Pathfinder Foundation At a Hybrid meeting hosted by the Pathfinder Foundation, Dr. Liu Zongyi, Senior Fellow & Director, Center for South Asia Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), elaborated on China’s response to evolving economic policies amidst global uncertainty and its implications for South Asia and beyond.  In his presentation, Dr. Liu […]

Nava Thakuria The current interim government of Bangladesh, led by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, remains busy pursuing the final reports by a number of reform commissions with their proposals and subsequent discussions with the political party representatives. Even after nine months of its formation in Dhaka, the situation across the south Asian nation continues […]

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Shenali D Waduge Has it never occurred to the international media or so-called international community or even UN/UNHRC Officials to question the silence of LTTE fronts to LTTE’s recruitment of Tamil children who were turned into child soldiers forming one third of LTTE’s ground force? How can LTTE fronts call for justice when hiding their […]

Dilrook Kannangara JVP won power in 265 LG bodies and the closest rival SJB only managed 14. ITAK and other minority parties are no challengers to the JVP. This is an astronomical election victory. UNP, SLPP, SLFP and others were essentially wiped out unable to win a single LG body! They lost the country and […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Need to think out of the box to attract FDI and offshore sector development This is the single point mooring buoy purchased by Ceylon petroleum corporation in 1986/87Colombo Dockyard offered to assemble the mooring buoy in Cololmbo Dockyard on behalf of SBM/ IMODCO but due to unknown reasons CPC paid higher price and […]

මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරීම පනත  අහෝසි කළ යුතුද / නැද්ද විමසා ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීතීඥ සංගමය සියලුම නීතීඥවරුන්ගේ ඡන්ද විමසීමක් පවත්වන ලෙස  වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහනේ සමායෝජක නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන මහතා සභාපතිවරයා වෙත ඉල්ලීමක් […]

Media Unit, Dr. Thilaka Padma Subasinghe Memorial Legal Education Program Lawyer Aruna Laksiri and another person filed cases in the Supreme Court to correct the errors in the Constitution and tried to correct them. In those cases, they had to pay the  millions in legal fees to the state and the lawyer was ordered to […]

G. A. Lesantha Chathuranga මගේ අංකය: JCPSM/Gen/2025 (26)දිනය: 2025.05.17 ගරු සෞඛ්‍ය හා ජනමාධ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය වෛද්‍ය නලින්ද ජයතිස්ස මැතිතුමාගරු සෞඛ්‍ය හා ජනමාධ්‍ය නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය වෛද්‍ය හංසක විජේමුණි මැතිතුමාසෞඛ්‍ය ලේකම් වෛද්‍ය අනිල් ජාසිංහ මහතාඅතිරේක සෞඛ්‍ය ලේකම් (පාලන) II චාමික H ගමගේ මහතාසෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් වෛද්‍ය අසේල ගුණවර්ධන මැතිතුමා පරිපූරක වෛද්‍ය සේවාව තුල නිර්මාණය වී ඇති ගැටළු […]

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Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE(UK), GradCert(Rel Eng-Monash), DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey) Former Director-Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd. Rowville Australia To Canadian High Commission- Colombo clmbo@international.gc.ca Your Excellency, I, as a Sri Lankan Tamil, would like to place my protest against the Brampton Municipal Mayor’s speech and the monument placed in protest of the SL government. I had already sent […]

By Sena Thoradeniya 1. Introduction In our essay titled, Have the Tamil Voters in the North and East (and in the Plantation Regions) Rejected Separatism, Racism and Politicians that Advocated Separatism, Racism?” posted on November 30, 2024, we have stated that it has become an amusing pastime of a plethora of Colombo-based journalists who write […]

Shenali D Waduge Go back to Colombo….you are not welcome in Brampton”, Mayor of Brampton chants racist slurs on anti-Genocide supporters. It is truly unbecoming for a Mayor to be making such wild statements. On what basis can he defend the creation of a Genocide Memorial – for whom is it? So far, even after 16 […]

Deshamaanya Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Former Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1994) President of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association (1991-94) This has reference to the article Defense Agreement signed with India on 05.04.2025. by President Disanayaka, is not second to the Kandyan Convention of 2nd Marh 1815. that appeared in the Sunday Aruna […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana Gautama Buddha has been such a towering figure for over twenty six centuries of human history that there is no shortage of authors attempting to put together his life story cast as that of a supernatural being. Asvaghosa’s Buddhacharita” appeared in the 1st century in Sanskrit. It is the story as narrated […]

