Shenali D Waduge A letter written by Thangathurai Thayani, wife of Arun Siddharth on her mother’s 60th birthday that fell on 4thAugust 2022 should make the human rights organizations feel ashamed and should make the international human rights & terrorism experts wonder why they continue to give lifelines to terrorists/their fronts. She raises two pertinent questions […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS There are many issues, arguments and controversies relating to history and the origin of various races in the world. How did a race generate is a complex question that could not be exactly traced. Nobody can clearly state that a particular race began in that day at that time. Sinhala race begun […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS C.G. Uragoda continuing his account of ‘Medicine under Sri Lankan kings”, observed that the ancient records confirmed the existence of hospitals in Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa.  The only hospital for the laity which had been identified   in Anuradhapura at the time was the one found near Thuparama, probably dated to Kassapa IV. Udaya 1 […]

Press Release LankaPropertyWeb Overseas buyer interest in Sri Lankan properties increased by 40% in 2022, compared with the year before, according to the Real Estate Market Outlook Report 2023, published by Sri Lanka’s leading real estate portal, LankaPropertyWeb. The report said that traffic from overseas countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, […]

Malinda Seneviratne ‘ලේ හැලුනේ නෑ, සුද්දා තරහ වුනෙත් නෑ; යන්න ගියෙත් නෑ, නොගිහින් හිටියෙත් නෑ.’  ඒ නන්දා මාලිනී අසූව දශකයේ අග භාගයේ එළිදැක්වූ ‘පවන’ ප්‍රසංගයේ ජනප්‍රිය ගීතයක මතකයේ රැඳුනු වචන කිහිපයක්. මේ ‘නිදසස් බයිලාවට’ සුනිල් ආරියරත්න මෙහෙමත් දෙයක් එකතු කරලා තිබුනා: ‘නෑ බැට කෑවේ නේරු පාටෙල් වාගේ, නෑ දිවි දුන්නේ මහත්මා ගාන්ධි වාගේ.’ නිදහසේ කතාව […]

By Thomas Tarantelli Courtesy Food Safety Tech The Sol Andino brand of ground cumin was found to contain 1090 ppm lead. Laboratory reports recently acquired by the Freedom of Information Law from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets show the Sol Andino brand ground cumin to contain 1090 ppm lead as well […]

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By Shivanthi ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The only progress vis-a-vis the prevailing economic crisis is the unfounded report that the IMF may consider approving the USD 2.9 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF), fondly known as the bailout package”, even without China’s formal assurance of debt-restructuring support. Even if we do finally get IMF’s assistance, which we have […]

By Daya Gamage Former US State Department Foreign Service National Political Specialist Courtesy The Island Activating the 13th Amendment and devolution of power – possibly with the merger of two provinces –seems to have returned to the national agenda with President Ranil Wickremasinghe taking a lead role. He undertook a similar endeavour as the prime […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the Election Commission has not yet legally decided on a date to hold the election and that there are no funds to conduct an election. The election has not been postponed and there is no election to be postponed”, he said. Addressing the parliament this morning (Feb. 23), […]

Courtesy Adaderana Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Patali Champika Ranawaka has written to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) office in Sri Lanka, questioning whether the recently introduced electricity tariffs and the fuel price hike is in accordance with the IMF criteria. Accordingly, the relevant letter was sent by Ranawaka, in his capacity as the Chairman of […]

Courtesy Hiru News Over 50 persons, including the convener of the Inter-University Students Federation (IUSF) Wasantha Mudalige, have been arrested for forcibly entering the Education Ministry in Battaramulla. The Police stated that nearly 56 persons, including 30 student monks from the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka, have been arrested. The group staged a […]