Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre State Minister of Defence Hon.  Premitha Bandara Tennakoon chaired a discussion on preventive action on dangerous trees falling and precautionary measures to mitigate possible hazards in suburban areas at the Disaster Management Center (DMC) in Colombo today (Oct. 11) A range of important issues including protecting human lives and […]

OCTOBER 10, 2023  PRESS RELEASES Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Note: The following statement is published according to the guidance of the Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. Statement on behalf of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: Over the past few days, hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians, including women, children and the […]

By Dr.Farah Mihlar Courtesy NewsIn.Asia October 10 (DailyFT):  A comprehensive analytical review of the horrific tragedy that took place on Easter Sunday 2019, when a group of Muslim suicide bombers targeted foreign tourists and Christian places of worship killing over 200 people, has been much awaited and necessary. Apart from a few media articles and […]

By, P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 11: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wikremesinghe’s  visit to China, which is to begin on October 15, is expected to bring in Chinese investments to the Colombo Port City, which has been awaiting both domestic and foreign investment for long. According to Dr.Palitha Kohona, who returned to Sri Lanka upon […]

by Gulf News Looking to enter Sri Lanka’s resurgent tourism sector? Hilton Colombo is a perfect choice On the back of falling inflation rate and rising tourism revenue, the World Bank has revised its forecast for the Sri Lankan economy. It is now expected to expand by 1.7 per cent in 2024, up from an […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island Chinese research vessel Shi Yan 6 would arrive in Sri Lanka in late November, Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Sabry said on Monday (09). The Foreign Ministry had granted approval for the arrival of the ship, he added. The ship is expected to arrive in Sri Lanka on 25 November. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, in a fresh letter addressed to President Ranil Wickremesinghe has called for a local probe to clear certain shortcomings that are visible in the previous probes into the Easter Sunday bomb attacks. The letter signed by several Bishops including Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith who are members […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) is keen to participate in oil and gas exploration opportunities in Sri Lanka and is waiting for the island nation to unveil its roadmap and policy on developing the upstream petroleum industry, the company said Wednesday. OVL is the overseas investment arm of India’s state-owned Oil and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Fitch Ratings said yesterday the cash flow operations of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) would not be sufficient to cover its interest obligations this year, despite a 150 percent tariff increase. This is due to the reduced contribution from low-cost hydro power generation during the year, which compelled CEB to purchase […]

Courtesy Adaderana China has assured that it remains ready to work together with all relevant international financial institutions to jointly play a positive role in helping Sri Lanka ease its debt burden and achieve sustainable development. Speaking during his regular press briefing on Tuesday (10), China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin explained that as Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana Discussions between Sri Lanka and all its creditors are ongoing, though the International Monetary Fund has not been informed about any specific agreements, its mission chief for the country said on Wednesday. We will need to assess the entire package of agreements in its totality to assess consistency with IMF debt targets,” Peter […]

Courtesy AdaDerana The rapid spread of an eye infection called ‘Conjunctivitis’ has been reported from several parts of the country, according to health officials. The Ministry of Health, which informs the general public not to have undue fears of the matter, however, has outlined some necessary safety measures in a bid to minimize the infection. […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Supreme Court issued an order today, mandating that all state universities in the country must provide a comprehensive report by November 10, 2023. This report is expected to include details on any reported incidents of ragging that have occurred at these universities over the past three years. Furthermore, the universities are […]

By Rohana R. Wasala To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used. This is an expanded and updated version of an article that I wrote in 2020 under the above title, which nevertheless has remained unpublished […]

NY Times Joint Statement of the Dicasteries for Culture and Education and for Promoting Integral Human Development on the Doctrine of Discovery”, 30.03.2023 https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2023/03/30/230330b.html 1. In fidelity to the mandate received from Christ, the Catholic Church strives to promote universal fraternity and respect for the dignity of every human being. 2. For this reason, in […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකය ප්‍රකෘතිමත් කිරීමේ ක්‍රියාවලියට තම රට අඛණ්ඩව සහාය දෙන බව පැවසූ ජපාන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ විදේශ කටයුතු පිළිබඳ නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය කොමුරා මසහිරෝ( Komura Masahiro)  මහතා කෙටි කාලයක් තුළ ආර්ථිකය ස්ථාවර කර තවදුරටත් ප්‍රගතිය අත්කර ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් රජයට ප්‍රශංසාව පළ කළේ ය. රජය විසින් සිදු කරන ලද ව්‍යුහාත්මක ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ විදේශ ආයෝජන සඳහා හිතකර […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) handed over a consignment of fifteen thousand (15,000) bottles of drinking water to State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon today (Oct 10) at the Ministry of Disaster Management intended to be distributed among flood affected communities in the Galle and […]

