ධර්මන් වික‍්‍රමරත්න දෙමුහුන් ආණ්ඩුවට අදට දින 286කි. දින 100ක් ඇතුළත ගෙනෙන බවට පොරොන්දුවූ තොරතුරු දැනගැනීමේ පනත තවමත් හමස් පෙට්ටියේය. හිටපු ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාපතිවරන් ප්‍රශ්ණ කිරීම සදහා එෆ්.සී.අයි.ඩීයට කැදවා ඇති බව ජනාධිපති දැකගන්නේ පත්තරයෙනි. ඩුබායි බැංකුවල සල්ලි සැඟවීම තවත් දිය කිඳුරි කථාවකි. රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 30ක් වැයකර වැලිඅමුණ සකස්කල එයාර් ලංකා සමාගමේ දූෂණ වාර්තාවෙන්  හඬ ඇත. නඩුද නැත. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Dunesh Priyashantha, also known as Kondaya, today said that he never confessed to the murder of 5-year-old girl Seya Sadewmi in Kotadeniyawa and that all he did was sign a document prepared by the police, as he could no longer stand their beatings. Speaking at a press conference in Colombo today after he […]

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA This article is a follow-up to my previous article of the same title published in Lankaweb on 17th October 2015. The Government’s present plan seems to be, soon after the ‘Debate’ on the OHCHR report, to push through enabling legislation for a Domestic Mechanism,’ and to do so by a simple majority in […]

Lasanda Kurukulasuriya Needless to say, officials circulating this type of clumsy propaganda do a disservice to the country’s leaders, while also undermining public trust. An invitation to address the legislature of any State is generally considered a special honour. Was this embellished story intended to show that the new Government was held in ‘high regard’ […]

Shenali D Waduge  Before any hybrid court or international investigators are brought into the scene causing another burden to the taxpayer and wasting years compiling data what is more important is to identify all those who had supported and sponsored terrorism in Sri Lanka. You can have disgruntled men and women who want to rebel […]

Shenali D Waduge There is a global mainstream political effort out to showcase select religions as being intolerant and hateful totally ignoring the actual texts inside the religions of those pointing fingers. Often the defence is to claim that the quotes are ‘out of context’ but when challenged to show where these texts are contradicted […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Rt Hon John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, NZ Parliament. Dear Mr. Key, I write  among others, to thank you for giving us the opportunity once again of listening to your precise and succinct analysis of current issues pertaining to New Zealand, both nationally and internationally , as you always […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  මම වෛද්‍ය අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබුවේ යූක්‍රයිනයේ විනිට්සා වෛද්‍ය පීඨයේය​. වර්තමානයේ මෙය Vinnitsa National Medical University යනුවෙන් හැඳින්වේ. මෙම ආයතනය ආරම්භ  කරන ලද්දේ 1921 වසරේදීය​.  1930 වන විට සෝවියට් දේශයේ වෛද්‍යවරු පුහුණු කිරීම අතින්  විනිට්සා වෛද්‍ය පීඨය නමක් දිනා ගැනීමට හැකි විය​. දෙවන ලෝක යුද සමයේ විනිට්සා වෛද්‍ය පීඨයේ ඉගෙනුම ලැබූ  වෛද්‍යවරු විශාල […]

 Dilrook Kannangara Credible accounts of the last stages of the war indicate the presence of Indian troops in Mulaitivu area. Did they eliminate the LTTE hierarchy to cover up their involvement with the terrorist outfit? Quoted from the Times of India A PIL filed in the Supreme Court has said Indian military personnel took direct […]

By Saman Indrajith The Island The Commission of Inquiry that probed Abductions and Disappearances (better known as the Maxwell Paranagama Commission) has found that it was the LTTE which killed majority of Tamil civilians during the last 12 hours of the final stage of the war, according to the commission report tabled in Parliament yesterday. […]

Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday said his government, at no time, contemplated the appointment of foreign experts as judges exercising judicial power in respect of the Sri Lankan armed forces and other Sri Lankan citizens. Stating this during his meeting with Motoo Noguchi of the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office of Japan at his […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement, Mahanuwara. 21.10.2015. Serious and immediate attention of all citizens in this country is drawn to the above important news item. While listening to a news briefing by MEP Leader Dinesh Gunawardhana yesterday I learnt about the withdrawal of this gazette by Minister Kiriella. The whole country should be […]

By Dasun Edirisinghe The joint opposition yesterday challenged President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to make public all documents related to the UNHRC report on Sri Lanka’s alleged war crimes. Addressing a well-attended rally at Viharamahadevi Park in Colombo, organised by the joint opposition, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna leader and Colombo District UPFA MP […]

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. The armed conflict in Sri Lanka lasted for nearly 30 years. The soldiers who participated in this war underwent extreme forms of battle stresses. Some of the combatants who were exposed to distressing battle events had dissociative reactions. According to Chu (1998) dissociation refers to a disruption of the normal integration […]

එස්. අකුරුගොඩ 1815න් පසුව, යලිත් වරක් විවිධ උපායන් මගින් රට සුදු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදින්ගේ යටත් විජිතයක් බවට පත්කර රටත් ජාතියත් ආගමත් විනාශ මුඛයට ලක්ව ඇති මොහොතක මල්වතු හා අස්ගිරි මහනාහිමිවරුන් කටයුතු කරන ආකාරය දෙස රටේ බෞද්ධයින් බලා සිටින්නේ මහත් සoවේගයෙනි. එහෙත් 1815 දී සුද්දන්ගේ බසට රැවටී තාන්න මාන්න බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන් රට ජාතිය හා ආගම ගිවුසුමකින් ව්දේශිකයිනට පවරාදුන් එදා […]

ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂය විසින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලබන ජන සමුළු මාලාවේ පළමුවැන්න අද(19) කොළඹ විහාර මහාදේවී එළිමහන් රංග පීඨයේදී පැවැත්විය

Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL), Monthly Public Lecture The Challenges in Protecting the Monuments of the Ancient Fortress of Kotte” by Mr. Ishan Wiratunga, Secretary, Kotte Heritage Foundation  will be held on Monday 26th October 2015 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07. Kotte is […]

http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/43600 A 43 year old lawyer Sri Lankan Tamil origin has been elected as a Canadian member of Parliament from the Liberal party at the 42nd Canadian general elections held on October 19th 2015. He is none other than the son of veteran Sri Lankan Tamil politician Veerasingham Anandasangaree leader of the Tamil United Liberation […]

By Moon Of Alabama Information Clearing House” October 19, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – The Aleppo power plant is a 1,000 megawatt thermal plant in five units build by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry in 1995-1998. It is situated some 25 kilometers east of Aleppo city center.  During the fighting around Aleppo various electricity distribution stations were […]

Yahapalana New Ports and Shipping Minister Arjuna Ranatunga has appointed his brother, former cricketer Dammika Ranatunga, as Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA). Mr. Ranatunga, a younger sibling of the Minister, assumed duties on Thursday, SLPA sources said. The move took many by surprise as the elder Ranatunga had been at the forefront of […]

R Chandrasoma The Tathāgata was a Seeker of the Truth before his enlightenment – and his career as the Great Expositor was preceded by a dialectical interaction with the leading saintly intellects of the day. The Jaina Teachings provided the initial stimulus for his path-breaking spiritual innovations and the Brahaminic wisdom of the day was […]

Adaderana Sri Lanka is urging China to put their disputes behind them and help the South Asian nation through one of its worst financial crises ever, caused partly by excessive Chinese loans contracted by the previous government of Beijing ally Mahinda Rajapaksa.   Chinese loans are a big part of our problem. A bulk of […]

By The Nation – aithripala, Sirisena, made it clear this week that he wants a supine press, and considers the media absolutely free as long as (as a unit) its practitioners do his bidding. This person gives an entire new meaning to the term cheap tin pot dictator, but more about that later. Nothing in […]

Kithsiri De Silva. Recently, I was browsing to book a hotel in Sri Lanka on-line and I was little taken aback reading some of the disparaging comments posted by some, whom one time were Sri Lankan / Ceylonese but now living abroad. Mostly, they have come particularly from one or two communities and wondering whether […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කැෆේ/ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය උදලාගම හා පරණගම  ජනාධිපති කොමිෂන් කොමිසමේ වාර්තා ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ දී ලංකාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් සම්මත වූ යෝජනාව පිළිබද පාර්ලිමේන්තු විවාදයට පෙර ප්‍රසිද්ධ කරන්නැයි කැෆේ සංවිධානය හා ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය රජයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටී. මෙම වාර්තා දෙක කඩිනමින් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම මගින් ජිනීවා යෝජනා පිළිබද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී පවත්වන විවාදය […]

Sugath Samarasinghe  The 15th year of the last 3 centuries seem to be disastrous to this country. I am particularly comparing what happened to Sri Lanka at the UNHCR this year with that of 1815. In 1815, the independence of Sri Lanka preserved for 2300 years was offered on a platter to the British by […]

PRESS RELEASE By Prof. Suwanda H J Sugunasiri Oct. 06, 2015 This brief article seeks to substantiate the Hypothesis, ‘The Triune Mind parallels the Triune Brain’. ‘Triune Mind’ in the Pali Canon in Buddhism is as in the model proposed by Suwanda H J Sugunasiri (Canadian J of Buddhist Studies, 10), and Triune Brain as […]

 Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. මහජන පක්‍ෂයේ නායක විජය කුමාරතුංගට  වෙඩි තබා  ඝාතන කල ලයනල් රණසිංහ පිළිබඳව තොරතුරු රහස් පොලිසියේ හිටපු අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක චන්ද්‍රා  ජයවර්ධන මහතාගෙන් මෙන් ඒ පිළිබඳව විමර්ෂණය කරන ලද නිලධාරීන් ගෙන් ලබා ගත හැකි විය​.  පෙනී යන පරිදි  ලයනල් රණසිංහ කුඩා කාලයේ පීතෘ වියෝග කාන්සාවට (Paternal Deprivation Syndrome)  බෙහෙවින් ලක්ව සිටි අතර පසු […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ  15/10/2015 දින මෙම වෙබ්අඩවියේ පළවූ ‘15/10/1505 (510 years ago to date) is the day that the Portuguese first landed in Colombo, Sri Lanka’ යන ලිපියේ සිංහල පරිවර්තනය 1505 වසරේ ඔක්තෝබර් මස මැද සමයේ කපිතාන් ලොරෙන්සෝ ද අල්මේදාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් යුධ නැව් 9ක් ඉන්දියාවේ කල්කටාවෙන් සහ ඉන්දියන් සාගරයේ මාලදිවයින් දුපත් වලින් තම නැව් සඳහා […]