BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Many left politicians in Sri Lanka look at Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe as a capitalist agent but after Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Mr Wickremasinghe became president giving hope for Sri Lankans to come out of economic backwardness. Mr Wickremasinghe is not a person like barking dog in stages expecting cheers and clapping from the […]

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 Politics The goal of human understanding is to enhance knowledge in political science to execute political action(s) to develop tools for a political meaningful phenomenon. Politics in governance is a science by which […]

Senaka Weeraratna Sri Lanka is Multicultural, Multi-Religious, and Multi-Lingual.  This is a fact. Sri Lanka is predominantly Buddhist. About 70% of Sri Lanka’s population is Sinhala Buddhist. This is a fact.  Therefore taking into account these ground realities Sri Lanka’s identity can be defined as follows: Sri Lanka is a predominantly Sinhala Buddhist country with […]

manusha media තායිලන්තයේ රැකියා ලබාදෙන බව පවසමින් පුද්ගලයින් සංචාරක වීසා මත ලාඕසයට රැගෙන ගොස් අතරමං කර රුපියල් ලක්ෂ විස්සකට ආසන්න මුදලක්  වංචා කිරීමේ චෝදනාව මත විමර්ශන අංශ මගහරිමින් සිටි අම්බලන්තොට ප්‍රාදේශීය සභාවේ ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ අපේක්ෂකයා අද (09) සවස අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන තිබේ. මෙම පුද්ගලයා අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම සදහා ශ්‍රී ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශයේ විමර්ශන අංශය […]

Lanka Lead News පසුගිය දා මෙරටට ඇමෙරිකානු ගුවන් හමුදා යානා 2කින් පෙන්ටගනයේ නිලධාරීන් 20 දෙනෙකු  පැමිණ ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ ටොප් සීක්‍රට් මිෂන්” එක කුමක්ද? ඔවුන්ගේ මෙරට පැමිණිමට පෙර ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාජ්‍යය ඔවුන් කළමනාකරණය කරනු ලැබූවේ කුමන ආකාරයෙන්ද? යන්න පිළිබදව දේශ හිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයේ ලේකම් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා ප්‍රබල හෙළිදරව්වක් සිදුකර තිබේ. සමාජ මාධ්‍ය නාලිකාවක් හා […]

  Dimuthu Attanayakeand Agencies,Courtesy The South China Morning Post Sri Lanka has been waiting since September for the IMF loan, as the broke country seeks a desperate path to recovery People have been struggling to make ends meet and afford basic supplies, with sharp increases in electricity charges and income taxes taking a toll A vendor […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While welcoming the progress made on debt restructuring, the European Union today said that reforms are essential to come out of the crisis stronger. As the EU States gave early financing assurances to the Sri Lanka Government, the Delegation of the European Union to Sri Lanka welcomes the progress made on […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Seventeen ships that arrived at Colombo Port turned back due to the recent protest by the port trade unions, Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said today. He told Parliament that he made a tremendous effort to bring them back to the port and said he […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Cabinet Spokesperson Bandula Gunawardana says new anti-corruption bill will be presented to Parliament soon Says Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has already drafted bill Reducing corruption vulnerabilities remains a key objective of IMF-backed programme A stolen asset recovery initiative likely to be included in new law The government will bring in an […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka aims to announce a debt-restructuring strategy in April and step up talks with commercial creditors ahead of an International Monetary Fund review of a bailout package in six months, the country’s central bank governor told Reuters on Thursday. The crisis-hit island has secured financing assurances from all its major bilateral creditors, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government of Japan has contributed an additional US$6.6 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide critical food and nutrition assistance to over one million Sri Lankans. Through this funding, WFP will provide families with food baskets comprising rice, pulses and cooking oil, to meet half their monthly food […]

Courtesy Adaderana The International Monetary Fund’s anticipated endorsement of Sri Lanka’s reforms and debt restructuring is expected to unlock funding of about 220 billion yen ($1.6 billion) for projects suspended by Japan, people familiar with the matter said. IMF board approval, when it arrives, should help convince the Japanese government to restart several projects that […]

Courtesy Adaderana The revision application filed by the Attorney General seeking the nullification of the order issued by the Colombo Chief Magistrate pertaining to the release of the Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) convenor Wasantha Mudalige from charges under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) has been fixed for hearing on 27 March.  The decision was […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Local Government Elections (Amendment) Bill presented by MPs Premnath C. Dolawatta and Imthiaz Bakeer Markar as Private Members’ Bills along with Ministerial reports were considered by the Legislative Standing Committee in Parliament on 28 February. The Legislative Standing Committee, which took into discussion the said Bill, was chaired by Ajith Rajapakse, Deputy […]

Courtesy Hiru News Government Printer Gangani Liyanage has sent letters to the Finance Ministry Secretary and the IGP requesting for fuinds and security to print ballot papers. She said that the relevant letters were taken to the Ministry of Finance and Police Headquarters and handed over. It is stated in the letter sent by the […]