කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ආර්ථික විද්‍යා අංශයේ මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් විසිනි 1873 අගෝස්තු මස 26 හා 28 දෙදින තුළ පාණදුරේදී ඉමහත් ආශ්චර්යාත්මක පරිවර්තනයක් සිදු විය. ඒ අන් කිිසිවක් නොව අධිරාජ්‍ය විරෝධී සහ දේශීයත්වය නියෝජනය කළ බෞද්ධයන් හා සුදු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය නියෝජනය කරමින් යටත්විජිත පාලනයේ අනුග්‍රහය ලද ක්‍රිස්තියානි මිෂනාරින් අතර පැවැති මහා වාදයයි. මේ වසරේ දී අප සමරන්නේ […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya The Editor, Lanka Web, Dear Sir Why do some think that one has to be politically correct all the time? A video doing the rounds on many social media platforms shows a woman being caught red-handed by the owner of a lost credit card. The gist of the incident was that […]

ආචාර්‍ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර -මහනුවර.  23.8.202 ඉහත ලිපියේ සඳහන් ගැටළු කිසිවක් නොසලකා හදිසි මැතිවරණයක් ඉල්ලා වටිනා කාලය සහ මිනිස්දින කා දමමින් ඝෝෂා කරමින්, විරෝධතා පෙළපාලි යන ජේ වී පී එක මැතිවරණයක් තිබ්බොත් ඔවුන්ට දැනට තිබෙන ආසන 3, රජයක් පිහිටුවීමට අවශ්‍ය 113 ක් වෙයි කියා හිතනවාද?  ඒ වගේම දැනට 50 ක් පම්ණ තිබෙණ තව නොබෝ දිනකින් එයද […]

අචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර 22.8.2022 මහනුවර. රට හෝ ජනතාව ගැන අබමල් රේණුවක හෝ ආදරයක් ඇති එසේම සිහිමොළයක් ඇති කිසිම දේශපලනඥකු මේ අවස්ථාවෙ මැතිවරණයක් ගැන සිතන්නේ නැත. මේ රටේ අද පවතින කඩා වැටුණු ආර්ථිකය, සමාජ අසහනය හා අවුළ් සහගත තත්වය යටතේ මැතිවරණයක් ඉල්ලා උද්ගෝෂන වල යෙදීම රට තවත් අවුල් කිරීමක් පමණි. කුහක දේශපාලකයිනි, ඔබ තුල රටට හා […]

Senaka Weeraratna  It is said that freedom is never given but grabbed. Grabbing was possible in many parts of Asia because the Japanese had given hell for leather to the Imperial Western colonial countries occupying a vast swathe of Asian territory before 1939. At the end of the war in 1945 the Victors were tired, […]

Lanka Lead News රට තුළ පැනනැගුණු ආර්ථික ආපදාව හේතුවෙන් ජනතාව මුහුණ දුන් සාධාරණ දුක්ගැනවිලි ගසාකමින්, දෙමළ ඩයස්පෝරාවෙන් මෙන්ම සෞදි අරාබි හා කටාර් රාජ්‍යවල සංවිධානවලින් යහමින් මුදල් ලබා ගනිමින්, ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාජ්‍යය බිඳවැට්ටවීමට උත්සාහ කළ ගෝල්ෆේස් අරගලය පිටුපස සිටි දේශපාලන පක්ෂ දෙකක් ඇතුළු සියලු බළල් අත් පිළිබඳව පුළුල් විමර්ශනයක් සිදුකොට, මෙකී අරගලයට සිය සාධාරණ දුක්ගැනවිලි හේතුවෙන් […]

 Lanka Lead News බස්නාහිර පළාත් ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති දේශබන්දු තෙන්නකෝන් මහතාට පහරදීමේ සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් සැකකරුවන් 8 දෙනා අධිකරණය හමුවේ වරද පිළිගැනීමෙන් අනතුරුව ඇප මත මුදාහැර ඇති බව වාර්තාවේ. මේ අතර ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයට බලහත්කාරයෙන් ඇතුළු වූ බවට චෝදනා එල්ල වූ රංගන ශිල්පී ජෙහාන් අප්පුහාමි කොටුව මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණයට භාර වී ඇති අතර ඔහුට රුපියල් ලක්ෂ […]

Courtesy One India Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reached out to his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa to finalise arrangements and facilitate his return to the crisis-hit country, a media report said on Monday. Rajapaksa, 73, fled the country and resigned last month in the face of a popular uprising against his government for mismanaging the […]

