Courtesy Hiru News Professor Aminda Methsila of the Faculty of Management and Finance of Wayamba University stated that the rupee will continue to strengthen due to the loan facility from the International Monetary Fund and other receipts. He stated this while commenting on the opinion presented by Fitch Ratings that the value of the rupee […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. ගෝඨාභය ජනාධිපති මිලින්ද මොරගොඩට සර් කියා ඇමතුවාය යන කතාව අසා මගේ හිත බලවත් ලෙස සසල වූයේ, පුද්ගලයෙකු වශයෙන් ගෝඨාභය කෙරෙහි මා තුල පැවති ගෞරවය හා ආදරය නිසාය. විජේවීරගේ වෛද්‍යවරයා මෙන් ක්‍රියාකල වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර සමඟ චමුදිත සමරවික්‍රම කල සාකච්චාව රටේ හැම සිංහල බෞද්ධයෙක් විසින්ම කියවිය යුතු වාර්තාවකි. (30) ගෝඨාභය මරලා මහින්ද […]

Priyantha Hettige  At present, President Putin is conducting what he calls a special operation” in Ukraine.  This is not a fully-fledged war. It is constrained and is limited in its objectives. He is fulfilling his well-known and often stated objectives of: (1) Protecting the Russian speaking peoples of the Luhansk, Donbass, Kherson and Mariopol regions […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka needs institutional reforms in order to achieve long-term debt sustainability, said Steve Hanke, who played a key role in establishing new currency regimes in emerging markets like Argentina and Montenegro. The South Asian country is grappling with its worst financial crisis in decades and needs to unlock a $2.9 billion IMF […]

Courtesy Adaderana State Minister Shehan Semasinghe has requested the Deputy Speaker of Parliament to instruct relevant authorities not to act on the interim order issued by the Supreme Court regarding the 2023 Local Government polls until the inquiry carried out by the Parliamentary Committee on Privileges comes to an end. Furthermore, he also asked the […]

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 […]

By Rohana R. Wasala I concluded a previous article published in Lankaweb on January 28, 2023 (Is recolonisation the final solution II) touching on the deplorable situation that innocent Sri Lankans have been plunged into not only by the current economic crisis but also by the so-called Tamil ethnic problem, both aggravated by unjust direct […]

Sugath Kulatunga In a recent media article with the title’ Govt’s amazing death wish for nuclear plant on Lankan soil’ was typical of selective reporting. It would have been fair by the reading public if the scales of the Chernobyl plant and the proposed Sri Lanka plant were indicated. Chernobyl was of 720 MW capacity. […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ලංකාව මෙයට පෙර අවස්ථා 16 ක ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදල සමඟ ගිවිසුම්ගත වී ඇත.  නමුත්, එයින් අවස්ථා 10 ක දී සම්පූර්ණ ණය මුදල් ලැබුණු අතර, 6 ක දී මුළු ණය මුදල රටට ලැබුණේ නැත. කොන්දේස ඉටු නොකිරීම, දේශපාලන බලපෙරළි, රට තුල ඇතිවූ අස්ථාවරත්වය ණය ගිවිසුම අතරමඟ කඩාකප්පල් කළේය. උන්ඩියල් සහ මනී එක්ස්චෙන්ජ් මිල […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය. විදිමත් අයුරින් ක්‍රියාත්මක බැංකු සේවාව සඳහා කාන්තාවන් ආකර්ශනය කර ගැනීමට නව දිරිගැන්වීම් අවශ්‍ය බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා ප්‍රකාශ කළේ 2023.03.07 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව, සියලුම රාජ්‍ය හා පෞද්ගලික බැංකු ප්‍රධානීන්,  විධායක නිලධාරීන් අමතමිනි. “මෙම ක්‍රමවේදය ඔස්සේ ආර්ථිකයේ නාගරික, ග්‍රාමීය, වතු, කාන්තා භූමිකාව ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට හැකියි. එමෙන්ම අධික පොලි අනුපාත අයකර කාන්තාවන් […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division The Prime Minister mentioned that the woman who makes use of new technology can efficientlycontribute to the national produce. He said at a function International Women’s Day held inappreciation of the women working in the Prime Minister’s Office today (08) .The following are excerpts from the speech delivered by the Prime […]

Courtesy Africa News French-Cameroonian commission to turn light on colonial era | Africanews A joint French-Cameroonian commission started Friday (Mar. 3rd) work on delving into France’s role in the nation’s colonial past and post-independence years. It is jointly headed by a Cameroonian artist Blick Bassy and a French historian Karine Ramondy. The composition of the team tasked […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe today said that three women were instrumental in helping Sri Lanka during its troubled period. When reflecting upon those who contributed to freeing the people from the sufferings experienced during the past, I think it is important to mention the names of three women who played a significant […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has recommended that a committee, headed by a retired court judge, be appointed to investigate the issues raised by the special audit report of the Central Cultural Fund for the period between 2015 and 2019. It was also recommended that the report of the newly-proposed committee be […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s rupee, which became the world’s best performing currency this year amid hopes of an International Monetary Fund bailout, may resume declines and lose a fifth of its value against the dollar by end-2023, according to Fitch Solutions. We are optimistic that Sri Lanka will be able to secure an IMF board […]

Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka is negotiating with India to extend a 1 billon dollar credit line by a few months, according to sources, as the island nation tries to line up funds for the rest of the year while the IMF looks set to approve a 2.9 billion dollar loan for it soon. The […]