Shenali Waduge If anyone is a Tamil Buddhist they should be PROTECTING THE BUDDHIST HERITAGE SITES NOT VANDALIZING THEM?Everyone must understand that this new strategy & tactic is because all their previous lies have fallen flat all the above were created to advance their quest for a separate state – now they have plucked out […]

By Rohana R. Wasala  At the conclusion of a thoughtful feature article under the title ‘A new identity for Sri Lanka’ in the Sunday Island of June 25, 2023, Uditha Devapriya, a young journalist that I admire for the quality of his writing, refers to what he calls a minority view that he shares about […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින රාත්‍රීයේ ආරක්ෂාවට සිටි පොලිස් සැරයන්වරයා පරුෂ වචනයෙන් බැන වදිමින් තමන්ට වෙඩි තියන්නට සුදානම්වු බවත් පන්සලේ සිටි බල්ලා නිසා දිවි ගලවා ගත් බවත් මඩකලපුව මංගලාරාමාධිපති අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමියෝ පැවසුහ. ඒ සම්බන්ධව වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දක්වමින් උන්වහස්සේ මෙසේද පැවසූහ.මම මේ දිනවල ඉන්නේ කෙවිලියාමඩුව පන්සල්ගල අභිනවාරාම පුදබිමේ. මිට මාස ගණනකට පෙර මට කිසියම් පුදගලයෙක් වෙඩි තැබිම […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. සුද්දන් ලංකාවට කල විනාශය, රට සූරාකෑම ගැන මැල්කම් රංජිත් කාදිනල්තුමා විසින් වතුකම්කරුවන් ලංකාවට ගෙනත් අවුරුදු 200 පිරීමේ සැමරීමකදී කල කතාව දැක මෙම සටහන ලිවීමට සිතුණි (Sri Lanka SEDEC, Lifetraveler.lk). ක්‍රිස්තියානි, මාක්ස්වාදී රාවයේ වික්ටර් අයිවන්ට, පන්සලේ විප්ලවය යන නමින් පොතක් ලියා (2006) සංඝ සමාජයට උපදෙස් දෙන්නට පුළුවන් නම්, හුදෙක් සිංහල පාඨකයින්ගේ දැනගැනීම […]

Mohammad Abdullah ‘COMPLAINING to Iqbal: Dialogue with the Dead’ (also titled ‘SMS to Sir Muhammad Iqbal’) is a poem written by the late Malaysian poet and public intellectual Mohd Kamal Hassan (1942–2023). Inspired by his trip to Spain, the poem provides a concise account of the pitfalls of the international order that he calls ‘the […]

Manusha Media දවස් 180ක් වැඩ කළත් පාරිතෝශික දීමනාවට හිමිකම් සේවා ස්ථානයේ ලිංගික හිංසනය වැලැක්වීමට ප්‍රතිපාදන සේවකයින්ගේ කැමැත්ත මත නම්‍යශීලී වැඩ කරන වේලාවන් අර්ධකාලීන රැකියා සදහා අවස්ථා පීතෘ නිවාඩු සදහා අවස්ථාව ජාතික වේතන කවුන්සිලයක් ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මුතීන් අපරානුමත කිරීමට ප්‍රතිපාදන අවුරුදු සියයකට ආසන්න පැරණි කම්කරු නීති සංශෝධනය කරමින් නූතන වැඩ ලෝකයට ගැලපෙන ආකාරයට සේවා නියුක්ති පනත ගෙන […]

Kandy Association for Community Protection through Animal Welfare 6th July 2023 — An Open Letter Hon. Mr. Udaya Gammanpila, MP Dear Sir Draft Animal Welfare Act of 2022 – We seek an Urgent Meeting with You 1. We write this letter of protest objecting to the arbitrary manner in which you have proceeded to select […]

Mohammad Abdullah The Holy Quran was burned last Wednesday in front of the largest mosque in Stockholm, Sweden. The day was Eid-ul-Azha. Such atrocities have been committed in the name of freedom of expression. The act of burning the Quran was carried out under the security of the Swedish police. The OIC has called an […]

By Senay Boztas Courtesy CNN The Dutch government is returning 478 objects looted during colonial times to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Following multiple claims from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Nigeria, the Dutch Secretary of State for Culture and Media Gunay Uslu announced the decision Thursday to repatriate objects including the Lombok treasure,” consisting of 335 objects from Lombok, Indonesia, the […]

Courtesy NDTV Sri Lanka was hit by a catastrophic financial crisis in 2022, the worst since its independence from Britain in 1948, due to a severe paucity of foreign exchange reserves. Colombo:  Describing New Delhi as a “close associate” and a “trustworthy friend” of Colombo, Sri Lanka’s Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Friday thanked […]

Courtesy Pakistan Observer Sri Lankan inflation will drop to 7 percent in July, an official of the country’s central bank told journalists in Colombo on Thursday. The central bank’s Director of Economic Research P. K. G. Harischandra, while addressing a press conference, said the headline inflation will stabilize around mid-single-digit level in the medium term. […]

Courtesy Oman Observer The man charged with clawing Sri Lanka out of bankruptcy says he had warned about economic calamity years before it hit — and was pressed into retirement for his troubles. Central bank chief Nandalal Weerasinghe was asked to return to the island nation last year to help steer it through a financial […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed his belief that Sri Lanka’ tourism industry would significantly contribute to the country’s foreign exchange earnings in the coming decade. Speaking at the Transcending Borders – Transforming Lives” program organized by the Indian Tourism Federation at the Bandaranaike International Memorial Conference Hall (BMICH) in Colombo on Thursday (06 […]

Courtesy Adaderana A special meeting was convened at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon (07 July), under the patronage of Sagala Ratnayaka, Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and Chief of the Presidential Staff, with the aim of swiftly resolving issues plaguing the health sector. Accordingly, concerns pertaining to the shortage of medicines and […]

Courtesy Adaderana India plans to allow Sri Lanka up to 12 years to repay its debt to help ease the financial burden on the island nation, India’s Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) Ltd’s chairman-cum-managing director M. Senthilnathan said. Sri Lanka, facing its worst economic and political crisis in over seven decades, owes $7.1 billion to […]