BY Shenali D. Waduge This article pertains to an open letter addressed to the Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Lands by three attorneys-at-law – Mahinda Ellepola, Elmo Perera, and Nihal Pieris – on 12 April 1998, titled Registration process to be expedited? Really?”  Their open letter was penned after reading a news item titled […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Introduction Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) is acting to discard the old map (Colombo black-white model).” -An observation made in 2013, which became true with OC-OL report in 2022 As stated in Part-II, the essay below is resurrected for the benefit of people like Sepal who go for the Marxist path of […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්  වත්මන් පළාත් පාලන ඡන්ද ක්‍රමය පිළිබඳ විවේචණ ගණනාවක් පසුගිය වසර 4 තුල මතු වූ අතර, එයට පිළියමක් ලෙස ඡන්ද ක්‍රමයේ සංශෝධන පිළිබඳ යෝජනා ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු තේරීම් කාරක සභාවක් පත් කරනු ලැබීය. එම කමිටුව සකස් කළ වාර්තාවට පාර්ලිමේන්තු කමිටුවේ සමාජිකයින්ගේ අනුමැතිය ලැබුණේ නැත. මැතිවරණ සංශෝධන නැවතුණේ එතනය. […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana      (chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca) Although there is much talk of system change”, it is hard to find specifics of the new systems that are to be created. In the early seventies, Mahinda Wijesekera, the father of the present Minster for Power was a student leaders of the Vidyodaya University. As a key figure of the […]

PERADENIYA ARTS FACULTY TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION (PAFTA) PERADENIYA ARTS FACULTY TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION(PAFTA)Faculty of Arts, University of PeradeniyaPeradeniya 20400, Sri LankaPresident General Secretary Vice President Assistant Secretary TreasurerProf. A. Parakrama Dr. T. Kithsiri Prof. U. Abeyrathne Mr. A. Dharmarathne Dr. S. DorabawilaCommittee MembersProf. A. Jayawickrama Prof. D. Karunanayake Dr. K. Thoradeniya Dr. S. Mantillake Mr. S. Premarathne […]

by Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island During the course of his address, as Chair of the 55th Annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank, Sri Lanka’s President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, said, As they say, in many of our countries, when the elephants fight, it is the grass that is crushed”. As far as Sri Lanka is […]

By A. Abdul Aziz – Chairman, Press & Media Desk, AMJSL. A two member delegation from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Sri Lanka (AMJSL) visited to Ministry of Mass Media  in Colombo on 11 October 2022.  Ministry Officials welcomed the delegation and arranged to meet  Hon. Bandula Gunawardena, Minister of Mass Media. Honorable Minister was very […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් කොළඹ ගාලු මුවදොර පිටියේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වූ අරගලය සාමකාමී විරෝධතා ව්‍යාපාරය හා එක්ව සිටි සමයේ දී තමන්ට සමීප හිතවතුන්ගෙන් මුදල් ආධාර ලැබුණු බව ජනප්‍රිය රූපවාහිනී සහ චිත්‍රපට නිළි දමිතා අබේරත්න පවසනවා. ඇය මේ බව පවසා සිටියේ, හිරු ප්‍රවෘත්ති සමඟ පැවැති විශේෂ සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවක දී. ඇය වැඩිදුරටත් පවසා සිටියේ, එම කාලසීමාව තුළ දී […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that using children as shields in demonstrations is a serious offence according to the law of the country and advised the Sri Lanka Police to take immediate measures to prevent the perpetuation of such conduct. President Wickremesinghe issued these instructions during the special discussion held at the Presidential […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe instructed officials to celebrate the 75th Independence Day in a dignified manner that reflects national and religious unity. Steps have been taken to celebrate the 75th Independence Day celebrations on the 04th of February 2023 at the Galle Face Green with all pomp and pageantry under the theme, Let’s stand […]

Courtesy Adaderana The draft Amendment Bill to revise the Inland Revenue Act was published in the government gazette on Tuesday (Oct. 11), proposing key changes to the income tax. The gazette notification was issued by President Ranil Wickremesinghe in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policies to amend the Inland Revenue Act, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that colliding pressures from inflation, war-driven energy and food crises and sharply higher interest rates were pushing the world to the brink of recession and threatening financial market stability. In gloomy reports issued at the start of the first in-person International Monetary Fund and World Bank […]

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