Dr Sudath Gunasekara  Mahanuwara Although the Indian Politicians and Kavtillyan bureaucrats think they are masters of statecrafts they little realize that all ways it is not the case. For example they never thought Rajiv will be assassinated by the LTTE when the Indian Government subversively nurtured the Tigers to fight against the Sri Lanka government […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The political and social upheaval caused by the 1956 government received a mixed reaction in Sri Lanka society. 1956 had different connotations for different groups.  For the English speaking elites in Colombo  and elsewhere in the island, the world turned upside down. From 1948 to 1956 political power in Ceylon had been held […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. අලුත්ම දේශපාලන මාතෘකාව බවට පත්ව ඇත්තේ කොළඹ වරාය නගරයයි. අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන්ගේ හා ඉන්දීය ව්යාප්තවාදීන්ගේ ද්වේශයට ලක්ව ඇති ප්‍රධානම රටක් බවට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව මේ වනවිට පත්ව ඇත. එහි ඉදිවෙමින් පවතින කොළඹ වරාය නගරය ආසියාවේ දිදුලන වෙළඳ මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් බවට පත්වීම ලෝකයේ කිසිදු බලවතෙකුට වලකාලිය නොහැක.මේ බව දැන දැනත් එහි ඉදිකිරීමට එරෙහිව ගත හැකි උපරිම දායකත්වය […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් හෙට (16) ට යෙදෙන පැළ සිටුවීමේ නැකතට රෝපණය කිරීම සඳහා සුදු සඳුන් පැළයක් පරිසර අමාත්‍ය මහින්ද අමරවීර මහතාට කාල්ටන් නිවසේ දී අද (15) දින  ප්‍රදානය කළේය. සිංහල දෙමළ අලුත් අවුරුදු නැකත් චාරිත්‍රයේ පැළ සිටුවීම හෙට (16) දින පූර්වභාග 6.40 නැගෙනහිර බලා සිදු වේ. මෙම චාරිත්‍රයේ ප්‍රධාන […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. …the broadly held view the world over, [is] that the devolution of power to ethnic minority areas, making for a measure of autonomy, is the best vaccine against separatism.” -Dayan Jayatilleke, Advisor to Sajith Premadasa (Colombo Telegraph, April 7, 2021) If the Tamils’ cry for separatism is given up, the two […]

RANJITH SOYSA CHINA has released a white paper on poverty alleviation which outlines the success of policies implemented, the methods employed and her desire to share the unique social experiment with other developing countries. Sri Lanka being a friendly international partner of China should make use of this opportunity to study the program and plan […]

Courtesy https://www.amnesty.org/ At least 41 Sri Lankan women, the majority of whom are migrant domestic workers, have spent months on end arbitrarily detained at a deportation center in Saudi Arabia, awaiting repatriation to their home country, Amnesty International revealed today. The women have been held at a Deportation Detention (Tarheel) Centre in Riyadh for periods ranging […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Four new COVID-related deaths were confirmed in Sri Lanka on Monday (April 15), says the Director-General of Health Services. Following the new development, the country’s death toll has climbed to 608, according to the Department of Government Information. 1. The deceased is a 62-year-old male resident in Pannipitiya. He was transferred from Colombo […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ministry of Health on Friday (April 15) confirmed 40 more new cases of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka as the daily cases count reached 167. The new development has brought the total number of COVID-19 confirmed in the country thus far to 95,949. Meanwhile, the country’s recovery count is at 92,308 while 3,033 […]

Courtesy Adaderana A five-member Supreme Court judge bench has been appointed to hear the petition filed against the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill. Chaired by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, the bench consists of Supreme Court Judges Buwaneka Aluvihare, Priyantha Jayawardena, Murdu Fernando and Janak de Silva. The petition, filed by Chairman of the Association […]