Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) 2066 Kings Grove  Crescent . Ottawa  . Ontario , K1J G1 . Canada I January 2025 OPEN LETTER Rt. Hon Anura Kumara DissanayakeLeader of the National People’s Power (NPP)President of Sri LankaPresident’s SecretariatColombo 1Sri Lanka 1st January 2025 Dear President Dissanayake:: Re: the article by SHENALI  D. WADUGE (28 December 2024) ‘ANURA KUMARA  AS JVP LEADER & ANURA […]

Dilrook Kannangara The most decorated military officer of the Sri Lanka army has retired from all military posts after 41 years of service to the nation. These years saw most violence in the island nation. He was also one of only two four-star Generals of the army. He commanded not only the 58th Offensive Division […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Theater enthusiasts in the newly independent states of South Asia were finding it difficult, if not impossible, to move away from the proscenium arch” theatre introduced by the western rulers. There were two types of theatre going on, traditional and modern, rural and urban. The main challenge faced by them in the 20th […]

Sugath Kulatunga  Sri Lanka does not possess an abundance of physical resources for large-scale industrial development but is blessed with ample human resources. It is on this comparative advantage that the country has to develop its economy. Education is the driving force with which the optimal benefit could be derived from this rare advantage and […]

Chanaka Bandarage At the moment at least 60 elephants are stranded in Oya Madu area including in the NLDB farm. These elephants are the subjects of a drive from Thalawa, Galgamuwa, Thambuththegama areas. To please the villagers in those areas, the authorities chased them out of those areas.   They consist of mainly female elephants […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Too Many Chief Cooks Making the Stone Soup”.  Not Enough Indians!  Oh Sorry! There is Vivek Ramaswamy! But He Looks Like a Vindaloo Man!  Donald Trump was elected the President, has some experience at McDonalds! But Elon Musk is acting like the Chief Cook & the Bottle Washer! Above the President. He […]

Lawrence Davidson Courtesy Counterpunch Gate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau – CC BY 3.0 At Home and Abroad Police in America need a great deal of reform, a project that translates to freeing them from the racist nature of U.S. culture while tying them more firmly to the culture of civil and human rights. Not easy, but […]

 BY Buddhika Samaraweera Courtesy The Morning The Government should first distinguish between privileges and security for former Presidents and avoid making decisions solely based on financial factors, said the Spokesperson for former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, attorney Manoj Gamage. Recently, the National People’s Power Government revised former Presidents’ security arrangements by reducing the number of Police […]

කතුවැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම  අරුණ පුවත් ගල් පැළෙන බොරුවලින් පිරුණ ඇඩ්වෙන්චර් ඔෆ් බාරොන් මැංචෝසන් නම් පොතේ පරිවර්තනයක් මැංචෝසන් චාරිකා නමින් සිංහලයෙන් තිබේ. ආදි කාලයේ සිට ගජබින්න අසා ඉන්නට මිනිසා තුළ තිබෙන ආසාවට ගැළපෙන අයුරින් ලියා ඇති මැංචෝසන් චාරිකා පොතේ එන්නේ හරි හතරැස් ගජබින්නය. මැංචෝසන් සාමිවරයා තම දිව දෙකේ අශ්වයා සමග හිම වැටෙන කාලයක ගමනක් යයි. රෑ […]

Courtesy Asharq Al-Awsat Omar Lebbe Ameer Ajwad, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (Asharq Al-Awsat) Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Omar Lebbe Ameer Ajwad revealed ongoing efforts to establish a strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia and implement 10 signed agreements across various sectors to foster mutual growth. Such efforts also aim to launch collaborations […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් මැතිවරණයේදී පරාජය වන බව දැන සිටියා වුවද ජාතික මතයට සුළු පිරිසක් හෝ එක්කර තබාගැනීම සඳහා උත්සාහ දැරුවේ යළිත් ආණ්ඩුව අර්බුදයට යද්දී  බලවේගයක් ලෙස එම සුළු පිරිස හෝ එක්කර තබාගැනීමේ අරමුණින් බව පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක, හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. ගෝඨාභය ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ ජනාධිපති ජයග්‍රහණය ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයේ කූඨප්‍රාප්තිය වුවද 1956 […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror On the first working day of the New Year, the government launched its Clean Sri Lanka programme, aimed at ‘rebuilding a fractured nation’ as described President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. An 18-member Task Force was appointed by the President himself in order to plan and implement the programme. The appointment of this […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror In the run-up to its election victories at the presidential and parliamentary elections, the JVP/NPP combine promised to bring down the cost of living. Today, while a majority of ordinary workers earn between Rs. 40,000/- to Rs. 60,000/- per month, the cost of providing a family of four, three meals a […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island President Dissanayake with Premier Modi during his Dec. 15-17 State visit to India Senior lecturer in economics and head of the IT Department at the University of Colombo, Professor Priyanga Dunusinghe, recently declared that the new National People’s Power (NPP) administration had neither a clear economic policy nor a […]

Courtesy The Island Anura Kumara Dissanayake wants the new year to be a turning point for the country [BBC] Stunning election wins by a new left-leaning president and his party have changed Sri Lanka’s political landscape – but the cash-strapped island’s new rulers are quickly realising that campaign promises are easier to make than to […]

3 Minutes – SEPAL AMARASINGHE

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් දෙසැම්බර් 31 දින ජාතික පුවත්පතක ලිපියක් පළකරමින් දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයේ ලේකම් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා විසින් ඉන්දියානු ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා ඒකාබද්ධ ප‍්‍රකාශ මගින් රටට සිදුවිය හැකි විපත පිළිබඳව දීර්ඝ වශයෙන් කරුණු දක්වා ඇත. ඒ් අනුව රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ඔහු‌ගේ මාමා සමඟ 1987 සිට ආරම්භ කළ ක‍්‍රියාවලියේ දිගුවක් ලෙස අනුරදිසානායක ජනාධිපතිවරයාට ‘‘රිලේ බැටන්”‍ එක අතට ගැනීමට […]

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