BY DR. S.W. PREMARATNE Courtesy Ceylon Today Attorney-at-Law The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, in presenting his update in June 2016, regarding the progress so far made by the government in implementing the resolution 30/1 adopted by the Human Rights Council in Geneva made a brief reference to some actions already taken. The steps […]

By Paneetha Ameresekere Courtesy Ceylon Today “…What our peers in South East and East Asia did were to contain the current account deficit and to make it a surplus, whilst at the same time moving towards fiscal consolidation, that helped them to become Asian tigers and all that,’….”-Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Governor Dr. Indrajit […]

Watchdog Courtesy The Island September 27, 2016, 7:50 pm It is a shocking state of affairs to read about the recent report of the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA), which has criticised the Agriculture Ministry for renting a private building for Rs. 958,000,000 without following proper procedures. The duty of the Committee is to report to […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island  September 27, 2016, 7:41 pm Those who read yesterday’s lead story in this newspaper about a very serious complaint that the CID had tapped a senior judge’s telephones and hacked his personal email may have wondered whether they were rereading an extract from George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty Four, where Big […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island September 27, 2016, 6:42 pm Having co-sponsored the much disputed Resolution, at the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), last October meant to establish a hybrid court, to examine accountability issues, during Sri Lanka’s successful war against terrorism, the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government called for a comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism […]

By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island September 27, 2016, 6:40 pm The just concluded 17th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Venezuela was attended by representatives of 104 of the 120 nations that form the organisation.The mood of the summit proceedings however, was made sombre by the absence of top level representation from India, […]

ECONOMYNEXT – Perpetual Treasuries Limited, a primary gilt dealership, connected the family of a controversial former Sri Lanka central bank governor, has made a profit of 5.1 billion rupees for the year to March 2016 up 434 percent from a year earlier, published data show. The firm reported capital gains of 5.2 billion rupees from […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island September 27, 2016, 7:41 pm The post-conflict period saw the engagement of two Great Powers in Sri Lankan affairs. One was India to some degree and the other was China to a much greater degree. With the new administration coming into force starting January 8, 2015, the United States has […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island September 26, 2016, 7:01 pm In most action flicks, heroes and villains in flight topple trash bins without breaking stride so as to distract and obstruct their enemies in close pursuit. This modus operandi is, however, not confined to the celluloid world. Sri Lankan politicians who mismanage vital issues and get into […]

Tivanka Perera Courtesy The Island September 26, 2016, 7:10 pm Mr Editor please grant me a little space for this reply to ” Fairplay ” for the gallant proposal made for the state to pay compensation to ‘Tiger Widows’, which he said will earn the plaudits of the international community. He also said that dear Viggie […]

Shenali D Waduge The series of interviews and books by former CIA officers sheds a lot of light into the US foreign policy objectives and gives forewarnings. Capitalism and modern imperialism go hand in hand in all of US policy initiatives as can be seen by the different modus operandi adopted towards virtually the same […]

By Charles.S.Perera Sri Lanka Yahapalanaya Government is doing every thing the way USA and the West want  it to do.  And our President Maithripala Sirisena is naïve to believe that his being praised  by the West, shaking hands with Western Leaders or posing for photographs with the President Barrack Obama and the American First Lady […]

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa said reckless post-election spending involving a state worker salary hike and subsidies generated an economic crisis, driving investors away though it is being blamed on debt taken during his rule. “All the economic problems of the yahapalana (Good Governance) government are due to the fact that they bribed […]

Shenali D Waduge To the many who say that the Sinhala Buddhists are exaggerating about the bias of Sri Lanka’s media, with just one example we can highlight that bias. While all of the English media takes pains to provide all types of publicity to promote the belief that the elephants should be removed from […]

By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Political Note Washington, D.C. 27 May (Asiantribune.com): The U.S. Department of State’s – highly impartial and non-partisan watchdog – Office of Inspector General found fault on May 25 with Hillary Clinton for the use of a private e-mail server which contained sensitive and classified material during the time she […]

Shenali D Waduge The following photos are alarming and raises more questions than answers. Who can explain the connection? There were many Church-based NGOs operating in the North and East throughout the conflict. Many of them had their offices virtually next door to LTTE offices. Audit the monies sent to these organizations throughout 30 years […]

By: BG (Ret.) Hiran N. Halangode , Sri Lankan Army  This article  was published in the US issue of the Combating Terrorism Exchange magazine of August 2016  The rifleman fights without promise of reward or relief. Behind every river there’s another hill and behind that hill, another river. After weeks or months in the line, only a wound can […]

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, May Allah be his Helper, is the current Caliph of Islam and the only worldwide leader of largest Muslim Community at this time. To find out more about him more please visit www.KhalifaOfIslam.com

