By D. B. S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror Nallavan” (not his real name) is a Tamil youth living in a Northern village. He was a former member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organization who had surrendered to the armed forces in May 2009. He was incarcerated for a period of time and […]

WINSTON DE VALLIERE Courtesy Ceylon Today It would appear that President Sirisena has spent much time considering his response to the Opposition-led outcry about the Central Bank Bond issues controversy and has decided to make his moves strictly within the provisions of the Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry Act, No. 7 of 1978. That Act vests in […]

By Barney Henderson, new york Nick Allen, washington Courtesy Telegraph (UK) 27 JANUARY 2017 • 7:45PM Trump tells May Brexit will be ‘wonderful for UK’ May says Trump is 100 % behind Nato Trump reaffirms that ‘torture works’ President accepts visit to UK in June White House declares UK is ‘premier ally’ Trump shows Churchill bust to May […]

Courtesy Adaderana January 27, 2017  08:52 am China says it has never asked Sri Lanka to allow only Chinese enterprises to operate in the Hambantota Industrial Zone, a development project which had recently sparked protests in Sri Lanka. China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying on Thursday said the agitation against the industrial zone is a result […]

Courtesy Adaderana January 27, 2017  06:55 pm Former minister Bandula Gunawardena says that a revolutionary change” did occur through the unity government’s 100-day programme and that change was the Central Bank bond scam. Addressing the Joint Opposition’s rally in Nugegoda on Friday (27), he stated this government will go down in history as the first government […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana January 27, 2017  08:01 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that he left the Presidential Palace for Medamulana at 6.00am on January 09 with the intention of retiring and taking a small break at home but it was the people who told him no you can’t retire, come back.” But I would […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE Ven Athureliye Rathana Thero, quite silent and almost a non-factor in the public domain for almost a year, made the headlines of all national newspapers last week.  ‘Rathana Thero goes independent,’ or versions of this, made the headlines.  The truth is that Rathana Haamuduruwo had already been made independent.  He had been unceremoniously evicted from the Jathika Hela Urumaya.  […]

Harriet Alexander, new york Courtesy Telegraph (UK) 26 JANUARY 2017 • 11:12PM Theresa May delivers speech in Philadelphia Warns Trump about threat of Russia Says it is bad for the world when US & UK “step back” International institutions matter – but need reform Trump to impose 20pc tax on Mexican imports Mexican president cancels US visit […]

ALI SUKHANVER What an achievement for India. They are now the number One rape nation of the world. Congratulations for achieving this honour. Well done India.” These were the comments of Richard Kong, a reader of the Sputnik International. On 3rd of this January Sputnik International published a story with the title, ‘New Year’s Mass […]

දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්‍රන් මහතා ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ උපදේශක වරයෙක් වශයෙන් කටයුතු කිරීම පිළිබඳ මතුකළ කාරණා සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිසි පිළිතුරක් ලබා දෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් දූෂණ විරෝධි පෙරමුණ අද (26)  මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම් වරයා සහ මහ බැංකු අධිපති වරයා වෙත ලිපි දෙකක් යොමු කළේය. දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණේ සභාපති පුජ්‍ය උලපනේ සුමංගල හිමියන් සහ එහි  උපදේශක […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මැ ද පෙරදිග රටවල් 6 ක සංක්‍රමණිකයන්ට ඇමරිකාව ට පැමිණීමට වීසා නොදීමට ට්‍රම්ප් තීරණය කර ඇතිබව  වාර්තාවෙය් . එය රටේ ආරක්ෂාව සඳහා ගන්නා තීරණයක් හෙයින් ඒ තීරණය ගැන ප්‍රශ්නකිරීමට උසාවියටත් නොහැකිළු,ත්‍රස්තවාදියා තමන් ත්‍රස්ත වාදියෙකය්  කියමින් රටට එන්නේ නැත .එනකොට එන්නේ හිනාවෙවී ඇවිත් දෙනකොට දෙන්නේ අමරිකානුන්ට  ඇ ඬේ න්න ය් . එනිසා  එන එකා […]

Lakshman Yapa explains extent of Central Bank bond scam

Dr Sarath Obeysekera To make such statement by a young budding MP, people wonder start worndering. Media gagging was the main Reason for getting rid of previous regime . There is no sense telling it  to media ,as they have got the cardinal rights to write . It is up to public to believe or […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island January 25, 2017, 12:00 pm   ‘These will be going to the world as the official recommendations and observations of a task force appointed by the Prime Minister and which functioned under the Prime Minister’s Office and which held meetings with stakeholders throughout the country.’ In January last year, […]

ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ මනෝහර ද සිල්වා මැතිතුමා විසින් රචිත බෙදුම්වාදීන්ගේ උපාය මාර්ග හා ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන” කෘතිය ජනගත කිරීමේ උළෙල. 2017-01-06 කොළඹ පදනම් ආයතනයේදී

