වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  2008 වසරේ පමණ ඉරිදා ලංකාදීප පුවත් පතේ ඕනෑම ලෙඩක් සුව කරන එලොවින් ආ ජීවකයෙකු ගැන වාර්තා පළ විය​. මෙම ලිපි මාලාව ලියන ලද්දේ නන්දසේන සූරියආරච්චි නම් පුවත්පත් කලාවේදියෙකි. මෙම එලොවින් ආ ජීවකයා ලංකාවේ පමණක් නොව ලෝකයේ ප්‍රසිද්ධ පුද්ගලයන් පවා වෙදකම් මගින් සුවපත් කොට ඇති බව සඳහන් විය​. එසේම විවිධ ඡායාරූපද පළ […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න                                                           හොරුද තක්කඩි යන්අගමැති වූ වහාම භික්ෂුන් කොන්කළේය උඩරට ද වේවා සමලිංගිකයන් හෝ බෞද්ධ මන්ඩ ලේ ලොක්කන් වන  කරු ජයසුරිය වැ න්නන් වේවා  එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ […]

Editorial The Island January 12, 2016 India is reported to have shot down a multi-million-dollar fighter jet deal between Sri Lanka and Pakistan/China. New Delhi has made known its opposition to the proposed transaction in no uncertain terms, through a non-paper diplomatic missive conveyed to the highest echelons of the Sri Lankan government, according to […]

By Charles.S.Perera To day Sri Lanka is not  socially, politically and economically in a settled state for this Government to decide on  writing a new Constitution.  The Communities are divided as it had never been before, the Tamils are acting as  if they are already a Community apart.  Sampanthan who is critical of the  Sinhala […]

By Surangani Seneviratne A year ago Sri Lanka elected a new president, Maithripala Sirisena to a chorus of ‘democracy’ and ‘just government’ cheering on from inside and outside the besieged island. Sirisena was the President Sri Lanka had to have in order not to have a President. The main stage the new President was placed […]

Sri Lanka News Avant Garde private security firm has sent a letter of demand to Sri Lanka Navy demanding Rs. 2.5 billion. President’s Counsel Kuvera de Zoysa representing the company made this revelation before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Large Scale Corruption and Abuse of Power (PRECIFAC). The security firm has alleged that the […]

By Ankit Panda Courtesy The Diplomat Did India play a part in scuttling a JF-17 deal between Sri Lanka and Pakistan? As Benjamin Baker wrote last week in The Diplomat, the JF-17 Thunder, a low-cost multi-role fighter built collaboratively by China and Pakistan, has run into some problems on the global fighter market. Recently, every time […]

Courtesy Jakarta Globe Colombo. Sri Lankan share index fell for a seventh straight session on Tuesday due to panic selling, led by margin calls after the market fell over 3.5 percent in the past six sessions, brokers said. Fears over investors shifting to risk-free assets such as government securities due to rising yields in government securities […]

By Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), CEng. MIEE, MIE (Aust), CPEng (Ret)   It is most welcome that the SriLankan Government convened a conference on the economic development based around four key areas as follows: Macroeconomics and Fiscal Stability Structural Transformation and Competitiveness Urbanisation and Development Regional Development and Social Inclusion Views and opinion […]

By Paneetha Ameresekere Courtesy The Ceylon Today Nonetheless, Ricardo Hausmann, the current Director of the Centre for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, seemingly threw a dampener to Wickremesinghe’s vision, when he said that Sri Lanka will have to first […]

An article by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Government has announced another attempt at constitution making in Sri Lanka which, this time is to begin, with the hope to complete the process, by the end of this year. A resolution to this effect has already been introduced in the Parliament and a Drafting Committee […]

 LNW SPY January 8, 2016  මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේනගේ ජඩ පොලිසියේ අරක්කු බොතලයක් නොදිම නිසා පහර දි ඉහල මාලයෙන් පහලට විසිකිරිමෙන් ඝාතනය කල සුමිත් ප්‍රසන්නගේ තරුණයාගේ මරණ පරික්ෂණය සම්පුර්ණයෙන්ම ඔහු විසින්ම සියදිවි නසා ගැනිමක් ලෙස අර්ථකතනය කර ලබාදෙන ලෙස පොලිස්පති එන්.කේ. ඉලංගකෝන් මහතා රත්නපුර ප්‍රදේශය භාර ජේ‍යෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති රොෂාන් ඩයස් මහතා හරහා අද එම තරුණයාගේ මරණ […]

By Professor Shelton Gunaratne, Ph.D. (The writer is a former reporter of the Ceylon Daily News who completed his graduate studies in Oregon and Minnesota following the completion of a one-year World Press Institute Fellowship in the United States in 1966-67. He is the author of several books, including Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in […]

අරවින්ද අතුකෝරල lanka C news පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. UNP MP Hirunika Premachandra has created a world record by being the world’s first person to be bailed out within the shortest time ever after being arrested, UPFA MP Udaya Gammanpila said today. He said that if […]

මහාචාර්ය පුංචිනිලමේ මිගස්වත්තේ “අනාගතයේදී මුහුදු සේද මාවත පාලනය කරන්නන් විසින් මුලු ලෝකයම පාලනය කරනු ඇත” අන්තර්ජාතික භූදේශපාලනය පිලිබඳ තුලනාත්මක විවරණයක්. https://www.facebook.com/1911473452411740/videos/vb.1911473452411740/1911652605727158/?type=3&permPage=1

