Courtesy Adaderana State-backed Chinese mouthpiece Global Times called the G7 an anti-China workshop” on Monday, a day after Beijing summoned Japan’s envoy and berated Britain in a fiery response to statements issued at the group’s summit in Hiroshima. Group of Seven (G7) declarations issued on Saturday singled out China on issues including Taiwan, nuclear arms, […]

 Insight By Sunil Kumar  Surprisingly Canadian Prime Minister Mr.Justin Trudeau seems to have taken a  path  which his World Respected father Mr. Pierre Elliot Trudeau who was once  closely associated with Sri Lanka would never have taken by virtue of  how well informed of world affairs he was and never once dipping into  the till […]

Senaka Weeraratna  Shashi Tharoor has said  DRS is such a major innovation. I never want to see international cricket without DRS ever again. It is so indispensable and eliminates so many bad decisions, and it creates an additional form of excitement for the viewer. It adds an extra element of tension to the plot and […]

ලෙසන්ත චතුරංග (කුලරූ ආදි ශිෂ්‍ය) පාසැල් පරිශ්‍රයක් තුල ඉදිවූ දිවයිනේ විශාලතම හිටිපිළිම වහන්සේ වන අවුකන ප්‍රතිමා අනුරූ පිළිම මහන්සේගේ නේත්‍රා ප්‍රතිෂ්ඨාපන මංගල්ලය හා මහජන ප්‍රදර්ශනයට නිරාවරණය කිරීම. අටමහා කුසල් වලින් එක් කුසලයක් සම්පූර්ණ කරමින් අම්බලන්ගොඩ කුලරත්න විද්‍යාලයේ විදුහල්පති ජගත් සේනාරත්න මහතා ප්‍රධාන ගුරුභවතුන්, ආදි හා වර්තමාන ශිෂ්‍ය ප්‍රජාවගේ මැදිහත්වීමෙන් පාසැල් පරිශ්‍රය තුල ගොඩනැංවූ අවුකන පිළිම […]

Courtesy The Island It is not possible to separate public morality from private morality. Public morality is largely the collective expression of the morality the individuals practice privately. Public morality merely reflects back to us ourselves.” Speaking in Sinhala, so said Neville Jayaweera while addressing the Annual General Meeting of Avadhi Lanka at the Center […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  J.R .Jayewardene decided to step down after his second term and Premadasa was nominated as the party candidate for the presidential election set for December 1988. Premadasa insisted that his nomination for   President had to be unanimous. Premadasa became Executive President from 1988 -1993. But the election of 1988 was not a walk […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Premadasa carried out two highly publicized programmes Gam Udawa and Jana Saviya. The Janasaviya Poverty Alleviation Programme was inaugurated in October 1989 and soon became a lead program of Premadasa’s government.   In 1990, a $100 million Janasaviya trust fund (JTF) was launched with World Bank assistance, to support a five-year Janasaviya programme. […]

e-Con e-News Who owes whom? Believe the English and their relentless media chatter, and it’s we who still owe them! Despite all talk (& so much art and literature!) about chattel & indentured & wage slavery, despite all talk of over 500 years of colonialism & imperialism – Is we bankrupt! Is we owe them!  Such […]

Sugath Kulatunga Hon Minister, This note is to bring to your notice an illegal circular issued by a former Secretary Defense restricting the issue of gun licenses to persons over 60 years of age. This is one of the reasons of the increase of crop loss due to animal damage which is estimated as 40 […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Port City Colombo is set to reach its highest level of activity as the region’s first multi-currency, service export Special Economic Zone. The five-year roll-out plan envisages USD 5.6 billion in FDI which will fast-track Sri Lanka’s economic recovery, positioning both Port City and Sri Lanka as a leading player in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has condemned and rejected outright the genocide claims made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pertaining to Sri Lanka’s three-decade-long civil war. Sabry conveyed this when he summoned Canadian High Commissioner Eric Walsh to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday (May 19). Minister Sabry stated that […]

Courtesy Adaderana Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has promised to establish a separate unit under his government, dedicated to the betterment of businessmen of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) of the government sector. Premadasa vowed to do so while addressing a discussion with businessmen of SMEs today (20 May). The Party Leader of the Samagi Jana […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe stated that he intends to seek the Japanese Government’s assistance during his upcoming visit to Japan, to establish a Maha Vihara University, an international standard university to study Theravada Buddhism. The President expressed that the hope is to get the contribution of Buddhist countries like Thailand and Bhutan for this […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS People of Sri Lanka could express views on the credit programs provided to the country if anyone investigates the condition of credit facilities, it is possible to understand the condition of credit facilities.  Although the International Monetary Fund provides credit facilities to member countries, it is not a social service organisation, as […]

Shenali D Waduge LTTE is demanding a separate Tamil Eelam – so is TNA & even LTTE fronts. Anyone in doubt need only to take their statements, press releases, election manifestos, webpages, interviews to relieve their doubt. What no one can forget is that TNA was created as the political wing of the LTTE no […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය  ශ්‍රි ලංකාවේ සංචාරක ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ පාර්ශවකරුවන් සක්‍රීයව සම්බන්ධවන මෙරට දැවැන්තම සංචාරක ප්‍රදර්ශනය වන සංචාරක උදාව ප්‍රදර්ශනය  2023.05.19 දින  කොළඹ, බණ්ඩාරනායක සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේදි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් විවෘත කරන ලදී. ශ්‍රී ලංකා අභ්‍යන්තර සංචාරක ක්‍රියාකරුවන්ගේ සංගමය (SLAITO) විසින් සංවිධානය කරන ලද සංචාරක උදාව ප්‍රදර්ශනය ශ්‍රි ලංකාවේ සංචාරක ක්ෂේත්‍රයට සම්බන්ධ කුඩා හා මධ්‍ය පරිමාණ […]

