By Channels Television Inflation hit a record 69.8 per cent in September 2022 at the height of the country’s economic crisis. Sri Lanka’s consumer prices fell by 4.0 per cent in January, the highest deflation rate since July 1960, official data showed Friday, as the South Asian nation emerges from its worst economic meltdown. January […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror By Nuzla Rizkiya Sri Lanka has set itself yet another ambitious goal, this time raising the renewable energy target from the current 70 percent to 100 percent, aiming for a complete transition to clean energy. The announcement was made by Secretary to the Ministry of Energy, Prof. Udayanga Hemapala yesterday when […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Anura Kumara Dissanayake issued a fresh gazette notification effective from February 1, easing restrictions on vehicles.  The new gazette notification announces tax ratios on vehicles including modified ones . Even the cars will now be covered under this category.

Courtesy Adaderana President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that land belonging to the people should rightfully remain with them. He further emphasized that the issue of land disputes in the Northern Province is under review and that steps are being taken to expedite the process of returning land to its rightful owners.   The President highlighted that […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has announced that a special day will be designated in October to celebrate the cultures, traditions, and values of all ethnicities in Sri Lanka. He made this statement while addressing a meeting in Valvettithurai, Jaffna. Tamils, Sinhalese, Buddhists, Catholics, and Muslims. Don’t we all want a day to celebrate […]

Courtesy Adaderana The U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, states that the U.S. apparel manufacturing sector is projected to generate USD 365 billion in revenue in 2025 and added that Sri Lanka can benefit from reduced shipping times, lower tariffs, and the ability to respond swiftly to market demands by establishing operations in the […]

Kate Spicer Courtesy The Telegraph (UK) Cognitive decline speeds up at 57, 70 and 78, but there are lifestyle tweaks you can make to stay sharp Cognitive decline is natural: it starts to subtly set in by our 40s, and by your mid-50s it’s perfectly normal to find yourself standing in the middle of a […]

by Dr Garvin Karunaratne I enclose my earlier Paper,  posted in Lanka Web  two years ago(11/3/2022), re edited in the hope that its recommendations to build up our economy will be heard in the portals of our new saviour President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. This Paper contains a blue print for immediate action to build up […]

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Dhananjaya Naranbadda මාධ්‍යවේදී ධනංජය නාරංබැද්ද සමග ඇහැරෙන්න – නැගිටින්න… ගවේශණාත්මක මාධ්‍යකරනයේ ප්‍රමුඛයා සමාජ මාධ්‍යට පිවිසුණු වගයි ~~ වසර 15කට ආසන්න වෘත්තීය මාධ්‍යවේදියකු වැඩසටහන් මෙහෙයවන්නකු සේම මෙරට ප්‍රධාන නාලිකාවක ප්‍රවෘත්ති කළමනාකරුවකු ලෙස ධනංජය මෑත ඉතිහාසය තුළ රටට හෙළිදරව්ව කල මහාපරිමාන වංචා දුෂණ පිළිබද ඇතැම් පුවත් දේශපාලන දිශානතිය පවා වෙනසකට පවා තුඩුදුන් බව නොරහසකි…

by Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy The Island ‘Den Kendawath ne’ was the instant response I got from a good friend of mine when I rang him to find out how things are with the new government that came to power with so much of fanfare and promise. Judging from my stunned silence, as it took […]

 BY Buddhika Samaraweera Courtesy The Morning The issue of illegal ticket sales for the popular Colombo to Ella train route has become one of the most-talked-about topics in the recent past, with accusations of fraud involving ticket resellers.  Many passengers, both local and foreign, have found it impossible to secure tickets, either online or at […]

Editorial Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lankans are a little uneasy due to the high prices of coconuts and the shortage of the nut itself in the island. Now we hear of plans being in the pipeline for the Government to import coconut-based products. This is a roundabout way to meet the shortage of coconuts […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, January 30 (Daily Mirror) – While defending the legality of the Sri Lanka Navy’s conduct amid strong protests with Sri Lanka over an incident of firing by the Sri Lankan Navy, Defence Secretary Air Vice Marshal (Rtd) Sampath Thuyacontha said that Sri Lanka will continue to search vessels entering its […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, January 30 (Daily Mirror) – The candidates who contested the general elections in 2024 under the New Democratic Front (NDF) is scheduled to meet former President Ranil Wickremesinghe this evening, former MP Premanath C Dolawatte said. He said they are expected to discuss how to contest the upcoming elections including […]

Courtesy Adaderana A special political discussion was held this afternoon (30) under the patronage of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe at a private hotel in Colombo. According to participating political party representatives, the meeting was convened at the request of Mr. Wickremesinghe.  Representatives of parties that supported him in the last presidential election were present at […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Customs, with the full cooperation of joint trade unions, launched a four-day expedited container clearance process today (30) , aiming to clear the backlog of containers at examination yards by February 02, 2025. According to Customs Media Spokesperson and Additional Director General Seevali Arukgoda, all examination yards and the Valuation Directorate […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරුන්ගේ වරප්‍රසාද සහ ප්‍රතිලාභ කප්පාදු කිරීම හෝ සංශෝධනය කළ හැක්කේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයකින් පසුව පමණක් බව, ආචාර්ය නීතිඥ ප්‍රතිභා මහානාමහේවා පවසනවා. මේ අතර ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයකින් තොරව කළ හැකි, හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරුන්ගේ සියලු වරප්‍රසාද කප්පාදු කරන බව, ප්‍රවාහන, මහාමාර්ග හා සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්‍ය බිමල් රත්නායක පවසනවා. හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරුන්ගේ වරප්‍රසාද කප්පාදු කිරීම […]

