By Mahinda It is very clearly proved that the duped coalition of Common presidential candidate is an Unholy Alliance with all the cooks who are ought to cannibalize this island and cook for West and Tigers. This time the Chef is CBK, who couldn’t do it for her eleven years in office, now she is […]

Susantha Goonatilake In 2013, the Royal Asiatic Society RASSL (of which I am the current president) awarded its gold medal” to Father Dr. Vito Perniola. Although he was proficient in several fields, our main consideration was his 19 volume documentation on the history of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka. To indicate a Buddhist appreciation […]

Hot News A special meeting was held between common opposition and the Tamil National Alliance at the former President Chandrika Bandaranaike’s residence a few days ago, a report said. TNA spokesman Suresh Premachandran said the Tamil National Alliance was represented by Senathirajah, Suresh Premachandran, Selvam Cole Siddharth and MA Sumandiran while common opposition was represented […]

Shenali D Waduge The voting public of Sri Lanka whatever their political colour or preference of candidate must firmly say no to any move or agreement attempting to destabalize the country, divide its territory or create an atmosphere of chaos. No election campaign or coalition understanding should be allowed to bargain with the national security […]

Shenali D Waduge  Copy of the Message Received by Shanali Dear All, We are proud to announce you that the new cabinet which will be formed shortly after the victorious conclusion of the presidential election 2015,will comprise only of 18 cabinet Ministers.Now it is in the process of finalization. 1 Prime Minister-Mr Ranil Wickramasinghe 2 Minister […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Mahnuwara Jesta Purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya 20.12.2014 Kandyans In this essay I refer to all those people who lived within the territory known as the Kandyan Kingdom at the time of signing the Kandyan Convention in 1815 and their descendants irrespective of where they live, here or abroad as Kandyans. The area under […]

By Rohana R. Wasala If one understands what the Buddha dhamma is saying, and if one is convinced that the spiritual path explained therein is the right one to follow, and commits oneself to do so, then one is a Buddhist. As Rev W. Rahula points out, though the label ‘Buddhist’ is of little significance from […]

Hilmy Ahamed The unthinkable has happened. Rishard Bathiudeen, the youthful minister of Industries has given up all his perks and privileges and crossed over to support Maithripala Sirisena, the common opposition’s candidate to challenge President Mahinda Rajapaksa with one other parliamentarian and 69 other elected members of Provincial Councils, Pradeshiya Sabbha’s etc. Azwer who was […]

Chaminda Perera  Courtesy The Daily News Those blind to the massive development work are hypocrites No one can point fingers at us Highlights * Will access a new constitution through means of consensus. * Is the country going forward consolidating stability, or reversing to a state of instability? Tap your heart and ask yourself. * I […]

Dr. Kamal Wickremesinghe Courtesy The Daily News  campaigns are made memorable only by instances of genuine display of emotion by the people that brings the relevance of politics to their daily lives. The genuinely warm reception the Tamil people in Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi, Batticaloa and Ampara extended to President Rajapaksa during his campaign rallies marked one such […]

Hot News United National Party (UNP) National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said he had complained to the Police Chief today with regard to a fraudulent document on which his signature and that of common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena had been forged. In his complaint he said that this misleading document had been issued to the state […]

Courtesy Rivira රත්මලානේදී පසුගියදා අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් රුපියල් කෝටි 15ක් වටිනා විදෙස් මුදල් තොගය රහස් ‍පොලිසිය භාරයට ගැනීමට දෙදිනකට පෙරාතුව එනම් දෙසැම්බර් 17 වැනිදා නව ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී පෙරමුණේ නායක මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ පුත් දහම් සිරිසේන මහතාගේ පෙම්වතිය හා ඇගේ මව පැමිණ ඉන් මුදල් මිටි දෙකක් රැගෙන ගොස් ඇති බව පරීක්ෂණවලදී හෙළිවී තිබේ. මෙම මුදල් තොගය තිබි ඇත්තේ […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි අපට නිතර දෙවේලේ කනට හුරු පුරුදු කතාවකි ඒ. බලය බෙදා දීම. කා විසින් කාටද මේ බලය බෙදා දිය යුත්තේ. කා ලගද මේ බලය ඇත්තේ? කාටද බලය නැත්තේ? මේ සංවාදය යන අතරේ පැන නගින අතුරු ප්‍රශ්න කන්දරාවයි.. අප දන්නා ආකාරයට අප ජීවත් වෙන පෘතුවියට බලය ලැබෙන්නේ හිරුගෙන් වෙන අතර, දෛනිකව හිරු නම් වූ […]

