart today (July 06). […]