Dilrook Kannangara This is not the first time UNP has proven it cannot manage law and order and economic affairs functions. President Kumaratunga came to the same realisation in November 2003 that President Sirisena is getting into now. She took a bold step to takeover defence, finance and media ministries under her. Otherwise, the UNP […]

DR Sudath Gunasekara 17.10. 2016 MR President & Prime Mister, Republic of Sri Lanka Could you please read the following write up and immediately sack the present Leader of the Opposition in Parliament whom you have appointed illegally, at least now, and appoint a person who can command the majority in Parliament as the Leader […]

Sarath Wijesnghe Former Ambassador to U A E and Israel ECTA and International Relations It is reported that the ETCA – (Indo Sri Lanka Economic and Technical Corporation Agreement) will be concluded by the beginning of next year despite many deliberations for and against. Hon  Nirmala Sitaramanthe  Indian Trade Minister is said to be exited, […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The Geneva Resolution is our immediate threat and should be countered first, argues journalist Shamindra Ferdinando. In his weekly column in ‘The Island’, he repeatedly highlights that the last phase of the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was not a war without witnesses. He regularly challenges […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy  Ceylon Today Govindaraj S. wants to share with everyone in a world ‘forum’ an interesting blog that has gone viral via email, which hit my mailbox too, on a frustrating and disappointing viewpoint of an Indian lady about the British, following her daughter’s traumatic experience in connection with a visa […]

Courtesy ANI Colombo [Sri Lanka], Oct.17 (ANI): An entire range of defense cooperation has been reviewed by Sri Lanka and China during the recent visit of Sri Lanka’s Secretary of Defense to Beijing, to participate in the second China – Sri Lanka Defense Cooperation Dialogue. A delegation was led by the Secretary of Defense on […]

By P K Balachandran Courtesy The New Indain Express COLOMBO: The Director General of the Sri Lankan Commission on Bribery and Corruption, Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe, sent in her resignation on Monday, following President Maithripala Sirisena’s public outburst last Wednesday against the politicization” of the commission’s working. Dilrukshi Wickramasinghe, appointed in February 2015, is generally believed to […]

www.mahinda.info එංගලන්තයේ ඔක්ස්ෆර්ඩ් නුවර පිහිටි යුරෝපිය ව්‍යාපාරික සම්මේලනය විසින් ලෝකයේ විශිෂ්ටතම ජාත්‍යන්තර සමුද්‍රාරක්ෂක ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ව්‍යාපාරික සන්නාමය සඳහා වාර්ෂිකව පිරිනමන ‘සොක්‍රටීස් සම්මානය’ 2016 වසර සඳහා පිරිනමා ඇත්තේ ශ්‍රිලංකාවේ ඇවන්ගාර්ඩ් සමුද්‍රාරක්ෂක සමාගමටය. ලොව පුරා පවතින ප්‍රධාන පෙලේ සමුද්‍රාරක්ෂක සමාගම් 175ක් පසුපසට ඇද දමමින් මෙම සම්මානය ඇවන්ගාර්ඩ් සමාගම දිනා ගෙන ඇත. පසුගිය 7 වනදා ප්‍රංශයේ කේන්ස් නුවර කාර්ල්ටන් […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් අතුරුදහන් මාධ්‍යවේදී ප‍්‍රගීත් එක්නැලිගොඩ ඝාතනය කරනු ලැබුවේ හිටපු ආරක්‍ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ යයි සදහන් ලියවිල්ලකට අත්සන් තැබුවහොත් තම සැමියා නිදහස් කරන බව රහස් පොලීසියේ ශානි අබේසේකර නම් නිලධාරියා කියා සිටි බව අදාල සිදුවීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මේ වන විටත් රිමාන්ඞ් කර සිටින හමුදා බුද්ධි අංශයේ කෝප‍්‍රල් රූපසිහංගේ බිරිද වන සන්ධ්‍යා කුමාරි කොළඹදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය […]

Courtesy The Island As a direct fallout of President Sirisena’s public outburst against three state investigative bodies last week accusing them of launching politically motivated probes, Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe tendered her resignation yesterday. Members of the former regime were accused of siphoning […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge   Renowned Psychologists like William James, Carl Jung, and Eric Fromm saw much of value in Buddhist philosophy and its positive impact on mental health. The modern mental health clinicians have found incomparable therapeutic efficacy in Buddhist psychotherapy. Buddhist psychotherapy has become a major complementary therapeutic strategy in mental health. Recent […]

