Shenali D Waduge When anything is difficult to introduce, the tactic used is to camouflage the insidious objective & sugar coat it in a manner that can win over people’s approval. Thus, the name Gender Equality” – it becomes something people cannot refuse & do not pay much attention to reading the hidden clauses attempted […]

Asoka Weerasinghe  Gloucester . Ontario . Canada January 4, 2023 Letters EditorTHE OTTAWA CITIZEN You said that ‘Canada linked to alleged war horrors… accused of killing innocents in Syria and Iraq. Let’s not white-wash Canada’s indirect involvement in the killings of innocent Sinhalese people in the border villages in North and East of Sri Lanka in the thousands during […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර එප්පාවල 09 හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවකු  දෙමාපියන්ට නොදන්වා ගොස් රිකිල්ලගස්කඩ ජොන්ස්ලන්ඩ් වතුයායේ නිවසක සඟවාගෙන සිටි සැකකරුට හා නවාතැන් දුන් සැකකරුවන් දෙදෙනාට ඇප ලබා දෙන ලෙස තඹුත්තේගම මහසේත්‍රාත් බුද්ධික මල්වත්ත මහතා අද (04) නියෝග කලේය. මෙලෙස ඇප මත නිදහස් කෙරුණේ, නීත්‍යාණූකූල භාරකාරත්වයෙන් අපහරණය කිරීමේ චෝදනාව මත  රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කර සිටි, 09 හැවිරිදි පිරිමි […]

Mahinda Gunasekera Federal vs Unitary: Broadly speaking, most are fully in favour of retaining a Unitary Structure of governance as opposed to a Federal, Quasi-Federal based on the Indian model, or other multi-level structure where powers need to be devolved to the semi-autonomous units that are to be set-up for various regions within the tiny […]

  අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය    මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා 2023.01.04 දින  ඓතිහාසික නවගමුව රජමහා විහාරස්ථානයේ සහ පත්තිනි දේවාලයේ  ආගමික වතාවත් වලට සහභාගී වූ අතර විහාරාධිපති ශ්‍රී කල්‍යාණි සාමග්‍රී ධර්ම  මහා සංඝ සභාවේ මහා නායක මල්වානෙ පඤ්ඤාසාර හිමිපාණන් බැහැ දැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය.එහිදී අනුශාසනා කළ නවගමුව රජමහා විහාරාධිපති මල්වානෙ පඤ්ඤාසාර හිමියන්  –  අපේ නවගමුව පූජා භූමිය විහාරස්ථානය සහ පත්තිනි […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Government has decided to seek the Attorney General’s advice with regard to holding the local government election, government sources said. Government has decided to seek the Attorney General’s advice as there is a division among the members of the election commission. It is said that the majority of members in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed the United National Party (UNP) that he would not be involved in any activities related to the upcoming local government election. Communicating his decision to the UNP, President Wickremesinghe noted that he was given a mandate not to engage in elections, but to rebuild the country and ride […]

Courtesy Adaderana During the year 2022, the Sri Lankan Rupee depreciated against the US Dollar by nearly 45%, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) reported. Accordingly, the Rupee depreciated by 44.8% against the US Dollar in 2022, while also having depreciated against the Euro by 41.4%, the Indian Rupee by 38.6%, the Pound Sterling […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has lifted the Port and Aviation Levy (PAL) on solar panel static converters/inverters. Taking to Twitter, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said this comes into effect from January 01, 2023.

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake  If you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute’ runs a wry idiom in New England where the weather may change dramatically in minutes. However, these days blaming the weather for pretty much everything is fashionable– be it global warming or cooling, no rain, or too much rain, drought, floods or a […]