e-Con e-News From the Andaman to the Red Seas, from Myanmar to Djibouti, preaching ‘peace’ and buzzing about reconciliation, the US & EU are igniting wars all around us. White America’s continuing Indian Wars. Wars not to be won or lost but to be daily waged. This truth will not flicker on tv or twitter […]

e-Con e-News What is the relationship between the 19th-century origins of the Bank of Ceylon (BoC) and the Oriental Bank Corporation (OBC). The BoC & OBC were first set up by the English to exploit Sri Lanka’s recently stolen lands and impose the coffee plantations,. Their HR (Human Resources, ahem) expertise was  based on American (yes, this term includes […]

Courtesy Adaderana The International Monetary Fund said its approval for a $2.9 billion loan to bail out crisis-riddled Sri Lanka will depend on the island nation securing assurances on debt relief from its bilateral creditors. Sri Lanka continues to engage with official bilateral creditors to obtain financing assurances and also continues to advance domestic reforms,” […]

Courtesy Adaderana Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, today (Feb. 10) announced the list of MPs who were nominated to serve in the Committee on Public Finance in the fourth session of the Ninth Parliament. The nominations were made by the Committee of Selection. The MPs have been selected to serve in the Committee on […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe says he will ensure that maximum state support is provided to safeguard Theravada Buddhism to pass it on to future generations and spread it globally. He also emphasized the importance of translating the series of books that were translated into Sinhala, into English, German, French and Spanish and pointed out […]

Courtesy Adaderana A large delegation from China, including officials from the Chinese government, provincial governments and other companies, is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka next month. Accordingly, the delegation will be visiting the island nation in search of new investment opportunities, Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong confirmed.

Courtesy Hiru News The CID has started an investigation after disclosing an incident of taking secret video footage threatening the life of the Governor of the North Western Province, Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karnnagoda. That was according to a complaint made by the Governor to the Inspector General of Police. The Governor’s official residence […]

Shenali D Waduge Some people’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter”. What good is a justice system when the law & lawyers also twist the facts & try to manipulate clauses to the advantage of agendas. Fiorito has mixed heritage. His father is an Italian Canadian whose family migrated to Canada in late 1880s while his […]

By Garvin Karunaratne  My craze for motoring in the forsaken neglected Sinhala areas where poor unequipped buddhist monks struggle to guide  the people  following the dictat of Lord Buddha: Charita Bhikkae Charikan Mahajana Hitaya, Sukhaya” took me this time to Sandamal Eliya, five miles before one reaches Tanmtirimale.   Tantirimale is a rock temple where there is a […]

Courtesy ShiaTV IMF and World Bank policies are opening national markets to US-dominated \”multinational corporations\” effectively destroying the homegrown economy of poor countries all over the world from Latin America to Africa to Asia. The program was essentially about enriching a few ruling. Money Trail | IMF & World Bank: Two major levers of US […]

Malinda Seneviratne There are some uncomfortable truths about the 13th Amendment, devolution of power and of course provincial councils. Let’s begin with the here-and-now. Provincial Council elections haven’t been held in years. It is more than 10 years since the Eastern Provincial Council elections were held and more than nine since they were held for […]

Dilrook Kannangara JVP was the last of the Sinhala political parties to accept 13A and provincial councils in 1999. By then UNP, SLMP, SLMC, EPRLF, SLFP and PA had succumbed to the 13A honeypot. It was a wise decision of the JVP to at last embrace the inevitable. 13A has no benefits for the nation; […]

Courtesy Teheran Times At times of natural disasters, countries actually set aside differences with the foes and extend a helping humanitarian hand.  But the United States and its Western allies have refused to assist the Syrian government even as it faces one of the worst natural disasters in more than a century. Syria has already […]

Manusha Media ඕමානයේ සුරක්ෂා නිවාසයන්හි රැඳී සිටින කාන්තාවන් 59 දෙනා මෙරටට ගෙන්වා ගැනීමේ නෛතික ගැටලු කිහිපයක් ඇති බවත්, කාර්ය මණ්ඩල අඩුපාඩු ඇතත් එකී ගැටලු විසඳාගත් සැනෙන් ඔවුන්ව ලංකාවට එවීමට කටයුතු කරන බවත්, ඒ සඳහා ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ ද අනුමැතිය ලැබී ඇති බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවැසීය. දැනට ක්‍රියාත්මක මිනිස් ජාවාරම මැඩලීමට ගත හැකි […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa through a lawyer today claimed for sum of Rs. 17.85 million recovered from the President’s House on 9th July. However, Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage rejected the application citing police are yet to conclude the investigations.(Lakmal Sooriyagoda) 

