By A. Abdul Aziz – Chairman, Press & Media Desk, AMJSL. Ahmadiyya Khalifa Urges Good-Faith Negotiations In Peace Plan For Ukraine As He Inaugurates New Complex Of Britain’s Biggest Mosque Rebuilt After Fire In 2015 On 4 March 2023, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor […]

John Rozario  Karnataka, India. Recently, Bangladesh and Myanmar have launched a bilateral pilot project to repatriate the Rohingya. Myanmar has dedicated 15 villages to repatriating Rohingya refugees from Cox’s Bazar. Initially, Myanmar will take 1140 Rohingya. A Myanmar delegation has already visited the camps in Cox’s Bazar. But the initiative is facing harsh criticism from […]

Courtesy The Telegraph Online Lanka court issues restraining order against events commemorating Rajapaksa’s fall Gotabaya RajapaksaFile picture A Sri Lankan court on Tuesday accepted a request by the police to curb the commemoration of the events which led to the resignation of the bankrupt government of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa a year ago. On May 9 […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Claiming that plans were afoot to set on fire some 100 houses of politicians including SJB MPs and political leaders on May 10 last year, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said today these plans were foiled as armed forces were ordered to shoot on sight. He told Parliament that a list of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Coming up with more staggering disclosures on the ill-fated X-PRESS Peral ship, Minister of Justice Wijedasa Rajapakshe told Parliament today that Chamara Gunasekera who had received US$ 250 million to delay the prosecution is a close associate of MP Nalaka Godahewa who was the minister in charge of Ports during that […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has given directives to initiate Aswesuma” welfare benefit payments, which are scheduled to commence on July 01. The relevant gazette notification has been published pursuant to the powers delegated to the Head of State as Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilization & National Policy, according to the President’s Media Division. Accordingly, […]

Courtesy Adaderana China attended as an observer the first meeting of Sri Lanka’s creditor nations on Tuesday, offering policymakers some hope Beijing will become more engaged in talks to resolve debt woes of low- and middle-income countries across the world. The meeting, within a new framework launched in Washington D.C. in April that creditors hope […]

Courtesy Adaderana India has extended a $1 billion credit line for Sri Lanka by one year, a Sri Lankan official told Reuters on Tuesday, giving the crisis-hit country a backup funds to pay for essential imports. The credit line, part of about $4 billion in emergency assistance extended by India during the peak of Sri […]

Dilrook Kannangara India’s sudden interest in Buddhism seems to be driven by militarization than anything noble. India uses Buddhism as a weapon against China, a bargaining tool against Burma and Bhutan and as an extortion tool against Sri Lanka. All this happens while India’s Buddhists endure acute discrimination, marginalization and deprivation. This has many learnings […]

Tilottama Rani Charulata,  an independent researcher. The Rohingya are the most persecuted minority group in the world. Such persecution has forced Rohingyas into Bangladesh for many years, with significant spikes following violent attacks in 1978, 1992, and again in 2016. More than 700,000 Rohingya were forced to flee from Myanmar following a brutal military crackdown […]

Erina Haque, Researcher, analyst and freelance contributor and columnist. The issue of whether Rohingyas should return to their motherland Myanmar is a complex one, and the recent discussions about repatriation have sparked debate. The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has registered approximately 1 million Rohingyas who are currently residing in Bangladesh. A pilot project to […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. The tragic death of Michael McNeil of the Canadian Armed Forces has raised many questions. According to the news reports Warrant Officer Michael McNeil who suffered from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) had committed suicide at the Canadian Forces Base Petawawa in Ontario. He was one of three Canadian soldiers to commit suicide this week. McNeil had […]

Courtesy The Hindu Belgium is expected to officially recognise Buddhism after the federal government approves a draft Law on March 17, opening the door to federal funding, official delegates, and school classes. The Belgian Buddhist Union had requested recognition in March 2006. The union estimates the number of Buddhists in Belgium at 150,000. The only […]

අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col), නීතීඥ සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන (දිසා අධිකරණයේ නඩු විභාග හදිසි කිරීමෙන් නීතිය බිඳවැටෙන ආකාරය මෙම ලිපියෙන් පෙන්වා දෙයි) ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ සහ අභියාචනාධිකරණයේ මුල් වරට පවරන නඩු මෙන් නොව දිසා අධිකරණයේ පවරන නඩු වෙනස් කාර්ය පටිපාටියක් අනුගමනය කරයි. ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ සහ අභියාචනාධිකරණයේ මුල් වරට පවරනු ලබන නඩු නිෂ්ප්‍රභා […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙසේ පැවසුවේ අද (2023.05.08) කොළඹ පදනම් ආයතනයේ පැවැති සීමාසහිත  සී-නෝර් පදනමේ පනස් පස්වන සංවත්සරයට සමගාමීව ඉදිරිපත් කළ පස් අවුරුදු සැළැස්ම හා වෙබ් අඩවිය එළි දැක්වීමේ උත්සවයට එක්වෙමිණි. අධි තාක්ෂණය භාවිතා කරමින්, අඩු වියදමින් වැඩි මත්ස්‍ය නිෂ්පාදනයක් සඳහා වූ බෝට්ටු නිෂ්පාදනය හරහා ධීවර අමාත්‍යංශයේ වැඩසටහන් වලට දායකත්වය ලබාදෙන සීනෝර් පදනම  ඇරඹෙන්නේ 1967 […]

e-Con e-News ‘Political parties could have used this year’s May Day to emphasize the gravity of the situation thereby preparing the population to face the deepening crisis. Instead, all of them engaged in meaningless rhetoric……such useless propaganda received primetime television coverage as well as coverage by Sinhala, Tamil & English print media.’– former General Secretary of the Communist Party, DEW […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ධුරවලින් ඉල්ලා අස්වන ලෙස ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයෙන් දැනුම් දීම් කරන ලද ආණ්ඩුකාරවරුන් එම ධූරවලින් ඉල්ලා අස් නොවනු ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි. අධිකරණ ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ හිටපු ප‍්‍රබලයෙකු සමග සිදු කරන ලද සාකච්ඡාවකින් අනතුරුව මෙම තීන්දුව ගෙන ඇති බව ද සඳහන්ය. ධුරවලින් ඉල්ලා අස්වන ලෙස ලැබී ඇති දැනුම් දීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් තත්වය සාකච්චා කිරීමට මෙම […]

By LUCIO B PITLO III Courtesy Asia Times One must ask how prepared Manila is to weather potential economic reprisals, especially from Beijing. As US-China rivalry intensifies, pressure on allies and partners grows. Strategic access in return for economic concessions or security assistance plays out in the Indo-Pacific region. Cases abound, from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Cambodia, […]

Courtesy The Wire P. Sainath and Karan Thapar discuss the steady decline of press freedom in India for almost 20 years. P. Sainath, one of India’s outstanding journalists and a winner of the Magsaysay Award, says India’s collapse in the Reporters Sans Frontiers World Press Freedom Index to 161 out of 180 countries is extremely […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror Mass Media Minister Bandula Gunawardana bemoaned yesterday saying that the local media failed to give due attention to highlight the ferocity and savagery of the acts of terrorism staged under the guise of the so-called ‘Aragalaya’ on May 9, 2022 targeting the SLPP. It was solely a barbaric attack unleashed on the […]

Opinion by Ed Dorrell  Courtesy The Independent If you are a certain age, the phrase artificial intelligence” will almost certainly bring up one specific mental image: the T-1000, a regenerating robot sent back in time to 1995 by Skynet to kill the future of the human resistance John Connor. Just about anyone who was a teenager in […]

Shenali D Waduge ශාසනාභිමානි-දිරියවනිත-දේශශක්ති Location. Location. Location is reason why Sri Lanka is being earmarked to end in pieces on the guise of peace. Unfortunately, we have not had astute leaders or advisors to sail Sri Lanka out of muddy waters. Instead we are kept eternally firefighting with politicians happy to survive on petty political […]

