Ibrahim Khalil Ahasan – independent columnist and freelance journalist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Deliberations at COP 28, the 28th UN Climate Summit in Dubai, have focused on several strategies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere to slow down climate change and global warming. To identify methods to fund non-carbon and renewable energy, participants […]

SLPP News දිවි දෙවැනිකොට රැකගත් අප මාතෘභූමිය කිසිවෙකුගේ හෝ වුවමනාවකට කෑලිවලට කඩා ආපස්සට ගැනීමට කිසිඳු ඉඩක් නොතබන බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ නායක සහ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි. මෙය අප සියලු දෙනාගේම උපන් බිම බව පෙන්වාදෙන ඒ මහතා තිස් අවුරුදු යුද්දයේ දි මේ රටේ කිසිම නායකයෙකුට ප්‍රභාකරන් සමඟ මුහුණට මුහුණා යුද්ධ කිරීමට […]

Geopolitical Economy Report

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec 15 (Daily Mirror) – Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa who was reappointed leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) at its convention today said his party would become the most formidable political force at the next presidential elections. Addressing the convention convened at a challenging time, the former President referred […]

By AJITH SIRIWARDANA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Diyathalawa, Dec. 16 (Daily Mirror)- Emphasizing the monumental responsibility borne by the security forces in protecting the sovereignty of the country, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that no external interference or restrictions should be tolerated.  President Wickremesinghe, serving as the Chief Guest at the Parade of Cadet Officers during the […]

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 […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles has urged the public to corporate with the Police in its efforts to tackle all underworld and drug-related activities. Speaking at an event in Ambalangoda on Saturday (16 Dec.), the Minister asserted that he will not sway from his goal to eradicate all underworld activities in Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is trying to attract Arab visitors by promoting the travels of the famed 14th-century explorer Ibn Battuta, Colombo’s envoy to Riyadh said on Saturday. The famed Moroccan explorer’s ship arrived in the northwestern port of Puttalam from the Maldives in September 1344. At that time, Puttalam was under the rule of […]

Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka’s economy grew by 1.6% in the quarter from July to September, official data showed on Friday, as the country claws its way back from its worst financial crisis in more than seven decades following a record fall in foreign exchange reserves. The expansion was the first since the end of […]

Dr Sudath Guanasekara Part 1. This document is expected to serve as the blue print of a Master plan for the rehabilitation, Development and Protection of the Kandyan areas as defined in this paper below and its people, located right at the center of this Island (The Geographical heartland HADABIMA” of this Island) and it […]

Saeed Naqvi A brutal tragedy is being played out on an epic scale between Israel and Gaza. Though the scale is truly epic, it still constitutes but a sub plot in the cosmic drama of a hegemon’s fall, to describe which Milton’s description on another epochal fall is apt: From morn till noon he fell, […]

Times Radio There’s definitely a growing concern, a growing nervousness at the indiscriminate nature of the bombing of Gaza by the IDF.” A tipping point” is approaching where the West will stop supporting Israel because of the “dire” situation in Gaza, says Huff’s Post, Kevin Schofield, as the UK foreign secretary slaps a travel ban […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division A meeting between Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and Cuban Ambassador Andres Marcelo Gonzales Garrido took place on 14.12.2023 at the Temple Trees in Colombo. The Prime Minister thanked Cuba for the consistent support extended to Sri Lanka at the United Nations and other international forums. He also referred to […]

By ANDREA SAMUELS Courtesy The Jerusalem Post While the attacks of October 7 have left death and destruction in their wake, one thing that they failed to damage was the relationship between Israel and Sri Lanka. People of all nationalities and religions were victims of the Hamas atrocities on October 7. Men, women, and children from the […]

Courtesy The Island Suresh P wants to know who represented govt. at Nepal talks Former Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Suresh Premachandran has demanded to know who represented Sri Lanka at talks in Kathmandu, Nepal in April this year, which led to the so-called Himalaya Declaration jointly prepared by the ‘Sangha for a Better Sri […]

