Courtesy The Daily Mirror Dulanjalee Premadasa, the sister of Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa and SJB Member Hirunika Premachandra today gave statements to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over ongoing investigations. The CID summoned Dulanjalee Premadasa to record a statement over the investigation into the setting of fire to President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s private residence in Colombo. […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් හිටපු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා රටේ ජනතාව විසින්ම නියත වශයෙන්ම මීලඟ රාජ්‍ය නායකයා ලෙස පත් කර ගන්නා බව ආධ්‍යාත්මික වේදී ඇහැලේපොළ රන්තිලකගෙ කමල් රෝහණ මහතා පවසයි. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ දෛවය වළගම්බා රජුගේ දෛවයට සමාන බවද පවසන ඔහු මෙය විශ්ව ශක්තිය විසින් සිදුකරන දෙයක් බවත් කියා සිටියි. අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක සාකච්චාවකදී ඔහු […]

Courtesy The Indian Express Indian authorities have expressed worries about the ship’s snooping capability. Amid concerns over a visit by Chinese ship Yuan Wang 5 to his country, visiting Sri Lankan Tourism Minister Harin Fernando on Saturday said that he hoped it would not cause a major diplomatic row, as India understands” its situation. Indian […]

Courtesy DevonLive By the side of his naked body was a glass of Coke which it later turned out contained cyanide Twenty-five years ago Devon was gripped by the story of a mysterious death that was likened to an Agatha Christie novel, and remains unsolved to this day. A man, calling himself Mr Patel, was […]

Courtesy Adaderana Tourism minister Harin Fernando who was in Ahmedabad to promote tourism in the island nation said that as things get back to normal after the recent political crisis in the island nation, the government aims to receive at least 10 lakh tourists this year, mostly from India. Fernando, who was in Ahmedabad to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo South Police Division is seeking public assistance to identify the 50 people who are charged with forcible entry to the Temple Trees in Colombo and damaging its properties on July 09. Information can be submitted to the following telephone numbers: 011 242 1867076 347 73421997 (hotline)

Courtesy Adaderana Former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra arrived at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at around 11.00 a.m. this morning to record a statement with regard to an ongoing probe. Speaking to the media, Premachandra said she was not informed of the nature of the investigation. She alleged that President Ranil Wickremesinghe is now attempting to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The International Monetary Fund said it will need adequate assurances” from Sri Lanka’s creditors for a new program as it prepares a visit to Colombo later this month. The goal of the visit is to make progress on a staff-level agreement for an aid package in the near term,” to help the island […]

Malinda Seneviratne In his ‘The Ballad of East and West’ Rudyard Kipling put the issue of political geographies in a nutshell.Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat Literally, yes, where one ends the other starts and apart from […]

By A. Abdul Aziz – Chairman, Press & Media Desk – AMJSL. ((Given below is an excerpt of the Friday Sermon delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, on 12 August 2022, at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, U.K. gave a discourse on The Blessings & Impact of […]

Courtesy The Island ‘Inflation will not be as high as initially expected’ Inflation will not be as high as initially expected and there are signs of economy stabilising, Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says.Dr. Weerasinghe said that during the past few months a number of initiatives had been made to improve the economy and […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 18 (newsin.asia): Veteran Sri Lankan journalist of audiovisual and print media, Sugeeswara P. Senadhira, has been appointed as Advisor (Media) to Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena. Sugeeswara has the unique record of serving as International Media Director to three Presidents, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Maithripala Sirisena and Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He also served as Sri […]

IMF Communications Department Washington, DC: IMF staff plans to visit Colombo during August 24-31 to continue discussions with the Sri Lankan authorities on economic and financial reforms and policies. The objective is to make progress towards reaching a staff-level agreement on a prospective IMF Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement in the near term. Because Sri Lanka’s […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Says IMF mission due in Colombo towards end of this month to reach staff-level agreement Stresses that no change in govt.’s position about not opting to restructure domestic debt  Reiterates that domestic debt restructuring will have detrimental effects on banks and it will delay economic recovery process Expects inflation to peak […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Defence Ministry has issued detention orders on IUSF convenor Wasantha Mudalige and Hashan Gunathilake, who were arrested following a protest march in Colombo yesterday.  Accordingly, the Defence Ministry has granted permission for them to be detained for 90 days and questioned by the police.  Earlier today, sixteen individuals who were arrested following […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed 06 more coronavirus related deaths for yesterday (18). According to the Govt. Information Department, the victims include 01 male and 05 females. One of them is between the ages 30-59 years. Another one was aged below 30 years while the remaining four were aged 60 […]

