By Walter Jayawardhana President Mahinda Rajapaksa reminding the Buddhist monks that they were at the forefront in protecting the independence of this country during thousands of years appealed to them to be at the front to protect the country from traitorous forces within and without the island once again. (Photos by Sudath Silva) “Venerable sirs, […]

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By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lanka is certainly doing better than some powerful nations in the world in resettling internally displaced persons since after seven year IDP’s are still languishing in transport containers after Milwaukee floods said Basil Rajapaksa at a sendoff reception for IDP’s at the Vavuniya Cultural Center. Basil, the President’s younger sibling, who […]

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By Walter Jayawardhana The World Bank announced in Washington yesterday(Sept. 10) that they will be granting a concessionary IDA credit of US $ 75 million to Sri Lanka for community driven development programs for Uva, Southern and Sabaragamuwa provinces for the benefit of 1000 villages to implement the government’s ambitious Gemi Diriya projects. ƒ”š‚ The 75 […]

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ALI SUKHANVER (The writer is a Pakistan based bilingual analyst on national and international strategic and defense affairs.) “ƒ”¹…”Sophistication means the right choice of proper words at a proper place “ƒ”¹…”says the world famous Pakistani linguist Dr.Nasir Jamal in one of his recent thesis on The Traditional Values of Languages in Cultural Hierarchy .He is […]

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By Dr Donald Chandraratna, Perth, Western Australia The British High commission has ruled that Dr Kohona and Mr Arjuna Ranatunga are technically and legally not entitled to enter UK. ƒ”š‚ Likewise the Canadian Embassy has refused the visa for Rev Somananda Nayaka Thero on the grounds that Reverend and Thero do not appear in the passport. […]

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AMJED JAAVED Indian media is, currently, in throes of a debate about `success’ of India’s Pokhran_II nuclear tests. The controversy was sparked by scientist, K. Santhanam’s disclosure that the tests had questionable success. The whistle-blower, though a bit tardy, particularly denuded the claim that `the tests included a thermo-nuclear device that was 100 per cent […]

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Afshain Afzal Indian National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan has rejected an impression that Sharm el-Sheikh summit between the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan had been a step forward. Although he cleverly added that it was not a step backward. It is not a hidden affair that after the Mumbai attack of November 26, 2008, […]

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