Courtesy  Global Times Illustration: Liu Rui/Global TimesThe Group of Seven (G7) countries may want to geo-politicize China’s ban on aquatic product imports from Japan and make the so-called anti-economic coercion a tool to exert pressure on China.  The Group of Seven (G7) countries may want to geo-politicize China’s ban on aquatic product imports from Japan […]

ප්‍ර සමරසිංහ අම්මාගේ කවි සේම අප නැලවූ නැළවිලි ගී ද තැනී තිබුනේ උතුම් පැවැත්ම එහෙමත් නැත්නම් සතර බ්‍රහ්ම විහරණ ගුණ තුල පිහිටා උපන් දේශය, ජාතිය, ආගම, බස ලෙන්ගතුව රකින ඇරයුම් පිරි වදන් වලින්ය. තවද ඒ ගී තුල තිබු තුන් රුවනෙ සරණ, සිව් වරම් දෙවි ආසිරි අදටත් අප ජීවිත, අන් ජිවිත ජීවත් කරවමින් ජීවත් වන්නේය. මැදිහත් […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre දීඝවාපි මහා සෑය ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ අතරතුර හමු වූ සර්වඥ ධාතූන් වහන්සේලා හා දීඝවාපි මහා සෑ රඳුන්ගේ තැන්පත් කෙරෙන චූඩා මාණික්‍ය ලක්වැසි සැදැහැවත් ජනතාවට සියැසින් දැක වන්දනාමාන කිරීමට අවස්ථාව සලසාදීමේ අරමුණින් සිදුකෙරෙන දීඝවාපී මහා සෑ ධාතූ වන්දනා” අද (ඔක්. 31) ගැටබරු රජමහා විහාරය වෙත වැඩම කරවන ලදි. නොවැම්බර් 01 සහ 02 […]

Courtesy Nikkei Asia COLOMBO (Reuters) — Sri Lanka’s cabinet approved a hike in Value Added Tax (VAT) up to 18% from the current 15% with effect from Jan. 1, 2024, said Transport Minister Bandula Gunawardana. State tax revenue of the first nine months of 2023 rose 51% as compared to the same period last year but tax collection […]

Courtesy The Island A student being awarded a certificate The Russian Classical Ballet Examination 2023 was held recently at the BMICH and certificates and medals were awarded to the students on the same day by Buddhapriya Ramanayake – CEO, Dr Oxana Karnovich- Examiner from Moscow, Maria Popova, First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Colombo […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The economy was in such a precarious situation that the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government couldn’t further delay the restoration of the relevant provisions of the 1953 Foreign Exchange Act to compel the private sector to bring back export proceeds, rebel SLPP MP Prof. G.L. Peiris said yesterday (30). Referring to a […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Senior Consultant Physician Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA), the Health Ministry announced. The appointment has been made by newly appointed Health Minister Dr. Ramesh Pathirana. Dr. Wijewickrama replaces Prof. S.D. Jayaratne, whose leadership was challenged as the NMRA faced a […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The owner of the company, which stands accused of importing 22,500 substandard immunoglobulin vials, and two top government employees who approved the importation have been imposed a foreign travel ban by the Maligakanda Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Accordingly, the three persons, who were imposed with foreign travel bans in the case pertaining […]

Courtesy Adaderana Scientists from China and Sri Lanka are conducting a joint marine scientific activities on board a Chinese research vessel, a senior official said Tuesday, amid concerns voiced by India and the US. The Chinese ship, ‘Shi Yan 6’ arrived at the Colombo port last week. According to sources, Sri Lanka was delaying granting […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has discussed the escalation of salaries in the government service and the private sector by the 2024 Budget. During the discussion, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has made aware to the Cabinet of Ministers that it is expected to furnish proposals to the Parliament in his capacity as the Minister of […]

Courtesy Adaderana At the second high-level roundtable discussion on ‘Crisis to Recovery’ today (Oct. 31), both developmental partners and the private sector have expressed overwhelming commitment and confidence in the Sri Lankan government’s current reform efforts. Today’s roundtable has provided an open and candid forum between the government of Sri Lanka, the developmental partners and […]

Courtesy Adaderana India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will embark on a three-day official visit to Sri Lanka tomorrow (Nov. 01), the Indian government said in a statement. During the visit, Minister Sitharaman will deliver the Keynote Address as the Guest of Honour at the ‘NAAM 200’ organised by the Sri Lankan government to commemorate the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is set to award a multi-billion dollar oil refinery project to a Chinese state-owned company after a rival bidder pulled out, the energy minister said Tuesday. Kanchana Wijesekera said the government would shortly enter into an investment agreement with Sinopec to build the refinery next to the Chinese-run port at the […]

Reviewer – N.A.de S. Amaratunga Review of the novel Mahagedera”  Author – Gunadasa Amarasekera Publisher – Visiduna Prakashakayo Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera’s allegorical little story Mahagedera” has within it the story of our present pathetic state, struggling in the grip of neo-liberalism, lacking in genuine patriotic leadership, intellectual guidance, civilisational consciousness, a national economy, unable to […]

Garvin Karunaratne Director at Center for Global Poverty Alleviation In my endless travels in countries in three continents, the only country where wind turbines have been continuously sited in the coastal areas happens to be Sri Lanka. In Lanzorette in the Canaries, firstly the authorities built two turbines on the coast, but later they realized […]

