Shenali D Waduge On 21st November 2022 a handful of teachers & principals arrived wearing casual clothing instead of sarees. Ceylon Teachers Union (representing over 50,000 teachers) VP Rasika Handapangoda claims there have been social media campaigns encouraging teachers to replace the saree. This is a clue as to the mischief at play and provides answers […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake A great transformation in food culture and nutrition is taking place in Sri Lanka following various exogenous economic shocks: The traditional, nutritious ‘rice and fish’ diet, common throughout coastal Asia is increasingly substituted with imported maize or corn-fed chicken, white wheat flour breads, instant noodles and processed food. For the first time in […]

Sugath Kulatunga It is reported that the President has invited all party leaders to discuss after the ongoing Budget debate, the problems of minorities. This discussion is likely to focus on devolution of power where the Tamil parties will demand a federal constitution. In fact, TNA MP Sumanthiran who is a prime mover for a […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය  විහාරස්ථාන දහ හතරක් පුජා භූමි ලෙස ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කළ ඊට අදාල සන්නස්පත්‍ර ප්‍රදානය කිරීම අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්  2022.11.25 දින අරලිය ගහ මන්දිරයේදී අද සිදුකෙරිණි.   රත්නපුර කූරගල රජමහා විහාරය, කුරුණෑගල නිකසලා නුවර රජමහා විහාරය, මැද්දේපොල රජමහා විහාරය, බිංගිරිය දේවගිරි රජමහා විහාරය,  කොටහේන පරමානන්ද පුරාණ විහාරය, කෑගල්ල මාම්පිට ගල්ලෙන් රජමහ විහාරය, අම්පාර මගුල් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධය අංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ සිදුකළ හැකි නව ආයෝජන පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කිරීම සඳහා ජපානයේ ඉහළ පෙළේ ව්‍යවසායකයින් පිරිසක් 2022.11.24 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවිය. එම දූත පිරිසට ජපානයේ රාජකීය පවුලේ සාමාජිකාවක් සහ තෝක්යෝ මෙට්‍රොපොලිටන් කවුන්සිලයේ හිටපු සාමාජිකාවක් වන සයිගෝ අයුමි මහත්මිය සහ දෙවන ලෝක යුද්ධයෙන් පසු සුප්‍රසිද්ධ සැන් ෆ්‍රැන්සිස්කෝ සමුළුවේදී […]

PEPE ESCOBAR  Courtesy The Unz Review Spare a thought to the Polish farmer snapping pics of a missile wreckage – later indicated to belong to a Ukrainian S-300. So a Polish farmer, his footfalls echoing in our collective memory, may have saved the world from WWIII – unleashed via a tawdry plot concocted by Anglo-American […]

MIKE WHITNEY  Courtesy The Unz Review The Ukrainians are in bad shape… It won’t be long before the Ukrainians run out of food. It won’t be long before they freeze… They have done all that we can reasonably expect them to do. It’s time to negotiate…. before the offensive begins, because once it begins, there will be […]

LARRY ROMANOFF  Courtesy The Unz Review The purpose of this essay is threefold: (1) to bring to the attention of readers the existence of a long-standing conspiracy about the identification of The Richest Man in the World”, (2) to dismiss from contention the current list of candidates, and (3) to document that a small number […]

By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 25 (Counterpoint): Despite criticisms both inside and outside the House, the Sri Lankan parliament on Thursday passed a high defense and national security budget amounting to US$ 1.46 billion for 2023. It was passed by a majority of 81 votes, with 91 MPs voting in favor and 10 […]

Courtesy The Hindu FitsAir — a Sri Lankan based private airline — is looking at possibilities to operate services from Colombo to key destinations in south India by the end of 2023, the airlines vice-president (Passenger) Peter Murray Hill said here on Friday. The airline has narrowed down on five destinations – Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Coimbatore, […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් උද්ධමනය ස්ථාවර මට්ටමක් දක්වා ළඟා කරගැනීම එකවර සිදු නොවන බවත් ඒ සඳහා තවත් වසර එක හමාරක පමණ කාලයක් ගතවනු ඇති බවත් මහ බැංකු අධිපති ආචාර්ය නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ පවසනවා. මේ අතර මහබැංකු අධිපතිවරයා ඊයේ සිදුකළ චෝදනාවක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් අද ප්‍රතිචාර දැක්වූවා. තම කෘතිය නොකියවා ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Embassy in Beijing says that it is actively exploring the possibility of Chinese cruise ships and yachts visiting Sri Lanka with a view to attracting more Chinese tourists to the island nation. Sri Lankan Ambassador, Dr. Palitha Kohona has had a very successful virtual meeting with the Vice President of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong today assured President Ranil Wickremesinghe that China would continue to extend its support to overcome the current challenges faced by Sri Lanka. They reviewed the progressive bilateral & multilateral negotiation on the debt issue of Sri Lanka and denounced misinformation by foreign media on #China.

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 10.6 million litres (9,000 metric tonnes) of diesel donated by China to Sri Lanka is scheduled to reach the island nation tomorrow (Nov. 26), the Embassy of China in Colombo said in a tweet. Oil tanker Super Eastern” carrying the diesel consignment has left Singapore and it will berth at […]

Courtesy Adaderana The United Kingdom, through the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is providing GBP 880,000 (USD 1,043,395) to strengthen the food and nutrition security of marginal fishers in Tangalle, Negombo, Colombo, Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Puttalam, Chilaw, and Mannar of Sri Lanka. In light of World Fisheries Day (November 21) being […]

Courtesy Adaderana A private plaint filed against Colombo SSP Roshan Dias and ASP Nalin Dilruk, for allegedly blocking a peaceful protest on October 10, was dismissed by Colombo Fort Magistrate today. The complainant accused the two police officers of putting up barricades to block the demonstration. The private plaint, filed by media activist Tharindu Jayawardena, […]