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Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara says he has received an audit report from KPMG and CPSTL audit investigation officials saying they have found that more than 1.3 million entries on SAP data have been changed or deleted since 2010 and that most have occurred in 2022 during the height of Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s spike in inflation is expected to be short-lived and will return to the targeted 5% in the medium term, a monetary policy report released by the central bank said on Thursday as the island nation’s economy stabilises from a crippling financial crisis. Sri Lanka’s economy is seeing glimmers of recovery, helped […]

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Senaka Weeraratna In 1953, Asoka Weeraratna, Founder and Honorary Secretary of the Lanka Dhammaduta Society, paid a second visit to Germany and surveyed Buddhist activities in that country. On this trip Asoka travelled widely all over Germany, i.e. Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart, Bremen, Frankfurt, Bonn, and Cologne among others, meeting leaders of Buddhist organizations in […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය • අද භුක්ති විදින්නේ අපේ ජාතික වීරවරයන් කැපිකිරීම් මතින් දිනාගත් නිදහසයි…• ඩී. බී. ජයතිලක කියන්නේ ගවේෂණය කළ යුතු චරිතයක්…– අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාඅග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ  2024.02.13 දින කැලණිය වරාගොඩ  පැවැති ජාතික වීරවර ශ්‍රීමත් ඩී. බී. ජයතිලක පිළිරුව නිරාවරණය කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමිණි.ජාතික වීරවර ශ්‍රීමත් දොන් බාරොන් ජයතිලක එකසිය පනස් හයවෙනි ජන්ම […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily News President Wickremesinghe with Vivian Balakrishnan, Penny Wong and S.Jaishankar at Perth Indian Ocean conference Colombo, February 13: In his speech at the seventh Indian Ocean Conference (IOC) in Perth, Australia on February 10, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe reiterated the plan to build a land bridge between Sri Lanka and India to […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මෑතකදී ඉන්දියානු සංචාරයක ගිය රතු සහෝදරයන්ට රුපියල් කෝටි 300ක මුදලක් ලබා දී ඇති බවට තොරතුරු ලැබී ඇතැයි මිහින්තලා රාජමහා විහාරාධිපති පූජ්‍ය වලවා හැංගුන වැවේ ධම්මරතන හිමියෝ පවසති. මැතිවරණයට වියදම් කිරීමට මෙම මුදල ලැබුනු බවට තොරතුරු තමන් වහන්සේට ලැබී ඇති බවද උන් වහන්සේ පැවසූහ. මෙහි සත්‍ය අදහස් අසත්‍යතාවය රතු සහෝදරයන් විසින්ම […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror It seems like President Ranil Wickremesinghe had already begun his campaign, defections among key figures in major political parties indicate that an election is likely in the offing The Presidential and General elections are two much anticipated events in Sri Lanka’s political calendar this year (2024). The lack of funds to […]

Courtesy Adaderana State Minister of Higher Education Dr. Suren Raghavan has announced plans to offer multiple degrees through state universities, in a bid to enhance the educational landscape in Sri Lanka.  Drawing from insights of international education experts, Dr. Raghavan explained that plans are also afoot to establish three international universities within Sri Lanka, adding […]

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Chanaka Bandarage, International Lawyer (chanakab@hotmail.com) No one would disagree that Hong Kong rode to its prosperity on the back of China (after the Chinese Revolution, Hong Kong underwent a rapid and successful process of industrialization, from the late 1940s, and became a rich ‘state’). After the liberalisation of China’s trade (Chairman Deng’s Open Door Policy’ […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක මාගේ මිතුරන්ද ඇතුඵව බොහෝ දෙනෙකු නගන ප්‍රශ්ණයක් නම් මෙතරම් වීරියක්, උත්සාහයක් ගෙන නිවන් දකින්නේ කුමටද?  එහි පලය කුමක්ද? අප වැනි වයෝවෘධ බොහෝ දෙනෙක් ජීවත් වන සුළු කාලයකට මෙතරම් වීරියක් වඩා ලබන නිවනේ පලය කුමක්ද? එහි ඇති සුවය කුමක්ද? ජීවිතයේ ඉතිරි ටිකත් මෙහෙමම යමුයි සිත සකස්කරගත් කීදෙනෙක් අපට හමුවී ඇතිද? මෙවැනි විචිකිච්චාවක සිරවී, ප්‍රශ්ණ […]

Dilrook Kannangara Despite years of economic downturn, Sri Lanka is 77% more developed than India economically as can be seen from the two countries’ nominal GDP per capita. India is a large world economy only due to the sheer size of its poor population. For instance, a family of 15 in Bangladesh would have a […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 13 (Daily Mirror) – The President’s Media Division (PMD) confirmed that the Presidential Election will be held within the mandated period and will adhere to the current timeline. According to the PMD, the General Election is will be held next year with financial provisions to be provided for in […]

