Hot News What development? Let’s eat and merry, that was the message given to voters by Champika Ranawake on behalf of Sirisena’s campaign. By the sheer number of email circulated by Champika’s coordinator Dhanushka Ramanayake,  Champika Runawaka beat everyone else in the presidential race to introduce new policies for the hypothetical Sirisena Government. According to […]

Ven. Piyananda Thera Opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena was not trustworthy and should be shunned by all Buddhists for he had reneged a promise he had made by placing his hands on a casket containing the sacred relics of the Buddha, Chief Sanghanayake of the US, Dr. Walpola Piyananda Thera said. Addressing a public rally organised […]

Hot News Addressing a campaign meeting held at Nikaweratiya yesterday, the Common opposition presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena  admitted that LTTE supremo Probaharan was killed while he was acting as the defence Minister, indirectly admitting that if there is any war crime during last few days of Probhaharan’s rule as alleged by TNA, LTTE diaspora and […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island In spite of helping President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government to bring its war, against the LTTE, to a successful conclusion, in May, 2009, the US stepped up pressure on Sri Lanka over accountability issues. The US relentlessly pursued the accountability issues, in accordance with its overall strategy, meant to haul Sri […]

Hot News There are some people making false accusations against the government claiming that the present government is taking loans for development projects at higher interest rates. These accusations are made while these parties are standing among people and hobnobbing with those who borrowed money for the government at interest rates higher than 10% when […]

Shenali D Waduge  If there is no good or bad Taliban the same should be said about the LTTE. Lives of 132 children were cut short while world leaders, diplomats and the UN continue to deliberate on who and what terrorism is. The issue remains the fact that one man’s terrorist inadvertently becomes another man’s […]

Dr. Tilak Fernando Two years prior to Ceylon gaining independence, Sir George Claude Stanley Corea was appointed as the first ‘Ceylonese Representative’ to the United Kingdom in 1946 and served in that capacity until 1949. The position was akin to a ‘diplomat par excellence’. Subsequently in 1948, after Ceylon gained independence, he was appointed to […]

Hot News In an interview with journalists today, Udaya gammanpila said 17 out of 29 JHU provincial council members have pledged their support to the government presidential candidate Mahinda Rajapakse. Ther e are 8 Bikkhus in that group. 17 JHU PS members support MR Courtesy Daily Mirror Western Provincial Councilor Udaya Gammanpila who crossed over […]

Shenali D Waduge India has sent out an important message. LTTE is not dead after all though its leader and key ground force leaders were eliminated in May 2009. People had forgotten about those that funded the LTTE, those that ran propaganda for the LTTE and the minds that strategized LTTE’s terror as well as […]

Courtesy The Daily  Mirror Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa today said it was extremely unfortunate to note that there were some influential figures within Sri Lanka who have said openly that the country should submit itself to an international investigation. One such figure has even admitted to being proud of her children for saying they were […]

Susantha Wijesinghe. “”THE JVP would be in the forefront when Mahinda is pulled out of temple trees like an animal after 8th January. “” The Proclamation above by Anura Kumara,  appears in print in the media, with his photograph to boot.  There is still much time for the Election Day. The President is being Bodily threatened, while […]