Adaderana The President has no ethical right to select Parliamentarians through the National List, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya Leader Udaya Gammanpila says. The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (25). Gammanpila also severely criticised the manner in which the United People’s Freedom Party’s (UPFA) national list MPs were selected. It […]

by Gandara John With the winners and losers at the recently concluded elections announced, Sirisena immediately set about to disenfranchise nearly five million UPFA voters, by inserting fresh names in the UPFA National List. And the fresh names on the list also included seven who had been rejected outright by the UPFA voters. Millions of voters […]

Dr Chandrika Iriyagolle Sri Lanka is a resplendent island, famous for its scenic beauty and its Theravada Buddhist cultural heritage. Our great nation epitomized the great and good in human nature. Compassion, selflessness, generosity, integrity and, above all, merciful benevolence, are qualities that shine through our long history.  Our culture and lifestyle was based on […]

lanka C news After receiving a national intelligence report that the UPFA is on the verge of winning the election, .President Sirisena said, he sent that infamous letter addressed to the former President informing him that he will not be nominated to the Prime Minister post and then he removed party secretaries as well. President […]

Hot News Most of the elected members of SLFP parliamentarians believe that MP Kumara Welgama is the most suitable candidate for the opposition leader post, former president Mahinda Rajapakse said in reply to a question raised by Island Newspaper. When the paper contacted Mahinda and asked whether he is willing to take over the post of […]

Hot News President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday offered retiring national cricketer Kumar Sangakkara post of Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to London, a post last held by top businessman Chris Nonis. The offer was made in the presence of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. In response to this offer Sangakkara said he has not got sufficient experience and […]

පරාජිත අපේක්ෂකයන් ජාතික ලයිස්තුව හරහා පත්කිරීම කිසිසේත් අනුමත නොකරණ බවත් ඔවුන්ට ඇමතිධූර ලබාදෙන්නේනම් ඊටත් වඩා එරෙහිවන බවත් පවසන සාධාරණ සමාජයක් සදහාවූ ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරය තවදුරටත් ජනතා අපේක්ෂා අනුව කටයුතු නොකරන්නේ නම් ඊට හේතුව ජනතාව ඉදිරියට විත් ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ ප්‍රකාශකරන ලෙස ජනපතිවරයාට වක්‍ර අභියෝගයක් එල්ල කළේය. National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) Leader the Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera today […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy Island In 1994, the day after the August parliamentary election, this writer visited the then president D. B. Wijetunga at President’s House in the Colombo Fort. When I entered the conference room of the president, Mr Dharmadasa Banda, a minister of the then UNP government was having a conversation with DBW. […]

 ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න    දිගුදුර විහිදුම් බල කා යේ  රණවිරු  සුනිල් රත්නායක  රට බේරා දීමට දිවිය කැපකළ විරුවෙකි . දෙමල බෙදුම් වාදීන්ගේ  සාක්ෂි මත පමණක් ඔහු වරදකරුවකු කර ඇත්තේ  නිල ඇඳුම්  නැති සාමාන්‍ය වැසියන් ඝාතනය කළේය යන චෝදනාව  ටය . ඔහුව හමුදා උසාවියට ඉදිරිපත් නොකර  සාමාන්‍ය උසාවියකට ඉදිරිපත් කලේ  අනෙක් රට ගැන ආදරය ඇති යුද්ධ නීතිය […]

Professor Nishan Wijesinha I noticed that several personalities who lost their seats at the general elections of SRI LANKA held on 2015 August 17, by the verdict of the voters; their names have been nominated back from the national list. This is what I call ‘ Corrupting of Voters Verdict’; which is detrimental to all […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා අද කෙරීගෙන යන සියල්ල ම මෙන් අපි කල්තියා දුටුවෙමු. ඒ බව එකල ම කීවෙමු. ඊනියා මහින්ද මෛත්‍රී එකතුව විපතක් මිස ජයග්‍රහණයක් නොවන බව අප කියද්දී, වෙන ම තරග කිරීම සුදුසු ම ක්‍රියා මාර්ගය බව අප යෝජනා කරද්දී අපේ පිළේ පඬියෝ ම අපට සිනහසුණහ. අගොස්තු 17 වැනි දා පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත ව තිබූ මැතිවරණය […]

Courtesy  Adaderana There is no legal basis for international investigation within Sri Lanka; it has to be domestic, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said in an interview to the Hindu. The reason some of the people have been calling for international investigation is the loss of confidence in the judiciary, he added. The Sri Lankan political […]

Courtesy Adaderana August 24, 2015  11:40 pm  China’s state media today said Sri Lanka should retain friendship with cash-rich China as India is not capable of providing large investment and loans”, in the first commentary following the defeat of pro-Beijing Mahinda Rajapaksa in the recent parliamentary elections. As the new Sri Lankan government seeks to reverse […]

by A. Abdul Aziz. Press Secretary, According to media rep[orts, on 22 August 2015, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad announced that over 567,000 have joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community during the past year. His Holiness made the announcement during his afternoon address […]

Courtesy Adaderana A petition has been filed at the Colombo District Court requesting to revoke the previous enjoining order issued to prevent Anura Priyadharshana Yapa and Susil Premajayantha from acting and discharging duties as the General Secretaries of the SLFP and UPFA. The petition was filed by Attorney at Law Aruna Laksiri, Ada Derana reporter […]

