Dr Sarath Obeysekera  IGP was boasting about beating up demonstrators  without killing them .We had news during last regime about local politicians killing  an Israeli from UK .We also  heard how sons of big shots roaming in car parks beating others and also getting beaten up .We heard about sportsmen getting killed with the connivance […]

V. Anandasangaree  General Secretary Tamil United Liberation Front 04th  August, 2016 Hon.R.Sampanthan M.P Leader of  the opposition  Colombo. My dear Sam, Let the world know the truths Seven years had passed since the war came to an end. The government that was formed with your support has functioned for over 20 months now. The tussle […]

Sarath Obeysekera Quote We are looking at getting the best talent from private sector; but of course the problem is the pay, because the government can’t afford that kind of remuneration.” Unquote There is an opinion in the Island today by Mr G Weethunge who says Quote Waste and misuse of public funds August 3, […]

Sudath Gunasekara 4.8.2016   Dear Patriots, Look at the following advertisement issued by THE HIGH COMMISSION OF INDIA COLOMBO on August 2, 2016 Applications are invited from the children of estate workers, who are… Home › Press Releases › Applications are invited from the children of estate workers, who are resident on estates, for award of scholarships by […]

Courtesy The Island August 4, 2016, 9:45 pm Former President and Kurunegala District parliamentarian Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday called on all MPs to oppose the VAT Bill when it is taken up by parliament next week. He said unbearable taxes were being imposed on the public due to costly election handouts like the salary hike given […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island August 4, 2016, 9:45 pm Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday told The Island that the government had now accepted his public declaration that India had pressured the previous government to abandon the $ 1.4 bn Chinese funded off-shore Port City Project. The former Defence Secretary first made the […]

Ranil Senanayake Courtesy The Island August 4, 2016, 9:26 pm The recent statement from the Cabinet spokesman on the ‘Port City’ project is a slap in the face of the many Sri Lankans, who lobbied and protested this project on legal, as well as health and safety grounds. According to him, it was not Sri Lankans […]

By Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror What did the Joint Opposition achieve by marching from Kandy to Colombo? What does it say about the strength of the joint Opposition? Does it say anything about the strength or otherwise of what is being called, tongue-in-cheek, the ‘Official SLFP (Sri Lanka Freedom Party)’? Has to solidified the […]

Please sign the petition https://www.change.org/p/united-nations-human-rights-council-save-larung-gar-world-s-largest-buddhist-monastery-home-to-10-000-facing-demolition?  The Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, which is probably the world’s largest Buddhist monastic community, was founded by Choeje Yishin Norbu Khenpo Jigme Phuntshok. The academy, as framed by the late Khenpo, has been serving as the wellspring of knowledge. It is also the home for many Buddhist practitioners and the source […]

lanka C news ජන සටන පාද යාත්‍රාව පිලිබඳ ආණ්ඩුවේ කතා ලංකා ඉතිහාසයට පමණක් නොවේ ලෝක ඉතිහාසයට අළුත් පරිච්ඡේදයක් එකතු කරමින් අපි සාර්ථකව ජන සටන පා ගමන අවසන් කලා. සමස්ථ ලෝක ඉතිහාසයේම පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයක් පවත්වා වසරක් ඇතුලත, ආණ්ඩුවට එරෙහිව පා ගමනක මෙතෙක් ලෝකයේ වාර්තා වුණු වැඩිම සෙනඟ වාර්තා වුණේ ජන සටන පා ගමනේ. පා ගමනේ සාර්ථකත්වය […]

Courtesy Adaderana An observation has reportedly been made by Minister Kabir Hashim to finalise an agreement for building a bridge connecting India and Sri Lanka, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya leader Udaya Gammanpila says. The observation was made while speaking at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (04). According to Gammanpila, the observation was made while […]

Indra Samaratunga Courtesy The Island Whilst I am no admirer of the brand of politics practised by the Rajapaksas, I am equally, if not more abhorrent, of the way the ruling coalition has responded to his “pada yathra” which concluded a few days ago. An event which would have passed into history as another colourful political […]

For many years the words international banker, Rothschild, Money and Gold have held a mystical type of fascination for many people around the world but particularly in the United States. Over the years in the United States, the international bankers have come in for a great deal of criticism by a wide variety of individuals […]

Courtesy Adaderana August 4, 2016  04:04 pm  Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that what makes the VAT increase most objectionable is that it is being imposed on the public to finance the salary increase and various other concessions that the government gave against all economic reasoning in order to win the general election. No previous government […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Government’s revelation that it had to suspend the Port City Project due to pressure from India not only shows the incompetency of the government but also reflects badly on both India and China, the joint opposition charged today. Cabinet Spokesman and Minister Rajitha Senaratne on Tuesday revealed that the Port […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island August 3, 2016, 9:03 pm A group of ministers, on Tuesday, making a statement on the Colombo Port City Project, strove to have the public believe that the aggrieved Chinese company had agreed to forgo damages (amounting to USD 125 mn). They declared that the economic diplomacy of the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government had […]

D. Weeratunga Nugegoda Courtesy The Island August 3, 2016, 9:08 pm The Treasury is allocating funds to various ministries, departments and projects. We must analyze and see how this money is being used by our politicians and senior government officers. Government funds should be used for development of the country and welfare of the people. Actually, what […]

