Jubeda Chowdhury  Bangladesh has improved its quality of life, economic strength and prosperity, education and research in every field. And that is why in the past Bangladesh was said to follow the developed countries to move forward, today the countries of Africa are being urged to look forward to that Bangladesh. No development in Bangladesh […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ  ‘සිංහල’, බෞද්ධ’ සංකල්පයන් ‘සිංහල’’, බෞද්ධ’ යන සංකල්පයනට පසුගිය වසර 40 ක පමණ කාලයක සිට සිදුවී ඇති අවැඩ, අගතිය, හානිය අති මහත්ය. 1815දි  බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීහු පවා  උඩරට ගිවුසුම මඟින් මේ රට හැඳින්වුයේ ‘සිංහලේ’ යන නමිනි. සිලෝන් හෝ ශ්‍රී ලංකා යන නම් ඔවුන් පාවිච්චි නොකළේ එකල ඒවා මේ රටේ නාමය ලෙසට සනිටුහන්ව නොතිබීමයි.   1995 මැද […]

මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන. ගෑස්, විදුලිය, ඉන්ධන සහ පොහොර ජනතාවට ලබාගත නොහැකි කරන ආකාරයට පත් කිරීමත් සමගම ආහාරත් ජනතාවට ලබාගත නොහැකි තත්ත්වයට පත් කිරීමේ කූඨ සැළසුමක් ක්‍රියාත්මකයි. එහි අරමුණ ජනතාව සාගතයෙන් තබා රට නොරටුන්ට හිමිකර දීමයි. අපි ඒ උගුලේ නොවැටෙමු…, සාගතයට මුහුණ දෙමු…, අපි ආහාරවලින් පොහොසත් වෙමු…, ඉඩ ඇති […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති මෙම ප්‍රවාදයෙන් යෝජනා කෙරෙනුයේ ස්ව-ශක්තිය මත ගොඩනැගෙන සහ ඒ අනුව ශක්තිමත් වන රාජ්‍යයකට අදාළ පාලන ක්‍රමයකි. තම ශක්තිය පිළිබඳ අවබෝධයක් සහ ඇගැයීමක් නොමැතිව බෞද්ධයන්ට අත්පත් කරගත හැකි විමුක්තියක් නැත. තමන්ට ඇත්තේ තමන්ගේ ම පිහිට බැව් බෞද්ධයෝ හොඳින් ම දනිති. දුකින් මිදීමේ පළමු පියවරවනුයේ මෙම අවබෝධය සහ ඒ අනුව ලබාගන්නා ඥානයයි. ලෞකික කරුණු […]

Pathfinder Perspective Has the time come to consider seriously the merits of restructuring the government’s external debt obligations?  The Sri Lankan authorities have indicated that they are in the process of negotiating inflows to meet the country’s immediate foreign exchange requirements.  However, there is considerable uncertainty as to whether there would be sufficient inflows to meet […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයේ සාමූහිකව ගන්නා තීරණ සම්බන්ධයෙන් වෙනස් මතයක් දරන්නේ නම්  කැබිනට් ඇමති ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් වී ඒ වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටීම වඩාත් සුදුසු බව ජනාධිපති ගෝටාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා සදහන් කරයි. ඔහු මේ බව සදහන් කලේ ජනාධිපති නිල නිවසේදී මාධ්‍ය ආයතන ප්‍රධානින් සමඟ පැවති සාකච්චාවේදී මාධ්‍යවේදියෙකු නැගූ පැනයක ප‍්‍රතිචාර ලෙසය. සාමුහික වගකීමකින් වෙනස් […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is due to visit Sri Lanka around 08 and 09 January 2022, reports newsin.asia. It will be happening when the island nation’s economy is in dire straits, facing a severe dollar shortage, absence of foreign investment and a fall in international financial ratings. Colombo will expect Beijing […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has ordered all licensed commercial banks to sell 25 per cent of their foreign exchange transactions to the CBSL on a weekly basis. Meanwhile, the CBSL has raised the annual license fees of licensed commercial banks and licensed specialised banks. Its Monetary Board requests these banks […]

මව්බිම දැන් රසායනික පොහොර ආනයනය කිරීම සඳහා ඉල්ලීම් කළ ආයතන 10කට අනුමැතිය ලබා දුන් බව ජාතික පෙහොර ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ චන්දන ලොකුහේවගේ මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු සඳහන් කළේ, ආනයනය කිරීමට තේාරාගන්නා ආයතනය අනුව ආනයනය කරන පෙහොර මෙරටට ලැබෙන කාලය තීරණය වන බව ය. කෙසේ වෙතත්, ඉදිරි මාස දෙක ඇතුළත ඇණවුම් කළ පෙහොර ප්‍රමාණය මෙරටට ලැබීමට නියමිත […]

Chaturanga Samrawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror Fifty percent of the public do not come forward to get their booster doses assuming there is no risk of COVID presently in the country, Public Health Officers’ (PHI) union Head Upul Rohana said. He told the Daily Mirror that the daily COVID positive case announcements was misleading the […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Television Broadcasting Digitization Project is to be officially launched tomorrow afternoon, the Mass Media Ministry said. The Ministry said with the Television Broadcasting Digitization Project, people would be able to watch programs more clearly while removing TV signal vulnerabilities. This project is planned and operated by the […]

