සමස්ත ලංකා ප‍්‍රවාහන සේවක සංගමය. 2017 අයවැය නංගි පෙන්නලා අක්කා දීග දෙන්න හදපු අයවැයක් නිසා ශ‍්‍රී ලංගම සේවකයින්ට ඉදිරියේ දී දැඩි වෘත්තීය ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ගයන් වලට පිවිසීමට අනිවාර්යයෙන්ම සිදුවේ. අප රට පරාධීනත්වයට යටත් කරන, ජනතාවට දිගින් දිගටම පීඩාවන් ලබා දෙන රජයේ ආයතන පෞද්ගලිකකරණය කරනු ලබන 2017 අයවැය ජනතා ද්‍රෝහී අයවැයක් ලෙස අප සංගමය දැඩි වගකීමකින් යුතුව ප‍්‍රකාශ […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි රංජිත් සොයිසා මාධ්‍ය ප‍්‍රකාශක ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා ගෝලීය සංසදය වෙනුවෙන් 20 න ොවැම්බර් 2016 ශ‍්‍රී ලාංකීය ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදී සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ මධ්‍යම පර්යන්ත සබඳතා විනාශ කිරීමට ඉලක්ක කරගෙන ඇති යෝජිත නව ව්‍යවස්ථාව ප‍්‍රතික්ෂේප කිරීම. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අදහස් දැක් වූ පරිදි 2016 මැයි මස දී මුණ ගැසුණු සාමාජිකයින් 11 දෙනාගේ කමිටුව අවසන් වශයෙන් අගෝස්තු මස 27 වන දින […]

Dr Hector Perera       London Direct heat cooking is applied mainly in Asian type of cooking such as rice and curries. One of my concern is to find out how to save in energy and to stop any cooking aroma getting on them while cooking. If the people are not really careful in saving energy in […]

by Andre Vltchek Courtesy: counterpunch.org Southeast Asian elites forgot” about those tens of millions of Asian people murdered by the Western imperialism at the end of and after the WWII. They forgot” about what took place in the North – about the Tokyo and Osaka firebombing, about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, about the […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The opponents consisting the nationalists are sending confusing signals to the average voter.  Prof. G L Peiris is a dry politician, never contested in an election, but is heading the SRI LANKA PODUJANA PERAMUNA.  Dinesh Gunawardene is the Leader of the Joint Opposition, an extremely honest politician, just like his […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Cancer is still a disease that sends a chill down our spine even at this 21st century. We have assumed it is almost untreatable. Even palliative treatment is astronomically expensive at times. But there is a sure method which had been known to mankind but studiously avoided – may be […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Rains have started again and surely Dengue is going to be raising  its ugly head again. If we the citizens all join together to act in a coordinated way, we can beat up this menace. All what we have to do is to make sure we all check our won […]

Dilrook Kannangara What happens in northern Sri Lanka today is very similar to the happenings in late 1970s leading to full-scale war. Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) was the first organized terrorist group in Sri Lanka. It was formed out of intellectuals and as the name goes Tamil adult students. EROS was formed in […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි ‘අය වැය යනු ජනතාවගෙන් අයකර, මැති ඇමතිලා නඩත්තු කිරීම පිනිස වැය කිරීමයි’ යනුවෙන් මුහුණු පොතේ එක තැනක සටහන්ව තිබෙනු දුටිමි. එය නම් හරියටම හරිය කියා සිතෙන්නේ අය වැය දකින විටය. පසුගිය අය වැයේදී එකින් එක කොටස් කැපී ගොස් අවසානයේ ඉතිරි වූයේ ‘ගරු කතානායකතුමනි’ යන කොටස පමනකැ’යි කතාවක්ද සමාජයේ ඇතිව තිබිනි. මේ සියලුම විහිලු […]

Press release by the Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement  The Sri Lankan Tamils demanding a ‘Tamil homeland’ is a totally bogus demand as per the history and archaeology of the country. Even a few months back, a discovery was made of an archaeological site in Anuradhapura (the ancient capital of the Sinhala people) dating back to […]

Press release by the Sri Lanka Solidarity Movement The Joint Opposition is requested by the Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement to publish the above mentioned report about the Recommendations by the Sub-Committee on the Centre and Periphery Relationship and talk as urgently as possible about its extreme dangers to the Mahanayake Theros.   Please keep in mind that […]

By Bernard Goonetilleke, Chairman & Admiral Dr. Jayanath Colombage, Director, Centre for India -Sri Lanka Initiatives of the Pathfinder Foundation Introduction: Fish do not respect boundaries but humans should! India and Sri Lanka are two neighbouring Indian Ocean states. A shallow and narrow strip of sea called the ‘Palk Bay’ and the ‘Gulf of Mannar’ […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela The traffic nowadays is so hectic, I was wondering whether to employ a driver. By evening, I was tired, irritated and unproductive. But then, the drivers don’t come cheap nor easy going. Then I discovered the cab services available – cheap, A/C ed, chauffer driven, first class cars at rates […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela What with the present traffic jam ( where did all these vehicles come from?) many take to the marine drive when driving from Wellawathe  onwards to Dehiwela and beyond.  The roads that joins back to Galle road is through Vivekananda road and  Frazer avenue. Vivekananda road is mercifully one way […]

