Courtesy Adaderana Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Dr. Nandala Weerasinghe has emphasised the importance of the continuity of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Speaking at a special briefing held this afternoon (29 Dec.), Dr. Weerasinghe explained that the EFF programme should continue for the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is scheduled to travel to Sri Lanka to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) in February 2024 after the successful conclusion of the latest round of negotiations between the two countries, Bangkok Post reported. Chotima Iemsawasdikul, the Director General of Thai Commerce Department’s Department of Trade Negotiations, has […]

Courtesy Adaderana During the ongoing ‘Yukthiya’ operation, the security forces personnel have arrested over 1,400 more suspects on suspicion of drug peddling. As such, a total of 1,467 more drug suspects have been placed under arrest within a 24-hour window ending at 12:30 a.m. today (Dec.29). According to the Public Security Ministry, detention orders were […]

Courtesy Adaderana Over 10,000 cases of dengue infections have been recorded in the month of December alone, bringing the total number of infections reported in 2023 to 87,078. Accordingly, 10,600 novel dengue cases were witnessed within this month alone, with the highest number of infections being recorded from the Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara districts, as […]

Garvin Karunaratne, former GA Matara  I fist met Martin when I was appointed the Government Agent at Matara in March 1971. A Senior Clerical Officer in the Katcheri, his work was impeccable, Martin was more a poet. He could turn a stone to gold- detail anything in an amazing manner that evoked a catharsis within […]

Kaarige Channel Eka | Dharmasri Kariyawasam ප්‍රීමා පිටි සමාගම සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුව අතර අත්සන් කරන ලද ගිවිසුම් පිළිබඳ කතාව මෙරට දේශපාලනයේ දූෂිත ස්වභාවය පෙන්වන කැටපතක් වැනි ය. ‘අනික් අතට රජය ව්‍යාපාර කිරීමෙන් ඉවත් විය යුතු ය’ යන ඊනියා මතය අඵියෝගයට ලක් කරන උත්ප්‍රාසාත්මක නාටකයක් වැනි ය. ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධනගේ සිට මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ දක්වා ආ දූෂිත […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රට තුළ ආර්ථික අර්බුදයක් නිර්මාණය කරමින් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එළවා දැමූයේ බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ඔහු රටේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා වීමට බව බව මවුබිම ජනතා පක්‍ෂයේ නායක දිලිත් ජයවීර මහතා පවසයි. එහි ප්‍රතිඵලය ලෙස අවසානයේ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ජනාධිපතිවී පොදු ජන පෙරමුණ සහ ජාතිකවාදී කඳවුර විනාශයට පත්වුණු බවත් හෙතෙම කියා සිටී. බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂගේ […]

CECILE FRUMAN Courtesy WorldBank Blogs Of my travels across South Asia this year, my visit to the living roots bridges in Meghalaya, India, stood out for its uniqueness. The roots of the rubber fig trees—planted on either side of the river— intertwine and are carefully crafted by the Khasi people into natural bridges. The more […]

Courtesy The Island Education of about 54.9 percent of Sri Lankan students has been affected by the economic crisis since March 2022, the latest Household Survey on Impact of Economic Crisis – 2023 by the Department of Census and Statistics reveals. Out of the respondents surveyed 93.5 percent have adopted at least one strategy to […]

Courtesy The Island Dr. Palitha Mahipala By Rathindra Kuruwita Health Secretary Dr. Palitha Mahipala said on Thursday that over 700 cases of measles had been reported since May 2023, mostly from the Colombo District.Gampaha, Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Kandy, Jaffna, Kurunegala, and Ampara were among the districts affected by the spread of measles, Dr. Maheepala said. […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Kurundi vihara has the distinction of being Sri Lanka’s first contested Buddhist site. That is due to the kovil-temple” tug-of-war going on at the site, thanks to the Tamil Separatist Movement.  The kovil announcement got a lot of publicity, mostly negative. The skeptical   public wanted to know exactly when this ‘ancient’ kovil had […]

Press Release by A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaát – Sri Lanka. 128th Annual Convention (Jalasa Salana) of Qadian (Punjab, India) is being held on 29th, 30th and 31th, December, 2023. Thousands of Ahmadi Muslims from all over the world attending this three day convention which will be chaired by President, Ahmadiyya Muslim […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec. 27 (Daily Mirror) – The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) today announced that people should only buy mobile phones that have been approved by the Commission. Addressing the media TRCSL Deputy Director of Compliance, Ms. M. Pathirana, requested consumers check the IMEI number to verify the phone […]

