Chandra Jayaratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror The former Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and civil rights activist Chandra Jayaratne has written to the Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) Sunil Handunnetti, drawing his attention to the General Principles of Accountability of an Oversight Committee of Parliament and issues related to the infamous […]

By D. B. S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror All changed, changed utterly” – The memorable lines from Irish poet Yeats came true on the morning of July 2, 2016 for Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy after he received a telephone call at 6. 30 am. The early caller was none other than Malik Samarawickrama, the Minister of Development […]

ECONOMYNEXT -Courtesy The Island July 9, 2016, 7:42 pm Sri Lanka’s new Central Bank Governor Indrajit Coomaraswamy made clear at his first press conference Tuesday that he will not be a pushover nor an interim appointee for one year as suggested by a government minister. The 66-year-old economist, who was given the job by President Maithripala Sirisena, […]

The United Nations Posted: October, 2004 With universal membership and a commitment to global security, the United Nations is uniquely poised to play a critical role in the international struggle against terrorism. Unlike its member nations, which often face domestic political, economic and bureaucratic constraints, the UN, as an independent international organization, is more free […]

චමින්ද සිල්වා උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින “මගේ ස්‌ථාන මාරුව ගැන මට කලකිරීමක්‌ නැහැ. මාව මාරු කළේ ඇත්ත කියූ නිසා” යෑයි රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන හා කළමනාකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශ ලේකම් ජිනසිරි දඩල්ලගේ මහතා ‘දිවයින’ ට ඊයේ (06 වැනිදා) පැවසීය.රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන හා කළමනාකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම්වරයා ලෙස කටයුතු කළ ජිනසිරි දඩල්ලගේ මහතා පෙරේදා (05 වැනිදා) සිට බලපැවැත්වෙන පරිදි තැපැල් අමාත්‍යාංශ ලේකම් ධුරයට පත් […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න සිංහලේ අතීත සව්භාග්‍යය  ගැන විස්තර නොකලාට  බොහෝදෙනා ඒ ගැන දනිති වසර ලක්ෂ ගණනක සිට කිසියම් ශිෂ්ටාචාරයක් පැ වතී වත්මන් ලංකාව නමැති  රට සිංහල නම් ජාතියක් විසින් හදාවඩා වර්ධනය කර ගත පන්දුකාභයාගේ සමයයෙන් පසු නම් අපි ඊටත් වඩා දේ දනිමු  කෙසේ හොවෙවා  මෙසේ රට හදන්නට ජාතියක් ගොඩනගන්නට වසර 2600 ක් තරම් කාලයක සිට  අවශ්‍ය […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 2002 වසරේදී කොටි සංවිධානය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය අතර සමාදාන ගිවිසුම අත්සන් කරන කාලයේදී මම වෛද්‍යවරු කණ්ඩායමක් සමග කොටි පාලන ප්‍රදේශ වූ වෙල්ලාලකුලම් සහ මුලන්ඟාවිල් වෙත ගියෙමු. මෙම ප්‍රදේශ වලදී අප සිවිල් ජනතාව සඳහා වෛද්‍ය සායන පැවැත්වූයෙමු. මෙම ප්‍රදේශ සියල්ලම එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ අණසක යටතේ තිබුනි. එසේම අපව නිරීක්‍ෂණය කිරීම සඳහා සිවිල් ඇඳුමෙන් […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න යූ.එන්.පී ආණ්ඩුවක් ආවොත් බිස්නස්වලට හොදයි කියූ ව්‍යාපාරිකයෝ වැට් බද්දට එරෙහිව කඩවසා හර්තාල්ය. සරසවි සිසුන් මර්ධනයට එරෙහිව මහපාරේය. දොස්තරවරුන් සයිටම් එකට එරෙහිව වර්ජනයේය. ඉංජිනේරුවන් සහ පරිගණක වෘත්තිකයන් එක්ටා ගිවිසුම හරහා රට ඉන්දිය කොලනියක් කිරීමට එරෙහිව උද්ඝෝෂණයන්ය. රබර්, තේ සහ වී ගොවියෝද සටන් බිමේය. මේ සියළු අරගල ජර්මනියේ හැමලින් නුවර විසූ බටනලා වාදකයා මෙන් බොරු […]

