Dr Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) Ex Perm Sec to Mrs Sirirmavo Bandaranayaka and Ex President Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association 2017.5.10 Hon Prime Minister. You are most welcome to this blessed Island of ours for the noble Vesak celebration as a special guest. Among all Heads of States invited undoubtedly you have a special place for […]

BY ROHANA R. WASALA The landmark appeal court ruling delivered  on January 31, 2017 upholding the right of a graduate of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) to be granted provisional registration with the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) was thought by many to have put an end to the private medical […]

By Dr.sripali Vaiamon-Canada MODI JI WHO WILL LOOK INTO SEVERAL INTRICATING PROBLEMS OF INDIAN PEOPLE MIGRATED HERE CENTURIES AGO, WHILE PARTICIPATING IN RELIGIOUS AND BENIFICIAL ACTIVITIES AND STUDY THE CASTE PROBLEM SIMILER TO WHAT IS EXISTING IN INDIA.AUTHOR HAS WELL ILLUSTRATED THIS INTRICASY IN HIS BOOK ON SOCIOLOGY,RELEASED ABOUT FOUR YEARS BACK IN America- PRE-HISTORIC […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  භාවනා මගින් මානසික රෝග සමනය පිලිබඳව මුල් කාලයේදී මා තුල තද බල විශ්වාසයක් නොවීය​. දහම් පාසලේ දී නාරද මාහිමියන් යටතේ අපව භාවනාව කෙරෙහි  යොමු කෙරුවද අප එය බරපතල ලෙස නොගත්තෙමු. නමුත් යුද හමුදා රෝහලේදී පශ්චාත් යුද විශාදිය​, පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන  ක්ලමථ  අක්‍රමතාවය (PTSD) මෙන්ම කායිකරූපී ආබාධ (somatoform disorders) වලට ලක් වූ සොල්දාදුවන්ට ප්‍රතිකාර […]

lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය මූලස්ථානයේදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවේදී එම පක්‍ෂ ප‍්‍රධාන ලේකම් උදය ගම්මන්පිල මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. මහ බැංකු වාර්තාවේ බොරු ඉලක්කම් දක්වලා මේ තිබෙන්නේ 2016 මහ බැංකු වාර්තාව. වෙනත් වචන වලින් කිව්වොත් 2016 දී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකයට මොකද වුණේ කියලා මහ බැංකු අධිපතිතුමා විසින් මෑතක දී මුදල් ඇමතිතුමාට […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් මන්ත‍්‍රී ධුරය නීත්‍යානුකූල නැතැයි අභියාචනාධිකරණය විසින් ලබා දී ඇති තීන්දුවට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රේඨාධිකරණයේ නඩු පැවරීමට ගීතා කුමාරසිංහ මහත්මිය කටයුතු කර ඇති තත්වයක් තුල ඇය වෙනුවෙන් වෙනත් අයෙක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට පත් කිරීම අදහාගත නොහැකි බව හිටපු ඇමති මහාචාර්ය ජී.එල්. පීරිස් මහතා පවසයි. මන්ත‍්‍රී ධුරය අහෝසි කරන අවස්ථාවක දින 42ක් තුල ඊට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට යාමට ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන්ම […]

 Courtesy The Daily Mirror The joint opposition said today it would file a case in the Supreme Court seeking to clarify whether the duties and responsibilities carried out by former Central Bank governor Arjuna Mahendran were legal on the basis of not being a Sri Lankan citizen but that of Singapore. Referring to the last […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Minister Mahinda Amaraweera says that a certain individual will participate as the Cabinet media spokesman on behalf of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) as well in the future. Speaking at a SLFP press briefing today (9), he said that the decision was not taken with the intention of removing co-cabinet spokesman […]

by Sanath Nanayakkare Courtesy The Island May 9, 2017, 8:10 pm Central Bank Governor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy said yesterday that proceeds from the potential long lease of Hambantota Port and proceeds from the sale or divestment of other non-strategic state assets would be pooled into a separate fund for liability management as foreign debt servicing commitments […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island May 9, 2017, 8:30 pm Former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) recently launched an unprecedented campaign to discourage yahapalana government from handing over military managed agricultural farms and pre-schools in the Northern Province to the Northern Provincial Council (NPC). Hundreds of ex- LTTE cadres demonstrated in […]

By Professor Milton Rajaratne (Faculty of Management, University of Peradeniya) Courtesy The Island May 9, 2017, 8:28 pm In contrast to the Rajapaksa government, the Yahapalana government highlighted accelerated growth, one million new jobs, small government, social market policy, debt free economy, big push to industry, and infrastructure projects, and revitalization of the capital market etc. […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island May 9, 2017, 10:41 pm The Joint Opposition yesterday accused Parliament of depriving actress turned UPFA MP Geetha Kumarasinghe of her Galle District parliamentary seat at the behest of the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration. The JO flayed the government and the parliament for acting hurriedly to oust an elected MP loyal to […]

| lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනී චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරණතුංග මහත්මියගේ ආරක්ෂාව අඩු කිරීම සදහා අධිකරණයේ නඩුවක් ගොනුකළ බවට එල්ල වන චෝදනා සම්බන්දයෙන් මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාගේ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්වරයා විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇති මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනී චන්ද්‍රිකා […]

Sugath Samarasinghe   This is what Ranil W. is reported to have said at the UNP May Day Rally, according to the front page news of Sunday Island of 7th May. I am amazed. Could a political ‘leader’ be so dishonest in his intent, to mislead his followers? Could one imagine that an emerging economic […]