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Fifteen years ago, on 11 September 2001, Islamic terrorists bombed and destroyed the well-known Twin Towers, (The
 World Trade Centre) in New York, killing 2,996 and wounding more than 6,000 ordinary people. It later earned the catch phrase 9/11. On its 15th year commemoration day politicians in the US put […]

Courtesy LBO Sept 23, 2016 (LBO) – The IMF mission currently in Sri Lanka says they may have to postpone their review a bit if the proposed VAT legislation will get delayed in Parliament. The mission head Jaewoo Lee however told reporters in Colombo that it will not be necessary under the current environment. On the […]

Courtesy Adaderana September 26, 2016  05:30 pm I’m hopeful that Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran would be arrested and remanded, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya leader Udaya Gammanpila says. The observation was made during a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (26). He pointed out that C. V. Vigneswaran was the chief organizer of the […]

අරවින්ද අතුකෝරල පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය පක්ෂ මුලස්ථානයේ පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවේ දී එම පක්‍ෂ ප‍්‍රධාන ලේකම් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. දුමින්ද දිසානායකට අම්බලංගොඩින් පිලිතුරු සංධානය දෙකට කැඩුනොත් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයත් ශ්‍රිලනිපයත් දෙකම පැරදිලා මී ලඟ මැතිවරණ එජාපය ජයග්‍රහණය කරාවි කියලා මීට දවස් තුනකට කලින් දුමින්ද දිසානායක ඇමතිතුමා කිව්වා.  සිරිසේන ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයත්, ඒකාබද්ධ […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් ස්වාධීන රූපවාහිනිය ඔස්සේ රාත‍්‍රි දහයෙන් පසු වැඩිහිටියන්ට පමණක් චිත‍්‍රපට පෙන්වන්නට යන්නේ අගමැති රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ උපදෙස් මත බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා හසලකදී පැවති ජනහමුවක් අමතමින් කියා සිටියේය. ඒ අනුව දරැවන් නිදිකර එන්න යයි දන්වා පළමුවෙන්ම පෙන්වීමට යන්නේ සමලිංගික චිත‍්‍රපටයක් යයිද ඔහු එහිදී පැවසීය. 69,821 Viewers

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Janaki Chandraratna A concerned Human Rights Activist. Mr. Zeid Al Hussein United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights UNHCHR Palais Wilson 52 rue des Pâquis CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland. Re:       UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka and Ground Reality Dear Sir I am aware that at your last visit to Sri Lanka in February 2016 you did praise […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි දරුවන් පාසලට ඇතුලත් කිරීම සම්බන්ධව වෙෙද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය සහ අධ්‍යාපන ඇමතිවරයා අතර ඇවිලුන සටන තවමත් අවසන්ව නැත. කෙසේ වුවද මේ ගැන කතා කිරීමේදී වෙෙද්‍යවරුන් අතින් සියලු දෙනාටම සිතා  බැලිය යුතු කතාවක් කියැවුනි. ඒ සෞඛ්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ඇති වූ ප්‍රගතිය තුල දැන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ලෝකයේ රටවල් අතර සෑහෙන ඉහල මට්ටමකට පැමින තිබෙන බවට ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Secularism is wrongly believed to be something negative, or something that denies the importance of religion, and it is seen (quite wrongly) as promoting immorality. When the term ‘secular state’ is translated into Sinhala as ‘anaagamika rajyaya’, many average Sinhalese speakers tend to think that such a state is against religion or […]

Prof Daya Somasundaram, Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a stress-related psychiatric disorder that is thought to emerge from complex interactions among traumatic events, multiple genetic factors (Zannas, Provençal & Binder, 2015) personality, past history and social support.   It is a major public health concern in both civilian and military populations, across race, age, gender, […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න   ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පරිපාලන බෙදීම් අනුව උතුරින් කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයෙන්ද ඊසාන සහ නැගෙනහිර දිසාවෙන් රත්තපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයෙන්ද සීමාවී ඇති ගාලු දිස්ත්‍රික්කය නිරිතදිග තෙත් කලාපයට අයත් ප්‍රදේශයකි. අක්මීමන, අම්බලන්ගොඩ, බද්දේගම, බලපිටිය, බෙන්තර ඇල්පිටිය, ගාල්ල, හබරාදූව, හිනිදුම, කරන්දෙණිය සහ රත්ගම යන මැතිවරණ කොට්ඨාශවලින් සමන්විත ගාල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ වර්ග ප්‍රමාණය කිලෝමීටර් 1,652කි. දකුණු පලාතට අයත් ගාල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ අගනගරය වූයේ ගාල්ලය. […]