Courtesy The Daily Mirror Because the government was keen to sell the Hambantota Harbour that it claimed it was a white elephant, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa said today. He said people are aware as to how many ships arrive at the Hambantota Port. When the two ships seized by the port employees departed another two […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island  December 16, 2016, 9:50 pm Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan have, with the blessings of President Maithripala Sirisena, sought former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s support for the government’s constitutional efforts, according to a recent Hindu report. Why is the government so keen to involve Rajapaksa in its constitution […]

A. Patabendige Courtesy The Island December 16, 2016, 9:50 pm Navy Commander Vice Admiral Ravi Wijayagunaratne and his men manhandling The Island correspondent Roshan Gunasekera at the Hambantota Port. Pic by Dilip N Jayasekera ‘The first duty of a serviceman is to his country, then to his countrymen, and last to himself’ Everyone saw or knows what […]

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy The Island December 16, 2016, 9:53 pm Serving the political masters of Yahapalanaya, which has rapidly degenerated at an alarming pace to a Yama-Palanaya, seem to be the only consideration for some public servants holding high office. I do not wish to be disrespectful, in any way, to honourable public servants […]

by Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy The Island The Joint Opposition (JO) yesterday slammed the government for handing over a majority of shares of the Hambantota port to a Chinese company and its decision to lease out 15,000 acres in Hambantota to another Chinese company to set up a trade zone without following the proper tender procedure. Former […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island December 16, 2016, 9:46 pm The Victory of Donald Trump or ‘Thurumpuwage Vickramaya’ is an astrological treatise written by Lake House journalist K. C. J. Ratnayake, who began his foray into astrology through his association with astrologers providing articles on astrology to Lake House newspapers; he ended up becoming […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් එළැඹෙන ජනවාරි 08 වැනිදායින් පසු දේශපාලන පෙරළියක් සිදුවන බවත් ඊට සූදානමින් සිටින ලෙසත් ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් ආණ්ඩුවේ ශ‍්‍රීලනිප මැති ඇමති පිරිසක් සමග පවසා ඇත. එහෙත් සිදුවන්නේ කුමන දේශපාලන වෙනසක්දැයි ජනාධිපතිවරයා කිසිදු සදහනක් පල කර නැති අතර තමන් මේ දිනවල ඒ පිලිබදව තව දරටත් කල්පනා කරමින් සිටින බව පමණක් සදහන් කර […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් රණසිංහ ප්‍රේමදාස මහතා 1993 දක්වා රටේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා වී සිටියද ඔහු දේශපාලනයට පැමිණිමට පෙර රැකියාව ලෙස කලේ පදික වේදිකාවේ ලැවරිය විකිණීම වුවත් ඔහුගේ පුත් සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාසට අද වන විට පියාගේ මිය යෑමේන් පසු කෝටි ගන්නක දේපල මෙන්ම මුදල් ලැබුනේ කෙසේදැයි සැක සහිත බව අල්ලස් හා දූෂණ විමර්ශන කොමිෂමට පැමිණිල්ලක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට නියමිත බව […]

A.Abdul Aziz Dear Pakistan, Ahmadis in your country lots of love for you. You raised their parents, taught them what it meant to work hard and provided them with shelter. You didn’t however, provide them with religious freedom. And that’s why many left. The Ahmadi story of persecution in your country has a rich history. […]

පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රීනී හිරුණිකා පේ‍්‍රමචන්ද්‍රට වාෂණ කෝෂ සම්බන්ධයෙන් හසල දැනුමක් ඇති බවට අභියෝග නොකරන්නට තමන් ආසා ඇති කතන්දර අනුව තීරණය කල බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණු මාධ්‍ය ප‍්‍රකාශක හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී මොහොමඞ් මුසම්මිල් මහතා එම පක්‍ෂ මූලස්ථානයේදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී කියා සිටියේය.

රංජිත් විතානගේ සභාපති පාරිභෝගික අයිතීන් සුරැකීමේ ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරය අගමැතිවරයා විසින් දිගින් දිගටම මාධ්‍ය යවෙත කරනු ලබන බලපෑම් හමුවේ රාජ්‍ය නිළධාරීන් ඒ මග ඔස්සේ ගමන් කරන ආකාරයක් දැකගත හැකි යයි පාරිභෝගික අයිතීන් සුරැකීමේ ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරය පවසයි. මේ බව සදහන් කරමින් එම සංවිධානය විසින් නිකුත් කරනු ලැබූ මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මෙසේය. පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ජනතා ගැටළු  පිළිබදව කථා කරන තැනක් […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, yesterday, asked whether the Sri Lanka Navy was asked to intervene in the recent protest at the Hambantota Harbour in order to tarnish the reputation of the Navy. Referring to the Navy Commander’s alleged assault on a journalist who was there to cover the event, Mr. Rajapaksa […]

නාමල්  පවසන්නේ තමනට මෙතෙක් පෙම්වතියක් නැති බවත් හැකි නම් පෙම්වතියක් සොයාදෙන ලෙසත්ය. https://youtu.be/Av9CZ1pvOlo

