Chandre dharma-wardana  Corruption too must be judged against what is the going yardstick in other parts of the world. Corruption is a natural phenomenon (like entropy) in rapidly evolving  complex physical systems. There is no entropy production (corruption) in systems that evolve infinitely slowly, as we know from thermodynamics. In the West, the Enron scandal, […]

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2015 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 18 13:53:04 | . , සන්ඩේ ටයිම්ස් දේශපාලන විශ්ලේෂක,පරිවර්තනය කෝවිද ගුණසේකර මෙරට අති සුවිශේෂී පුද්ගලයෙකුගේ දේශපාලනයේ නියුතු පුත්‍රයෙක් සතුබව කියැවුනු ඩුබායිහි ජාතික බැංකුවේ (නැෂනල් බෑන්ක් ඔෆ් ඩුබායි) ගිණුමක් ගැන තොරතුරු මෙරට දේශපාලඥයින්ට ලැබුණේ පසුගිය පාර්ලිමෙන්තු මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වුනු අගොස්තු 17 වැනිදාට දින 10 කට පමණ පෙරාතුවය.මෙම ගිණුමේ ඩොලර් බිලියනයක් පමණ තැන්පත් කර තිබෙන […]

Sudath Gunasekara 17.10.2015. In the first place I want you to read the content of the following two news items Indian express 12.10.2015 Indian express SL Deceiving Nations, says Karunanidhi By Express News Service Published: 12th October 2015 05:38 AM Last Updated: 12th October 2015 05:38 AM CHENNAI: DMK leader M Karunanidhi on Sunday charged Sri Lanka with […]

By A. Abdul Aziz. Press Secretary.  Chairman, Ahmadiyya International Human Rights Committee (AIHRC) Dr. Sir Ifthikar Ayaz met the Speaker Honorable Karu Jeyasuriya at his office in Parliament Complex on Friday – the 16th October, 2015. Sir Ayaz had a very useful and productive meeting on the state of Human Rights in the region and the […]

by Rajan Philips Courtesy Island More by accident than by design, Mr. DEW Gunasekara has kicked open Sri Lanka’s constitutional can of worms. All he may have wanted to do was to make a political statement by grieving before the Supreme Court that the new UPFA leadership under President Sirisena wrongfully deprived him of a national […]

State Shall not Exploit the People” MEP’s Complaint on the Telecommunication Levy Bill  A Victory for the Common People The Good Governance regime, on 6th October, retracted its controversial, negligently and recklessly drafted Telecommunication Levy (Amendment) Bill which it had placed before Parliament on the Order paper of 22nd September 2015, with the objective of amending […]

W.A. De Silva Courtesy The Daily News Sri Lanka had to face the consequences of Tamil Expansion from South India presently called Tamil Nadu throughout her history intermittently right from the past as far back as 2nd Century B.C. the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka is nothing but another facet of Tamil Expansionism […]

Courtesy Sunday Island Proliferation of sea piracy in the Western Indian Ocean resulted in International Maritime Organization (IMO) establishing a High Risk Area in which piracy threat was greater. Many Western Private Maritime Security Companies (PMSCs) started providing security to ships in this HRA, and since Sri Lanka was at one end of the HRA […]

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA A Parliamentary ‘debate’ on the OHCHR report and the related resolution is scheduled for the 22nd and 23rd of October, if I’m not mistaken.  All indications are that the Government will trounce the opposition by branding them ‘extremists.’  (By ‘opposition’ what I mean are those who see the OHCHR report as inimical to […]

Shenali D Waduge If Sri Lanka is to be compared to any nation it must have similar historical civilizational traits. No amount of distortion, attempts to re-write history by religions out to convert Vedic religions can take away the Buddhist heritage of Sri Lanka and changing the constitution is one attempt to replace the foremost […]

Dilrook Kannangara Nepal’s constitution has triggered Nazi action, particularly, Operation Himmler, from India, again. At the same time, India uses same Nazi action against Sri Lanka, to change the Sri Lankan Constitution to appease Indian ethnic communities living in Sri Lanka. This repetitive behaviour of India is the same conduct Nazi Germany followed to invade […]

Harvey Perera  The purpose writing this article is to tie up some of the incidents of the past few decades and find solutions to the problems we have today, especially Tamil Separatism. Sri Lanka finished a 30 year old war with Tamil Terrorists due to Tamil leaders wanting a separate state for themselves. If we […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island October 16, 2015, 9:45 pm Ret. Maj calls for campaign against UNP, SLFP Dr Bandara reiterates US wants vassal state Mohan Samaranayake counters govt propaganda Dr Amarasekera questions US motive in backing war Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka thera Wednesday called for a united effort to reverse what he called the Geneva […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island About a month ago, that is, around early September 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India described Bodh Gaya as the land of enlightenment”, when he visited the Buddhist shrine there, the Mahabodhi Temple. It was a happy coincidence, as he noted in his speech, that he got to visit […]

Dr Hector Perera      London When I was in Colombo doing Advanced Level science, I was in a boarding house near Borella. That was a room only basis accommodation and we had to get our meals from outside. In the boarding house there were two others also attended to the same private college to do advanced […]

Courtesy RT Published time: 17 Oct, 2015 00:45 Get short URL The damaged hospital in which the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical charity operated is seen on October 13, 2015 following an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz. © STR / AFP A US military vehicle has allegedly forced its way into the […]

