සිසිර විජේසිංහ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම් නොරොච්චෝල ගල්අඟුරු බලාගාර ව්‍යාපෘතියේ අවසන් අදියරේ ජනන පරීක්ෂණ කටයුතු මේ වනවිට ආරම්භ කර තිබේ. ඒ අනුව, ව්‍යාපෘතියේ අවසන් අදියර කඩිනමින් ජාතික විදුලිබල පද්ධතියට සම්බන්ධ කිරීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය සියලු විධිවිධාන මේ වනවිට යොදා ඇත.  බලාගාර ව්‍යාපෘතියේ ජනන යන්ත්‍ර දෙකක් මේ වනවිට ක්‍රියාත්මක කර ඇත. තෙවන ජනන යන්ත්‍රයට අයත් ඉදිකිරීම් දැනට අවසන් වී […]

By Nalin de Silva The so-called third world, which itself is a concept coined by western intellectuals, is being oppressed and exploited using western knowledge. It is unfortunate that the “professionals”, administrators and others who take decisions connected with the lives of the people in these countries posses some western education and as far as […]

Truthout / By Jeff Ritterman, M.D. Courtesy Alert. Net The herbicide Roundup has been linked to an ailment that has appeared across multiple continents. For years, scientists have been trying to unravel the  mystery of a chronic kidney disease epidemic that has hit Central America, India and Sri Lanka. The disease occurs in poor peasant farmers […]

S. Akurugoda According to a news item appeared in Daily Mirror dated 9th July 2014, under the subject ‘NGO’s to defy Defence Ministry ban‘ J.C. Weliamuna of the Lawyers Collective said the government is misguided in its thinking that NGOs and civil society organisations are enemies and is working for international community. Another so-called human […]

 Shenali D Waduge Kandy is special to Sri Lanka and the Sinhale Buddhists in many ways. It is where the sacred Tooth relic of Buddha is enshrined and a place of daily homage. The sanctity of Kandy and the entire Sinhale nation was preserved under Sinhale Buddhist kings. Animal slaughter was banned by all of […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න විසිනි ජයදේව උයන්ගොඩගේ  ගේ සන්කාරකත්වයෙන් බිහි වන  ප්‍රවාද  නම් සඟරාවක්  විය. දැන් ඇත් දැය්  නොදනිමි.. ප්‍රවාද යනු    තියරි     ය . මොවුන්ගේ   ප්‍රවාද  සිංහල බෞද්ධ කමට එරෙහිවය. ප්‍රලාපය, හිස් වදන් ය . 1994 ප්‍රවාද 7 කලාපය -“”ලංකාවේ බහුවිධ බුධ්ධාගම්මිස  බුද්ධාගම නමින් එක ආගමක් , දැන්    නැත. සතුරන්ගෙන් රැකගැනීම සඳහා  සටන් කිරීමට තරම් බුධ්ධාගමක් දැන් […]

Shenali D Waduge Contrary to what is erroneously being promoted the Sinhela race did not descend from banished King Vijaya of India. The discovery of the Balangoda man depicts a rich civilization going back 38000 years. Undoubtedly what distinguishes the Sinhala people is their Sinhala language – both people and language found nowhere else in the […]

Lakshman I.Keerthisinghe LLB, LLM.MPhil, Attorney-at-Law Courtesy The Daily News There’s a great danger in this that we accept one side in this narrative…It’s not just a Tamil Tiger’s narrative; it’s a narrative about a complex society rebuilding itself after 35 years of vicious violence and not doing badly -Bob Carr – Former Foreign Minster of […]

Press Release-Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United States, Prasad Kariyawasam, presented his credentials to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, at the Oval Office of the White House on Monday 14 July 2014. Signing the White House Guest Book before the commencement of the […]

Dr Hector Perera     London Some children complete their secondary school studies then enter into Universities. I am sure that is one of the wishes of the parents. When my SSC results came that was good enough to apply to the law college and fortunately I got selected but my dad said that kind profession was […]

Dr D.Chandraratna, Perth The leader of the opposition has found it fit to stand up for the freedom of expression, which on the face of it is a darn good thing. But without knowing the ground realities superficial talk of freedoms is pure bourgeois political titillation. The big picture is to make the entire country […]

