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Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced that he is prepared to re-introduce District Development Councils. President Wickremesinghe speaking in Parliament made the announcement in response to a request made by former President Maithripala Sirisena. Former President Sirisena said District Development Councils could play a better role in working with the rural population of […]

Courtesy Hiru News Earnings from merchandise exports have exceeded $11 bn from January to October 2022, indicating a growth of 9.33% in comparison to the same period in 2021: Export Development Board. This is a growth of 9.33% in comparison to the same period in 2021. The earnings from merchandise exports in the first ten […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The information on the debt restructuring of Sri Lanka shows that it has become a serious controversy among many people, despite this situation ordinary people in the country have no idea about the controversy. Some information publishes in the media and much of them have limited to policymakers. As the process of […]

Chanaka Bandarage A giant statue of Queen Victoria is currently on display at Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7, next to Kalabhawana. It is bigger than her life size. It is a magnificent creation. This statue was constructed in England to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and sent to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) for public display. […]

Courtesy Thuppahis.com Dr. Sarath Gamini De Silva: Plenary lecture delivered at the Colombo Medical Congress. 24th Nov 2022, where his chosen title was  The Doctor in the Society: A Sri Lankan Perspective” I thank the organizers for inviting me  to talk on a very relevant  topic at a time when the role of the educated  in society […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂයේ ඉල්ලීම පරිදි මෙරටට පරිත්‍යාග කෙරුණු එම ඖෂධ තොගය අද දින  (2022.11.28) කොළඹ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා වෙත භාර දුන්නේය.  අදාල  ඖෂධ තොගය කඩිනමින් ඖෂධ හිඟ රෝහල වෙත බෙදා හැරීමට ක්‍රියා කෙරෙයි. මෙම අවස්ථාවට වියට්නාම් තානාපති (Ho thi thanh truc)හෝ තායි තාන් ට්‍රක්, අමාත්‍ය කෙහෙළිය රඹුක්වැල්ල,රාජ්‍ය […]

 අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධය අංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බලශක්ති ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ආයෝජන සඳහා විශාල විභවයක් පවතින බව එක්සත් අරාබි ජනරජයේ තානාපති Khaled Nasser AlAmeri පැවසීය. ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සහයෝගීතාව සහ නව ආයෝජන පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කිරීම සඳහා කොළඹ,අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්ති ව්‍යාපෘති සඳහා ආයෝජනය කිරීමට උනන්දුවක් දක්වන බව එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍ය යේ තානාපතිවරයා […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධය අංශය රුසියාව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ස්වෛරීභාවය වෙනුවෙන් සැමවිටම පෙනී සිටි විශ්වාසවන්ත මිතුරෙක් බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. කොළඹ, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී  පසුගියදා නව රුසියානු තානාපති Levan S. Dzhagaryan මහතා හම වූ අවස්ථාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය.  දශක ගණනාවකට පෙර ඔරුවල වානේ කර්මාන්ත ශාලාවක් සහ කැලණියේ ටයර් කම්හලක් පිහිටුවමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කාර්මීකරණයට සෝවියට් සංගමය […]

Courtesy National Alert The program ‘Truth with Chamuditha’ made the most revelations about the investment company run by Thilini Priyamali in the World Trade Complex. Recently the  ‘Truth with Chamuditha’ made another hair straightening revelation. The ‘Truth with Chamuditha’ program revealed that Thilini’s father is former JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe. They exposed this with evidence. […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera It is commendable that Sri Lanka opened their eyes, ( though whoever is in the above picture is sleeping ) and take meaningful action to further develop transshipment trade with  Bangladesh Hopefully SAG5, and CICT joined hands on this mission SLPA port is having difficulties in finding funds to complete ECT as […]

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Courtesy The Hindustan Times Sri Lanka’s inflation is expected to significantly cool in the coming months after peaking near 70% this year, and the nation may gradually relax a currency band as inflows improve, central bank governor Nandalal Weerasinghe said. Sri Lanka’s Central bank governor Nandalal Weerasinghe expects that the country’s inflation will substantially decrease […]

By Shivanthi ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Last Friday (25 November 2022) at the event, Driving Towards a Resurgent Economy, organised by the Business Economics Studies Association of the University of Colombo, delivering a keynote speech Central Bank Governor, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe defended the high interest rates.  Currently, inflation is on the wrong side of two-digit numbers. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Education Ministry announced today that 80% school attendance is mandatory for students appearing for the G.C.E. Advanced Level (A/L) examination from next year. A notice on this directive was issued by the Ministry today. Earlier, following a letter from the Education Secretary, it was announced that it was not necessary […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Filing a writ petition before Court of Appeal, about 176 consultant specialist doctors have challenged the government’s decision to reduce their compulsory retirement age to 60 years. The petitioners are Specialist Consultants in varied fields of medicine including Cardiology, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Oncology, Neurology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Haematology, Opthalmogy, Histopatholy, Anaesthesia, Paediatrics and Auto-Rhinolaryngology. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror State Minister of Tourism Diana Gamage today claimed in Parliament that Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa’s wife, Jalani Premadasa had telephoned former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asking for the premiership for her husband when Gotabaya was the President.  “Not only the Opposition Leader, but his wife too had called Gotabaya Rajapaksa asking him […]

by Garvin Karunaratne. I give below the Summary of my book: Nuwara Kalaviya(2020): I can understand disasters caused by Natural Calamities, but I cannot come to terms with the demise and destruction of the ancient irrigation tanks and its unique agricultural cultivation system in Nuwara Kalaviya. The demise of the irrigation tanks began with the […]

