By Nishel Fernando Courtesy The Daily Mirror PUCSL Chairman alleges political authorities have influenced commission members to reverse earlier unanimous decision to reject interim and retrospective electricity tariff hike Says commission members were called by president to Presidential Secretariat without informing him Points out political interference into affairs of an independent commission such as PUCSL […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Keselwatta Police has filed a B report before Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court against a group of lawyers who organised a protes on 18th of January, condemning the Attorney General’s alleged interference with the judiciary. According to the B report, Keselwatta police alleged that a group of lawyers including Senior Counsel […]

Courtesy Adaderana The upcoming Local Government (LG) election will be held on 09 March 2023. This was announced by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka  today (21 Jan.). The accepting of nominations for the upcoming election commenced at 08:30 a.m. on 18 January, and closed at 12 noon today. The acceptance of cash deposits for the […]

Shenali D Waduge Why is Canada not commemorating Canada Genocide Day in memory of all the indigenous Natives it killed? The National Inquiry Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls found Canada guilty in 2019? Is it unbelievable that Canada preaching human rights to the world is found guilty of Genocide? Why is Canada shy […]

Free Trade Zones & General Services Employees’ Union Care of his excellency the Ambassodor to the France in Colombo,BY ELECTRONIC MAIL2023 January 13The Chair,Mr. Emmanuel MoulinGeneral SecretariatParis Club,Générale du Trésor – 139,rue de Bercy – 75572 Paris Cedex 12,France.multifin1-club-de-paris@dgtresor.gouv.fr Dear Mr. Moulin,Endorsing public request to abolish Sri Lankan loans as appealedby 182 internationally recognized economists […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Two things info need to be addressed-; 1: Education should be targeted toward Employment Opportunities in Sri Lanka and Overseas 2: English should be given Top Priority! Get the Sri Lanka Diplomats to Research Employment Opportunities based on Sri Lankan talent available. Sri Lanka has sent out thousands of low-paid Domestic Workers […]

By Dr Tilak S. Fernando- Ceylon Today 20.01.23 Every part of the central city of Anuradhapura belonged to the King during the Anuradhapura epoch. There was a standard procedure for kings to follow, known (in Sinhala) as Dasaraja Dharmaya – meaning Charitability, Generosity, Straightforwardness, Humility, Innocence, Peacefulness, Anger, Calmness and Independence. The King was also known as […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ ඉන්දීය විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය සුබ්‍රමනියම් ජයශංකර් මහතා අතර ද්වීපාර්ශ්වික සබඳතා, ඒකාබද්ධ ව්‍යාපෘති සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදෙන ඉන්දියානු සහාය” පිළිබඳ සාකච්ඡාවක් අද (2023.01.20) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සඳහා යෝජිත ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල් (IMF) පැකේජයට ඉන්දියාව පූර්ණ සහයෝගය ලබා දෙන බවට ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලට සහතික වීම පිළිබඳව මෙහිදී […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් බිත්තරයක් රුපියල් 40ට අඩුවෙන් පාරිභෝගිකයාට ලබාදීමේ හැකියාව තිබියදී මහා පරිමාණ බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයන් අධික ලාභයක් ලබාගැනීමේ අරමුණෙන් මේ වනවිට කූඨ ව්‍යාපාරික කටයුත්තක නියැලී සිටින බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව පවසා සිටියේ මේ වනවිට ඇතිව තිබෙන බිත්තර ප්‍රශ්නය පිළිබඳව විමසීම සඳහා පාරිභෝගික සේවා අධිකාරියේ නිලධාරීන් […]

Courtesy Adaderana The chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), Janaka Ratnayake says he would seek legal action to defend the independence of the commission. Addressing a media briefing in Colombo today (Jan. 20), Ratnayake explained that the PUCSL had initially decided to oppose the retrospective electricity tariff hike green-lighted by the […]

උපුටාගැණීම අද දෙරණ

Courtesy Adaderana A bilateral agreement pertaining to increasing the limit of the High Impact Community Development Project (HICDP) implemented in Sri Lanka with the support of the Indian government was signed today (Jan 20), the President’s Media Division (PMD) says. The Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, Mahinda Siriwardana, signed the agreement on behalf of […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe and visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar have virtually declared open the Academy for Kandyan dancing in close proximity to the Dalada Maligawa in Kandy today (Jan. 20).  Indian PM Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of the Academy for Kandyan dancing during his visit to Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed three representatives for the Constitutional Council for a period of three years, the President’s Media Division said. Accordingly, Dr. Prathap Ramanujam, Dr. (Mrs) Dilkushi Anula Wijesundere and Dr. (Mrs) Weligama Vidana Arachchige Dinesha Samararatne will serve as Constitutional Council members.

