The White House Office of the Press Secretary On behalf of the American people, I congratulate the people of Sri Lanka on the successful and peaceful conclusion of Sri Lanka’s presidential election and incoming President Maithripala Sirisena on his victory. I also commend the outgoing administration of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for facilitating a swift and […]

P.Ariyasinghe, Melbourne Maithripala Sirisena has taken oaths as President. He made pacts with everyone opposed to Mahinda. Mahinda failed to recognise that those who were around him were corrupt . Most Ministers were arrogant and corrupt to the core and were basking in the glory of former President’s victory over the terrorists. Some alleged that […]

SUHASINI HAIDAR Courtesy The Hindu He had highlighted the foreign debt trap” in manifesto Sri Lanka watchers in India believe that with Maithripala Sirisena coming to power in Sri Lanka, the island nation’s tilt towards China will be reduced considerably. They have been critical of the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for his tilt towards China” […]

Hot News Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal  submitted his resignation from the post of Central Bank Governor to pave the way for the new President to appoint a person of his choice a news report said. It’s a good thing for a new president to have a new governor, so I have paved the way […]

Hot News President Maithripala Sirisena sworn in as the 6th Executive President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka before Supreme Court Judge K. Sri Pawan at the Independence Square in Colombo, a short while ago. Taking oaths President Maithripala Sirisena  vowed not to contest for a second term in future signalling abolition of executive […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa phoned Maithripala Sirisena early this morning and congratulated him on his impending victory and inquired from the Common Candidate when he would assume duties, Presidential Spokesman Mohan Samaranayake said. President Mahinda Rajapaksa left Temple Trees, after a discussing with Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Cabinet assuring a smooth transfer of power, […]

 ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න දේශප්‍රේමී  එස් එල් ගුණසේකර ගේ හදිසි  අභාවය  විසින්   සනිටුහන් කලේ   ජාතික  ඛේදවාචකයක්””  අ ත ””ළඟ  බවය් . මයිත්‍රී දිනුවේ මුස්ලිම් හා දෙමල අන්තවාදීන් චන්ද වලිනි  එනිසා දිනුවේ මයිත්ත්රී නොව අන්තවාදීන්ය  පැරදුනේ මහින්ද නොව සිංහල බෞධ්ධයන්ය . රටේ  උරුමක්කාරයෝ  පැ රදී පරදෙෂක්කාරයෝ  ජයගැනීම  මයිත්ත්රී  නාමයම කැළැල් කරය්  . එහෙත් මයිත්ත්රී මහතාණෙනි ඔබ ප්‍රමාද […]

ධනුෂ්ක රාමනායක පුලතිසිපුර ලක්ෂ උයන ගොවි ජනපදයේ ඉපිද ලොව දිනන්නට සමතෙකු ලෙස හැදී වැඩුණු මෛතී්‍රගේ දෙමාපියෝ සියනෑ කෝරළයේ ගණේමුල්ල ප්‍රදේශයෙන් රජරට ගොවි බිම් වෙත සංක්‍රමණය වූවෝ ය. දෛවෝපගත ලෙස, මෛත්‍රීගේ උපත සිදු වූයේ 1951 සැප්තැම්බර් 02 වැනි දින ශී්‍ර ලංකා නිදහස් පක‍ෂය නිල වශයෙන් ආරම්භ වී හෝරා කිහිපයක් ගෙවී ගිය තැන ය. ශී්‍ර ලංකා නිදහස් […]

By Sarath W  Financed by Ranil’s backers, the ‘regime change’ specialists and Chandrika’s backer the Indians, well supported by the minorities, Colombians and the Catholics Sirisena has become the president of Sri Lanka. The majority of just over 450,000 votes has made him the president of the ungrateful Tamils and Muslims. Does this means Sirisena […]

Courtesy dna Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaderSubramanian Swamy on Friday said the new Sri Lankan Government is going to be a hotchpotch of so many parties, as theBuddhist clergy and Islamic parties have also joined this new coalition. “What is to be watched is the new government that is going to be hotchpotch of so many […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න පරාජය බාරගෙන   මහින්ද ගෙදර යන විටම කැබිනට්  එ කේ ඇමැතිවරුත්  ඉල්ලා අස්වීම  ට  කටයුතු කර ගැන යන බව අලුත්ම ආරන්චියය්    ‘ යහපාලනයක්  ගෙනයන බව කියන යට එසේ කිරීමට ඉඩදී අපි සියලු දෙනාම අස්වෙමුයය් මහින්ද යෝජනා කර ඇත. මයිත්‍රී ශ්‍රී   ල නිපා යෙන් අස්වී නැත. ඔහු   අ ත ලකුණ යටතේ ම  ශ්‍රී ල නි […]

Dr Hector Perera    London Take a few examples of cooking utensils such as aluminium saucepans, cast-iron utensils, stainless-steel vessels, glass utensils, aluminium and Teflon-coated non-stick pans then our traditional clay pots. I think some of you remember, ‘Ambalamae pina walan kadak gena’ then what happened? Each type of cookware affects the flavour of the food […]

Dr.Tilak Fernando Sri Lanka, originally known as ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’, with full of spiritual values and treasures had appeared as a magnet for travellers from around 350 BC. After going through a complete metamorphoses of names ranging from Taprobane, Simundu, Salike, Sila Diva, Serendib and Zeilan, finally the island was known as ‘Ceylon’ […]