Shenali D Waduge Elections are far more than simply going to an election booth every 5 years and casting one’s vote, yet how many of Sri Lanka’s voters realize the importance of an election? Is it simply a day where they can’t wait to take revenge & vote out the party in power not caring […]

සුදත් ගුණසේකර  කාලෝ අයන්තේ භන්තේ? ඇත්තක් ඇති සැටියෙන්       කිවයුත්තේ සිවුරයි පණ දී රට                 රැකගත්තේ සිවුරෙයි හෙළයේ අනු පණ        ඇත්තේ අදත් නසින්නේ මේ රට              මත්තේ”                                           (ගරු මසිලීනු ජයකොඩි පියතුමා )_ මේ රටේ වසර 2566 ක් තිස්සේ සිංහල -බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතිය සහ ශිෂ්ඨාචාරය රැකගත්තේ බෞද්ධ භික්ෂූන්ය. එමනිසා අදත් එය ආරක්ෂා කරගැනීමට පෙරමුණට වඩිණු මැනවි ස්වාමීනි. ඔබ වහන්සේලා […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 05-11 May 2024 Grassroots? Astroturf! Foreign aid agencies & their local NGO contractors have long colonized most areas of public policy & services – education, healthcare, court reform, rural development, infrastructure, etc. – ee Focus, Unrest in Georgia over ‘Foreign Influence Transparency Law’ Coyly denying he […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement has met the claims of the Buddhists, by issuing a counter statement which is a mirror image of what the Buddhists are saying.  Buddhists say that Buddhists was there in the north and east before the Tamils. The Buddhists built the Buddhist monuments. Then these monuments were destroyed by […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Tamil Separatist Movement has managed to create a doubt in the minds of the public regarding the Buddhist claims for the north and south.   The word Kovil” has now come into discussions on Buddhist sites in north and east. That is something new. Tamil Separatist Movement claims that there were ancient Hindu kovils […]

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Manusha Media විදේශ ගත ශ්‍රමිකයින් නීත්‍යානුකූලව බැංකු ක්‍රමය ඔස්සේ මේ වසරේදී මුල් මාස හතර තුළදී පමණක් ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියන 2.079ක මුදල් එවා ඇති අතර අප්‍රේල් මාසයේදී පමණක් ඩොලර් මිලියන 543.8ක් එවා තිබේ. පසුගිය වසරේ මුල් මාස හතර සමග සන්සන්දනය කර බලන විට විදේශ ගත ශ්‍රමිකයින් මේ වසරේ මුල් මාස හතර තුළදී එවූ විදේශ විදේශ ප්‍රේශණ […]

Nava Thakuria An ancient Indian saying ‘Swasthya Param Sampad (Health is wealth) emerges as most relevant for the entire human race in the post-corona era. Over eight billion human beings on the planet understood the real face of life & death during the horrible Covid-19 days, where almost everyone was locked inside and counted the […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Calls for divestment from BlackRock and other International Sovereign Bonds (ISB), have echoed across Columbia, Yale and many non-Ivy League universities in the United States recently. BlackRock is heavily invested in weapons companies fueling a genocidal war in Palestine. However, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF), debt restructuring operations in the Global South appear […]

Shenali D Waduge We may have a literacy rate of over 90% but majority of the citizens in particular those holding key positions in both private & public sector are clueless of geopolitics & historical linkages to modern governance or careless to even learn. This is why we are in a stalemate situation where politicians […]

Mahinda Rajapaksa Leader Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna The government’s plans to sell off certain national assets and state owned enterprises have given rise to discontent among trade unions, political parties and the general public. The present divestiture drive is ostensibly aimed at minimizing govt. expenditure on loss-making state owned enterprises and meeting certain IMF conditions […]

Deewara saha Sagara Sampath Sanwardane Udawa The current and future prosperity of Sri Lanka is intrinsically linked to its marine and coastal assets, with fisheries and tourism being the two main pillars of its economy, gross domestic product (GDP) and source of employment    Implementation of the Blue Economy, hitherto to be named as” Fisheries […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, May 11 (Daily Mirror) – Venerable Omalpe Sobitha Thera told the Daily Mirror today that there are over 10 members currently serving in Parliament who hold dual citizenship and said that those MPs should be removed from their posts before the elections. “In light of the Supreme Court ruling, I […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කටුනායක ගුවන්තොටුපළේ වීසා බලපත්‍ර නිකුත් කිරීම භාරදී ඇති විදේශ සමාගම එම ක්ෂේත්‍රයට අදාළව කළු පැල්ලම් සහිත කුප්‍රකට සමාගමක් බව  ශ්‍රී ලංකා කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂය සඳහන් කරයි. මේ බව පවසමින් එම පක්ෂයේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් වෛද්‍ය ජී. වීරසිංහ මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇති මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයක් මෙසේය. විසා ලබාදීමේ බලය දුන් මෙම සමාගම ස්විට්සර්ලන්තයට අයත් Kuoni […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, May  (Daily Mirror)- Amid concerns over the presence of Chinese research vessels conducting surveys in the Indian Ocean, the US nominee to Sri Lanka Elizabeth K. Horst assured the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee to work with Sri Lanka to ensure a moratorium on these vessels remains in place. The […]

By CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA  Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government has decided to implement a referral programme for state officials to become monks in Thailand, the Buddhist Religious and Cultural Affairs Ministry said. Accordingly, the Thailand Government has planned to implement a special temporary monastic programme for the Sri Lankan community to improve the local religious […]

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