Shenali D Waduge What is taking place under the guise of Easter Sunday is nothing but a repeat of the 2002 raid on the Millennium City Safe House in Athurugiriya goes down in history as one of the greatest betrayals. Just as Commission reports on the 2019 Easter Sunday massacre are being repeatedly rejected in […]

Chanaka Bandarage After the WW II the Western Europe was in utter shambles. Most of the countries were bankrupt. US President Truman introduced the Marshall Plan to develop Western Europe. The US gave them aid in the tune of $ $13.3 billion (equivalent to $173.8 billion in 2024). The biggest beneficiary was the UK (26% […]

By Palitha Ariyarathna The recent changes by Sri Lanka’s Department of Immigration and Emigration regarding the language used in the new passport series have sparked important discussions among citizens and officials. While the decision to print passports primarily in English—with Sinhala and Tamil as secondary languages—aims to facilitate international travel, it has also raised concerns […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Is this How the Rickest Person on the Planet Should Behave in Public or even in Private? Please Read His Comments and You Decide! For context, Musk was responding to a post about a Der Spiegel article that compared him to a media mogul who helped Hitler climb to power. It was hardly Musk’s first, […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre High Commissioner of the Republic of Maldives to Sri Lanka, His Excellency Masood Imad, paid a courtesy call on the Defence Secretary, Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha (Retd), at the Defence Headquarters Complex in Sri Jayewardenepura, Kotte, today (Oct 23). The Defence Secretary warmly received the Maldivian envoy and […]

George Galloway Countries are queuing up to get into BRICS, says former Pentagon official Michael Maloof. There is no strategic vision coming out of the US. You can’t spend a dollar when you’re dead

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් වන රවී සෙනෙවිරත්න මහතා යටතේ පාස්කු බෝම්බ ප‍්‍රහාරයට අදාළ විමර්ශන සිදුකිරීම පිළිගත නොහැකි යයි අගතියට පත් පාර්ශව වෙනුවෙන් අධිකරණයට මෝසමක් ගොනු කර ඇත. ලේකම්වරයා පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්‍රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පත් කළ විමර්ශණ වාර්තාවක සැකකරුවෙකු ලෙස නම් කර ඇති නිසා මෙම මෝසම ගොනු කර ඇත. නීතිඥ සජිත ගමගේ […]

By Nuzla Rizkiya Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government announced efforts to accelerate the development of the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) at the Port of Colombo, a highly anticipated initiative managed by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA). This week, Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation Minister Vijitha Herath received the Cabinet approval to designate […]

Courtesy CBSNews Sri Lanka deployed troops and increased police patrols around a Jewish community center in a popular surfing town on Wednesday after the U.S. embassy warned American citizens of a possible attack on popular tourist sites in the area. The stepped-up security and warning came after social media posts called for a boycott of […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය අද කොළඹ පැවැත්වූ මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක් වෙමින් හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල  මහතා පරශන කළේ පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය සම්බන්ධ විමර්ශන කමිටුවේ වාර්තාව තමන් පිළි නොගන්නා බවට ඇමති විජිත හේරත් මහතා පවසන්නේ එහි සභාපති විනිසුරු වරියට විශමාචාර චෝදනා එල්ල වූ බව පවසමින් නම් ඇය විනිසුරුවරියක ලෙස ලබාදුන් නඩු තීන්දු ප්‍රතික්ෂේප […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the legal Cabinet decision taken by him as Finance Minister to increase the salaries of public servants should be implemented immediately. The former President said that if he had won the Presidential election, he had planned to give the salary increase from next January, and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, October 23 (Daily Mirror) – A National Security Advisor should be reappointed to the country to prevent potential threats from terrorist groups, former Presidential advisor Sagala Rathnayaka said. Addressing the media today, he said that as the country’s tourism industry is growing, news of such threats could severely harm the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Udaya Gammanpila, leader of Pivithuru Hela Urumaya and former Member of Parliament, asserted that identifying who motivated former Senior DIG Ravi Seneviratne to remain inactive for 12 days on a critical letter could lead to uncovering the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday attacks. He made these comments during a special news conference […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Leader of the ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ alliance and Gampaha District candidate, entrepreneur Dilith Jayaweera says that the only opposition remaining in the country’s politics is the ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ alliance. He made this statement when a group of representatives of the United Republic Front from the Matara District joined the ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ alliance today (23). […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s security forces were reportedly fully aware of the information warning of a possible attack targeting popular tourist locations in the Arugam Bay area, as mentioned in the U.S. Embassy’s security alert for American citizens in Sri Lanka today (23).  Is it stated that consequently, steps were taken several days ago to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasooriya stated that the security of all foreigners in the country has been assured and that diplomatic missions have been informed. He made these comments while addressing a special press conference today (23) at the Polonnaruwa SSP’s Office, regarding the security measures taken following […]

Courtesy Adaderana In connection with the official statement by Sri Lanka Police regarding the possible threat of attacks against foreign tourists in Arugam Bay, the Russian Embassy in Colombo has requested Russian citizens in Sri Lanka to remain vigilant and to avoid large gatherings. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom (UK) had also updated its travel advice […]

Courtesy Adaderana The United Kingdom (UK) has updated its travel advice for Sri Lanka based on the latest travel alert issued by the U.S. Embassy regarding potential threats in the Arugam Bay area. The U.S. Embassy in Colombo today issued a security alert for American citizens in Sri Lanka strongly advising them to avoid the […]