Courtesy The Wire Yuan Wang 5’s docking was delayed after India cited security concerns, but New Delhi and Washington “failed to give concrete reasons” for why they opposed its arrival, Colombo said. New Delhi: Sri Lanka on Friday, August 12, granted permission for the high-tech Chinese tracking vessel Yuan Wang 5 to dock at the Hambantota Port […]

Shenali D Waduge There are some people who sit on cushy taxpayer paid platforms & promote privatization while others also mandated to function as a government body accepts foreign funds compromising their ‘advice’ to the state. If entities are not working for the state, do the tax payers require to pay for them? Are these […]

Shenali D Waduge In the name of development Sri Lanka has seen enormous changes. How far development was not planned considering the environment is seen by many environment-related catastrophes across the island. The geopolitical position of Sri Lanka impacts every issue Sri Lanka faces be it local or international. The efforts to control Sri Lanka […]

Senaka Weeraratna ‘Human Rights’ mercenaries are those who unceasingly vilify the ethnic majority until almost the last pound of flesh is extracted, and are constantly promoting the anti-majoritarian propaganda rhetoric of Multi-Culturalism, Secularism, Reconciliation, and whatnot, and now the Division of the country on Ethnic and Religious lines. The greatest victory in recent times was […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Gotabhaya Rajapaksa made mistakes as President. However, he should not be treated like a Pariah. There are other opportunists riding the wave of discontentment, who should wear the hat of a Pariah before Gotabhaya. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa made mistakes as the President of the country, and grave ones at that too. Some of […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS I read content in many publications that Sri Lanka has an economic crisis (2022) that is unimaginable to the government’s economic advisors what should do to get out of the problem. If the government economic advisors knew about this situation before 2022, why didn’t they educate the policymaking process of the country? […]

by Nava Thakuria It was probably two decades back, when a group of journalists and Guwahati-based patriots marched on a street of Guwahati to celebrate the Independence Day. As a number of separatist armed militant outfits imposed a general strike on the day (that was the way the ethnic insurgents made them visible in the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS JVP ragging in the University started in the 1970s. G.R.Morrel recalls that at University of Kelaniya where he taught as an instructor in the late 70’s, the Students’ Council was in the hands of the JVP.   They ran the campus mainly through intimidation. New students were ragged mercilessly, and staff members who […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ සේවක සංගමය දිනය – 2022අගෝස්තු11 1980 අංක 57 දරන මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදල පණත මගින් සංස්කෘතික ත‍්‍රිකෝණ යෝජනා ක‍්‍රමය යටතේ ශ‍්‍රී ලාංකේය අතීත ශ‍්‍රී විභූතිය අනාගත පරපුරට සුරක්ෂා කරනු පිණිස අනූපමේය සේවයක් ඉටුකළ මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ වර්තමානය ඉතා ඛේදජනක තත්ත්වයකට පත්ව ඇත. ශ‍්‍රී ලාංකික ජනතාවට දැවැන්ත ප‍්‍රතිලාභ රැුසක් ලබාදෙමින් අතීතයේ ආදි […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. මහාචාර්ය දයා සෝමසුන්දරම් ඇතුළු වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග, ආචාර්ය ගැමිලා සමරසිංහ (කොලඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය), ආනන්ද ගලප්පත්ති, ටී. විජයසංගර් සහ ඇන්ඩෘ කීෆ් විසින් ලියන ලද “Scarred Communities” ග්‍රන්ථය මුද්‍රණද්වාරයෙන් එළි දක්වා තිබේ. මෙම ග්‍රන්ථය මගින් ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සමාජය විසින් මුහුණ දුන් ස්වභාවික ආපදා සහ යුදමය මෙන්ම තරුණ කැරලි නිසා හටගත් මනෝ සමාජයීය හානි පිලිබඳව විශ්ලේෂණය කරයි. මානව සමාජයක් විසින් මුහුණ දෙන […]

 lanka C news චීනයේ Yuan Wang 5 නෞකාව හම්බන්තොට වරායට පැමිණීමට එරෙහිව කටයුතු කිරීම මගින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදලෙන් බලාපොරොත්තු ණය මුදල ලබා ගැනීමේ ක්‍රියාවලියට අහිතකර බලපෑමක් එල්ලවනු ඇතැයි ඉකොනොමික් ටයිම්ස් පුවත්පත වාර්තා කරයි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සඳහා ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලින් ණය පැකේජය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට නම් පළමුව ශ්‍රී ලංකා ණය තිරසාර තක්සේරු වාර්තාවේ ප්‍රධාන ණය […]

