By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy Newsin.asia Colombo, July 27 (newsin.asia): The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung and the Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe met here on Wednesday and pledged to cooperate for Sri Lanka’s better future”. The relations between the two had a rocky start with Ambassador Chung’s tweets on the way Wickremesinghe handled the protesters […]

Courtesy Lankacnews ජනාධිපති මන්දිරය ඇතුළු පරිපාලන මර්මස්ථානවල තිබී හඳුනා ගැනෙන ඇඟිලි සලකුණු ගුවන්තොටුපොළ වෙත යැවූ පසු ඒවායේ හිමිකරුවන් කිසිවකුටත් රටින් පිටව යෑමට හැකියාව නොලැබෙන බව හිටපු මහජන ආරක්ෂක ඇමැති රියර් අද්මිරාල් (විශ්‍රාමික) ආචාර්ය සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. යම් කිසි හේතුවකින් ඔවුන් වරදකරුවන් වුව හොත් පොලිස් වාර්තාවක්වත් ලබා ගැනීමට ඉඩ නොලැබෙන බව පැවසූ වීරසේකර මහතා […]

Courtesy lankacnews පසුගිය 13 වැනිදා ඔහු පාර්ලිමේන්තුව අසල පොල්දුව මංසන්ධියෙහි විරෝධතාවය ආරම්භ කළේ තමන් නොව ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ විසින් බව සමාජ ක්‍රියාකාරී පැතුම් කර්නර් සඳහන් කරයි. බිමල් රත්නායක, සුනිල් හඳුන්නෙත්ති, ලාල්කාන්ත එම ස්ථානයට පිරිස් ගැන කැදවූ බවත් පැවසූ ඔහු තමන් එම ස්ථානයට ගියේ එහි පැමිණි ජනතාවගේ සහයට බවද කියා සිටියේය. එම සිදුවීමට අදාළව ප්‍රකාශයක් ලබා […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) has arrested social media activist Pathum Kerner in connection with the violent incidents during a protest at Polduwa Junction near Parliament on July 13 Earlier, the Police obtained a foreign travel ban against Kerner, who allegedly led the protesters to break the barricade at the Polduwa […]

Courtesy The Hindu The arrival of the vessel, Yuan Wang 5, was highlighted by Belt & Road Initiative Sri Lanka, a Colombo-based organisation studying China’s ambitious connectivity project.  Photo: brisl.org Reports say it will enter Hambantota in August; India says it is monitoring the ship’s progress ‘carefully’ Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry on Thursday denied reports that […]

Courtesy The Telegraph  Chinese projects have boosted country’s economic development, and brought tangible benefits to its people: Zhao Lijian. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian. China on Thursday defended its massive infrastructure ventures and investments in Sri Lanka and said that they have boosted” its economic development, amid criticism from the US that Beijing’s unproductive […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka hopes to conclude discussions with China soon” on a $4 billion aid package, the country’s ambassador to Beijing told Nikkei Asia. Ambassador Palitha Kohona said in an email that talks were progressing. We hope that these discussions could be concluded soon, as a positive outcome would definitely assist Sri Lanka to reestablish […]

Courtesy Adaderana Opaque” loans for headline-grabbing” infrastructure projects, were among the factors behind the current crisis that has engulfed Sri Lanka, said Samantha Power, Administrator, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on Wednesday.  Delivering a speech at the IIT-Delhi, Ms. Power praised India’s swift” action in response to the emergency in Sri Lanka and […]

Courtesy Hiru News An overseas travel ban has been imposed on 21 persons including Dhaniz Ali by the Fort Magistrate’s court

Courtesy Hiru News Anthony Veranga Pushpika de Silva, the convenor of the Ruhuna University Students union arrested by the police on charges of holding protests in violation of court orders and damaging public property has been remanded until 9th August.