Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya. After seeing a Facebook advertisement for one of the paint manufacturers in Sri Lanka, I called their head office to see if I, as a walk-in customer, could also claim the same discount offered to online buyers. I was refused, but on my insistence, I was connected to their sales department, […]

We should go beyond the traditional systems to earn more foreign income.Direct involvement of public representatives in government food security programme is essential” – Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena Prime Minister’s Media Division ග්‍රාමීය ආර්ථික පුනර්ජීවන හා ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතා වැඩසටහන සාර්ථකත්වයට ආණ්ඩුකාරවරුන් හා පළාත් සභා නිලධාරීන්ගේත්, හිටපු මහජන නියෝජිතයින්ගේ සෘජු දායකත්වය අවශ්‍ය බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා […]

MIKE WHITNEY  Courtesy The Unz Review The Western goal is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our nation. They are openly stating that, since they managed to break up the Soviet Union in 1991, now it’s time to split Russia into many separate regions that will be at each other’s throats.” Russian President Vladimir Putin […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Court of Appeal today upheld the death sentence imposed against the accused who committed the murder of his fellow junior student Selvanayagam Varapragash who was an Engineering Faculty student at Peradeniya University in 1997. However, the main accused Balendran Prasad Sadeeskaran was never served with summons during the trial as […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister Vidura Wickramanayaka stated that he intends to propose a mechanism to have the Nayaka Theros informed in the case of an allegation related to monks, through the police, coordinated by the Ministry, and to implement the law against them as well as to take disciplinary action.  The Minister also said that it […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka reiterated that the Indian Ocean should not be an area of conflict or the playground” for world military powers. This Ocean as a vital channel of sea communication facilitates a large volume of energy, raw material and food supply between the East and the West, thus it is imperative that we […]

Courtesy Adaderana Japan has granted medical equipment worth JPY 800 million (USD 5.5 million) to the National Hospital Sri Lanka (NHSL) in Colombo and Colombo North Teaching Hospital in Ragama to strengthen the sustainable medical system adaptable to the current economic crisis and to strengthen the readiness against COVID-19. The Japanese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, […]

By Garvin Karunaratne I first wrote on wind power when in india I had to face power cuts. Then Sri lanka never had power cuts. We spent funds found on loans to buy coal and oil to provide electricity. My working in the hills of  Nuwara Eliya, kandy and Sabaragamuwa tell me that we can […]

By Krishan Dutta Courtsy indepthnews.net Photo: Opening session of the WFB Conference. Credit: A conference participant. Manipulations at ‘World Fellowship of Buddhists’ Conference Buddhism Is Losing Its Voice in Asia By Krishan Dutta BANGKOK (IDN) — The theme of this year’s 30th General Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) was Buddhism in the […]

BY NURY VITTACHI Courtesy Fridayeveryday.com A VISITING HONG KONG scientist has just won the Nobel prize for experimentally proving that the real world… isn’t real. Wait, what? The world isn’t real? Correct. And even though the physical world is not real, it has nonetheless given scientist Alain Aspect the Nobel Prize for Physics, along with […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit නව්‍ය කෘෂිකාර්මික දැනුම, තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණය, පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්තිය, ප්‍රවාහනය සහ සංචාරක  යන ක්ෂේත්‍ර  සඳහා  නෙදර්තන්තය වැනි රටවල ආයෝජන   වර්තමානයේ දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට වඩා වැදගත් වනු ඇතැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි.  2022.10.27 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී නව නෙදර්ලන්ත තානාපති ( Bonnie Horbach) බොනී හෝර්බච් මහත්මිය හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී  අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය.  යටිතල […]

Samina Akhter An accomplishment for a nation is always winning an election in a global setting. The goal becomes greater significance when membership is granted by secret ballot to a respected international rights body like the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Bangladesh just won a record 160 votes in the Asia-Pacific area, defeating other […]

By Dr Indrajith P Hathurusingha Lecturer Department of Applied and Environmental Science CRTAFE, Geraldton Campus, Western Australia As we know, the entire country is in chaos with food insecurity and associated problems. People often seem to claim that their income is insufficient to manage their day-to-day expenses. Therefore, malnutrition, food of poor quality, and starvation […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror (BBC); Pope Francis has warned priests and nuns about the dangers of watching pornography online, saying it “weakens the priestly heart”. The Pope, 86, was responding to a question about how digital and social media should be best used, at a session in the Vatican. Pornography, he said, was “a vice that […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has launched an investigation into a new financial fraud which so far has involved Rs.14 billion with 8,000 people being victims in a fake crypto currency scheme. Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said that the alleged fraud was carried out by a Chinese couple and a […]

Courtesy Adaderana The police today (Oct. 27) shed light on a massive financial fraud committed through a fake cryptocurrency investment scheme. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had initiated probes after receiving a complaint about the scam, according to Police spokesperson SSP Nihal Thalduwa. According to him, one Sri Lankan named Keerthi Bandara was arrested in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), in its annual financial report, has outlined a fund of USD 100 million for crisis-hit Sri Lanka. The bank also pledged support for countries facing serious debt problems. In addition, the AIIB is expected to announce a major support package for Pakistan at the upcoming COP summit […]

Courtesy Adaderana Twelve complaints have been received so far against businesswoman Thilini Priyamali for allegedly defrauding over Rs. 1.28 billion, according to Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa. Thilini Priyamali, the owner of Thico Group of Companies (Pvt.) Ltd., was arrested and remanded on October 06 over alleged multi-billion rupee fraud by swindling businesspersons and VIPs. […]

