By Garvin Karunaratne, former G.A.Matara As a school boy at St Peter’s College I was always dragged by my father to mount and set up a public address system at one of the LSSP meetings. He owned Radio Works Bambalapitiya and held a contract with the LSSP to supply public address systems at election meetings […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Food Security means that all people always have physical & economic access to adequate amounts of nutritious, safe, and culturally appropriate foods, which are produced in an environmentally sustainable and socially just manner, and that people are able to make informed decisions about their food choices (https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-01-09/what-is-food-security/). The FAO defines the four […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I took over the post of the chairman of the Ports Authority with a genuine intention of initiating action to develop Galle port as a tourist destination by developing a marina A steel gas barge berthed over  15 years occupying 100 m length of Closenburh Pier was cleared by courts during this […]

Empire Files Abby’s speech at the People’s Summit for Democracy, the progressive counter to Biden’s imperialist ‘Summit of the Americas’ on June 9 2022

Monetary Institute The Monetary Institute’s “Our Money, Our Banks, Our Country – Money Creation in the Modern Economy” conference was held in Zurich, Switzerland on February 5, 2018. Professor Richard Werner, Chair in International Banking, University of Southampton, England provided this overview of how money is created in nations throughout the world and the impacts […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය යෝජිත විදේශ ආයෝජන ව්‍යාපෘති සඳහා අවශ්‍ය අනුමැතිය කඩිනමින් ලබාදීමට නව ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ හඳුන්වා දෙන බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. කැනේඩියානු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී රේචල් තෝමස් මහත්මිය ප්‍රධාන ප්‍රමුඛ ව්‍යවසායකයින් පිරිසක් 2022.11.03 දින කොළඹ, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. විදේශ ආයෝජන සඳහා ඉදිරිපත්වන යෝජනා කඩිනමින් අනුමත කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය සංශෝධන ක්‍රියාත්මක […]

Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Bangkok At the Second handing over Ceremony held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai symbolically handed over cash donation of 14,000,000 Thai Baht (SLRS 135,398,986 ) from Royal Thai Government to Sri Lanka Ambassador and Permanent […]

රවී කුමුදේශ් සභාපති  සෞඛ්‍ය වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ විද්වත් සංගමය PCR පරීක්ෂාවෙන් සොයාගත් මන්කිෆොක්ස් රෝගියාගේ නිදර්ශක, ජාන අනුක්‍රමික විශ්ලේෂණයක් මගින් වහා තහවුරු කර ගත යුතුයි. නව රෝගයක් සදහා සිදු කරනු ලබන PCR පරීක්ෂණ වල නිරවද්‍යතවය විචලනය විය හැකි නිසාත්, ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුල භාවිත කරණු ලබන පරීක්ෂණ කට්ටල තොගයට පසු පරීක්ෂණ කට්ටටල වල විශාල දියුණු කිරීම් සිදු වූ නිසාත්, රටට […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Jaffna-based BBC correspondent’s killing: A Sri Lankan arrested in the UK in February this year in connection with the killing of Mylvaganam Nimalarajan, who contributed to the BBC’s Tamil and Sinhala services, is under investigation, though released from custody there.Jack Griffith of Metropolitan Police Service’s Directorate of Media and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe will appoint a few more Cabinet ministers during the budget period, a top source said. The president can increase the size of the Cabinet to 30 according to the Constitution. Earlier, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) requested the president to swear in the remaining number of ministers to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Navy today (Nov. 05) intercepted two Indian trawlers with 15 Indian fishermen poaching in the Sri Lanka waters. The interception was made during an operation mounted in the sea areas north of Talaimannar. The operation was conducted by the North Central Naval Command this evening, having spotted a cluster of Indian […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, together with the Iranian Red Crescent, donated an urgently required consignment of essential medicines and other medical supplies to Sri Lanka at a ceremony held at the Red Crescent Office in Tehran on November 03. The total value of the medicine consignment is over SLR […]

Courtesy Adaderana China will allow greater market access and share opportunities with all countries, President Xi Jinping said on Friday, following a sharp slowdown of external trade and ongoing tensions with major economies. In an address via video to open the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, Xi called on the world to commit to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has received another 500 metric tonnes (50,000 packs) of rice donated by China. The rice consignment was handed over to Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Education on Friday (Nov. 04). The Chinese Embassy in Colombo stated that this batch would be distributed to needy students in the Eastern Province. Including the delivery […]

Courtesy Hiru News Hotline 1905 was introduced for the Public to lodge complaints in all three languages against bribery and corruption activities of government officials by the Ministry of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils, and Local Government.

Courtesy Hru News Sri Lanka’s gross official reserves were at USD 1.8 billion at the end of September including the China Central Bank exchange facility. The aggregate value of gross official reserves and foreign reserves of the banking sector is USD 6 billion.

Courtesy Hiru News Earnings from tourism for January -October 2022 surpass the USD1 billion mark with the USD 75.6 million earnings of October 2022.