Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon chaired a special discussion on the wet weather related emergency situation presently being experienced in the country at the Emergency Operations Centre of the Disaster Management Centre in Colombo, yesterday (Dec 11). The landslide risk situation being experienced in the Badulla […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dec 12 (NewsWire) – The Cabinet has granted approval to enter into a Power Purchase Agreement with United Solar Group of Australia for a Solar Power Project, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera announced today. Taking to ‘X’, Minister Wijesekera said United Solar Group of Australia will invest in a 700 MW […]

IMF As part of the IMF-supported arrangement Sri Lanka has undertaken significant reforms to pave the way out of a deep economic and debt crisis. The economy is showing tentative signs of stabilization, supported by rapid disinflation and a significant fiscal adjustment. Tax revenues have increased but not as much as initially projected, and reserves […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said its executive board cleared the first review of Sri Lanka’s about $3 billion bailout on Tuesday, providing about $337 million in funds to help tackle the fallout from the country’s worst financial crisis in decades. The South Asian island nation is recovering from […]

Courtesy The Island The Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by the Minister of Transport and Highways to award the contract for the design and construction of the Ratmalana Railway Diesel Power Set Factory under the Railway Efficiency Improvement Project which is being implemented under Asian Development Bank funds, to China Civil Engineering Construction […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Sarath Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee (SOC) on National Security, Rear Admiral (retd.) Sarath Weerasekera yesterday (05) said that over a year after the killing of eight persons, including SLPP MP Amarakeerthi Atukorale and his police bodyguard and destruction of approximately 150 private properties the government was yet […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island attackers among 25 arrested along with two trawlers Poaching Indian fishers on Saturday night (Dec 09) caused injuries to two sailors in Sri Lankan waters off Point Pedro. Authoritative sources said that Indian fishers attacked them with sticks and then threw boiling water in a bid to thwart SLN […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec.12 (Daily Mirror) – In the wake of the organisations from countries such as Russia, China, Denmark and the United States proposing to invest in nuclear energy, Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority (SLAEA) has given the green light for nuke power, an official said. Russia which has already invested in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lankan government has decided to appoint a combined standing committee to make decisions concerning renewable energy projects and monitor whether the decisions are efficiently and promptly implemented by relevant institutions. Cabinet of Ministers green-lighted this resolution on Monday (Dec.11), after identifying the need to accelerate the implementation of renewable energy projects, in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The police have arrested a saffron-robed monk called ‘Vishwa Buddha’ for behaving in a manner offensive to Buddhism. The 34-year-old, who is originally from Ratnapura, was taken into custody in the area of Kalagedihena. While the arrestee is slated to be produced before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court tomorrow (Dec.13), the Criminal Investigation Department […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka extended restrictions on outward remittances by six months to manage foreign exchange reserves, cabinet spokesperson and transport minister Bandula Gunawardane told reporters at a weekly cabinet briefing on Tuesday. The nation’s central bank suspended permission to remit funds for overseas investments by Sri Lankan residents from mid-2020 except under certain conditions. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Media Spokesman of Sri Lanka Army, Major General Ravi Herath states that so far, police have arrested 126 out of around 139 inmates who had escaped from the Kandakadu Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre last evening (11). Of the arrested inmates, 44 individuals have been detained at the Pulasthipura Police Station, 23 at […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Sports Harin Fernando on Tuesday (Dec.12) signed a new gazette notification to revoke the decision appointing an Interim Committee for Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), the national governing body of the sport. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the lawmaker said the move is an effort to lift the suspension imposed by the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජනාධිපතිවරණයක් හෙට පැවැත්වුවත් මෙරට ජනාධිපති වෙන්නේ අනුර දිසානායක මහතා බව ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී සුනිල් හදුන්නෙත්ති මහතා පවසයි. තම පාර්ශවයට පසුගිය මැතිවරණයෙන් පැවති 3%ක ප‍්‍රතිශතය අද වන විට එතරම් වර්ධනය වී ඇති බව සහතික කර පැවසිය හැකි යයිද ඒ මහතා පවසයි. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයක් පැවැත්වුවද ජාතින ජන බලවේගය ආණ්ඩු […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අද රටත් ජනතාවත් සිටින්නේ පරිවර්තන යුගයක් අබියස බව ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් ටිල්වින් සිල්වා මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ලෝකය තුළ මිනිසුන්ට ජීවත්වීමට සුදුසුම කාලය වගේම හොඳම කාලය මේ පරිවර්තන යුගය බවද හෙතෙම පවසයි. ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ කඩුගන්නාවේදී පැවති ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ ජන හමුවක් අමතමිනි. ‘රටේ ජනතාව දැන් ජීවත් […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Senior officials of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) met the Sri Lankan Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne today (Dec 11) at the Defence Ministry in Sri Jayawardenepura, Kotte. The delegation led by BMGF’s Deputy Director for Emergency Response, Global Development Dr. Valerie Bemo was accorded a warm […]

Sri Lanka News වේගයෙන් නාගරීකරණය වන මහරගම ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් බල ප්‍රදේශයේ, නගර ආශ්‍රිත සංවර්ධන කටයුතු වේගවත් කරන ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා නාගරික සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය, මාර්ග සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය ඇතුළු අදාළ ආයතන වෙත උපදෙස් ලබා දුන්නේය. ඒ, එම ආයතනවල නිලධාරින් කැඳවා පාර්ලිමේන්තු සංකීර්ණයේදී පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකදීය. ඒ අනුව හෝකන්දර නගරය දියුණු කිරීම සඳහා එම කටයුතු පළාත්බද මාර්ග සංවර්ධන අධිකාරියෙන්, මාර්ග […]