LankaWeb Weekly Editorial July15th 2014   Inasmuch as Sri Lanka’s head of State is a very pragmatic and perceptive leader, new Indian Prime Minister the Hon. Narendra Modi too has shown his class and ability to be much the same through his recent response to the issues raised against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC  where a […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  විසිනි ප්‍රවේශය —— පිටරටක සිටියද  සිංහලේ යන වචනයත් ඒ  හා බැඳී  ඇති වෙනත් දේ ගැනත්  ඇල්ම බැල්ම අයගේ දැනගැනීම සඳහා  නැවත නැවත ඉස්මතු කලයුතු දෑ  බොහෝය . ඉහතකී …… පුත්තු  අපට කර ඇති අනවින කොඩිවින ගැන පිටරට සිටින ඔබ තබා ලංකාවේ වැඩි දෙනෙකුත්  දන්නේ නැත. විභාග වලට නියමිත  පොත් මිස වෙන කිසිවක්  නොකියන […]

Shenali Waduge Courtesy: South Asia Mail Contrary to what is erroneously being promoted the Sinhela race did not descend from banished King Vijaya of India. The discovery of the Balangoda man depicts a rich civilization going back 38000 years. Undoubtedly what distinguishes the Sinhala people is their Sinhala language – both people and language found […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala The egg-shaped face of the American Ambassadress, Michele J. Sison, does not mean that she is an egg-head. A closer look will reveal that her elongated oval face resembles more of El Greco’s tendentious elasticity stretched  to the  farthest point of caricaturing the humbuggery of the Spanish courtiers. If, however, the […]

Dilrook Kannangara Famous Kilinochchi Buddhist monk Ven. Gonapinuwala Sumanasara Thero lived in LTTE controlled areas until May 2009. He escaped LTTE brutality with Tamil civilians. Although LTTE committed crimes against Buddhist monks till 1995 and attacked Buddhist shrines until 1998, it didn’t attack Ven Sumanasara Thero, throw cattle heads to his temple or threaten him […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න අසේල,  දුටුගැමුණු,  කීර්ති විජයබා , හා වළගම්බා යුද කල නිසා පවුකාරයෝද? එතකොට  සේ න, ගුත්තික , එළාර හා සත්මහ සොලින් පින් කාරයෝද  මුල්ලේරියාව ලේ විලක්  කරමින් පරංගි පන්න දැමු ටිකිරි රාජසිංහ  ද්‍රෝහියෙක්ද?   යුද කිරීම අවශ්‍ය විට යුද නොකර  සිට මුස්ලිම් ඇත අඩංගුවට පත්වුනොත් යුද්ධය එපා කියන්නවුන්  ස්වේච්චාවෙන් මුස්ලිම්වරුන් වෙත ගොස්  මෙන්න    කපාපල්ලා     යය්  […]

Senaka Weeraratna The Venerable Narada Maha Thera (Sinhala:නාරද මහා ස්ථවිරයන් වහන්සේ), born Sumanapala Perera (14 July 1898 – 2 October 1983) was a Theravadan Buddhist monk and translator, the Superior of Vajirarama Temple in Colombo. He was a popular figure in his native country, Sri Lanka, and beyond. He was born in Kotahena, Colombo to […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA), a northeast India based scribes’ body, has expressed dissatisfaction over a verdict of a lower court in central Burma (Myanmar) to sentence five media employees, engaged with Unity Weekly News, a current-affairs magazine published Rangoon, for 10 years of imprisonment with hard labour. The Pakokku township court […]

Shenali D Waduge There is light at the end of the tunnel they say and liars will eventually get exposed. Not bad news at all. The position taken by the Tony Abbot Government is commendable. ‘Increasingly shrill’ was what Scott Morrison Australia’s Immigration Minister called critics. Having visited Sri Lanka and toured North Sri Lanka […]

S. Akurugoda Responding to a series of questions raised by JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Deputy External Affairs Minister Neomal Perera told parliament that the government had no expectation to engage South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa or the South African government as an international mediator to solve the national problem of Sri Lanka. This […]

