By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Recently a Sri Lankan woman from Australia made an online booking in a ‘grand’ hotel prior to her arrival in Colombo. Her flight landed at the Bandaranaike International Airport much earlier than the scheduled time. When she approached the hotel reception in Colombo she was informed that her […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. The 50th Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 14 August 2016 with a powerful and faith-inspiring address by the World Head the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. During his […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Emphasizing on preventive healthcare initiatives for the media persons along with their close relatives, the Guwahati Press Club  initiates for a special program titled ‘Evening with a Doctor’ at the press club premises on every Saturday evening. The first program of the series begins on 20 August 2016, where  Dr Kashyap […]

Shenali D Waduge While we empathize with the Muslims for the manner that the Anglo-Europeans have virtually destroyed the Middle East and killed hundreds of thousands of people in the process as well as manipulate a religion they created (Wahhabism) in order to not only divide the Muslims but cause dissent among all others against […]

Chandre Dharmawardana The New Zealand government, after an long review of the weedicide Glyphosate (Roundup), has now given it the ALL CLEAR signal, confirming that it is VERY SAFE for use. Here is the report: http://www.epa.govt.nz/Publications/EPA_glyphosate_review.pdf BACKGROUND TO THE STORY: Sometime ago there were sensational claims that Glyphosate,  the popular weedicide,  causes kidney diseases, Cancer […]

Malinda Seneviratne Small nations typically do not have much by way of bargaining power vis-à-vis powerful nations; ‘small’ meaning economically and militarily weak rather than land size.  Weak, however, does not mean helpless. Indeed there are very few if any relationships between the powerful and the weak that are not characterized by contestation and continuous negotiation […]

Dr Hector Perera     London Many years ago majority of Sri Lanka people had no facilities such as gas and electric cookers, microwaves and ovens for cooking and baking. Now all these are there even in any average house so cooking cannot be that difficult at all. Those days they employed some poor people to do […]

 www.mahinda.info චෝදනා වල පදනම් විරහිත ස්වභාවය සලකමින් වතාවක් ඇප ලැබුණ නඩුවට නැවතත් නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මන්ත්‍රීතුමාව අත් අඩංගුවට ගත් අයුරු නීතීඥ ප්‍රේමනාත් සී දොලවත්ත මහතා පැහැදිළි කරයි. නීතිය නවන හැටි පොලිස්පතිවරයා පවසන්නේ මෙලෙසයි. අනිත් අයටත් බලන්නට SHARE කරන්න.

Courtesy Adaderana August 18, 2016  04:11 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says he calls upon all members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to carefully observe the moves that are being made to weaken the party. What we are now seeing is the second phase in the plan to destroy the SLFP. The first was […]

lanka C news ශ‍්‍රීලනිපයේ සංවිධායකවරුන් කිහිප දෙනෙකුගේ සංවිධායක ධුර අත්හිටුවා නව සංවිධායකයින් පත් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදඑස් පල කරමින් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇති මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මෙසේය. ජනප්‍රිය සංවිධායකවරුන් ඉවත් කිරීම තුළින් ශ්‍රීලනිපය දෙකඩ කිරීම ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂයේ ආසන සංවිධායකවරුන් වූ මහින්ද යාපා අබේවර්ධන, පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි, රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන, සී.බී.රත්නායක, […]

 උපුටා ගැනීම ෆේස්බූක් අම්බලමෙනි. මේ ෆොටෝ එක අහම්බෙන් දැක්ක එකක්… “මේ මොකක්ද අයියෙ..?” කියල මං විශේෂ කාර්‍ය බලකායෙ උන්නු අයිය කෙනෙකුගෙන් ඇහුවෙ ඇත්තටම මේ මොකක්ද කියල මමත් දැනගෙන හිටියෙ නැති නිසා. “මේක “සෙල්” එකක්… අපේ හමුදාවෙ කොල්ලන්ව අල්ලගත්තම උන්ව කූඩු කරල තියන්ඩ කොටි හදල තියන හිර කූඩුවක්… බලන්ඩකො ඔය පින්තූරෙ හොදට.. කූඩුව හිරකාරයගෙ ඇගේ සයිස් […]

Gagani Weerakoon Courtesy Ceylon Today President Maithripala Sirisena is all set to drive forward his party on a different path as the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) is planning to celebrate its 65th anniversary more splendidly and proudly on 4 September in Kurunegala. Interestingly, President Sirisena who celebrated the 64th anniversary in his hometown Polonnaruwa last […]

WINSTON DE VALLIERE Political analyst Courtesy Ceylon Today On the one hand, we find the government, meaning, President Maithripala Sirisena and Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe becoming quite adept at almost with nonchalance brushing off every volley fired by the Opposition, with almost the demeanour of one flicking a blowing away with one puff the speck of dust off one’s […]

 Courtesy The Daily Mirror An internationally wanted Sri Lankan accused of terrorist activities is living just outside the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) as a Canadian citizen, CTV Toronto reported on Thursday. It said the case raises questions about the weight of Interpol notices as well as how the Canadian government deals with people they believe […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island August 18, 2016, 12:00 pm The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) is making the most of the increasing impotency of the state to run a parallel government of sorts in the northern parts of the country; it is also working overtime to annex the Eastern Province to the North. Chief Minister C. V. […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island August 18, 2016, 12:00 pm The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill in the form presented has come and gone. It is likely to reappear in another avatar. The reason for the Supreme Court to determine that the Bill was null and void was the vigilance of civil society whose interests […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island August 19, 2016, 12:00 pm The US has refrained from making its position clear on Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Wignewaran’s request that the visiting American medical personnel examine the rehabilitated LTTE cadres to find out whether they have been injected with poisonous substances while they were being rehabilitated. […]

