KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay gives a quick resume of the story of Sri Lanka‘s national anthem and then records the developments up to 2021 regarding the Tamil version. A ‘national anthem’ is a western invention of the 18th century. European countries acquired ‘national anthems’ during this period. The British national anthem simply asked God to […]

ආචාර්‍ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර (ශ්‍රී, ලන්.ප.සේ) අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ ලේකම් සහ මහනුවර සින්හල බෞද්ධ ජේෂ්ඨ පුරවැසියන්ගේ සන්විධානයේ සභාපති පළමුව මේ ලක් පොලවේ වසර 2500 කට වැඩි කළක් එහි ශිෂ්ඨාචාරය බිහිකොට ජීවත්වූ ජන්ම උරුමකරුවන් සහ භූමිපුත්‍රයින් වන සින්හලයින්ගේ 1815 සිට සුද්දන් විසින් උදුරාගත් බැවින් අහිමිවූ අයිතිවාසිකම් ලබා නොදී ඉන්දීය දෙමල මිනිසුන්ගේ පමණක් තත්වය නගා සිටුවීම ජාතිද්‍රෝහී […]

තිසර සමල් සෝමරත්න – අනුරාධපුර  විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතාගේ සංකල්පයක්  මත ක්‍රියාත්මක කෙරෙන සක්වල වැඩසටහන යටතේ 50 වැනි බස් රථය තඔුත්තේගම මධ්‍ය විද්‍යාලය සඳහා ප්‍රධානය කිරීම අද (27) පෙරවරුවේ සිදු කෙරිණි. තඹුත්තේගම  නගරයට පැමිණි විපක්ෂ නායකතුමන් තඹුත්තේගම ආර්ථික මධ්‍යස්ථානය අසල සිට පාසල් ළමුන් පිරිසක්ද නංවාගෙන නව  බස් රථය පඳවාගෙන මඟ දෙපස සිටි ජනතාට ආචාර සමාචාර […]

Samina Akhter Dhaka, Bangladesh According to the Government-to-Government pact between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Myanmar has conveyed over 150,000 tonnes of white rice to Bangladesh, according to the Ministry of Commerce.Myanmar and Bangladesh inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on rice trade on 8 September this year.According to this MoU, Bangladesh has agreed to buy 250,000 […]

Ishtiak Fardin The Bengali saying “fish and rice” is true in its true sense, Bengalis have a long relationship with fish and rice. Bengalis have been eating fish since ancient times. The reason for the close relationship between rice and fish is that rice is the staple food of Bengalis and fish is a favorite […]

සමන් ගමගේ Lanka Lead News අති පූජ්‍ය මහානායක නාහිමිවරුන් ඇතුළු මේ රටේ ධර්මධර, විනයධර සුපේෂල, ශික්‍ෂාකාමී සියලු නාහිමිවරුන්ගෙන් පළමුව අපි සමාව අයදින්නෙමු. ඒ මෙවැනි සටහනක් තබන්නට සිදුව තිබීම හමුවේය. කිසිසේත්ම මෙය මඟහැර යා නොහැකි කටයුත්තකි. උතුම් බුදු දහමේ චිරස්ථිතිය උදෙසා මෙය සිදු කළ යුතුවම තිබෙන්නකි. එනිසා අපි ඒ යුතුකම ඉටු කරන්නෙමු. හෝමාගම පිහිටි බෞද්ධ හා […]

නුවන් මොණරවිළ Lanka Lead News ජෝන්,ඩොයිලි ඉතිහාසය තුළ බලවත් වුයේ අපේ අසමගිය නිසාය. එදාද අපි ඔවුන් විශ්වාස කිරීමේ අවසන් ප්‍රතිපලය වුයේ ස්වෛරී රාජ්‍යය අපට අහිමි වීමය. අද ජෝන්,ඩොයිලිගේ භූමිකාව ඉටු කරන්නේ එරික් සෝල්හම්ය. එදා වගේම අදත් එරික් සෝල්හයිම්, පාවිච්චි කරන්නේ සිංහලයාගේ අසමගියයි. (මම මෙතැන සිංහලයා ලෙස ගන්නේ මොන පක්ෂ වලින් බැලුවත් බහුතරය සිංහල දේශපාලකයන් වැඩි […]

Courtesy The Morning The Hambantota International Port (HIP) is supporting Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) to handle running repairs to vessels while they remain afloat in the harbour. The majority of vessels directed to HIP for afloat repairs come with damages experienced below the water line. CDPLC carries out permanent repairs on these ships with service […]

Courtesy Gulf Times When Sri Lanka slid into its worst economic crisis in seven decades leading to deadly riots and alarming shortages of fuel, food and medicines earlier this year, its giant northern neighbour stepped into the breach. When Sri Lanka slid into its worst economic crisis in seven decades leading to deadly riots and […]

