By Umesh Moramudali and Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy Ceylon Today Poverty has been one of the major issues faced by many developing nations and Sri Lanka is no exception. Recently, World Bank released a poverty assessment report on Sri Lanka, which attempted to identify causes for poverty and solutions to the issue. The report states that overall, Sri Lanka’s […]

යුධ විරුවන් දංගෙඩියට දක්කාගෙන යාමට වෙර දරණ වන්දිබට්ටයින්ගේ දැනගැනීම සඳහා https://youtu.be/x8ITgF1Qh8Q

මහ බැංකුවේ තීරණවලට  දේශපාලන  බලපෑම් –  තෙවරක් ඉවත් කළ  ලංකා පුත්‍ර සංවර්ධන බැංකු සභාපති  ලසන්ත ගුණවර්ධන තවමත්  සේවයේ.  සේවයෙන් ඉවත් කළ බව සඳහන් වන ලංකා පුත්‍ර සංවර්ධන බැංකුවේ හිටපු සභාපති ලසන්ත ගුණවර්ධන මහතා බැංකු අධීක්ෂණ ක්‍රියාවලිය විහිලුවට ලක් කරමින් තවදුරටත්  ලංකා පුත්‍ර සංවර්ධන බැංකුවේ කටයුතු සඳහා මැදිහත් වෙමින් සිටින බවට දූෂණ විරෝධී  පෙරමුණ චෝදනා කරයි. මීට […]

By Charminda Rodrigo Courtesy Ceylon Today United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Parliamentarian, Pavithra Wanniarachchi, in an interview with Ceylon Today, said the UNP was always loyal to imperialistic forces even though the country has gained independence. Excerpts from the interview: ?: How do you view the recent developments in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party? A: I am […]

By Dilanka Gunathilake Courtesy Ceylon Today Rohan Welivita, the Channel Chief of CSN and media spokesman of former President says Mahinda Rajapaksa always encouraged them and did not let them suffer from low morale. Excerpts: ?Who areyou now? A: I am the Channel Chief and Director of CSN and also the media secretary of former President […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror  Astrologer Wijemuni Vijitha Rohana de Silva said today that the CID wanted to record a statement from him over a video released by him forecasting the future of President Maithripala Sirisena and said an astrologer should have the freedom to carry out his work independently. Mr. Silva said that he had […]

By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy The Island September 7, 2016, 9:52 pm The government would not seek any clarification from the United Nations (UN) regarding the UN Secretary General (UNSG) Ban Ki-moon’s comparison of civilians deaths during the Vanni war with acts of genocide in Rwanda and Serbia in 1994 and 1995, respectively, Deputy Minister of Parliamentary Reforms and Mass Media Karunarathna Paranawithana said yesterday. Responding to […]

By Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror  A self-proclaimed Marxist recently listed 12 things that the Yahapalana Government cannot achieve. He should have put it this way: ‘Should but cannot achieve’. As someone who once said ‘we must hope that the Government will not defeat the LTTE’ when the latter’s invincibility braggadocio was being put to […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando September 4, 2016, 11:10 pm Wartime Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama yesterday alleged that the outgoing UNSG Ban Ki-moon had caused considerable damage to Sri Lanka ahead of forthcoming judicial inquiry into war crimes allegations by comparing the offensive against the LTTE with genocide in Ruwanda and Srebenica in the 90s. The UNSG’s […]

lanka C news ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ ඔහුගේ එම කෘතිය එලිදැක්වීම සදහා කොළඹ ආනන්ද විදුහලේ පැවති උත්සවයකදීය. එහි ප‍්‍රධාන අමුත්තන් ලෙස හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා සහ හිටපු ආරක්‍ෂක ලේකම් ගෝටාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ යන මහත්වරැුන්ට ආරාධනා කර තිබින. කෘතියේ මුල් පිටපත් මේජර් ජනරාල්වරයා විසින් ඔවුන්ට පිරැනමනු ලැබීය. සභාව අමතමින් කමල් ගුණරත්න මහතා ඉතා හැගීම්බර එහෙත් […]

