Dr Sarath Obeysekera Authorities have suspended all internet services in the three districts of Srinagar, Budgam and Gandarbal where voting started on Sunday for the parliamentary by-elections.Both mobile internet and fixed line broadband connectivity were suspended in the three poll-bound districts which constitute Srinagar-Budgam parliamentary constituency.” Though this election has been held in India Held […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න    දෙවන ලෝක සංග්‍රාම සමයේ  ඉංග්‍රීසින් විසින් ඉදිකළ ත්‍රිකුණාමලයේ තෙල් ටැංකි 103 තිබුනේය .දැන් 99 ක් ඇත 1948 දී මේවා සිංහලයන්ට ලැබුනේ නැත .රන්පවුම් 2,50  000 ක් ගෙවා 1957 දී මේවා ලංකා රජය පවරා ගත්තේය .එහෙත් ඒවා යහපාලන රජයේ අගමැති විසින් ඉන්දියාවට  නැවත බදු දීමට කස කවය් .2017 වෙසක් උත්සවයට පෙර ඔහු මෙම […]

Elanko Ratnasabapathey – April 4th 2017, Toronto Star Dear Mayor Tory, I am writing in regards to your commentary of your trip to the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, published on the Toronto Star dated April 4th 2017. I was born and raised in Sri Lanka and lived in the country until I migrated to Canada with […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා වර්මානයේ විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස හිදිමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙකුට හිමි ඩියුටි ෆී වාහන බලපත්‍රයක් උපයෝගී කරගෙන ජපානයේ නිෂ්පාදිත ටොයොටා ලෑන්ඩ් කෲසර් ජීප් රථයයක් සිංගප්පූරුවේ ටොයොටා සමාගමන් ඇ.ඩොලර් 62500කට ලංකා බැංකුවේ ණයවර ලිපිගොනු අංක Branch 049- Ref No: NU/P/SIL/16/217 යටතේ ඇණවුම් කොට ගෙන්වා ගෙන ඇති බව කොලම්බු ටෙලිග‍්‍රාෆ් වෙබ් අඩවියේ දැක්වෙයි. […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy  The Hindu Project developer hopes investments to the tune of $13 billion to start coming in from 2018; targets major investors from South Asia, particularly India It is hard to miss the blue-lettered boards lining the northern end of Galle Face, Colombo’s iconic seafront. A new Central Park in Colombo”, A new world […]

EDITH M. LEDERER AND PAISLEY DODDS ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday urged all countries that provide troops for U.N. peacekeeping missions to hold soldiers accountable for sexual abuse and exploitation, an appeal that came after she cited an Associated Press investigation into a child sex ring in Haiti involving […]

by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong Leaders from China and Sri Lanka have voiced support for a proposed bilateral free trade agreement at a recent meeting. Yu Zhengsheng, Chairman of the People’s Political Consultative Conference (PPC), was holding talks with Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe. The state news agency, Xinhua, said Yu had called […]

By Panchamee Hewavissenti Courtesy  Ceylon Today In an interview with Ceylon Today, General Secretary of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya and member of the Joint Opposition Udaya Gammanpila said, the economy of the country is on the verge of collapse as the inflation rates, interest rates as well as the rate of unemployment are rising sharply with […]

Sudath Gunasekara 11.4.2017. President says spiritual leaders are the real messengers who connect the hearts of the people and strengthen reconciliation as wished by every religious philosophy. President noted that the guidance for reconciliation is witnessed in Thripitaka, Bible, Quran and Bhagavad-Gita.  He highlighted that Buddhist monks and all other priests belonging to Hinduism, Islam, […]

ඇම් ඩී පී දිසානායක අපේ අතිගරැ ජනාධිපතිතුමා සරල දිවියක් ගෙවන ආදර්ශමත් ප‍ර්තිමූර්තියක් යන විරැදාවලියෙන් වර්ණවත් කලේ, හරියටම එතුමා ජනාධිපතිවී සතියක් ඇතුලත ලංකාවට ගෙන්වන ලද අතිඋත්තම ෆැන්සිස් පාප්වහන්සේ විසිනි. “මම ජනාධිපතිවූ පසු සැහැල්ලු අපිස් ජීවිතයක් ගතකරන බවත්, අරලියගහ මංදිරයේ නොව මගේ සාමා‍න්‍ය  ගෙදර ඉන්නා බවත්, වියත් අවියත් හුදී ජනතාවගේ දැනගැනීම සඳහා මගේ හරකබාන වතුපිටි ඇත් අස් […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE When the Holy Pope  Francis visited Sri Lanka, he said the simple habits and unpretentious nature of President Maithripala Sirisena was similar to his life style. When the Holy Pope said ‘President Sirisena is just like me’ I said ‘no you are just like President Sirisena,” Archbishop said. Maithripala Sirisena […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න (මගේ ”’ජාතිය පාවාදීම ”’ පොතේ කොටසක් ”))  1832 දී රාජකාරිය තහනම කිරීමේදී  එය වැඩවස ම් ක්‍රමයකට අයත් වහල් සේවයක් බව ඉංග්‍රීසීන් විසින්  ප්‍රකාශ කරන ලදී  මතු පිටින් මහා සාධාර නයක් කරන බවක්  අඟවමින්  මොවුන්ගෙන් සමහරෙකු කටයුතුකලේ  වෙනෙකක් සිතතුළ සඟවා ගෙනය .. ඔවුන් සිතුවේ  රාජකාරි ක්‍රමය  තහනම් කර  කුලී  සේවකයන්  ඇති කිරීමේ ක්‍රමයක් ඇති කලවිට […]