Shenali D Waduge India’s intel chief is to arrive in Sri Lanka for talks with the President. Top on the agenda should be 13a but not to canvass for its implementation, but to discuss the dangers that underlie its implementation for Sri Lanka, India & entire South Asia. In 2021, 4 actions by US raised […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results -Albert Einstein A challenge for all political parties.  Why not a second chamber with equal representation for Tamils, Sinhalese, and Muslims? The momentum for resolving the ethnic issue that has bedeviled the country since independence has taken a […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක  “ද්වෙමෙ, භික්ඛවෙ, අන්තා පබ්බජිතෙන න සෙවිතබ්බා. කතමෙ ද්වෙ? යො චායං කාමෙසු කාමසුඛල්ලිකානුයොගො හීනො ගම්මො පොථුජ්ජනිකො අනරියො අනත්ථසංහිතො, යො චායං අත්තකිලමථානුයොගො” පබ්බජිතෙන – ආර්ය මාර්ගයට  පිවිසෙන තැනැත්තා  න සෙවිතබ්බා  -. ආශ්‍රය නොකල යුතු ද්වෙමෙ අන්තා – අන්ත දෙකකි කාමසුඛල්ලිකානුයොගො යනු ශරීරයට අධික සැප සම්පත් ලබාදීම බවත් අත්තකිලමථානුයොගො යනු ශරීරයට අධික දුක්දීම බවත් සමහර ගිහි […]

By, Professor Dr. Nishan C. Wijesinha The use of KHUSHI Abortion Pill Kit in Sri Lanka has risen above an average of over ten thousand units, commencing from the first quarter of June 2022 to October 2022. The 2015 Presidential election manifesto, of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, offered a complete economic and development restructuring package, from […]

MIKE WHITNEY  Courtesy The Unz Review Why do Americans hate Putin? Tucker Carlson thinks he knows. Here’s what he said: … Democrats in Washington have told you it’s your patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin. It’s not a suggestion. It’s a mandate. Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason. Many Americans have obeyed this […]

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ෆීනික්ස් නීති සංග්‍රහය,වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන් නීතිය ඉගෙනීමේ අයිතිය දෙමළ ජනතාවගෙන් අහිමි කිරීමට, අලි සබ්‍රි අධිකරණ ඇමති, ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය අගවිනිසුරු ඇතුලු සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්‍යාපන සභාව, අනු නීති පැනවීමට එරෙහිව දෙමළ ජනතා අයිතීන් වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී ඉන්නා අය ඉදිරිපත් නොවන්නේ ඇයි? ඇමෙරිකාවට, එංගලන්තයට, ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවට යන රටේ ඇත්තෝ එහි කලු පැත්ත මිස […]

By Rishabh Suri Courtesy Hindustan Times Singer Yohani, whose viral hit Manike Mage Hithe was used in the recent film Thank God speaks up on the recreation debate. Yohani shot to instant fame with Manike Mage Hithe, a Sri Lankan song, which currently holds more than 200 million views on YouTube. And even if we […]

Madhur Sharma Courtesy Outlook Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi signed the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord with Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayawardene in 1987. Under the pact, the Indian military was deployed as the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to Sri Lanka. Soon after the deployment, the circumstances changed and IPKF was engaged in combat by […]

By Sandun A. Jayasekara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Central Bank governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal in his recently released publication on the current economic meltdown ‘Amidst Economic Hit Men’ says that if anyone is to blame for the current predicament, it is not only him but the previous administration, previous cabinet, finance minister and the […]

Shenali D Waduge US Congress funded NED-the 2nd CIA of America’s Sri Lanka sponsored Verite Research asks how Sri Lanka’s media covered LTTE’s Maaveerar Naal commemorations. Interesting that US-NED & Verite are bothered to know how terrorists are commemorated. Do they cover commemorations of Al Qaeda & associates? This leads us to ask, who is commemorating […]

Shenali D Waduge It is predicted that by 2025, over 5billion of the worlds population will not be able to access fresh drinking water. The population has hit 8billion already. 2025 is just 3 years away. Water is the oil of the future. Governments must realize that the flurry to privatize water” is nothing but […]