Courtesy Adaderana A consignment of medicines worth over Rs. 100 million donated by Ven. Nepalaye Maitri Thero, the founding President of the International Buddhist Society of Nepal in Lumbini was officially handed over to Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and President’s Chief of Staff Sagala Ratnayake, at the Presidential Secretariat, this morning […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government has decided to facilitate working capital loans up to Rs. 10 million for small- and medium-scale entrepreneurs from 08 state-owned and private banks, the Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilization & National Policies says. These entrepreneurs can obtain working capital loans on 11% – 12% interest with a grace period of 06 […]

Lanka Lead News කොරෝනා එන්නත් පිළිබදව යුරෝපා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මන්ත්‍රී නෙදර්ලන්ත ජාතික රොබට් රූස් ආන්දෝලනාත්මක හෙළිදරව්වක් සිදු කර තිබේ. ඔහු යුරෝපා පාර්ලිමෙන්තුවේ දී කොරෝනා සම්බන්ධ තොරතුරු විමර්ශනයක් සිදු කර ඇති අතර, එහිදී ෆයිසර් සමාගමේ අධ්‍යක්ෂිකාවක් නිල වශයෙන් පිළිගෙන තිබුණේ කොරෝනා එන්නත් ජනතාවට ලබාදෙන්නට පටන්ගත්විට පවා එම එන්නතෙන් කොරෝනා ව්‍යාප්තිය වළකන බවට කිසිදු පරීක්ෂණයක් සිදු නොකළ බවයි. […]

සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර                මේ රටේ අද නවක වධය ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන්ම තියෙන්නේ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලවල. ඊට අමතරව  තාක්ශන විද්‍යාල සහ ඇතම් උසස් පාසැල්වල . ඇයි ඉතින් මේ වධ ය නතර කිරිමේ සම්පූර්ණ බලය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලවල උපකුලපති වරුන්ට සහ ඒ ඒ විද්‍යාලවල විදුහල්පති වරුන්ට භාර දෙන්ට බැරි. මේක අද රහසේ කරන දෙයක් නොවෙයි එලිපිටමයි කරන්නේ. එසේ තිබියදි මොකටද […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. (මෙම සංදේශයේ 1 වන කොටසින් සිස්ටම් චේන්ජ් කතාවේ ඉතිහාසය හා රටේ මහාපරිමාණ සිස්ටම් චේන්ජ් එකක් උදෙසා ජන සභා සංකල්පය නිසි ආකාරයට ක්‍රියාවට නැංවීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවය කෙටියෙන් විමසා බලන ලදී. මෙම 2 වන කොටසින් මා විසින් මීට පෙර යෝජනාකල ජන සභා අකෘතිය සළකා බැලේ. එහි දක්වන යෝජනා වලට හේතු පාදකවූ කරුණු පසුව 3 […]

ගයන් ද කමල් කල්කම් – ‘ස්පර්’ සංවිධානය, වි්ෂකටෝරියා, ඕස්කේ ලියාව. බුද්ධ ශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාතi විදුර වික්ර්මනායක මැතිතුමා,135, අනගාරික ධර්මපාල මාවත, කකාළඹ 07ගරු මැතිතුමනි,ඓතිහාසික කුරුන්ධි විහාර පරිශළකය් ආර්ෂාාව තහවරු කර ගැනමවසර 27කට වැඩි කාලය්ෂ ශ්රීෂ ලංකාකේ පළතිූපපය ඉහළ නැංවීමට, ක ෞමික අඛණ්ඩතාවය ආර්ෂාා කිරීමට සහ අපකග් ආර්ෂාක හමුදාවන්ට සහ යුද්ධකයන් පීඩාවට පත් දුප්පතුන්ට […]

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Written by Nirupama Subramanian Courtesy The Indian Express Former Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Dr Indrajit Coomaraswamy analyses the island nation’s economic crisis and the debt restructuring needed for IMF to release the $2.9 billion package. The session was moderated by Nirupama Subramanian, National Editor, Strategic Affairs. On the Sri Lankan economy and status of […]

By Ceylon Today Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has requested Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to appoint a Special Parliamentary Select Committee to probe the statement made by Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) MP M.A. Sumanthiran regarding the Supreme Court during the debate on the 22nd Amendment Bill on 20 October. In a letter to the […]

Shenali D Waduge India is the world’s 2nd largest populated country with 1.38billion people. India comprises 28 states and 8 union territories. Tamil Nadu is just one of the 28 states. Tamil Nadu is the 6th largest state in India with 72million people but accounts for just 5.9% of the entire Indian population. Haryana which is the 18thlargest state […]

Sugath Kulatunga. During the last few months, we had the crude shock of so many cases before higher courts getting dismissed due to technical errors in the filing of the case. The most recent and appalling one was the CBSL Bond case which could not be continued as it was apparently filed under a wrong […]

රවී කුමුදේශ් සභාපති සෞඛ්‍ය වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ විද්වත් සංගමය  👉අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ඖෂධ 120ක් හිඟයි 👉වෛද්‍ය පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයේ පරීක්ෂණ 40කට අධික ප්‍රමාණයක් සිදු කෙරෙන්නේ නෑ 👉සෞඛ්‍ය පහසුකම් සදහා ලැබී ඇති ණය සහ ආධාර, සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයේ අකාර්යක්ෂම බව නිසා අපතේ යනවා.  👉සෞඛ්‍ය අර්බුධයට හේතුව, ආර්ථික අර්බුධයට වඩා අකාර්යක්ෂම බව සහ තාක්ෂණික මාෆියාවන්ට යට වීමයි. අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ඖෂධ 120කට වඩා වැඩි ප්‍රමාණයක් […]