By Sena Thoradeniya 1. DIDN’T GR HEAR THE GALLE FACE PROTESTERS SING”? When the protesters were occupying the Galle Face Green and protesting at some other sites what were our intelligence personnel and Defense Ministry panjandrums doing was anyone’s guess. Did not the deposed President hear the slogans chanted by the protesters, see placards, banners […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake As the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF), team boarded a return flight to Washington DC after a week in Colombo, the Paris Club (PC), stepped in though a revolving door at the strategic Indian Ocean island’s Bandaranaike International Airport in the first week of September. The signing of a ‘Staff Level Agreement’ with […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS It is important to understand exactly what the JVP is looking for among the freshers arriving in university .They are not looking for intelligence or knowledge or beauty. They are   looking for   young persons with a    propensity to strong, unwavering physical violence and cruelty. JVP is a movement that believes in prachandathvaya.  The […]

සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර. 22,9,2022 1 තන්ත්‍රිමලේ පාසැල්වල ලමයින් රෑටත් උදේටත් කාලා නෑ 2 ගම්පහ පැත්තේ ළමයි දවාලට කන්නේ පොල්මඳ 3 ලන්කාවේ මුළු ජනගහනයෙන් 1/3 ආහාර අහේනියෙන් පෙලෙනවා (ලෝක සෞක්‍ය සන්විධානය) 5 ළමා  මඳපෝෂනය ඉහලට 6 පාසැල්වල ලමයි බුදු කුටියේ බුද්ධ පූජාවත් කාලා. 7 රජයේ සේවකයින්ට වැටුප් ගෙවන්ටත්  සල්ලි නෑ.අච්චුගහනටත් බෑ (ප්‍රවාහන ඇමැති බන්ඩුල ගුනවර්ධන) 8 […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Taking one’s own life and or assisting another person to end his or her life has never been endorsed by the Buddha.If that is the clear teaching, how can someone dressed in robes and claiming to be a monk openly threatens the authorities with immolation if the electricity tariff for places of […]

By Raj Moorthy Courtesy The Sunday times Audience. There are many debates these days as to why Sri Lanka must or must not reach out to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance in overcoming the current debilitating economic crisis. Looking at four things about today’s economic situation that is historically unprecedented for Sri Lanka […]

Geethanjana Kudaligamage අපගේ රටට සිදුව ඇති නස්පැත්තිය වන්නේ අපගේ දිළිඳු කම නොව, අප ජීවත්වන වත්මන් ලෝකය පිළිබඳව අපට ඇති අනවබෝධයයි. එනම්, අද ලෝකයේ සිදුවන්නේ කුමක්ද, ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය ආයතන වල කාර්ය භාරය කුමක්ද වැනි කරුණු පිළිබඳව අප සතු අනවබෝධයයි, නොදැනීමයි.  මෙම හේතුව නිසා අප එකම වරද සිය දහස්වර කරන්නෙමු. අප විසින් ඇසිය යුතුම ප්‍රශ්නය කිසිදු දේශපාලකයෙක් […]

Manusha Media මැලේසියානු රැකියා 10,000 ක් මෙරට ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට විවෘත කිරීම සදහා වන ගිවිසුම අත්සන් කිරීම සදහා මැලේසියානු මානව සම්පත් අමාත්‍ය Datuk Seri M. Saravanan මහතා, මැලේසියානු කම්කරු කටයුතු අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල් ප්‍රමුඛ රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික දූත පිරිස ඔක්තෝබර් මසදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණීමට නියමිත අතර  එහි දී රැකියා දහදහසට අදාළ වන ක්ෂේත්‍රයන්, ගිවිසුම් කාල සීමා, වැටුප් ඇතුළු සියලු […]

Media Release Sri Lanka High Commission in India  As part of the regular and ongoing dialogue between them, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with the National Security Advisor of India Shri Ajit Kumar Doval, at the latter’s office in New Delhi today (22 September 2022) Their discussion centered on a comprehensive review of the status of the relations between India and Sri Lanka. Priority areas for future cooperation were also discussed. Deputy National Security […]

Courtesy Business Standard Amid the worst-ever economic crisis since the country gained independence in 1948, Sri Lanka’s inflation rate jumped to 70.2 per cent in August, official data revealed on Thursday.

Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to leave for Japan on September 26 to attend the funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot dead on 8 July, aged 67, at a campaign rally for his political party. According to sources during the visit to Japan, […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed the Speaker of Parliament that the Cabinet of Ministers & the Opposition would be briefed on the staff-level agreement reached International Monetary Fund (IMF) soon. Conveying the President’s clarification, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena stated, The President has informed me that even the Cabinet has not been briefed about […]

Courtesy Adaderana Americares”, one of the world’s leading non-profit organizations focused on health and development, has donated urgently needed medical supplies for the people of Sri Lanka worth more than USD 773,000 (an estimated LKR 279,476,100.28). The donation was made consequent to the request made by the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington D.C., and […]

Courtesy Hiru News President’s Media Division releasing a statement says that the reported incident of a student consuming coconut kernel for lunch due to poverty, was found to be unfounded. ;However, a special prog is initiated on the directives of the President to assist any child/family facing such a situation. For assistance call hotline 0114354647. […]

Courtesy Hiru News In the past few days, there have been reports of students fainting during school morning meetings in various parts of the island. These incidents were reported in schools in Vilachchiya, Thanthirimale and Minuwangoda. This was also discussed in the parliamentary session today (22), and the members of the opposition parties asked the […]