Dr. C.S.Weeraratna During the last few decades a lot of emphasis has been placed on teaching/ learning English. A large number of students, especially from rural areas travel long distances spending a lot of money and time to attend private English classes to become proficient in English so that they could secure employment. Dept. of […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න විසිනි රාජකාරියට කලක් කීවේ දෙවියන්ගේ කාරිය කියාය. එහිදී ඔබ මෙන්ම අපගෙන්ද ඉටුවිය යුතු කොටසක් ඇත. අප කීවේ පත්‍රකලාවේදීන්ය. මේ දෙපිරිසේම විවේචන අවසානයේ මහජනයාගේ යහපත වෙනුවෙනි. හැම රජයක්ම බලයට පත්වන්නට පෙර මාධ්‍ය නිදහස ගැන ලොකුවට කථා කලද බලයට පත්වු විගස එයට එරෙහිව කඩුව අතට ගනී. මෙය වසර 1970 බලයට පත්වූ සමඟි පෙරමුණේ සිට අද […]

බෝධි ධනපාල, කිබෙක්, කැනඩාව ඩෙන්ගු රෝගීන්ගේ තත්තවය හොඳ කිරීමට පැපොල් කොල යුෂ පාවිච්චියට ගැනීම ගැන සනත් හෙට්ටිගේ දොස්තර මහතා ගේ පරීක්ෂණ පිලිබඳව වාර්තාවක් ඩේලි මිරර් සහ ලංකා වෙබ් (  https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/04/25/papaya-leaves-can-beat-dengue )  වල පලවිය. මෙම වාර්තවෙහි පරීක්ෂණයට භාජන වන ද්‍රව්‍යය  පරීක්ෂා කරණ විද්‍යාත්මක ක්‍රමය ද කෙටියෙන් හෝ එහි සඳහන් වී ඇත. එනම් (i) “බෙහෙත” පරීක්ෂා කිරීමට […]

by Hemantha Randunu Courtesy The Island Police investigations into a complaint that a group of more than 50 persons led by Opposition and TNA Leader R Sampanthan forcibly entering an army camp at Paravipachchan in Kilinochchi on April 16 have been stalled as the army has been ordered not to pursue the case. Police said yesterday […]

Shenali D Waduge The Northern Provincial Council has boldly passed a resolution contravening its mandate claiming ‘Sinhalese colonization in the North’. Leaving aside what the Government should do about the NPC violations, the counter question is what about Tamil colonization of the South steadily taking place. Why are those supporting the Northern colonization claim silent […]

by Basil Fernando Asian Human Rights Commission The name Kondaya is now a household name, following the tragic Sewwandi case, the abduction, rape and murder of a little girl of around 4 years. Discovery of the dead body led to an uproar not only in her village and the neighbouring villages but throughoutthecountry. There was a […]

By R. M. B. Senanayake Courtesy The Island Statesmen and public interest organizations expected much from the UNP government under Ranil, which came to office on January 8th last year. They have been in office for over a year, but have carried out the same irresponsible populist policies; and done nothing to ensure sound government and […]

Foundation stone laid for the Indian Housing Project in Central and Uva Provinces High Commissioner of India, Mr. Y. K. Sinha, and Hon’ble P. Thigambaram, Minister of Hill Country New Villages, Infrastructure & Community Development jointly laid the foundation stone for the third phase of the Indian Housing Project at Dunsinane estateon 24 April 2016 […]

by Sujeeva Nivunhella in London Courtesy The Island British Opposition Leader, Jeremy Corbyn said that until Sri Lanka’s Tamils achieve justice and self-determination the “war is not over”. Addressing a meeting organized by ‘Tamils for Labour’ at the committee room in the Houses of Parliament last week, Corbyn said the Labour Party is committed to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Neither the Prime Minister nor the President had responded in connection with the Northern Provincial Council’s decision to adopt a resolution seeking a federal solution for the country’s Tamil community, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya leader Udaya Gammanpila says. The observation was made while speaking at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (25). […]

 Courtesy The Daily Mirror Dr. Sanath Hettige won the Presidential Award for the best medical invention for 2013 at the presidential awards ceremony held on the Feb 5, 2016 for his invention of papaya leaf syrup, tablets and capsules for the treatment of dengue fever and other medical conditions. This is the highest award for […]

Shenali D Waduge Commencing with the ITAK in 1949 and its aims and objectives to the TULF and the Vaddukoddai Resolution of 1976 and the formation of the LTTE in the same year/month, to the demands made by LTTE (Thimpu Principles/ISGA as solutions) and India’s solutions (Indo-Lanka Accord/13th amendment) the similarities in the demands being […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න විසිනි අන්තර් විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ශිෂ්‍ය බල මණ්ඩලයේ(අන්තරේ) 1992 මැයි සිට 1993 පෙබරවාරි දක්වා කැඳවුම්කරු වශයෙන් කටයුතු කල කැලණි සරසවියේ සමාජ විද්‍යා පීඨයේ සිසු ඩබ්ලිව් එම්. විරාජ් මර්වින් පෙරේරා(47) ඉකුත් 2016 අප්‍රේල් 23 වැනිදා ජිවිතයෙන් සමුගත්තේය. අභාවප්ප්‍රාප්ත වනවිට රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන සේවයට අනුබද්ධ අනුරාධපුර සහකාර ගොවිජන සේවා කොමසාරිස් ලෙස කටයුතු කල විරාජ්ගේ අවසාන කටයුතු අනුරාධපුරයේදී […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති ගල් විහාරයේ සැතපෙන බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමාවේ ශීර්ෂය පැත්තට වෙන්න නෙළලා තියෙන සිටි ප්‍රතිමාවහන්සේ ගැන විවිධ අදහස් පළකරපු කාලයක් තිබුණා. ඒ, බුදුරජාණන්වහන්සේ ගේ පරිනිර්වාණය ගැන කම්පාවෙන ආනන්ද හාමුදුරුවෝ කියලා සමහරු කිව්වා. ඒත් පරණවිතාන මහත්තයා කිව්වේ ඒ පර දුක්ඛ දුක්ඛිත මුද්‍රාවෙන් නිරූපණය කළ බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමාවක් කියලා. කොහොම වුනත් මේ ගැන දැන් කවුරුවත් වාදකරන්නේ නෑ. ඒකට හේතුව […]

