Courtesy Colombo Telegraph The net appears to be closing in on the outgoing Governor of Central Bank Arjuna Mahendran, with the Auditor General implicating Mahendran in the first bond issuance which has resulted in the country losing a staggering Rs. 1.6 billion rupees, the Colombo Telegraph learns. Arjuna Mahendran The highly anticipated Auditor General’s report […]

ACF  Media Unit The two Central Bank (CB) treasury bond scandals and the crisis that has occurred in appointing a new governor to CB have exposed the attempts to protect the corrupt by some elements of the ‘good governance’ government. The report of the Auditors General has stated that the activities of current CB administration  […]

Press Release – Ananda College English Debating Society The English Debating Team of Ananda College (Team-B) emerged Champions at the 11th Sri Lanka Schools’ English Debating Championship, organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. The aforesaid tournament is considered to be the pinnacle of the local English debating scene, the most prestigious all-island inter-school debating championship and the tournament with […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය දූෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ කථානායකවරයා සහ කෝප් කමිටුව වෙත ඊයේ බාර දුන් විගණකාධිපති වාර්තාවේ සදහන් වන කරුණු නිවැරදි නොවන බව සදහන් කරමින් මහ බැංකුවේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නිලධාරීන්ගෙන් දිව්රුම් ප්‍ර‍කාශ ලබා ගැනීමේ ව්‍යාපාරයක් මේ වන විට ක්‍රියාත්මක වේ.  අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්‍ර‍න් සහ නියෝජ්‍ය අධිපති සමරසිරි විසින් මහ බැංකුවේ නිලධාරීන්ට ඒ සදහා බලපෑම් කරමින් සිටින බව ‘දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ‘ […]

(හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාපක්‍ෂ මහතා 2016 ජුනි 29 වෙනි බදාදා, ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයේ බත්තරමුල්ල කාර්යාලයේ දීයහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ බදු සහ ණය අර්බුදය” ගැන කල දේශනයේ පිටපත.) යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ බදු සහ ණය අර්බුදය අතිපූජනීය සංඝරත්නයෙන් අවසරයි, අන්‍ය ආගමික පූජකතුමනි, මන්ත‍්‍රීවරුනි, මිත‍්‍රවරුනි. අපිට අද පේනවා වැට් බද්දට රට පුරාම විශාල විරෝධයක් ඇතිවෙලා තියෙනවා කියන කාරණය. විශේෂයෙන්ම නගර ආශ‍්‍රිත වෙළඳ […]

Adaderana          We have never faced a crisis as acute as the one created by the reckless borrowing of the Yahapalana Government. The people of this country should be aware of the situation that is developing,” former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says. In a statement, he said Now the government is looking for […]

Dilrook Kannangara The UNP government is on the verge of yet another economically disastrous decision. Obviously, UNP leadership feels the shame of defeat in the Brexit vote as it worked hard to convince as many people to vote remain”. However, its kneejerk reaction is stupidity. Now it wants to speed up signing ETCA to overcome […]

By Rohana R. Wasala (Courtesy The Island)   And we shall play a game of chess, Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.  From ‘A Game of Chess’( the second canto of The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot) Meaning of the epigraph These lines from Eliot contain an allusion to the comedy A […]

අනුර සෙනවිරත්න   පටබැඳී ලංකා රට හා ජාතිය මූලික අවුලය සින්හෙලයේ හෙලදිව් දෙරනේ  ආක්රමනයට ඉන් මහමග පෑදියේ නැත ලොව ජාතික රටකට මේවන් විනාසයේ අප කිසිවෙකුටත් නැත මේ වග ඔලුගෙඩියට දැනිලායේ     නැත ලැබුනේ නිදහස අපහට 48 වසරේ දුන්නේ බාරෙට රට බොරු සිංහල කල්ලි හොරේ ඩැහැ ගෙන ඉන්නේ හෙල රට තවමත් උන්ගේ මුන්ගේ බාරේ නිදහස සඳහා […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-073-2016 27 June 2016 —————————————————— SRI LANKA: Teacher asks students to beat up 10-year-old classmate ISSUES: Child rights; torture; impartial investigation; impunity; rule of law; justice —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 10-year-old girl has been […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-072-2016 29 June 2016 —————————————————— SRI LANKA: An innocent man tortured by Katugastota police ISSUES: torture ; illegal arrest; detention; impunity; rule of law; justice —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Niroshan Chamara Rupasinghe of the […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Sri Lankans need a new story-line every day to talk in the buses ,trains and in three wheelers .We have ample stories to talk and we keep forgetting one episode after the other in time to time . People in the country do not notice that the price of food and infrastructure […]

Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha (Professor of Paramedics and Law and Divinity and Holistic Science) Ethul Kotte, Kotte. SRI-LANKA Firstly I want to thank the government of China, for helping our nation at the time of the war and also its re-building through highways and other projects coordinated with our nations beloved son; the former President Mahinda Rajapakse. […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග කෙටි කතා ලිවීම මා සිදු කරන ලද්දේ කාංසිය මකා ගැනීම සඳහාත් සිතේ තෙරපෙන අදහසක් කෙටි කතා මාධ්‍ය මගින් කීම සඳහාත් ය​. නමුත් කෙටි කතා ලිවීමට දශක  ගනනාවකට පෙර සිට මා බොහෝ කෙටි කතා කියවූයෙමි. දේශීය මෙන්ම විදේශීය ලේඛකයන් ගේ කෙටි කතා මා විසින් කියවා තිබේ.   මේ වන විට මම කෙටි කතා […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Research into the subject of ‘Hinduism in ancient Ceylon’ started early in the British period.  Simon Casie Chetty’s contribution on the origin and history of the ‘Trincomalee temple,’ was published in Ceylon Government Gazette, 1831. (H.A.I. Goonetileke Bibliography of Ceylon item no 6873). There was much discussion on the subject at the meetings […]

