උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් මෙරට ඩිජිටල් ආර්ථිකය අඩපණ වී එම ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ නියුතු අය රට හැරයාමේ ඉහල අවධානමක් ඇති බව කොළඹ තාක්ෂණ නගරයේ නිර්මාතෘ ආචාර්ය හර්ෂ සුභසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. අද වන විට සියල්ල තීරණය කරමින් ඇත්තේ මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයේ සිටින අය බවද පවසන ඔහු මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය ද ආර්ථික සැලැස්මක් නැති බවද කියා සිටී. ඒ මෙරට සිට […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 6 (Daily Mirror) – Expressing his dissatisfaction with the interview with Al Jazeera which was broadcast today, former President Ranil Wickremeisnghe raised questions on the integirty of the panelists who were part of the interview.  Speaking to the media soon after the interview was released, Wickremesinghe claimed that two […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Sri Lankan President and six-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe denied shielding ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa from prosecution, during an interview for Al Jazeera English’s ‘Head to Head’ that aired today. He also rebuffed renewed accusations that his own administration failed to credibly investigate alleged government links to deadly terrorist attacks that rocked […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයට සම්බන්ධ මහමොළකරු කවුරුන්දැයි තමා දන්නා බව බොදුබල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන් පවසනවා. මහනුවරට පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේදී මාධ්‍යට අදහස් දක්වමින් උන්වහන්සේ පැවසුවේ මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා සහ ආරක්ෂක අංශ භාර නිලධාරීන් ප්‍රථමයෙන් දැනුවත් කරන බවයි. බොදුබල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන් අද (06) මහනුවරට පැමිණ […]

Sasanka De Silva. Pannipitiya Sri Lanka is facing a significant demographic shift as its population ages rapidly. Currently, about 12.3% to 12.4% of the population is over 60 years old, but this figure is projected to rise dramatically to 22% by 2037 and potentially reach 25% by 2041. This rapid ageing poses substantial economic, healthcare, […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Expressing annoyance over the latest development, where a State minister allegedly made unwanted comments on Bhaona and later his clarification denying it with a strong message for suing the propagator, Press Club of Assam (PCA) urges the journalist concerned to clarify his stand. Many media bodies including Gauhati Press Club (GPC) have […]

Professor Nishan C.  Wijesinha  (Professor German School of Medicine) Concerning the above post elephants and the plantations  Posted on March 3rd, 2025 Otara Gunawardene personally contacted me through Instagram and thanked me for having highly esteemed her; but she is not willing to take on any projects of such nature,now as she has finished her […]

by Riyaz Aluher (Former Assistant Principal and Senior Games Master of Royal College) I am prompted to write this article after reading an eye-opening article by Lorenz Pereira ( ‘Sunday Island’ – March 02, 2025) —the cricket legend. https://island.lk/senaka-weeraratna-the-unsung-architect-of-modern-cricket/ I felt compelled to add a crucial missing element, the idea of Cricket Reformation through the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පුත් යෝෂිත රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සභාපතිත්වය දැරූ කාල්ටන් ස්පොර්ට්ස් පුද්ගලික සමාගමට එරෙහිව මුදල් විශුද්ධිකරණ චෝදනාව යටතේ අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විමර්ශනයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කර තිබුණේ දෙදහස් දහසය වසරේ  සිටයි. රුපියල් මිලියන පනස් නවයකද අධික මුදලක් සහිත ස්ථිර තැන්පතුවක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් එහිදී අනාවරණය වූ අතර එම බැංකු ගිණුම පවත්වාගෙන ගොස් […]

Malaka Rodrigo Courtesy Scroll.in Adani’s Green Energy Limited last month announced that it had withdrawn from the second phase of a proposed project in an ecologically sensitive region Indian industrialist Gautam Adani’s Green Energy Limited, or AGEL, has withdrawn from the second phase of a proposed wind power project in northern Sri Lanka. The project, which was […]

 KELUM BANDARA  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Despite positive developments and recovery expected this year, Sri Lanka’s economy is still vulnerable, and it is critical to sustain the reform momentum for long-term growth, a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said yesterday. Addressing a virtual press conference, Senior Mission Chief for Sri Lanka Peter Breuer said […]

By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 5 (Daily Mirror) – The Central government of India and the state government of Tamilnadu should enforce the law on its fishermen who are destroying the livelihood of Sri Lankan fishermen in the North, Leader of the House Bimal Ratnayake told Parliament today. […]

pv-magazine.com The Sri Lankan government has approved the land transfer for a 100 MW solar project in the south. The site will be handed over to the Sustainable Energy Authority to advance the project. Image: Oskar Kadaksoo, Unsplash Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved the transfer of land to the country’s Sustainable Energy Authority […]

Mr. Breuer: Thank you, Randa. Good morning, all, thank you very much for being here and for your interest in Sri Lanka’s IMF-supported economic reform program. I am pleased to announce that, on Friday February 28, the IMF Executive Board approved the third review under the 48-month Extended Fund Facility Arrangement with Sri Lanka. This provides […]

