ජාතික භික්‍ෂු පෙරමුණ ජුලි 16 දින යාපනය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ නවක පිළිගැනීම් අවස්ථාවක විද්‍යාපීඨ සිසුන් අතර ඇතිවූ ගැටුම සිදු නොවිය යුතු එහෙත් සිදුවූ අවාසනාවන්ත සිදුවීමක් ලෙස හෙළා දකින්නෙමු. කුමන හෝ සිදුවීමක් තම ජාතිවාදී දුෂ්ඨ වුවමණාවන් තෘත්පත කර ගැනීම සඳහා අවස්ථාවක් සොයමින් සිටින අයට මෙය කදිම පැණි වදයක් මෙන් වී ඇත. එහෙත් ජාතිවාදය පිටුදකින සැමගේ වෙර යොදා […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Modern bookshops and news stands are inundated with a multitude of magazines of all kind with topics including general health, beauty, royalty, medicine, yoga, and international politics. Some of the most interesting and educational ideas are buried in small but less significant news reports and narrow classified advertisements, […]

Shenali D Waduge  When the views of the majority populace of a country are ignored and they react after enduring with patience they cannot be ridiculed as being xenophobic & racist. Going against the established system manipulated and well controlled by a handful of people is not an easy task but 52% of the Brits […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග යෝක් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ආපන ශාලාවේදී මට නිකෝල් කැප්‍රියෝටි හමු විය​. කැපචීනෝ කෝප්පයක් ගත් ඇය මගේ මේසයට ආවාය​. “කොහොමද මැප් ගේ පරියේෂණ වැඩ ? මම ඇසුවෙමි. ඇල්ස්ටෙයාර් මැප් පරියේෂණ මනෝ විද්‍යා මහාචාර්‍යවරයාය​.  නිකෝල් ඔහු යටතේ මනෝ විද්‍යා පරියේෂන විශයක් කරන්නීය​. ඇල්ස්ටෙයාර් මැප් අමුතු අන්දමේ චරිතයකි. ඔහු බොහෝ සෙයින් විහිළු කරයි. එහෙත් ඔහු […]

  Dr Sudath Gunasekara  17.7.2016 A Comment on above statement Don’t worry Mr. Ex President. They will soon do that as well. They are counting down and marking time only until the proper time come. Don’t forget that it was one of the main pledges Chandrika-Ranil-Sirisena Trio has made to their advisers and conspirators led […]

By Dharman Wickremarathne Thirty-three years ago – from July 24 to July 30, 1983 – took place one of the biggest massacres in Sri Lanka’s history. The perception of the Tamil people was that Black July 1983 was a crime well-planned by organized groups linked to the then Government. According to official Government statistics the […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න ලාංකීය ඉතිහාසයේ දරුණුතම මිනිස් සංහාරයක් ලෙස සැලකිය හැකි 1983 ජුලි 24 වැනිදා සිට ජුලි 30වැනිදා දක්වා කාලය තුළදී වන අතර එය සිදුවී 2016 ජුලි 24වැනිදාට වසර 33කි. එවකට ජනාධිපති ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධන ගේ එජාප ආණ්ඩුවට සම්බන්ධ සංවිධානාත්මක පිරිස්වල අනුග්‍රහය ඇතිව සිදුවූ 1983 කළු ජූලිය සැලසුම්ගත ව්‍යාපාරයක් බව ද්‍රවිඩ ජනතාවගේ ආකල්පය විය. ආණ්ඩුවේ නිල සංඛ්‍යාලේඛන […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island July 15, 2016, 7:47 pm Sri Lanka is currently engaged in the process of replacing the existing executive presidential system with a Parliamentary system of government. The compulsion for the change is primarily because executive presidential systems are seen as conducive to abuse of power since considerable power is vested […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando A journalist’s main function is to gather ideas. Here, the journalist is faced with a big question mark … ..  ‘Where to find them and the facts to support them’? This can be one of the biggest headaches for the beginners to journalism – the cub journalists! A glance at […]

By Afshain Afzal India has started a project that would soon utilize cow urine to clean the floors in government offices and other institutions. The distilled urine will be added natural ingredients such as coconut or pine oil to cover the smell of urine. As per the details published in The Economic Times, Jagdish Bhatia, […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Continuing its call to release all prisoners of conscience in Myanmar (also known as Burma), Amnesty International demands an immediate and unconditional release of 15 factory workers and student union members, who were detained by the Myanmar authority after clamping criminal charges for organizing a peaceful protest demonstration. On 18 May, […]

By Latheef Farook Courtesy The Daily Mirror Courtesy The After losing more than two dozen elections, the United National Party (UNP), was voted into office last year. The entire Muslim community voted for the UNP to free themselves from the post-war persecution of Muslims by the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime. However, dismissing Muslim sentiments, the UNP […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Joint Opposition MP Shehan Semasinghe is concerned with the Electoral System Committee’s proceedings, in which he is a member. “The government,” he states, “is still not clear whether executive powers should continue with the President or transfer to the Prime Minister, and President to be ceremonial. But without deciding how […]

By Gagani Weerakoon Courtesy Ceylon Today Last week, fans of the Nuga Sevana programme in Rupavahini witnessed US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal, who is on an official visit to Sri Lanka, preparing a polos embula –local spicy with guidance and tips from none other than Sri Lanka’s celebrity […]

PM eyeing to bring the federal solution – Lokuge අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කරන්න යන්නේ ෆෙඩරල් පොරොන්දු ඉටු කිරීමටයි… – ගාමිණී ලොකුගේ.