By Pranab Dhal Samanta Courtesy The economic Times   Synopsis The worrying part is that China may link Sri Lanka’s message to defer the Yuan Wang 5’s ‘refueling stop’ at Hambantota with the IMF approval process. According to Beijing, this is a research vessel, making a routine halt with no negative intent. Can Sri Lanka’s […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror There was a need for change   Tourism had to sacrifice a bit   Most people remained silent before protests   We just take things for granted   Governments must be more accountable  Tourism has literally come to nothing Not fair for us to ask for handouts The tourism industry was one of the biggest foreign […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe states that he aims to prepare a governance structure with fair representation for each political party. His remarks came during a discussion held at the Presidential Secretariat last evening (Aug 10) with several parties regarding the formation of an all-party government. The President has further mentioned that his main objective […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 10 (Counterpoint): The current disturbance in India-Sri Lanka relations caused by the proposed docking of the sophisticated Chinese military survey vessel Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port is but the latest in a long series of hiccups in Indo-Lankan strategic relations. The relationship has been seeing ups and downs since the […]

lanka C news ගාලුමෝදර අරගලකරුවන් ඉවත් වන්නේ ගාලු මුවදොර පිටියෙන් පමණක් බව අන්තර් විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ශිෂ්‍ය බල මණ්ඩල කැඳවුම්කරු සහ ගාළු මුවදොර අරගලයේ ප‍්‍රධානියෙකුද වන වසන්ත මුදලිගේ සඳහන් කරයි. ගාලු මුවදොරින් ඉවත් වුණාට ඕන වෙලාවක ඕනෑම ගොඩනැගිල්ලක් අත්පත් කර ගැනීමට පැමිණෙන බවද හෙතෙම පවසයි. ඒ සඳහා ජනතාව සමග ඕනෑම මොහොතක පැමිණීමට සූදානම් බවද හෙතෙම කියා […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government’s decision to postpone the arrival of the Chinese ship Yuan Wang 5 at Hambatota port, would have a negative impact on the long-term friendship between Sri Lanka and China, the Association for Sri Lanka-China Social and Cultural Cooperation (ASLCSCC) said. ASLCSCC President Indrananda Abeysekera said that our government should […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Following the discussion between the National Transport Commission (NTC) officials and the private bus owners regarding the revision of bus fares, the bus owners behaved violently and threatened the NTC officials with death. The police said death threats have been made at the NTC officials following talks on the revision of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Director-General of Health Services confirmed 06 new coronavirus-related deaths for August 09. This brings the country’s death toll from the pandemic to 16,603. The deaths reported today include 04 males and 05 females above the age of 60 years, according to the figures released by the Department of Government Information.  Meanwhile, 227 more […]

Deye.com Even though many people think about rising temperatures and extreme heat when we talk about climate change, the reality is that climate change involves much more than that. Researchers have argued that temperature on its own is not the most effective way to measure climate change. They suggest that the energy produced by extreme weather […]

Shenali D Waduge The Indo-Lanka Accord was signed on 29 July 1987 in Colombo with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi signing on behalf of India & President J R Jayawardena signing on behalf of Sri Lanka. There are 6 points annexed to the accord. The text of the Accord & the 6 point annexures are what […]

By Garvin Karunaratne It was four months ago in March 2022 that I suggested immediate action re our economic meltdown. I recall:The Way Out of the economic abyss besetting Sri Lanka” in the Lanka Web of March 11 th. It is months- four months have passed and yet as Bindu says we are only talking. […]

Sugath Kulatunga In January I wrote on FB that I would take up the genesis of the EDB. But other than in bits of anecdotes where I dealt with a few salient developments of the institutional history I had not attempted a comprehensive cover of the fascinating story which is given below. When the Additional […]

ආචාර්ය දසරත් ජයසූරිය සභාපති, ස්පර් සoවිධානය ( ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව ) ශ්‍රී ලoකාවේ සාමය, ඒකීය භාවය සහ මානව අයිතීන් රැකීම උදෙසා, දැනට දශක දෙකකට අධික කාලයක් ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ  සිට අඛණ්ඩව කටයුතු කරනු ලබන, දේශහිතේශී ශ්‍රී ලාoකිකයින්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත්  ‘ස්පර්’ නමින් හදුන්වන අප සoවිධානය, ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව තුල ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික නියෝජනය සිදු කෙරන ආකාරය පිළිබඳව සිය කණගාටුව සහ කනස්සල්ල ප්‍රකාශ […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary. CONVENTION CALLS FOR JUSTICE AND WORKING FOR THE GREATER GOOD TO ATTAIN LASTING PEACE  The 56th Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 7th August 2022 in which five speeches delivered by the World Head the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 9: On Tuesday, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe paid his first official visit to the Army HQ in the outskirts of Colombo and addressed the troops even as protesters were planning to renew the agitation to oust him from the Presidency.   As it turned out, the function at the Army […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Security forces have saved the day by safeguarding the legislature and thus avoided further anarchy, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today. President Wickremesinghe during his visit to the Defence Secretariat in Akuregoda said a very few understand the important operation in which security forces were involved in July this year. Protesters were […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Actress and GotaGoGama activist Damitha Abeyratne said today that they have decided to vacate from the Galle Face protest site. However, speaking to the media she said that the Aragalaya was not over. “Though we have physically left the Galle Face, the Aragalaya is very organized. Remember that we are ready […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Six new coronavirus-related deaths were confirmed for yesterday by the Director-General of Health Services bringing the country’s death toll to 16,594. Also, 214 persons tested positive for COVID-19 today. Accordingly, Covid-19 cases reported in the country since the pandemic began rose to to 6667,158

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General informed the Supreme Court today (09), that he has strong objections with regard to the Fundamental Rights (FR) petition filed by Rev. Fr. Jeewantha Peiris. Rev. Fr. Jeewantha Peiris, who is an activist of the ‘Aragalaya’ protest movement, had previously filed an FR petition with the Supreme Court seeking an […]