Shenali D Waduge From CBSL bigwigs to the economists in the corporate world & even economic advisors to the GoSL have only one mantra – go to the IMF”. Do they need to be called economists” to be chirping this? Why can’t they present an alternative model for development? Has Globalization worked for all or […]

By Garvin Karunaratne Two of our senior Ministers have been to Africa to copy from them.  Is there anything to get from them. The answer comes from a Paper I wrote long ago which is :

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  රුසියානු සහ සෝවියට් ලේඛකයෙකු වන මැක්සිම් ගෝර්කි  සමාජවාදී යථාර්ථවාදී සාහිත්‍ය ක්‍රමයේ නිර්මාතෘවරයෙකි.  ගෝර්කි  සමාජ යථාර්ථවාදයේ නවකතා ලිවීමට යොමු විය. සෝවියට් සාහිත්‍යයේ ක්‍රියාකාරී මානවවාදය  විප්ලවීය දෘෂ්ටිකෝණයකින් පිළිබිඹු කිරීමට ඔහු උත්සහ ගත්තේය. සෝවියට් ලේඛකයින්ගේ ප්‍රධාන කර්තව්‍යය නව සමාජවාදී මිනිසෙකු ඇති දැඩි කිරීම ලෙස ඔහු සැලකීය. නිර්ධන පංතියේ ලේඛකයෙකු වන ඔහු සෝවියට් සාහිත්‍යයේ පතාකයෙකි. ඔහුගේ කෘති  සෝවියට් සාහිත්‍යයට මෙන්ම ලෝක සාහිත්‍යයට ද විශාල බලපෑමක් ඇති […]

RANJITH SOYSA  Recently , resettled Sinhala people in Navakkuliya, Jaffna held a procession to celebrate the opening of a pagoda constructed for them to attend to their religious activities which is a basic human right for any given community. We should not forget the fact that the people of Navakkuliya are not strangers to Jaffna, They were living in […]

sell-X Computers ලංකාවේ සියලුම සන්නාමයන්ගෙන් යුත් පරිඝනක අලෙවියේ දැවැන්තයා වන  sell-X Computers පුද්ගලික සමාගමේ මෙහෙයුම් කටයුතු තවදුරටත් පුළුල් කරමින්  සිය ප්‍රධාන කාර්යාලය සහ ප්‍රදර්ශනාගාරය නව පස් මහල්  ගොඩනැගිල්ලක උත්සවාකාරයෙන් විවෘත කරනු ලැබීය. ලංකාව පුරා බෙදාහැරීම් ජාලයකට සහ දකුණු පළාත සහ අගනුවර කේන්ද්‍ර කරගනිමින් පරිඝනක සහ ඒ ආශ්‍රිත උපාංග අලෙවියේ දැවැන්තයා වන sell-X Computers, ගාල්ල,  කිතුලම්පිටිය […]

Rohan Abeygunawardena (The Message” that came after Line of Destiny”) Ask Lester to come and see me” If not for above message Lester James Peries (Lester) received from K. Gunaratnam, the film industry of Sri Lanka would have probably lost the classic work of the Master Filmmaker of the country. Lester’s first Sinhala film Rekawa” […]

අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col, PGDC (Col), නීතීඥ , නීති ග්‍රන්ථ කර්තෘ, විද්‍යුත්/මුද්‍රිත මාධ්‍ය ලේඛක,සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන. දෝෂාභියෝග කිහිපයක්ම ආ සරත් නන්ද සිල්වා අගවිනිසුරුවරයා, 2009 බෙදුම්වාදය යුද්ධයෙන් පැරදවීමත් සමගම මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයාවද නොමග යවමින් රවුෆ් හකීම් අධිකරණ ඇමති සමග හවුලේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීති විද්‍යාලයේ සිංහලෙන් නීති අධ්‍යාපනය ලබා දීම නතර […]

Lanka Property Web (Pvt) Ltd On the 18th and 19th of March 2023, LankaPropertyWeb hosted the eighth annual Lanka Property Show in the Balmoral Hall, The Kingsbury in Colombo. The event was a huge success, with close to 10,000 visitors attending both physically and virtually, including foreign investors, and solidifying its status as Sri Lanka’s […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe has proposed to set up Sinhala and Hindi departments in several Indian and Sri Lankan universities. He also proposed to increase number of ICCR scholarships for Buddhist studies. Dr Sahasrabuddhe stated this when he called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena […]

Top Spin By Sunny Each day is a struggle for the players and a  heartache for the adoring fans who continue to hope for a sudden surge that will stabilize the ship and sustain the momentum needed to correct all ills  in a team floundering in a sea of uncertainty who once basked in the […]

Courtesy ThePapare.com In cricket as well as in a host of other sports a system known as the player referral is now being used. In cricket parlance it is called the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) or Decision Review System (DRS). Generally, all inventions carry the name of the founder. In the case of rain […]

නීතීඥ නුවන් බැල්ලන්තුඩාව-දේශප්‍රේමි ජාතික පෙරමුණ Lanka Lead News ඉංග්‍රිසි කියමනක් තියෙනවා Never Meet your hero කියලා. සාලිය පීරිස් මහත්මයා නික්ම යනවා. යන්නේ නම් නීතීඥ සංගමයේ සභාපති කමින්. ඒත් යන්නේ කොහාටද කියලා දන්නේ නෑ. එතුමාගේ නික්ම යෑමට කවී සී පද විරහ ගී ගොඩක් ලියවිලා තිබුණා. එතුමා අපේ වෘත්තිය කේෂේත්‍රයේ ජනප්‍රිය තරුවක්. අති විශාල කණිෂ්ඨ නීතීඥවරුන් පිරිසකට […]

By P.k. Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today   At a meeting in Pretoria on Wednesday, the Sri Lankan Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry discussed with Roelf Meyer and Ivor Jenkins, the contours of the proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Sri Lanka inspired by the South African […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera has assured that there are sufficient stocks of fuel in the country, and that distribution will continue as usual. Taking to Twitter, the Minister urged the public not to panic over a potential shortage in the supply of fuel owing to the recent actions taken by […]

Courtesy Adaderana The report on the batch of imported eggs from India is scheduled to be released tomorrow (29 March), Director General of Animal Production and Health Dr. Hemamali Kotelawala stated. However, although nearly  a week has passed since the arrival of the stock of eggs, the Department of Animal Production and Health are yet to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekers has called for the termination of employees of both the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) and the Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminals Ltd (CPSTL) who disrupt the distribution of fuel. Taking to Twitter, the Minister stated that he has instructed the CPC and CPSTL Chairman to take the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage has ordered the former opposition leader of the Kotte Municipal Council, Chandima Nanayanajith to be remanded in custody until April 04. The former opposition leader of the Kotte Municipal Council, Chandima Nanayanajith had been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and produced before the courts today […]

Courtesy Adaderana The program initiated on the instructions of President Ranil Wickremesinghe to identify those eligible for welfare benefit payments has completed the information verification for over 2.2 million applications received during the on-going survey and verification process, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. Saman Ekanayake, the Secretary to the President, has instructed officers to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) has proposed to set up Sinhala and Hindi language departments in several Indian and Sri Lankan universities. The proposal was made by ICCR President Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, who also proposed to increase the number of ICCR scholarships for Buddhist studies. The proposals were conveyed to Prime […]