Jolly Somasundram Courtesy The Island July 17, 2016, 9:07 pm The front page of The Island of July 13 carried a media statement of His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, on delays in the rehabilitation of those who suffered from the explosion of ordnance at Salawa. The statement “urged government to waive red tape”, to get the […]

Sarath Obeysekera In a statement issued by His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, on delays in the rehabilitation of those who suffered from the explosion of ordnance at Salawa. The statement “urged government to waive red tape”, to get the job done. Very often you see politicians invite Buddhist priests to their meetings. During the addressing […]

Don’t blame only me for foreign debt burden – MR අපිත් පරණ ආණ්ඩුවල ණය ගෙව්වා… අද ණය ගෙවාගන්න බැරිව මට බණිනවා… හිටපු ජනපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ කියයි.

Courtesy The Island July 17, 2016, 10:40 pm The Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) has warned of dire consequences unless the construction of the Indian funded Sampur coal-fired power project is commenced immediately. The IESL says that unless tangible measures are taken to enhance power generation capacity and procurement of power from private wind […]

Courtesy The Guardian (UK) New dietary guidelines could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1bn tonnes by 2030, and could lessen country’s problems with obesity and diabetes. The Chinese government has outlined a plan to reduce its citizens’ meat consumption by 50%, in a move that climate campaigners hope will provide major heft in the effort […]

Kanthar Balanathan   Australia DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), CEng. MIEE Since independence, it was certain that Tamils settled outside of N&E, always voted for the United National Party (UNP) candidates. It is also noted that Ranil Wickremasinghe always have a soft corner for old boys of Royal College, Colombo for political appointments, and serious gaffes, […]

Editorial The ever outspoken House of Lords peer Lord Naseby who always maintains his sense of  fair judgement and perception has spoken out on behalf of Sri Lankaa as the Island Nation continues to maintain her right to handle her own affairs without interference from foreign powers seemingly with their own agendas. In his recent […]

Indisgt By Sunil Kumar July 17, 2016,  Highly Respected  House of Lords Peer Lord Naseby  has said it was unfair to demand the Sri Lanka government to have foreign judges to investigate alleged war crimes, while the United Kingdom was using its own judges to inquire into the Iraqi invasion by the British government. Perhaps […]

By Dharman Wickremarathne July 15 marked 36 years since the great general strike of 1980 when 40,356 public and private sector employees lost their jobs for the first time in the history of Sri Lanka.The United National Party which contested the general election of July 22, 1977 under the slogan Let’s Create a Righteous Society” […]

 Sarath Obeysekera (A disgusted Investor ) BOI has released a paper in Jun 2016 called  STRUCTURED PROJECT PROPOSALS for investment with  a list of projects available in Sri Lanka for investors to mobilize various amounts of money ranging from 5 million Dollars to 100 million .Crown land in various part of the island is offered to […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි යාපනය විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ සිංහල සිසුන්ට පහර දීම පිලිබඳව විවිධ අදහස් හා මතවාද සමාජ වෙබ් අඩවි ඔස්සේ ප්‍රචාරය වී තිබුනි. ඒ පහරදීමට මුල් වූ හේතුව ලෙස දක්වා තිබුනේ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ නවක සිසුන් පිලිගැනීමේ උත්සවයට උඩරට නැටුම් කණ්ඩායමක් රැගෙන ඒම පිලිබඳව දෙමළ සිසුන් කෝපයට පත් වූ නිසා බවයි. මේ සිද්ධිය මගින් මීට සමාන වූ අතීත […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  ලංකාවේ යුද අපරාධ විමර්ශනය සඳහා  විදේශ විනිසුරන් යෙදවිය යුතු බවට එංගලන්තය තීරණය කිරීම හා එසේ කරන ලෙස ලංකාවට බලපෑම් කිරීම  එංගලන්තයේ දෙබිඩි ප්‍රතිපත්තිය හෙලිකරන්නකය්  නෙස්බි සාමිවරයා පෙන්වා දෙය .  ඉරාක ආක්‍රමණය ගැන පරීක්ෂණයට  විදේශ විනිසුරන් නොගන්නා එංගලන්තය  ලංකාවට විදෙස් විනිසුරන් අවශ්ය් කියන්නේ  උන්ගේ නොසන්ඩාල කම නිසාය . තවත් කලක් ලංකාව සුරාකන්නට නොහැකිවීමේ  වේදනාව […]

Chandrasena Pandithage Sinhalese university students were beaten by Tamil students. This was happened in Jaffna university on 16th July 2016. We do not get clear reason for this attack. If the reason is Sinhalism  We feel very sorry on the attackers and whole Tamil community in Sri Lanka. University is an university It is not […]

Chandrasena Pandithage சிங்களம் பல்கலைக்கழக மாணவர்கள் தமிழ் மாணவர்கள் தாக்கப்பட்டார்கள். இது 16 ஆம் ஜூலை 2016 அன்று யாழ் பல்கலைக்கழக நடந்தது நாம் இந்த தாக்குதலுக்கான தெளிவான காரணம் இல்லை இருந்தது. காரணம் Sinhalism இருந்தால் நாம் இலங்கையில் தாக்குதல் மற்றும் முழு தமிழ் சமூகத்துக்கும் மிகவும் வருந்துகிறேன். பல்கலைக்கழகம் ஒரு பல்கலைக்கழகம் இது ஒரு Tamiliansity அல்ல. யாரோ ஒரு Tamiliansity தொடங்க வேண்டுமானால் அவர்கள் என்று “sity” தொடங்க மற்றும் தங்கள் சொந்த […]

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