Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre A cash donation of 4 million rupees for the renovations of Deegawapiya Stupa was handed over on 17th Nov to Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne who is the ‘Author of the Deeghawapi Aruna Trust’ and ‘First Trustee’. Ms. Chandra Silva made the donation at the Ministry of Defence located […]

by A. Abdul Aziz Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka. In last Friday Sermon (17th November 2023) delivered at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, United Kingdom, Supreme Head of the world wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad reiterate Ahmadis to Continue their prayers for Palestinians, His Holiness said: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (Fifth […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Nov 18 (DailyMirror) – Foreign intelligence agencies have alerted Sri Lanka that a video clip is being prepared to be disseminated around the world on November 27, using artificial intelligence to indicate that Dwaraka Prabhakaran, the daughter of late LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, is still alive, informed sources said. November 27 is the […]

Courtesy The Hindu The Sri Lankan Navy personnel had detained the fishermen under charges of poaching into their waters. The Tamil Nadu Fisheries Department said that the country boat fishermen were arrested for allegedly fishing at Parithithurai, which falls under Sri Lankan waters. In yet another fresh incident, the Sri Lankan Navy personnel arrested 22 […]

 By AJITH SIRIWARDANA  Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today revealed that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) president Shammi Silva had sent a letter to the International Cricket Council (ICC) alleging that the Sports Ministry had made undue interferences in its activities and claimed that this had paved the way for the […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – The Constitutional Council (CC) appears to be divided, with the majority of members declining to approve the reappointment of Mr. C.D. Wickramaratne as the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Daily Mirror learns. The government has failed to make a permanent appointment since March this year because of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – Sri Lanka is expected to make further headway with regard to restructuring its foreign debt and securing the second tranche of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, as the government has disclosed the terms of the US $ 4.2 billion debt deal with China Exim Bank to […]

Courtesy Adaderana During the key note address at the ‘YPO Colombo Experience: Rediscover the Pearl’ conference held today (18) at the Shangri La hotel Colombo, President Ranil Wickremesinghe revealed his vision for transforming the economic landscape of the region. The President, who held discussions with the new Maldivian President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu, yesterday (17), expressed […]

Courtesy Adaderana November 18, 2023   10:34 pm Samagi Jana Balawegaya’s (SJB) has drawn attention to bringing up a no-confidence motion against the Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) Prof. Ranjith Bandara. SJB Parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella stated that discussions pertaining to the matter are currently in progress. COPE chairman Prof. Ranjith Bandara came under […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ දැන් දකුණු ඉන්දියාවේ රාමේශ්වරන් සිට උතුරේ කන්කසන්තුරේ දක්වා නාවික මගී ප්‍රවහාන සේවයක් ආරම්භ කර තිබේ.  දැනට පවත්නා අයහපත් මෝසම් කාලගුණ තත්ත්වය නිසා එය නවත්වා ඇතත් ලබන ජනවාරි මස සිට එය නැවත ආරම්භ වන බව ඉන්දියාව පවසයි. මෙවැනි නාවික ප්‍රවාහන සේවයක් ඇරම්හීම ඉතාම හොඳ දෙයක් බව බොහෝ දෙනා පවසයි. ඉන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ආර්ථික වාසි […]

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Prof. Hudson McLean Why Does the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Send a Bucket Load of Military Officers as Diplomats? Do Sri Lankan Political Leaders Have a Short Memory? Read the following article to recap on history! The Powerful Rajapaksa Dynasty Bankrupted Sri Lanka in Just 30 Months – Bloomberg.27 Apr 2022 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-27/the-powerful-rajapaksa-dynasty-bankrupted-sri-lanka-in-just-30-months Do I […]

Fawz Mohammed  (Dinamina)  Courtesy:  ‘Silumina’ December 17, 2022 ඔහු නමින් සේනක වීරරත්නය. ‍හෙතෙම ප්‍රවීණ නීතිඥයෙකි. ලේඛකයෙකි. චින්තනවාදියෙකි. ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් පිටියේ දැඩි අවධානයට ලක් වූ ලිපියක් වසර 1997 මාර්තු මාසයේ 25 වැනිදා ‘දි ඔස්ට්‍රේලියන්‘ පුවත්පතේ පළ විය. ‘third umpire should perform role of appeal judge‘ ශීර්ෂ පාඨය යටතේ පළ වූ එම ලිපියෙහි සඳහන් වූයේ ඒ වන විට […]

