KAMALIKA PIERIS Western medicine as we know it today was introduced to the island by the British. The western tradition did not recognize the Asian systems of medicine and most local doctors trained in western medicine avoided non western medicine. In 1858 Dr. W.C Ondaatje   wrote on the empiricism of Singhalese doctors and the advantage […]

Sri Lanka Canada Association of Markham Suite 135, 4981 Hwy 7 East, Unit 4, Markham, ON L3P 0E3 The Honorable Melanie JolyMinister of Foreign AffairsHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontario,CanadaK1A 0A6 Feb 15th, 2023 RE: Canada imposes sanctions on Sri Lankan state officials for human rights violations Ms. Melanie Joly, As Canadians of Sri Lankan origin, we […]

Malinda Seneviratne #gotagohome අරගලය නොහොත් ගෝටව ගෙදර යැවීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය නොහොත් ආදරයේ අරගලය අනන්‍ය වූ ඇතැම් පුද්ගලයින්, සංවිධාන සහ බලවේග මුල සිටම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන අවශ්‍ය යැයි තර්ක කළෝය. ආර්ථික අර්බුදය කෙසේ වෙතත් දේශපාලන අර්බුද වලට දිගු කාලීන විසඳුම එය යැයි ප්‍රකාශ කරන ලදී. 1978 ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ අවුල් දකින්නත් විසඳුම් යෝජනා කරන්නත්, විසඳන්න ඉදිරිපත් වෙන්නත් අර්බුද අවශ්‍ය නොමැති […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය.   අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ 2023.02.21 දින ජාතික විදුලිබල පද්ධතියට තවත් පුනර්ජනනීය විදුලි ව්‍යාපෘතියක් එක්කරමින්  දියත් කෙරෙන කඩුවෙල මහ නගර සභාවේ “රන් පැලැස්ස″  අපද්‍රව්‍ය පසු  සැලසුම් මධ්‍යස්ථානය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමිනි. මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා  –   මෙවැනි සම්ප්‍රදායික නොවන මගක් ගෙන එම සම්ප්‍රදායික නොවන මඟ ජය ගැනීම […]

By Asiri Fernando/The Sunday Morning Colombo, February 19: Staff members of some State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) continued to rake in large paychecks due to massive overtime and allowance pay at the end of last month, despite the Government’s push to increase utility and fuel tariffs citing a need to be cost-reflective, The Sunday Morning reliably learns. This, in […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 22 (Counterpoint): The latest Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey (SLOTS) taken in January, shows political disarray in the country even as it battles a severe financial crisis marked by a continuing shortage of foreign exchange and sky-high prices of essential commodities. The survey found that even the front-runners in […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror After months of struggle and challenges, Sri Lanka has been successful in fulfilling the 15 tasks set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and now awaits for the verdict if enough has been done to unlock the bailout, the government said. President Ranil Wickremesinghe confirmed that only last week​ the final […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe today said that the agreement reached with the IMF would be presented to Parliament and the House could decide whether to pass or reject it.  Once an agreement with the International Monetary Fund is reached, it will be presented to Parliament and it will have the option to […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe says the current tax policy in Sri Lanka is not a normal tax policy, rather a rescue operation. He warned that if this process is disrupted, Sri Lanka will not be able to join the International Monetary Fund program and may lose the opportunity to do business with foreign […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Cabinet of Ministers at its meeting on Monday approved to service of 2.6 billion dollars in debt payments due in the first half of this year, whilst vesting the authorisation powers to the Treasury Secretary to provide the necessary funds. Cabinet Co-Spokesman and Minister Bandula Gunawardena said at the post-Cabinet meeting […]

Courtesy Adaderana During an event held this morning (Feb. 22) at Royal College, Colombo, President Ranil Wickremesinghe urged all citizens, including politicians, professionals, teachers, those engaged in agriculture, the business community, and members of the security forces, police and civil servants, to work together to overcome the current economic crisis and promote reconciliation efforts. The […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Plantation Industries Dr. Ramesh Pathirana has highlighted the importance of identifying new localities for rubber plantation as a solution to address shrinking cultivations. Addressing an event to launch a project funded by France to support small holder rubber planters, the Minister pointed out that rubber planters shifting to other crop cultivation […]

Courtesy Adaderana Facing a dire national financial crisis and an urgent need to generate foreign currency income, state-owned SriLankan Airlines (SL) is restructuring and expanding its network to markets that were strong in the pre-Covid period, including Australia, and China. India remains the flag-carrier’s largest market, though flights have been reduced from 125 to 90 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) has issued a letter of approval to India’s Adani Green Energy Limited for the two wind power plants to be set up in Mannar and Pooneryn at a total investment of USD 442 million.  The project will add 350 MW of electricity to the national […]

Courtesy Adaderana A national study conducted by local researchers has revealed that Sri Lanka has the highest rate of diabetes in Asia, with almost one in four adults having being diagnosed. The survey, done in 2019 by researchers from several local universities, the Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Colombo and the Institute for Health Policy […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Secretary to the Ministry of Finance and the Ambassador of Japan today (22 Feb.) signed an exchange of notes for a grant of USD 46 million. Accordingly, Finance Secretary Mahinda Siriwardena and Ambassador MIZUKOSHI Hideaki signed an exchange of notes for the USD 46 million grant to provide 20 million litres of […]