නලින් ද සිල්වා රනිල් තකහනියක් ඉන්දියාවට යන්නෙ ගිවිසුම් කිහිපයක් අත්සන් කිරීමට කියා කිසිවකු හිතනවා නම් එය දේශපාලනය ගැන වැටහීමක් නැති කමෙන් කෙරෙන්නක්. අපට විදුලිය ලබා දීම ගැන කතා කරන ඉන්දියාව රටෙන් කොපමණ ප්‍රමාණයකට විදුලිය දී තිබේ ද? මෝදී ඊනියා ජාත්‍යන්තර වෙසක් උත්සවයට සහභාගි වීමට තව සති දෙකකින් ලංකාවට පැමිණීමට නියමිතයි. ඒ තවත් ව්‍යාජයක්. ජාත්‍යන්තර වෙසක් […]

සංජය ලියනගේ– සත්හඬ April 23, 2017 | lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් දැනට දියාගෝ ගාර්ෂියා හි ස්ථානගතව සිටින ආසියා – ෆැසිපික් සාගර කලාපයේ ඇමරිකානු 5 වන නෞකා සේනාංකය ලංකාවේ ඩෙල්ෆ් දූපත් සමූහයේ ස්ථානගත කිරීමේ සූදානමක් පවතින බව දේශපාලන ආරංචි මාර්ග සඳහන් කරයි. ඊට අදාළ රාජ්‍යතාන්ත්‍රික මැදිහත්වීම නුදුරේදීම එක්සත් ජනපදය විසින් සිදු කරනු ඇති […]

ප‍්‍රදීප් අනුර කුමාර lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් වසර තිහක යුද්ධයක් අවසන් කර රටට සාමය දිනා දීම වෙනුවෙන් ලැබෙන තෑග්ග තමන් ඇතුළු රණවිරුවන් දං ගෙඩියට දක්කාගෙන යාමදැයි හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ප්‍රශ්න කළේය. අතුරුදන් වූවන් පිළිබඳ කාර්යාලය ස්ථාපිත කිරීමේ පන‍ත මඟින් කරන්නට යන්නේ රණවිරුවන් දංගෙඩියට දක්කාගෙන යාම බව පැවසූ රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මෙම […]

by  Professor Mahinda Palihawadana I think I was asked to take part in this discussion1 because I am a vegetarian and a Buddhist as well. If that is so, the impression probably was that I am a vegetarian because I am Buddhist and that in my opinion I have to be vegetarian in order to […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I wrote about it sometime back.Not only colour  we need to do a full make over and change the name to Rajapurusha” !!!!!! Read Below SRI LANKAN POLICE ( NEW NAME ) NEEDS NEW OUT LOOK AND TRAINING Posted on January 11th, 2017 Dr Sarath Obeysekera During my stay in UK ,I have […]

by Danister I. Fernando Buddhism is a way of life. What is mainly essential, according to the noble philosophy of Sakya Muni the Buddha is to follow the Eightfold Path leading to complete emancipation- Nibbana. But it is wrong to conclude that Buddhism is interested only in such lofty ideals and high philosophical thought ignoring […]

Business Mattel, a multinational toy manufacturer that for decades inspired the wonder of childhood across the globe, has identified Sri Lanka as a key market for growth. In a recent presentation to Mattel’s local partners, at Cinnamon Lakeside, Ishmeet Singh, Country Manager – South Asia, outlined the toy company’s vision for Sri Lanka. Citing the […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා අවුරුදු විසිපහකට පමණ පෙර 1992 මැයි මස 29 වැනි දින මා මොරටුව විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ සිංහල සාහිත්‍ය සංගමය මගින් සංවිධානය කරන ලද රැස්වීමක ඉහත සඳහන් මාතෘකාවෙන් දේශනයක් කළා. එය පොත් පිංචක් ලෙස ඒ සංගමයෙන් මුද්‍රණය කෙරුණා. 1990 මැයි 29 වැනි දින ඒ මහතාගේ ජන්ම ශත සංවත්සරයේ දී මා විශේෂ දේශනයක් කළා. මට මතක හැටියට […]

Editorial The Island April 23, 2017, 8:46 pm Those who voted for the incumbent administration may not have expected others’ garbage to be shoved down their throats––so to speak––in this savage manner. They were promised the sun and the moon, but, today, they have their villages being turned into stinking rubbish dumps. Their protests are […]

by Neville Jayaweera April 22, 2017, 5:43 pm Nationalism is a paradox. It imparts new life to moribund  societies and launches them into new orbits. Paradoxically however, once restored to a new life, the selfsame  societies   tend to deny to other societies the new life they had striven so hard to achieve for themselves. When I was […]

By Tissa Ravindra Perera Courtesy The Nation Former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa lspoke to our sister paper Sunday Rivira about the macro plans launched by him during the previous regime to tackle Colombo’s garbage managemment issues and the interventions readied to tackle the problem scientifically. Q: Politicians allege that you and the previous government are responsible […]

