C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Eelam deal? After reading Mr. P. K. Balachandran’s (PKB) essay, Roots of ethnic contestation in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province,” (Daily Mirror on October 10th, 2023), I tried to understand why he wrote it and what was his purpose. Did he find any new roots of his own helping people to understand […]

Prof. Hudson McLean The Pen Not the Gun! Right at this moment the World has Reached a Critical Crunch, mainly due to Human Greed & Fear! The Russian Invasion of Ukraine is a Case-in-Point! The Fear of Crimea falling into NATO hands drove Russia to move into forward gear to attack Ukraine. It is said […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ (IMF) විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ ආචාර්ය ක්‍රිෂ්ණමූර්ති සුබ්‍රමනියන් මහතා අතර හමුවක් අද (2023.10.23)  අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. එකඟ වූ වැඩසටහනේ ප්‍රගතිය විස්තර කළ ආචාර්ය ක්‍රිෂ්ණමූර්ති සුබ්‍රමනියන් මහතා     ආර්ථික ප්‍රගතිය සඳහා රජයේ මධ්‍ය කාලීන මෙන්ම දිගු කාලීන සැලසුම් සඳහා අවශ්‍ය සහය පිළිබඳව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාගෙන් උපදෙස් ඉල්ලා සිටියේය.  දැනට ගෙන […]

Courtesy The Nation In the recently held elections in Maldives, a pro-China candidate Mohamed Muizzu won the elections on the slogan India Out” of Maldives. The Indian Ocean islands have been a battleground between China and India. The area is 9000 square kilometres out of which 298 square kilometres is dry land. No island is […]

Reuters COLOMBO, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s consumer price inflation rate eased to 0.8% year-on-year in September from 2.1% in August, the statistics department said on Monday. The National Consumer Price Index (LKNCPI=ECI) captures broader retail price inflation and is released with a lag of 21 days every month. Food prices fell 5.2% in September after […]

CNN Oct 23 (CNN) – We don’t want any foreign military boots on Maldivian soil… I promised this to the people of the Maldives and I will live up to my promise from day one.” Dr Mohamed Muizzu, who won the Maldives presidential election last month, is wasting no time in asking India to get […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Counterpoint American Jews protest in Washington DC against Israel Colombo, October 23: It comes as no surprise that liberals, leftists and Muslims in America have been demonstrating against Israel’s bid to de-populate Gaza under the guise of hunting down Hamas. But what has come as a  surprise is that a large section of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana A Cabinet reshuffle took place this morning (23 Oct.), during which the ministerial portfolios of several ministers including Mahinda Amaraweera and Keheliya Rambukwella were changed. Accordingly, Minister Amaraweera, was sworn in as the Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Industries, while former Health Minister Rambukwella was sworn in as the new Minister of Environment. […]

By Citizen Perera Who says Sri Lanka is our Motherland, the country of our forefathers, the country of our birth, the country where we married, the country where our children were born and grew up, the country where our parents died and are buried, the country whose soil would one day lie comfortably over us, […]

e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 15-21 October 2023 * Sri Lanka, Palestine & South Africa feature among the world’s foremost struggles for majority rule in a unitary state… * The USA is telling us to watch them engulf West Asia in blood in ‘real-time’. Again. They wish to […]

Dilrook Kannangara Indian pitches are designed for cheap commercial ventures like IPL. These are unsuitable for international tournaments. CWC 2023 has broken batting records for the sole reason that cricket pitches are for slog-cricket and not for professional cricket. Bowlers can’t get any real support from these slog pitches. Good cricketing pitches balance between support […]

එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය UNP  කියන්නේ පවුලේ පක්ෂයක් නෙමෙයි. අපි නියමිත වෙලාවට මැතිවරණ පවත්වනවා. 2024 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ නිර්පාක්ෂික අපේක්ෂකයා රනිල්.  නිහැඬියාව බිඳිමින් රවී විශේෂ සම්මේලනය අමතමිනි කියයි. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය හැර ගොස් සිටින සියලුම දෙනාට යළි මහ ගෙදරට පැමිණෙන ලෙසත් UNP කියන්නේ පවුලේ පක්ෂයක් නොවන බවත් කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික් නායක හිටපු මුදල් අමාත්‍ය රවි කරුණානායක මහතා පවසනවා. ඒ […]

Manusha Media ස්මාර්ට් රටක් වෙනුවෙන් සිස්ටම් චේන්ජ්” කරමින් 2048 වන විට ආර්ථික නිදහස් රටක් හදන වැඩපිළිවෙල මගෙන් පටන් ගමු” වැඩසටහන සුගතදාස ගෘහස්ත ක්‍රීඩාංගනයේදී පැවති එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ විශේෂ සම්මේලනයේදී ආරම්භ විය. ස්මාර්ට් රටක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමේ වැඩසටහන මගේ පටන් ගමු” යැයි ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා විශේෂ සමුළුවේදී සදහන් කළ අතර කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ […]

By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island The English cricketer Moeen Ali, who incidentally is also the vice-captain of the team, posted on his Instagram page a thought-provoking quote: If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing”. The […]

by Vijaya Chandrasoma Courtesy The Island War does not determine who is right. Only who is left. Bertrand Russel Saturday, October 7, 2023 was yet another Day that will live in Infamy, like December 7, 1941, when US President Roosevelt coined the phrase after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, which paved the way for America’s […]