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග වික්‍රමබාහු කරුණාරත්න ගේ දේශපාලන භාවිතාව ගැන එකඟ නැතත් ඔහු ගේ අචල ස්ථාවරය ගැන මට ඔහු කෙරෙහි ගරුත්වයක් තිබේ.  විද්‍යත් තැපැල් මගින්  2008 සිට ඔහු මා සමග අදහස් හුවමාරු කර ගැනීමට පුරුදුව සිටියේය. එහෙත් 2014 දී පමණ  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වෙනම රාජ්‍යක් ඉල්ලීම සහ කුබෙක් ප්‍රාන්තයේ වෙන්වීමේ අවශ්‍යාතාව ගැන සසඳමින් අප අතර වූ […]

By Afshain Afzal The Indian Border Security Force and Pakistan Rangers Commandant level flag meeting was held in Suchetgarh sector on 14 December 2016, in order to maintain peace and tranquility along International Border. The meeting concluded with smiles and good gestures from the both sides. It is interesting to note that Lieutenant General Devraj […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The saga on future Chinese ownership of the Hambantota Port and the surrounding area took another turn today, when Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said that no land would be given to China, and that the proceeds from the transfer of Hambantota Port would be used as the government sees fit. In […]

– By Yusuf Ariff Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the recent incident at the Hambantota Port can be seen as the first instance of the navy being used to sabotage a strike action. He said that the current Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy, who has been accused of assaulting a journalist during […]

හම්බන්තොටදී පහර දීමට එරෙහිව මාධ්‍යවේදීන් කොළඹදී විරෝධය පළ කරමින්…

U. Pethiyagoda Courtesy The Island December 15, 2016, 9:45 pm The predicament of Sri Lanka in Geneva is that of a snake swallowing its own tail. Following on domestic experiences, we have been inconsistent, contradictory and dilatory. A good brief has been lost. Alarmingly, there are no indications of serious preparations to meet the deadline of […]

An Interview with Hiromichi Moteki Courtesy The LibertyWeb November 7, 2014 |  Japan and Germany Must Take Back Their “Pride” (Part 14) Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact”, Head of Office Born 1941, Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo University, Department of Economics, worked for Fuji Electric. Through the International Wool Office work set up the Sekai […]

Sri Lanka News Brief Journalists across the country began a massive protest in front of the Fort in Colombo today to protest against the Navy Commander for attacking journalists while they were reporting the tense atmosphere prevailed between the Magampura port workers and Navy  a few days ago. Media Employees Trade Union Federation, Working Journalists […]

Dilrook Kannangara The Minister of Justice raised a few eye brows when he decided to sort out matters connected to Venerable Ampitiye Sumanarathana Thero outside the legal system. Tamil, Muslim and Sinhala MPs questioned his rationale behind his action. They argued that the venerable Buddhist monk should be punished for hate speech and arousing ethnic […]

Shenali D Waduge The ISGA (Interim Self Governing Authority) was proposed by globally proscribed terrorists in October 2003 for power sharing of merged NorthEast province. The proposal was titled Proposal by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on behalf of the Tamil people for an agreement to establish an interim self-governing authority for the North […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Gove Crescent .  Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada Hounarable Mithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith Re:  The Tallest Christmas Tree in the World 2016 Dear President Sirisena: When I read that this stupid ChristmasTree Project […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe expressed his regret for the Jaffna Library’s destruction in 1982. Though many misconstrued his expressed regret as an apology, very few commended him for it. This is because the list of wrongs done during the UNP tenures, especially since the 1977 Constitution, is long. Instead, he […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar Dec,14th 2016 Given the reality that there is indeed a degree of unrest amongst the Muslims in Sri Lanka it seems hardly acceptable that State Minister of Resettlement and Rehabilitation Mr. M. L. A. M. Hizbullah, who represents the Eastern Province should suggest that if the government fails to settle the […]

Sudath Gunasekara Dear All, Look at the  following statement by Hisbulla, a Minister of this Government Why not him be told that he will end up the same way Prabhakararn did, if they take to arms. Let him also be reminded that this is not Arabia. This was the land of the Sinhala Buddhists for […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි අලුතින් බඳවා ගන්නා ලද රේගු අධිකාරීවරුන්ට පත්වීම් ලිපි ලබාදීම සඳහා පැවති උත්සවයකදී, අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ විසින් ප්‍රථම වතාවට යුද්ධයේ අවසන් අදියර සඳහා ගිය වියදම හා රට සංවර්ධනය කරන්නට ගිය වියදම් සමග විදේශ ණය ප්‍රමානය සැසඳීමට කටයුතු කලේය. වෙනදා නම් මෙවන් අවස්ථාවලදී ඔහු, පසුගිය රජය රට ණය කලේ යයි පවසමින් රාජපක්ෂ රජයට චෝදනා නගන්නේය. […]

By Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Prof. G.L. Peiris, in an interview with the Ceylon Today said, the government has not yet declared its official stance on the Executive Presidency The government must tell us what stand it has adopted on the Executive Presidency; whether it will abolish it […]

Source: PTI December 14, 2016  11:46 am The International Federation of Journalists today demanded immediate action” against Sri Lankan Navy chief who allegedly assaulted a journalist who was covering a strike by port workers in the country’s southern Hambantota port. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is seriously concerned by the assault of a journalist by […]