Shenali D Waduge https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/new-parliamentary-budget-office-bill-attempting-to-outsource-parliamentary-functions-to-a-corporate-body-mcc-private-company/ When Sri Lanka in view of its geopolitical position is vulnerable to a plethora of external destabilizing attacks (regime change, economic subjugation, cultural genocide, foreign-funded ethno-religious terrorism / diluting of heritage values, infiltration into Public Sector apparatus riding on accountability” trojan horse) Sri Lankans need to look at every proposal with […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara.. The promulgation of a Republican constitution on 22 May 1972 saw the end of Dominion status (rather colonial subservience and servility) and the birth of a completely an independent Sri Lanka, and thanks to that great and patriotic lady Sirimavo Bandaranayaka, the modern Vihara Mahadhevi of Sri Lanka. Under the new […]

Shenali D Waduge Geopolitical Terrorism: There is a difference in being BORN gay & BECOMING gay. When there is a sudden surge in adults becoming gay & inducing teens to follow, it raises doubt as to its ‘natural’ increase. When the LGBTQ movement is being sponsored by Western governments, within UN apparatus & via well-funded […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando. Up-country reign was divided into 21 sectors. Out of 21 sections, the kingdom was divided into 12 main sectors, with a separate section head (Disapathy) in charge of every section who possessed the executive powers (civil and war affairs).  These Disapathys collected taxes from the king’s subjects and sent taxes […]

Shenali D Waduge It was in 1752 that Ven. Upali Thera of Siam was assigned by the Siamese monarch to visit Sri Lanka to restore the Buddhist Sangha Order in Sri Lanka. The backdrop to this was the request made by King Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe who sent a convoy of monks initiated by Ven. Weliwita […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතා සහ ඔහුගේ බිරිඳ ජලනි ප්‍රේමදාස මහත්මියද ජෙරම් ප්‍රනාන්දු දේවගැතිවරයාගේ ගෝලයන් බව හිටපු හමුදා බුද්ධි නිලධාරීන් කීර්ති රත්නායක මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. රාජපක්ෂලා පමණක් නොව සජිත් පේ‍්‍රමදාස, ජලනි පේ‍්‍රමදාස, රෝසි සේනානායක, දප්පුල ලිවේරා, සාලිය පීරිස් ඇතුළු පිරිස්ද මේ අතර සිටින බව ද හෙතෙම පවසයි. මෙරට බලවත් පිරිස් ජෙරම් සමග […]

 Lanka Lead News උතුරු සහ නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වල ආණ්ඩුකාරවරු ඉවත් කිරීමට අදාළව ජනාධිපතිවරයාට මෙතෙක් කිසිදු ජනාධිපතිවරයකු නොකළ ක්‍රියාමාර්ගයක් ගැනීමට සිදුවන්නේ බෙදුම්වාදීන්ගේ බලපෑමට යටත් වීම නිසා බවත්, නැගෙනහිර පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයා ලෙස සෙන්දිල් තොණ්ඩමන් පත් කිරීම යනු ගෝපාල් බග්ලේ ආණ්ඩුකාර ධූරයට පත් කිරීම වැනි ක්‍රියාවක් බවත් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා ලංකා ලීඩ් වෙත කළ ප්‍රකාශය සත්‍ය බව මේ […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another petition has been filed before the Commercial High Court demanding compensation for the environmental disaster caused by the X-Press Pearl ship, which was gutted in a fire in May 2021 on Sri Lankan waters. Accordingly, the petition seeks an order to secure a compensation of at least USD 06 billion from the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has unreservedly rejected the recent statement issued by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pertaining to Sri Lanka’s civil war. On 18 May 2023, Trudeau issued a statement containing ‘outrageous’ claims of genocide relating to the past conflict in Sri Lanka, to which the island nation’s Foreign Ministry […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS News reported president Wickremasinghe wants to implement education reforms, however, which area of education should be reformed has not clearly expressed. Reforming the education is a policy action in any country and Sri Lanka would not be extraordinary compared to other countries. In many countries, education reforms will be concerned about the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Ranasinghe Premadasa was born on June 23, 1924 at Dias Place in Keselwatte, Central Colombo. His parents were Richard Ranasinghe of Hegalle, Kosgoda and Jayasinghe Arachchige Ensina Hamine of Batuwita, Horana. Premadasa was the eldest of five children. Premadasa had told Sarath Amunugama that his father had a hackery transport business near Colombo […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Premadasa won his seat at the General election of 1970, without any difficulty. In 1970, Premadasa had built five pre- fabricated houses and one community hall in every district, said Evans Cooray. Mayors and chairmen of local bodies were invited to Temple Trees and their views were obtained. The UNP victory at the […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando. Up-country reign was divided into 21 sectors. Out of 21 sections, the kingdom was divided into 12 main sectors, with a separate section head (Disapathy) in charge of every section who possessed the executive powers (civil and war affairs).  These Disapathys collected taxes from the king’s subjects and sent taxes […]

Malinda Seneviratne The late Lanil Kalubowila once offered some interesting reflections on language and politics. The last time I met him, along with our mutual friend Kanishka Goonewardena, he informed us that he had restricted reading to the perusal of encyclopaedias. They were, he observed, to the point. No frills, no editorialising, no propaganda, he […]