ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න ‘යහපාලන’ ආණ්ඩුවට ඇති ප්‍රශ්නය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ගෙන් වූවායැයි උපකල්පනය කරන හොරකම් නිසා වැට් ඇතුළු බදු බර ජනතාවට පැටවීමට සිදුවීමය. ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ සුළු පක්ෂවලට ඇත්තේ මහින්දගේ නායකත්වයෙන් සහ බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂගේ සංවිධායකත්වයෙන් බිහිවෙමින් පවතින අලුත් පක්ෂයෙන් ඉදිරි මැතිවරණ වලට තරඟකිරීමේදී තමන්ගේ කෝටා එක නැතිවේදැයි කියාය. ජවිපෙට ඇති ප්‍රශ්නය පක්ෂයේ සිය 4වන නායක සෝමවංශ අමරසිංහගේ හත් […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති මෙයට පෙර ලිපියෙන් කී විදිහට මේ පෙරදිගට ගමන ආරම්භ කෙරුණේ චීන භාෂාව ඉගෙනීමට යොමු වීමෙන් සහ අනෙකුත් ථෙරවාදී රටවල ඉතිහාසය හා සංස්කෘතිය ගැන ඉගෙනීමට තීරණයකිරීමෙන්. ගතවෙමින් තිබුණේ 2003 අවුරුද්දේ දෙවැනි භාගය. දිනය ගැන හරියට ම මතකයක් නෑ. සති අන්ත පත්තරේක තිබුණා චීන භාෂාව උගන්වන පංතියක් ගැන කුඩා දැන්වීමක්. ගුරුවරයා තමයි ආචාර්ය හව් වෙයිමින්. […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Senior painter Benu Misra and artisan-photographer Labu Senapati have joined in a mission to showcase their works once again in the city. A three-day exhibition of drawing-painting, bonsai and wood-works has been organized at Surjya Club (CK Agarwalla Road, Guwahati-781001) which will kick-off on 2 July 2016. The show is scheduled […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The 13th Amendment gave the Provincial Councils rights over Land, land tenure, transfer and alienation of land, land use, land settlement and land improvement.” It specifically says Land shall be a Provincial Council subject to certain limitations.” Land is not on the concurrent list either. It was therefore assumed that Land” was the […]

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ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ව්‍යවස්ථා සම්පාදනය සමබන්ධයෙන් අදහස් ලබා ගැනීමට රජයෙන් පත්කළ ලාල් විජේනායක වාර්තාව  රටට පිලිලියක් නිසා වහාම ඊට විරුද්ධව ජාතික වාදීන් විසින්ඊට විරුද්ධ  තව එවැනි  වාර්තා  කීපයක් පිළියෙළ කර  මහජනතාවට  මෙන්ම රජයටත් ඉදිරිපත් කල යුතුය. වැඩක් වුනත් නැතත් ලාල් ගේ වාර්තාව එකම වාර්තාව නොවන බවත් මහජන මතය ඊට ඉඳුරා වෙනස් බවත් ලොවට හෙලිකල යුතුය.  එකාබධ්ධ […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  Rain came and went ,Then Floods came and gone .Garbage heap in Metthotamulle was washed down ruining houses and created health hazard Megapois had mega  plans to solve the problem .Called Requests for Proposals from bidders to submit investment proposals to treat the garbage and generate power . All of them asked […]

 RT Russian President Vladimir Putin says ‘Brexit’ is the choice made by the British nation and is a comprehensible one, as no one wants to feed weak economies.” Russia has not and does not plan to interfere with the results of the referendum, he added. TrendsBrexit Read more British politics in post-Brexit turmoil after vote […]

By Charles.S.Perera Sri Lanka  in 2005 after 57 years of Independence  elected Mahinda Rajapakse as the President of Sri Lanka.  That was a great decision taken by the people of Sri Lanka to elect a great patriot, a national leader of affectionate qualities, a gentleman one could be proud  to have as the President. He […]