2016 සැප්තැම්බර් මස 07 |, ශානිකා ශ්‍රියානන්ද , පරිවර්තනය – කෝවිද ගුණසේකර  වසර 35 ක යුද හමුදා දිවියට සමුදී සිටින කීර්තිමත් හමුදා නිලධාරී මේජර් ජෙනරාල් කමල් ගුණරත්න ස්වකීය මතක සටහන් ඇතුළත් කොට රචනා කළ ‘රණ මග දිගේ නන්දිකඩාල්‘ ග‍්‍රන්ථය පසුගියදා (6) ඔහුගේ පාසල් මව් වන කොළඹ ආනන්ද විදුහලේදී දොරට වැඩිණි. එම අවස්ථාවට පෙර ඩේලි ෆයිනෑන්ෂල් […]

බුදුන් වහන්සේට අපහාස කල අගමැති රනිල්ට හාමුදුරුකෙනෙක් රෙදි ගැලවෙන්නම කියයි https://youtu.be/JzbnuSi93zo

by Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island A protest march organized by the Inter-University Student Federation (IUSF) with the participation of   state university medical and bhikshu students demanding the abolition of SAITM was dispersed by police using teargas and water cannon in Colombo on August 31, 2016. The protest  march started at the Sri Jayawardanepura university premises […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS Jaffna was originally an island called ‘Nagadipa’ , separated from the mainland by a narrow strip of water. It became linked to the mainland only in the 18 century. It was a part of the Sinhala kingdom and under the Sinhala king till the 13th century. The Vallipuram manuscript shows that during the […]

Courtesy aljazeera.com Many booed and shouted “No Kofi-led commission” as his convoy left the state capital airport, holding signs reading “No to foreigners’ biased intervention in our Rakhine State’s affairs”. Kofi Annan arrives to investigate communal conflict pitting ethnic Rakhine Buddhists against Rohingya Muslim minority. Kofi Annan, the former UN chief, has been given a hostile […]

 By Rashmi Tirimanne de Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror On September 5 this year, the Global Sri Lankan Forum conducted a public seminar titled ‘Geneva Resolution and Federalism as it is Today.’ It focused on the Sri Lankan co-sponsored Geneva Resolution projected on the backdrop of the recently concluded visit by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, […]

ජාතික භික්ෂු පෙරමුණ  පුරා වසර 77 ක් ආයු වළඳා අපවත්වී වදාළ නාඋයනේ අරියධම්ම ශී‍්‍ර ලංකා රාමඤ්ඤ මහ නිකායේ අනුනායක ධුරන්‍ධර නාහිමිපාණන්ගේ වියෝව ලාංකීය සංඝ ශාසනයට අපරිපූරණිය පාඩුවකි. තෙවලා බුදුදහම ඇතුළත් ති‍්‍රපිටකය පිළිබඳ ප‍්‍රාමාණකි දැනුමකින් හෙබි යතිවරයන් වහන්සේලා අතර ඉදිරියෙන්ම වැඩසිටි අප නාහිමියෝ භාෂා විශාරදත්වයෙන්ද නිපුණයහ. පරිසමාප්ත වූ අරුතින්ම ති‍්‍රපිටකධාරී තෙරනමකැයි සංකා විරහිතව පැවසිය හැකි නාඋයනේ […]

ප‍්‍රධාන ලේකම්   All Ceylon Railway Employees’ General Union  අධ්‍යක්ෂ, දූෂණ මර්ධන කමිටු කාර්යාලය, නවම් මාවත, කොළඹ. දැන්වීම් පුවරු ප‍්‍රදර්ශනය කිරීමෙන් දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අයවිය යුතු රුපියල්  කෝටි 50ක් අයකරගෙන නැත. වහාම පරීක්ෂණයක් කරන්න. – CGR – 2016.09.07 දුම්රිය ජාලය තුල වෙලඳ දැන්වීම් ප‍්‍රදර්ශනය කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් ස්කෙලින් හෝලිඩින්ස් පෞද්ගලික සමාගම දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට රුපියල් මිලියන 530 ක් ගෙවිය යුතු වුවත්, […]