By Gagani Weerakoon Courtesy  Ceylon Today President Maithripala Sirisena was the Chief Guest at an event, marking the 74th Birth Anniversary of the Ven. Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera, organized by the All-Island Youth Abstinence Organization at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute on 21 June. Individuals who have contributed significantly to the effort to eradicate the narcotics menace […]

By Shaahidah Riza Courtesy Ceylon Today Joint Opposition and United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Leader MP Dinesh Gunawardena shares his thoughts on the RTI, Audit Bill, BREXIT and Provincial Councils…. He feels the government will not be able to handle the economic repercussions of the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union (EU) adding that […]

lanka C news පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුම ප්‍රධාන කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැති මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවේදී පක්ෂයේ ජාතික සංවිධායක මධු මාධව අරවින්ද මහතා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. ජාතික හෙළ උරුමයේ සිටිනා පූස් පැටවෙකු ගැන මධුගෙන් හෙළි දරව්වක් උදය ගම්මන්පිල මන්ත්‍රිවරයා දේශපාලන පළිගැනීමකට අභූත චෝදනා නඟා සිරගත කිරීම සම්බන්ධ නාට්‍ය ඉදිරියට විකාශනය වෙනවා. ඒතුමන් සිරගත කිරීම කුඩා දරුවෙක් උනත් දන්නවා දේශපාලණ […]

lanka C news ර ටේ ආර්ථිකය සහ සමාජීය පැවැත්ම සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම වනසා දමන පනත් කෙටුම්පත් 15ක් මේ වසර අවසන්වීමට පෙර සම්මතකර ගැනීමට රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ පාලනය සැරසෙන බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. පිටකෝට්ටේ පිහිටි එම පක්‍ෂයේ ප්‍රධාන කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමින් ඒ මහතා මෙසේ පවසීය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ විමල් වීරවංශ […]

Daily Mirror The Government not only needs to remove the Central Bank Governor Arujuna Mahendran from his post but also should claim damages from him and the company owned by his son-in-law, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said today. JVP Leader and Chief Opposition Whip Anura Kumara Dissanayake told a media briefing that the government […]

මහින්දට හොද ආත්ම ශක්තියක් තියෙනවා පසුගිය රජය ලබාගත් ණය පිළිබඳ දැන්වීම් ප්‍රචාරය කිරීම සඳහා රජය වැය කරන අති විශාල මුදල ඉතිරි කර ගැනීමෙන් ජනතාවට යම් සහනයක් ලබාදිය හැකි බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි.  

Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena has also committed a wrong by allowing Arjuna Mahendran to continue in the position of Central Bank governor for such a long period despite knowing that he is a fraud, claims JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The Governor’s term of service should not be extended because he is a fraud” and […]

By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island The British vote in favour of leaving the European Union (EU) -Brexit-has been called by some commentators as the biggest uprising against the people who have run the UK since the Peasants Revolt of 1381. Fortunately for the ruling elite, Brexit did not replicate the killings of the King’s […]

Shenali D Waduge The UNHRC head has released his report. It is now the ONLY official document that has been tabled in the UNHRC. This is following the unofficial & purposely leaked report Panel of Expert report commissioned for the personal review of the United Nations Secretary General only and the UNHRC investigation namely the […]

Dr. Wasantha Bandara Secretary Patriotic National Movement (PNM)  Nawala, Sri Lanka 26th June 2016 Hon. Ronny Abraham President of the International Court of Justice International Court of Justice Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2 2517 KJ, The Hague, The Netherlands Dear Sir, We are an Organization of Sri Lankans dedicated to protecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our […]

By Charles.S.Perera Yo appaduṭṭhassa narassa dussati Suddhassa posassa ananganassa Tam eva bālaṃpaccheti pāpaṃ Sukhumo rajo paṭivātaṃ va khitto  (125 Dhammapada) Like fine dust thrown against the wind, evil falls back upon that fool who offends an inoffensive, pure, and guiltless man. If Sri Lanka government seeks the applause of  USA and the west Sri Lanka can […]

Dilrook Kannangara Depopulation and genocide of people in Diego Garcia islands is one of the most foul acts of war crimes in modern world. It is a continuing shame on humanity. In 1966 the British government depopulated the islands to lease out the island to the US government for a military base. A diplomatic Cable […]

Janaki Chandraratna Courtesy The Island June 27, 2016, 7:52 pm The Brexit referendum is a historic event for both the UK and the rest of the world. Britain voted to exit from the European Union (EU), with a vote of 52% to 48%, after 43 years of membership since 1973. The Exit camp listed 20 good […]

John Pilger Courtesy John Pilger.com The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media. This was, in […]

By NewsGram NewsDesk2 In a recently posted article on the official blog of François Gautier, he mentions the names of 50 people who according to him can be explained as enemies of Hindus or in some way have hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus. He compiled this lists by considering the points one needs to […]