Malinda Seneviratne Yes, we need peace. We need reconciliation. Such needs are the inevitable outcomes of conflict-end. Fixing these to exaggerated grievances and out-of-this-world aspirations and tying it all to a constitutional amendment obtained by a bully is unacceptable. Ridiculous, in fact.  Indra Mani Pandey. Remember the name. He’s India’s Permanent Representative in Geneva. He’s […]

Garvin Karunaratne, former Government Agent, Matara I first met Mr P.C.Imbulana, in 1962 when I assumed duties as Assistant Commissioner for Agrarian Services in the Kegalla District. It was during the rule of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Mr Imbulana was in the opposition. My duties were to implement the Paddy Lands Act and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS United States of America became the sole superpower in the world, when the Cold War between USA and Russia ended in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Unable to conquer the world militarily, US hit on the notion of setting up US controlled governments in the   countries in which it had […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය උතුරු පළාත් ගොවි ජනතාවගේ නිෂ්පාදන මිලදී ගැනීමේ සහ  බෙදාහැරීමේ යාන්ත්‍රණය පුළුල් කරන්නැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා   නිලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් දෙයි. ආර්ථික පුනර්ජීවන කේන්ද්‍ර වශයෙන් ග්‍රාම නිළධාරී වසම් සවිබල ගැන්වීම හා ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතා ජාතික වැඩසටහන පිළිබඳ ‍පසුවිපරමක් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් 2022/10/13 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්වු අවස්ථාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙලෙස උපදෙස් දෙනු ලැබීය. […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena requested the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to assist the government’s initiative to establish a digital data base of labour workforce in Sri Lanka. He pointed out that the Ministry of Labour has taken steps to establish a comprehensive digitalized data base of the workforce and urged the […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The Beatles was a rock band from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. The primary members of the Beatles were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. John Lennon was a singer, songwriter, musician, and peace activist. Paul McCartney inherits the former’s capability. Sir Richard Starkey (better known by […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Paris Club creditor nations last month reached out to China and India seeking to coordinate closely on Sri Lanka’s debt talks, but is still awaiting a reply, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday. Paris Club officials reached out to two of Sri Lanka’s biggest […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror State Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said that immediate action will be taken to enforce the law against people who come to Sri Lanka from abroad wearing gold jewellery for smuggling purpose, exceeding the limits.  He said country is incurring about USD 30 million in losses per month due to smuggling of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee of the Vice Chancellors and Directors (CVCD) has noted with concern the recent spate of incidents of ragging and student indiscipline that have occurred with the resumption of on-site academic activities in the state universities.  Issuing a statement on the incidents, the CVCD said it categorically condemns all forms of ragging […]

Courtesy Adaderana The international advisor of climate change to Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said Thursday that Sri Lanka is very vulnerable to climate change as the dry areas in its north are getting drier and the wet areas in its south getting wetter. During a visit to the South Asian country, former Norwegian minister […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) today said that it is not in a position to consider favorably” to the request to operate Russia’s MIR bankcards within the country’s banking system due to the US sanctions on the payment system. Due to the US sanctions on the MIR payment system, as […]

Courtesy Hiru News Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara says that no tax will be charged for remittances sent to Sri Lanka by migrant workers through the official banking system. He said this at a press conference held at the Ministry of Labor this morning (13). Explaining the latest situation regarding the monthly income […]

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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BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Erotic crimes are punished by criminal law and the ragging in Universities of Sri Lanka could be investigated and punished as criminal offences. These barbaric activities are going on in universities despite controls and laws against these barbaric activities. When I entered a university in 1969, I was relegated to ragging which […]

Sudath Gunasekara Today is the 22nd death anniversary of this illustrious daughter of mother Lanka. I am compelled to re-publish an article here again which was published on 30th Jan 2021 Lankaweb (First, published on the 14th, December 2010 in Lankaweb), since we have miserably failed as an ungrateful nation to fulfil this proposal, I […]

Anjalika Silva – USA I.                     Purpose:  To examine all avenues available to find appropriate avenues to address the current foreign reserves crisis with the help of a ready resource of foreign earners as expats for a long-term relationship beneficial to the country and individuals who are a strength that has not been tapped while many […]

Manusha Media ජාතික වෘත්තීය සුරක්ෂිතතා හා සෞඛ්‍ය සතියේ සමාරම්භක සැසිය අමතමින් අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර කියයි. දැඩි නීතිරීති පනවා හෝ වැඩබිමේ කම්කරුවාගේ සෞඛ්‍ය සහ සුරක්ෂිතතාව තහවුරු කරන බවත්, අනතුරක දී රක්ෂණ අරමුදලක් හරහා නඩු නොමැතිව වන්දි ලබා දීමේ ක්‍රමවේදයක් නිර්මාණය කරන බවත්, කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවැසීය. ඒ අද (11) උදෑසන කොළඹ […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit The report containing the observations and recommendations of the Prime Minister’s Committee, which was appointed to investigate the cause of the frequent fires in Modara Kajimawatta houses, was handed over to Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on 10-10-2020 at the Prime Minister’s Office, Colombo. The co-chairmen of the committee, Member of Parliament […]