by Garvin Karunaratne Though our resplendent island is blessed with ample water casading over valley and dale and wind blowing me off on my many minor irrigation inspections in the Districts of Kegalla, Nuw ara Eliya and Kandy the coal and oil lobby has been so strong, that the attempt by a few of us […]

Courtesy India Today Sri Lanka raised fuel prices by about 25% for the second time in a week as the Gulf conflict disrupts global oil supplies via the Strait of Hormuz. The Sri Lankan government on Sunday raised fuel prices by around 25 per cent, the second such increase in a week amid the West […]

Courtesy Hiru News Sinopec revised its fuel prices, effective midnight today (22). The price of a litre of Octane 95 Petrol is increased by Rs. 122 to Rs. 487, and Super Diesel by Rs. 219 to Rs. 573, higher than the prices set by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation. The prices of Octane 92 Petrol and […]

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By Raj Gonsalkorale Donald Trump – US will ‘obliterate’ Iran’s power plants if Strait of Hormuz are not open before the 48-hour deadline Iran – ‘‘If Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked by the enemy, all energy, information technology, and desalination infrastructure belonging to the United States and the (Israeli) regime in the region […]

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS)  According to Mahavansa, the Great chronical, the Sinhale Kingdom was found in 543 BC by Vijaya, a North Indian Prince. who was banished by his Father King Sinhabahu for his misbehavior with his fellow mates. As such according to Mahavamsa Prince Vijaya is the founder King of Sri Lanka and the […]

by A. Abdul Aziz Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, delivered Eid-Ul-Fitr Sermon on 20th March 2026  at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, U.K. at 10.30 GMT (Sri Lankan Time 4 P.M.). It aired LIVE via MTA (Muslim TV Ahmadiyya International), having simultaneous translation in various languages including […]

Senaka Weeraratna ( with assistance from Chat GPT) The removal of the study of the Humanities i.e., classics, literature and philosophy, from the syllabus of school children in Sri Lanka has destroyed their capacity to think and value thought of different shades , and made them into what Herbert Marcuse has unequivocally described as the […]

සේනක වීරරත්න සේනක වීරරත්න (DRS) සහ මහින්ද විජේසිංහ (තුන්වන විනිසුරු) වැනි ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් නවෝත්පාදකයින්ට සහාය දැක්වීමට දේශපාලනික කැමැත්තක් නොමැතිකම බොහෝ විට ආයතනික නොසලකා හැරීම, දේශීය ක්‍රිකට් බලධාරීන්ගේ “නිහඬ” ආකල්පය සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් කවුන්සිලයේ (ICC) සංකීර්ණ, නිලධාරිවාදී ස්වභාවයේ එකතුවක් ලෙස සැලකේ.   සහයෝගය නොමැතිකමට ප්‍රධාන සාධකනිවසේදී ආයතනික උදාසීනත්වය: ජාත්‍යන්තර මට්ටමින් මෙම ප්‍රකාශ නිල වශයෙන් ජයග්‍රහණය […]

Sports Why is there no political will in Sri Lanka to support innovation in Cricket by Sri Lankans who have won world acclaim with their brainchilds such as Player Referral (DRS) by Senaka Weeraratna and Third Umpire by Mahinda Wijesinghe? AI Overview The lack of political will to support Sri Lankan cricket innovations, such as […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd.), held a high level meeting with the Hon. Minister of Defense of Japan, Shinjirō Koizumi, at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo on Wednesday (18 Mar). A high level meeting between Sri Lanka and Japan marked a significant step […]

සරත් ඔබේසේකර විසින් ජීවිතයේ එක් අවධියක, ශබ්දය අඩුවී යයි—ලෝකය නිහඬ වන නිසා නොව, අපි එය වෙනස් ලෙස අසා ගැනීමට ඉගෙන ගන්නා නිසාය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේත් විදේශයන්හිත් දැඩි කාර්මික පරිසරයන්හි දශක ගණනක් කාලයක් ගත කළ මගේ ජීවිතය, කාලයකදී නිරන්තර චලනයකින් යුක්ත විය. නාවික යාත්‍රා අංගන, යන්ත්‍ර, කාලසීමා, තීරණ—මේවා මගේ දෛනික ජීවිතයේ කොටසක් විය. ක්‍රියාකාරී වීම ප්‍රමුඛ වූ […]