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Dynasties have to start somewhere. For an aspiring Gandhi in India, or a Bhutto in Pakistan, exploiting the family name to get into politics is relatively simple. Getting a dynasty going in the first place is more testing. Sri Lanka’s President since 2005, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is evidently giving the matter some thought. His government is ...
- Sri Lanka President`s son not to be appointed as a Deputy Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President's son not to be appointed as a Deputy Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President's son leads Hambanthota preferential votes (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President's son launches his election campaign (Category: Breaking News)
DYNASTIES have to start somewhere. For an aspiring Gandhi in India , or a Bhutto in Pakistan , exploiting the family name to get into politics is relatively simple. Getting a dynasty going in the first place is more testing....
- Rajapaksa Co. strong point of the govt (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President`s son not to be appointed as a Deputy Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal poser remanded (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal Rajapaksa begins his work as lawyer (Category: Breaking News)
by Darini Rajasingham Senanayake On 4 February, Sri Lanka celebrated its 63rd birthday. After nearly three decades of armed conflict, it is now one of Southasia’s calmest and fastest-growing countries. Its social indicators, apart from the northeast zone, remain the...
- Military in Sri Lanka encroaching on civilian control of government (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka military extending its influence over civilian affairs, things are not looking good fo... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s North: Rebuilding under the Military (Category: Breaking News)
by Gamini mWeerakoon Most great cities around the world have public places that have acquired historic sanctity and are left untouched even by eager modernisers who develop an itch to leave behind puny constructions for their immortality. London has those...
- Oh Galle Face! (Category: Breaking News)
- Shangri-La to open a grand hotel complex in Sri Lanka capital (Category: Breaking News)
- BALAMU: The best views in Colombo (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s new hotel projects (Category: Breaking News)
Lasantha’s Killers Still Walk Free By Frederica Jansz A year ago, a high profile investigation into the murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge and the attacks on Editors Upali Tennekoon, Keith Noyahr and Namal Perera got underway as senior sleuths attached to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Terrorist Investigations Department (TID) sifted through a smattering ...
- CID sleuths dispatched in search of Katuwana murderers (Category: Breaking News)
- Witch-Hunt Against CID Sleuths: Lasantha’s Daughter Seeks Intervention Of Witness Protection Aut... (Category: Breaking News)
- Witch-Hunt Against CID Sleuths: Lasantha’s Daughter Seeks Intervention Of Witness Protection Aut... (Category: Breaking News)
- Witch-Hunt Against CID Sleuths: Lasantha’s Daughter Seeks Intervention Of Witness Protection Aut... (Category: Breaking News)
The Central Bank is to take a series of new steps to educate the masses on the importance of maintaining a high standard of cleanliness in the use of currency notes and coin circulation. The Central Bank implements its ‘clean note policy’ under the monetary law for this purpose. Superintendent of Currency of the Central ...
- Sri Lanka Central Bank to remove old currency notes from circulation (Category: Breaking News)
- Rs. 10 & 2000 notes won’t be printed: CB (Category: Breaking News)
- Rs.10 & 2000 notes won’t be printed: Governor of the Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank of Sri Lanka asked to print statements in currency notes in all three languages (Category: Breaking News)
By Malathi De Alwis On 18 May 2009, Sri Lanka officially declared the end of a 30-year civil war fought between. Sri Lankan government forces (GoSL) and Tamil militants, namely the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). Such a sea...
- India’s Chinese Bogeymen (Category: Breaking News)
- Cuba out voted at UN Human Rights Council over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- China and India playing the great game in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- For India, Sri Lanka is not indispensable, but for Sri Lanka, India is indispensable (Category: Breaking News)
by Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka “The contest is never over, the field never quite ours.”- Dave Robicheaux in James Lee Burke, ‘The Tin Roof Blowdown’ (2007) Is it only me, or is not sad that there is no review in the Sri Lankan public space, of the first decade of the 21st century and the new millennium? Should we not be looking back at the road that has been travelled by the world, by our co...
