By Janaka Perera April is the month when flowers bloom in Nuwara Eliya.  It has also been a month when guns boomed and bombs exploded and of ‘revolution.’    All of them occurred on a 5th of April within a span of 29 years. The first of these was the Japanese air raid over Colombo in […]

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Shenali Waduge Everybody looked forward to the Rally for Unity a vigil held in Colombo on 28 April 2013 to oppose hate speech. The event was marred and exposed by the reporting of BBC`s Charles Haviland who showed the hypocrisy of the entire exercise About 500 people have marched through the centre of the Sri […]

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By Shenali Waduge – Buddhists, victims of HATE SPEECH and Media manipulation They say you cannot fool the people all of the time and the recent announcement by a Minister who thinks he is doing a favour to those he closely associates with is like a blessing in disguise for the real victims of hate […]

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The videos show how a small country like Britain was able to hold ¼ of the world as its Empire. It also shows why it is so interested in Sri Lanka. This gives a lot of insight in to their thinking and may help our people to find a way out of the trap laid […]

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by Lankanewsweb Today  එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ නායකත්වය වෙනස් කිරිම සදහාත් අගමැති ධුරය එජාපයෙන් ඉවත් කිරිම සදහාත් මෛත්‍රී-චන්ද්‍රිකා-පාඨ්ලී-රාජිත ඉතා සුක්ෂම මෙහෙයුමක නිරතව සිටින බව අප දේශපාලන විශේෂ වාර්තාකරු අනාවරණය කර සිටි. පසුගිය ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදි අසරණව සිටි රනිල් සහ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය පාවිච්චියට ගත් මෛත්‍රී-චන්ද්‍රිකා-පාඨ්ලී-රාජිත දැන් ක්‍රමාණුකූල රනිල් සහ එජාප මන්ත්‍රි කණ්ඩායම කපා හැරිම සදහා මෙහෙයුමක් ආරම්භ කර […]

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Courtesy Ceylontoday The three-member committee which probed the controversial Treasury Bonds deal of the Central Bank has concluded inquiries and the report will be handed over to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on 10 April, authoritative sources said yesterday. Highly placed very reliable sources disclosed that according to the findings of the committee the crisis has […]

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නලින් ද සිල්වා රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහට අවශ්‍ය විධායක බලතල හැකිතාක් තමා අතට ගැනීමට මිස විධායක බලතල අහෝසි කිරීම නො වේ. විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරයේ බලතල කප්පාදු කිරීම යනු ජනතාව නොමග යැවීමට යොදාගන්නා සටන් පාඨයක් පමණ ය. වර්තමානයේ ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන ය. ඔහු පිටුපස සිංහල විරෝධී සිංහල බෞද්ධ විරෝධී විජාතික බලවේග ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙයි. විදේශ ඔත්තු සේවාවන් ද එම […]

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Courtesy adaderana It has been revealed that since February 2012 Sri Lanka’s foreign reserves have recorded its lowest during last March. According to latest data from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Sri Lanka’s foreign reserve has fallen to USD 6.8 billion in March 2015 while it was USD 7.4 billion in February. The […]

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Courtesy Island Doing away with the executive presidential system was the pledge that united so many different political parties and organizations behind Maithripala Sirisena. As Sri Lanka has been under prime ministerial forms of government in the past, we should have been able to switch effortlessly from one to the other. Instead what we see […]

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