   ආචාර්‍ය රොල්ෆ් ගේයිනර්  මනෝ විද්‍යාඥ ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය වෛද්‍ය රුවන් ජයතුංග විසින් රචිත නවතම කෘතිය වන, ‘බෞද්ධ ජාතක කථා වල මනෝවිද්‍යාත්මක දැක්ම’ නමැති කෘතිය, මම මහත් අභිරුචියකින් කියවූයෙමි. බෞද්ධ දර්ශනය පිළිබඳව දීර්ඝ කාලයක් තිස්සේ උනන්දුවන පුද්ගලයකු මෙන්ම, මනෝවිද්‍යාඥයකු වශයෙන්ද, මා හට පෙනීයන්නේ, ජාතක කථා මගින්, මානව විඥ්ඥාණයේ විවිධ ගතිලක්‍ෂණ පිළිබඳව, සලකා බලෙන අතරම, පුද්ගල මනෝභාවයන්, […]

Courtesy RT Published time: 11 Oct, 2015 23:47Edited time: 12 Oct, 2015 03:45 Get short URL A Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback tactical bomber performs air strikes in the provinces of Raqqah and Aleppo © Russian Defense Ministry / RIA Novosti 3.6K3762 RT’s extensive and in-depth coverage of Russia’s anti-terror operation in Syria has skyrocketed online – […]

Courtesy Adaderana Summoning the former President before the Commission to Inquire into Serious Corruption over several matters is undoubtedly an attempt to convey to the public the impression that the former president had engaged in wrongdoing and to gain some political mileage thereby, Rohan Welivita, Media Secretary to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says. Welivita, issuing a […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම www.mahinda.info ස්වාධීන රූපවාහීනයේ ජනාධිපතිවරණ ප‍්‍රචාරක දැන්වීම් විකශණය කොට ගෙවීම් සිදු නොකල බවට එල්ල වන චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු ජනාධිපතිගේ මාධ්‍ය ප‍්‍රකාශකවරයා නිවේදනයක් නිකු්තර කර ඇත. මෙහි පල වෙන්නේ එකී සම්පූර්ණ නිවේදනයයි. බරපතල වංචා හා දුෂණ විමර්ෂණ කොමිසම ඉදිරියට හිටපු ජනාධිපතිතුමා කැදවීම ආණ්ඩුව විසින් පිහිටුවා ඇති බරපතල වංචා හා දූෂණ විමර්ෂණ කොමිෂන් සභාවේ කැදවීම අනුව හිටපු […]

Jehan Mendis Courtesy The Daily News Ports and Shipping Minister Arjuna Ranatunga has proposed his brother Dhammika as a candidate for the post of Chairman of Sri Lanka Ports Authority. Answering a question by The Nation newspaper, Mr. Ranatunga has defended himself saying, “A final decision (on the appointment) will be made by a committee which […]

By Sandun Jayawardana Courtesy The Nation Minister of Ports and Shipping Arjuna Ranatunga stated if his brother had enough qualifications to be Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), then family connections should not be a barrier to him being appointed to the post. Ranatunga was speaking in response to a query raised by The […]

  චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. වසර තිස් තුනක් පුරා පැවති  කුරිරු යුද්ධය, ඔද තෙද ගුණ බලැති  නායකයෙකුට නිම කිරීමට ගතවූයේ වසර 4ක් වැනි කෙටි කාලයකි. මේ යුද්ධය මෙරට ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට, බටහිර බලවතුන් හා ඉන්දියාව, විශාල ධනස්කන්ධයක් යෙදවූහ. එමෙන්ම වසර  40ක පමණ කාලයක්ද මිඩංගු කලහ. ඒ වැය කල ධනය හා ගොඩනැංවූ ත්රස්තවාදී බලමුළු සියල්ලක්ම අකුණු ගසමින් ඇද […]

 (71 කැරැල්ල ආරම්භයේ සිට අවසානය දක්වා පුර්ණ සමාලෝචනයක් කෘතිය​ ඇසුරෙනි – වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග) අප්‍රේල් මහ නඩුවේ 10 වන සැකකරු වූ වසන්ත කනකරත්න අද ජීවතුන් අතර නැත. අපට ලැබුණු තොරතුරු අනුව 1971 කැරැල්ලෙන් දින කිහිපයකට පසුව ඔහුව අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත. අත්අඩංගුවට පත්වීමෙන් පසුව වසන්ත කනකරත්න රහස් පොලිස් නිලධාරින් සමඟ යාපනය බන්ධනාගාරයටද, හැමන්හිල් බන්ධනාගාරයටද ගොස් […]

Courtesy RT Russian warplanes have destroyed a surface-to-air missile launcher that the Islamic State terrorist group previously captured from the Syrian Army, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. The bombing campaign in Syria is forcing the jihadists to flee. The 9K33 Osa short-range air defense launcher was destroyed by a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber in Eastern Douma […]

Courtesy RT Published time: 15 Oct, 2015 18:10Edited time: 15 Oct, 2015 18:58 Get short URL The damaged hospital in which the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical charity operated is seen on October 13, 2015 following an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz. © STR / AFP 1.4K8988 New information suggests the US […]

Courtesy RT Published time: 14 Oct, 2015 02:36Edited time: 14 Oct, 2015 08:14 Get short URL Wreckage of the MH17 airplane is seen after the presentation of the final report into the crash of July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, in Gilze Rijen, the Netherlands, October 13, 2015 © Michael Kooren / […]

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara:  President Senior Citizens movement Mahanuwara. 12.10.2015  I don’t think there is any other word so often used, misused, abused and more confused than the word ‘national problem’ in Sri Lanka in contemporary literature. To analyze and understand what it means first of all one has to know what Sri Lanka is and […]

By Charles. S.Perera Mahinda Rajapakse, Gotabhaya Rajapakse and Sarath Fonseka were the trio that brought terrorism in Sri Lanka to a conclusion. The breaking up that trio was the desire of the West manipulated by the Tamil diaspora to isolate Mahinda Rajapakse and bring charges of war crimes against Gotabhaya Rajapakse.  Not only they planned […]