Sasanka De Silva. Pannipitiya Sri Lanka is facing a significant demographic shift as its population ages rapidly. Currently, about 12.3% to 12.4% of the population is over 60 years old, but this figure is projected to rise dramatically to 22% by 2037 and potentially reach 25% by 2041. This rapid ageing poses substantial economic, healthcare, […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Expressing annoyance over the latest development, where a State minister allegedly made unwanted comments on Bhaona and later his clarification denying it with a strong message for suing the propagator, Press Club of Assam (PCA) urges the journalist concerned to clarify his stand. Many media bodies including Gauhati Press Club (GPC) have […]

Professor Nishan C.  Wijesinha  (Professor German School of Medicine) Concerning the above post elephants and the plantations  Posted on March 3rd, 2025 Otara Gunawardene personally contacted me through Instagram and thanked me for having highly esteemed her; but she is not willing to take on any projects of such nature,now as she has finished her […]

by Riyaz Aluher (Former Assistant Principal and Senior Games Master of Royal College) I am prompted to write this article after reading an eye-opening article by Lorenz Pereira ( ‘Sunday Island’ – March 02, 2025) —the cricket legend. https://island.lk/senaka-weeraratna-the-unsung-architect-of-modern-cricket/ I felt compelled to add a crucial missing element, the idea of Cricket Reformation through the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පුත් යෝෂිත රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සභාපතිත්වය දැරූ කාල්ටන් ස්පොර්ට්ස් පුද්ගලික සමාගමට එරෙහිව මුදල් විශුද්ධිකරණ චෝදනාව යටතේ අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විමර්ශනයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කර තිබුණේ දෙදහස් දහසය වසරේ  සිටයි. රුපියල් මිලියන පනස් නවයකද අධික මුදලක් සහිත ස්ථිර තැන්පතුවක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් එහිදී අනාවරණය වූ අතර එම බැංකු ගිණුම පවත්වාගෙන ගොස් […]

Malaka Rodrigo Courtesy Scroll.in Adani’s Green Energy Limited last month announced that it had withdrawn from the second phase of a proposed project in an ecologically sensitive region Indian industrialist Gautam Adani’s Green Energy Limited, or AGEL, has withdrawn from the second phase of a proposed wind power project in northern Sri Lanka. The project, which was […]

 KELUM BANDARA  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Despite positive developments and recovery expected this year, Sri Lanka’s economy is still vulnerable, and it is critical to sustain the reform momentum for long-term growth, a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said yesterday. Addressing a virtual press conference, Senior Mission Chief for Sri Lanka Peter Breuer said […]

By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 5 (Daily Mirror) – The Central government of India and the state government of Tamilnadu should enforce the law on its fishermen who are destroying the livelihood of Sri Lankan fishermen in the North, Leader of the House Bimal Ratnayake told Parliament today. […]

pv-magazine.com The Sri Lankan government has approved the land transfer for a 100 MW solar project in the south. The site will be handed over to the Sustainable Energy Authority to advance the project. Image: Oskar Kadaksoo, Unsplash Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved the transfer of land to the country’s Sustainable Energy Authority […]

Mr. Breuer: Thank you, Randa. Good morning, all, thank you very much for being here and for your interest in Sri Lanka’s IMF-supported economic reform program. I am pleased to announce that, on Friday February 28, the IMF Executive Board approved the third review under the 48-month Extended Fund Facility Arrangement with Sri Lanka. This provides […]