By Garvin Karunaratne I am quoting an earlier paper of mine which if considered can develop the sad state of tourism in our country.  The only addition I make is about the takeover of hotel bookings on the Internet by giant foreign companies that have also taken over advertising. Our tourist board authorities have to […]

World Palestinian flag unfurls at the historical Acropolis Temple and the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Athens Feb 5, 2024 In the capital Athens, a group unfurled the Palestinian flag in front of the historical Acropolis Temple and the Monument to the Unknown Soldier and sent a message of support to Palestine. The anarchist […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The North and east  of Sri Lanka was   Sinhala and Buddhist   throughout the ancient, medieval and modern period, right up to the start of British rule in 1815.There is plenty of evidence to prove this, if proof is necessary. To start  with, the north was an integral part of the Raja Rata of […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Eastern Province played a special role in the political life of ancient Sri Lanka. The eastern  Province    functioned as a refuge  while the Sinhala state was in formation. Whenever they were in trouble, not only princes but also monks ran to Ruhuna, said Medhananda. In the period between  Devanampiyatissa and Dutugemunu,( 250 […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS With the rise of the Tamil Separatist Movement, Buddhists feared for the Buddhist ruins in the north and east. They wanted them listed and shown on maps. Several persons then started to list the Buddhist sites in the north.  M. H. Sirisoma, Asst. Archaeological Commissioner prepared a map of Buddhist sites in 1963. […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්          යාපන අර්ධ ද්වීපයේ දේශපාලනය අරුම පුදුම ක්‍රියාවලියකි.යාපන රජ පවුල නැතහොත් ආර්ය චක්‍රවර්තී රාජකීයත්වය අවසන් කර පරංගින් ගේ ආධිපත්‍ය පිහිටුවීම තුළ යාපනයේ සිටි බ්‍රාහ්මණයන් ගේ හැසිරීම විවිධාකාර විය.කතෝලික ආගම පැතිරවීම නිසා ඔවුන් ඇතැමෙක් සිය ලබ්ධිය වෙනස් කළහ. ලන්දේසි සමයේ දී කතෝලික ආගම වෙනුවට රෙපරමාදු ඇදහීම් පෙරට ඒමේ දී දකුණු ඉන්දියාවෙන් ආනයනය කරන ලද […]

JEFFREY D. SACHS Courtesy The Unz Review A principal instrument of U.S. foreign policy is covert regime change, meaning a secret action by the U.S. government to bring down the government of another country. There are strong reasons to believe that U.S. actions led to the removal from power of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan […]

 Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD (in progress)  Recently Dr Mahinda Pathirana of the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, made an attempt to explain reincarnation via quantum mechanics. He uses the Buddhist teachings, Milinda / Nagasena debate and some of the ideas of the 2nd Century Buddhist Philosopher Nagarjuna.  He is bringing Quantum entanglement to explain […]

Pathfinder Foundation Pathfinder Foundation (PF) hosted its third ‘Dialogue with Diplomats’ in Colombo and deliberated on the topic ‘Role of the Donor Community in Promoting Good Governance and Curbing Corruption in Sri Lanka’. The Pathfinder ‘Dialogue with Diplomats’ dialogue focused on significant contemporary issues as Sri Lanka’s position has declined considerably in the Corruption Perceptions […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් ඉන්දියාව සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අතර ‘එට්කා’ ගිවිසුම අත්සන් කිරීම සඳහා කඩිනමින් සාකච්ඡා පැවැත්වෙමින් ඇති බවත්, ජනාධිපතිවරයා අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල පත්‍රිකාවක් මගින් විවිධ රටවල ජාත්‍යන්තර ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කිරීම සඳහා වෙනම නිලධාරියෙකු හා කාර්යාලයක් ද ස්ථාපිත කර ඇති බවත් ජානිපෙ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. දැන් එම නිලධාරියා හා ඉන්දියානු නියෝජිතයන් අතර […]

Institute of National Security Studies  Press Release Institute of National Security Studies (INSS), the premier think tank on national security established and functioning under the Ministry of Defence organized a Security Salon on Changing Regional Dynamics in the Middle East: Implications from Israel-Hamas Conflict at the Red Sea for Sri Lanka” on Wednesday, the 07th […]

By Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel (LL.M (UCL London)), former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, former Chairman of the Consumer Affairs Authority, President of the Lanka Ambassador’s Forum – United Kingdom, Solicitor in England and Wales The tertiary and vocational education sector plays an important role in shaping the socio-economic landscape of any nation, and Sri […]

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Volume 30 in the series De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences  Requires Authentication Published by De Gruyter 2023 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111203454Cite thisShare this Overview About this book Now in Paperback This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis […]

by Gomi Senadhira Former Director General of Commerce, can be contacted via senadhiragomi@gmail.com.) Courtesy The Island Fig.01 A few years ago, a Washington-based consultancy group, Global Financial Integrity (GFI), released a shocking report on how countries lose billions of dollars through illicit financial flows. One of the main instruments through which such illicit financial flows […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය සම්මත මෙහෙයුම් පටිපාටියකට(SOP) අනුකූලව Xiang Yang Hong 3 චීන විද්‍යාත්මක පර්යේෂණ නෞකාවට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ගැඹුරු මුහුදෙහි පර්යේෂණ කටයුතු සඳහා 2024 ජනවාරි 05 වැනිදා සිට 2024 මැයි මාසය දක්වා ලබා දුන් අවසරය අත්හිටුවා ඇති පසුබිමක, එකී විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශයේ අවසරය හා ශ්‍රී ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරියේ අනුදැනුම මත ඉන්දීය […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 8 (Daily Mirror) – The largest inscription ever in Sri Lanka, found from the Dimbulagala Monastery grounds, belongs to the beginning of the second centrury BC or earlier than that, Sri Jayawardenapura University History and Archaeology professor Karunasena Hettiarachchi said. Addressing the media, he said 60 percent of this […]

Courtesy Hru News In his address to Parliament on Wednesday (Feb. 7), President Ranil Wickremesinghe unveiled the government’s agenda and shared that they hope to alleviate the tax burden on citizens as the economy stabilizes through the implementation of key economic reforms. Highlighting the government’s commitment, President Wickremesinghe emphasized the potential for a revision of […]

Courtesy Hiru News In a significant development, Sri Lanka’s impending debt restructuring indicates a pivotal shift towards addressing its debt obligations, despite the current absence of repayment to foreign countries and external commercial bases. The restructuring underscores the imperative need to fulfill these obligations, utilizing both rupees and dollars.< As of September 2023, Sri Lanka’s […]

Courtesy Hiru News Taking into account the daily complaints reported to the police stations that children and women are being sexually abused in public transport services, a special operation was carried out across the island yesterday (07) as per the instructions of Acting Inspector General of Police Deshabandu Tennakoon. In response to mounting concerns over […]

Courtesy Hiru News The much-debated Online Safety Act has been placed under the purview of the Ministry of Public Security, as announced in an Extraordinary Gazette notification issued by the Presidential Secretariat. Effective from 07 February, the Online Safety Act will fall under the purview of the Ministry of Public Security, as outlined in the […]

Courtesy The Island Gammanpila Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader Udaya Gammanpila, MP, yesterday (06) alleged that the decision to issue freehold titles to farmers could cause a catastrophic situation. Declaring that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched the first phase of the Urumaya programme with an eye to the presidential polls, the former Power and Energy Minister asked […]