Manusha Media විදේශීය සංචාරකයින්ට අලුත් අවුරුදු අත්දැකීම් ලබාදීම සදහා සංවිධානය කර තිබූ  “New Year in Paradise 2023” අලුත් අවුරුදු උත්සවයේ අවුරුදු කුමරා සහ කුමරියට සිංගප්පූරුවට යාමට සහ ඒමට ශ්‍රී ලංකන් ගුවන් සමාගමෙන් ගුවන් ටිකට්පත් දෙකක් ප්‍රදානය කළේය. මෙරට සංචාරය කරන විදේශීය සංචාරකයින්ට අලුත් අවුරුද්ද හා බැදුණ දේශීය සංස්කෘතික අංගයන්හි අත්දැකීම් ලබාදෙමින් “New Year in Paradise […]

Senaka Weeraratna Sri Lanka’s Christian Colonial Dark History The Govt. Sri Lanka must :1) Inquire into Colonial Crimes committed by the three Colonial Rulers including Genocidal crimes and wholesale destruction of Buddhist Temples and illegal seizure, occupation of Buddhist Temple lands, and the prohibition of the practice of Buddhism, 2) Establish a Museum dedicated to […]

Rohan Abeygunawardena Rugby is without doubt most popular team game among Sri Lankans, after cricket. This oval shaped ball game too was introduced by the British like Cricket and Tea in the mid nineteenth centaury. Rugby Football is a sport with an abundance of history, tradition and interesting episodes. To start with, a pupil at […]

Courtesy Hiru News Foreign media cited sources familiar with the Paris Club, to say that the group has informed the International Monetary Fund of their willingness to support Sri Lanka’s debt re-structuring. As it stands, only India has confirmed its participation in the restructuring process, with the IMF accepting a letter in this regard. Meanwhile, […]

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 […]

Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Because the Indian Ocean is sort of the world’s energy interstate and China will have a maritime presence, perhaps even a naval presence in some distant morrow. So the opening of this port in south Sri Lanka is of real geopolitical significance.” ~ Robert D. Kaplan author of Monsoon[1] Crime is essentially about […]

(Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel (LLM International Law (UCL)) (Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel (LLM International Law (UCL)), former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum, Former Chairman of the Consumer Affairs Authority, Solicitor England and Wales and former Secretary General Bar Association of Sri Lanka (LLM (UCL), assisted by Suchithra Withanage (LLM (UK) (LLM (UK|Reading) […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic species in controlled habitats such as ponds, tanks, and oceanic cages, including fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants. It entails growing aquatic creatures for commercial, recreational, and subsistence uses. It has become a vital source of food for humans, and it provides a sustainable alternative to overfished […]

Senaka Weeraratna Kishore Mahbubani PPA is a Singaporean diplomat and geopolitical consultant who served as Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations between 1984 and 1989, again between 1998 and 2004, and as President of the United Nations Security Council between 2001 and 2002. Wikipedia Born: October 24, 1948 (age 74 years), Colony of Singapore Education: Harvard University, National University of […]

Senaka Weeraratna it’s now 25 years since #hongkong was returned to #china following 156 years under British rule. As you can imagine, the West is having a hard time coping with China’s celebrations, despite the fact that Hong Kong was initially taken by brute military force after Britain’s illegal shipments of heroin to China were […]

Manusha Media ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට ජපානයේ රැකියා අවස්ථා ලබාගැනීම, මානව සම්පත් සංවර්ධනය, ජපන් ආයෝජන ලංකාවට ගෙන්වා ගැනීම සහ සංචාරක ප්‍රවර්ධනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන අවභෝධතා ගිවිසුමකට ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය සහ ජපානයේ ප්‍රමුඛ පෙලේ ව්‍යාපාරික සමූහයක් වන පැසෝනා සමූහය එළඹ තිබේ. කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතාගේ ජපන් නිල සංචාරය අතරවාරයේදී Awaji Island හි “Wave Riding […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel (LLM International Law (UCL)) -National Security, Foreign Relations and the Financial Crisis as Factors on Promoting Tourism ‘Sigiriya’, the glamorous Rock Fortress as displayed in the photograph above, is situated in the Central Province of Sri Lanka amid a thick forest, with a known history dating back to 477 AD – […]

Sasanka De Silva සසංක ද සිල්වා  There is no mistake about it: your vote is private. But what about social awareness and responsibility? A few days ago, a video of a guy confronting a young woman after she threw her household rubbish on the side of the road and strolled away as if nothing had […]

lanka C news සමගි ජන බලවේගය නායක සහ විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතාට අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධූරය ලබා දීමට සූදානම් බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා පැවසූ බව රවුෆ් හකීම් සහ මනෝ ගනේෂන් යන මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් විසින් සඳහන් කර තිබේ. සුළු ජාතික පක්ෂ සහ ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා අතර පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකදී මේ බව සඳහන් කර ඇත. එහිදී සුළු ජාතික පක්‍ෂ […]

By Aldgra Fredly Courtesy Epoch Times It remains uncertain whether China, Sri Lanka’s biggest bilateral creditor, will join the initiative launched by Japan. Japan, India, and France on April 13 unveiled a plan to initiate a negotiation process with Sri Lanka’s creditors to coordinate the restructuring of Sri Lanka’s debt as the country seeks to resolve […]

Courtesy Financial Express She emphasised that a collaboration among creditors is important to ensure transparency and equality in treatment of all creditors in the debt restructuring discussions. The high-level meeting took place on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)- World Bank (WB) Spring Meetings here on Thursday. (Photo source: Twitter/@FinMinIndia) Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman attended […]

Courtesy News18 The reason these stones float is that they have small pipe-like holes in them. These stones are kept at the Panchmukhi Hanuman temple near Rameswaram Letchumanan Theertham and at the Rajakaliamman temple. Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu is one of the holiest places for Hindus and is included in the pilgrimage known as Char […]