Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara Indian Foreign Minister and his government should stop meddling with Sri Lankan internal affairs and mind their own business. An open letter to Foreign Minister Jaishankar’s latest attempt to interfere with Sri Lankan internal affairs, violating all accepted diplomatic and international etiquettes and principles. I quote here the gist of a […]

Dilrook Kannangara There is a silly trend of glorifying and romanticizing the pre-Independence era. Those who do so have no idea how things were then. Although Sri Lanka is in a dire economic and political situation today, some matters are better than then. Yes; there are things that are worse today. Sri Lankans are utterly […]

N.A.de S. Amaratunga The new wealth produced by the world since 2020 has been USD 42 trillion. Two thirds of this huge amount of wealth has gone into the pockets of 1% of  the world population which comprises the billionares of the world. The whole of the rest of the world population, ie 99%, will […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ 2004දී මහා පරිමානයේ  සුනාමි සොරකමක් වූ බව දැන දැනත්, 1994 පටන් ඒ අයගේ කැරැට්ටුව දැන දැනත්, ඒ අයට දිගටම බලය ලබා දුන්නේ අපයි. මෙයින් පෙන්වන්නේ අපේ නොසැලකිල්ලයි. රටට නියම ආදරේ නැති කමයි. අප දිගු කාලීනව අනාගතය දෙස නොබලන බවයි. දියුණු රටවල ජනතාව නම්  සොරුන් බව දැනගත් පසු කිසිදා එවැනි අය පලමුවරට හෝ නැවත […]

By Garvin Karunaratne Perhaps what I wrote a year ago, if followed tells us the only way ahead.  Sri Lanka’s economy finds itself in a situation where one wonders whether the government has allowed it to drift. Perhaps, studying how countries have suffered and faced similar crises in the past may offer us some ideas. […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  අරුණ පුවත් මහජන උපයෝගිතා කොමිසමේ සභාපති ජනක රත්නායකට එරෙහිව කරුණු දහහතරකින් යුක්ත චෝදනා පත්‍රයක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය සූදානම් වෙයි. එම චෝදනා පත්‍රය නීති කෙටුම්පත් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට පසුගිය සිකුරාදා (03 වැනිදා) යොමු කර තිබුණි. නීති කෙටුම්පත් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව චෝදනා පත්‍රය නීතියට අනුව සකස් කර ලබාදීමෙන් පසු විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති ඇමැති කංචන විජේසේකර එය […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe said regardless of the obstacles the anarchist political forces seek to create, he will continue the new reform program with the majority of people who love this country. “We can become a developed country by 2048 if we work and move forward in a united and planned manner […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Rani Wickremesinghe addressed the nation this evening (04 Feb.), in view of Sri Lanka’s 75th Independence Anniversary. In his speech, the Head of State discussed Sri Lanka’s looming economic crisis, stating that the only way out of it was by making difficult and unpopular decisions.  Sugarcoated stories by politicians will not resolve […]

Courtesy Adaderana Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has reinstated the fact that Sri Lanka is not alone in the crisis it is currently facing. Speaking at the Inaugural Lecture for Geopolitical Cartographers yesterday 903 Feb.), Scotland said, I know that Sri Lanka continues to feel the weight of political and economic pressure. The pressure can be […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The Supreme Court today (Feb. 03) rejected a request made by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) to issue an interim order preventing the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) from imposing power cuts during the ongoing 2022 G.C.E. Advanced Level examination. A petition filed by the human rights group against the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said today that the Export-Import Bank of China will provide an extension on the debt service to Sri Lanka due in 2022 and 2023, which means Sri Lanka will not have to repay the principal and interest due on the Bank’s loans during the above-mentioned […]

Courtesy Ada Derana A total of 150 motorcycles, 74 vehicles and 115 pieces of search equipment have been handed over to the Sri Lanka Police by Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Takei Syunsuke. The automobiles and equipment were handed over under a grant by the Japanese Government at a ceremony held at the Presidential […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Two members of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka have handed over their letters of resignation to the Finance Ministry Secretary. It was reported that Mohan Samaranayake and Udeni Wickremasinghe handed over their resignation letters.

Courtesy Ada Derana China has hit back at the remarks made by US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland that the terms extended by China to Sri Lanka to unlock IMF debt relief remain insufficient. In response to a question raised at a regular press conference on Thursday (Feb. 02), Chinese Foreign […]

Shenali D Waduge 13A is not about police or land powers, it is only about power. The question is, power for whom & under what conditions. 13A came subsequent to the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987. Both were acts of aggression. India was pro-Russian & a closed economy while Sri Lanka had tilted […]

