Editorial  The Daily Mirror Anura Kumara Dissanayake is presently in India. The head of the JVP/NPP alliance is actually on an official visit to India, at the invitation of the Indian government. Believe it or not, AKD – as he is popularly known – has in addition to holding discussions with Indian External Affairs Minister, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Leader of the alliance National People’s Power (NPP) Anura Kumara Dissanayake (left) during a current visit to India is seen in conversation with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. Dissanayake, who is also the leader of the JVP, is heading a delegation of the NPP to India on a five-day, three-city visit, […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today This year is to be an election year. If schedules are maintained, we should have a new government before the end of 2024. Whether we would continue to have the same president is hard to predict. There may be few new faces, but in the whole it will be […]

උපුටාගැණීම අද දෙරණ පනත් කෙටුම්පත් එක පිට එක පැමිණි කාලයක් උදා විය. රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ජනාධිපති ධුරයට පැමිණි දා සිට පෙරට එන පනත් කෙටුම්පත් පිළිබඳ සංවාදය සමාජයේ බරපතළ තිගැස්මක් ඇති කළේ ය.  ත්‍රස්ත විරෝධී පනත් කෙටුම්පත, දූෂණ විරෝධී පනත් කෙටුම්පත, මහබැංකු පනත් කෙටුම්පත සහ මාර්ගගත ක්‍රමවල සුරක්ෂිතභාවය පිළිබඳ පනත් කෙටුම්පත ආදිය, සමාජය තුළ ප්‍රමුඛ සංවාදයක් ඇති […]

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Courtesy News18 Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Ali Sabry (Image: Reuters file) Sri Lanka and India resumed talks on the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement in Colombo at the 12th round in October last year. The original talks were stalled after several rounds of talks between 2016 and 2018 due to political and trade union opposition […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 06 (Daily Mirror) –  Speaker  Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana today said he has no authority to accept or reject any amendments from anyone including the Supreme Court to the Online Safety Act and that the sole authority of such exercise is vested with Parliament. The Speaker was referring to remarks […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to import 15,000 tonnes of cashew nuts in shell since the country’s annual requirement of cashew nuts in shell has not been met due to the fact that the crops have not been harvested as expected in the last season.  Joining the Cabinet press conference held […]

Courtesy Adaderana The expenditure of the upcoming Presidential Election and General Election must be managed using the Rs. 10 billion allocated in the 2024 Budget, the Cabinet of Ministers has noted. At the Cabinet meeting on Monday (Feb.05), the ministers took into account the fact that the budgetary allocation made within the financial stamina of […]

Courtesy Adaderana SLPP MP Keheliya Rambukwella, who is currently in remand custody, has tendered his resignation as the Minister of Environment. Accordingly, he had submitted his letter of resignation as the Minister of Environment to President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has accepted the resignation. The former Health Minister was remanded on 03 February, following his arrest […]