(From the Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon(1869-1943) They went with songs to the battle; they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady, and aglow They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe.   They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow […]

Ben Silva Before MR  was elected  to  power,   Sri Lanka experienced    30 years of terror and many innocent Sinhalese and Muslims  and Tamils   died.  Terrorists destroyed assets of the State and money was wasted and no funds were available for infrastructure development. There were  allegations that during  CBK’s time and that of RW’s time, corruption […]

Shelton A. Gunaratne Professor of communication emeritus, MSUM Moorhead, MN—Web 2.0 technology has enabled me to transmit messages to mass media in Sri Lanka from my hometown in Northcentral Minnesota within a few seconds. In 1966, when I first arrived in Minnesota as a Lake House journalist on a World Press Institute Fellowship, it took me […]

By Senaka Weeraratna           Ven. Bowatte Indraratana Thera Nearly two years ago on Vesak Day, May 24, 2013, Ven. Bowatte Indraratana Thera made the supreme sacrifice by giving up his precious life opposite the Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth in Kandy). He made this sacrifice so as to draw public attention […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane The first Muslims of Sri Lanka were a small community who came from South India around the 16th century. They were descendants of Arab traders who had settled in South Indian coastline after marrying Tamil speaking women. Throughout the 17th century, during the Dutch period of occupation of our coastal areas Muslims […]

Courtesy  Adaderana The Supreme Court has issued an Interim Relief Order temporarily suspending the Gazette notification issued by President Maithripala Sirisena cancelling the long term lease on an extent of land for the proposed Sampur Heavy Industry Zone in Trincomalee, which is considered the largest investment project in Sri Lanka. The Interim Order was issued […]

Courtesy Adaderana Justice L.K. Wimalachandra, a Commissioner of the Bribery Commission, has resigned with effect from Friday (15), the Director General of the commission Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe said. He had resigned to allow the appointing of new commissions in line with the 19th amendment coming into force since yesterday, she told Ada Derana. With regard […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island ‘Invoking int’l org not a prerogative of Mahinda’s Camp’ May 15, 2015, 12:00 pm Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris, MP, yesterday strongly disputed Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe’s move to consult the Commonwealth as regards a recent Supreme Court ruling in respect of the fundamental rights petition filed by former Defence […]

-කෝට්ටවත්තේ ගුණසේන පෙරේරා යුතුකම සංවාද කවය www.yuthukama.com හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ පසුගියදා පැවති උත්සවයක් අමතමින් මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා  ප්‍රකාශ කර තිබුණේ ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවරණයෙන් පසුවද පිහිටුවන්නේ යූඇන්පී- ශ්‍රී ලංකා හවුල් ආණ්ඩුවක් බවයි. (සිරිසේන මහතා එය හඳුන්වා තුබුබේ හවුල් ආණ්ඩුවක් ලෙස නොව ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවක් ලෙසයි. නමුත් ඒ ප්‍රකාශයේ කිසිඳු තේරුමක් නැති බැවින් අපි එය හවුල් ආණ්ඩුවක් ලෙසම නම් කරමු ) […]

ඉසුරු රන්දෙනිකුමාර යුතුකම සංවාද කවය www.yuthukama.com  වසර 30ක යුද්ධය නිමාවුනි. ඒ කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදය රටින් තුරන් කිරීම මගිනි. ත්‍රස්තවාදය තුරන් කොට සාමයේ කිරුල අප හට ලැබුනේ රන් බන්දේසියක තබා නම් නොවේ. ත්‍රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිව දහස්ගණන් රණවිරුවෝ රටේ ස්වෛරීභාවය වෙනුවෙන් දිවිපිදූහ. දිනාගත් සෑම බිම් අඟලක්ම අප රණවිරුවන්ගේ ලෙයින් තෙත් වී ඇත. රත්පැහැ තල් ගෙඩි බැබලෙන්නේ ද, ඉදුනු මිරිස් […]

Rahul What miserable and pathetic creatures My3, RW, C BK and Samaraweera are! I ask myself Oh God, what sin have I committed in a previous birth to be born amongst this nest of traitorous snakes?” 19 May 09 is a Red letter day in the history of Sri Lanka. That is the day when […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed serious concern over the killing of third bloggers in Bangladesh this year and urged the Sheikh Hasina led government in Dhaka to probe into the matter authentically to book the culprits under the respective laws. The media reports from southeast Asian nation reveal that the […]

By Sandarasi Sudusinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Irrespective of how hard she tries to hide them from us, History ultimately yields her secrets to us …and thankfully, very many of them add wings to our imaginations and take us on fantastic astral trips to forgotten islands and idyllic times. Some of the flights of fancy are however […]

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka …he also underestimated badly the Rajapakse regime as well as the armed forces. Prabhakaran did not expect the armed forces to keep on progressing relentlessly as they did. But despite heavy losses the military juggernaut kept on rolling forward. More importantly he expected President Mahinda Rajapakse would cave into international pressure and […]

 Shenali D Waduge Nothing in this world happens without a reason. There’s a pattern and a shape to everything. To understand the political chaos that presently engulfs Sri Lankan politics it is essential that we are able to place in context the movers and shakers of global governance and how the world runs. It is […]

Courtesy RT Albanians are just a proxy for Western intervention in the Balkan area where it is easy for the West, following its goals, to ignite the Balkan powder keg by playing off ancient ethnic discords, Sasha Knezev, Serbian-American author, told RT. RT:What are the root causes of these riots in Macedonia in your opinion? […]

