Prime Minister’s Media Division  The above news based on a letter written by Paffarel to the EC published and circulated in the media on or around 09.08.2024 is completely false. This year, the 30th annual  Maha Satyaya Kriya and Adhisthana Pooja was held at the Kataragama Kirivehera  to protect the country and the people. It […]

Ahmadi Muslims in Bangladesh Bangladesh is currently engulfed in widespread political turmoil, with Ahmadi Muslims also finding themselves in an increasingly precarious situation. Disturbing images and horrifying reports from the general public are circulating on social media platforms revealing a grim picture of the crisis. One Ahmadi witness writes on social media:  They are inside […]

By Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Adm.Prof. Jayanath Colombage Colombo, August 11: Reproduced below is the speech of Adm. Prof. Jayanath Colombage, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Indonesia, former Navy Chief and Foreign Secretary at the round table on Indian Ocean Security organized by the Pathfinder Foundation at Colombo on July 31, 2024: The topic […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ශ‍්‍රී ලන්කන් ගුවන් සේවය වල පල්ලට යවන්න රාජපක්ෂවරුන් කළ කී දේ ගැන සියලු දෙනාට තාමත් මතක තිබුණත් ඥාති සංග්‍රහය ආරම්භ කළේ පියාණෝ බව ජාතික ජන බලවේග ජාතික විධායක සභික වෛද්‍ය නලින්ද ජයතිස්ස මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුවේ යූ ටියුබ් නාලිකාවක් සමග විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවකට එක් වෙමිනි. ‘අපිට මතක රාජපක්ෂලාගේ ඥාති […]

Pramod Madhav Courtesy India Today A key suspect in a Sri Lankan human trafficking case that came to light in 2021 was arrested in Tamil Nadu on Saturday. He has been on the run for the past three years. The investigation revealed that Aabulkhan, along with his associates, was involved in confining trafficked victims on […]

Anita Joshua Courtesy The Telegraph online In an open letter released on Friday, the five signatories — two each from Bangladesh and Nepal and one from Sri Lanka — said: ‘Over the decades, intervention by New Delhi’s political, bureaucratic and intelligence operatives in Colombo, Dhaka and Kathmandu, has contributed to the unending political instability in […]

Courtesy Egypt Independent Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam discussed in a meeting with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry ways of fostering cooperation between Dar al Iftaa and Sri Lanka in training Muftis and countering extremism. In a statement released on Friday 9/8/2024, the Mufti said that Dar al Iftaa established in 2014 the Observatory of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, August 11 (Daily Mirror) – United Republican Front (URF) leader MP Patali Champika Ranawaka said that no room should be left for the fate that befell Bangladesh to befall Sri Lanka, no matter what. Making his remarks at a public meeting, he said Bangladesh is heading towards destabilization, further reversing […]

Courtesy Hiru News Before she resigned as Bangladesh Prime Minister and fled her Dhaka residence, Sheikh Hasina wanted to address the nation, especially the protesters whose agitation forced her to quit the top job. That speech was never delivered as the protesters reached her doorstep and the country’s top security officers advised to leave at […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඉදිරියේ පිහිටුවන ජාතික ජන බලවේග රජයක් යටතේ නිවාස සඳහා මුළුතැන්ගෙයක් අවශ්‍ය නොවන බව එම පක්ෂයේ ජාතික විධායක සභික හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී කේ.ඩී. ලාල් කාන්ත මහතා පවසයි. නිවසක කුස්සියේ ආහාර පිසීමක් සිදු නොවන ඇති බවද පැවසු ඔහු ඉදිරි නිවාස සැලසුම් වලින් කුස්සිය ඉවත් කරන බවත් පැවසීය. ආහාර විසීමේ කටයුත්ත නිවෙසින් පිටතට […]

By Shishir Gupta Courtesy Thre Hindustan Times Bangladesh’s proximity towards China and deepening bilateral military cooperation had raised red flags in New Delhi and Washington. New Delhi: While Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Khaleda Zia has justified Islamist murderous fury against minority Hindus and Indian establishments as anger against India for giving refuge to Sheikh Hasina, fact is that […]

LANKA LEADER අද දින ගරු ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය ඉදිරියේ වඩ්ඩමාන පබ්බත විහාරය සම්බන්ධව වූ SCFR 133 / 23 නඩුව ගරු ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය ඉදිරියේ ගරු ඒ එම් ඩී නවාස්, ශිරාන් ගුණරත්න, අචල වෙන්ගප්පුලි යන ශ්‍රේශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ ත්‍රිපුද්ගල විනිසුරු මඩුල්ල ඉදිරියේ විභාගයට ගත් අවස්ථාවේදී, නඩුව ඉදිරියට පවත්වාගෙන යෑමට අවසර දී, ඉන් අනතුරුව පහත සඳහන් කොන්දේසිවලට යටත්ව නඩුව සමථයකට පත් කරන ලදී. […]

මැතිවරණ ප්‍රකාශණය.                                            2024. අප්‍රේල් 14. මේ කහ සිවුරු හමුදාව සිටින තුරු යටත් විජිතය පවත්වාගෙන යාම පහසු නොවේ”ආණ්ඩුකාර රොබට් චාමස් (1913 -1916)) හැඳින්වීම                       අපි සම්ප්‍රදායික දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක් නොවේ, මේ බුදුන්ගේ දේශය, සින්හලජාතිය සහ සම්බුදු සසුන බේරා ගැනීම සඳහා පෙළගැසුණු මේ තුන්සින්හලේ පුරා සිටින දේෂප්‍රේමීන්ගේ සහ ජාති හිතෛෂීන්ගේ ජාතික සන්විධානයක් පමණි. ශ්‍රීලංකා ජාතික ජනබල පෙරමුණේ […]

Courtesy BBC News The faces of the riots Some of the people convicted in connection to the recent violent disorder https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm23y7l01v8o

Courtesy BBC Graham Fraser Technology reporter For days, similar scenes have played out across England and parts of Northern Ireland – unrest, communities in fear, a huge police presence, with the flames being fanned by social media. For days, journalists at BBC News have been contacting big tech companies, trying to find out what they […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has ruled that the decision taken by Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) to suspend the party membership of Ministers Manush Nanayakkara and Harin Fernando was lawful. The court issued this verdict while dismissing a petition filed by the two ministers seeking an order declaring that the SJB’s decision to remove them […]

Adaderana ජනාධිපතිවරණය සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් වන අපේක්ෂකයින් තවදුරටත් වැඩිවන්නේනම් ඒ වැඩිවන සෑම අයෙකු සඳහාම රුපියල් මිලියන 200ක වියදමක් දැරීමට සිදුවනු ඇතැයි තමා විශ්වාස කරන බව මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් ජනරාල් සමන් ශ්‍රී රත්නායක මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුවේ අද (09) කොළඹ පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදීය. වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් ජනරාල්වරයා, “එක අපේක්ෂකයෙක් වැඩි වුණ ගමන්, අඩුම ගානේ […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 8: In a revolutionary move, the Interim Government formed in Bangladesh on Thursday after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ouster by a student agitation, includes two student leaders, Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud. This may well be the first time in the world that student agitators who had toppled a […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ගෝල්ෆේස් අරගලය පාර්ලිමේන්තුව දෙසට හැරවීමට ගත් උත්සහය අසාර්ථක වූ බවට සිදු කල ප්‍රකාශය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ විධායක සභික කේ. ඩී. ලාල්කාන්ත අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන විමර්ශනයක් සිදු කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ නීතිඥවරුන් පිරිසක් අද අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට පැමිණිල්ලක් සිදු කළා. කෙසේ වෙතත් තමා විසින් සිදුකළ ප්‍රකාශ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගැටලු‍වක් ඇත්නම් ඒ […]

Courtesy The Straits Times DHAKA/NEW DELHI – Hundreds of Bangladeshi Hindus have tried unsuccessfully to flee to India this week after many homes and businesses of the minority community were vandalised following the overthrow of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council said that 45 out of 64 districts in the […]

Courtesy Al Jazeera Indian media make claims linking China and Pakistani intelligence to Bangladesh protests and exaggerate scale of attacks on Hindus. By Faisal Mahmud and Saqib Sarker Dhaka, Bangladesh – Within hours of Sheikh Hasina’s removal from power after a student-led mass uprising, reports began to appear in some Indian media outlets that members of Hindu minorities in […]

NEWS9 Live The Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Bangladesh has faced severe attacks, with thousands of fanatics targeting mosques, schools, and homes. Recent violence includes the burning of the Ahmadiyya mosque in Taraganj and assaults by madrassa students in Dhaka. The Army has been deployed to restore order as the civil administration remains inactive. Watch our […]

Evening Standard The Met police chief, Sir Mark Rowley, has praised the show of force and unity from communities” that defeated the threat from far-right troublemakers yesterday, after thousands of anti-racism protesters lined streets of the capital. Our Crime Correspondent, Anthony France, explains what exactly happened, how racist thugs are being fast-tracked through our justice […]

Courtesy The Daily News Targets and benchmarks with IMF, lending countries non-negotiable: If we violate them, we will not receive the necessary funds, leading to another economic collapse in our country:Never defended anyone accused of corruption: President Ranil Wickremesinghe highlighted that altering agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or creditors could jeopardise the country’s […]

Courtesy The Daily News MP Udaya Gammanpila told Parliament yesterday that JVP’s Politburo member K. D. Lalkantha has publicly declared that the JVP has planned to take over the Parliament of Sri Lanka and therefore he should be immediately arrested under the criminal law and the law should be enforced against him. MP Udaya Gammanpila […]

Courtesy The Daily News National People’s Power (NPP) National Executive Committee member K. D. Lalkantha, stated that while the Galle Face protests succeeded in removing Gotabaya Rajapaksa from power, the effort to direct the uprising toward a parliamentary change failed, rendering the movement fruitless. Lalkantha remarked that J. R. Jayewardene, a former leader, did not […]

Courtesy France24 Bangladesh’s military chief announced on Wednesday that an interim government, headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, will be sworn in on Thursday. The move follows former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation and departure to India, with the new administration aiming to restore stability after widespread unrest. Bangladesh’s military chief said Wednesday that an […]

Courtesy VOA The night before long-time leader Sheikh Hasina abruptly fled Bangladesh amid deadly protests, her army chief held a meeting with his generals and decided that troops would not open fire on civilians to enforce a curfew, two serving army officers with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.— Gen. Waker-Uz-Zaman then reached out to […]

Marianna Spring  Disinformation and social media correspondent Courtesy BBC X can feel like two parallel universes at times. There’s the version where the president of the United States chooses the platform to announce he won’t be running for re-election. That’s the one where the worldwide authority on a particular subject uses X to offer their […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has stated that while others only talk about corruption, he has introduced numerous legislations to prevent it.  Addressing a meeting with the heads of media organisations today, he said that the Proceeds of Crime Act will also be presented to the Cabinet next week. Wickremasinghe further emphasised that he has […]