BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS When Sri Lanka ended the ethnic war in fourteen years ago, many analysts believed that the decline in military expenses would improve the economic prospectus of the country. Tourism business and merchandise exports would be positively supported to an increase in external value of the Sri Lanka rupee, but such an outcome […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s Cabinet appears to be least bothered about finding solutions to the country’s economy and instead fishing to create new issues. The latest is a proposal to create a memorial to ‘symbolize unity & healing’ and is to include ex-combatants (LTTE) as well. What an insult to the war heroes who […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Introduction Politicians in European countries still think they are the masters of their former colonies. They entertain a superiority complex, thinking that they can fool people of ex-colonies pretending as statesmen (not politicians), genuinely concerned about the <plight> of these people. They exploited these countries, applied divide and rule strategy, and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Premadasa took a special interest in housing. The United Nations recognized President Premadasa as one of the Asian pioneers of the Shelter for All programmes, said Pramod de Silva. It was President Premadasa who proposed at the United Nations, to declare an International Year of Shelter for the Homeless. The proposal was unanimously […]

Shenali D Waduge When the Prime Minister of Canada calls himself a feminist” we seriously have to wonder what kind of ideology he professes for Canada. We all know Canada was confiscated from the indigenous who had been living there for centuries & history was rewritten. No doubt that is a key factor that gels […]

Prof. N.A. de S. Amaratunga DSc Pastor Jerome Fernando’s controversial methods adopted to spread his version of Christianity in Sri Lanka has raised a hornet’s nest and the president of the country has instructed the CID to investigate into the matter. In this context it may be vitally important to be aware of the opinion […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන. ජනාධිපතිවරයාට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් බලය පවරා ඇති ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ  33 ව්‍යවස්ථාවට වඩා ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 70 ව්‍යවස්ථාව බලවත් බවත් ඒ අනුව 33 ව්‍යවස්ථාව යටතේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවීම වැරදි බව 2018 දෙසැම්බර් 13 ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරු 7ක්  SC FR  351/ 2018 ඇතුලු තවත් නඩු වලදී ඒකමතිකව […]

Manusha Media The recent non-inclusion of the Free Trade Zones & General Service Employees Union (FTZ&GEU), along with three other trade unions, from the National Labour Advisory Council (NLAC) is a result of the Ministry’s yearly reconstitution process. The NLAC appointments are granted yearly, and memberships expire at the end of each year. The last […]

By Dr. Rajkumar Singh Courtesy Ceylon Today Ashoka, the Great, was a prominent Mauryan emperor who ruled over a vast empire in India from 273 BCE to 232 BCE. After his famous military conquest of the Kalinga kingdom, he underwent a spiritual transformation and embraced Buddhism. His conversion to Buddhism led to a significant shift […]

Courtesy Kuwait Times COLOMBO: The International Monetary Fund asked Sri Lanka Tuesday to speed its debt restructuring and warned any delays could undermine efforts to overcome the country’s worst economic crisis. Sri Lanka expected a quick deal with creditors shortly after defaulting on its $46 billion foreign debt in April last year, but restructuring talks began […]

Courtesy Adaderana Upon completion of their mission to Sri Lanka, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) team says that keeping up the economic reform momentum and ensuring timely implementation of the IMF-supported programme’s commitments are key for Sri Lanka to emerge from the economic crisis. The mission discussed recent economic developments and the implementation of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court today (23) sentenced a former cadre of the now-defunct separatist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to rigorous life imprisonment. The accused, Thangavelu Nimalan, has been found guilty of the possession of explosives and 02 micro-type pistols to carry out a suicide bomb attack in the Colombo […]