වෛද්‍ය ගෝඩ්න් අතර්ලි සයිමන් ෆ්‍රේසර් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය කැනඩාව බොල්‍ෂවික් විප්ලවය ජයගත් ලෙනින් ෆීලික්ස් දෙර්ශීන්ස්කිට චෙකා සංවිධානය භාර දුන්නේය. චෙකා සංවිධානය විසින් ප්‍රති විප්ලවවාදීන් ලෙස නම් කොට මිනිසුන් දස දහස් ගනනක් මරා දමන ලදි . ලෙනින් ගෙන් පසු බලයට ආ ස්ටාලින් කල්හෝස් ක්‍රමය ආරම්භ කරමින් යූක්‍රයිනයේ කෘත්‍රිම සාගතයක් ඇති කොට ජන ඝාතන කලේය. එසේම ඔහු ගුලාර්ග් […]

Editorial The Island January 26, 2017, 9:46 pm Co-Cabinet Spokesman, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne addressing the media on Wednesday, tore into a high-up in the Agricultural Department for suggesting that the public eat croton and kos kola (jak leaves) as food substitutes; he said if he had been the Minister of Agriculture he would have got […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island January 26, 2017, 9:47 pm During the course of an e-mail exchange, the question as to which Laws should guide issues relating to Sri Lanka’s Armed Conflict became a contentious topic. The opinion of some was that International Human Rights Laws (IHRL) and International Humanitarian Laws (IHL) should operate concurrently […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island January 26, 2017, 10:03 pm Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe yesterday said that there couldn’t be any information pertaining to the Central Bank bond scams which couldn’t be shared with JVP MP Sunil Handunetti, Chairman of the parliamentary watchdog Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE). Soft spoken Wijesinghe emphasized that there couldn’t […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror  Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA), which was once dubbed as a ghost airport by both local and foreign commentators, has suddenly turned into life becoming one of the busiest airports in the world, due to the temporary closure of Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) for the relaying of its decade-old runaway. With […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror  Contradicting a statement made by President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday that he threw away the Cabinet paper aimed at legalizing homosexuality, Minister Rajitha Senaratne today told Parliament that there was never such a move. “There was never a move to legalize homosexually or prostitution,” the minister said responding to a question […]

වඩාත් දූෂිත රාජ්‍යයන් අතරට අපේ රටත් එක්වෙලා… ඩලස් අලහප්පෙරුම

Courtesy Adaderana The COPE report on the Central Bank bond issue has already been sent to the AG by the Prime Minister’s Office before it was approved by Parliament yesterday, the President said. President Maithripala Sirisena made the observation while speaking at an event held at the Abeyaramaya temple in Narahenpita on Wednesday. Then the […]

Courtesy Adaderana January 26, 2017  07:00 pm  Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama says that certain articles published on Horana Tyre Factory Project at Wagawaththa Industrial Zone are giving misleading information to the public. He further said that the statement made by co-cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne on this issue is also incorrect. The […]

Courtesy Adaderana The views of US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May on matters of national security offer a window of opportunity” to the Sri Lankan government to re-negotiate the September 2015 UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on it, says Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka, former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN in Geneva […]

By Yatish Yadav  |  Express News Service  | Courtesy The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: ‘Insider Knowledge’ can be roughly defined as real-time intelligence that shapes the events and gives us a peep into situation room to highlight why decisions were made by then government. But, blunders will be too many and difficult to count if the ‘insider knowledge’ […]

Shenali D Waduge   Sooner than later it is good to re-evaluate and re-assess all that we had been fed over the years via an education system promoted by the West and a political and social system also influenced by the West. History has always been written by the victors. The conquerors views supersede those […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් හිටපු ජනාධිපති ජේ.ආර්.ජයවර්ධන මහතා 1978 සකස් කළ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව මගින් විධායක ජනාධිපති  ධූරය ඇති කරන ලද්දේ එක් ආසනයකින් එහි චන්ද දායකයන්ගේ බලයෙන් තේරී පත් වූ මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙකු රටේම අගමැති වී නායකත්වයට පත් වීම ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයට පටහැනි යැයි කියමිනි.එය සත්‍යයකි.අගමැති වරයා ධූරයෙන් පහකිරීමටද අගමැතිවරයා ගන්නා සාධාරණ තීරණයන් වුවද පසුබට කිරීමටද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට හැකිය.1972 ජනරජ ව්‍යවස්ථාව පරිදි අගමැතිවරයා […]

By Senaka Weeraratna Courtesy The Daily Mirror 2017-01-25 Secularism has become the buzz word for all those who wish to drive out Buddhism from public life in Sri Lanka, both overtly and covertly. When we refer to secularism we must be in a position to distinguish it from pseudo-secularism. What is practised in a large majority […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්  මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය  දූෂණ විරෝධි පෙරමුණ විසින් අද කැඳවා තිබු මාධ්‍ය හමුවේදී එම පෙරමුණේ උපදේශක කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා දැක්වූ අදහස්  පහතින් දැක්වෙයි වංචාව දූෂණය නැති කරන්නට ආපු අණ්ඩුව අද වෙනකොට වංචාව දූෂණය සහ හොර කල්ලි වටකරගත්ත ආණ්ඩුවක් බවට පත්වෙලා තියෙනවා. අපිට ඉතාම පැහැදිලියි මේ රට මේ වෙකොට පහුගිය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුව හා  සමානවම […]