By Dr Laksiri Fernando Courtesy The Island One mistake we normally make in analysing the situation or crisis in Sri Lanka is to do it in isolation. Sri Lanka is unfortunately only a part of a world system. Although this situation is valid to almost all other countries, smaller or weaker a country, larger are […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island 21-A prerequisite for IMF loan: Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, owed an explanation as regards his claim that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had demanded the enactment of 21 Amendment to the Constitution as a prerequisite for the finalisation of USD 2.9 bn Extended Fund Facility Arrangement (EFFA) with […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The international tender to purchase coal was awarded to an Indonesian company called ‘Arista Mitra’, the Lanka Coal Company (LCC) announced today (27). This announcement comes after the Cabinet cancelled the tender that was initially awarded to United Arab Emirates-based Black Sand Commodities FZ-LLC due to a legal case filed over […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A program will be implemented to provide solar panels to all low-income religious places through the Indian Credit Line within three months to provide at least a 5 KW solar system free of charge.  Addressing the media, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said the majority of religious places use less […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) is to charge a fine from the owners of unutilised land within the Colombo City. This was one of the major proposals of the CMC budget which was approved recently. As per the budget the expected revenue for the year 2023 through this exercise is Rs. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will distribute 36,000 metric tonnes of Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) fertilizer to all paddy farmers in Sri Lanka through the Ministry of Agriculture. The amount of TSP provided per farmer will be […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Tourism Harin Fernando states that 701,331 tourists visited Sri Lanka between January 2022 and December 26, 2022. The minister pointed out that the government expects tourist arrivals to hit 720,000 in total by the end of 2022. The number of tourist arrivals in the year 2021 stood at 194,495. According to […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left for the United States of America (USA) along with his family. According to officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport, Rajapaksa and his family left for the US via Dubai this morning. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had been accompanied by his wife Ayoma Rajapaksa, his son Manor Rajapaksa, his […]

Sudath Gunasekara  Posted on May 31st, 2017

Sufian Siddique Dhaka Numerous western governments and west-funded NGOs produce reports on human rights conditions in countries all around the world. These reports typically share three characteristics: they identify developing nations as major human rights violators; present developed ones as the global defenders of those rights; and include nations that are strategic competitors or perceived as […]

Kamal Uddin Mazumder Researcher and Strategic affairs analyst.Dhaka, Bangladesh After the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, foreign diplomats’ noses in the country’s politics became shamefully public for the first time. What should the government do, how to do it – these instructions keep coming from abroad. With the evolution […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ආයෝජන ආකර්ශනය, අපනයන හා සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කෙරෙන නව්‍ය රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රිකභාවයක වැදගත්කම අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා අවධාරණය කරයි….. සාම්ප්‍රදායික රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික ක්‍රමය  වෙනුවට  ආර්ථික රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රිකභාවයට ලොව ප්‍රමුඛතාවය හිමිව ඇතැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැවසීය. නව ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපතිවරුන් හා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අතර අද (දෙසැ 26) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවැති විශේෂ සාකච්චාවකදී ඒ මහතා […]

MIKE WHITNEY  Courtesy The Unz Review The war in Ukraine is not a Call of Duty fantasy. It is an enlargement of the human tragedy that NATO’s eastward expansion created. The victims do not live in North America. They live in a region that most Americans can’t find on a map. Washington urged the Ukrainians […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ පිරිමින්ගේ ආර්ය සිංහල ඇඳුම තුරන් වී යාම සහ ‘කාන්තාවන්ගේ සාරිය ගැලවීමේ’ දැඩි උවමනාව අනාදිමත් කාලයක සිට මේ රටේ සිංහල ජනයා වැදගත් අවස්ථාවකට  ඇන්දේ ආර්ය සිංහල ඇඳුම සහ සාරියයි.  එනම් පිරිමින් ජාතික ඇඳුමද ස්ත්‍රීන් සාරියද ඇන්දහ. උඩරට කතුන් ඔසරිය ඇන්දහ. නිවසේදී,  පිරිමියා සරමද, කාන්තාව සාරියද ඇන්දහ. විවිධ කාලීන හේතු සහ ප්‍රායෝගික අවශ්‍යතා නිසා අද […]

by Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island The consensus at the recently concluded meeting of the Sri Lankan Party Leaders, chaired by the President, was for the Full Implementation of 13A” (the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka). However, none of the Party Leaders spelt out what precisely was meant by the phrase Full […]

By P. K. Balachandran courtesy  Eurasia Review High production costs, poor practices and low labor productivity call for a paradigm shift in the management system  Sri Lanka’s tea industry is in crisis. The cost of production of the brew that cheers” is higher and labor productivity is lower in Sri Lanka as compared to other tea-producing […]

Courtesy Mainichi Japan NAGOYA — The Nagoya District Public Prosecutors Office’s decision not to indict 13 officials at a regional immigration bureau, including the bureau chief, over the death of a Sri Lankan woman was unjust, a citizens’ panel reviewing prosecutors’ judgments here announced on Dec. 26. In response to the Nagoya No. 1 Committee […]

Courtesy Adaderana The fuel consumption in Sri Lanka has plunged by 50 per cent in the last months of 2022, compared to the first few months of the year, the state-owned fuel distributor Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) said on Monday. The company said daily fuel consumption averaged 5,500 tonnes between December 2021 and February 2022 […]

Courtesy Hiru News Russian carrier, Red Wings will start charter flight operations to the Mattala International Airport twice a week, with effect from December 28, 2022

Amanda Yee Courtesy Liberation News U.S. politicians and corporate media often promote the narrative that China lures developing countries into predatory, high-interest loans to build infrastructure projects as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. As the story goes, China anticipates that the borrowing country will default on that loan, so that it can then […]

Sugath Kulatunga The Sinhalese nation has made a series of political and strategic lapses which have influenced the fate of this nation throughout history. This note is to roughly indicate them, and hope historians fill up the details. For strategic reasons valid at the time, all our capitals other than Kotte, were located away from […]