Dilrook Kannangara The Geneva and You meeting brought out some remarkable hidden truths out into the open. We thank the organisers and hope the series will continue. Little or nothing have been discussed about these so far but they are at the heart of what the international community” demands from Sri Lanka. Understanding these is […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් ඉන්දියාව හා ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාව අතර එට්කා ගිවිසුම අත්සන් කිරීමට අගමැති රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා කියන පරිදි ඔහුට උවමනා ලෙස ඉඩ නොදෙන බව ශ‍්‍රි ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂය පවසයි. එම පක්‍ෂ මාධ්‍ය ප‍්‍රකාශක ඇමති ඩිලාන් පෙරේරා මහතා මේ බව කියා සිටියේ කොළඹ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමිනි. භාණ්ඩ සම්බන්ධයෙන් විශාල ප‍්‍රශ්නයක් නැතත් වෘත්තිකයන් සම්බන්ධයේ කිසිදු එකගතාවක් […]

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C. Demonstrating the Embassy’s support for the District of Columbia’s environmental and sustainability goals, Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam joined over 62 Ambassadors and Embassy representatives on October 5 at the Embassy of Italy to sign the DC Sustainability Pledge. The signing ceremony was organized by the DC Greening Embassies Forum in collaboration […]

The Buddhist Channel, Sept 26, 2016 Seoul, South Korea — The first Asian Buddhist Animal Rights Conference co-hosted by Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) and Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE) will be a single whole day event on September 30, 2016 and will be held at Hotel Skypark Kingstown, Dongdaemun in Seoul, South Korea […]

Dr Hector Perera         London In places like Sri Lanka, one can get hold of plenty of fresh vegetables in local food fairs or at Pola”. They have these food fairs in nearly every town, usually once a week. Sunday food fairs are very popular and massive. Not only vegetables but dry fish as well are […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මහාවංශය 78පරි- 28ගාථාව ”’ඉක්බිති හේ තෙමේ එක කලෙක සිංහල දුතයන් කැඳවා කියනුයේ මෙතැන් පටන්අපගේ රටට සිංහල දේශයෙන් නැව් නොඑවිය යුත්තාහ””(12සියවසේ ”රාමන්ය”’ දේශයේ අරිවර්දන රජුගේ ක්‍රියා කලාපය මෙයින්දැක්වේ”””) 76පරි-66ගා–”’පසුව භීමවික්‍රම ඇති සිංහලයෝ ක්‍රම උල්ලංඝනය කල නුවරට වැද ශාස්ත්‍රයෙන් කර්කෂවූ අරමණ හිමියාමරුහ”—–(පැරකුම්සමය-) 76පරි- 104ගා—එරට ප්‍රතිපාදනය කොට සොලීදෙශයෙන්ද පඬිරටින්ද ගන්නා ලද්දාවූ බොහෝ අසුන් හා මිනිසුන්ද ඇතුන්ද […]

All those Catholics who think UNP is part of the religion must listen to this

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island October 5, 2016, 12:00 pm Alleging that a confidential investigation report in respect of operations undertaken by the Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) pertaining to Central Bank bond scams in 2015 had been held up by an interested party, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa, MP, yesterday urged the Monetary […]

Adaderana Owing to the controversial Treasury bond issue, interest rates in Sri Lanka have started to go up, former Minister Basil Rajapaksa says. He expressed this view while speaking at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (06). He pointed out that interest rates have increased to 12.35 per cent from 6.2 per cent […]

adaderana October 6, 2016  05:27 pm  FA MP Janaka Wakkumbura says that the government is attempting to increase the tax burden already placed on the people and therefore invited the women in the country to dash coconuts over this issue. The women in the country are prepared to dash coconuts next Wednesday in order to send […]

Editorial By The Nation – Much has been said in the electronic media in particular over the past few days concerning the slandering, criticizing and threatening of judges in the online media on judgments delivered by them. Among them was the allegation that telephone lines of a judge who had given a dissenting judgment in a […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති මල්ලි ටෙලිකොම් සභාපති කිරීමත් ඔහුගේ අය ආණ්ඩුවේ තැන් තැන්වලට දාපු එක ගැනත් අපිට විවේචනයක් තියෙනවා යයි ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවේ ක්‍රිඩා අමාත්‍ය දයාසිරි ජයසේකර පසුගිය සතිඅග ඉරිදා ලoකාදිපය සමඟ පැවති මුහුණට මුහුණ” සoවාදයේදි ප්‍රකාශ කරන ලදි. රාජපක්ෂ පවුල් පාලනය ගැන කිය කියා ආපු අයම මේ ආණ්ඩුව යටතේ පවුල් පාලනය ගොඩනගනවා නම් […]

By Sandun Jayasekara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Retired High Court Judge, Maxwel Paranagama, Chairman of the Presidential ‘Commission on Missing Persons’ discussed its mandate, final report, recommendations and other related issues with Dailymirror. Following are the excerpts of the interview: Q: Could you please explain briefly the task former President Mahinda Rajapaksa entrusted upon you? On […]

By Shaahidah Riza Courtesy Ceylon Today Co Vice President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Member of Parliament, Dullas Alahapperuma, accused the SLFPers in the government who are supporters of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga (CBK) of discriminating against the SLFPers in the Opposition. The SLFP group with the government is fragmented into two sub factions; […]

YASARATNE GAMAGE Courtesy The Daily News The North Central Provincial High Court of Civil Appeal today ordered the North Central Province Governor, Chief Minister and provincial ministers among others who were accused of alleged misuse of state funds, to appear before the court on October 17. North Central Provincial High Court of Civil Appeal Judge Adithya Patabendige […]