By Walter Jayawardhana President Mahinda Rajapaksa condemned a Sri Lankan leader who goes round the world and tries to stop all aid to Sri Lanka and attempts to trip the government in all its developmental work, addressing a mammoth election rally in Badulla yesterday. The President said in an obvious reference to UNP leader Ranil […]

ALI SUKHANVER Pakistan is surely a land of miracles. Here impossibilities turn into possibilities, abstracts into concretes and dreams into realities; nothing is beyond the limits of Pakistanis. Be it the field of science or technology, politics or economics, the nuclear research, or the war against terrorism, Pakistan always comes up with a high head. […]

Daya Nikahetiya Nemo the clown fish…has to learn It has to learn more how to survive Because it’s a little fish…little and weak Therefore its life is in constant danger Endangered of being swallowed by a big fish and every little fish is fair prey to a big fish Big fish can fish a little […]

Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya Melbourne The Hon. Kevin Rudd, MP Prime Minister of Australiaƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  ƒ”š‚  Honorable Sir,ƒ”š‚  It is most satisfying to see that a pack of probable terrorists have been flushed out recently by the security forces of Federal and State Governments after their intensive study of their activity over a period of time. It is […]

Palitha Mapatuna Religious freedom requires that the onus of deciding whether a particular individual follows a religion and, if so, which religion, rests on that individual.ƒ”š‚  Therefore, any attempt to convert another would be an encroachment on that freedom.ƒ”š‚  However, an exception to this otherwise general principle is the right of parents (and, if unavailable, […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The land mass of the nation had been divided under an agreement reached with the terrorists. Gallant soldiers had to put up a very brave fight at the risk of losing their lives and limbs to take back the illegally granted land said President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing a ceremony in Colombo to […]

By Charles.S.Perera ƒ”š‚ There had been experiments carried out in America to pass messages of publicity for food or drinks embedded in films run in cinemas, which is not perceived by the conscious mind but which affect the subconscious to influence favourable acceptance of the produce publicised. These are called subliminal messages. ƒ”š‚ That means that you […]

By: C. Wijeyawickrama “There is no state without a Tamil – but there is no state for the Tamils.” World Confederation of Tamils (www.tamilnation.org) ‘India is a Myth’: The merchants of federal formula are reluctant to compare ‘Federal’ arrangements with marriage contracts. In the recent past we saw this behavior first hand in an exchange […]

It was Okakura the famous Japanese intellect who said that it was the compassion of Buddhism that elevates a lowly beast to the level of a human that made Buddhism acceptable to the Confucius China. This photograph illustrates a amazon Indian woman breast feeding a babyƒ”š‚  monkey whose mother has been killed. What compassion a […]

Lakbima on Sunday the 2nd of August 2009 “I tell you not that with me are the Treasures of God, nor do I know what is hidden, nor do I tell you I am an angel. I but follow what is revealed to me.”ƒ”š‚ Say: “Can the blind be held equal to the seeing?”ƒ”š‚ Will […]

C. Wijeyawickrema Awaking from time to time from his French language classes Bodhi Dhanapala (BD) has a habit of acting like the wise man from Canada. BD may not know that my interest in 13-A began long before he or Dayan Jayatilleke (DJ) came to the scene. I have published enough on 13-A to show […]

Public Communications Division Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Vice Governor of the Yunnan Province Mr. Gao Feng paid a courtesy call on Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama on 3rd August 2009 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ƒ”š‚ Welcoming Vice-Governor Feng to Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister Bogollagama noted that the visit was significant as it was the […]

Public Communications Division Ministry of Foreign Affairs Colombo Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama paid a farewell call on the outgoing Archbishop of Colombo, the Most Reverend Dr. Oswald Gomis, at the Archbishop’s House in Borella on Monday.ƒ”š‚  Minister Bogollagama extended his sincere appreciation of the work carried out by Archbishop Gomis in fostering unity and solidarity […]