Shenali D Waduge How many would agree that the views of Tamils in Sri Lanka has been hijacked by parties like ITAK & its umbrella group TNA? With 2.2million registered Tamils (of which many are registered but living overseas) why is it that the TNA/ITKA hardly get even 1/3 of their vote? Can ITAK & […]

by Garvin Karunaratne Once Nicholas Kristof, Jakarta correspondent for The New York Times, wrote of what happened to Suharto, the President of Indonesia: What overthrew Suharto was not a guerrilla insurgency, but a conspiracy of far more subversives – capitalism, markets and globalisation; Suharto’s sleuths never figured how to handcuff them (Herald International Tribune) That is […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS To my mind, said one writer, the most important question to be resolved is whether this Country is to be regarded as a Sinhala Buddhist State where all the other ethnic, religious groups are treated as guests, or as a multi- ethnic- multi-religious, secular country where all citizens have equal rights. The above […]

Dilrook Kannangara Amidst the economic crisis racist politics has raised its ugly head once again. Instead of addressing the problems of 22 million people, tribal politicians want special treatment for their tribe of 3.5 million people. In order to perform their extortion racket, they are still using the ethnic problem begging bowl. The so-called ethnic […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය රටේ ආර්ථික තත්ත්වය ලිහිල් කිරීම සඳහා රජය ගෙන ඇති කෙටිකාලීන ක්‍රියාමාර්ග පිළිබඳව තෘප්තිමත් වන බව ලෝක බැංකුව සඳහන් කරයි. ලෝක බැංකුවේ මෙරට අධ්‍යක්ෂ  චියෝ කන්දා (Chiyo Kanda) මහත්මිය ඇතුළු නියෝජිත පිරිසක් 2022/11/29 කොළඹ, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී වත්මන් ආර්ථික අර්බුදයෙන් රට ගොඩ ගැනීමට ගෙන ඇති නව මූල්‍ය සහ අනෙකුත් ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ    සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ඡා […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක  කාමසුඛල්ලිකානුයෝගයත් (සක්කාය දිට්ටිය) අත්තකිලමථානුයෝගයත් (සීලබ්බතයක්වූ සීලයත්) තතාගතයන් වහන්සේ ප්‍රකික්ෂේප කල අතර දුකින් මිදෙන මාර්ගය ලෙස හදුන්වා දුන්නේ මධ්‍යම ප්‍රතිපදාව වන ‘නාම රූප පරිච්ඡේදය’යි නැතහොන් ආර්ය අෂ්ටාංගික මාර්ගයෙන් ප්‍රකටවන ‘නාමයෙන් මිදීමයි’ අදටත් සමහර දේශකයන් තමන් පැටලී ඇති ධර්මය අනුන්ටද පැටලවීමේ අපේක්‍ෂාවෙන් තතාගතයන් වහන්සේ දේශනාකල සරල සුන්දර දහම විවිධ දෘශ්ඨීන් වල එල්බ දේශනාකරයි. ඹවුන් ආර්ය […]

PHILIP GIRALDI  Courtesy The Unz Review In history books as well as in politics every story is shaped by where one chooses to begin the tale. The current fighting in Ukraine, which many observers believe to already be what might be considered the opening phase of World War 3, is just such a development. Did […]

By Dr. Tilak S Fernando In response article in my blog ’tilaksblog.com’ when Covid-19 implications were at their Peak, the writer received a detailed description of homoeopathy from Dhiru Nathwani at rogers.com, which opened the eyes of those who are sceptical about Homoeopathy. Dr Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843 A.D.), a German physician, chemist and linguist, gave […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera The article below promoted me to write this  An investor who wanted to build a marina and a yacht boat building and repair yard near a harbour had to face the following difficulties  Get Local authority approval for blocking out a plan of the land Submit seeking preliminary approval request to UDA […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana Courtesy The Island Engineer Madinda Panapitiya (MP), writing about Using existing resources for agri-food sector in Mahaweli areas” in The Island (30-11-2022) makes a number of claims and suggestions. 1.    One such claim is that the main clients of irrigation projects (farmers)” are dying of diseases caused by indiscriminate use of agro-chemicals”? This is […]

By MAHINDA PANAPITIYA Irrigation Engineer who has worked for Mahaweli Project since 80s Courtesy The Island As originally planned, the present phase of the Mahaweli Project should be focused on social and economic development of the families settled in Mahaweli areas. It could be done by promoting food production in a sustainable way, to gain […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island MP Gevindu Cumaratunga, who represents the SLPP dissidents, yesterday (27) alleged that the incumbent government was yet to bring enough pressure to bear on those who had parked as much as USD 36 billion overseas to bring the money back.Cumaratunga said the government’s failure to amend the Exchange Control […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The stabilisation and recovery of the country’s economy is currently the Central Bank of Sri Lanka’s (CBSL) key objective, CBSL Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe said.  Speaking at the International Conference on the Roadmap for Economic Recovery of Sri Lanka held in Colombo today (Nov 30), he attributed the ongoing economic crisis to an […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe says the agreements reached at COP27 have once again failed to place the nations of the world on a complementary and progressive course of redress. In a statement issued on Tuesday (Nov 29), the Head of State attributed the biggest obstacle to success to politicisation and stagnation. The outcome of […]

