Courtesy Adaderana Minister Kanchana Wijesekera says the progress of 6 large-scale renewable energy projects was reviewed with the developers and the officials of Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (SLSEA) and Power & Energy Ministry on Friday (Aug. 26). These projects aim to achieve the government’s policy of 70% renewable energy targets […]

Courtesy Hiru News In a move aimed at promoting financial relief for borrowers, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has issued an Order to reduce the interest rates on lending products offered by licensed commercial banks (LCBs) and licensed specialized banks (LSBs). The new rates will come into effect from August 25. Under this […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ – ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් 7 වෙනි කොටසෙන් 8 වෙනි කොටස …. අවසාන කොටසට

Senaka Weeraratna When the Indian Rocket ‘ Chandrahayan’ 3 landed on the Moon on August 23, 2023, it created a stunning moment that comes but rarely in history, when an age of dreaming ends and a new one begins.  The moon landing has shaken not only the soul of a single nation but that of […]

by Unni K Warrier Courtesy onmanorama Thrissur: There has been a spurt in the number of captive elephants running amok during temple festi… Read more at: Deliberate attempts to provoke jumbos & create chaos in Kerala? Video (onmanorama.com)

by Neville Ladduwahetty  Courtesy The Island President Ranil Wickremesinghe has repeatedly declared that Sri Lanka’s foreign policy is neutral. However, he and his government, meaning the Foreign Ministry in particular, has not elaborated on how a policy of neutrality works in practice. Notwithstanding this lacuna, the policy of neutrality as the foreign policy was first […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Since 2015 Export Development Board has been trying to implement National Export Strategy ( NES) with few salient features which can enhance our foreign currency reserves A few of them are Development of Boat Building for Export coupled with Nautical Tourism in addition to Development of Spice Trade,Digital Technology  Transformation, development of  Wellness Tourism. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Pivithuru Hela Urumaya(PHU) leader MP Udaya Gammanpila requested President Ranil Wickremesinghe in writing to take steps for Sri Lanka to become a member of BRICS, an organized named after its original five members- Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa. Gammanpila, in an open letter to the president, said global economic and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Local intelligence services have identified a Catholic was behind the unrest situation that has been created in Kurundi, State Minister of Defense Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said yesterday. He told parliament that international intelligence services had not issued any warnings to the government on possible racial and religious unrest in the country […]

Amar Diwakar March 23, 2018 The U.S. tried to foment an anti-communist Buddhist bloc in Southeast Asia—with deadly consequences for the region’s politics today. Tang Chhin SothyAFP/Getty Of the world’s major faiths, Buddhism is often characterized as being a religion of peace, tolerance, and compassion. The Western encounter with Buddhism has largely been distilled through […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ – ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් 6 වෙනි කොටසෙන් …. ”යාපනේ තරුණ කොන්ග‍්‍රසය” ලෙස නම් කරන ලද යාපනේ ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමය63 උතුරු පළාත සහ නැගෙනහිර පළාත අතර යම් දේශපාලන සම්බන්ධයකට මග සැලසී ය. (වර්තමානයේ හෝ යාපනේ කතෝලික/කි‍්‍රස්තියානි සංවිධානය ඉන්දියාවේ දෙමළ කතෝලික/කි‍්‍රස්තියානි සංවිධානයේ මෙහෙය වීමෙන් මිදී ඇති බවක් නොපෙනේ.* වාර්ගික නියෝජනය වෙනුවට 1929 ඩොනමෝර් ප‍්‍රතිසංස්කරණ හඳුන්වා […]

Garvin Karunaratne Many recent Papers detailing details of the August 12, 1953 Hartal in nostaglia took me to my days at Arunachalam Hall at Peradeniya. It was the 11 th of August 1953 and we students had planned for a major a protest in Kandy on the next day. The Vice Chancellor had decided that […]

Asoka Bandarage [This article is derived from the author’s new book: Asoka Bandarage, CRISIS IN SRI LANKA AND THE WORLD: COLONIAL AND NEOLIBERAL ORIGINS: ECOLOGICAL AND COLLECTIVE ALTERNATIVES (Berlin: De Gruyter,2023) https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111203454/html?lang=en] Sri Lanka has been faced with an unprecedented political and economic crisis since the beginning of 2022. The dominant narrative attributes the crisis […]

Jeannine Mancini Courtesy Finance Yahoo.com Grant Cardone, a renowned sales trainer, speaker and entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of $600 million, recently took to X, formerly Twitter, to raise a thought-provoking question: “Can someone explain to me how public servants (politicians) are becoming multimillionaires on $100,000 salaries?” While the message did not specify which public servants […]

Dilrook Kannangara Modi is a remarkable political success story in the world’s largest democracy. He has not only protected his vulnerable vote base from the threats of terrorism, separatism, poverty, external threats and demographic challenges, India has made unprecedented and even unbelievable progress under Modi’s leadership. His strategic thinking and visionary skills have turned him […]

