Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake There will be no honeymoon for the newly minted National People’s Power (NPP) Government in Colombo. The storm blowing from Washington across the Indian Ocean World–targeting China to the East, Iran to the West, and now it seems, India in the Middle is growing. Development projects that promised much needed foreign investment in […]

Shenali D Waduge The Age of Discovery was committed during times when there were no international laws. Those who eventually wrote the international laws were the perpetrators & violators of territories & committed insidious crimes that under their own terminologies constituted crimes against humanity, war crimes & genocide. None of these crimes that took place […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS When the Accelerated Mahaweli project started, Gamini Dissanayake, Minister for Mahaweli had asked Ven. Ellawela Medhananda    to do a history of the Mahaweli region. While engaged on this, Medhananda had met Ven.  Kitalagama Seelalankara of Dimbulagala. Dimbulagala and Medhananda decided that the best way to prevent Tamilisation of the east was to settle […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ ගතානුගතිකත්වය, සම්ප්‍රදාය  තමන්වහන්සේ විසින් පන්සලේදී ගැට ගැසූ පිරිත් නූල එක් දේශපාලනඥයෙක් පන්සල් භූමියේදීම ගලවා දමා ඉවත්කර පන්සලෙන් නික්ම ගිය බව රජරට එයිතීහාසික විහාරස්ථානයක විහාරාධිපති හිමි නමක් මෑතකදී පැවසුහ. එකී  දේශපාලනඥයා එවැනි සිද්ධියක් සිදු නොවූ බව තරයේ කියා සිටියේය. මෙහිදී කවුරුන් සත්‍යය පවසන්නේදැයි අප නොදනිමු.  එය මේ ලිපියට අදාළ නොවේ. නමුත්, එවන් සිද්ධියක් ඇත්තට […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi As a senior citizen concerned with the statement made by the chairmen of the CEB and the request for comments on the EIA of the Galle Harbour extension project, I thought of giving my two cents worth in this forum. I have viewed the credentials of the current chairman who has had many […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Assam chief minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma will grace a spectacular cultural event, organised by Valmiki Sangeet Vidyalaya, on Sunday (8 December 2024) in the city. Titled Samatar Chandere Jivanar Joigaan (Joy of Living with Rhythm of Equality), the program will begin at 4 pm in Barsapara’s Assam Cricket Association stadium. The […]

from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A cascade of anti-French sentiment continues to sweep across the belt of the Sahel in Africa: joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Chad and Senegal demanded in November that the French government withdraw its military from their territories. From the western border of Sudan to the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කථානායක අශෝක රන්වල මහතා තම අධ්‍යාපන සුදුසුකම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් සත්‍ය තොරතුරු ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත්නම් ඔහුට ඉල්ලා අස්වැන්නැයි බල කළ යුතු යැයි ආචාර්ය නිර්මාල් රංජිත් දේවසිරි මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. එසේ නොවෙනම් ඔහු ඉවත් කිරීමට කටයුතු කළ යුතු බවද හෙතෙම කියා සිටී. පසුගිය මහ මැතිවරණවලදී ජාතික ජන බලවේගය වෙන මිනිස් සෘජුව පෙනී සිටි […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් ණය ප්‍රතිව්‍යුගතකරණයට ක්‍රියාවලියට අදාළ මුල්‍ය හා නීති උපදේශකවරුන් සඳහා  ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව සිදු කරන ලද ගෙවීම් ප්‍රතිපූර්ණය කිරීමට රුපියල් මිලියන 3213 ක් මෙවර පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද පරිපූරක ඇස්තමේන්තුවෙන් අනුමැතිය ඉල්ලා ඇති බව සමගි ජන බලවේග පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී කබීර් හෂීම් මහතා පවසයි. රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා සහ ඔහුගේ රජය රට හදන්න […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo Additional Magistrate questioned how the arrest and request to remand individuals who shared videos related to recent Maaveerar Naal commemorations can be justified without first investigating those who created and uploaded the videos. The Magistrate observed that this approach is akin to “shooting the messenger.” Colombo Additional Magistrate Manjula […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The medical fraternity has raised serious concerns over a letter issued by the Regional Director of Health Services in Matale, instructing specialists over the age of 60 to retire by December 31.   The letter, which the Daily Mirror has exclusively obtained, directs heads of relevant institutions in the district to advise […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Health Ministry is grappling with a shortage of multiple drugs, including several essential drugs, a senior official said. Speaking to Daily Mirror, Medical Supplies Deputy Director General Dr. G. Wijesuriya said while the shortage has affected several hospitals, the situation is under control as measures are being implemented to address […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Anura Kumara Dissanayake emphasized that he regards the media not as outsiders but as an integral part of the effort to build a better state and improve the lives of all citizens. He made these remarks during a meeting held today (05) with the heads of electronic media organizations at the Presidential […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka vowed Thursday to complete its long-delayed foreign debt restructure within the month before a 2025 budget adhering to strict revenue targets set by the International Monetary Fund. The island nation defaulted on its $46 billion external debt in April 2022 after running out of foreign exchange to finance even the most […]

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