Courtesy The Island Peter Breuer Sri Lanka should aim to get state revenues more than 12 percent of gross domestic product and avoid revenue shortfalls next year, International Monetary Fund Senior Mission Chief Peter Breuer said. Sri Lanka projected revenues (including non-tax) of 3,408 billion rupee (11.3 -pct of GDP) and the IMF 3,286 billion […]

Courtesy The Island President Ranil Wickremesinghe addresing the Special General Convention of the United National Party on Saturday (21) Addressing the Special General Convention of the United National Party (UNP) held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo on Saturday (21)., President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized his commitment to bolstering the country’s economy by positioning Sri […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A new legislation will be introduced soon to ensure the proper standards of MPs, President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced today. Many are questioning the standard of Parliament following the two incidents that took place during this week. Therefore, I would like to state that former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya is drafting legislation to […]

Courtesy India Today In the past 24 hours, ten people have died of a heart attack in different areas of Gujarat while they were performing Garba at Navratri celebrations. Garba organisers in Gujarat have taken steps to ensure the safety of people by stationing doctors and ambulances at the venues. (Illustration by Vani Gupta/India Today) […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 21 (Counterpoint): Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickemesinghe’s visit to China from October 16 to 20, has resulted in Sri Lanka’s reiterating its commitment to participate in China’s global development project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). That is despite India’s warning on October 11 about the dangers inherent in accepting China’s […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක තරමක් දීර්ඝ ලිපියක් බැවින් ඉවසීමෙන් කියවීමට කරුනාවෙන් ආරාධණා කරමි. ඔබට නිවන් දැකීමට අවශ්‍ය සියළුම ප්‍රතිපදාව මෙම ලිපියේ අන්තර්ගතව ඇතැයි සිතමි. බුද්ධ දර්ශණය හා නිවන් මග යනු අතහැරීමයි නැතහොත් අතහැරීමෙන් ප්‍රකටවන අල්පේච්ඡතාවයයි. ඔබ සියල්ලම අතහැරීමට සූදානම්නම් නිවන් දැකිය හැකිය. අතහැරීමට නොහැකිනම් නිවන ඔබවෙත ලඟා නොවෙයි. නිවන් දකින මඟ යනු අතහැරීම සම්පූර්ණ කරන ප්‍රතිපදාවයි. අතහැරීම […]

TASS According to the interlocutor of the American journalist, Israeli forces can use American guided bombs during a ground operation, which can penetrate to a depth of 30-50 m before exploding, which will make it possible to destroy the underground weapons production facilities of the radical Hamas movement NEW YORK, October 18. /TASS/. Israel is […]

by Dave DeCamp Courtesy Antiwar.com Biden Pitches Americans on Funding Wars in Gaza and Ukraine The president is expected to ask Congress for $100 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and border funding Tags President Biden on Thursday night delivered a speech from the Oval Office making his case for the US continuing to fund the […]

wudu1982 Do the jewels, bones and ashes found in an Indian tomb in 1898 mark the final resting place of the Buddha himself, or was it all an elaborate hoax? When Colonial estate manager, William Peppe, set his workers digging at a mysterious hill in Northern India in 1898, he had no idea what they’d […]

Shenali D Waduge Some points highlighting the dangers to Sri Lanka’s national sovereignty is highlighted by Dr. Wasantha Bandara. The sinhala version of his article is attached.   Dr. Wasantha claims 26 countries have been divided to fulfil strategic objectives of Western imperialists with the intervention of UN making the necessary demarcations in territory that have […]

by A. Abdul Aziz Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka. During his Friday sermon in earlier today’s (20th October 2023) delivered at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, United Kingdom, Supreme Head (Khalifa) of the world wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad drew attention to the seriousness of the ongoing conflict in the Holy […]

Prof. Hudson McLean For over 2000 years Jews have been suffering for the Death Curse of Jesus Christ, cast by the Jews themselves. The Roman Pontius Pilate washed his hands, demonstrated daily by the Catholic priest, daily at each Holy Mass. Why did the Western World stand by Israel when Palestinians were left out in […]

Manusha Media Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara has revealed that around a thousand new job opportunities have opened up in Israel’s agricultural sector and emphasized that the government will carefully assess the current security situation in the country before taking necessary steps to employ Sri Lankans in these job opportunities. Minister Nanayakkara shared […]

By Peter Koenig Global Research, October 11, 2023 Most people, including journalists on both sides of the aisle – mainstream and non-mainstream — seem to believe that this a one-off war, a surprise attack by Hamas, the defenders” of Palestine. It is not. Connecting a few dots over the past 70 years may help better understand […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය  අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ  අද (2023.10.20) BMICH හිදී පැවති Techno 2023, කාර්මික හා තාක්ෂණ ප්‍රදර්ශනය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමිනි. එහිදී අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා – ආර්ථික අර්බුදයෙන් මිදීමේ අරමුණ සාක්ෂාත් කර ගැනීම සඳහා ‘ආර්ථිකය ප්‍රකෘතිමත් කිරීමට ඉංජිනේරුකරණය‘ යන තේමාව යටතේ techno2023 සංවිධානය කිරීම පිළිබඳව ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඉංජිනේරු ආයතනය (IESL) වෙත ප්‍රශංසාව […]