Shenali D Waduge In France, a teenager is accused of being killed by French police. Yet, can  riots, burning vehicles, stealing goods, burning libraries, damaging public property bring justice?  In 2022, Sri Lanka experienced shortages in essential goods that other nations also went through but the reaction was to illegally occupy state land, cause mayhem, […]

Shripal Nishshanka Fernando Dear Hon. President Ranil Wickramasinghe, Highly appreciate you restoring Law and order in Sri Lanka and your wise appointment of a great PM Hon. Dinesh Gunawardane. You better have educated and patriotic advisors without having your party henchmen. Think about Sri Lanka first. You helped LTTE merely because you were afraid of […]

Tilottama Rani Charulata. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have built a new history of bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh. Both countries have undertaken a number of successful programs for the development of their countrymen. India granted a record number of visas last year in compliance with Bangladesh’s long-standing demand. Appropriate […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය. බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථානයක් වන ලුම්බිණිය වෙත  පැමිණෙන බැතිමතුන්ට පහසුකම් සැලසීම සඳහා බෞද්ධ රටවල් විසින් ලුම්බිණි ජාත්‍යන්තර ගුවන්තොටුපළට ඍජු ගුවන් ගමන් හඳුන්වා දිය යුතු බව නේපාලයේ හිටපු අගමැති සහ  නේපාල කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂ සභාපති වන මාධව් කුමාර් නේපාල් මහතා පැවසුවේය. කත්මණ්ඩු සිට කොළඹ දක්වා සෘජු ගුවන් ගමන් දැනටමත් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන අතර   ශ්‍රී ලංකා බලධාරීන්ට එය […]

Manusha Media (ප්‍රචණ්ඩත්වය හා හිංසනය පිළිබඳ අංක 190 දරන ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මුතිය අපරානුමත කිරිමට මෙම ප්‍රතිපාදන ඇතුළත් කිරීම මඟින් හැකියාව ලැබීම) (වෘත්තීය ආරක්ෂාව, සෞඛ්‍ය, සුබසාධනය පිළිබඳ අංක 155 දරන ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මුතිය අපරානුමත කිරිමට මෙම ප්‍රතිපාදන ඇතුළත් කිරීම මඟින් හැකියාව ලැබීම)

Professor Sunil J. Wimalawansa Eradication of CKDu (CKD-CTN) is straightforward and costs less than 10% of what the health department spends annually to manage CKDu!  Yet new patents and deaths are continuing.    Authorities have hardly any interest in preventing CKDu, partly due to those affected having little voice and thus being ignored by politicians.  Besides, there […]

Courtesy GB News US president Joe Biden has pushed to make Ursula von der Leyen Nato’s secretary general after Britain revealed plans to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s without his approval. The role is up for grabs until Autumn 2024 when Jens Stoltenberg, who has been secretary general since October 2014, steps down as head […]

Lanka Lead News නතාෂා එදිරිසූරියට කොළඹ කොටුව මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණයෙන් ඇප නියම වී තිබේ. ඒ, දණ්ඩ නීති සංග්‍රහය සහ පරිගණක අපරාධ පනත යටතේ ගොනු කර තිබූ චෝදනාවලට අදාළව ය. ආගමික සහජීවනයට බාධා කළ හා බෞද්ධ ආගමට අපහාස වන ලෙස ප්‍රකාශ නිකුත් කළ බව කියන නතාෂා එදිරිසූරිය තවදුරට ත් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කරන ලෙස ඊයේ (ජූලි 5) කොටුව […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The controversial Malwana mansion is a property of the State now and it was set on fire during the Aragalaya time without knowing that it is a State property, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said today. He told Parliament that Cabinet approval was granted to take over the Malwana property by the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The second reading of the proposed Anti Corruption Bill was approved unanimously in Parliament today while the Commitee Stage was postponed to July 19 when the ammendments will be approved. The initial proposal made by Leader of the House Susil Premajayantha to postpone the vote on the Bill came under fire […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Central Bank today said action will be taken against banks if they do not reduce interest rates in line with the reduction in policy interest rates. The Central Bank today reduced policy interest rates by 2 percent after reducing them by 2.5 percent in June. Now the policy interest rates […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has decided to reduce the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) of the Central Bank by 200 basis points (bps) to 11.00 per cent and 12.00 per cent, respectively.  The Board arrived at this decision, at […]

Courtesy Adaderana Emphasising the importance of the recently-approved Domestic Debt Optimising (DDO) strategy, the Sri Lanka Banks’ Association has highlighted the risk of funds, including the Employees’ Provident Fund, being compromised if such optimization measures were not taken. Speaking during the ‘101 Katha’ programme hosted by the President’s Media Division (PMD), Mr. Russel Fonseka, the […]