Malinda Seneviratne At around 11.30 pm, Sri Lanka time, on Monday the 19th of June, a submersible vessel, the Titan, at the other end of the world, set off with five persons on board and a 96-hour oxygen supply to explore the wreck of the ill-fated British passenger liner, the Titanic, which sank in the […]

Jubeda Chowdhury , freelance columnist, researcher in Dhaka city Economic sanctions, Visa restrictions, political embargo are the part of US coercive diplomacy.  These are not a modern development. These first recorded use was in ancient Greece. But despite all the evidence since then showing they are generally ineffective and often counterproductive; the United States has […]

e-Con e-News Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News June 2023 Part 4 * ‘Among the Indians it goes by the name of Sielediba, but the Pagans call it Taprobane… As its position is central, the land is a great resort of ships from all parts of India, and from Persia & Ethiopia, and in like manner it […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia June 26 (AdaDerana) – The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe states that an extended bank holiday was declared from June 29 to July 03, 2023, including June 30, in order to obtain necessary time required for the domestic debt optimization strategy of Sri Lanka. Making a […]

By Global Times China will continue to help Sri Lanka to the best of its ability to promote Sri Lanka’s economic and social development as well as living standards, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang told his Sri Lankan counterpart Ali Sabry on Sunday in Beijing who is on a  state visit to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has held a meeting with the President of the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) Bai Yinzhan at their head office in Beijing on Monday (26).   President Bai confirmed that CHEC will invest USD 1.2 billion in the Colombo Port City, starting with the International Financial Centre, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Through the facility established by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka, Michelin Foundation channels support to procuring essential medicine given the ongoing socio-economic situation in the country and to address the identified drug shortage as highlighted by the Ministry of Health in Sri Lanka.  The medicines were handed over to […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has assured that Sri Lanka has qualified for the assistance from the World Bank since all the required benchmarks for financial assistance from the WB have been fulfilled so far and that the much-needed” funds will help strengthen the country’s economy. Speaking in an interview with FRANCE 24 on the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The 5th Round of Sri Lanka-Thailand Free Trade Agreement (SLTFTA) negotiations commenced in Colombo this morning (26), aligning with President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s vision of strengthening economic ties with major and emerging economies, with a particular focus on ASEAN countries, the PMD reported. Mr. K.J. Weerasinghe, the Chief Negotiator, International Trade Office (Leader of […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Tracing the history of religions is a complex task that involves, in a process of analytically looking at many points described in sources and assumptions. Since various religions come into work in the society of Sri Lanka, people had been stuck to religions for worshipping without analysing the philosophy of religions and […]

Dilrook Kannangara There is a concerted attempt to hand over ancient Buddhist shrines to Tamils today including the Kurundi Vihara. If this unfortunate attempt succeeds the fate of those Buddhist shrines will be as catastrophic as the fate of a number of ancient Buddhist shrines in the Eastern and Northern provinces – they have been […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි  මාධ්‍ය වේදනය යනු ඉතා හොඳ වැදගත් කලාවකි. ඒ විශ්වීය ධර්මතාවයට අනුව සිදුකරන අර්ථකතනයන්ට අනුකුලවය. විශ්වීය අන්තර්ජාලය මගින් සිදුකරන්නේද එවැනිම වූ මාධ්‍ය කලාවකි. මුළුමහත් විශ්වයේම ඇති දැනුම එය තුල අන්තර්ගතව පවතී. ඕනෑම අයෙකුට ඒ තුලට පිවිස ඒ දැනුම ලබාගැනීමට පුර්ණ නිදහසක් ස්වභාවය විසින් නිර්මාණය කර ඇත. ලෝකයේ සිටින සියලුම දර්ශනවාදීන් එය තුලට පිවිස […]

By P.K.Balahandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, June 25: When Cordelia Cruise’s luxury vessel MV Empress sailed into the Kankesanthurai (KKS) Port on June 19, it marked two milestones: First, it opened Jaffna and the Northern Province to an elite class of overseas travellers from India for the first time. Second, it gave lustre to the re-opening of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe states that an extended bank holiday was declared from June 29 to July 03, 2023, including June 30, in order to obtain necessary time required for the domestic debt optimization strategy of Sri Lanka. Making a special statement regarding the […]

Courtesy The New Arab Dramatic events started to unfold in Russia on Friday, as the Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a mutiny against Russia’s military leadership. Russian President Vladimir Putin faced the most serious challenge to his long rule on Saturday when the leader of the Wagner mercenary group vowed to topple Moscow’s military leadership. Yevgeny Prigozhin, […]

Courtesy The New Arab Three thousand elite Chechen troops took up positions in Moscow early on Saturday morning to defend the Russian capital against advancing mutineers from the Wagner mercenary group, the Chechen state broadcaster “Grozny” said on Saturday night. “The fighters have been at their positions in Moscow since early morning and are ready to carry […]

Shenali D Waduge The slogan of the 2022 aragala activists was against corruption” and the allegation of collapsing the economy”. These chants were parroted by a majority of youth who were cheered by groups of elite personalities at Galle Face Green adding a colorful presence to the media reports transmitted internationally. Little did these youth […]

