By  Charles.S.Perera  I did not know his back ground other than that he was the General Secretary of the JHU.  He was outspoken and seemed to have a sincere and a definite political  direction  to  be with the President Mahinda Rajapakse to take Sri Lanka towards  progress and development, breaking away the shackles of  the  […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Great to recognize the excellent content published today, as always,  in LankaWeb by HLD Mahindapala and Shenali Waduge.  I know for a fact that this content will be looked at with a “fine-toothcomb” by RAW and the West. As responded by Franz Dias, (and agreed by most Sinhala) the most important is […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The behaviour of self-appointed Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe is bizarre.   He has got a big head and a very big mouth.  He must be reminded that his current position is lower than that of the former Prime Minister Mr D M Jayaratne (DMJ).  DMJ’s appointment was […]

Yak(h)apalanaya news “හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා නැවත අගමැතිකම බලාගෙන මැතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වෙන්න සූදානම් වන්නේ රෙදි ඇඳගෙනද  කියලා ප්‍රශ්න කරන්න මට සිද්ධ වෙනවා. එයාවයි මාවයි එකම වේදිකාවක ජනතාව අමතන්න කපුකමේ යෙදෙන උදවියත් දැන් කරළියට ඇවිත් ඉන්නවා. ඒ අයට මම කියන්න කැමතියි මෛත්‍රීපාල කියන්නේ කවුද කියලා හරිහැටි හඳුනා නොගෙන ඒ අය කටයුතු කරන බව.” “පැරදුණු ජනාධිපතිවරයා මැදමුලනට ගියේ හෙලිකොප්ටරයකින්. […]

By DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Does President Sirisena know what Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera is up to or has he been kept in the dark, which isn’t a safe place to be, depending on the company? Does the Parliament or do Samaraweera’s Cabinet colleagues know what he is up to – and I don’t mean in […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා මේ දිනවල ජෙනීවාහි පැවැත්වෙන එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් කොමිසමේ සමුළුවේ දී විදේශ කටයුතු පිළිබඳ ඇමති මංගල සමරවීර කොමිසමෙන් ඉල්ලා ඇත්තේ ආණ්ඩුව ගැන විශ්වාසය තබන ලෙස ය. ඒ අතර මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන වාරියපොළ සුමංගල හිමියන් සැමරීමේ රැස්වීමක දී කියා ඇත්තේ ආණ්ඩුව කිසිම විදේශීය රටක් සමග රටට අහිතකර ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් නොකරන බව ය. මේ කතා […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා යක්‍ෂ සංස්කෘතිය යටපත්කර බලයට පත් මෞර්ය සංස්කෘතිය ගැමුණු කුමරුට රජකම නො දුන්නේ ය.මහාවංශය ඒ බව යම්තාක් දුරකට සඟවයි. අප දන්නේ ගැමුණු තිස්ස සමග සටන්කළ බව පමණ ය. එහෙත් එසේ සටන් කළේ ඇයි දැයි අපට කිසිවකු කියන්නේ නැත. අපට තේරෙන පරිිදි නම් තිස්සට දුන් රජකම ආපසු ගැනීම සඳහා ගැමුණුට සටන් කිරීමට සිදුවිය. එහි […]

Dr. K.D.G. Wimalaratne Retd Director, National Archives Courtesy :  Daily News The Kandyan Convention was held on March 2, 1815 two hundred years ago. This convention or the Kandyan Treaty, was the instrument which ceded the Kingdom of Kandy to the British government thus ending the independence of that kingdom preserved for over a period of three […]

Priyanka Kurugala Courtesy:  Daily News Submitting a letter to Queen Elizabeth II, Bauddharakshaka Padanama (Buddhist Defence Foundation) states that it would be nice if Great Britain takes the required measures to do justice to the Sinhala nation, which was at the receiving end of the colonial rulers atrocious activities. The Foundation has forwarded the letter in […]

Dr Hector Perera       London Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism, the way the body uses digested food for energy. The digestive tract breaks down carbohydrates, sugars and starches found in many foods, into glucose, a form of sugar that enters the bloodstream. With the help of the hormone insulin, cells throughout the body absorb glucose […]

පෙරටුගාමී සාමජවාදී පක්ෂයේ මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාව නව ඖෂධ නියාමන අධිකාරී පනත් කෙටුම්පත බිබිලේ ප‍්‍රතිපත්තිය පෙන්වමින් එම ප‍්‍රතිපත්තිය මරා දැමීමට සකස් කළ එකකැයි පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂය පවසයි. අද (02) මරදාන සමාජ හා සාමයික කේන්ද්‍රයේදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂයේ ප‍්‍රචාරක ලේකම් පුබුදු ජයගොඩ පැවසූයේ ආණ්ඩුව මෙය ජනතාවගෙන් සඟවා හොර රහසේ කඩිනමින් සම්මත කිරීමට යන්නේ එය ජනතා […]

By Shelton A.  Gunaratne Ross Nelson’s letter (Untethered reality and irony, too,” The Forum, Feb. 18, 2015) saw an irony in the placement of my defense of jack rabbits the previous Sunday just beneath Jack Zaleski’s furious attack” on religious nuts” who resisted vaccination for measles. Zaleski might have designed the layout of his editorial […]

Yak(h)apalanaya news With the previous government chose to operate with a sense of impunity, opportunities for reconciliation and restoration of human rights suffered,” Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera said. The observation was made at the 28th Regular Session of Human Rights Council in Geneva, this afternoon. The historic election of 8 January this year that marked […]

by Asanga Abeyagoonasekera Speech delivered by Mr.Asanga Abeyagoonasekera former Executive Director of Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute(LKIIRSS) on the 27th February 2015 at the Consortium of South Asian Think Tanks(COSATT) Regional Conference on “Deeper Integration for Peace and Prosperity in the South Asian Region” organized by Centre for South Asian Studies(CSAS) in cooperation with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung(KAS) […]

By Afshain Afzal Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar is on visit at Islamabad to hold talks with his Pakistani counterpart. According to unofficial reports from concerned quarters in New Delhi, India intends to build pressure on Pakistan regarding Mumbai Attacks and the boat controversy”. Islamabad has already stated that its boats were not involved in […]

Paul Fernando Colombo Courtesy Island March 1, 2015, 12:00 pm It seems that the ‘Yahapalanaya’ government believes in hitting the senior citizen below the belt through the application of the latest Central Bank (CBSL) directive on fixed deposit interest rates. The CBSL directive to banks specifies the revised eligibility criteria for the special interest scheme and it […]