By M D P DISSANAYAKE Structurally it appears that  the President Maithreepala Sirisena is the Leader of the SLFP, at least on paper.  But who is maneuvering the steering wheel of the SLFP? Is it President MS, Madam Chandrika, Opposition Leader Nimal Siripala de Silva or former President Mahinda Rajapakse? So far the President MS […]

W.Senanayake Is it not fair to suspect that President Sirisena will be under enormous pressure and obligation when he meets the Indian counterpart at the forthcoming bilateral talks. These talks are coming on in the wake of controversy over the Indian spy agency RAW’s alleged role in the recent Sri Lankan presidential election. It was […]

lanka C news February 11, 2015 at 12:01 am | lanka C news Some UNPers are still accusing me as a tiger supporter. But those UNPer who gave weapons during Premadasa time to LTTE to boost their cadre from mere decimated 350 to 6000 are the real Tigers. Karuna warned UNP not call him any […]

පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා ගරු සභාපතිතුමියනි, අපි ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂයේ ඉන්නකොටත් විනාඩි 10 කට වඩා කථා කරන්න කාලය දුන්නේ නැහැ, මන්ත්‍රීවරු වැඩිනිසා. දැන් අපි විපක්ෂයේ ඉන්නේ. විපක්ෂයේත් දැන් ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂයට වඩා මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් වැඩි නිසා දැනුත් ලැබෙන්නේ විනාඩි 8 යි. ඉතින් මගේ අදහස් ඉතා කෙටියෙන් කියන්න බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා. මුදල් ඇමතිගේ ප්‍රකාශයේදී කිව්වා සන්ධාන රජය කාලේ කුඩු […]

Discussion Paper on Constitutional Reform The following are the main proposals for constitutional reform under discussion. President————- The President will be the Head of State, the Head of the Executive and the Commander in Chief of the armed forces. The President shall always, except in the case of the appointment of the Prime Minister or […]

Priya Some narrow minded stalwarts in the Green Party and the JVP, who always sees crocodiles in the bath tub get agitated when an opposing comment is posted in the FB and they call those BS. But the real BS are given below.  This is the most corrupted election campaign ever carried out jointly by UNP, JVP, JHU, […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, Geneva Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha has said the special ‘Declaration of Peace’ pledge made at this year’s Independence Day celebration in Sri Lanka was an important reminder of the concerted efforts being made in the country to seek reconciliation […]

Dilrook Kannangara As predicted by the senior Indian diplomat Badrakumar, in the long term, Sirisena’s policies are closer to Mahinda than the UNP. What lies underneath the popular budget is not Royal College thinking but Maxim Gorky thinking of Sirisena. The Port City Chinese project was resolved the way Sirisena wanted, not the UNP way. […]

Yahapalanaya News Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected the statements made about him by the present government and said these statements were ‘false’ and diabolical lies. At a recent TV interview, President Maithripala Sirisena said that over Rs. 100,000 million had been allocated to the Presidential Secretariat for the year 2015 and that it had now […]

Janaki Chandraratna, Perth Western Australia My recent visit to Sri Lanka on 13 January 2015, 5 days after the Presidential election, has left me appalled to the core. It was the annihilation of the vanquished that left me flabbergasted.  I had to pinch myself to ensure I am in the right country as the post […]

Yahapalanaya News In reply to Prime Minister’s threat that Parliament would be dissolved straightaway if the government failed to defeat the no-confidence, Chief Opposition Whip John Seneviratne said only the executive president had the power to dissolve parliament, and therefore Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s threat was meaningless and just empty hot air. Mr. Wickremesinghe had […]

February 9, 2015 at 12:26 pm | lanka C news වත්මන් පාලනය විසින් එල්ල කරමින් ඇති චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇති විශේෂ මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මෙහි දැක්වේ. 83,660 Viewers

‘Sri Lankan Patriot’ This Hudson MaClean (whatever his real name is) it seems is spreading lies and propaganda on behalf of the RW/Ravi K/ Mangala/ CBK/ MS/ JVP/ TNA/ LTTE / SF /Champika/ Rathana Ashuddha Hawula. During the previous election time, the entire private media in the country, which is owned by UNP or LTTE […]

MEERA SRINIVASAN Courtesy The Hindu Earli.er, Sri Lankan Navy acted promptly, but now they are reluctant to arrest the poaching Indian fishermen, Jaffna-based fisher leaders say More Indian trawlers have been allegedly fishing near the northern coastline of Sri Lanka over the past two weeks, Jaffna-based fisher leaders say. The fishermen from both sides got into […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න කලම්බු  ටෙලිග්‍රාෆ්  හි 2015 ජනවාරි  27  දින  ශාමිනී සේරසිංහ  නම්  බහු  ආගමික  ලේඛිකාවක්  මයිත්ත්රී ගස්ගල් වඳින  හෙවත් බෝධි පූජා කරන  නුගතෙකය්  දොස් කියා ඇත. ජේ ආර්   රනිල් හා චන්ද්‍රිකාගෙන්  මයිත්ත්රී  පාඩම් උගත යුතු  බවත්  බහුජාතික බහු ආගමික ලංකාවේ  එක ආගමකට අදාළ පුදසිරිත් ජනාධිපති විසින් නොකළ යුතුබවත් ඇය කියය්. රටක් බහු ජාතිකයය් නීත්‍යානු කුලව […]

