Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) says it will refrain from voting to elect a new President as many candidates are now vying for the post, party leader Maithripala Sirisena says. The former president noted that a single candidate should be elected for the office of President unanimously.

Courtesy Adaderana The leader of National People’s Power (NPP) Anura Kumara Dissanayake has decided to enter the race for the presidency alongside three other frontrunners. MP Vijitha Herath told a media briefing held at the NPP headquarters today that the party will nominate its leader for the election in the parliament for the office of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The vacancy in the office of President of Sri Lanka was announced in the House this morning, by Secretary-General of Parliament Dhammika Dasanayake. The parliament met at 10.00 a.m. today under the provisions of the Presidential Elections (Special Provisions) Act, No. 02 of 1981, after former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa vacated the office effective […]

Courtesy Adaderana The procedure for election of the President when the office of President shall become vacant (In terms of Presidential Elections (Special Provisions) Act No. 2 of 1981.) The parliament media unit has explained the procedure to elect a new President in terms of Presidential Elections (Special Provisions) Act No 02 of 1981, when […]

මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයා නෙරපීමෙන් පසු පත්වන ජනාධිපතිවරයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් නොව ජනතාවගේ ඡන්දයෙන් පත්කර ගැනීමට විධිවිධාන වූයේ නම් මේ ආකාරයට ගෝඨාභය ජනාධිපතිවරයාව නෙරපන්නේ නැත. එමෙන්ම රටෙන්ද නෙරපන්නේ නැත. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයා නෙරපීමේ ක්‍රියාව ආරම්භ කරන ලද්දේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස තෝරා ගැනීමට විධිවිධාන තිබූ හෙයින් ය. එම […]

නිදහස් සමාජ විද්‍යාඥ උපාලි ගුණසේකර (2022. 04.19. දින Daily News පුවත් පතේ 7 වැනි පිටුවේ පළ කරන ලද ලිපියේ සිංහල අනුවාදයයි) ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ආක්‍රමණය කිරීමට දියකාවා උකුසු කුමන්ත්‍රණ න්‍යාය ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙන්නේ කෙසේද? යන පර්යේෂණ ගැටලුවට පිළිතුරු සෙවීමට 2010 වසරේ දී මා විසින් සමාජ විද්‍යාත්මක පර්යේෂණයක් ආරම්භ කරන ලදී. එම පර්යේෂණයේ සාරාංශයක් සහ ඒ පර්යේෂණය ඇසුරින් […]

Orpheus Perera Dear Mr. Chandaka Jayasundara(Presidents Counsellor), You, being an educated man, seem to be blind and did not analyse the entire situation of Sri Lanka. Real problem is that this crisis was NOT created by Rajapaksa. Maybe Mr.Kabral is a bit responsible as the Governor of the Central bank did not see that this was going […]

ජොනතන් මෑන්ස් විසින් 1 කොටසින් ඉදිරියට 2014 පෙබරවාරි මාසයේදී යුක්රේනයේ, ජුන්ටා අගමැති ලෙස පත් කළ හිටපු මහ බැංකුකරුවෙකු වූ Yatsenyuk, රුසියානු ඇප දීමේ ගනුදෙනුව අවලංගු කර ඒ වෙනුවට IMF ‘සහාය’ ඉල්ලා සිටියේය. IMF කප්පාදු පියවර වහාම ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටියේය; විශ්‍රාම වැටුප්, උනුසුම් ආධාර සහ අනෙකුත් සමාජ වැඩසටහන් කප්පාදු කරන ලදී. කුමන්ත‍්‍රණය විසින් නිර්මාණය […]

The New Atlas Evidence is emerging that at least some segments of the ongoing protests in Sri Lanka are funded and backed by the US, serving US interests. A digital strategist” given credit by the Western media for the successful toppling of the Sri Lankan government was a volunteer” at a US National Endowment for […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 16 (newsin.asia): The Acting Sri Lankan President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has said in a Special Statement released on Friday, that in the short period of time he is Acting President, he will take some urgent steps, including suppressing fascistic elements, which have raised their heads lately, and introducing drafts to […]

By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 15 (newsin.asia): Given the fact that the Sri Lankan Presidential election is to be held with a number of candidates in the fray, the procedure could be complicated with the possibility of the counting going through three phases. The process is set to begin on Friday following Parliament […]

Douglas Blair  Courtesy The Daily Signal Douglas Blair is a news producer for The Daily Signal. He is the co-host of The Daily Signal Podcast. Sri Lanka is on fire and enraged protesters have stormed the presidential palace. Dutch farmers continue to protest all across the Netherlands by blocking roads with their tractors. Germany, Italy, […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් අරගලකරුවන් ඉවත් වීමෙන් පසුව කොළඹ කොටුව ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයේ වත්මන් තත්ත්වය අද මාධ්‍ය වෙත ප්‍රදර්ශනය කෙරුණා. අනතුරුව අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ නිලධාරීන් ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයේ ඇඟිලි සලකුණු ලබා ගන්නා අයුරු ද දක්නට ලැබුණා. කොළඹ කොටුව ජනාධිපති මන්දිරය අරගලකරුවන් විසින් අත්පත් කර ගත්තේ පසුගිය 09 වැනිදා පැවති විරෝධතාවය අතරතුරයි. අරගලකරුවන්ගේ ග්‍රහණයට නතු වූ ජනාධිපති මන්දිරය […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is continuing negotiations with China for as much as $4 billion in aid and is confident Beijing will agree at some point,” according to a top envoy. Colombo is asking China for a loan of $1 billion to repay an equivalent amount of Chinese debt coming due this year, Palitha Kohona, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has decided to support Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe in the parliamentary vote to elect the country’s next President, the party’s general-secretary Sagara Kariyawasam says. Wickremesinghe, who was appointed the Prime Minister after Mahinda Rajapaksa was forced to step down in early May amidst growing public agitations, was sworn […]

