Courtesy Emirates.com Members can now bid Skywards Miles for an exclusive opportunity to visit the home of Dilmah and explore the lush tea plantations in Sri Lanka. Dubai, UAE: 14 April 2023 – Emirates Skywards, the award-winning loyalty programme of Emirates and flydubai, has partnered with Dilmah Tea to offer members an exciting opportunity to experience […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division Sri Lanka Malay Association (SLMA) expressed its gratitude to Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena for re-naming Slave Island as Kompanna Veediya, in English. The name Kompanna Veediya used in Sinhala and Tamil while it was called Slave Island in English and the Prime Minister took steps to change it also to Kompanna […]

Sarath Wijesinghe (Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel (LLM International Law (UCL)), former Ambassador toUAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum, Former Chairman of The Consumer AffairsAuthority, Solicitor England and Wales and former Secretary General Bar Association of SriLanka (LLM (UCL), assisted by Suchithra Withanage (LLM (UK) (LLM (UK|Reading) LLB (Hons)(UK))The Season of Celebration and ConsumerismAs the festive […]

Christine Francis Courtesy Psychology Today Shedding light on intragroup conflict. South Asian countries—including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka—are known for their rich and vibrant cultures. As a second-generation South Indian American, I owe many positive aspects of my identity to my culture. Yet I also at times struggle to fit in with my community, a […]

Courtesy The Hindu Finance Ministers of the three creditor countries will hold a press briefing on the margins of the annual Spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF in Washington. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with Gita Gopinath, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, during a meeting on the sidelines of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Japan, India and France are scheduled to hold a press briefing on Thursday (13 April) to announce the launch of the debt restructuring negotiation process on Sri Lanka. International Monetary Fund (IMF) communicated this quoting the Japanese Finance Ministry. Accordingly, the finance ministers of the three creditor countries – Shunichi Suzuki, Bruno Le […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Indonesia, Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage paid a courtesy call on Minister of Manpower of the Republic of Indonesia Ida Fauziyah on Tuesday. While expressing concerns about the current economic challenges faced by the Sri Lankan government, Minister Fauziyah agreed to exchange information on employment opportunities between […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Navy has initiated expanding the Kankesanthurai harbour, with a view to accommodate more traffic and provide better infrastructure in support of the passenger ferry service between Sri Lanka and India. The government of Sri Lanka launched the ferry service project between the port of Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka and Pondicherry, India to […]

Sugath Kulatunga The details of the conditionalities of the IMF Extended Fund Facility (EFF) are now accessible on the IMF website Web: http://www.imf.org. A few comments from a layman’s point of view are as follows. Reference to IMF program covers government ownership as well. The objective of the IMF intervention aims to restore macroeconomic stability […]

Engr කාන්තර් බාලනාදන් විසිනි. DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE,සීමාසහිත Power Engineering Solutions හි හිටපු අධ්‍යක්ෂ, විදුලි ඉංජිනේරු උපදේශක ලෝකයේ ප්‍රමුඛ ඉංජිනේරු 2006, UK අධිකාරියේ සම්මානය පොදුවේ ගත් කල, සෑම කෙනෙකුම උපකල්පනය කරන්නේ තම රටේ සාක්ෂරතා අනුපාතය තම රටේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී අවංකභාවය, ආර්ථික තිරසාරභාවය සහ වර්ධනය නියම කරනු ඇති බවයි. 2020 දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්    ඡන්දයෙන්තේරී පත්වන පළාත් පාලන නියෝජිතයින් (මැම්බර්) සංඛ්‍යාව 4714 ක් දක්වා සීමා වන සීමා නිර්ණය කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාව අද අගමැතිවරයා අතට පත් කර ඇත.  ඒ අනුව, 2017 දී 8771 ක් වුණු මන්ත්‍රී සංඛ්‍යාව අඩකින් පමණ අඩු කර ඇත.    ලංකාවේ ගම් සභා ක්‍රමය පැවති යුගයේ මැම්බර් මහත්වරු 9000 ක් පමණ පළාත් පාලන […]

PRESS RELEASE  HungryBrain ·         Student of HungryBrain becomes child prodigy before reaching 2 years Hitansh Singh, whose one-of-a-kind talent has finally brought him to the spotlight where he belongs, is proof that age is just a number. This boy from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, entered his name into the India Book of Records for having created […]

Erina Haque, Researcher, Human rights activist, and freelance columnist. Gun violence has once again afflicted USA in Louisville, Kentucky. On Monday morning, a gunman killed at least five people and injured nine more at Old National Bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The gunman was identified later as Connor Sturgeon, an employee at Old National Bank, according […]

