By Yusuf Ariff  Courtesy Adaderana Ven. Professor Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thero says that Sri Lanka will go down in the history books as a country with no national policies. Sri Lanka has many world records. I think that this country not having any national policies on the likes of education, culture and media is also a […]

  By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the statement made by Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga to foreign correspondents in Colombo last week to the effect that war widows in Sri Lanka now face ‘widespread’ sexual exploitation by members of the army among others, is a matter of grave concern.” The rape and sexual […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් එදා මිනිස්සුන්ගේ ඡන්දය ගන්න එක නායකයකු කිව්වා අපි බලයට ආවොත් මේ රට ධර්මිෂ්ඨ සාමාජයක් කරනවා කියලා” කොච්චර හොදද ධර්මිෂ්ඨ කිව්වම, මේ සම්පූර්ණ අමූලික බොරුවක් නේ කලේ යයි උත්සව සභාවක් අමතමින් ශ්‍රි ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය කුලපති මහාචාර්ය බෙල්ලන්විල විමලරත්න නායක හිමියන් ප්‍රකාශ කරන ලදි. උන්වහන්සේ වැඩිදුරටත් සඳහන් කලේ ඉන් පසුත් නොයෙක් නායකයින් තම […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් හිටපු ජනාධිපති චන්ද්‍රිකා කුමාරතුංග විසින් ජාත්‍යන්තරය ඉදිරියේ මෙරට සන්නද්ධ හමුදාවලට අවලාද නැගීම සම්බන්දයෙන් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා විරෝධය පල කරයි. තම විරෝධය සදහන් කරමින් ඒ මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇති නිවේදනය මෙසේය. මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය චන්ද්‍රිකා කුමාරතුංග මැතිනිය ජාත්‍යන්තරය ඉදිරියේ අපේ සන්නද්ධ හමුදාවලට අවලාද නැගීම යුද්ධය නිසා උතු‍රේ වැන්දඹු තත්වයට පත් වූ […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror  Former president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s allegations that war widows face sexual exploitation by members of the army among others should be condemned publically by President Maithripala Sirisena, former president and MP Mahinda Rajapaksa said today. Issuing a statement, he said Ms. Kumaratunga’s allegations were a matter of grave concern and the […]

Raquel Carvalho South China Morning Post ‘I don’t know what they would do, because they are cruel,’ says father of two The asylum seekers who sheltered former US intelligence contractor turned whistle-blower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong have said they fear for their safety, after reports that Sri Lankan police had been in the city looking […]

By Bandara Courtesy Ceylon Today “By virtue of the powers vested in me by Section 25A of the Universities Act, No. 16 of 1978, I, Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Sumanaweera Banda Dissanayake, Minister of Higher Education, having obtained a report under Section 70C of the aforesaid Act in respect of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine […]

එස්බී සයිටම් විරෝධීන්ගේ රෙදි ගලවයි..! –ලංකාවේ වෙනදේ වෛද්‍ය සභාවම සයිටම් උපාධිය ලංකාවේ දෙන්න යෝජනා කළ හැටි: සයිටම් පරීක්ෂා කළ 10න් 9ක් අනුමත කළ හැටි: වෛද්‍ය පීඨ ලොක්කන්ගේ දූරු පිටරට ඉගන ගන්න හැටි (ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස් -2017.පෙබ.22, පෙ.ව‍.11.45) සයිටම් ආයතනය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ උපාධි ප්‍රදානය කරන ආයතනයක් ලෙස ලියාපදිංචි කරන්නැයි එදා යෝජනා කරන ලද්දේ අන් කිසිවෙක් නොව වෛද්‍ය […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  According to the archaeological evidence, the island was inhabited as early as 10,000 B.C.  The Sri Lanka’s ancient cultural heritage dates back over 2,500 years. The Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka in the 3ed Century. The Buddhism became an integral part of Sinhalese culture and civilization.  Sri Lanka became one of the […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Every year University Dons and the ministers keep promising about bringing laws to curb the menace of ragging .There were many instances where many young undergraduates have ended up physically handicapped or mentally disturbed .JVP affiliated  Inter University Student Union is also trying to safe guard the culprits .JVP always has the […]

Sarath Wjesinghe a former Secretary – Bar Association and a former Administrator Legal Aid Commission Appointment of a High Court Judge from the Unofficial Bar The thorny issue on the appointment of the High Court judge from the private Bar is brewing fast at a rapid phase, with conflicting statements, from various sources. Justice R […]

Courtesy Nasdaq COLOMBO, Feb 22 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee ended weaker on Wednesday on importer dollar demand as local traders bought the U.S. currency as a precaution amid concerns of a steep depreciation in the rupee in the absence of central bank intervention, dealers said. Rupee forwards <SLKR> were active with two-week forwards […]

South China Morning Post Family of four and individual from Sri Lanka are worried about their safety given reputation of investigators for human rights abuses, lawmakers say Two local lawmakers are calling on the police to investigate claims that Sri Lankan police investigators were in Hong Kong looking for the asylum seekers from the country […]

R Chandrasoma According to some versions of Buddhist apocrypha, the condition of our species – mankind – varied tremendously across vast ages. We live in an age of decadence and finitude wherein life is short and mankind is inexorably menaced by pain and death. Under these conditions, The Compassionate Buddhas bearing a salvific message appear […]

ALI SUKHANVER February usually brings a very pleasant weather for the people all over the world but this February proved very unlucky for the people of Pakistan. More than hundred innocent ones became victim to brutal terrorist activities; countless injured; hundreds of families were pushed to the hell of helplessness and a lot of damage […]

