By Sudath Gunasekara 19.8.2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary elections 2015 Map showing land area won by each Party  This map does not unfortunately show land area won by the other party JVP, perhaps even more important as it has an Island wide coverage though it could not win a single District. But the fact remain that […]

Chandre Dharmawardana,  Canada. The people of Sri Lanka have spoken, both on Jan. 08, and now on August 17. The North has backed the TNA while the South has supported the UNF and the UPFA with a simple  majority to the UNF. The country has apparently returned to the politics of the 1960s, with the […]

Courtesy Island  Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Central Committee yesterday unanimously decided to join a national government as neither the UNP nor UPFA had succeeded in securing a majority of seats in Parliament. SLFP spokesman and former minister Dilan Perera told The Island that the party’s CC had met at President Maithripala Sirisena’s official residence and latter presided […]

TILAK S Courtesy Island I have noted with considerable concern the ongoing correspondence appearing in The Island Newspaper regarding a proposal to irreversibly link our cherished Island to the barren wastes of India with a huge mass of concrete to be laid across the Palk Straits. By a stroke of the pen we would have signed […]

OPINION BY  Dr Tilak S  Fernando  If there is anything that saturates the overall news on television and newspapers these days, excluding an eye full of politics, then certainly the road accidents and associated deaths take an equal share to dominate news. Last year statistics revealed a figure of 35,000 road accidents, out of which 2439 […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  හිම මත ඇද වැටුණු ආටිලරි උණ්ඩය පුපුරා ගියේ ලෝහ කැබලි දසත විහිදුවමිනි. සුදු පැහැති හිම මත වෙඩි බෙහෙත් වලින් පිලිස්සී ගිය  ක​ළු පැහැති විශාල ආවාටයක් මොහොතකින් දැකගත හැකි විය. අප ගරා වැටුණු ගොඩනැගිල්ල දෙසට දිව ගියේ තවත් ආටිලරි ප්‍රහාර අප සිටි දිශාවට එල්ල වීම අනිවාර්ය නිසාය. අපගේ අදහස සනාථ කරමින් ගොඩනැගිල්ලේ […]

Adaderana ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පවතින මැතිවරණ නීති වඩාත් හිතවාදී වන්නේ මැතිවරණ වලදී දැවැන්ත ලෙස මුදල් වියදම් කළ හැකි අපේක්ෂකයින්ට බව පැවති මහ මැතිවරණය නිරීක්ෂණය කළ නිදහස් මැතිවරණයක් සඳහා වූ ආසියානු ජාලය (ANFREL) අවධාරණය කරයි. මෙම සංවිධානය මෙරට මූල්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ප්‍රමුඛයින් කිහිප දෙනෙකු උපුටා දක්වමින් සඳහන් කරන්නේ ගෙවුණු මහ මැතිවරණයේ මිනිත්තු 30 කටත් අඩු කාලයකදී තමන්ගේ වෙළඳ […]

by Daniel Ten Kate and Anusha Ondaatjie Courtesy Adaderana Most central bankers would relish an office with an unobstructed view of the Indian Ocean’s sparkling waters. Sri Lanka Governor Arjuna Mahendran finds it dull. He would rather see skyscrapers dotting the horizon as cargo vessels deposit containers into Colombo’s ports. Right now, piles of sand and […]

Mahinda K This resembles the same situ that arose in 1977 July  when UNP won with 2/3rd majority and SLFP was downed to eight seats, the then Tamil party lead by A. Amirthalingam (TULF) sat as opposition of the parliament. Just after two years, the LTTE started its fight, TULF played hell demanding Eelaam! You […]

Shenali Waduge WHAT HAPPENED TO 58LAKH VOTES WHO VOTED FOR MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE   2015 January Presidential Elections 2015 August Parliamentary Elections Registered voters 15,044,490 15,044,490 (same number as January) Who voted 12,264,377 11,684,098 (580,279 did not vote) Rejected votes 140,925 517,123 (376,198 more rejected than January) Voter turnout 81% Votes for Maithripala Sirisena 6,217,162 – […]