By Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD Organized by  the  Wayamba University of Sri Lanka

ආචාර්ය සරත් ඔබේසේකර සමුද්‍ර හා අක්වෙරළ සංවර්ධනය සඳහා සභාපති උපදේශක මණ්ඩලය අතිගරු ජනාදිපති තුමනි, මෙම පණිවිඩය ඔබට හොඳ සෞඛ්‍යයකින් සහ උසස් මනෝභාවයකින් සිටිනු ඇතැයි මම බලාපොරොත්තු වෙමි. අපනයන සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලය (EDB) යටතේ ඇති උපදේශක මණ්ඩලයේ සභාපතිවරයා වශයෙන්, විශේෂයෙන්ම නාවික සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරය සහ නිල් ආර්ථිකය පිළිබඳ පුළුල් සංකල්ප කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු කරමින් සමුද්‍ර හා අක්වෙරළ කර්මාන්තය […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Your Excellency, I hope this message finds you well. I would like to bring to your attention several key initiatives that could significantly propel Sri Lanka’s development, particularly in the Trincomalee region. 1. Renewable Energy Development: The potential for wind power, offshore wave power, and solar power in Trincomalee is immense. Establishing […]

Jeffrey Sachs Of Fans Jeffrey Sachs is a well-known American economist, academic, and public policy analyst who has made significant contributions to the fields of sustainable development and economic development. He has held various prestigious positions throughout his career, including serving as the director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and as a special […]

CGTN The first BRICS summit since the group expanded from five to 10 members is underway in Russia’s Kazan, with the entire world watching how these nations embrace diversity while reaching consensus in the newly-expanded bloc. In an exclusive interview with World Insight’s Tian Wei, Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs noted that BRICS is not […]

Redacted Col. Douglas Macgregor says Israel will attack Iran before election day and it will seal their fate. Israel is destroying itself and the U.S. is helping.

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. හැඳින්වීම 1971 දෙසැම්බර් මාසයේදී JVP කැරළි කරුවන්ගේ ශාක්ෂි (confessions?) සටහන් කරගැනීම සඳහා එවකට පැවති රජයෙන් පත්කල සිවිල් නිලධාරීන් 200 දෙනාගෙන් තවමත් ජීවත්ව සිටිනා අයෙක් වශයෙන්, අනුර කුමාර ජනාධිපති වශයෙන් තේරීපත්වීම මා සළකන්නේ ඓතිහාසික සිදුවීමක් ලෙසය. මීට සමාන කලහැකි සිදුවීමක් වූයේ 1978 දී JRJ විසින් R. ප්‍රේමදාසව අගමැති ලෙස පත්කිරීමය. ඒ ඔහුගේ […]

Orpheus Perera At the outset let me ask how Indian secret agents and Israeli secret agents are so active in Sri Lanka, when there was no intelligent service, who were able to save the life of General Densil Kobbakaduva and 35 young men, at a time when terrorists were nearly under full control?  Also in 1981 who […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ 1960 -70 දශකවල ළමෝ පාසැල් අවසන් වූ පසු ටියුෂන් නොගියාම නොවේ. නමුත්, එකළ එය අද මෙන් පිස්සුවෙන් කල දෙයක් නොවීය.   එකළ, ටියුෂන් නගරබද පාසැල්වලට පමණක් පාහේ සීමාවී තිබුණි. වැඩිමණක් දරුවන් ගියේ ඉංග්‍රීසි, එලකියුෂන්, සංගීත භාණ්ඩ වාදනය වැනි පන්තිවලටය. ගණිතය දුර්වල ළමුන් සඳහා දෙමව්පියන් ළමුන්ව දක්ෂ ගණිත ගුරුවරුන් සොයා යැවිය. එකළ, බොහෝ විට […]

Chanaka Bandarage Congratulations to the NPP government for its decision not to privatize the Sri Lankan Airlines. Only a bold government could make bold decisions! Gota and Ranil were all out to sell it. Of course, they would have sold it for pittance – just like how they sold the Galleface Army Headquarters and the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පසුගිය සහ පාලන සමයන්හි සොරකම් කර උගන්නාවේ හා ශීෂෙල්ස් දූපත්වල සඟවා ඇති බව පැවසූ ඩොලර් ප්‍රමාණය ඉක්මනින්ම මෙරටට ගෙන විත් ණය ගෙවා දමා ජනතාවට සහන සලස්වා ඔවුන්ගේ ජීවන බර ලිහිල් කරනු ඇතැයි බලාපොරොත්තු වන බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදු ජන පෙරමුණ සඳහන් කරයි. එම පක්ෂයේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් සාගර කාරියවසම් මහතා ශ්‍රී […]