Shenali D Waduge The Government of Sri Lanka is to open a Missing Persons Office. This is a golden opportunity for everyone who publicized figures as dead or missing to now come out and name the numbers they gave or the sources from whom they got the numbers. Thereafter it is imperative to log who […]

Shenali D Waduge Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera deserves kudus from both Sinhalese and Tamils. He has come forward to file a case on behalf of over 90% of Sri Lanka’s population. What the GOSL overlooked and ignored Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera has done in filing a public & personal interest case against the GOSL for failing to […]

By Prof. G. L. Peiris Courtesy The Island As the yahapalanaya government reaches the significant milestone of a year and a half, it is, perhaps, a worthwhile exercise to look back on the performance of an administration which held out abundant promise to the public on multi-faceted “Change”, and to assess the degree of fulfilment of […]

BBC News Prime Minister David Cameron is to step down by October after the UK voted to leave the European Union. Mr Cameron made the announcement in a statement outside Downing Street after the final result was announced. He said he would attempt to “steady the ship” over the coming weeks and months but that […]

By L.K.N. Perera (LLB, Cey) Courtesy Ceylon Today The Leader of the Opposition, Sambandan’s recent justification of the LTTE’s struggle to form an Eelam State and the unanimously passed resolution in the Northern Provincial Council, to form an autonomous State in the Northern and Eastern Provinces needs the immediate attention of peace loving members of all […]

By L.K.N. Perera (LLB, Cey) Courtesy Ceylon Today Before delving into the question of whether Eelam is a myth or not, I would like to pose the under mentioned questions to Messrs. Sampanthan, Wigneswaran or any other high ranking officials in the TNA, TULF; Any other learned member of the Tamil diaspora, or even directly to […]

Ramanie de Zoysa The Constitution of Sri Lanka is being changed to reflect the findings and recommendations of PRCCR committee that received public opinions from less than .017% of Sri Lanka’s 21m population. Of this miniscule sample of 3655 submissions received, at least 70% were signed by Tamils and Muslims – among them well known […]

By Rohana R. Wasala The armed terrorist struggle for creating a separate state in Sri Lanka was decisively defeated in 2009. But the separatist ideology is still very much alive and there are signs of it flourishing again. According to the US State Department the LTTE fronts active in that country continued their collection of funds […]

lanka C news කෙසේ වෙතත් අදාල හමුදා සඳහා විගණකාධිපතිවරයා පමණක් සහභාගී කරවාගෙන ඇති අතර මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම්වරයාද අගමැතිවරයා සමඟ සහභාගී වී ඇත. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අනුමත කරන ලද ප‍්‍රමණයට වඩා ණය ගෙන ඇති බවට විගණකාධිපති වාර්තාවක් සකස් කලේ කෙසේදැයි එහිදී අගමැතිවරයා ඉතා තදින් විගණකාධිපතිවරයාගෙන් ප‍්‍රශ්ණ කර ඇත. කෙසේ වෙතත් පිළිතුරු ලෙස විගණකාධිපතිවරයා ඉතා සෘඩුව පවසා ඇත්තේ තමන්ගේ […]

