.Lakmal Seneviratna Almost 100% of the people living in Sri Lanka can converse either in Sinhala or in Tamil or both. I have lived in the lovely country,Wales which has a much smaller population than us about three million people. It is just over hundred miles away from London. For the majority of people living […]

By Sana Jamal/Gulf News Islamabad December 19: One of the world’s oldest Buddhist temples discovered last year in Pakistan has been featured in the ‘Top 10 Discoveries of 2022’ by the renowned Archaeology Magazine. The temple was uncovered in the town of Barikot in the Swat region of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. The […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to the proposal furnished by the Minister of Public Security to take necessary steps to introduce three new VISA categories for Colombo Port City. The new Visa categories would be subject to the recommendations of the Colombo Port City Commission. Accordingly, the new Visa […]

Courtesy Adaderana Discussions are underway to establish a new commercial high court within the jurisdiction of the Colombo Port City, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says. He made this remark addressing an event organized by the Colombo High Court Lawyers’ Association in view of its 25th anniversary. The event was held on Dec. 19.

Dilrook Kannangara At last the government is doing something about the ice mafia. It is a very lucrative industry and the mafia is fighting back. The mafia cannot fight the police or the STF directly as they know it will be their end. Instead they agitate sections of the people to support them and save […]

Tilottama Rani Charulata There is nothing new about the impact food has on politics. In the old days, many kings practiced food diplomacy in entertaining their guests; from serving the best unique dishes that could have been created only by the royal house’s finest chefs. The tradition continues in the modern political world. Many leaders […]

Samina Akhter According to the government-to-government pact between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Myanmar has conveyed over 140,000 tonnes of white rice to Bangladesh, according to the Ministry of Commerce of Myanmar .Myanmar and Bangladesh inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on rice trade on 8 September this year.In line with this MoU, Bangladesh has agreed to […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Chairman, Press & Media Desk Ahmasiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. Ahmadiyya Muslims from number of countries including Sri Lanka are expected to participate in the 127th annual congregation of the community (Jalsa Salana) to be held December 23, 24 and 25  at Qadian in Punjab, India. In 1891, the founder of Ahmadiyya […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ මේ දේශපාලුවනට ඇත්තටම පිස්සුද? පසුගිය යහපාලන රජයේ සිමා නිර්ණ කොමිසමේ නිර්දේශ අනුව උතුරු/නැගෙනහිර සිංහල ගම්මාන වලින් සමහරක් එම පළාත් වලින් ගලවා උතුරුමැද පළාතට අනුයුක්ත කල යුතුය. මෙයින් වන්නේ උතුරු/නැගෙනහිර සිංහල ජනගහනය තවත් අඩු විමය. වත්මන් රජය මේ මෝඩ නිර්දේශ ක්‍රියාත්මක නොකරනු ඇතැයි උදක්ම පතමු. දකුණ අද ජනගහනයෙන්  පිරි ඉතිරි ගොස්ය. මිනිසුන් පර්චස් 2 […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Mihintale Raja Maha Vihara Chief Prelate Valahagunawewa Dhammarathana likened monks in universities to the Taliban. The Thera made these comments stating that laws should be drafted to limit the number of years students can engage in academic activities at universities. They can engage in politics, but in a way that doesn’t […]

Courtesy Adaderana China will donate 90 million RMB (5 billion LKR) worth of school uniform material to Sri Lankan students to meet 70% of the whole country’s requirement in 2023, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo said. Accordingly, the first batch of finished material of 3 mln meters of finished material in 38, 000 boxes via […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to discuss with all the Mahanayake Theros to come to an agreement on the academic and administrative affairs of the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka. Accordingly, the Cabinet has also decided to close the university until then, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.

Courtesy Adaderana As part of ongoing investigations into the murder of prominent businessperson Dinesh Schaffter under mysterious circumstances, authorities have uncovered several new leads. Following the murder of Janashakthi PLC Director, Dinesh Schafter on the December 15, the Homicide and Organised Crimes Division of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had launched an investigation in collaboration […]

Shenali D Waduge There are some harsh realities that Sri Lankans need to accept. We have enjoyed nominal independence since 1948 and artificially celebrate that every year. We ignore that we became a republic only in 1972. We have had 18 Prime Ministers & 8 Presidents since 1948. We have had countless manifestos, policies but […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Consequent to Siridhamma Thera’s insulting comments on the Dalada and his critical outbursts against the (in his opinion) foolish relic worshiping lay Buddhists, and  against the Ven. Mahanayakes, the Karaka Sangha Sabha of the Malwatte Chapter to which he belongs wrote to him ordering him to tender a formal apology for […]

Sugath Kulatunga A few days back the President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that new laws are expected to be introduced in the future to ensure food security. The President also emphasized the need to obtain accurate data in establishing food security and the nutritional status of the people and stressed that there have been disparities in […]

