By M D P DISSANAYAKE Since grabbing power through unconstitutional methods,  Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe  government tried to find out corrupt deals between Chinese Government and the former government of President Mahinda Rajapakse.  Headlines after headlines were given front page banner lines attacking Chinese Projects in Sri Lanka.  Since coming into power Ranil and his government […]

By Charles S. Perera Every one who voted this disastrous government calling itself  the Yahapalanaya into power may now be regretting,  except  of course the Tamils, Muslims the Civil Society  Organisations bought over by the government and those who exist as ministers , administrators  in some way connected in supporting  this ambiguous Yahapalanaya Government. Its […]

By  A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA A few years ago our beloved motherland was a country more dangerous to live in than the contemporary Syria or Iraq due to terrorist threats that loomed all over the country from Kebbitigollawa in the North Central to Moneragala in the Uva and Godapitiya in the South. Five leaders of this […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි චාවාකච්චේරි ප්‍රදේශයෙන් පසුගිය දා හමුවූ මරාගෙන මැරෙන ඇඳුම් කට්ටලය සහ පැති බෝම්බ ආදිය පිලිබඳව මේ දිනවල රට තුල පැතිර පවත්නේ මහත් ආන්දෝලනයකි. රජය පාර්ශ්වයෙන් මුලදී පැවසුවේ යම් බඩු මුට්ටු වගයක් හමුවූ බවත්, මෙය සාමාන්‍ය දෙයක් බවත්, මෙවැනි දේ පසුගිය කාලය පුරාම ඕනෑ තරම් හමුවී ඇති නිසා එමගින් ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට කිසිදු බලපෑමක් සිදු නොවන […]

Courtesy Gradient Alliance Monthly Bulletin: March 2016 The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) is to issue sovereign bonds of about USD 3bn in the international capital markets, as the government attempts to bring a worsening fiscal situation under control. Sri Lanka is impacted by a widening fiscal deficit caused by spiraling public sector wages, discovery […]

Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada. Mark Salter is a person who has come forward to write a book entitled “To End a War”,dealing with the “failed Norwegian Peace process” and related matters. In his second comment (March 30, 2016) on Ferdinando’s column, Salter writes that : “First, Ferdinando asserts that the ‘Norwegians believed decision making process […]

BY: Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Dear President Sirisena, Written below are urgent concerns that Sri Lankans living overseas (as well as within Sri Lanka) would like you to implement with immediate effect for the greater benefit of Sri Lanka. A total rejection of the report of the OHCHR as presented by the UNHRC High Commissioner […]

ආචාර්ය ලීල් ගුණසේකර 71 කැරැල්ලේ පුනරුත්ථාපනය පිළිබඳ අතිරේක ලේකම්   වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග  විසින්  71 කැරැල්ල පිළිබඳව අධ්‍යයනයක් කොට කැරළිකරුවන් සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවලට ලක් කරමින් ඉතිහාසයේ සැඟව පැවති සාධකයන් ඉස්මතු කරමින් ඉතා අගනා සමාජ විද්‍යාත්මක හා ඓතිහාසික වශයෙන් වටිනා කෘතියක් පාඨකයාට ලබා දීම ප්‍රශස්ත කරුණක් ලෙස මම දකිමි.   වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග මට මුලින්ම හමු […]

By Afshain Afzal Prime Minister of Pakistan, who was scheduled to attend Nuclear Security Summit at Washington but he has decided to send his representative instead. The foreign sponsored terrorist attack outside a recreation park on 27 March, killing 72 people, was the basic reason. Western players, in order to pressurize Pakistan to scrap its […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam [PPFA] welcomed the verdict of Gauhati High Court in clearing all hurdles to complete the proposed war [martyr’s] memorial on the north bank of historic Dighalipukhuri in the heart of the city. The Gauhati high court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation [PIL] to permanently halt […]

Ben Silva Many ethnic groups around the world have been wiped out by technically superior groups as a result of lack of innovation and failure to adapt and progress and failure to recognise external threats. I have given below some food for thought, regarding arresting the decline. Understand the nature of the world and Understand […]

