Shenali D Waduge Prior to elections, political parties prepare party manifestos laying out what they propose to do once in power. It is in presenting their proposals before the people, that they appeal for votes. The people who align with the proposals outlined give their votes. Therefore, the unwritten understanding is that people vote for […]

Ruchir Sharma Ruchir Sharma is an investor, author, fund manager and columnist for the Financial Times. He is the Chairman of Rockefeller International, and was an emerging markets investor at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He is considered one of the best 10 global thinkers of the day. His recent book The 10 Rules of Successful […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D <තැටිය රත්වුන වේලාවේ රොටිය පුච්චා ගන්න ඕන>           හිත් වේදනාවෙන් අපවත්වූ මාදුළුවාවේ සෝභිත හිමියන් 2014 දී <මං ආයිත් සැරයක් 2022 දී කොළඹට ආවේ ලංකාවට උදව් කරන්න> – එරික් සොල්හයිම් <13-A + ආරම්භය පමණයි> – මනෝ ගනේෂන් <අපට ඕනෑ ආපහු ගන්නට බැරි විධියේ බලය බෙදීමක්> – ඒබ්‍රහිම් සුමන්තිරන් වර්ෂ 74 මාස 10 […]

By Dr Tilak S. Fernando The political disarray in Sri Lanka is akin to ‘Nero playing the fiddle while Rome was burning.’ The 225 representatives who are democratically elected by the people to serve the citizens of this country appear to be only interested in their affairs. MPs keep mum about the facilities and perks […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Satath 7@hotmail.co.uk Sanctions imposed by the Canadian government on four Sri Lankans including two Former Presidents ‘’Gotabays Rajapaksa’’,  ‘’Mahinds Rajapaksa’’ and two others are unprecedented and controversial as a step taken by a friendly country on another friendly country is extremely rare and taken only […]

Chanaka Bandarage Kadawatha Weda Mahaththaya (KWM) states that because he received complaints that Wickramaarachchi Weda Mahaththaya (WWM) is promiscuous, he sent a woman to WWM in order to expose his alleged vulgarism nationally. KWM has achieved his objective.   WWM seems to be in hiding. He is very badly castigated nationally as a dirty, perverted man. […]

සමස්ත ලංකා වෛද්‍ය නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය. කෙහෙළිය රඹුක්වැල්ල මැතිතුමාසෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය,සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය,385, සුවසිරිපායපූජ්‍ය බද්දේගම විමලවාංශ නාහිමි මාවතකොළඹ – 10. ඇමතිතුමනි, උග්‍ර පිළිකා නාශක ඖෂධ හිඟයට කඩිනම් විසඳුම් ලබාදෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම. මහරගම අපේක්ෂා රෝහල ඇතුළු වූ පිළිකා රෝගීන්ට ප්‍රතිකාර කරනු ලබන ප්‍රධාන පෙළේ රෝහල් 15 ක පමණ පිළිකා රෝගය සඳහා බහුලව භාවිතා කරනු ලබන අත්‍යවශ්‍ය පිළිකා නාශක […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය    මාධ්‍ය අංශය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගේ මෙන්ම  පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය සහ ආරක්ෂාව ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට පොදුරාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලය සහාය ලබා දෙන බව පොදුරාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලීය පාර්ලිමේන්තු සංගමයේ (CPA) මහලේකම්,( Stephen Twiggs ) ස්ටීවන් ට්විග්ස් පවසයි.ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුවේ 2023.01.11 අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදීය. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ට එරෙහි මෑත කාලීන ප්‍රචණ්ඩ ක්‍රියා සම්බන්ධයෙන්  ඔහු සිය දැඩි කනස්සල්ල පළ […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 11: Given debt-ridden Sri Lanka’s difficulty in getting creditors to agree to haircuts and the problem it has in meeting the IMF’s onerous conditions, the subject of debt servicing has gained public attention across the world. Recently, a group of 182 international academics issued a statement on the question […]

Lanka Lead News උත්තර ලංකා සභාගය නියෝජනය කරන ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ, ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී වාමාංශික පෙරමුණ, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂය, ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය, පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය, විජයධරණී ජාතික සභාව හා යුතුකම ජාතික සංවිධානය ද ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය, නිදහස ජනතා සභාව, ජන ජය පෙරමුණ, ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහජන පක්ෂය, නිදහස් ජනතා පෙරමුණ ද ‘නිදහස් ජනතා සන්ධානය’ නමින් […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Foreign Minister Ali Sabry summoned the Canadian Acting High Commissioner Daniel Bood today and expressed the deep regret of the Government on the announcement of unilateral sanctions brought against four individuals including two former Presidents of Sri Lanka by the Government of Canada based on unsubstantiated allegations, the ministry said. Earlier, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s output is estimated to have fallen by 9.2 percent in 2022 as the government ran out of the foreign exchange needed to cover food and fuel imports while the rupee plummeted and imports contracted sharply, and to service external debt, the World Bank says. In its Global Economics Prospects in January 2023, the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Adarsha Karadana, who was recently in the spotlight after releasing a controversial video of her estranged partner former MP Ashu Marasinghe, has been arrested by the Police Computer Crimes Division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).  Accordingly, Karadana was arrested over a complaint lodged by the former Presidential Advisor, pertaining to a video […]

Courtesy Adaderana The ‘Nidahas Janatha Sandhanaya’ (Freedom People’s Alliance), a new coalition with the combined participation of 10 different political parties, was launched a short while ago.  The novel party was ceremonially launched today (11 Jan.), at the Headquarters of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) in Colombo 10.  Accordingly, 10 political parties, including the […]

Courtesy Adaderana A new political alliance under the name ‘Nidahas Janatha Sandhanaya’ (Freedom People’s Alliance) is scheduled to be announced, with the combined participation of 10 different political parties, including those representing the opposition. Accordingly, it is reported that nearly 35 MPs will join the alliance, including former President Maithripala Sirisena, MPs Dullas Alaheppruma and […]