By Rudra Gamini de Zoysa. “I will be with you, whatever”. This is not a line from one of Frank Sinatra’s love songs. This is Blair’s pledge to his master George W Bush. The Chilcot Report is finally out and I do not want to vomit the facts stated in that 2.6-million-word commentary. The inquiry […]

Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya Melbourne- Australia  Now that the Chilcot’s Report is out, all Britt’s who were fooled to believe Tony Blair must now feel ashamed for their low IQ. Tony Blair & G.Bush and Australia’s John Howard who made the World a living nightmare since that day are the real WAR CRIMINALS. They started a never ending […]

by Engineer D. L. O. Mendis During high pressure activity in the early post World War 2 era in the field of space research, there was discussion on high level management decision making, in a book titled Engineering and the Mind’s eye” by Eugene S Ferguson. Taking the example of some failures in important engineering […]

Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA   Trump Praises Sadam and terms him A Terrorist Killer… Says “he was a bad guy but you know what .He did well He killed terrorists He did that so good ” Do we have an analogue in Sri Lanka?? Only difference in American way of handling him was that they did […]

Shenali D Waduge Bruno Marshall Shirley writing for the International Policy Digest on ‘Buddhist-Muslim violence in South and South-East Asia: The Local becomes regional, or a clash of civilizations’ and released by the UN has made some glaringly inaccurate statements which need to be corrected. Before Islam, Buddhism was the religion of almost the whole […]

By Gandara John The Tamil and Sinhalese Feudalists, taking their cue from Esmond Wickramasinghe’s ‘Sinhala only’ slogan as their ultimate platform, manipulated the 1956 and 1958 racial riots, the assassination of SWRD in 1959, the staging of the botched up military Coup that attempted to topple the anti colonial government of Sirima Bandaranaike in 1962, the […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM  Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Association Rt Hon John Key MP, Prime  Minister of New Zealand, Dear Mr Key, The Chilcot report has been a severe and sad indictment of the execution of UK & US foreign policy. Iraq is not the only victim  of it in recent times, these include Sri Lanka […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island A group of Central Bank (CB) officials yesterday informed the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) that Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran had claimed he acted on the instructions of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as regards the controversial bond issue, according to a senior COPE. The COPE met at 2.30 pm […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island July 7, 2016, 10:02 pm Wartime Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama yesterday said that the UN, particularly the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) couldn’t turn a blind eye to Iraq Inquiry report. They pointed out that a major Western power had never been implicated […]

Sukhoi 30 in action. It can hover and take off vertically. It is a marvel of technology.

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  1996 කාලයේ මම මහියංගන දඹාන ආදිවාසී ජනතාව බැලීමට ප්ලෑන් ආයතනය හෙවත් ජාත්‍යන්තර සැලසුම් ආයතනයේ  ජයරත්න මහතා සමග ගියෙමි. එවකට මම මිනිපේ ප්‍රාදේශීය සෞඛ්‍යය සේවා අධ්‍යක්‍ෂකවරයා වූයෙමි. මේ කාලයේ වැදි නායක තිසාහාමිද ජීවතුන් අතර විය​. අප බුලත් දුම්කොළ සහ පුවක් මගදී මිලට ගත්තේ තිසාහාමිට දීමටය​. මේ ගමනේදී දඹානේ ගුනවර්ධන මුණ ගැසීමට මට අවශ්‍යතාවයක්ද තිබුනේය​. දඹානේ ගුනවර්ධන […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න ග්‍රන්ථය : මැලේවරුන්ගේ අභිමානය කෘර්තෘ : එඩ්වඩ් චන්ද්‍රසිරි සිංහල රජ දවස දක්වා ඉතිහාසය දික්වන ශ්‍රී ලංකීය මැලේවරුන් 75,000කගේ අභිමානය ගෙන එන ග්‍රන්ථයක් ඉකුත්දා නිකුත් කෙරිණි. නාට්‍යවේදී එච්වඩ් චන්ද්‍රසිරි විසින් ප්‍රශස්ත මට්ටමින් රචනා කරන ලද මැලේවරුන්ගේ අභිමානය පිළිබඳ කෘතිය ඒ පිළිබඳව සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් රචනාවූ ප්‍රථම ග්‍රන්ථයද වේ. මැලේ හෙවත් ජා ජාතිකයන් ඔවුන්ගේ භාෂාව සහ […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Velupillai Prabhakaran’s brutal violence, firing indiscriminately in all directions, went beyond the mandate of the Vadukoddai Resolution which was aimed exclusively at the Sinhalese. Prabhakaran was the first born child of the Vadukoddai Resolution which urged the Tamil youth to take up arms against the Sinhalese. But his ruthless killing of […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island July 5, 2016, 7:12 am Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris on Sunday alleged that the ongoing high profile Geneva exercise spearheaded by Western powers was clearly meant to divide the country on ethnic lines. Their real objective was to bring in constitutional changes to achieve what Prof. […]

