It is more than clear that the Eelam project has been not simply a Tamil project but one that has been used by not just one foreign government for their own geopolitical agendas. That explains the duration of LTTE reign & it also explains the players coming forward as conflict-resolutionists and reading into some of […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්                       දෙදහස්නවය වසරේ කොටි ත්‍රස්ත සංවිධානය පරාජයට පත් කොට ජන ඝාතක යුද්ධය නිමා කළ පසු උතුරේ ජන ජීවිතය නැවත යාථා තත්ත්වයට පත් කරලීමට රජය විශාල මහන්සියක් ගන්නා ලද අතර මහා මාර්ග තනවා එම ප්‍රදේශ වල ජනතාවට අනෙක් ප්‍රදේශ සමග සම්බන්ධ වීමට ඉඩ හසර ලබා දුන්හ. මේ යටිතල […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS In the modern world we rarely see direct military invasions. Foreign countries invade the economy instead. They create economic partnerships where the powerful country employs a large team of well qualified and trained professional to carefully study all the weaknesses and loopholes of the targeted country. They prepare a well planned and carefully […]

පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න සභාපති සමනල යෞවන සමාජය නාවලකන්ද, මීගහතැන්න මෙවර 5 ශ්‍රේණිය ශිෂ්‍යත්ව විභාගයේ ප්‍රතිඵල අනුව කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ 849 – D බෝගොඩකන්ද ග්‍රාම නිලධාරී වසමේ නාවලකන්ද ග්‍රාමයේ  ඩී.වී. තීක්ෂණා තත්සරණි සමරසිංහ දියණිය ලකුණු 190  ක් ලබා  වලල්ලාවිට අධ්‍යාපන කොට්ඨාශයේ ප්‍රථම ස්ථානය හා මතුගම අධ්‍යාපන කලාපයේ දෙවන ස්ථානයත් හිමිකර ගැනීමට සමත් වූවාය. දේවිකා […]

The book Dhatusena – my son, purports to be written by Thera Mahanama and is therefore essentially a novel. The book elaborates in great detail the historical, political social, and religious contexts in which the lives of the heroes and villains of the narrative unfold. The subject of the book is permeated with reflections that probe the […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana UPDATE: Former DIG Nalaka de Silva who was arrested by CID over VIP assassination allegations have been remanded until 7th November. The former DIG was presented before the Fort Magistrate tonight (25) itself, following the arrest. Former DIG Nalaka de Silva has been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) a short […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island October 25, 2018, 9:30 pm An elderly woman who has pleaded guilty to stealing 19 mangoes from her neighbour’s garden is to be sentenced by the Anuradhapura Magistrate’s Court shortly, according to a front-page news item we carried yesterday. Immediately below it was our lead story, which revealed an attempt by the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Anti-Corruption Force Operations Director Namal Kumara yesterday said that in his initial statement to the CID, he had mentioned that Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka’s name and questioned whether Fonseka had got to know about it. Addressing a media briefing at his home in Ampara, Namal Kumara alleged that Sarath Fonseka […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that it is the responsibility of the government to give the proper place to Buddhism. He mentioned this to the media following an event held in Ambalangoda. Through the 20th Amendment to the Constitution the status and the protection of Buddhism is being removed, Rajapaksa said. Meanwhile […]

By Jeremy Drake/www.escape.com.au Meandering the Sri Lankan coast by tuktuk is a 30-year throwback to the way Australians once traveled the empty beaches of Bali and Thailand. When rock band Cinderella’s power ballad, Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone), reached the top of the charts in 1988, Phuket and Kuta were palm-fringed beaches with cheap […]