Courtesy Adaderana Police said that a total of 12 persons have been arrested so far following the protest by university students at Union Place in Colombo today (18). Eerier, police had said that 05 protesters including IUSF convenor Wasantha Mudalige, against whom an arrest warrant was pending, were arrested during the protest march in Colombo. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara has lodged a complaint with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today to investigate into the Ceylon Petroleum Cooperation (CPC) and Ceylon Petrol Storage Terminals (CPSTL) activities. In a tweet, the minister said he requested to investigate into the fuel procurement, evaluation of proposals, non-placement of orders, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Bloomberg Myanmar is set to join a growing list of developing countries that are warming up to Russian oil imports amid growing shortages across some of the most impoverished parts of Asia.  The military-led government bought Russian fuel oil and the cargoes will arrive in phases from September, said junta chief Min Aung […]

Courtesy Adaderana Nine petitions have been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, Ada Derana reporter said. The relevant petitions were filed by nine citizens including the Secretary to the ‘Vinivida Peramuna’, Attorney-at-Law Nagananda Kodituwakku and Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekara. The Attorney General has been named as the respondent in the […]

කතුවැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම  අරුණ පුවත් විදේශයන්හි සිට ක්‍රියාත්මක වන දෙමළ සංවිධාන හයකට හා පුද්ගලයන් තුන්සිය දහසය දෙනකුට මෙරට තුළ පනවා තිබූ තහනම ඉවත් කිරීමට ආණ්ඩුව ගෙන ඇති තීරණය සාමාන්‍ය ජනතාව අතර කෙසේ වෙතත් දේශපාලන ලෝකය තුළ උණුසුම් මාතෘකාවක් බවට පත්ව තිබේ. මෙම තහනම පැනවීමට පියවර ගෙන තිබුණේ එම සංවිධාන හා පුද්ගලයන් කොටි සංවිධානයට ආධාර හා […]

නයන තරංග ගමගේ  උපුටා ගැන්ම  අරුණ පුවත් IMF වැඩසටහන සාර්ථක කරගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් ඉදිරිපත්ව ඇති ප්‍රධානම කොන්දේසි දෙකක්ම ඉටුකිරීමේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව විශාල අවධානමක IMF විසින් පෙන්වාදෙන සියලුම ණයහිමි රටවල් විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව කෙරෙහි මේ මොහොතේ ‘ලිහිල් දැක්මක්’ පවත්වාගත යුතුය. දැන් චීනය අල්ලා ඇත්තේ එම නිලයෙනි ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විදේශ ප්‍රතිපත්තියේ සැලකියයුතු චංචලභාවයක් පැවැති, ගෙවීගිය මාස 07ක කාලයේදී ඉන්දියාවෙන් […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රී ලංකාව මුහුණ දෙමින් සිටින ආර්ථික හා සමාජයීය දුෂ්කරතාවයන් පිළිබඳ ව චීනයට බලවත් හැඟීමක් පවතින බව චීන විදේශ අමාත්‍යාංශය සඳහන් කරයි. එහි මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශක වැන්ග් වෙන් බින් මහතා චීනයේ බීජිං නුවර පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට මෙම දුෂ්කරතාවලින් මිදීම සඳහා චීනය උපරිම සහාය ලබාදීමට කටයුතු කරන […]

Courtesy News 18 China’s high-tech research vessel ‘Yuan Wang 5’ is on a mission of peace and friendship” and its docking at a Sri Lankan port will deepen bilateral relations in the field of space, science and technology, according to the controversial ship’s captain. Chinese ballistic missile and satellite tracking ship ‘Yuan Wang 5’ is […]

T. Ramakrishnan Courtesy The Hindu The island is preparing new packages such as the Murugan-Shiva Shakthi trails Sri Lanka’s tourism officials, conscious of the dire need to shore up their country’s economy, plan to woo a greater number of Indian tourists, who constitute the single largest segment of foreign tourists, through new packages such as […]

Geeta Mohan  Courtesy India Today Reacting to the docking of the Chinese vessel in Sri Lanka, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India is monitoring the developments in the island nation. Jaishankar says India is monitoring China’s spy vessel docked in Sri Lanka Chinese ship docked at Hambantota port after Sri Lankan authorities […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Former Public Security Minister, Rear Admiral (ret.) Sarath Weerasekera, has taken exception to the withdrawal of permission granted to Chinese research vessel Yuang Wang 5 to visit Hambantota port for refueling. Sri Lanka, in 2017, leased Hambantota harbour to China for 99 years. The ex-Navy Chief of Staff has […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Three Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MPs Dr.Harsha de Silva, Eran Wickramaratne and Kabir Hashim today said they no longer intend to criticize the government but will focus on making proposals to push the nation through the current economic crisis. The three MPs made this remark at a press conference last morning. […]

