Courtesy Adaderana The central bank (CBSL) governor says Sri Lanka will have to go through another Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) strategy if the targets of the current plan are not achieved. Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe also noted that the DDO strategy announced by the government is strong enough to restore the country’s debt sustainability. He made […]

Courtesy Adaderana India and Sri Lanka have decided to cooperate towards the establishment of a multi-product petroleum pipeline from the southern part of India to Sri Lanka, in a bid to ensure an affordable and reliable supply of energy resources to Sri Lanka. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Friday (21 July), held bilateral talks with Indian […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka inflation, based on National Consumer Price Index (NCPI), for June 2023 has been recorded at 10.8%, as measured by the year-on-year change. According to the latest report published by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS), this is a slight drop in comparison to the headline inflation of 22.1% recorded in May 2023. […]

Courtesy Adaderana India expects Sri Lanka to implement the 13th Amendment and ensure a life of dignity and respect” for its Tamil population, said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (July 21). Welcoming Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe to India, Mr. Modi informed that both sides have held talks on a number of infrastructure […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar The events of the not too distant past relative to regime change seems to be of little or no  avail relative to Law Enforcement when it comes to the circumstances which forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country. Rajapaksa, long implicated in corruption and draconian measures when he was defense […]

Anup Sinha The United States is often referred to as the ‘champion of democracy and human rights’. But over the past two decades, as it has transformed into a multicultural society, the United States has faced numerous domestic human rights problems, including institutionalized racism, hate crimes, and extrajudicial killings by criminals and law enforcement. Numerous […]

Pathik Hasan  Dhaka based security and strategic affairs analyst Foreign diplomats become active when the election time approaches. Their activity becomes like a political party. While the ruling party protested this breach of etiquette, the opposition parties rightly took their word for it. Sometimes prompting them to be more active. They are also seen going […]

විදෙස් බලය සංවිධානයෙන් නිවේදනයක්  උතුර සහ දකුණ අතර පවතින දුරස්ථභාවය නැති කිරීම සදහා විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්‍රය ඇතුළු සියලුම ක්ෂේත්‍රයන් ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් කළ යුතු බවට අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර යාපනයට ගොස් කළ ප්‍රකාශය අගය කැන නමුත්, ඩිජිටල්කරණ ක්‍රියාවලිය ප්‍රායෝගිකව ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට කිසිදු පියවරක් නොගැනීම කණගාටුවට කරුණක් බව විදෙස් බලය සංවිධානය අවධාරණය කරයි. විදෙස් බලය සංවිධානයේ කැදවුම්කරු ජනක […]

Dr. Ibrahim Islam Violence, hatred, division – these are unpleasant words. Its meaning can be found in the dictionary. Synonyms of those words can be found in the dictionaries of other languages of the world. The meaning of those words is the same in the dictionary of all languages of the world. When students and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The suspect Roshan Dissanayaka was produced before the Naula (Paldeniya) Magistrate’s Court on charges of threatening a Member of Parliament, breaching Parliamentary privileges and criminal intimidation. Senior State Counsel Shaminda Wickrema appearing for the prosecution submitted to Court that the suspect had sent threatening messages to the mobile phone of State […]

Courtesy Adaderana Restrictions imposed on imported goods will be further relaxed later today (July 20), State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says. Thereby, import restrictions on 328 more items will be eased. The lawmaker said the gazette notification announcing the import restriction relaxation would be published tonight. The announcement comes a month after the government […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Spokesman for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, Arindam Bagchi, has revealed India’s willingness to further expand financial economic relations between Sri Lanka and India. Speaking on President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to India, Bagchi said We would like to steepen this financial economic connection, but I think it’ll be premature for me to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will conduct training programmes for 300 Agriculture Extension Officers in Sri Lanka under an European Union (EU) funded project in order to boost Sri Lanka’s rice sector, the FAO announced. The programme comes as part of an innovative project titled RiceUP, launched by […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Tamil Seperatist Movement alleges that    there was an ancient kovil at Kurundi called Kurundumale Aadi Sivan Aiyanar Kovil.  Tamil Separatist Movement complained    on 1 July 2021, that they found the lingam   missing from the site and that a trident  had been damaged.Sivan Aiyanar Kovil Society Chief Weerasingham Kaleichelwan, told the newspaper, The Morning […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya I believe I’m alone in receiving unsolicited electronic mail and text communications often. Despite internet service providers’ best efforts to keep spammers out of their customers’ accounts, some unscrupulous people manage to slip through the cracks. On this basis, internet service providers’ efforts should be lauded. On the same point, despite […]

MOD  Media Centre Deputy High Commissioner of the Indian High Commission in Colombo Vinod Kurian Jacob paid a farewell call on the State Minister of Defence, Hon. Pramitha Bandara Thennakoon at the State Minister’s Office today (Jul 18). The State Minister extended a warm welcome to the Indian Deputy High Commissioner and later had a […]

Manusha Media විදේශ රැකියා සදහා පිටත්වීටම අපේක්ෂිත ශ්‍රමිකයින්ගේ සුදුසුකම්, රැකියා අවස්ථාවන් එකිනෙකට සම්බන්ධ කරනු ලබන අන්තර්ජාලය පදනම් කරගත් වැඩසටහනක්  (IGRS) සංක්‍රමණය පිළිබද ජාත්‍යන්තර ආයතනයේ සහාය ඇතිව ආරම්භ කරනු ලැබූ අතර කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා සහ සංක්‍රමණය පිළිබද ජාත්‍යන්තර ආයතනයේ ආසියානු පැසිපික් කලාපීය අධ්‍යක්ෂ Sarah Lou Arriola අතින් එම වැඩසටහන යාපනය මුට්‍රවේලි […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dhaka, July 12: Bangladesh is not in a Chinese debt trap, says its  Foreign Minister A.K.Abdul Momen. In an article in Daily Sun, Momen said that the single-biggest bilateral lender is Japan. Unfortunately, there is a wrong perception among few US lawmakers and officials regarding Bangladesh. They believe that Bangladesh is moving towards the […]

