Dr. Shakuntala Bhabani a Kolkata-based educator  and South Asian affairs researcher in Political Science Shootings have continuously made headlines just seven months into the year. The gun violence epidemic continues unabated in the United States. As per some reports, the United States is averaging two mass shootings a day, so far this year. According to […]

By Pavan Kulkarni August 05, 2023 Nigeria’s Senate refuses to support ECOWAS plan for West-backed military intervention A day after ECOWAS chiefs of staffs finalized plans for a military intervention, Nigeria’s Senate refused to support President Bola Tinubu’s proposal to deploy soldiers. Tinubu is the current chair of ECOWAS. Meanwhile, Niger has seen multiple demonstrations […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement has shown strong opposition to the presence of Buddhist temples in the north and east.  The Tamil Separatist Movement is opposing two things, the conservation of ancient Buddhist temples and the building of new Buddhist temples. It is good that this matter had now come before the attention of […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ – ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් 1 වෙනි කොටසෙන් 2 වෙනි කොටස ….. 3 වෙනි කොටසට

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ – ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් ව්‍ය.ව. 13 වෙනි සියවසේ සිට උතුරට ඉතා කිට්ටු ප‍්‍රදේශයේ සහ නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ දේශපාලන ගැටළු සමග බැඳුනු ප‍්‍රමුඛ ද්‍රවිඩ ප‍්‍රදේශයක් ලෙස නැගෙනහිර පළාත මතු වී ද? (1* දෙමළ ජනයා ස්ථිරව පදිංචි වී සිටි බව,(2* මේ භූමි ප‍්‍රදේශවල ජනයාගෙන් බහුතරය දෙමළ වාර්ගිකයන් වූ බව,(3* මේ ප‍්‍රදේශ එකට බද්ධ කළ දෙමළ […]

Pathfinder Foundation Pathfinder Foundation, in partnership with two prominent think tanks based in New Delhi, namely, NatStrat and Vivekananda International Foundation, and the Confederation of Indian Industry, will launch its report “Medium and Long-term Strategy for Indo-Japanese Collaboration to Support the Economic Transformation of Sri Lanka” on 10th August 2023 in New Delhi. The event […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Inflation has been defined by various economists in the past, and three definitions were in economics texts, cost push, demand pull and the third interpretation came from monetarists such as Milton Friedman in early 1960s and monetarists suggested charging a tax as an effective solution. The meaning of inflation could be regarded […]

Sugath Kulatunga Crisis Management: The present crisis in Uda Walave of the inability to provide water not only for irrigation but even for household use is tragic. But what is more tragic is the typical pollical game of passing the buck by our political leaders which is deplorable. They do not seem to realize that […]

RANJITH SOYSA The nation was deprived of its most versatile military leader with a gentle heart on 8th August 1992 at Araly Pont. Jaffna when Lt Gen Denzil Kobbekaduwa was killed by a remote-controlled bomb of the LTTE terrorists. If he survived, the threat paused by the separatists to the unitary Sri Lanka and her […]

Dilrook Kannangara Anagarika Dharmapala is undoubtedly one of the greatest strategic thinkers; certainly the best ever in his community. His ability to strategize his plans for the optimum impact baffles an inquisitive thinker even today and is at times beyond belief. None of his contemporaries seems to have understood him fully as he was light […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය. උමා ඔය ජල විදුලි ව්‍යාපෘතිය අවසන් කර ඇති බවත්, ජලාශය සහ මෙගාවොට් 60 බැගින් වූ ජනන යන්ත්‍ර දෙකක් පරීක්ෂා කිරීම් වලින් අනතුරුව මේ වසර අගදී ආරම්භ කළ හැකි බවත් ඉරාන තානාපති  හෂෙම්  අෂ්ජාසාදේ මහතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය  දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාට දන්වා සිටියේය. ගොවීන් මුහුණ දෙන ගැටලු සොයා බැලීම සඳහා සති අන්තයේ මොණරාගල, අම්පාර සහ […]

– අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා  මේ බව සඳහන් කලේ අලුත් ගමක් – අලුත් රටක් ජාතික ඒකාබද්ධතා  සහභාගිත්ව සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහනේ 2023.08.05 දින ත්‍රිකුණාමල දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ පැවැති ත්‍රිකුණාමල දිස්ත්‍රික් වැඩසටහනේදීය.එහිදී අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා…දැන් අලුත් අස්වැන්න වෙළෙඳපොළට එමින් තිබෙනවා.   වඩා හොඳ මිලක් ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කර, අපේ ආයතන තරඟයට වී මිලදී ගැනීමට අවතීර්ණ වීම වඩා  කාර්යක්ෂම […]

Courtesy The Island Letter of resignation sent through wife A senior official of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC),under investigation for massive losses, suffered over a period of time, has resigned after having gone abroad, authoritative sources told The Island yesterday (07). The former Deputy General Manager, responsible for the commercial and supply chain had been investigated for […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The tally of Dengue cases reported for 2023 has surpassed the 58,000 mark while one more death was reordered, according to the Epidemiology Unit. Accordingly, as of July 07, a total of 58,138 cases have been reported so far in 2023, with the highest number of cases being recorded from the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The continuous practice of reusing single-use plastic bottles for drinking water will bring people to their own deaths, Secretary of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) Dr. Sarath Edirisinghe said. Meanwhile, addressing the media, the Director of the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children Dr. G. Wijesuriya said a trend has been […]