Courtesy Adaderana China on Tuesday said the activities of its high-tech research vessel will not affect the security of any country and should not be obstructed” by any third party,” as the ship berthed at Sri Lanka’s strategic southern port of Hambantota amid Indian and US concerns. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the […]

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Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe, speaking of the reforms he plans to introduce for the revival of the economy, stated that the Sri Lankan government is looking at raising income taxes and widening the tax net by taxing capital and wealth in order to bring in some of the lost revenue. In an interview with The Economist […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s death toll from Covid-19 climbed to 16,635 today after the Director General of Health Services confirmed 05 more Covid-19 related deaths in the country for yesterday (Aug 16).  According to the Govt. Information Department, four victims were aged 60 years and above. The remaining one was aged between 30-59 years. Among […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe states that the emergency regulations will not be extended further as the situation of the country is getting back to normal and that it will lapse by the end of the week. But that is not enough. We have to have an attitudinal change and if we do that, then […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka is faced with several challenges – all taken together the ultimate aim is simply to take control of Sri Lanka. Controlling the resources makes a nation compliant and meets the geopolitical objectives of parties using various modus operandi to realize their goals. This is what citizens of Sri Lanka need […]

Sena Thoradeniya The previous version of this piece was written soon after the Mirihana Incident (31, March,2022) but I was unable to get it published due to some reasons which do not have any importance to the reader. Whilst accepting that during the past one month (in April) many developments had taken place beyond anybody’s […]

බන්දුල චන්ද්‍රසේකර පසුගිය ආණ්ඩු  සමයේ හිටපු මුදල් අමාත්‍ය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මැදිහත් වීමෙන් සහ එවකට ලංකා විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලයේ  හිටපු සහාපති එම්. එම්. සී. ෆඩිනැන්ඩු මහතා විසින් අත්සන් කළ අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුමකට අනුව, මෙරට සුළං බලශක්ති ව්‍යාපෘති දෙකක් ඉන්දියානු අදානි සමාගමට පැවරීමට කටයුතු සිදුකෙරිණි. මන්නාරමේ මෙගාවොට් 286 ක සහ පුනරීන් හි මෙගාවොට් 234 ක එම සුළං බල […]

I. de Silva Canada Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Conservative Party Leadership Candidate – 2022 Dear Mr. Poilievre Reference your “demand” for the arrest of Mr. Gothabaya Rajapakse, the former President of Sri Lanka, please explain what right you have to make any “demands” on politicians of Sri Lanka and the Government of Sri Lanka as well […]

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Dr Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy The Daily News Central Bank of Sri Lanka After seventy-four years of democratic Governments, within the framework of democracy, Sri Lanka has today declared bankruptcy, or on the verge of it, due to the lack of much-needed dollars to pay back debts to international organisations up to US 55 billion […]

by LankaPropertyWeb The recently released Q2 data of the House Price Index of LankaPropertyWeb revealed that the overall selling prices of apartments increased by 45.17% when compared to Q2 of 2021. According to developers and real estate agents that LankaPropertyWeb has been in contact with, these price increases are largely a cause of the demand […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ගාලුමුවදොර මූලික කරගෙන ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඇතිවූ අරගලයට වියදම් කළේය ඩයස්පෝරාව බව එහි ප්‍රධාන නිමලන් විශ්වනාදන් සඳහන් කරයි. ඩුබායි කටාර් වැනි රාජ්‍ය වල සිට මුදල් අරගලයට ලබා දුන් බවත් ඒවායේ ගිණුම් විස්තර තමන් සතුව ඇති බවත් හෙතෙම පැවසීය. මෙතෙක් තහනම් කර තිබූ සංවිධාන හයක තහනම නැති කරගැනීමත් සමඟ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ඩොලර් […]

Courtesy Adaderana Issuing a clarification on Sri Lanka lifting the ban imposed on several Tamil diaspora organisations, the Defence Ministry says that such inclusions and exclusions for blacklisted individuals and organizations are routinely carried out by relevant authorities after observation and careful study over a continuous period of time. According to the blacklisting and delisting […]

Courtesy Adaderana Britain has launched a scheme to extend tariff cuts to hundreds of products, such as clothes and food, from developing countries including Sri Lanka, part of London’s post-Brexit efforts to set up systems to replace those run by the European Union. The UK’s new Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) is one of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the State of Emergency, which is scheduled to lapse by the end of this week, will not be extended.  As the country’s situation is back to normal, I will not extend the State of Emergency which is scheduled to lapse by the end of this week,” he said […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed 06 more Covid-19 related deaths in the country for yesterday (Aug 15).  The Department of Government Information reported that all the victims are over 60 years of age and include three males and three females. Meanwhile another 195 new cases of coronavirus have been detected […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is spending for his current foreign travels through his personal funds and not through state funds, the Government Information Department said today. Issuing a statement, it said former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa does not spend government money on any expenses he makes abroad and that all such expenses shall be […]