Courtesy BBC An aid worker from Greater Manchester who was killed in Sri Lanka was shot and stabbed more than 40 times with broken bottles, an inquest has heard. Red Cross worker Khuram Shaikh, 32, from Rochdale, was attacked at a hotel while on holiday in Sri Lanka on Christmas Day in 2011. A witness, […]

Wade Shepard ,  CONTRIBUTOR Courtesy  Forbes  Hambantota Port is set to go to China with an impending deal that will see China Merchants take an 80% share for a specified amount of years.  AFP PHOTO / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI As regional powers like China, Russia, Japan, and India vie for political and economic position throughout the eastern […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island A recent cartoon in the popular “Marmaduke” series, showed the dog Marmaduke look sadly at the trash cans emptied by urban sanitation workers. The friendly boy tried to make him feel better saying “Don’t be sad, Marmaduke. We can always make more trash.” This must be how so many of […]

By Tom de Castella Courtesy The  Telegraph (UK) As space in Britain’s landfills runs out, the race is on to find environmentally friendly alternatives. Image 4 of 5 The landfill site at Remo, north-east Belgium, which the firm Group Machiels wants to mine in order to reuse the waste I am standing on a manmade mountain, a 260ft […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Japanese coming all the way from Japan wearing masks coming to tell what I told six month back………… Read Below We need State Of Emergency or Martial Law” if state wants to solve Garbage Problem ! Quote We need State Of Emergency or Martial Law” if state wants to solve Garbage […]

By Prof. O. A. Illeperuma April 21, 2017, 8:54 pm Last year I wrote a piece (Island May 24, 2016) on the danger of disposing garbage in open dumps such as the one at Meethotamulla and the immediate need to go for a sanitary landfill. While people in the vicinity of Meethotamulla have been agitating, […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada. April 21, 2017, 8:57 pm The Buddha you never knew, and parts of the Tripitaka that never survived. Bhante Dhammika of Australia, writing in the Island Newspaper (21st April 2017) presents a valuable and timely reminder that what is often believed to be “core facts”of Buddhism cannot in fact be confirmed […]

By: A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. The world population articulated a sigh of relief when the newly elected U.S.President Donald Trumph expressed that he would change the American foreign policy of war  mongering and acting as the world Policeman, establish cordial relationship with Russia and China and give priority to national interests of the United States drifting […]

Dr Sudath Ggunasekara 20.4.2017 The following article by ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  speaks volumes on the future of the Sinhala nation. It unfolds the long standing diabolical conspiracy of the British Colonial administration for the total destruction of the Sinhala Buddhist nation. Talking about Thesawalamei Law they said it is applicable only to the ‘Malabar Inhabitants of […]

Sudath Gunasekara 20. 4.2017. Commission to examine Kandyan, Muslim laws By The Nation – Apr 8, 2017 Lawyers are claiming that the legislation had reached a common understanding with regard to the repeal of Article 16 in that a commission would be appointed to hold discussions with those affected by the said Article and the […]

Courtesy Indian Express Sonu Nigam shaves off hair after azaan row, Muslim cleric asks why he is not wearing garland of shoes.  Sonu Nigam shaved off his hair on Wednesday in response to a Muslim cleric who announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh to anyone who could tonsure the singer. The controversy started after […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ රටම මලගෙයක්ව ඇත. ඒ මිනිස් හදවතක් ඇති සාමාන්‍ය ජනතාවට දැනෙන ආකාරයයි. නැකතට මුළු රටේම ජනතාව ගිනි මොලවා කිරිබත් පිස ආහාර අනුබව කරන රටේ, ඊට ස්වල්ප වෙලාවකට පසු ඒ ජනතාවගෙන් කොටසක් කුණු කන්දකට යටවී මියගොස් ඇති මේ අවස්ථාවේදී රටට අලුත් අවුරුදු ප්‍රීතිය යයි හදුන්වනදේ සැබවින්ම සැමරිය හැකියාවක් නැත. මහා හදිසි අවස්ථාවක් ඉස්මතුව, තම දු […]

