BY JU-HYUN PARK Courtesy The Real News Network After weeks of political theater, the Pentagon is walking back its claims that China invaded US airspace with a spy balloon.” But the damage from the media frenzy is already done, and the worst is likely yet to come. At times, the ways people perceive an object betrays […]

A.J. SMUSKIEWICZ  Courtesy The Unz Review I recall that when I was attending St. Albert the Great elementary school in Burbank, Illinois, during the mid-to-late 1960s and early 1970s, some of the history teachers used to tell us that the United States had never lost a war. Keep in mind that this was while the […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today Colombo, February 20: The Eastern Sri Lankan Port of Trincomalee, one of the best natural harbors in the world, has always attracted the interest of global and regional economic and military powers. Hence, any visit of a high-level political or military delegation of foreign powers comes under the scrutiny […]

Mike Unwin  Courtesy https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/ Since Sri Lanka’s Jetwing Vil Uyana resort opened, its rewilded lands have lured native birds and animals back to the area, offering guests front-row seats… As early evening arrives in central Sri Lanka, I find myself searching a dark forest for a small animal. The idea is to sweep the beam […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Export-Import Bank of China has provided Sri Lanka with a debt extension, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday, noting that China is willing to negotiate a medium- and long-term debt disposal plan with the country in a friendly manner, and do its best to promote Sri Lanka’s debt sustainability. The remarks come […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris says that the authority to dissolve the current parliament will be vested with the President from midnight today (Feb. 20). Speaking at a press briefing, the parliamentarian expressed that they strongly believe the President needs to use that power and dissolve the parliament.  Today, President Ranil Wickramasinghe receives […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe stated that an Economic Commission will be formed as early as possible to approve investment opportunity in order to provide more opportunities to local and foreign investors. The President also stated that it has the potential to significantly boost the country’s economy. President Ranil Wickremesinghe made these remarks today at […]

Courtesy Adaderana Police have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a protest march organized by the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) near Technical Junction in Maradana, a short while ago. The protest march had been organized by the SJB against the alleged attempts by the government to postpone the 2023 Local Government Election.  Meanwhile […]

Courtesy Adaderana The All Share Price Index (ASPI) of the Colombo Stock Exchange has recorded a massive gain of 233.97 points to close at 9,082.33 points at the end of trading today (Feb. 20). This is an increase of 2.64 percent. According to reports, the massive gain was recorded as a result of increased investor […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Election Commission has filed a motion before the Supreme Court citing difficulties including inadequate funds to hold the 2023 Local Government elections on 09 March. The Election Commission has informed the Supreme Court that the activities related to holding the Local Government (LG) election have been hampered due to the non-availability of sufficient […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lankan Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation Nimal Siripala de Silva has said the government will spend around USD132 million on port development projects. These investments would be made through revenue generated from port operations, the minister said on Saturday night. Speaking at an event in Colombo, the minister said the government […]

By Sena Thoradeniya From time to time Sri Lankan Ministers in charge of Agriculture and Livestock Development and their officials attempted to improve the breed of cattle by means of imported animals. A few decades ago, it was alleged that a stock of cattle imported from a foreign country was infected with various types of […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ දම්මි නොව පාසලේ කිසිම කෙල්ලක් සමඟ ප්‍රේම සම්භන්ධයක් ඇති කර ගැනීමට සුගත්ට කිසිම උවමනාවක් නොවීය. ප්‍රේම සම්බන්ධය පටන් ගන්නේ හුදු දම්මිගේ  උවමනාවටය. පටන් ගත් පසු, දෙදෙනාම ඉතා භක්තියෙන් එය ඉදිරියට රැගෙන ගියහ. එය ඉතාම චමත්කාර, සොඳුරු, ආනන්දජනක, ආදර අන්දරයක් විය. පාසැලේ අවසන් දිනයේදී, මුහුදු වෙරළේදී,  දම්මි ඇය එතෙක් සඟවා සිටී රහස සුගත්ට කීවාය. […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ නන්දාගේ පවුල තරම් නොවුවත් ජිනදාසගේ පවුලද මාතර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ වංශක්කාර පවුලක් විය. රැකියාවක් නැති ජිනදාසට කයිසාරුවත්තේ මුහන්දිරම් නිවසේ තවදුරටත් නිකරුනේ කාලය කා දමමින් ගත කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය නොවීය. ඔහුට උවමනා වුයේ ඔහුගේ ස්ව-වීර්යයෙන් මුදල් හම්බ කර සිය බිරිඳට කන්න දීමටය. ජිනදාස සිංහලේ (බිබිලේ) ගොස් ව්‍යාපාරයක් ආරම්භ කිරීමට සනිටුහන් කර ගතී. නන්දා මේ අදහසට නොකැමැති වුවත් […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D දැන හෝ නොදැන ලංකාවේ අගමැතිවරු/ජනාධිපතිවරු දමිළ බෙදුම්වාදයට ඉණිමං බැඳීම ඇල්ලේ  ගුණවංශ හාමුදුරුවන් කියන, බුදු අම්මෝ නොව, <ඕ මයිගෝඩ් බෞද්ධයින්> විසින් දැන් කාලයේ නිතරම මතුරන්නේ දශරාජ ධර්මය, බෞද්ධ රාජ්‍ය පාලන ප්‍රතිපත්ති හා බුද්ධාගම රකිනවා යන ප්‍රලාපය! The End of P! ටැමිල්නාඩ් කොටි නායක නෙදුමරන් විසින් ප්‍රභාකරන් (P) ජීවත්ව සිටිනවා යයි කීමත්, ලංකාවේ […]