හිටපු අමාත්‍ය රවී කරුණානායක  රටක් ඉදිරියට ගෙනියන්න නම් වාණිජකරණය කරන්න ඕනි.. දේශපාලන වේදිකාවේ සිදු කරන වචනවලින් රට ගොඩ නැගිය නොහැකි බව රවි කියයි.. ඉදිරි මාස දෙක තුනේදී විදුලිබිලේ අඩුවක් සිදුවෙනවා. හිටපු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ සමයේ තහනමට ලක් කළ කටුපොල් වගාව යළි ආරම්භ කිරීම සඳහා ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ගනිමින් සිටින බව හිටපු මුදල් අමාත්‍ය රවී කරුණානායක මහතා පවසනවා.  හිටපු අමාත්‍යවරයා එම […]

Courtesy The Daily News The commemoration of the 20th death anniversary of the world-renowned Buddhist priest, Most Venerable Gangodawila Soma Thera will be held today (12) at Siri Vajirarama Temple in Bambalapitiya. The book Gautama the Buddha which is compiled by Jin Jayasinghe, a resident of Melbourne, Australia, will also be launched. The commemoration will […]

Courtesy Modern Diplomacy Key insights from the conference include a global south’s call for urgent action, emphasizing concrete decisions to curb excessive emissions. The culmination of the Just Transition in South Asia press conference, which took place on December 11, 2023, at COP-28 in Dubai, has illuminated the pressing need for immediate action to confront […]

Courtesy Daily News Creating a unique record in the Sri Lankan cruise segment Aitken Spence Travels, brought 4,000 passengers from three vessels on a single day on Sunday. The simultaneous arrivals of three cruise ships—Vasco Da Gama, Mein Schiff 5, and MS Seven Seas Navigator on December 10, 2023, at the port of Colombo also helped […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale As Aaron David Miller, a Middle East expert at the Woodrow Wilson Center, observes, a strange, self-sustaining relationship remains. Israel’s hawkish government — comprising many politicians who have little interest in seeing the creation of a separate Palestinian state — dwells on the security threat that Hamas’s crude rockets pose. Hamas depends, Miller writes, on “an ideology and strategy steeped in confrontation […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 03-09 December 2023 The Netherlands is sending US F-35 fighter jet parts to bomb Palestine. And while we are on the ‘edge of an economic precipice’ (see ee Economists, Sanderatne), the bands (media) on this supposedly stationary Titanic wreck are announcing the latest imperial medleys […]

Manusha Media ටකරමට – වැසිකිළිවලට – රජයේ රස්සාවට තරුණයින් යට කරන්න බැරි වෙන බව දන්න අය ඊශ්‍රායල් රැකියාවලට බාල්දි දානවා විදේශ ගත ශ්‍රමිකයින් නොවැම්බර් මාසයේදී ඩොලර් මිලියන 537.3ක් එවලා ආර්ථික ඝාතකයෝ තවමත් යහතින් ඉන්නවා රටේ තරුණ තරුණියන්ට ඊශ්‍රායල රැකියා අවස්ථා හිමිවන විට, එරට සමග පවතින රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික සම්බන්ධතා නතර කරන ලෙසට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඇතැම් දේශපාලඥයින් යෝජනා […]

Courtesy The Morning The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will move to withdraw nearly 250 members of the armed forces who were deployed to carry out maintenance and support duties at the historic Mihintale Raja Maha Viharaya, State Minister of Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said in Parliament. The move follows an escalation of a dispute between […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් තමන් වහන්සේ ගැන ඔත්තු බැලීම සඳහා නොචියාගම යුද හමුදා කඳවුරේ සෙබළුන් දෙදෙනෙක් මිහින්තලා පූජා භූමිය වෙත යොදා යොදවා තිබූ බව එම විහාරාධිපති පූජ්‍ය වලවාහැංඟුණු වැවේ ධම්මරතන හිමියෝ කියා සිටිති. මිහින්තලා පූජා භූමියට යොදා තිබූ ආරක්ෂාව ඉවත් හමුදා ආරක්ෂාව ඉවත් කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව ම විහාරස්ථානයේදී මාධ්‍ය කැඳවමින් උන්වහන්සේ මෙසේ අදහස් පළ කළහ. […]

Courtesy Hiru News State Minister for Defense Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon announced in Parliament today that 251 members of the Army, Navy, and Civil Defense Force, who were on duty at Mihintalea Rajamaha Vihara, will be withdrawn. The decision follows a question raised by opposition leader Sajith Premadasa in Parliament yesterday. The controversy surrounding the security […]

 By YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Parliament, Dec 10 (Daily Mirror) – It has been decided to withdraw the security personnel deployed at the historical Minintale temple if the chief Incumbent thinks that the military presence is a threat to his life, State Minister of Defence Pramitha Bandara Tennekoon told Parliament today.  The State Minister […]

India NewsAsian News International According to the Sri Lankan Navy, the fishermen were allegedly involved in ‘illegal poaching’ and were detained after a special operation on Saturday. The 25 fishermen belonged to Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu and Karaikal district in Puducherry. Colombo:  25 Indian fishermen, who were fishing in international waters, were detained by […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec. 9 (Daily Mirror) – The islandwide power blackout is due to multiple lightning strikes on several transformers and power stations, a Power and Energy Ministry official said. Meanwhile, the Power and Energy Ministry  said the islandwide power blackout is also due to a breakdown in the transmission line from […]