BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS An economic symposium conducted in Colombo a few years ago especially focused on vital issues related to the country. The issues discussed were foreign debt, regulation, export performance and attracting foreign investment also included. Sound advice and views of economists were encouragement for competition, reducing the cost of debt service and promoting […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Bulky ownership of the banking market of Sri Lanka is in the government hand. This includes as Bank of Ceylon, Peoples Bank, National Savings Bank and several development banks, investment banks and long-term financial institutions such as mortgage and national development banks. As the government is not in a position to provide […]

බ්‍රතාන්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩන් නුවර සිට ලියයි උපුටා ගැන්ම  අරුණ පුවත් ලෝකයේ ඉතා ප්‍රසිද්ධ හා ජනප්‍රියතම රජු හෝ රැජන වන්නේ අන් කිසිවකු නොව බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ දෙවැනි එළිසබෙත් මහ රැජනයි. පසුගිය වසරේ මහා බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය පුරාම ජනතා ආදර කැමැත්ත පිළිබඳ පැවැති ඡන්ද සමීක්ෂණයේදී ජනතාවගෙන් 75%ක්මතමන් ඉතාම කැමැති රජ පවුලේ සාමාජිකයා මහා රැජන බවට ප්‍රකාශ කර […]

Jubeda Chowdhury from Dhaka, Bangladesh Is India Bangladesh’s  true friend and well wisher? It is a question of century. How India and Bangladesh can become a real friend in South Asia? India and Bangladesh can show the world how neighbouring countries can become all-weather friends. Bangladesh-India bilateral relations are a role model in the world […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ලෝක සාමය යනු ප්‍රචණ්ඩත්වයෙන් තොර ලෝකය පිළිබඳ අදහසක් බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ආර්යා ශිරන්ති රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මිය ලෝක සාම සමුළුව 2022 (කොරියානු අර්ධද්වීපයේ සාමය සඳහා වූ සමුළුව) අමතා ඊයේ (12) ප්‍රකාශ  කළාය. විශ්ව සාම සම්මේලනයේ (UPF) ආරාධනාවකට අනුව වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ දකුණු කොරියාවේ සෝල් නුවර පැවැත්වෙන ‘‘ලෝක සාම සමුළුව 2022’’ ට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ආර්යාව මේ […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් ශ්රී ලංකා ජනගහණයෙන් 98%කට දැන් විදුලි සැපයුම  ඇත. එය 1970 ගණන්වල තනි ඉලක්කම්වලට සාපේක්ෂව දැවැන්ත ප්රගතියකි. මුළු ජනගහණයටම   අන්තර් ජාලා ස්මාර්ට් ෆෝන් සැපයුම ඇත. එය 1980 ගණන්වල 80,000 ට සාපේක්ෂව විශාල ප්රගතියකි. උසස් අධ්යාපනය සඳහා එම 98-100% ඉලක්කය සාක්ෂාත් කර  ගැනීම වැදගත්ය. අපට  ප්රායෝගික ඉක්මනින ක්‍රියාත්මක  කළ හැකි ප්රතිපත්ති සහ විසඳුම් අවශ්යයි. දේශපාලන […]

Nava Thakuria Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, demanded stringent punishments to perpetrators of the murder of a young scribe in central India’s State of Uttar Pradesh some days back. Condoling the demise of Sudhir Saini (30), the PEC also urges the UP government in Lucknow to adequately compensate […]

Courtesy Sputnik Last December, hundreds of Islamists lynched and set fire to the body of a Sri Lankan factory manager in Pakistan’s Sialkot district after he removed stickers of an extreme right-wing party featuring Quranic verses from factory machinery. Prime Minister Imran Khan had called the incident a “day of shame for Pakistan.”After Punjab police […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Mohini is an old popular ghost story. Apparently, she convinces men who are on the road at odd times to hold her baby until she adjusts her wraparound cloth. However, the minute the man picks the baby Mohini transforms into a fearsome monster. The story is so thrilling with […]

Courtesy Adaderana Solar Universe in Vavunathivu adds 10MW; Hiruras Power in Mannar 15MW 3Q Group consolidated revenue LKR 3.6 Bn; bottom line increase of 4% YoY Hydro power revenue up by 25%; solar has growth of 22% WindForce PLC, the largest renewable energy developer in Sri Lanka which released its 3Q results for 9 months […]

Courtesy Adaderana In an interview to The Indian Express, Sri Lanka’s foreign minister G L Peiris said India and Sri Lanka had reached a high point in their relations, and that concerns about the Chinese presence in his country had been consigned to the past”.  Peiris, who was in Delhi from February 6-8, said the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Maithripala Sirisena says that despite 12 years passing since the end of the conflict, Sri Lanka has still not found a firm power-sharing mechanism or fulfilled total reconciliation as expected by international standards. He said this while delivering the keynote address at the 2022 World Summit for Peace on the Korean […]

Courtesy Adaderana Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa is expected to visit India once again within the next two weeks to finalize the agreements on the financial assistance extended by the neighboring nation.  Speaking to reporters in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said that the Finance Minister’s recent visit to India for talks was […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 31 coronavirus related deaths for February 12, pushing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 15,808. The deaths reported today include 20 males and 11 female patients while two of the victims are below the age of 30 years. Eight of the […]