Dr. .Sudath Gunasekara  In my school carrier from Kindergarten (1945)-to University Entrance 1958) I had always been the first in all classes,  except twice that is 1950 at Udispattuwa Junior School econd term, after my mother’s untimely death and 1955 first term after I change college to Galahitiyawa Central from  Teldeniya Senior. But even in […]

Gamini Sarath Godakanda Jennifer Smith, Justice of the Peace and retired London solicitor who has had a long association with Sri Lanka, presented a set of watercolours by the Irish artist, Andrew Nicoll (1804-86) to the Pathfinder Collection. The paintings were recently handed over to Milinda Moragoda, Founder of MMBL-Pathfinder.The Pathfinder Collection was established in […]

Mehjabin Bhanu – a Bangladeshi teacher, columnist and writer. In recent times, the USA is very interested in further strengthening bilateral relations. Bangladesh also intends to deepen and enhance its ties with the US. Analysts say that the US wants a holistic relationship with Bangladesh beyond bilateral ties. US President Joe Biden expressed optimism about […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර දිවයිනේ ප්‍රසිද්ධ දේශීය රූපලාවන්‍යය නිෂ්පාදන ආයතනයක් වන ඒ.බී.සී හර්බල්ස් නිෂ්පාදන ආයතනයේ 6 වැනි සංවත්සර සැමරුම හිටපු අමාත්‍යය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ ජාතික සංවිධායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (07) පැවැත්විණි. අනුරාධපුර හෙරිටේජ් හෝටල් පරිශ්‍රයේදී මෙම සංවත්සර සැමරුම පැවැත්විණි. ඒ.බී.සී හර්බල්ස් යනු රූපලාවන්‍යය නිෂ්පාදන රැසක් වෙළඳපලට නිකුත් කරන ප්‍රසිද්ධ අනුරාධපුරයේ නිෂ්පාදන ආයතනයකි.එම ආයතනය මීට වසර 06 […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka The United States of America (USA) is popularly known as the ‘Champion of Democracy and Human Rights’. But since the last two decades, in its journey towards a multicultural society, the USA is facing a lot of human rights issues domestically such as hate crimes, structural racism, […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර “නිදහසින් පසු අපේ රට මුහුණ දී ඇති දැවැන්තම අර්බුදකාරි තත්වය යටතේ දී වුවත්, මෙරට පොදු ප්‍රවාහන ක්ෂේත්‍රය නඟාසිටුවීමට ඉන්දීය රජයෙන් ලැබෙන සහයෝගය ඉතාමත් ප්‍රශංසනීයයි.”යැයි ප්‍රවාහන මහාමාර්ග හා ජනමාධ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැවසීය. අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ උතුරු දුම්රිය මාර්ගයේ මහව සිට ඕමන්ත දක්වා කොටසේ ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ කටයුතු ආරම්භ කිරීම […]

Lanka Lead News කැනඩාවේ හිටපු ශ්‍රී ලංකා නියෝජ්‍ය මහකොමසාරිස් අශෝක වීරසිංහ මහතා හෙළිකරන්නේ 1997 ජනවාරි 31 දා සිදුවූ කොටුවේ මහ බැංකු බෝම්බ පිපිරීම සඳහා ටී. එන්. ටී. පුපුරණ ද්‍රව්‍ය ටොන් 50 ක් සහ ආර් ඩී එක්ස් පුපුරණ ද්‍රව්‍ය ටොන් 10 ක් මිලයට ගෙන ඇත්තේ යුක්රේනයේ රුබේයෝන් රසායන කම්හලෙන් බව ය. කොටුව බෝම්බ පිපිරීමෙන් සියයකට අධික […]

e-Con e-News Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace & prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? – George Washington, Farewell Address, 17 September 1796 Under no circumstances, from here to eternity, will we ever let any critical sphere of our country or our people’s lives depend […]

Courtesy NDTV As part of its ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy, India has extended multi-pronged assistance to Sri Lanka. Colombo:  India has handed 75 passenger buses to Sri Lanka as part of its assistance towards strengthening public transport infrastructure in the cash-strapped country. As part of its ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy, India has extended multi-pronged assistance to Sri […]

By Sam Cabral Courtesy BBC News, Colombo Long gone are the throngs of protesters who occupied an area around the president’s office for months during Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since independence. Instead a slew of carollers sang to the public from across the heavily-guarded fences of the Presidential Secretariat. Next to the building rose […]

Author: Dushni Weerakoon Courtesy EastAsiaForum In 2022 Sri Lanka faced its deepest ever economic and political crisis. The country’s descent into chaos accelerated from March, sweeping away high-level bureaucrats and political leaders held culpable for implementing the misguided economic policies at the heart of the country’s problems. The political casualties failed to allay public disaffection […]

Courtesy Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s bondholders aren’t living up to their obligations and should cancel debt to allow the country to get out of its economic crisis, a group of international academics said in a letter. Private creditors own almost 40% of the country’s external debt, mostly in the form of International Sovereign Bonds, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says that strong, independent institutions are the foundation for sustainable, inclusive and steady growth for a long period. Speaking during a panel discussion on the topic ‘South Asia’s path to resilient growth’ organised by the International Monetary fund (IMF), Dr. Weerasinghe said that Sri Lanka has moved […]

Courtesy Hiru News Measures are underway to introduce a law similar to the Social Media Regulation Act of Singapore to regulate social media, such as YouTube and Facebook, in Sri Lanka, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday (06). According to Hiru News, President Wickremesinghe pointed out that Sri Lanka has laws pertaining to newspaper and […]