By Garvin Karunaratne If President Gotabhaya had taken action on the suggestions in my  Paper: The Way Out of the Economic Abyss besetting Sri Lanka published in the Lanka Web on 11 th March 2022, he would not be in the present plight. Our country would also have been saved from its present disastrous situation. […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D  හැඳින්වීම 2017 දී මුලින් ලියන ලද කළුකොඳයාවේ ප්‍රඥාශෙඛර මහනාහිමියන්ගේ ජාතික මෙහවර යන ලිපිය මීට පෙර දෙවතාවක්ම ලංකාවෙබ් වෙබ් අඩවියේ පලවිය. ඒ අවස්ථා දෙකේදී ලියු හැඳින්වීම් මෙම රචනාව ආරම්භයේ කොපිකර ඇත. මෙය නැවත වතාවක් රටවැසියා  විසින් කියවිය යුතුයයි සිතෙන්නේ, කාලෝචිත වන්නේ, කරුණු කීපයක්ම නිසාය. *(1) <ගෝල්පේස් ගෝ-හෝම් විකාරයට> මේ වනවිට සරත් ෆොන්සේකාද […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් ’60 ’70 ’80 ගණන් වල අපි නෑවේ සීතල වතුරය. කන්දෙන් ලන්දෙන් වැස්සෙන්  ලිඳෙන්, ඇලෙන්  ගලා ආ වතුරය. මුලින් දැනුන තද හීතල ටික වෙලාවක් ගියාම දැනෙන්නේ නැත, සුන්දර වතුර ටිකය මරුය. ජර්මනිය ළඟදී සීතල වතුරෙන් නාන්නට පටන් ගෙනය, ආලෝකමත් කර තිබු විශේෂ ස්ථාන කළුවරට, හඳපානට බාර දීලාය මේවා “තිරසාර දියුණුවේ” ලක්ෂණ වෙන්නට පටන් ගෙනය,  […]

Senaka Weeraratna A critical comment Japanese leaders have unfortunately paid the supreme penalty for their defiance of the West. They were brought before Tribunals which in the words of their own American judges were nothing but ‘ high grade lynch mobs’. In a sense, these Tribunals were nothing but ‘ Kangaroo Courts’. A survey of […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS One of the tasks assigned to the JVP in 1987-89 was to    weaken the Sri Lanka army and divert military attention away from the Eelam war. The first targets of the JVP in 1987 were, therefore, armed forces and police. JVP targeted the armed services and the police in both insurgencies. JVP infiltration […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The notion that in 1971 the JVP was only interested in taking over police stations is incorrect. This was only a cover. Even then, the target was the armed forces and the military installations. During the 1971 insurgency, JVP took over the Anuradhapura air strip and was eyeing the one at Vavuniya. JVP […]

Courtesy News.am Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Saturday that reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to help bring the country out of the economic crisis has been pushed back to September due to unrest in recent weeks, AP reported. The President of Sri Lanka said that negotiations with the IMF on […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu Chinese vessel Yuan Wang 5. Photo: brisl.org It is arriving for replenishment, says Colombo Days after denying reports of the scheduled arrival of a Chinese research vessel, and following India’s clear message” about carefully monitoring” the development, Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence on Saturday confirmed that the vessel had sought clearance […]

Courtesy The New Arab Sri Lanka’s president said on Saturday that an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help pull the bankrupt nation out of its economic crisis has been pushed back to September because of unrest over the past weeks. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his first speech since he was elected by parliament on 20 […]

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම නව බලවේගයකට සූදානම්ව රට ගොඩ නැගීමේ අභියෝගයට සියලු දෙනා ම කැපවී වැඩ කිරීමේ කාලය දැන් එළඹී ඇති බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ පවසයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ, මහනුවර ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයේ සිට අද (ජූලි 30) විශේෂ ප්‍රකාශයක් සිදු කරමිනි. රට තුළ පවතින ප්‍රශ්න විසඳීමට ඇති සුදුසු ම ක්‍රමය සර්ව පාක්ෂික ආණ්ඩුවක් පමණක් බව ජනාධිපතිවරයා […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The long-delayed Mannar basin M2 block (exploration and production) tender and commencement of exploration work by the selected bidder for the M1 and C1 July 2019 tender could cost Sri Lanka over a billion dollars in foreign direct investment (FDI).  Moreover, the delays conducting a marketing campaign to attract further investment […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Earnings from merchandise exports reached US $ 1,208 million in June 2022 Key sectors contributing to improved export earnings include apparel, coconut and rubber  Grim export performance witnessed in tea and spices sectors US, UK and India emerge as largest markets for SL export basket Exports to all regions except CIS […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has not made any decision to participate in a protest which is claimed to be the final battle against the corrupt politicians on August 9 although party Chairman Sarath Fonseka had claimed he and others will participate in it, an SJB MP said today. SJB MP Mujibur […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror China said on Friday it hoped relevant parties” would refrain from interfering with its legitimate maritime activities, after New Delhi voiced concern over a Chinese military ship’s planned visit to a port in India’s southern neighbour Sri Lanka. India worries that the Chinese-built and leased port of Hambantota will be used […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 83 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 today, bringing the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 665,526.  Following the new development, the number of patients under medical care or receiving home-based care now stands at 922. Meanwhile, the death toll moved to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The man who stole the President’s official flag and used it as a bedsheet has been remanded until the 05th of August. The suspect was produced before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court earlier today. He was taken into custody after he surrendered to the Wellaweediya Police last morning. On the 09th of July, people […]

Courtesy Lankalead On the 27th, during the emergency law debate in Parliament, National Freedom Front leader MP Wimal Weerawansa announced that NED (National Endowment for Democracy), a subsidiary organization of the American CIA, had funded various non-governmental organizations operating in Sri Lanka and the financial allocations given from the year 2016 to the year 2021 […]

Courtesy Lankalead පසුගිය 27 වනදා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ හදිසි නීති විවාදය පැවැති අවස්ථාවේදී ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා විසින් අමෙරිකානු CIA සංවිධානයේ පරිවාර සංවිධානයක් වන NED ( National Endowment for Democracy- ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය සඳහා වන ජාතික උරුමය ) නම් ආයතනය විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ක්‍රියාත්මක විවිධ රාජ්‍යය නොවන සංවිධාන රැසකට 2016 වර්ෂයේ සිට 2021 වර්ෂය […]

Charith Gunawardena Fight for Private Creditor Debt Cancellation. With the whole world watching the deteriorating political, economic and humanitarian situation unfolding in Sri Lanka, and while we pray for swift solutions to food, fuel and medical shortages, there is now an opportunity to reinvent how countries caught in post-Covid 19 debt traps recover from crippling […]