By a Sports Aficionado Courtesy The Island This cricket-mad nation was appalled by the pathetic and blatantly disgraceful performance of its National Cricket Team at the premier event of the game, the World Cup. Even before the event ended, heads rolled over here on the cricket board. Such action should have been taken long ago […]

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Courtesy The Island Minister Roshan Ranasinghe Inconceivable, unbelievable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, unaccountable, perplexing and plain shocking are the terms that came to Cassandra’s mind as she read the stunning news that the President of Sri Lanka sacked the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs on Monday 27 November, 2023, who was on the trail of allegedly […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඇති වී තිබෙන තත්ත්වය මත තම ජීවිතයට හානියක් සිදු වුවහොත් ඊට ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ හා සහ ජනාධිපති කාර්ය මණ්ඩල ප්‍රධානි සාගල රත්නායක මහතා ඇතුළු පිරිස වගකිව යුතු බව ක්‍රීඩා ඇමැති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී විශේෂ ප්‍රකාශයක් කරමින් තමන්ගේ ජීවිතය පිළිබඳව අද වන […]

By DARSHANA SANJEEWA BALASURIYA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Kandy, Nov 26 (Daily Mirror) – Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said the recently resigned Sri Lanka Cricket Board Secretary Mohan de Silva contacted him from Australia, exposing corruption within the SLC. “Mohan de Silva called me from Australia revealing his attempts to steer the SLC in the right […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනයේ ලේකම් ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස් වූ මොහාන් ද සිල්වා මහතා එම ආයතනය වංචා දූෂණ වංචා පිළිබඳව තොරතුරු රැසක් තමන්ට හෙළිදරව් කළ බව ක්‍රීඩා ඇමැති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. දැනට ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ සිටින හිටපු ලේකම්වරයා දුරකථන මාර්ගයෙන් තමන්ට මෙම තොරතුරු ලබා දුන් බවද හෙතෙම පැවසීය. අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo Nov. 24 (Daily Mirror)- Former Minister of Fisheries Rajitha Senaratne and two others who were indicted before the Colombo High Court, for causing losses to the State when leasing out the Modara Fisheries Harbour to a private company in 2014, pleaded not guilty of the charges following the reading out […]

BY YOHAN PERERA AND AJITH SIRIWARDANA Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- A sum of USD 50,000 donated by Asian Cricket Council chief Jay Shah and USD 5,000 given by Indian cricket star Siraj for the ground staff of Pallekele and R. Premadasa stadiums have not been paid yet, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa told […]

BY AJITH SIRIWARDANA AND YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today that he will look into the three letters that were sent by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to the International Cricket Council (ICC). The President requested Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa to send him the three letters and assured […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) will initiate a probe into incidents in which stocks of coal imported for the Norochcholai thermal power plant have been under-invoiced for the evasion of due amount of Value Added Tax (VAT), an official said. COPA Chairman Lasantha Alagiyawanna told Daily […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Colombo, November 20, 2023 – The ongoing crisis within Sri Lanka Cricket took center stage in Parliament today as Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe tabled three letters sent by Cricket President Shammi Silva to the International Cricket Council (ICC). These letters, requesting the suspension of Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership, have sparked a public […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe claims that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Sri Lanka from international cricket. Ranasinghe made this accusation while quoting a letter allegedly sent by SLC to the ICC on 07 November 2023, during a media briefing which is currently being held in Colombo. […]

 By AJITH SIRIWARDANA  Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today revealed that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) president Shammi Silva had sent a letter to the International Cricket Council (ICC) alleging that the Sports Ministry had made undue interferences in its activities and claimed that this had paved the way for the […]

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Courtesy Adaderana November 18, 2023   10:34 pm Samagi Jana Balawegaya’s (SJB) has drawn attention to bringing up a no-confidence motion against the Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) Prof. Ranjith Bandara. SJB Parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella stated that discussions pertaining to the matter are currently in progress. COPE chairman Prof. Ranjith Bandara came under […]

 By YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) Sri Lanka’s cricket crisis has taken a chaotic turn with some members of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and its chairman Ranjith Bandara accusing each other of mishandling the probe on Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). Some COPE members highlighted that Prof. Bandara should be removed […]