Ambassador Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel (Former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, Former Chair of the Consumer Affairs Authority) and Miss. B.M. Prineetha Bandaranayake AAL The Egg Producers Association informed the Court of Appeal on December 15th that they disagree with the Consumer Affairs Authority’s new prices of Rs.42 rupees for a white egg and Rs.44 […]

manusha media මේ වසරේදී ශ්‍රි ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුන්කති කාර්යාංශයේ ලියාපදිංචිය ලබා විදේශ රැකියා සඳහා පිටත්ව ගිය සංඛ්‍යාව ලක්ෂ 3 ඉක්මවා ගොස් ඇති බවත් ඉතිහාසයේ විදේශ රැකියා සඳහා වැඩිම පිරිසක් විදේශ ගතවූ වසර ලෙස මෙම වසර වාර්තා ගත වන බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙම අදහස් පළකළේ, ජාත්‍යන්තර […]

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Courtesy Business Insider Representational imageUnsplashSri Lanka and India  will start a passenger ferry service next month between Kankesanthurai port in Jaffna district and Pondicherry, according to media reports. Ports, Shipping, and Civil Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva  said arrangements were made to start the ferry service in mid-January next year, Colombo Page reported. The minister said the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued a special notice for students who sat for the 2021 G.C.E. Advanced Level examination and are selected for state universities.  UGC Chairman Prof. Sampath Amaratunga said that students selected for universities will receive an SMS and email tomorrow (19), following which they can register for their […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is to sell four plots of land in Colombo Port City for an investor to establish a facility for bunkering, a Minister told journalists. Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation, Nimal Siripala de Silva said that they have also called for expression of interest to start an aviation fuel storage facility. […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ සිංහල ඉතිහාසය විකෘති කිරීම සහ ඒ පිළිබඳව සිංහලයා නිහඬව සිටීම සිංහලයාගේ සම්භවය දෙමළ බවත්, සිංහලයාට ප්‍රථමව මේ රටේ ද්‍රවිඩයන් සිටී බවත්, කුවේණීය  දෙමළ බවත්, මහින්දාගමනයට පෙර මේ රටේ ‘දෙමළ බෞද්ධයන්’ සිටී බවත්, මහාවංශය බොරු බවත්, සැමදා යාපනයේ ස්ථිර දෙමළ රජුන් සිටී බවත්, පන්ඩුකාභය රජු දෙමළ බවත්, සීගිරිය කාශ්‍යප රජුගේ නිර්මාණයක් නොවිය හැකි බවත්  […]

By Rohana R. Wasala In almost all the videos I watched on the internet, Ven. Samanthabhadra refers to Buddhists he judges to lack the level of intellect that he thinks a rational thinking Buddhist should have, using  very derogatory terms such as fools, donkeys, animals, etc. He has no empathy  for people with perceived weaknesses. […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක  ආත්මීය නොවන, අපට කිසිදා විදිය නොහැකි, භාහිර ලෝකයේ (රූප) ප්‍රතිබිම්භය පංචේන්ද්‍රියන් හරහා ප්‍රසාද වන වේගය සංඥා අභිසංකරනයක් ඇතිකරයි. භාහිරය දෙයක්/යමක් බවට පරිවර්තනය කරන මායාව සිතෙහි ඇතිකරන්නේ මේ සංඥා අභිසංකරනයයි. සිතුවිල්ල තුල මායාවක් සේ දෙයක්/යමක් ඇතිවීම (සක්කාය දිට්ඨිය) ගින්නකි, ඉමහත් ආතතියකි. සංඥාව පෙර මතකය විතක්ක විචාර කරගෙන සංකාරය නැතහොත් අරූපාවචර (නාම) ලෝකය සකස්කරයි. නිවන්මග […]

Malinda Seneviratne The early versions of Udayasiri Wickramaratne’s celebrated theatrical piece ‘Suddek Oba Amathai (A white man addresses you) contained a short soliloquy, ‘Baya Vunu Minisek Oba Amathai (A scared man addresses you).’ The man was essentially scared of two things: a) that he would speak the truth even when he wanted to deceive, and b) that […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe highlighted Sri Lanka’s potential to better itself within the international sphere by adopting a non-aligned foreign policy. Speaking at the 97th Passing out Parade of the cadet officers of the Diyatalawa Military Academy, Wickremesinghe stated that Sri Lanka’s position within the international forum can be elevated to a higher level […]

Courtesy Adaderana Chinese officials have agreed to participate in a global sovereign debt roundtable” that would include a wide variety of stakeholders, including private sector creditors, International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday. Georgieva told an event hosted by the IMF that she was feeling a bit more optimistic” about the prospects for […]

by Garvin Karunaratne The SMOG kept us indoors for a few days and the never ending POWER CUTS have caused problems for the people as well as industrialists. Many a garment factory is closed. There has to be an end to this. As an administrator in the SLAS my work included building massive stores- the […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Incidentally, disparagement or what appears to be attempted desacralization of the Tooth Relic by various individuals is not new. The famous Colonel Olcott (1832-1907), who greatly contributed to the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and who initiated a school system for the education of the children of Sinhalese Buddhists (something […]