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 […]

by Garvin Karunaratne I enclose one of my 2019 Papers which warned our fate which has come though today. It also contains what has to be done to get out of our economic woes. May this awaken our leaders to an immediate process of action. Bindu once said we are all following NATO principles. Lets […]

Shenali D Waduge An organization by the acronym PEARL located in Washington DC, USA has written to Singapore’s Attorney General’s department to investigate the former President Gotabaya Rajapakse. On what grounds can lobbyists insist on investigating a non-Singaporean going to the extent of prosecuting him for alleged” crimes committed outside of Singapore, simply because they […]

Shripal Nishshanka Fernando – USA This is a historical time which Sri Lanka needs patriots and all others to be united and bring the country back on its feet. The country is undergoing an unprecedented economical and political crisis at the moment. The unity among people is vital to overcome this calamity so that the […]

Source: Black-white rule in Sri Lanka, 2022 2009 අප්‍රේල් අග-මැයි මුල මෙවැනි දෙයක් ලංකාවේද සිදුවිය. බොහෝදෙනාට නොවැටහුණත් එය මෑත ලෝකයේ පරණ යටත් විජිත හා බැඳුණු  ඉතිහාසයේ සිදුවු වැදගත්‌ම සිදුවීමකි. මිලිබෑන්ඩ් හා කුෂ්නර් යන බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය හා ප්‍රංශ විදේශ ඇමතීන් දෙන්නා යුරෝපා සුදු රටවල ඒජන්තවරු වශයෙන් ප්‍රභාකරන් විනාශ මුඛයෙන් ගලවා ගැනීමට බලවත් උත්සාහයක් දැරුවේය. මේ සඳහා කුෂ්නර්ගේ  […]

Malinda Seneviratne Aragalaya. Translatable as revolt, uprising, protest, agitation, struggle or even insurrection. Aragalaya is singular, but considering statements and actions it was certainly not marked by concert, ideological agreement, unity of purpose etc. Eclecticism was the signature of the rumbling. There was mumbling, nothing more, about system-change, but a revolution it certainly was not. So, aragalaya: singular; aragala: […]

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By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 29 (Counterpoint): Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has prorogued parliament till August 3. According to informed sources, the prorogation would enable him to reconstitute the various parliamentary committees and appoint suitable chairmen for them in the light of the new alignment of political forces in parliament after the exit […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe has extended an invitation to all the Members of Parliament to join a National All Party programme to create economic and social stability in the country, President’s Media Division said. In a written invitation to all the Members of Parliament, the President said the government is currently engaged […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that 143 more people have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 665,543.  Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed 05 new coronavirus-related deaths […]

Courtesy Adaderana The World Bank Group says it is deeply concerned about the dire economic situation and its impact on the people of Sri Lanka. In a statement, the global financial institution said it is repurposing resources under existing loans in our portfolio to help alleviate severe shortages of essential items such as medicines, cooking gas, […]

Cortesy Hiru News The suspect who stole the President’s official flag from the Presidents House on the 9th of July and used the flag as a bed sheet has been arrested.The suspect who was arrested for stealing the President’s official flag has been identified as Udeni Kaluthanthri, a former SJB trade union leader.  The person […]

Courtesy Hiru News Earnings from the merchandise exports increased by 20 % y-o-y to US$ 1,208.2 Mn in June 2022 as per the data released by the Sri Lanka Customs. This was mainly due to the increase in earnings from export of Apparel & Textiles, Rubber based products, Coconut based products, Food & Beverages and Seafood. Major product […]

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.

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 […]