Shenali D Waduge This question needs to be asked and answered. Sri Lanka’s terror did not begin at home. India trained Sri Lankan youth in India clandestinely and these groups which included the LTTE were sent on a mission to destablize Sri Lanka. That was how terrorism started. That terrorism led to 3 decades of […]

Dharshan Weerasekera A number of local newspapers have reported that there is to be a domestic inquiry into war crimes allegedly committed during the last phases of the war.[1]  Meanwhile, a few weeks ago, Foreign Minister Mr. Mangala Samaraweera was reported in a number of newspapers presenting what appears to be the rationale or justification […]

Attention of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resource: Please see the letter written by a concerned citizen which has been published in the Sunday Times edition of May 17, 2015.  The writer has stated that Indian Companies are misusing their BOI licences by drawing fresh water from ground wells to mix fruit pulp […]

By Dr. Chandana Jayalath With the suspension of many large scale projects, its effect on the supply chain is colossal. Projects have been functioning on a given scope of work within which the parties are geared, and indeed contractually obliged, to meet the mutual obligations. Few may be knowing that any decision as to whether […]

– ආචාර්ය දයාන් ජයතිලක අපේ රට නව ආර්ථීක හා දේශපාලන ගමන්මඟකට අවතීර්ණ කරමින් යළි කිසිදා යුද්ධයකට ඉඩ නොතබන බව පසුගියදා ජනාධිපතිතුමා ප්‍රකාශ කළා. නිමා වූ යුද්ධයෙන් සිදු වූ භෞතික හානිවලට විසඳුම් ලබා දුන්නත් බිඳුණු සිත් සුවපත් කිරීමේ ජාතික සංහිඳියා වැඩපිළිවෙළ වඩාත් ක්‍රමවත් කිරීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවත් එතුමා අවධාරණය කළා. තිස්‌ වසරක්‌ පැවති යුද්ධය නිසා බිඳුණු සිත් සුවපත් […]

මේකක ගේ රටක්ද කියා නොදන්නා අධිකරණ ඇමති… ඇමැති විජයදාසගේ ප්‍රකාශය සිංහලයන්ට කළ අපහාසයක්‌ මැදගොඩ අභයතිස්‌ස හිමි ඥනතිස්‌ස ජයවර්ධන – බොරලැස්‌ගමුව පසුගිය දිනක විද්යුත් හා සමාජ නාලිකාවන්හි ප්‍රචාරය වූ මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවකදී මාධ්‍යවේදියකු නැගූ ප්‍රශ්නයකට පිළිතුරු දෙමින් “මේ රට සිංහල රට කියලා කොහෙද තියෙන්නේ පෙන්වන්න” යනුවෙන් විජයදාස රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා පවසා ඇති බවත් එම ප්‍රකාශය පිළිබඳව තම සංවේගය […]

by Hozan Alan Senauke, Lion’s Roar,Courtesy:  Buddhist Channel May 15, 2015 Washington DC, USA — The streets of Washington DC were lined with blossoms and greenery, the prospect of promise. One hundred thirty Buddhist teachers, monks, nuns, laymen and laywomen, academics, and organizers met on Thursday May 14 for the first White House – U.S. […]

Sri Lankans in Los Angeles Commemorate Victory Day On May 22, 2015   Video and images by Wick Gankanda, Los Angeles, California wickcentral.com/java       Memorandum Reading at Sri Lanka Consulate General office     Dissa’s Speech in Sinhala     Dushantha Kurera’s Speech in English     Final Jayawewa   Details at LA […]

Lead Story, Special Reports Courtesy Lanka Business Online May 24, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said that the recent accusations of him are made to shift the country’s attention away from the current burning issue of the Treasury bond scam which took place under the ruling of Yahapalanaya” and […]

Courtesy Sunday Island Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal yesterday came back strongly on allegations made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe regarding the private placement of bonds worth Rs. 2.7 trillion for crony benefit during his tenure as Governor and challenged the PM for a televised debate on this issue in Sinhala or English […]

Adaderana The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) will form a coalition government after the forthcoming election, thus several political parties are expected to join hands with the party in near future, North Western Province Chief Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara said. The observation was made at a meeting held in Kurunegala, last afternoon (23). Field Marshal Sarath […]

නලින ද සිල්වා මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන කෝප වී ඇත. ඔහු ශ්‍රී ල නි පක්‍ෂයේ ප්‍රාදේශීය සම්මන්ත්‍රණයක දී කෝපයෙන් කතාකර අභියෝග කර තිබුණේ තමාට වඩා පක්‍ෂය හා රට වෙනුවෙන් කැප වී වැඩ කර ඇති අයකු පෙන්වන ලෙස ය. මම ශ්‍රී ල නි පාක්‍ෂිකයෙක් නො වෙමි. මෛත්‍රිපාලගේ අභියෝගය පාක්‍ෂිකයන්ට පමණක් දැයි නිශ්චිත ව කිව නො හැකි ය. ඒ […]

ධර්මසිරි  සෙනෙවිරත්න   මුළු මහත් ඉන්දියාවම  සිසාරා බෞද්ධයන් පෙතිගසමින්  ගිය  මුස්ලිම් වරු මුලින්   ලංකාවට පැමිණියේ  සංක්‍රමණික වෙළෙන්දන් ලෙසිනි 1623 දී පමණ    ඩ වුහීඩ්      සෙනෙවියා විසින්  පලවා හරින ලද මුස්ලිම්වරු අසරණව  සෙනරත් රජතුමා වෙත  ගියේ සරනා ගතයන් ලෙසය .  මුන්ගේ ආගමේ ත්‍රස්තවාදය ගැන මෙලෝ හසරක්  නොදැනීම නිසා හෝ  භික්ෂුවක් ලෙස සිටීම නිසා අපරිමිත මයිත්ත්රියෙන්  යුතුවීම නිසාදෝ […]

Kumar Moshe  It didn’t take even two months to see the results of removing army camps from the north. The Maithripala government must take full responsibility for the crimes that followed the victory day in 2015. Instead of accepting the responsibility for the heinous crime, the Maithripala-UNP government plays politics with the tragedy. They have even […]

Ranjith Soysa Major Gen Jagath Dias’s appointment to the post of Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army is hailed by all patriotic Sri Lankans as recognition of peerless service rendered to the nation as a soldier who had served the Army for 35 years with distinction and the dedicated and exceptional role played […]

Courtesy The Nation Observers of share market activity claim that buying behaviour of Ceylinco Insurance shares indicates that Lalith Kotelawala, the troubled tycoon whose name is inextricably linked with the Ceylinco Group, is set for a remarkable come-back. Speculation regarding a Kotelawala return began when Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake at a media conference on […]

By Afshain Afzal A pamphlet, bearing the name of ISIS, was recovered from the site of 13th May 2015 terrorist bus attack, claiming the responsibility of killing around 48 innocent members of Ismaili community in Karachi. However, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Malir Rao Anwar said that Police have no evidence of either ISIS or […]

Courtesy Lanka Business online May 21, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Highway ministry said that it has reduced the cost of Outer Circular Highway (OCH) phase 3 by 30 percent to 24 billion rupees through removing of the provision to expand to four lane road to six lanes in 2027. However the ministry will stick […]