lanka C news බෞද්ධාගමට අපහාස කළේ යැයි රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කර සිටි නටාෂා එදිරිසූරිය අද කොළඹ මහාධිකරණය විසින් ඇප මත නිදහස් කරන ලදී. රුපියල් ලක්ෂයක පුද්ගලික ඇපයක් මත ඇයට මෙම නියෝගය නිකුත් කර තිබේ. අධිකරණයේදී අදහස් පළ කරමින් තිපතිවරයා වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය සොලිස්ටර් ජෙනරාල් දිලීප පිරිස් මහතා සඳහන් කර සිටියේ මෙම සැකකාරිය 2017 […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Belgium Government expressed consent to provide modern European technology required to develop Sri Lanka’s ports. The decision was announced during a special discussion held between Belgium Ambassador to Sri Lanka Didier Vanderhasselt and Ports, Shipping and Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva this morning. The Minister requested Belgium’s support in […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Stock Exchange’s All-Share Price Index (ASPI) continued its upward momentum today (July 05), gaining 99.49 points at the end of trading today to close at 10,176.13 points. This is an increase of 0.99 per cent. Meanwhile, the S&P SL20 index also moved up by 35.97 points to close at 3,009.09 points […]

Sugath Kulatunga Ivor Jennings did not sign the Kannangara Committee Report on Free Education. Following are a few excerpts from his Rider. His stance on the country not being able to absorb  commercial and technical qualified products was perhaps one of the reasons that practical education was neglected. “THOUGH there is much in the Report […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ප්‍රංශය ලෝක දේශපාලනය වෙනස් කිරීම ආරම්භ කල මර්මස්තානයකි.සමාජ පරිනාමයේ ඉතා වැදගත් පිම්මක්වූ වැඩවසම් සමාජ ක්‍රමය නිමකොට ඊටවඩා සුවිශේෂී සමාජ ක්‍රමයක්වූ ධනවාදී සමාජ ක්‍රමයට ආරම්භක සංඥාව නිකුත් කරන ලද්දේද 1789 ජුනි මස ආරම්භවූ ප්‍රංශ විප්ලවයයි. දැන් ගලාගෙන යන්නේ ධනවාදයේ අවසන් කාලයයි. තවදුරටත් ධනවාදයට මේ ලොවතුල ඇති සමාජ ප්‍රශ්න හා ගැටළු වලට නිශ්චිත පිළිතුරු […]

 අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය. ට්‍රිනිඩෑඩ් සහ ටොබැගෝ ජනරජය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සමඟ මෑතකදී අත්සන් කරන ලද අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුම මඟින් විවිධ ක්ෂේත්‍රයන්හි ද්විපාර්ශික සහයෝගිතාව විධිමත් වන බව  ට්‍රිනිඩෑඩ් සහ ටොබැගෝ ජන රජයෙහි නව මහ කොමසාරිස්  ආචාර්ය රොජර් ගෝපෝල් මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.ට්‍රිනිඩෑඩ් සහ ටොබැගෝ ජන රජයෙහි නව  මහ කොමසාරිස්  ආචාර්ය රොජර් ගෝපෝල් මහතා 2023.07.03 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය […]

 අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය. එයාර් සීෂෙල්ස් සෘජු ගුවන් ගමන් කොළඹට හඳුන්වාදීම තුළින් සංචාරක පැමිණීමේ ශීඝ්‍ර වර්ධනයක් ඇති කරන බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ නව සීෂෙල්ස් මහ කොමසාරිස් ලලතියානා ඇකුචේ (Lalatiana Accouche) මහත්මිය  2023.07.03 දින  අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී  හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදීය.මහනුවර පැවති විචිත්‍රවත් උත්සවයකදී ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා වෙත අක්තපත්‍ර ප්‍රදානය කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව ඇල්ල […]

by A. Abdul Aziz. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, peace be on him, Promised Messiah and Imam-al-Mahdi and Holy Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, in 1905, he warned the world in the following words:  Remember, God has informed me of many earthquakes. Rest assured, therefore, that as earthquakes have shaken America and Europe, so […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia July 4 (Xinhua) – A program to gauge the resistance of buildings and new constructions against earth tremors is being conducted across Sri Lanka, the country’s Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) said on Monday. Several small tremors have been felt in the country in the past year, said senior geophysicist of the […]

BY SU WU  Courtesy Simple Flying As the summer travel peak approaches, Air China and other Chengdu-based airlines are increasing domestic and international flights to seize the market According to Air China, its Southwest Branch, which is based in Chengdu, a hub city in Southwestern China, will launch, resume, and put extra flights from Chengdu to […]

by Arundathie Abeysinghe Courtesy PIME Asia News An alarming number of cases reported of people dying or suffering severe visual impairment after routine eye surgeries. Some doctors say the cause is an anesthetic purchased by the ministry in India from companies on the blacklist of unreliable products. But the government in Colombo rejects the allegations. Colombo […]