by A. Abdul Aziz U.K. based International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has reported that a wave of bigotry against Ahmadis has intensified since the start of 2023.   Wave of attacks on Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosques has taken place in the first week of August 2023, as the situation is becoming worst day by day for the […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට එක්සත් රාජධානියේ ආධාර වැඩසටහනේ 2 වැනි අදියර ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආරම්භ කිරීම පිළිබඳව  බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය වැඩබලන මහ කොමසාරිස් Lisa Whanstall මහත්මිය, බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය සෞඛ්‍ය හා සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ෆ්ලෙමින්( Fleming) අරමුදලේ නියෝජිත පිරිසක් සහ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ්  ගුණවර්ධන මහතා  අතර සාකච්ඡාවක් 2023.08.23 දින කොළඹ, අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. කොවිඩ් වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් පසුගිය වසර කිහිපය තුළ […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ප්‍රංශ  – ඇල්ජීරියානු ලේඛක ඇල්බෙයා කැමූ   උපත ලැබුවේ 1913 නොවැම්බර් 7 වන දින ප්‍රංශ ඇල්ජීරියාවේ මොන්ඩෝවි (වර්තමාන ඩ්‍රියාන්) හිදීය. ඔහුගේ දෙමව්පියන් යටත් විජිතවල වඩා හොඳ ජීවිතයක් අපේක්‍ෂා කල ප්‍රංශ සංක්‍රමණිකයන් වූහ. ඔහුගේ පියා දුප්පත් ප්‍රංශ කෘෂිකාර්මික කම්කරුවෙකු වූ අතර 914 දී පළමුවන ලෝක සංග්‍රාමයේදී මිය ගියේය. කැමූ අර්ධ වශයෙන් බිහිරි වූ සිය මව […]

Lanka Lead News ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අරගලය පිළිබදව ජාත්‍යාන්තර දේශපාලන විචාරකයෙකු වන බ්‍රයන් බර්ලෙටික් විසින් 2022 වසරේ ජුලි මස 14 වනදා සිදු කරන ලද විග්‍රහයක සඳහන් වන්නේ ඇමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය විසින් 2011 වසරේදී නිර්මාණය කරන ලද අරාබි වසන්තය” තුළ දිග හැරුණු සිදූවිම් ඒ ආකාරයෙන්ම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අරගලය” තුළද තමන්ට නිරීක්ෂණය වන බවයි. අරගලය පණ ගැන්වීම සඳහා […]

 Lanka Lead News 13 වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව කරළියට පැමිණියේ 1987 දී වුව ද 13 වැනි සංශෝධනයට මුලපිරීම සිදුවන්නේ 1983 වසරේ දී බව දේශපාලන විශ්ලේෂක, ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්‍යවේදී ධර්ම ශ්‍රී කාරියවරම් මහතා පවසයි. අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක් හරහා මේ පිළිබඳව සවිස්තර ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමක් සිදුකරමින් ඒ මහතා පවසන්නේ 1977 දී විශාල ජනවරමකින් බලයට පත්වූ ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධන මහතා 1982 වන විට […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Herath asks whether govt. wants to pave the way for new player The Cabinet-approved national energy policy related to the development of natural gas infrastructure has been suspended by the government following representations made by Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera. Dissident SLPP MP Prof. Charitha Herath on Tuesday […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The action of Eastern Province Governor Sendil Thondaman to prevent Chief Incumbent of the Boralukanda Rajamaha Vihara Venerable Ampitiye Sukitha Wansatissa Thera from entering the temple is unjustifiable, Minister of Buddha Sasana and Religious Affairs Vidura Wickramanayake told Parliament. The Government will not accept the decision by the Eastern Province Governor […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the Bangalore police in India has arrested three Sri Lankan nationals staying at an apartment in the Bangalore city. It is suspected that the trio has potential links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – a banned insurgent outfit from Sri Lanka. According Indian media […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha states that a special cabinet paper will be submitted in order to fill the existing graduate teaching vacancies. Accordingly, the relevant cabinet paper will be prepared so as to authorize the provincial councils to fill the vacancies created due to the retirement of teachers and the teachers who […]

Courtesy Adaderana A Dutch cultural delegation is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka from August 27 – 31 to sign the legal document transferring the ownership of the cultural artifacts that will be returned to the island nation later this year. The delegation will be led by Gunay Uslu, the State Secretary for Cultural and Media […]

Courtesy Adaderana Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has assured that the country has ample stocks of rice that can sustain the upcoming Maha cultivation season. Hence, there is no need for rice imports, the lawmaker told a gathering of experts organized by the President’s Trade Union Relations Division at the Presidential Secretariat on Wednesday (Aug. 23). […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe addressing a special Committee meeting drew parallels to the successful implementation of the Mahaweli Development Project during the 1980s, affirming a similar commitment to expediting the Eastern Development Project.  He emphasized the imperative of fostering a conducive environment that reinvigorates the nation’s economy, stressing on the need to engage India’s […]

Courtesy Adaderana A circular focusing on measures to accelerate the fall in market lending rates is due to be issued by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on Friday (25 Aug). Accordingly, a circular is due to be issued tomorrow focusing on methods to ensure that the lending rates reflect the recent Monetary Policy relaxation, […]

By Garvin Karunaratne In order to please the IMF that has promised to provide so some $ 3 billion in Aid, we are set to privatize our Assets. It is important to realize that with the Privatization we have lost our sovereignty, if what is privatized is essential for the survival of our country . […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්         රුහුණු මයා පිහිටි තුන්සිංහලේ රුහුණු රටට අයත් වත්මන් නැගෙනහිර පළාත අතීතයේ දී රෝහණයේ විවිධ රජවරුන් යටතේ පලානය විය.අනුරාධපුරය ද්‍රවිඩ අක්‍රමණ වලින් පීඩිත වන කල්හි සිංහල ජනතාවට එකම පිහිට සැලසූවේ රෝහණ රාජාවලියයි. විශේෂයෙන්ම කාවන්තිස්ස රජුගේ දූර දර්ශී ක්‍රියාකලාපය නිසා මේ ද්‍රවිඩ ආක්‍රමණයන්ට විරුද්ධව නැගී සිටින්නට තරම් සේනා බලයක් රෝහණයේ වර්ධනය විය. පසු කාලීනව […]