Excerpts from the interview:By Dilrukshi Handunnetti Courtesy CeylonToday  Q: What could be the ramifications of the US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka being adopted by the UNHRC? A: We need to consider the contents of the resolution. It clearly confers powers on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate, without mentioning an ‘international’ investigation. […]

Yahapalana News Sri Lanka’s judiciary is no longer politically influenced and the era in which the judiciary was politically influenced has been ended with consolidation of its independence to the maximum, President Maithripala Sirisena said. Speaking at an event to open a new three-storied building of the Akurana Pradeshiya Sabha in Alawathugoda Thursday, the President […]

Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne alleged yesterday that a respondent involved in the controversial Avant – Garde case had offered him a bribe of Rs. 40 million to remain silent on the issue for just two weeks and that another person had offered him a bribe of Rs. 300 million. Speaking at the weekly Cabinet […]

කථිකාචාර්ය දිලන්ත විතානගේ ප්‍රධාන විධායක නිලධාරී – බොදු බල සේනා  15 මැයි 2015  සභාපති, The Capital Maharaja Organization Ltd හා MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd 146,ඩෝසන් පාර, කොළඹ 2   හිතවත් මහත්මයාණනි,  සිරස මාධ්‍ය ජාලය ( MTV Channel (Pvt) Ltd) තුල සිදුවන බොදු බල සේනා විරෝධී ඒකපාර්ශවීය මාධ්‍යකරණය – One Sided Media Reporting against Bodu Bala Sena(BBS) at Sirasa […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා රනිල්ගේ ලෝකය කුමක් ද යන්න අමුතුවෙන් කිවයුතු නැති වුවත් ඉඳහිට ඔහු සිතන පතන ආකාරය ගැන සටහන් කිරීමට සිදුවෙයි. අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියන් වරක් දේශනා කර තිබුණේ රනිල් ප්‍රබුද්ධයකු කියා ය. රනිල් බෞද්ධ පොතපත කියවනවා විය හැකි ය. එහෙත් ඔහුට  සිංහල බෞද්ධ මනසක් සකස් කර ගත නො හැකි ය. පොත් කියවූ පමණින් පුද්ගලයකුගේ මනස […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ada Derana has uncovered information regarding what is quite possibly the largest ‘media bribe’ in the history of Sri Lankan media, skillfully carried out by one of the leading media organizations in the country. The preliminary step of the scheme is to intimidate local and foreign investors by ruthlessly criticizing their projects, which […]

Jay Deshabandu Tea planters are not getting the government certified price of 80 rupees per kilogram.  This month, we just received a payment at the rate of 60 rupees per kilogram from the tea factories in the upcountry According to the media, the government has made it a mandate for the tea factories to buy […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Cabinet Spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne today said thatthe government will continue commemorating 19 May as the day that “separatism ended” and not as the “War Victory Day”. Cabinet Spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne today said that they will be commemorating 19 May as the day that “separatism ended” and not as the “War […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected allegations that he invested millions of dollars in the Steel Corporation the Marriot Hotel in Dubai by using businessman Nandana Lokuwithana as a front man. The Marriott Al Jaddaf Hotel in Dubai is the first ever five star hotel built and owned by a Sri Lankan living […]

by KALINGA SENEVIRATNE  Courtesy: Manila Times   ON January 8 this year Sri Lanka’s powerful president Mahinda Rajapakse was defeated in a shock vote propelled by a peoples’ revolution” focused on endemic political corruption in the country. The winner Maitripala Sirisena has presented to the electorate a 100-day” program to rid the country of corruption. However, when […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatuge    She is the most precious girl Who lives in my heart Her love is like the sunshine Keeps me warm and satisfied   The beauty in her eyes Like the jewels in the night sky Her warm lips give me an eternal life   When she smiles My worries and […]

Dr Hector Perera     London Many people just ignore the cooking aroma and any gaseous products out given out while cooking. One must understand those chemicals and other gaseous products are not quite healthy to breath. The important thing is to have a good ventilation then to avoid using excess gas or electricity while cooking. The […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා දින සියයකට වැඩි ගණනක් ආණ්ඩුව කර තිබෙන එකම දෙය විරුද්ධ පාක්‍ෂිකයන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීම ය. එසේ අත් අඩංගුවට ගත් අය අතර ද අති මහත් බහුතරය සිංහල බෞද්ධ වේ. සිංහල බෞද්ධයකු තබා ලාංකිකයකුවත් නොවන මහා බැංකු අධිපති නිවැරදි කරුවකු බව අපි දැන් දනිමු. ඒ ත්‍රිපුද්ගල නීතිඥ මණ්ඩලයකට පින් සිදුවන්නට ය. රාජිත සේනාරත්න වැන්නන් […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා බමුණු කුලය ලෙස හැඳින ගත් කුලය බිඳී නැති බව පැහැදිලි ය. ඒ මහතා ද අධ්‍යාපනය අතින් ගත්කල අයත් වූයේ බමුණු කුලයට ය. ඒ මහතා අගය කළ බටහිර විද්‍යාව අයත්වන්නේ ද බමුණු කුලයට ය. පියදාස සිරිසේන මහතා බමුණු කුලයට අයත් වී ද? මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා අයත් වූයේ බමුණු කුලයට නො […]