Shenali D Waduge In June 2015 the US released the Law of War Manual. Some of its contents are legally and morally indefensible which is why there is need to selectively pick items relevant to Sri Lanka. Nonetheless, it reading through the contents of proportionality and how the US Department of Defense views involuntary human […]

Courtesy Adaderana The MP-elects of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) have been given freedom to choose whether to join the National Government or function in the opposition, MP-elect Mahinda Amaraweera quoted the President as saying. President Maithripala Sirisena has made the observation during a meeting held at the President’s official residence in Colombo this […]

Shenali D Waduge Immediately following taking oaths as Prime Minister, Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe took a second oath reading out Article 157A, Seventh Schedule under the 6th amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution in 1983. I, …………………………….. do solemnly declare and affirm swear that I will uphold and defend ‘the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic […]

Dilrook Kannangara Singapore and India succeeded in disrupting the development of Hambantota and Colombo port development projects. Had these gone ahead, a substantial amount of prosperity would have shifted to Sri Lanka depriving India and Singapore. That was why India and Singapore engineered the regime change operation. Now they are satisfied Sri Lanka’s Chinese funded […]

Courtesy The Nation When President Maithripala Sirisena repeated his earlier speech in a six-page letter and added venom to the message that he would not ask Mahinda Rajapaksa to form a government as Premier had delivered the kiss of death to the UPFA’s chances Yet, this perfidy is called good governance and democracy in this […]

By Sudat Pasqual -Courtesy The Nation Fingaporean Hind Insertion is that uniquely Sri Lankan political art of inserting the rejected through the hind. The 2015 general Election is mercifully over. Seriously, how much fibs can one nation endure? It is a miracle that Sri Lankans were not dropping like flies from fibbergasption. WTF is fibbergasption? […]

Island Editorial Courtesy Island  August 20, 2015, 7:40 pm The National List (NL) mechanism was created to help eminent persons enter Parliament without contesting elections which they detest. But, sadly, it continues to be abused to appoint defeated candidates to the national legislature. Those who vote for a particular political party at parliamentary polls, endorse […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න       අලුත් අගමැති රනිල්  අගමැතිවශයෙන් දිවිරුම් දෙනවිට අලු වැඩක් කර ඇත ””’.රට බෙදීමට තමන්  රිජුව  හෝ වක්‍රව කටයුතු  නොකරන බවට ”’ ඔහු ජනපතිවෙත දිවුරුම් පෙත්සමක් ඉදිරිපත් කර  ඇත . එය ජනපතිගේ ඉල්ලී මක් ද නැතහොත් රනිල් හිතාමතාම කලදෙයක් දැය්  නොදනිමු. තමන් කෙරෙහි  ජනතාවගේ විශ්වාසය  ලබා ගැනීමට  රනිල්  මෙය කළා විය හැක .  […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today The new Cabinet of Ministers of the new government, set to take oaths tomorrow (25) is said to be comprised of 30 MPs including 16 from the United National Party (UNP) and 14 from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). According to SLFP sources, the 14 ministerial portfolios to be given to […]

By Sandra Marker November 2003 “All the new nations faced severe problems, for political independence did not automatically bring them prosperity and happiness…they were seldom free of external influences. They were still bound to…structures developed earlier by the colonial powers.” —Thomas H. Greer. FromA Brief History of the Western World, 5th edition. San Diego, CA: Harcourt […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය මහ මැතිවරණයෙන් පාරාජිත  පුද්ගලයින් ජාතික ලැයිස්තුව හරහා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට පස්ස දොරෙන් රිංගවීම සදාචාරාත්මක නොවන ක්‍රියාවක් බව කැෆේ සංවිධානය අවධාරණය කරයි.එහි විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ  කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා සඳහන් කලේ මෙලෙස පරාජිත අපේක්ෂකයින්  ඡාතික ලැයිස්තුවට ඇතුළත් කිරීම මැතිවරණ පනතට අනුව සිදුවන්නක් බවයි.  එබැවින් මෙහි කිසිදු නීති විරෝධි තත්වයක් දක්නට නොමැති බව තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා කියයි. නීත්‍යානුකූල වුව […]

Shenali D Waduge Cyril Ramaphosa is the Deputy President of South Africa and the Deputy President of its ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC). He visited Sri Lanka in 2014 at the invitation of the Rajapakse Government and now immediately following the swearing in of Ranil Wickremasinghe as PM he has once more arrived […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා අගමැති වශයෙන් දිවුරුම්දීමේදී ජේ ආර් ජේ ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 7 වන ෂෙඩූල් එකට අනුව රටතුල වෙනම රජ්‍යයක් පිහිටුවීමට උදව් නොකරණවාය යන දිවුරුම් ප්‍රකාශයද ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ කළේය. මෙය ඔහුගේ අතීත ක්‍රියාවලිය ගැන මහජනයා තුල ඇති මත, ආකල්ප හා සැක දුරුකරලීමේ උපායක් වූවා වියහැකිය. රටවල් වල නීති හා ගොන් නීති ඇත. කෙරෙන නීති හා නොකෙරෙන […]

Courtesy The Nation – President Maithripala Sirisena consolidated his position as leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) by appointing known loyalists to the slots allocated to the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA).   The list includes seven who had contested and lost at the recently concluded parliamentary elections. This comes in the aftermath of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) yesterday disassociated itself from the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between its main constituent Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the United National Party (UNP), a party leader said yesterday. The the SLFP led UPFA is registered as a separate party political party with the […]