Prof. Hudson McLean “Education is a major contributor to develop human capital, increase GDP per capita and effectively face global challenges -Dhammika Perera Answer: Yes & No! *Educating for the sake of educating is a waste of Time & Space. *Educating to accommodate Revenue generating for the individual and Sri Lanka Employment should be the […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. මහනුවර. පහත සඳන් හේතූන් නිසා ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා ඡන්දයක් මේ අවස්ථාවේදි කිසිසේහම නොපැවිත්විය යුතුය. රාජ්‍ය භාන්ඩාගාරය පතුලටම හිඳී ඇති මෙවැනි අවස්ථාවක ජාතික ධනය රු.කෝටි 1600ක් නාස්තිකොට ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා ඡන්දයක් මේ අවස්ථාවේදි කිසිසේහම නොපැවිත්විය යුතුය.එය කබලෙනුත් ලිපටම  වැටීමක් බඳුය. මේ අපේක්ෂකයින් 8000 සන්දහා තරඟ වදින ලක්ෂයක් පමණ චන්ද අපේක්ෂකයින්ගේ චන්ද ව්‍යාපාරයට වැයවන මුදල් සහ  […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ‘විශ්ව විද්‍යාල සිසුවිය ඝාතනය කළ ඝාතකයා වසන්ත කුමාර මුදලිගේ සමඟ අරගලයේ හිටපු කෙනෙක්. ඒ බව ෆේස්බුක් එකේ තියෙනවා’ ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂයේ ප්‍රධාන සංවිධායක, අමාත්‍ය ප්‍රසන්න රණතුංග මහතා අද (19) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පැවසීය. මැතිවරණ වියදම් නියාමනය කිරීමේ පනත පිළිබඳ පාර්ලිමේන්තු විවාදයට සහභාගී වෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. අමාතත්‍යවරයා මෙසේද පැවසීය. ‘මැතිවරණ වියදම් […]

 Lanka Lead News දිගින් දිගටම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අමෙරිකානු තානාපතිනි ජූලි චුන්ග් මහත්මිය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව මුහුණ දී ඇති ණය අර්බූදයට හේතුව චීන ණය බව අවධාරණය කරමින් කරණු ලබන අසත්‍යය ප්‍රකාශ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ලංකා ලීඩ් වෙබ් අඩවිය චීන රුසියා සහයෝගිතාවය සඳහා වන ශ්‍රී ලාංකික විද්වත් සංසදයේ ලේකම්, විවෘත විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය නීතිඥ රාජා ගුණරත්න මහතාගෙන් විමසන ලදී. […]

By Karen Yue Courtesy TTG Asia Despite tourism challenges, two Sri Lankan hotel players have remained firm in their efforts to uplift local communities as they rebuild their business. Homegrown Teardrop Hotels, which has seven hotels across the country, maintains at least nine community projects, according to Manoj Devaraj, group head – sales and marketing. Each […]

Courtesy the cryptobasic.com The project aims to address concerns surrounding the use of electric vehicles while concurrently promoting climate action. eTukTuk, the world’s first Cardano-based automotive project, has announced its plans to launch operations in the South Asian nation of Sri Lanka. This development, announced at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, has the […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island ‘Pongal assurance given with an eye to next national poll’ Rebel SLPP MP Gevindu Cumaratunga said that President Ranil Wickremesinghe should seek a fresh mandate if he intended to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. UNP leader Wickremesinghe couldn’t under any circumstances go ahead with his plans […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa has requested the Judicial Service Commission to investigate the action of Colombo Additional Magistrate Tharanga Mahawatte who had offered food to a suspect. This was mentioned by the Minister in response to MP Premanath Dollawatte and others who wanted action against the magistrate. It is the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill was passed in Parliament a short while ago, with a majority of 61 votes. Accordingly, the Bill was passed in Parliament with 97 voted in favour, while 36 MPs voted against the Bill. The debate on the Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill was taken up in Parliament […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s first 3D animation movie using motion capture technology will be released in theatres tomorrow (Jan. 20), bringing a novel cinematic experience to Sri Lankans. Directed by Chanaka Perera and co-produced by John Fonseka and Chamika Jinadasa for Studio 101, the 3D animation movie Gajaman” is a breakthrough in Sri Lankan cinema. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Maithripala Sirisena today (19 Jan.) announced his plans to establish a public fund, in order to collect the Rs. 100 million he was ordered to pay as compensation in relation to the Easter Sunday Attacks of 2019.  Speaking at a press conference today, Sirisena explained that he is unable to pay […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two days after China opposed a supposed visit by the Dalai Lama to Sri Lanka, an official for the Tibetan government-in-exile said the spiritual leader has no plans to visit the island nation although he has been invited. On Tuesday, China had said Sri Lanka, currently a bankrupt nation, must safeguard its bilateral […]

Shenali D Waduge Prabakaran was not privy to the contents of the Indo-Lanka Accord drafted by India Prabakaran did not demand Indo-Lanka Accord (in fact he did not know its contents. Prabakaran was not shown the draft of the Indo-Lanka Accord to even agree or disagree. Which means Prabakaran never gave his consent to the Indo-Lanka […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ‘සංකථන මණ්ඩපය’ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ සංකල්පයක් අනුව පෝෂිත සමාජයක් බිහි කිරීම උදෙසා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලය මෙහෙයවන නවමු වැඩසටහනක් පසුගියදා ආරම්භ විය. මෙවර තේමාව වූයේ ‘ඩබ්ලිව්. ඒ. සිල්වා නිර්මාණ විමසුම යි’ එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා විවිධ ක්ෂේත්‍ර ඔස්සේ අපේ ජාතියට පණපෙවූ පිරිස් අතර ඩබ්ලිව්.ඒ සිල්වා නිර්මාණ සාහිත්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රයෙන් රටේ අනන්‍යතාවය ආරක්ෂා කළා. ඒ […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. Director at Center for Global Poverty Alleviation Where would be without the Army?  Have we forgotten what the Army did to rid the country of the LTTE terrorism. Perhaps the Army could be given the task of economic development, like in the USA where the US Army attends to many tasks […]

Courtesy Teheran Times The war was begun in February 2014 with a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin and continues until now. Putin told the Russian people that he was conducting a special military operation” to denazify” Ukraine and prevent NATO from expanding to Russia’s borders. Many in the West see the war, which many […]