Nitin A Gokhale, for Rediff.com in New Delhi Courtesy Rediff.com ‘India’s friendship and support is very important to Sri Lanka. It is a matter of regret that India appears to have thought otherwise.’ ‘Sri Lanka’s relationship with China has always been of an economic nature.’ ‘The docking of Chinese submarines in the Colombo harbour was only for […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala To reassure that My-3” – CBK-Wickremesinghe-Sirisena — meant business and should be taken seriously before casting the vote of January 8, 2015 a time-table was set to impress the voters that the Manifesto comes with a day-to-day schedule guaranteeing progress leading to the promised ideal country”. We have now arrived on […]

Victor Samarakone  After long time of silently talking about the World Economy, now I am thinking to let the Genie out of the bottle.  World economy is in danger in collapsing. I can say this with surety because I was following this for the last 25 years.  World is in critical stage and figuring out […]

Chandrasiri Atukorale Some years ago before Sudda left this Island; the great patriot late Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala had made a forecasting to the Nation by way of a warning. This was what he said On some future day when Sudda departs from this land, it will do  so by leaving behind it here on our […]

Gamini Weerakoon Courtesy The Sunday Leader The magic words of good governance (Yahapalanaya) have  become the political vernacular that have held together the disparate political forces to enable President Maithripala Sirisena to form a government even though the political alliance he forged  does not command a majority in parliament. But the fragility of this bond was […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  මේ දවස් වල  ඇති තරම් පිදුරුය් පුන්නක්කුය් දීල සිංහල ගොනා  තර කරන්නේ  ලබන බක්මහේ හපුතලේ කන්ද නග්ගවා ගන්න බව  පිදුරු කන පුන්නක්කු බොන සිංහල ගොන්නු තේරුම් ගතයුතුය . හාම්පුතාටත් කන්න නැති එකේ  මෙහෙම ගොනාට දෙන්නේ ගොනා ගොනාට අන්දවන්ඩ  බව සමහර ගොන් මොලවලටත් තේරෙනවා ඇති එහින්ද දෙන තරම් කාපල්ලා  හැබය්  කන්ද ඇ දල දුන්නට […]

Mahinda Weerasinghe Now I have to respect for His Excellency Mr President Maithripala Sirisena. Indeed he took the bull by the Horn when he stood up to challenge the status quo! What is more, if he lost the election he; would have to face the music all alone; just as the good General had to […]

Yahapalana News විපක්‍ෂ සන්ධාන මන්ත‍්‍රීවරුන් 114කගේ අත්සනින් යුතුය ඇමැති ජෝන් අමරතුංගට එරෙහිව ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති විශ්වාසභංග යෝජනාව සම්මත වුවහොත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවා හරින බව අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා පවසයි. මේ හේතුවෙන් විධායක බලතල අහෝසි කර 18 වැනි සංශෝධනයද ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට තිබූ අවස්ථාවද රටට අහිමි වනු ඇතැයි අගමැතිවරයා එජාප කෘත්‍යාධිකාරී මණ්ඩලය හමුවේ කීය. If the No-Confidence motion […]

by Lankanewsweb Today  ජෝන් අමරතුංගට එරෙහි විශ්වාසභංගය ජයග්‍රහණය කිරිම සදහා සහය දෙන ලෙස ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ශ්‍රි ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය නියෝජනය කරමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නියෝජනය කරන මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ට පවසා තිබෙන බව LNW ඔත්තු සේවය වාර්තා කරයි.ජෝන් අමරතුංග පරාජය කිරිම හරහා එජාපයේ බලය බිඳීය හැකි බවයි මෛත්‍රී මන්ත්‍රිවරුන්ට පෙන්වා දි ඇත්තේ. එ අනුව ඉදිරියෙදි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධුරයේද යම් […]

P.Ariyasinghe It had been reported that Chandrika´s son, Vimukthi Kumaratunga,  is to take to politics. Initially CBK had claimed that she did not want her children to take to this dirty game. Now that CBK  is in control of the party this is not surprising. But if Mahinda Rajapakse had won, it would have been not that easy for him to get […]

Courtesy Aperata.com What about hunting for LTTE funds? And don’t forget to mention Ravi Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera is on his way to Washington DC to trace the foreign assets of the Rajapaksas. According to the Sunday Times, Samaraweera will meet officials of the World Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery Unit (StAR) in the US capital […]

Yahapalanaya News President invites China to invest more in Sri Lanka An Apparent policy conflict has appeared yesterday between Priminister Ranil Wickremasinghe’s  UNP fraction of the government and President Sirisena’s faction when the cabinet backed China’s $1.4 billion proposal after favourable environmental report Sri Lanka’s new government has approved China’s $1.4 billion port project in […]

By Hema Senanayake  Courtesy Ceylontoday Finally, Sri Lanka has the budget for the year 2015. The previously approved budget under the Rajapaksa regime was drastically amended by the new Finance Minister, Ravi Karunanayake. He presented his budget, which is popularly known as a mini-budget, to Parliament on 29 January 2015. However, his mini-budget is a ‘mega-deal’ […]

තරංග රත්නවීර Courtesy Divaina බස්‌ ගාස්‌තු අඩුවෙන තරමට බස්‌වල සෙනග පිරෙනවා… ඒත් ඩීසල් අඩු කරන තරමට බස්‌ ගාස්‌තු අඩු කරන්න බස්‌ කාරයින්ට බෑ… බස්‌ ගාස්‌තු අඩුවුනාට ඒ වාසිය මගී අපිට ලැබෙන්නෙ නෑ… කොන්දොස්‌තර මාරු සල්ලි මාටිය හනවා… ත්‍රී විල් දුවලා එදා වේල හොයාගන්න අපට ඉන්ධන අඩුවුනා කියලා කෙටි දුර මිල අඩු කරන්න අපහසුයි… ප්ලේන්ටිය රුපියල් දහයට […]