lanka C news පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පැවති තොරතුරු දැනගැනීමේ පනත් කෙටුම්පත පිළිබද විවාදයට එක්වෙමින් ඒ මහතා මෙසේ පැවසීය ‘‘අපේ රටේ බොහෝ වැදගත් ක්ෂේත්‍ර‍වලට අදාළ තොරතුරු අවිධිමත් ආකාරයට වුවත් හොදින් ගලාගෙන ගියා. මේ තොරතුරු දැනගැනීමේ පනත ගෙන එන්නේ, එසේ අවිධිමත් ආකාරයට ගලා ගිය තොරතුරු විධිමත් ආකාරයට ජනතාවට ලබාදීමට නම් ප්‍ර‍ශ්නයක් නැහැ. නමුත් රටේ අනාගතයට, අභිවෘද්ධියට තීරණාත්මකව බලපාන ක්ෂේත්‍ර‍ […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් බත් කන මිනිසුන් සිටින රටක බත උපදනා තැන කුමක්දැයි කවුරුත් දැන ගත යුතුය. බත් ඉපදෙන්නේ කෑම මේසයේ කෑම පිඟානෙන් බව අනාගත තරුණ පරපුර කියන්නට ඉඩ ඇත. ජාත්‍යන්තර පාසල් පමණක් නොව නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයෙන් බිහිව සිටින උගත් තරුණ පරපුරද එසේ කියනු ඇත. මේ ඛේදවාචකයට යම් තරමක ඉතිහාසයක් තිබේ. කෘෂිකර්ම අධ්‍යාපනය විසින් කෘෂිකර්ම නිළධාරීන් බිහි කරන […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The subjects of Health and Education were devolved to the Provincial Councils in 1988. The transfer was not difficult. Both services had been successfully de-centralized decades ago, and it was these decentralized services that were transferred to the utterly unprepared Provincial Councils. Health and Education are specialized services, which were delivered by trained […]

By Keerthi Warnakulasuriya Sunday Diavina – 19th June    (translated by Ranjith Soysa) The 32nd session of the UN Human Rights Commission was opened on 13th June 2016. Within 5 days of the inaugurating its activities 51 page review on Sri Lanka was submitted to the UNHCR by the organization called Truth and Justice. This review was complied […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Open letter to the Prime Minister . Opening ceremony of the Boat Show to be held in October 2016 has been held yesterday in the Cineman Grand Hotel . Boat Show is organized by the BTTI-Boat Building Technology Institute  which is the brain child of a prominent boar builder who has dome […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Almost 18 months since the new regime came to power ,and both UNLP’ers .SLFP ,JVP and JOC all in similar frequency Vis a vis failures of development drive and the management of the proposed development  gaols and plans .None of them are talking good about the progress and yet expect something to […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Unresolved Indo-Lanka issues  SPECIAL REPORT : Part 127 June 21, 2016, 7:20 pm One-time head of the Law Faculty, University of Colombo, Dr Nirmala Chandrahasan last Thursday (June 16) called for tangible action on the part of the Sri Lankan government to bring in Sri Lankan refugees, living in India, particularly in […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  වෛද්‍ය ජයලත් ජයවර්ධන මහතා මට හමු වන්නේ  1999 වසරේදී පමණය​. ළමා මනෝ විද්‍යාව පිළිබඳව මා විසින් ලියන ලද පොතක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් වෛද්‍ය  ජයලත් ජයවර්ධනට රූපාවාහිනී වැඩසටහනක් කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය වූ අතර ඔහු විසින් කරගෙන යන ලද අයි.ටී.එන් වෛද්‍ය හමුවට  එතුමා මට ආරාධනා කලේය​. 2002 වසරේදී කිලිනොච්චියේ ළමුන් සඳහා මනෝ විද්‍යාත්මක සායනයක් පැවැත්වීම සඳහා ඔහු […]

Shenali D Waduge An excellent opportunity has now arise to catch red handed every person who ranted about 40,000 to 100,000 being dead. They have for years been going on and on about these ‘missing’ or ‘dead’ numbers without so much as producing a single name. Now the ball is in their court to prove […]

Adaderana I never said that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa siphoned off money, Minister Rajitha Senaratne says. The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (22). I asserted that Rajapaksas were behind this, and as well as it was those who were around him involved in this,” he added. Former President […]

Dilrook Kannangara After proof of athletes taking banned performance enhancing substances and allegations of state support for it, Russia has been banned from contesting in the Olympics. This is an absurd decision. Just because a few athletes used banned performance enhancing substances with possible state support, it shouldn’t result in disqualification of the entire team. […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Provincial Councils were set up in February 1988, under the Provincial Councils Act no 42 of 1987, as a requirement of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.  Each province had a Governor, Chief Minister and Councilors. The Governor, appointed by the President, ranked above the Chief Minister. Governor could take decisions without […]