By Rohana R. Wasala I concluded a previous article published in Lankaweb on January 28, 2023 (Is recolonisation the final solution II) touching on the deplorable situation that innocent Sri Lankans have been plunged into not only by the current economic crisis but also by the so-called Tamil ethnic problem, both aggravated by unjust direct […]

Sugath Kulatunga In a recent media article with the title’ Govt’s amazing death wish for nuclear plant on Lankan soil’ was typical of selective reporting. It would have been fair by the reading public if the scales of the Chernobyl plant and the proposed Sri Lanka plant were indicated. Chernobyl was of 720 MW capacity. […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ලංකාව මෙයට පෙර අවස්ථා 16 ක ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදල සමඟ ගිවිසුම්ගත වී ඇත.  නමුත්, එයින් අවස්ථා 10 ක දී සම්පූර්ණ ණය මුදල් ලැබුණු අතර, 6 ක දී මුළු ණය මුදල රටට ලැබුණේ නැත. කොන්දේස ඉටු නොකිරීම, දේශපාලන බලපෙරළි, රට තුල ඇතිවූ අස්ථාවරත්වය ණය ගිවිසුම අතරමඟ කඩාකප්පල් කළේය. උන්ඩියල් සහ මනී එක්ස්චෙන්ජ් මිල […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය. විදිමත් අයුරින් ක්‍රියාත්මක බැංකු සේවාව සඳහා කාන්තාවන් ආකර්ශනය කර ගැනීමට නව දිරිගැන්වීම් අවශ්‍ය බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා ප්‍රකාශ කළේ 2023.03.07 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව, සියලුම රාජ්‍ය හා පෞද්ගලික බැංකු ප්‍රධානීන්,  විධායක නිලධාරීන් අමතමිනි. “මෙම ක්‍රමවේදය ඔස්සේ ආර්ථිකයේ නාගරික, ග්‍රාමීය, වතු, කාන්තා භූමිකාව ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට හැකියි. එමෙන්ම අධික පොලි අනුපාත අයකර කාන්තාවන් […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division The Prime Minister mentioned that the woman who makes use of new technology can efficientlycontribute to the national produce. He said at a function International Women’s Day held inappreciation of the women working in the Prime Minister’s Office today (08) .The following are excerpts from the speech delivered by the Prime […]

Courtesy Africa News French-Cameroonian commission to turn light on colonial era | Africanews A joint French-Cameroonian commission started Friday (Mar. 3rd) work on delving into France’s role in the nation’s colonial past and post-independence years. It is jointly headed by a Cameroonian artist Blick Bassy and a French historian Karine Ramondy. The composition of the team tasked […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe today said that three women were instrumental in helping Sri Lanka during its troubled period. When reflecting upon those who contributed to freeing the people from the sufferings experienced during the past, I think it is important to mention the names of three women who played a significant […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has recommended that a committee, headed by a retired court judge, be appointed to investigate the issues raised by the special audit report of the Central Cultural Fund for the period between 2015 and 2019. It was also recommended that the report of the newly-proposed committee be […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s rupee, which became the world’s best performing currency this year amid hopes of an International Monetary Fund bailout, may resume declines and lose a fifth of its value against the dollar by end-2023, according to Fitch Solutions. We are optimistic that Sri Lanka will be able to secure an IMF board […]

Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka is negotiating with India to extend a 1 billon dollar credit line by a few months, according to sources, as the island nation tries to line up funds for the rest of the year while the IMF looks set to approve a 2.9 billion dollar loan for it soon. The […]

Courtesy Hiru News IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said The International Monetary Fund welcomes the progress made by Sri Lanka in “decisive” policy actions and in obtaining financing assurances from all major creditors. IMF Chief said the IMF looks forward to presenting what will be the island nation’s 17th IMF programme to the international lender’s […]