Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The economic proxy war between the rising and fading Superpowers is escalating and expanding. This was apparent in an (un)diplomatic exchange between Chinese and United States officials over the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) debt restructuring delays in Sri Lanka which was the venue of the recent CARAT/MAREX war games. These happened in the […]

Chris Hedges Fan Club John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation. Mearsheimer was born in December […]

By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers The recent bluff by the old snake gourd/bitter gourd Nedumaran is keeping the media on their toes busy. Every media unheard of is trying to depict everything about LTTE and Prabakaran which cannot […]

Malinda Seneviratne අසූව දශකයේ ඉංග්‍රීසි රොක් සංගීත ක්ෂේත්‍රය වර්ණවත් කල එක් සංගීත කණ්ඩායමකි ‘ඊගල්ස්’.  ‘හොටෙල් කැලිෆෝනියා’, ‘ඩෙස්පරාඩෝ’, ‘ටේක් ඉට් ඊසි’, ‘ටේක් ඉට් ටු ද ලිමිට්’ වැනි ගීත හරහා ප්‍රසිද්ධියක් ලැබූ මේ කණ්ඩායම එම දශකය තුල ග්‍රැමී සම්මාන 6ක් සහ ඇමරිකානු සංගීත සම්මාන 6ක් දිනා ගත්තේය.  ඉහත සඳහන් ගීත වලට වඩා අඩුවෙන් ජනප්‍රියත්වයක් ලැබු එකකි ‘සෑඩ් […]

Malinda Seneviratne ඒ වන විට ‘භීෂණය’ ජනගත වෙලා තිබුණේ නෑ. ඒත් පෙරනිමිති පහළ වෙමින් තිබුණා. ඒ භීෂණයේ මුල් අවධිය කියල කියන්න පුළුවන්. මතක හැටියට 1988 වසරේ සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේ. පාසැල් ශිෂ්‍ය ශිෂ්‍යාවන් සහභාගී වුණ උද්ඝෝෂණයකට පොලිසියෙන් වෙඩි තියල නුගවෙල මාධ්‍ය මහා විද්‍යාලයේ අවුරුදු 15ක සිසුවෙක් මැරුණා. ඒ පිළිබඳව විරෝධය ප්‍රකාශ කරන්න පේරාදෙණිය සරසවියේ ශිෂ්‍යයින් මහනුවර පිකට් […]

Malinda Seneviratne ‘Crisis & Struggle’ is the title of an art exhibition that was recently held at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery. Sujith Rathnayake, the artist, calls it a visual art attack. Nice line. It is presented by, so the poster claims, ‘Art Gallery of the Galle Face Protest Site.’ Sujith Rathnayake’s stature as an […]

Senaka Weeraratna The wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was clearly in the forefront of that fight.  His fault was that his side lost. But that should not de-legitimize the worldwide struggle to end Western colonial domination and rule in Asia and Africa which was finally achieved at huge cost mostly to the Japanese people. The […]

By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 19: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe firmly believes that no elections should be held in the island nation before the Presidential election in 2024 on the grounds that the country cannot afford elections in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, Sources in his United National Party (UNP) […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe today pledged to prioritize the country’s economic recovery while ensuring that law and order is maintained to prevent anarchy. He made a commitment to restore the country’s economy and establish a functioning democratic society before the end of this year. Speaking at the ‘Imagine’ 32nd Rotary District Conference in Colombo […]

Courtesy Adaderana Lanka Coal Company (LCC) says payments have been settled for 13 shipments of coal imported to Sri Lanka. According to the company’s general manager Namal Hewage, the 12th shipment is currently being unloaded while the unloading of the 13th shipment is expected to begin tomorrow (Feb 18). Meanwhile, plans are afoot to bring […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Election Commission has decided to file a special motion before the Supreme Court detailing the difficulties it is facing during the preparations for the 2023 Local Government Election on March 09. Chairman of the election body, Attorney-at-Law Nimal G. Punchihewa says inadequate funds, inadequate supply of fuel for transportation, the delays in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The supply of electricity and all related services, the supply and distribution of petroleum products and fuel and health services have been declared essential services once again. This was announced in a special gazette notification, issued by Presidential Secretary Saman Ekanayake under the directives of President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday (Feb 17). It was […]