Lanka Lead News මුලතිව්, කුරුන්දි විහාරය සතු ඉඩම් එම විහාරයට අයත් නොවන බව පවසමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ නියමයෙන් ජනතාවට බෙදා දීමට යන බව මාධ්‍ය මගින් අනාවරණය කර ඇති බවත්, කුරුන්දි විහාරය අවට බොහෝ ස්ථානවල බෞද්ධ ආරාමවල නටඹුන් ඇති හෙයින් එම ඉඩම් පැවරීම කිසිසේත් සුදුසු නොවන බවත්, එයින් වළකින ලෙසත් ඉල්ලමින් පුරාවිද්‍යා චක්‍රවර්ති පූජ්‍ය එල්ලාවල මේධානන්ද හිමියෝ ජනාධිපති […]

Lanka Lead News වර්තමානයේ රට තුළ මතුවී ඇති ආර්ථික අර්බුදයේ ස්වභාවය හෙළිකරමින් ආර්ථික විශ්ලේෂකයන් පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ විදෙස් රටවලින් ලබාගත් දැවැන්ත ණය ප්‍රමාණය හේතුවෙන් මෙම අර්බුදය නිර්මාණය වී ඇති බවය. විශේෂයෙන්ම 2015-2019 කාලයේ දී 6.8% – 7.2% වැනි ඉතා ඉහළ පොලියට ස්වෛරී බැඳුම්කර හෙවත් වාණිජ ණය යටතේ ඇමරිකන් ඩොලර් බිලියන 12.5 ක් ලබාගෙන තිබීම හේතුවෙන් විදේශ […]

– යසස් ධර්මදාස –Lanka Lead News ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ පාලන කාළය තුළ ආර්ථික අර්බුදයට පාදකවූ කරුණු ලෙස ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් හඳුනා ගත හැක්කේ කොවිඩ් වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් ආර්ථිකය හැකිළෙන ලෙස රට වසා තැබීම, ගෙවීමට තිබූ විදේශ ණය නිසි කලට ගෙවීම, විදේශ ණය ලබා නොගැනීම, ආයෝජකයින් සහ අපනයන කටයුතු වල යෙදෙන වෙළඳුන් විදේශ විණිමය රටින් පිට රැඳවීම, උන්ඩියල් හවාලා […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Secretariat on Tuesday (June 13) strongly denied the claims published in multiple media reports asserting that 7.5 million Sri Lankans were lacking adequate meals. Speaking on the matter, the Additional Secretary of Presidential Secretariat Dr. Sulakshana Jayawardena noted that contrary to these reports, the Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) […]

Courtesy Adaderana The report compiled by the Sectoral Oversight Committee (SOC) on National Security pertaining to the risks involved in the privatisation of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) did not involve any inquiry with the relevant authorities responsible for national security, the President’s Media Division (PMD) stated.  The matter was revealed during today’s (13 June) Security […]

Courtesy Adaderana An easy-maintenance water plant gifted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences commenced operations on Monday (12) in Methiakka, Matale, the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka revealed. Accordingly, the Embassy noted that through the project, 120,000 litres of ground water will be converted to drinking water, sufficing for a total of 800 villagers in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government has decided to draft a new Bill, titled Elections (Special Provisions) Act, containing amendments made to several elections Acts and Ordinances. The proposal tabled by President Ranil Wickremesinghe in this regard was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers on Monday (June 12). Thereby, the new legislation will comprise the amendments to […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka  Freedom, Independence and Sovereignty. Words are considered as fundamental rights for individuals, nations and countries in various ways. Obtaining these rights is an absolute honor, through which a sense of self-esteem is created. And self-respect establishes the identity of a person, a nation and a country. Bangladesh […]

ALI SUKHANVER The situation of human rights violations is no doubt worst at present. Teachers, writers, intellectuals and journalists who do not support Prime Minister Hasina’s illegal actions are being continuously harassed. No media person is allowed to point out the atrocities carried on under the government-umbrella and if anyone tries to do so, he […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has filed cases before the Gampaha High Court against 42 individuals accused over the killing of former MP Amarakeerthi Athukorala and his security officer on 09 May last year, Ada Derana reporter said. The Polonnaruwa District parliamentarian and his security officer, a Police Constable, were reported dead amidst the unrest […]

Courtesy Adaderana Food security in Sri Lanka is improving across all provinces, according to the Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) report jointly carried out in February/March 2023 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).  The report estimates 3.9 million people or […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of the Department of Archeology Prof. Anura Manatunga has tendered his letter of resignation from his post to the Ministry Secretary, the Minister for Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs, Vidura Wickramanayaka said. Prof. Manatuga had been appointed as the Director General of the Department of Archaeology with effect from the […]

Senaka Weeraratna EMAIL Inventor Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai This is the same story with respect to the Decision Review System (DRS) which is the invention of a Sri Lankan Lawyer ( under the concept of ‘Player Referral’ conceived and published for the first time in the ‘Australian’ Newspaper dated March 25, 1997, calling for a Right […]

Drishtikone Media Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s dynamic PM discusses in details on the dangers of Christianity and Islam on the Eastern societies.