Shenali D Waduge India” was ruled by many kings as well as foreign rulers. Some had large empires while some ruled just one city. Even at the height of expansion no dynasty held the entire area that is today called India. ‘India’ was never one single country until the British put all the princely kingdoms […]

Malin Abeyatunge Under unforeseen circumstances,  OMP Bill passed through the Parliament for the country’s bad luck. The ulterior motive of the Bill is a complete camouflage to hunt our brave soldiers to appease the Tamil Diaspora, TNA, Mangala Gang and the western supported UN. It is unbelievable that before 24 hours of passing this bill, […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම දුකසේ ඉගෙනගෙන ගමේ සිට උඩුගංබලා පීනූ කෙනෙක් වශයෙන් මට ඇති එක සතුටක් නම් සිංහල බෞද්ධයින්ට අසාධාරණ ලෙස චෝදනාකල හා ගැරහූ පුද්ගලයින් කීප දෙනෙකුටම ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ අභියෝග කිරීමට හැකිවීම හා ඔවුන් නිරුත්තර කිරීමයි.  මෙවැනි සුදු හා සුදු නොවන හත් අට දෙනෙකු ගෙන් මට මතක දෙන්නෙක් නම් බුඩිසම් බිට්‌රේඩ් යන පොත ලියූ ස්ටැන්ලි තම්බයියා හා ද […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Fears have been expressed by concerned groups and individuals that the special place now enjoyed by Buddhism in the Constitution is likely to be done away with as part of the reforms proposed by the experts appointed to advise the government based on public representations. But government ministers confidently dismiss such concerns […]

K.B.H. Colombo-06 Courtesy The Island August 17, 2016, 7:57 pm This assertion was made when at several public gatherings in her recollection of her reign when the LTTE activists had a heyday at Colombo and suburbs, including even an attempt on her life. The last of this utterance was at the opening the Ranpokunugama, Nittambuwa Public […]

Observer Courtesy The Island August 17, 2016, 7:56 pm Politicians from the top downwards, and fellow travelling columnists, keep on repeating that the current foreign exchange  difficulties faced by the country stem from servicing the foreign debts incurred by the Rajapaksa Government amounting to Rs. 9,000 billion and more. The evidence, however, supports the view that […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම වෙනම දෙමළ රටක් සඳහා වන ලෝක ව්‍යාපාරය වෙන රටවලද ආධාරය ලබාගෙන නැතිකරනවා යන්න සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති වරයාට කල නොහැකි දෙයක් වුවත් (වෙන රටවල් දෙමළ රටක් හදන්නට උදව් කරන නිසා ඔහුට කලහැකිදේ නම් ඒ රට ලංකාවේ කොටසක් කඩාගෙන බිහිවීම වැලැක්වීමය), ලංකාව බුදු දහමට අනුව පාලනය කරනවා යන අදහස ක්‍රියාවට නැගීම දුෂ්කර වුවත්, කරන්නට උත්සාහ කලහැකි […]

By Malinda Seneviratne  First they offer help and then they enslave ‘First they had the book and we had the land. Then they said close your eyes, let us pray”. When we opened our eyes, we had the book and they had the land.’ — Bishop Desmond Tutu on the relationship between invader and missionary in […]

Sarath Obeysekera We had Indian Peace Agreement signed and Sri lanka was forced t hand over Trinco  Tank farms .These are strategic locations in the country and Indians have kept the area under their control and no local company allowed to develop, Ceylon Petroleum is also helpless .Sri Lanka Ports Authority who is supposed to […]

By, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha Mr. Sirisena has surrendered to Tamil Secessionists. The enacted Bill for the Organization for Missing People and the heavily loaded VAT and Taxes on the Theravada Buddhist Cultured Sinhalese people of this Theravada Buddhist Sinhalese Cultural Land; and the freedom of the wild ass given to Companies to claim depreciation […]

මෙන්න ‘ඔන්ගොයින් හොරකම්’.. මුදල් ඇමති බිරිඳට දුවට අපූරු තෑග්ගක් දීලා.. මුදල් ඇමති රවි කරුනානායක මහතා විසින් වරායේ පිහිටි රජයේ ගුදමක් තම බිරිඳ හා දියණියගේ නමට ලබා දී ඇති බව ජවිපෙ පළාත් සභා මන්ත‍්‍රී වසන්ත සමරසිංහ මහතා අනාවරණය කර තිබේ. මෙම ගුදම සඳහා රුපියල් කෝටි හතලිහක් පුද්ගලික ඇපකර තබා ඇතැයිද මේවා ‘ඔන්ගොයින් හොරකම්’ යයිද කී ඔහු […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Human beings would always like to have an appreciation of their identity, either from institutions or politically as members elected by the public. Socially, of course such identification could be in the form of fathers, children, teachers and others. Culturally they could be seen as social groups such as black, […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්  ලංකාවේ බොහෝ විද්වතුන් රාවන පුරාවෘත්තය බැහැර කරන නමුදු ඉන්දියාවේ ධනුස්කොඩියත් තලෙයි මන්නාරමත් අතර බොහෝ තුනී වට ගල් අතුරා ඊට  උඩින් පහුරු යොදා සාදා තිබූ එල්ලෙන පාළම නොහොත් සංගිලි පාළම ගැන කිසිවක් නොකියති. රාම රාවන යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව විභිෂණට ලංකාවේ පාලනය භාර දී රාම ගේ අණසක යටතේ පැවතිය යුතු බවට සම්මතයක් ඇති කර ගෙන තිබුණි. […]