By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today In his address to the Advocata Institute in Colombo, earlier this month, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said:I think we need to seriously consider getting a report on using nuclear energy in Sri Lanka.”In the current context of national penury, any plan to go for nuclear energy will seem far-fetched, even […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Police has sought public assistance to identify several persons who are accused of entering the Prime Minister’s Office and damaging its property on July 13.  It said the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) is carrying out the investigations regarding the incident of several persons forcibly entering the Prime Minister’s Office and damaging […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says the International Monetary Fund’s disbursement of the Extended Fund Facility to Sri Lanka can be expected by the end of the year, subject to the success of debt restructuring with creditors and successful negotiations with the IMF. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, the Governor also […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Public sector investments from 1956 to 1977 had a tremendous growth, the major reason for the increasing trend was the political pressure towards the elected governments from public and trade unions while restrictions for private investment have been decreed by the government. Investment role and ownership patterns have been misinterpreted by Marxist […]

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C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. (Note: Editor@ft.lk – This essay is an explanation regarding Victor Ivan’s guest column. If you are unable to print it in your newspaper, kindly forward it to him.) Introduction Victor Ivan’s guest column in the DailyFT (August 5, 2022), received an adverse reaction from Sepal Amarasinghe, a fellow traveler in the […]

Major (Dr) Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.  Sri Lanka was affected by a 30-year armed conflict and many combatants and civilians became casualties as a result of this gruesome war.  Many lives were lost and a large number of combatants and civilians lost their limbs due to anti-personal mines and many sustained gunshot injuries. The country had limited resources and […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya. The Editor, LankaWeb. Dear Sir, A few days ago I went to the department of Immigration and Emigration in Battaramulla to get an amendment to my passport. It was so chaotic with thousands of people trying to gain access and with no proper arrangements to have any orderly entry. If people […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The public servants who do not perform their duties properly should leave the service immediately, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says. Addressing the District Development Council in Anuradhapura today (Aug 21), the Head of State said his aim is to unite everyone for the future of the country. Public sector officials and provincial representatives of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The price of kerosene will be increased by Rs. 253.00 effective from midnight today (Aug 21), the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) says. Accordingly, the revised price of kerosene per litre will be raised from Rs. 87.00 to Rs. 340.00.

Courtesy Adaderana The police are seeking the assistance of the general public to identify several individuals who were involved in the recent unrest at the Polduwa Junction. In a statement, the police media division said the Western Province (South) Crimes Division has initiated investigations into the tense situation reported at the Polduwa Junction on the […]

By Sena Thoradeniya M.P. Wimal Weerawansa participating in the debate on Emergency Regulations on 27 July said that CIA through USAID and NED (National Endowment for Democracy) have funded various Sri Lankan Non-Governmental Organisations aiming regime change and protesters were attempting to destroy the State with the aid of external forces. He disclosed the amount […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Buenos Aires was rocked again last week by massive protests against austerity measures imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Structural reforms with austerity have resulted in soaring inflation, currency depreciation, poverty and inequality that is eroding Argentine society and economy, while enabling bail out of private lenders and vulture funds like BlackRock. […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS There is systemic ragging in the universities of Sri Lanka. This ragging is not something generated from within the University. It is a political enterprise  directed from outside the University but executed by students within the University.  This fact is now in the open domain. University ragging is a political enterprise, announced Prof […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results – Albert Einstein Where are the protestors, the system has drowned them. Where is the system, it is where it has always been. Where are the people? they’re all back in the hole they have always been” – paraphrasing the lines […]

The Festival of Bharat Out of 26 Christian nations in Europe, 24 do not even recognise Hinduism as a religion. They practise such overt discrimination at home, yet target India for ‘Christian persecution’: Pt. Satish K. Sharma

Senaka Weeraratna Courtesy The Daily Mirror This is an edited version of an address delivered by Senaka Weeraratna, Hony. Secretary of the German Dharmaduta Society, on September 28, 2016 in support of his resolution entitled ‘Recognition of Buddhism as an official religion in non – Buddhist countries’ at the First Plenary Session of the 28th […]

Mehjabin Bhanu Rajshahi City Corporation in Bangladesh According to the IMF, Bangladesh is not at risk of experiencing a crisis similar to the one that occurred in Sri Lanka. An IMF official said Bangladesh is not facing a crisis and its external position is “very different from several countries in the region”. When describing Bangladesh’s […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 20: The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung is confident that Sri Lanka will recover from its present political and economic troubles, but she cautions that it will have to ensure political stability and take hard decisions in consonance with the IMF’s stipulations to bring about the desired […]