Shenali D. Waduge  There is no better way to honour the founder of a religion than to not shed blood in celebration. December is a time of year for joy, excitement, jubilation, exchange of gifts and pleasantries. It is sadly also a time that thousands and thousands of animals are axed and laid before a […]

Courtesy Island It is not unusual to have some degree of rhetoric in an election manifesto in a context which is characterized by commodification of almost everything. Politicians, their campaign managers and media are trying incessantly to make the election a business affair that needs loads of money to be spent in the campaign. Of […]

Courtesy The Daily News Opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena has been quoted in media overseas as announcing his intention to appoint a judicial tribunal to investigate war crimes charges against personnel belonging to the Armed Forces, External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris stated in a release yesterday. This is a matter having far-reaching consequences. A clear […]

By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy Island Former UNP General Secretary and Health Minister Tissa Attanayake yesterday told the media in Colombo that the UNP and opposition common candidate Maithripala Sirisena had, in an undisclosed pact signed on Nov. 1, 2014, agreed to implement all UNHRC recommendations as regards Sri Lanka’s alleged war crimes and fully cooperate with […]

Hot News රනිල්-සිරිසේන හොර ගිවිසුම රට පාවාදීමේ මහා කුමන්ත්‍රණයක් At a press conference held today the former General Secretary Tissa Attanayake revealed the confidential internal agreement signed between opposition presidential candidate Sirisena and the UNP leader Ranil Wickremasinghe According to this agreement, if Sirisena  wins he will  reduce military retained in the North by 50%, the […]

By Dayan Jayatilleka – In October 1988, accepting the UNP nomination at the Sugathadasa Stadium, Ranasinghe Premadasa complained in a bitter, biting aside, that as Prime Minister he had enjoyed the powers of a peon”. That status is about to change if the Opposition wins, because the Maithri manifesto makes clear that the centre of gravity of executive power will undergo […]

Shenali D Waduge The floating voters and the new voters are 2 important segments in the arithmatic that would decide who would emerge as President in January 2015. The floating voters are people who may have at one time voted for different parties and now disgusted with voting and contemplating whether to vote or not. […]

lanka C news It is learnt that from a survey made by some staunch UNP supporters incumbent president Mahinda Rajapaksa would secure 57.62% votes and the common candidate only 40% votes.This survey has been spearheaded by a non governmental organisation.The figures in this survey had been changed by the UNP and had said the common […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ සම්බන්ධව සමාජ සමීක්ෂණය නොනිල පදනමකින් රටපුරා විවිධ තලයන්හි සාකච්චා වෙමින් පවතී.මේ සාකච්චා වලදී, සැබෑ ලෙසම කථා කරනුයේ, දේශපාලන පොර පිටියේ අපට දිස්වෙන දේශපාලන පක්ෂ නාම පුවරු සම්බන්ධව මිස, සැබෑ දේශපාලන බල වේගයන් සම්බන්ධව නොවේ. ජයගත්තේ මෙන්න මේ නාම පුවරුව සහිත කණ්ඩායමයි, යනුවෙන් ඡන්ද ප්රතිඵල ප්රකාශයට පත්කෙරේ. දේශපාලන පක්ෂ යනු […]

N.A.de S.Amaratunga It is said that Sri Lankans forget quickly and easily and even LTTE terrorist Prabhakaran had said that this is true and had bragged that he made use of this weakness. By the time the presidential election is held in 2015  we would have forgotten some of the most crucial events that took […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. ඩෙන්න ඩෙනා ඩෙන ඩෙන ඩෙන ඩෙන්න  ඩෙනෝ ලක් දෙරණේ ජනපතිවරනයක්                   එනෝ ධවල යකුන් හා මන  බැදි   සියලු                දනෝ එකට එකතුවී මේ රට කන්න                     එනෝ ආවඩ ආයුබෝ වේවා! මිනිකදු හා ලේ විල් මත රජ                  කෙරුවෝ සියලු ධනය පර දන දෙස රැස්                කෙරුවෝ […]

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 […]