Lanka Lead News දශක තුනකට ආසන්න කාලයක් යුද්ධයක් පැවති රට තුළ යුද්ධය අවසන් වී පැවති සාමකාමී වාතාවරණය නිමා වෙමින් අද වන විට ඉතා අඳුරු කාල පරිච්ඡේදයකට යොමුවෙමින් පවතින බව රණවිරු අපි වෙනුවෙන් අපි ජාතික සංවිධානයේ සභාපති බලලත් නිලධාරී ජයලාල් නිශ්ශංක මහතා පවසයි. මෙම යුද්ධයේ දී රණවිරුවන් 30,000ක් පමණ දිවිපිදුවේ ද 14, 500ක් පමණ ආබාධිත වූවේ […]

Lanka Lead News මේ මොහොතේ නැවත වරක් මාතෘභූමිය ආගම් වශයෙන්, ජාති වශයෙන්, භූමිය වශයෙන් බෙදා වෙන්කරමින් වෙනම රාජ්‍යක් ගොඩනැගීම සඳහා තිබූ සැලසුම්වල පිඹුරුපත් නැවත මතුවෙමින් පවතින බව දෙවන පරපුරේ නායක උවිඳු විජේවීර මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව පැවසුවේ ‘13 පරදවමු සහජීවනය ගොඩනගමු‘ යන තේමාව යටතේ දෙවන පරපුර විසින් සංවිධානය කළ සම්මන්ත්‍රණයකට එක් වෙමිනි. ජනවරමක් […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka has made the biggest contribution to China in history by gifting Vinaya Pitaka to 400Ad Buddhist monk Faxian who travelled through the old Silk Route in search of Buddhist scripts, said a chief prelate announcing a series of Chinese funded welfare projects to mark the 10th anniversary of ‘One […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A tense situation arose when a group led by Tamil National People’s Front leader Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam entered the Kurundi temple and conducted a Pongal Pooja, Mullaitivu police said. Police said however the situation was brought under control. According to a court order obtained from the Mullaitivu Court, a group, including MP […]

Courtesy Adaderana After a brief but productive visit to Yunnan capital Kunming to attend the 7th China-South Asia Expo, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena reached the ancient capital of the province, Dali City, known for agriculture research in addition to being a major tourist attraction. He first visited the Science and Technology Campus on […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera says the prevailing arid weather has destroyed at least 39,000 acres of paddy land across the country thus far. A comprehensive report on the paddy crop damages is expected to be released in the coming weeks, the lawmaker said further while addressing an event. It is estimated that […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government has slashed the import tax on maize, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says. Accordingly, the import tax of Rs. 75.00 on 1 kilogram of maize has been reduced to Rs. 25.00 with effect from Thursday (Aug. 17). Taking to Twitter, Siyambalapitiya explained that the move aims to bring down the […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has received an invitation to participate in the Summit of the Group of 77 (G77) plus China, which will take place in Cuba in September, foreign media reported. The Cuban Ambassador to Sri Lanka Andrés Marcelo González has delivered the letter of invitation from the Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel to […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Sri Lanka continues to swing wildly between being a ‘Donor Darling’ flooded with foreign ‘aid’ that has significantly impeded its post-colonial development and industrialization on the one hand, and being a pariah (outcast), on the other. Last year the country went from being South Asia’s wealthiest nation with the best social and human […]

By Thomas Scripps Aug 12, 2023 The impoverished West African state of Niger is the latest flashpoint in the struggle by the imperialist powers for a re-division of the world. The issues involved in the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine—a fight for territory, strategic resources and regime change—are erupting all over the globe, in China and […]

Manusha Media The Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment, Manusha Nanayakkara  today emphasized the need for a comprehensive multi-stakeholder task force combining relevant ministries and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to implement programmes aimed at the welfare of workers.The Minister has requested the ILO to conduct a study on the programmes implemented for the welfare […]

PRESS RELEASE Pathfinder Foundation The inaugural Dialogue between the Pathfinder Foundation and the Asia New Zealand Foundation was held in Colombo. The event explored several key areas of interest for Sri Lanka and New Zealand, and by extension to small states in the Asia Pacific, consequent to a renewed interest in the region by major […]

Tilottama Rani Charulata. Although there are many human rights violations and ethnic violence in the USA, it is advising on human rights situations in other countries in any event. The US ambassadors in different countries of the world, including Bangladesh, are busy with the idea of saving humanity or preaching human rights to developing countries. […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, (and Foreign Minister) vowed that China will help Sri Lanka effectively address the challenges of financial debt on Wednesday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central […]

C. Wijeyawickrema I received a copy of the above report as a PDF document (original Sinhala version). I think it is of national importance that you consider giving publicity to this report because so many local and foreign agents have tried (successfully?) to hide this report from the people in Sri Lanka. When a Presidential […]

PHILIP GIRALDI  courtesy  The UNZ Review Washington’s interventionism and its disregard for its own highly promoted rules based international order” is outrageous Which are the governments generally regarded as rogue” by an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations? If you answered either Russia or China you would be wrong, even though many countries have condemned […]

Courtesy Livemint China assures Sri Lanka of help with debt challenges ahead of IMF bailout plan Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is likely to get help from its largest bilateral creditor China ahead of IMF’s bailout plan. According to the PTI agency report, China has assured the island nation it will address the debt challenges before it […]

