Courtesy Adaderana Chairman of Election Commission Nimal G. Punchihewa says that he has sent a letter to Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene asking him to intervene to urge the Treasury to release the funds required to hold the Local Government election. The decision has been arrived at when the Election Commission met yesterday (Feb. 24). The […]

Courtesy Adaderana The National Council Sub-Committee to identify short- and medium-term programs related to stabilization has held a discussion on rural credit and social security programmes. This was taken up for consideration on Thursday (Feb. 23) when the National Council sub-committee met in Parliament under the chairmanship of MP Patali Champika Ranawaka. Representatives including the […]

Sufian Asif Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka. Today, challenges like climate change, pandemics, energy reliance, economic crisis, and many more are concerning us. No nation can overcome these obstacles without the assistance and collaboration of other nations. Most importantly, many of these problems have international repercussions. South Asia is facing much more difficulty when […]

Malinda Seneviratne Post Independence Sri Lanka. That’s a period of 75 years. Long enough for a decent mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. And the downright scandalous. Now in this long period of time, we’ve had representative democracy. More or less. And we’ve had periods when that what and what it means […]

Courtesy Unz Review Introduction I. Political Hegemony—Throwing Its Weight Around II. Military Hegemony—Wanton Use of Force III. Economic Hegemony—Looting and Exploitation IV. Technological Hegemony—Monopoly and Suppression V. Cultural Hegemony—Spreading False Narratives Conclusion Introduction Since becoming the world’s most powerful country after the two world wars and the Cold War, the United States has acted more […]

Courtesy Alarabiya News Sri Lanka’s independent election commission indefinitely postponed local polls Friday after the president, installed by parliament last year after his predecessor fled, refused to fund the vote. The March 9 polls would only have picked local councilors but would be the first electoral test for Ranil Wickremesinghe since he took office in […]

Courtesy Times of Oman New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s Board of Investment has approved the two wind power plants of Adani Green Energy to be built in Mannar and Pooneryn at a total investment of $442 million. According to the statement released by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka on Friday, it has issued a letter […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 24: A group of leading members of the Bohra community in Sri Lanka called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena to express gratitude for the cooperation extended to the Bohra centers and international conventions in Sri Lanka. They briefed the Prime Minister about the religious and welfare activities of their centers. They […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New York, February 24: India abstained in the U.N. General Assembly on February 23 on a resolution that underscored the need to reach as soon as possible a comprehensive, just and lasting peace” in Ukraine in line with the principles of the U.N. Charter. The 193-member General Assembly adopted the draft resolution, put […]

Courtesy Adaderana The new dates for the 2023 Local Government polls will be announced on March 03, 2023, the Election Commission announced in a media release today. Thereby, the LG election will not be held on March 09 as scheduled due to matters beyond the control of the election body, the communiqué read further. The […]

Shenali D Waduge A letter written by Thangathurai Thayani, wife of Arun Siddharth on her mother’s 60th birthday that fell on 4thAugust 2022 should make the human rights organizations feel ashamed and should make the international human rights & terrorism experts wonder why they continue to give lifelines to terrorists/their fronts. She raises two pertinent questions […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS There are many issues, arguments and controversies relating to history and the origin of various races in the world. How did a race generate is a complex question that could not be exactly traced. Nobody can clearly state that a particular race began in that day at that time. Sinhala race begun […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS C.G. Uragoda continuing his account of ‘Medicine under Sri Lankan kings”, observed that the ancient records confirmed the existence of hospitals in Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa.  The only hospital for the laity which had been identified   in Anuradhapura at the time was the one found near Thuparama, probably dated to Kassapa IV. Udaya 1 […]

Press Release LankaPropertyWeb Overseas buyer interest in Sri Lankan properties increased by 40% in 2022, compared with the year before, according to the Real Estate Market Outlook Report 2023, published by Sri Lanka’s leading real estate portal, LankaPropertyWeb. The report said that traffic from overseas countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, […]

Malinda Seneviratne ‘ලේ හැලුනේ නෑ, සුද්දා තරහ වුනෙත් නෑ; යන්න ගියෙත් නෑ, නොගිහින් හිටියෙත් නෑ.’  ඒ නන්දා මාලිනී අසූව දශකයේ අග භාගයේ එළිදැක්වූ ‘පවන’ ප්‍රසංගයේ ජනප්‍රිය ගීතයක මතකයේ රැඳුනු වචන කිහිපයක්. මේ ‘නිදසස් බයිලාවට’ සුනිල් ආරියරත්න මෙහෙමත් දෙයක් එකතු කරලා තිබුනා: ‘නෑ බැට කෑවේ නේරු පාටෙල් වාගේ, නෑ දිවි දුන්නේ මහත්මා ගාන්ධි වාගේ.’ නිදහසේ කතාව […]

