Dr Sudath Gunasekara Secretary of former Prime MInister Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranayaka To The Canadian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Eric Walsh Yes Mr. High Commissioner, the whole world knows that there was large-scale genocide done by your ancestors of Europe during the period 1400 -1850, not only in Canada but all over the world in […]

Dr Atle Pearson Every day, our mentality becomes more convoluted and twisted. We are all like exact copies of one another. toast with fruit mash. Put a lovely veil over the biting bitterness. It is the pinnacle of civilization’s crisis. It is incorporating morals. The venomous sting of this dualism is biting our society and […]

Dilrook Kannangara Provincial Councils are again in the news. These useless, money-guzzling and inefficient white elephants must be put to rest to reduce governance costs, corruption and bring Sri Lanka out of bankruptcy. However, India and Indian minorities want provincial councils to continue so that the island nation will be economically doomed forever. Instead of […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්          අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි හමු වී මෙරටේ ආර්ථික දේශපාලනික ව්‍යුහයට  ඉන්දීය මැදිහත් වීම තහවුරු කළ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ලංකාවට පැමිණි විගසම සිදු කරන ලද්දේ අනුරාධපුරයට ගොස් අටමස්ථාන නායක ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේලා මුණ ගැසී සංස්කෘතික සාකච්ඡාවකට මුල පිරීමයි.ඉන්දීය බලහත්කාරය ඔස්සේ බලය බෙදීම හරහා රට දෙකඩ වන තත්වයකට තල්ලු විය හැකි බව හොඳින්ම දැන දැන ගිවිසුම් […]

Top Spin By Suni for LankaWeb  It is sad and disgusting to watch our National Cricket Team get beaten to a pulp by a team of Pakistanis who are pretty good players nonetheless but not that powerful albeit with many new players who have beaten the Sri Lankans comprehensively on their own turf which is […]

MOD  Media Centre State Minster of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said that Sri Lanka practices a zero tolerance for terrorism and acts of any nature that supports terrorist activities will be strictly dealt with. Minister Tennakoon made these remarks when he met the Turkish Defence Minister Yaser Guler during his visit to Turkey. The […]

Courtesy Teheran Times TEHRAN – After years of unsuccessful diplomatic efforts, the Iranian government has decided to initiate legal proceedings against South Korea over Iran’s blocked assets in the East Asian nation.  In a letter dated July 22, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi referred a government bill to the Speaker of Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf for […]

Dr. Farhad Chowdhury  More than 1.1 million Rohingya refugees are living in Bangladesh, and the UNHCR’s most recent news item, “Rohingya refugees face hunger and loss of hope after latest ration cuts,” raises questions regarding their nutritional status and food security. At the beginning of the year 2023, the World Food Program (WFP) shockingly lowered […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Another strategy of the Tamil Separatist Movement when dealing with Buddhist ruins in North is to try and surround the Buddhist ruins with Tamil settlements, so that the archaeological reserve cannot expand, also access to the Buddhist monument can be controlled. In order to do so, Tamil Separatist Movement has brought the residents […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි ආයුර්වේද සංශෝධනයේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණය සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු හැන්සාඩ් වාර්තාවට ඇතුළත් කර ගන්නේ කෙසේද?නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි පැහැදිලි කරයි…

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් උතුරේ සිටින අන්තවාදී පිරිස් විසින් මුලතිව් කුරුන්දි විහාරයෙන් තමන් වහන්සේව පන්නා දමා එහි අයිතිය ලබා ගැනීමට උත්සහ දරමින් සිටින බවට කුරුන්දි විහාරාධිපති උතුරු පළාතේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක පූජ්‍ය ගල්ගමුවේ ශාන්තබෝධි හිමියන් පවසති. එම අන්තවාදී පිරිස් තමන් වහන්සේට නින්දා අපහාස සිදු කරමින් ජීවිත තර්ජන එල්ල කරමින් සිටින බවට ශාන්තබෝධී හිමියන් සඳහන් කරති. […]

Prime Minister’s Media Division Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena thanked Japan for continuous assistance to Sri Lanka and said the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on JDS human resource development scholarship scheme is yet another landmark in bilateral cooperation.The MoU was signed by Japanese Ambassador  Mizukoshi Hideaki, and the Secretary to Ministry of Finance, Mahinda Siriwardene in […]

by A. Abdul Aziz According to reports available from U.K. based International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) fanatic mullahs are planning to demolish minarets of Ahmadi Muslim Mosques in Jhelum, Pakistan, in a planned march this weekend.  This comes after police destroyed the minarets of an Ahmadi Mosque in Kala Gujran, Jhelum District on the order […]

Media Centre – MOD •        KDU strengthens its wings to cater upcoming higher educational needs •        Opens fully-fledged Cadets’ Mess and accommodation facilities at Southern Campus •        ‘KDU Journal of Built Environment’ and Industrial Magazine ‘QUALITY- for Sustainable Future’ launched Work in progress to set up another KDU Wing at the Kurunagala District, Defence Secretary […]

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අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc (Col), PGDC(Col) නීතීඥ   – සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන. 1. 1972 ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව පළමු ස්වස්ථානික ව්‍යවස්ථාව එනම් පළමු ජනරජ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව වෙයි. 2. එහි 10.1 ව්‍යවස්ථාව මෙසේය.10. (1) All written laws, including subordinate legislation in force immediately prior to thecommencement of the Constitution, shall be publishedin the […]

e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!” e-Con e-News August 2023 Part 1 ‘The shortest route to London from Paris is through Calcutta’ – Napoleon Bonaparte India’s Defence Acquisition Council bought for its Navy: 26 more Rafale fighter jets & 3 more Scorpene submarines ‘worth 1000s of crores’, from France, just as Indian PM N Modi landed […]

අද කොළඹදී ආරම්භ වූ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රිමියර් ලීග් තරඟාවලියේ ආරම්භක උළෙලේ දී ජාතික ගීය ගායනා කළ ආකාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් සමාජ ජාලයන්හි දැඩි විවේචන එල්ල වෙමින් තිබේ. උමාරා සිංහවංශ විසින් මෙම ගායනය සිදු කළ අතර එය ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික ගීය මෙතෙක් ගායනා කළ ආකාරයට වෙනස් ආකාරයකින් ගැයීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙම විවේචනයන් එල්ල වෙමින් ඇත. ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනයටත්, තරගාවලිය සංවිධායකයන්ටත්, […]

By Kanishka Singharia Courtesy The Hindustan Times The Chittoor district police issued a notice to Vigneshwari, instructing her to either leave the country before the visa’s expiration. In yet another cross-border love story, a Sri Lankan woman travelled to India to marry her six-year-old Facebook friend, who hails from Andhra Pradesh. According to Hindustan Times’s […]

Courtesy The Daily Star Japan  pressed bankrupt Sri Lanka on Saturday to expedite its debt restructuring, including with its biggest creditor China, to stabilise the island nation’s economy after an unprecedented crisis. Tokyo’s foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi welcomed economic reforms under the auspices of an International Monetary Fund bailout but said Sri Lanka needed to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror As a large creditor to Sri Lanka, China is welcome to join the effort steered by Japan, India and France to help the island nation cope with its debt distress, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday. She also called upon the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to speed up relief […]