Shenali D Waduge Every July & November terrorists contest for the best drama award. This year’s theme has been  to open a former LTTE welfare” office in Vavuniya and use that to commemorate dead terrorists. Whether these are former rehabilitated terrorists” or terrorists that ran away, sought asylum/refugee status and have now returned, I something […]

Dilrook Kannangara The West is in a death spiral. Unable to sustain demographic, military and economic dominance over the rest of the world, the West has resorted to beef up its population with the help of Asians and Africans. A massive push to bring millions of Asians and Africans is underway in many Western nations. […]

e-Con e-News July 2023 Part 2 ‘When the trumpet sounded everything was prepared on earth, and Jehovah gave the world to Coca-Cola Inc, Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other corporations. The United Fruit Company reserved for itself the most juicy piece, the central coast of my world, the delicate waist of America…’ – Pablo Neruda, Document […]

Sugath Kulatunga Sri Lanka does not possess an abundance of physical resources for large-scale industrial development but is blessed with ample human resources. It is on this comparative advantage that the country has to develop its economy. Education is the driving force with which the optimal benefit could be derived from this rare advantage and […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I remember the times of RP when garment factories were built in rural  areas  The progress of each factory was monitored by the president himself with a few super secretaries. Ministers were given marching orders if things go wrong  There was an incident when an  Investor who was waiting to get a […]

ඒ.ජේ.ඒ. අබේනායක දිවයින අමාත්‍ය සුසිල් ප්‍රේම්ජයන්ත් මහතා විසින් පසුගිය 5 වැනිදා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කළ ආයුර්වේද පනත් කෙටුම්පත ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි බවට නිගමනය කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා පාරම්පරික ආයුර්වේද වෛද්‍ය බී.ඒ. රත්නපාල මහතා විසින් ගොනුකළ විශේෂ පෙත්සම ලබන 19 වැනිදා එස්. තුරෙයිරාජා, යසන්ත කෝදාගොඩ සහ ජනක් ද සිල්වා යන මහත්වරුන්ගෙන් සමන්විත ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ ත්‍රිපුද්ගල විනිසුරු මඩුල්ල […]

| Lanka Lead News අගමැති නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදිගේ මෑත කාලීන කයිරෝ සංචාරයේ ආලෝක රශ්මිය උපයෝග කර ගනිමින් ඉන්දියාව මැදපෙරදිග කළාපයේ ඉටුකරන භූමිකාව ඉහළ නංවන විට, ඊජිප්තුව සමඟ සබඳතා පුළුල් කරන විට, ඊශ්‍රායලය සහ ගල්ෆ් කලාපයේ අරාබි රටවල් මෙන්ම තුර්කිය සහ ඉරානය සමඟ සහයෝගීතාව තීව්‍ර කරන කරන විට, සාම්ප්‍රදායිකව කලාපයේ ප්‍රමුඛ බලවතා වන එක්සත් ජනපදය ඉන්දියාවේ උපායමාර්ගය […]

Dr. Ibrahim Islam An Iraqi refugee named Salwan Momika publicly burned the Quran in front of the central mosque in Stockholm, Sweden, on the last Eid al-Adha. A few days ago, an anti-immigration and anti-Islam extremist organization called Stram Kurs burned the Quran in Malamo, Sweden. This heinous act was led by a fanatic named […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 11: The Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra who is on a short visit to Sri Lanka in preparation for the forthcoming visit of the Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe to India, told the media here on Tuesday, that Wckremesinghe’s visit will be a huge success.” The Lankan President is assured of […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Gandhara Art Islamabad, July 11: A three-day Gandhara Symposium 2023, titled Cultural Diplomacy: Reviving Gandhara Civilization and Buddhist Heritage in Pakistan”, is being held in Islamabad from July 11 to 13. The Symposium’s organizers include PM Task Force on Gandhara Tourism; the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI); and the Directorate of Archaeology […]

Courtesy News Gallup WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Sri Lanka passes the one-year anniversary of massive civil unrest that toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Gallup surveys show a nation still in crisis for the reasons that led it to that point last July: A record-high three in four (76%) Sri Lankans report struggling to afford food, while […]

By Hyshyama Hamin Courtesy The Diplomat Activist Hyshyama Hamin explains how Sri Lankans’ personal stories intersect with global movements.  On a humid morning in June 2006, a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka, buzzed with the activities of my nikah (Islamic marriage) ceremony. The men, I imagine, were huddled together around the marriage documents, with the local imam explaining […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Teachers will not be recruited for a three-year teaching diploma course at National Colleges of Education (NIE) in the future, but they will be assigned to a university established to produce teachers for a four-year degree, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said. While participating in a programme to educate the principals on […]

Courtesy Adaderana The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has been appointed for the divestiture of three state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Accordingly, the Cabinet of Ministers on Monday (10 July) approved the appointment of IFC for the divestiture of Sri Lankan Airlines Limited, Lanka Hospitals Corporation PLC and Sri Lanka Telecom […]