Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka is one of the most preferred and favourite destinations for Russian tourists, said Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Sri Lanka, Levan S. Dzhagaryan. Dzhagaryan indicated an estimated 200,000 Russian tourists are likely to visit Sri Lanka in 2024 and air connectivity too would be further strengthened. […]

Courtesy Hiru News The World Bank has disbursed the second tranche, amounting to USD 250 million, as part of the USD 500 million Sri Lanka Resilience, Stability and Economic Turnaround (RESET) Development Policy Operation (DPO). This decision comes in recognition of the ongoing satisfactory progress made by the Sri Lankan government in implementing its reform […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Police Special Task Force apprehended a 23-year-old student enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at Jaffna University, who was allegedly involved in a drug trafficking racket utilizing the courier system. The arrest took place during a raid conducted in the Kopai police domain on the 19th, where law enforcement authorities detained […]

By Desamanya Dr Sudath Gunasekara. Kandy. Beside these 14,000 houses on the hills, India has already implemented a 60,000-housing scheme for Tamils in Sri Lanka as follows, for which the Sri Lankan government has already signed an MOU with the Indian government the conditions of which are not known to the general public of this […]

Pathfinder Economic Alert The Pathfinder Foundation has formed a Study Group of Experts to develop a blueprint and framework aimed at doubling Sri Lanka’s economic growth rate through accelerated economic integration and infrastructural connectivity with India. The framework document is expected to be formally launched in March 2024. Most economic forecasts place Sri Lanka on […]

Courtesy The New Indian Express Murugan is currently lodged in the special camp for foreigners in Tiruchy. He had applied for permission to travel abroad to be with his daughter in UK. Published: 19th December 2023 10:28 AM  |   Last Updated: 19th December 2023 10:28 AM  |  A+A A- By Express News Service CHENNAI: The centre has told Madras High Court it cannot […]

 By YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec 19 (Daily Mirror) –  Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith today said he did inform former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa not to appoint Ali Sabry as the Minister of Justice in his cabinet. I did inform former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa not to appoint Ali Sabry as the Minister […]

Courtesy Adaderana Being part of the diaspora does not make someone an extremist or anti-Sri Lankan, says Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and Chief of Staff, Sagala Ratnayaka. Speaking on the negative perception associated with the term diaspora” in Sri Lanka, Ratnayake explained that any Sri Lankan living in another country, regardless […]

Courtesy Adaderana Pastor Jerome Fernando, who currently remains in remand custody over his controversial remarks on several religions, has been abusing the criminal justice system in the country by filing various cases, President’s Counsel Sanjeeva Jayawardena alleged while speaking in court while appearing on behalf of a group of religious leaders. The President’s Counsel stated […]

Courtesy Adaderana Nine vehicles worth Rs. 68 million owned by drug dealers have been taken into custody by the Illegal Assets Investigation Division of the Police during a 24-hour operation. Speaking to the media, Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Deshabandu Tennakoon vowed that all assets belonging to criminals, which they have acquired using ill-gotten money, […]

  Prime Minister’s Media Under the shadow of Mahapola, new opportunities have arisen to bring together education and   knowledge.- Prime Minister The Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said that the  Mahapola Scholarship Scheme was able to make a revolutionary impact on education and new opportunities have arisen to bring together education and   knowledge under the shade of […]

JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER Courtesy The Unz Review I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec 18 (Daily Mirror) – Public Security Minister Tiran Alles alleged that certain lawyers who opposed the appointment of Deshabandu Tennakoon as the Acting Inspector General of Police are now appearing on behalf of cases filed by the court against notorious drug traffickers. The Minister disclosed that these lawyers are […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Secretary of Health Ministry Janaka Chandragupta, who was arrested by the CID over the controversial human Immunoglobulin import issue, has been remanded until 27 December by the Maligakanda Magistrate’s Court. Mr. Chandragupta was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) after he had arrived at the CID this morning (18) to record […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Deshabandu Tennakoon has instructed to take necessary measures to inspect and remove all activities that could be harmful to children within 500 metres of schools, before the start of the new school term in February 2024. There is a discourse within the society regarding certain things […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Navy has held 14 Indian fishermen along with an Indian trawler for poaching in Sri Lankan waters off the Kovilan Lighthouse, Kareinagar last night (17). The Northern Naval Command had deployed its Fast Attack Craft to chase away a cluster of Indian poaching trawlers, after having spotted they were engaging […]

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Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD (in Progress)  The Buddhist concept of Dukkha” describes the true nature of all existence. It has a profound philosophical meaning.  The term dukka has been commonly misunderstood and misused. The word dukkha means not suffering. Suffering can be found in the pathogenic paradigm. Suffering involves somatic, mental, social, and spiritual forms of distress […]

