Chanaka Bandarage Open up Expressways for Most Traffic Last week, it took a friend of mine 4 ½ hours to reach the Negambo’s Kochcchikade bridge from Colombo. This is insane. He said there was bumper to bumper traffic all throughout. At the same time the Katunayake Expressway – built after spending billions of rupees, had […]

MIKE WHITNEY  Yemen has said it would stop the blockade of Israel-bound ships as soon as sufficient food, water and medicine are allowed to enter Gaza. Guess that’s asking too much.” Elizabeth Murray@elizabethmurra Yemen’s Houthi militia has shown how a small army can take on the American Empire and win. They have shown how courage, resolve and […]

BreakThrough News Hint: it has to do with imperialism. BT’s Kei Pritsker explains the crucial role Israel plays in US domination of the Middle East and geopolitics.

Anup Sinha -a security and strategic affairs researcher and freelance columnist The upcoming national election is now a hot topic in Bangladesh. There is no end to people’s enthusiasm around the upcoming 12th National Assembly elections which is scheduled to held on January 7, 2024. Out of the 44 parties registered in the Election Commission, […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Wijeyadasa pushes for suspension of Parate executions: ‘Country paying heavy price for not having proper tax regime, favourable treatment to some’ Justice, Prisons Affairs and Constitutional Reforms Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, has assured the local business community, troubled by parate executions, that laws will be brought in to regulate […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Kandy, Dec 24 (Daily Mirror)- A suspected Covid-19 death was reported from the National Hospital in Kandy yesterday (23). According to sources, the victim is a 65-year-old man from the Atgala area of Gampola. The individual was initially admitted with breathing difficulties and a lung infection, and a post-mortem PCR test […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka received over 1.4 million tourists by the end of the third week of December, the latest statistics released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) show. The SLTDA weekly report on tourist arrivals released on Saturday shows that 1,404,998 tourists have arrived by Dec. 21, 2023. According to the report, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Police together with the Police Special Task Force (STF) has arrested over 13,000 suspects over drugs related crimes since the launch of ‘Operation Yukthiya’ on 17 December up to now, the police said. Police Media Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa stated that accordingly, a total of 13,666 individuals were arrested for drugs […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara, highlighted the significant improvement in the country’s foreign reserves under the leadership of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. According to Minister Nanayakkara, the foreign reserve was depleted when the current government assumed office, but it has successfully rebounded, reaching a noteworthy USD 3.6 billion. >Minister […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 17-23 December 2023 A ‘US Special Representative for Racial Equity & Justice’ was actually allowed to enter Sri Lanka this week to meet with Indian Tamils in the Sinhala highlands stolen for Unilever’s slavish plantations. But not to worry, in the midst […]

Vichara. During the Budget debate, in his address to the Parliament the President said that the Govt.’s way is the only way. President’s way is the IMF way. But there is another way for the country. It demands a change of direction, a focus on the critical issues, resolution and courage. The crucial cause of […]

By Garvin Karunaratne It all happened in the Bangladesh Secretariat, three days after General Ershard took over the country in a bloodless coup on the 24 th of March 1982. The Minister for Youth Development was clamped in prison and the work of the Ministry was in jeopardy. The third in command, Air Vice Marshall […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D හුනුවටයේ කතාවේදී මෙන් හෝ උණු තෙල් කටාරමේ අත දැමීමෙන් හෝ වෙනුවට යමෙකුගේ අව්‍යාජ, නියම අභ්‍යන්තරය එලියට ඇදගත හැකි උපාය මාර්ගයක් නැද්ද? හැඳින්වීම නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවක්කු මහතා විසින් අනුර කුමාරට (හා අනිත් දේශපාලකයින්ට) නැතැයි පුන පුනා කියන හෘදය ශාක්ෂිය නමැති මිනිස් ගුණය විමසා බැලීමට මට සිතුනේ අනුර විසින් jvp එක ජාතික ජන බලවේගයට […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පොලිසිය විසින් කුඩු අල්ලනවා යැයි සිදු කරමින් අල්ලන්නේ හාල්මැස්සන් යයි පැතිරෙන කතාවේ සත්‍යයක් ඇති බව වැඩ බලන පොලිස්පති දේශබන්දු තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ඉතාමත් සුළු ප්‍රමාණයක් අතේ තබාගෙන සිටියත් පොලිසියට ඔවුන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට සිදුවන බව ද ඔහු පැවසීය. අත්අඩංගුවේ සිටින සියලුම දෙනා හාල්මැස්සන් නොවන බවත් තෝරු මෝරුන්ද නොවුනද අතරමැද […]

