Courtesy Adaderana Maligakanda Magistrate’s Court has ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to arrest the officials who were responsible for importing and distributing substandard antibodies using forged documents and distributing them to state hospitals. Magistrate Lochana Abeywickrama had further directed the CID officers to produce the suspects before the court before November 16. The order […]

Courtesy Adaderana State Minister of Investment Promotion Dilum Amunugama on Friday (Oct. 13) announced plans to establish a Japan-Sri Lanka Free Trade Zone here. The lawmaker mentioned that Bingiriya and Iranavila areas have been selected for this purpose. His remarks came during a news conference at the Presidential Media Centre, held under the theme ‘Collective […]

Courtesy Adaderana Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has commended the progress Sri Lanka has made thus far with regard to the resolutions under their agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Speaking at the IMF – World Bank meet on India’s Group of 20 (G20) presidency, particularly in response to a question raised regarding the […]

Sudath Gunasekara, in The Island, 16 December 2018,   Vision and mission on water management in Sri Lanka!” A recent study on Sri Lanka has identified it as one of the six countries that share one half of the 0.3% drinkable water this planet has. What is even more important and surprising is that ours […]

by A. Abdul Aziz Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka. In today’s (13th October 2023) Friday Sermon, delivered at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, United Kingdom, Supreme Head of the world wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad asked Ahmadis to pray for the situation in Palestine and Israel and spoke about the injustices […]

Krithiga Narayanan courtesy DW Asia Sri Lanka’s economic reforms are slowly taking hold, but as hunger and poverty continue to rise, observers say the country still has a long way to go before people see improvements to their lives. For several years, Sri Lanka has been facing challenges on multiple fronts, exacerbated by an economic […]

Courtesy CNA NEW YORK : A group of private holders of Sri Lanka’s eurobonds proposed in a debt overhaul plan to the government the issuance of 10 bonds linked with the country’s macroeconomic health that will mature between 2027 and 2036. Holders choosing the macro-linked bonds would take a haircut of 20 per cent on […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The HIP RORO team Vehicles awaiting transhipment at the RORO yard The Hambantota International Port (HIP) has achieved a milestone by handling over half a million transshipment units by September, exceeding the port’s previous year’s roll-on/roll-off (RORO) figures. As the global economy recovers gradually, we continue to aggressively market our location […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Quips it would be easier for President Biden to talk to Hamas than the Congress Leadership President Ranil Wickremesinghe cautioned if Gaza was destroyed it would have a rippling effect from Turkey to the Philippines and governments could lose control. Destroying Hamas is one thing. They can take military action against […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today First of all, I would like to thank our Sri Lankan friends for the excellent arrangement of today’s meeting. We are confident that the tendency to consolidate cooperation between the practice-oriented multipolar platforms like IORA should become the dominant trend. We consider the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Eurasian Economic Union as […]

By Prof. Rasheen Bappu Courtesy Ceylon Today The State of Palestine rejects in the strongest terms the provocative and hateful Speech delivered by the Israeli Prime Minister at the United Nations General Assembly General Debate. From the podium of the United Nations, Israel’s Prime Minister confirmed, yet again, the colonial designs of his government and […]

By Ceylon Today Indo-Canadian relations were disrupted after Canada alleged that Indian intelligence assassinated a Sikh terrorist in Canada. Prof. Rohan Gunaratna wrote the foreword to Stewart Bell’s ‘Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around the World.’ India’s largest-selling English news magazine Weekly interviewed Prof. Gunaratna on Canada offering sanctuary for terrorists. Contrary […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to leave for China tomorrow (Oct. 14) on an official visit. During his stay, Wickremesinghe will attend a conference in Beijing, taking place on October 17 and 18, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). He is also slated to call on Chinese […]

Courtesy Adaderana he Supreme Court has determined that the decision of ‘Ape Jana Bala Pakshaya’ (Our Power of People Party or OPPP) to expel Venerable Athuraliye Rathana Thero from the party is not legally valid. The verdict was delivered when the petition filed by Rathana Thero was taken up before Supreme Court Justices Buwaneka Aluvihare, […]

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara. Mahanuwara The Log standing friendship between Bharath and Sri Lanka We, as Sri Lankans whole hardheartedly, welcome the rise of Bharath Dhesh in 2014 without any reservation. Because Bharath is the fountain of our present unique Sinhala Buddhist civilization. Vijaya the founder father of the Sinhala race came from North Bharatha in 543 […]