ඩෙරික් බ්‍රෝස් ඩෙරික් බ්‍රෝස් හැඳින්වීම ගෝලීය සුපිරි ධනේෂ්වර ප්‍රභූ පෙළැන්තිය විසින් විද්‍යාත්මක සහ තාක්ෂණික ක්ෂේත්‍රවල දැනුම පිළිබඳ සිය ඒ්කාධිකාරය යොදාගනිමින් සමස්ත මානව සංහතිය යටත් කරගැනීමේ වෑයමක් දැරෙමින් පවතී. මේ සඳහා ඔවුහු යොදාගන්නා ලද මෙවලම් රහසිගතවත් ඇතැම් විට විවෘතවත් සංවර්ධනය කර ඇත්තේ මූලික වශයෙන් පසුගිය දශක දෙක තුළය. සන්නිවේදන තාක්ෂණය සහ කෘත්‍රිම බුද්ධිය,ජාන ඉංජිනේරු තාක්ෂණය මෙන්ම  […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised.12.5.23 Ryp Van Winkle ( Sunday Times) wrote to JR Jayewardene in February 2023.  My dear JR, I thought I must write to you, though it has been over a quarter of a century since you left us, because your name is being mentioned frequently these days. That is after your nephew began […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්          කාලයක් නිහඬව සිටි සී.වී. විග්නේශ්වරන් මහතා මෑතකදී සිය කටහඬ අවදි කර තිබෙනු දුටුවෙමි.එහෙත් ඔහු ඉතාමත් ඉක්මනින් යළි නිහඩ විය. ඊට හේතුව ඔහු කරන ජාතිවෘදි ප්‍රකාශ සම්බන්ධව පොලසිපතිට පැමිණිලි කිරීමයි.. උතුරේ මහ ඇමතිව සිටි සමයේ දී විද්‍යුත් මාධයයන්ට පුවත් සපයන පුද්ගලයෙකු ලෙසින් ප්‍රකට සිටි එතුමා  කොළඹ මල්පාරේ සිට නැවතත් අරුම පුදුම මතිමතාන්තරයක් දක්වා […]

Courtesy The Island Lanka can be on path to recovery by 2024: IMF official The International Monetary Fund Director Asia and Pacific Department Krishna Srinivasan on Thursday said if Sri Lanka comes through with all the reforms, fast-track the proper implementation and warp-up the debt restructuring by September, the economy will be on a path […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale An Eastern analogue is found in the Suvannahamsa Jataka, which appears in the fourth section of the Buddhist book of monastic discipline (Vinaya). In this the father of a poor family is reborn as a swan with golden feathers and invites them to pluck and sell a single feather from his wings to […]

 Lanka Lead News ඉහත මාතෘකාව යටතේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ රුසියානු තානාපතිවරයා සහ මහින්ද අමරවීර අමාත්‍යවරයා අතර සිදුවූ අදහස් හුවමාරුවක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් පලවූ ප්‍රවෘත්තිය වැරදි ප්‍රවෘත්තියක් බව අමාත්‍ය මහින්ද අමරවීර මහතාගේ පාර්ශවයෙන්ද  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ රුසියානු තානාපති කාර්යාලයද අප වෙත තහවුරු කර සිටිති. ඒ අනුව ලංකා ලීඩ් කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය ශ්‍රිලංකාවේ රුසියානු තානාපති තුමාටත් මහින්ද අමරවීර මහතාටත් කනගාටුව පල කර […]

by Rohana R. Wasala His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, based in Dharamsala in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India, flew to New Delhi to attend the two-day Global Buddhist Summit held in Hotel Ashok there on April 20 and 21, 2023.  The event was the first of its kind. This inaugural Global Buddhist […]

Nishkala Suntharalingam Published online: 04 May 2023 South AsiaMulti-religiosity in Contemporary Sri Lanka: Innovation, Shared Spaces, ContestationMark P. Whitaker, Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake & Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran (eds). Routledge, UK 2021. pp. 286. Maps. Notes. Index. Hb. £120.00. ISBN 9780367862343 This volume offers an in-depth and provocative glimpse of the complexity of Sri Lanka’s multi-religious heritage and its […]