Nalliah Thayabharan  Since the 1950s Western imperialists have been in the business of regime change, assassinations and propping up client states to pillage the wealth of nations. In 1953, England and America overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran. The coup was orchestrated by the intelligence apparatus of both countries after Mr. […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  බටහිර රටවල් හා  ඉන්දියාවත්   බුදුදහමට විරුද්ධය. ආගමිකයන් වශයෙන් කිතුනුවොත් හින්දුනුත් බුදුදහමට විරුධය. අනෙක් පැත්තෙන් ඉස්ලාමිකයෝ  තමන්ගේ ආගම හැර අනෙක් සියලුම ආගම් වලට විරුද්ධය, ඉස්ලාමිකයෝ ලංකාවේදී වැඩියෙන් ම විරුද්ධ බෞධ්ධයන්ටය. ඒ මෙරට බෞද්ධ රටක් නිසා  තමන්ට රජවෙන්නට බැරි නිසාය . ප්රානඝාතයේ යෙදෙන හැම ජාතිකයෙක්ම  හැම ආගමිකයෙක්ම බුදුදහමට  විරුද්ධය.  සොලියෝ  වසර දහස් ගණනක් තිස්සේ අප […]

ඊයේ (1) දිනයේ අමාත්‍ය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමුවූ සුදත් අප්පුහාමි මහතා ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ දෑත් සවිමත් කිරීමට පූර්ණ වශයෙන් කැපවීමට ප්‍රතිඥා දී ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔහු අද දින ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්චාවක් පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතව ඇත. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ යහ පාලන කණ්ඩායමේ සාමාජිකයකු වන හොර ආචාර්ය හර්ෂ ද සිල්වා මහතා මැරයින් 50ක් පමණ සමග සුදත් අප්පුහාමි මහතා පැහැරගෙන ගොස් ඇති […]

ALI SUKHANVER The Boston Review published an article of C. Christine Fair on 16th of last October with the title, Is Pakistan in ISIS’ Crosshairs? C. Christine Fair is a well known American analyst on South Asian political and military affairs and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies as well as of […]

By. R.W. Ranjith Pemasiri Multilateral and bilateral convention donors offer around US$ 200 m to US$300 m per annum for the highways sector in compliance with its eligibility and procurement guidelines. However, the funding provisions are not sufficient to carry out a large scale accelerated development program. The predicament is whether we should open up […]

University of Politics Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has been asked to keep away from the New Democratic Front Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena’s campaign after her controversial statement, pampering the late LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, severely affected the joint Opposition’s campaign. Chandrika called the megalomaniac Tiger leader as Mr. Prabhakaran and apoligised to the Tamils […]

by Uditha Kumarasinghe UPFA Colombo District Parliamentarian Thilanga Sumathipala said that New Democratic Front (NDF) Presidential Candidate Maithripala Sirisena’s 100 day program is totally an eyewash. It is just to get the focus on the media as well as the so called people who are clamouring for reforms in the administrative set up. The MP […]

by K.M.H.C.B. Kulatunga The traitor will finally meet his waterloo by Friday after the masses verdict at the 2015 Presidential election would be announced. He has packed all his baggage and even obtained air tickets to a Western destination. He has already obtained Schengen visa, along with that if the British and the US, keeping […]

The member of parliament Achala Jagoda has joined with common candidate Maithripala Sirisena.He is a member of parliament who came from the JVP had jumped to the national freedom front and had been in the UPFA government but had acted independently.He had failed in his attempts to become a UPFA seat organiser in the next […]

Lucien Rajakarunanayake As we consider the historical importance of the Year 2015 in the politics and governance of this country, it is interesting to note that beginning with 1505, when the Portuguese first came to this country and began the colonization process, in the fifth year of the 16th Century, the triple quinary year in […]

Shenali D Waduge  The right to religious freedom does not and should not include the right to convert. Thus, those that are sent on missions to convert understandably cannot be expected to be treated as heroes particularly by a nation that is heir to an unique Sinhala Buddhist civilization lasting for over 2300 years, still […]

Compiled by Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. “His complete dedication, in unbroken military service of over six decades, has inspired untold thousands of Canadian youth. His tireless and unselfish contributions to his community, his country and his fellow man, in war and in peace, have been of outstanding benefit to Canada and Canadians.”  (Canada’s Aviation Hall […]

S. Akurugoda  Just over five years ago we were able to show the entire world, how powerful our unity and strength was. Firstly, the decision to end terrorism was taken firmly by the peace loving, right minded patriotic people of this land at the presidential election held in 2005 by defeating the ‘puppet of the […]

P.Ariyasinghe, Melbourne The request from Hakeem, leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, for a separate Administrative District was rejected by the govt and he  joined Sirisena. Because obviously he had agreed to this. But he says that there was no agreement on this . Can  people trust him? TNA MP Suresh Premachandran addressing the […]

ආචාර්ය්‍ය ජානක වංශපුර ඡන්ද ගුංඩු යනු දේශපාලකයින් විසින් ඡන්ද කාලයට දෙන බොරු පොරොන්දුය. නමුත් විපක්‍ෂය කථා කරන යහපාලනය සාමාන්‍ය ඡන්ද ගුංඩුවලටත් එහා යන භයානක කථාවකි. මෙහිදී මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා ඇත්තටම යහපාලනයක් ගෙන ගියේද නැද්දවත් මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට යහපාලනයක් ඇති කල හැකිද නැද්ද යන්න තබා උවමණාවක් තියේද යන්නවත් විපක්‍ෂයේ යහපාලන කථාවට අදාල නොවේ. යහපාලන කථාව නිර්මාණය […]

