TomDispatch Posted on January 9, 2025 Hey, why not buy (or just take) Greenland? After all, we already have a military base there, once known as Thule Air Base and, in 2023, renamed Pituffik Space Base in honor of the settlement of local people who were — yes! — displaced in 1951 when it was […]

Courtesy The Daily News Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament yesterday that there is a risk of 100,000 illegal immigrants entering the country in the next few weeks. The Minister further stated that Intelligence agencies have already reported on the arrival of those illegal immigrants. He stated this while participating in a debate in […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ක්ලීන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා වැඩසටහන ආරම්භක උත්සවය සඳහා පමණක් රුපියල් ලක්ෂ හැත්තෑවක් වැය කර ඇතැයි බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී චාමර සම්පත් දසනායක මහතා පවසයි. පාර්ලිමේන්තුව අමතමින් ඔහු පැවසුවේ තම ප‍්‍රකාශයට අදාල තොරතුරු තමන් සතු බවත් එය අසත්‍යයක් යයි ඔප්පු කලහොත් තමන් මන්ත්‍රී ධූරයෙන් ඉවත් වන බවත්ය. එම උත්සවයේ ගීත ගායනයට ලක්ෂ […]

Editorial The Morning The recent circular PS/BS/Circular/1/2025 issued by the President’s Secretariat on interactions between State agencies and foreign missions in Colombo has raised concerns in both the diplomatic quarter and within the community of senior public officials about the Government’s intentions behind the move. The circular came from left field, and was neither a […]

 KELUM BANDARA  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 09 (Daily Mirror) – The  UNHCR  or the UN Refugee Agency, which commended the life-saving actions taken by the Sri Lankan authorities and people to rescue and safely disembark Rohingya people who were distressed at sea, asked for continued compassion and hospitality from the Sri Lankan authorities.  […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While Opposition MP Dayasiri Jayasekera alleged that the President’s Secretary had issued a circular prohibiting Ministers from meeting heads of foreign missions without the permission of Foreign Affairs Minister, Leader of the House Bimal Ratnayake denied the claim and said he had met a diplomat yesterday. The President’s Secretary has issued […]

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Senaka Weeraratna  People of Sri Lanka have a fundamental duty to be pro – Sri Lanka rather than being pro this and pro that in relation to conflicts all over the world that have no relevance or gain to Sri Lanka. If a member of parliament identifies himself as a voice of a particular community […]

By Garvin Karunaratne It all happened in the Bangladesh Secretariat, three days after General Ershard took over the country in a bloodless coup on the 24 th of March 1982. The Minister for Youth Development was clamped in prison and the work of the Ministry was in jeopardy. The third in command, Air Vice Marshall […]

Shenali D Waduge They are known as defenders of the Nation for a reason. They are known as sons & daughters of the soil for a reason. They are one of the 2 key pillars of the Nation for a reason (the other pillar being the Buddha Sasana). They are the first to come forward […]

Dilrook Kannangara It was reported that over one hundred Rohingyas are in a military-run camp in the north of the island. However, there may be others who have already made it to Sri Lanka and have become citizens. They must be sent back to their homeland – Burma or Bangladesh. Sri Lanka has a very […]

Chanaka Bandarage Being submissive in a foreign land is the worst quality that a nation’s leader could have. In the Group Photos of the 1949 and 1951 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings held in the UK, Sri Lanka’s (then Ceylon) Prime Minister DS Senanayake was afforded a front row seat. Along with the Queen, he […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD  My dear friend Gary Noesner—the former FBI agent and the key negotiator during the Waco siege—agreed to conduct a 40-min educational Zoom program for Sri Lankan professionals who are interested in positive communication and hostage negotiations. This is a free session, and we are inviting members from the security […]

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Aloysius Hettiarachchi. According to reports a gem exhibition was held at Cinnamon Grand Hotel on the fourth of January in which the chief guest had been the Prez Anura Kumara Dissanayake as shown in the image shown below: Sri Lanka had been a gem mining and exporting country for millennia. The Moroccans have been coming […]

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NORBU To our Brothers and Sisters in Sri Lanka for being NORBU’s top global users in 2024! May the “Island of Dharma” continue to shine brightly for the next thousand millennia.Anumodana! Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu! 2024 දී NORBU හි ඉහළම ගෝලීය පරිශීලකයන් වීම සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අපගේ සහෝදර සහෝදරියන්ට සුබ පැතුම්! “ධර්ම ද්වීපය” ඉදිරි සහස්‍ර දහස් ගණනකට දීප්තියෙන් […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ලෝකය පුරා ධන කුවේරයන් සැඟවූ ධනය පිළිබඳව හෙළිදරව් කෙරෙන පැනඩෝරා පත්‍රිකාවල මීළඟ හෙළිදරව්වෙන් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේ ඉහළ තනතුරු දරන අය සම්බන්ධයෙන් තොරතුරු ඇතැයි හිටපු අමාත්‍ය ගාමිණී ලොකුගේ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඒ පිළිබඳව තමන් ඉදිරි සතියේ රටට විශේෂ හෙළිදරවක් සිදුකරන බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. ආණ්ඩුවේ ඉහළ නිලයන් දරණ පුද්ගලයන්ගේ මුදල් පිළිබඳවද එහිදී තමන් […]

By Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Parliament, January 08 (Daily Mirror)- In the wake of over 100 Rohingya entering Sri Lanka recently, Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala said today that the intelligence services have revealed that there was a plan to bring down some 100,000 illegal migrants to Sri Lanka in […]

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Courtesy Adaderana President Anura Kumara Disanayake has emphasized that Sri Lanka can enhance its position in the global market through a robust new product development strategy, which will also create new market opportunities. He made these remarks today (08) during the official launch of the National Initiative for R&D Commercialization” held at the Presidential Secretariat. […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has accused the government of orchestrating a massive fraud involving the importation of rice. He claims that large quantities of rice, including Nadu and Kekulu varieties, are being falsely labeled as basmati rice, resulting in a fraud worth millions of rupees. Amaraweera raised concerns about the involvement […]

Hiru News Private Bus Owners have decided to call off their planned strike after successful discussions with the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP). During the talks, the bus owners were granted a three-month grace period to comply with the Clean Sri Lanka traffic operation regulations.

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