Shenali D Waduge We are trying our best to understand the mentality behind the manner that the UN & its bodies function. The stark bias is nothing no one can today ignore. The callous manner that the UN blatantly ignores crimes committed by a handful of very powerful nations while allowing these very nations to […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy  CeylonToday Brexit had consumed local media, especially after Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. In Sri Lanka too, politicians, professionals and other pundits are as intensively divided into ‘doom’ and ‘boom’ camps as the British. Five days later, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein renewed its […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Ottawa, Canada Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .K1J 6G1 . Canada Canada Day, 2016, 12:24 PM Her Excellency Shelley Whiting, High Commissioner of Canada in Sri Lanka Canada House. 5th Lane Colombo 3, Sri Lanka. His Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka Dear High Commissioner Shelley Whiting: I just […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය 2017 සිංහල අවුරුද්දට පෙර පවත්වන බව ඇමති ෆයිසර් මුස්තාපා අවසානයේදී ස්ථිරවම ප්‍රකාශ කලේය. ඒ දිනවලම මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ සමග අලුත් බලවේගයක් ගොඩනැගීම ඌව පලාතෙන් ආරම්භ කරන ලදී. ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම මේ මුලු කාලය පුරා රාජපක්ෂ පිල අකර්මන්‍යව සිටියේ නැත. ඔවුහු දිගින් දිගටම තම ප්‍රතිරූපය ගොඩනගා ගැන්මෙහි යෙදී සිටියහ. මේ අතර නව රජය […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්    සකලයන් නැතිනම් කුරුල්ලන්ගෙන් කෙත්වතු ආරක්ෂා කරගන්නට පැරණි ගොවියන් තමන්ගේ කුඹුරේ පඹයෙක් සිටවූ බව අසා ඇත්තෙමු. කෙතේ ගොඩගසා ඇති පිදුරු වලින් පුරවන ලද මේ පඹයාට මුළුතැන් ගෙයින් ඉවත් කළ හැලියක් ඔළුවක් වෙයි. ඒ නිසා මේ පඹයාට හැලිකටා නමින් ද ව්‍යවහාරයක් වෙයි. පඹයා ගේ කාර්යය කෙත රැකීමයි. ගොවියා සැම විටම කෙතේ නොසිටින බැවින් මේ […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Do you know how three wheelers came to Sri Lanka and when ? My driver who is an ardent UNP supported who was working closely with Siri Kotha tells  me that first Three Wheeler ( Tuk Tuk ) was brought to Sri Lank by UNP paid by Sri Kotha ( party office […]

Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada. Last year the Yahapalanaya leaders, flush with electoral victory banned Glyphosate, the well-trusted but controversial herbicide, heralding their “toxin-free nation” policy announced with much fanfare. The government hopes to replace modern agriculture with “traditional agriculture”, based on “traditional seeds” and “traditional farming methods” that do not use modern technology, chemical fertilizers, insecticides […]

by Bruno Marshall Shirley, International Policy Digest, 29 Jun 2016 United Nations, New York — This month the UN released a report addressing serious” human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar at the hands of the Buddhist majority, and the two-year anniversary of Sri Lanka’s deadly Aluthgama and Dharga Town riots, allegedly incited by Buddhist […]

Top Spin By Suni July 6th 2016 It must be a sorry state of affairs when a team such as Sri Lanka appears to be full of woes and under performing today much to the chagrin and heartaches of adoring fans and there appears to be many deciding factors contributing to this demise. A team […]

Courtesy The Island July 5, 2016, 7:41 am The Global Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF) has accused Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera of reaching agreements and understanding with a section of the international community at the expense of Sri Lanka’s interests. The GSLF has, in a letter to foreign missions of countries represented at the Geneva-based United […]

Shenali D Waduge The legal opinion of Sir Desmond de Silva covers all areas of allegation against the Sri Lankan Army and takes every leaf of relevant international law relevant to war crimes and clearly establishes why Sri Lanka cannot be accused of committing war crimes. Even individual soldier misbehaviour he says can be dealt […]

Dilrook Kannangara Already the nation is in financial, balance of payment and debt crisis. There is not enough foreign currency to pay for imports and repay loans and interest. It is unwise to enter into a trade agreement with India under these conditions as it will worsen these crises. Since signing the FTA with India […]

By Charles.S.Perera The Prince Zeid bin ra’ad Al Hussain, as an intelligent man if using his unbiased mind may understand why Sri Lanka has neither committed war crimes nor violated human rights. It was because there was never a war in Sri Lanka. Wars are between countries and bombs and gunfire from the warring parties […]

Courtesy Adaderana Dr Indrajit Coomaraswamy says that his primary responsibility as the governor is to uphold the reputation and credibility of the central bank, one of the very great intuitions of the country. I intend to do my best to make sure that this organisation’s reputation, prestige, credibility is upheld, he said addressing his first […]