Dr D.Chandraratna, Perth W.A  The latest in the attack on Sri Lanka by the enemies of the country revolves round the issue of asylum seekers to Australia. This really is a joke of mammoth proportions if not for the perils of a hazardous journey with so many infants they intentionally carry as accoutrements. The UN […]

 ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ගමේ ගොඩේ මිනිහා පවා  සියල්ල අනිත්‍ය බවත් වෙනස්වන  සුලු බවත් දනී අනිචේ දුක්ඛේ  කියන්නේ එනිසාය. කුඹුර හාන කොට පනුවෝ මැරෙන බව ඔහු දනී . එය ප්‍රාණඝාතයට ඇසුවේද නැද්ද යන්නත් දනී. පනුවෝ ඉබේ මැරෙති ඒත්  මොහු නගුල අසල දඟලන මඩකනය උඩින් නගුල ගෙනියන්නේ නැත. කුඹුර හාන ලෙබ්බේ නම් කනයට කෙවිටෙන් ගසා මරා  නියරේ හංගා  […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම     මුස්ලිම් මිනිසුන්ට හිරිහැර කිරීමෙන් වලකින ලෙස දළයි ලාමාතුමා තම 79 වෙනි උපන් දින සැමරුමේදී ලංකාවේ හා බුරුමයේ බෞද්ධයින්ට අවවාද කරා යයි වාර්‍තා විය.  ශුද්ධ සිංහලෙන් කියනවා නම් එතුමාට අමු කැවී ඇත. මා මෙසේ කියන්නේ බෞද්ධ ක්‍රමයට අනුව මෙවැනි ප්‍රකාශ කල යුතු ප්‍රථමයෙන් ඒ ගැන අඩුම තරමින් බොදු බල සේනාවෙන් හෝ (හැමෝම මුව […]

By Bhante Y. Wimala  We have completed renovating the Catholic Church in the Village of San Isidro in Tacloban, Philippines. The Church was badly damaged by the typhoon and the congregation was not able to raise the money needed to rebuild it. At the request of the Village Chief Hon. Eutequio N. Balunan and the […]

Nalin de Silva  It is difficult to convince the Western educated people in general that knowledge is relative and not absolute, and further that knowledge is relative to the five senses, mind and the culture. Even if one succeeds in doing so, it is almost impossible to convince them that knowledge arises due to our […]

ධර්ම සිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මැ කෝලි  සාමි  අධ්‍යාපනයෙන්  බලපොරෝත්තුවුයේ සුද්දන් යනවිට  තම ඒජන්තයන් ලෙසින් කළුසුද්දන් බෝ කිරීමටය  පඬියෝ එසේ බෝ වූඅ  ය වෙති . චාර්ල්ස් සහ සුනිල අබේසේකර , කුමාරි ජයවර්දන  ගොඩ් ෆ්රි  ගුණතිලක සරත් අමුණුගම, ගනනාථ,  ජී එල්. පීරිස්  ජෙහාන් පෙරේරා  ජයදේව උයන්ගොඩ  සුනන්ද දේශප්‍රිය,  දයාන් ජයති ලක  හා  ති සරනී දෙබාන  මෙන්ම ප්‍රසන්න විතානගේ  […]

Pravda The number of NATO ships in the waters of the Black Sea today is larger than it was during the days of the Soviet Union. Even during the war with Georgia in 2008, the Alliance and the U.S. did not send so many cruisers, frigates, patrol and reconnaissance vessels to the Black Sea. Today, […]

Sayeed Gafurov Pravda.Ru 10.07.2014 Living under sanctions is possible, and Russia knows it from international experience. After all, China has been under sanctions since 1989, but it does not stop the country’s successful development. It is no coincidence that U.S. Senator Corker was surprised with the growth of the Russian securities market by 20 percent […]

Letter of instruction to request NGOs to act within agreed boundaries These type of reminders go out in other countries as well Sandasen Marasinghe and Disna Mudalige -Daily News It is a well known fact that several NGOs have exceeded their remits even to the extent of procuring weapons for terrorists, Prime Minister D. M. […]