Shenali D Waduge Israeli campaign in Germany blocks award to Navi Pillay” by Barbara Crossette is of particular interest to Sri Lanka for several reasons. It shows how powerful nations like Israel can exert diplomatic power & remove an award, while it also highlights how less powerful nations like Sri Lanka face the brunt of […]

Dr.Sudath Gunasekara. Mahanuwara  I read the following news item in Newswire September 23, 2022 at 10:59 Leaders of the political parties representing the Ninth Parliament have proposed the names of their party representatives to the newly formed National Council. Addressing the Parliament today, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced the names of those appointed to serve […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya o       Digitalization of all possible activities, o        Create a unique number at birth for all citizens, and it should be their o   National Identity Card, o   Tax Reporting & o   Social security numbers, o        Embrace the Open Market economy, o       Set up a Task Force to educate the masses about the […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ ජනතාවට අවශ්‍ය වන්නේ චක්‍රලේඛ මත ක්‍රියාත්මක සැලසුම් වලට වඩා ප්‍රායෝගික විසඳුම් බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කළේ 2022 ඔක්තෝබර් 05 දින පළාත් පාලනය පිළිබඳ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආයතනය සංවිධානය කල පළාත් පාලනය සහ නායකත්වය පිළිබඳ ගෝලීය අභියෝග පිළිබඳ ප්‍රථම ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණයේදීය. ජනතාවට අවශ්‍යව ඇත්තේ සංකීර්ණ සැලසුම් නොව ක්ෂණිකව ප්‍රතිලාභ […]

Vikalpa    සිරෛයිල් ඉරුන්දු සිංගල සහෝදරනක්කු, දෙමළ බසින් පළවී ඇති කවි පොතේ සිංහල තේරුම කියන්න ට ඇය උත්සහ ගත්තාය. ‘හිරගෙයි සිට සිංහල සහෝදරයන්ට’. ‘මේක ලිව්වේ මගේ පුතා හිරගෙදර ඉන්නකොට, 2017 දී…’ මෙසේ කියන්නේ කිලිනොච්චියේ පදිංචි සෙල්ලයියා පවලවල්ලි අම්මා, අගේ පුතා 2017 හිරගෙදර සිට රචනා කළ කවි පොත ද අතැතිවය. අගේ පුතා වන සදීෂ් කුමාර් වසර […]

Mekong Tourism Forum  Ahead of the Mekong Tourism Forum in Quang Nam, Central Viet Nam, 12-13 October, Mr Doan Van Viet, Viet Nam’s Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, outlines the vision and latest tourism priorities for his country   Deputy Minister Outlines Viet Nam’s Tourism Priorities   Ahead of the Mekong Tourism Forum […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror SJB MP Kabir Hashim was unanimously appointed as the Chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts a short while ago, Communications Department of Parliament said. (Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera)

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The US Embassy in Colombo announced that the 2024 Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery Program, popularly known as the ‘Green Card Lottery’, will be accepting online applications starting tonight. According to the US Embassy in Colombo, the DV2024 Diversity Visa Program (http://dvprogram.state.gov) is the only way to enter, and all processing is […]

Courtesy Adaderana Tourists Fuel Pass was introduced this evening allowing foreign tourists coming to Sri Lanka to be able to get fuel according to their needs, outside the QR Code system.  Tourists can obtain their fuel needs from 300 Ceypetco and LIOC fuel stations islandwide, according to Tourism Minister Harin Fernando. According to the invitation […]

Courtesy Adaderana Medical supplies worth over USD 2.74 million have been donated by HOPE Worldwide, a leading international humanitarian organization in the United States, to provide immediate relief to Sri Lankans. This is in collaboration with the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington DC. This brings the total medical assistance to Sri Lanka from American […]

Daya Gamage/USA Dear Friends, ජිනීවාවල මොකද වෙන්නේ? -විදේශ ඇමති පැහැදිලි කරයි GO TO INFOLANKA AND LISTEN TO THIS 90-MINUTE MEDIA CONFERENCE IN GENEVA – I know you are very much interested, so, have patience and listen to this. Socrates once said: The only wisdom is in knowing you know nothing”. What does Socrates mean when […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ahead of the vote on the new UN resolution on Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry says it is difficult to compete with powerful nations in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). However, whatever the vote result Sri Lanka will stand firm against the new UNHRC resolution, he said speaking to the media […]