Former President Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka today from the visit to Malaysia. The former President lead a delegation to the International Conference of Asian Political Parties. https://youtu.be/KphN9zZl4uE Mahinda says media is threatened, afraid to reveal the truth යෝජනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගැටළු තියෙනවා

PRESS RELEASE The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka vehemently condemns the attack on Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Malaysia, Ambassador Ibrahim Ansar, and the chief monk of a Sri Lankan Buddhist temple in Sentul,  Ven. Sri Saranan. This dastardly act has no parallel in the diplomatic history of Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Ambassador Ansar is […]

Shenali D Waduge The West will shower praise as Ban Ki Moon steps down after serving two terms as the Secretary General of the UN. Of course the West has much to thank Ban Ki Moon for. He has been a willing minion and slavish compliant for West’s agendas. He is all that Asian leaders […]

History of Radio Ceylon Broadcasting on an experimental basis was started in Ceylon by the Telegraph Department in 1923, just three years after the inauguration of broadcasting in Europe. Gramophone music was broadcast from a tiny room in the Central Telegraph Office with the aid of a small transmitter built by the Telegraph Department engineers […]

By Niranjala Ariyawansha Courtesy Ceylon Today United Professionals Movement (UPM) warns Sri Lanka that signing the Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) with India, a country with a systematic national trade policy, will definitely make Sri Lanka face irreversible dangerous repercussions. UPM has urged the government to plan a trade policy, which the country lacks since […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island September 6, 2016, 7:13 pm In the wake of UNSG Ban Ki-moon reiterating his commitment to Geneva-led accountability process, we should re-examine Sri Lanka’s response to war crime allegations. Let me first, mention specific allegations directed at the previous government after the war ended in May 2009. Sri Lanka paid […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island September 6, 2016, 10:23 pm Former General Officer Commanding elite 53 Division Maj. General (retd) Kamal Gunaratne, whose troops killed LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and some of the latter’s top lieutenants during the final confrontation on the morning of May 19, 2009 has strongly disputed UNSG Ban Ki-moon’s comparison of […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island September 6, 2016, 7:46 pm The admission by the United Nation’s Secretary General (UNSG) Ban Ki Moon during his visit to Sri Lanka from 31 August to 2 September 2016 that the UN “made big mistakes” and “…learned very hard lessons” in Sri Lanka is in keeping with the traditions […]

Nirangi Abeywickreme Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Forensic Video and Surveillance Technology Laboratory – British Columbia Laboratory in Canada has informed the Colombo Magistrate Court that the CCTV footage in connection with the murder of rugger player Mohammed Thajudeen were not clear and as such its experts are unable to come to a conclusion in connection […]

චාර්ල්ස්  එස්  පෙරේරා විසිනි ගුත්තිල පඬිතුමා  මුසිල නම් බාලයෙකුට විනා වැයීම උගන්වා ඔහුට රජ මාලිගාවේ සන්ගීතගායන පදවිය  ලබා දුන්නාට  පසු කෙලෙහිගුණ නොදත් මූසිලයා මහලුවියට පත් ගුත්තිල පඬිතුමා පරදවා එතුමාගේ තැන ගන්න ගුත්තිල පඬිතුමාට සංගීත  තරඟයකට පැමිනෙනලෙස ආරාධනය කලා.  එදා මහලුවියේ සිටි ගුත්තිල පඬිතුමා සංගීත තරඟයකට කෙසේනම් මුහුනදෙන්නේදැයි නොදැන අසරණව සිටියේ. නමුත් එදා ඒ තරඟය පටන්ගැන්මේදී […]

Shenali D Waduge Question to Tamils & UN/IC: Give examples of discrimination to only Tamils. Tell us what Sinhalese & Muslims enjoy which is not legally given to Tamils in Sri Lanka? Discrimination is the basis on which the Tamil politicians are arguing he need for a separate state and to rule their own. The […]

Dr D.Chandraratna, Perth The editorial in the Island (3/10) on the visit of the UNSG was indignant enough to provoke thinking. The thinking alone, if not the SG’s probe, hopefully will bring some consolation to the suffering inflicted on citizens, not only Tamils, by the LTTE whose political foot soldiers were the TNA. Placed in […]