Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya. According to official data, Sri Lanka’s public sector now employs more than 1.5 million people, doubling in size over the previous 15 years. Despite having one public servant for every 14 inhabitants, efficiency in the public sector is lower than that of Sri Lanka’s Asian counterparts. The need for staff reductions […]

By Rifat Halim Acres of newsprint have been devoted to Rishi Sunak’s rise. He is said to be the first Asian to occupy No. 10 Downing Street.  This is not correct. Asia begins with the Tigris river. Boris Johnson’s great grandfather was a Turkish politician. He should have been called Boris Kemal, as Johnson is […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය. ඉන්දියාවේ ගුජරාටයේ පාලමක් කඩා වැටීමෙන් පුද්ගලයන් 130 කට අධික සංඛ්‍යාවක් ඛේදජනක ලෙස මිය යාම සහ තවත් බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට තුවාල සිදුවීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා, ඉන්දීය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි මහතාට සිය කණාගාටුව පළ කරයි. සිද්ධියෙන් මියගිය අයගේ පවුල්වලට සිය ශෝකය ප්‍රකාශ කරන අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා තුවාල ලැබූවන්ට ඉක්මන් සුවය ද ප්‍රාර්ථනා කර සිටියි.

Words of Wisdom Buddhist story on meditation which can teach you how to control your thoughts. This story can teach you how to control your mind. In this beginners meditation video you can learn to meditate and control your thoughts. This monkey mind story can teach a lot about meditation. Watch and share with your […]

 අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කොරියාවේ හැලොවින් උත්සවයක් අතරතුර ඇති වූ තෙරපීමකින් 150ට අධික පිරිසක් මියයාමේ සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා,  කොරියානු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය හැන් ඩක් සෝ (Han Duck – soo) මහතාට ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජයේ සහ ජනතාවගේ බලවත් ශෝකය පළ කර සිටියි.

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Courtesy Motivation Ark Steve Jobs delivers an inspirational speech. Listen to the end for the most life changing quote of all-time. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that you cannot achieve your dreams. You will be inspired and motivated to go out there and achieve your goals. I hope you all enjoy this motivational video. […]

Courtesy CNA Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eased to 66 per cent in October after hitting 69.8 per cent in September, the crisis-struck country’s statistics department said on Monday. The still extremely elevated Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI) reflected a 85.6 per cent jump in food prices in October and a 56.3 per cent climb […]

Courtesy News18 President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said his government will appoint a committee to seek how best to integrate the Indian-origin Tamil workers in the hill plantation regions further into the Sri Lankan society. Wickremesinghe’s remarks came on Sunday during an event in Colombo to accept a consignment of medicine donated by the Union Territory […]

Courtesy Entertainment Times Ashok Kumar Kainth, a historian is reportedly threatening legal action against the makers of ‘Ram Setu’ starring Akshay Kumar in the lead.According to reports, the Punjabi, who heads the department of Ramayan Research Committee in Sri Lanka, alleged that his research work and life story have been used in the film without his permission. Read Also‘Ram […]

Courtesy The Times of Oman Muscat: SriLankan Airlines Chief Executive Officer Richard Nuttall said that it is the best time to visit Sri Lanka.  There has never been a better time to visit (the country) as  the hotels have low occupancy and the Sri Lankan currency is devalued. The government, SriLankan Airlines and all participants in […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today ordered Ven. Uduwe Dhammaloka Thera to use loudspeakers without causing an annoyance and disturbance to the residents around Alan Mathiniyaramaya Temple in Polhengoda. The Court made this order consequent to a private plaint filed by six parties including Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Janatha Vikukthi Peramuna is still behaving like they did in the 88-89 era where they unleased violence on the people, SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa said today.   “We thought that there had been a change with the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) up to some extent. But still, the way that they […]

Courtesy Hiru News Polonnaruwa District Secretary, Dimbulagala Divisional Secretary, Zonal Education Director, Principals of these schools villagers have confirmed that news report claiming children of 08 villages in Dimbulagala stopped schooling due to food shortage is completely false according to the Presidential Media Division.

By Sena Thoradeniya a pile of crooked nonsense” with the winner determined by who knows who, who’s sleeping with who, who’s selling drugs to who, who’s married to who, whose turn is”. That is how A.L. (Alison Louise) Kennedy, a Scottish writer and Booker Prize judge in 1996 described the Booker Prize in 2001. Preamble  […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror There is a new trend of increasing use of synthetic drugs known as ICE (methamphetamine crystals) among girls, National Dangerous Drugs Control Board (NDDCB) said. NDDCB Assistant Counsellor Lakmee Nilanka said many girls and young women are lured into using drug through beauty parlors. She revealed these while participating in an […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While privatisation of SriLankan is high on the agenda of the new government in the island nation, the airline’s CEO says there is a strong future for the country’s national carrier supporting the growth of the Sri Lankan economy in general and tourism in particular. We are open to the proposal […]

by Garvin Karunaratne, former GA Matara – Rahula College Matara,  a chemistry grad of Colombo and  an Member of Parliament shows us the way.  The IMF showed us the way to live on loans, and we lived a life of extravaganze from 1978 and this paved the path for our foreign debt of $ 55billion, […]

Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara Eric Solstheim is a Norwegian politician cum diplomat well connected to all top politicians ranging from Presidents, Prime Ministers and many others all over the world with a tremendous influence swaying over the western world and international institutions, like the IMF.WB and the UNHR that are not well disposed towards Sri Lanka. […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති චීන පොදු නිෂ්පාදන පක්‍ෂය (අපිට පුරුදු විදිහට නම්, චීන කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්‍ෂය) කියන්නේ මහ දැවැන්ත දේශපාලන සංවිධානයක්. මේ වෙද්දි ඒ පක්‍ෂයේ සාමාජිකත්වය කෝටි දහයකට ආසන්නයි. ඒ කියන්නේ අපේ රටේ ජනගහනය වගේ පස් ගුණයක් විතර. මේ පක්‍ෂයේ සාමාජිකත්වය ලබාගැනීමත් ලේසි වැඩක් නෙවෙයි. සාමාන්‍යයෙන් සාමාජිකත්ව අයදුම්පත් දහයක් ලැබුණාම අනුමැතිය ලැබෙන්නේ හැම සුදුසුකමක් ම සම්පූර්ණ කරපු […]

Chandre Dharmawardana A 2015 U-tube  from 2015 has been resurrected because the Booker name is in the news  when the Booker prize awarded to Karunatilleke.  But the Booker Prize has hardly anything to do with the Booker and Tate industrial giant. The Booker price is funded by the fortunes of people like Ian Fleming (James […]

Priyantha Hettige Diabetes is a major killer of humans. It is very dangerous. It comes third or fourth after the chief killers namely, heart attacks and strokes. Anyone can develop diabetes by simply eating the wrong foods- by following the sweet path of ‘ignorance is bliss..’ But it makes your life very unpleasant and shortens […]

By The Legal Arm of ‘The Socialist Vanguard Party for the Restoration of a Sovereign Unitary State of Sri Lanka’ Director, Financial Intelligence Unit Central Bank of Sri Lanka No. 30, Janadhipathi Mawatha Colombo 01 Amendments to the Registration of Documents Ord 23 of 1927 is being discussed in parliament, without reference to Act 6 […]

e-Con e-News Another US mafia hitman flies in. US Assistant Secretary of State for South & Central Asian Affairs Don ‘Banana2’ Lu enters to threaten escalation of their proxy war. He was here to warn against any attempt by Sri Lanka to signal – let alone entertain – any thought of independence, autonomy, non-alignment or whatever we call […]

DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island We are supporting the reforms and supporting the President to implement them.” Eran Wickramaratne Oct 19, 2022. JVP-JJB leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake gave a landmark interview to the Salakuna program of Hiru TV on Monday October 17th 2022. It had several key takeaways. · The JVP faults the Aragalaya leadership […]

By Uditha Devapriya Courtesy The Island US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu visited Sri Lanka last Wednesday, October 19. He is reported to have arrived early morning. Having briefed US Embassy staff, he then presided over a civil society roundtable, after which he paid a visit to President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Foreign Affairs Minister […]

Courtesy The Island A crucial discussion with Sri Lanka’s creditors is scheduled to be held on 03 Nov.During this meeting, Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring is to be discussed at length. Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the President on National Security, Sagala Ratnayake, met with the outgoing IMF Resident Representative for Sri Lanka, Tubagus […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Friends of Sri Lanka Group in the European Parliament was re-launched at the Sri Lanka Residence in Brussels on October 25. The Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the European Union, Grace Asirwatham, announced the appointment of Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Tomáš Zdechovský from the Czech Republic, who represents the European […]

Shenali D Waduge It is very clear that the drama over dual citizenship came with ulterior motive to initially prevent Gotabaya Rajapakse from contesting Presidential Elections. This was why the 19a was hurriedly passed in March 2015 which eventually led to Gotabaya Rajapakse having to renounce his American citizenship to contest Presidential Election. A faux […]

ගයන් ද මෙල් ලේකම්  – ‘ස්පර්’ සංවිධානය, වික්ටෝරියා, ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව. බුද්ධ ශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය විදුර වික්‍රමනායක මැතිතුමා, 135, අනගාරික ධර්මපාල මාවත, කොළඹ 07 ගරු මැතිතුමනි, ඓතිහාසික කුරුන්ධි විහාර පරිශ්‍රයේ ආරක්ෂාව තහවරු කර ගැනීම වසර 27කට වැඩි කාලයක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රතිරූපය ඉහළ නැංවීමට, භෞමික අඛණ්ඩතාවය ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට සහ අපගේ ආරක්ෂක හමුදාවන්ට සහ යුද්ධයෙන් පීඩාවට […]