Ajit Randeniya One of the key conspirators behind the Yahapalana conspiracy of 2015, Rajitha Senaratne fully deserves MP Dilan Perera’s description of him as a political pimp”. The description followed the lie he uttered after the last Cabinet meeting about President Sirisena’s view of a Mahinda Rajapakse come back. It is clearly an apt description […]

Tissa Gunatilaka from Sydney තිස්ස ගුණතිලක, සිඞ්නි නුවර සිට In an environment where Mahinda Rajapakse was  denied nomination by the SLFP leadership, the article ‘next philosophical election” published on 5th April ’15 would appear more relevant. I would like to share it (slightly edited) with you again. There is no other place in this world […]

Shenali D Waduge With the Parliamentary Elections to be announced it is now time that the People of Sri Lanka demanded from all political parties to adopt a formula whereby 75% of their nominations are given to new people. The people are now disgusted and have had enough of the same people jumping like kangaroos […]

By Ajith Nivard Cabraal Former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka(Courtesy Island) The loss to the government is mainly due to the higher interest burden arising from the unnecessary and unwarranted increase in interest rates. Over the past few weeks, the government has embarked on a mission to stealthily brainwash peoplethrough carefully placed comments […]

by our correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expressed utter dismay at the repeated incidents of scribe’s murder in the country and urged the robust media fraternity of the largest democracy of the globe to stand united for the cause of justice to all the slain journalists. The JFA’s aggravated reaction came out following the […]

Adaderana  No matter when the next general election to be held, do not even think about an election without former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, SLFP Media Spokesperson and former Minister Dilan Perera said. Beyond any doubt, the former President will back the party at the forthcoming election,” Perera added. He also went into say he is […]

Courtesy The Daily News President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday said there cannot be two leaders in a country. A country should be governed by one leader and he should be allowed to run its administration” the President said addressing an SLFP meeting in Nuwara Eliya yesterday. Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga strove to bring out reforms […]

K. Godage Former Ambassador I was shocked and surprised to learn that the government had decided to close the office of Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Defence. As a citizen of this country who feels affected by this decision, I believe I now have a legitimate right to demand (after the recent constitutional amendment) that […]

By Garvin Karunaratne., Ph.D. Michigan State University. I travelled half the world on the Trans Siberian Railway and entered China through Mongolia. I was amazed at the development that was taking  place apace. The land was barren and desert, with a trace of water at the bottom low lands,   like the land we had passed […]

Adaderana Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia on Sunday (21) denied allegations leveled against him over supplying weapons to Ukrainian rebels and the death of Noel Ranaweera who was an employee of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Russia. In a statement, Weeratunga added, Various allegations made against me by ministers of the Yahapalana government have […]

Adaderana SLFP Media Spokesperson and former Minister Dilan Perera on Sunday (21) slammed Minister Rajitha Senaratne for misleading the public about party’s decision to name the prime ministerial candidate at the forthcoming general election. By the time he (Rajitha) made the observation about this decision, the six-member committee hasn’t even met the President to discuss […]

By Neville de Silva  Courtesy The Sunday Times Those who missed Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake’s remarks to a local business website on the appointment of his brother-in-law as managing director of the Insurance Corporation sure missed a hilarious piece of illogicality and non sequitur. While there is an eminently qualified and experienced business leader, Hemaka […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග සැන්ට බාබරා නගරයට මම අතිශයින් ප්‍රියකරමි. උණුසුම් කැලිෆෝනියානු කඳුකර සුළඟේ සහ හිරු රශ්මියේ පහස ලබන වෙරළට ඇළුම් නොකරන්නෝ කවුරුද? මම ද එවැනි සාමාන්‍ය ජනයාට අයත් වූ තැනැත්තෙක්මි. මේ නිසා මා සැන්ට බාබාරා නගරයට ප්‍රිය කිරීම අරුමයක් නොවේ. මුහුදේ පිහිනා වෙරලේ වැතිරී දහවල් කාලය ගත කිරීමට අගනා ප්‍රදේශයක් ලෙස මම සැන්ට බාබාරා […]

HIRUNEWS හලාවත පොලිස් කොට්ඨාශයේ නොවිසඳුණු අපරාධ විමර්ශන ඒකකයේ නිලධාරීන් විසින් සිදුකරන ලද පහරදීමක් හේතුවෙන් තමන් අද වනවිට ආබාධිත තත්ත්වයට පත්ව ඇති බව මාදම්පේ පදිංචි සංජීව එදිරිසිංහ නැමැත්තා පවසනවා. පසුගිය මැයි මස 09 වැනි දින මාදම්පේ – සෙම්බුකට්ටිය ප‍්‍රදේශයේ පිහිටි වෙළඳසැලක් බිඳ එහි භාණ්ඩ සොරාගත් බව පවසමින් අපරාධ විමර්ශන ඒකකයේ නිලධාරීන් තමන් සහ තම සහෝදරයෙකු අත්අඩංගුවට […]

