BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS British rulers mistakenly considered that behavioural nature of Sri Lankans was similar to Indians and when Indians learn democracy, people of Sri Lanka also will be learned, however it was a baseless assumption and the behavioural pattern of Sri Lankans and their attitudes towards a variety of issues are quite different. The […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS When I visited Sri Lanka recently, I had an opportunity to talk with different people in the country and also talked to several Sri Lankans who are living in overseas.  The main opinion of the majority was Sri Lanka needs a partial dictatorship for efficient and clean administration as the majority of […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  Meditation refers to a family of practices that may share many similarities, but can have differences in underlying methods and goals (Olex et al., 2013). Meditation practice is difficult to access because of its countless forms of appearances originating from the complexity of cultures it has to serve (Fell et al., […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ජෝසෆ් ස්ටාලින් සෝවියට් දේශයේ සාමූහික වියසනයක් ඇති කරන ලද නිර්මාපකයා විය​. ආඥාදායකයෙකු වූ ස්ටාලින් විසින් මිලියන ගනනක් ජනතාව මරා දැමුවේය​. එසේම මිලියන ගනනක් ගුලාග් ශ්‍රම කඳවුරු වල සිරගත කලේය​. එහෙත් ජෝසෆ් ස්ටාලින් රුසියාව තුල තවමත් ගෞරවයට ලක් වන නායකයෙකි. මොස්කව් ටයිම්ස් පුවත් පත වාර්තා කරන පරිදි 2012 වසරේදී පවත්වන ලද සමීක්‍ෂණයක් […]

According to the Lancet study, Pakistan ranks 154th among 195 countries in terms of accessibility and quality of healthcare, far behind its South Asian counterparts India, Bangladesh, and Sri-Lanka. The study carried out by renowned journal The Lancet says that Pakistan has improved in health care access and quality since 1990. Pakistan’s Health Access Quality (HAQ) index […]

BY MAREX  On Wednesday, Sri Lanka’s development and trade minister Malik Samarawickrama confirmed that Chinese investors have been cleared to build a $700 million natural gas-powered electrical station in the Chinese-run port of Hambantota. He first announced plans for Chinese state-owned engineering company Sinomach to build the plant earlier this month. The 400-gigawatt power plant will be fueled […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka has accepted an eight-year China Development Bank $1 billion syndicated loan to repay loans maturing this year, two top Finance Ministry officials said on Friday. The bank was chosen from among four bidding for the loan, which the government plans to use towards repaying other loans, one official told Reuters. […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island UPFA MP Dayasiri Jayasekara yesterday admitted in Parliament that he received one million rupee Cheque from Walt & Row Associates. Making a statement in Parliament he said that there had been a newspaper report to the effect that he had obtained the cash cheque from Walt & Row associated with […]

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම අද පවතින මේ සමාජ තලය තුළ ජාතියක් ගොඩනැඟෙන්නේ ගුරුවරුන් දරුවන්ට සලකන ආකාරය අනුවයි. හොඳින් විභාගය සමත් වන විවිධ කුසලතාවන් හැකියාවන්, දක්ෂතාවන් පෙන්වන දරුවන් පමණද අවධානයට යොමුවන්නේ. මා සිතන ආකාරයට විභාග ජයගන්න කුසලතාවන් හැකියාවන් පෙන්වන දරුවන්ට වඩා විභාග ජය ගැනීමට බැරි කුසලතාවක් හැකියාවක් නැති දරුවන් කෙරෙහි වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමු කළ යුතු බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today A couple  of old news items that have gone viral  on the internet,  hit the writer’s mail box too, the other day based on Indian politics, which are very much congruent with the current Sri Lankan political culture. One incident reported by ANI/TW on 23 November 2017, described […]