පුරවැසි පෙරේරා විසින් කවුද කියන්නේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අපේ මාතෘභූමිය, අපේ මුතුන් මිත්තන්ගේ රට, අපි උපන් රට, අපි විවාහ වූ රට, අපේ දරුවන් ඉපදී හැදී වැඩුණු රට, අපේ දෙමාපියන් මිය ගොස් මිහිදන් කළ රට, කාගේ රට? අපි ආදරයෙන් ගෙදර යැයි කියන රට වන පස කවදා හෝ අපට වඩා සුවපහසු ලෙස වැතිර සිටීවිද? අප ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් බව […]

e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 22-28 October 2023 * The English ‘Governor’ Brownrigg & his translator, the ‘writer’ D’Oyly, usually star as ghosts at the Brutish Council’s misnamed Galle Literary Festivals. It should be called The D’Oyly Literary Festival, for it is with his sort – forget Robert Knox – that the […]

Vichara The inconsiderate hike of electricity tariff by the CEB with the approval of the government is the unbearable burden on electricity consumers who are already battered by an unremittingly high cost of living. The Minister of Power has already obtained Cabinet approval to revise prices every three months. This means that there will be […]

Mehjabin Bhanu The Bangabandhu Tunnel, the only tunnel in South Asia, was opened by Sheikh Hasina, the visionary behind Bangladesh’s transformation, the development wizard and architect of a brighter future for Bengalis. It spans 3.43 km from Patenga in Chittagong to Anwara end of Chittagong. Chittagong residents were celebrating the pleasure of creation because they […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne graced the closing ceremony of the 14th Asian Criminology Conference 2023 held at the Faculty of Graduate Studies of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) in Ratmalana today (Oct 29). The Chief Guest, Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya PC and the Defence Secretary were […]

Courtesy The Sunday Times Lycamobile’s French companies were on Thursday fined 10mn euros by a Paris court for money laundering and value-added tax (VAT) fraud. The group’s former chief executive officer Christopher Tooley also received a prison sentence and a heavy fine for complicity in the VAT fraud, agency reports said. Lycamobile, owned by Subaskaran […]

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Courtesy http://www.defenddemocracy.press/ If Russia had realised in time the depth and systemic nature of the aggression and intransigence of the Western capitalist-imperialist system, it would have acted more decisively by preventing or helping to suppress the coup d’état organised by the Americans in Kiev in 2014. And if it had chosen to […]

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Palitha Ariyarathna ISIS thugs take a hammer to civilisation: Priceless 3,000-year-old artworks smashed to pieces in minutes Generally, the main goal of terrorism is to attack the places most familiar to the public. It is working from the graveyard of the nation against it to the temples and monasteries. This is a matter that can […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න සාමාන්‍යයෙන් ත්‍රස්තවාදයේ ප්‍රධාන ඉලක්කය වන්නේ මහජනතාවට වඩාත් හුරුපුරුදු ස්ථානවල පහර දීමය. එය තමාට විරුද්ධ ජාතියේ සොහොන් බිමේ සිට පන්සල් ආරාම දක්වා ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙමින් පවතී. මේබව පසුගිය ලෝක ඉතිහාසය අධ්‍යනය කෙරිමෙන් පවා තේරුම් ගත හැකි කාරණයකි.ත්‍රස්තවාදියා විසින් තමන්ට විරුද්ධ ජාතියේ පැවැත්ම විනාශ කිරීම ඔවුන්ට ඇති ආරක්ෂාව පිළිබඳ හැඟීම විනාශ කිරීම කිනම් හෝ ක්‍රමයකින් ක්‍රියා […]

Top Spin by Suni (courtesy of cricinfo) Top Spin by Suni With thanks to: Shashank Kishore who is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo Oct. 27th 2023 “The entire Sri Lankan team stood together, their collective gaze fixed on the giant screen. The next moment, as the magic word “out” flashed, euphoria broke out. Sadeera Samarawickrama […]

Courtesy LankaLeader ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ රාජ්‍ය ආයතන ප්‍රතිව්‍යුහගත කිරීමේදී ඒවා විදේශියන් අතට පත්වීම වැළැක්වීම සඳහා, එම ආයතන මිලදී ගැනීමට ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ‘ජනතා සමාගමක්’ පිහිටුවීමේ සමාරම්භක උත්සවය අද (27 දා) බණ්ඩාරනායක ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේ බී. – ගොඩනැගිල්ලේ ජැස්මින් ශාලාවේ පැවැත්විණි. එය නම්කර තිබුනේ Treasure Treasure Republic Guardians ලෙස ය. උත්සව සභාව අමතමින් මෙහිදී නයෝමා සේනාරත්න මහත්මිය පැවසුවේ  […]

India NewsPress Trust of India. Taking up the issue with the Centre, Chief Minister M K Stalin urged Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to initiate necessary steps to secure the release all the fishermen and their fishing boats. Chennai:  As many as 37 Tamil Nadu fishermen were arrested and five of their fishing trawlers […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Government is set to implement a new property tax starting from 2025, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya disclosed. This decision has come as a result of recommendations put forth by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to the State Minister. “The new tax will primarily target individuals possessing substantial […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Police have reportedly implemented a number of measures in order to systematically control, and eradicate the operation of organised crime syndicates in the country within the next six months. Addressing an event in Colombo this afternoon (29 Oct.), Western Province Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police (SDIG) Deshabandu Tennakoon noted that […]