Courtesy The Island Dr. Weerasinghe The government should do more to protect low-income earners, the Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Thursday (21) during a televised interview. He said that during the economic crisis and due to high inflation, a lot of people in the SME sector lost their jobs. Who […]

Courtesy The Island Fake Immunoglobulin: … suspect in touch with Health Ministry since 2013 Keheliya Rambukwella Environment Minister Keheliya Rambukwella yesterday (22) said that in spite of the then Chief Executive Officer and Director General of National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) declaring that the proprietor of Isolez Biotech Pharma AG Sugath Janaka Fernando alias Aruna […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec 22 (Daily Mirror) –  The ‘Yukthiya’ operation, aimed at dismantling the narcotics distribution network, has resulted in the seizure of additional assets worth millions of rupees.  The Illegal Assets and Properties Investigation Division of the Sri Lanka Police impounded ill-gotten gains valued at Rs. 134 million, belonging to drug […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Operation ‘Yukthiya’, an island-wide crackdown on organized crime and major drug trafficking rings, is ongoing in various parts of the country. Authorities have been successful in apprehending suspects, and there have been significant seizures of properties associated with these illicit activities.

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Courtesy Adaderana In continuation of the special island-wide operation ‘Yukthiya’ (Justice) to crack down on narcotics, Sri Lankan security forces have arrested scores of more suspects in a 24-hour mission ending at 12:30 a.m. on Saturday (Dec.23). The Ministry of Public Security said a total of 1,676 suspects were arrested during this period. Financial asset investigations […]

Chanaka Bandarage Impressions It is good that the government has decided to conduct a study on Edward Henry Pedris, moreover about his tragic death in 1915.  The significance is that this will be done more than 108 years after his death. Even belatedly, the gruesome and heinous atrocity committed by the British must be exposed. […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement tried to use the laws of the country, to stop Kurundi from blossoming forth as a new venue for   Buddhist pilgrims.  Tamil Separatist Movement filed cases in the Magistrate court and Supreme Court against the archaeological work at Kurundi Vihara.    TNA MP M. A. Sumanthiran filed a petition in […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The West passed its first regulation on religious sites in 1935. World War I was over and World War II was looming. The Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments, known as the Roerich Pact, was signed by the states of the Pan-American Union in 1935. Article 1 […]

Stephen Gardner Colonel Douglas MacGregor and Stephen Gardner update on the Russia Ukraine war news as well as the Israel Gaza situation. They discussed various geopolitical issues in the current global landscape. Ukrainian President Zelensky’s claims that Putin and Russia could be behind attacks on Israel raise questions about the motivation behind these statements—whether to […]

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Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The relics unearthed from the Deegawapiya site during the excavations and the Crest-Gem, which are in exposition around the island to provide the devotees with an opportunity to pay their homage will be brought to ‘Sri Sumana Saman Dewalaya’, Rathnapura on Sunday (Dec 24). The devotees have the opportunity […]

Manusha Media කම්කරු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට වසර සියයක් සම්පූර්ණවීම නිමිත්තෙන් නිකුත් කරන ලද සියවස් සමරු මුද්දරය ඊයේ (21) එළි දක්වනු ලැබූ අතර එහි පළමු මුද්දරය හා මුල් දින කවරය කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා විසින් 1994 වසරේ සිය 2000 වසර දක්වා කම්කරු ඇමැතිවරයා වශයෙන් කටයුතු කළ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත ප්‍රදානය කරනු […]

Courtesy APO Group Africa News Room The UN Under-Secretary-General recognized the commitment of Sri Lanka to contribute significantly to global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, December 22, 2023/APO Group/ —  On 19 December 2023, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Federal […]