Courtesy The Island President Ranil Wickremesinghe held discussions on Thursday (07) with a delegation comprising representatives from the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) and Buddhist monks, as reported by the President’s Media Division (PMD) on Friday (08). The PMD mentioned that the Joint Himalayan Declaration, a collaborative effort between the Global Tamil Forum and the Buddhist […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec 15 – Sri Lanka’s public security minister, Tiran Alles, is the first sitting Sri Lankan minister to be identified in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Pandora Papers data trove as having offshore holdings. An ICIJ analysis of the leaked records and U.K.’s public property register shows that Alles, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s economy grew by 1.6% in the quarter from July to September, official data showed on Friday, as the country claws its way back from its worst financial crisis in more than seven decades following a record fall in foreign exchange reserves. The expansion was the first since the end of 2021, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says a special commission should be appointed to investigate the incidents of harassment experienced by Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) members during the ‘Aragalaya’ protest movement last year. Addressing the SLPP’s National Convention to unveil the party’s political mission titled ‘Ayubowan 2024’ got underway at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been re-elected as the leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. MP Gamini Lokuge proposed the former president’s name while MP Johnston Fernando seconded it. SLPP’s 2nd National Convention got underway at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium this afternoon (Dec.15), under the aegis of Mahinda Rajapaksa and the party’s national […]

By Sena Thoradeniya Hitherto men have constantly made up for themselves false conceptions about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. ……They the creators have bowed down before their creations. Let us liberate them from the chimeras, the ideas, dogmas, imaginary beings under the yoke of which they are pinning away”. […]

ප්‍ර සමරසිංහ https://youtu.be/tC8WDLKLsXQ my adapted lyrics for the song ‘ රැජිණට ඇන්දා ‘ sung by  Amandya Uthpalie.  කන්දෙට ඇන්නා   කයින්දටත් ඇන්නා…// අජ්ජපනේට ළමොංට ඇන්නා මිලේ නියං සිටි යට ඇන්නා..// ඇයි වස්සනෙ දංනෙ නැද්ද   ලක බෙදන්ට සුම්මකිරට නැතුවම බැරි මං රන්නා.. ඇමති කාලේ මාමා මට දුන්නා මඟ පෙන්නා.. කැම රූන්ලා බුලි බුලංලා..// උඹ පුටුගත […]

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Democracy Now! We discuss President Joe Biden’s “full support for a scorched-earth campaign” in Gaza with _The Intercept_’s Jeremy Scahill, who says the U.S. is providing “political cover and rushing weapons there and giving support to the most pernicious lies that Israel [is] telling.” Despite the Biden administration’s recent assertions that it is helping to […]

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, are expected to be placed at Kahawaththa Purana Rajamaha Viharaya on Saturday morning ( Dec 16). The Sacred […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division Danish Ambassador Freddy Svane called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees today (December 14) to exchange views on bilateral ties and development cooperation between Sri Lanka and Denmark. The New Delhi-based Ambassador said that yesterday he took part at the opening of electronics production factory of major Danish […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dec 14 (NewsWire/ Sputnik) – Russia has emerged as one of the strongest contenders to build nuclear power plants in Sri Lanka, according to a media report published on Tuesday. According to Russia’s Sputnik News, Sri Lanka currently imports most of its energy needs, including oil, coal and hydrocarbons. To ease the economic […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් තමන් වහන්සේ විසින් ජාතික ජන බලවේගය නායක අනුර දිසානායක මහතාගේ අතේ බඳින ලද පිරිත් නූල පන්සලෙන් එළියට බහින විටම ගලවා විසි කළ බව මිහින්තලා රජමහා විහාරාධිපති පූජ්‍ය වලවාහැංගුනවැවේ ධම්මරතන හිමියෝ කියා සිටිති. අනුර දිසානායක මහතා පක්ෂයේ නායකත්වයට පත්වූ දිනවල මිහින්තලේ විහාරස්ථානයට පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේ මෙම සිදුවීම වූ බවද උන්වහන්සේ කියා සිටිති. […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ක්‍රිකට් ක‍්‍රීඩාවේදී වැඩිපුර මුදල් ලැබෙන්නේ ක්‍රීඩා කරන තරග වලින් නොව ක්‍රිකට් තරග විකාශන අයිතිය හරහා බව ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සුනිල් හඳුන්නෙත්ති මහතා පවසයි. තරගාවලිය දිනුවද පැරදුනද විකාශන අයිතියට අදාළ සියලු මුදල් ලබාදෙන බවද ඒ මහතා පැවසීය. ඒ ආකාරයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණිය යුතුව තිබූ මුදල්වලින් ඩොලර් මිලියන 11,000ක […]