Desamaanya Dr Sudath Guanasekara This includes Physical heritage reparation. This proposal also includes   a programme of physical heritage reparation. Among other things it includes mainly three items; they are, a)            Forest The restoration and rehabilitation of the destructions done to the forest, land and water resources of the central hill country, as a top national […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University’s Faculty of Defence & Strategic Studies (FDSS) and the Centre for Strategic Assessment (CSA) hosted the Signature Seminar addressing the issues of Responding to Disinformation and Building Disinformation Resilience with the gracious presence of Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. M.U.M. Ali Sabry PC […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් වැඩබලන පොලිස්පති දේශබන්දු තෙන්නකෝන්ගේ උපදෙස් මත දිවයින පුරා මේ වනවිට සිදු කෙරෙමින් පවතින යුක්තිය මෙහෙයුමට අදාළව වැල්ලම්පිටිය පොලිස් බල ප්‍රදේශයේ පමණක් සැකකරුවන් 55 දෙනෙකු අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන තිබෙනවා. මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ජාවාරම සහ සංවිධානාත්මක අපරාධ මැඩලීම සඳහා මෙම විශේෂ මෙහෙයුම ආරම්භ කෙරුණේ අද (17) අලුයම හතරේ සිටයි. දිවයින පුරා පොලිස් කොට්ඨාස 45 ක් ආවරණය […]

Courtesy Adaderana දේශබන්දු තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පොලිස්පති ලෙස පත්කිරීමට විරුද්ධ වූ ප්‍රමුඛපෙළේ නීතිඥයින් බිලියන ගණනින් මුදල් ගෙන කුඩු ජාලයේ අය වෙනුවෙන් අධිකරණයේ පෙනී සිට ඇති බව මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා පවසයි.   මාතර පොලිස් කොට්ඨාසයේ පැවති වැඩසටහනක දී අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. එහිදී අමාත්‍යවරයා වැඩිදුරටත් පැවසුවේ පසුගිය අරගල සමයේ අරගල කරුවන් සමග ගැටෙමින් සිටි […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The special police operations that commenced this morning (17) across the island have resulted in the arrest of 83 suspects thus far, Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles said. The Minister stated that this includes 45 suspects who had been wanted in connection with narcotics-related offences. Sri Lanka Police commenced a […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Ambalangoda, Dec. 16 (Daily Mirror)- Steps will be taken to confiscate all property and wealth earned illegally through drug smuggling and underworld activities within the next three months, Acting IGP Deshabandu Tennakkon said today. He made this remark at an event held in Ambalangoda today. He said underworld activities are rampant […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror lpitiya, Dec 16 (Daily Mirror) – Public Security Minister Tiran Alles said that a special operation targeting drug-related activities and the underworld is set to commence tomorrow. Minister Alles has directed Police to take stringent measures against individuals engaged in drug smuggling and underworld operations. The Minister made these directives during […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec 17 (Daily Mirror) – Minister of Housing and Urban Development Prasanna Ranatunga has ordered a probe into unauthorized lending of housing loans in his Ministry from 2015 to 2019. “Unauthorized lending has been done mostly in the Hambantota District,” the statement said. An official statement from the Ministry said […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer     Colombo, December 17: Earlier this week, the Sri Lankan cabinet decided to investigate the execution of a young Ceylonese entrepreneur Duenuge Edward Henry Pedris 108 years ago by the British for a crime he did not commit. Pedris was sent to death by a firing squad for attempted murder.” The shots […]

Desamaanya Dr Sudath Guanasekara Part 11 A sad tragedy we all should be ashamed of Although, historically that is the stark truth, we all should be ashamed that nothing had been done to rectify the historical injustices done to our own heroic ancestors in the former Kandyan Kingdom, by the colonial invaders for 443 years […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 10-16 December 2023 One objective of the USA’s ‘colour revolution’ in Sri Lanka aka ‘Aragalaya’ has been achieved – mission accomplished! The Sri Lankan & Indian Navies are now operating under USA-England’s Combined Maritime Force (CMF). Midst lots of blabber about ‘nonalignment’ and ‘strategic neutrality’ etc, we […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ පන්සල් යන ගමන් පල්ලි යන අය අද එමටය. මේ අයගේ ආගම කුමක්ද? කෙනෙකුට ආගම්  2ක් තිබිය හැකිද? මෙම ලියුම්කරු කියනුයේ නොහැක කියායි.   ආගම යනු විශ්වාසයකි. එසේ නම්, කෙනෙකුට එකම කරුණ ගැන පරස්පරවූ ආගමික විශ්වාසයන් 2ක් තිබිය නොහැක (උදා: මරණයෙන් පසු ජීවිතය, දෙවියන් සිටීද /නැද්ද). ආගම් අතර ඉගැන්වීම් වල ඇත්තේ බලවත් පරතරයන්ය. යුදෙව්වන්, […]