Shenali D Waduge The coterie of people chanting ‘democracy’ and in particular speaking about age limits and term limits of others ignore that the same has to apply to them. Take some of these NGOs and Media heads – they have been heading their organizations for over 25 years! What kind of ‘democracy’ is this? […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් එක්සත් රාජධානියේ විදුලිය හා ගෑස් බිල 2022 අන්තිම වන විට 83%ක ඉහළයාමක් අපේක්ෂිතය. මාස කීපයකට පෙර එම බිල වැඩිවූයේ 50% කින්ය. මේ අතරතුර කාලයේ දැවැන්තම Energy කොම්පැනිකාරයාගේ අර්ධ වාර්ෂික ලාභය විතරක් පහුගිය වසර හා සසදන විට පස් ගුණයකින් ඉහල ගොස්ය. ඒ ලාභය පාරිභෝගිකයාට හරවන ත්යාගශීලිකමක් පේන්නට නැත, ඒ ආණ්ඩුව ඉන්නේ ඇඹරි ඇඹරිය ඒ […]

Byline Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, Senior Fellow, The Millennium Project asangaaa@gmail.com UN reform to make the international organization more future-oriented was assessed by 189 futurists and related international experts from 54 countries. They overwhelmingly endorsed and will support the five foresight elements of Our Common Agenda, as an integrated and interdependent system: the success of each one affects the […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන. බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ යටත් විජිතවල සේවය කිරීමට ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගෙන ගැනීම අනිවාර්ය කරන අධ්‍යාපනයක් සහ නීති ක්‍රමයක් ලංකාවේ ඇත. ලෝකයේ ඇති එකම ජාත්‍යන්තර භාෂාව ඉංග්‍රීසි පමණක් බව ජනතාවට ඒත්තු ගන්නවා තිබුණද එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානය ජාත්‍යන්තර භාෂා 6ක් පිළිගෙන ඇති බව දරුවන්ගෙන් සඟවයි. ප්‍රංශය, […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara I give you the relevant news item below  as it was rereported. Posted on August 14th, 2022 Ada derana Sri Lanka lifts ban on six Tamil diaspora organizations. The Government of Sri Lanka has lifted the ban imposed on six international Tamil organizations by the previous Government”. In my opinion this is […]

By Indrajit Samarajiva Courtesy The New York Times As a Sri Lankan, I find watching international news coverage of my country’s economic and political implosion is like showing up at your own funeral, with everybody speculating on how you died. The Western media accuses China of luring us into a debt trap. Tucker Carlson says environmental, social and corporate governance […]

By  Zhang Hui Courtesy Global Times Yuan Wang 5 scientific research vessel Photo: VCG The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka will hold a welcoming ceremony for the arrival of the Chinese Yuan Wang 5 scientific research vessel at the port of Hambantota, a source close to the matter told the Global Times on Monday. “The […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While de-listing six Tamil international organizations including the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) and 317 individuals, the government has added 55 new individuals and three more organizations to the banned list as part of this year’s review, informed sources said. According to the gazette notification issued on July 28 this year signed […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s death toll from Covid-19 climbed to 16,624 today after the Director General of Health Services confirmed 03 more Covid-19 related deaths in the country for yesterday (Aug 14).  Two victims were aged 60 years and above, and the remaining one was aged between 30-59 years, according to the Govt. Information Department. […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has ordered the public sector officials to strictly adhere to the circular issued by the Treasury earlier this year to limit government expenditures.

Coutesy Hiru News Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) ‘Taimur’ which arrived at the port of Colombo on an official visit on 12th August 2022, set sail from the island after successful conduct of a Passage Exercise with Sri Lanka Navy Ship (SLNS) “;Sindurala” today (15th August). Sri Lanka Navy bade customary farewell to the departing ship […]