 Loretta Napoleoni Courtesy RT  In many ways terrorism works just like a business, and a costly one – the organization needs arms, supplies, and each recruit needs to be fed and equipped; it all costs money. But where do terrorists get their money? How are the atrocities financed? Is jihad even possible when you have […]

Harsha admitted that the landfill disaster was the fault of the present Govt. – Mahinda මීතොටමුල්ලට මුදල් වෙන්කළ බව මහින්ද කියයි මීතොටමුල්ල කසළ ගැටළුවට ස්ථීර විසඳුමක් ලබා දීම සඳහා 2015 වසරේ දී තම අවසන් අයවැයෙන් මුදල් වෙන් කළ බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි.

ලංකා සී නිවුස් මීතොටමුල්ලේ කුණු කන්ද සමග බැදී ඇති දේශපාලකයන්ගේ කොමිස් කුට්ටි ගැන අලූත්ම වීඩියෝවක් SLvlog මාධ්‍යවේදී දර්ශණ හදුන්ගොඩ විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇත. ඇමති චම්පික රණවක මහ ඇමති ඉසුර දේවප‍්‍රිය ආදීන්ගේ සියළු සැගවුණු කොමිස් කතා ඔහු නම් ගම් සහිතව හෙලි කලේ මෙසේය. https://youtu.be/P-R0nB_i_MM

 By Binoy Suriyaarachchi Courtesy Adaderana The failure to dump waste in a remote area and recycle it came due to the influence of politicians who make financial gains from the garbage mafia in Colombo, a leftist party parliamentarian said Thursday. Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Propaganda Secretary, Vijitha Herath, while speaking to reporters during a media gathering […]

Samantha Kumarasinghe (The writer is an entrepreneur and an industrialist.) It is now an openly-discussed incident that the former Central Bank Governor had misused his authority to allow a company that his son-in-law is a director/major shareholder of to make billions of rupees in undue profits at the expense of Government and other public funds. The subject […]

Leaders couldn’t over power the real perpetrators behind Meethotamulla tragedy – vasu පාලකයින් කුණුවලට යට වු හැටි වාසු කියයි මීතොටමුල්ල ඛේදවාචකය කුණු ඡාවාරම්කරුවන්ගේ උවමනාව මත සිදු වුවක් බවත් ඡාවාරම්කරුවන්ට යට වීම නිසා එම අනතුර සිදුවු බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර මහතා පවසයි. අද (18) පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක් වෙමින් මන්ත‍්‍රීවරයා මේ බව කියා සිටියේ ය.

MP Dinesh Gunawardena stated that the Rs.100000 compensation offered by the government to the victims is a value the government should be ashamed about. රජය ගැන ලැජ්ජයි – ඒකාබද්ධය කියයි මීතොටමුල්ල ඛේදවාචකයෙන් මිය ගිය පුද්ගලයින් සඳහා රජය විසින් රුපියල් ලක්ෂයක මුදලක් ලබා දෙන බව පැවසීම ලැජ්ජාවට කරුණක් බවත් එය ඉල්ලා අස්කර ගත යුතු යෝජනාවක් බවත් […]

Out of Time Im not a big fan of infowars and dont trust Alex Jones. This report they did however was spot on.A lot of the news you get on your on your television set is all Jewish Propaganda they create the news they don’t report it. The topics are Iraq in the past and […]

R Chandrasoma The concept of ‘race’ has had a troubled history since both ethnographers and geneticists have difficulty in giving an objective definition of the supposed basic divisions of mankind. Certain human groups have clear-cut physical features that make their separation objective and socially acceptable. Thus the ‘mongoloid facies’ is very distinctive with such things […]

By Robert Fisk  Courtesy Information Clearing House April 18, 2017 “Information Clearing House” –  “The Independent”– It was the Mother of all Hypocrisy. Some dead Syrian babies matter, I guess. Other dead Syrian babies don’t matter. One mass murder in Syria two weeks ago killed children and babies and stirred our leaders to righteous indignation. But the […]

  ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  රටේ ප්‍රධාන නීතියක් තිබියදී , බෙදා පාලනය කිරීමේ වාසිය තකා ඉංග්‍රීසින් විසින් යාපනේ දෙමල ජනයාට විශේෂ වරප්‍රසාදයක් වශයෙන්අමතරව ස්ථාපිත කරන ලද ”තෙසවලමෙය් ” නම් වූ මේ ප්‍රාදේශීය නීතියද ඉංග්‍රීසින් විසින් පවත්වාගෙන යන ලදී .’ මෙය දෙමළුන්ට දුන් විශේෂ වරප්‍රසාදයක් නොවන බවත් එසේකලේ යාපනේ දෙමලුන්ගේ පාරම්පරික අයිතීන් රැකීමට බවත් මෙසේම මුස්ලිම් හා උඩරට […]

 වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  වෛද්‍ය ග්ලැඩිස් ජයවර්ධන ගැන නව පරපුර නොදන්නවා විය හැකිය​. එසේම තරුණ වෛද්‍යවරුන් ද වෛද්‍ය ග්ලැඩිස් ජයවර්ධන ගැන නොදන්නවා විය හැකිය​.  ග්ලැඩිස් ජයවර්ධන යනු විශේෂඥ කායික වෛද්‍යවරියක් පමණක් නොව ලංකාව විසින් බිහි කරන ලද දුබල වර්ගයේ ශාස්ත්‍රාලයීය කතකි. ඇය අධ්‍යාපනය ලබන්නේ කොලඹ කාන්තා විද්‍යාලයෙනි. ඉන්පසු කොලඹ වෛද්‍ය පීඨයට තේරෙන ඇය සාර්ථව වෛද්‍ය […]

Courtesy Adaderana April 18, 2017  07:41 am Mahinda Rajapaksa was President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015. He is a human rights lawyer by profession, but has been the butt of  widespread outrage and criticism for alleged human rights violations by the Sri Lankan armed forces during the final stages of the 30-year long civil […]

By: A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The Tamil slavish government which has completely abandoned all its promises to the people is committed and determined to fulfil the diktats of the TNA, the Tamil diaspora, the pro-Tamil western powers and the pro-Tamil anti Sri Lankan NGO vultures, and is hell bent on adopting a federal structured new constitution, […]

Dr. Chandana Jayalath Corruption can be defined as the abuse of public power, resources and belongings for personal ends.  It takes many forms and shapes. Perpetrators are skilled in developing new ways to be corrupt and cover their trickeries, frauds and scams. It has always existed in the world and now a global concern. The […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando ‘Never say die’ was the slogan adopted by Senaka Edirisinghe in Kandy, from the time his daughter Jeewanthi was in his wife’s womb. At first, it was a hard fought battle with the gynecologist who monitored his wife’s pregnancy from the beginning. The baby was due on 24th October 2009, […]

Sudath Gunasekara 18.4.2017. Brilliant response by Mahinda Rajapaksa. How much Padma has tried to trap MR in this interview. But he has cleverly avoided all her attempts. His answers clearly show how matured a politician he is by now. Particularly I admire his love for the country and the people. Even Padma has been more […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Read the news item below . නාගරික සංවර්ධන අධිකාරියේ ඉඩම්වලට කුණු දැමීම තහනම්… සිරිමන්ත රත්නසේකරනාගරික සංවර්ධන අධිකාරියට අයත් කිසිදු රජයේ ඉඩමකට මැයි පළමු වැනිදා සිට කසළ බැහැර කිරීම තහනම් කිරීමට එම අධිකාරිය තීරණය කර ඇත.මේ අතර යම් නගර සභාවකට, ප්‍රාදේශීය සභාවකට හෝ රජයේ ආයතනයකට කසළ බැහැර කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය වන්නේ නම් එම ආයතන […]