පරිසර යුක්ති කේන්ද්‍රය පරිසර යුක්ති කේන්ද්‍රය, ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ පරිසර යුක්තිය වෙනුවෙන් කටයුතු කරන ජාතික පරිසර සංවිධානයක් වන අතර ලංකවේ සියලූ දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයන්හි පරිසර නීතිය, පාරිසරික යහපාලනය, පාරිසරික දැනුවත් කිරීමේ වැඩසටහන් ඇතුළුව විවිධ පාරිසරික සංරක්ෂණ වැඩසටහන් ක‍්‍රියාත්මක කරන ආයතනයකි. එලෙස ක‍්‍රියාත්මක වන වැඩසටහන් අතර තවත් එක් වැඩසටහනක් ලෙස නීති සම්පාදකයන් සහ දේශපාලඥයන් තිරසර සංවර්ධන අභිමතාර්ථ පිළිබඳ දැනුවත් […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS The most important feature in international politics today, is the rising power of China. China    is admired for its economic performance. No single country in recent times has alleviated the poverty of so many in so short a time as China, say economists.  China’s purchasing power will soon exceed that of the US. […]

RT Washington invested $585 million in promoting democracy across the globe in the past year, the US Department of State’s financial report for fiscal year 2016 revealed. According to the paper, the State Department’s total assets equaled $93.8 billion in the last fiscal year, which concluded on September 30, increasing by $3.2 billion compared to […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් පසුගිය වසරේ පමණක් ඇමරිකානු රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ හරහා රාජ්‍ය ලේකම් ජෝන් කෙරි ගේ අනුදැනුම ඇතිව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නයිජීරියාව බුරුමය ඇතුළු විදේශ රටවල් කිහිපයකට ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ප්‍රවර්ධනයට කිරීමට යන මාතෘකාව යටතේ ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 585ක් එනම් රුපියල් බිලියන 8 කට වඩා වැඩි ප්‍රමාණයක් ලබාදුන් බව ඇමරිකානු රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තු වාර්ෂික මුල්‍ය වාර්තාවේ සදහන් කොට ඇත. එහෙත් […]

Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy Island November 18, 2016, 7:06 pm Before you take on the next Trump story drink a glass of water, and feel pleased that the price of water will not be raisedfrom December 1st. A hike in the price of water in Sri Lana is something the Trump victory could not do. It […]

Matt Bai National Political Columnist Yahoo News November 17, 2016 The last time Democrats awoke to find themselves completely marginalized, the year was 2004, and George W. Bush had just been reelected, along with pretty much every other Republican in creation. Almost immediately, the party’s top donors and strategists settled on an explanation. They decided […]

Victor Davis Hanson Posted: Nov 17, 2016 12:00 AM The Democratic Party handed Donald Trump a rare opportunity to make radical changes to the electoral map that could last for years to come. First, the Democrats gave Trump a great gift by completing the ongoing radicalization of their party under President Obama. After 2008, it […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි ශ්‍රී ලංකා නාවික හමුදාව මගින් 2015 නොවැම්බර් 13 වෙනිදා ඇවන්ට් ගාර්ඩ් මැරිටයිම් සර්විසස් (පුද්) සමාගම විසින් පවත්වා ගෙනයනු ලැබූ සමුද්‍රාරක්ෂක ව්‍යාපෘතිය නීති විරෝධී අයුරින් හා බලහත්කාරයෙන් පවරාගැනීමෙන් අනතුරුව වසරක් අවසානයේ ලැබූ ආදායම පිලිබඳව මාධ්‍යන් වෙත ප්‍රකාශ නිකුත්කර ඒවා සමහර මාධ්‍යන් ඔස්සේ ප්‍රචාරය කිරීම හෝ පලකීරීම් කරන ලදී. ඒ අයුරින්, රටට හිමිවීමට තිබූ විශාල […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS (REVISED 21.4.2017) The ‘international community’ now accepts that China is going to be the next world power. ‘We are now well into the China decade’, said TIME IN 2015. China will soon have the world largest economy. China is expected to overtake America between 2030 and 2040 as the world’s leading economic power. […]

Yasas Vishuddhi Abeywickrama  Nearing the 130th Anniversary celebrations of establishment of Ananda College, Colombo, Ananda College Old Boys’ Association is organizing an event to remember school founders including Col. Henry Steele Olcott who was able to create history through his immeasurable service towards the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.  Ananda College Old Boys’ Association […]

By Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   “Between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese military murdered from nearly 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most likely 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese among others, including Western prisoners of war.” ……………………….As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities – Voltaire (January 10, Toronto, Sri […]

By Sugath Samarasinghe I wish to draw attention of the readership to a news item that appeared in ‘The Island’ news paper on 31st October under the title UN calls for commitment  to minority rights” reporting some of the views expressed by UN Rapporteur Izsak Ndiaye who had apparently undertaken a ten days mission to […]

Wish President Mahinda Rajapaksa many happy returns on his 71st birthday today the 18th., November, 2016. May God AllMighty safeguard you from all evils and bless you long political life to serve our “Maathruboomiya”, Insha Allah.   Greetings from: “The Muslim Voice”. Noor Nizam. Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener […]

By Charles.S.Perera The results of the Presidential election of the 8th January,2015, was the work of local moles, spies, Tamil Diaspora, the ungrateful Tamils of Sri Lanka,  and Sri Lanka  Muslims , secret services of India, UK and USA. Maithripala Sirisena is also a baited mole , baited by ugly vengeful Chandrika,  the most unscrupulous, […]

Shenali D Waduge The citizens of Sri Lanka welcome the statements by President-elect Donald Trump on the need to wipe out terrorists and not those fighting the terrorists. The assurance that President Trump would ban foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections is noteworthy as well as the decision to remove criminal illegal immigrants posing […]

Daily FT The Planters’ Association of Ceylon (PA) yesterday issued a statement raising serious reservations as to the feasibility and potentially ruinous impact of recent budget proposals on Sri Lanka’s plantation industry. The proposal in question calls for a reduction in the maximum acreage that can be held by any stand-alone plantation company. Without being […]