Andrey Vondemark Hungary’s High-Stakes Gamble: Breaking from the EU for BRICS? Is Hungary setting the stage for an unprecedented shift in global alliances? As tensions rise within the European Union, Budapest appears to be charting its own course—one that veers away from Brussels and toward the BRICS economic bloc. This strategic pivot raises urgent questions: […]

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Press Release The Pathfinder Foundation, The Pathfinder Foundation, in collaboration with the Heritage Foundation (USA), hosted a joint briefing session titled Prospects for US-Sri Lanka Relations: Impact of the Second Trump Administration.” The event took place as a webinar, attracting over 100 pre-registered attendees from the government, academia, civil society, think tanks, and the development and […]

By Uditha Jayasinghe Courtesy Kelo.com COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka should avoid tax exemptions and focus on passing a national budget that is in line with parameters set by the International Monetary Fund to continue with a $2.9 billion program from the international lender, an IMF official said on Tuesday. Sri Lanka mounted a remarkable” recovery from a […]

Courtesy Buddhist Door Global Buddhist monks held an interfaith prayer service for Pope Francis at Agrashravaka Temple of the Mahabodhi Buddhist community in Colombo on 25 February. The temple, considered one of the most sacred Buddhist sites in Sri Lanka, was visited by Pope Francis in 2015. During that visit, he became only the second […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror AFP – Sri Lanka’s fragile economic recovery could be hampered by threatened trade union strikes over reduced benefits for government employees in this year’s budget, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday. Leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s maiden budget raised public sector salaries but also made deep cuts to longstanding perks in […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS ATTACK ON KENT AND DOLLAR FARMS 1984 Revised 10.3.25 The Kent and Dollar farms were located near Manal Aru.  Kent and dollar farms are 11 minutes drive from  Kurundi vihara and  8  minutes drive from  Tannimuruppu kulam. The farms were bought on a 99-year lease from the state by a wealthy Tamil in […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS    LTTE MASSACRES AT KOKILAI AND NAYARU   1984, 1985 Revised 10.3.25 On 1 December, 1984 LTTE cadres, including women fighters, attacked two Sinhala Catholic fishing villages, Nayaru and Kokkilai, killing 59 fishermen. [1]  Kokkilai lagoon is an estuarine lagoon on    north-east Sri Lanka .The town of Kokkilai is located on a sand bar […]

Walden Bello I think that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been misinformed. I don’t disagree with their shutting down USAID, but I think it’s rather small fry.  There are much, much bigger fish to fry if you want to really save U.S. government money that is being wasted in programs […]

by, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha Firstly I should start off by saying that “people are with many grievances”; but they are walking through the passages of political and media, popular propaganda. To my knowledge, these are all-time-related fake visuals.  For example on the 21st of February 2025, at Samanthurai during this paddy harvest season; hundreds […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් විස්තීරණ ණය පහසුකම් වැඩසටහන යටතේ පස්වැනි වාරිකය ලබාදීමට පෙර රුපියල් බිලියන 900 ක ආදායම් ඉලක්කයක් සම්පූර්ණ කිරීමට මෙරට රජය කටයුතු කළයුතු බවත්, රජය ආයෝජන වැඩිකර ගැනීමට කටයුතු කළයුතු බවත් ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල විසින් මෙරට රජයට දැනුම්දී ඇතැයි අනාවරණය වේ. ආර්ථිකය කෙරෙහි අවදානම තවමත් පවතින බැවින් ආර්ථිකය යථා තත්ත්වයට පත්වීම දීර්ඝ […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Shanakiyan The credibility of a government that claimed to be fighting corruption was at stake when individuals involved in financial misappropriation held Cabinet positions, Batticaloa District ITAK MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam told the House yesterday. Speaking during the committee-stage debate on expenditure heads of the Ministry of Energy in Budget 2025 […]

Courtesy The Island Dr. Sugathadasa The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday (03) warned the government of a countrywide strike unless it restored holiday allowances to the previous level for doctors. GMOA Secretary Dr. Prabath Sugathadasa emphasised that as the cuts imposed through Budget 2025 weren’t acceptable to the GMOA, the government should take immediate […]

By Shane Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 03 (Daily Mirror) – A man was arrested this morning by Kadugannawa police for riding a motorcycle from Colombo to Kandy while naked. Police said the 23-year-old man was arrested after a great effort by law enforcement. Several police officers observed the man riding the motorcycle […]

Courtesy Adaderana The nominations for the 2025 Local Government Elections will be accepted from March 17, 2025, the Elections Commission announced. The commission said that the relevant nominations will be accepted until 12 noon on March 20, 2025. Accordingly, the notices regarding the acceptance of nominations for the election of Mayors, Deputy Mayors, Chairpersons, Deputy […]

Courtesy Adaderana Discussions have been held at the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation, regarding Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) bus drivers who operate services while bypassing schoolchildren and citizens with season tickets. During the meeting, the Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation, Bimal Rathnayake, stated that any citizen […]