Courtesy Hiru News The prices of white jackfruit (Kos), green jackfruit (Polos), banana flower (Kesel Muwa) and sweet potato, which were cheaper than the vegetables that have gone up in the market, have also risen sharply. It is reported that the wholesale price of a kilo of green jackfruit, which was previously between 20 and […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has accepted the letter of resignation tendered by Presidential Secretary P.B. Jayasundera, according to political sources. It is reported that Jayasundera is set to step down from his position with effect from December 31. Recent news reports revealed that the presidential secretary had handed over his resignation to the Head […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 458 today (December 27), the Epidemiology Unit said. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 584,107. As many as 559,684 recoveries and 14,901 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak […]

By Garvin Karunaratne  The economy of Sri Lanka has come to a situation where the Government has allowed it to freewheel, without any controls. Going on this path It is  purely a matter of time-  for the economy to totally crash. The Aim in writing this Paper is to find a solution to the present mayhem where […]

Courtesy RT Promises that the bloc wouldn’t expand appear to have been ignored in Washington’s quest for influence in Europe. FILE PHOTO: Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L) and US President Bill Clinton shake hands before leaving a final news conference in the Kremlin in this September 2, 1998. © REUTERS In April 2014, President Vladimir […]

Eva Bartlett Courtesy RT In its prolonged freezing of Venezuelan assets, the UK continues to withhold 31 tons of its gold stored at the Bank of England, with a new Supreme Court ruling supporting the seizure. © REUTERS / Tamara Abdul Hadi 5/ Ultimately the UK Supreme Court has legitimised a modern expression of piracy […]

Nava Thakuria Geneva: As the year 2021 sets to finish its cycle, Afghanistan emerges as the most dangerous country for scribes with 12 journo-casualties, followed by Mexico (10 dead), Pakistan (7), India (6), etc. The south Asian nation also lost at least 10 media workers to the Covid-19 complications till date, said Press Emblem Campaign […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ඩොලර් අච්චු ගහන්නේ ඇමරිකාවේය. ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය රුපියල් අච්චු ගහන්නේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේය. ආර්ථිකය තුල ගැටළු ඇති වුනත් අපිට රුපියල් අච්චු ගැසීමේ කටයුත්ත කල හැක. නමුත් අපිට ඩොලර් අච්චු ගැසීම කල නොහැක. දැන් අත්‍යවශ්‍ය සාධකයව ඇත්තේ ඩොලර්ය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය උග්‍ර ඩොලර් හිඟයකට මුහුණදී සිටි. ඕනෑම දෙයක් හිඟ වෙනවිට එම භාණ්ඩයේ වටිනාකම ඉහල යන […]

by Nava Thakuria Public reactions against a news item in any newspaper or news channel may be usual in India, but public outrages in digital platforms against the mainstream media outlets for not covering a particular issue is definitely an unusual phenomenon. Far-eastern Indian State of Assam witnessed such a public fury against some of […]

By Xinhua Writer Tang Lu Colombo, December 26 (Xinhua):  On the golden artificial beach in Colombo’s Port City, the Sri Lankan Sanjeewa Alwis was earnestly building” a sandcastle model similar to the financial center building that will be built in Port City. Noticing Alwis’ masterpiece” on the beach, three Sri Lankan kids playing by the […]

Meera Srinivasan courtesy The Hindu The facility has 99 storage tanks with a capacity of 12,000 kilolitres each After a year of visible strain in its ties with Colombo, New Delhi may finally have some reason for cheer. In a month’s time, Sri Lanka will ink the long-dragging deal with India to jointly develop the […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu Some newspapers and television channels saw the visit as a provocation to India, which has traditionally held close ties with the North, owing to geographic, cultural, and linguistic proximity. A recent visit by the Chinese Ambassador in Colombo to Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province has sparked concern and considerable commentary […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Registrar General has issued a circular to all District Registrars and Additional District Registrars informing of the additional documents required for the registration of marriages between foreigners and Sri Lankan nationals.  The circular states the current procedure of registration of marriages between a foreigner and a Sri Lankan under (112 chapter of) marriage (Genera) […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that 398 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 within today (26).  This includes two persons who had returned from overseas. Meanwhile the tally of confirmed cases of coronavirus climbs to 583,649 with this.  9,329 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment across the island.  The Director […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS revised 26.12.21 The North and East was a part of the   Buddhist civilization of the Anuradhapura kingdom. It was part of the Rajarata and came directly under the rule of the Sinhala king.   Inscriptions show that Abhayagiri had monasteries outside Anuradhapura. Abhayagiri had monasteries at Kantarodai in Jaffna, and at Nedunkerni and Ottimalai […]

– Truth with Chamuditha

Courtesy HINDUISM AND SANATAN DHARMA The Maya writing system was used in what is now Mexico and Central America for almost two thousand years, until after the arrival of Cortés. It was written in bark paper books, carved on public monuments and inscribed on personal objects of pottery, bone and jade. The invading Spanish outlawed […]

MD Pathik Hasan Bangladesh got its independence from Pakistan in 1971 after a bloody struggle. Pakistan had been exploiting then East Pakistan systematically and Islamabad’s economy was built on the money of the Bengali-majority areas. However, the newly independent nation of Bangladesh came into existence under the charismatic leadership of its great founding father Bangabandhu […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් එන ජනවාරි මාසයේ සිට තම තමන්ගේ ගෙවත්තේ කුමක් හෝ බෝග කිහිපයක් පැල කර ගන්නැයි වෙළෙඳ අමාත්‍ය බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ජනතාවගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටියි. දෙවන ලෝක යුද්ධ කාලයේදී පවා ආහාර හිගයක් ආ බවද ඒ මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. ආහාර මිල ඉහල යාම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මාධ්‍යවේදීන් වෙත අදහස් පළ කරමින් ඔහු මෙසේ කියා සිටියේය. සෑම […]