Daily News Editorial ( Feb. 11, 2010} In 1997 a Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna proposed the use of aThird Umpire in an appellate capacity with powers to entertain anddecide upon appeals from a player dissatisfied with the decision of anon-field umpire. Twelve years later after much debate and discussion in the cricketworld, the ICC […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS REVISED 18.11.23 The Sarasavi publication Kurundi vihara vamsaya” (2023) provides a systematic account of the difficulties faced by Kurundi in the present period. The account is often in the first person, from the experience of the chief priest of Kurundi, Ven. Galgamuwe Santhabodhi.  In this book, Ven. Santhabodhi relates his experience in trying […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS REV 21.11.23 Ven. Santhabodhi met with continuous opposition from the Tamil Separatist Movement in his attempt to conserve Kurundi. The Tamil Separatist Movement had been observing what was going on in Kurundi from the very start and moved in on important occasions. EVENT NO 1  On 4. September 2018. Santhabodhi accompanied by Department […]

Dilrook Kannangara Presenting the budget in parliament, President Wickramasinghe repeatedly mentioned that his budget is not an election budget. However, the substance of his budget is a complete election budget. It is aimed at reviving the UNP as a viable political party once again at the expense of rural masses and national interests. The budget […]

Manusha Media මනුෂ්‍යත්වය අන් සියල්ලට ඉහළින් අගය කරන ජනතාවක් ලෙස සියලු භේද පසෙකලා, සහෝදරත්වයෙන් සහ අන්‍යෝන්‍ය අවබෝධයෙන් යුතුව එකිනෙකා වෙනුවෙන් යුතුකම් ඉටුකරන ජනසමාජයක් ගොඩනැගීමට දායකත්වය සැපයීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව ‘’අපිට ඉන්නෙ අපි විතරයි’’ යන තේමාව ඔස්සේ සැලසුම් කරන ලද සංහිදියාවේ මනුසත්කාරය වැඩසටහන් පෙළේ ආරම්භක දැනුවත්කිරීම් සැසිය සර්ව ආගමික පූජකවරුන් සහ කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය ගරු […]

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Sugath Kulatunga In his budget speech 2024 President RW waxed eloquent on his proposal to give legal ownership of land to 2 million families who are now owning them under a license system. He has tried to give the proposal an undeserving anti-colonial nationalist flavor by referring to this land as lands acquired by the […]

Media Release Sri Lanka High Commission Canberra Sri Lanka High Commissioner in Australia Chitrangani Wagiswara paid an official call on the Minister for Multiculturalism, Small Business, Lands and Property and Sport of New South Wales (NSW) Steve Kamper on 7 November 2023 at his office. The minister spoke of the large number of Sri Lankan […]

By Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror) – The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) will not be convened until issues pertaining to its chairman is resolved, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced today. The Speaker’s announcement came after opposition MPs requested him to remove COPE Chairman Prof. Ranjith Bandara from […]

BY YOHAN PERERA AND AJITH SIRIWARDANA COLOMBO (Daily Mirror)- President Ranil Wickremesinghe had a discussion with Asian Cricket Council president Jay Shah on Thursday to discuss the cricket crisis in Sri Lanka, Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said today. He told this in Parliament while responding to a claim by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa alleging that Jay […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on High Posts has approved the appointment of former Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama as the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He had served as the Cabinet Minister of Foreign Affairs from 28 January 2007 until he was defeated in the General […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lankan government, expressing its regret, has condemned the statements targeting the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah, ICC officials and other ICC member countries.  Taking into X (formerly Twitter), Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said the government is committed to hosting and […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka will call for expressions of interest (EOI) in setting up nuclear power plants, its energy minister said on Friday, as it seeks cheap electricity to support its economic recovery. The primary source of energy in the island nation is from imported oil and coal, and hydropower. The government aims to produce […]