Courtesy Adaderana The governor of Sri Lanka’s central bank, Nandalal Weerasinghe, has warned that the country may shut down if no stable government is formed soon. There is a lot of uncertainty” over whether enough foreign exchange can be found to pay for essential petroleum, he told the BBC’s Newsnight programme. Progress on getting an […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has taken oath as the Acting President a short while ago. He was sworn in before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya. His swearing-in came shortly after Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena officially announced the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the President of Sri Lanka effective from July 14, 2022. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Commercial High Court has dismissed the case filed by an Irish company against Russia’s Aeroflot airline with costs, Ada Derana correspondent says. The verdict was delivered by Colombo Commercial HC Judge Sumith Perera when the case was taken up this morning.

වෛද්‍ය කේ.එම්. වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර ලේකම් දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරය අප රටේ විදේශ විනිමය ලැබීම් සහ ගෙවීම් වලට අදාල සියලු කටයුතු මූලික වශයෙන් නියාමනය කරනු ලබන්නේ 2017 අංක 12 දරන විදේශ විනිමය පනත මගිනි. එම පනත සම්මත කරනු ලැබූ 2017 ජුලි 28 දක්වා ඒ සියලු කටයුතු පාලනය වූයේ 1953 අංක 27 දරණ විනිමය පාලන පනත මගිනි. එම […]

Sugath Kulatunga A positive contribution of the JR regime was the establishment of two lead institutions on investment and export namely the Greater Colombo Economic Commission (GCEC) and the Export Development Board (EDB). It must be noted that the concepts on these institutions were developed during the previous SLFP government. The EDB was not limited […]

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Courtesy The Straits Times WASHINGTON (AFP) – The IMF hopes unrest in Sri Lanka will be resolved soon so that aid talks that were interrupted can resume, a fund spokesman said on Thursday (July 14). Formal discussions on a new loan programme for the cash-strapped nation began last month but were thrown off course by the political upheaval […]

Courtesy Hiru News The President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sent  the letter of resignation from his post as President of Sri Lanka to the Speaker. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned after landing in Singapore since he left the island on Tuesday. The parliament Speaker has also confirmed he has received President […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Army says that members of the Armed Forces are legitimately empowered to exercise their force, if the situation deems necessary as security to the public property, key installations, vulnerable points and human lives, does fall within the purview of their responsibility. In view of escalation of violent acts, those protesters, intent […]

ප්‍රියන්කා “ගෝටාභය රාජපක්ෂ බලයෙන් ඉවත් විය යුතුයය. ඊළඟට මේ රටේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජනතාවගේ බලය එතනින් ඉවරයය ” ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත තෙර අන්‍ය ආගමිකයින් පිරිවෙරාගෙන 2022 ජූලි 10 දා කියන්ගන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අවරුදු දෙදාහකට වඩා පැරණ සිංහල බෞද්ධ රාජ්‍ය කඩා දාන වීරයා ලෙසය. රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ නමැති නෝන්ජල් පඹයා නම් මීලඟ ජනාධිපති පදවියට තප්පරයක්වත් පත් නොකළ යුතුයි-සෝභිත හිමි […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් සජිත්ට තනියෙන් ජනපති/අගමැති විය හැකිද? පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ නිල විපක්ෂයට හිමි උපරිම ඡන්ද ගණන  62 කි. යථාර්ථවාදී සංඛ්‍යාව 58 කි.  සජබ ට හරීන් හා මනූෂ නැතිව කෙළින්ම 45 කි.  එයට චම්පික රණවක ද ඇතුළත් ය. (ඔවුන්ගේ ඉෂාක් රහමන්, එම්.එස්.තවුෆික්, දිගාමඩුල්ලේ ෆයිසාල් කාසිම් සහ එච්.එම්.එම්.හාරීස් ද (සජිත්ට ඡන්දය දෙන්නේ නම් පමණක්  49 කි.)  ද්‍රවිඩ ජාතික […]

Fair Dinkum A Russian film crew was given access to the home of Ranil Wickremesinghe and his brother, who lived in a neighbouring house that was also destroyed by protestors according to him, appears describing what occurred, and the damage caused, including the destruction of artworks and 2,600 books which had been handed down from […]

Hiru News US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung has called for calm from all parties during this time. The United States reiterates our call for calm at this time. We urge all parties to approach this juncture with a commitment to the betterment of the nation to work quickly to implement solutions that will […]

Courtesy Outlook Sri Lankan Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Thursday informed Gotabaya Rajapaksa that he should submit his letter of resignation as the President as soon as possible or else he will consider other options to remove him from the office, according to a media report. Sri Lankan Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Thursday informed […]

Courtesy India Today he vehicles will be surrounding the Parliament at different locations. While there is no expected protest at the parliament, this is just a safety measure to be on the safe side. A video from Colombo shows tracked armoured vehicles with army men moving on the streets of the city. The vehicles are […]