 Lanka Lead News 1987දී ඉන්දු ලංකා ගිවිසුම බලහත්කාරයෙන් අස්සන් කරන විට ඉන්දියාව ගැන ජවිපෙ අද කියන ‘හොඳ හැඟීම’ තිබුණා නම් හැටදාහක ජීවිත ප්‍රමාණයක් බේරාගන්න තිබූ බවත්, 13 වන සංශෝධණය පූර්ණ ලෙස බලාත්මක කිරීමට ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ ද අකමැත්තක් නැති බව අනුර දිසානායක මහතාගෙන් මෑතකාලීන අදහස් දැක්වීම් වලින් පෙනී යන බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී මොහොමඩ් මුසම්මිල් මහතා […]

Lanka Lead News ආණ්ඩුවේ අභ්‍යන්තර ආරංචිමාර්ග වලට අනුව ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් දෙමළ පක්ෂවලට ලබාදී ඇති පොරොන්දුව අනුව 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය පූර්ණ වශයෙන් බලාත්මක කිරීම අදියර 3කින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කෙරෙන බව තහවුරු වේ. ඒ අනුව පළමුවැන්න දැන්ට ආරම්භකර ඇති පරිදි පරිපාලන ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ගැනීමය. පුරාවිද්‍යා ආඥා පනත නිශ්ක්‍රීය කිරීම සහ නව ඉඩම් ප්‍රතිපත්ති පනත, සත්‍ය සෙවීමේ කොමිසමේ පනත ආදිය […]

Lanka Lead News ඊළඟ මැතිවරණයෙන්ද ජයග්‍රහණය නොකළහොත් වෙනම දුපතක් හොයාගෙන යන්නට සිදුවන බව ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සුනිල් හඳුන්නෙත්ති මහතා පවසයි. පැරණි මිතුරු පෙරටුගාමීන් ද ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ මඩ ගහන තැනට පත්ව ඇති බවත්, අනුර දිසානායක මහතාට කොහේදෝ දූපතක් ඇතැයි පවසන බවත් ඔහු සඳහන් කරයි. ජාතික ජනබලවේගයේ ආසන බලමන්ඩල හමුවක් අමතමින් ඔහු සඳහන් […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ – ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර් 4 වෙනි කොටසෙන් …. ස්ථිර පදිංචිය සහිත දෙමළ ජනයා වාසය කළේ නම් ”දෙමළ කොලනි” පිහිටුවීම සඳහා දකුණු ඉන්දියාවෙන් ආනයනය කිරීමට සහ ”නිදහස් සහ ලිහිල් කොන්දේසි” ප‍්‍රදානය කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය නොවෙනු ඇත. දෙමළ පදිංචියක් තිබූ බවට ”නිශ්චිත ශාක්‍ෂි ලැබී නැති” බව ආචාර්ය කාර්තිගේසු ඉන්ද්‍රපාල ද නිශ්චිතව ප‍්‍රකාශ කොට ඇත.(* 5 […]

MOD  Media Centre The Defence Advisor to the High Commission of Pakistan in Sri Lanka, Colonel Muhammad Farooq made his maiden call on the Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne at the Defence Ministry, today (Aug 16). The Defence Secretary accorded a warm welcome to the new Pakistani Defence Advisor and had a cordial discussion with […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division The Prime Minister stated this today (2023.08.16) in Kunming, China, while participating as the chief guest at the 7th China-South Asia Exhibition jointly organized by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the Yunnan State Government. 60 countries are participating in this huge trade exhibition, including all South and Southeast Asian countries […]

සිවිල් ආරක්‍ෂක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ  මාධ්‍ය කාර්යාලය ජය මාවත, කටුබැද්ද, මොරටුව සිවිල් ආරක්‍ෂක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ 10 වන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ ජනරාල් ලෙස පත්වීම් ලැබූ එයාර් වයිස් මාර්ෂල් ආර්එස් බියන්විල වීඑස්වී, යූඑස්පී, එම්බීඒ (එක්සත් රාජධානිය), එන්ඩීසී (ඉන්දියාව), පීඑස්සී ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නිලධාරි 2023 අගෝස්තු මස 16 වන දින සිවිල් ආරක්‍ෂක දෙපාර්තමේන්තු මූලස්ථාන පරිශ්‍රයේදී සුභ මොහොතින් නව තනතුරේ රාජකාරී භාර ගන්නා ලදි.            […]

Courtesy Pravda The United States and Great Britain thwarted three attempts to negotiate peace, to avoid the destruction of Ukraine and the death of the people. Photo: “Ukrainian Soldier cleans weapon” by U.S. Army Europe is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. This was stated by The American Conservative columnist Ted Snyder. On February 27, 2022, in Minsk, the parties […]

Courtesy Independent (UK) Ukraine had earlier pushed for the president’s participation in summit that will be held in Delhi. Volodymyr Zelensky will not attend the main G20 conference as invites for the summit this year were sent out only to the members of the Group of 20, host country India has confirmed. The confirmation by Delhi has put an end […]

by Daya Gamage Courtesy The Island US State Department President Ranil Wickremesinghe is currently endeavouring to implement the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, which could lead to the establishment of a federal structure, much to the delight of Washington policymakers. US policy towards Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict has long been guided by the comforting notion that […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Foreign Minister Ali Sabry told Parliament yesterday that his ministry had received no information about CIA Chief William J. Burns’ alleged visit to Sri Lanka on Feb 14. Making a ministerial statement in response to a series of questions raised by SLPP dissident MP Ven. Aturaliye Ratana Thera on […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The ruling SLPP parliamentary group should intervene to make President Ranil Wickremesinghe examine the draft Constitution formulated by the nine-member committee appointed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Cabinet-of-Ministers, rebel SLPP List MP Gevindu Cumaratunga said yesterday (15). President’s Counsel Romesh de Silva headed the committee. Having elected UNP leader Wickremesinghe […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, vowed that China will help Sri Lanka effectively address the challenges of financial debt on Wednesday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, made the […]