By Hiran H.Senewiratne Courtesy The Island The new Governor of the Central Bank Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy said that the primary objectives of the Bank will be to ensure macro-economic and local financial stability. “During Sri Lanka’s post-independence history, politics have interfered in economics. The Central Bank needs to convince politicians that good economics is good politics […]

lanka C news රට තුළ බලයේ සිටින අයගේ වැරදිවලට නීතිය ක‍්‍රියාත්මක නොවන නමුත් ආණ්ඩුවට අභියෝගයක් වන ජාතිකවාදී, ප‍්‍රගතිශිලී නායකයන් කවර වරදක් හෝ පෙරට දමා සිරගත කරන මෙහෙයුමක් ක‍්‍රියාත්මක වන බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ ප‍්‍රචාරක ලේකම්, හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී මොහොමඞ් මුසම්මිල් මහතාට එරෙහි නඩුව කොටුව මහේස්ත‍්‍රාත් අධිකරණයේදී […]

The Courtesy Daily Mirror Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) General Secretary Udaya Gammanpila today said they had no doubt about new Central Bank Governor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy’s capabilities since he was an experienced and a qualified person, but they had questions about his integrity. He was charged in an insider trading case. Founder of the Galleon […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I have read the above statement made by new Governor of CB with dismay ,as he has not specified what reforms we need to initiate . As an economist he will speak about GDP ,Export Potential, High Labour cost and nothing about how to improve the productivity. He talks about attracting investors, […]

තමනට මහ රජාණෝ යන නම දැම්මේ වත්මන් ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ බලංගොඩ ප‍්‍රදේශයේ පැවති උත්සව සභාවක් අමතමිනි. එසේ අමතනු එපා යයි තමන් නිතරම කියූවද පලක් නොවූ බවද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා පැවසීය.

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island July 4, 2016, 7:15 pm It would take months and years for the world to absorb the aftershocks of the stunning decision taken by the People of Great Britain to leave the European Union (EU). The consequences of this decision would be felt globally and would affect the lives and […]

Courtesy Adaderana BIZ Sri Lanka is currently stuck in a position while being unable to compete against countries with lower labor costs or labor productivity. If to emerge from this trap, Sri Lanka has to go for reforms immediately, warns an economic academic. Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy points out that Sri Lanka is unable to compete […]

lanka C news 2015.05.28– biz.adaderana.lk ශ්‍රමයේ මිල අඩු රටවල් සමග හෝ ශ්‍රමයේ ඵලදායීතාවය වැඩි රටවල් සමග තරග කිරීමට නොහැකි ලෙස ලංකාව මේ වනවිට හිරවී තිබෙන බවත් මේ උගුලෙන් ගොඩඒම සඳහා ලංකාව වහ වහා ප්‍රතිසංස්සකරණ කළ යුතුව ඇති බවත් ආර්ථ ශාස්ත්‍රඥයෙකු අවධාරණය කරයි. ආචාර්ය ඉන්ද්‍රජිත් කුමාරස්වාමි මහතා පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ මෙරට ශ්‍රමයේ මිල වැඩි නිසා ශ්‍රමයේ මිල […]

Sri Lanka news President Maithripala Sirisena announced on Saturday that he will appoint Economist Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy as the Governor of Central Bank. Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy will receive his appointment as the Governor of Central Bank from President Maithripala Sirisena today (4). Dr. Coomaraswamy had met the President on Saturday (2) after his decision was announced on the next […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island July 3, 2016, 9:12 pm President Maithripala Sirisena took one step back and two steps forward on the question of the appointment of a new Governor to the Central Bank; Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe took one step back and another forward. Wickremesinghe managed to prevent Sirisena’s first choice being appointed Governor and […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.–          Opening lines of the Shakespeare play ‘Richard III’ uttered by (the Duke of) Gloucester who later became King Richard III ‘Listening to discontent’ by Sanjana Hattotuwa (Sunday Island/June 26, 2016) attempts an answer to the writer’s own […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මම ග්‍රාමීය ප්‍රදේශ වල රෝහල් වල සේවය කල කාලයේදී කඳන් තුවක්කු හෙවත් ට්‍රැප් ගන් නිසා තුවාල ලැබූ බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට ප්‍රතිකාර කලෙමි. කඳන් තුවක්කු බඳින්නේ සතුන් දඩයම් කිරීමටය​.  මුවා, ගෝනා, ඌරා යනාදී සතුන් දඩයම් කර ගැනීමට විවිධ වර්ග වල කඳන් තුවක්කු තිබේ. මෙම තුවක්කු වලට යකඩ බට  යොදා ගන්නා අතර අහස් කූරු […]

මේ වන විට ජාත්‍යන්තර සංචිතයේ ලංකාව සතු අරමුදල 8.2 සිට 4.3 දක්වා පහළ බැස ඇති බව ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය පෙන්වා දෙයි.

Pathfinder Foundation Research on Security & Strategic Issues and Exchanges to be the focus The recently established ‘Centre for Indo-Lanka Initiatives’ (CILI) of the Pathfinder Foundation (PF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The United Service Institution of India (USI) based in New Delhi, founded nearly one and half centuries ago in 1870. […]

By Gandara John Ranil Wickramasinghe toting a dubious crown as the most unpopular Prime Minister ever in the history of the island nation – a view endorsed even by members of his own United National Party – is hailed by Sri Lankans as the Country’s First ever Unconstitutional Prime Minister and now as the Charlatan Pretender […]

Shenali D Waduge How can a panel personally commissioned by the UN Secretary General be used as the foundation for successive resolutions against a UN member state and have the same report being extensively quoted by the UNHRC Head in deeming that Sri Lanka must carry out a war crimes tribunal when both the PoE […]