Sri Lanka Study Circle” Dear Mr President, Sri Lanka’s Appreciation on Your Decision to End the Madness of LGBTQ Psychopaths in the USA 1.      We, in Sri Lanka, looked on with horror and amazement when a small coterie of people with personality disorders and, warped objectives that are inimical to the people of the world, […]

Animal Welfare Coalition (AWC) – Sri Lanka A meeting was held at the Ministry of Health, on 28th January 2025, presided by Minister of Health, Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa at the request of the Animal Welfare  Coalition (AWC) – Sri Lanka. The AWC was represented by Dr. Chamith Nanayakkara, Champa Fernando, and Gihan Dinushka.  This two-hour […]

Asoka (Weerasinghe) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester, Ontario . KJ 6G1 29 January 2025 Hon.Pierre Poilievre, MP.,PCConservative Party LeaderHouse of Commons,Ottawa Dear Pierre Poilievre: You got my goat this morning when I read War crimes: Canada’s Conservative Party leader vows to “Lead The world in seeking prosecutions against Sri Lankans.” That is pretty rich, isn’t it Pierre, when we Canadians were part of […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara කවුළුවෙන් පෑ ඒ සිනා! කවුළුවෙන් පෑ ඒ සිනා විදුළියෙන් මා හද   දිනා අන්ද මන්ද වු ඒ සිනා සරා සඳ මගෙ වාසනා කව්ද කාගෙද කියා  නොදනිමි මන්ද මන්දැයි ඒ සිනා පෑවේ රුන්ද ගජින්ගත තක්කට තරිකිට රුන්ද ගජින් ගත තක්කට තරිකිට කියලයි මා හද, හද විළ සැලුනේ ගින්න දවා මා නොකිළිටි හදවත නින්ද නොයනලෙස […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් කොළඹ ‘කැකුළු බත් පිඟානක්’ විකුණන බත් කඩයක් නැත. රට පුරා ‘මාතර බත් කඩ’ වල ද කැකුළු බත් නැත. කිසිදු ප්‍රධාන නඟරයක පාලන මිලට හාල් විකුණන්නේ නැත.  අද ලංකාවේ ලොකුම ප්‍රශ්නය හාල් සහ පොල් ය. ආණ්ඩුව වී/සහල් කර්මාන්තයේ නිරත පාර්ශවකරුවන් 16 දෙනා එකම රැස්වීම් මේසයකට ගෙනත් නිශ්චිත මාර්ග සිතියමක් සාදා ගන්නේ නැතිනම්, ඉදිරි […]

by A. Abdul Aziz. By the Grace of Allah and the blessing of Ahmadiyya Khalifa’s prayers, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Sri Lanka was enabled to inaugurate a beautiful Mosque in Puttalam on Friday 10January 2025. His Holiness Ahmadiyya Khalifa Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad’s (may Allah be his Helper) Representative Mirza Naseer Ahmad Sahib inaugurated. It was named […]

World Beyond War The Earth is coated in military bases, spreading like a pandemic: foreign ones, domestic ones, famous ones, secret ones — part of a growing and disastrous global increase in spending on wars and preparations for wars that makes wars more, not less, likely. And prime targets in wars are bases and anything […]

defenddemocracy.press Jan 27, 2025 As Western arms continue to flood into Ukraine, America’s military-industrial complex has been enjoying the spoils of the proxy conflict. US defense contractors have been profiting from Ukraine-related military supplies while bringing the world to the brink of war, numerous experts have told Sputnik. US weapons manufacturers have raked in a […]

 ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න සරත් –වීර –විමල්  වීර–දිලිත් ‘ වීර  උවිඳු ‘ වීර   ආදී වීර නමින් හැඳින් වෙන්නන් ට  සැබවින්ම මහා  වීරයන් වීමේ අවස්තාවක් දැන් උදාවෙමින් ඇත.  අප නොසිතු අයුරින් සිංහල දේශය,එය  බිහිකළ සිංහලයන් වෙතින් වෙන කවදාටත් වඩා වේගයෙන්  ගිලිහී යමින් පවතී . තිස් වසරක ශාපලත් ”යුද්ධය ” නිසා  මරණ බියෙන් තැතිගෙන සිටි , වසර දාස් […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ආණ්ඩුව වී/සහල් කර්මාන්තයේ නිරත පාර්ශවකරුවන් සියළු දෙනා එකම මේසයකට පැමිණ නිශ්චිත මාර්ග සිතියමක් සකස් කර වී/සහල් අර්බුදයට විසඳුම් සකස් කර ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ යුතුව ඇතැයි හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාරවර රජිත් කිර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පවසයි.  රටට හාල් ගෙන්වීමේ දී නිෂ්පාදිත රට, වර්ගය, මිලදී ගන්නා මිල, නිෂ්පාදන වර්ෂය නොතකා සහල් මෙ.ටො. 140,000 ක් රට තුලට ගෙන්වා ඇත.  […]