Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed the Cabinet’s willingness to the full implementation of the 13th Amendment. Speaking at the all-party conference held yesterday (26 Jan.), Wickremesinghe stated that the Cabinet was agreeable to fully implementing the 13th Amendment, unless it is decided by the Party Leaders as to whether or not the Amendment […]

Courtesy Adaderana The officials who took part in the recent discussion with the Human Rights Council of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) pertaining to the uninterrupted supply of electricity during the 2022 GCE Advanced Level Examination, intend on taking legal action against officials of HRCSL, following the incident where the group was coerced into signing certain documents. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has decided to file a defamation complaint against recent claims made following the inquiry into the uninterrupted supply of electricity during the 2022 GCE Advanced Level Examination. The complaint was also filed on the grounds of neglect, a statement issued by the HRCSL read, as […]

Courtesy Adaderana The gazette notification on the prorogation of the 3rd session of the 9th Parliament has been issued by President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake, and will be effective from midnight today (27 Jan.). Accordingly, President Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to ceremonially inaugurate the 4th session of the 9th Parliament at 10.00 am on 08 February. […]

Sugath Kulatunga India is using the carrot and the stick formula to insist on the pound of flesh of the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lanka Constitution. Big brother turned good samaritan has again raised their persistent demand for the full Implementation of the 13th Amendment. It is noted that India does not now invoke […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මෑත කාලයේ සමාජ ජාල වල අවස්ථා කිහිපයකදී ම මත ගැටුම් ඇතිකරගත් පූජ්‍ය සිරි සමන්තභද්‍ර හිමියන් සහ කිරුලපන ධම්ම විජය හිමියන් අතර විවාදාත්මක සාකච්ඡාවක් අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක පැවැත්විය. සංගීත ශිල්පී ඉරාජ් වීරරත්න මහතා විසින් තම අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාව ඔස්සේ එයා සංවිධානය කර තිබින.

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මහරගම තළපත්පිටියේ ස්ථාපිත කළ කෘෂිකර්ම පර්යේෂණ නිලධාරීන්ගේ ජාතික සංගමයේ මූලස්ථාන ගොඩනැගිල්ල වීවෘත කිරීමට 2023.01.25 දින  එක් වෙමින්  අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා –  මිනිස්සු ඉන්න රටක අප කාගේත් කෘතවේදිත්වය කෘෂිකර්ම පර්යේෂණ නිලධාරීන්ට  පළකළ යුතු වෙනවා.  අපේ රට ආහාරයෙන් ස්වයංපෝෂිත වීමට, සහලින් ස්වයංපෝෂිත වීමට කෘෂිකර්ම […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය  ආර්ථිකය පුනර්ජීවනය කිරීම සඳහා සිදු කරන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ කඩිනම් කිරීමට සහ දුෂ්කර අවස්ථාවන්  හිදී සිදු කරන බදු වැඩිකිරීම් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ශ්‍රී ලාංකේය නායකත්වය විසින් ප්‍රදර්ශනය කරන දේශපාලන අධිෂ්ඨානය ඉතා අගය කළ යුතු බව ජ්‍යාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ (IMF) විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ ආචාර්ය ක්‍රිෂ්ණමූර්ති සුබ්‍රමනියන් පවසයි.  2023.01.26 දින කොළඹ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 26 (Prime Minister’s office): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Director Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian has said that the political will displayed by the Sri Lankan leadership to speed up reforms and implement difficult tax increases in order to revive the economy deserves appreciation. Dr Subramanian, who called on Prime Minister Dinesh […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Indian billionaire Gautam Adani who has his businesses in several countries including investments in Sri Lanka’s wind and renewable energy sector, has been accused of pulling off the ‘largest con in corporate history’ through the Indian-based Adani Group Corporation.  US investor Hindenburg Research, which has begun short selling the conglomerate through […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed all relevant authorities to minimize expenses incurred within ministries when celebrating the 75th Independence Anniversary without burdening the Treasury. The Head of State said this while speaking at a pre-discussion held at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (26 Jan.), the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported.