Janaki Chandraratna – Perth, Western Australia  After several clandestine meetings in Singapore and Vienna and strong denials of the existence of Ranil/Maithipala, Maithipala /TNA, and Ranil/TNA Agreements, the cat is out of the bag with TNA agreeing to support Maithipala in the forthcoming Presidential election.  TNA has made it clear that they are not interested […]

Courtesy Rivira ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ‍පොදු අපේක්ෂකයාට සහාය දැක්වීමට එක්වූ දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මුස්ලිම් කොංග්‍රසය උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර පළාත් නැවත ඒකාබද්ධ කිරීම පිළිබඳව දැනටමත් අභ්‍යන්තර සාකච්ඡා අරඹා ඇතැයි ඊයේ ‘රිවිර’ අනාවරණය කර තිබිණ. මෙම සාකච්ඡා මගින් එළැඹෙන සාමූහික තීන්දුව ‍පොදු විපක්ෂයේ සහාය ඇතිව ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට කටයුතු කරන බවද පැවසේ. ඒ අතර මෛත්‍රී පාලනයක් තුළ […]

By Don Wijewardana Developing nations with independent policies that displease the West always run the risk of regime change.  It does not matter whether the action was in the national interest. Sooner or later it will come to bite, with the timing and intensity of intervention depending on the strategic significance of the country concerned.  […]

P.Ariysasinghe, Melbourne According to a survey conducted among Colombians by the Colombo University Sirisena is ahead in the poll. This is no surprise, as in Colombo nearly 60 per cent are non Sinhalese. Even among the Sinhalese only about half are Buddhists. And everyone knows that most people who live in Colombo have a ‘Kultur’ […]

Rajanram B  Our motherland is at cross road due to the unpatriotic provincial parties, childish politicians like Mrs Chandrika Kumaratunga, greedy politicians like  Mr Maithri Bala Srisena and power hungry politicians like Mr Ranil Wickramasinghe who are ready to sacrifice his own country men to achieve their petty objects. Mrs Chandrika Kumaratunga over and again […]

‘We do not want pacts or agreements but to achieve our objectives’ Tamil National Alliance leader Parliamentarian R. Sambandan has told Foreign Correspondents that what the TNA wants is to achieve their final objectives under a future ‘Maithree’ government. Sambandan had disclosed this when foreign correspondents spoke to him after a TNA press conference recently […]

Sandasen Marasinghe Chandrika Kumaratunga’s assertion in Jaffna that she would cede all powers to the Northern Provincial Council, and offer greater devolution would — along with Maithripala Sirisena agreeing to Hakeem’s demand of the Eastern administrative district — lead to the Balkanization of the country, said External Affairs Minister Prof. GL Peiris addressing the press […]

By Charles.S.Perera Some say they would vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse as there is no alternative.  That however should not be the reason why we should vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse. Because there is no alternative to  Mahinda Rajapakse, as he is the only man worthy of holding the reins of Executive Presidency. […]

 ආචාර්ය  එච් එම්. කොඩිසිoහ‍ රාවුෆ් හකීම් මහතා සිය කණ්ඩායමත් සමග එකවරම රජයෙන් ඉවත් නොවී දිගු කලක් කේවල් කර ඇත්තේ ලොකු කුට්ටියක් කඩාගන්නට  බවත් එය වත්මන් ජනාදිපති ගෙන් නොලැබීම නිසා ඔවුනුත් පොදු අපේක්සකයා හා එක්වි ඇත. ඔවුන් වත්මන් ජනාධිපතිගෙ  පාලන ප්‍රතිපත්ති රටට අහිතකර නිසා විරුද්ධ වූවානම් එළියට බැසියයුතුව තිබුණේ හෙළ උරුමය ඇතුළු අනිත් විරුද්ධ කණ්ඩායම් සමග  […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar January 1st 2015.  As the New year 2015 dawns in Sri Lanka the rumour mongering about President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s imminent defeat is fast becoming somewhat of a spurious joke as the media divided into two factions, one for the President and the other for the unholy alliance of Maithripala Sirisena,  Ranil Wickremasinghe, […]

 By Garvin Karunaratne . When I was Senior Assistant Commissioner of Agrarian Services I was in charge of the administration of the entire department comprising a staff of 4000 with some thirty staff ranks. We had to find the ablest of the Assistant Commissioners to handle key districts like Anuradhapura and Kurunegala where the volume […]

Interviewed by : A.A.M.Nizam President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the only Sri Lankan leader admired and esteemed by the whole Muslim world. The service rendered to the Muslim community in Sri Lanka and for the cause of Muslims throughout the world, particularly for the Palestinians by President Mahinda Rajapaksa since 1970 is unprecedented. Since independence until […]

The Common Opposition Candidate, My3 is being blessed by none other than of of the biggest champions of the LTTE, Mannar Bishop, Rayappu Joseph. The Common Opposition Candidate, My3 is being blessed by none other than of of the biggest champions of the LTTE, Mannar Bishop, Rayappu Joseph. The picture says it all….good luck Sri […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ලාල් සෝමසිරි  ලාල් සෝමසිරි ව්‍යාපාරයේ පහළ මට්ටමේ සිටි සාමාජිකයෙකු වුවද එක රැයින් ඔහු සුප්‍රසිද්ධ චරිතයක් බවට පත් වූයේ විෙජ්වීර සමඟ අම්පාරේදී අත්අඩංගුවට පත් වී යාපනය බන්ධනාගාරයට ගොස් විෙජ්වීර විසින් එවන ලද පණිවිඩයක් සනත් බොරළුකැටිය අතට පත් කිරීමෙනි. පහර දිමක් සිදු වන්නේ නම් පියතිලකගේ නායකත්වයෙන් 500ක පිරිසක් යාපනය බන්ධනාගාරයට එවිය යුතු බව […]