Courtesy Hiru News In a startling revelation, serious concerns have emerged about the potential conflict of interest involving the present COPE Chairman, Prof. Ranjith Bandara, who has reportedly been retained by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) as a consultant for the Kandy Cricket Campus project. According to circulated minutes, Prof. Ranjith Bandara has also agreed with […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Among all the things the environmentally-conscious superhero, Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority, was supposed to protect, his bank account was not one of them. He was caught red-handed in a dramatic arrest last week when he traded his green cape for what would have been some big bucks (and greener’ pastures) […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) rebuked Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) for following weak processes in performing its activities. It was highlighted that these weak processes had led to the current crisis in cricket. COPE Chairman Ranjith Bandara made this observation after SLC was probed by the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Raids and Special Investigations Unit of the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has sealed the storage facility owned by a leading sugar importer in Sri Lanka, for hoarding over 250 metric tonnes of sugar. The relevant storage facility was sealed during a series of raids carried out by the CAA in the Peliyagoda […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට ක්‍රිකට් තහනම් කළේ ක්‍රිකට් පාලක මණ්ඩලය විසින් ඉල්ලා සිටීම නිසා බව ක්‍රීඩා ඇමැති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. එම තහනම ලැබීම ගැන පාලක මණ්ඩලයේ තිරිසනුන් සතුටුවෙමින් සාද පවත්වා ඇති බව ද ඔහු පැවසීය. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කරන්නේ අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක සාකච්ඡාවට එක්වෙමිනි. ‍ ශ‍්‍රී […]

VFM RADIO 107 ක්‍රිකට් සම්බන්ධ අභියාචනාධිකරණ තීන්දුවේ විනිසුරුගේ සබඳතා අතර ගැටුම ගැන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් වෙයි….අධිකරණ තීන්දුව දෙන්න කලින් මම හැමදේම දැනං හිටියා මෙන්න ඇත්ත.. මෙන්න යථාර්තය.. අධිකරණ තීන්දුව දෙන්න කලින් මම හැමදේම දැනං හිටියා ඉතිහාසයේ දැකපු සුපිරිම ක්‍රීඩා ඇමති රොෂාන්ද..?

By Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – According to reports, the Power and Energy Ministry is expediting the signing of documents for a Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with India’s Adani Group to establish a new wind power plant in the Mannar basin with a capacity of 250 MW, Sri Lanka […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න මෙම මධ්‍යස්ථානය සකස් වන්නේ බොහෝ දුරට දැනට අවරුදු ගනනාවකට පෙරය එනම් යුද්ධයේදී එල් ටි ටි ය පරාජයවී යාමත් සමගමය. එසේ සිතීමට ආසන්නම හේතුව යුද්ධය පරාජය වූ පසු හමුදාවේ මානුෂිය මෙහෙයුම් ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කල කණ්ඩායම් මහනුවර ප්‍රදේශයෙන් පන්සලක් තැනීමට ඉඩමක් මිලදී ගැනීමට උත්සහා කරන බව නුවර මාධ්‍ය කරුවන්ගේ සවනට ඇසුණු බැවිනි.රකුස් භාවනා මධ්‍යස්ථානය ප්‍රධාන ඉලක්කය […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A total of USD 56 billion has been parked abroad by powerful persons during the past few years, Minister of Justice Wijedasa Rajapaksha informed Parliament today. A sum of USD 9 billion has been parked this year alone,” the Minister said.  I propose a special motion to order these persons to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The proposed cable car line from Nanu Oya to Nuwara Eliya has been halted as a certain Forest Department official was refusing to grant permission to release 150 perches on the Kikiliyamana mountain without any reason, a government MP revealed today. Parliamentarian Madura Vithanage told Parliament that the project is unable […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A picture of Foreign Minister Ali Sabry with his son at an event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly has sparked criticism with people questioning as to why such privileges are offered to the relatives of politicians. The picture posted on X formerly known as Twitter is doing the […]

Nirupama Subramanian Courtesy Wire In June 2022, Ceylon Electricity Board chair M.M.C. Ferdinando told the Committee on Public Enterprises that in November 2021 President Rajapaksa had told him the wind power project must be awarded to the Adanis, and that this was the wish of PM Modi. Three days later, Ferdinando retracted his statement and […]