Garvin Karunaratne Former GA Matara 1971-1973 Having read what the newspapers detail on the first day of the budget, I get the impression that Poverty Alleviation and Training and Empovering the unemployed to become productive, making what the economy needs has not been given a place . Opening new universities and selling off post offices […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Ambassador of France to Sri Lanka H.E. Jean-François Pactet engaged in a friendly discussions with the State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon when he called on him at his office in Colombo today (Nov 15). Extending a warm reception to the French Ambassador, Minister Tennakoon sat down […]

Manusha Media ගෘහ සේවිකාවන්ට ගරුත්වයක් ලබාදෙන වැඩසටහනක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනවා.-කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනූෂ නානායක්කාර විදේශ රැකියා වල නිතර ගෘහ සේවිකාවන්ට කරදර සිදුවන බවට කෑ ගැසීමට රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන ඕනෑ තරම් තිබෙන නමුත්, ඉතා සුළු වැටුපකට වහලුන් මෙන් සේවය ලබාගන්නා දේශීය ගෘහ සේවිකාවන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් හඬක් නැගෙන්නේ නැති බවත්, මෙයට විසදුමක් ලබාදෙමින් ඔවුන්ට ගරුත්වයක් ලබාදෙන වැඩසටහනක් […]

Prof. Hudson McLean The appointment of Representing Sri Lanka to Promote the Economy should be offered to Competent Sales Persons and should not be offered as Gifts to Boot-Lickers! I have seen the Sri Lankan diplomats in many countries, who are only drowned in the froth of their Diplomatic position but totally incapable of conducting […]

Geopolitical Economy Report A geopolitical analysis of why the United States so strongly supports Israel: Economist Michael Hudson discusses with journalist Ben Norton.

Chandre Dharma-wardana Credit: Global Justice Now (CC BY 2.0) What chemicals or environmental exposures are likely to cause cancer? That’s a complex question with a wide variance in views across the scientific community.  First, one needs to determine whether a substance or situation is likely to ever cause cancer. For instance, we know that drinking […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Destruction in Gaza Washington, November 16: US public support for Israel’s war against Hamas militants in Gaza is eroding and most Americans think Israel should call a ceasefire to a conflict that has ballooned into a humanitarian crisis, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that was completed on Tuesday. Some 68% of respondents […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් 2020 වසරේ හොඳම පසුබිම් ගායිකාව ලෙස ආචාර්ය නන්දා මාලනි මහත්මිය ජනාධිපති සම්මානයෙන් පිදුම් ලැබූවාය. ඒ කොළඹ නෙළුම් පොකුණ රඟහලේ පැවැති 2023 ජනාධිපති සිනමා සම්මාන ප්‍රදානෝත්සවයේදී ය. ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා වේදිකාවෙන් බැස ප්‍රේක්ෂකාගාරයේ සිටි නන්දා මාලනි මහත්මිය සිටි ස්ථානයටම ගොස් එම සම්මානය පිරිනැමීමට කටයුතු කළේය. පසුගිය වසරේ ගාලුමුවදොර ඇතිවූ අරගලයේ […]

 By YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) Sri Lanka’s cricket crisis has taken a chaotic turn with some members of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and its chairman Ranjith Bandara accusing each other of mishandling the probe on Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). Some COPE members highlighted that Prof. Bandara should be removed […]

Courtesy Hiru News In a startling revelation, serious concerns have emerged about the potential conflict of interest involving the present COPE Chairman, Prof. Ranjith Bandara, who has reportedly been retained by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) as a consultant for the Kandy Cricket Campus project. According to circulated minutes, Prof. Ranjith Bandara has also agreed with […]

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy The Island Roshan Ranasinghe It was so heart-warming to listen to the no-holds-barred speech of the Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe; a very rare occurrence nowadays! As commented in the editorial Cheers for Maxwell and Roshan” (The Island, 9 November), it was a stellar performance indeed. Having sunk to the bottom with the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The targets laid out in Sri Lanka’s budget for 2024 will be challenging to meet, even with the economic recovery that we expect to continue next year, says Fitch Ratings.  The fiscal deficit is set to be wider than our current forecast of 7.1% of GDP in 2024 in light of the new […]