රංජිත් සොයිසා කොටි හිතවාදී කණ්ඩායම් වලට අවශ්‍ය විදියට සුදු හුණු ගෑමේ ව්‍යාපාරය වහාම නතර විය යුතු අතර ඒකීය ස්වෛරීය ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා කොටස් වලට කඩා දැමීමේ උත්සාහය ද වහාම නතර විය යුතුය. ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ සාමය සඳහා වූ ලෝක සංෂිතය (WAPS) ඉතා දැඩි අවදානයකින් යුතුව අපේ රටේ දැනට සිටින ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදී ක‍්‍රමයට ඡුන්දයෙන් පත් නොවූ අගමැති ගරු රනිල් […]

Dilrook Kannangara Who is the most frustrated politician in the island today having lost so many elections? And why that person is desperate after the 19th Amendment was diluted by SLFP MPs? What if the decoy works? A news item was floated by pro-UNP websites of a purported conversation President Maithripala had with his party stalwarts. He […]

By Charles.S.Perera Ranil’s UNP government is extremely ineffective. His Ministers act as if they are going to be there for ever.  But they do not know what exactly they are doing.  However, as days go by each statement made by one or the other of Ranil’s Cabinet Ministers make  more and more voters loose their […]

Courtesy The Nation  Top-ranking members of the Government are alleyedly implicated in wrongdoing associated with the controversial Central Bank bond issue, The Nation learns.  Central Bank sources who wished to remain anonymous claim that the process which resulted in a company owned by the son-in-law of Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran securing unprecedented profits almost […]

By H. L. D. Mahindapala – The unfolding events, one more telling than the other, defines the emerging political trends which, in the foreseeable future, seem to be irreversible. The polarization of the contending forces into Left and Right camps has also fallen into two clear cut political domains. On the Right is the Siri-Wicky […]

The Daily Mirror The six-member committee appointed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has unanimously decided to nominate former president Mahinda Rajapaksa as the party’s prime ministerial candidate no matter what President Maitripala Sirinsena’s views are on this matter, informed sources said. SLFP Vice Chairman and Minister Rajitha Senaratne told the weekly Cabinet meeting […]

By Sandun Jayawardana Courtesy The  Nation The Constitutional Council (CC), the body empowered under the 19th Amendment to the Constitution to set up the independent commissions, is currently in limbo amid bitter divisions in the government and opposition ranks. Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told The Nation that the government was trying its best to persuade sections […]

ආචාර්ය චන්දන ජයලත් පක්ෂ පාට භේදයෙන් තොරව නිදහස් හා ස්වාධීන මතධාරියෙකු ලෙස මනා සංයමයකින් යුතුව ඉදිරි මැතිවරණ වලදී ජන්දදායකයා ක‍්‍රියා කලයුතු අාකාරය පිලිබදව යම් සටහනක් තැබීම කාලෝචිත යැයි කල්පනා කළෙමි. තම මතයක් දැරීමට ඕනෑම අයෙකුට ඇති අවකාශය පිළිගත් සම්මුතියකි. උගත් ජන සමාජයක ගති ලක්ෂණයකි. මුලික මිනිස් අයිතිවාසිකමකි. ඒ බැව් මා මුලින්ම අවධාරණය කල යුතු වන්නේ […]

Dr Hector Perera      London Many years ago in Sri Lanka nearly every single household had servants. They are like the part of the family and live at the place they work even cooking was a full time job. Sometimes they had more than one servant, a woman and a youngster to whom they just call […]

Adaderana Reports that the government has provided a helicopter for the use of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa are completely untrue, according to latter’s Media Coordinator, Rohan Weliwita. He says that apart from the helicopter journey from Colombo to Tangalle on January 09, which was officially used as the former President, up to date Rajapaksa has […]

Shenali D Waduge The conflict in Sri Lanka has been described as a non-international armed conflict by the Ban Ki Moon appointed 3 member panel (which is not sanctioned by either the UN Security Council or the UN General Assembly). LTTE is designated globally as a terrorist organization. However there is no legal definition for […]

Bandu de Silva Apropos the letter published by my former colleague, K.Godage, the short title used by him might convey the impression that he was on the way to discussing a general issue: the arbitrary recall of diplomats” — including his own recall by the former government which appointed him High Commissioner to Malaysia. However, […]

By Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada. One or two of the 40 topics covered by  Dr. Nalin de Silva in just 180 lines-II We have heard of a Jules Verne tale about  Round the world in 80 days”. But treating 40  arcane topics  in 180 lines was a fete achieved by Dr. Nalin de Silva (NS) […]

Orpheus Perera Rajitha Senaratne, as a spokesperson for government (or UNP?), made the following statement at the press conference: The six-member committee has also discussed this matter with the President last evening. President Maithripala Sirisena will never field Rajapaksa as the prime ministerial candidate. There will be no chance for him to enter parliament through […]

By: LANKA PUTHRA. Let’s first look at which Palestinians is he refereeing to; Original Palestinians were nomadic tribes that roamed around Jorden. King Hussein’s father gave them certain parts of Jorden to build houses and get work in Jorden and in Israeli settlements where they needed unskilled labor. At that time Saudis were against Israel […]