Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s Tamils are dreaming if they think India will help create Tamil Eelam with 13A land & police powers. It is time that Sri Lanka’s Tamils wake up to reality. At the time of India’s independence, Tamil Nadu sought self-determination, Indian leaders refused, subsequently even Bangladesh was given independence but not Tamil […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Two stalwarts of the JVP-led National People’s Power (NPP) alliance, Dr Harini Amarasuriya MP and Mr Tilvin Silva, JVP General Secretary, as reported in the media early February 2023, have made more or less clear the alliance’s stand on the full implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution (suggested by […]

By Dr Tilak S Fernando After Harin Fernando, Minister of Tourism and Lands took over the portfolio, he appointed a new team to improve tourism. The new team’s efforts have paid off. Sri Lanka Tourism Board is confident that the estimated 1.55 million tourists will arrive in Sri Lanka, adding an income of 2.8 billion […]

Shenali D Waduge It is important to understand that terrorism was only part of the problem. The bigger problem is the issue of attempts to separate Sri Lanka, a quest started by ITAK from 1949 onwards. ITAK or Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi translated meant Tamil State party but camouflaged quest as federal. Its aims & […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි කාලෙකට පෙර මෙරට ජනතාව හදුනාගෙන සිටි ප්‍රථම ඝනයේ ජාතික සතුරා රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහයන් විය. ඔහුගෙන් රට බේරා ගැනීම සඳහා මෙරට දේශප්‍රේමී ජනතාව මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂයන්ව බලයට පත්කළහ. ඒ වර්ෂ 2005දිය. බලය ලබාගත් මහින්ද මෙරට තිබුන බලවත්ම ගැටලුව වූ ප්‍රභාකරන්ගේ සන්නද්ධ ව්‍යාපාරය විනාශ කොට උතුර හා දකුණ ඒකාබද්ධ කොට නව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවක් ගොඩනංවන ලදී. රනිල් […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum Solicitor in England and Wales NHS in the United Kingdom- a wonderful system NHS is the health system in the United Kingdom provided free to the citizens with a network of General Physicians to every citizen with a support staff, including the improvement […]

acTVism Munich In this episode of The Source, we talk with Professor Emeritus of Economics (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff, about the economic impact of the Ukraine war. We assess the impact of Western sanctions on Russia as well as how the war has affected the West economically. Interview […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව  සඳහන් කළේ 2023.02.08 දින  කොළඹ ටාජ් සමුද්‍රා හෝටලයේ දී ඉන්දියානු අලෙවි නියෝජිතවරුන් පන්සියය පනස්  දෙනෙකුගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් පැවැති tata steel සහ tata tiscon ගනුදෙනුකරුවන්ගේ වාර්ෂික සමුළුවේ සමාරම්භක අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමිනි. ඉන්දියානු සාගරය හරහා වැටී ඇති ගෝලීය මුහුදු වෙළෙඳ මාර්ග ඔස්සේ යුරෝපය උතුරු ඇමරිකාව සහ අග්නිදිග ආසියාව වෙත බොරතෙල් මෙන්ම වෙළඳ භාණ්ඩ ප්‍රවාහනය […]

High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi Sri Lanka and New Zealand explored ways and means to further strengthen and deepen cooperation between the two countries. The discussions took place when Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in New Delhi Milinda Moragoda met with the Foreign Minister of New Zealand Nanaia Mahuta who is on an official […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය භූතානයේ අධ්‍යාපන හා නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍ය ජායි බීර් රායි මහතා 2023.02.07 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවී ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සබඳතා, ආයෝජන හැකියාව සහ කලාපීය ගැටලු පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කළේය. දෙරට අතර ඓතිහාසික ආගමික සහ සංස්කෘතික සබඳතා ගැන සඳහන් කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා වෙළෙඳ, ආයෝජන සහ සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරය වැඩිදියුණු කිරීමේ අවශ්‍යතාව අවධාරණය කළේය. ප්‍රමුඛ පෙළේ […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A circular has been issued by the Inland Revenue Department exempting employees from paying PAYE tax on non-cash benefits such as for vehicles, fuel allowances, housing and medical benefits which have been provided to employees at their places of employment. This circular has been issued by the Commissioner General of Inland […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today President Ranil Wickremesinghe said an Anti-Corruption Bill will be introduced and the Government is taking steps to include the ‘Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative (StAR)’ in this Bill, together with the World Bank and the United Nations. The strategy of the government should be to guide the private sector in business activities, while […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today President Ranil Wickremesinghe said new laws will be introduced for the implementation of powers of the Provincial Councils in the fields of education and health. It is alleged that due to certain practices of the Central Government, the powers of the Provincial Councils have been reduced in the fields of education and […]

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම 9 වන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සිව්වන සභා වාරය මීට සුළු මොහොතකට පෙර උත්සවාකාරයෙන් ආරම්භ විය. ඒ, ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙනි. 9 වන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ තුන්වන සභා වාරය අවසන් කරමින් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අතිවිශේෂ ගැසට් නිවේදනය නිකුත් කළේ ඉකුත් ජනවාරි 27 වන දා ය. ඒ අනුව, මේ වන විට ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්‍රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශය ඉදිරිපත් කරනු […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe, delivering the government’s policy statement in parliament today, said he is ready to make politically unpopular decisions, such as introducing new tax policies, to put the country back on track. I am not here to be popular. I am ready to make unpopular decisions for the sake of the country. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Several teams of military personnel have been deployed within the Colombo Fort area, to help control the prevailing situation in the wake of various groups taking to the streets this morning (08 Feb.) to stage protest marches and rallies. A number of protests kicked off this morning, with different groups, including trade union activists, […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policy, has instructed the Treasury Secretary to provide provisions only for essential government services.  The directive was issued in an attempt to maintain public services until the state revenue situation improves.  Accordingly, the list of expenditure to be […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General (AG) has informed the Court of Appeal that the Cabinet of Ministers has decided not to implement the recommendations of the Political Victimisation Commission, which was chaired by former Justice Upali Abeyratne. AG Sanjay Rajaratnam had informed the court of this, when the petitions filed by a group of individuals […]