The Bodu Bala Sena organisation has decided to support Mahinda Rajapaksa in the forthcoming presidential election. election.The General secretary Galabadaaththe Gnanasara thera had said addressing the media in Colombo and had requested Maithripala Sirisena to come back to the government.

Hot News From Sri Lanka  Opposition Common Presidential Candidate Maithripala Sirisena received a rousing welcome when he arrived at the UNP headquarters, Sirikotha, yesterday and claimed that he is there to demolish Mahinda Rajapakse government.  Sirisena, accompanied by UNP national leader Ranil Wickremeisnghe, Chairman of the Leadership Council Karu Jayasuriya, General Secretary Tissa Attanayake, Deputy […]

By Garvin Karunaratne Former Government Agent, Matara District The Presidential Election  is today the concern of everyone. Many ideas are mooted by patriotic persons and  most are of the opinion that many changes have to be done. It looks to me that some of the changes suggested like changing the Constitution is something that cannot be […]

By Charles.S.Perera Many seem to want the executive presidency abolished. The man who put in place the executive Presidency writing a whole new Constituency was unable to use the executive powers appropriately.  He was in fact manipulated by India to mutilate the very Constitution he fathered by forcing him to introduce into it an amendment […]

By Rohana R. Wasala It is a royal thing to be ill spoken of for good deeds.” Greek philosopher Antisthenes (445-365 BCE) commenting on the kingly prerogative, quoted with approval by Roman Emperor, Stoic philosopher and soldier Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) in his philosophical work ‘Meditations’ Until Maithripala Sirisena and his followers from the SLFP joined […]

When all international challenges, the LTTE threat and the threat of separatism ends, President Mahinda Rajapaksa will himself declare that he is the last Executive President of Sri Lanka, SLFP Treasurer and Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister Dullas Alahapperuma told the Daily News yesterday. Minister Alahapperuma said the day President Rajapaksa announces an end […]

By H. L. D. Mahindapala    The politics of Maithripala Sirisena is bizarre, to say the least. He leaves the Rajapaksa regime because he was not given the premiership and his answer to his own problem is to abolish the presidency and appoint Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister, empowered with executive powers of the […]

Mahinda Weerasinghe I wrote this piece as a comment to I. Ahmad essay, the heading of which is outlined below. On second thought the majority of my enemies would have missed it and I felt that they are unable to offer their valuable opinion. So I did a little bit of touching this up in […]

Mahinda Weerasinghe Author of  Mission to Oslo First Posted on September 26th, 2010 Mahindapala‘s ‘Ranil about to repeat Uncle JRJ‘s end‚ Posted on September 21st, 2010 was, factual, brilliant and informative. I read it with avidity. However there is subtler truth which unfortunately had eluded his attention. Obviously ‘Yankee dick”‘ tinkered with the UNP constitution […]

ALI SUKHANVER  In a move intended to mend shattering and tattering ties with the Unites States, the newly-elected Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and US Ambassador James Cunningham, signed the Bilateral Security Agreement known as ‘BSA’ this year on 30th September at the presidential palace in Kabul. The deal allows the US to leave a small […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම අවංක මෝඩයින්     ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ඉවත්වූ රජීව විජේසිංහ මහතා අවංක මිනිසෙකි. ක්‍රිස්තියානි පවුලකින් එන ඔහු ක්‍රිස්තියානි-මාක්ස්වාදී දයාන් ජයතිලක මෙන්ම පෙඩරල්, 13-ඒ කාරයෙක් නිසා මා ඔහුවද සලකන්නේ කළුසුද්දෙක් ලෙසය. මේ දෙන්නාටම ඥානසාර හාමුදුරුවන්ගේ වචනවලින් කියනවා නම් අබ සරණංයි. යමෙක් හරිාකාරයට තොරතුරු නොදැන වලිගේ පාගා ගෙන දඟලනවා නම් ඔහු මෝඩයෙකි. මේ අනුව රජිව මෝඩයෙක් කියා මා […]

