පුරවැසි පෙරේරා විසින් කවුද කියන්නේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අපේ මාතෘභූමිය, අපේ මුතුන් මිත්තන්ගේ රට, අපි උපන් රට, අපි විවාහ වූ රට, අපේ දරුවන් ඉපදී හැදී වැඩුණු රට, අපේ දෙමාපියන් මිය ගොස් මිහිදන් කළ රට, කාගේ රට? අපි ආදරයෙන් ගෙදර යැයි කියන රට වන පස කවදා හෝ අපට වඩා සුවපහසු ලෙස වැතිර සිටීවිද? අප ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් බව […]

e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 22-28 October 2023 * The English ‘Governor’ Brownrigg & his translator, the ‘writer’ D’Oyly, usually star as ghosts at the Brutish Council’s misnamed Galle Literary Festivals. It should be called The D’Oyly Literary Festival, for it is with his sort – forget Robert Knox – that the […]

Vichara The inconsiderate hike of electricity tariff by the CEB with the approval of the government is the unbearable burden on electricity consumers who are already battered by an unremittingly high cost of living. The Minister of Power has already obtained Cabinet approval to revise prices every three months. This means that there will be […]

Mehjabin Bhanu The Bangabandhu Tunnel, the only tunnel in South Asia, was opened by Sheikh Hasina, the visionary behind Bangladesh’s transformation, the development wizard and architect of a brighter future for Bengalis. It spans 3.43 km from Patenga in Chittagong to Anwara end of Chittagong. Chittagong residents were celebrating the pleasure of creation because they […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne graced the closing ceremony of the 14th Asian Criminology Conference 2023 held at the Faculty of Graduate Studies of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) in Ratmalana today (Oct 29). The Chief Guest, Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya PC and the Defence Secretary were […]

Courtesy The Sunday Times Lycamobile’s French companies were on Thursday fined 10mn euros by a Paris court for money laundering and value-added tax (VAT) fraud. The group’s former chief executive officer Christopher Tooley also received a prison sentence and a heavy fine for complicity in the VAT fraud, agency reports said. Lycamobile, owned by Subaskaran […]

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Courtesy http://www.defenddemocracy.press/ If Russia had realised in time the depth and systemic nature of the aggression and intransigence of the Western capitalist-imperialist system, it would have acted more decisively by preventing or helping to suppress the coup d’état organised by the Americans in Kiev in 2014. And if it had chosen to […]

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Palitha Ariyarathna ISIS thugs take a hammer to civilisation: Priceless 3,000-year-old artworks smashed to pieces in minutes Generally, the main goal of terrorism is to attack the places most familiar to the public. It is working from the graveyard of the nation against it to the temples and monasteries. This is a matter that can […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න සාමාන්‍යයෙන් ත්‍රස්තවාදයේ ප්‍රධාන ඉලක්කය වන්නේ මහජනතාවට වඩාත් හුරුපුරුදු ස්ථානවල පහර දීමය. එය තමාට විරුද්ධ ජාතියේ සොහොන් බිමේ සිට පන්සල් ආරාම දක්වා ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙමින් පවතී. මේබව පසුගිය ලෝක ඉතිහාසය අධ්‍යනය කෙරිමෙන් පවා තේරුම් ගත හැකි කාරණයකි.ත්‍රස්තවාදියා විසින් තමන්ට විරුද්ධ ජාතියේ පැවැත්ම විනාශ කිරීම ඔවුන්ට ඇති ආරක්ෂාව පිළිබඳ හැඟීම විනාශ කිරීම කිනම් හෝ ක්‍රමයකින් ක්‍රියා […]

Top Spin by Suni (courtesy of cricinfo) Top Spin by Suni With thanks to: Shashank Kishore who is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo Oct. 27th 2023 “The entire Sri Lankan team stood together, their collective gaze fixed on the giant screen. The next moment, as the magic word “out” flashed, euphoria broke out. Sadeera Samarawickrama […]

Courtesy LankaLeader ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ රාජ්‍ය ආයතන ප්‍රතිව්‍යුහගත කිරීමේදී ඒවා විදේශියන් අතට පත්වීම වැළැක්වීම සඳහා, එම ආයතන මිලදී ගැනීමට ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ‘ජනතා සමාගමක්’ පිහිටුවීමේ සමාරම්භක උත්සවය අද (27 දා) බණ්ඩාරනායක ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේ බී. – ගොඩනැගිල්ලේ ජැස්මින් ශාලාවේ පැවැත්විණි. එය නම්කර තිබුනේ Treasure Treasure Republic Guardians ලෙස ය. උත්සව සභාව අමතමින් මෙහිදී නයෝමා සේනාරත්න මහත්මිය පැවසුවේ  […]

India NewsPress Trust of India. Taking up the issue with the Centre, Chief Minister M K Stalin urged Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to initiate necessary steps to secure the release all the fishermen and their fishing boats. Chennai:  As many as 37 Tamil Nadu fishermen were arrested and five of their fishing trawlers […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Government is set to implement a new property tax starting from 2025, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya disclosed. This decision has come as a result of recommendations put forth by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to the State Minister. “The new tax will primarily target individuals possessing substantial […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Police have reportedly implemented a number of measures in order to systematically control, and eradicate the operation of organised crime syndicates in the country within the next six months. Addressing an event in Colombo this afternoon (29 Oct.), Western Province Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police (SDIG) Deshabandu Tennakoon noted that […]