Insight By Sunil Kumar The events of the not too distant past relative to regime change seems to be of little or no  avail relative to Law Enforcement when it comes to the circumstances which forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country. Rajapaksa, long implicated in corruption and draconian measures when he was defense […]

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Anup Sinha The United States is often referred to as the ‘champion of democracy and human rights’. But over the past two decades, as it has transformed into a multicultural society, the United States has faced numerous domestic human rights problems, including institutionalized racism, hate crimes, and extrajudicial killings by criminals and law enforcement. Numerous […]

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Pathik Hasan  Dhaka based security and strategic affairs analyst Foreign diplomats become active when the election time approaches. Their activity becomes like a political party. While the ruling party protested this breach of etiquette, the opposition parties rightly took their word for it. Sometimes prompting them to be more active. They are also seen going […]

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විදෙස් බලය සංවිධානයෙන් නිවේදනයක්  උතුර සහ දකුණ අතර පවතින දුරස්ථභාවය නැති කිරීම සදහා විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්‍රය ඇතුළු සියලුම ක්ෂේත්‍රයන් ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් කළ යුතු බවට අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර යාපනයට ගොස් කළ ප්‍රකාශය අගය කැන නමුත්, ඩිජිටල්කරණ ක්‍රියාවලිය ප්‍රායෝගිකව ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට කිසිදු පියවරක් නොගැනීම කණගාටුවට කරුණක් බව විදෙස් බලය සංවිධානය අවධාරණය කරයි. විදෙස් බලය සංවිධානයේ කැදවුම්කරු ජනක […]

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Dr. Ibrahim Islam Violence, hatred, division – these are unpleasant words. Its meaning can be found in the dictionary. Synonyms of those words can be found in the dictionaries of other languages of the world. The meaning of those words is the same in the dictionary of all languages of the world. When students and […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror The suspect Roshan Dissanayaka was produced before the Naula (Paldeniya) Magistrate’s Court on charges of threatening a Member of Parliament, breaching Parliamentary privileges and criminal intimidation. Senior State Counsel Shaminda Wickrema appearing for the prosecution submitted to Court that the suspect had sent threatening messages to the mobile phone of State […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Restrictions imposed on imported goods will be further relaxed later today (July 20), State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says. Thereby, import restrictions on 328 more items will be eased. The lawmaker said the gazette notification announcing the import restriction relaxation would be published tonight. The announcement comes a month after the government […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Spokesman for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, Arindam Bagchi, has revealed India’s willingness to further expand financial economic relations between Sri Lanka and India. Speaking on President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to India, Bagchi said We would like to steepen this financial economic connection, but I think it’ll be premature for me to […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will conduct training programmes for 300 Agriculture Extension Officers in Sri Lanka under an European Union (EU) funded project in order to boost Sri Lanka’s rice sector, the FAO announced. The programme comes as part of an innovative project titled RiceUP, launched by […]

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