Courtesy Hiru News Media reports claiming the President is planning to establish District Development Committees instead of Provincial Councils are false. Recent media reports attributing a quote to the President stating that the Provincial Councils will be replaced with the District Development Committees is incorrect. President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s response in Parliament yesterday (29) has been […]

Sugath Kulatunga There is plenty of discourse on updating and modernizing our bullock cart age systems of administration. The laws of the land are one area that has received attention recently and the previous Minister of Justice did revise a few of the antique provisions in some of the statutes. Unfortunately, the law governing the […]

Aruna Unawatuna අධිකරණ භාෂාවෙන් නීතිය ඉගෙනීමේ අයිතිය අහිමි කරවීම සහ වෙනම රටකට දිරි දීම පාලනයට ඇති නෛතික විසඳුම් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් සහ වෙනත් නීති වලින් දැන ගනිමු… 2022 දෙසැම්බර් 15 සවස 2.30 – කොළඹ මහජන පුස්තකාල සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේදී… ආසන සීමිතයි. ආසනයක් කලින් වෙන්කර ගන්න.

Copied.(උපුටා ගැනිමකි.මුල් අයිතියට ස්තුතියි) *සිංහල භාෂාව සිංහලේ නම් රටේ, දිවයිනේ උරුමක්කාරයින් වන සිංහලුන්ගේ භාෂාවයි.එම භාෂාව ඉතාම විචිත්‍ර වූත්, අහන්න ප්‍රියවූත් භාෂාවකි .* *How fortunate I am to be Sinhala.??* ලෝකේ තියෙනවා අකුරු සහිත හා රහිත කියලා භාෂාවන් 2ක්. There are two Languages in the world…One is a Language with Letters and theother is a Language […]

By Asiri Fernando The Sunday Morning Colombo, November 27 (The Sunday Morning): The Sri Lankan Government is planning to explore alternative funding means such as the announced $ 1 billion ‘Debt-for-Nature Swap’ (DNS) programme in late 2023, following the approval of the anticipated $ 2.9 billion Extended Fund Facility, The Sunday Morning learns. It is […]

The Hindu  Meera Srinivasan in Sri Lanka and Kanishkaa Balachandran in Bengaluru have put together a video report for The Hindu on the plight of the Malayaha Tamils or Hill Country Tamils who work on the tea plantations of Central Sri Lanka. As the poorest community in Sri Lanka, these workers of Indian origin have had to […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Kathmandu, November 28 (The Rising Nepal): As the economic situation of Sri Lanka is gradually coming back to normal, Nepal may receive more travelers from that country in the days ahead. It has become easier for these two South Asian nations to promote bilateral tourism and trade thanks to the operation of direct […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  අරුණ පුවත් පොතේ හැටියට ජනපතිවරයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට පැමිණිය යුත්තේ සය මසකට වරකි. එනමුත් ජනපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ගිය සතියේ දින තුනක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ආවේය. මේ දිනවල පැවැත්වෙන අයවැය විවාදයට ඉතා සක්‍රියව එක්ව සිටින ජනපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ රටේ ආන්දෝලනයට ලක්වන කතා කිහිපයක් කළේය. පළමු දිනයේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට පැමිණෙන විට අදහස් දක්වමින් සිටියේ ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි […]

වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර Lanka Lead News මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු සහ නව ප‍්‍රධානීන් මෙන්ම ඔවුන්ට එරෙහිව නඩු පවරන විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ආචාර්යවරුන් ද එකම කරුණක් පිළිබදව විවිධ පරස්පර මත පලකරති. ඔවුන්ගේ ප‍්‍රකාශවල සම්ප‍්‍රයුක්තය වන්නේ නව මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයාට පෙර ධුරය දැරූ අධිපතිවරයා විසින් රුපියල අවප‍්‍රමාණය වීමට ඉඩ නොදී පවත්වා ගැනීම නිසා සහ ඒ සඳහා ඩොලර් සංචිත වෙළෙදපොළට නිකුත් […]

By Judith Baker Courtesy This is local London Judith Baker journeys to Sri Lanka to discover the island nation’s hidden gems… Sri Lanka is firmly back on the tourist radar and anyone visiting in 2023 will encounter not only the country’s amazing cultural and historic sites, beaches and wildlife but also a wealth of fabulous […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Both Cabinet and Parliament should question Central Bank officials about the recent decisions they have made with regards to the economy, Minister Bandula Gunawardena told Parliament yesterday. We will be able to question the decisions which Central Bank officials have made during the recent past if they are summoned to Parliament […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror China welcomes Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Sabry’s rebuttal of the narrative of the so-called Chinese “debt trap” in Sri Lanka, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said here on Monday. Sabry has said that when Sri Lanka went to China in search of funds, China was respectful and never forced […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe today said he is ready to reintroduce District Development Councils in place of Provincial Councils. President said this in Parliament when Former President Maithripala Sirisena proposed setting up of District Council. Former President I listened to your comments on District Development Councils and I am ready to do […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has questioned the actions of monks in the recent past, accusing several of them who enter universities do so as monks, however, leave as laymen. They cannot use the robes they are in as a shield to behave in an unruly manner,” the President said while speaking in Parliament this […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Public Accounts COPA revealed that the total arrears of taxes, penalties and interest in due to the Inland Revenue Department as at June 30th, 2022 is Rs. 773 billion. It was disclosed that an amount of Rs. 201 billion has been identified as income that can be collected without any […]