Press release – Global Expo on Tea & Coffee at Mumbai INDIA The vision of World Tea Coffee Expo Mumbai India is to expand the Indian Beverage business by providing all sourcing requirements under one roof Growing in size and stature every year, the 5th edition of World Tea Coffee Expo comes back to Mumbai […]

PRESS RELEASE: 22 February 2017 On 28 February 2017, the Monitoring Accountability Panel (MAP”) will issue its Second Spot Report, which will coincide with the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council (the ‘HRC’) scheduled for 27 February to 24 March 2017 in Geneva. In the 27-page report, the MAP’s international legal experts will outline their […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Patriotic Peoples’ Front Assam (PPFA) expresses serious concern over the Goalpara incident, where a sitting judge was physically manhandled by some lawyers recently and demands stern actions against those unruly law practitioners to maintain the dignity of the Indian judicial entity. The  forum strongly  argues that the anti-national culprits, who targeted […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් කොටි සංවිධානය පරාජය කිරීමේ යුධ ජයග‍්‍රහණයේ මුල් ගෞරවය හිමිවුය යුත්තේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාට බව හිටපු නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමති විනයාගමූර්ති මුරලිදරන් (කරුණා අම්මාන්) පවසයි. දෙරණ රූපවාහිනියේ 360 වැඩසටහනට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු කියා මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. මහා යුද විරුවා තමන් යයි ඇමති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා යයි සිදු කරන ප‍්‍රකාශයන්ට ප‍්‍රතිචාර ලෙස ඔහු කියා සිටියේ […]

By Dhammika Ranaweera Courtesy  Ceylon Today A determined stand-off between Minister of Public Enterprises Development Kabir Hashim and the Finance Ministry at yesterday’s Cabinet meeting sent emotions…… roaring in connection with a clash of opinions on the amount of compensation to be paid for cancellation of an agreement signed by the previous regime to purchase aircraft. […]

By P.K.Balachandran  |  Express News Service  |    COLOMBO: India will not be pressing Sri Lanka to merge the Northern and Eastern Provinces to form a single Tamil-majority, Tamil-speaking province as envisaged by the India-Sri Lanka Accord of 1987, the Indian Foreign Secretary S.Jaishankar told the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) here on Monday. He was reacting to a […]

Human Rights Watch (New York) – The Sri Lankan government has not met its pledge to curtail police abuses prior to the March 2017 session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch said today. Security sector reform was one of 25 undertakings by Sri Lanka in the Human Rights Council resolution adopted […]

Courtesy The Daily News The Sri Lanka Freedom Party(SLFP) decided not to support any amendments to the Constitution which could harm the country’s unitary character, territorial integrity and sovereignty, Social Empowerment & Welfare Minister S.B.Dissanayake said yesterday. He also noted that the President and the SLFP has decided not to support any amendments which require […]

BY M. MAGESWARI Courtesy The Star on line KUALA LUMPUR: Activist Lena Hendry was convicted by a magistrate’s court for screening a Sri Lankan civil war documentary that had not been approved by the Censorship Board. Hendry, 32, who stood expressionless in the dock upon hearing the verdict, later said she was disappointed with the judgment. […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් එක්සත් ජනපදයේ Heritage Foundation විසින් වාර්ෂිකව ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කරනු ලබන ආර්ථික ස්වාධීනත්ව දර්ශකයට (Index of Economic Freedom) අනුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ස්ථාන 19 කින් පහලට ගොස් තිබේ. මේ අනුව නොබෝදා එළිදක්වන ලද 2017 ආර්ථික ස්වාධීනත්ව දර්ශකයේ 112 වැනි ස්ථානයට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පත්ව තිබෙන අතර 2016 වසරේ දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව 93 වැනි ස්ථානයේ පසුවිය. මෙහිදී […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island February 21, 2017, 7:58 pm Politicians are a peculiar lot. They think no end of themselves and never own up to their lapses. Of them, one may say, with apologies to Bernard Shaw, those who can, do, and those who can’t, bash the media. Politicians who are capable of living up to […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was conferred an honorary doctorate by Deakin University, Australia. He’s not the first premier thus honored and he probably will not be the last.  However, an honor it is and as such warranted media coverage.    What was newsy, though, was not the event but a statement he had […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Sri Lankan conflict was one of the longest armed conflicts of the 20th centaury. Sri Lankan society was shattered by hate and brutalization as a result of the internal war which caused over 95,000 lives and destruction of property worth over billions. This prolonged conflict generated massive numbers of PTSD victims. […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  මීට දශක කීපයකට පෙර සිංහල බෞද්ධයා බණ ඇසුවේ හේන්පිටගෙදර ඥානසීහ , නාරාවිල ධම්මරතන , පොල්වත්තේ බුද්ධදත්ත ,බඹරැන්දේ සිරි සීවලී ,රේරුකානේ චන්දවිමල, වල්පොළ රාහුල වැනි බහුශ්‍රත භික්‍ෂූන් ගෙනි. ධර්ම ඥාණය මෙන්ම බොහෝ ඇසූ පිරූ දැණුම තිබූ මේ යතිවරු  ධර්මය අසන්නා තුල බුද්ධි කළම්බනයක් ඇති කිරීමට සමත් වූහ​. එහෙත් අහේතුවකට මෙන් මේ ශික්‍ෂිත […]

By Our Correspondent Agartala: Alternate media users among the practicing journalists of Tripura have taken a pioneering initiative to form an organization named Tripura Web Media Forum (TWMF) with an aim to pursue independent journalism from the alienated region of India. The launching of the web media forum was initiated with a delegate conference and […]