By Rohana R. Wasala We survived Pharaoh, we’ll get through this too. Just over two weeks ago, Israelis commemorated the second anniversary of the horrific October 7 terror attacks carried out by Hamas in Southern Israel. During the raid, the Islamists massacred in cold blood about 1200 men, women and children including babies, and took […]

Justice for Animals and Nature Sri Lanka exists in the stone age, metaphorically speaking, when it comes to recognition of the Rights of Animals and Nature.  The Justice for Animals and Nature was established in Sri Lanka for that purpose. To canvas public support for the Rights of Animals and Nature through legislative reform and […]

National Development Bank PLC Twenty-four staff members from NDB Bank participated in a meaningful volunteer initiative on 10 October 2025 at the Anawilundawa Wetland Sanctuary, a vital Ramsar site in Sri Lanka. The programme was conducted under the Life of Our Mangrove project, in collaboration with Biodiversity Sri Lanka (BSL) and The Wildlife & Nature […]

Glenn Diesen

Glenn Diesen

KAMALIKA PIERIS Money was  an important factor in the VFS Global visa service launched  at Katunayake in April 2024. Firstly,  there was the money that the Consortium was supposed to bring into the project. The Parliamentary Committee on Public Finance (COPF) said in its report on the visa matter, thatCabinet Memorandum dated September 8, 2023, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS In July 2024 the Parliamentary Committee on Public Finance (COPF)   was asked to  look into the GBS-IVS-VFS  matter . COPF  conducted a formal, detailed  inquiry into  the appointment of the  VSF Global Consortium as the authorized representatives for online visa applications to Sri Lanka COPF issued a damning 640-page report titled Outsourcing Online […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ ඔන්න පහුදිය දවසක මම ගියා දේශනයක් අහන්න. මහා තර්ක විතර්ක ගොඩක්. මිනිස්සුන්ට ලංකාවේ ඕනෑම  තැනක ජීවත් වෙන්න පුලුවන්ලූ. හැබැයි, එතකොට උතුරේ පරම්පරා ගානක් හිටපු සිංහලයෝ උතුරට ආපසු යන්නේ නැද්ද කියලා ඇහුවහම හ්ම් නැහැ. ලබන සතියේ තවක් රැස්වීමක්‌.  බලමු එදාට මොකක්ද මේ අය  කියන්නේ කියා. අවම තරමින් 25% කට පමණ වූ භුමි ප්‍රදේශයක්  මේ […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්       යාපන දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ එකම සිංහල ගම්මානය පිහිටා තිබෙන චාවකච්චරි ප්‍රා දේශීය සභාව විසින් අරුම පුදුම නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර තිබේ.නාවක්කුලි හි  දුම්රිය ස්ථානයට යාබදව පවත්වාගෙන යනු ලබන සමිද්ධි සුමන විහාරස්ථානයේ පිහිටුවා තිබෙන වන්දනා කරුවන්ට තිබෙන විශ්‍රාම ශාලා පහසුකම් වහාම නවතා දමන ලෙසටත් එසේ නොකළහොත් නඩු පවරන බවටත් මේ නිවේදනයේ කියා තිබේ.මේ පිළීබඳව පුවත් පත් […]

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By A. Jathindra, Courtesy Eurasia Review Fresh tenders are expected to be called for the two renewable energy projects that were previously offered to India’s Adani Group. In the Sri Lankan context, it is not surprising that projects with Indian funding in the north-east often face opposition under the banner of environmental concerns, while Chinese investments rarely encounter […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka’s export engine continued to gather pace this year with steady growth delivered across both goods and services. Provisional data released by the Export Development Board (EDB) showed that total export earnings climbed to US$ 12. 98 billion in the first nine months of 2025, which is a 7 percent […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Oct. 24 (Daily Mirror) – The government has launched a programme to regulate wayside eateries that cater to passengers on long distance buses, Deputy Minister of Transport and High Ways Prasanna Gunasena said today. He told Parliament that the programme was first introduced in the Puttalam corridor from Colombo to […]

Translated by ChatGPT based on Hiru News Report The Chairman of the China–Korea Buddhist Association is Venerable Yeong Dam Lim. He is a monk with strong international connections, and the Korean government holds him in very high regard. To describe how influential he is — when Namal visited the temple, even the Deputy Speaker of […]