Lanka Property Web (Pvt) Ltd Lanka Property Show, the largest real estate exhibition in Sri Lanka is being organised by LankaPropertyWeb, Sri Lanka’s leading online real estate marketplace for the 8th time this year, on the 18th and 19th of March at the Kingsbury hotel, from 8.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m.  As one of the […]

Courtesy DTNext Further, data also revealed that the price difference between BJP and non-BJP-ruled states differ, with prices ruling higher in various non-BJP states. NEW DELHI: Prices of petrol and diesel increased in India’s immediate neighborhood and as well as some other advanced countries at a time when they declined back home in India, data from […]

Courtesy CNA COLOMBO : Sri Lanka has approved an anti-corruption legislation that is a key clause in the actions needed for its $2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a government spokesperson said on Tuesday. The proposed anti-corruption legislation is part of the IMF staff-level agreement that economic crisis-hit Sri Lanka agreed to […]

Courtesy Argus Media Chinese state-owned Sinopec has proposed to fully finance the construction of a refinery in Hambantota district in Sri Lanka, the island nation said on 13 March. Representatives from Sinopec presented Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe with a proposal, and also confirmed their “readiness to invest in the import, storage, distribution, and marketing […]

By Shirani ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Three experiences – the 1987 Indian intervention, 2015 regime change operation and the Russian-Ukraine war has made the Sri Lanka Government extremely scared of India. Unfortunately, the time we managed a successful relationship with India, between 2005 and 2009, during the height of the war against terrorism, is almost […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror NPP member K. D. Lalkantha has understood the reality and is correct in opposing continuous strikes, Presidential Advisor and UNP MP Vajira Abeywardene said today. Lalkantha seemed to understand the reality and the disruption caused by strikes and protests. This is why he said he is opposed to continuous strikes,” Abeywardene […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The main objective of the strike launched by a cross-section of trade unions is not to win demands but to sabotage the program to obtain an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) of US$ 2.9 billion from the IMF, cabinet Spokesman, Media, Transport and Highways Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardana said today. The trade […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror All leaves of all Railways Department workers designated as Essential Public Service will be cancelled with immediate effect, the Transport Ministry said. Officials said that the Railways Department had been Gazetted as Essential Service” following an Extra Ordinary Notification (2321/07) issued on February 23 by the President. Accordingly, the Railways General […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Several credit card issuers have lifted the limits that hitherto had on overseas use, as they saw their foreign currency conditions improving substantially in the recent times, providing them a lot more room to allow their cardholders with higher spending thresholds when they travel overseas. When the country’s foreign currency conditions […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Peradeniya University Administration has decided to subject all new entrants to a Psychoanalysis medical test. Deputy Vice-Chancellor Pro. Terrance Madujith told the media on Sunday evening (12) at the Senate House that the students admitted to the Medical Faculty and the Management Faculty were medically tested and found that five percent […]

Sri Lanka Study Circle” ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ ක්‍රියාවලිය ආරම්භ වන්නේ සාමාන්‍යයෙන් තරු 5 හෝටලයක සිදුවන ‘පරීක්ෂණයකින්’ බව ස්ටිග්ලිට්ස් ප්‍රකාශ කරයි, එහිදී මුදල් ඇමතිවරයෙකුට ඔහුගේ ‘ස්වේච්ඡා’ අත්සන සඳහා පූර්ව කෙටුම්පත් කරන ලද ‘ප්‍රතිව්‍යුහගත කිරීමේ ගිවිසුමක්’ භාර දෙනු ලැබේ. ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල සෑම ඇමතිවරයෙකුටම එකම පියවර හතරක වැඩපිළිවෙලක් ලබා දෙයි.(2015 දී එවකට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මුදල් ඇමති – […]