Courtesy Adaderana Actor Jehan Appuhami, who was arrested yesterday (18) in Colombo during the protest march held by the Inter-University Students Federation (IUSF) has escaped custody, the police said. The police have initiated an investigation to arrest him. Meanwhile, 16 people who were arrested during the protest were granted bail after being produced before Colombo […]

Courtesy Adaderana Distributing fuel to 12 filling stations that have failed to comply with the guidelines will be suspended, Minister of Power & Energy Kanchana Wijesekera says. The decision was taken at the review meeting of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) marketing division held today (Aug 19) at which the implementation of the QR code […]

By Sena Thoradeniya Broadly speaking there were two major groups who supported and sympathised with the Galle Face Protesters (GLF); (1) Local players and (2) International players. It was easy to identify the local players, but not the international players who were hidden and used various agents and dubious methods to attain their main objective, […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island Relationship Not Normal, Can’t Be…”: S Jaishankar On India-China Ties As reported by a NDTV Staff Writer (13 Aug, 2022}, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that India-China relations cannot be normal unless border situation is and added that if China disturbs the peace and tranquility in […]

Judiciary Refer statements made by Nivad above,  in his defence makes interesting reading 22. The 7th Respondent states that the decision to default on 12th April 2022 was highly suspicious, irrational, arbitrary, illegal, and wrongful and it is inexplicable that it had been hastily carried out in view of the fact that, by end March […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පොලිස් අපරාධ පරීක්‍ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් කැපිටල් මහරාජා සමූහ ව්‍යාපාරයේ සභාපති ශෂී රාජමහේන්ද්‍රන් මහතාගෙන් පැය අටහමාරක පමණ කාලයක් ප්‍රකාශ සටහන් කරගෙන ඇත. පසුලිය ජූලි 09 වැනිදා එවකට අගමැති වත්මන් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ පෞද්ගලික නිවසට ගිනිතැබීමේ සිදුවීම ගැන සිදුකරන විමර්ශනවලට අදාළව මෙම ප‍්‍රකාශ සටහන් කරගෙන තිබේ. පසුගිය අඟහරුවාදා පෙරවරු 10.00 පමණ […]

Courtesy The Daily Star Workers carry a basket of watermelons at a wholesale vegetable and fruit market amid an ongoing economic crisis on the outskirts of Colombo. Sri Lanka defaulted on its $51 billion foreign debt in April and is seeking an International Monetary Fund bailout after months of food, fuel and medicine shortages. PHOTO: […]

Courtesy The Telegraph OnLine (India) The nation is in midst of an unprecedented economic crisis that has led to severe shortages of fuel and other essentials Sri Lanka’s forex situation has “improved” and the economy has started to see favourable results due to decisions made by the Central Bank to mitigate the country’s economic crisis, […]

Courtesy News18.com Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country last month amid public protests calling for his resignation, is awaiting a US Green Card in order to return to the US and settle there with his wife and son, according to a report by the Daily Mirror. The report quoted ‘reliable sources’ […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Australian government will lift emergency aid to Sri Lanka to AU$75 million as the south Asian island grapples with an economic crisis that has triggered a new surge of people fleeing on boats for Australia. Sri Lanka’s worst financial meltdown has led to skyrocketing prices and crippling shortages of food, fuel and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Governor of the Central Bank says that Sri Lanka’s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is making good progress and that an IMF delegation is expected to visit the island by the end of August to reach a staff-level agreement.  “IMF program is making a good progress. For example, IMF mission […]

Courtesy Adaderana (Reuters) – Sri Lanka will ask Japan to invite the Indian Ocean island’s main creditor nations, including China and India, to talks on bilateral debt restructuring, as it seeks a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades, its president said on Thursday. Someone needs to call in, invite the main creditor […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister Susil Premajayantha says he does not believe that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will get involved in politics again after returning to Sri Lanka. Responding to a question from journalists on whether he is expecting the former President to engage in politics again after returning from overseas, he said: No. Never. I don’t […]

Courtesy Adaderana During a discussion this evening, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has requested President Ranil Wickremesinghe to facilitate the return of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to Sri Lanka, MP Sanjeeva Edirimanna said. SLPP parliamentarians had met the President for an official discussion this evening (18) at the President’s Office. Expressing his views during […]