Professor Nishan Wijesinha (Professor of Paramedics & LAW; and Divinity and Holistic Science) Long time ago, India consisted of many countries. Vanga was one of the countries in India at that time. The king of Vanga (present-day Bengal) married a princess named Mayavati of the Kalinga country (present-day Odisha). The couple had a daughter named Suppadevi. She was thought to […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ඇමරිකාවේ  පොලිස් නිල රථ වලද    POLICE  යන වචනයට පහලින්    IN  GOD  WE  TRUST  යනුවෙන් ලියා තිබෙනු ඔබ දැක තිබේද  . ඇමරිකාවේ සාමය රකින  නීතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන පොලිසිය  වැඩ කරන්නේ රටේ ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත නීතිවලට අනුකුලවද එහෙම නැත්නම් කිසියම්  නොපෙනෙන දෙවියකුගේ නීතිරීතිවලට අනුවදය් පැනයක් මතුවේ . රට ව්සියා විශ්වාසය තැබිය යුත්තේ  කා වෙතද . මැවුම්කාර දෙවියන්වහන්සේ  […]

By Jeff J. Brown, for the Moscow-Beijing Express Crosslinked with China Rising here: http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2016/07/06/twilight-zones-on-planet-earth-china-rising-radio-sinoland-for-the-moscow-beijing-express-160706/ Crosslinked with SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/44-days/twilight-zones-on-planet-earth-china-rising-radio-sinoland-on-the-moscow-beijing-express-160706 Rod Serling was the creator, producer and main screenwriter for his celebrated 1940s-1960s radio and TV shows, including the Twilight Zone. A committed leftist, he suffered regular censorship and was a fierce activist against racism, McCarthyism, […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  This is a very bold statement made by the ex minister .He also mentioned that all MP’s should at least  pass  GCE  O level We also saw how another deputy minister behaving like a lunatic trying to prove that that KDK fan was strong enough to hold his heavy weight during his […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The lone Bangladeshi Nobel laureate  Professor Muhammad Yunus expressed shock at the barbarity of the terrorists, who killed 20 hostages and two Bangladeshi police officers in cold blood at Dhaka’s Holey Artisan Bakery on 1 July evening and pleaded for a new world of equality and dignity. Meanwhile, following the barbaric […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island July 5, 2016, 6:38 pm The four-party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Friday (July 1) welcomed a hard-hitting statement, issued by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, in respect of war time and post-war accountability issues in Sri Lanka. The Human Rights HC reiterated the call for […]

Citizen S  Courtesy The Island The Island Editor has been lenient in his Saturday’s editorial when he called another Thevarapperuma antic, infantile. He is the ‘Mervyn Silva’ of the present government; or, Andare in the old kings’ governments. No! That’s an insult on the great comedian of yore! Andare was not mentally unstable like these […]

By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe July 5, 2016, 12:00 pm Politics and the English Language, the most famous shorter work of George Orwell, is notable for providing a list of writing tips to aspiring writers as well as for its savagely disdainful view of politicians’ use of language. Orwell writes: “In our time, political speech and […]