An Indepenedent Observer The country is at a critical juncture not because of economic woes but because of the lack of a suitable leader for the majority, the Sinhala Buddhists. Elections did come and go in the past but there was then always the case of choosing a SLFP or an UNP government. SLPP has been […]

Dilrook Kannangara A social media activist has lost his bearings and ventured into the territory of hate speech. Calling politically active Buddhist monks by insulting names is fair game as they have entered the political fray. However, religious symbols are beyond political insults. Associating a religious symbol with a sexual object is an offence and […]

India In Details Did the British ‘civilize’ India? Tucker Carlson (Fox News host) talks about the British leaving behind ‘an entire civilization’ in India, and how according to him, Indians, till today, haven’t been able to build even a single building as beautiful as the Bombay train station. Karolina Goswami responds. ============= Please consider supporting […]

Lex Fridman Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist.

  අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ඉන්දියන් සාගර කලාපයේ සමුද්‍ර ආරක්‍ෂාව ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදෙන සහාය පිළිබඳව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාව වෙත ස්තූතිය පළ කළේය.  ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් පෝල් ස්ටීවන්ස් මහතා 2023.01.04 දින අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී එතුමා මේ බව  සඳහන් කළේය.  එහිදී, ධීවර ක්‍ෂේත්‍රයට අදාළ සන්නිවේදන ජාල ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා ධීවර යාත්‍රාවලට […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife Ayoma Rajapaksa arrived at Bandaranaike International Airport from Dubai this morning, the Airport Duty manager and the spokesperson of the Airport Immigration Department confirmed. They had arrived on an Emirates flight EK-650 from Dubai. 

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sepal Amarasinghe was arrested by a special CID team at Bellanwila for his statement on the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Police said. President Ranil Wickremesinghe had instructed the IGP to initiate immediate investigation into the fake Dalada Maligawa.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the IGP to initiate an immediate and comprehensive investigation regarding the construction of a fake Dalada Maligawa in Pothuhera, Kurunegala. The instruction was given after the Ven. Mahanayaka Theras had reported it to the President, Presidential Media Division said.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today ordered the CID to expeditiously obtain relevant documents pertaining to State Minister Diana Gamage’s alleged citizenship issue from the British High Commission in order to carry out a comprehensive investigation. Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis observed that it would not be appropriate to issue orders […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A Gazette Notification has been issued restricting the import of gold above 22 carats as jewellery, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said. He said in a twitter post that the decision was taken to prevent gold smuggling.

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 […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake At this time amid exaggerated climate crisis media narratives, Green and Blue Bonds are being marketed as an opportunity” to kill two birds with one stone (pardon the poor pun), through so-called debt reduction and carbon sequestering in Sri Lanka. The local corporate media routinely and uncritically promotes Disaster Capitalism –from Covid-19 to […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka ascends many issues and the process of peacebuilding has been a giant process since before 1983 that required considering different influential factors related to the nature of ethnic and religious beliefs of people. When Sri Lanka faced the problem of loss of peace among ethnic communities there was […]

Sugath Kulatunga Sri Lanka is not a poor country but a poorly managed country. According to the list by Credit Suisse published in 2022 pertaining to Total Wealth of Countries and reported by Wikipedia the value of total assets of Sri Laka was 400 Billion US dollars and the country is placed 57 out of […]

Senaka Weeraratna  The consequence of God Delusion in the West largely among the mainstream Christian populace is the increasing search for Sati ( Mindfulness) originally taught by the Buddha in India over 2,500 years ago. Sati Meditation is filling a huge void in the Western consciousness due to the collapse of Monotheistic belief systems. The […]

Courtesy Telesur Sanctions force people to prolong the use of older vehicles that burn fuel less efficiently, while making it impossible for Iran to obtain equipment and technology to reduce emissions. With the arrival of the cold season, the air pollution in Iran’s capital Tehran has reached an alarming level and is hazardous for the […]

By: Pramod Thomas Courtesy Eastern Eye Kanjipani Imran alias Mohammed Imran fled to Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday (3) raised concerns over the country’s intelligence network after notorious underworld gangster and drug lord Kanjipani Imran alias Mohammed Imran fled to India after his release on bail. Imran, wanted by the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් President Ranil Wickremesinghe issued orders to the Chairmen of Sri Lankan Airlines & Ceylon Petroleum Corporation calling for a report on the payment of bonuses at a time when both institutions were running at a loss. පාඩු ලබන සංස්ථා හා මණ්ඩල සේවකයන් හට ප්‍රසාද දීමනා නොගෙවන ලෙස මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය දැනුම් දී […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera today reiterated that the proposed tariff structure had been proposed by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). The minister has shared the proposed tariff structure for a cost-reflective electricity pricing formula on his official Twitter account as an official message. Accordingly, there are details relating to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The cabinet that met on Monday for the first time in 2023 has decided to strictly adhere to restrict the number of students to a maximum 40 for Grade 1 – 5 and 45 students for Grade 6-11 from this year, cabinet spokesman, Minister Bandula Gunawardana said today. He told the […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, Former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority and President Ambassador’s Forum (Sarath7@hotmail.co.uk) Egg Egg is an essential part of the Sri Lankan diet as it is affordable and freely available when the prices of meat and fish is exorbitant. Citizen is going through the most difficult era […]