Australian News In one of the video reports, the person by the name of Nimal Perera does not want to answer the interviewer’s question about the mysterious British-Virgin Islands-domiciled company called Sabre Vision Holdings and walks away giving the impression to the viewer that there is something fishy going on. However, in 2016, this same […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS United Nations held its first Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS I)  in 1956.The second Conference (UNCLOS II)  was held in 1960. The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III)   was convened in 1973  and went on till. 1982.   The United Nations Convention on the Law […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS The ocean resources of Sri Lanka are in the process of expanding due to the relatively new UN Law of the Sea,  announced the media.   The Territorial and Continuous areas will add a sea area 8 times our land area. Sri Lanka will thereafter acquire 200 nautical miles as an Exclusive Economic Zone, […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS India, Sri Lanka and Maldives  are located in the same area of the Indian Ocean. Therefore it was necessary to  decide on the territorial boundaries  of the sea between these three countries. Maritime  boundary agreements  between India and Sri Lanka were signed in 1974 and 1976 . This was necessary to avoid conflict, […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ Several of my Kiwi patients and medical colleagues have asked me repeatedly why Sri Lankans are washing their dirty linen in public and driving off potential tourists and investors from going to Sri Lanka, when this is precisely what Sei Lanka needs now.! On a personal note the latest […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර ප්‍රථම්යෙන්ම එවැනි යෝජනා කරන අයගේ මොලේ තියෙන්නේ කොහේදැයි වහාම පරීක්ශා කළයුතුය. මන්ද දැනට රටතුල පවතින ආර්ථික,දේශපාලනික සහ සමාජ අසහනය අනුව විපක්ශ නායකයා සහ අනුර දිසානයක ඇතුලු ඇතැම් අය කියන පරිදි මැතිවරරණයකට යාමට මේ අවස්ථාව කිසිසේත්ම සුදුසු නොවන බැවිනි.. මන්ද පළමුවෙන්ම පාර්ලිමේත්ව විසුරුවා මැතිවරණයකට යාමෙන් අද රටේ පවතින දේශපාලන,ආර්ථික හා සමාජ අර්බුධ තවත් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ නව වෙබ් අඩවිය සහ යූ ටියුබ් චැනලය අන්තර්ජාලයට එක්කිරීම අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් අද (03) පෙරවරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සිදු විය. දේශීය සහ විදේශීය වශයෙන් මෙරට සංස්කෘතිය පිළිබඳව ප්‍රචාරයක් ලබා දීම හා සංචාරක ආකර්ෂණය වැඩි කිරීම මෙහි අරමුණයි. ccf.gov.lk වෙබ් ලිපිනය ඔස්සේ මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ නව වෙබ් අඩවිය වෙත පිවිසිය හැකි අතර […]

ෂම්මි උයනගේ පරිගණක මෘදුකාංග ඉංජිනේරු නීත්‍යානුකූලව ඡන්දයකින් පත්වූ ආන්ඩුවක් හෑෂ් ටැග් වලින් ගෙදර යැවිය හැකිද? පසුගිය 2019 වකවානුවේ දී පැවැත්වූ මැතිවරණ නීත්‍යානුකූල නොවූයේනම් අද ඇතිවන තත්වය මීට වඩා හාත්පසින්ම වෙනස් ස්වරූපයක් ගනී. එසේ වූවානම් නම් තීරණාත්මක බලවේගය වන්නේ හෑෂ් ටැග් නොව මහජනතාවගේ අරගලයයි. ඊනියා නිර්පාක්ෂික අරගලයේ  #GotaGoHome2022 හෑෂ් ටැග් ප්‍රමාණය ලක්ෂ 5 කට ආසන්න වී […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 28 (Sunday Observer): The pulse of a nation beats through its traditional knowledge. This holds true for ancient civilisations such as Sri Lanka. For nations such as ours to wipe out that which is indigenous and create a socio-economic path for its people on totally alien lines can only spell disaster. […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 3: China, which had expressed displeasure over Sri Lanka’s approaching the IMF for a bailout without consulting it first, and had warned that its relations with Sri Lanka would depend on the conditions set by the IMF, has now revised its stand. Beijing has realized that it cannot turn […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Peoples’ Responsibility Center, a civil organization staged a protest near the Russian Embassy in Sri Lanka calling for the Sri Lankan government to purchase fuel from Russia. Pix by Kithsiri de Mel 

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The JVP revealed that former Minister Namal Rajapaksa has received money from two Companies – ‘NR Projects’, a Netherlands company and ‘Aspen Medical’, an Australian Company through Nimal Perera connected to the construction of the Nuwara Eliya and Hambantota Hospitals. Convenor of the Voice Against Corruption Wasantha Samarasinghe said this fraud […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Maithripala Sirisena today strongly rejected the allegation made by Wasantha Samarasinghe, the convener of the Voice Against Corruption, that a portion of the money allegedly stolen from the Central Bank bond fraud had been given to former President Maithripala Sirisena and his family members. In a media release, the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Governor of Central Bank, Ajith Nivard Cabraal, in response to the allegations levelled by JVP Leader MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has said the payments made to Pakistani American political donor Imaad Zuberi have been made on official written instructions of the government, and not on the wishes of a single person.” Earlier […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government of China has decided to provide another grant of Chinese Yuan (CNY) 300 million to Sri Lanka to help in the supply of medicine, food, fuel and other essentials, the Office of the Prime Minister said in a statement issued today. The grant comes after a telephone conversation held between Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderan The go-ahead of the Cabinet of Ministers has been given to provide a special cash allowance for a period of three months to identified low-income families affected by the ongoing economic crisis. Relevant proposal was tabled by the Minister of Finance and Minister of Samurdhi. As the low-income families entitled to Samurdhi, Elderly, […]