Gamini Seneviratne This note takes a brief look at Ranil Wickremesinghe’s notions of economic growth and how to get there. I doubt he much understands how   such growth” is obtained or measured and, most certainly, no idea at all that typically it would have further negative impacts on the capacity of the people to merely […]

By Noor Nizam,  Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice. Britons voting to EXIT from the EU is a great blessing to make the political situation in Sri Lanka more stable. The victory to the EXIT BRITON” group and political peoples forces in the UK to defeat UK’s […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න ‘යහපාලන’ ආණ්ඩුවට ඇති ප්‍රශ්නය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ගෙන් වූවායැයි උපකල්පනය කරන හොරකම් නිසා වැට් ඇතුළු බදු බර ජනතාවට පැටවීමට සිදුවීමය. ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ සුළු පක්ෂවලට ඇත්තේ මහින්දගේ නායකත්වයෙන් සහ බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂගේ සංවිධායකත්වයෙන් බිහිවෙමින් පවතින අලුත් පක්ෂයෙන් ඉදිරි මැතිවරණ වලට තරඟකිරීමේදී තමන්ගේ කෝටා එක නැතිවේදැයි කියාය. ජවිපෙට ඇති ප්‍රශ්නය පක්ෂයේ සිය 4වන නායක සෝමවංශ අමරසිංහගේ හත් […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති මෙයට පෙර ලිපියෙන් කී විදිහට මේ පෙරදිගට ගමන ආරම්භ කෙරුණේ චීන භාෂාව ඉගෙනීමට යොමු වීමෙන් සහ අනෙකුත් ථෙරවාදී රටවල ඉතිහාසය හා සංස්කෘතිය ගැන ඉගෙනීමට තීරණයකිරීමෙන්. ගතවෙමින් තිබුණේ 2003 අවුරුද්දේ දෙවැනි භාගය. දිනය ගැන හරියට ම මතකයක් නෑ. සති අන්ත පත්තරේක තිබුණා චීන භාෂාව උගන්වන පංතියක් ගැන කුඩා දැන්වීමක්. ගුරුවරයා තමයි ආචාර්ය හව් වෙයිමින්. […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Senior painter Benu Misra and artisan-photographer Labu Senapati have joined in a mission to showcase their works once again in the city. A three-day exhibition of drawing-painting, bonsai and wood-works has been organized at Surjya Club (CK Agarwalla Road, Guwahati-781001) which will kick-off on 2 July 2016. The show is scheduled […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The 13th Amendment gave the Provincial Councils rights over Land, land tenure, transfer and alienation of land, land use, land settlement and land improvement.” It specifically says Land shall be a Provincial Council subject to certain limitations.” Land is not on the concurrent list either. It was therefore assumed that Land” was the […]

Dharmasiri Bandaranayake  

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ව්‍යවස්ථා සම්පාදනය සමබන්ධයෙන් අදහස් ලබා ගැනීමට රජයෙන් පත්කළ ලාල් විජේනායක වාර්තාව  රටට පිලිලියක් නිසා වහාම ඊට විරුද්ධව ජාතික වාදීන් විසින්ඊට විරුද්ධ  තව එවැනි  වාර්තා  කීපයක් පිළියෙළ කර  මහජනතාවට  මෙන්ම රජයටත් ඉදිරිපත් කල යුතුය. වැඩක් වුනත් නැතත් ලාල් ගේ වාර්තාව එකම වාර්තාව නොවන බවත් මහජන මතය ඊට ඉඳුරා වෙනස් බවත් ලොවට හෙලිකල යුතුය.  එකාබධ්ධ […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  Rain came and went ,Then Floods came and gone .Garbage heap in Metthotamulle was washed down ruining houses and created health hazard Megapois had mega  plans to solve the problem .Called Requests for Proposals from bidders to submit investment proposals to treat the garbage and generate power . All of them asked […]

 RT Russian President Vladimir Putin says ‘Brexit’ is the choice made by the British nation and is a comprehensible one, as no one wants to feed weak economies.” Russia has not and does not plan to interfere with the results of the referendum, he added. TrendsBrexit Read more British politics in post-Brexit turmoil after vote […]

By Charles.S.Perera Sri Lanka  in 2005 after 57 years of Independence  elected Mahinda Rajapakse as the President of Sri Lanka.  That was a great decision taken by the people of Sri Lanka to elect a great patriot, a national leader of affectionate qualities, a gentleman one could be proud  to have as the President. He […]

Shenali D Waduge The Government of Sri Lanka is to open a Missing Persons Office. This is a golden opportunity for everyone who publicized figures as dead or missing to now come out and name the numbers they gave or the sources from whom they got the numbers. Thereafter it is imperative to log who […]

Shenali D Waduge Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera deserves kudus from both Sinhalese and Tamils. He has come forward to file a case on behalf of over 90% of Sri Lanka’s population. What the GOSL overlooked and ignored Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera has done in filing a public & personal interest case against the GOSL for failing to […]

By Prof. G. L. Peiris Courtesy The Island As the yahapalanaya government reaches the significant milestone of a year and a half, it is, perhaps, a worthwhile exercise to look back on the performance of an administration which held out abundant promise to the public on multi-faceted “Change”, and to assess the degree of fulfilment of […]

BBC News Prime Minister David Cameron is to step down by October after the UK voted to leave the European Union. Mr Cameron made the announcement in a statement outside Downing Street after the final result was announced. He said he would attempt to “steady the ship” over the coming weeks and months but that […]