Tamara Kunanayakam: her Eliya Briefing: entitled On the current political crisis in Sri Lanka” Colombo,  30 October 2018 I will express myself on the international aspects of the political crisis in which the country finds itself today and their far-reaching consequences for the country’s sovereignty and independence, which must be taken into account in all its dimensions if an appropriate response is […]

Sri Lankan News Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekara. addressing a media conference in Colombo Says that the Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has decided to  evacuate  Prime Ministers official residence Temple Trees” and now in the process of moving back to his own house .

Courtesy The Daily News Former Speaker Joseph Michael Perera yesterday said that the Speaker doesn’t have power to convene Parliament, when it stands prorogued by the President. He said that the Speaker doesn’t have power to summon Parliament for an earlier date than the date fixed in the Proclamation proroguing Parliament. Perera added President Maithripala […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island Thursday 1st November, 2018 October 31, 2018, 9:36 pm The Sirisena-Rajapaksa government claimed, immediately after sacking Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, that many UNP MPs were falling over themselves to back it. The SLPP/UPFA leaders boasted that they were equal to the task of wresting control of Parliament, which was prorogued. But it […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Assuming duties as the Finance and Economic Affairs Minister yesterday, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa hinted towards his plans to return Sri Lanka to the inward-looking economy that he had built during his presidency from 2005 to 2014. While acknowledging the important role foreign direct investment could play in Sri Lanka’s economic […]

විදෙස් අතපෙවීම් එපා – යුතුකම මාධ්‍ය හමුව

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The International Community, mainly the Western Countries, was worried that their agenda in Sri Lanka was no longer operative and therefore, kept interfering in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka, Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thera said today. Addressing a news briefing of the Yuthukama Organisation, the Thera said the International Community shed […]

lanka C news පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේ පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවේ දී පක්ෂ නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා මෙම අදහස් පල කලේය. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධූරයේ දිවුරුම් දුන්නා කියන පණිවුඩය ලැබෙන්නට ටික වෙලාවකට කලින් මාධ්‍ය හරහා රටට ලැබුණු පණිවුඩය වූයේ එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ඉවත් වූ බවයි. වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට අනුව අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලයේ […]

 lanka C news පැවති රජය නියෝජනය කළ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ ප‍්‍රබලයන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වා ඇතැයි වාර්තා වෙයි. මෙම පිරිස අතර හිටපු ප්‍රබල ඇමතිවරයෙක් ප්‍රබල රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිවරයෙක් නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමතිවරයෙක් ඇතුළු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු ද සිටි බව වාර්තා වෙයි. මෙම සියළු දෙනා නව රජයට සහයෝගය පළ කිරීම සඳහා එකඟ වී ඇති බවත් […]

Lanka Lead News ශ්‍රී ලංකාව කෙරෙහි ඇතැම් රටවල් දැනට කරමින් සිටින මැදිහත්වීම් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට හිතවත්ව සිදුකරන මැදිහත්වීම් බව දේශපාලන විචාරක මාධ්‍යෙව්දී මොහාන් සමරනායක මහතා පවසයි. ඇමෙරිකාව, බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය,කැනඩාව වැනි රටවල් මේ ආකාරයේ බලපෑම් කරන්නේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඔවුන්ට පාලනය කළ හැකි තත්ත්වයක තබා ගැනීම්ට බවද ඔහු වැඩිදුරටත් සදහන් කළේය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට එරෙහි මෙම අවස්ථාවේ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානය […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena today met UN Representative in Sri Lanka, Hanna Singer and briefed about the current political situation in the country. President Sirisena had explained to the envoy that all the decisions had been taken in accordance with the Constitution, the President’s Media Division said. The President also said that […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Several delegates have called on Speaker Karu Jayasuriya at the Parliamentary premises this evening (31), stated Office of the Speaker, issuing a release. Accordingly, UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka Hanaa Singer, Ambassador for the EU Tung-Lai Margue, British High Commissioner James Dauris, Canadian Ambassador David McKinnon and German Ambassador Jorn Rohde […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 30 (newsin.asia): At the meeting between Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and foreign envoys here on Monday,  the European Union (EU) Ambassador  Tung-Lai Margue warned that if democratic norms and constitutional provisions are not observed in handling  the on-going political crisis in Sri Lanka, the EU may consider withdrawing  the trade […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia  Colombo, Oct 29 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s Speaker of Parliament, Karu Jayasuriya, on Monday warned that there would be a ‘huge bloodbath’ in the island if the present political crisis is taken out to the streets. Speaking to reporters in Colombo, Jayasuiya said the present political crisis should be settled through Parliament or […]

මෙරට තුල සාමය ආරක්‍ෂා කර දෙන්නැයි හිටපු අගමැති රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා විසින් විදේශීය සාම සාධක හමුදාවන්ට පැමිණෙන්නැයි ඉල්ලීමක් කර ඇති බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රි දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. මෙය ඉතා අභාග්‍ය සම්පන්න ප‍්‍රකාශයක් යයිද ඔහු කියා සිටී. රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා විසින් බටහිර තානාපතිවරුන්ට ලියනලද ලිපිය පහත දැක්වේ

Ranil should be arrested immediately for trying to get UN troops into our. Country when there is no war but only to safeguard his clique.

By Charles.S.Perera USA had always been working against the people of developing countries by eliminating elected popular leaders  as it had been with Mohammed Mosaddeq in Iran, in 1950, Jacob Arbenz in Guatamala in 1950, Patrice Lumumba in Congo in 1960,Salvador Allende in Chile, in 1973, Hudson Austin in Grenada in 1983, and more recently […]

By : A.A.M.NHIZAM – MATARA The defunct Speaker of Parliament Mr. Karu Jayasuriya who was the worst ever speaker in Sri Lanka’s parliament history who was extremely bias and unruly, who in his utter arrogance deliberately ignored to recognize the majority opposition group in thee Parliament, arbitrarily conferred the post of the Leader of the […]

Courtesy The Island Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, who defected from the UNP to the UPFA on Monday, told the media in Colombo, yesterday, that if the vote on accounted to be presented by the new government to Parliament was defeated by any chance, the President was constitutionally empowered to dissolve […]

The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) Article 41 clearly states that diplomats cannot interfere into the internal affairs in the receiving country and such interference is construed as a violation of diplomatic protocol. If so the US, UK, EU, Canada, Indian envoys are all breaching diplomatic protocols with their regular demarches against the Sri […]