By Garvin Karunaratne I first wrote on wind power when in india I had to face power cuts. Then Sri lanka never had power cuts. We spent funds found on loans to buy coal and oil to provide electricity. My working in the hills of  Nuwara Eliya, kandy and Sabaragamuwa tell me that we can […]

By Krishan Dutta Courtsy indepthnews.net Photo: Opening session of the WFB Conference. Credit: A conference participant. Manipulations at ‘World Fellowship of Buddhists’ Conference Buddhism Is Losing Its Voice in Asia By Krishan Dutta BANGKOK (IDN) — The theme of this year’s 30th General Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) was Buddhism in the […]

BY NURY VITTACHI Courtesy Fridayeveryday.com A VISITING HONG KONG scientist has just won the Nobel prize for experimentally proving that the real world… isn’t real. Wait, what? The world isn’t real? Correct. And even though the physical world is not real, it has nonetheless given scientist Alain Aspect the Nobel Prize for Physics, along with […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit නව්‍ය කෘෂිකාර්මික දැනුම, තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණය, පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්තිය, ප්‍රවාහනය සහ සංචාරක  යන ක්ෂේත්‍ර  සඳහා  නෙදර්තන්තය වැනි රටවල ආයෝජන   වර්තමානයේ දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට වඩා වැදගත් වනු ඇතැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි.  2022.10.27 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී නව නෙදර්ලන්ත තානාපති ( Bonnie Horbach) බොනී හෝර්බච් මහත්මිය හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී  අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය.  යටිතල […]

Samina Akhter An accomplishment for a nation is always winning an election in a global setting. The goal becomes greater significance when membership is granted by secret ballot to a respected international rights body like the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Bangladesh just won a record 160 votes in the Asia-Pacific area, defeating other […]

By Dr Indrajith P Hathurusingha Lecturer Department of Applied and Environmental Science CRTAFE, Geraldton Campus, Western Australia As we know, the entire country is in chaos with food insecurity and associated problems. People often seem to claim that their income is insufficient to manage their day-to-day expenses. Therefore, malnutrition, food of poor quality, and starvation […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror (BBC); Pope Francis has warned priests and nuns about the dangers of watching pornography online, saying it “weakens the priestly heart”. The Pope, 86, was responding to a question about how digital and social media should be best used, at a session in the Vatican. Pornography, he said, was “a vice that […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has launched an investigation into a new financial fraud which so far has involved Rs.14 billion with 8,000 people being victims in a fake crypto currency scheme. Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said that the alleged fraud was carried out by a Chinese couple and a […]

Courtesy Adaderana The police today (Oct. 27) shed light on a massive financial fraud committed through a fake cryptocurrency investment scheme. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had initiated probes after receiving a complaint about the scam, according to Police spokesperson SSP Nihal Thalduwa. According to him, one Sri Lankan named Keerthi Bandara was arrested in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), in its annual financial report, has outlined a fund of USD 100 million for crisis-hit Sri Lanka. The bank also pledged support for countries facing serious debt problems. In addition, the AIIB is expected to announce a major support package for Pakistan at the upcoming COP summit […]

Courtesy Adaderana Twelve complaints have been received so far against businesswoman Thilini Priyamali for allegedly defrauding over Rs. 1.28 billion, according to Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa. Thilini Priyamali, the owner of Thico Group of Companies (Pvt.) Ltd., was arrested and remanded on October 06 over alleged multi-billion rupee fraud by swindling businesspersons and VIPs. […]

Courtesy Adaderana A consignment of medicines worth over Rs. 100 million donated by Ven. Nepalaye Maitri Thero, the founding President of the International Buddhist Society of Nepal in Lumbini was officially handed over to Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and President’s Chief of Staff Sagala Ratnayake, at the Presidential Secretariat, this morning […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government has decided to facilitate working capital loans up to Rs. 10 million for small- and medium-scale entrepreneurs from 08 state-owned and private banks, the Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilization & National Policies says. These entrepreneurs can obtain working capital loans on 11% – 12% interest with a grace period of 06 […]

Lanka Lead News කොරෝනා එන්නත් පිළිබදව යුරෝපා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මන්ත්‍රී නෙදර්ලන්ත ජාතික රොබට් රූස් ආන්දෝලනාත්මක හෙළිදරව්වක් සිදු කර තිබේ. ඔහු යුරෝපා පාර්ලිමෙන්තුවේ දී කොරෝනා සම්බන්ධ තොරතුරු විමර්ශනයක් සිදු කර ඇති අතර, එහිදී ෆයිසර් සමාගමේ අධ්‍යක්ෂිකාවක් නිල වශයෙන් පිළිගෙන තිබුණේ කොරෝනා එන්නත් ජනතාවට ලබාදෙන්නට පටන්ගත්විට පවා එම එන්නතෙන් කොරෝනා ව්‍යාප්තිය වළකන බවට කිසිදු පරීක්ෂණයක් සිදු නොකළ බවයි. […]