The member of parliament for Kalutara district, Vidura Wickremanayake had said that he is closely monitoring the actions of Ministers who purchase hotels.Addressing a ceremony in Horana he said that SLFP is a very respectable party and the party should not be subject to humiliation by carrying out such demeaning activities .It is true we were subjected […]

Hilmy Ahamed Attempts by the Bodu Bala Sena to align themselves with Maithripala Sirisena and the common opposition exposes without a doubt, the ulterior motives of the BBS. They would want to ensure that the minorities move away from the common opposition, and hopefully not turn up to vote. It would be a futile exercise […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න පුදනකොටම කා පී යකා කිව්වා වාගේ ඒ ජාප යේ ලොක්කෝ  දැන්සිටම  මයිත්‍රී  පාච්චල් කිරීම අරඹා ඇත.   දළදා මාලිගා වේදීම කිරි ඇ ල්ලේ  බෙරිහන් දුන්නේ ” දැනගනින්  මම ලෝයර් කෙනෙක් උඹ නිකම්ම ග්‍රාමසේවක  ,  ක්ලාක් කට්ටෙක්  ”කියමිනි   උද්ධච්ච මහන්තත්ත ඒ ජා ප නායකයන් ඉදිරියේ  මේ ගමේ   මිනිහා කෙසේනම් ඔලුව උස්සය් ද. සිරිසේන  ජනාධිපති […]

Shenali D Waduge It is a natural feeling for those that lived off the LTTE and those that lived because of the LTTE to mourn the death of Prabakaran and celebrate his birthday which falls on 27 November. But, what about those that died because of Prabakaran and his killer machine? While the UNHRC is […]

Lakshman I.Keerthisinghe LLB, LLM.MPhil, Attorney-at-Law Never stifle conscience for when it speaks you are in the path of danger; only when you are safe is it silent, yet none the less watchful, unsleeping. Never try to displace that judge who never leaves his seat, but sits moment by moment weighing every thought and action in […]

Dr Hector Perera            London If it’s mostly around your stomach (the “apple” shape), that may be riskier than if you have a “pear” shape, meaning that your extra weight is mostly around your hips and buttocks. Back home some people call it Rabada”. The health risks of obesity are applicable to adults and children not just […]

Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya  Melbourne  Let’s assume the Common candidate Maithripala Sirisena whose dishonest past initially with the rice mills saga given a white wash by the multiparty panel as the Mr. Clean qualifies as the best pick to contest at the forth coming Presidential elections prevails!  Being the General Secretary of the SLFP who should have […]

Shenali D Waduge A very non-partisan set of questions and suggestions is being placed for voters to put a perspective on matters and generate discussion and thinking ahead of casting their vote and before campaigns start. What the people must at all times be concerned about is that 5 years after the armed forces gave […]

Dr.Kamal Wikramasinghe The personalities, factors and mechanics behind the defection of the former Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena from the UPFA to announce his candidacy – as the common” opposition candidate – in the upcoming presidential elections make the move stink to high heaven” at strategic as well as operational levels. It is no secret that […]

 lanka C news The leader of the UNP had questioned the common candidate Maithripala Sirisena why those promised have not come yet.As they had come as promised earlier had disturbed Ranil Wickremasinghe.As a result there had been conflicts in the Ranil-Maithri pack.The common candidate position was given on such conditions.In the first media briefing Rajitha […]

පෙර පුවත් Tomorrow if the budget 2015 is not defeated,do not call her father a Bandaranaike-Chandrika ලබන 2015 වසර සඳහා වූ අයවැය යෝජනාවලිය වැඩි ඡන්ද 95 කින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී සම්මත විය. ඒ අනුව එම සම්මත වීම 2/3කින් සිදුව ඇත.ඡන්ද විමසීමේදී අයවැයට පක්ෂව ඡන්ද 152 ක් හිමිවෙද්දී විපක්ෂව හිමි වූයේ ඡන්ද 57 ක් පමණි.හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනි චන්ද්‍රිකා කුමාරතුංග මහත්මිය […]