 By KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec.27 (Daily Mirror) – The appointment of the members to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has now been delayed for nearly one month due to difference of opinion between the Constitutional Council (CC) and the Executive on the nominees, Daily Mirror learns. An […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 27: The International Debt Report 2023 of the World Bank has put Sri Lanka’s external debt in 2022 at US$ 58.7 billion. Bondholders and private creditors accounted for 72% of the external debt. The break-up is as follows: Bondholders (32%); Other Commercial Creditors (8%); Private Creditors (40%); Multilateral Creditors […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The origins of democracy go back many centuries. The UK was the first to be recognised as a democracy, and it is maintained thus far. Some say that even today, democracy in the British Parliament is so tolerant that it is a democracy that has gone beyond its limits. Other […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. (දැනට අවුරුදු 18 කට පෙර (2/13/2006) ලියන ලද මෙම ලිපිය මගේ පරණ පරිගණකයක තිබී අහම්බෙන් මට දැක ගන්නට ලැබුණි. එහි සඳහන් වන සමහර පංචස්කන්ධ දැන් ජීවත්වන්නේද නැත. ඒ වෙනුවට කරලියට බැස යූටියුබ්, ෆෙස්බුක් හරහා සංවිධානත්මව ලංකාවේ බුද්ධ ශාසනයට වටකරගෙන පහරදෙන ඩොලර් නඩ අතර අන්දමන්ද වූ සිවුරුදරාගත් අය පවා සිටී. මෙම මතෘකාව […]

Courtesy Adaderana A team from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is currently recording a statement from former Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella at his residence, the police said. The relevant statement is being recorded over the controversial sub-standard Immunoglobulin import issue, according to police. Accordingly, a team of officers from the CID had visited the Environment […]

Ada Derana Ex-Health Minister requested CID to obtain his statement? Former Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella was not interrogated by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) as a suspect or an accused in the controversial sub-standard Immunoglobulin import issue, but the minister voluntarily provided a further statement to the CID, according to Attorney-at-Law Manoj Gamage. Furthermore, […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 26 (Daily Mirror): Sri Lanka’s relationship with Israel has been unique. In the past 75 years as an independent nation, Sri Lanka has recognized, derecognized and again recognised Israel, guided by ever-changing ideological, geopolitical and domestic factors.   But in contrast to Sri Lanka, Israel has been consistent: It […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Public Security Minister Tiran Alles said on Tuesday that the country has launched an operation to arrest and repatriate 30 Sri Lankan criminal bosses who operate from outside the country. The minister told reporters that 29 of these criminals are in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and another one is in […]

Geopolitical Economy Report Is Israel’s war on Gaza expanding into a regional conflict? Why is Yemen attacking ships in the Red Sea? What are the roles of Iran and Saudi Arabia? Journalist Ben Norton discusses the geopolitics of the crisis.

BreakThrough News Israel has been stealing Palestine for more than 100 years. What are the roots of the genocide in Gaza? How did Zionism form? What has Palestinian resistance to the Zionist project looked like throughout history and how has it impacted Palestinian resistance today? To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek is joined by […]

By Namini Wijedasa/Sunday Times Colombo, December 24: President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his capacity as Investment Promotion Minister, on Friday gazetted the initiative under the 2008 Strategic Development Projects Act (SDPA), stating that the aim was to turn the Colombo Port into a logistics hub for South Asia. The use of the SDPA goes contrary to […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Ceylon Today Colombo, December 25: The Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority (SLAEA) chairman, Prof. S.R.D. Rosa told Daily Mirror on December 12, that his office had given the nod to the incorporation of nuclear power in the country’s energy mix. This is in line with President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s exhortation last year that Sri Lankans should seriously […]

By Mawbima පාතාලය සහ මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ජාවාරම්කරුවන් සමග සබඳතා පවත්වන දේශපාලඥයන් ‘යුක්තිය’ මෙහෙයුම හෑල්ලුවට පත්කරන කුහක ප්‍රකාශ නිකුත් කරන බව මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් පවසයි. ගල්කිස්ස පොලිස් කොට්ඨාසයේ ප්‍රජා පොලිස් කමිටු දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා හෝමාගම දියගම තාක්ෂණික විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ පැවති වැඩසටහනකට‍ එක්‌වෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ ය. එහිදී තවදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ අමාත්‍යවරයා; මීට වසර එකහමාරකට […]

Prof. Desmond Mallikarachchi Courtesy The Daily Mirror For the pledged loan of 2.9 billion dollars to be granted, the IMF laid down a condition that two of our main profit-generating institutions namely, the insurance cooperation and the Sri Lanka Telecom (Inset) may need to be sold to private entrepreneurs in the open market ‘Colonialism has […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror We will operate an economy based on three pillars- production growth, economic expansion, and public participation We believe in a uniquely Sri Lankan economic model based on socialist principles It is important to bear in mind that Sri Lanka cannot develop disregarding its ties with India, the closest neighbour and the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Public Security Minister Tiran Alles said even some religious leaders who maintain links with organized criminal gangs act with hypocrisy making remarks critical of the police crackdown on criminals. Addressing a function in Homagama, he said politicians also indulge in such acts to demoralize the police.  This is to distract the […]

RANJITH SOYSA Of late, some of the members of Sinhala community are receiving step motherly treatment from the racist Tamil politicians as well as the local administrations and in some instances from the  Police services too. The discriminatory policies impacting Sinhala villagers in Kokkilai bay area and Divulapthana in the East are being discussed regularly […]