වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  වෛද්‍ය ජයලත් ජයවර්ධන මහතා මට හමු වන්නේ  1999 වසරේදී පමණය​. ළමා මනෝ විද්‍යාව පිළිබඳව මා විසින් ලියන ලද පොතක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් වෛද්‍ය  ජයලත් ජයවර්ධනට රූපාවාහිනී වැඩසටහනක් කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය වූ අතර ඔහු විසින් කරගෙන යන ලද අයි.ටී.එන් වෛද්‍ය හමුවට  එතුමා මට ආරාධනා කලේය​. 2002 වසරේදී කිලිනොච්චියේ ළමුන් සඳහා මනෝ විද්‍යාත්මක සායනයක් පැවැත්වීම සඳහා ඔහු […]

Shenali D Waduge An excellent opportunity has now arise to catch red handed every person who ranted about 40,000 to 100,000 being dead. They have for years been going on and on about these ‘missing’ or ‘dead’ numbers without so much as producing a single name. Now the ball is in their court to prove […]

Adaderana I never said that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa siphoned off money, Minister Rajitha Senaratne says. The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (22). I asserted that Rajapaksas were behind this, and as well as it was those who were around him involved in this,” he added. Former President […]

Dilrook Kannangara After proof of athletes taking banned performance enhancing substances and allegations of state support for it, Russia has been banned from contesting in the Olympics. This is an absurd decision. Just because a few athletes used banned performance enhancing substances with possible state support, it shouldn’t result in disqualification of the entire team. […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Provincial Councils were set up in February 1988, under the Provincial Councils Act no 42 of 1987, as a requirement of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.  Each province had a Governor, Chief Minister and Councilors. The Governor, appointed by the President, ranked above the Chief Minister. Governor could take decisions without […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: New Delhi based senior journalist Syed Nazakat has been elected to the board of directors of Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), a Washington DC based international media body. Nazakat ran unopposed to become the representative for the Asia Pacific region and he would serve a two-year term in the forum. Besides […]

RANJITH SOYSA According to reports the Police is planning to evict 50 odd farmer families from Panama if they do not vacate the lands occupied before 30th June 2016 It is indeed an act of cruelty by the Police and the other authorities for not allowing the peasant families to continue their activities on their […]

By Dr. Tilak S Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today A drastic social and cultural revolution has taken place in Sri Lanka over the past few decades; with peoples’ attitudes, culture, the calibre of the rulers and politicians, school teachers, parents and students alike, have taken a three hundred and sixty degree turn towards the depreciation of the […]

M.L.WICKRAMASINGHE The Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform in Sri Lanka has published its report. The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) adopted a resolution on constitutional changes. Although presented unconstitutionally NPC proposal  should be studied. It is the responsibility of all Sri Lankan citizens belonging to all ethnic groups and political ideologies to begin discussions on […]

සුජීව දිසානායක උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ක්‍රි.ව. 5 සියවස පමණ වන විට ථෙරවාදි බුදුදහම ප්‍රබල අර්බුදයකට මුහුණදී තිබුණි. ඒ මහායාන ආගමික සංකල්පයන්ගෙන් ථෙරවාදය ගිලගැනීමයි. ක්‍රි.ව. 01 සියවසේ කණිෂ්ක දවස කාශ්මීරයේදී පවත්වන්නට යෙදුණු සිව්වන ධර්ම සංගායනාවත් සමග සංස්‌කෘත භාෂාව අන් කවරදාටත් වඩා බුදුදහම ආක්‍රමණය කරන්නට විය. මේ නිසා බුදුදහම ආශ්‍රිතව තිබූ පාලි භාෂාවට ප්‍රබල තර්ජනයක්‌ මතු විය. මතු […]

රාත්මලාන ධර්ම පර්යේෂණාලයේ හෑගොඩ විපස්‌සී හිමි බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ දේශනා කළ ශ්‍රී සද්ධර්මය ත්‍රිපිටකයේ සඳහන් වෙනවා. අභිධර්මය ඇතුළු විවිධ සූත්‍ර ඇතුළත් මෙහි තුන්පිටකය සමඟ නිතැතින්ම කියෑවෙන ග්‍රන්ථාවලියක්‌ තියෙනවා. එය අප හඳුන්වන්නේ අටුවාව ලෙසයි. මෙය පාලි භාෂාවෙන් හඳුන්වනු ලබන්නේ අට්‌ඨ කතා ලෙසයි. පාලි භාෂාවෙන් අට්‌ඨ කතා යන්න අටුවා” ලෙස ව්‍යවහාරයට පැමිණ තිබෙනවා. බුද්ධ දේශනාව ආශ්‍රයෙන්ම අටුවාව ගොඩනැගී තිබෙනවා. […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island Franchise is the linchpin of democracy as is common knowledge. It helps give expression to the popular will and install administrations people deem fit to govern them. Elections are to franchise what water is to fish. Deprived of the medium of electoral contest, franchise suffers disuse atrophy and anarchy sets in. We […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island One-time head of the Law Faculty, University of Colombo, Dr Nirmala Chandrahasan last Thursday (June 16) called for tangible action on the part of the Sri Lankan government to bring in Sri Lankan refugees, living in India, particularly in the state of Tamil Nadu. Dr Chandrahasan estimated the number of […]

By Tissa Vitarana Courtesy The Island June 21, 2016, 7:45 pm The UNP/SLFP Alliance government came together, ostensibly as a “National Unity” government, thereby escaping the restrictions placed on the number of Ministers by the 19th Amendment. It had as its main objectives (a) the establishment of good governance and (b) the changing of the Constitution […]

Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island The title of this commentary is derived from the 16th century proverb “Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost”. There are at least two versions of the real meaning of the relatively obscure expression, the “hindmost” contained in the proverb: as per its usage in PHILASTER or […]

By : A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA Former President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa has returned to the motherland after a ten days highly successful visit to Japan, his third overseas visit since losing the Presidency on 8th January 2015. During these 10 days Mr. Rajapaksa participated at several Buddhist and social events in several Japanese cities attended by […]

By Dr.Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy  Ceylon Today The modern mass media undoubtedly blend with three things: economics, money and profit. For a start, any media organization needs to inject a huge amount of money as an investment to establish from its infrastructure up to the operation level, plus the wages and salaries to permanent staff and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The provinces of Sri Lanka, (Northern, Central, Eastern, Western, North Central, North Western, Uva, Sabaragamuwa    and Southern) are not ‘historical’ provinces set out by the Sinhala kings. They are not ‘natural’ provinces formed through migration and settlement either. These provinces are ‘new’ provinces imposed on the island by the British rulers in the […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Mahathma Gandhi The Sri Lankan society experienced 30 year prolonged armed conflict and the 2004 Tsunami that changed the psychological landscape of the Islanders. A large number people underwent the detrimental repercussions of these manmade and […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය – දූෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ හදිසියේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන පරිදි ලිට්රෝ ගෑස් සමාගමේ විධායක සභාපතිවරයා සමඟ  අධ්‍යක්ෂ මණ්ඩලයේ කිහිප දෙනෙකු  ඉවත් කිරීමේ සැලසුමක් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන බව දැනගන්නට ලැබී ඇත. මිලියන 1700 ක ලාභයක් ලැබූ ටෙන්ඩර් ප්‍රදානයකින් පසුව හදිසියේම මෙවැනි තත්වයක් ඇතිවීම බලවත් සැකයට තුඩු දෙන කරුණක් වන බැවින් මේ පිළිබඳව  වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමු කිරීමට දූෂණ […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න බෙදුම්වාදී ත්‍රස්ත කොටි වසර තිස් ගණනක් තිස්සේ මේ රට විනාශ කරනකොට 2009 දී ජීවිත පරදුවට තබා  සටන් කර රට බේරා ගත් තේ අපිය එනිසාම ජනතාව අපව හැ දින්නුවේ  රණවිරුවෝ කියාය පොදු ජනතාව  අපට  ගරුකලේ ඔවුන්ගේ ජීවිත බේරා දීමට අපි සටන් කල බව දන්නා නිසය් . ප්‍රභාකරන් සිටියදී අපි නොයෙක් නායකයන් යටතේ සටන් කළා […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  2000 වසරේදී  අලිමංකඩට, එල්ටීටීඊය විසින් ප්‍රහාරයක් එල්ල කරන ලදි. අලිමංකඩ හමුදා කඳවුර මුළුමනින්ම බිඳ දැමීමට  මුලින්ම එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. ය  අලිමංකඩ කඳවුරු භුමියේ ජල සැපයුම කපා  දැමීය​. මේ නිසා අලිමංකඩ කඳවුර අත් හැර දැමීමට ඉහල හමුදා නායකත්වය තීරණය කලහ. අසර්ථක නායකත්වය හා අකාර්යක්‍ෂම ක‍්‍රමෝපාය සැලැස්ම නිසා  අලිමංකඩ පසුබැසිම හේතු කොට ගෙන ජිවිත රැුසක් විනාශ විය. […]

Andreas Schlüter  Courtesy WIPOKULI Wissenschaft, Politik, Kunst und Literatur The State of Global Affairs Division of the World by the US Military Everyone who is not totally blinded by the advertising mainstream media can see certain things clearly about US politics directed by the US Power Elite: Obvious are the Western imperial and colonial wars against Africa, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, who started Christian missionary operations in Jaffna in 1816,    encouraged Tamil studies with special emphasis on Tamil literature. They wished to know the main Tamil texts. They wanted also to upgrade the Tamil language used by the inhabitants of Jaffna. The American Mission in Boston […]

Adaderana We will kill everyone against us,” Minister Patali Ranawaka has told a monk, according to the Leader of the Jathika Emamuthuwa Venerable Bengamuwe Nalaka Thero. The observation was made while speaking at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (21). https://youtu.be/lB2slAoUf6I Nalaka Thero went on to say the monk had also quoted the […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera We all know that Sri Lanka has miserably failed in coordination of development work in the country . .J R installed provincial councils to satisfy India and also to show the world that he is quite genuine in decentralization of power .In the North Vartharajh Perumal thought that he is above the […]

Shenali D Waduge The Daily Mirror of 20 June 2016 in an article titled ‘Government to allow foreigners to buy land’ has informed the public that the present government will amend existing land laws in a bid to liberalize laws to enable foreigners to make outright purchase of Sri Lanka’s state lands. This raises the […]

Shenali D Waduge What happens when minorities begin calculated demand campaigns which they have no legitimate right to and thereafter once enough public attention is gained they agree to settle for a compromise? They end up gaining what they have no right to gain and those compromising totally ignore this fact because world media, foreign […]

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Kanthar Balanathan DipEE(UK), GradCert(RelEng-Monash),DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE (Retired) Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers His Excellency Mr. Maithripala Sirisena Executive President of SriLanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Dear HE the President of the DSR of SriLanka As a patriotic SriLankan Diaspora I have multitude of multi-dimensional grievance to be […]