By Rohana R. Wasala Whatever it is, equipped with his education, native intelligence and acquired political wisdom, he will be able to hold the country whole until it passes lawfully into the hands of the uncorrupt patriotic young generation that is  waiting in the wings in patient silence (not into those of the ignorant noisy […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  In my view firstly, the UN Declaration of Human Rights resembles Aesop’s story of the father taking the donkey to market. Secondly, the statements lacked amplification. The Rights were left up in the air. Thirdly, the Declaration made sweeping statements on matters which sometimes humans cannot control, such as the right to life. […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka. US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu has recently been mentioned frequently in the media while talking about US relations with South Asian nations. This time his visit to Dhaka has generated a buzz in the diplomatic community against the backdrop of […]

Malinda Seneviratne [‘The Morning Inspection’ is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is a new series. Scroll down for previous articles]   Sometime in the year 2003, a bumper harvest saw rice prices plummeting in Sri Lanka severely affecting the […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel former Ambassador to UAE and Israel President Ambassador’s Forum New concerns raised on domestic workers After the publication of the above article there were numerous requests for us to find a solution for the issues raised therein. It is not possible to find solutions for the worldwide issues but we can […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්) (පළමුවෙනි කොටසෙන්)පොළොන්නරුවේ අංක 1 සහ 2 සිව කෝවිල් දෙක හැර ප‍්‍රදේශයේ වෙනත් සිව/හින්දු කෝවිල් නොවූ බව සහ ද්‍රවිඩය’යි විශේෂයෙන් සඳහන් කළ හැකි ගොඩනැගිලි කිසිවක් චෝල ආක‍්‍රමණ යට පෙර නොවූ බව සිංහලයේ ද්‍රවිඩ සිහිවටන පිළිබඳ විමසුමක නිරත වූු මහාචාර්ය නන්දසේන මුදියන්සේ ප‍්‍රකාශ කරයි. චෝල ආක‍්‍රමණිකයන් පළවාහැරීමෙන් පසු පළමුවෙනි විජයබාහු රජු […]

දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය தினேஷ் குணவர்தன பிரதமர் අස්වැන්නේ මංගල්‍යය වන තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය සහ ස්වභාවධර්මය සමග බැඳී සාම්ප්‍රදායික ජීවන රටාව කෙරෙහි විශ්වාසයෙන් සහෝදර දමිළ ගොවී ජනතාව විසින් සරු අස්වැන්නක් ලබාගැනීම උදෙසා සූර්යයාට කෘතඥතාව දැක්වීමයි.  ජාතික සංස්කෘතියේ අංගයක් බවට පත් තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය, සාමය, එකමුතුව,   දයාව මූලික වූ සාරධර්මයන් මූර්තිමත් කිරීමට මෙන්ම, කෘෂිකාර්මික අර්ථ රටාවකට උරුමකම් කියන අප […]

Lanka Lead News ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පලා යාමෙන් පසුව යුද්ධය අවසන් කළ රණවිරුවන්ගේ තතවය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ලංකා ලීඩ් වෙබ් අඩවිය කල විමසුමට පිළිතුරු වශයෙන් , ගෝලීය ශ්‍රීලාංකික සංසදයේ විධායක කමිටු ලේකම්,යසස් ධර්මදාස මහතා නිවේදනයක් එවා තිබේ. පහත පලවන්නේ එම නිවේදනයයි. පලාගිය ජනපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මහා පාවාදීම පලාගිය ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ඔහුව ආරක්ෂක අංශයේ ඉහළ නිලතල […]

Dan Hardie Courtesy Central Banking Sri Lanka will not receive an International Monetary Fund loan until it reaches debt agreements with China and India, its central bank governor said. The IMF reached staff-level agreement with Sri Lanka on a $2.9 billion package in September, but its executive board has not yet approved the loan. The […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The management of the Lotus Tower urged the public to help preserve the iconic structure by treating it as a national treasure.  The request was made after the observation deck was defaced by several individuals who were later arrested by Police. The management said that legal action will be taken against […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Refuting claims made by the government that the Local Government elections could not be held due to the shortage of funds, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said it was totally unacceptable as only a day’s government revenue was required for the election. He told a news conference that Local Government elections […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will travel to Sri Lanka next week, sources told The Hindu. This will be his first trip to the country since President Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn-in last July after street protests forced out the previous Rajapaksa regime. Officials said that while a full review of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Election Commission today informed Supreme Court that it has taken all steps to hold the Local Government Election in accordance with the law. President’s Counsel Saliya Pieris appearing for the Election Commission made these remarks when a writ petition filed by a retired army Colonel in respect of the Local […]

Courtesy Adaderana Fitch Ratings has downgraded the National Long-Term Ratings of 10 Sri Lankan banks following the recent sovereign downgrade and recalibration of the agency’s Sri Lankan national rating scale. The recalibration is to reflect changes in the relative creditworthiness among Sri Lankan issuers following Fitch’s downgrade of Sri Lanka’s Long-Term Local Currency Issuer Default […]

Courtesy Adaderana A high-level delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by the Vice Chairman of its International Department, Chen Zhou, is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka tomorrow (14 Jan.). Accordingly, the visit, lasting from 14 – 18 January, will be the first official visit of the Chinese party to Sri Lanka for […]

Courtesy Hiru News State Minister Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said that the approved cadre of the Sri Lanka Army, which now stands at 200,783 will be reduced to 135,000 by 2024. He said it has been projected to reduce the cadre to the right size, which is 100,000 by 2030. “The strength of the military and […]