By Raj Gonsalkorale A chattering crow lives out nine generations of aged men,but a stag’s life is four time a crow’s,and a raven’s life makes three stags old,while the phoenix outlives nine ravens,but we, the rich-haired Nymphsdaughters of Zeus the aegis-holder,outlive ten phoenixes. The phoenix is an immortal bird associated with Greek mythology (with analogs in many cultures) that cyclically regenerates or is […]

Shenali D Waduge The term democracy” has become a tool used to undermine democracy in the name of democracy by interfering into the internal affairs of countries & causing mayhem. What the CIA did back in the 1970s has now been outsourced to an entity called NED – National Endowment for Democracy. Entire vocabulary of […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Although Sri Lanka is a small country with a limited land area and resources it needs radical reforms to achieve stability and expected development. It is needed to understand that stability in this dynamic world is like a dream. The country has a long history of seditions (Aragala) and the result of […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්  විපක්ෂයේ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ දෙකක් ගත් අමනෝඥම තීරණය සජබ හා ‘කහ පක්ෂය’ ජනපති තරඟයට එක්ව තරඟ කිරීම ලෙස ඉතිහාසගත වනු ඇත. ප්‍රතිපත්ති – වැඩපිළිවෙලක් – අරමුණක් – සැලසුමක් නැති බෝඩ් ලෑල්ලට සජබ මන්ත්‍රී රැසක් ඡන්දය දී නැත.    සජිත් ඉවත් වූ පමණින් ඩලස් දිනන්නේ නැති බව සරළවම විග්‍රහ කළෙමි.  අවසනාවකට පුද්ගලික න්‍යාය පත්‍රයකත්, […]

Malinda Seneviratne ජනතා අරගලයක් අලුතින් ජනසතු කරන්න ඕනේ නෑ.  තිබ්බේ අරගලයක් නෙවෙයි, අරගලයන්. බහුවචනයෙන් තමයි කතා කරන්න වෙන්නේ. එක් එක් අරගල වල එක එක ජන කොටස්. සමපාත වුන තැනුත් තිබුනා. නොවුන තැනුත් තිබුනා. වඩා නිවැරදිව කිව්වොත් කවුරු කවුරුත් ‘අරගලයක්’ තුල හිටියා, ඉන්නවා සහ තමන් තේරුම් ගත්ත කුමන හෝ අරගලයක් සමග අනන්‍ය වුනා, අනන්‍ය වෙලා ඉන්නවා. […]

Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Employees at work.  In June 2022, the Sri Lankan Government declared a ‘four-day week’ for Public Sector workers for three months, except for the essential services. It started on Friday, June 17th, giving a holiday to public sector employees. Critical services are categorised as the public sector for employees in the […]

Malinda Seneviratne Ranil Wickremesinghe is no longer president in an acting capacity. He is the president, period. Did someone say ‘I don’t know whether to laugh or cry?’ I am pretty sure someone did. Did someone say, ’who wudda thunk?’ Well, if two or three years ago, if anyone suggested that in July 2023 Ranil […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror What the Aragalaya (struggle) has finally done was to send home President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was elected through an election, and elect Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was defeated in the election, as the President, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa said today. He told a news conference that as a result […]

Courtesy MailonLine View gallery Members of Sri Lankan security forces remove a barricade blocking the main gate of the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo early Friday Sri Lankan security forces demolished the main anti-government protest camp in the capital early Friday and evicted activists hours before the new president was due to name a cabinet. The […]

Courtesy TRTWORLD Hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers and police swoop in on unarmed activists blocking Presidential Secretariat in the capital after new President Ranil Wickremesinghe is sworn in, according to AFP. Hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers and police have raided the main anti-government protest camp in the country’s capital and started tearing down tents of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A tense situation is reported at the Galle Face protest site near the Presidential Secretariat as Police and troops moved in and remove protesters from the area. The security forces removed some of tents and structures placed around the Presidential Secretariat.

Courtesy Adaderana The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief has held China responsible for Sri Lanka’s economic collapse, saying Colombo’s dumb bets” on high-debt Chinese investment have led to the catastrophic outcomes. The Chinese have a lot of weight to throw around and they can make a very appealing case for their investments,” William Burns said […]

Courtesy Hiru News Yesterday evening, President elect Ranil Wickramasinghe visited Hunupitiya Gangarama Temple in Colombo. Although this was planned as a private visit, many politicians of the ruling party and journalists from home and abroad who came to know about it also attended the event. A British sky news journalist asked the President that since […]

Courtesy Hiru News UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in today (21) as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka. This was at the Parliament complex. Ranil Wickremesinghe is the first President of Sri Lanka to be elected in a vote held in the Parliament. Former MP Sirima Bandaranaike, the world’s first Prime Minister, was sworn in […]

Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake But to watch cricket, there has to be a country left for us to watch it in, no?” A fan at the Galle Test Match that ended with an innings victory for Sri Lanka. July 11, 2022 Spirits were high on July 11 when the Sri Lankan cricket team beat the visiting Aussies […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS JVP was allowed to register as a political party in 1981. The first elections the JVP contested were District Development Councils elections.  JVP contested four seats in the District Development Councils election in 1981, and won two.  The seats were Colombo, Gampaha, and Galle. I was unable to find out what the fourth […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Why did the two JVP uprisings happen precisely in 1971 and 1987, asked commentators. The answer is that they were both linked to the Eelam war. JVP insurgency and the Eelam Wars both started around the same time. The first JVP insurgency started in the south in 1971. LTTE activities also started in […]

බෞද්ධ අධ්‍යයන පිළිබඳ සේවාර්ජිත මහාචාර්ය අසංග තිලකරත්න දම්රිවි පදනමේ සභාපති දැනට උද්ගතව ඇති ආර්ථික හා දේශපාලන අර්බුදය සම්බන්ධ ප‍්‍රධාන ආගමික ක‍්‍රියාකාරිකයෙකු වන ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත හිිමිපාණන්ගේ ප‍්‍රකාශයක කොටසක් පමණක් උපුටා දක්වමින්ිදැන් සිංහල බෞද්ධ ඉවරයැ’ යි පිරිසක් උදම් අනනු සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ජාලාවල දක්නට ඇත. කෙනෙකුගේ ප‍්‍රකාශයක් විකෘති වන සේ උපුටා දැක්වීමේ වරදට අමතරව, මෙහිදී අප අවධානය යොමු […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 21 (newsin.asia): Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe won the Sri Lankan Presidential election with a thumping majority against Dullas Alapahpperuna and Anura Kumara Dissanayake. In the election held on Wednesday in the Sri Lankan parliament, with its 225 members as the voters, Wickremesinghe got 134 of the 219 valid votes, […]

Benjamin Norton Courtesy https://towardfreedom.org/ Facing a deep economic crisis and bankruptcy, Sri Lanka was rocked by large protests this July, which led to the resignation of the government. Numerous Western political leaders and media outlets blamed this uprising on a supposed Chinese debt trap,” echoing a deceptive narrative that has been thoroughly debunked by mainstream academics. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Leader of the House and MP Dinesh Gunawardena is tipped to be appointed as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka under the Presidency of Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that his party’s candidate was unable to win the Presidential election in Parliament today. We presented Dullas. We voted for him, but lost. Somebody has to win,” he told media in parliament. “He (Ranil) got more votes, so he became the president. That’s what has happened. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s president-elect vowed on Wednesday to take tough action against anyone resorting to what he called the undemocratic means that led to his predecessor’s ouster. Six-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he will not bow to violence after winning a parliamentary vote to succeed Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country and resigned […]

Courtesy Adaderana Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says he is confident that Sri Lanka can come out of this severe economic crisis within a period of 05 months. We have a clear program and a clear path,” he added. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=329050316110205&ref=external In an interview with CNN, the governor said […]

Courtesy Adaderana The International Monetary Fund hopes to complete rescue talks with Sri Lanka as quickly as possible,” Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday, hours before the crisis-hit South Asian nation elected a new president. Speaking with Nikkei Asia in Tokyo, Georgieva said the fund was very deeply concerned about the well-being of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ranil Wickremesinghe is to be sworn in as Sri Lanka’s 8th Executive President at the Parliamentary complex tomorrow morning (21 July). Sri Lankan Parliament today voted acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe as the next President of the country. He won 134 of the total 219 votes that were found valid. The other main candidate, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Newly elected President Ranil Wickremesinghe invited all parties in Parliament including the opposition to work together on a new strategy fulfilling the aspirations of the people. Addressing the House after he was elected as President by a majority of votes in Parliament, he expressed his gratitude to fellow presidential candidates MPs Dullas Alahapperuma […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Parliament today (July 20) elected Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka by majority votes. In a secret ballot that got underway in the House this morning, the Members of Parliament voted to elect a succeeding President to fill in the post left vacant after the resignation […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Presidential candidate Dullas Allahapperuma and his prime ministerial candidate Sajith Premadasa have agreed to fulfill demands put forward by the TNA in a meeting held today evening which included the release of all political prisoners and the release of all private lands, including those occupied by the army and archeological sites […]

 INSIGHT BY SUNIL KUMAR  July 19th 2022  The objective of this posting is not to cause alarm but to warn the  Sri Lanka authorities to take preventive action before the Nation  already imperiled by the Rajapaksa debacle takes another unexpected  hit from an unlikely source which in all probabilities has been  planning for exactly such […]