Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the Presidential Election and the Parliamentary Election will both be held next year and that neither of the elections will be postponed. He stated this while delivering a special statement in the Parliament today (22) regarding several matters including the existing cricket crisis.  We have established democracy in […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Foreign Affairs President’s Counsel Ali Sabry has emphasised the imperative need for a comprehensive, long-term targeted program as the primary solution to address the economic crisis facing the country. Minister Ali Sabry underscored the complexity of the economic challenges and stressed that short-term fixes would not suffice, highlighting the necessity for […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Transport and Highways Bandula Gunawardena has slammed the token strike launched by the expressway employees this morning (Nov.22) as a deliberate attempt at incurring a loss to the government. This is not a trade union action, but a subversive move,” the lawmaker said addressing the parliamentary session earlier today. The All-Island […]

Dilrook Kannangara Facts are stranger than fiction! Can Sri Lankans handle the truth? Team Sri Lanka won the ICC Cricket World Cup Final in 1996, were Finalists in 2007 and 2011 and Semi-Finalists in 2003. A careful look at the scorecards of all the above Final and one Semi-Final (2003) matches reveals that Murali and […]

Chanaka Bandarage, International Lawyer There is much debate in the country about our cricket. There is no doubt that the Cricket Board and the Selection Committee should bear major responsibility for the debacle. But, what about the recent and current Cricketers? The writer states they too must bear responsibility. It is the players who play […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D  (784) නීතීඥ වටගල හා ලාල්කාන්තගේ පුතාලා ගැන සමන් කියූ කතාව-සෞඛ්‍ය\ගුරු ප්‍රශ්න දකින විදිහ – YouTube හෘද ශාක්ෂිය හා අධ්‍යාත්මය අතර වෙනසක් තිබේද? අනුර කුමාර මහතා විසින් නොබෝදා කල <JVP එක විසින් ජාතික ජන බලවේගයට (NPP) <අධ්‍යාත්මය>  සපයනවා [පිඹිනවා],> යන  ගාම්භීර ප්‍රකාශය නිසා මෙම කෙටි සටහනට මා විසින් කලින් යොදාගන්නට සිතූ, <JVP […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය  අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ  චීන ජනාධිපති ෂී ජින් පිං මහතාගේ විශේෂ නියෝජිත, රාජ්‍ය මන්ත්‍රී ෂෙන් යිකින් (Shen Yiqin) මහත්මිය අතර හමුවක් අද (2023.11.20) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වෙත චීනය ලබා දෙන අඛණ්ඩ සහයෝගය ඉතා ඉහළින් අගය කරන බවත්, චීනය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අතර ආර්ථික සහයෝගීතාව තවදුරටත් පුළුල් කර ගැනීමේ […]

Courtesy PIME Asia News On the occasion of the World Day celebrated by the UN on 19 November in Sri Lanka, the Public Health Inspectors Association released some data on the scarcity of these essential facilities for the protection of people’s health and dignity. Colombo (AsiaNews) – Yesterday, 19 November, marked the “World Toilet Day” […]

Source: Xinhua COLOMBO, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe met here on Monday with visiting Chinese State Councilor Shen Yiqin, with both sides pledging to deepen cooperation and friendship between the two countries. Wickremesinghe thanked China for its long-term valuable support and assistance to Sri Lanka, saying that Sri Lanka firmly supports […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) will initiate a probe into incidents in which stocks of coal imported for the Norochcholai thermal power plant have been under-invoiced for the evasion of due amount of Value Added Tax (VAT), an official said. COPA Chairman Lasantha Alagiyawanna told Daily […]

BY MEERA SRINIVASAN Courtesy The Hindu Businessline Special envoy of the Chinese President Shen Yiqin with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo on Monday. China is prioritising” the extension of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) to Sri Lanka, the country’s Special Envoy told President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday, in an indication that China is looking to scale […]

