Special Budget News Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is banking on South Asia’s fastest economic growth to boost spending on pre-election handouts without halting a record improvement in public finances.He unveiled plans to narrow the budget deficit to an almost 40-year low of 4.6 percent of gross domestic product amid an expansion rate of about 8 […]

By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy Island October 24, 2014, 8:33 pm Technology, Research and Atomic Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka yesterday maintained that since 2012 the Lanka Coal Company (LCC) which was the sole importer of coal to Sri Lanka had been doing so without adhering to proper tender procedure. Minister Ranawaka was responding to the Power […]

එවකට විදුලිබල ඇමති වූ පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක අමාත්‍යවරයා සිදු කරනු ලබන ඕනෑම ස්වාධීන පරීක්ෂණයකට උපරිම සහය ලබාදීමට ඇමති චම්පික සූදානම් •    පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී හර්ෂද සිල්වාට සහ ඇමති පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චිට ඇමති චම්පිකගෙන් පැසසුම් •    වංචා සහ දූෂණ සොයාබැලීමට අනිවාර්යෙන්ම ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත ආයතනයක් පිහිටුවිය යුතුයි. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී හර්ෂද සිල්වා ඇසූ ප්‍රශ්නයකට, ඊයේ(23) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පිළිතුරු සැපයූ ඇමතිනී පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි […]

Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution  proposed by the National Council for an Immaculate Tomorrow පිවිතුරු හෙටක් උදෙසා ජාතික සභාව An Act to Amend the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows:  Short title    Amendment of Article 30 […]

Shenali D Waduge From the day a child is born parents rich or poor think of how to bring up their bundle of joy and how to educate him/her. Time, effort and lots of money is spent to educate one’s children at every level upto higher education. Children are thus expected to study and take […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Dear Editor, The terror attacks in Canada Parliament & War Memorial  come as no surprise to watchers of Canada’s soft touch to terrorism, especially when they are not the victims. Canadian prime minister Harper has been a most vociferous orchestrator of Tamil Tiger Terrorist initiated unsubstantiated criticism of Sri Lanka ,who […]

Dr Hector Perera         London While Fats and Oils are not a ‘food group,’ the Food Guide provides guidance on them because of their impact on health. The type and amount of fat in our diet is important to consider. While some fats are ‘essential’ to our diet, too much of any fat is not healthy. […]

Toronto SLSA Toronto SLSA would like to take this opportunity to thank all participating teams and friends at the annual 2014 Sri Lankan Students Alliance Battle Of The Alliances and everyone who came out to our TSLSA cricket after party at Cafe La Roche lounge on Saturday, August 30th 2014. This would not have been […]

Asoka Weerasinghe  Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 24 October 2014 The Editor EMBASSY, Ottawa Dear Editor: I hate to tell you this that it was a matter of time that Canadians would come face to face with terrorism, and we did  on 22 October 2014.  We were never immune to terrorism while cynically […]

 Ranjith Soysa Dear Prime Minister Stephen Harper Canada came face to face with a terror attack yesterday and you have begun to tighten the laws relating to the National security. You have paid tributes to the Sergent -at Arms who got rid of the man wielding the gun. I fully endorse the steps taken by […]

By Charles.S.Perera In 2005 when the then Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse was elected the President, the  Reuter  and the Western Media wrote,  the hawkish” Prime Minister of Sri Lanka has been elected as the President. From the beginning the West went all out to discredit the President Mahinda Rajapakse of Sri […]

Courtesy DEUTSCHE WELLE Nearly two years ahead of schedule, Sri Lanka will go to the polls in January, with Mahinda Rajapaksa set to run for a third term; a move likely triggered by the President’s fading popularity, says analyst Alan Keenan. “There will be presidential elections in January,” Cabinet spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said on October 20, […]

Nalin de Silva If there are people who think that the Tamil problem is an internal problem caused by the intolerance or whatever of the chauvinist Sinhala Buddhists of the country then they must be suffering from Sinhalaphobia with a hatred towards the Sinhala Buddhists. When some Muslims claim that the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) […]

 Chaminda Perera Courtesy The Daily News Construction, Engineering Services Housing and Common Amenities Minister Wimal Weerawansa yesterday questioned the motive behind the invitation extended to Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to take part in the forum organized by the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) and the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) in Malaysia this week. He […]