Prof. Hudson McLean There is no other way out. We are a country with 22 million people. We have to find markets outside.” BBC Article Confirms What I Have Said Many Times! Can Sri Lanka trade its way back to prosperity? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64464220     Can Sri Lanka trade its way back to prosperity? Ben Chu, […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Tamil National Alliance (TNA) spokesman and Jaffna District MP M.A. Sumanthiran says that his party has decided to boycott the independence day celebrations this year, as reported in The Island of January 31, 2023. Instead, they will declare it a Black Day and commence a movement towards achieving what they call […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS President, Ranil Wickremasinghe recently expressed that the proposed 13th amendment to the constitution should be fully implemented, and the purpose of the amendment would be a supportive action to the reconciliation process. The speech of the president, in fact, was to mislead people during independent celebration time or genuinely implement the constitutional […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President of Ambassadors’ Forum, Solicitor in England and Wales Life is uncertain – yet care is needed before death Life is uncertain compared to a drop of water on the grass. But the desire of every living being is to live at least a few […]

ALI SUKHANVER When Burma was ruled by a monarchy in the pre-colonial era, its Army was given the name of ‘Tatmadaw’. In the Burmese language Tatmadaw means Royal Armed Forces. Today the Tatmadaw has lost all its popularity and public support because of its action of deposing the elected government on 1st February 2021. One […]

Sri Lankan High Commission in India Continuing his efforts to enhance dialogue with Heads of Mission of Islamic countries concurrently accredited to Sri Lanka from New Delhi, High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Milinda Moragoda presented copies of the Sinhala translation of the Holy Quran to the Ambassador of Morocco to India Mohamed Maliki. […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් Slave Island ලෙස හැදින්වූ  කොම්පඤ්ඤවීදිය සිංහල, දෙමළ, ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂා ත්‍රිත්වයෙන්ම කොම්පඤ්ඤවීදිය” ලෙස භාවිතා කිරීමට අදාලව නිසි සංශෝධනයන් කිරීමට කඩිනමින් පියවර ගන්නා ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ලේකම් අනුර දිසානායක මහතා රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන ස්වදේශ කටයුතු, පළාත් සභා හා පළාත් පාලන අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම්වරයාට උපදෙස් දී ඇත. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ උපදෙස් පරිදි හැත්තෑපස් වෙනි නිදහස් […]

“නීතියේ සිංහල නුගමුල” ෆීනික්ස් නීති සාර සංග්‍රහය මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණ, දිසා අධිකරණ, මහාධිකරණ, වාණිජ මහාධිකරණ, සුලු හිමිකම් අධිකරණ මුල් අවස්ථා අධිකරණ ලෙස හැදින්වේ. රටේ පවතින නඩු වලින් වැඩිම නඩු සංඛ්‍යාවක් කැදවෙන්නේ මෙම අධිකරණවලය. ජනතාව වැඩි වශයෙන් නීතියේ පිළිසරණ පතා එන්නේත්, වැඩි සේවකයන් සංඛ්‍යාවක් ඉන්නේත් මෙම අධිකරණ වලය. මෙම අධිකරණවල සේවකයන් සමබන්ධ තීරණ ගනු ලබන්නේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව […]

Courtesy ANI Beijing [China], February 2 (ANI): After US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland during her visit to Sri Lanka said that the terms extended by China to Colombo for IMF debt relief are not enough, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has now retaliated saying that rather than commenting upon Beijing’s ties with Sri […]

Lanka Lead News පසුගිය දා රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ජනාධිපතිවරයා 13 සම්පූර්ණයෙන් බලාත්මක කරන බව පවසා එමගින් රට නොබෙදෙන බව ප්‍රකාශ කළ ද එය සිදුවන්නේ කෙසේදැයි නොපැවසූ බව ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර මහතා පවසයි. ලබන 08 වැනිදා ජනාධිපතිවරයා 13 සම්පූර්ණයෙන් බලාත්මක කිරීමේ යෝජනාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන  බව කියා ඇති බවත්, ඔහු මෙයින් විශාල ප්‍රයෝගයක් කිරීමට උත්සාහ දරන බවත් […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror -Millions continue to be allocated for past heads of state in 2023 with a bulk of it going towards the maintenance of their state homes and vehicles -The state has to allocate for 4 past Presidents, namely Chandrika Kumaratunga, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Maithripala Sirisena and Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Hema Premadasa, wife of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Chief Prelates of the Three Chapters have accused President Ranil Wickremesinghe of confusing the country following his statement on the implementation of the 13th Amendment. In a letter addressed to the Head of State today (02 Feb.), the religious leaders deemed the 13th Amendment as a piece of legislation that gives rise […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Police have decided to file an appeal against the recent release of Wasantha Mudalige, convener of the Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF),  from the charges filed against him under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). Accordingly, Police Spokesman Nihal Thalduwa stated that the Police Headquarters today (02 Feb.) requested the Attorney General […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Paris Club of creditor nations is ready to provide financing assurances to Sri Lanka, a key step needed to unlock a $2.9 billion International Monetary Fund bailout, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The group of bilateral lenders is set to soon” announce its support to the crisis-hit […]

Shenali D Waduge The Indo-Lanka Accord was signed to end the ethnic conflict”. The 13th amendment was to constitutionally end the ethnic conflict”. Both were failures because the solutions became the problem. The solutions had vested interests & agendas in mind & became political footballs that were never meant to be solved. It is for this […]