Shenali D Waduge Prabakaran was never employed. He formed his first militant group at the age of 18. His first killing was when he was 21 years. How can a man who has never had a job pay for sophisticated arms, ammunition and be able to fund a movement of terror unless he had assistance. […]

Sarath Wijesinghe – former Ambassador to UAE and Israel- Solicitor Attorney -at -Law-CEO Sri Lanka 2050- Development of Soft Skills is necessary for the development of a Nation in this competitive world becoming closer fast disintegrating physical borders due to developments on IT Language and skills. Human development is a main source of the development […]

ධර්මන් වික‍්‍රමරත්න රිවිර සිකුරාදා පුවත්පත සදහා ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න ලියන මුරගල තීරු ලිපිය – 146 අද අප්‍රේල් 1දාය. අනුන් රැවටීම සඳහා විවිධාකාරයෙන් විහිළු තහළු කරන මෝඩයින්ගේ දවසය. එම දිනයේ විනෝදවිම සඳහා උසස්ම ගණයේ විහිළු තහළු එක්රැස් කිරීම ලොව පුරා සිදුකෙරේ. එදින ලොව වැඩියෙන්ම විනෝදවන ජාතිය වනුයේ නෙදර්ලන්ත වාසීහුය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ‘යහපාලන’ ආණ්ඩුව මෙම දිනවල සපයන විහිළු […]

Swarna Hansa Reconstruction work of Dematagaha wewa in Nochiya, Galgamuwa began ceremonially under Swarna Hansa Wew programme last week. Picture shows Anton Perera, Governing council member of Swarna Hansa Foundation making an advance cheque payment for its dozer work.

නලින් ද සිල්වා අද ලෝකයේ හැම රටක ම පාහේ විවිධ සංස්කෘතිවල ජනතාව වෙසෙති. ඒ අර්ථයෙන් ගතහොත් බොහෝ විට ඕනෑම රටක  බහුසංස්කෘතික රටක් ලෙස හැඳින්විය හැකි ය. එහෙත් මේ ඕනෑම රටක මෙන් විශේෂිත හෝ අධිපති හෝ සංස්කෘතියක් ඇත. සංස්කෘති සමාන නැත. පිටරටවල වාසය කරන සිංහලයෝ ඒ බව හොඳින් දනිති. එංගලන්තය, ඕස්ටේ‍ර්ලියාව වැනි බටහිර රටක සිංහල බෞද්ධයන් වාසය කරන […]

Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement 31st March, 2016 Prince Said Raad Zeid Al-Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Palais Wilson, 52, rue des Pâquis, CH-1201, Geneva, Switzerland. Dear Sir, We Totally Reject The OHCHR Report And The US Sponsored Resolution Against Sri Lanka […]

ALI SUKHANVER Kul Bushan Yadev, the terrorist of the RAW is now-a-days very prominent in all newspapers and on all media screens; prominent as a person whom humanity must be ashamed of. His arrest is no doubt a wonderful achievement of the intelligence agencies of Pakistan but it must be kept in mind that history […]

Island Editorial Courtesy The Island March 31, 2016, 9:11 pm The chance detection of an explosive cache in the North and the arrest of a hardcore Tiger on Wednesday have caused quite a stir in defence and political circles. The government has, true to form, sought to put a bold face on it. No sooner had […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando March 31, 2016, 9:46 pm Governor Cooray Northern Province Governor Reginald Cooray yesterday said that the deadly cache detected at Meesalai, Chavakachcheri had been brought there to cause destruction. The armaments couldn’t have been brought in for a peaceful purpose, Governor Cooray said, asserting that moderates always attracted the wrath of extremists. […]

Suspect’s move facilitated by soldier’s bro Lethal haul moved to Chava on Sunday night LTTE combatant, others planning major attack March 31, 2016, 9:42 pm Lethal cache found on Wednesday By Shamindra Ferdinando An LTTE cadre now under interrogation had brought a suicide jacket, four claymore mines, three parcels containing about 12 kgs of TNT, […]