Sri Lanka News An Analysis of the Pandora Papers and the Claims of International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) as well as the Anonymous Hacker Group. The Present Crisis in Sri Lanka: 2022• Sri Lankans revolted when the Sri Lankan economy defaulted in May 2022 for the firsttime leading to severe fuel shortages, power-cuts etc.• […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Part one of this article focused on several significant points that have been developed in the country since the colonial era that are vital to understanding the background for reforms needed in the country. The working knowledge of English is essential to reduce the population of the country as a strategy to […]

Sugath Kulattunga It is sad to see the long never-ending queues for fuel and gas. Already the queues have claimed 25 lives. There is no light at the end of the tunnel that the supplies of gas and fuel would improve in the near future. The lost to the economy in the impact of the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Initially, there was much sympathy for JVP in villages, said Rohan Gunaratna. Many people had genuine sympathy for JVP because they too when they were young, had experienced the frustrations articulated by JVP.  The lower and lower middle class thought JVP offered a better alternative to UNP and SLFP. They had high expectations […]

කීර්ති හේවාගොඩ බලංගොඩ ප්‍රදේශයේ කූරගල පර්වතය ට බද්ධව පිහිටා ඇති රජවක වන රක්ෂිතය ජෛව විවිධත්වයෙන් පොහොසත්  සහ ජල පෝෂක වටිනාකමින් යුත් වන භූමියකි.  වර්ග කිලෝමීටර 26.33 ක වපරිසරයක ආවරණය කරන මේ රජවක වනාන්තරය සමනල වැව ජලාශයේ ප්‍රධාන ජල පෝෂකය ලෙස හදුනාගෙන තිබේ. රජවක වනාන්තරයේ අතිශය වැදගත් කම නිසාම අංක 1577/5 දරණ ගැසට් පත්‍රය මගින් වර්ෂ […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS University of Peradeniya was the one of the main centers of JVP activity,  in the 1987 insurgency. It was the epi-center of JVP activity in 1989. Some members of University minor staff and University security were in the JVP military wing. Instructions for prison attack and central command attack in Kandy were issued […]

Prof. Hudson McLean During the Collapse of the Circus, the Clown or the Joker becomes the King!   BUT – Sri Lanka Has Talent! —-  Read Below! “President Wickremesinghe in a light tone asked some of the diplomats if protestors could illegally occupy the President’s Office in their respective countries” This is proof that Ranil Wickremasinghe […]

Lanka Lead News ලෝක සිතියමෙි ලිබියානු රට පිහිටා ඇත්තේ අප්‍රිකානු මහද්වීපයේ වන අතර ඉතාම දිළිඳු රටක් ලෙසින් 1969 ට පෙර පැවත ඇත.ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය ප්‍රමුඛ බටහිර රටවල්වලට යටත් රූකඩ ආණ්ඩුවක් එහි පැවතිනි.රාජාණ්ඩුවක්ව පැවති ලිබියාවෙි පාලකයා ලෙස කටයුතු කලේ ඉන්ද්‍රිස් නැමති නායකයාය.රට තුල පැවති ඇතැමි ඛනිජ සමිපත් බ්‍රිතාන්‍යන් ඇතුළු බටහිර තමන්ට රිසි සේ සූරා කමින් පැවතුණි […]

New Zealand Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights (SPUR NZ) New Zealand Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights (SPUR NZ) in a letter addressed to key Sri Lankan Ministers has condemned the recent actions taken to silence the voice of the youth of Sri Lanka. Our motherland, with a long established culture that […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 27 (newsin.asia): In his interaction with foreign diplomats last week, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe addressed their concerns about the application of force to oust protesters from the Presidential Secretariat on the night of July 21-22.   The US Ambassador, Julie Chung, had tweeted saying that she met President […]

Courtesy CGTN The Sri Lankan Supreme Court has summoned former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appear in court on August 1 to make submissions in response to applications calling for an investigation against those responsible for leading the country and the people into bankruptcy, local media reported on Wednesday. Rajapaksa fled his crisis-ridden country to Singapore […]

By Gagani Weerakoon Courtesy Ceylon Today Independent MP Wimal Weerawansa yesterday (27) said in Parliament that there is a conspiracy to take the State towards anarchy in the guise of ‘Aragalaya’ and that attempt should be defeated. Weerawansa made this remark during the debate on Emergency Regulations. The country has reached to a critical junction […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Claiming that the protesters who are engaged in the struggle are attempting to destroy the State tactfully with the backing of external forces, Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa today said such moves should be defeated. Speaking at the emergency debate, he told Parliament that they would vote in favour of the proclamation of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror he Police released a set of photographs of a group of suspects wanted over the incident of setting fire to President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s private residence in Colombo on July 9. Police said the investigations into the arson attack on the President’s private residence was being carried out by the Criminal Investigations […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror An activist of the Inter-University Students Union and the ‘GotaGoGama’, Anthony Veranga Pushpika has been arrested by the Colombo South Divisional Crime Detective Bureau (DCDB) today in connection with causing damages to public property during a recent protest near the Police Headquarters. It was reported on social media that the activist […]

Courtesy Adaderana Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Sri Lanka should kick off debt restructuring talks with its bilateral lender China, while the island state’s government seeks a financing loan from the Washington-based fund. China is a big creditor, and Sri Lanka has to engage proactively with it on a debt restructuring,” Krishna […]

Courtesy Adaderana Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage has ordered to further remand the 04 suspects who had been arrested on suspicion over the incident of setting fire to President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s private residence, until the August 10. When the case was called before the Court today (27), the magistrate has also granted permission to name […]

Courtesy Adaderana Dhaniz Ali, the man who was arrested last night while trying to leave for Dubai on a flight from the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) has been remanded until the 05th of August. He was produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court earlier today. The 31-year-old, a resident of Webada in Kurunegala, was taken […]

Courtesy Adaderana Proclamation on the state of emergency declared by the then Acting President under the Public Security Ordinance approved in Parliament of Sri Lanka by majority vote. The Proclamation on the state of emergency declared by then Acting President under the Public Security Ordinance was approved in Parliament today (27) by a majority of […]