Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu World Bank flags need for higher social security in the island   As Sri Lankans continue braving their worst economic crisis since Independence, urban poverty on the island has tripled in the last year, from 5% to 15 %, according to a recent World Bank report.     Sri Lanka is experiencing its […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two Australian men have been charged with bribing Sri Lankan officials to secure infrastructure contracts worth millions of dollars. Australian police arrested the pair last month after a decade-long investigation spanning several countries. The men, aged 67 and 71, worked for a company which has been accused of misconduct in South Asian countries. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar has accepted that charges cannot be maintained under the Public Properties Act against former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), Arjun Mahendran, Perpetual Treasuries Ltd, Arjun Aloysius and the other defendants over the case on Treasury Bond auction of 27 February 2015. The order was issued […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Contradicting Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardane, President’s Media Division (PMD) said Sri Lanka will remain a middle-income country. The PMD said in a statment that the government is pursuing a “reverse graduation” policy for a limited period of time. Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardane told the weekly Cabinet briefing this morning that the […]

Courtesy WION The Sri Lankan cabinet has approved a proposal to downgrade the country’s status from a middle-income country to a low-income country. The cabinet spokesperson says Sri Lankan GDP is expected to decline further and that this step was being taken to unlock more financial support from international institutions.

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval for the proposal to downgrade Sri Lanka’s status from a ‘middle-income country’ to a ‘low-income country’, the Cabinet Spokesman says. Joining the Cabinet press meeting held today, Minister Bandula Gunawardene stated that Sri Lanka was declared a middle-income country in accordance with international classification, adding that […]

Courtesy Adaderana A country’s security is not only ensured militarily but is also secured through food and economic security, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has emphasized. The President said this during the progress review meeting of the National Food Security and Nutrition Assurance Program held at the Presidential Secretariat last morning (11). Emphasizing that urgent measures should […]

Courtesy Adaderana The United Nations’ Development Programme (UNDP) joined on Tuesday the chorus of institutions and charities warning that a serious debt crisis is now taking hold in the poorest parts of the world. In a new report, the UNDP estimated that 54 countries, accounting for more than half of the world’s poorest people, now needed […]

Sangadasa Akurugoda Sri Lanka is facing an unprecedented economic crisis, since independence, due to the depletion of foreign exchange reserves. Meanwhile, the Resolution against Sri Lanka titled ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ was passed at the UNHCR few days ago.  The resolution against Sri Lanka, as usual, was proposed by a group […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. අරගලයට ළමුන් ගෙනවිල්ලා හියුමන් ශීල්ඩ් එකක් ලෙස භාවිතා කරන එක වැරදියි. ඒක තමයි ප්‍රභාකරනුත් කලේ . ලංකාවේ ළමා සොල්දාදුවන් මුලින්ම ඇති කලේ රෝහණ විජේවීර විසිනි. 1971 දී ළමා සොල්දාදුවන් හඳුන්වන ලද්දේ රතු ගැටවු ලෙසටය. 1971 කැරැල්ලේදී සමහර රතු ගැටවු නොහොත් ළමා සොල්දාදුවන් මිනිස් ඝාතන පවා කරන ලදි. 1988 / 1989 […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය රජයේ ඉඩම්  විවිධ චක්‍රලේඛප්‍රකාරව වගා කිරීම සඳහා ගම්වල ගොවීන්ට  ලබා දීමට  රජය නියෝග කර ඇති බැවින් කිසිම රජයේ  නිලධාරියෙකු එයට හරස් නොවිය යුතු බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන  මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි.හෝමාගම කඳනවත්ත ප්‍රදේශයේ ගොවී, කාන්තා සංවිධාන සහ ස්වේච්චා සංවිධාන වෙත 2022.10.10 දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ යදාමිණී ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ  පාර්ලිමේන්තු විමධ්‍යගත අරමුදලෙන් භාණ්ඩ බෙදා […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර හා ප්‍රජා කටයුතු පිළිබඳ ජනාධිපති අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල්  පොහොට්ටුවේ කළුතර රැළිය 22 වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයට ප්‍රතිචාර දැක්වීමකි.  22 සංශෝධනය විසින් ලංකාවේ පක්ෂ දේශපාලනය උණුසුම් කර ඇති ප්‍රමාණයේ පිළිබිඹුවකි. පක්ෂ නායකවරුන් ගේ රැස්වීමේ දී 22 සංශෝධනයට කමිටු අවස්ථාවේ සංශෝධන ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම පිළිබඳ නීතිපතිවරයා සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මහ ලේකම්වරයා මත දෙකක් දැරුවෝය.  මෙවැන්නක් ගැන […]