Courtesy The Island Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday called on Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to remove parliamentary committee chairmen who had conflicts of interest. Premadasa demanded to know from the Speaker what moral right a person had to chair a committee investigating Sri Lanka Cricket after providing consultancy services and getting paid for those services […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Parliamentary Business has agreement to appoint a Special Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the irregularities in Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC), under a co-chairmanship of the ruling parties and the opposition. This was decided on during the meeting of the Committee on Parliamentary Business this evening (20) chaired by Speaker Mahinda […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Colombo, November 20, 2023 – The ongoing crisis within Sri Lanka Cricket took center stage in Parliament today as Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe tabled three letters sent by Cricket President Shammi Silva to the International Cricket Council (ICC). These letters, requesting the suspension of Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership, have sparked a public […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 24.11.23 The Tamil Separatist Movement continued to obstruct and harass the Kurundi project.   On 3rd October 2018 a group of MPs from Colombo visited Kurundi. A group of Tamils confronted them  and there was an argument with Tamil MPs and residents.   On February 4th 2022 Ven. Santhabodhi had planned to hold a […]

Courtesy  e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.November 18, 2023Posted inUncategorized ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 12-18 November 2023 * Guess what? Karl Marx turns out to be the ghost in the machines of the largest and most strategic technological corporation in the world today. But first…      There’s a lot unsaid […]

Manusha Media කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර කච්චිවත්ත ඉස්ලාම් දේවස්ථානය පෞරානික උරුමයක් ලෙස නම් කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින්  පවසයි ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ජාතියක් විදියට, මනුස්සයින් විදියට අප සියලු දෙනාම එකට එක්විය යුතු කාලයක් පැමිණ තිබෙන බවත්, රටේ දියුණුව හා ජාතික සමගිය යම් අයෙක් බලාපොරොත්තුවන්නේ නම් එකිනෙකාට චෝදනා කරමින් නොසිට එය තමාගෙන්ම පටන් ගත යුතු බවත් […]

by A. Abdul Aziz. The Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of Sri Lanka Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at was held on Sunday the 29 October 2023 at Baitul Basit Mosque Sri Lanka in Pasyala, chaired by Markaz Representative.  Prior to the main program, flag hoisting was done by the Markaz Representative followed by silent prayer. The main event […]

Sonali Kolhatkar Courtesy Iran Herald 18 Nov 2023, 23:13 GMT+10 Americans are funding a genocide and no one asked for permission. We are being dragged, unwillingly, into a war that is decimating a people. We are being forced to become involuntary accomplices to mass slaughter. Palestinians, on the basis of their legal right against being wiped […]

Non-Corporate News Parts of this video were used in the documentary, “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media” https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/manuf… Watch “Manufacturing Consent” on youtube:    • Video   The interview was edited into two (or was it 3?) segments and played on my public-access show, also called “Non-Corporate News”, on Time-Warner Cable channel 3, which then included the […]

Courtesy The Nation On November 11, an Arabic-language Twitter account maintained by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a video purporting to be a selfie by a nurse in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, a major battlefield in the current conflict that was taken over by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) a few days later. In the startling video, as […]

Courtesy The Daily News The Sri Lankan government has released 22 fishermen hailing from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, who were detained on November 18 by the Navy personnel on charges of poaching. The two seized country boats belonging to the fishermen have also been released, Rayappan, president, the country boat fishermen association, told journalists in […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror (Daily Mirror) – Three more leaked letters addressed to ICC Chairman Greg Barclay by SLC president Shammi Silva detailing Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe’s interference in decision-making processes as Sport Minister have resurfaced as part of the latest saga in the Sri Lanka Cricket situation. During a media briefing today, Sports Minister […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – The Lanka Private Bus Owners’ Association (LPBOA) has decided not to provide buses to any political party to bring people to their rallies and meetings in the future. LPBOA Chairman Gemunu Wijerathne told the Daily Mirror that providing buses to bring people to political rallies and meetings […]

By: Susil Premalal Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said that he had received threats from Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) President Shammi Silva and National Sports Council Director Sudhath Chandrasekara in a new turn of events between the two parties. The Sports Minister made these observations during a special […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe claims that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Sri Lanka from international cricket. Ranasinghe made this accusation while quoting a letter allegedly sent by SLC to the ICC on 07 November 2023, during a media briefing which is currently being held in Colombo. […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Sri Lankan President unveils ambitious national green vision paving the way for a sustainable future Fri, Nov 3, 2023, 07:43 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. We live in a state of permanent emergency. Poly crisis’ is a fashionable term these days in United Nations (UN), and Bretton Woods circles that […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Given the critique of Odious debt accumulated as a result of private capital market borrowing and corrupt and opaque bond trading attempts are ongoing to simultaneously greenwash the bond business and deepen debt traps  in the name of environment conservation, Debt for Nature Swaps (DFNS), Green and Blue Bonds or Environment, Social and […]