Editorial Courtesy The Island March 10, 2017, 9:24 pm Some French voters, fed up with their leaders, especially the candidates in the presidential race, recently chose to give vent to their pent-up anger in an unusual manner. They launched a campaign to invite former US President Barack Obama to run for President in their country! They […]

Maneka Gandhi Courtesy The Island March 10, 2017, 9:20 pm In all the recent sound and fury about Jallikattu, many people from Tamil Nadu quoted the Thirukkural to justify their support to this horrendous cruelty to helpless animals. In fact, after it was forcibly restarted by a very strange notification by the state governor, who overrode two judgments […]

By Gamini Gunawardane Courtesy The Island An interesting question arose at a recent Royal Asiatic Society’s Monthly Lecture, delivered by H. L. D. Mahindapala now resident Australia, on the topic: “The Last King of Jaffna was a Sinhalese Buddhist”. At the end of Mahindapala’s presentation, during the question time, a young member of the audience raised […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake March 10, 2017, 9:25 pm Haven’t you heard enough of these bonds? Depends on what bonds, you are talking about; there could be some bonds one may like. I mean the bonds we hear and read about every day – these big money bonds. You mean the Central Bank and Treasury bond […]

lankanewsalert.com නැවත වරක් දරුණු ත්‍රස්තවාදයේ සෙවණැලි රට තුළ මතුවී ඇති බවත්,එවැනි ප්‍රපාතයකට රට ඇද දැමුවේ වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව බව,රියර් අද්මිරාල්(විශ්‍රාමික) ආචාර්‍ය සරත් විරසේකර පවසනවා.අද (02) ශ්‍රි ලංකා පොදු ජන පෙරමුණේ පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේ පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක් වෙමින් ඒ මහතා මේ බව සදහන් කළා.බුද්ධි අංශ සහ හමුදාව දේශද්‍රෝහින් ලෙස දෙමළ ඩයස්පෝරාවේ උවමනාව මත හංවඩු ගසමින් රජය කටයුතු […]

Shenali D Waduge Ever since May 2009 baseless allegations have been levelled against Sri Lanka’s military. Anyone can make allegations but facts and evidence is what counts. How can anyone accuse a person of murder without a dead body? We know how many Sri Lankan Soldiers died in the final phased but there is a […]

 Ira de Silva Canada The Editor The Hindu, Delhi, India  Dear Sir:  Regarding the killing of a Tamil Nadu fisherman “somewhere between the Indian and Sri Lankan coast” on March 7,2017, it is correct that this is an unfortunate result of the long-standing dispute between Tamil Nadu fisherman and Sri Lankan fisherman. What you fail to […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය ලෝකයේ අංක 1  ආර්ථික හිමි රටවන අතර එහි සමස්ථ වාර්ෂික දල දේශිය නිෂ්පාදනය ඇ.ඩොලර් ට්‍රිලියන 18.56 කි එනම් ඩොලර් බිලියන 18560කි  2 වෙනි ස්ථානය චීනයට හිමිවේ. එය ඇ.ඩොලර් බිලියන 11391කි තුන්වන ස්ථානය හිමිවන්නේ  ජපානයටයි. ඒ ඇ. ඩොලර් බිලියන  4730කි,  එමෙන්ම ඉන්දියාවේ වාර්ෂික දල දේශිය නිෂ්පාදනය ඇ. ඩොලර් බිලියන  2250 […]

By, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha Beddagana, KOTTE After the battle of the victorious Lions against the Tamil Tigers; it was taken carelessly to account that no more will it ever be possible for the northern terrain to fall into the hands of any political separatism. Therefore it was decided by the then government to hold […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Starting from the Dutch period to modern times, the Jaffna Tamil leadership, which consisted exclusively of the Vellalas, relied entirely on two fundamental ideologies to retain their power and  privileges in the peninsula. Both ruling ideologies were defined in two separate documents. First was the Tesawalamai codified by Class Isaacksz, Dissawe […]

By Garvin Karunaratne It is reported that the IMF is recommending the Sale of a few of our Assets- the Colombo Hilton, Lanka Hospitals, Hyatt Hotel  and Waters Edge -all to bag $ 1.5 billion to solve today’s economic crisis. What really happens is that this $ 1.5 billion will be paid to our creditors […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The dollar voracious NGO vulture Jehan Perera well known as the Sinhala tiger terrorist who similar to Mangala Samaraweera suffers from selective and chronic insomnia under which he does not remember or believe in the hardships and agonies undergone by Sinhala, Muslim and other communities sans Tamils in Sri Lanka, […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The Cabinet has agreed to compensate the 16 prisoners killed during the 2012 Welikada Prison riots. Their families will get Rs Two Million each. The 11 injured will get Rs 500,000 each. In the attempt to bring the situation to control, some officers, including the Commandant of the Special Task […]

 By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Joint Opposition leader Dinesh Gunawardena has been suspended from parliamentary sittings for a week following a vote taken due to the MP repeatedly disrupting proceedings today (8). A total of 85 parliamentarians voted in favour of the decision and only 22 voted against while another 114 were absent during the vote, […]