Courtesy Travel Radar Earlier this week, Sri Lanka’s newest airline took to the skies on its inaugural international flight to Dubai. FitsAir, formerly known as ExpoAir, is Sri Lanka’s first and only private airline. Passengers flying with FitsAir will now be able to board a flight to one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities from Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana A Russian airlines Aeroflot flight arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport this morning (10), resuming flights between Moscow and Colombo after a lapse of 4 months. Russia’s flagship carrier had announced that it is suspending commercial flights to Sri Lanka after the island nation’s authorities detained the airline’s Airbus A330 jet on June […]

Courtesy Adaderana World Bank President David Malpass and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned on Monday of a growing risk of global recession and said inflation remained a continuing problem after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There’s a risk and real danger of a world recession next year,” Malpass said in a dialogue with […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena emphasizes that since the government has instructed to give the government lands to the farmers of the villages for cultivation in accordance with circular measures, no government official should interfere with it. The Prime Minister mentioned this during the distribution of goods from the Parliamentary Decentralized Fund of Mr. […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe noted that the country needs a national policy that does not change with every government that comes to power and invited everyone to commit to building the country on one national policy without party differences. The President pointed out that to build a developed economy and raise Sri Lanka to […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.   සවුදි රජපවුලට බැන්නොත් මරනවා…” – YouTube Introduction After seeing the above YouTube piece by Sepal (Oct 2, 2022), I felt there is nothing more to discuss with him about Ven. GG. Because with this second video Sepal has proven that the BBS stand is correct. He can easily find out whether […]

MICHAEL HUDSON  Courtesy The Unz Review The reaction to the sabotage of three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in four places on Monday, September 26, has focused on speculations about who did it and whether NATO will make a serious attempt to discover the answer. Yet instead of panic, there has […]

Tamil Nadu-Press Trust of India he searches were conducted in Salem and Sivagangai districts on Saturday and led to the recovery of incriminating materials including digital devices like compact discs related to LTTE. New Delhi:  The NIA conducted searches at two locations in Tamil Nadu in a case related to two self-radicalised Liberation Tigers of […]

By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy eurasiareview The  stance on human rights appears to have been determined by the member’s geopolitical predilections and national interest Looking at the voting on the UN Human Rights Council’s resolution on Sri Lanka on October 6, it appears that the decisions taken by the 47 members were determined by their respective […]

By Joe Rennison and Isabella Simonetti Courtesy Khaleej Times  Low-income countries, like Ghana and Pakistan, were already struggling during the pandemic. The dollar’s strength is adding to their woes The average household in Ghana is paying two-thirds more than it did last year for diesel, flour and other necessities. In Egypt, wheat is so expensive […]

Courtesy Rediff India has seen a great revival of Buddhism in the country under Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government, said a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk as the International Buddhist Confederation celebrates Abhidhamma Day on Sunday. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba at the Shilanyas ceremony of the India International […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that a referendum will be called to decide on the parliamentary electoral system if the Select Committee which is proposed to be established fails to reach a decision on the matter by July next year. He made this observation during a discussion with a group of professionals held at […]

By Sena Thoradeniya Preamble This essay was originally written in April 2022, attempting to provide information in a nutshell of protest movements and demonstrations that had taken place demanding either anti-imperialist interventions, political reforms or ouster of rulers, beginning from the May Fourth Movement in China in 1919. Our aim was to provide new insights […]

Shenali D Waduge The statement by the Chinese foreign affairs spokesperson is poignant & relevant to Sri Lanka as well this is a victory for developing countries & a victory for truth & justice…. Human rights must not be used as a pretext to make up lies & interfere in other countries internal affairs or to […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වනාහි ත්‍රස්තවාදයට ඉක්මනින් ගොදුරු වන රටකි – ලොව ත්‍රස්තවාදයෙන් උපරිමව බැට කෑ රටවල් අතරින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඉහලින්ම සිටී. ප්‍රභාකරන් නායකත්වය දැරූ LTTEය යනු ලෝකයේ තිබු දරුණුතම ත්‍රස්තවාදී සංවිධානයකි.   පසුගිය වසර 50 තුල අප නිරන්තරයෙන් කෘර ත්‍රස්තවාදී ග්‍රහණයට ලක්වීමු. ඒ, 1971 සහ 1988 ජවිපෙ (සිංහල) ත්‍රස්තවාදය, 1976 පමණ ඇරභී 2009 දක්වා […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Railway Department will operate a special express train service on every Saturday from today to facilitate the tourists and pilgrims travelling to Anuradhapura from Colombo Fort. The train will leave for Anuradhapura every Saturday and return to Fort every Sunday. The train would haul 10 first-class air-conditioned compartments with 480 seats. […]

Courtesy ANI “We see great revival of Buddhism in India under Modi govt”: International Buddhist ConfederationRead more At:https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/we-see-great-revival-of-buddhism-in-india-under-modi-govt-international-buddhist-confederation20221008235750/

Nadir Mumtaz Courtesy The Maritime Executive The Port of Colombo is located near the route between the Strait of Malacca and the Suez Canal, which is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Around 36,000 vessels pass annually on this key corridor between Asia and Europe, including about 4,500 tankers. As the Port of Colombo […]