අපිට අද පේනවා වැට් බද්දට රට පුරාම විශාල විරෝධයක් ඇතිවෙලා තියෙනවා. විශේෂයෙන්ම නගර ආශ්‍රිත වෙළඳ ප්‍රජාව අද ජනතා සහයෝගයත් ඇතිව මේ බද්දට විරුද්ධව පාරට බැහැල තියෙනවා. ආණ්ඩුව මේ බද්ද සාධාරණීකරනය කරන්න පහුගිය කාලේ විශාල මුදලක් වියදම් කරලා හැම ජනමාධ්‍යකම දැන්වීම් දාල කිවුවේ මගේ පාලන සමය තුළ ගත්ත ණය ගෙවන්න බදු අයකරන්න වෙලා තියෙනවා කියලා. මෙතන […]

www.mahinda.info කිරිබත්ගොඩ සිට කොළඹ බලා පිටත් වූ ජන සටන පාද යාත්‍රාවට අති දැවැන්ත ජන සහභාගීත්වයක් දක්නට ලැබුණි. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිඳුන් පෙරටු කරගනිමින් කිලෝමීටර් 7 ක් පමණ එක දිගට ජනතාව මෙම පාදයාත්‍රාවේ යෙදුණි. කලාවැවේ දිය දෝතක් අතට ගෙන මේ මගේ වත්කම යැයි, එදවස ධාතුසේන නරනිඳු කාශ්‍යප පුතණුවන් ඉදිරියේ කිවූහ. අද පැමිණි මහ ජන ජන ගංගාව දෙසට […]

by C.R. de Silva, Retired World Bank Official Courtesy The Island Continued from yesterday The Telegraph (Business News) has just headlined a story “IMF admits disastrous love affair with the Euro and apologises for the Immolation of Greece”, and commented on the IMF’s negative evaluation scenario summarized above, as follows : “The IMF’s top staff misled their […]

 News from Sri Lanka   Tamilnet the LTTE website is operational. LTTE cadres that fled during conflict are returning. LTTE families are being given land in high security areas. LTTE cadres that refused to be rehabilitated are now released with no reason and LTTE fronts listed under UNSC Resolution 1373 have been deproscribed without any […]

Sarath Obeysekera Jala jolts Sri Lanka Inc…. Malaysian official Idris Jala in the Chamber of Commerce  Quote Addressing Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake the Malaysian official called on him to, find a way to get the private sector into a room for eight weeks and run the labs and bring the recommendations that anybody can view. […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න ලාංකීය පුවත්පත් කලාවට නව මානයක් ඇතිකරමින් අළුත් පත්තර නැඹුරුවක් ඇති කල උපහාස රුසියෙකුවූ දෙටු ප්‍රවීණ පුවත්පත් කලාවේදී චින්තන ජයසේන 2016 අගෝස්තු 2වැනිදා සිය ජීවන මගින් සමුගත්තේය. මොරටුවේදී 1948 ඔක්තෝබර් 16වැනිදා උපන් චින්තන මියයන විට 68 හැවිරිදිය. ඔහුගේ අවසන් කටයුතු ගල්කිස්ස පොදු සුසාන භූමියේදී අගෝස්තු 4වැනිදා පස්වරු 3ට සිදුකෙරේ. චින්තන ජයසේන යනු ලංකාවේ වැඩිම […]

කොළොන්න / සුනිල් හරිස්චන්ද්‍ර GossipClanka.com සාලාව අවි ගබඩාව පුපුරලා දවස් දෙකකට පස්සේ ගියා වේයන්ගොඩ තිබෙන අවි ගබඩාවට. එහි තිබෙන බර අවි උණ්ඩ, මෝටාර් උණ්ඩ, ඔක්කොම දැම්මා ලොරිවලට ත්‍රිකුණාමලයට ගෙනිච්චා. ත්‍රිකුණාමලයේදී නැවට පැටෙව්වා. නැව ගියා කිලෝමීටර් නවයක් එහා ගැඹුරු මුහුදට. සියලු බර අවි ටික දැම්මා මුහුදට. කෝටි ගණනක් වටිනා අර උණ්ඩ ටික දැම්මා මුහුදට. ඔබලා දන්නවා සාලාව […]

Neil Clark RT The ICTY’s exoneration of the late Slobodan Milosevic, the former President of Yugoslavia, for war crimes committed in the Bosnia war, proves again we should take NATO claims regarding its ’official enemies’ not with a pinch of salt, but a huge lorry load. For the past twenty odd years, neocon commentators and […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Nobel peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus arrives in Brazil as he was honored as an Olympic torchbearer for the Rio Olympic  Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach. The first & only Bangladeshi Nobel laureate was chosen to join the mission of spreading the spirit of Rio 2016 […]

Shenali D Waduge Richard de Soysa was a well-known journalist, actor and activist. Yet, we are still to establish if Ekneligoda is even a journalist. Daily Mirror’s News Editor Sandun Jayasekera says I have been serving as a journalist for 30 years now. As far as I know, this person being mentioned has never written […]

By Noor Nizam. Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice” 2nd.,, August 2016. The Muslims finally made a decisive move to joint the Pada Yatra from Kegalle, Mawanella and Thihariya. Many Muslims were seen in the march flowing into Colombo. This is how leading newspapers reported on […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති ථෙරවාදී කලාපයේ අපි එකිනෙකා අතර බෙදා හදාගත්ත ප්‍රධාන ම – ඒ වගේ ම වැදගත් ම; දේ තමයි අපේ ආගම. ඒ කියන්නේ ථෙරවාදය. මේ කලාපයේ බෞද්ධ අපි හැමෝ ම මූලික වශයෙන් ථෙරවාදය පිළිගන්නවා. ඒ අනුව කටයුතුකරනවා. දැන් දැන් ඇතැම් අය ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් – එහෙම නැතිනම් ථෙරවාදයේ තියෙනවා කියලා ඒ අය හිතන අඩුපාඩු සම්බන්ධයෙන්; විවිධ […]