 Lanka Lead News පසුගියදා වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුව, මහවැලිය සහ පුරාවිද්‍යා දෙපාර්තුමෙන්තු විසින් මායිම් යොදා වෙන් කර තිබූ මුලතිව් දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ රක්ෂිත වනාන්තර ඉඩම් අක්කර 29,000ක් ඔවුන්ගේ භාරයෙන් නිදහස් කොට දෙමළ ජනතාව වෙත පවරන ලෙස ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය විසින් දැනුම්දී ඇති බවත්, ඊයේ දිනයේ (18) දෙමළ සන්ධානයේ ජාතිවාදී දේශපාලනික අරමුණු ඉටුකිරීම උදෙසා වත්මන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා (පොලිස් බලතල පමණක් […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Refuting claims that nuts and bolts worth millions of rupees had been removed and stolen from the New Kelani Bridge, Transport Minister Bandula Gunawardane said these nuts and bolts cannot be removed so easily as special tools are needed to do so. The Minister told Parliament that no nuts and bolts […]

Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka’s forthcoming review of the USD 3 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package “should go through” given the falling inflation, appreciation of the rupee and build-up of foreign reserves says Prof. Krishnamurthy Subramanian, representative at the IMF Executive Board for Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Bhutan. Sri Lanka stands a […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka stands a strong chance of passing the first review of its $3 billion bailout given falling interest rates and a build-up of foreign reserves, according to the nation’s representative on the International Monetary Fund executive board. The South Asian country’s efforts to achieve debt sustainability in line with IMF stipulations are […]

Courtesy Adaderana The European Commission has suggested that the current GSP+ (Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus) scheme be extended by 04 years, amidst the ongoing negotiations for the EU’s new GSP+ arrangement. Taking to Twitter, the Delegation of European Union (EU) to Sri Lanka has mentioned that as one of Sri Lanka’s largest trading partners […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Anti-Corruption Bill was passed in Parliament on Wednesday (19 July) with amendments. The Bill which was presented before the House on 06 July, was passed in Parliament this morning without a vote. The Bill was presented before the Parliament, with amendments, today, for the Committee Stage. Amendments proposed by the Minister and […]

Shenali D Waduge Rajavarothiam Sampanthan is a Vellala MP and the oldest MP in Sri Lanka’s Parliament. There are not many nonagenarian MPs but Sampanthan is likely to take his Eelam dream to his grave & beyond coupled with the hate, racism, vengeance & revenge that will follow him for many births. Having lived through […]

By Dr Tilak S. Fernando Since Sri Wickremara Ranasinghe became King of Senkadagala (Kandy), many conflicts existed between the elite and society. When it became so aggressive to take revenge in April 1802, there was an incident in British-occupied Puttalam, where a Muslim group was battered, and their belongings were seized with the help of […]

Dr. Ibrahim Islam Al-Qur’an is the book of guidance sent by Allah Ta’ala. In this Quran, there are all the guidelines for managing the life of mankind. From the beginning of creation, Allah Ta’ala has described the words of all the Prophets and Messengers and the descriptions of various heavenly books and in the Qur’an. […]

Manusha Media සිල්ලර දේශපාලනය වෙනුවෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ න්‍යායපත්‍රය අවභාවිතා නොකරන ලෙස කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා කතානායකවරයාගෙන් අද (18) උදෑසන කතානායකවරයාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටියේය. අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුව රැස්වූ අවස්ථාවේදී විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස පාර්ලිමේන්තු න්‍යායපත්‍රයෙන් ඔබ්බට ගොස් විවිධ ප්‍රශ්න මතු කළ අතර ඉන් පසුව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ ඉල්ලීම කළේය. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය. ජාත්‍යන්තර බොක්සිං සංගමයේ (IBA) සභාපති උමාර් ක්‍රෙම්ලෙව් මහතා 2023.07.18 දින  අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවිය. ජාත්‍යන්තර බොක්සිං සංගමයේ (IBA) සභාපතිවරයා  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බොක්සිං සහ අනෙකුත් ක්‍රීඩා දියුණු කිරීමට අඛණ්ඩව ගන්නා උත්සාහයන් පිළිබඳව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාට සහ ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශයට මෙහිදී ස්තූතිය පුද කළ අතර  රුසියානු බොක්සිං සම්මේලනය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බොක්සිං ක්‍රීඩාව ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීමට […]

සෞඛ්‍ය වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ විද්වත් සංගමය  “විශ්ලේෂණ රසායනාගාරයක් හදන වගකීම අපිට දෙන්න, වසරකින් ඇමතිවරයාට ආඩම්බරයෙන් නිදර්ශක එවන්න රසායනාගාරයක් හදලා දෙනවා කියලා සහතික වෙන්නම්’ ඖෂධ තත්ව පාළණයට ලංකාවේ රසායනාගාරයක් හැදුවේ 1990දී. ඒකාලේ ඒකේ පරීක්ෂණ කරන්න අවම වශයෙන් වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ 67ක් ඕනේ කියලා තීරණය කලේ රේණුකා හේරත් සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමති තුමයගේ කාලේ. අද වෙනකොට ඒකේ ඉන්නේ 10දෙනයි. ගෙනල්ලා දාපු උපකරණ වලින් […]