By Simon Lewis | YANGON Courtesy  Reuters Myanmar will refuse entry to members of a United Nations probe focusing on allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims, an official said on Friday. The government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi had already said it would not cooperate with a mission set up […]

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Dr Sarath Obeysekera Photograph taken today show a slight profile of a moving a 6 meter long crocodile in Parliaments Lake.SLLRDC has put up a fence around the lake  prevent  the Croc’s coming on to walking path .One of the morning walker jokingly said that one of these days , Croc’s ( I hear almost […]

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BY GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today A fresh tug of war has erupted between State authorities and Bhikkhu hierarchies over the ownership of Golden Temple in Dambulla which is recognized as the largest, best-preserved cave-temple complex in Sri Lanka with Buddhist mural paintings (covering an area of 2,100 m2) and 157 statues, being dropped off the […]

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by Leelananda De Silva.Courtesy The Island I refer to the article “The Elite We Destroyed” by Ajit Kanagasundaram (AK) which appeared in your issue of June 25. He has described an arcane elitist world of the Ceylon Civil Service (CCS), and has meandered in to a neo-Arcadia run by these civil servants some time back […]

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Shenali D Waduge It is a futile exercise to claim to change a country’s constitution to meet the aspirations of each and every citizen of Sri Lanka. There are some sine quo non areas and other factors that cannot change just to please some or because its existence displeases others. The unitary status of the […]

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By M D P DISSANAYAKE Whether you wish to be a vegetarian or not, is entirely upto the individual.  Muslims close their shops on Fridays during mid day, to attend Mosques.  Muslims open their shops on Poya Days to grab market share of non-muslim businesses. On the question of Fresh Pork, some Muslims were annoyed […]

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