ALI SUKHANVER The whole nation and almost all media houses and media persons are condemning a recent report on so-called ‘widening differences between Pakistan’s Military and Pakistan’s political government’ published in a Pakistani newspaper and then republished again and again in different international papers particularly in Indian papers. The author titled it as ‘Exclusive Report.’  […]

අනුර සෙනෙවිරත්න   ලොව කිසිම සොබාවික ජාතික රටක පදින්චිකාර ජනවරිගයන්ට නොදෙන විජාතික අයිතීන් සිංහෙල රටේ පමනක් පුදකර සිංහෙල ජාතික සෛරීත්වය කෙලෙසීම නිසා ලොව එකම කුඩා සිංහෙල රට කාලාන්තුරයක් ආක්‍රමණයට ගොදුරුවී ඇතත් – තවම සිංහෙල ජාතික විරෝදතාවයක් එලිබැස නැත. මෙය මිනිස් ලෝකයේ අරුම පුදුමයක්!  ඕනෑම අවුලකට විසඳුමක් සඳහා හේතු පල පිරික්සීම නැනවත්කමය.  බුදු දහම නොහොත් ඤාණ බුද්ධියෙන් […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Geneva. The International Organization on Migration (IOM) has expressed readiness to further enhance its assistance to Sri Lanka, by providing training and capacity building support for the Ministries of Foreign Employment and Foreign Affairs, and to the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLBFE). It was agreed to extend cooperation in the […]

Adadderana Total government debts have recorded a sum of Rs. 9,062.2 by the second quarter of 2016. While Rs. 5,391.1 billion from among this has been local borrowings, Rs. 3,671.1 billion has been foreign borrowings. Total loans to be repaid by the government by end 2015 had been Rs. 8,503.2 billion, this amount had increased […]

එෆ්.සී.අයි.ඩී යෙන් මගේ අමාත්‍යාංශයේ අයටත් එන්න කියලා තිබුණා… මම යන්න එපා කිව්වා… වජිර අබේවර්ධන අමාත්‍යවරයා පවසයි.

මන්ත්‍රීතුමිය මොකද වුණේ මාමයි, බෑණයි ගැටුමට… පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීනී පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය ‘‘අද දෙරණ මොකද වුණේ What Happened – Pavithra Wanniarachchi

Shenali D Waduge  The Island newspaper of 15 Oct 2016 brought to the attention of the readers that an NGO that helped the President come to power is now threatening him because of the President’s remarks against the wrongs of the FCID, CID and CIABOC. Can the public of Sri Lanka know exactly who Sarath […]

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA Continuing my discussion of the idiocies in the Sri Lanka Constitution, in this article I focus on the concept, ‘Sovereignty is in the People’ enshrined in Article 3, purportedly the source from which the constitution draws its legal and moral authority. I shall briefly discuss what I see as the logical contradiction at […]

Shenali D Waduge The Canadian authorities have after investigations declared that the TNA & LTTE are virtually one and the same. The EU Observer Mission head in 2004 said the same. The question is what is the TNA doing inside Parliament and its MPs even put on steering committees to change the constitution? The Yahapalana […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE World renowned debt collection agency Dun and Bradstreet has established several avenues for ensuring that your debts are collected without causing massive damage for your cash flow and profitability. Personal or business  debts  are now referred as last resort to D&B and other reputable Agencies,  well within the taxation regiments […]

-ශ්‍යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත- මාමා ළිඳ කපා බෑණා නාගත් මහ දවාලේ රටක්‌ කොල්ල කෑ බැඳුම්කර මගඩියේ තවත් සෙල්ලම් එළියට වත්මන් යහපාලන රජය බලයට පත්වීමෙන් පසු රටේ වඩාත්ම කතාබහට ලක්‌ වූ ආයතනය වූයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවයි. වත්මන් මෛත්‍රී – රනිල් පාලනයට මුලපිරුණේ 2015 ජනවාරි 08 වැනිදා පැවැති ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ලද ජයග්‍රහණයයි. ඉන්පසු පත්වූ මෛත්‍රී […]