Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya They used a mixture of lime, volcanic ash, and water to create a building material that was both durable and easy to work with. The word “concrete” comes from the Latin word “concretus,” which means “compact” or “condensed.” Over time, the recipe for concrete was refined and improved, and it is […]

e-Con e-News A rather forgettable news column rang alarm bells. Tucked away in the Sunday Times, at the very bottom segment of its ST2 supplement, its very last link, was a Project Syndicate article, clumsily headlined ‘How China lost its clout on Asia’ by Yoon Young-kwan, ‘Exclusive to the Sunday Times, SL’, datelined to ‘New Delhi’.      ee (11 March 2023) has recorded before that Project […]

e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 19-25 March 2023 ‘IMF denies influence in postponing SL polls’ ‘Anti-corruption & governance reforms a central pillar of EFF-supported program – IMF’ ‘Sri Lanka becomes first in Asia to have its governance come under IMF scrutiny’ * 208 years after the English coup d’état […]

Erina Haque from Sweden Last Wednesday altogether 9 districts and 211 upazilas across Bangladesh have been declared as homeless and landless free. The number of rehabilitated people is 3,856,505. The beneficiary includes widows, deserted women, bedes, low-caste people, hijras and climate refugees. This is a significant achievement in ensuring fundamental human rights. Bangladesh is lauded for […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්, බුද්ධශාසන හා ආගමික කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය විදුර වික්‍රමනායක මහතා සහ විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතාගේ  සහභාගිත්වයෙන් බුද්ධශාසන අරමුදලේ  සාමාජිකයෝ 2023.03.24 දින කොළඹ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී රැස්වුහ. මෙහිදී බුද්ධ ශාසන අරමුදලේ වත්මන් තත්වය, පසුවිපරම හා ප්‍රගතිය පිළිබඳ පිරික්සින.  එමෙන්ම බුද්ධ ශාසනයේ, භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේගේ, විහාරස්ථාන ඇතුළු බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථානයන්හි උන්නතිය වෙනුවෙන් වන […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ මහ කන්නයේ රජයේ වී මිලදී ගැනීම් සහ වී බැහැර කිරීම් වැඩසටහන යටතේ අඩු ආදායම්ලාභීන්ට නොමිලේ සහල් බෙදාහැරීම 2023.03.26 දින මහරගමදී සිදු කළ අවස්ථාවේදී ය. එහිදී  අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා – අස්වැන්න කපා රටේ අස්වැන්න අඩු ප්‍රදේශ වලට  ලබා දීමේ හැකියාව දැන් ලැබී තිබේ . විශේෂයෙන් සහල් අතින් […]

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Courtesy Livemint President Wickremesinghe provided his insights on the early implementation of these initiatives when the delegation led by Pankaj Jain, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Natural Gas, met him, the Indian High Commission here said. A high-level Indian delegation called on Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe here on Sunday and briefed him on the developments […]

Courtesy The Morning First ferry from Pondicherry due end of April $ 50 one way ticket, 100 Kg luggage allowance A new passenger terminal at Kankesanturai (KKS) port, built at a cost of Rs 144 million is to be completed by the second week of April, with the first ferry from the Indian port of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) has investigated numerous cases of procedural impropriety and financial misappropriation at the University of Peradeniya.  This comes in the wake of an evaluation of current performance and status of issues raised in the Auditor General’s report from 2020 and 2021. The COPE Chairman, Professor Ranjith Bandara attributed […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera says that the programme to distribute rice free of charge for 2.9 million families will commence tomorrow (March 27). Thus, the government has planned to distribute the paddy bought from farmers during this Maha season after converting them into rice. The Agricultural Minister also highlighted that the government […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Transport and Highways Bandula Gunawardene states that permission will be granted for anyone to carry out trade activities on the sides of the roads in all parts of the island during the upcoming New Year festive season. Joining an event held in Galle, the minister expressed that the producers will be […]