President Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to leave Sri Lanka tomorrow for an official visit of Singapore and Japan.

Sri Lanka is mulling measures to lure back Chinese tourists in a bid to alleviate an unprecedented debt crisis, its tourism minister said, as the South Asian nation tries to stabilize the economy.

Sri Lanka s National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) inflation eased to 33.6% year-on-year in April, after a 49.2% rise in March, the statistics department said on Monday.

By Y P Prakash The Indian Army has raised new specialist units under its cyber warfare initiatives to counter the increasing activities of China and Pakistan in the online domain. This decision was taken during the Army Commanders Conference headed by Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande. The Command Cyber Operations and Support Wings (CCOSW) are […]

The Contract Agreement has been signed, a short while ago, at the Presidential Secretariat with Sinopec Fuel Oil Lanka (Pvt) Ltd and its parent company in China and Singapore for a long-term contract on the import, storage, distribution, and sale of petroleum products in Sri Lanka, the President s Media Division (PMD) reported.

Foreign Minister Ali Sabry summoned Canadian High Commissioner Eric Walsh to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday (19), and condemned and rejected outright the statement issued by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on 18 May 2023, the Ministry said in a release on Saturday. It said: “Minister Sabry stated that the politically motivated […]

by Saman Indrajith Government leaders are all out to secure 113 votes to ensure the passage of a motion to remove Janaka Ratnayake from the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), which he currently heads.The vote is scheduled to be taken on Wednesday (24) evening after a full-day debate from 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 […]

by Jagath C Savanadasa Tribute intends to shed light on how Piyadasa Sirisena became one of the leaders in mass communication, in the early part of the 20th century. Using communication, as a tool, he launched a long drawn out resistance against imperial rule. He was in a crux a countervailing force against the British […]

Japan’s Nippon Ishin no Kai Upper House lawmaker Mizuho Umemura was dismissed from a parliamentary committee and party officials apologized after her remarks questioning the March 2021 death of a Sri Lankan woman at an immigration facility ignited a firestorm of criticism, said The Japan Times. It said: Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali, 33, died at […]

By Norman Palihawadane Police commandos have arrested three persons with a stock of ICE (crystal methamphetamine) and Kerala cannabis. The suspects work for two organised criminals and drug traffickers who run the drug network in Sri Lanka, from abroad, according to the police. During two separate raids, conducted in Gampaha and Seeduwa, recently, the STF […]

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana I wish experts on human behaviour introduced a gullibility index, as this surely would have been the one, we could easily have topped! We have been fooled by politicians of all hues who have mastered the art of exploiting gullibility. We have been brainwashed to believe that family bandyism is an […]

Sri Lanka is among three South Asian governments that increased borrowing from domestic banks to finance their record debt, and, as a result, sovereign-bank nexus increased, heightening the financial sector’s vulnerability, according to a World Bank report. The other two countries are the Maldives and Pakistan, says a WB report, titled ‘A mixed bag for […]

An investigation has been launched after a young man was found dead on the foreshore at Tranmere Point in Hobart, Australia Sunday afternoon (21), said a report by the Pulse Hobart. Hobart Police said the man, who is believed to be Sri Lankan and between18-25, was located around 1:30 p.m. and is yet to be […]

Monday 22nd May, 2023 There has been a public outcry in this country, recently, over some extremely tragic deaths, the latest being that of a Sri Lankan woman in Singapore. Those incidents must be probed thoroughly and justice served expeditiously, but, curiously, there is no such public reaction to the daily loss of about seven […]

By Tharishi Hewavithanagamage ‘Ksheera Sagaraya Kalabina ’ (The Milky Ocean Churned) is the latest masterpiece of veteran filmmaker Professor Sunil Ariyaratne. The movie is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, by the late writer, Simon Navagaththegama. Directed by Professor Sunil Ariyaratne, produced by H.D. Premasiri, Ksheera Sagaraya Kalabina presents a stellar cast, […]

By Hema Senanayake hemasenanayake@yahoo.com IMF has an ideology, a system of ideas and ideals which forms the basis of its decisions and policy prescriptions for which the recipient country of the loan claims as of its own. The most important idea does not originate from economic theory but international trade theories instead. The Great Recession […]