Courtesy Adaderana Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Parliamentarian Dr. Harsha de Silva has congratulated the National People’s Power (NPP) presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake. In a post on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), the former Deputy Minister said they campaigned hard for SJB’s presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa, and that however it was not to be”. It is now […]

Courtesy cna 22 Sep 2024 07:35AM(Updated: 22 Sep 2024 08:43AM) Bookmark WhatsAppTelegramFacebookTwitterEmailLinkedIn COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Marxist-leaning leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake grabbed a commanding early lead on Sunday (Sep 22) in his bid to become the next president of the debt-ridden country seeking to elect a leader to bolster its fragile economic recovery. Early results from Saturday’s vote […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s Marxist politician Anura Kumara Dissanayaka took an early lead in the Sept 21 presidential election during the counting of postal ballots, official results showed. Mr Dissanayaka had 60.21 per cent of the 164,000 votes counted, out of just over 700,000. Public servants involved in conducting the election […]

Courtesy Hiru News As per the postal voting results published so far, National People’s Power (NPP) candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake continues to lead with a total of 125,999 votes (57.34%).The current vote distribution is as follows:Anura Kumara Dissanayake: 125,999 votes (57.34%)Ranil Wickremesinghe: 42,307 votes (19.34%)Sajith Premadasa: 40,595 votes (18.56%)Namal Rajapaksa: 3,970 votes (1.81%)Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanethiran: 1,677 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The voting for the presidential election to elect the 9th Executive President of Sri Lanka was held today (21). The Election Commission says that counting of votes has already started and the first results of the 2024 presidential election, which commenced today (21), will be released before 12.00 midnight. The Commissioner General of […]

Hiru News The first postal vote result of the 2024 Presidential Election has been released, a short while ago. Accordingly, the postal vote result for the Ratnapura district has been released by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka. National People’s Power (NPP) candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake has received the highest number of postal votes in […]

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Aloysius Hettiarachchi It was yesterday that BBC and other main world media showed how some devices exploded on vegetable stalls in open air markets somewhere in Lebanon. I do not think what they showed in the markets were pagers. Most likely some of them were just mobiles the vendors placed on their tables while selling […]

By Palitha Ariyarathna Chris Knayzeh, a former resident of Lebanon who experienced the 2020 Beirut poChris Knayzeh, a former resident of Lebanon who experienced the 2020 Beirut port blast, was visiting when the news of the pager explosions broke. Synopsis The article discusses the catastrophic explosions in Lebanon caused by weaponized communication devices, resulting At least nine […]

අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col), නීතීඥ. 1. ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත යුතුකම ඉටු නොකරන රාජ්‍ය සේවකයන්ට දණ්ඩ නීති සංග්‍රහයේ 289 වගන්තිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට මහජන පැමිණිලි සටහන් කිරීමට සහ අපරාධ නඩු විධාන සංග්‍රහයේ 136.1.අ. වගන්තිය යටතේ නීතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට “ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත යුතුකම් ඉටුකිරීමේ ජාතික  කොමිෂන් සභාව” පිහිටුවන්න. 2. පනත් කෙටුම්පත් සම්බන්ධයෙන් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 120, 121වන ව්‍යවස්ථා යටතේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ පවත්වන නඩු […]

By Abdul Rahman Courtesy  InDepthNews DHAKA, Bangladesh | 18 September 2024 (IDN) — On September 16, the Bangladeshi police arrested two senior journalists, Mozammel Babu and Shyamal Dutta when they were allegedly trying to leave the country. With their arrests, the total number of journalists arrested since the coming of the interim government in power […]

Saeed Naqvi Dated: 19.09.2024 That Juan Guaido, 41, has in his CV described himself as the ex President of Venezuela – 2019-2023” is not all fiction. Even when the world sleeps, the leader of the Free World is in relentless pursuit of replacing dictatorships with democracy worldwide. Replacing Nicolas Maduro in Caracas with Guaido was […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Cololmbo, September 20 (Daily Mirror) –  In reference to Sri Lanka agreeing in principle on the restructuring of commercial debts (ISB), Chairman of Advocata Institute Murtaza Jafferjee said it was a game changer on the path to debt sustainability. He said there is a lot of political discourse on the need […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has suspended the party membership of three Members of Parliament.  Accordingly, the party membership of Anuradhapura District MP S.M. Chandrasena, Ratnapura District MP Pavithra Wanniarachchi and Kalutara District MP Rohitha Abeygunawardena have been suspended. Their party membership has been suspended for going against the SLPP Politburo’s decision […]

