Dr. Maha Hilal In a June 2012 piece headlined Praying at the Church of St. Drone,” I wrote, Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the United States; you are also electing an assassin-in-chief.” At that time, President Barack Obama was overseeing what […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Singapore, September 2: Singapore’s President-elect Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a man of Jaffna-Tamil origin, said on Saturday that he was surprised at the margin of his victory at Friday’s polls, calling it a vote for an optimistic future and a vote for unity. The 66-year-old former senior minister scored a landslide win with 70.4 per […]

Amar Diwakar March 23, 2018 The U.S. tried to foment an anti-communist Buddhist bloc in Southeast Asia—with deadly consequences for the region’s politics today. Tang Chhin SothyAFP/Getty Of the world’s major faiths, Buddhism is often characterized as being a religion of peace, tolerance, and compassion. The Western encounter with Buddhism has largely been distilled through […]

Garvin Karunaratne Many recent Papers detailing details of the August 12, 1953 Hartal in nostaglia took me to my days at Arunachalam Hall at Peradeniya. It was the 11 th of August 1953 and we students had planned for a major a protest in Kandy on the next day. The Vice Chancellor had decided that […]

By Sunil Kumar for LankaWeb Aug3rd. 2023 There seems to be no rationality relative to Sri Lanka’s security and sovereignty considered when Land connectivity is essential for the growth of ties between India and its neighbouring country where in the past explosive situations have resulted, yet Sri Lanka High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda has […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe assured that the restructuring of domestic debt will have no impact on the membership balance of any public funds, including the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF). He emphasized that the rate of return for superannuation funds will not be affected in any way. Furthermore, the President stated that the restructuring of […]

Dilrook Kannangara In an unprecedented development, US Democratic Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC) and US Republican Congressman Bill Johnson (OH) introduced a bipartisan Resolution last week calling for a referendum for Eelam Tamils to be democratically and equitably represented” as well as a lasting peaceful political solution”. This has been played down by local news media […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government has decided to allow the entry of three foreign companies to sell fuel below the prices set by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) for the benefit of the government as well as the people, Finance State Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said. “We still face the main problem of making fuel […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka aims to announce a debt-restructuring strategy in April and step up talks with commercial creditors ahead of an International Monetary Fund review of a bailout package in six months, the country’s central bank governor told Reuters on Thursday. The crisis-hit island has secured financing assurances from all its major bilateral creditors, […]

e-Con e-News The Sunday Times asked the question above of the much-promoted Shanta Devarajan, ‘Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, US, advisor to the Government of Sri Lanka on the International Monetary Fund (IMF).’ ‘No comment,’ replies the much-promoted and seemingly mired professor. • What is the relationship between […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්  රුපියලට සාපෙක්ෂව ඩොලරයේ මිල රු. 7 – 8 කින් පහත වැටීමක් මේ සතිය පුරා අඛණ්ඩව වාර්තා වෙමින් ඇත.   2022 මැයි මාසයෙන් පසුව ඩොලරයට සාපෙක්ෂව රුපියල වඩාත්ම ශක්තිමත් අවස්ථාව මේ සතියේ වාර්තා විය.  අද (3/3) කොළඹ වානිජ්‍ය බැංකු ඩොලරය මිලදී ගන්නේ රු. 334.50 ට ත් අඩුවෙනි. මේක වුනේ කොහොමද?   පසුගිය කාලයේ දී […]

Sugath Kulatunga No country in the world has been able to move from low- to middle- and high-income status without undergoing the process of industrialization. STIGLITZ. (Nobel Laureate & former chief economist of the World Bank) At independence Sri Lanka (Ceylon) had a stable democracy, a sound economy, and an efficient public service.  Our external […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  අරුණ පුවත් මහජන උපයෝගිතා කොමිසමේ සභාපති ජනක රත්නායකට එරෙහිව කරුණු දහහතරකින් යුක්ත චෝදනා පත්‍රයක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍යාංශය සූදානම් වෙයි. එම චෝදනා පත්‍රය නීති කෙටුම්පත් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට පසුගිය සිකුරාදා (03 වැනිදා) යොමු කර තිබුණි. නීති කෙටුම්පත් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව චෝදනා පත්‍රය නීතියට අනුව සකස් කර ලබාදීමෙන් පසු විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති ඇමැති කංචන විජේසේකර එය […]

Courtesy Adaderana Trade Minister Nalin Fernando has submitted the proposal to the Cabinet of Ministers to import eggs.  Accordingly, the Cabinet has directed him to take necessary steps to do so.

Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressed that he will definitely work towards resurrecting the country from bankruptcy and stressed that he will build an economy that is free from debt and create a stable economy that is able to pay its debts. He said during the opening of the Toyota Lanka fulfilment Centre in […]

Media Release Sri Lankan High Commission in New Delhi High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India, Milinda Moragoda met with the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister of India Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman today (06) at the latter’s office in North Block, New Delhi. This was the latest of a series of meetings High Commissioner Moragoda has […]

Courtesy Adaderana Investigations into complaints filed over the incidents ragging will be handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the police said today. According to a press release issued by the police media division, the decision was taken based on a directive given by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP). The IGP has informed all […]

Courtesi Hiru News The song titled Manike is the official Hindi remix of the viral song Manike Maga Hithe by Sri Lankan singer Yohani the Bollywood film. The song has crossed 3 million views within 6 hours of being uploaded to YouTube. The makers of Ajay Devgn and Sidharth Malhotra’s film ‘Thank God’ have released […]

Courtesy Adaderana The distribution of fuel should be further streamlined through the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB), the Supreme Court pointed out today. This was mentioned when two fundamental rights (FR) petitions filed over the country’s economic crisis were called before the Supreme Court judges Vijith Malalgoda and Arjuna Obeyesekere this morning. The FR petitions […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Chief Incumbents of the four Buddhist Chapters have written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, stressing 10 matters, including the creation of economic stability and provision of relief to the people. In their statement, the chief prelates said the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution should be passed in the parliament without delay. They also […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Education says that schools in the Colombo Zone and other major cities will remain closed next week, from June 27 to July 01.  However, the ministry said that rural schools can function as normal on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during next week.  Accordingly, issuing a notice, the ministry informed that […]

Courtesy EasternEye According to reports, Sri Lanka inflation could surge to 40 per cent. FILE PHOTO: Police fire teargas and use water cannons to disperse the Sinhala extremist monks from Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) on November 19, 2018 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) By: Pramod Thomas THE World Bank said it […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has extended an invitation to form an all-party government comprising all political parties represented in the Parliament, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said in a statement issued today regarding the meeting held with party leaders and representatives who now sit independently in Parliament. The discussion was held at the President’s […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Samagi Jana Balawega (SJB) says that the no-confidence motion against the government will be tabled in Parliament before May 4. SJB Member of Parliament Ashoka Abeysinghe said he believes that they have so far received around 125 signatures from MPs for the motion. He added that they have made requests to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 594 today (January 13), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 04 individuals who recently arrived on the island. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in […]

Voice Tube ජනපතිගේ එක රටක් එක නීතියට නෝන්ඩියකුත් දමයි – සාමූහික වගකීම වගන්ති එක්කම කියයි

Sri Lanka High Commission of India ඉන්දියාවේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ කොමසාරිස් මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ මහතා, උත්තර් ප්‍රදේශ් ප්‍රධාන අමාත්‍ය ශ්‍රී යෝගී ආදිත්‍යනාත් මහතා ලක්නව්හි ප්‍රධාන අමාත්‍යවරයාගේ නිල නිවසේ දී හමුවිය. උත්තර් ප්‍රදේශ් රජයේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් ශ්‍රී රාජේන්ද්‍ර කුමාර් තිවාරි සහ තවත් ප්‍රධාන රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු මෙම රැස්වීමට එක්ව සිටියහ. මහ කොමසාරිස් විසින් උත්තර් ප්‍රදේශ් ප්‍රධාන […]

Children_Learning_Reading Their reading system is called Children Learning Reading, and it is nothing like the infomercials you see on TV, showing babies appearing to read, but who have only learned to memorize a few word shapes. This is a program that will teach your child to effectively decode and read phonetically. It will give your […]

Chandre dharma-wardana In spite of all this information and good advise from all the leading scientists of Sri Lanka (see recent articles in the Island by Dr. M. Dhanapala, Prof. Costa, Dr. Waidyanatha, Prof. Marmbe and many others), we have Ranjith Soysa writing the following: “The President’s holistic decision on the banning of chemical fertiliser […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය.සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා අධීක්ෂණ අමාත්‍යාංශය.ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂන හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය ආමාත්‍යාංශය. ජාතික වෘත්තීය සුදුසුකම් සඳහා වන NVQ – RPL සහතික ප්‍රදානය කිරීමේ උත්සව අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් හම්බන්තොට ශ්‍රැන්ගිලා හෝටලයේ දී ඊයේ (14) දින තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා, සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා අධීක්ෂණ අමාත්‍ය සහ  ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ […]