The New Arab Staff & Agencies The 90,000-tonne consignment of Russian oil was ordered through Dubai-based Coral Energy, according to Sri Lankan Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera. Sri Lanka will pay $72.6 million to buy a 90,000-tonne shipment of Russian oil docked at Colombo’s port for weeks, its energy minister said on Saturday, as the island nation […]

by Dr Asoka Weerakkody Courtesy The Island Nobody knows how the signature battle cry of the suffering masses ‘GOTA GO HOME’ started or by whom. But by now it is everywhere including on the back of three-wheelers, which is the high altar of social comment in Sri Lanka. The other day I found one even […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka’s state-owned insurance firm may incur losses in excess of LKR 1 billion due to the violent clashes between anti- and pro-government protesters in the country earlier this month, New York-based ratings agency Fitch has said. On May 9, violence erupted in Sri Lanka after supporters of former prime minister […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The possibility of increasing and restructuring the India’s assistance in the form of credits for essential commodities and fuel, and balance of payment support was explored It was agreed that the established official-level mechanism for  conducting the economic dialogue between the two countries should  continue  By Kelum Bandara    Sri Lanka’s […]

Courtesy Adaderana This was conveyed at a meeting held with Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe and Monetary Board member Sanjeeva Jayawardena, PC earlier today, President’s Media Division (PMD) said in a statement. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today assured the Central Bank’s governor and the Monetary Board his fullest and unqualified assurance of freedom to discharge […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government is of the view that electricity tariffs need to be revised after nine long years, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara says. According to the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), the last tariff revision was made in 2014, when electricity tariffs were slashed by 25 percent. Addressing a special media briefing […]

Courtesy Adaderana U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung says she is hopeful the government, including the new Prime Minister, would be able to bring about political stability and overcome the current economic crisis. Her remarks came during a meeting with Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Friday (May 27) at the Parliament Premises. The U.S. […]

උපුටාගැණීම මුහුනුපොත .විමල්ගේ දේශපාලන භූමිකාව ශිෂ්‍යයෙකු ලෙස ලාංකීය ශිෂ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාරය තුලත්, 89 මහා ජනසංහාරයෙන් දිවිගලවා ගැනීමෙන් පසු මානව හිතවාදි පත්තර කාරයෙකුගේ සිට මරා පොළොවට සමතලා කොට මැච් එක ඉවරයැයි වහසිබස් දෙඩු ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ නැවත දේශපාලනයට රැගෙන ඒම සදහාත්,එය ජනතාව තුල මහජන ව්‍යාපාරයක් දක්වා ඔසවා තැබිම වෙනුවෙනුත් ඔහු කල සුවිශේෂී කැපකිරිම ලෙහෙසියෙන් මකා දැමිය නොහැක. […]

Courtesy The News The World Bank and the IMF have taken over total control of the Pakistani economy and have established their stranglehold on it,” Dr Kaiser Bengali said.Share The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has one-point agenda in Pakistan, namely the privatisation of all the assets of the country which will cause large-scale unemployment. Economist […]

Shenali D Waduge The national list comprises 29 people nominated by political parties. They are not nominees of the People but the political party they are aligned to or have been named by. That they are included in a particular party automatically displays a tilt of bias towards that party.  The rationale behind the insertion […]

Senaka Weeraratna The transition from a colony to political freedom was a peaceful one in Ceylon unlike in a  large majority of Asian countries. Independence was attained by Ceylon relatively painlessly as a by product of India’s Freedom Struggles that were assisted by Japan through its support to Netaji Subash Chandra Bose and his Indian […]

Shenali D Waduge Democratic principles are being questioned following the scurry to pass the 21st amendment, drafted by a caretaker Justice Minister and aspiring to pass powers from a directly elected President to a caretaker Prime Minister rejected by voters & undemocratically returning to parliament as a National List MP. All norms and ethics of parliamentary […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් රනිල් ‘මුදල් අගමැතිය’. ගිය පාර දුන්නේ පොඩි ගානක්ය. මෙදා පාර එක කුටුම්භයකට රුපියල් ලක්ෂය බැගින් දෙනවානම්   මරුය. මිලියන් 20 ට ම ලක්ෂය ගානේ දුන්නත් ඕනා ට්රිලියන 2 ය. අච්චු ගසා බෙදුවාම හරිය. ක්‍රෙඩිට් උනත් ප්‍රශ්නයක් නැත. ජනතාව ප්රීති ප්රමෝධයට පත් වී තව දෙතුන් පාරක්  මුදල් අගමැති ලෙස රඳවා ගන්නවාට සැකයක් නැත. ලෝකය පාලනය […]

High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi Following his meeting in mid-April, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda again met with the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister of India Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman to evaluate the status of ongoing cooperation and to discuss the way forward. High Commissioner Moragoda thanked Minister Sitharaman for the […]

Courtesy Outlook The IMF-Sri Lanka discussions focused on fiscal sustainability, monetary policy, exchange rate regimes, financial sector stability and structural reforms. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has assessed Sri Lanka’s public debt as “unsustainable” and has said it requires “sufficient assurance” from that Sri Lanka will restore debt sustainability during the debt restructuring process, according […]

Sandasen Marasinghe and Camelia Nathaniel Courtesy The Daily News A tense situation arose in Parliament yesterday when several SLPP MPs began to obstruct JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s speech during the debate on the recent violence in the country. Some Parliamentarians began calling Dissanayake a murderer and blaming him for the violence. In response, Dissanayake […]

Courtesy The Daily News India and Japan have agreed to work together on assisting crisis-hit Sri Lanka, the Japanese Government said, following a recent meeting between Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Fumio Kishida in Tokyo. Modi and Kishida met on May 24 on the sidelines of the Quad summit and held bilateral talks on close […]

Courtesy The Island President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, addressing the 27th International conference on ‘Future of Asia’, yesterday, called upon the international community to help Sri Lanka overcome its economic crisis. Addressing the virtual summit, the President said that it was no secret that the last several months had been extremely difficult for Sri Lanka. We are […]

Courtesy Adaderana The attorneys representing the wife of MP Wimal Weerawansa have filed an appeal challenging the two-year prison sentence handed down to their client earlier today. The appeal was lodged before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court, to be forwarded to the High Court. Taking up Weerawansa’s appeal, Colombo Additional Magistrate Harshana Kekunawala said it would […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva says a unanimous decision was taken at the all-party meeting to present the draft 21st constitutional amendment to the Cabinet of Ministers on the 6ht of June. A meeting of political party leaders, chaired by PM Ranil Wickremesinghe, was convened on Friday (May 27) to discuss the draft […]

Courtesy Hiru News Russia has received an appeal from Sri Lanka for help in overcoming the energy crisis in the country and Russia is now considering the next steps to provide assistance, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday according to foreign media. Last Thursday, Sri Lankan Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera told reporters that Colombo […]

Courtesy Hiru News Court issues an order preventing protesters from entering several roads including York Street, Bank Street, Chatham Street and also preventing them from forcibly entering or damaging state or official buildings in Fort Police Division on Saturday 28 May. The court documents state that it has been informed or a planned protest on […]

සුදත් ගුන්ණසේකර මහනුවර “මේ රට සින්හල බෞද්ධ රාජ්‍යයකි” යන මූලික සම්මුතිය ඇතුළු පහතසඳහන් ජාතික ප්‍රතිපත්ති පිළිගෙන ඒවා ක්‍රියාත්මක කරණ බවට මහනුවර ශ්‍රී දළදා මාලිගාවේදී ත්‍රයිනිකායික නායක හිමිවරුන් ප්‍රමුඛ සන්ඝ සභාවක් ඉදිරියේදී දිවුරා පොරොන්දු නොවන කිසිවෙකුට මේ රටේ කිසිදාක පාලන බලය නොදිය යුතුය”                                            1 කොටස එක්සත්, සව්භාග්‍යමත් ප්‍රබල ශ්‍රී ලාන්කික ජාතියක් ගොඩ නැගීම සඳහා මේ […]

Malinda Seneviratne There are certain rules of thumb with regard to constitutional reform. First, such exercises should never be predicated on political expediency. In other words, one’s allegiance or otherwise to the immediate beneficiary, beneficiaries or political party/coalition should not be a factor in offering support or objecting, respectively. Secondly, one’s allegiance or otherwise to […]

Peden Doma Bhutia, Courtesy Skift The Sri Lanka tourism chief’s resignation letter has enough warning signs for the country’s tourism industry. Now, if only someone is listening.-Peden Doma Bhutia Mired in its worst-ever economic crisis with debts totaling over $50 billion, Sri Lanka may have to wait for some time to fall back on tourism to […]

Manusha Media ජපන් භාෂ ප්‍රවීණතාවයක් නොමැති, පාසල් හැර ගිය ළමුන් දහසකට ඉදිරි මාස කිහිපය තුළ ජපානයේ රැකියා අවස්ථා ලබාදෙන ලෙසට කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා මෙරට  ජපාන තානාපති කාර්යාලයේ භාරකාර ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ තානාපති නිලධාරී Katsuki Kotara මහතාගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කළේය. මෙරට සිටින ජපාන තානාපති භාරකාර ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ තානාපති නිලධාරී Katsuki Kotara ඇතුළු ජපානයේ ඉහළ රාජ්‍ය […]

සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමය. ලේකම්,ස්වදේශ කටයුතු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය,නිල මැඳුර,නාරාහේන්පිට,කොළඹ – 05. ලේකම්තුමනි, ඉන්දීය සහනාධාර යටතේ ලබාදෙන අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය ආහාර ද්‍රව්‍ය අඩු ආදායම්ලාභීන් වෙත ලබාදීම. උක්ත උධෘතය යටතේ 2022/05/20 දින FC/09/03/05/India-Donation/Distri අංකය සහිත ආහාර කොමසාරිස්වරයා විසින් දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම්වරුන් වෙත යොමු කර ඇති ලිපිය හා බැඳේ. රටේ ආර්ථිකය බිඳවැටීමත් ආර්ථික අතින් බංකොලොත් වීමත් හේතුව මත ලාංකීය ජනතාව පත්ව […]

By Sun Haoran and Yin Yeping Courtesy Global Times Western ‘debt trap diplomacy’ narrative not the reality China Sri Lanka Photo:VCGEditor’s note:China and Sri Lanka have long maintained a close relationship of mutual support and understanding, regardless of how the international situation changes. In recent years, the two countries have seen steady development in bilateral […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today This article is based on our forefathers, excellent engineers and craftsmen, who possessed exceptional skills. How many of our present generation is conversant of the activities of Ceylon engineers in the bygone years who amazed the whole world. During the remarkable Parakramabahu reign, construction of the tallest […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka Police has developed an application to monitor vehicles at fuel stations, in an attempt to prevent cars from pumping more fuel than the quota issued. Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera revealed that the app was currently being tested in several fuel stations across the country, explaining that once the number plate […]