Sunimal Perera Montreal, Canada 14th June 20 Alas! What conventional wisdom do we see of five men in a boat all a glee for a boat ride costing a million and quarter but ignoring warnings, they’ve gone to their slaughter in a cramped up space as adventurers full of spirit and such wanderers. The pressure […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prof. M A R Manjula Fernando assumed duties today as the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL). His name was approved by the Constitutional Council that met yesterday. The PUCSL Chairmanship fell vacant after Janaka Ratnayake was removed from the position recently

Courtesy https://www.nasdaq.com/ COLOMBO, June 23 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is set to start bartering tea to Iran next month in lieu of $250 million owed for oil, a Sri Lankan official told Reuters on Friday, as the crisis-hit country tries to lift sales to a key market and protect its forex reserves. The barter was agreed in […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ජර්මානු දාර්ශනිකයෙක් මෙන්ම සංස්කෘතික විචාරකයෙකු වූ ෆ්‍රෙඩ්‍රික් විල්හෙල්ම් නීට්‍ෂේ  බටහිර දර්ශනයට  මෙන්ම  නූතන චින්තනය කෙරෙහි විශාල බලපෑමක් ඇති කරන ලද පුද්ගලයෙකි. ඔහු ගැඹුරු චින්තකයෙකි. ඔහුගේ දර්ශනය ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් හඳුන්වනු ලබන්නේ මිනිසාගේ පැවැත්මේ තත්වය ( Existentialism) කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු කරන දර්ශනයක් ලෙසටය. ඔහු Existentialism (පැවැත්මවාදය) ව්‍යාපාරයේ වැදගත් පූර්වගාමියෙකු ලෙස සැලකේ.    නීට්‍ෂේ […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය.   දෙරට අතර සහයෝගීතාවය සඳහා යෝජිත සැලැස්ම පිළිබඳව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ඉන්දීය මහ කොමසාරිස් ගෝපාල් බාග්ලේ මහතා සමඟ  සාකච්ඡා පවත්වයි. ඉන්දීය මහ කොමසාරිස්වරයා 2023.06.22 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී   ආර්ථික සහයෝගීතාව පිළිබඳ යෝජිත ක්‍රියාකාරී සැලැස්ම පිලිබඳ  විමසා බැලීය. සංචාරක ප්‍රවර්ධනය සඳහා  දෙරට අතර ගුවන් ගමන් වැඩි කිරීමට පියවර ගන්නා බව ඉන්දීය […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Ranil Wickremesinghe June 23 – In a determined push to address Sri Lanka’s debt crisis and foster reconciliation, President Ranil Wickremesinghe outlined plans to finalize the debt restructuring process by September. Collaborating closely with parliament, the President aims to develop a comprehensive strategy for resolving the nation’s financial burdens. President Ranil Wickremesinghe participated […]

RANJITH SOYSA  The President Ranil Wickremasinghe, recently at an interview boldly made a statement which is of historical significance. He said that Thiriyaya, Muhudu Maha Vihraya and one Aloka Viharya in the south were light houses and the Ven monks who lived in these temples were the light house keepers. Many Sri Lankan Buddhists believe […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම Lanka Lead News කොටුව මහෙස්ත්‍රාත් තිළිණ ගමගේ මහතා ඊයේ (21) ප්‍රකාශ කළේ නතාෂා එදිරිසූරිය නමැති කාන්තාව සිය ප්‍රකාශය මගින් බෞද්ධ චරිතය සහ බෞද්ධ සාහිත්‍ය අතිශයින් හෑල්ලුවට ලක්කර ඇති බවය. නතාෂා ජූලි 05 දක්වා රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කළ මහෙස්ත්‍රාත්වරයා ප්‍රකාශ කළේ, භාෂණයේ සහ ප්‍රකාශනයේ නිදහස අන් අයට අපහාස කිරීමට දෙන බලපත්‍රයක් නොවන බවය. අන්තර්ජාලය හරහා […]

Media Centre – MOD Acting Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon made a visit to the Indian Navy Submarine ‘INS Vagir’ at the Colombo port on Wednesday (Jun 21). Minister Tennakoon was received by the Commander of the submarine, Commander Divakar S on his arrival at the jetty and later accompanied him to the […]

Sunimal Perera Montreal, Canada In retrospect, the sad and sudden demise of the OceanGate Titan submersible in the dangerous swells of the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia, Canada has shaken the world and left many wondering after reading the intricate details of preparation and the safety factors which do appear to have been left wanting  […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva has assured the institution’s commitment towards supporting Sri Lanka’s economic reforms.  Following her meeting with President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Georgieva assured that the IMF is committed to supporting the island nation’s economic reforms, in a bid to improve the living standards of Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera has revealed that the Indian energy company Petronet LNG has presented short-term solutions to meet the Ceylon Electricity Board’s (CEB) requirement for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).  Taking to Twitter, Wijesekera revealed that Petronet LNG presented immediate, albeit short-term, solutions for CEB’s LNG requirements this morning (22 […]

Courtesy Adaderana Instructions have been issued to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and other senior police officers to take immediate and stern legal action against violent crimes committed in both the Western and Southern provinces.  The relevant directive was issued by Public Security Minister Tiran Alles, during a special discussion with high-ranking police officers […]