Sudath Gunasekara, in The Island, 16 December 2018,   Vision and mission on water management in Sri Lanka!” A recent study on Sri Lanka has identified it as one of the six countries that share one half of the 0.3% drinkable water this planet has. What is even more important and surprising is that ours […]

by A. Abdul Aziz Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka. In today’s (13th October 2023) Friday Sermon, delivered at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, United Kingdom, Supreme Head of the world wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad asked Ahmadis to pray for the situation in Palestine and Israel and spoke about the injustices […]

Krithiga Narayanan courtesy DW Asia Sri Lanka’s economic reforms are slowly taking hold, but as hunger and poverty continue to rise, observers say the country still has a long way to go before people see improvements to their lives. For several years, Sri Lanka has been facing challenges on multiple fronts, exacerbated by an economic […]

Courtesy CNA NEW YORK : A group of private holders of Sri Lanka’s eurobonds proposed in a debt overhaul plan to the government the issuance of 10 bonds linked with the country’s macroeconomic health that will mature between 2027 and 2036. Holders choosing the macro-linked bonds would take a haircut of 20 per cent on […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The HIP RORO team Vehicles awaiting transhipment at the RORO yard The Hambantota International Port (HIP) has achieved a milestone by handling over half a million transshipment units by September, exceeding the port’s previous year’s roll-on/roll-off (RORO) figures. As the global economy recovers gradually, we continue to aggressively market our location […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Quips it would be easier for President Biden to talk to Hamas than the Congress Leadership President Ranil Wickremesinghe cautioned if Gaza was destroyed it would have a rippling effect from Turkey to the Philippines and governments could lose control. Destroying Hamas is one thing. They can take military action against […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today First of all, I would like to thank our Sri Lankan friends for the excellent arrangement of today’s meeting. We are confident that the tendency to consolidate cooperation between the practice-oriented multipolar platforms like IORA should become the dominant trend. We consider the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Eurasian Economic Union as […]

By Prof. Rasheen Bappu Courtesy Ceylon Today The State of Palestine rejects in the strongest terms the provocative and hateful Speech delivered by the Israeli Prime Minister at the United Nations General Assembly General Debate. From the podium of the United Nations, Israel’s Prime Minister confirmed, yet again, the colonial designs of his government and […]

By Ceylon Today Indo-Canadian relations were disrupted after Canada alleged that Indian intelligence assassinated a Sikh terrorist in Canada. Prof. Rohan Gunaratna wrote the foreword to Stewart Bell’s ‘Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around the World.’ India’s largest-selling English news magazine Weekly interviewed Prof. Gunaratna on Canada offering sanctuary for terrorists. Contrary […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to leave for China tomorrow (Oct. 14) on an official visit. During his stay, Wickremesinghe will attend a conference in Beijing, taking place on October 17 and 18, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). He is also slated to call on Chinese […]

Courtesy Adaderana he Supreme Court has determined that the decision of ‘Ape Jana Bala Pakshaya’ (Our Power of People Party or OPPP) to expel Venerable Athuraliye Rathana Thero from the party is not legally valid. The verdict was delivered when the petition filed by Rathana Thero was taken up before Supreme Court Justices Buwaneka Aluvihare, […]