Hitihamillage Chandrapala. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has been maintaining a clean sheet of record until very recent times. Every one respected the Central Bank for its unique role and integrity in managing the monetary system of the country. As the custodian of the Employees’ Provident Fund, the biggest superannuation fund in the country, […]

Yahapalana News Sources revealed that on recommendations of Sirisena, a few pages of the first budget speech prepared by the Ministry of Finance Ravi Karunanayake has been  replaced with Sirisena’s own pages. The original Budget report had been prepared under the supervision of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and suddenly Sirisena has requested a copy and […]

By Chitra Weerarathne  Courtesy Island President’s Counsel, Prasantha Lal de Alwis has filed a fundamental rights violation petition, in the Supreme Court, complaining that political parties with religious and racial identity, should amend their registration identities, or they should be taken off the list of registered political parties. At the parliamentary elections in August, 20 […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island Presidential advisor Shiral Lakthilake yesterday said that there couldn’t be any reason for President Maithripala Sirisena to refrain from contesting the next general election as his party’s prime ministerial candidate. President Maithripala Sirisena heads both the SLFP and the UPFA. Having fulfilled the promises made in the run-up to the January […]

RT Published time: 19 Nov, 2015 15:05Edited time: 19 Nov, 2015 15:06 Get short URL Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov. © Iliya Pitalev / Sputnik 1.7K2 Western expectations of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s imminent fall were misplaced, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Assad has public support, meaning no peaceful resolution of the conflict is […]

RT Russia’s Defense Ministry has released new videos of retribution attacks on Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) with strategic bombers launching smart bombs and cruise missiles. Strategic aviation was scrambled shortly after confirmation that the Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Desert on October 31 was downed by a terrorist bomb. The footage […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. ඩී. ඒ. ගුණසේකර මහතාගෙන් සමුගත් මට අප්‍රේල් මහ නඩුවේ මීලඟ විත්තිකරු වූ ඩී. ඩී. සිල්වා හෙවත් දේවහන්දි දිනිඳුමිත්‍ර සිල්වා පිළිබඳව විස්තර ලබා ගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය කෙරුණි. ඔහු ජීවතුන් අතර නොමැති නිසා දේවහන්දි දිනිඳුමිත්‍ර සිල්වා විසින් 1971 ජූනි මාසයේදී අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට දෙන ලද කටඋත්තරය අනුසාරයෙන් ඔහුගේ 71 භූමිකාව පිළිබඳව යම් විස්තරයක් […]

වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නන් සිංහරාජ ප්‍රේරක කලාපය තුල කොස්ගුලන ගඟ හරස් කොට ඉදිකරමින් පවතින කුඩා ජලවිදුලි බලාගාරයක් නිසා ලෝක උරුම සිංහරාජ වනාන්තරයට බරපතල හානියක් සිදුවී ඇත. මෙම ඉදිකිරීම් සිදුකරන ප්‍රදේශය සිංහරාජ කුඩව ප්‍රධාන පිවිසුම් මඟ සිට කිලෝමීටර් 4ක් පමණ නැගෙනහිර දෙසින් සිංහරාජ මායිමට යාබද ප්‍රේරක කලාපය තුල පිහිටා ඇති අතර කොස්ගුලන ගඟ හරස් කොට ඉදිකරමින් පවතින බැම්ම […]

Rainforest Protectors of Sri Lanka Massive damage has been done to Sinharaja World Heritage Rainforest due to construction of an illegal mini-hydro project blocking the Kosgulana River. This construction is being carried out in the Northern Sinharaja Rainforest buffer zone at Kosgulana, approximately 4km East from Kudawa main entrance. A dam is been built blocking […]

Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The editorial of a daily English newspaper in Sri Lanka on 14 November 2015, under the caption Honouring Ven. Sobitha” seemed apt, forceful and conveyed a message to the nation that all those eloquent eulogies and glowing tributes paid to the late monk at the funeral, from a very place the […]

A Well-wisher. Dear France, It has been few days since you bled, and in those few days, I have been trying to write this letter to you, to offer you my condolences. I kept writing and re-writing but I don’t think any words can ever be enough for the tragedy that has struck you. But […]