Priyantha Hettige Hospitals in Sri Lanka are being overwhelmed by a huge wave of Diabetes and Diabetes related cases. It seems that many people, usually over the age of forty, are consuming sugary foods and carbohydrates and getting not enough exercise, leading to insulin resistance. They become ill. Go to any hospital, island wide and […]

Sasanka  De Silva Pannipitiya Dementia is a general term used to describe symptoms affecting memory, thinking, and social abilities to the point where it interferes with a person’s daily life. Dementia is not a specific disease but rather a term used to describe a set of symptoms caused by various underlying conditions or diseases. It […]

Sri Lankan High Commission High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Milinda Moragoda met the Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India Shri Nitin Gadkari today (24) in New Delhi to discuss bilateral cooperation in the transport sector. The meeting between the Indian Minister and the High Commissioner was held in a very cordial […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක (මෙම ලිපිය 2023 මාර්තු මස 23 වනදා lankaweb අන්තර්ජාලයේ පලවු ‘භාහිය සූත්‍රය තුල සිහියට හසුවන සිතේ (උදය-) වය අදියර phase’ හා සම්බන්ධයි https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2023/03/22/භාහිය-සූත්රය-තුල-සිහියට/ ) මෙහිදි හමුවන ඉතාමත් සංකීර්ණ ක්‍රියාවලිය තේරුම් ගැනීමට ධර්මයේ මූලික කරුනු කිපයක් නැවත මතක්කර ගත යුතු වෙයි. භාහිර ලෝකය – ඔබ ඉදිරියේ පවතින භාහිර ලෝකය රූප හැඩතල (චක්ඛු රූප, ශබ්ද […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka On March 20, the  State Department released a global report titled “2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices”.  The report is based on the human rights situation in 198 countries and territories.  The section on Bangladesh in the report highlights the issues of extrajudicial killings, disappearances, torture, […]

දිනසේන රතුගමගේ Lanka Lead News කුරුන්දි අට්ඨකථා ලේඛණය කළ ලාංකේය ඉතිහාසයේ වැදගත්ම ඓතිහාසික පුදබිමක් වූ මුලතිව් කුරුඳුමලේ විහාරස්ථානයට කෙලවර වූ බටහිර මායිමේ පුරාවිද්‍යා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් අත්පත් කරගෙන තිබූ ඉඩම් අක්කර 229ක් වහාම නිදහස් කොට ඒවායේ අයිතිකරුවන් වෙත බාරදෙන ලෙස ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඊයේ(22) දැනුම් දී තිබේ. මෙම ඉඩම් පිහිටා ඇත්තේ මුලතිව් තන්නිමුරුප්පු ප්‍රදේශයේ වන අතර, මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් […]

ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය දකුණු ආසියාවේ හොඳම දූෂණ මර්දන පනත නුදුරේදීම ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී සම්මත කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය පියවර ගන්නා බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා පැවසීය. එම පනතට අදාළ කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය මේ වන විටත් ලබාදී ඇති බව අනාවරණය කළ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඉදිරියේදී විපක්ෂ නියෝජිතයන් සමඟ සාකච්ඡා කර එය පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන බව ද පැවසීය. ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says that 121 million US dollars out of 333 million US dollars, the first tranche that was extended to Sri Lanka by the IMF, was used to pay the installment of the Indian credit line. He said the relevant installment of 121 million US dollars […]

Courtesy Adaderana The International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout will help bring Sri Lanka’s depleted foreign exchange reserve to pre-crisis levels in four years, said the country’s central bank governor. On Tuesday, the IMF extended a long-awaited US$3 billion (S$4 billion) loan to the island nation, which has been reeling since 2021 from its worst economic […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court is due to deliver the verdict on the petitions filed against the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill confidentially to the Speaker of the Parliament. The second hearing of the Bill took place today (24 March), before a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, during which the presentation of the petitioner’s arguments […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka will hold a virtual presentation next week to update its commercial creditors and investors following the receipt of IMF Executive Board approval for the bailout package. The investor and creditor presentation will commence at 8.30 a.m. on March 30, chaired by Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe and Finance Ministry’s Secretary […]

Hiru News

Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that due to the public sector engaging in business activities, the money that was available for the construction of 100 projects similar to the Mahaweli during the past decades, has been destroyed. He noted that in the future, the public sector will stop engaging in business and open […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale The IMF agreement is much more than the USD 3 billion that accompanies it. In the overall scheme of the country’s foreign debt (now estimated at around USD 48 Billion) and overall debt at 115% of GDP, with no funds for foreign debt repayments and no foreign exchange to purchase essentials, the […]

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E 

If the head of any organisation is a crook, it amounts to a licence for theft down the line, all the way to the bottom. If there’s a crook at any level of an organisation, it implies that the head of that institution is either a crook or is incompetent.  Organization, here, could […]