By Thomas Tarantelli Courtesy Food Safety Tech The Sol Andino brand of ground cumin was found to contain 1090 ppm lead. Laboratory reports recently acquired by the Freedom of Information Law from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets show the Sol Andino brand ground cumin to contain 1090 ppm lead as well […]

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By Shivanthi ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The only progress vis-a-vis the prevailing economic crisis is the unfounded report that the IMF may consider approving the USD 2.9 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF), fondly known as the bailout package”, even without China’s formal assurance of debt-restructuring support. Even if we do finally get IMF’s assistance, which we have […]

By Daya Gamage Former US State Department Foreign Service National Political Specialist Courtesy The Island Activating the 13th Amendment and devolution of power – possibly with the merger of two provinces –seems to have returned to the national agenda with President Ranil Wickremasinghe taking a lead role. He undertook a similar endeavour as the prime […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the Election Commission has not yet legally decided on a date to hold the election and that there are no funds to conduct an election. The election has not been postponed and there is no election to be postponed”, he said. Addressing the parliament this morning (Feb. 23), […]

Courtesy Adaderana Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Patali Champika Ranawaka has written to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) office in Sri Lanka, questioning whether the recently introduced electricity tariffs and the fuel price hike is in accordance with the IMF criteria. Accordingly, the relevant letter was sent by Ranawaka, in his capacity as the Chairman of […]

Courtesy Hiru News Over 50 persons, including the convener of the Inter-University Students Federation (IUSF) Wasantha Mudalige, have been arrested for forcibly entering the Education Ministry in Battaramulla. The Police stated that nearly 56 persons, including 30 student monks from the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka, have been arrested. The group staged a […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Western medicine as we know it today was introduced to the island by the British. The western tradition did not recognize the Asian systems of medicine and most local doctors trained in western medicine avoided non western medicine. In 1858 Dr. W.C Ondaatje   wrote on the empiricism of Singhalese doctors and the advantage […]

Sri Lanka Canada Association of Markham Suite 135, 4981 Hwy 7 East, Unit 4, Markham, ON L3P 0E3 The Honorable Melanie JolyMinister of Foreign AffairsHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontario,CanadaK1A 0A6 Feb 15th, 2023 RE: Canada imposes sanctions on Sri Lankan state officials for human rights violations Ms. Melanie Joly, As Canadians of Sri Lankan origin, we […]

Malinda Seneviratne #gotagohome අරගලය නොහොත් ගෝටව ගෙදර යැවීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය නොහොත් ආදරයේ අරගලය අනන්‍ය වූ ඇතැම් පුද්ගලයින්, සංවිධාන සහ බලවේග මුල සිටම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන අවශ්‍ය යැයි තර්ක කළෝය. ආර්ථික අර්බුදය කෙසේ වෙතත් දේශපාලන අර්බුද වලට දිගු කාලීන විසඳුම එය යැයි ප්‍රකාශ කරන ලදී. 1978 ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ අවුල් දකින්නත් විසඳුම් යෝජනා කරන්නත්, විසඳන්න ඉදිරිපත් වෙන්නත් අර්බුද අවශ්‍ය නොමැති […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය.   අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ 2023.02.21 දින ජාතික විදුලිබල පද්ධතියට තවත් පුනර්ජනනීය විදුලි ව්‍යාපෘතියක් එක්කරමින්  දියත් කෙරෙන කඩුවෙල මහ නගර සභාවේ “රන් පැලැස්ස″  අපද්‍රව්‍ය පසු  සැලසුම් මධ්‍යස්ථානය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමිනි. මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා  –   මෙවැනි සම්ප්‍රදායික නොවන මගක් ගෙන එම සම්ප්‍රදායික නොවන මඟ ජය ගැනීම […]

By Asiri Fernando/The Sunday Morning Colombo, February 19: Staff members of some State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) continued to rake in large paychecks due to massive overtime and allowance pay at the end of last month, despite the Government’s push to increase utility and fuel tariffs citing a need to be cost-reflective, The Sunday Morning reliably learns. This, in […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 22 (Counterpoint): The latest Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey (SLOTS) taken in January, shows political disarray in the country even as it battles a severe financial crisis marked by a continuing shortage of foreign exchange and sky-high prices of essential commodities. The survey found that even the front-runners in […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror After months of struggle and challenges, Sri Lanka has been successful in fulfilling the 15 tasks set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and now awaits for the verdict if enough has been done to unlock the bailout, the government said. President Ranil Wickremesinghe confirmed that only last week​ the final […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe today said that the agreement reached with the IMF would be presented to Parliament and the House could decide whether to pass or reject it.  Once an agreement with the International Monetary Fund is reached, it will be presented to Parliament and it will have the option to […]