lanka C news පසුගිය හය වසර තුළ ලෝකයේ වේගයෙන්ම වර්ධනය වූ නගරය බවට කොලඹ නගරය පත් කිරීමේ මෙහෙවරේ පුරෝගාමියා වන හිටපු ආරක්‍ෂක ලේකම් සිය දුෂ්කර ගමන ගැන මෙසේ අදහස් පල කරයි. 3,996 Viewers

 lanka C news ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට මාරක අපලයක් ඇති බවත් ඔහු 2017 ජනවාරි 26 වන දිනට පෙර ඝාතනයකට ලක් විය හැකි බවත් ජ්‍යොතිෂ විශාරද විජිත රෝහන විජයමුණි මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ ඉන් මිදීමට නම් ජනාධිපතිවරයා අනිවාර්යෙන්ම ගව ඝාතනය තහනම් කිරීම වැනි පුන්‍ය කර්මයක් සිදු කල යතු බවයි. 2,127 Viewers

Metteyya Brahmana While it should be no surprise that Sri Lanka’s new puppet-of-the-West president – Maithripala Sirisena – is calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, it is surprising that he is doing this in a country where over 70% of the population is Buddhist.  It’s as if he doesn’t understand the value of […]

Shenali D Waduge The media has highlighted news of requests by LTTE-created-TNA to release LTTE prisoners. For whose benefit, why and for what reasons would a political party request to release hard core LTTE cadres into society when they had flatly refused to follow the rehabilitation & reintegration program? More importantly why would a government […]

By Kanthar P (Nathan) Balanathan DipEE(UK), GradCert(RelEng-Monash), DipBusAdm(Finance-Massey), CEng, MIEE, MIE(Aust), CPEng. Retired Director & Specialist Power Systems Engineer Like all right thinking people born in Sri Lanka, my wish is for the country to go forward to a period of Peace and prosperity for all its citizens. I am a Tamil from the North […]

Gotabhaya Rajapaksa Former Secretary Ministry of Defence Former Defence Secy. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in a press release today, explians the much talked about MiG deal, which surfaces in the media from time to time.  A Week-End English paper carried an article criticizing the Defence Secy’s conduct with regard to the puchase of the MiG 27 Fighter Air […]

Courtesy Ape Rata ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ විදේශ මුදල් සංචිතය ඉතා සීඝ‍්‍රයෙන් පහත වැටීම නිසා මේ වන විට බැංකු මගින් ඩොලරය විකුණනු ලබන්නේ රු. 137.50 ටය. පිට (කළු) වෙළදපොලේ මෙය රුපියල් 140-141 දක්වා ඉහළ ගොස් ඇත. මෙලෙස රුපියලේ අගය අඩුවීමට හේතු වී ඇත්තේ ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට ලැබෙන විදේශ විනිමය ශිග්‍ර ලෙස අඩු වීම නිසාය. මෙවන් ඩොලර් අහේනියක් රටේ […]

– කුමාර ලියනගේ යුතුකම සංවාද කවය www.yuthukama.com මේ කතාව මා මුල් වරට සදහන් කරන්නේ අද ය.පසුගිය ජනවාරි 09වැනි දා මම මේ රටේ එක්තර‍ා සුවිශේෂ පුද්ගලයකුට කතා කළෙමි.ජනවාරි 09වැනි දා යනු, ජනාධිපතිවරණයට පසු දිනයයි. කවුරුත් විවිධ අදහස් දක්වමින්, රටේ හෙට දවසත්, දේශපාලනයේ අනාගතයත් පිළිබද මත පළ කරන්නට පටන් ගත් දිනයයි. මා විසින් දුරකථනයෙන් අමතනු ලැබූ පුද්ගලයා ‍ක්ෂේත්‍ර කිහිපයක […]

Courtesy Adaderana Five Asian cities – Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Hong Kong – make it into the Global Destination Cities Index top ten.  Colombo leads the pack as the fastest growing city in terms of international, overnight visitor numbers in the annual MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index. The rapid rise in tourism after […]

By Franz Strasser BBC News, Germany , 3 June 2015  While the cost of college education in the US has reached record highs, Germany has abandoned tuition fees altogether for German and international students alike. An increasing number of Americans are taking advantage and saving tens of thousands of dollars to get their degrees. In […]

Gamini Sarath Godakanda  The University of Peradeniya, a long standing bedrock of academic discourses in many aspects of Sri Lanka’s development process was the location chosen by the Center for Social Science Studies for the launch of the timely publication of ‘Identity Politics and State – Building in Sri Lanka’ edited by Dr. Sisira Pinnawala, […]

Shenali D Waduge Organizations that had been functioning as conduits to channel funds, enable money launder, carry out illicit as well as legal international business and help procure arms are now the new saviors of the Tamils holding foreign passports and domiciled abroad. One such organization banned by the Sri Lankan Government under UN Security […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග මාසික ප්‍රගති සමාලෝචන රැස්වීමේ දී තමා ප්‍රදේශයේ මන්ත්‍රීවරයා අමනාප කරගත් බව විජේවර්ධනට සිතිණි. ප්‍රදේශයේ සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන් වලදි සංඛ්‍යාලේඛණ අතිශයෝක්තියෙන් ඉදිරිපත් කරමින් මන්ත්‍රීවරයා ඉදිරියේ ප්‍රශස්ථ ගායනාවක යෙදුන සකළසූරිය ඉදිරිපත් කළ විගඩම් නාටකය තව දුරටත් බලා සිටීමට නොහැකිව ඔහුගේ කටහඞ ප්‍රාණවත් විය.  මුලින්ම විවාදය ඇති වූයේ විජේවර්ධන හා සකළසූරිය අතරය. කෙමෙන් කෙමෙන් සකළසූරිය දළ බිඳ ගනිත්ම ඔහුගේ සහායට ප්‍රදේශයේ මන්ත්‍රීවරයා […]

