By Noor Nizam – Political and Peace Activist & Political Communication Researcher and former SLFP District Organizer – Trincomalee District, and Convener – The Muslim Voice, and Former Press and Information Officer to HE. Mahinda Rajapaksa, January 4th., 2016. Enrique’s Sex and Love tour: Two Cabinet Ministers pressured Colombo Mayor to give green light. The […]

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA The persons who are pushing the new Constitution and the forces behind them (i.e. the US, UK and India) have anticipated almost all contingencies.  Unless something drastic happens to derail their plans, here’s what I predict will happen:  On the 9th, the government will convert Parliament to a Constitutional Assembly, and over the […]

Mahinda Gunasekera By E-mail                                                                                January 4, 2016 His Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Copes to: Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, PM and Senior Cabinet Minister/MPs Your Excellency, I have pleasure in re-submitting the memorandum sent by me on March 28, 2011 to the Secretary of the Commission of Inquiry on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation wherein […]

Hiru අමාත්‍ය අමීර් අලීගේ උපදෙස් මත ඔහුගේ සහකරුවන් පිරිසක් මඩකලපුව දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ පූනානි සහා නාවල්අඩි ප්‍රදේශවල වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අයත් කිලෝමීටර් 28ක් දක්වා දිවෙන කොටසක් බලහත්කාරයෙන් අත්පත් කරගෙන සිටි අතර පසුගිය දෙසැම්බර් 29 වනදා වනසංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ මැදිහත් වීමෙන් එම පිරිස පොලීසිය විසින් අදාල ඉඩම්වලින් පලවාහරිනු ලැබුවා. එසේ නමුත් රජයේ වනාන්තර අනවසරයෙන් හෙලි පෙහෙළි කිරීම නඩු පවරා […]

By PK Balachandran Courtesy The New Indian Express COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Tamils as well as Tamils of Indian Origin are satisfied with the progress towards constitutional reform and ethnic reconciliation, as the island nation enters a New Year with many promises to fulfill and international obligations to meet. Very meaningful first steps have been taken by the […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today The Yahapalana Government elected after the landmark Presidential Election has accomplished a number of achievements when it comes to constitutional and electoral reforms. The government has passed a number of Bills ensuring greater power to Parliament, limiting the powers of the Executive President and ending the preferential voting system. All these are […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා  ආණ්ඩුව කලින කියා සිටියේ නව ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සභාවක් පිහිටුවීම සඳහා සමස්ත පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ම ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සභාවක් බවට පත්කරන බව ය. ඒ ව්‍යවස්ථා විරෝධී බව අපි පසුගිය 30 වැනි දා රිවිර පත්‍රයෙන් පෙන්වා දුන්නෙමු. ඒ අතර ආණ්ඩුවේ පිරිසක් තම මතය වෙනස්කරගෙන ඇති බව පෙනෙයි. ජනවාරි 9 වැනි දා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ විවාද කිරීමට බලාපොරොත්තු වන බව කියන […]

ලසන්ත වික්‍රමසිංහ යුතුකම සංවාද කවය සිරිසේන ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය පාවා දී දැන් වසරකට වැඩිය. එම පක්ෂයෙන් එළියට බැස ප්‍රථමයෙන්ම ඔහු චන්ද්‍රිකා යටතේ සිටිමින් මෙන් ආන්දෝලනාත්මක මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් පැවැත්වීය. ඔහු එහිදී වැඩියෙන්ම පැවසූයේ තමාට ඖෂධ පනත සම්මත කරන්නට නොලැබුනු බවයි. මහින්ද විසින් එය හොරකම් කර ඇති බවයි. පනතක් හොරකම් කිරීම යනු විකාර කතාවක් යයි ලක් වැසියන්ට […]

BY Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today President Maithripala Sirisena has been accused of using a bra to distract many issues, but in their rush to defend the indefensible, have the voters also lost the plot?. People may forget the year, but none with a living memory of 2015 will forget Vithya or Seya. Crime and violence […]

Gagani Weerakoon Courtesy Ceylon Today With events that followed the ‘Sex and Love Tour’ concert by Latin pop singer Enrique Iglesias grabbing the momentum than the event itself, spotlight was taken away from the brewing conflict in the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). At a time where two incidents, a girl who happened to be the daughter […]

The newly elected Sri Lanka Cricket President Thilanga Sumathipala said today he would take legal action against former SLC President Arjuna Ranatunga over certain statements Ranatunga had allegedly made. Sumathipala was elected as SLC President with 88 votes defeating SLC Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga by 56 votes on Sunday. – See more at: http://www.dailymirror.lk/101785/s-legal-action-against-arjuna#sthash.BYkCzwII.dpuf

By Charles .S.Perera Paris never sleeps.  At any time in the day or night you could find a good restaurant perhaps already full and noisy where you could get a fine meal.  The French like to enjoy their meals , with a  good bottle of vintage red wine. After a glass or two of it […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D The other day when I was in  Anuradhapura, my mind lingered to the 25,000 farmers of the North Central Province who have succumbed to the CDKu- the Kidney Disease.  Some of them may have been the young farmers with whom I worked in the 300 cultivation committees I set up in […]

Shenali D Waduge  UN Secretary General’s 3 member panel appointed to personally appraise him of the last 3 months (final stages) of the conflict declared LTTE as the most disciplined and most nationalist of the Tamil militant groups”. That ‘most disciplined’ nationalist group reigned terror for 3 decades killing every day, every month and every […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි පරිසර හිතකාමී ජනාධිපතිලා, පරිසර සම්බන්ධ ඇමතිලා, පරිසරවේදීන් ආදී මහා පරිසර මහත්වරුන් සිටින යුගයක් අප රට තුලම තිබී නැත. නමුත් මේ යුගයේ තරම් පරිසර විනාශයන් සිසුවෙන තවත් යුගයක් නැති තරම්ය. විල්පත්තු වන විනාසයට පසුව මුතුරාජවෙල පරිසර පද්ධතිය තුලද පරිසරයට තෙල් කාන්දුවීම නිසා මහා පරිසර විනාශයක් සිදුව ඇත. දැන් සටන ඇරඹී ඇති අතර කිසිවෙක් […]

[ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුව විසින් පැපිළියානේ සුනේත්‍රාදේවී විහාරයේ පැවැත්වූ මාධ්‍ය හමුවේදී ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ සිදුකළ කථාව ] මහා සංඝ රත්නයෙන් අවසරයි! අපි ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් කතා කරන අවස්ථාවන්හිදී විරුද්ධවාදීන් අප නැති යුධ බියක් ඇතිකරන්න උත්සාහ දරන ජාතීවාදීන් වශයෙන් හඳුන්වමින් විවිධ චෝදනා එල්ල කරනවා . යුද්ධය අවසාන වුනාට පස්සෙ අපි අවුරුදු 5ක කාලයක් තුළ ආරක්ෂාව පිළිබඳව විශාල ස්ථාවරත්වයක් […]

by Selvam Canagaratna Courtesy Island January 4, 2016, 12:47 am “She had all the best things wrong with her – incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.”– Peter Cameron, author. The Paris attacks, wrote Tom Dispatch founder, Tom Engelhardt, left him not knowing whether […]

by Rajan Philips Courtesy Island With due apologies for dredging up Port City material on the last hangover day after the festival season, I think it is appropriate to raise the issue that to-date the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government has not made a formal statement telling the people the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the […]

Patriot The Sri Lanka Economic Forum is to be held under auspices of the Sri Lankan Prime Minister on 7 January 2015. Chief Guests at this event are George Soros and Prof. Joseph Stiglitz. The theme of the event is steering Sri Lanka towards sustainable and inclusive development-PM Ranil Wickremasinghe’s agenda for development’. Do the […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala When on May 14, 1976  the Tamil leadership, headed by S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, the father of Tamil separatism, passed the Vadukoddai Resolution , declaring war on the nation, they never expected to end up in Nandikadal. They were expecting  one of two things : 1. to win a separate state […]

by Way Ahead for Sri Lanka So it turns out that people voted not for a new politics but for the same old politics — as long as it was carried out by new faces. Most of the faces now at the top of Sri Lanka’s political pyramid aren’t really new at all though. They […]

A.A.M.Nizam, Matara. The Wedaberi” and puppet Sirisena who for the last one year has done absolutely nothing to take the country forward, stalled all the development projects, made several thousand unemployed, and made the housewives to face an arduous task of feeding their children at least one meal a day has made an attempt to […]

Courtesy Lanka-e-News (Lanka-e-News -01.Dec.2016, 10.00AM) A team operated by Navy Commander Ravindra C. Wijegunawardena has made threats to the life of Avant Garde chief Nissanka Senadhipathy . The latter has lodged a complaint to this effect with the Mirihana police last evening. Two unidentified suspicious individuals had been loitering about the office of Senadhipathy on […]

ඉෂාර රත්නකාර උපුටාගැණීම අද මව්බිමෙන්… දෙමටගොඩදී පැහැර ගත් තරුණයා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි හිරුණිකා ප්‍රේමචන්ද්‍ර මහත්මියගේ පෞද්ගලික ආරක්ෂකයන් විසින් හිරුණිකාගේ පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයට රැගෙන විත් ඇය ඉදිරිපිටට පමුණුවා මුණගස්වා ඇති බවට පැහැදිලි සාක්ෂි ලැබී ඇතැයි කොළඹ අපරාධ කොට්ඨාසය කොළඹ ප්‍රධාන මහෙස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණය වෙත ඊයේ (31දා) දන්වා සිටියේය. පැහැර ගැනීමට ලක්වූ තරුණයා, හිරුණිකා ප්‍රේමචන්ද්‍ර මහත්මිය ඉදිරිපිටට රැගෙන ආ […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. According to our Press Department U.K., the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, concluded the three day 124th Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Qadian, India, on 28 December 2015 […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  What is Horror? The word that often echoed by Colonel Walter E. Kurtz The word that has thousand meanings The word that stops beating your heart Remember Cruella de Vil who wanted to kill innocent Dalmatians Norman Bates who is expecting guests at the Bates Motel Freddy Krueger the disfigured, dream stalker who returned in […]

By Das Miriyagalla Progress made during the last Fifty years Colombo, Sri Lanka — The practice of meditation is considered by followers of several religions as a meritorious activity. Even among such religious activities it is generally considered that meditation is more virtuous than other practices such as donations, alms- givings, adherence to moral precepts and […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher & Former SLFP District Organizer – Trincomalee District – 01.01.2016. Both President Maithripala Sirisena and President Mahinda Rajapaksa are Sri Lankans. Both are Sinhala Buddhists. Both belong to the SLFP and are SLFP stalwarts. Both have served in the cabinets of the late Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike and President […]

Bhante Y. Wimala December 31, 2015 Dear friends and students, The New Year 2016 is already here. Happy New Year is ringing everywhere.  How many times have you uttered Happy New Year so far?  To how many people have you wished Happy New Year?” While Happy New Year is still flying all around us, I […]

WaterLanka  Jan-Mar,2016 This report is based on a recent visit made to the Northern Buffer Zone of the Sinharaja World Heritage Site and a comprehensive analysis of Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) Report on Koskulana Mini Hydropower Project (KMHP) submitted to the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) by Waste Management Water Power (Pvt) Ltd. Although the IEE report is subjected to a painstaking […]