Courtesy Adaderana The National Building Research Organization (NBRO) has warned that the quality of air in parts of the island has dropped further to unhealthy levels. Accordingly, the NBRO highlighted that apart from Nuwara Eliya, the air quality in all other districts is at an unhealthy level, with Colombo, Kandy and Jaffna recording particularly high […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS According to the Mahavamsa, the Buddha visited Sri Lanka thrice.  His second visit was to Nagadipa to settle a quarrel between Chulodara and Mahodara over the possession of a gem-studded throne. .Nagadipa is therefore one of the solosmastana, the 16 places of worship to which Buddhists go on pilgrimage. Mahavamsa records many Buddhist […]

Geopolitical Economy Report Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the “boogeyman” anti-China propaganda that Trump ally Tucker Carlson spewed in his interview in Moscow, while also mocking Tucker for applying to join the CIA. Ben Norton documents the former Fox News host’s long history of pushing for war on China.

KAMALIKA PIERIS Jaffna  already has a vihara which could be used for a solosmastana pilgrimage, Naga Vihara. I am unable to find out the year in which  this vihara  was established. My guess is that it would have been built in the 1950s or possibly late 1940s when Buddhist worship was  sent  across the sea […]

By Rohan Abeygunawardena ACMA, CGMA Recently Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the Indian economist and civil servant who was the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India from 2004 to 2014 was interviewed by Sanjaya Ariyawansa on Front Row of The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.  As the Deputy Chairman, Ahluwalia carried the rank of a Cabinet […]

Garvin Karunaratne former SLAS, GA Matara.  What the country needs immediately is a programme of employment creation and poverty alleviation where the unemployed will be making things that are being imported today. Last week I saw a packet of pastry sheets made in Malaysia for sale at Cargills.  An industry to make pastry sheets can […]

Courtesy Arkeonews Archaeologists discovered the largest inscription ever found in Sri Lanka. The largest inscription ever discovered in Sri Lanka was found at the ruins of the Dimbulagala monastery, dating back to the early second century BC. This discovery was made by officers attached to the Inscriptions Section of the Archeology Department Head Office and the Polonnaruwa […]

Courtesy The Indian Express The Sri Lanka Navy in the operation with the Sri Lanka Coast Guard on Wednesday also seized 2 Indian trawlers alongside the arrest of 19 Indian fishermen poaching in Sri Lankan waters, the Navy said in a statement. So far this year, the Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 88 Indian fishermen […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Ven. Ellawala Medhananda paid special attention to the Buddhist archaeological remains in the North and east. He explored as much as he could in these two provinces, using his own resources. He found that the north and east had many Buddhist ruins and many explorations were needed, before they could be fully examined […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Medhananda was able to explore the Eastern Province with greater freedom than the north.  Medhananda has explored 80 Buddhist sites In the Eastern province. They included Agbo Raja Maha Vihara,  Ariyakara Raja Maha Vihara, Bollegama Raja Maha Vihara,    Balahandu vihara, Bambaragastalawa vihara, Boralukanda temple, Nilaveli. Bowattegala vihara,   Buddhangala hermitage,     Dighavapi,  Diviyagala vihara ,   […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Ven Ellawala Medhananda has  explored the present day  Buddhist ruins of the Eastern Province.  He found  evidence in today’s Eastern   Province , to show  that the Eastern Province had a vibrant Buddhist civilization in the ancient and medieval period.  He has also shown that it had special features, such as hillside monastic complexes […]

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Is Sri Lanka headed in the same Direction with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation setting policy in the President’s Office as did the MCC in when the Central Bank Bond scams occurred? by Bharat Dogra Courtesy Countercurrent.org At a time of increasingly adverse weather conditions, there is growing urgency of adopting protective policies towards […]

පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සභානායක කාර්යාලය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික අර්බුදය විසඳීම සඳහා නව මොඩලයකට යාමට ජනපති ප්‍රමුඛ ආණ්ඩුවට හැකිවූ බවද, ආණ්ඩුව අනුගමනය කරන්නේ ප්‍රයෝගික මොඩලයක් බවද අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. පාසල් හැරයන, පාසල් අධ්‍යාපනයෙන් හැලෙන සෑම දරුවෙකුටම වෘත්තීය පුහුණුව දෙන වැඩපිළිවෙළක් මේ වසරේ ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. සභාග ආණ්ඩු දේශපාලනයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු ක්‍රමය අනුගමනය කිරිම්මේදී ප්‍රවේශමෙන් […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre •           New higher education institute to be established at Dambulla State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon, visited the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) in Ratmalana today (Feb 8). State Minister was warmly received by the Vice Chancellor (VC) of KDU Rear Admiral Dammika Kumara. Arriving […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Maldivian Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Abdul Raheem Abdul Latheef met Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne today (Feb 8). The meeting was held at the Defence Headquarters Complex at Sri Jayewardenepura, Kotte. During the interaction, Lt. Gen. Latheef expressed eagerness to foster a closer relationship in defence cooperation […]

By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 8: The five-day visit of National People’s Power (NPP)  leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his three comrades to India has drawn a flurry of attention in the political arena in Sri Lanka. It is commonplace for Sri Lankan politicians to make visits to India, but the visit of […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Anura Kumara Dissanayake with S.Jaishankar Colombo, February 8: The visit of a delegation of the Sri Lankan leftist political alliance, the National Peoples’ Power (NPP), to India at the invitation of the Indian government, has raised a lot of interest in Sri Lanka. Commentators are wondering if this means a significant […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අද වන විට ඉන්දියාව ඉතාම තක්කඩි ලෙස මෙරට විපක්ෂය නිහඬ කිරීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙලක නිරත වී සිටින බව පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂය සඳහන් කරයි. එම පක්‍ෂ ප්‍රචාරක ලේකම් පුබුදු ජයගොඩ මහතා සඳහන් කරන්නේ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ නියෝජිතයින් කණ්ඩායමක් ඉන්දියාවට ගෙන්වාගෙන සිදුකරන කාර්ය ද එහි එක් කොටසක් බවයි. ජවිපෙ කණ්ඩායමට ඉන්දියාවේදී පෙන්වන්නේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ […]

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 […]