By Sena Thoradeniya (1) Economic Crisis: Then and Now Founding father of JVP, Patabandige Don Nandasiri Wijeweera (later baptized as Rohana, to signify his Southern roots and victorious armies of ancient Rohana Rata), began his famous panthi paha” (five classes or lessons) in 1965, with Economic Crisis of Lanka”, an imaginary crisis he has invented […]

Vichara At the opening of the 10th Parliament, President AKD made a policy statement covering a wide range of issues. It was a professional presentation. This note is in elaboration on a few topics in his speech that are related to economic development. (In this note the President’s statements are in Italics.) 1. if national […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS After the colonization schemes of the 1950s and 1960s,   the government started doing Development Schemes. Tamil Separatist Movement viewed these development schemes   with great alarm, because they brought Sinhalese settlers into the area they had reserved for Eelam. State-sponsored colonization would lead to a change in the demography of the Northern and Eastern […]

Prof. Hudson McLean President-elect Donald Trump Appointment of General Keith Kellogg with High Credibility, to Stop the Russian- Ukraine Conflict, is Positive!       A Master-Stroke! Trump Offers the Russian Bear a Honeycomb! Offering President Putin of Russia a 20% land area which was Ukraine and a 1000 km Buffer De-Militarised Zone is a […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Politicians in this country instigate people to carry on strikeS irrespective of the nature of the problem ,and without studying the proposal –may be… From  the government- side there  should be many public forums explaining the circumstances under which Indians have been entrusted the peacekeeping functions in the North and how Rajeev […]

By N Sathiya Moorthy Courtesy Ceylon Today In a way, there isn’t much new in the book, The Rout of Prabhakaran by M.R. Narayan Swamy, who had authored an ‘unauthorised’ biography of LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, Inside an Elusive Mind, way back in 2003, and two other books, one earlier and another latter, on the world’s most dreaded […]

ෂෙනාලි වඩුගේ දෙමළ ජනතාව බෙදුම්වාදය ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කර ඇති බව දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානයට ලැබූ ඡන්ද වලින් හා එම සන්ධානයේ ප්‍රමුක තැනක්ලැබූ සුමන්තිරන්ව උතුරු ජනතාව ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කර බව පැහැදිලිව දක්නට ලැබුණි. දෙමල ජනතාවගේ ඡන්දය කොතරම් දුරට බාහිරබලපෑම් වලට භාජනය වූ බව පසුව අපට තේරුම් ගත හැක. 2010 ජනාධිපති ඡන්දයට ඉන්දියාවේ බලපෑම් නිසා සරත් ෆොන්සේකා හිටපුහමුදාපතිටත්, 2015 දී […]

Nava Thakuria As India’s billion plus populace are watching an initiative under ‘one nation, one election’ policy by the Union  government in New Delhi proposing to go for simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha, State legislative assemblies and local government bodies across the country with an aim to reduce the electoral expenditure, the recent by-polls narrated a different […]

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La 2de Guerre Mondiale On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., a bright flash set the sky over Hiroshima ablaze. A gigantic column of smoke rises above the city. The first nuclear bomb in history has just been dropped on the largest metropolis in western Japan. This new documentary shows this tragedy from the inside […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 29: Based on information received from the Sri Lanka Navy regarding probable narcotics smuggling by Sri Lankan flagged fishing vessels in the Arabian Sea, the Indian Navy responded swiftly through a coordinated operation to localise and intercept the boats. Extensive surveillance was undertaken by Indian Naval Long Range Maritime Patrol Aircraft […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඇතැම් ‘පාර්ශව’ ආර්ථික තත්ත්වයෙන් ප්‍රයෝජන ගැනීමට උත්සාහ කරන අවස්ථාවක ශ්‍රී ලංකාව බාහිර බලපෑම්වලට හිස නොනැමිය යුතු බවත් ස්වාධීන විදේශ ප්‍රතිපත්තියක් පවත්වාගෙන යා යුතු බවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ චීන තානාපති Qi Zhenhong කොළඹදී මාධ්‍යවේදීන් අමතමින් පැවසීය. චීනයේ ස්ථාවරය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සමඟ ඇති අනාගත සබඳතා පිළිබඳ ඔහු කියා සිටියේ මෙරට ආර්ථික තත්ත්වයෙන් […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් උතුරේ හමුදා කඳවුරු ඉවත් කිරීම සහ මහවිරු සැමරුම් හේතුවෙන් උද්ගතවී ඇති ගැටලු සම්බන්ධයෙන් රජය නිහඩ පිළිවෙතක් අනුගමනය කරන බවට රණවිරුවන් චෝදනා කරයි. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කරුණු දැක්වීමට ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයට පැමැණි රණවිරුවකු විසින් සඳහන් කරන්නේ රටේ සාමය ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා කැපවිය යුතු බවයි. අදාළ වීඩියෝව පහළින්…

