By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando We are being reminded today in the 21st Century how ‘good old Ceylon’ had been a self-sufficient island many eras ago. It also makes us wonder, with the present generation with scholars, professors and eminent engineers and so forth, why such inherited Sri Lankan talents from our forefathers’ time and […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න      ටික කලක සිට ලංකාවේද  මුස්ලිම් ජනයා ගෙන් සමහරු ගොනිබිලු නැටුමකට සැරසෙමින් සිටිති . නොබෝදා  විභාගයකට ලිවීමට  පැමිණි මුස්ලිම් ශිෂ්‍යාවෝ ඇස පමණක් පෙනෙන සකල සර්වාංගයම  වැසෙන ලෝගුවලින් වැසී  විභාග ශාලාවට පැමිණීමේ සිද්ධියක් වාර්තා විය මේ ය ගැහැණුන්ද පිරිමින්ද කියාවත් හඳුනා ගැනීමට පරීක්ෂවරුන්ට නොහැක ඔවුන්ට සිය ඇස්  වලින් ලෝකය පෙනුනත් අපට ඔවුන්ගේ ඇස […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  හාවර්ඩ් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය ලෝකයේ හොඳම විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය වන අතර 2016 වසරේදී  මෙම විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේදී පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාවය (PTSD) පිලිබඳව දේශනයක් කිරීමේ විරළ භාග්‍ය මට හිමි විය​. මෙම දේශනය මම පැවැත්වූයේ ලෝක පූජිත මනෝ වෛද්‍යවරියක් වන ජුඩිත් හර්මන් විසින් මූලාසනය උසුලන ලද සභාවකය​. එය මගේ වෘත්තීය ජීවිතයේ ලැබූ ජයග්‍රහනයකි.  ඇමරිකාවේ මැසචූසෙට්ස් […]

 Pushpakumara Jayarathne Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa today hit out at the government saying that the demolishing of the war heroes memorial in Kurunegala indicated that this government was bent on blotting out the war in Sri Lanka and that war heroes ever existed . He said from the information he had received […]

Rajeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island August 31, 2016, 12:00 pm Dear Mr. Secretary General Welcome to Sri Lanka. We Sri Lankans are indeed gratified for your decision to visit our island for the second time during your term of office, drawing to a close at the end of the year. According to your media spokesperson, the […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island August 31, 2016, 12:00 pm Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that the government was working overtime to discredit the former Rajapaksa administration which had defeated terrorism against numerous odds. Gajaba Regiment veteran Rajapaksa said that those who had been demanding Geneva-supervised probe into accountability issues were now […]

Shenali D Waduge Ban Ki Moon will come, he will see and he will officially give his nod to obliterate Sri Lanka as per the plan passed on to him to follow which is being happily facilitated by a handful of born again lascoreens and sepoys now in power wielding and prostrating to every whim […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Velupillai Prabhakaran, the sociopathic Rottweiler unleashed by the Tamil Vellahla leadership to fetch their bone of Eelam, is no longer there to bark, bite, or grab Tamil children on their way to school. In the absence of any one else surfacing to replace ruthless Tamil racism and hate politics, C.V. Wigneswaran, […]

Shenali D Waduge Is there a competition for insanity or does it come naturally to those in government? Are decisions taken alone or in consultation? Do a handful voted for a term in office have the right to do as they please not caring a fig about opinion of others? A huge area in the […]

By Rohana R. Wasala The noisy confrontation between a group of demonstrators holding banners with the slogan ‘Different but Equal,’ with Azad Salley, a Muslim politician, apparently leading them and another group of activists challenging them, led by a young Buddhist monk – Ariyapola  Rathanasara  Thera – from a nationalist organization called the ‘Sinhale Jathika Balamuluwa’ […]

 By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka 2016-08-31 00:00:26 How is it that the much-celebrated peace agreement heralding national reconciliation in Colombia between its FARC guerrillas and Columbia’s President Dos Santos just signed in Havana in the presence of President Raul Castro, ending over half a century of civil war, opts under the rubric of Transitional Justice for […]

දිවයින යාපනය – මහනුවර ඒ-09 මාර්ගයේ කනගරායන්කුලම ප්‍රදේශයේ මීට වසර කීපයකට පෙර යුද හමුදාව විසින් ස්‌ථාපිත කරන ලද බුදු පිළිම දෙකක්‌ 29 දා රාත්‍රී කිසියම් පිරිසක්‌ විසින් විනාශ කොට තිබේ. අඩි තුනහමාරක්‌ සහ අඩි එකහමාරක්‌ උස සුදු පැහැති මෙම බුදු පිළිම දෙක කැබලිවලට කඩා සිරස්‌ දෙක ඒ අසල තබා ඇත. මෙම බුදු පිළිම දෙක යුද […]

Citizen IMR Chandrika Iriyagolle Dr Mr  Maithripala Sirisena His excellency the President of the democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Ayubowan, Your Excellency, Minister Arjuna Ranatunge Minister of Ports and Shipping and some of his cabinet colleagues would benefit from a Psychological-Psychiatric assessment and treatment.   Is this Christmas tree a gift to the Christians […]

Top Spin By Suni Aug.31st 2016 This is indeed a bold topic as there is sufficient evidence to beleive Sri Lanka’s  cricketing shortcomings have been compounded by the inadequacies of the selection staff particularly at the highest level as Sri Lanka meanders into the loss column – painful to watch especially when a few key […]