- International investor confidence on Sri Lanka improving Minister Amunugama (Category: Breaking News)
- One year on, Sri Lanka still divided (Category: Breaking News)
- One year on, Sri Lanka still divided (Category: Breaking News)
- One year on, Sri Lanka still divided (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr.Harsha de Silva Mr. Speaker, I am glad that important Ministers and Members from the Government side have come to listen to this speech. I must first state that I am happy to have been able to join the...
- "'Mahinda Chinthanaya’ has moved to ‘Mahinda Hinsanaya’ and ‘Mahinda Vindanaya'" (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka In Dire Straits (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition alleges govt. conspiracy to oust CB Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Actually, The Foreign Ministry Certainly Seems Foreign Now (Category: Breaking News)
by Ranil Wickremesinghe By the 4th century BC, Asia had begun its first cycle of economic growth and power. This was the reason why Alexander the Great decided to travel eastward to establish an empire. At that time there was...
- Asia economy: Consumers to the rescue? (Category: Business)
- Economic power shifting to Asia from the West? (Category: Business)
- No inflation respite for Asia despite fall in food, fuel prices (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
Independent Television Network is again honoured with Excellence Awards. The National Business Excellence Awards, an annual event organized by the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka was held at Colombo Hilton yesterday. ITN was feted with the Best Business Brand Award in the Media field. A notable feature is the TV Channel which has ...
- ITN is the most popular channel (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN to tread on new path in 2011 (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN HONOURED WITH BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR THE SIXTH YEAR (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN wins Bronze Award for most Innovative Brand of the Year (Category: Breaking News)
Dr. Muttukrishna Sarvanathan is the principal researcher at the Point Pedro Institute, which is a non-for-profit think tank that provides analysis and advocacy on political and economic issues afflicting the Sri Lankan Tamil population in the north. In an exclusive...
- “I do not think the LTTE can revive” - Thirunavukkarasu Sridharan (Category: Breaking News)
- "The 13th Amendment to the Constitution must be properly implemented": Dharmalingam Siddharthan (Category: Breaking News)
- The defeat of the LTTE is being systematically transformed as the defeat of the Tamil and Muslim... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sarath Weerasekera Thinks The Tamils In Sri Lanka Are Born Slaves (Category: Breaking News)
Independent Television Network is again feted for the outstanding change effected in the business sector. The “SLIM Brand Excellence 2010” Awards Festival organized by the Sri Lanka Marketing Institute to appreciate the most innovative brands of the year, was held on a grand scale in Colombo yesterday. Minister Keheliya Rambukwella was the Chief Guest. ITN ...
- ITN is the ‘Peoples TV Channel of the Year’ (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN among excellent brands (Category: Breaking News)
- The Bentley Blower returns in glorious form - Roadshow (Category: Technology)
- The Bentley Blower returns in glorious form - Roadshow (Category: Technology)
by Dayan Jayatilleka Here’s the way the current political discourse seems to me. In a swimming competition, a swimmer lagging behind accuses the one in front of taking steroids, while ignoring the fact that he is swimming with a weight attached by none other than himself, to his leg. The swimmer who is accused of just having taken steroids (in the form of the 18th amendment) is ...
- Law of the country has collapsed after 18th Amendment: Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Implementation of 18th amendment collapsed the law and order of the country : Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- TNA MP named opposition nominee for Parliament Council (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. protecting Ranils Opposition Leaders post, says Ekanayake (Category: Breaking News)
The story of a beautiful single mother, and how she got there By Ranee Mohamed She had dreams, just like every single girl does. She had fears just like every unmarried girl does. And like all single people, she dreamed of the day she would get married – and look for a cosy home to ...