By R. Madidaran Courtesy Ceylon Today It is crystal clear that the language is powerful engine of human intellect and creativity, allowing for ultimate combination of words to generate an endless number of new structures and ideas out of ‘old’ ones. It has the main role in the human brain. It directs how we specify […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror In the wake of the elephant Muthu Raja who was badly abused while being kept at a Buddhist temple, several Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are attempting to publicize the notion that elephants should be removed from the perahera culture, Asgiriya Chapter Venerable Narampanawe Ananda Thera said. He told the media that Muthu […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lankan government’s proposal for treatment of domestic debt marks a significant step towards resolving uncertainties around the impact of the sovereign’s debt restructuring on the local banking sector, but complications may arise from a number of factors, says Fitch Ratings. The proposal excludes banks’ holdings of Sri Lankan rupee-denominated treasury securities, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera has assured that the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) is on a path towards achieving financial stability. Participating in a media briefing held at the Presidential Media Centre themed ‘Collective path to a stable country’, Wijesekera expressed confidence in the government’s program, led by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Stock Exchange’s All-Share Price Index (ASPI) showed significant performance today (July 04), gaining 633.69 points at the end of trading today to close at 10,076 points. As a percentage, this is an increase of 6.71 per cent. Meanwhile, the S&P SL20 index also moved up by 279.17 points to close at […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS When Sri Lanka ended the ethnic war fourteen years ago, many analysts expected that the declining trend of additional military expenses, combined with the reducing of many public expenditures, improving productivity, would be positively accomplished the economic potential of the country and the external value of Sri Lanka rupee will increase. Addition […]

සසංක ද සිල්වා පන්නිපිටිය Bitcoins යනු බොහෝ විට cryptocurrency ලෙස හඳුන්වන ඩිජිටල් මුදල් වර්ගයකි. ඒවා පවතින්නේ ඩිජිටල් ආකාරයෙන් පමණක් වන අතර ඔබට තබා ගත හැකි භෞතික කාසි හෝ නෝට්ටු නොවේ. සාමාන්‍ය මුදල් මෙන්, ඔබට භාණ්ඩ හා සේවා මිලදී ගැනීමට බිට්කොයින් භාවිතා කළ හැකිය, නමුත් ඒවා ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් අන්තර්ජාල ගනුදෙනු සඳහා භාවිතා වේ. Bitcoins නිර්මාණය වන්නේ […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya. Bitcoins are a type of digital currency, often referred to as cryptocurrency. They exist only in digital form and are not physical coins or notes that you can hold. Just like regular money, you can use bitcoins to buy goods and services, but they are mainly used for online transactions. Bitcoins are […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ෆ්‍රෙඩ්‍රික් විල්හෙල්ම් නීට්‍ෂේ උපත ලබන්නේ 1844 ඔක්තෝම්බර් 15 වන දින ජර්මනියේදීය. දේවගැතිවරයෙකු වූ ඔහුගේ පියාගේ මරණය මෙන්ම සොහොයුරෙකුගේ මරණය දුටු කුඩා නීට්‍ෂේ ඛේදවාචකයන් තුලින් ජීවිතය පසක් කලේය. මෙම ඛේදවාචකයන් නිසා ඔහු කුඩා කල සිට ඇළුම් කල ක්‍රිස්තු ධර්මයෙන් ඈත් විය.  ඔහුගේ පියාගේ ඇදහිල්ල ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරමින්, නීට්ෂේ ක්‍රිස්තියානි ධර්මයට එරෙහිව ජීවිත කාලය […]

BY MEERA SRINIVASAN Courtesy The Hindu BusinessLine The country faces the challenge of restructuring its foreign and domestic debt ahead of an IMF deadline. COLOMBO  China will not join” the official creditors’ platform negotiating a common debt treatment plan with Sri Lanka, but Colombo is very confident” of Beijing’s bilateral support to the island’s economic recovery, Foreign Minister […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe urged the Opposition and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa to prioritize national interests over politics. Addressing the “Amaraviru Abhiman 32” commemoration ceremony held in Hambantota today, the President urged them to fulfill their responsibilities to the people and help rebuild the country, President’s Media Division (PMD) said. Speaking at […]

By Rohana R. Wasala The article under the title ‘Timely action must be taken to preserve Buddhism in Sri Lanka’ by a virtually anonymous writer, signing as R.W.W., published in the Sunday Island/June 11, 2023 provided the cue for the following. I sincerely thank him or her for expressing those factually unsupported ideas about the issue […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The British administration settled the ‘Ceylon Tamil’ in Mullativu in the mid 19 century.”The 19th century saw the settlement of Tamils along the coastline in Mullativu, Trincomalee   and Batticaloa districts” said historian D.G.B. de Silva.  As soon as they got into Mullaitivu the ‘Ceylon Tamil’ started to destroy the Buddhist heritage of Mullativu. […]

e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News July 2023 Part 1 * ‘The days of government funding are gone. It really needs to be a private enterprise, just as exploration was at the turn of the last century where people with means make the exploration possible.’ – Stockton Rush (see ee […]

විජය උදුපිටිය චමුදිත සමරවික්‍රම සමග Vijaya Undupitiya On Truth with Chamuditha

Book Launch Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives Overview About this book This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis as an exemplification of a broader global existential crisis […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, July 2: UNESCO has included the Sri Lankan historical account, the Mahawamsa”,  in its list of 64 new items of documentary heritage inscribed on the Memory of the World International Register. The Memory of the World (MoW) Register lists documentary heritage which has been recommended by the International Advisory Committee, and […]

Courtesy India Today Thailand airlifted an elephant from Sri Lanka after the authorities accused the island nation of mistreating the animal. The elephant — Muthu Raja — was gifted to Sri Lanka almost two decades ago, in 2001. More than two decades ago, in 2001, a Thai elephant was gifted to Sri Lanka. (Photo: AFP). […]