Asoka (Weerasinghe) Dear. Editor: The time hsarrived for me to respond to Asoka, Your letters are funny and entertaining to read. However, I am afraid that sarcastic letters like these will not yield any positive results.” Nihal, I thank you for your comment, but that is my writing style and I do not believe that […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Chairman of the Election Commission, R.M.A.L. Rathnayake, says that all election campaign offices which have been established at the electorate level must be removed after midnight today (19). During a press conference at the Department of Government Information this morning (19) regarding the presidential poll, he stated that it is essential to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka said it’s reached an agreement in principle with bondholders to restructure its $114 billion debt load, just days before the country heads for presidential elections. The government held restricted discussions with nine members of the steering committee of the ad-hoc group of bondholders between September 12th and 18th, it said in […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් තමන්ට ජීවිත තර්ජන එල්ල වී ඇති බැවින් සිය ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කරන ලෙස මිහින්තලා රජමහා විහාරාධිපති පූජ්‍ය වලවාහැංගුණුවැවේ ධම්මරතන හිමියන් පවසනවා. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් පැමිණිලි කිරීමට අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේදීයි. මිහින්තලා රජමහා විහාරාධිපති පූජ්‍ය වලවාහැංගුණුවැවේ ධම්මරතන හිමියන් සහ සුරකිමු ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංවිධානයේ සභාපති පූජ්‍ය පාහියංගල ආනන්ද සාගර […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake In the run up to elections the post-Marxist National People’s Party (NPP), has run a high-gloss, foreign-funded, election campaign to market its policies as a ‘new dawn’. Remarkably, the NPP and rival political parties alike had ignored wider geopolitical developments that may contribute to such a dawn given the globally networked nature of […]

By Prof. Sunil J. Wimalawansa Despite massive failures over the past 76 years, many middle-class Sri Lankans—the majority in Sri Lanka- still believe that only family-driven, self-claimed, high-class politicians can run the country. Clans, which have controlled the country for the past four decades, have failed to uplift society and its people socially, morally, and […]

By Juan Cole At least one thing is now obvious in the Middle East: the Biden administration has failed abjectly in its objectives there, leaving the region in dangerous disarray. Its primary stated foreign policy goal has been to rally its partners in the region to cooperate with the extremist Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් 2024 ජනාධිපතිවරණය සඳහා වූ සියලුම ප්‍රචාරක රැස්වීම් අද (18) මධ්‍යම රාත්‍රි 12.00 ට අවසන් කළ යුතු බව මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව පවසනවා. ඒ අනුව එම රැස්වීම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ඇතුළු විද්‍යුත් හා මුද්‍රිත මාධ්‍ය මගින් විකාශය කිරීම හෙට (19) දහවල් 12.00 න් අවසන් කළ යුතු බව මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව කියා සිටියා. මැතිවරණ […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ජාතික ජන බලවේගය පක්ෂයේ ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂක අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක සඳහන් කරන ආකාරයට ශ්‍රී ලංකා රේගුවට රුපියල් ට්‍රිලියන 1.1ක බඳු හිඟයක් නැති බවත් එකතු කිරීමට ඇති හිඟ බදු ප්‍රමාණය රුපියල් බිලියන 58ක් පමණක් බවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා රේගුව සඳහන් කරන බවට දිවයිනේ ප්‍රධාන පුවත්පතක් වාර්තාකොට සිටිනවා. එම රුපියල් බිලියන 58කට ආසන්න හිඟ බදුවලින් […]

Prof. N.A.de S. Amaratunga If we go along the path we have been following upto now adhereing to the IMF conditions we may have to boost up our dollar earning capacity at least to USD 25 billion by 2028 in order to be able to pay 15% interest on foreign loans and capital recovery with […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) 1. 2015 ගෙනා 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය ගෙනා අවස්ථාවේ එක් නීති විශාරදයෙකුගේ අතපසුවීමක් හේතුවෙන් ජනතාවගෙන් සමාව ගැනීමට ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ 2024 ජූලි 19 දින ගාල්ල අධිකරණ සංකීර්ණය විවෘත කිරීමේ උත්සව අවස්ථාවේදී පියවර ගත්තේය. 2. ඒ වන විට 2015 ගෙනා 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ නඩු පවරා එම නඩු […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මෙවර ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ ප්‍රචාරක රැළි සඳහා රුපියල් කෝටි 200 කට වැඩි මුදලක් වැයකර බස් රථ ලබාගෙන ඇති බව ලංකා පෞද්ගලික බස් හිමියන්ගේ සංගමයේ සභාපති ගැමුණු විජේරත්න මහතා පැවසීය. මෙලෙස බස් රථ ලබාදීම හරහා රුපියල් කෝටි 100 කට ආසන්න ලාභයක් හිමිව ඇතිබව පැවසීය. ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ ප්‍රචාරක කටයුතු අවසන් කළ යුතු අද (18) දිනයේ […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, September 17 (Daily Mirror)- If you vote for either Sajith Premadasa or Namal Rajapaksa, it will ultimately help NPP candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake, independent candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe said today.  Speaking during a rally in Minuwangoda, Wickremesinghe said people should vote intelligently at this year’s Presidential election.

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe today (17) inaugurated the Western Automobile Assembly Private Limited (WAA) vehicle assembly plant in Kuliyapitiya, marking a significant milestone in the country’s automotive industry.  This $27 million facility is now the largest vehicle assembly plant in South Asia, according to the President’s Media Division. The first vehicle to be assembled […]

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