Shenali D Waduge Ben Norton’s Geopolitical Economy Report reveals some interesting facts. The US-backed coup on 7 December 2022  against President Pedro Castillo (immediately after the ousting of Sri Lanka’s President via a well-funded protest) The Peruvian President has been imprisoned for 18 months without trial & due process. Massive protests are a hallmark in […]

By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash),DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers General Residents and diaspora should be aware of the economic situation and development in Sri Lanka. We cannot just sit and close our eyes (like the cock-eyed chicken) assuming that the Sri Lankan administration is […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Human Rights have taken root in Sri Lanka and are peddled by Human Rights devotees with great enthusiasm and little critical inquiry. When I suggested that a mentally retarded girl, who had been successfully integrated into the community, should be sterilized, I received the reply ‘but that is a Right. ’ Human Rights […]

Malinda Seneviratne Towards the end of the last millennium with some  countries worrying about glitches associated with Y2K or the year 2000, a magazine, maybe ‘Time’ or ‘Newsweek,’ asked world renowned people a simple question along the following lines: ‘what would make the world a better place in the next millennium?’  Maybe it was ‘next […]

Shinu Anna Abraham St. Lawrence University Asian Perspectives, Volume 42, Number 2, Fall 2003, pp. 207-223 (Article) Abstract For the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the most important documentary source for information on early South lndian culture is a body of prose poetry known as the Sangam anthology. These indigenous texts date […]

By Dr Tilak S. Fernando, January 24, 2023 Some years ago, the writer interviewed Dr Mass R. Usuf, President of the National Association of Homoeopaths and Affiliates (NAHA). At the start of the interview, Dr Usuf said the word Cholrestrol could attribute to giant pharmaceutical companies engineering medical conspiracies and indoctrinating the medical fraternity, which […]

Sarath Bulathsinghala Canada is following up on Ban ki-Moon’s Darusman’s Report a clandestine report purportedly made for the eyes of the former UN Secretary of General of the UN – Moon only, but later surreptitiously leaked to the public and now used as a major document to castigate the Sri Lankan government and her past […]

Lanka Lead News ජනාධිපතිවරයා පසුගිය දා උතුරේ කළ සංචාරයේදී එක්තරා දෙමළ පිරිසක් විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලිසියේ නිලධාරීන් මඩ වතුරෙන් නහවමින් සිදු කළ අමානුෂික විරෝධතාව තමන් දැඩි ලෙස හෙළාදකින බව යාපනයේ සිවිල් සංවිධාන කැදවුම්කරු අරුන් සිද්ධාර්ථන් සදහන් කරයි. මෙම ක්‍රියාව සිදුකළේ සමස්ත උතුරේ ජනතාව නොවන බවත්, විවිධ දේශපාලන කණ්ඩායම්වල නියෝජිතයන් හා අතුරුදන් වූවන්ගේ ඥාතීන් ලෙස පවසන […]

By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy Eurasia News China’s EXIM Bank says in a letter to Sri Lanka that the latter need not pay back the principal and interest due on EXIM bank’s US$ 2.8 billion loan that were due in 2022 and 2023.    Reuters reported on Tuesday that the Export-Import Bank of China has told […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Central Bank has said that the interest rates can be relaxed once again with a cash infusion via the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) from International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Central Bank officials told this at the Committee on Public Finance (COPF) which met at the Parliament Complex chaired by Committee […]

Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka is committed to meeting all its debt repayments and is hoping to complete debt restructuring negotiations in the next six months, the country’s central bank chief P. Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Tuesday. “There has been good progress this month with India already pledging financing assurances. We expect assurances from China […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Two members of Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka ( PUCSL) including Deputy Chairman Udeni Wickremesinghe and Member of the Commission Professor Mohan Samaranayake had requested the Ministry of Finance and the defence authorities to probe the incident of alleged storming of civil activists into the PUCSL office on St. Anthony’s […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Retired Major Ajith Prasanna was today sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment by Supreme Court in connection with a contempt of court The Supreme Court further imposed a fine of Rs. 300,000 for the charges.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror There was a conspiracy hatched to evict former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, where even some of the ministers at that time, got involved, SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam said today. He told a news conference that people have now realised it clearly and that they will take proper action against such individuals […]

Courtesy Adaderana The High Commission of Pakistan in Colombo has rebutted a statement made by the Director-General of the Animal Production & Health Department that no eggs can be imported from India or Pakistan due to the outbreak of bird flu. In a letter addressed to the Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs Ministry, the high commission […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has summoned the Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy, and the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) for an inquiry as to why they failed to prevent the implementation of power cuts during the ongoing 2022 G.C.E. Advanced Level […]

Courtesy Adaderana (Reuters) – The Export-Import Bank of China has offered Sri Lanka a two-year moratorium on its debt and said it will support the country’s efforts to secure a $2.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters. India wrote to the IMF earlier this month, saying it […]