Samina Akhter Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said Bangladesh and Japan have successfully elevated the bilateral relations to a “Strategic Partnership” from the existing “Comprehensive Partnership”. “Prime minister Kishida and I have discussed today the entire gamut of our bilateral relations. We are happy that Bangladesh and Japan have successfully elevated the bilateral relations […]

PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE The United States is designating Wasantha Karannagoda, Governor of North Western Province in Sri Lanka, pursuant to Section 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2023, due to his involvement in a gross violation of human rights during his tenure as a Naval Commander.  As a […]

Courtesy APNews.com COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president urged lawmakers Wednesday to approve a four-year International Monetary Fund program to reduce the country’s debt by $17 billion through restructuring. Parliament began a three-day debate Wednesday on President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s proposal to accept the IMF program. It will be followed by a vote. If […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror In response to a request made by the Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa to walk the talk and thereby put into practice what he had talked of, President Ranil Wickremeinge today told Parliament those in Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) will walk towards a common journey with him soon. I must tell […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is scheduled to hold debt restructuring talks with the Paris Club, India and China before the discussion with private creditors, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said. Speaking in Parliament this morning (26 April), the Head of State announced that debt restructuring talks will be held with both the Paris Club and India in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The signing of Exchange Notes pertaining to the provision of a project support of Japanese Yen five hundred and three million (Approximately LKR 1.3 bn) through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to strengthen infectious waste management in government hospitals in Sri Lanka has been carried out today (April 26). The Project aims to […]

FB පසු ගිය වසරේ පැන නැඟුණු “අරගලය” පිළිබඳව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී විමල් වීරවංශ විසින් රචිත පර්යේෂණාත්මක කෘතිය 2023.4.25 දින එළි දක්වන ලදි. එම කෘතිය එළි දැක්වීමේදී කතෘවරයා විසින් කළ දේශනයේදී ඉතා ආන්දෝලනාත්මක කරුණු රාශියක් මූලාශ්‍ර සහිතව ඉදිරිපත් කළ අතර මේ එම දේශනයයි. https://www.facebook.com/WimalWeerawansa.sl/videos/189143296866495/

Courtesy Adaderana U.S Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung has expressed her disappointment over recent allegations levelled against the United States by a Sri Lankan Member of Parliament in his latest publication. Taking to Twitter, Chung deemed the allegations ‘baseless’ and accused the MP of spreading outright lies in a book that should be labelled […]

Courtesy Adaderana A team of officials from Sinopec visited Sri Lanka in order to finalise the agreements and commencement of operations for retail fuel sales, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said. Accordingly, the timeline, conditions of the relevant agreement and other concerns were discussed at a meeting held at the Ministry’s premises yesterday […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Insulting to others is an explicit nature of Sri Lankans irrespective of ethnic groups such as Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim. In other ethnic groups in the world there may have such a negative cultural feature in relation to human behaviour, comparatively Sri Lankans gets a priority for this bad feature and I […]

Senaka Weeraratna India with the support of Buddhist Asia can become a World Superpower. Not necessarily militarily but economically, morally, and spiritually. Buddhism which has heavily influenced the moral and ethical foundations of a wide range of countries in South Asia, South East Asia, and the Far East in the past two millennia, can again […]

By Dr Tilak S. Fernando However, as much as everyone brags about the increase in tourism, the fact remains that the hotel staff is disgracefully still living in the colonial era.  The Tourist Board had approached the Immigration and Emigration Department to extend tourist visas for six months and beyond. If Sri Lanka wants to […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena held a discussion with Italian Ambassador Rita Giuliana Mannella about the expansion of trade and investment relations between the two countries. He urged to explore possibility of investments in new areas during a discussion held with Ambassador of Italy Rita Giuliana Mannella and European Union Ambassador Denis […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය වාල්මිකීගේ රාමායණය ඉන්දු ලංකා අනාදිමත් පුරාවෘත්තයන් සටහන් කරයි. දෙරට පුරා විසිරී ගිය එහි ජනප්‍රවාදයන් අතර නුවරඑළිය සීතා අම්මාන් කෝවිල ප්‍රධානතම ස්ථානය ගනී. දෙමළ හින්දු ජනතාවගේ වන්දනාමානයට පාත්‍රවන මෙම ස්ථානය සිංහල ජනතාව ද පැදකුණු කරයි. මෙය ජාතික හා ආගමික සමගිය සදහා වූ තෝතැන්නකි. සීතා අම්මාන්  කෝවිල් භාරකාර මණ්ඩලයේ සභාපති වී. රාධක්‍රිෂ්ණන්  මහතාගේ ආරාධනයට […]

e-Con e-News ‘The irrationalities & inhumanity of the world order are essentially a problem of vested interests both on a national & international scale, not to be resolved as a problem in logic by argumentation or as a problem in ethics by appeals to righteousness.’– see ee Focus, SBD de Silva, Political Economy of Underdevelopment For every $1 the IMF encourages a […]

Lanka Lead News ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ’ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා විසින් ගෝල්ෆේස් අරගලයේ ඇතුළාන්තය” පිළිබඳව පුළුල් අධ්‍යයනයකින් අනතුරුව රචනා කළ නවය; සැඟවුණු කතාව” විමර්ශනාත්මක කෘතිය එළිදැක්වීමේ සජීවී විකාශය හා එක්වන්න.. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1179052012792347 https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=314&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FWimalWeerawansa.sl%2Fvideos%2F1179052012792347%2F&show_text=false&width=560&t=0