e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News June 2023 Part 2 ‘Walk the pavement. Observe what is the being sold, and where, and how, it is made. You don’t need an economics degree To know what is going on…’’ – SBD de Silva * This ee records the 5th anniversary of the passing […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organization ceased to be a functional entity in Sri Lanka after being militarily defeated by the armed forces in May 2009. The LTTE known widely as the Tigers was a powerful armed militant group which ruled over swathes of land in the Northern and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A total number of 73 police officers have been found to have failed in their duty to prevent the violence on May 9 2022, the Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles told Parliament today. Responding to an oral question raised by MP Jagath Kumara Sumithrarachchi in the House, the Minister said […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) National Organiser Tissa Attanayake said the current economic stability in the country is a temporary situation due to the imposition of restrictions on the import of goods and the suspension of foreign debt repayments. While speaking to the media at Hanwella on Saturday, he said he does […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that the standards of Sri Lankan universities were high on the list of Asian universities, the President’s Media Division reported.  The standard and reputation of the universities should be restored and improved once again in the country’s university system to attract students overseas, he said, adding that this would […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Department of Meteorology has issued an advisory for multi-day boats in the deep Arabian Sea. The very severe cyclonic storm BIPARJOY” over the East-Central Arabian Sea has intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm, the Met. Department warned. The cyclonic storm, which was located near latitude 18.2°N and longitude 67.7°E at 11.30 […]

Shenali D Waduge Geneva diplomatic protocols appear not to apply to US envoys and Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister/Ministry is little bothered to remind diplomats that there are protocols to their movements. Having said that, it is interesting how the US is aggressively entering the Hill Country wooing the Hill Country populace who are Indian Tamils […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Merrill decided early on that someday he would develop ‘my own brand of tea and deliver to the customer genuine pure Ceylon tea at a reasonable price and also transfer those profits to the betterment of the people here.’  It took him four decades to achieve this. When he first spoke about it, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Like most business men, Merrill also faced problems with unreliable business partners.  He has described one partnership with a Sinhala family firm, that of the Fernandos, as a ‘prickly partnership’  Merrill was full of praise for Victor Santiapillai, the first Chairman of Export Development Board. Merrill said he was the only person in […]

Sugath Kulatunga On a private members motion in the Parliament last Wednesday there was a debate on the damage done to the agricultural crops done by monkeys (Toque macaque}. There was unanimity across the party divide that crop damage by monkeys has increased very rapidly and now is in a crisis proportion. It was mentioned […]

Manusha Media කොරියානු නැව් ඉදිකිරීම් රැකියා සදහා පුහුණු ශ්‍රමිකයින් යොමු කිරීම ඉලක්ක කරගනිමින් පුහුණු මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් ආරම්භ කිරීම සදහා ශ්‍රී ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශය, ගංගාරාම විහාරස්ථානයට අනුබද්ධිත ශ්‍රී ජිනරතන අධ්‍යාපන ආයතනය සහ කොරියානු ක්ලූලයිෆ් ආයතන අතර  අවභෝධතා ගිවිසුමක් කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්  අද අත්සන් කළේය ශ්‍රී ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Merrill Fernando (b.1930) said that he decided to write his biography, titled ‘The story of Ceylon tea maker, Merrill J Fernando” (2023) because he wanted to draw attention to the potential of pure Ceylon Tea. Fernando is known for his unique role in branding and marketing pure Ceylon tea through Dilmah.  Sri Lanka‘s […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ යනු බරපතල ප්‍රශ්නයකි. ඒ ඇමරිකන් අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන්ට හා මෙරට බහුතරයක් ජනතාවට පමණක් නොව මෙරට ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යාවස්තාවටද ඔහු බරපතල ප්‍රශ්නයකි. මේ රට ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී, සමාජවාදී ජනරජයකි. මෙහි ඉහලින්ම බලපවත්වන සාධකය වන්නේ ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යයි. මේ රටතුල  ප්‍රජාතන්ත්රවාදයවත්, සමාජවාදයවත්, ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යවත් නැති, හිස් පුස් නාමික බලතල පමණක් ඇති,රාජ්‍යක් බව රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා විසින් මෙරට ජනතාවට […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මාතලේ මූලික රෝහලේ ඉන්ටර්න්ශිප් කිරීමෙන් පසුම මාගේ මුල්ම පශ්චාත් සීමාවාසික පත්වීම ලැබුනේ ස්ථාන භාර වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරී කොලොන්ගොඩ ග්‍රාමීය රෝහලටය. මෙම රෝහල මිණිපේ ප්‍රදේශයේ තිබූ රෝහලක් වූ අතර වාට්ටු තුනකින් යුක්ත විය.  රෝහලේ මට අමතරව සහකාර වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරියෙකුද (AMO),  මිඩ් ෆයිෆ්ලා තිදෙනෙකුද විය. මිණිපේ ප්‍රදේශයේ අති දුෂ්කර ප්‍රදේශයක තිබූ කොලොන්ගොඩ ග්‍රාමීය රෝහල […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island  Here endeth what I write Who love the Master for his love of us. A little knowing, little have I told Touching the Teacher and the Ways of Peace Forty-five rains thereafter showed he those In many lands and many tongues, and gave Our Asia Light, that still […]

SRI LANKA ASSOCIATION BERLIN e.V Berlin Carnival of Cultures is a mega event held every spring in Berlin attracting over 1 Million live spectators and several Millions on TV. Country wise, cultural organisations display their cultural heritage with traditional music and dance following a parade of decorated floats highlighting their cultural themes and mottos.  Representing […]