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LankaLeader ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ ස්ටැන්ෆර්ඩ් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය සහ එල්සිවයර් ප්‍රකාශකයන් එක්ව කරන ලද නවතම ශ්‍රේණිගත කිරීම්වලට අනුව ශ්‍රී ලාංකික විද්‍යාඥයෝ 35 දෙනෙක් ලොව ප්‍රමුඛ පෙළේ විද්‍යාඥයන් 2% අතරට ඇතුලත්ව ඇත. වාර්ෂිකව මෙම ශ්‍රේණිගත කිරීම ඉදිරිපත් කරයි. මෙම වර්ෂය සඳහා එම ශ්‍රේණිගත කිරීම පසුගිය සතියේ එළිදැක්විණි. මෙලෙස ඇගයීමට ලක් වූ ශ්‍රී ලාංකික විද්‍යාඥයන් අතර මෙත්තිකා විතානගේ, […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Buddhist monks protest on land issue Colombo, October 10: Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province is again becoming a contested region between ethnic groups. This time round it is more between the Tamils and Sinhalese, with the Muslims in the periphery. This is because of the change in the balance of power between the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Komura Masahiro stated that his country would continue to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery process and congratulated the government for stabilizing the economy during a short span of time and making further progress.  He has also expressed confidence that structural reforms undertaken by the government would improve […]

Courtesy Adaderana (Bloomberg) – China said one of its financial institutions has reached a preliminary agreement with Sri Lanka on resolving China-related debt, a potentially major step toward resolving the South Asian nation’s fiscal woes. The deal involving Export-Import Bank of China was reached late last month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Tuesday at […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D (ඥානසාර හිමියන්ගේ මස් රාත්තල හා ලාල් කාන්තගේ පිරිත් නූල නිසා භීතියට පත්වූ සේපාල්) JVP බිමල් රත්නායක  බොරුකාරයෙක්! මෙම ලිපි මාලාවේ හතරවෙනි කොටස ලිවීමට පසු, බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ ඥානසාර හිමියන් විසින් පැවැත්වූ මාධ්‍ය සාකච්චාව දැකීමෙන් පසු, මෙම පස්වෙනි කොටසේ ලියන්නට සිතා සිටි දේ වෙනස් කිරීමට සිදුවිය. ඊට හේතුව බිමල් රත්නායක නම් […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division Malaysia will support Sri Lanka’s application to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. This was stated by Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dato Seri Diraja Dr Zambry Abd Kadir who held discussions with Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees in Colombo today (October 9). The Prime Minister stated that […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon made an observation tour to the disaster-affected areas following the prevailing adverse weather conditions yesterday (Oct 8) in Matara district. Necessary measures have already been taken by the government to assist the disaster-affected community and relief teams including military forces have […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න මෙම මධ්‍යස්ථානය සකස් වන්නේ බොහෝ දුරට දැනට අවරුදු ගනනාවකට පෙරය එනම් යුද්ධයේදී එල් ටි ටි ය පරාජයවී යාමත් සමගමය. එසේ සිතීමට ආසන්නම හේතුව යුද්ධය පරාජය වූ පසු හමුදාවේ මානුෂිය මෙහෙයුම් ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කල කණ්ඩායම් මහනුවර ප්‍රදේශයෙන් පන්සලක් තැනීමට ඉඩමක් මිලදී ගැනීමට උත්සහා කරන බව නුවර මාධ්‍ය කරුවන්ගේ සවනට ඇසුණු බැවිනි.රකුස් භාවනා මධ්‍යස්ථානය ප්‍රධාන ඉලක්කය […]

BY MEERA SRINIVASAN Courtesy The Hindu business line 16 foreign dignitaries, including External Affairs Minister Jaishankar, expected to attend Council of Ministers meeting on October 11 Several Foreign Ministers, including those of India, Bangladesh, Mauritius, Iran, Malaysia and South Africa, will participate in the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Council of Minister’s meeting in Colombo on […]

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Aloysius Hettiarachchi   It appears that my previous article questioning the useful lifespan and the stability of Victoria Dam (designed by a company named Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners that has been sold or responsibility transferred to a US consultancy), has received world-wide attention. According to an article by one Maddie Burakoff titled ‘How are ancient […]

Courtesy News24  Environmental group Green Connection is lobbying French MPs and members of the European Parliament to hold French corporation TotalEnergies to account for its “ocean grab” in South African waters. Total Energies has applied for environmental approval for oil and gas exploration drilling in several areas offshore along the West Coast, Cape Agulhas, and […]