Courtesy The Daily Mirror Defence Secretary Rtd.General Kamal Gunaratne said that there has been information that certain elements were attempting to incite violence under the guise of peaceful protests. In a video statement released today evening, Gunaratne urged all citizens to act with patience during these trying times and refrain from engaging in any unlawful […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) today said its entire party machinery will come to Colombo tomorrow and surround the President’s House and will remain there till President Gotabaya Rajapaksa leaves office. We will  gather at Fort Railway station and will march  towards the President’s House later and remain there till the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Violence is not an answer. If you are going to protest, please do so peacefully. And reminding military & police to grant peaceful protesters the space and security to do so. Chaos & force will not fix the economy or bring the political stability that Sri Lankans need right now. The American […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Defence Secretary says the police and the armed forces empowered to use necessary force against those who endanger or harm the general public, engage in anti-social activities or cause damages to property. In a video statement, General (Retd.) Kamal Gunaratne said certain groups are attempting to incite violence among the general public […]

Courtesy Adaderana Police curfew will be imposed in several police areas of the Western Province with effect from 9.00 p.m. today (July 08), Inspector-General of Police C.D. Wickramaratne announced. Thereby, the curfew orders will be effective in the following police areas until further notice: • Negombo police area• Kelaniya police area• Nugegoda police area• Mount […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් දකුණ හා මධ්‍යම පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර  ලංකාවට පෙට්‍රල් සහ ඩීසල් ගොඩබාන මිල ගැන තෙල් සංස්ථාවත්, ඛනිජ තෙල් අමාත්‍යාංශයත් කියන්නේ පට්ටපල් බොරුය.  ලංකාවට පෙට්‍රල්/ඩීසල් ගොඩබාන මිල අතර රු. රු. 130 සිට රු. 150 ක් දක්වා අතර පරතරයක් ඇත.   මේ දත්ත ඇමති කාංචන විජේසේකර ගේ ටුවිට් එකේ ඉලක්කම් සහ රේගුවේ දත්ත අතර සංසන්ධනයකි. […]

Shenali D Waduge Let us return to the impeachment of 2 Chief Justices of Sri Lanka – how they were removed matters not so much as the trial or the allegations related therein. Another noteworthy feature is the manner one Chief Justice got full international backing while the other received only international condemnation. This is quite strange for […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara The Government should immediately proscribe all these anti-national foreign agents called Civil Societies” and initiate a full investigation with a view to take legal action against their misdeeds and put an end to their activities. The following letter by Shenali  Waduge is a must, that should be read by all Sinhala […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් ඍෂි ඉන්දියානු යුවලකගේ පුතෙකි බොරිස් ගේ එක්ස්චෙකර්ය ඉනෆ් ඊස් ඉනෆ් කියා ඉල්ලා අස් විය. සජිඩ් පකිස්තානු මාපිය දෙපලකගේ පුතෙකි බොරිස් ගේ හෙල්ත් සෙක්රටරිය ඉනෆ් ඊස් ඉනෆ් කියා ඉල්ලා අස් විය. ඉන් අනතුරුව මැටි ඇමටි පෝලිමක් ඉල්ලා අස්විය. අන්තිමට  බොරිස් උන්නැහෙට යන්නට සිදු විය, දැනට බාගෙට ගොසින්ය. ආරංචි හැටියට පක්ෂයේ නායකත්වයට දොළොස් දෙනෙක් ඇහැ […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්  නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ ඉතා වැදගත් ‌ෙඑතිහාසික සිද්ධස්ථානයක් වනුයේ තිරියායේ හිරිගඩු සෑයයි.තපස්සු භල්ලකු වෙළඳ දෙබෑයන් විසින් රැගෙන පැමිණි කේශ ධාතු තැන්පත් කර සැදූ  කුඩා ස්ථූපය ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණයට ලක් වෙමින් අදටත් එහි ජීවමාන වෙයි. තපස්සු භල්ලුක වෙළඳ දෙබෑයන් ලංකාව වෙත පැමිණ ගොඩ බට තැන් ගැන පුවත් කීපයක් වෙයි. ඉන් එකක් නම් තිරියයාට නුදුරු කණිකාර වේලි තොටුපළයි.ගැඹුරු මුහුදකින් […]

Samina Akhter Dhaka In a show of goodwill, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave 1000 kg of the renowned Amrapali mango to Shehbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan. The mango was given to the Prime Minister of Pakistan’s protocol officer by the Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad in July 05, 2022. According to a […]

Andrew Korybko Courtesy CGTN Farmers take part in an anti-government protest demanding the resignation of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the country’s ongoing economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 6, 2022. /VCG Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe declared his country “bankrupt” on Tuesday, as a result of the island’s worst-ever economic crisis since […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) Chairman, Janaka Rathnayake, today urged the government to investigate the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) for making huge profit margins on fuel imports and sales. While addressing the media, he said the revenue after importing and selling fuel not gone to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s headline inflation is expected to rise to 70 per cent in the coming months from the current level of 50%, the Governor of Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says. His remarks came during a media briefing convened in Colombo to announce the Central Bank’s 5th monetary policy review […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) says it has opened registration for priority consumer facility to purchase fuel for US dollars.  The applications could be downloaded from the CPC website (www.ceypetco.gov.lk). The relevant conditions, the USD payment process and the infrastructure requirements to be complete by the applicant after authorization is grant by CPC […]

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). […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Despite the views of politicians and others, Sri Lanka should be forced to agree to strong conditions for economic support. Historical information indicates that the welfare economy has been operating against people working and many people in the country have been addicted to subsidies the government needs to change this situation. Subsidies […]