Editorial The Sunday Island April 22, 2017, 7:42 pm Meetotamulla was a tragedy that was waiting to happen. With over 30 people, including children killed, millions of rupees worth of property damage caused, dozens whose houses were buried and at risk of further rubbish slides and methane gas explosions forced to evacuate their homes, the […]

by Selvam Canagaratna Courtesy The Island April 22, 2017, 5:45 pm “The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself, and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.”– John Fowles, Daniel Martin, 1977. For a man […]

Courtesy The Island April 22, 2017, 6:00 pm The decades long scream of agony of a poisoned people and a poisoned earth for accountability on the part of one of the most vicious and manipulative of Transnational Corporates (TNCs) has been vindicated. In October 2016, the Monsanto Tribunal (MT) set up in the Hague listened […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE The stench from Meethotamulla, metaphorically speaking, is being matched by the stench of political rivals lobbing chunks of political garbage at one another.  The politically dispassionate pointing out that there are countries where such disasters resulted in the resignation of relevant subject ministers or officials, called for the resignation of those responsible.  […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා ලෝකයේ ලොකුම නගරය කොළඹ ද කියලා දැන් අහන්න වෙනවා. චම්පක රණවක ඔහුට සුපුරුදු විධියට මීතොටමුල්ලේ කුණු කන්දේ වට ප්‍රමාණය, උස ආදිය ගැන දශමයට ජනතාව දැනුවත් කළා. ඔහු සංඛ්‍යානයෙහි විශේෂඥයකු නොවූවත් සංඛ්‍යා ලේඛන ඉදිරිපත් කරන්න දක්‍ෂයෙක්. ජාතික හෙළ උරුමයෙන් හාමුදූරුවරුන් කී දෙනකු අස්වුණා ද කියලා ඇහුවොත් ඔහු උපසම්පදා භික්‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ මෙපමණ ය සාමණේර […]

Politics is the last resort of scoundrels—-still one cannot blame them, but I will most certainly blame those idiots who voted for them. The difficultynow is to find them is because NO ONE claims having voted for them ——so says even Bernard Shaw! A brilliant analysis by Dr Dayan Jayatileke—–exposing the lack of basic professionalism […]

Courtesy The Island * Prominent yahapalana theoretician talks of ‘failed govt.’ * Protests over multiple issues to resume with a vengeance * Derana TV subject to good cop – bad cop routine April 22, 2017, 7:38 pm While the Meetotamulla tragedy drowned out all other news during and after the Sinhala and Tamil new year, […]

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Premajayantha opposes leasing of oil to India

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Multiple protests by residents against dumping garbage from Colombo

Sudath Gunasekara 17.4.2017. The President said that the Government would ensure that no garbage would be dumped at the site in the future and the existing site will be shifted soon.  – See more at: http://www.ft.lk/article/609541/Garbage-turns-gory#sthash.Mz3Idvd3.dpuf I have two questions on the President decision. How many Presidents and politicians have said the same thing before. […]

Ranjith Soysa Media Spokesperson Global Sri Lankan Forum Mr Salil Shetty, Secretary General-Amnesty International Dear Mr. Salil Shetty, REQUEST TO PROBE INTO THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND WAR CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE INDIAN PEACE KEEPING FORCE IN SRI LANKA IN 1987-1990. At an interview with the Mr Shamindra Ferdinando the   Deputy Editor of the […]

by, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha Long time ago, India consisted of many countries. Vanga was one of the countries in India at that time. The king of Vanga (present-day Bengal) married a princess named Mayavati of the Kalinga country (present-day Odisha). The couple had a daughter named Suppadevi. She was thought to be in the Hindu culture […]

ALI SUKHANVER ‘Facebook is diminishing the working capabilities of Youth’ and also ‘affecting the students’, said the cabinet of Bangladesh in a letter to the Telecom Ministry. The Cabinet has suggested putting a limited ban on Facebook, according to various Bangladeshi newspapers. If this ban imposed successfully, Bangladesh would be the first country in South-Asian […]

Courtesy Statesman News Service Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez played the damsel in distress in the 2016 superhero film A Flying Jatt. If I could be a superhero, I would love to be Captain Planet. He is one superhero I have grown up watching and always loved the fact that with everything he did, he was […]

By Yang Yang Courtesy chinadaily.com.cn  Anura Banda has been in China for over 20 years but he will never forget the fragrant aroma of his first sip of Chinese tea.”Chinese tea is very famous in Sri Lanka. The first Chinese tea I ever had was green tea. The aroma was very pleasant. Although it was […]

Mica Rosenberg and Yeganeh Torbati, Reuters Courtesy  Business Insider NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Raj, a Sri Lankan fisherman, sought refuge in the United States in 2005, he had precisely the kind of fear of returning home that U.S. asylum laws require. In 2004, he was kidnapped by the separatist rebel group the Tamil Tigers and […]

Courtesy Sputnik Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to visit India from April 25 to April 29 to strengthen economic cooperation between the two neighbors. His visit will also set the agenda for the upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Sri Lanka in May. © PHOTO: DENETH17 Sri Lanka Plays […]