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 […]

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 […]

Shenali D Waduge Two stand out leaders of post-independence remains without a doubt Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike & Mahinda Rajapakse. Mrs. B was clear in her policy of non-alignment & pivotal decisions taken against western interests resulted in the creation of the JVP & LTTE movements to be unleashed as necessary. We cannot overlook the role […]

By Dr Tilak S. Fernando. Many individuals want to leave Sri Lanka because of the ever-increasing cost of living, the lack of medicine available to patients, and the new tax formula. The latest is that the  routine surgical operations  are to be placed on hold due to hospital drug shortages. The  former Minister of Health […]

BY Prof Manouri Senanayake, President Servants of the Buddha Courtesy The Island The Servants of the Buddha look forward to welcoming Dr. Elizabeth J Harris who will deliver her first ever public oration. The orator is an academic attached to the Dept of Theology and Religion in University of Birmingham UK and a Senior Research […]

බෞද්ධ කටයුතු පිලිබඳ විශ්ලේෂක දෙශාඅභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න ඉන්දියාවට ආ පළමු මිෂනාරි වරයා –St. Thomas, The Apostle came by sea, along with Jew-merchants and first landed at Maliyankara near Cranganur (Kodungalloor) on the Periyar estuary north of Kochi (Cochin), about the year A.D.52. අස්ගිරි මලවතු නායක හිමිවරුන්ගේ අවධානයට මහනුවර අවට බොදු ගම්මාන ගොදුරු […]

By Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC News The expected arrival of a Chinese research ship in the Maldives this week has escalated tensions between Beijing, Delhi and Male. Officially, the vessel Xiang Yang Hong 3 is there to “make a port call, for rotation of personnel and replenishment”. In short, an entirely innocuous stop. But that is […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has arrested a 46-year-old suspect in connection with the torching of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s private residence in 2022. The suspect has been identified as a tuition class teacher in the Boralesgamuwa area, according to police. On 09 July 2022, then-Prime Minister Wickremesinghe’s private residence in Cinnamon Gardens was […]

Courtesy Adaderana February 5, 2024   01:56 pm Leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Anura Kumara Dissanayake has met with India’s Minister of External Affairs Dr. S. Jaishankar on Monday morning (05 Feb.). During the meeting, the parties discussed the exiting bilateral relationship between the two countries, and the mutual benefits that could be reaped […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe has initiated the ‘Urumaya’ land ownership program aimed at empowering farmers through freehold titles. In a ceremony held in Dambulla, President Ranil Wickremesinghe awarded the initial set of ‘Urumaya’ land deeds to recipients. The ‘Urumaya’ land ownership program is a part of the President’s initiative to empower farmers by […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Sri Lankan cabinet has granted approval for the cultivation of cannabis for export purposes, marking a significant move towards harnessing the economic potential of the plant. The cabinet paper, presented by Diana Gamage, Minister of State for Tourism, received favorable responses, with the minister expressing her satisfaction with the decision. The […]