By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island Until 1977, when Kerry Packer set up the World Series Cricket (WSC) tournament, Australia and England took turns to hold the mantle of being the world’s top test-playing team; during this period, the West Indies did, on occasions, challenge the order of supremacy but were never able to be […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Among all the things the environmentally-conscious superhero, Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority, was supposed to protect, his bank account was not one of them. He was caught red-handed in a dramatic arrest last week when he traded his green cape for what would have been some big bucks (and greener’ pastures) […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි  ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමණි, ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමණි, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රිවරුණි, , ස්වයංව නැගීසිටීමට වෙරදරණ, ජේෂ්ඨ පුරවැසියන්ගේ ගැටළු වලට සාධාරණ පිලියමක් ලබාදෙන්න. . ජීවිතයේ අවසාන භාගයේ දිවි ගමන ගෙවන ජේෂ්ඨ පුරවැසියා,වර්තමාන සමාජක්‍රමය තුල ඉතා අසීරු තත්වයකට ඇද වැටෙමින් සිටින බවත්, ඔවුන් සම්බන්ධව කිසිවෙකුගේ අවධානය යොමු නොවන බවත් ඔවුන්ගේ මතය වී ඇත. එදා දුර දර්ශිව සිතා බලා සිය […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena asked the Sri Lankan envoys to focus mainly on economic diplomacy as the country needs the cooperation of other countries for rapid economic progress of the country.Addressing the 10 newly appointed Sri Lankan envoys at the Temple Trees today (Nov 13), he urged them to showcase Sri […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre •     The procession of the Sacred Omniscient Relics of Deegawapiya Stupa and the Crest-Gem to the ancient Buddhist shrines in Kirama, Mulkirigala, Kasagala, Kataragama, Tissamaharama and Lunugamwehera. The relics unearthed from the Deegawapiya site during the excavations and the Crest-Gem which are in exposition around the island to […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Captain Anand Mukundan who joined the mission as Defence Adviser (DA) to the High Commission of India in Sri Lanka, called on the Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne at the Defence Ministry in Sri Jayawardenepura, Kotte today (Nov 14). Gen. Gunaratne warmly received the newly appointed DA on arrival […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) rebuked Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) for following weak processes in performing its activities. It was highlighted that these weak processes had led to the current crisis in cricket. COPE Chairman Ranjith Bandara made this observation after SLC was probed by the […]

By YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – Those who are not fit to be MPs can be removed once the proposed Parliament Standards Bill is enacted, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said yesterday. The Minister came up with this remark after arguments flared up in the House after SJB MP Chaminda Wijesiri […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Raids and Special Investigations Unit of the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has sealed the storage facility owned by a leading sugar importer in Sri Lanka, for hoarding over 250 metric tonnes of sugar. The relevant storage facility was sealed during a series of raids carried out by the CAA in the Peliyagoda […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court today (Nov.14) ruled that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa and several others are responsible for the economic crisis that Sri Lanka is grappling with. On that account, the country’s highest court’s judge bench determined that the three Rajapaksa brothers as […]

Garvin Karunaratne War is War where lands are conquered. People are essentially a disposable quantity. That is what we are seeing in Gaza, intense bombing reducing homes to rubble where the occupants are buried. People being displaced. That is Today’s civilized order to clear out Gaza for occupation! We are also seeing the indomitable human […]

e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists! e-Con e-News 05-11 November 2023 * An armed federal marshal was ordered to guard the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, where that Hamilton ‘debt’ charade is also being played out between a ‘vulture fund’ and the governments of the US, […]

Dilrook Kannangara Mahela is correct. It is the unpalatable truth. Team Sri Lanka did play the best available players. They performed at their actual capability level (albeit 11 runs short on their batting average) and crashed out of the tournament. Based on batting averages, the achievable total in 50 overs is 257 runs. However, within […]

Sugath Kulatunga Even the United Nations is obliged to respect the sovereignty of member nations and refrains from intervening in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction. However, this principle is not respected by the ICC which has considered that action taken under the Sports Law of Sri Lanka is political interference. Suspension of […]

Mehjabin Bhanu – Bangladeshi culuminst, security and strategic affairs analyst, teacher On November 11, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina officially opened the Matarbari port channel and lay the foundation stone of the Matarbari deep sea port. There is a plan to build a deep-sea port on 1,031 acres of land in Matarbari, Maheshkhali upazila, Cox’s Bazar, […]

by A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka. During his last Friday Sermon (10th November 2023) delivered at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, United Kingdom, Supreme Head (Khalifa) of the world wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad speaks of ongoing injustices against Palestinians and warns of Allah’s punishment. He urges Ahmadis to continue […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Our armed forces need to be outfitted with the newest tools and technologies possible in this dynamic and unpredictable age of conflict. Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne made these remarks while attending as the Chief Guest of the membership certificate and identity card awarding ceremony of the College of […]

Courtesy The Daily News While delivering the Budget 2024 speech today President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that Presidential Election and the General Election would be held next year.