Sugath Kulatunga The recent increase of VAT from 12 to 18 percent has become the target of severe criticism by the opposition particularly by the political economists and of course the leader of the opposition. The main plank of the criticism is that it will increase inflation and the cost of living and will be […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් අද (10) මෙරටට පැනවූ ක්‍රිකට් සාමාජිකත්වය අත්හිටුවීමට අදාල ඉල්ලීම සිදුකර ඇත්තේ ශම්මි සිල්වා ප්‍රමුඛ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනය බවට සුප්‍රසිද්ධ cricinfo වෙබ් අඩවිය වාර්තා කරනවා. එමෙන්ම ICC මණ්ඩලය විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් නියෝජිතයින්ට නිරීක්ෂකයෙකු ලෙස සහභාගී වීමට අවසර දී ඇති බැවින් අහමදාබාද්හි පැවැත්වෙන ICC රැස්වීම් සඳහා ශම්මි සිල්වාද […]

Nagraj Gollapudi and Andrew Fidel Fernando https://www.espncricinfo.com/ The decision was taken following a tumultuous week in the SLC after Sri Lanka’s poor performance at the World Cup Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has been suspended by the ICC with immediate effect because of extensive government interference in the board’s administration. Though the ICC has termed the […]

 lanka C news ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ක්‍රිකට් තහනමක් පනවා ඇත්තේ ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් කවුන්සලයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනය කර ඇති ඉල්ලීමක් අනුව යයි ක්‍රික් ඉන්ෆෝ වෙබ් අඩවිය වාර්තා කරයි. ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනයේ සභාපති ශම්මිද සිල්වා විසින් මෙම ඉල්ලීම කර ඇති බවද එම අඩවිය වාර්තා කරයි. ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් සිකුරාදා දින පැවති රැස්වීමටද ක්‍රිකට් සභාපති ලෙස […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror ICC suspends Sri Lanka Cricket over political meddling (Daily Mirror) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended Sri Lanka’s crisis-ridden cricket board yesterday, saying it had failed to ensure there was no government interference in its affairs. The game’s world governing body said Sri Lanka Cricket was “in serious breach of […]

By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will be handed over to former captain Arjuna Ranatunga for a brief period for the task of rebuilding if SLC is suspended by the ICC, Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said today. “We will hand over the task of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror ICC) – The International Cricket Council Board has suspended Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership of the ICC with immediate effect. In a statement released on Friday night, the ICC said that the SLC had breached its obligations as a member, in particular the requirement to manage its affairs autonomously and without government […]

By Latheef Farook Israeli genocide of   Palestinian civilians and the destruction of  Gaza, blindly backed by United  States and Europe , exposed the  political and military bankruptcy of  secular Arab dictators. So far they refused to do anything substantial  to stop  genocide  of  Palestinians who were deprived of water,food,medicine, fuel and electricity for more than […]

Manusha Media පුද්ගලික අංශයේ සේවකයාට අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල ලැබෙනවා. රාජ්‍ය සේවකයාට විශ්‍රාම වැටුප තියෙනවා. රක්ෂණ ලැබෙනවා. ත්‍රීරෝද රථ රියදුරන්ට මොනවාද ලැබෙන්නේ? මුළු රටේම සමස්ත වෘත්තිකයින්ට සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ වැඩපිළිවෙලක් හදන්න කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලට මට විශේෂ අනුමැතියක් ලබාදී තිබෙනවා වැරදි වැඩ කරලා අනතුරු සිදුවන්නේ ත්‍රිරෝද රථ විතරද? මේ අහිංසක මිනිස්සුන්ට චෝදනා කරලා හැමෝම නිදහස් වෙනවා ත්‍රීරෝද රථ රියදුරන් කියන්නේ […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ පෘතුගාල තානාපති  Joao Manuel Mendes de Almeida මහතා අතර හමුවක් (2023.11.06) අරලිය ගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හිතකර සංචාරක ගමනාන්තයක් ලෙස පෘතුගාල ජනතාව අතර ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා පුළුල් ප්‍රචාරණ වැඩසටහනක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු කරන ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා එහිදී යෝජනා කළේය. පෘතුගාල සංචාරකයින් […]

VFM RADIO 107 ක්‍රිකට් සම්බන්ධ අභියාචනාධිකරණ තීන්දුවේ විනිසුරුගේ සබඳතා අතර ගැටුම ගැන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් වෙයි….අධිකරණ තීන්දුව දෙන්න කලින් මම හැමදේම දැනං හිටියා මෙන්න ඇත්ත.. මෙන්න යථාර්තය.. අධිකරණ තීන්දුව දෙන්න කලින් මම හැමදේම දැනං හිටියා ඉතිහාසයේ දැකපු සුපිරිම ක්‍රීඩා ඇමති රොෂාන්ද..?

