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Dr. Sudath Gunasekara, Mahanuwara My answer is no. Only the Chapter on Rajapaksa family in the Mahavamsa will be closed. It will be followed by a very uncertain and really turbulent period that might be followed by  a period of prosperity, happiness and peace for all if the present system of Government is replaced with […]

Senaka Weeraratna The recently concluded Sri Lanka – Australia Test series though it brought joy to Sri Lanka due to the magnificent performance of our cricketers also produced recriminations in Australia. Both Steve Smith and David Warner were subject to heavy criticism  for  wasting a pair of reviews on clear-cut lbw decisions in the second innings of Australia.  […]

නීතීඥ නුවන් බැල්ලන්තුඩාව මධ්‍ය මණ්ඩලය දේශප්‍රේමි ජාතික පෙරමුණ දක්ෂිණ ලංකාවේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක පූජ්‍ය ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත හිමිබෝධිරාජාරාමයඇඹිලිපිටිය 2022 ජූලි මස 09 දින ජනාධිපති මන්දිරය අසල ඇතිවූ ජන අරගලයට සමගාමීව ඔබ වහන්සේ සහ කිතුණු පූජකයන් එක්ව මාධ්‍ය වෙත නිකුත් කරන ලද ප්‍රකාශය සම්බන්ධවයි.ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට හැට නව ලක්ෂයක් චන්දය ලබා දුන් අතර එම සිංහල බෞද්ධ බලය […]

පූජ්‍ය. තපෝවනයේ රතන ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ Lanka Lead News වළඳන එක බත් ඇටයකටවත් ණය නොවන, සිල්වත්, ගුණවත්, ප්‍රතිපත්තිගරුක ඉතාම සුන්දර පැවිදි ජීවිතයක් අපි ගෙවමින් සිටින්නෙමු. කුඩා කළ පැවිදිව, ගිහි පැවිදි අධ්‍යාපනයන් ඉතා උසස් ලෙස ලබාගෙන, ජීවිතය පුස්තකාළයක් කරගෙන, ගිහි ජීවිතයක නිවස තුළ, රැකියා තුළ, ගිහි බැඳීම් අතරේ සිදුවන සියළුම ක්‍රියාකාරකාම් වල සිට, ගිහි ජීවිතය ගැන ගිහියන්ට […]

Citizen Jane Courtesy The Island A social media video clip is doing the rounds where a member of a legal profession who should be well versed in the law, is claiming that the Rule of Law and Human Rights protected by the Constitution of Sri Lanka is no longer valid post 9th July 2022. He […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Whilst revealing that the G7 alliance on the global food crisis has offered Sri Lanka US$ 14 million to spend on food, Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe said there is much to be done to avoid third-world countries such as Sri Lanka falling down on their knees in the face of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Acting President Ranil Wickramasinghe has instructed to conduct an investigation into the allegations that certain individuals through social media are attempting to influence or exert pressure on Members of Parliament and obstruct their right to vote freely to elect the next President.  The Acting President has issued these instructions to the security forces […]

Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka’s crisis-hit economy is likely to contract by more than 6% this year as political instability and social unrest hamstring key discussions on financial relief with the International Monetary Fund and bilateral creditors, the country’s central-bank governor has said to wall street journal. While technical discussions at the central bank and […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress said that they will announce today as to who would get their support in the vote to elect the next President. The number of candidates to be the next President has now increased to 4 after Leader of the National People’s Power Anura Kumara Dissanayaka also entered […]

Shenali D Waduge An 11 member far-right militia group Oath Keepers” are charged with seditious conspiracy for January 2021 while another group was also charged in January 2022 attacks on the US Capitol. More than 725 Trump supporters were arrested for their role in opposing transfer of presidential powers. Sedition is the attempt to overthrow, put […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් රනිල් ජනාධිපටි උනේය ඒ කට මට හහ් හහ් හා කියා සිනහ පහල වන්නේය. ’77 පටන් උප ඇමටි අධ්‍යාපන ඇමටි අර ඇමති මේ අමැටි අගමැටි වීමේ වාසනාවය. මාමා බෑනා පක්ෂයේ list එකේ ඉහල නායකයෝ එකා පිට එකා  මැරී වැටෙද්දී පණ බේරා ගත්තේය. ඇරගල්කාරයෝ මරා ගනිද්දී හබන් කුකුළාට මගුල්ය. රනිල් ජනාධි පටි උනේය. හිටපු තරුණ […]

Darini Rajasingham While everyone is distracted with the horse trading and the Parliament Puppet show to elect the next President and the Aragalaya, at this time questions are being raised as to whether there in a Air-Sea and Cyber  Blockade of Sri Lanka to stop fuel arriving in the country from Russia or Iran since […]

By Jerome Phelps Courtesy Tribune Behind the food and fuel shortages causing Sri Lanka’s protests lie unmanageable debts to the West. The only answer to worsening humanitarian catastrophe is an immediate write-off. On Sunday, demonstrators broke into the lavish private residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. As protesters swam in his pool and made use of […]