Shenali D Waduge Former diplomats and other political pundits are attempting to project a fear psychosis through the view that Sri Lanka should meekly allow a UNHRC investigation to conclude, silently watch the panel make its deliberations and announce its final report without demanding answers to some very valid questions. We are told that the […]

– මහනුවර විශේෂ අද පෙරවරුවේ මල්වතු අස්ගිරි මහ නාහිමිවරුන් බැහැදැකීමට මහනුවරට පැමිණි විපක්ෂයේ පොදු අපේක්ෂක මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන සහ එජාප මන්ත්‍රී ලක්ෂ්මන් කිරිඇල්ල මහතා අතර වූ බහින් බස්වීමක් මල්වතු විහාරය අසලදී සිදුවූ අතර හිටපු දියවඩන නිලමේ නිරංජන් විජේරත්නගේ මැදිහත් වීමෙන් එය ඉතා අසීරුවෙන් සමථයකට පත්විය. මෙහිදී එජාප මන්ත්‍රී ලක්‍ෂ්මන් කිරිඇල්ල මෛත්‍රිගේ ජාතකය ඇද ගනිමින් බැණ වැදුණේ මෛත්‍රී උඹ 32ක් […]

SLFP responds to Common Candidate-Courtesy The Nation ‘It’s nothing more than a mega teledrama,’ was how the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) described the move to field its former General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena as the opposition’s ‘Common Candidate’. Minister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development and SLFP Treasurer Dullas Alahapperuma made the above observation at […]

පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක ජාතික හෙළ උරුමය විසින් රටේ සමාජ ආර්ථීක දේශපාලන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණයක් සඳහා වූ යෝජනාවලියක් ඉදිරිපත් කළ අතර එය ජනතාව අතර ව්‍යාප්ත කිරීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ අපි දළඳා සමිඳුන් වැඳ පුදාගෙන නුවරින් ආරම්භ කළේය. එය අද කොටුව, බොරැල්ල, මහරගම, නුගේගොඩ ආදී නගරවල ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනව. හෙටත් අපි රට පුරා නගර ගණනාවක ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනව. මේ මුළු සතියේම අපේ අරමුණ […]

H.L. D. Mahindapala The joint opposition was desperately looking for a common candidate to (1) end, if possible, its divisive, internecine conflicts and (2) present a formidable and acceptable candidate who could stand up to the incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa. On Friday (November 20, 2014) the mystery candidate revealed himself : Maithripala Sirisena which the Opposition […]

Shenali D Waduge  The impression given to the public is that the country has had enough of President Rajapakse and his family rule – if the country hated President Rajapakse so much why did the main Opposition and the Opposition parties need to fish for and field a Common Candidate? What is interesting is not […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. අවුරුදු 47ක් ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ වැඩකල බව කියන එතුමා; එම පක්ෂයේ ලේඛම් වශයෙන් වසර; 13ක් සේවය කර ඇත්තෙකි.වැදගත් හා බලගතු පදවියක් දැරූ ඒ මහතා; වැඩිම කාලයක් පක්ස ලේකම් තුමා වශයෙන් කටයුතු කර ඇත.තවද මේ වනතෙක් එසේ කටයුතු කරමින් සිටින විටදීම; මුලු පක්ෂයටම හොරා ඔහු එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය හා සාකච්චා කොට එකගතාවයන්ට […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මීට පෙර  මේ ගැන ලියු කෙටි සටහන පලවී නැති නිසා නැවත ලියන්නේ  ඒ ජා ප යේ යෝධයින්ගේ පැටිකිරිය  පෙන්වා දීමටය්  1941 දී  ජේ ආර් විසින් සිලෝන් නැෂනල්  කො  න්ග්රසයට යවන ලද සංදේශයේ මෙසේ සඳහන් වේ ———”’අපේ ජාතියේ ප්‍රභවය ඇතිවුයේ නැතහොත්  අපේ ජාතියේ තිඹිරිගෙය වුයේ  ඉන්දියාවය්. අප ඉන්දියාව සමග ෆෙඩරල්  ක්‍රමයක් ඇතිකර ගැනීමට  සාකච්චා […]