An Indepenedent Observer The country is at a critical juncture not because of economic woes but because of the lack of a suitable leader for the majority, the Sinhala Buddhists. Elections did come and go in the past but there was then always the case of choosing a SLFP or an UNP government. SLPP has been […]

Dilrook Kannangara A social media activist has lost his bearings and ventured into the territory of hate speech. Calling politically active Buddhist monks by insulting names is fair game as they have entered the political fray. However, religious symbols are beyond political insults. Associating a religious symbol with a sexual object is an offence and […]

India In Details Did the British ‘civilize’ India? Tucker Carlson (Fox News host) talks about the British leaving behind ‘an entire civilization’ in India, and how according to him, Indians, till today, haven’t been able to build even a single building as beautiful as the Bombay train station. Karolina Goswami responds. ============= Please consider supporting […]

Lex Fridman Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist.

  අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ඉන්දියන් සාගර කලාපයේ සමුද්‍ර ආරක්‍ෂාව ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදෙන සහාය පිළිබඳව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාව වෙත ස්තූතිය පළ කළේය.  ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් පෝල් ස්ටීවන්ස් මහතා 2023.01.04 දින අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී එතුමා මේ බව  සඳහන් කළේය.  එහිදී, ධීවර ක්‍ෂේත්‍රයට අදාළ සන්නිවේදන ජාල ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා ධීවර යාත්‍රාවලට […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife Ayoma Rajapaksa arrived at Bandaranaike International Airport from Dubai this morning, the Airport Duty manager and the spokesperson of the Airport Immigration Department confirmed. They had arrived on an Emirates flight EK-650 from Dubai. 

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sepal Amarasinghe was arrested by a special CID team at Bellanwila for his statement on the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Police said. President Ranil Wickremesinghe had instructed the IGP to initiate immediate investigation into the fake Dalada Maligawa.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the IGP to initiate an immediate and comprehensive investigation regarding the construction of a fake Dalada Maligawa in Pothuhera, Kurunegala. The instruction was given after the Ven. Mahanayaka Theras had reported it to the President, Presidential Media Division said.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today ordered the CID to expeditiously obtain relevant documents pertaining to State Minister Diana Gamage’s alleged citizenship issue from the British High Commission in order to carry out a comprehensive investigation. Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis observed that it would not be appropriate to issue orders […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A Gazette Notification has been issued restricting the import of gold above 22 carats as jewellery, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said. He said in a twitter post that the decision was taken to prevent gold smuggling.