Courtesy RT A professor who challenged the 2013 claims of a chemical attack in Syria is now questioning the Trump administration’s narrative blaming the Assad government for the April 4 attack in the Idlib province town of Khan Shaykhun. On Tuesday, the White House released a declassified intelligence brief accusing Syrian President Bashar Assad of […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Higher Education and Highways Minister Lakshman Kiriella, yesterday said that the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government wouldn’t give in to what he called a despicable political project undertaken by Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) on behalf of those who had been ousted at the January 2015 presidential poll. MP Kiriella, who is also […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The CIA/M16/RAW-Tamil Diaspora installed Sirisena-Ranil government which has abandoned all development activities, and defied all its promises to the people are however committed and determined only to fulfil the unjust and unsubstantiated demands of the Tamils of the North and East which include enactment of a new constitution, providing land […]

SUSANTHA WIJESINGHE IT was in the news sometime back that the Parliament is to sanction Rs283 million to buy SIX cars for some SIX political suckers. Two of them wanted Rs40 million cars, while another wanted Rs20 million car, and Sambanthan was to be given Rs21 Million to extend his Eelaam Palace. Now The PRESIDENT  imports […]

The European Parliament’s International Trade Committee In a letter to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe the the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee has said:”While we understand the complexity of the issues involved and the need to enter into wide consultations on the more sensitive aspects, it is critical that Sri Lanka delivers on its commitments within clearly established […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera This reminds me of a Prison  Chief of India –Dr Krina Bedi (Mrs) In March 1993, a woman named Dr Kiran Bedi became Inspector General of the Tihar Jail in New Delhi, the largest prison in India holding nearly 10,000 inmates. In her search for a technique of rehabilitation which would not […]

Writes Ram Madhav Courtesy  samvada.org “During this period, the majority Sinhalese had grown by 38 per cent (from 10,979,400 to 15,873,800); Sri Lankan Tamils by 20.3 per cent (from 1,886,900 to 2,270,900) and the Indian Origin Tamils by 2.8 per cent (from 812,700 to 842,300). But the Muslims grew by 78.6 per cent (from 1,046,900 to […]

By Nishthar Idroos Courtesy  FT.lk It has now transpired that 142 out of the 225 members in the current Parliament have not passed the GCE Advanced Level examination while 94 of the 142 MPs have not even passed the GCE Ordinary Level examination ‘Democracy is the counting of heads, not what’s in them’ – Padraig Deignan […]

Editorial Island April 11, 2017, 8:26 pm We quoted National Unity Alliance Leader Azath Salley, in yesterday’s main news item, as saying President Maithripala Sirisena had assured him that the established procedures would be followed in appointing judges. The President is only making a virtue of necessity! Having promised to usher in good governance, the […]

Leo Fernando Pitipana Courtesy The Island April 11, 2017, 8:37 pm This is the sad and angry cry reverberating from the hapless poor patients who spent their meagre means to visit the hospitals on Friday the 7th April seeking treatment and solace, and being denied such by the doctors manning the government and some private hospitals […]

WITH RAVI LADDUWAHETTY Courtesy  Ceylon Today “In the face of such heinous war crimes, all civilized people must speak with one voice. That is why Canada fully supports the United States’ limited, focused action to degrade the Assad regime’s ability to launch such attacks.” – Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada United States President Donald J. […]

BY RUSSELL A. WHITEHOUS Courtesy Ceylon Today The past few days have been full of so-called coincidences in the Middle East that can’t help, but to raise eyebrows in the post-Iraq War era. On Tuesday, ‘a suspected chemical attack by government forces’ took place in Idlib, one of the few major cities still under rebel control in […]

Courtesy The Telegraph (UK) Boris Johnson had arrived in Italy insisting he was a man with a plan. The Foreign Secretary would use his powers of diplomacy to win the G7’s backing for threatening sanctions against Russia and Syria, which would in turn persuade Vladimir Putin that supporting Bashar al-Assad was no longer worth it. […]

MOSCOW (Sputnik)  It turns out that Ivanka Trump, a mother of three, played a role in her father’s decision to launch a cruise missile strike at a sovereign state, which resulted in the death of several people, according to The Telegraph. — US President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump confirmed on Tuesday that his sister Ivanka […]

Shenali D Waduge  Ever since western colonial invaders arrived on our island the policy of the western administrators was to eliminate Buddhism and indoctrinate the Sinhala Buddhists. Buddhism stood in the way of totally controlling the people & the island. They divided the Sinhalese by religion creating Catholics/Christians upon whom was tasked the objective of […]

Sputnik.com Russia has intelligence from “trusted sources” that chemical weapons provocations are currently being prepared in more regions in Syria, including Damascus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella Tuesday. “We have information from various sources that such provocations — and I cannot call them anything else — are being prepared in other regions […]

RT Russia has information of a potential incident similar to the alleged chemical attack in Idlib province, possibly targeting a Damascus suburb, President Vladimir Putin said. The goal is to discredit the government of Syrian President Assad, he added. We have reports from multiple sources that false flags like this one – and I cannot […]

Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA April 10, 2017, 8:09 pm “The correctness or incorrectness of the ideological and political line decides everything.”(Mao) UNP leader and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is mightily helped by the confusion in the ranks of the SLFP and Oppositional forces in general. The SLFP voters and the broader constituency of non-UNP (or non-hardcore […]