නීතියේ සිංහල නුගමුල” ෆීනික්ස් නීති සාර සංග්‍රහය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නිදහස් ස්වෛරී ජනරජයක් වූ 1972 සිට පැවති සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් නීති අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබීමේ අයිතිය කළ සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්‍යාපන සභාවේ 2020.12.30 අංක 2208/13 අතිවිශෙෂ ගැසට් පත්‍රය මගින් අගවිනිසුරු ඇතුලු පහත දැක්වෙන සාමාජිකයන් විසින් අහිමි කර ඇ1) ගරු ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය  (අගවිනිසුරු, ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ)2) ගරු ඩී. ද ලිවේරා (නීතිපති)3) ගරු […]

Courtesy The South China Morning Post To secure the bailout, the government is having to pursue economic reforms and tighten purse strings when inflation and recession are already making lives difficultYet reforms are necessary to restore – and restore confidence in – the economy in the long term. Sri Lanka remains in the throes of […]

By Arike Idris Courtesy EssexLive Residents on social media have claimed there are not enough public toilets in the Redbridge area Redbridge Council is funding £2 million into new and refurbished public toilets after a person was fined for excreting on an Ilford Road. The incident happened on Colombo Road last November when the culprit […]

Courtesy CGTN China’s lifting of travel restrictions has pushed many countries to attract Chinese travelers, one of them is Sri Lanka. The island country expects Chinese tourists to arrive in the new year, alongside strengthened cooperation with China. CGTN sat down with the consul general of Sri Lanka in Shanghai.

Courtesy Adaderana The ‘Janaraja Perahera’, organized to coincide with Sri Lanka’s 75th independence anniversary, kicked off this evening (Feb 19) under the aegis of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. The historic Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy is hosting the ‘Janaraja Perahera’ following a gap of 34 years. The procession commenced from the Magul Maduwa premises […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has met with a group of youth to discuss his policy statement and the government’s plans for the country’s future on February 16. The group of young people expressed their views on the government’s policies in a newspaper article and the President had invited them over for a follow-up discussion […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that he has given his consent to several requests made by the Maha Nayaka Theras of the Malwatu and Asgiri Chapters, during a discussion held today (19) between the Sanga Committee members and the President at the President’s House in Kandy. The President stated that he will urgently work […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The economic proxy war between the rising and fading Superpowers is escalating and expanding. This was apparent in an (un)diplomatic exchange between Chinese and United States officials over the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) debt restructuring delays in Sri Lanka which was the venue of the recent CARAT/MAREX war games. These happened in the […]

Chris Hedges Fan Club John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation. Mearsheimer was born in December […]

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 The recent bluff by the old snake gourd/bitter gourd Nedumaran is keeping the media on their toes busy. Every media unheard of is trying to depict everything about LTTE and Prabakaran which cannot […]

Malinda Seneviratne අසූව දශකයේ ඉංග්‍රීසි රොක් සංගීත ක්ෂේත්‍රය වර්ණවත් කල එක් සංගීත කණ්ඩායමකි ‘ඊගල්ස්’.  ‘හොටෙල් කැලිෆෝනියා’, ‘ඩෙස්පරාඩෝ’, ‘ටේක් ඉට් ඊසි’, ‘ටේක් ඉට් ටු ද ලිමිට්’ වැනි ගීත හරහා ප්‍රසිද්ධියක් ලැබූ මේ කණ්ඩායම එම දශකය තුල ග්‍රැමී සම්මාන 6ක් සහ ඇමරිකානු සංගීත සම්මාන 6ක් දිනා ගත්තේය.  ඉහත සඳහන් ගීත වලට වඩා අඩුවෙන් ජනප්‍රියත්වයක් ලැබු එකකි ‘සෑඩ් […]

Malinda Seneviratne ඒ වන විට ‘භීෂණය’ ජනගත වෙලා තිබුණේ නෑ. ඒත් පෙරනිමිති පහළ වෙමින් තිබුණා. ඒ භීෂණයේ මුල් අවධිය කියල කියන්න පුළුවන්. මතක හැටියට 1988 වසරේ සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේ. පාසැල් ශිෂ්‍ය ශිෂ්‍යාවන් සහභාගී වුණ උද්ඝෝෂණයකට පොලිසියෙන් වෙඩි තියල නුගවෙල මාධ්‍ය මහා විද්‍යාලයේ අවුරුදු 15ක සිසුවෙක් මැරුණා. ඒ පිළිබඳව විරෝධය ප්‍රකාශ කරන්න පේරාදෙණිය සරසවියේ ශිෂ්‍යයින් මහනුවර පිකට් […]

Malinda Seneviratne ‘Crisis & Struggle’ is the title of an art exhibition that was recently held at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery. Sujith Rathnayake, the artist, calls it a visual art attack. Nice line. It is presented by, so the poster claims, ‘Art Gallery of the Galle Face Protest Site.’ Sujith Rathnayake’s stature as an […]

Senaka Weeraratna The wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was clearly in the forefront of that fight.  His fault was that his side lost. But that should not de-legitimize the worldwide struggle to end Western colonial domination and rule in Asia and Africa which was finally achieved at huge cost mostly to the Japanese people. The […]

By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 19: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe firmly believes that no elections should be held in the island nation before the Presidential election in 2024 on the grounds that the country cannot afford elections in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, Sources in his United National Party (UNP) […]