By Justice for Animals and Nature  People in power listen only to power – bigger power. Not to their conscience. Not to their own people who elected them to power and who are now helpless.  Once upon a time in the pre colonial era the Sinhalese (who were all Buddhists) were called the Aryavansa (noble race) […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre A specialized medical and disaster relief team, composed of 26 members from Sri Lanka’s tri-services led by Brigadier Punya Karunathilake, departed for Myanmar on a special flight today, (Apr 5), to assist the people affected by the recent earthquake. These disaster relief operations are being conducted under the supervision […]

Voice for Democracy in Sri Lanka Democritus Cultural Centre: 583 High Street, Northcote After years of economic collapse accelerated by a corrupt, incompetent, and authoritarian political elite and the brutal suppression of protests and Aragalaya (Struggle) for a more democratic and economically just society, the possibility of change finally arrived in 2024 when Sri Lankans […]

වෛද්‍ය ගාමිනී විතාණ මෑතකදී කොළඹ මහාධිකරණය ලබාදුන් තීන්දුවකින් 2015 දී දෙමටගොඩ වනාතමුල්ල ප්‍රදේශයේදී හෙට්ටිආරච්චිගේ දුමින්ද නමැති පුද්ගලයකු වෙඩි තබා මරා දැමීම පිලිබඳව නඩුවකින් එම්.කේ සරත් බණ්ඩාර හෙවත්  SF සරත් යන අන්වර්තයෙන් හැදින්වෙන පුද්ගලයකු වරදකරු කොට මරණීය දණ්ඩනය ලබා දෙන ලදි. මෙම සරත් බණ්ඩාර තමන්ගේ සේවා කාලය තුලදී කොටින්ට එරෙහි සටනේදී විශිෂ්ඨ දායකත්වයක් ලබාදී ඇති වචනයේ […]

Lost in Context 1000 years ago, an empire of technocrats emerged on the island of Ceylon. They transformed Sri Lanka’s environment and human geography, and then faded away into the jungle.

 Courtesy The Week News Desk  Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Sampath Thuyacontha said the MoUs will not conflict with both Sri Lanka’s and India’s local laws and national policies. Members of the Frontline Socialist Party shout anti Indian slogans during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Sri Lankan state visit in Colombo | AP As Prime Minister […]

Courtesy Adaderana A team of Sri Lankan tri-forces personnel, including medical staff, departed for Myanmar on a special flight on Saturday to provide relief assistance to earthquake victims, the Defence Ministry said. Tri-Forces’ medical and disaster relief teams, along with humanitarian aid collected under the guidance of the Chief Prelates of the three Buddhist Chapters […]

Courtesy Adaderana Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that the agreement reached to build a multi-product pipeline and to develop Trincomalee as an energy hub will benefit the people of Sri Lanka. While addressing a joint press statement alongside Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, PM Modi said that the grid inter-connectivity agreement […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Colombo High Court has served indictments on Yoshitha Rajapaksa and Daisy Forrest Wickramasinghe in connection with a money laundering case. The court granted bail to both accused on two sureties each, set at Rs. 500,000.

Courtesy Hiru News The Court of Appeal has ordered the relevant returning officers to accept around 37 nominations for the Local Government Elections that were previously rejected.

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ඉන්දීය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාගේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංචාරයට සමගාමීව එළඹුණු ආරක්ෂක සහයෝගිතා ගිවිසුම ඇතුලු අනෙකුත් කරුණු සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඉන්දීය විදේශ ලේකම්වරයා මෙන්ම ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්වරයා ද අදහස් පළ කළා. මේ කොළඹදී ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවක් කැදවමින් ඉන්දීය විදේශ ලේකම් වික්‍රම් මිස්රි දැක්වූ අදහස්. බොහෝදෙනා අවධානය යොමුකරන්නේ ආරක්ෂිත සහයෝගීතාවය ගැන. ඒ පිළිබඳව නායකයින් දෙපළ අතර ඉතා හොඳ […]

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