Courtesy Adaderana A preliminary discussion on the final phase of drafting the Budget 2025, which is scheduled to be presented to Parliament on February 17, was held this afternoon (13) at the Presidential Secretariat under the leadership of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, according to the President’s Media Division (PMD). The discussion was attended by Minister […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Attorney General has informed the Mount Lavinia Magistrate’s Court that his recent recommendation regarding the suspects in the murder of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge will be temporarily suspended. Previously, the AG had advised the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on the possible release of three suspects, including former Army Intelligence officer Prem Ananda […]

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Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya A recent island-wide power outage that lasted for several hours has sparked concerns over the country’s national security and the reliability of its power grid. The incident, which was initially attributed to a lone monkey invading a substation in the Panadura area, has raised more questions than answers. The Ceylon Electricity […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Legal Officer’s Association of the Attorney General’s Department firmly asserted that the Attorney General and officials involved in the relevant decision-making process have exercised their independent professional judgment in line with the esteemed traditions of the Attorney General’s Department regarding recent recommendations to discharge the three suspects in a case. […]

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Dilrook Kannangara All of Sri Lanka’s miseries and problems boil down to its multiethnic nature which has led to conflicting policy priorities. One avenue of approach which may benefit one group, is not very beneficial to the other two groups. As a result, Sri Lanka is stuck in this trijunction unable to move. This is […]

Asanga Abeyagoonasekera Executive Director, South Asia Foresight Network (SAFN) Bangkok, Thailand (February 11th, 2025) – The South Asia Foresight Network (SAFN), based in Washington, DC, and the Nation-Building International Institute (NBII) in Thailand have entered into a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to foster research collaboration and academic exchange on 7thFebruary 2025 in Thailand. This landmark partnership will drive joint research initiatives […]

 lanka C news ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජනමතය විකෘති කිරීම සඳහා යූ.එස්. එයිඩ් ආයතනයෙන් ඩොලර් මිලියන 7.9ක් ලබාගත් මාධ්‍ය ආයතන, මාධ්‍යවේදින් හා දේශපාලඥයන් පිළිබඳව පරීක්ෂණයක් පැවැත්වීමට ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතාට හෝ ආණ්ඩුවට කොන්ද පණ නැත්නම් විපක්ෂයේ කොන්ද පණ තිබෙන එක් මන්ත්‍රීවරයකු හෝ සිටී නම් පාර්ලිමේන්තු තේරීම් කාරක සභාවක් යෝජනා කරමින් මේ පිළිබඳ විමර්ශනය කොට රටේ ජනතාවට […]

Lankacnews අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය හරිනී අමරසූරිය මහත්මිය වහාම එම ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස් විය යුතු බව පූජ්‍ය අක්මීමන දයාරත්න හිමියෝ කියා සිටිති. USAID ආයතනයෙන් රට අර්බුදයට පත් කිරීමට, විජාතිකරණය කිරීමට මුදල් ලබා ගත්තේ යැයි ඇයට චෝදනා එල්ල වෙමින් ඇතැයිද උන්වහන්සේ සඳහන් කරති. ඇමරිකානු ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් එලිදරවු කරන ලද USAID මුදල් සංසරණ වූ අය යැයි පැවසෙන ලැයිස්තුවේ වර්තමාන අගමැතිනි […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet Media Spokesperson, Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa, says that the Attorney General’s Department will not be abolished when the Independent Prosecutor’s Office is established. He made these comments during a press briefing held today (11) to announce the Cabinet decisions. Minister Jayatissa further clarified that the new institution is planned to be […]

Courtesy Adaderana Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros’ organisations received $260 million from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to influence political affairs and destabilise multiple nations, including India and Bangladesh, according to a news report. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), an account link to Trump alleged, George Soros received $260,000,000.00 from USAID and […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale High road crash fatality and injury rates on Sri Lanka’s roads are undermining the economic growth and progress made over the past decade on reducing poverty and boosting prosperity. Estimated annual road crash deaths per capita in Sri Lanka are twice the average rate in high-income countries and five times that of […]

වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන නීතිපතිවරයා ඉවත් කරන්න යාම ජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්‍යය ද?ගැසට් කළ 22 නිසා ජනාධිපති, පාර්ලිමේන්තු ධූර කාලය වසර 6ද?2025 මාර්තු 15 කොළඹ දී.. 28වන නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන නීතිපතිවරයා ඉවත් කරන්නට යාම ජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්‍යයද? 19යේ වැරැද්දක් නිවැරදි කිරීමටගැසට් කළ 22 ගැනනීතීඥ සංගමය නිහඬ ඇයි? නීතිපතිගේ අනුමැතියෙන් ගැසට් කළ22 නිසා අලුත් ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ […]

  By Dr Muralidaran Ramesh Somasunderam. The LTTE got their training and funding from the PLO, which is the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the arms they gained or got from Pakistan. This is why the Indian Central Government was very much against the LTTE and its leadership group. In fact the LTTE was an organization which […]

Editorial The Morning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday (10) led a high-powered Sri Lankan delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a three-day official visit at the invitation of UAE President Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to take part in the World Government Summit 2025, the Government confirmed. It is understood that President Dissanayake […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් USAID විසින් එක්සත් ජනපදයේ උපන් අල්-කයිඩා සාමාජිකයෙකු වන අන්වර් අල්-අව්ලාකිට(Anwar al-Awlaki) මූල්‍ය ආධාර ලබා දී ඇති බව  එක්සත් ජනපද විමර්ශන මාධ්‍යවේදිනියක් වන පැමෙලා බ්‍රවුන්(Pamela Browne) විසින් හෙළිදරව් කර තිබේ. 1990 ගණන්වල කොලරාඩෝ ප්‍රාන්ත විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ සිවිල් ඉංජිනේරු විද්‍යාව හැදෑරීම සඳහා අල්-අව්ලාකිට USAID විසින් “පූර්ණ අරමුදල්” ලබා දුන් බවට හෙළිකෙරෙන පත්‍රිකාවක් ද […]

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Courtesy Hiru News National Freedom Front leader Wimal Weerawansa claims that USAID has funneled money to several politicians in the country, stating that their identities will be revealed in the future. Speaking at a press conference, he stressed the need for a parliamentary select committee to investigate those who received such funds. The Trump administration’s […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 02-08 February 2025 Maybe they don’t die uneasily like the rest of us. They simply pass away in their sleep. But pass, they do. The serendipitously synchronous slipping into samsara of 2 of Sri Lanka’s nameboard oligarchs – Kandiah Balendra of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Our government is battling it out on many fronts in regard to the promises it made while campaigning for the presidential and general elections. It spoke of bringing down the cost of living and lessening the burdens on the worse-off section of our people. Unfortunately though four long months have passed, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror One of the devastated churches after the Easter Sunday blasts Pillayan, whilst in Batticaloa prison, is accused of having aided and abetted the conspirators of the Easter attack to make connections with Zaharan and his suicide team Even after Maithripala Sirisena became Executive President in 2015, regular Army intelligence payments to the […]

Shenali D Waduge The 2022 aragalaya was led on the premise that the Rajapakse’s were responsible for Sri Lanka’s economic crisis. That revolt” led by Cardinal & heads of the Church was responsible for tax payers coughing up Rs.1.22billion in damages to 43 politicians who had their homes, vehicles & property destroyed. This excludes the […]

by Jonathan Cook  Courtesy  defenddemocracy.press The West’s ‘war on terror’ was built on a series of deceptions to persuade us that our leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it The story: Did you believe it 30 years ago when they told you that the Oslo Accords would bring peace to the Middle […]