By Charles.S.Perera The  Indian Express of the 20 February,2013,  reports of the deep concern of the “benefactors” the Angel of God the  USA State Department on whose  kindness seems the  future of the   Sovereign State of Sri Lanka depends .  USA thinks it had some hand with the Almighty God during  the creation of the […]

Shripal Nishshanka Fernando The United States should not bully a small country like Sri Lanka, considering the difficulties it has had to face during a 30 year conflict, a member of the US House of Representatives who is visiting Sri Lanka, said yesterday. “Why is the United States taking the lead in bullying a small […]

 Asada M Erpini The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has still not come out of her make believe and fantasy world of Tamil movies of yester year, when her gyrations with her hero and mentor mesmerised illiterate movie goers who were only looking for an escape from the drudgery of the day to day life […]

Shenali Waduge  The GOSL has issued a fresh circular to monitor the construction of places of religious worship in Sri Lanka. A Committee is to be appointed to monitor such work and a director board of members representing the departments overseeing Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Christianity is to be appointed Let it not go unsaid […]

By: W M Rajakaruna A death of a child, no doubt is a reason to mourn. The disturbing image of a bullet-ridden body of a boy and the pictures of him, said to have been taken a few hours before he had fallen dead; the latest pictures extracted from the controversial Channel 4 video “No […]

Rear  Admiral (Rtd) Dr. Sarath Weerasekera Member of Parliament  I thought of responding to the article published in Sunday Leader on 16th Dec 2012 titled ” Plight of resettled IDP’s, striving make ends meet”. The article has been written by Niranjala Ariyawansa and Chrishanthi Christoper and mentions the “concerns” of the TNA MP’s Sumanthiran and […]

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The breadwinner of this family was a member of the LTTE and he fought against the Sri Lanka Army in the final battle in 2009 and killed in action. In 2013 some members of the Sri Lanka Army volunteered to build a house for the former militant’s remaining family members. We hear a lot of […]

Dr. Tilak Fernando Athula Withanage , MD FRCS, is one of the sons Mother Lanka has produced, but was unable to make use of his services until he retired. He was attached to Withybush Haverfordwest, Hospital in Wales as the Clinical Director/Lead Technician for over 20 years . I met him in London in 2005. […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The  Island Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that Sri Lanka wasn’t the only country targeted by the British media outfit Channel-4 News over accountability issues. The Defence Secretary was responding to the planned screening of “ƒ”¹…”No Fire Zone’, the third installment of the so-called documentary on “ƒ”¹…”Sri Lanka Killing Fields’ series produced […]

Dr. Ruwan M. Jayatunge Prolonged armed conflict in Sri Lanka has created higher rates of mental ailments among the combatants and a significant number of veterans have been diagnosed with complex form of PTSD. The veterans with malignant form of anxiety have a wider range of clinical symptomatology with sever psychosocial impairments. These veterans would […]

P.A.Samaraweera,  Melbourne Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had said that Tamil Nadu will not host the 20th Asian Athletics meet because the Central govt had not asked Sri Lanka to skip the event. According to her, the participation of Sri Lankan athletes will hurt peoples sentiments in Tamil Nadu and had referred to the war in Sri Lanka. It […]

Lucien Rajakarunanayake With the next sessions of the UN Human Rights Council fast approaching, there is much action by forces targeting Sri Lanka, with a rapid regurgitating of earlier charges against the country, by groups with a clear agenda of anti-Sri Lanka action. Amidst a lot of the old hat of unverified and unsubstantiated charged […]