Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Inspector General of Police (IGP) Deshabandu Tennakoon paid a courtesy visit to the Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne at the Defence Ministry in Sri Jayawardenepura, Kotte today (Mar 11). Gen. Gunaratne warmly received the newly appointed IGP and held a cordial discussion focusing mainly on national security matters along […]

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තිස්ස ගුණතිලක රහතන්වහන්සේත් පෘතග්ජනයාත් භෞතිකව ස්වභාවධර්මය තුල ක්‍රියාත්මකවන බවත් දෙදෙනාම ස්වභාවධර්මය තුලවන සංසිද්ධීන්වලට එකහා සමානව මුහුන දිය යුතු බවත් පසුගිය ලිපියෙන් පැහැදිලිකිරීමට උත්සාහ කලෙමි. දෙදෙනාගේ වෙනස චෛතසික බවද පෘතග්ජනයා අවිද්‍යාව හේතුපාදක කරගනිමින් විඤ්ඤාණමායාව නැමති රැවටීමට හසුවී නොපවතින මායාකාරි ‘මගේ ලෝකයේ’ සිරකරුවෙක්වී සිටී. මේ නිසා පෘතග්ජනයාට සැබෑ ලෝකයේ (අනාත්මීය භාහිර ලෝකයේ නැතහොත් ස්වභාවධර්මයේ) ප්‍රතිලාභ මඟහැරී ඇතිබවත් පෙන්වාදීම […]

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by Rajan Philips Courtesy The Island Anura Kumara Dissanayake The economy is the base; everything else is superstructure. That is the old Marxian concept, simply put. The base ultimately determines what goes on in the superstructure, which includes among other things the state and its institutions, as well as their processes and functions. Included are […]

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by Rajan Philips  Courtesy The Island Anura Kumara Dissanayake meeting Indian Minister of External Affairs Dr. S. Jaishankar in New Delhi. (File Photo) Never mind what Anura Kumara Dissanayake wore in Delhi. Never mind what Ranil Wickremesinghe wears daily. What the people want is not the word salads of sartorial politics by Sunday pundits, but […]

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N. A. de S. Amaratunga Courtesy The Island Peter Breuer, Chief of IMF Mission to Sri Lanka has claimed that the Sri Lankan economy is showing signs of progress. The monetary and fiscal measures like tax increases and particularly the debt moratorium may have resulted in giving some breathing space for the country to recover […]

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Courtesy The Island Douglas Devananda Sixty-nine Sri Lankan fishing boats are in Indian custody, Minister of Fisheries Douglas Devananda has said during a recent televised interview.Hundreds of Indian boats arrive in Sri Lankan waters and use destructive bottom trawling techniques in the territorial waters of Sri Lanka, the Minister said. They have destroyed all marine […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran says the opposition can only decide on whether to support the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme after analyzing the IMF’s technical assistance reports which he says the government has now agreed to provide.  He made these remarks while speaking to reports following a meeting held at […]

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