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that any attempt to disturb the education system of the country, whether directly or indirectly, will not be permitted, and if required, new legislation will be introduced to address such conduct. The President stressed the pivotal role of education in shaping the future of the country, and announced his […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Maithripala Sirisena has claimed that he is being targetted as a perpetrator of the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, despite several arrests already being made in this regard.  Speaking at a news conference in Colombo today (25 April), Sirisena deemed it ‘unfair’ that he is still seen as a perpetrator of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe has stated that Indian tourists visiting Sri Lanka can now use the Indian Rupee (INR) for local transactions.  Delivering the keynote address at the webinar organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Dr. Weerasinghe reiterated […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka today urged the Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) to postpone their trade union action until the paper markings of the 2022 G.C.E. Advanced Level examination is completed.  The HRCSL said it has initiated an inquiry into this issue by self-intervention in concern with some complaints […]

ධරිණී රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක අපරාධයක සංකේතීය ලක්ෂණ: 2019 පාස්කුව, ඇමෙරිකාව ‘ආසියාව වෙතට හැරීම’ සහ ඉන්දිය සාගරය යටත්විජිතහරණය සඳහා කෙරෙන හඬගෑම ඉන්දියානු සාගරය ලෝකයේ බලශක්තිය පිළිබඳ අන්තර් රාජ්‍යයක් වීම හේතුවෙන් චීනය නුදුරු අනාගතයේදීම එය තුළ සිය නාවික බලය ශක්තිමත් කරගැනීමට කටයුතු කරනු ඇත.දකුණු ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ මේ ආකාරයේ වරායක් ඉදිකිරීම සැබෑ භූ දේශපාලනික වැදගත් කමකින් යුතුය.” – […]

ALI SUKHANVER Jasmeet Kaur Bains is a member of the California State Assembly for the 35th district. A few days back. Bains said introducing a resolution in the California State Assembly, The first and foremost thing is to recognize and condemn 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide.”  The resolution was passed unanimously and the […]

Manusha Media රටට විශාල ආදායමක් ලබාදෙන විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්‍රෙය් සේවය කරන කාන්තාවන් මුහුණදෙන ගැටලු නිරාකරණය කරගැනීම සදහාත් දූෂණ අක්‍රමිකතා හා විදේශ රැකියා ජාවාරම් වැලැක්වීමටත් මෙම ක්ෂේත්‍රය ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් කරන ලෙසට කාත්නා සංවිධාන තුනක් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටි අතර එම ඉල්ලීමට අමාත්‍යවරයාගෙන් සුභවාදී ප්‍රතිචාරයක් හිමිවිය. ගැමි කාන්තා පෙරමුණ, ජෙස්මින් කාන්තා […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික අර්බුදය විසඳීම සඳහා මෙම නව ජීවනෝපාය ව්‍යාපෘති   2023.04.24 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී දියත් කෙරුණු අතර එය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන, ජපාන තානාපති  මිසුකොෂී  හිදෙකි සහ UNDP ශ්‍රී ලංකා නේවාසික නියෝජිත අසූසා කුබෝටා යන අයගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පැවැත්විණි. කාන්තාවන් හා තරුණ තරුණියන් 58000 කට මෙම ව්‍යාපෘති වලින් සෘජුවම ප්‍රතිලාභ ලැබෙනු ඇත. එයට අමතරව […]

by Arundathie Abeysinghe Courtesy PIME Asia News Two years ago, the cargo ship caught fire, causing what is considered Sri Lanka’s worst environmental disaster. Some experts believe Sri Lankan courts could have handled the issue. Meanwhile, the Minister of Justice reports that a bribe was allegedly paid to hinder the case. Colombo (AsiaNews) – Sri […]

by PRIYANTHA HETTIGE Pagans! The word summons up images in the mind of wild, uncouth tribesmen. But who exactly are Pagans?  And what do we really know about those whom the Christians designate as pagan’? All the old, Middle-Eastern religions such as Mithras, Attis, Adonis, Osiris, and Dionysus worshippers and the present day Hindus, Confucionists, […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS It is reported that the Indian population will be surpassed a high volume than China in mid-year of 2023, this estimation has done based on the estimation of the UN, which is a broader and more realistic estimation considering people currently living in India and China, however, Indian and Chinese population may […]

Sasanka De Silva, Pannipitiya In the fourth century CE, King Guhasiva of Kalinga in India possessed a precious relic, a Gautam Buddha’s tooth. For hundreds of years, the tooth was thought to confer a divine right to govern whoever owned it, causing political unrest. Fearing that the object of his Buddhist worship might be removed […]

by A. Abdul Aziz. (Given below is an excerpt of the Eid-ul-Fitr Sermon delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, on 22 April 2023, at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, U.K. gave a discourse on  Serve humanity to attain Islam’s true Eid:  His Holiness, after led congregation in […]

Courtesy Hiru News Launching the Colombo North Port Thirty Year Development Plan in Colombo, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that Sri Lanka should be made into one of the best aviation and naval hubs in Asia. The President also stated that all projects slated in the Sri Lanka Ports Authority’s main national development plan are expected […]