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Minister and Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna National Organizer Basil Rajapaksa said that he is ready to give up his US citizenship if the dual citizenship was an obstacle to his future political activities. He told a television political program that not only the dual citizenship, but he is also ready […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Claiming that the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has granted special electricity tariff reduction to Housing Apartment Complexes than normal domestic units, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said today that electricity could be provided to normal domestic units at concessionary rates if the special relief granted to Housing […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe has taken a torch which is burning from both side by trying to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, Former President Maithripala Sirisena said today. He said he wondered why Ranil Wickremesinghe was trying to implement this controversial 13A when the country was facing serious issues. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has urged all persons to be vigilant of the security of the details of their bank cards, owing to the recent rise in financial scams. Accordingly, CBSL warned all persons to refrain from sharing their usernames, passwords, PIN numbers, One Time Passwords (OTP), Card Verification Values […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Country Representative for Sri Lanka, Dr. Nadeem Ul Haque says that the Sri Lankan government needs to take steps to ensure efficiency when it plots the way forward for the country and cut down on the number of subsidies given to the public as well. He made […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s Tamils are dreaming if they think India will help create Tamil Eelam with 13A land & police powers. It is time that Sri Lanka’s Tamils wake up to reality. At the time of India’s independence, Tamil Nadu sought self-determination, Indian leaders refused, subsequently even Bangladesh was given independence but not Tamil […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Two stalwarts of the JVP-led National People’s Power (NPP) alliance, Dr Harini Amarasuriya MP and Mr Tilvin Silva, JVP General Secretary, as reported in the media early February 2023, have made more or less clear the alliance’s stand on the full implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution (suggested by […]

By Dr Tilak S Fernando After Harin Fernando, Minister of Tourism and Lands took over the portfolio, he appointed a new team to improve tourism. The new team’s efforts have paid off. Sri Lanka Tourism Board is confident that the estimated 1.55 million tourists will arrive in Sri Lanka, adding an income of 2.8 billion […]

Shenali D Waduge It is important to understand that terrorism was only part of the problem. The bigger problem is the issue of attempts to separate Sri Lanka, a quest started by ITAK from 1949 onwards. ITAK or Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi translated meant Tamil State party but camouflaged quest as federal. Its aims & […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි කාලෙකට පෙර මෙරට ජනතාව හදුනාගෙන සිටි ප්‍රථම ඝනයේ ජාතික සතුරා රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහයන් විය. ඔහුගෙන් රට බේරා ගැනීම සඳහා මෙරට දේශප්‍රේමී ජනතාව මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂයන්ව බලයට පත්කළහ. ඒ වර්ෂ 2005දිය. බලය ලබාගත් මහින්ද මෙරට තිබුන බලවත්ම ගැටලුව වූ ප්‍රභාකරන්ගේ සන්නද්ධ ව්‍යාපාරය විනාශ කොට උතුර හා දකුණ ඒකාබද්ධ කොට නව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවක් ගොඩනංවන ලදී. රනිල් […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum Solicitor in England and Wales NHS in the United Kingdom- a wonderful system NHS is the health system in the United Kingdom provided free to the citizens with a network of General Physicians to every citizen with a support staff, including the improvement […]

acTVism Munich In this episode of The Source, we talk with Professor Emeritus of Economics (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff, about the economic impact of the Ukraine war. We assess the impact of Western sanctions on Russia as well as how the war has affected the West economically. Interview […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව  සඳහන් කළේ 2023.02.08 දින  කොළඹ ටාජ් සමුද්‍රා හෝටලයේ දී ඉන්දියානු අලෙවි නියෝජිතවරුන් පන්සියය පනස්  දෙනෙකුගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් පැවැති tata steel සහ tata tiscon ගනුදෙනුකරුවන්ගේ වාර්ෂික සමුළුවේ සමාරම්භක අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමිනි. ඉන්දියානු සාගරය හරහා වැටී ඇති ගෝලීය මුහුදු වෙළෙඳ මාර්ග ඔස්සේ යුරෝපය උතුරු ඇමරිකාව සහ අග්නිදිග ආසියාව වෙත බොරතෙල් මෙන්ම වෙළඳ භාණ්ඩ ප්‍රවාහනය […]

High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi Sri Lanka and New Zealand explored ways and means to further strengthen and deepen cooperation between the two countries. The discussions took place when Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in New Delhi Milinda Moragoda met with the Foreign Minister of New Zealand Nanaia Mahuta who is on an official […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය භූතානයේ අධ්‍යාපන හා නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍ය ජායි බීර් රායි මහතා 2023.02.07 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවී ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සබඳතා, ආයෝජන හැකියාව සහ කලාපීය ගැටලු පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කළේය. දෙරට අතර ඓතිහාසික ආගමික සහ සංස්කෘතික සබඳතා ගැන සඳහන් කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා වෙළෙඳ, ආයෝජන සහ සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරය වැඩිදියුණු කිරීමේ අවශ්‍යතාව අවධාරණය කළේය. ප්‍රමුඛ පෙළේ […]