Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe presenting the Government’s mid-term economic plan in Parliament today announced major changes to be introduced to the social security sector under which the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and the Employees Trust Fund (ETF) would be amalgamated to set up a new National Retirement Gratuity Fund and to […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. (මානසික රෝගියාගේ පරිකල්පනය කෘතිය ඇසුරෙනි ) “ඉබිසා නගරය පසුකොට මම ගියේ තවත් නගරයකටයි. මේ නගරය චන්ද්‍ර නගරයයි. මිනිසුන් ස්වභාවික සම්පත් අසීමිතව විකුණගෙන කනවා. ඔවුන් ඒ නිසා සුපිරි ධනවත්. නමුත් තවම සමාජයික අතින් ඉන්නේ ගෝත්‍රික යුගයේ. ඔවුන්ගේ නගරය ඉතා අලංකාරයි. නිවාස මාලිගා වගේ. නගරයේ මැද තිබුණා උයනක්. ඒ උයන හරිම මනස්කාන්තයි. […]

N. A. de S. Amaratunga Courtesy Island November 4, 2015, 12:00 pm Our government has willingly or unwillingly placed the country’s war heroes at the mercy of foreign judges, lawyers and prosecutors by co-sponsoring the UNHRC resolution and thereby not allowing our friendly countries to object to such country specific resolutions that infringe on the sovereignty […]

Gomin Dayasri Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sadly the government is trying to belittle the Paranagama Report to prevent MR from scoring points… the previous administration’s high officials’ and its few Cabinet Ministers that could read English were lazy to read a lengthy text…. That is the kindest excuse  … Fortunes of a nation lie on a […]

Yahapalanaya News Dashing the hopes of voters who voted Yahapalana government for a better living condition with the Rs10000 salary hike introduced before the last general elections, most of the gains, now,  will be wiped out overnight with the introduction of new economic austerity measures to be introduced in the next budget. Addressing a meeting […]

by S B Lokuge  This so called Yahapalanaya” government has betrayed the country, it’s armed forces and insulted the fair minded people by agreeing to co-sponsor the US resolution to punish our war heros who rescued us from the brutal Tamil terrorist. No wonder this was done to please the Western governments and India who […]

2015-11-04  ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය විසින් පැවැත්වු මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාව

Yahapalana News While Minister of Law and Order Tilak Marapana says that he believes the whole controversy surrounding the Avant Garde issue is a result of a lack of understanding regarding the floating armoury and police officers eager to gain points” with the new government, at an international level, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Harsha […]

වෙනත් ජාතික ප්‍රශ්ණ තිබියදී පාර්ළිමේන්තුවේ කාළය දවස්ගණනාවක් කා දැමූ ජවිපෙ නායක අනුරකුමාරගේ අැවන්ගාඩ් විරෝධයට ඔවුන් විසින්ම ගෙනආ යහපාලනය විසින් දුන් පා පහර.

University of Sri Jayewardenapura The 11th Annual Conference on Buddhist Studies organized by the Dept. of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Sri Jayewardenapura in association with The Buddhist Times Trust will be held on November 27-28, 2015. The venue of the conference is the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy […]

JVP Sri Lanka web site Left Movement in Sri Lanka The beginning of the left movement in Sri Lanka goes back to 1935. The first leftist political party, Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP-Lanka Equal Social Party) which was founded in that year, became one of the largest national sections of the Fourth International during 1950’s […]

Dr. Loci Gunaratna delivering address Courtesy Island Dr Locana Gunaratna, Architect/Urban Planner and former president of the National Academy of Sciences Sri Lanka, also of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects among other positions held, presented a lecture of immediacy and importance at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute on October 15. He titled his address: URBANIZATION AND […]

Kumar Perera Colombo Courtesy Island I am glad to hear Provincial Councils and Local Government Minister Faizer Mustapha has announced that a co-ordination unit will be set up for probing fraud and corruption of local government bodies. While I commend the Ministry for this effort, I hope that this unit will not lose momentum in a few […]

By Sriyan de Silva Courtesy Island We appear to be living at a time of great mysteries. One such is the intimation of the Prime Minister to the Speaker not to permit a ‘Report’ purported to be by Sir Desmond de Silva on human rights or reconciliation to be tabled by any Member; that according to […]