Janaka Perera  Sri Lanka will be celebrating the 2561st year of Vesak on an international scale starting on May 10.  The question however is whether the organizers and the foreign participants in the event will pay sufficient attention to the facts highlighted in a recent report of the Bangkok-based World Buddhist University (WBU) on the […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island May 9, 2017, 12:00 pm Various issues such as unkind cuts in former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s security, postmortems on May Day rallies and a government attempt to tame trade unions have eclipsed the latest supplementary estimate Parliament approved to the tune of Rs. 330 million for ministerial vehicles. No sooner had […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island May 9, 2017, 10:41 pm The national economy was deteriorating at an alarming rate as revealed by the latest Central Bank annual report, but the ruling coalition had presented three supplementary budgets amounting to staggering Rs 1.2 bn to acquire more super luxury vehicles for politicians and officials this year […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Best solution to solve this deadlock is to have a evaluation criteria to show how the ministers have performed Following guidelines may be used for the evaluation Criteria . Extent of criticism levelled at the President and PM by the subject minister Capability to work as a team Extent of Confrontation with […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා  මාලිංග හර්මන් ගුණරත්න කලක් ජේ ආර්ගෙත් හිතවතෙක්. එහෙත් පසුව විරසක වුණා. ඔහු පොතක් ලියලා ඉංගිරිසියෙන්. එහි ඉංගිරිසි නම ගෝඩ්ස් සීක්‍රට් ඒජන්ට්, එනම් දෙවියන් වහන්සේගේ රහස් නියෝජිතයා. මා ඒ පොත කියවා නැහැ. දි අයිලන්ඩ් පත්‍රයෙහි ඒ පිළිබඳ ලියැවුණු විචාරයක් කියවීමට ලැබුණා. ඒ අනුව ක්‍රිස්තු භක්තිකයකු වන නිස්සන්ක විමලසූරිය නමැත්තකු ශුද්ධ වූ ආත්මයක් සමග […]

By Umesh Moramudali and Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy Ceylon Today The proposed Economic and Technology Corporation Agreement (ETCA) with India has caused many a controversy, and in this interview with Ceylon Today Secretary of the Society of Information Technology Professionals, Lasantha Wickramasinghe, explains how ETCA will affect the country’s economy, and the reasons for opposing it. Following are […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 7 May 2017 Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Colombo, Sri Lanka. Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Colombo, Sri Lanka. Cc. Hon Mangala Samaraweera, Minister of Foreign Affairs Colombo, SriLanka Hon. Gayantha Karunatilake Chief Government […]

Dilrook Kannangara Deception is used again to get the India petroleum deal passed. Leasing or selling Trincomalee oil tanks is not the issue; ruining Lanka’s petroleum industry and making it dependent on India is the real deal. It will be an all round disaster with far-reaching consequences including war, riots and economic ruin. The deal […]

Sudath Gunasekara 2017. 5. 8 I am posting herewith two news items for your serious attention. Now you can see the covert political objectives of the Indian PM’s Sri Lankan visit. Why should he address a meeting of Sri Lankan Indian estate labourers who are people of Indian origin ( PIO), though they are Sri […]

Sarath Wijesnghe (Solicitor- Attorney –at –law and a former Ambassador) Daul Nationality and Citizenship Daul Nationality is a person’s citizenship states regarded as a citizen in more than one country, under laws of those states. There is no international convention which determines nationality or citizen’s status which defines exactly by national laws. The issue could […]

Dear Sir/ Madam Please give publicity to the following event in you newspaper. Thank you Vesak Lectures organised by the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka on Monday 15th May 2017 Lecture 1 (4.00-4.45 pm) by Ven. Prof. Khammai Dhammasami; DPhil (Oxford), PhD (MCU) Professor, International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University (ITBMU), Myanmar on “Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation in […]

Nagananda Kodituwakku Friends, don’t ignore the total breakdown of rule of law in this country and don’t wait till things directly affecting your own family. Come forward, please speak aloud against the gross abuse of people’s SOVEREIGN RIGHTS by the utterly corrupt people occupying the office in the LEGISLATURE and the EXECUTIVE. Please join hand […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island May 7, 2017, 9:06 pm Anything Indian goes under the present yahapalana dispensation as is common knowledge. Government leaders shuttle between Colombo and New Delhi so frequently that when they get up in the morning they must be wondering which city they are in. They are known for their predilection for adopting […]

 වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  කෙමරූජ් සාමාජිකයන් තුළ තම පක්ෂය කෙරෙහි තිබූ අන්ධභක්තිය සනිටුහන් වනුයේ සීමාව ඉක්මවා පක්ෂය ආරක‍ෂා කිරීම සඳහා ගත් ක්‍රියා මාර්ග වලිනි. සතුරා පිළිබඳව සුළු හෝඩුවාවකදී හෝ නැතහොත් යම් සුළු සැකයකදී පවා ඔව්හු මිනිසුන් මරා දැමූහ. එසේම අනාගතයේ යම් දිනෙක පක්ෂයට අනතුරක් වේ යැයි සිතා පුද්ගලයන් සමූලඝාතනය කළහ. උදෑසන අවදිවූ වේලාවේ සිට රාත්‍රි […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The Stock Market boomed into life, with the successful conclusion of the war, in May 2009. After stagnating for years, the rising activities were the barometric readings of the fast reviving economy. Yet, despite the massive development projects and investments taking place, the market was slowing by 2011. Investor confidence […]

Disna Mudalige Courtesy DailyNews.lk Monday, May 8, 2017 – 01:00 A debate on Constitutional reforms by the Constitutional Assembly is likely to take place towards the end of June. The interim report of the Steering Committee headed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be placed before the Assembly next month, a member of the Steering […]