Shenali D Waduge This is not to present a notion that Israel is right or wrong, or that Sri Lanka is right or wrong but to question UN’s treatment of Member states & the applicability of the UN Charter & the principles of equality & non-discrimination to Member states. UNGA has condemned Israel over 120 […]

By C.A.Chandraprema Dear Sinha,The 57th session of the Human Rights Council is to be held from 9 September 2024 to 9 October 2024. Under the provisions of resolution 51/1 which was passed against Sri Lanka in October 2022, the UN Human Rights Commissioner is due to present a written update on the situation of human […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera President Maithripala Sirisena says he decided to establish the National Economic Council to strengthen the national economy by formalizing the economic management in the country. He said that the objectives of NEC are to increase the export income and develop the local industry.  He pointed out there is a need for a […]

By Pepe Escobar Information Clearing House. While the collective west is in the grips of an existential legitimacy crisis, the RIC is devising its own security order to protect the rest of the world from the ‘genocidals.’ The Hegemon has no idea what awaits the Exceptionalist mindset: China has started to decisively stir the civilizational cauldron […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The Ministry of Defence has announced the establishment of a special unit to gather information on the human trafficking of retired Sri Lankan military personnel to the Russia-Ukraine war through illegal channels. Accordingly, the Defence Secretary requests the family members of the concerned to provide information about retired Sri […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre In a commendable display of swift action and strategic coordination, the Sri Lanka Coast Guard (SLCG) responded decisively to an oil spill incident reported late on the evening of May 5, 2024. The spill, originating from a fuel transferring bowser that had fallen into a waterway at the Laggala […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය බේරුවල නගර සභා බල ප්‍රදේශය තුළ එකතු වන අපද්‍රව්‍ය, වත්තිමිරාජපුර ගම්මානයේ ඉඩමකට බැහැර කිරීමෙන්, මතුව ඇති බරපතළ සෞඛ්‍ය ගැටළුව  විසඳීම සඳහා, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවක් පාර්ලිමේන්තු සංකීර්ණයේදී 2024.05.09 දින පැවැත්විණි. පා.ම. ඉමිටියාස් බාකිර් මාකාර් මහතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාගෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී කළ ඉල්ලීමකට අනුව පැවති මෙම සාකච්ඡාවට, ධිවර රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය පියල් නිශාන්ත මහතාද, […]

Nava Thakuria While a declining voters’ turnout surfaced in various parts of India/Bharat during the last three phases of polling under general elections 2024, Assam as well as Northeast Bharat recorded an impressive voters’ response to elect 25 members to the 18th Lok Sabha. Assam voted peacefully in the third  (and final) phase polling on 7 […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් විදේශිකයින් සඳහා ගුවන්තොටුපළට පැමිණීමේදී වීසා නිකුත් කිරීමේ බලය විදේශීය පුද්ගලික සමාගමකට පැවරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් විරෝධය පළ කරමින් දේශහිතෛෂි ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයේ මහ ලේකම් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතාගේ අත්සනින් යුතුව ආගමන විගමන පාලකවරයා වෙත ලිපියක් යොමු කර ඇත. රාජ්‍යය විසින් ඉටු කළ යුතු වගකීමක් විදේශීය පුද්ගලික අංශයකට පැවරීම මගින් ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව අනතුරට ලක් කිරීමට අමතරව […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, May 9 (Daily Mirror) – The Election Commission formally announced that the 2024 Presidential election will be held on a day between September 17 and October 16. Issuing a notice signed by its chairman R.M.A.L. Ratnayake, the Election Commission said it will call for nominations to hold the Presidential election […]

Courtesy Trans4Mind Excerpts about the life of Frederick Myers from the book by Ian Currie“You Cannot Die: The Incredible Findings of a Century of Research on Death”Edited by Peter Shepherd Frederick Myers was a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. Within a few weeks of Myers’ death in 1901, he began to communicate through […]