Shenali D Waduge Who wants to make Sri Lanka’s Central Bank independent” & why? Who drafted the clauses? What is the sudden rush to make Sri Lanka’s monetary arm independent”? Who included The Central Bank shall be autonomous and accountable as provided for in this Act”. Accountable to whom? Who included The autonomy of the Central […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS People who know the history of the Sri Lanka rupee would not panic about the surprising changes if the sudden change in foreign and domestic value of it because of the changes in the economy after the Covid-19 backwardness as many has been incurred to the economy. The Sri Lanka rupee value […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said in today’s digital world, a digital hub is an essential resource base for students to have access to modern knowledge. Opening the new Digital Hub at the BMS, premier university on business management, he said the move by BMS to set up its Digital Hub to […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Ceylon Today Colombo, March 13: Besides trade, Buddhism played a major role in the creation of ties between India and China in ancient times. These religious ties were established in the First Millennium of the Common Era (CE or AD). But they weakened gradually, to the point of vanishing in the Second Millennium, when […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A highly disappointed chairman of the Election Commission (EC) Nimal G. Punchihewa yesterday lamented that it is unlikely that the Finance Ministry would release sufficient funds to the EC to conduct Local Council (LC) polls as ordered by the highest court in the country and therefore the only remedy is to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A national program that currently provides a mid-day meal for schoolchildren will be doubled from the start of the next school term, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said. He said the ministry is currently providing a mid-day meal for 1.1 million schoolchildren. The program was kicked off in January with the support […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Child Protection Authority has proposed to establish Infant Receiving Centres in Hospitals in all nine provinces where parents could hand over their new born infants without claiming their identity, Chairman of the National Child Protection Authority Udayakumara Amarasinghe said today. He told a news conference that a set of proposals […]

Courtesy Adaderana During a discussion with the representatives of the Sinopec Group held at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (March 13), President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the government has taken a principled decision to expand the distribution of fuel which is expected to commence shortly. The representatives from the Sinopec Group confirmed their readiness to invest […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Department of Immigration and Emigration says an investigation is underway after MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage, who arrived at Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) to depart for a foreign visit, was turned away last week. Issuing a statement, the department explained that, as per the information received, the situation arose after an employee incorrectly […]

By Sena Thoradeniya (Excerpts from a Forthcoming Publication Titled Dumbara Rata”) (1) Introduction Still our Kalu Suddhas lament that Ceylon lost British planters owing to granting of Independence” to the country and then impending nationalisation of the plantations. They add that the brown sahibs left the country owing to Sinhala Only” Act and later Land […]

By T Lalithasiri Gunaruwan Professor in the Department of Economics University of Colombo The Government has Gazetted a Bill to repeal the existing Monetary Law Act, which is presently Governing the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), and to replace it with a new Central Bank of Sri Lanka Act. The purpose of this new […]

Ishtiaq Fardin  journalist, columnist, and author. Recently, 40 global figures expressed their “deep concerns for the well-being” of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus in an open letter to prime minister Sheikh Hasina, which appeared as a full-page ad in the Washington Post on Tuesday, 7 March 2023. Citing the achievements of Yunus and Grameen […]

Dr Arpita Hazarika  Gauhati University, Assam, India India will begin exporting diesel to neighbouring Bangladesh through a pipeline this month after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina inaugurate the cross-border oil pipeline on 18 March. Good news is India will send us diesel, the (oil) pipeline has been completed. The […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka Recently, 40 global figures wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh expressing their concern over Professor Yunus’ well-being. The letter was published in the Washington Post as an advertisement. A wide range of global personas signed the letter, including former UN General Secretary Ban-Ki […]

Courtesy Hiru News HRCSL wishes to clarify that certain reports circulating to the effect that summons had been issued on the ministry of public security are inaccurate and that no such summons has been issued at this stage. “This statement is made to clarify the erroneous statements carried out in the media” the Commission informed […]

e-Con e-News ‘Give me control of a Nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws’ – Mayer Rothschild ‘There should be no room left for monetary policy decisions to become popular decisions.’ – Central Bank Governor N Weerasinghe on the latest Monetary Law Act (ee Economy) ‘The Central Bank of Sri Lanka is no longer independent. It […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Transport Ministry has decided to register unregistered motorcycles with high engine capacity under a legal framework. Minister c instructed the ministry officials to prepare a proper system soon for the above matter. The decision was taken following requests made by several sports clubs. Those associations had requested the minister provide […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has instructed the Special Investigation Division to immediately initiate an investigation against the HQI of the Bandarawela Police in connection with his action following the arrest of the mother of the infant who was abandoned at Fort Railway station on Friday. Police said the investigations […]

Courtesy Adaderana Power & Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera says several international development agencies have communicated the assistance they can offer to restructure the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). In a tweet, the lawmaker mentioned that the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency […]