Courtesy Adaderana Aeroflot, Russia’s state-owned airline, will resume flights from Moscow to Sri Lanka with effect from tomorrow (October 09).  Starting from October, Aeroflot will resume regular flights to Colombo, Bangkok, and Goa. Flights will be operated on Airbus A330 aircraft,” the airline had said earlier in a statement. Accordingly, from October 09, the airline […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says he will extend his support to President Ranil Wickremesinghe. He made these remarks addressing a public rally in Kalutara earlier today (Oct. 08). The rally titled Let’s Rise Together from Kalutara”, organized by SLPP MP Rohitha Abeygunawardena, was held at his coordination office. Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena […]

Shenali D Waduge The UNHRC comprises 47 member states. The UNHRC members are elected by the General Assembly for 3 years. The UN General Assembly comprises 193 Member States of which Sri Lanka is one. Sri Lanka is not a MEMBER of UNHRC. Sri Lanka is merely an OBSERVER state.As Sri Lanka is not a member, Sri […]

Sugath Kulatunga.(1) Today we see a revolution in longevity. The percentage of old people in the total population is growing steadily. In this background, all over the world, increasing attention has been focused on old people. Ageing is being considered only as a factor of social differentiation and not one of social discrimination.  The Madrid […]

Malinda Seneviratne Rosy is out of order. Colombo’s liberals and leftists are out of order. Democracy-advocating NGO personalities are out of order. Funded Voices, Rent-a-Protest Agitators, Born Again Nazis, Candlelight Ladies, Colombots, Stink Tanks and other Kolombians are out of order. And that’s good, for they reveal themselves when they shout and when they are silent.  […]

Dilrook Kannangara The nation and the people are in a deep economic crisis. In the midst of the crisis, the government has decided to dish out 15,000 rupees each only to Hindus in the plantations sector. This is highly discriminatory and is a violation of the Constitution which guarantees equal rights to all individuals. If […]

SPUR  (Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka Inc) ගරු කථානායකතුමා  ඇතුලු සියලු ම පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීතුමන්ලා වෙත. ගරු මැතිතුමනි / මැතිනියණි,! ඔබේත් අපේත් මාතෘභූමිය වෙනුවෙන් කරනු ලබන කාරුණික ආයාචනයයි ශ්‍රී ලoකාවේ සාමය, ඒකීය භාවය සහ මානව අයිතීන් රැකීම උදෙසා, දැනට දශක දෙකකට අධික කාලයක් ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ සිට අඛණ්ඩව කටයුතු කරනු ලබන, දේශහිතෛෂි ශ්‍රී […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit  Indian CEOs to promote trade and investments thru ‘Shine Sri Lanka Indian CEO Forum-Sri Lanka (ICF) called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday (6). The Prime Minister stressed the need for further growth in bilateral trade and increase Indian investments in new areas, where Indian techno […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආර්ථිකයට සැලකිය යුතු  දායකත්වයක් ලබාගත හැකි  නව ක්ෂේත්‍රයන් හී ඉන්දීය ආයෝජන  ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම වර්තමානයේ  අත්‍යවශ්‍ය බවඅග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි. ‟ෂයින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා″ වැඩසටහන සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා ඉන්දියානු විධායක නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයේ (ICF) නියෝජිතයින් 2022.10.06 දින අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී හමු වූ අවස්ථාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය.ද්විපාර්ශ්වීය වෙළෙඳාම තවදුරටත් වර්ධනය […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 6: Sri Lanka lost the vote on the human rights situation in the country at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Thursday. Out of the 47 members, 20 voted in favor of the resolution that castigated Sri Lanka for a variety of human rights violations and […]

Courtesy Khaleej Times It has also allowed trials against ex prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, finance minister and two central bank governors Sri Lanka’s top court has granted permission for proceedings against former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the rights group which filed the case against him said in a statement on Friday. The court also agreed to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo Lotus Tower and Singapore Go Bungy company has signed a contract to start bungee jumping for the first time in Sri Lanka, which would be the world’s highest bungee jump after it is launched. The adventure jumping will be launched in Sri Lanka from January 1 next year. The […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka became among the ten friendliest countries in the world at the 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards, the Condé Nast Traveller official website said. They said the friendliest ten countries were selected while asking the readers to vote for the countries they considered to be home to the friendliest people in […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed to expedite the programme to provide welfare&nbsp;benefits to 3.1 million low-income families in Sri Lanka.<br /> <br />This program has been planned to cover all the districts of the country under the theme &lsquo;Don’t&nbsp;Leave Anyone Behind’. State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe revealed this while&nbsp;attending a media […]

Courtesy Adaderana The dates of the 2022 G.C.E. Advanced Level Examination and the Grade 05 Scholarship exams for the year 2022 have been pushed back, the Department of Examinations announced. Accordingly, the Grade 05 Scholarship exam will be held on December 18, 2022. Meanwhile, the A/L exam will commence on January 23, 2023, and will […]

Courtesy Adaderana Member of Parliament Namal Rajapaksa was appointed today (07) as the Chairman of the National Council Sub-Committee on Identifying Priorities in Formulating Short, Medium and Long-Term Policies. The name of Namal Rajapaksa for the post of Chairman was proposed by the Member of Parliament Sagara Kariyawasam, which was seconded by Member of Parliament […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that if the country is to overcome the current challenges, stability must be created in the country, and in order to achieve that, accurate information must be circulated among the public. Pointing out that nothing can be achieved without propaganda, the President called on all the media secretaries to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Member of Parliament Patali Champika Ranawaka was elected today (07) as the chairman of the National Council sub-committee on identifying short- and medium-term programs related to economic stabilization. The first meeting of the said sub-committee was held today (07) in Parliament. The name of Patali Champika Ranawaka for the post of Chairman was […]

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 […]