උපුටාගැණීම මුහුනුපොත ස්වාධීන ආයතනයක් ලෙස පැවැතිය යුතු නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට කටයුතු කරන්නට සිදුව ඇත්තේ දේශපාලන බලපෑම්වලට අනුව බව මේ වන විට හෙළිදරව් වී තිබේ. එම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ හිටපු සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල් දිල්රුක්ෂි ඩයස් වික්‍රමසිංහගේ ප්‍රකාශයෙන් ඒ බව පසක් වේ. දැන් ඇයගේ සේවයද අත්හිටුවා තිබේ. එහෙත් දිල්රුක්ෂි ඩයස් වික්‍රමසිංහට පෙර මේ බලපෑම එල්ල වූයේ තමන්ට බව ඇයට පෙර එම […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The Ministry of Defence today (May 16) convened a press conference to announce the preparations for the 16th National War Heroes Commemoration Ceremony, which will take place on 19 May 2025 at the National War Hero Cenotaph in Sri Jayawardenepura, Kotte. The ceremony will be held on the 19th […]

Pathfinder Foundation The newly appointed Ambassador of Israel to India accredited to Sri Lanka Reuven Azar visited the Pathfinder Foundation Headquarters at Riverpoint recently and met with the Founder Milinda Moragoda and Chairman Bernard Goonetilleke.At the Meeting discussion centered on identifying ways and means of expanding cooperation between the two countries in tourism, agriculture, digital […]

මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ වැරදි ඇති බවත් ඒවා නිවැරදි කර ගැනීම සඳහා නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි මහතා සහ තවත් අයෙකු ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ නඩු පවරා උත්සාහ ගත් අතර එහිදී ලක්ෂ ගණනින් රජයට නඩු ගාස්තු ගෙවීමට ඔවුන්ට සිදුවූ අතර එම නීතීඥවරයාට ලක්ෂ 5ක නඩු ගාස්තු නියම විය. නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි මහතා […]

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By Poojathmi Rivithma Courtesy Daily Mirror Colombo, May 16 (Daily Mirror) – Sri Lanka is currently experiencing a significant increase in mosquito borne diseases, notably dengue and chikungunya, alongside a rise in influenza cases among children. Consultant Pediatrician, Lady Ridgeway Hospital Dr. Deepal Perera speaking to the Daily Mirror raveled that the spread of dengue […]

Courtesy AdaDerana Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the submissions made with reference to him in court today by the Counsel for the Bribery Commission is a wilful misleading of the Court and that he is consulting his lawyers regarding the action to be taken.  Issuing a statement today (16), the former President stated that […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya. For centuries, the heart of Sri Lanka has pulsed with the spirit of dana, of selfless giving. During sacred times like Vesak, our streets transform into vibrant avenues of generosity, where overflowing stalls offer everything from steaming rice and crispy roti to sweet ice cream and refreshing drinks, freely shared with […]

Vijay Prashad Dahlia Abdelilah Baasher (Sudan), Untitled, n.d. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Over the past weeks, international focus has no doubt been on the escalation between India and Pakistan, which we will write more about once the dust settles. Though none of the armies crossed the border […]

By Lakshmi Subramanian Courtesy The Week President Anura Dissanayake’s NPP wins the local elections, but witnesses a huge dip in vote shares   Updated: May 14, 2025 20:48 IST Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake | AP Sri Lanka’s local civic polls, held on May 6, have thrown up several surprises, indicating a shift in ground […]

Malki Opatha Courtesy The Strategist Starlink is great for developing countries, offering connectivity without costly infrastructure. But it’s a challenge for their national security, since authorities can’t monitor the traffic it carries. This policy conflict arose in Sri Lanka in early May, when the government paused rollout of the satellite communications service, blocking one of the few […]

KELUM BANDARA   Courtesy Daily Mirror Colombo, May 16 (Daily Mirror) – Sinopec, the leading Chinese petroleum company that has sought to invest in Sri Lanka, is facing obstacles in pressing ahead with implementation, a leading Chinese scholar who is presently in Sri Lanka told Daily Mirror yesterday. In an interview with Senior Fellow and Director […]