By Afshain Afzal The Foreign Minister of Tajikistan, Mr. Aslov Sirojidin Muhridinovich visited India from 11 to 15 May 2015. It was not a coincidence that the visit of Tajik delegation came within days when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his country is ready to join a Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan Trade and Transit […]

Dr.Chandana Jayalath Any accident is a bad scene disheartening and dreadful. Lorries, buses and containers overtake blindly. Around 2,000 people die out of 6,000 recorded accidents every year, being the number one killer among people in the 15 to 29 age group. At least a one person dies in each 4 hours. The annual social […]

By H. L. D. Mahindapala At the end of the glorified 100 days the nation is left with a sense of déjà vu, if not disappointment and frustration. Nothing significant stands out as exemplary achievements of the Sirisena–Wickremesinghe regime to crow about the promised difference” (when-a-suck). The failure of the Yahapalanaya (good governance) to achieve […]

AdaDerana There is no doubt, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa will contest at the forthcoming general election, Rajaapksa’s media coordinator Rohan Weliwita has told the BBC. He has pointed out that the former President will certainly contest at the election regardless of Sri Lanka Freedom Party’s (SLFP) decision to award nomination to Rajapaksha, or not. Rajapaksa […]

Shenali D Waduge  The parliamentary traditions and practices have suddenly come under threat and questions need to be posed to the UNP as to whether it is embarking on a very detrimental path subjecting not only all norms of good governance but jeopardizing the stability of the country as well.  The Presidential election concluded on […]

The Island Editorial  -03/06/2015 President Maithripala Sirisena has recently pledged to bring the killers of journalists to justice. This is something long overdue and we hope he will carry out his promise. His predecessors, too, wept buckets for journalists who were either killed or injured in attacks, but they, true to form, reneged on their […]

World Alliance for Peace in Sri Lanka PO Box 4066, Mulgrave VIC 3170, Australia Dear Honourable Parliamentarians protecting the national interests in this critical hour, We are concerned about some reports of the persons nominated to the Constitution Council of Sri Lanka by the Government.   If the names mentioned  in the media are correct then we […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක, සිඞ්නි නුවර සිට යහපාලනයත් සමගම මුඵ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේම මල් පිපෙන බවත් එවිට මල්වලින් සැරසුන මං පෙත් දිගේ පිය නැගිය හැකි බවත් අනාගතය මල් යහනාවක් වන බවත් ජනතාවට පැවසුයෙන් ඔවුහු පසුගිය ජනවාරි අටවනදා යහපාලනයක්ම ඇතිකරගත්හ. මාස පහක්ම බලා හිටියත් පිපුනු මලක් නම් නැත. සමුර්දියත් මහපොලත් වැඞිකරන බව හිසේ අතතබා දිවුරා කීවත් දැන් මාස හතරක් […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The rock band Eagles released their super hit Hotel California in 1976 and up-to-date this song remains one of the popular songs that is adored by millions of fans around the world.  The hit song Hotel California is well written both lyrically and musically. This song contains a deep connotation and […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena has become a prisoner of the United National Party (UNP), former Minister Bandula Gunawardena said. The former Minister asserted that the UNP always had the backing of some foreign elements for the victory at the January 8 polls. There was a foreign conspiracy behind UNP’s win. With respect to our […]

Kanthar P Balanathan, Australia General Paranoia We Tamils are inflicted with parochial superiority complex and paranoia. No one understands and agrees that the racial and ethnic confrontation was launched by our so called Malaysian born SJV Chelvanayaka (m), when he floated the Federal Party (FP) in 1949. SJVC could have fought for a federal system […]

Shenali D Waduge It is sad and unfortunate that within just 6 years we hear of people publicly praising an internationally banned terrorist organization. The fault lies in the failure to denazify the LTTE but it also establishes that though LTTE leader is no more the desire to continue armed militancy still prevails. The background […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement 1.6. 2015. I want all patriotic citizens, more particularly the Kandyan Sinhalese, to draw their serious attention to the news item below that appeared in the Daily FT of 5th May 2015 on a 10-year National Plan of Action for Plantation Infrastructure Development The Ministry of Plantation […]

RANJITH SOYSA Vidura camp in Sampoor was closed to provide lands for the Tamil ‘refugees’ who rejected alternative lands offered to them due to the pressure exerted on them by TNA and pro-LTTE fronts. They were carrying on a political agitation on behalf of their ‘masters’ to grab a piece of land in this critically strategic area. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government will run into a serious financial crisis as it has failed to give legal effect to the taxes proposed in the budget to raise revenue for the financial year under review, former External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris said yesterday. Addressing a meeting in Tangalle yesterday, Prof. Peiris said though […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa responding to the Siriliya Saviya allegations stated that political opponents of the Rajapaksa government had alleged that the three individuals including Mrs. Rajapaksa authorized to sign cheques on behalf of the NGO had provided ‘false’ NIC numbers to the People’s Bank.The names and addresses of all […]

lanka C news රනිල් අගමැති කරන්නේ නම් ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂ සභාපති කමේ උඹ බම්බු ගහනවාදැයි ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාලි සිරිසේනගෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර ප‍්‍රශ්ණ කරයි.රත්නපුරේ පැවති ජනරැළියක් අමතමින් ඔහු කියා සිටියේ ‘රනිල් අගමැති කරන්න නම් උඔ ශ‍්‍රීලංකා එකේ සභාපතිකම අත්ඇරපං’ යනුවෙනි. 59,356 Viewers