Courtesy CNA WASHINGTON :Sri Lanka met this week with its bondholders in Washington to discuss a debt exchange as the South Asian country aims to emerge from default as soon as possible, central bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Friday. He said the talks, which happened on the sidelines of the IMF/World Bank meetings in […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Ceylon Tamils aggressively pursued Settler Colonization after the island gained Independence. The British rulers left without allocating territory to the Tamil settlers, and the Tamil settlers found themselves face to face with the indigenous group they had hoped to displace. That group was now in power. But the Tamil Settlers had no […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement was able to push forward two Agreements and two Acts of Parliament all intended to ensure that the North and East remained exclusively Tamil with the possibility of partition later on.   IN between the BC  Pact and the Dudley Chelva Pact, the Tamil Separatist Movement submitted a set of […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The Institute of National Security Studies (INSS), conducted a public lecture titled “Military Innovations and Its Contributions to National Security” today (Oct 24, 2024) at the Nandimithra Auditorium” of the Ministry of Defence at the Defence Headquarters Complex in Sri Jayawardenepura, Kotte. Senior Professor Ajith De Alwis, Professor of […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel Sri Lanka, Solicitor in England and Wales  former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, and President of Ambassador’s forum WTM World Travel mart is the only largest event taking place taking place in main global destinations and this year London is chosen as a world boniness center and a superpower state and […]

By Dr. Gamini Padmaperuma The importance of digitalization of the economy and particularly the government services is a subject that has been under discussion for a few years now. The National Peoples Power(NPP) too has emphasized the vital importance of the same before and after the election, and actions are currently being undertaken for establishment […]

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By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy The Morning The Government’s recent move to revisit allegations of corruption and asset concealment involving politically exposed persons has reignited discussions on Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption efforts, including the failures of the now-defunct Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID). Established in early 2015 to investigate large-scale financial crimes and corruption associated with the […]

BY Sumudu Chamara Courtesy The Morning The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) urged the Government led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to take immediate action with regard to the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks based on the findings and recommendations of various investigations into the bombings. Noting that various parties have expressed various opinions about the […]

By Imesh Ranasinghe Courtesy The Morning Sri Lanka’s delegation meeting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the US saw successful talks on retrieving stolen assets, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said. At an event with the Civil Societies ahead of the IMF-World Bank annual meetings, she said that one of the topics that the […]

Courtesy The Morning Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe requested all parties to refrain from politicising the reports related to the Easter Sunday terror attacks.  Issuing a special statement regarding the same, he noted that during his tenure, requests had been made to look into the revelations (that certain local intelligence officials were complicit in the attacks) […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka has long been a country where ambitious individuals have toppled existing regimes and created new ones. This has been done repeatedly and entirely for personal gains. This is a greedy practice that must be buried. The caretaker regime operating under the country’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) runs […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The tourism sector has taken a hit due to security alerts issued by foreign embassies.  Pic Ishara Kodikara, AFP There is more to the Israeli presence in Sri Lanka than meets the eye. Also, there is more to Wednesday’s security alert than what the authorities and embassies claimed.  Given the questions […]

Courtesy Digital Journal  Sri Lanka deployed troops around a Jewish community centre in a popular surfing town after the US embassy warned a possible attack – Copyright AFP Arun SANKAR Sri Lanka deployed troops and increased police patrols around a Jewish community centre in a popular surfing town on Wednesday after the US embassy warned […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader former MP Udaya Gammanpila yesterday requested the information officer – Presidential Secretariat in writing to provide him with records of evidence given by Public Security Ministry Secretary Ravi Seneviratne before the committee headed by A.N.J. De Alwis in probing the Easter Sunday attack. He said he […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, October 24 (Daily Mirror) – With the government’s announcement yesterday regarding a potential attack targeting popular tourist locations in the Arugam Bay area, it is clear that the current government lacks experience and knowledge to handle situations of such nature, former Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said. Addressing the […]

උපුටාගැණීම අද දෙරණ පාස්කු වාර්තා ගෙන හැර දක්වමින් දේශපාලනය නොකරන ලෙස සෑම පාර්ශ්වයකින්ම තමන් ඉල්ලා සිටින බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු පවසන්නේ මේ වනවිට ඉමහත් ආන්දෝලනයකට තුඩු දී තිබෙන මෙම වාර්තාව පසුගිය ජනාධිපතිවරණ සමයේදී තමා අතට ලැබුණු නමුත් පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය දේශපාලනයට ඈඳා ගැනිමට ඇති අකමැත්ත හේතුවෙන් තමන් එම වාර්තා ප්‍රසිද්ධියට පත් කිරීමෙන් […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Minister Kanchana Wijesekera questioned why the Sri Lankan government, which reportedly received information about a possible attack on October 7, did not inform the public or tighten security measures before the U.S. Embassy’s announcement. He expressed concerns that officials failed to share details regarding actions taken in response to the information […]