මාධ්‍ය  නිවේදනය-කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා විසින් සකස් කරන ලද වාර්තාවකිනි. 1952 හෝ ආසන්න අවස්ථාවක වව්නියාව මන්ත්‍රී සී.සුන්දරලිංගම් (ස්වාධීන) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් පිටකලේ පුටුව පිටින් ඔසවාගෙන ගොසිනි.  1956 ට පෙර වරක් ගාල්ලේ ඩබ්ලිව්.දහසානායක පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් ඉවත් කිරීමට කථා නායකට සිදු වූනා යැයි මතකයක් ඇත.  පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන සහ එඩ්මන් සමරක්කොඩි (සහ තවත් අයෙකු නම දන්නවානම් කියන්න) ට […]

වියත්මග වාර්ෂික සමුළුව අමතා මේජර් ජෙනරාල් කමල් ගුණරත්න මහතා විසින් කළ කතාව.. https://youtu.be/MXAmczPSEAM

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   The Buddha’s Charter of Free Inquiry and judging truth are found in the Kalama Sutra of the Anguttara Nikaya. In Kalama Sutra Buddha emphasized the importance of critical thinking that involves seeing things in an open-minded way. Critical thinking helps to evaluate and challenge the thoughts and ideas   and rethink conclusions in the light of new […]

Shenali D Waduge Both LTTE & TNA are demanding a separate Tamil Homeland. LTTE fronts have been echoing the same. Take out their statements, press releases, constitutions, election manifestos, interviews & demands and the comparisons are shocking. LTTE were terrorists and TNA is the political wing created by the LTTE. In 1976 Tamil political leaders […]

Dr.  Ruwan M Jayatunge    Jose Naroskey once said In war, there are no unwounded soldiers” Undeniably war has a profound effect on soldiers. It has a catastrophic effect on their health and wellbeing. I have met a number of soldiers around the globe who belonged to different Armies and various military organizations. Many of […]

UK Community News Weragama Arachchige LEELASENA (of Hangamuwa, Ratnapura): Former Head of the Faculty of Mathematics at Maharagama  Teachers’ Training College, former principal at Anuradhapura Central College, former Senior Mathematics Teacher at Walthamstow Girls School UK, passed away peacefully at home (in the  UK) surrounded by his loving family on March 3rd 2017 aged 85 years. […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Depression is a mood disorder -one of the common mental health problems facing people today. Depression can interfere with a person’s ability to function effectively and productively. Depression is common among the elderly population. Some view depression as a physiological reaction in the old age.     But some researches deny this factor and […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The virtually bankrupt government of Maithreepala, Ranil and Chandrika trio’s new project negotiations include the establishment of  a 5 Star Hotel  and Luxury Apartments  of famous Dusit Tani (famous for what?) in Balapitiya. Dusit Tani  Hotel Group is well known for providing Thai Full Body Massages for all ages of […]

Media Release    Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights in Sri Lanka (SPUR) NSW Inc. NSW 1730, Australia                                                             Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena declares Sinhala Warriors dubbed […]

Wade Shepard ,  CONTRIBUTOR Courtesy Forbes Trying to develop its infrastructure to increase its economic potential has plunged Sri Lanka deep into a pit of debt, pushing the country to the brink of bankruptcy and prompting an IMF bailout. The official estimate of what Sri Lanka currently owes its financiers is $64.9 billion — $8 billion of […]

Sri Lanka Now Has Worst Ever Finance Minister Ever- An Accusation

 By Shihar Aneez Courtesy Nasdaq COLOMBO, March 7 (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund urged Sri Lanka’s central bank on Tuesday to rebuild foreign reserves while maintaining exchange rate flexibility and to be ready to tighten monetary policy if credit growth or inflation do not abate. Following its second review of a $1.5 billion three-year loan […]

ශ්‍යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත, සරත් ධර්මසේන උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින භාණ්‌ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර මගින් රජය ලබාගත් පැරණි ණය පියවීම සඳහා මහා භාණ්‌ඩාගාරය වෙත විශාල අරමුදල් අවශ්‍යතාවක්‌ ඇති වී තිබෙන බවත් එම ණය එකවර සපයා දීමේ දුෂ්කර තත්ත්වයකට මහ බැංකුව මෑතදී මුහුණ දී සිටින බවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ රාජ්‍ය ණය අධිකාරි ටී. එච්. බී. සරත්චන්ද්‍ර මහතා ඊයේ (07 දා) […]

අජිත් අලහකෝන් උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ඇමැතිවරුන් හත් දෙනකුට, රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිවරුන් තිදෙනකුට සහ නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමැතිවරයකුට වාහන මිලදී ගැනීම සඳහා රුපියල් හතළිස්‌ නව කෝටි හතළිස්‌ නව ලක්‍ෂ හැට දෙදහස්‌ හත්සිය අනූවක මුදලක්‌ (494962790) ඉල්ලා පරිපූරක ඇස්‌තමේන්තුවක්‌ ආණ්‌ඩු පක්‍ෂ සංවිධායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු කටයුතු හා ජනමාධ්‍ය ඇමැති ගයන්ත කරුණාතිලක මහතා විසින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඊයේ (07දා) ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලදී. ඒ අනුව විශේෂ කාර්යභාර […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island March 6, 2017, 8:27 pm The standoff between the Bar Association of Sri Lanka and the Judicial Services Association over the appointment of a member of the Batticaloa bar as a High Court Judge has ended. Accordingly, members of the JSA will be officiating at the BASL elections to […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island March 7, 2017, 8:09 pm The Treasury bond scams, currently being probed by a presidential commission, have had a devastating impact on the entire country. The private sector workers are the worst affected. Their superannuation fund or the EPF (Employees’ Provident Fund) had suffered a staggering loss of Rs. 15 bn, the […]