RANJITH SOYSA Your Excellency the President Ranil Wickramasinghe.Hon Dinesh Gunawardane- Prime Minister,Hon Mahinda Rajapaksa – the Former President, IMF RECIPE AND SRI LANKA’S FUNDS PARKED ABROAD. All of you are shouldering the unenviable task of attending to the stabilization of the economy and we constantly hear of structural readjustment of the of the debt and the […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Dhammika Perera DP Education is a Noble Patriotic Project to Help Move the Sri Lankan to a Better Tomorrow.  One man cannot move mountains and needs help! The education of youth to the IT World is Excellent. Europe, USA, and Australia need over 100,000 Nurses, with a pay of over USD 2000/month.  […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon made a visit to Imaduwa to inspect the landslide site today morning (Oct 12). He was accompanied by Army Commander Lieutenant General Vikum Liyanage and several senior army officers. An earth slip had occurred last night on a section of the […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය   වෙළෙඳ සහ ආයෝජන සහයෝගීතාව ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍යය සමඟ ඒකාබද්ධ ආර්ථික කවුන්සිලයක් පිහිටුවීමට අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා යෝජනා කරයි.එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍යයේ විදේශ අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ආර්ථික හා වෙළෙඳ කටයුතු පිළිබඳ රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය අහමඩ් බින් අලි සයේග්( Ahmed bin Ali Sayegh) මහතා 2023.10.11 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙම යෝජනාව […]

Dinamina මුලතිව් හිටපු දිසා විනිසුරු සහ මහේස්ත්‍රාත් ටී. සරවනරාජා මහතාට කිසිදු ජීවිත තර්ජනයක් හෝ වෙනත් තර්ජනයක් නොතිබූ බවත් අවම තරමින් සිය බිරියටත් නොදන්වා ඔහු විදේශගත වී ඇත්තේ පූර්ව සැලසුමකට බවත් මේ වන විට සිදු කර ඇති විමර්ශනවලින් තහවුරු වී ඇතැයි අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ඩිජිටල් වෝහාරික අංශය රජයට ඉදිරිපත් කළ වාර්තාවේ සඳහන් වේ. විනිසුරුවරයා සැප්තැම්බර් 25 […]

Courtesy The Daily News Key milestone for PROMPT economic recovery The government yesterday said that it has reached an agreement on the key principles and indicative terms of a debt treatment with the Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank). The Finance Ministry said that the agreement in principle covers around US$ 4.2 Bn of outstanding […]

Courtesy CNA LONDON : Sri Lanka’s private creditors have sent a proposal on how to restructure $12 billion of overseas debt, including a new type of bond designed to ease repayments in case of future economic pressure, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The country of 22 million people tipped into its […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror As Israel continues to pound the Gaza Strip and terrorise some 2.3 million besieged Palestinian people since Saturday in response to what it calls a terror attack by Hamas resistance fighters, what comes to mind is a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: An eye for an eye will only make the whole […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has proposed that Sri Lanka should adopt the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) outlook of the Indo-Pacific as two distinct oceans and prioritize freedom of navigation and undersea cables in the Indian Ocean. Delivering the keynote address at the 11th edition of the Galle Dialogue; International Maritime Conference, which […]

Courtesy Adaderana A special report on the real state of the affairs in Sri Lanka’s conflict is set to be presented before the President, MP Sarath Weerasekara, Chairman of the Sectoral Monitoring Committee on National Security revealed. Speaking at a press conference held at the Presidential Media Centre (PMC) on Thursday (12 Oct.), Weerasekara emphasised […]

Courtesy Pravda Russia and Vietnam intend to deepen their cooperation in the field of energy, including the supply and joint production of oil and gas resources, the development of the coal industry and cooperation in the electric power industry. There are also plans to modernize and build new energy facilities in Vietnam. This information was provided by […]

Prof. Sudharshan Seneviratne, Executive Director General, IORA Sri Lanka Secretariat Sri Lanka is the designated Chair of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) from 2023 to 2025. The 23rd meeting of the IORA Council of Ministers will be held today (11). The Committee of Senior Officials was held from October 9-10, 2023. In 2023 October […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ජැක්සන් ඇන්තනි ජාතියට පහලවූ මහා යුග පුරුෂයකි.ඔහුගේ රංගන කුසලතාවයන් සම්බන්ධව එකිනෙක කතාකලොත් අපිට මහා ග්‍රන්ථයක් නිර්මාණය කල හැකියි. ඔහු නළුවෙක් පමණක්ද නොවෙයි. ගායෙකයෙකු පමණද නොවෙයි.ඔහු චිත්‍රපට අධ්‍යක්ෂක වරයෙක් පමණද නොවෙයි.ඔහු පරිසර ගවේෂකයෙකුද පමණක් නොවෙයි, පරිසරය හා පරිසර වේදනය සම්බන්ධව උගන්වන ගුරුවරයෙකුද පමණක්ද නොවෙයි, ඔහු දේශ ගවේශකයෙකු පමණක්ද නොවෙයි ඒ ඒ සමාජයන්ගේ සංස්කෘතික […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division The members of Board of Governors of Asian Development Bank held detailed discussion with Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on Sri Lanka’s financial requirements for projects for the next 5 years at the Temple Trees in Colombo on October 10. Expressing satisfaction over Sri Lanka’s quick stabilization of the economy after the […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) serves as a platform for implementing Disaster Risk Management Sri Lanka is highly vulnerable to maritime disasters due to oil spills as Sri Lanka is situated in the busiest Shipping Lane in the IOR and cooperation between Navies and Coast Guards is vital to […]