Harinda Vidanage Courtesy Strategic News International The new President elect of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is only a week into his administration, but he has already hit the turbo gear and is on full throttle. The president expects everyone in his governance mechanism, including his two elder siblings – irrespective of the fact that one […]

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UK is holding general elections. Anyone contesting should be trying to represent the interests of the people in the UK and not issues relevant to other countries which the government of those countries should solve. How representative of the British is the Labor Party? Some of the Party stalwarts have been regularly engaged in speaking […]

lanka C news November 27, 2019 at 10:32 pm | රාජ්‍ය ආයතවල සභාපතිවරුන් හා අධ්‍යක්ෂ මණ්ඩල සාමාජිකයක් බඳවා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් ජනපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය පුරවැසියන්ගෙන් අභිලාෂ (කැමැත්ත) කැඳවීමට තීරණය කර තිබේ. ඒ අනුව රාජ්‍ය ආයාතන හා ව්‍යාපාර ලාභදායි ලෙස පවත්වාගෙන යෑමට ඒවා ලාභදායි වභාපාර ලෙස පත්කිරීමට හැකි සුදුසුකම් ලත් වෘත්තීය වේදින්ගෙන් ජනපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය අභිලාෂ කැඳවීමට […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් විල්පත්තු වනාන්තර පද්ධතියේ කොටසක් එහි අනවසර පදිංචිකරුවන්ට ලබාදුන් බවට පැතිර යන කටකතා අසත්‍ය බව සුරකිමු ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරය පවසනවා. එහි සභාපති පූජ්‍ය පාහියන්ගල ආනන්ද සාගර හිමියන් අද වනජීවි අමාත්‍යාංශයේ පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් සඳහන් කළේ හිටපු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ උපදෙස් මත විල්පත්තු නඩුව සමතයකට පත් කිරීමට නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව යෝජනා […]

By H. L. D. Mahindapala Courtesy Ceylon Today The massive swing against the UNP indicates clearly that the nation was biding its time to cut the neck of Ranil’s regime with the sharp edge of their lengthy ballot papers. And they did it in right royal style, peacefully and decisively, leaving no doubt in anyone’s […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has pledged to enact a Bill to protect public servants who perform their duties. The Premier made these remarks as he assumed duties as the Minister of Water Supply Housing Facilities today (27). He also stated that the existing procedure that brings such public officers before the judiciary or […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The Cabinet has given its approval to remove the Nation Building Tax (NBT), Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Tax and Withholding Tax on interests, the Co-Cabinet Spokesperson Bandula Gunawardena said today. He mentioned this during the first press briefing to announce the decisions of the new government’s Cabinet of Ministers, held at […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya says that he has recognized UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Leader of the Opposition, upholding Parliamentary traditions. In a twitter message, he said that recognition of the Leader of the UNFGG as the Leader of the Opposition was done upholding established Parliamentary traditions that should […]

Courtesy Reuters COLOMBO, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan shares ended higher on Wednesday, helped by gains in beverage and banking shares, while the rupee ended firmer on hopes of tax cuts by the new government. ** After the market closed, Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardana said the government has decided to reduce value-added tax to […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror The government today said it was unaware of the incident where an employee of the Switzerland Embassy in Sri Lanka was detained forcefully and threatened. The Swiss Foreign Ministry said that an employee of the Swiss Embassy in Sri Lanka has been forcefully detained and threatened. When questioned about these reports at the […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය සංජීව ධම්මික ලේකම් – විදුලිය පාවිච්චිකරන්නන්ගේ සංගමය  2015 වන විට විබ්මත්ව හා නීත්‍යානූකූලව අනුමත කොට තිබූ රටට ලාභදායිම ඛභඨ විදුලිබල ව්‍යාපෘතිය ඉදිකිරීම වංචනිකව හා දූෂිත ලෙස ප්‍රමාද කිරීමෙන් යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව රටට රු¡ බිලියන 3ල360 අහිමි කිරීමට එරෙහි අල්ලස් හෝ දූෂණ චෝදනා විමර්ශන කොමිෂන් සභාවට 2019-11-27 දින කල පැමිණිල්ල¡ 2012 අගෝස්තු අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල අනුමත […]

By Rohana R. Wasala  I love my country. I am proud of my country. I have a vision concerning my country. I appeal to all Sri Lankans to join together in building a prosperous land for posterity”  declared Gotabhaya Rajapaksa on being sworn in as the seventh executive president of the Democratic Socialist Republic of […]

Viraj Kithsiri  While offering my heartfelt congratulations to Gotabaya Rajapaksa on his election as the President of our beloved country it is important to note his road to success was not an easy one. It is suffice to say the mood nationwide was reminiscent of the day in May 2009 when Tiger guerrillas were militarily […]