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 […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Unlike other political parties, the JVP has actively intruded into the   university as a disruptive force. It has obstructed university education in several ways. It has hampered undergraduate studies, and made promising students leave university by torturing and sexually harassing them. UGC survey on ragging (2018) observed that one of the consequences of […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya. Politics should not be used to advance religions and vice versa.Similarly, avoid using sports to advance religions.It will lead to both the nation’s and sport’s demise.In fact, it should make illegal to make any religious gestures on a playing field. Sri Lanka Cricket should take a very serious look at the incident involving one […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka’s current taxation system is only focused on taxing income and consumption. How about wealth? Sri Lanka has a horrible disparity between the top 1% and the bottom 50%. The top 1% (about 200,000 people) owns 32% of the wealth while the bottom 50% (over 11 million people) owns just 3.7% of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella says that the news reports being circulated claiming that the ‘Thriposha’ distributed among newborn babies and mothers contain the carcinogen called Aflatoxin is completely false. Speaking in parliament today (21) the Health Minister said there is no Aflatoxin in Thriposha and that legal action will be taken against the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Malaysia’s Cabinet has agreed to recruit 10,000 workers from Sri Lanka after taking into account the state of the country which has been hit by an economic crisis, says Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan. In a statement on Wednesday (Sept 21), the Malaysian Human Resources Minister said the Sri Lankan government had submitted […]

Shenali D Waduge Dravida Nadu was a Christian Missionary movement & Tamil Eelam is possibly too. How India got wrangled to train & arm LTTE in a project initially rooted by the Church is a puzzle and something for India to think about. However, while LTTE remains banned by Watching the pomp and pageantry & […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Any insurgency has to have a base for the recruitment of cadres, training and indoctrination observed analysts. JVP decided to use the universities of Sri Lanka for this purpose. The university was ideal for this purpose. It was a loosely organized enclave.  The university is a good recruiting ground for the JVP, observed […]

Manusha Media Minister Manusha Nanayakkara hands over the vehicle import permit to the first recipient’s nominee” The nominated representative of the first recipient of the newly introduced programme to allow Sri Lankan migrant workers to import an electric vehicle after remitting money through official channels received the relevant vehicle import permit from Minister of Labour […]

Kamal Uddin Mazumder Dhaka Bangladesh As the Indo-Pacific region represents the world’s economic and strategic center of gravity, the Indian Ocean today is becoming the centerpiece of all geo-strategic play. So, Cooperation in the region is crucial to implementing the international community’s global agenda, including achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Major powers like the […]

ALI SUKHANVER ‘Countering America’s Adversaries through Sanctions Act’ commonly known as CAATSA is considered the most fatal weapon which is used against the countries not in good books of America. Just a few months back, it was in the news that the US authorities were considering imposing sanctions on India because of its trade ties […]

by Arundathie Abeysinghe Courtesy AsiaNews Discussions are underway between central banks to allow Russian credit cards to operate in Sri Lanka. Last year almost 17,000 Russian tourists visited the island. The country is in economic recovery and also hopes to obtain a loan to buy fuel. Colombo (AsiaNews) – Sri Lankan authorities are considering joining […]

By Hu Weijia Courtesy Global Times Illustration: Chen Xia/Global TimesWith a total of $968 million in loans in four months of 2022, India “has emerged as Sri Lanka’s largest bilateral lender, overtaking China in the process,” India’s ANI news agency reported on Monday, citing Daily Financial Times. Sri Lanka has borrowed not only from China […]

By Ben Cost Courtesy New York Post A farmer tragically died of a fatal infection caused by swallowing a fish bone.B.M.Munasinghe via IJSCR MORE ON:FREAK ACCIDENTS Horrifying video shows woman cheat death as NYC crane falls on car I fell 5 feet and broke my foot on my wedding day — my groom kept partying […]

