ByBHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press Sri Lanka’s power and energy ministry says the country experienced an island-wide power outage for several hours after a system failure in one of the main transmission lines December 9, 2023, 6:00 PM COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka experienced an island-wide power outage for several hours Saturday after a system failure […]

Courtesy Borneo Bulletin COLOMBO (XINHUA) – Income generated by tourism in Sri Lanka from January to the end of November reached USD1.8 billion, which is a 78.3-per-cent hike from the same period in 2022, the latest data released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) revealed. The revenue earned from tourism increased to USD205.3 […]

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox In 1981, India’s post office issued a stamp showing the flags of India and occupied Palestine flying side by side above the phrase Solidarity with the Palestinian people.” That now seems like ancient history. Today, Hindu nationalists are flying the flags of India and Israel side by side […]

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Dubai, UAE – More than 100,000 people have descended on the United Nations climate summit here in Dubai, making it the largest ever. The goal of COP28, the 28th annual Conference of Parties” to the climate negotiations, is to halt catastrophic climate change. As the impacts of the climate […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS The contested site” argument was indirectly supported, by the numerous You Tube talk shows that discussed Kurundi. Kurundi was a topic on many You Tube talk shows.  The contested sites” issue was discussed at these talk shows.  In all the talk shows I watched, the interviewer wanted to know whether there really was […]

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by Garvin Karunaratne, former GA Matara Economist Eran Wicks has rightly pointed out that we in our poor budget, are wasting funds and spending on unnecessary items. He has rightly said that of the Rs 254 million for the Highways Ministry as much as 85% is to be spent on Highways.(The Morning:1/12/23) I have for […]

දේශමාන්‍ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර.මහනුවර. එසේ නොකරණ සෑම ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයෙකුගේ මෙන්ම සෑම පක්ශයකම නාමයෝජනා පත්‍ර ප්‍රතික්ශේප කළයුතුය. 1948 සිට මේ වෙනතුරු කොට මහ මැතිවරණ 16 ක් පමණත් ජනාධිපති වරණ 6කුත් පවත්වා තිබෙනවා. ඒ කියන්නේ ආණ්ඩු 16ක්. ජනාධිපතිවරු 9 ක්. හැබැයි අපේ ආණ්ඩු සහ ජනාධිපතිවරු කොතරම් හොඳට රට පාලනය කරලා තියෙවාද කීවොත් 1948 වෙනකොට ආර්ථික වෂයෙන් ආසියාවේම […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit Egg incubators are distributed with the objective of strengthening the rural economy and empowering small-scale poultry farm owners. With the objective of strengthening the rural economy and empowering small-scale poultry farm owners, 100  egg incubators were distributed today (2023.12.08) under the patronage of Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees.Acceding […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Online youth radicalization in the South Asian region is a complex challenge that demands urgent attention and through fostering education, collaboration, socio-economic development and leveraging technology responsibly, we can empower our youth to resist extremist narratives and pave the way for a more peaceful and harmonious future in the […]

Press Statement Sri Lanka High Commission Canberra The High Commission of Sri Lanka in Canberra in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau hosted a vibrant evening reception to a selected number of outbound tour operators in Canberra on 06th December 2023 at the Sri Lanka High Commission premises. The key objective of this event was to […]

Politics The biggest event for Colombo scouts, the 58th Colombo Camporee is scheduled to be held from 8th to 10th December 2023 at the Vihara Maha Devi Park, with the participation of more than 12,000 scouts and scout leaders from the district. This time the theme of Colombo Camporee is ‘Scouting with Heart & Mind’. […]

Courtesy Pakistan Observer he Colombo Port City has great potential to facilitate the economic transformation Sri Lanka seeks, Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Thursday. Weerasinghe told reporters that the Colombo Port City is likely to become a global commercial hub featuring local and international businesses. We believe this project will change the fate […]

Courtesy The Island BY Dr B. J. C. PereraMBBS(Cey), DCH(Cey), DCH(Eng), MD(Paed), MRCP(UK), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lon), FRCPCH(UK), FSLCPaed, FCCP, Hony FRCPCH(UK), Hony. FCGP(SL)Specialist Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Fellow, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is a well-known fact that many organs of the human body have some reserve quantum to fall […]

by Drs. Sunil J. Wimalawansa (Prof. of Medicine)and Chandra B. Dissanayake (Prof. of Geology) Since identifying chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka in the mid-1990s, little progress has been made in aetiology and prevention. Despite the numerous hypotheses and conjectures—with more than 35—none have been thoroughly studied or substantiated as the […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Russian embassy in Colombo declines to comment Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, yesterday (07) said that the government could not do anything about the activities of ex-military officers overseas.Minister Sabry said so in response to The Island query whether the Sri Lankan law prohibited Sri Lankans from joining the […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Inflation is a term that expresses everywhere without a practical solution. This term reiterates in many countries without a solution and policymakers expressed the term for covering incapability and the economic history of Sri Lanka before European invasions gave a successful solution to inflation, it is valid for today too. The meaning […]

 Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Part 1 I would like to draw the immediate attention of all-patriotic citizens of this country particularly living in the downhill areas of these Tea plantations and on the lowland areas below the hills that will be affected by earth slips in the hill country and flood in the downstream area that […]

peoplesdispatch.org The Colombian head of state has been consistently speaking out in support of Palestine amid Israel’s genocidal attacks. At the COP 28 summit, he pointed out that the devastation wreaked on Gaza was a harbinger of what might happen to those fleeing from climate catastrophes December 03, 2023 The United Nations Climate Change Conference […]

by Vijay Prashad On December 3, 2023, a large number of registered voters in Venezuela voted in a referendum over the Essequibo region that is disputed with neighboring Guyana. Nearly all those who voted answered yes to the five questions. These questions asked the Venezuelan people to affirm the sovereignty of their country over Essequibo. Today,” said Venezuelan President […]

මහජන ආරක්ෂක  අමාත්‍යංශ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සහ රුසියාව අතර ද්වීපාර්ශවික ආරක්ෂක සබඳතා ශක්තිමත් කර ගැනීමේ අරමුණින්, මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතාගේ ආරාධනයෙන් මෙරට සංචාරයක නිරත ඉහල පෙලේ රුසියානු ආරක්ෂක කවුන්සිල නියෝජිත පිරිසක් සමඟ  විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවක්  අමාත්‍යංශ කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැත්විණි. රුසියානු ආරක්ෂක කවුන්සිලයේ නියෝජ්‍ය ලේකම් ඕලෙග් ව්ලඩ්මිරොවිච් මහතාගේ  ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් සාකච්ඡාව සඳහා රුසියානු නියෝජිත පිරිස එක්වූ අතර  අධිකරණ අමාත්‍ය […]

Manusha Media සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ජපන් රැකියා අවස්ථා ලබන මාර්තුවේදී විවෘත වෙයි ගම්වල විගමණික ශ්‍රමික කමිටු 2850ක් හදලා තියෙනවා විදේශ රැකියා ජාවාරම්වලට – විසිට් වීසා ජාවාරම්වලට අහුවෙන්න එපා කියලා කොච්චර කිව්වත් අහුවෙනවා ඕනෑම අවශ්‍යතාවයකට සේවක අර්ථසාධක අරමුදලින් සියයට 30 ගන්න පුළුවන් විදියට පනත වෙනස් කරනවා 2025 වන විට ළමා ශ්‍රමයෙන් තොර රටක් බවට පත් […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has won the respect of its international partners for maintaining neutrality in practising foreign policy and this helped the country in striking a much-needed bailout package with the IMF, the island nation’s Foreign Minister Ali Sabry told Parliament on Thursday. Sri Lanka had succeeded in pursuing a policy of friendship to […]

THURYA MAG මඩකලපුවේ මංගලාරාම විහාරයේ විහාරාධිපති පූජ්‍ය අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමි ප්‍රංශයට වැඩම කොට එහි වැඩ වසන පූජ්‍ය පරවාහැර චන්දරතන හිමියන් සමග පැවැත්වූ සාකච්ඡාවකි…

THURYA MAG මඩකලපුවේ මංගලාරාම විහාරස්ථානයේ නායක හාමුදුරුවන් වන පූජ්‍ය අම්පිටියෙ සුමනරතන හිමි රට තුළ ආන්දෝලනාත්මක භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ නමක්.. පසුගිය දිනක බෝන් අගේන් නැමැති ආගමක් ප්‍රචාරය කරන පාදිලි වරයෙක්ට කන හරහා පහර දී ආන්දෝලනාත්මක ප්‍රකාශ සිදු කළ උන්වහන්සේ සංවේදී ලෙස අඬා වැටෙන දුර්ලභ වීඩියෝවකි මෙය.. අනිවාර්යයෙන්ම නරඹා තව කෙනෙකුට නරඹන්න ශෙයා කරන්න .. අඬන එක බලන්න […]

LankaPropertyWeb  LankaPropertyWeb (LPW), Sri Lanka’s leading property platform, is excited to announce its new partnership with eMediaLinks, the exclusive partner with Weibo North America and house.sina.com. This collaboration enables the promotion of Sri Lankan property investment opportunities to Weibo’s extensive audience in China, as well as the real estate platform’s audiences in the USA and […]

Senaka Weeraratna In 1939 there were only there were only two countries in Asia that were not under direct Western occupation, namely Japan and Thailand.  The rest of the hate speech was directed towards the losers i.e., Axis powers, Germany, and Japan, and demonizing one of them i.e.Japanese, as cannibals and savages that characterized the […]

 lanka C news තම පුද්ගලික ව්‍යාපාර හෝ පරිහරණය සඳහා මහජන මුදල් යොදාගෙන ඇතැයි ඔප්පු කළොත් තමන් ඉල්ලා අස්වීමට සූදානම් බව විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ මුදල් සම්බන්ධයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී ඇති වූ විවාදාත්මක තත්ත්වයකදී ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ මහතා සහ සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතා අතර උණුසුම් වචන හුවමාරුවක් […]