Courtesy Ceylon Today Let me start by congratulating the Governor, Deputy Governors, members of the former Monetary Board and members of the current Monetary Policy Board. Since April 2022 they have taken bold decisions and led the demanding technical work to stabilise the economy after the deepest economic crisis that Sri Lanka has suffered since […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today As the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Law, gets established and the Bank’s practices evolve, a further strengthening of the legislation could be considered to safeguard the CBSL’s independence. In my view, three features of the law could be re-examined in that context, the last of which is the most important: […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today So how can we have better Governance around Taxation? Transparency and simplicity of the tax system are critical for ensuring good governance. Complex tax systems with multiple rates, exemptions, and scope for arbitrary decision-making open room for the abuse of power and mainly serve vested interests. By contrast, a tax system that […]

Mehjabin Bhanu – A Bangladeshi columnist, security, and strategic affairs analyst, teacher The nation is experiencing to some extent an economic crisis. In between, political upheaval has begun. The blockade-strike has begun. The misery of regular people will intensify as a result. All items, especially consumer goods, have seen price increases in recent days. There’s […]

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By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Call for Gaza ceasefire in London streets Colombo, November 8: With the war in Gaza entering the second month, and the killings taking the shape of a genocide, Western governments are coming under mounting pressure from their people to revise their pro-Israel stand and enforce a ceasefire or at least […]

By Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – According to reports, the Power and Energy Ministry is expediting the signing of documents for a Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with India’s Adani Group to establish a new wind power plant in the Mannar basin with a capacity of 250 MW, Sri Lanka […]

By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – President Ranil Wickremesinghe has to decide whether he wants me or ‘Betting’ Shammi, Minister of Sports Roshan Ranasinghe told Parliament while dropping bomb shells on Sri Lanka Cricket ( SLC). “Some interested persons are out to mislead the President by giving […]

Courtesy Adaderana රොෂාන් රණසිංහගෙන් ආන්දෝලනාත්මක හෙළිදරව්වක් “එළියට ගියානම් කරන්න වෙන්නේ නෑ”

Courtesy Adaderana The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) today announced it has committed more than half a billion dollars to support the development of a deepawater shipping container terminal in the Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka, that will provide critical infrastructure for the South Asian region.  The new terminal reflects DFC’s commitment to financing […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara As it is not clear whether this 12 hrs decision is meant for both the public sector and the private sector, I limit this discussion only to the public sector. At present, keeping with universally accepted international labour laws in almost all countries the 8-hour working day rule has come to satay […]

Dilrook Kannangara Dismal performance of Sri Lankan cricketers in Asia Cup 2023 and ICC CW 2023 can be attributed to many things. However, what is most intriguing is the bizarre circumstances they have put themselves in. Getting all out for 50 odd runs in both last encounters with India is a very strange fluke as […]

Dheshamaanya Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Ex-Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka and President Mahanuwara Sinhala Baudhdha Jesta Purawesiyange  Sanvidhanaya. EELAM concept is a vicious colonial invention of the West to entice the Tamils in Sri Lanka to destroy the only Sinhala Buddhist nation on this planet, to realize their long term strategic and geopolitical goals in […]

Vijay Prasad From 9 to 15 October, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their annual joint meeting in Marrakech (Morocco). The last time that these two Bretton Woods institutions met on African soil was in 1973, when the IMF-World Bank meeting was held in Nairobi (Kenya). Kenya’s then President Jomo Kenyatta (1897–1978) […]

Sugath Kulatunga. Cricket has today become virtually the national game of Sri Lanka. It is played in different forms of hard ball to soft ball games in the urban playgrounds and in the village fields. It is watched and enjoyed by spectators of all ages and means. The brilliant performance of our women’s team has […]

By Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – There is a slight increase in the roaming of the highly poisonous fish species called ‘Gonmaha-Stone Fish’ in the sea areas these days with the changing of the monsoon, Parasitology Department Senior Lecturer Dr. Janaka Ruben said. He told the media that even […]

Manusha Media සීනි බද්ද වෙනස්වන බවට තොරතුරු කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් වීමටත් පෙරම ව්‍යාපාරිකයින් අතට පත්වූයේ කෙසේ දැයි ප්‍රශ්ණ කර සිටින බවත්, බදු සංශෝධනය පිළිබඳ දැන සිටියේ රේගු නිලධාරීන් බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනූෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසීය. සීනි බදු වැඩි කිරීම ගැන දැන සිටියේ කවුරුන්ද. කිසිවෙක් මේ පිළිබඳ තොරතුරු එළියට ලබා දුන්නේද යන්න පිළිබඳ […]

Courtesy The Times of Israel After working in Israel for a decade with families who considered her one of their own, she was murdered in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 Anula Ratnayaka (Facebook) Anula Ratnayaka, 49, spent 10 years as a caregiver in Israel before she was murdered by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 […]

Saeed Naqvi The speech last Friday by the Hezbollah Supremo, Hassan Nasrallah, arguably the most popular leader in the Arab street, has evoked mixed responses. The less familiar with the caverns of West Asian affairs expected the speech to be a precursor of greater fire power in support of Hamas to deter more Israeli barbarity […]