By Garvin Karunaratne It is a fact that Sri Lanka is an indebted country today and party leaders who are with the Common Candidate make a meal of it putting the entire blame of the economy on President Mahinda Rajapaksa. As Chanda Maliyadde,  former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Plan Implementation says, At the end of […]

Lankaweb Weekly Editorial December 12th. 2014  They have gathered in droves like hungry vultures waiting to swoop in on what they believe will be the spoils of an election defeat for the President but they are surely and sadly mistaken despite the rhetoric that goes on, on a daily basis in all the anti -Government […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  සිරිසේනගේ පූර්ණ ප්‍රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශනය එලි දැක වුනේ හෙළ උරුමයත්සම්බන්ධ නිසා  එහි සිංහල උරුමය රකින  එකම වගන්තියක් හෝ තිබෙදය්  විමසුමෙන් එය බැලුවෙමි   13අ ගැන හෝ පළාත් සභා අහෝසි කිරීම ගැන එහි වචනයක් වත් නැත.  18 හා 19 ගැන නම් මොනවාදෝ විය.  අඩු ගන්නේ ඉඩම් හා පොලිස් බල තල නොදෙන බවට මහින්ද කියා ඇති […]

 Shenali D Waduge The CHANGE fever has hit Sri Lanka’s elections. The voice of Colombo is all abuzz with ‘let’s bring in some change for a change’ and then there are countless followers to tag along. How many of these change proponents have actually thought about the type of change they want. Is it change […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. 2015 ජනාධිපති මැතිවරණ සටන ආරම්භව ඇත. රටට එරෙහිවූ සතුරු බලවේගයන් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ විරෝධීන් බවට පත්ව; මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පරාජය ඉලක්ක කරගෙන, මහා මැතිවරණ ප්රචාරක ව්‍යාපෘතියක් දියත් කර තිබේ. එම ප්රචාරක යාන්ත්රණයේ එක් සුවිශේෂී අංගයක් වන්නේ අධිවේගී මාර්ග සංවර්ධන පද්ධතිය හා බැදුන මුල්‍ය වංචාවන්ය.  මේ රටේ සමාජ මානස තලය යනු මහා ධන නිධනයකි. […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 20 December 2014 Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, MP, PC  Prime Minister of  Canada House of Commons, Ottawa Honourable Prime Minister: The Ottawa Citizen of 15 December 2014 reported bylined Peter O’Neil that Defence Chief apologized to India in 2011.  Why?   Because, a ministerial […]

By Rohana R. Wasala The Buddhist teaching has been described by scholars as exoteric, and not esoteric. As we know the word ‘exoteric’ means ‘fit to be known by the uninitiated; suited to the general public…’, and its antonym ‘esoteric’ means ‘intelligible or intended for the initiated only, confidential, secret, mystical’. Buddhism is not esoteric. The […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata Three very recent newspaper headlines that epitomize ‘an art of governance, caught my attention. The first concerns the now well known public statement of the Minister of Higher Education S.B.Dissanayake. He said that in the immediate aftermath of MR winning the presidential election, Chandrika Kumaranatunga, former president, would be thrown on […]

By Afshain Afzal Sixteenth December 2014 was another dark day, when foreign terrorist carried out cold blooded massacre at Army Public School, Warsak Road, Peshawar, martyring over 157 and injuring scores of other. It is being claimed that terrorist suspected that recruitment of Tribal was taking place inside school. However, there are conflicting reports that […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Burma (now known as Myanmar) becomes a shareholder of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Infrastructure Fund as the country has completed all formalities. Emerged as the 11th shareholder of the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund (AIF), the transforming nation thus joined hands with the other ASEAN members and also the Asian Development […]