PRESS RELEASE Issued by Computer Society of Sri Lanka The Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL), which was established in 1976 in Sri Lanka represents Information Communications Technology (ICT) Professionals in Sri Lanka. It promotes Information and Communication Technology and professionalism among those engaged in the field of Information and Communication Technology, and maintains the highest professional […]

ජෙ.ඒ ගුණතිලක සමස්ත ලංකා රේගු සේවා සංගමය.   රේගු ආඥාපනත අහෝසිකර  මුදල් ඇමතිවරයාගේ  මූලිකත්වයේන ජාවාරම්කරුවන්ගේ උවමනා එපාකම් මත මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය තුල හොර රහසේ සකස් කෙරෙමින් තිබූ නව රේගු පනතට වෘත්තීය සමිති වලින් එල්ල වු බලවත් විරෝධය හමුවේ එහි නිල පිටපතක් අප වෙත ලබා දෙන ලදි.              එහෙත් එම පිටපත පවා මේවනවිට වෙනස් කර ඇති අතර ෙමිවන […]

පුවත් පත් නිවේදනය ගාමිණී සරත් ගොඩකන්ද පාත්ෆයින්ඩර් පදනම සහ නෝර්වේ තානාපති කාර්යාලය සමග නව ගිවිසුමක් නොබෝදා අත්සන් කෙරිණ. පදනමට අනුබද්ධ ඉන්දු – ශ්‍රී ලංකා සහයෝගීතා මධ්‍යස්ථානය වෙනුවෙන් සම්පත් උපයෝගී කරගැනීමට මෙම ගිවිසුම අනුව අවස්ථාව ලැබේ. නෝර්වේ වැඩබලන තානාපති ක්නයුට් නයිෆ්ලොට් සහ පාත්ෆයින්ඩර් පදනමේ සභාපති බර්නාඩ් ගුණතිලක යන මහත්වරු ගිවිසුම නිල වශයෙන් අත්සන් කළේය. ඉන්දීය තානාපති වයි. […]

Sudath Gunasekara 22.8.2016. I have been closely watching the ongoing quarrels, debates, allegations and counter allegations,by the two adversary camps of the SLFP led by Chandrika and Sirisena on one side and Mahinda Rajapaksa on the other. Looking at the overall political mess in the country neither of these camps will be able to capture […]

Dilrook Kannangara There is no shortage of labour in Sri Lanka as a whole. What is being experienced is shortage of labour in certain business sectors while excess labour in other sectors. This shifting of labour between industries should happen and the government must facilitate it. Importing more labour will worsen the situation with rising […]

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA According to the newspapers, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on the 31st August 2016.  It is important for the citizens of this country to take a moment and reflect on the type of man that is about to visit the country. I won’t pretend to be […]

Shenali D Waduge Isnt this baffling? Sri Lanka is accused of committing genocide, plenty of propaganda is being paid for to showcase this but no one seems to be bothered to look at the statistics and ask ‘how can genocide take place while Tamil population is increasing?” A lot of people have landed in a […]

Anura Seneviratna. Above is the famous statement made by the investigative journalist Paul Harris in Colombo about 12 years ago, in response to the current back-door PM when he was then PM too about his giveaway deal with the invasive Tamil terrorists, who were trying to convert SL into a second Tamil Nadu (Tamil country). […]

 If we cant handle errant Indian fishermen stealing our fish, poaching on our waters, ruining our marine bed ….. Do you seriously think our policy makers can handle a country with 1.3billion people  This is an agreement that will affect all Sri Lankans – Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burghers… It is one thing to do business with […]

Diannah Paramour Tasmania, 7117. Email Message to The Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation. Please send me the correct email address to contact you in regards to the Sri Lankan President ( Maithripala Sirisena) requesting a bribe from your company in 2009. I believe you are now two merged companies originating from The Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation. This corrupt […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge    The concept of nirvana is a product of Buddhist systematic thought which is more than 2500 years old. Throughout the centuries various scholars and philosophers tried to explain the Nirvanic concept using their limited knowledge. Nevertheless the concept of Nirvana is often misunderstood and sometimes misused (e.g. – Nirvana Rock […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island  August 30, 2016, 7:31 pm Hackers are like snakes. When one realises one has been attacked it is often too late; damage is irreversible in most cases. They haven’t even spared institutions which boast of having best cyber security in the world. The Pentagon, too, is fighting quite a battle to keep […]

by Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island August 30, 2016, 7:31 pm The mandate of the Geneva based 47 Member Human Rights Council installed in 2006 is to promote, protect and prevent Human Rights violations. Given below are instances where the UN has admitted that it failed to live up to its mandate,together with instances where the […]

 By Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror An elderly Tamil gentleman, who in his retired secluded life in a rural village seems eager for company, surprised me with his perfect Sinhala. Curious about his background, I asked how he learned Sinhala so well. He said he had worked in a private company as an area sales […]

 By  Ranga Jayasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga says her father the late Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike brought the Sinhala Only Act to ‘give the country back to its people’ after centuries of colonial rule. She should sincerely be believing so, so do a sizeable portion of the Sinhalese majority who think […]

By The Nation – Aug 27, 2016 Around 85 treasury officials are supposed to have decided to leave the boards of state enterprises to which they have been nominated, to represent the shareholdings of the government. The issue has come up because some of the officials who had served on such boards are disturbed as […]