By Pepe Escobar Global Research, There’s no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address on the Return of the Baby Bears – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – on September 30 as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties. The underlying honesty and clarity mirror his speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference, but […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්  මික්සර් පැකට් කජු කෑලි ටික වගේ විපක්ෂය පාර්ලිමේන්තු කමිටු බදාගන්න හදනවා පැකට් එක කැඩුව ගමන්, මික්සර් එකේ කජු කැළි හතර පහ කටේ දාගනවා වගේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කමිටු සියල්ලම කටේ දාගන්න විපක්ෂය ආසයි.  මුදල්, කෝපා, කෝප්, Ways and Means ඇතුළු පාර්ලිමේන්තු කමිටුවල කජු කෑලි ටික ඔක්කොම විපක්ෂයේ තනි පක්ෂයකට දෙන්න බැරි බව අවබෝධ කර […]

The N. U. Jayawardena Charitable Trust The N. U. Jayawardena Charitable Trust donated two electric motorcycles to St. Benedict’s College, Colombo 13, to be used in the Technical Education Division of the school. These motorcycles were imported by the MMBL-pathfinder Group for a pilot project and are being donated after the completion of the initiative. […]

Senaka Weeraratna The number of abstentions (20) and the number of ‘No’ votes (7) add up to 27 whereas the ‘Yes’  votes totaled 20.  In the previous year, the same type of Resolution had 22 countries voting in favour. This time the ‘YES’ vote had come down to 20. Last year 25 countries did not […]

ALI SUKHANVER Freedom of expression is no doubt one of the most precious basic human rights; unluckily there are a very few countries where the people enjoy this basic human right; Canada is surely one of those fortunate countries. The Canadian constitution guarantees not only freedom of expression but also freedom of conscience, religion, thought, […]

නිලන්ත සත්සර ගමගේ 2020 රාජ්‍ය බදු ආදායම – 1,216,542 ( රු.මි ) ආදායම් බදු – 268,249 එකතු කල අගය මත බදු 233,786 නිෂ්පාදන / සුරා බදු – 321,932 ආනයන මත බදු 114,183 අනෙකුත් බදු 278,392   2021 රාජ්‍ය බදු ආදායම – 1,298,019 ( රු.මි) ආදායම් බදු – 302,115 එකතු කල අගය මත බදු 308,213 නිෂ්පාදන […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ‘අමරකීර්ති අතුකෝරල මන්ත්‍රිතුමාව පාරේදි ගහලා මැරුවා වගේම 1987 අඟුණකොළපැලැස්ස වැටිය හන්දියේදී නිරායුධ ජිනදාස වීරසිංහ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රිවරයාගේ අත කපා පණ පිටින් මරා දැම්මා.  එතුමා වර්තමාන මහබැංකු අධිපති නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ මැතිතුමාගේ බාප්පායි’  යයි ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂයේ ප්‍රධාන සංවිධායක, අමාත්‍ය ප්‍රසන්න රණතුංග මහතා පැවසීය. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අදහස් පල කරමින් ඔහු මෙසේද කියා සිටියේය. ජනාධිපතිතුමා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට එන්නේ නැහැ […]

Courtesy Borneo Bulletin  COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Sri Lanka’s president said yesterday his government has started debt restructuring discussions with China, an important step toward finalising an International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue of the island nation from its worst economic crisis. President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament yesterday that the initial talks will continue after […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Anti-corruption Bill , evolved in conformity with the UN Convention on Corruption has been sent to the Attorney General for clearance before presentation in Parliament for enactment, a Minister said today. The Bill, if enacted by the House, will provide for the establishment of a fully fledged bribery commission with […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the country is facing the worst economic crisis in its history and the government is ready to overcome the challenge even in the face of global economic and food crises. The President made this observation while making a special statement in Parliament today (06) regarding the current […]

Courtesy Hiru News President speaking in parliament says “I embarked on this political journey at great risk when no other political party or leader was willing to take the risk. Now we are forging this risky path slowly but steadily. Majority of the country supports this journey as they aspire for a decent life, country […]

Courtesy Adaderana Japan has not yet reached an agreement to co-chair a debt summit with Sri Lanka’s creditors, a government official in Tokyo said on Thursday, as the island nation struggles to find a way out of a crippling economic crisis. Sri Lanka has to renegotiate around $30 billion of foreign debt, including with bilateral […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry says Sri Lanka categorically rejects the new resolution on the human rights situation in the country, which was presented without Sri Lanka’s consent or consultation. Speaking at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva today (Oct. 06), the lawmaker pointed out that this resolution is […]

Courtesy Adaderana SLPP MP Prof. Ranjith Bandara was elected as the new chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) with a majority of votes. He was elected at the first meeting of the COPE held today (Oct. 06) for the third session of the Ninth Parliament. The name of Prof. Bandara was proposed by […]