 Prime Minister’s Media Division If the Vesak festival diminishes in its importance, it will be a dark era like Amavaka–Venerable Elle Gunawamsa Thera The Prime Minister held a discussion on holding next month’s Vesak festival at Temple Trees on 10.04.2023 with the participation of venerable Theras representing Colombo Shasanarakshaka Bala Mandala and officials from Buddhist […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division The preliminary draft of the report of the National Committee on Delimitation of Divisions for Local Government bodies was handed over to Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena today (11.04.2023). Demarcation of constituencies based on geographical size and population have been listed in the preliminary draft and the said draft is to be […]

By Buddhika Samaraweera Courtesy The Morning Authorities of the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC) and the Ministry of Agriculture are currently discussing the provision of 100,000 toque macaques (a reddish brown coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka and known as the ‘rilawa’) to China, considering a request made by the latter to the […]

Courtesy OneIndia The revival of the LTTE has been on the radar of the investigation agencies for long. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) recently seized a huge cache of cash, gold bars, digital devices, drugs and documents, along with other incriminating material during the raids and searches conducted at Chennai. In a release the NIA […]

Courtesy The Hindu Sri Lanka has been struck by a catastrophic economic and humanitarian crisis sparked by years of mismanagement and the raging pandemic. The World Bank has assured crisis-struck Sri Lanka of continued support to stabilise the island nation’s economy and enhance its economic recovery, State Finance Minister Shehan Semasinghe has said. State Finance […]

By Dr. Srimal Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today The role of colonialism in determining global politics has come in for overdue analysis in recent years. Post colonialism studies the manner in which societies, governments and peoples of previously colonised regions across the globe experience international relations.    It was during the era of ‘new imperialism’ of the […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today We have a difficult question before us. On either side of us are two emerging superpowers, already in the top five of the strongest economies in the world. The problem is that these two nations do not see eye to eye on a number of issues. It is helpful […]

By P.k. Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), comprising countries from Europe and North America, has informally sought a partnership with India, in an effort to contain Russia and China. Apart from 32 full members, NATO has 40 partners around the world in Asia, Africa, South America and Oceania. Though India […]

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 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Election Commission says, for the second time, it is compelled to postpone the 2023 Local Government polls, scheduled to be held on April 25. In a special media release published today (April 11), Commissioner-General of Elections Saman Sri Ratnayake said the decision was reached due to reasons beyond the control of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Sabry says he does not agree with certain points included in the proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill. Speaking during TV Derana’s 360°” programme last night (April 10), he emphasized that all members of the government are of the common opinion that the bill needs to be amended. There […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් නව සීමා නිර්ණ වාර්තාවට අනුව පළාත් පාලන ආයතන සඳහා තේරී පත්වන සභිකයන් සංඛ්‍යාව 4,714ක් දක්වා අඩු කර තිබෙනවා. සීමා නිර්ණ කමිටු සභාපති මහින්ද දේශප්‍රිය සඳහන් කළේ මීට පෙර පළාත්පාලන ආයතන සඳහා සභිකයින් 8,356 දෙනෙකු තේරී පත්ව සිටි බවයි.

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කර ඇති ත්‍රස්ත විරෝධී පනත් කෙටුම්පත සම්බන්ධයෙන් චෝදනා එල්ල කරන්නේ එහි වගන්ති පිළිබඳ නිසි දැනුවත් භාවයකින් තොරව බව අධිකරණ අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ පවසනවා. හිරු සලකුණ දේශපාලන සංවාදාත්මක වැඩසටහනට එක්වෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ අදහස් පළ කළා.

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The senior Mission Chief of the International Monetary Fund has stressed that Sri Lanka needs to achieve inclusive growth and stability. The concept of inclusive situation is a vital aspect of Sri Lanka as the culture of the country has not promoted the concept of inclusive conditions for various concerns of development […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Genetically modified (GM) foods, also known as genetically engineered (GE) foods, are foods produced from organisms that have had their genetic material (DNA) altered in a way that does not occur naturally through mating or natural recombination. This genetic modification is achieved by introducing new or altered genes into the organism’s […]

Prime Minister’s Media  Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said that  the role played by our Venerable Nayaka  Theras is most significant at a time when the  whole world is searching for Buddhism. He stated this when he visited the Chief Incumbent of Vidyalankara Parivena and Director  Venarable Valamitiyawe Gnanarathana Thera who was appreciated and awarded the […]

BY NABEEL SHAIKH Courtesy Simply Flying The country’s transport minister said that he would not arrest any Russian aircraft. Sri Lankan transport minister Bandula Gunawardana pledged not to arrest any Russian-flagged aircraft as part of talks for a new agreement between the two countries. The announcement comes nine months after an incident involving the grounding […]