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. The elephant in the room of the United Nations CoP-28 Anthropocene climate confab in Dubai is the environmental cost of war and the global military […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  Green Marine is now part of the new Offshore Energy platform that connects communities to tell the story of the energy transition and sustainable solutions in the maritime and offshore world.   From phasing out fossil fuels to investing in greener innovations within the maritime and offshore industry, the energy transition is relevant […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D මාක්ස්වාදය හා ලංකාවේ පන්සල ලංකාවේ මාක්ස්වාදීන් විසින් සිංහල බෞද්ධ සමාජය සමඟ ඇතිකරගත් තකතිරු ඝට්ටනය අවසාන (අවම?) කර ගැනීමට අනගි අවස්ථාවක් දැන් 2023 අගවනවිට JVP නායකයින්ට උදාවී තිබේ. නෝත් ආණ්ඩුකාරයාගේ සිටම පන්සල (සිවුර) සමඟ සුද්දන්ට තිබූ හිසරදයට සමානම මානසික ලෙඩක් ලන්ඩන් සිට ආපසු පැමිණි තරුණ මාක්ස්වාදීන්ට 1930ස් ගණන්වල සිටම ගමේ පන්සල සමඟ […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre ‘The National Youth Hero Award’ will be introduced through the National Cadet Corps (NCC) to honour the emerging Sri Lankan young heroes. The intention behind this move is to groom the youth to be dynamic, versatile and disciplined citizens with extraordinary leadership qualities to face utmost challenges in the […]

Courtesy The Hindu The court was hearing a petition filed by T. Ganesan, who resides at the Irumboothipatti camp in Karur district. He came from Sri Lanka to India in 1990 during the civil war. He said he was an Indian citizen and sought its confirmation. Since the authorities treated him as a Sri Lankan […]

Courtesy The New Indian Express Madurai Bench of Madras High Court observed while ordering the Centre to grant citizenship to a 70-year-old repatriate from Sri Lanka who has been a refugee for 33 years.  |  A+A A- By Jegadeeshwari Pandian MADURAI: Though half a century has lapsed since India signed the Indo-Sri Lankan agreements (Sirimavo-Shastri Pact of 1964 and Sirima-Gandhi […]

By: Kimberly Rodrigues Courtesyn EasternEye The Netherlands, which colonised Sri Lanka from 1658-1796, returned the artefacts stolen in 1756 The artefacts include a cannon inlaid with gold, silver, and bronze, known as Lewke’s cannon,” according to the NewsFirst.lk news portal – image credit: museum.gov.lk website Six Sri Lankan artefacts taken by the Dutch over 200 […]

Courtesy The Island Mahinda Rajapaksa SLPP leader Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday (28) hit back at critics, claiming that a robust economy had been built under his presidency. He said the UNP-SLFP government which ruled the country during the 2015-2019 period should be held responsible for the current economic crisis. The following is the text of a […]

Dr. Nalaka Godahewa Courtesy The Island Member of Parliament Dr. Nalaka Godahewa says that even in this budget, the President’s plan to break a part of the opposition has failed. He said so at a recent press conference held at the Nawala office of the Freedom Janata Sabha on the budget and the current political […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Sajith Premadasa Sacking of Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe will go down in history as an instance where a President who does not have a direct mandate from the people removed a minister who had got elected to Parliament, Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament yesterday. Raising a […]

By Dr. Sasika Palathiratnem BAMS (Hons.) – FIM, UoC Courtesy The Island Ayurveda is a holistic system of medicine with Vedic roots that originated in India about 5,000 years ago. Ayurveda is not only a complete system of medicine but also a scientific philosophy of life, with the two main objectives of prevention and curing of […]

By a Sports Aficionado Courtesy The Island This cricket-mad nation was appalled by the pathetic and blatantly disgraceful performance of its National Cricket Team at the premier event of the game, the World Cup. Even before the event ended, heads rolled over here on the cricket board. Such action should have been taken long ago […]

 By KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo (Daily Mirror) – The judiciary is yet to respond formally to the request by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana as the head of the Constitution Council to submit the details related to the performance of judges nominated to be picked for key positions. Earlier, the Speaker wrote to Chief […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Madurai, Dec 2, (New Indian Express) – Though half a century has lapsed since India signed the Indo-Sri Lankan agreements (Sirimavo-Shastri Pact of 1964 and Sirima-Gandhi Pact of 1974) to resolve the status of Indian Origin Tamils (IOT) in Sri Lanka, the Indian government has still not fulfilled its treaty obligations, […]

 By AJITH SIRIWARDANA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Parliament, Dec. 2 (Daily Mirror)- The monthly income of the Excise Department has increased by Rs. 1 billion after checking fake stickers on liquor bottles, a Parliamentary committee revealed. This was revealed by the officials of the Excise Department to the Sectoral Oversight Committee on National Economic and Physical […]