Shenali D Waduge Are there more powerful people than politicians who can get what they want with the power of funding? Who are these people who openly & anonymously fund lobby groups, legislative changes, all modes of communications, academia, legal fraternity, civil society & rights groups? They fund what they do not own & what […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara(SLAS) Former Secretary to Prime Minister Mrs Sirimavao Bandaranayaka Originally Posted on December 30th, 2022 Gentlemen what have you done to the Kandyan Sinhala people, for 75 years since 1948, who protected this country for you and all of us, for 443 years from foreign enemies (1815-1948), other than closing down the only […]

By KYAW ZWA MOE 19 July 2021Courtesy The Irrawaddy. Kin Oung is the author of the book Who Killed Aung San?” He is the son of Tun Hla Oung, the deputy inspector general of police, CID department, who was credited with the rapid capture and arrest of U Saw and his men after the assassination of Gen. […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Historical evidence found that Sri Lanka was a separate country since the era of homo sapiens, they migrated from one country to another or one place to other. There was no evidence that anyone attempted to restrict the migration from one country to another and keep people who were living in the […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya A boomerang is a curved, flat, or angular-shaped tool that is traditionally used as a weapon, hunting implement, or for sport. It is typically made from a variety of materials such as wood, plastic, or composite materials and is designed to return to the thrower after being launched. Boomerangs are commonly […]

අජිත් හේරත් වෛද්‍ය ප්‍රියංකර ජයවර්ධන අසත්‍ය සංඛ්‍යා ලේඛන ඉදිරිපත් කරමින් එන්නත්වලින් සිදුවන හානි යටපත් කිරීමට උත්සාහ දරයි. අනෙක් අතට ඔහුගේ තර්කය පදනම්ව ඇත්තේ අසත්‍ය සංඛ්‍යා ලේඛන මත බව පැහැදිලිව පෙනී යන දෙයකි. ඔහුගේ සංඛ්‍යා ලේඛන අනුව හෘදයාබාධවලින් දිනකට 450ක් පමණ දළ වශයෙන් මරණයට පත්වේ. ඒ් අනුව වසරකදී හෘදයාබාධවලින් මරණයට පත්වන සංඛ්‍යාව 450 X 365 = […]

Courtesy The Morning Sri Lanka is in consultation with all stakeholders for the introduction of a Debt-for-Nature Swap (DNS), an innovative financial solution introduced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to Deputy Secretary to the Treasury R.M.P. Ratnayake. The Deputy Secretary to the Treasury told The Sunday Morning that the Government had been working on the […]

ANI news China’s largest oil and petrochemical products supplier and the second largest oil and gas producer is interested in the export-oriented oil refinery in Sri Lanka, but the question remains why? According to the Sri Lankan publication, Mawrata News, the friendly relationship between the two countries has been used for China’s journey to become […]

By Prof. Rasheen Bappu Courtesy Ceylon Today Approximately, 2,074 registered trade unions are in Sri Lanka, of which 54.5 per cent are in the public sector, 27.5 per cent in public corporations and 18 per cent in the private sector. The number of members covered by the trade unions amounts to 9.5 per cent of […]

Lanka Lead News මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමේ සාමාජික කොමසාරිස්වරු තිදෙනෙකු, භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ නමක්ද ඇතුළුව, ජනාධිපතිවරයාට ලිඛිතව දැනුම්දීමක් කරමින් තවදුරටත් සභාපතිනිය සමග වැඩකළ නොහැකි බවට සඳහන් කිරීම පිළිබඳව ‘ලංකා ලීඩ්‘ එක් කොමසාරිස් වරයකු ඇමතීය. මේ වෛද්‍ය නිමල් කරුණාසිරි මහතාගේ අදහස් ඔහුගේ වචනයෙන්, සභාපතිනිය කොමසාරිස්වරු සමග සාකච්ඡාකර සාමූහික තීන්දු ගන්නේ නැහැ. හිතුවක්කාර විදිහට තමාගේ පෞද්ගලික මතයට අනුව වැඩ […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island AG favours Singapore court, compensation claim USD 6.2 bn The inordinate delay in initiating legal action against X-Press Feeders, the owners of container carrier X-Press Pearl, which sank off Colombo in early June, 2021 causing a maritime disaster, has taken a new turn with Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, […]

Courtesy Adaderana World Bank’s Regional Vice President for South Asia has commended the progress on fiscal, financial and economic governance reforms achieved by Sri Lanka thus far. On the sidelines of the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in Washington DC, the Sri Lankan delegation led by Finance […]

Courtesy Adaderana China has reiterated the calls on commercial and multilateral creditors to jointly participate in Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring under the principle of fair burden-sharing. According to Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin, the Asian economic giant has been in close communication with Sri Lanka and supported Chinese financial institutions in actively discussing debt […]

Courtesy Adaderana A committee of Sri Lanka’s international private creditors sent its first debt rework proposal to the country’s authorities regarding over $12 billion in bonds outstanding, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the matter. It is the first bondholder proposal after the island nation of 22 million people defaulted on its debt […]