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් බෙදුම්වාදී කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදයට සහාය දෙන පාර්ශ්ව විසින් නැවත බෙදුමිවාදී ත්‍රස්තවාදය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීමට කටයුතු කරමින් සිටින බවත්, අන්තවාදී ක්‍රියා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ආණ්ඩුවේ ලිහිල් ප්‍රතිපත්තියට විරෝධය දක්වන බවත් සඳහන් කරමින් රණවිරුවකු විසින් ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතා වෙත ලිපියක් යොමුකර තිබේ. ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් රාජාසන කතාවේ දී අන්තවාදය, ජාතිවාදය හිස එසවීමට නොදෙන බව පැවසූව ද […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, November 29 (Daily Mirror)- Floods caused by deep depression that created havoc in many parts of the country started receding today but some areas including the Northern Province are still facing risk, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said. As per the DMC, floods in almost all 24 districts have begun […]

Courtesy Adaderana The overall rate of inflation, as measured by the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI) on Year-on-Year basis, has decreased to -2.1% in November 2024, compared to -0.8% in October 2024, according to the latest data released by the Department of Census and Statistics. The CCPI for all items for the month of November 2024 was […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says Sri Lanka’s economy is now in a much more stable position and that the present political stability is an important factor for long-term, sustainable economic development.  We lost both economic stability as well as political stability during last several […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Department of Meteorology has announced that the impact of the deep depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal on the country’s weather system is expected to diminish starting today. Over the past few days, adverse weather conditions have claimed the lives of 15 individuals, with a total of 463,569 people reported to […]

Courtesy AdaDerana The Secretary-General of Parliament, Kushani Rohanadeera stated that there will be no changes to the privileges granted to the Members of the Parliament. Speaking to the media, she revealed that 94 MPs have already submitted requests to obtain official residences from the Madiwela Housing Complex. The Secretary-General of Parliament explained that 25-30 houses […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake At Annual Meetings in Washington last month International Monetary Fund head, Kristalina Georgieva claimed Sri Lanka as a debt restructuring ‘success’ story.[i]  Left unsaid by the IMF’s Managing Director was that Sri Lanka’s debt had apparently ballooned from $26 billion to a purported whopping $100 billion during two years of reforms’ under the […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, former G.A. Matara In view of the new leash of life Sri Lanka has just got with the election of a President of Sri Lanka avowed to bring about poverty alleviation, I beg to make some suggestions based on my real experience. On my recent travel to Snowdonia in Wales, I happened […]

Dilrook Kannangara LTTE commemorations once again highlighted the undeniable fact that all its organizers and essentially all Tamil Eelmists are Sri Lankan born. While Cyclone Fengal disrupted the planned large LTTE commemoration since 2009 the organizers have said they will hold it on another day. Indian born Tamils around the world are not keen in […]

Chanaka Bandarage In Europe, politicians including Prime Ministers cycle to work. In Japan, pretty much everyone (rich, poor) cycles. In Netherlands, bicycle is the main and most important mode of transport. In Sri Lanka, cyclists are shamed. Here, cycling is considered a symbol of poverty, We still foolishly regard that bicycle is the poor man’s […]

Chanaka Bandarage For most areas, monkeys are a relatively new problem.  In the last 30 years, lots of deforestation  happened. Some forests like Suriyawewa, Lunugamwehara are now extinct. Even the Sinharaja forest is under serious threat. The degradation and fragmentation of the animal habitats is very real. Owing to building walking tracks in Bellanwila, Pillawa […]

Courtesy Sputnik Serial production of the Oreshnik system has begun, the Russian president announced. Last week, the Russian leader revealed the successful testing of the new Oreshnik hypersonic missile system. Today, at the request of colleagues, he shared further details. “Serial production of the Oreshnik has started, but ultimately, we will choose the means of destruction […]

Courtesy BNN Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing. Sign up here. Moody’s Ratings is reviewing Sri Lanka’s sovereign credit rating for an upgrade, as the nation is set to complete its debt restructuring of its dollar bonds. The rating agency assigned […]

Courtesy NDTV Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company (IHC) is one of the largest sovereign funds and manages assets close to $100 billion. The Tanzanian government has reaffirmed its commitment to its agreements with Adani Ports. New Delhi:  Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company (IHC), one of the largest sovereign funds that manages assets close to $100 […]

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Sugath Kulatunga Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya has made an univocal statement that  Vocational education should be a respected choice, offering a clear pathway from school to higher education while contributing directly to the economy.” It is most encouraging to note that the government is considering ‘’ vocational education to be no longer be viewed […]

Speech by Christos Marsellos, Delphi Initiative, Defend Democracy Press, Author, Greece, at the European Conference on 2 November 2024 The dual need: new geopolitical balance, new social pact There can be no doubt: we are experiencing an acceleration of history. This could lead to the catastrophic prospect of a world war, potentially involving nuclear weapons. In […]