Shenali D Waduge  Latin American socially oriented governments have rejected IMF’s neo-liberal policies after realizing that neither IMF nor World Bank have any solutions or wish to give any solutions to raise developing nations from their poverty. Have the World Bank or IMF raised a single developing nation to a developed level to date through […]

lanka C news At a meeting of the Ministers of the government,Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa has raised an issue on the saga of former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Dr Chris Nonis with the Member of parliament Sajin de Vass Gunawardena. He had promised to have a impartial inquiry to the incident.He […]

lanka C news The  leader of the Opposition Ranil Wickremasinghe has promised the people of the North that under the next UP government land ,police and powers under the 13th amendment to the constitution would be fully implemented. He had added that all people in the country should have a common law.The problems of the […]

by greenpeace Greenpeace welcomed today’s announcement by the European Commission that it will take a tougher stance against the government of Sri Lanka for its failure to co-operate in the global fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The sanctions will extend beyond seafood import bans, covering all fisheries-related business with Sri Lankan companies […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න   ශ්‍රී වික්‍රම රජු විසින් ගෙන්වාගන්නාලද වඩුග නෑයන්  රජු වටා රොක්වී සිංහලයන්ට  මදි පුංචිකම් කරමින්  සිංහලේ වඩුග රාජ්ජයක් කිරීමට උත්සාහගත්හ. රජුගේ  සින්හල උපදේශක සභා යට ගොස්වඩුග උපදේශක සභා ඉස්මතුවිය. රජුගේ විවාහ සම්බන්ධකම් නිසා ඉන්දියානු  වෙළදුන් හා චෙට්ටියාර්වරු සිංහලේට පැමිණ එවකට ලන්දේසීන් සතුව තිබූ උඩරටට බදු සැපයීම ආදී වෙළදාම තමන් සතුකරගත්හ. ඉන්දියානුවෙලදුන්ගේ හැටි දන්නා ලන්දේසීන් […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම බෞද්ධ-හින්දු මිත්‍රත්‌වය (මෙම රචනා මාලාවේ දැනට ලියමින් පවතින අංක 3 හා 4 ප්‍රමාද කිරීමට සිදුවූයේ කළුසුද්දන්ගේ හැසිරීම පිලිඹඳව ඉතාමත් කාලෝචිත උදාහරණ කීපයක්ම පසුගිය දිනවල එලිදරව්වීම නිසා ඒ ගැන මගේ අදහස් දැක්වීම සුදුසු යයි මට සිතුන නිසාය)       ලංකාවේ පන්සල් වතු වල වන්‌දනීය (පූජණීය) බිමෙන් (සේක්‍රඩ් ස්පේස්) සියේට 20-30 අතර ප්‍රමාණයක් වෙන්වී ඇත්තේ […]

ජනාධිපතිවරණයට පෙර ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය නොකලහොත් ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ පරදවන්නට වැඩ කරන බව දැඩිව අවධාරණය කරමින් ජාතික හෙළ උරුමයේ සභාපති පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියන් විසින් එළිදක්වා ඇති නව ආණ්ඩු ක‍්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා යෝජනා කෙටුම්පත මෙහි දැක්වේ

European Union judges struck down anti-terrorism sanctions against the Tamil Tigers that were imposed by the EU but said on Thursday that the assets of the Sri Lankan group should remain frozen for the time being. The court said a decision by EU leaders in 2006 to place the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) […]

RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN  Courtesy ArabNews As if incidents of pilfering the baggage of workers returning from the Kingdom at Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) weren’t enough, passengers are now complaining of baggage being lost altogether at the other end. The latest victim was Rohaan Samath, who lost one of his suitcases at the BIA when […]

By Nalin de Silva Who said the UNP is democratic and non-violent? It has to be somebody who has come from a different galaxy and not from the Milky Way. Since 1931, when universal franchise was introduced by the English, thinking that the Senanayakes and others who had a ‘decent education’ in schools they established […]

 Dr. Tilak Fernando During the early part of 2008, Archbishop Dr. Desmond Tutu made reference to Human Right Violations in Sri Lanka and campaigned fiercely to oust Sri Lanka from the Council and Bar-election from the United Nations Human Rights Council. His stance being ‘Sri Lanka did not deserve a seat in the assembly”! The […]

Susantha Wijesinghe. I firmly believe that, by installing  at least 5 Five Dimmer switches by every householder, they could further reduce the Electricity Bill to a great extent. Dimmer switches will reduce the wattage when turned down low, in an area that is not likely in use by the residents but still wants the area lit up. A […]