Senaka Weeraratna    Professor A.D.T.E. Perera, renowned Buddhist Scholar, with a Ph. D. from the Australian National University, passed away on September 17, 2023 at the age of 87 years of age.  Professor A.D.T.E. Perera was formerly an Associate Editor, Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, Government of Sri Lanka, publication, Research Associate and Professor, Department of Philosophy, University […]

e-Con e-News September 2023 Part 3 ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News September 2023 Part 3 ‘Political thuggery is the main deterrent to economic reforms’ – A former Swedish Industry Ministry Director, Dag Detter last week warned an Asian Development Bank (ADB) Colombo Forum aiming to sell off national assets. (They wasted a lot of precious […]

by Rajan Philips Courtesy The Island Channel 4 has resurrected Easter and divided the political waters. Like Moses leading the Israelis through the divided waters of the Red Sea, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith is leading his faithful through the divided political waters of the country. Without taking a position on the Channe 4 documentary, the Cardinal […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has asserted that Sri Lanka’s government does not align itself with either India or China and firmly stands for Sri Lanka’s interests above all else.  Some time back a person asked me whether I am pro-Indian or pro-Chinese, so I said definitely I am not pro-Indian, and added by saying […]

By Sena Thoradeniya N. B. In a time of chaos, confusion, disorder and uncertainty discussing about Kandyan Chieftains may be interpreted as something akin to engaging in  ecstatic revelry, overlooking current issues. But as a modern myth has been created, that Kandyan Chiefs subverted” the policies of the British, expressed their resistance to British colonialism”, […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D මුර දේවතාවුන්ව  රැවටීම [අවුරුදු 17 ක් පුරා සටන්කර, දෙවරක් පැරදී, රට තුලත් සිටි සිංහල හතුරන් පරදා, කීර්ති කුමාරයා (I විජයභාහූ) වසර 70 ක චෝල ආධිපත්‍යය නිමකල හැටි. මේ ඓතිහාසික සිදුවීමඊළම් සටන හා 2023  ලංකාවේ සිංහල කළුසුද්දන් සමඟ සසඳන්න] පලවෙනි විජයභාහු රජතුමා (1055-1110) නිසා නොවේ නම් ලංකාව ඉන්දියාවේ කොටසක් වෙන්න තිබුණා යයි […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara. Mahanuwara How many people in this country know that Land powers in the Northern and Eastern provinces had already been given on a silver platter even without activating the 13th Amendment to the enemy by subtle political manipulations in 1992 by the Premadasa Government without the full implementation of the 13th Amendment, […]

 Lanka Lead News විශ්‍රාමික ලුතිතන් ජනරාල් ජගත් ඩයස් මහතාගේ කැඳවුම්කාරිත්වයෙන් මව්බිම පාවාදෙන ද්‍රෝහීන්ට කළ යුත්තේ කුමක්ද ?- මහජන විනිශ්චය ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කිරීම” අද පස්වරුවේ මාතර නූපේ සණස මන්දිරයේදී සිදු කෙරිනි. රුහුණු රට භික්ෂු පෙරමුණේ සංවිධායකත්වයෙන්, සමස්ත ලංකා බෞද්ධ මහා සම්මේලනයේ මෙහෙයවීමෙන්, ජාතික ප්‍රතිපත්ති අධ්‍යනය හා උපාය මාර්ගික පර්යේෂණායතනයේ අධීක්ෂණයෙන්, ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික ඒකාබද්ධතා සංවිධානයේ සම්බන්ධීකරණයෙන් […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on National Security, Rear Admiral (retd.) Sarath Weerasekera, MP, yesterday (15) asked whether a comprehensive international investigation into accountability issues here could be conducted unless India, too, was subjected to the same. The former Public Security Minister was responding to the Global Tamil […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi At this very moment the concrete used for the construction of large number of schools in the United Kingdom have been found to be of poor quality. It seems some have collapsed and others are crumbling. According to their BBC World Service around 150 schools are affected and many have been closed. It […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division Minister of Labour & Employment of Republic of Korea, Lee Jungsik said Korea has doubled the recruitment of Sri Lankan employees this year and it will be further increased by giving more opportunities to skilled workers with knowledge of Korean Language. He said this when he called on Prime Minister Dinesh […]

Media Centre MOD 1985 අංක 40 දරණ මිනිස්බල උපයෝගිතා සහ පරිපූරක හමුදා පනතේ 52 වගන්තිය යටතේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලිස් සේවාවට සහායවීම සඳහා පරිපූරක හමුදාවක් ලෙස  ආරම්භ කළ ග්‍රාමාරක්‍ෂක සේවය” 2006.09.13 වන දින නිකුත් කරන ලද අංක 1462/20 දරණ අති විශේෂ ගැසට් පත්‍රය මගින්  දිවි හිමියෙන් රට රකිමු” තේමාව යටතේ සිවිල් ආරක්‍ෂක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව” නමින් ප්‍රතිසංවිධානය කරන […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The Institute of National Security Studies (INSS), the Ministry of Defence’s premier think tank on national security, hosted a Round Table Discussion on Ensuring Holistic Human Security: Empowering Sri Lankan Children Through Safe And Fulfilling Work Environments” on Thursday, September 14, 2023, from 1400hrs to 1530hrs (IST) via Zoom. […]

Politics A discussion between the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, which is a major political party allied with it, was held on the night of 13.09.2023 in Colombo. The discussion was held under the leadership of Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, the leader of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, and Mr. Basil Rajapaksa, the National Organizer […]

By Ranga Jayasuriya/Daily Mirror Colombo, September 13: Channel 4’s latest documentary on the Easter Sunday attack is way too depressing for any Sri Lankan, more so for the survivors and relatives who live with the memories of the slaughter of innocents. But, after a 47-minute-long documentary, all that emerges is a ghastly piece of clickbait […]

by a special correspondent Courtesy Ceylon Today In recent years, if there’s been an event that has sent shockwaves through our nation, akin to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is undeniably the Easter attack. Regrettably, many individuals have exploited this tragedy for political gain, seemingly oblivious to the harrowing truth that lies beneath. Sri Lanka finds […]

By A Special Correspondent Courtesy Ceylon Today Last year, a Sri Lankan individual stood resolutely before the special Bench of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, enduring five days of intense scrutiny from the organisation’s officials. During this period, he revealed a trove of State secrets, all while his life hung perilously in […]

By Special Correspondent Courtesy Ceylon Today A few days ago, this writer posed a critical question to an Islamic scholar of Sri Lankan heritage, now residing in Australia, regarding the Easter attacks: Was it a sinister political conspiracy? The response was unequivocal—there was no political conspiracy lurking behind the gruesome event. However, what unfolded was […]

By Divya Chandrababu Courtesy The Hindustan Times The Sri Lankan convicts have been lodged in the foreigners’ detention camp in Tamil Nadu’s Trichy until their deportation Chennai: The Union government has informed the Madras high court that it has taken steps to deport all the four Sri Lankans, convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, […]

Courtesy AdaDerana President Ranil Wickremesinghe and his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez engaged in a bilateral meeting in Havana this morning (15 Sep.), and the two leaders have reinforced the bonds of friendship and dialogue between the two nations. Sri Lankan President’s arrival in Cuba was marked by a warm welcome, as he received a […]

Courtesy AdaDerana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed a three-member committee to investigate the allegations in the documentary aired by British television network Channel 4 on the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka. The committee, chaired by retired Supreme Court Justice S.I. Imam, consists of retired Air Force Commander A.C.M. Jayalath Weerakkody and President’s […]

Courtesy AdaDerana The new Central Bank Act, aimed at bolstering the bank’s independence, accountability and price stability in the country, comes into effect today (15 Sep.), Acting Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said. Accordingly, the Acting Minister explained that as per the new Act, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka’s (CBSL) ability to print money […]

Courtesy AdaDerana Sri Lanka bank ratings are unaffected by the downgrade of Sri Lanka’s Long-Term Local-Currency Issuer Default Rating to ‘RD’ from ‘C’, says Fitch Ratings. On 14 September 2023, the global credit rating agency downgraded the sovereign’s Long-Term Local-Currency Issuer Default Rating following the completion of an exchange of treasury bonds for longer-dated ones, […]

By Rohana R. Wasala It would be obvious to the correctly informed impartial observer that Sri Lanka’s age-old Buddhist religious cultural establishment is under unprovoked attack both within the country and outside of it. The current controversy about Channel 4’s latest film on Sri Lanka concerning the Easter Sunday suicide bombings carried out by Islamic […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය  පළාත් සභා හා පළාත් පාලන නීති කාලයට ගැලපෙන සේ වෙනස් විය යුතුයි…-අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ අද  (2023.09.14) පළාත් සභා හා පළාත් පාලන අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ප්‍රගති සමාලෝචනයට එක් වෙමිනි. එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා –    බස්නාහිර පළාතේ ඝන අපද්‍රව්‍ය කළමණාකරණය හරියට කෙරෙන්නේ නැහැ කියලා  ජනතාවගෙන් දැඩි විරෝධයක් තියෙනවා. විශේෂයෙන් ගම්පහ හා කොළඹ […]

Media Release Sri Lankan High Commission High Commissioner Chitranganee Wagiswara paid a courtesy call on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence of Australia Richard Marles on 11 September 2023 at his office in the Federal Parliament. She was accompanied by Deputy High Commissioner Chamari Rodrigo and Defence Counsellor Commodore S.P. Kathriarachchi. The Deputy Prime […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Sri Lanka in its recent sanitised report of the 2021/22 National Risk Assessment (NRA) on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) has assessed the overall risk for the country as medium. The report was developed based on the assessment conducted by the FIU of the Central […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka has been listed as one of the 50 best islands in the world for travel for 2023 by Big 7 Travel. The island nation was ranked 13 in the annual round up of the world’s best islands. Sri Lanka has been off the tourism radar for a few years […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror With reference to the decision of the health Ministry to recall the retired medical specialists, medical specialists opined that it is neither a feasible nor a longstanding move to address the shortage of specialists. Speaking to Daily Mirror, Senior Consultant Physician Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama told Daily Mirror, I don’t know how […]

By Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror With the migration of medical professionals from Sri Lanka reaching an alarming level, exacerbated by the low salaries offered to specialists, the health authorities are now admitting that the situation is beyond their control.    According to a top source of the Health Ministry, the Ministry is disappointed […]