RANJITH SOYSA  We have heard from reliable foreign sources and the Minister of Justice, Wijedasa Raajpakse that there is either a  sum of dollars 32 billion or 52 billion dollars which is legally due to Sri Lankaas export earnings held in overseas accounts of Sri Lankan exporters.While the country is heading from bad to worse and the people […]

By Chandre Dharma-wardana The provincial government of Ontario passed a bill (Bill 104) implying that a genocide of Tamils occurred in Sri Lanka, and introduced a Tamil genocide education week” (TGEW) into the school system [1]. This implicit Genocidal Tag” on Sri Lanka will discourage many entrepreneurs from investing in Sri Lanka, at a time […]

Lanka Lead News මැයි 9 වන දින අරගලය හමුවේ නිවාස ගිනිතැබීම් පිළිබඳව කරන්නාගොඩ කොමිසමෙන් ආරක්ෂක මාණ්ඩලික ප්‍රධානී ෂවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වා මහතා හට චෝදනා කර තිබීම පිළිබඳව ලංකා ලීඩ් නිවුස්” වෙබ් අඩවියට ප්‍රකාශයක් කරමින් ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සංසදයේ විධායක කමිටු ලේකම් යසස් ධර්මදාස මහතා ප්‍රකාශකර සිටියේ ෂවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වා මහතාට වෙනත් විකල්පයක් නොමැති වන්නට ඇති බවයි. යසස් ධර්මදාස […]

 Lanka Lead News පසුගිය වසර පුරාම රුසියාව සහ යුක්රේනය අතර ගැටුම එක්සත් ජනපදය විසින් නිර්වචනය කළේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය සහ ඒකාධිපතිවාදය අතර යුද්ධයක්” ලෙස ය. එම මතය තහවුරු කිරීම සදහා එක්සත් ජනපදය හා බටහිර සමාජය දිගින් දිගටම උත්සාහ දැරීය. කෙසේ වෙතත් රුසියාව යුක්‍රේනය සමඟ ගැටුමකට ක්‍රමක්‍රමයෙන් තල්ලු කරනු ලැබුවේද එක්සත් ජනපදය ප්‍රමුඛ නේටෝ සංවිධානය බව වර්තමානයේ ලොවට […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Cabinet approved signing the international conventions relating to generate electricity using nuclear power as it was a reliable, low-carbon baseload source of electricity to complement renewable energy sources in the future, Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Board (SLARB) Chairman Professor S.R.D. Rosa said.  He told the Daily Mirror that the country […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Even though the trade unions with certain political agendas had called for a massive trade union action, they were not successful, Director General of Trade Unions to President Samana Rathnapriya said. Practically, no trade union action had taken place during the day in any private or government-related sector, he said. However, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka has ruled that the provisions of the Right to Information (RTI) Act are relevant to parliamentarians as well and that they are legally bound to declare their assets and liabilities. This ruling was delivered by an Appeals Court judge bench consisting of Sampath Abeykoon and P. […]

Courtesy Adaderana A decision has been taken during a special Cabinet meeting held today (March 01) to permit state institutions, ministries, departments and statuary boards to open accounts at private banks, if trade union actions are hindering the opening of letters of credit to import medicines and other essential goods, says the Cabinet Spokesperson, Minister […]

Courtesy Adaderana Premier Li Keqiang told the head of the International Monetary Fund that China is open to participating in multilateral efforts to help heavily indebted nations in a constructive manner,” China Central Television reported.  China is willing to take part in resolving relevant countries’ debt issues,” Li said in a phone call Wednesday with […]

Courtesy Adaderana China says it will continue to support relevant countries and international financial institutions to jointly play a positive role in helping Sri Lanka navigate the situation, ease its debt burden and achieve sustainable development. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning made this remark in response to a question raised during a regular press […]

Courtesy Adaderana Police have taken custody of all files in the office of the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) which was unsealed after 13 days. The unsealing of the office, which was sealed off by the Kollupitiya Police on February 16 based on a court order issued by the Colombo […]