Slavery –Up to 13,000 working as slaves in UK -Courtesy The Guardian Government launches strategy to end slavery as number of victims found to be up to four times higher than thought. As many as 13,000 people in Britain are victims of slavery, about four times the number previously thought, analysis for the government has found. The […]

A.A.M.Nizam – Matara It is a well known fact that the Tamil Diaspora which is very powerful in the western countries due to its voting strength were in the forefront of mustering the United States, Britain, other western countries and India to install the eunuch Sirisena as President and westernophile puppet Ranil Wickremasinghe as the […]

By Dr. Janaka Ratnasiri Courtesy The Island Two news items on the economy of the country which appeared in The Island recently prompted me to write this. One was a press release issued by the leader of an IMF team, Todd Schneider, who visited Colombo during March 31- April 11 to hold discussions with the government […]

Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya After the selection of the IGP recently an activist group known as Decent Lanka 2015 (appeared as headline news The Island) which includes journalist Kusal Perera and lawyer Srinath Perera accused the CC chaired by Speaker Karu Jayasuriya of “bluffing” the people. These are few among a lot of authoritative persons you find […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Diabetics tend to get wounds easily but  do not heal easily.  Specially these days with the sweating and dry skin, often the diabetics tend to scratch and these scratches can become chronic or take a long time to heal even with antibiotics. One of the easiest method to heal the wound […]

Samantha Ranatunga Peaceful coexistence is the most important project of our era which we cannot do in isolation, but together. The huge challenge faced by the country today at the end of the staggering war lasting for 30 long years is to bring national amity among people belonging to different races, religions and communities and […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,Dehiwela Have you noticed  how we consumers are all duped into believing that we are getting our money’s worth? The other day I bought a baby cream of a famous repetitive name, and when I opened the sealed tube and squeezed …. and squeezed and squeezed ….. well it took half the […]

By Charles.S.Perera One does not know where Sri Lanka is or which way it is going.  Since 1968 we had as national leaders, D.S.Senananayake, S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike, Sirimavo Bandaranayaike J.R.Jayawardhana, R.Premadasa, Chandrika Kumaratunga and Mahinda Rajapakse. What ever defects some of them had they proved to be national leaders of distinction. S.W.R.D.Bandaranayake, Sirmavo Bandaranaike  were exceptionally great […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala It is hindsight that throws insights to create and illuminate foresight. That is the beauty  and value of history. It gives meaning. It also throws up warning signs for  those with 20-20 vision to read the road map that points the way to destinations. Those who refuse to look back and […]

Courtesy The Island April 23, 2016, 8:25 pm ECONOMYNEXT, The Constitutional Council’s selection of a new IGP through a secret ballot carried out in the absence of two of the three civil society representatives was slammed Saturday as a “historic blunder.” An activist group known as Decent Lanka 2015 which includes journalist Kusal Perera and […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The newly appointed Inspector General of Police  Mr Pujitha Jayasundera  must receive the greatest accolade now  that  he holds the sword to bring back the glory of Police force in Sri Lanka. PJ  has gone through the Mill.  He is well known as a robust speaker and a honest, hardworking, […]

Senaka Weeraratna  Aims and Objectives The Animal Rights movement is destined to usher in the next great social revolution in the world. It is no longer a fringe movement. There is a gradual progression throughout history towards recognizing the rights of others. It started with the emancipation of slaves, women, children in that order. It […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, AHMADIYYA  MUSLIM  JAMA’AT – SRI LANKA On 17th January 2016, a Public Meeting was held, organized by All Ceylon Jammiyathul Ulema (ACJU) at Negombo Jumma Mosque at 4 p.m. The main speaker was Rizvi Mufthi, President, All Ceylon Jammiyathul Ulema. The news of this meeting was published in a Tamil Daily […]

Sarath Wijesinghe – former Ambassador to UAE and Israel English as a life skill English as a life skill is a straight and simple tool of communication striped of its historical baggage, a skill for employment and a vehicle for reaching the outside world of knowledge. It has been a property owned by few elite […]

Chandre Dharmawardana Ottawa, Canada April 20, 2016, 8:46 pm (A shortened version of this article was published in The Island) In a midweek review article in The Island (April 20) Dr. V. J. M. de Silva attributes the quote “Science without religion is blind; religion without science is lame” to Einstein. Einstein quotes like “God does not play […]

Kanthar. P. Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBusAdm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng. MIEE (Ret), MIE (Aus.) CPEng, (Ret) Retired Director & Specialist Power Systems Engineer 23rd April 2016 Mr. Jeremy Corbyn MP Leader of the Labour Party House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AALondon Dear Mr. Jeremy Corbyn, MISCONCEPTION OF SELF-DETERMINATION, AND ITS NEGATIVE IMPACT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC-POLITICAL PROGRESSION FOR THE […]