Courtesy Adaderana An individual is under arrest for uploading threatening posts on Facebook against the attendees of the 75th Independence Day celebration, Ada Derana correspondent says. The officers of the police cybercrimes division arrested the suspect following an investigation into a complaint received in this regard. During its investigations, the cybercrimes division uncovered that the […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has pointed out that the industrial education and training opportunities in Sri Lanka should be improved by introducing modern technology required to surpass the new industrial technology and digital economy of the fourth and fifth industrial revolutions. The President made this observation on January 25, during a preliminary discussion on […]

Shenali D Waduge An unknown virus initially dubbed Wuhan virus, later on became known as Covid-19. It caused the deaths of 6.7million (6,746,906) people the world over & affected 673,382,625 people globally. India lost 530,735 lives. India approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine that was manufactured under license by Serum Institute of India (Covisheld) and Covaxin (a […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island First of all, let me express my sincere respects to Mr D.L. Sirimanne, the writer of the interesting article entitled ‘Celebrating 75th Anniversary of Independence’ (The Island/Opinion/January 18, 2023). He struck me as a venerable old man, who, at 103 years of age, still thinks about the welfare […]

Shenali D Waduge The Tamil politicians and the LTTE Diaspora may blow hot & cold, spend lavishly on propaganda projecting Sinhalese as discriminating them, committing war crimes & stoop so low as to claim genocide, but the truth of the matter is that divisions and discriminations amongst Tamils is such that Tamils will not even […]

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 There are two levels of conventional systems of governance in any small country. (i) Central government taking responsibility for foreign affairs, financial, defence and territorial protection, (ii) Local Government who takes control of […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel and former Chairman of Consumer Affairs Authority Egg Poultry Crisis is deep No doubt the Egg Crisis and Poultry industry is in deep crisis that has shattered the government already in trouble. Egg prises are skyrocketing with price increases that cannot be controlled and shortages […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කළේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංවර්ධන පරිපාලන ආයතනය (SLIDA)  අද (2023.01.25) බණ්ඩාරනායක සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේ පැවැත්වූ රාජ්‍ය කළමණාකරණ පශ්චාත් උපාධි ප්‍රදානෝත්සවයේ ප්‍රධාන ආරාධිතයා වශයෙන් එක්වෙමිණි. එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා අද දිනය ඔබේ වෘත්තීය සහ ශාස්ත්‍රීය ජීවිතයේ සන්ධිස්ථානයක් වන බවට සැක නැත. එබැවින් ඔබගේ සාර්ථකත්වය ජාතියේ ජයග්‍රහණයක් බවට පත්වන්නේ කෙසේදැයි සාකච්ඡා කිරීම […]

මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය තුමාගේ,මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්. දීපව්‍යාප්ත පොලිස් ස්ථානාධිපතිවරුන්ගේ සම්මන්ත්‍රණය මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පසුගිය සඳුදා දින (23) සුහුරු පාය ප්‍රධාන ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී පැවැත්වීණි. මෙම සම්මන්ත්‍රණය සඳහා මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් වියානි ගුණතිලක මහතා,පොලිස්පති සී.ඩී.වික්‍රමරත්න මහතා, රාජ්‍ය බුද්ධි සේවයේ ප්‍රධානී සුරේශ් සලේ මහතා සහ පොලිස් ස්තානාධිපතිවරුන් සහ රාජ්‍ය නිවේදිත නිළධාරීන් 509 දෙනෙක් සහාභාගී වූ […]

Courtesy Fox News India has extended $4.4 billion in official credit to Sri Lanka Debt-stricken Sri Lanka’s Central Bank chief said Wednesday that the country is making good progress in talks with its creditors to obtain financial assurances for debt restructuring, an important step toward finalizing an International Monetary Fund rescue plan. Sri Lanka is […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රජය විසින් මෙම ජනවාරි මාසයේ සිට අය කිරීම ආරම්භ කර ඇති නව ආදායම් බද්ද සම්බන්ධයෙන් විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ආචාර්යවරුන්ගේ සංගමයේ හිටපු සභාපති නිර්මාල් දේවසිරි මහතා අදහස් පල කරයි. තම මාසික වැටුප් සටහනක්ද සහිතව ඔහු විසින් සමාජ ජාල ගිණුමේ තබා ඇති සටහන මෙසේය. බදු පිළිබද මගේ මතය!!!=============මේ තියෙන්නෙ ගිය මාසෙ මට ගෙදර ගෙනියන්න […]

Courtesy Adaderana Members of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) stated before the National Council that they unanimously agreed to send documents to the Attorney General requesting for advice regarding the possibility of increasing the electricity charges retrospectively and requesting for prompt approval for the increase in the electricity charges.  Accordingly, the members […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Constitutional Council met for the first time today (25 Jan.), and has decided to call for applications from those interested and qualified to be appointed as members of the Independent Commissions. Accordingly, a newspaper advertisement will be published in this regard, after which two weeks will be given from the date of […]

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 […]