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම සමෘද්ධිමත් ජාතියක් වීමට එකට එක්ව බංකොලොත්භාවයට එරෙහිව සටන් කළ යුතු බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අවධාරණය කර තිබේ. ඒ, බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ඩයස්පෝරාව සමග ඊයේ (සැප්. 19) පැවති හමුවකදී ය. එමෙන් ම, ඩයස්පෝරා කාර්යාල ව්‍යාපෘතිය ඇතුළු ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ නිර්මාණය වී ඇති නව ආයෝජන අවස්ථා සඳහා එක්වන ලෙස ද ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඔවුන්ට ආරාධනා කර ඇත. බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was only some  important people who had accompanied President Ranil Wickremesinghe on his recent tour to Britain to attend the funeral of British Monarch Queen Elizabeth II, a spokesperson from the President’s office confirmed today. According to the spokesperson, only President Wickremesinghe, Ms. Wickremesinghe, a special aide, three security personnel […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Following controversy over grounded aircraft by its government, Aeroflot has announced that it will resume services to Sri Lanka. It is understood that from October, the Moscow-Colombo route will be reinstated, on conditions being promised by the Sri Lankan government that none of its planes will be grounded or arrested. On […]

Courtesy Adaderana In a letter to the President, the Chief Prelates of the three Buddhist Chapters today request for a methodical and concessionary electricity tariff policy for places of religious worship. The Mahanayake Theros, informing about the severe difficulty faced by religious places of worship due to the new electricity tariff revision, state that it […]

Courtesy Adaderana India said on Tuesday it had begun talks with Sri Lanka on restructuring its debt and promised to support the crisis-hit neighbour mainly through long-term investments after providing nearly $4 billion of financial aid. Sri Lanka, a tourism-dependent South Asian country of 22 million, is struggling with its worst economic crisis in more […]

Garvin Karunaratne, former Government Agent, Matara, 19/9/2022 The present Government has already embarked on a programme of privatization, despite the fact that it has no mandate from the people. In the Presidential Election where over sixty percent of people voted and elected Gotabhaya as the President, as well as in the General Election where the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The university rag” was carried out by the senior students who are instructed by the Student Unions, who in turn are led by the Inter University Federation of Students (IUFS)  which is controlled by the JVP. The leaders were elusive, observed critics.  The seniors who rag are invariably connected to the Students’ Union […]

Prof. Hudson McLean God Save the King – which King?Senaka Weeraratna LankaWeb – God Save the King – which King? The Real Sinhala King of Sri Lanka Parakramabahu the Great Parākramabāhu I (Sinhala: මහා පරාක්‍රමබාහු, c. 1123–1186), or Parakramabahu the Great, was the king of Polonnaruwa from 1153 to 1186. Last King of Sri Lanka […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel former Ambassador to UAE and Israel President Ambassador’s Forum Memory and Imagination Israel – a friend of Sri Lanka – leader on innovations agriculture and a world Power though a tiny nuclear nation Sri Lanka is a friend of the State of Israel maintaining friendly relations since the birth of Israel […]

Manusha Media ඊශ්‍රායල් රැකියා සදහා පිටත්ව යාමේදී කිසියම් පිරිසක් මුදල් එකතු කරන්නේ නම් ඔවුන්ට විරුද්ධව නීතිමය පියවර ගන්නා බවත්, මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් එල්ලවන චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජාත්‍යන්තරයේ සහාය ලබාගෙන පරීක්ෂණයක් පවත්වා තරාතිරම නොබලා දඩුවම් ලබාදෙන බවත්, කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් චෝදනා එල්ල කරමින් නොසිට අදාල සාක්ෂි සමග පැමිණිලි ඉදිරිපත් කරන […]

Senaka Weeraratna Sri Lanka has a strong case for demanding and obtaining reparations from all three Western colonial powers i.e., the Portuguese, Dutch, and the British. We were victims under Colonial Rule. This is indisputable. This is the Message that the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission must convey to the World instead of appearing shamelessly […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS UGC conducted a study titled ‘Ragging, Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Sri Lankan University System’ in 2018.  The study was done in eight universities. Nearly 15000 students were interviewed and 1551 staff responses were obtained. The study had certain limitations, such as a short time given for the questionnaires, small number of […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia   Colombo, September 19: In 1796, the British took over Ceylon from the Dutch after a brief military operation launched from Madras. The change in regime put the White Dutch and people of mixed Dutch-Ceylonese blood (called Dutch Burghers) in a quandary. They wondered what their position would be under the new dispensation. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The seven Sri Lankans in Ukraine who were allegedly captured and tortured by Russian soldiers in the Kharkiv region are not medical students, State Minister of Foreign Affairs Tharaka Balasuriya confirmed. Earlier today (Sep. 19), a journalist from Kyiv and Kharkiv region’s police disclosed appalling details about the torture the seven victims had […]