Sufian Siddique In recent days, Power generation is being disrupted as per the demand due to sudden power and gas crisis in the country. This has increased load shedding in the country, including the capital Dhaka. According to media reports, load shedding is going on for six to eight hours in some districts including Rajshahi […]

parvej siddique bhuiyan In recent times, Bangladesh most often gets significant global attention for her geopolitical quandary, US- backed targeted sanctions on security apparatus and climate disasters, while ignoring its significant and proven contribution to humanitarian activities. Though Bangladesh’s realization of humanitarian diplomacy has not been developed for many years, an impressive record of development […]

Malinda Seneviratne Sri Lankans make a unique and hilarious knicker-twisted nation, exasperated over lengthy fuel lines to the point of ousting a president and then entire families sweating lengthier lines under umbrellas to see his residence. Any uprising cast as being spontaneous invariably runs into a bunch of problems, the most serious being the one […]

Chandre Dharmawardana It is easy to make allegations, especially now that every one has access to social media. But subsequently, no attempt is made to take them to courts by the enemies of politicians who make these accusations. See the book “Chavura Rajina”[Bandit Queen] on Chandrika Bandaranaike written by Victor Ivan indicting Chandrika. Only thing she […]

Chandre Dharmawardana But they are not there, no orgaization exists, to MAKE biodiesel, biogas, or plant manioc. Doing those is SIMPLER, easier, and more helpful to the country and the down-trodden people than doing all this agitation and sowing vindictiveness. Sri Lanka is supposed to be a Buddhist country. Whether you are a Buddhist or […]

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By Kalinga Seneviratne IDN-InDepthNews This article is the 31st in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate. Click here for previous series. SYDNEY (IDN) – After a White Australian of Christian background Brenton Tarrant gunned down 50 Muslims praying at a Christchurch mosque on a Friday, it took the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් වැඩබලන ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් රැස්වූ පලමු කැබිනට් රැස්වීම ඊයේ දිනයේ රැස් වී තිබේ. එම කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය රැස් වී ඇත්තේ කොළඹ නිදහස් චතුරස්‍රය ආසන්නයේ පිහිටි හෝටලයක දී ය. ඊට හේතුව වී ඇත්තේ ජනාධිපති මන්දිරය, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, අගමැති කාර්යාලය සහ අරලියගහ මන්දිරය අරගලකරුවන් විසින් අත්පත් කර ගැනීමෙන් පසුව මේ […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් එළැඹෙන මාසයේදී නැවතත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණෙනු ඇතැයි ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජී එල් පීරිස් මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. මාධ්‍ය වෙත අදහස් පල කරමින් ඔහු මේ බව පැවසීය. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට විශ්‍රාම ගිය ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකුට හිමිවන වරප්‍රසාද ලැබීමට නියමිතව තිබේ. ඒ අනුව ඒ මහතාට හා ඔහුගේ බිරිදට කොළඹින් නිල නිවසක්, ආරක්‍ෂක […]

 Lanka Lead News රතිඳු සේනාරත්න (රැට්ටා), ඩිලාන් සේනානායක සහ අවිශ්ක විරාජ් කෝනාර විසින් මෑතකදී ලංකා බැංකුවේ යූනියන් ප්ලේස් ශාඛාවේ නව ගිණුම් තුනක් අරඹා තිබේ. මෙම ගිණුම් තුනට අද (15) රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 150 බැගින්, ලක්ෂ 450ක මුදලක් (හාරකෝටි පනස් ලක්ෂයක්) විදේශයක සිට තැන්පත් කෙරී තිබේ. ඉන් පැය කිහිපයකට පසු බැංකුවට සුදු පැහැති ප්‍රියස් මෝටර් රථයක පැමිණ […]

By Dushni Weerakoon(1) Courtesy Eurasia Review Sri Lanka’s slide into political instability since April 2022 culminated in the resignation of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa following public protests on 9 July 2022. The government’s policy blunders and resistance to course correction were blamed for unleashing the harshest economic crisis on the Sri Lankan population in recent […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Power & Energy today (July 16) introduced the National Fuel Pass which allows the general public to purchase a guaranteed quota of fuel per week for their personal vehicles. The fuel pass was launched with the technical support of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), with the intention […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s ousted president, who fled overseas this week to escape a popular uprising against his government, has said he took all possible steps” to avert the economic crisis that has engulfed the island nation. Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation was accepted by parliament on Friday. He flew to the Maldives and then Singapore after […]

Courtesy Adaderana Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has decided to commence an urgent relief program to provide fuel, LP gas and essential food items to reduce the burden on the people who are under economic pressure. He took this decision at a discussion held with Cabinet ministers and parliamentarians this morning (July 16). In addition, it […]

Courtesy Adaderana The parliamentarians of the main opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and Samagi Jana Sandhanaya met today (July 16), under the leadership of Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa for a further discussion on the vacant position of the President. The SJB leader had earlier announced that he also plans to join the race for the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Chairman of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Prof. G.L. Peris has called for an explanation from the party’s General-Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam regarding his statement on backing the candidature of Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe in the election in parliament for the office of President. In a letter directed to Kariyawasam, Prof. Peiris demanded a […]