Ranjit Weerasinghe Toronto Courtesy The Island I read with interest, the series of articles written by former Consul-General of Toronto, Bandula Jayasekara, regarding the L.T.T.E. activity in Canada during the war in Sri Lanka. He, quite rightly commended the invaluable contribution made by SLUNA and a few Sri Lankans domiciled in Canada who provided leadership to […]

By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Political Note from U.S. Washington, D.C. 11 January (Asiantribune.com): President of Sri Lanka Maitripala Sirisena addressing the parliamentary on January 9 session that moved a resolution to transform the legislature into a constitutional assembly to draft a new constitution declared that there was no foreign influence in formulating the […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Rushdie is a perfect master of his medium and his message. The two elements define and shape each other. Those who attack the work purely on religious grounds totally miss the point, for they trivialize the book’s meaning to the point of absurdity. The real importance of the novel lies […]

Media Release Monday, 11 January 2016 Citizens Electoral Council of Australia The Saudi Arabian dictatorship that on 1 January executed 47 people, a number of them by beheading, is a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council—thanks to the British government. Among those executed by the extreme Sunni Wahhabi regime were four Shiite Muslims, including the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror An unidentified investor has promised to park $1 billion in dollar deposits in Sri Lanka to help the island nation defend its currency, the finance minister told Reuters, in an unusual move that highlights the country’s precarious finances Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake declined to reveal the identity of the investor. But […]

Jan 11 Sri Lankan shares fell for a sixth straight session, to mark their lowest close in 1-1/2 years, led by declines in diversified and banking stocks due to local and global concerns, brokers said. Fears over investors shifting to risk-free assets such as government securities due to rising yields in government securities dented sentiment. […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has urged President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickrem-esinghe to take punitive action against Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, whom the war veteran accuses of still serving the interests of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. Appearing on live Sirasa political […]

Courtesy The Nation Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka W A Wijewardena last week warned that Sri Lanka’s situation of the external debt was ‘critical’ and the island is now heading for a foreign exchange crisis coupled by the deceleration of the economic growth. Addressing the Sri Lanka Economic Forum 2016, […]

BY CASSENDRA DOOLE AND RUWAN LAKNATH JAYAKODY Courtesy The Ceylon Today The last rites of the man, who died during a clash between villagers and police in Embilipitiya, was held at the Nawa Nagara cemetery, yesterday (10) afternoon. The youth, who was reportedly injured after jumping from an upper floor of a house during the incident, succumbed […]

patriot The Suddas & Never-to-Trust Indians are laughing at our Yahapalana Kalu Suddas! Where in the world have you heard of inviting war criminal Blair as State VVIP Guest? Only in Sri Lanka. Where in the world have you heard of leaders asking global crooks to create the economic blueprint for Sri Lanka? Only in […]

චන්ද්‍ර අබේනායක කඩිමුඩියේ විසඳුම් දීමට තුඩුදෙන ජාතිවාදයක් අප අතරෙහි ඇත්ද? දශක තුනක් වැනි කාල වකවානුවක කොටින්ගේ කුරිරු මෙලෙච්චත්වය හරහා පෙන්නුම්කල විශේෂ උපක්ක්‍රමයක්  වූයේ සිංහල ජනයා උසිගන්වා ප්‍රතිවිරෝධ ජාතිවාදී කැරැල්ලක් ඇතිකර ඔවුන්ගේ බෙදුම්වාදී අරමුන  සාධාරණ කිරීම සඳහා රටතුල හා විශේෂයන් ජ්‍යාතියන්තර වශයෙන් ප්‍රචලිත කිරීමය. අනුරාධපුර ශ්‍රී මහාබොදිය වටා සිටි වන්දනාකරුවන් ඝාතනය කිරීම, අරන්තලාවෙහි භික්ෂූන් ඝාතනය කිරීම, […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින නැවත පදිංචි කිරීම යන වාක්‍ය අපට මාධ්‍යයන් හරහා නිතර ඇසෙන්නකි. යුද්ධය නිසා ගම්බිම් හැර යන්නට සිදු වූයේ ද්‍රවිඩ මුස්‌ලිම් මිනිසුන්ට පමණක්‌ නොවේ. සිංහල ජනයාද රාශියකට සිය ගම්බිම් හැර දමා යන්නට සිදු විය. දෙමළ වැසියන් ගම්බිම් හැරදා ගියේ කොටි සහ හමුදාව අතර යුද්ධයට මැදිව සිටිය හොත් මරු මුවට පත් වන්නට ඉඩ ඇතැයි ඔවුන් […]

ලසන්ත වික්‍රමසිංහ යුතුකම සංවාද කවය බුද්ධාගමට හිමි ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානය පොතෙන් එළියට, ඊලඟට ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන්? චන්ද්‍රිකා මහත්මිය සිටින්නේ පාසල් යන වයසක නොවේ. නමුත් ළඟදී චන්ද්‍රිකා මහත්මියට පාසල් පෙළ පොත් මතක් විය. අපටත් ඇතැම් විට කුඩා කළ බැලූ ඒ පොත පත කිසියම් අතීතාශ්වාදජක හැඟීමක් මුසුව මතකයට නැගෙන අවස්ථා ඇත. නමුත් චන්ද්‍රිකා මහත්මියට පාසල් පෙළ පොත් මතක් වූයේ එවැනි හැඟීමක් ඇතිව […]

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Courtesy Ceylon Today Last Saturday, it was said in Parliament that a special session of Parliament would be held tomorrow (12) where Parliament is expected to give its approval to transform itself into a Constitutional Assembly. This decision was made in light of several political parties submitting last minute amendments to the resolution to convert […]