- Why Are Men Never At Fault? (Category: Breaking News)
- A 5-star loss! (Category: Business)
- Drunken Driver Wrecks Family (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka Cement gets new Board (Category: Business)
Vehicle Registrations Increase 66% Vehicle registrations in the first half of the year increased by 65.5% year on year (yoy) to 150,587. Sales in June alone increased by 95.3% to 30,033. June sales were driven by motor cycle sales which increased by 79.6% yoy to 18,725 and three wheeler sales by 202% to 8,007. (Source: ...
- IN BRIEF (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. Debt Up Rs. 465 Bn. (Category: Breaking News)
- SLT Group Q1 operating profit up 14% to Rs. 1.86 b (Category: Business)
- UML Group Makes Rs. 11 Bn. (Category: Breaking News)
by Dr.Rohan Gunaratne It is my distinct privilege to deliver the 13th Deshamanya Professor Nandadasa Kodagoda Oration this evening. Professor Kodagoda was an intellectual giant of our times. Born in Ahangama in the Galle District in 1929, he was educated...
- "I am most Concerned about the relationship being built between the TGTE and the Govt of South S... (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil diaspora Organizations Desperately Attempting to keep Concept of Tamil Eelam Alive (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-LTTE Chief "KP" speaks out: An Interview With T.Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Using Sama, Dana, Bheda and Dand strategy against Tamil Diaspora (Category: Breaking News)
by Eran Wickramaratne Parliamentary oversight on Finance Article 148 of the Constitution gives Parliament full control over public finance. Since President Wijetunga retained the finance portfolio the authority of the Parliament over finance has been usurped, and created a conflict between the powers of the legislature and the Executive. Even though Article 44(2) of the Cons...
- Government tables 2021 budget ; eyes reduction of public debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Government tables 2021 budget ; eyes reduction of public debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Government tables 2021 budget ; eyes reduction of public debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Government tables 2021 budget ; eyes reduction of public debt (Category: Breaking News)
by Pearl Thevanayagam The recently concluded war with all its human miseries such as loss of lives, widowhood, displaced and maimed civilians, orphans, destruction of properties and denigration of agricultural lands and the disruption to normal life throughout the island...
- Reality check for doping in sport (Category: Technology)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- How the Amazon rainforest is being saved (Category: Technology)
By C. A. Chandraprema It was the other day that the BBC aired the full version of the Hard Talk interview with Gotabhaya Rajapakse, and there are certain issues that need to be raised, not about what Gota said in...
- Sarath Fonseka again betrays the motherland (Category: Breaking News)
- Berlin Bluster (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- Business interviewing skills: Getting it right (Category: Business)
Say what you want to say, look at what others are saying; learn, network, communicate and shape the world you are going to live in. This is the message going out to youth as the World Bank Colombo office launched...
- Louise Arbour on the responses thus far to ICG report on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Protest against Burma Military Junta, near Burma Embassy in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- Interviews with Mr. Robert Templer of ICG and Dr. A.R.M. Imtiyaz, Temple University (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Black & White - 15.03.2013 (Category: Video)
“Ranaviru Week” marking 1st anniversary of victory The National “Rananiru Week” marking the victory of the three-decade long war against LTTE terrorists has commenced. It was an era in which the peoples screamed in fear instead of the sound of religious festivals which emanated from the Temple, the Church and the Kovil. It was era in which the entire North of the motherland was alight due to terro...
- School books to replace books destroyed by floods (Category: Breaking News)
- Murder in Kilinochchi (Category: Breaking News)
- Lessons Learnt Commission meets in Kilinochchi (Category: Breaking News)
- Minister inspects distribution of Petroleum in the North (Category: Breaking News)
The DFCC Bank introduces a fresh Reality TV Show. The Bank’s initiative is to treat Sri Lanka’s TV viewers to a high quality reality quiz show. It is a joint effort of Independent Television Network and the DFCC Bank. “DFCC Mindstar” will not only provide entertainment but will also help expand young and old minds [...]
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