Courtesy Adaderana A new project was launched in Sri Lanka to bolster its anti-corruption ecosystem, in tandem with the Government of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The new project will work towards strengthening the anti-corruption ecosystem in Sri Lanka, through time-bound national policy reform, inter-stakeholder collaboration, and enhanced institutional capacity to deliver […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka developing Ramayana Trail to boost tourism from India – Tourism Minister Tourists from India topped the list of countries visiting Sri Lanka in January 2023 and the island nation was positive about surge in religious tourism with consecration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Sri Lanka was also working on Ramayana trail […]

Courtesy Adaderana Tamil Nadu government informed the Madras High Court on Tuesday that the Sri Lankan government has issued travel documents for one of the convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination, Santhan alias T Suthenthiraraja, who was released along with others in 2022 following a Supreme Court order. Additional Public Prosecutor R […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Prime Minister Netanyahu: “We can’t finish the war without eliminating Hamas leadership” (https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/politics/1707129128-gantz-denies-plan-to-replace-netanyahu-through-likud-report). US President Joe Biden told Israel’s prime minister a military operation in Rafah should not happen without measures to ensure the safety of civilians, the White House has said. In a call with Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Biden said Israel […]

MEDIA RELEASE Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna  12 February 2024 The 120 MW hydro power plant of the Uma Oya project is to become operational this month. It will be one of the largest hydro power plants in the country after the Victoria, Kotmale and Upper-Kotmale power stations and will provide Sri Lanka with a badly […]

Kelum Bandara Courtesy Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 10 (Daily Mirror) – In the wake of reports that as much as over half of funds received by various NGOs are spent without any monitoring, the government is in the final stage of evolving a new law that provides for compulsory registration of all such organizations with […]

Top Spin by Sunny for LankaWeb Feb.9th 2024 As the cricket world turns in Sri Lanka there is another misconceived choice which has surfaced where the Sports Minister Harin Fernando has promoted the entry of another unknown entity in international cricket who has never played for his country which is not only eyebrow-raising but mind-boggling. […]

Courtesy NDTV UPI is an instant real-time payment system to facilitate inter-bank transactions through mobile phones. India has been proactive in extending the reach of UPI globally Payments through India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) will now be accepted in seven countries after its launch in Sri Lanka and Mauritius on Monday. After the announcement, MyGovIndia, a […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 04-10 February 2024 If you wish to learn in advance the headlined news of tomorrow & next week & the weeks after, in this media called Sri Lankan, read the USA’s Integrated Country Strategy (ICS). The ICS makes clear exactly how ‘our’ media – […]

MythVision Podcast In the annals of history, few figures command as much reverence and mystique as Moses, the prophet who, according to tradition, liberated the Israelites from Egyptian bondage and received the Ten Commandments atop Mount Sinai. But what if the tales surrounding this monumental figure were not entirely rooted in reality? Dive deep with […]

PIERRE SIMON  Courtesy The Unz Review Since the establishment of a Zionist home in Palestine in the early 20th century, Jewish settlers have massacred tens of thousands of Palestinians – mainly women, children and the elderly – whose lands and homes they have plundered and robbed with impunity.[1][2][3] Never in the history of mankind has a […]

By Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake InDepthNews COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 7 February 2024 (IDN) — With the wisdom of hindsight, the Root Causes of Sri Lanka’s first-ever Sovereign Default, staged three years ago on the eve of 75 years of ‘Independence’ from the British Raj are clear. When the Default happened in March 2021, there was too […]

පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සභානායක කාර්යාලය එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍යයේ පැවති 2024 ආසියානු යොවුන් චෙස් ශූරතාවලියේ (අවුරුදු 18න් පහළ) රන් පදක්කම දිනාගත් එල් එම් සුසල් ද සිල්වා දරුවා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ඇගයීමට ලක්විය. ඒ, මෙම යොවුන් ක්‍රීඩකයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්‍යාලයේදී 2024.02.09 දින හමු වූ අවස්ථාවේදීය. කොළඹ නාලන්දා විද්‍යාලයේ ඉගෙනුම ලබන මෙම යොවුන් ක්‍රීඩකයා, රටට ගෙනදුන් කීර්තිය ඉහළින් […]

By Arul Louis InDepthNews UNITED NATIONS | 8 February 2024 (IDN) — The international financial and development institutions should be reformed to reflect the interests of the Global South, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. While the BRICS can play an important and complementary role for developing nations, he stressed that it should not contribute to […]

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