Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today Developments in the two weeks I was away suggest that the government is, a year before I expected it, hurtling towards its end. Or rather I should say towards its end as we know it, since the manner in which the Elections Bill was changed at whim suggests that we are back […]

By Rasika Hemamali Courtesy Ceylon Today The Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Prof. Terrance Purasinghe says the government has not delivered on its election promises. “The new Constitution is being drafted at a snail’s pace. Those reforms have not been implemented. The people wanted the Executive Presidential System […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Waruna Chandrakirthi’s interesting article under the curious title මලාලා ගේ පාඩම සහ ඕල්කොට්තුමා Malala’s lesson and Olcott (Lankaweb/August 28, 2017) prompted me to write this.  Chandrakirthi says: ඕලකොට්තුමා මුල්වෙලා ආරම්භ කරපු බෞද්ධ ඉස්කෝලවල උගන්වන්නෙත් මලාලා කියලා දෙන්න හදන පාඩම් ම තමයි කියලා කියන එක හොඳ නිරීක්‍ෂණයක්. (That what is taught in […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane On Thursday August 23, 2017, a few hours after Annan presented the commission’s report, violence broke out in the western Rakhine state when armed Muslim insurgents attacked security guards in the border region with Bangladesh. At least 71 people, including 12 security personnel, have been killed in these deadly clashes. Fighting continues in […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Many things to do,,,,,,,,,,,, All visitors coming to Sri Lanka always try to visit Galle Fort where they get a feeling of walking around in old Mediterranean   town with many placed to have an evening tea/coffee or a good Sri Lankan meal .Residents of Galle try to keep the area safe and […]

By A. Abdul Aziz.  Source: The Times of Israel. Accused of heresy by Islamist extremists and targeted by the authorities, members of Algeria’s tiny Ahmadi community say they have been forced to go underground to worship. Abderahmane, a 42-year-old trader from Kabylie in northern Algeria, joined the reformist Islamic movement after years as an ultra-conservative […]

By A. Abdul Aziz,  According to our International Press Department, U.K., Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community calls for equality of all races and peace based upon justice during address at Ahmadiyya Convention, Germany. On Saturday 26 August 2017, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය     පලාත් පාලන ඡන්ද විමසීමේ නාම යෝජනා සදහා 30% ක තරුණ පිරිසක් අනිවාර්යයෙන්ම ඇතුලත් විය යුතුය යන යෝජනාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නියෝජනය කරන දේශපාලන පක්ෂ බහුතරයක් විසින් සහාසික ලෙස කප්පාදු කරනු ලැබ ඇතැයි නිදහස් හා සාධාරණ මැතිවරණයක් සදහා වූ ජනතා ව්‍යාපාරය හෙවත් කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. පළාත් […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island August 28, 2017, 11:10 pm National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa, MP, has alleged that Foreign Employment Minister Thalatha Atukorale had been rewarded with justice portfolio, in spite of prevailing corruption charges against her. Ratnapura District MP Atukorale received justice portfolio last Friday. MP Weerawansa told The Island that […]

Courtesy Bangalore Mirror   The visit of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to Sri Mookambika temple in Udupi district was cancelled due to bad weather on Sunday. The Sri Lankan Prime Minister was scheduled to arrive around 11 am from Bengaluru, following which he was expected to go to Mookambika Temple guest house. Udupi Deputy […]

SARAH K. BURRIS  Courtesy rawstory.com Axenophobic attack on a Hindu family from Sri Lanka was spotted in the early morning hours Sunday. In a Stapleton Avenue, Speke neighborhood in the U.K., a Hindu family was moving into a new house. Vandals smashed windows and scrawled graffiti across the building. The problem, however, is that they seemed […]

By Kelum Bandara  Courtesy The Daily Mirror The President of  the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) U.R. de Silva in an interview with the Daily Mirror spoke on issues related to litigation, dealing with suspects in Police custody and the removal of MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe from the post of Justice Ministry. The following are […]

BY SHIVANTHI RANASINGHE Courtesy  Ceylon Today Those who are insisting for a new constitution should pause to reflect on what they are asking and from whom they are asking. First of all, it was the abolition of the executive presidency that was pledged in the 2015 elections and not a brand new constitution. One may argue […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති අපි හැමෝ ම අහලා තියෙනවා අංගුලිමාල මහරහතන්වහන්සේ ගේ කතාව. තක්සලාවට අහිංසක ගියේ ශිල්ප ඉගෙනගන්න. ඒත් ඒ අහිසංකව මහා දාමරික මිනීමරුවෙක් බවට පත්කරන්න ඔහු වටා සිටි අයත් ඔහුට ශිල්ප ඉගැන්වූ ගුරුතුමාත් කටයුතු කළා. මිනිසුන් දහසක් මැරීමේ උගුලට අහිංසකව යොමු කළේ ඔහු ගේ ම ගුරුතුමා. ගුරුළුගෝමින් ගේ අමාවතුරෙන් විස්තර කෙරෙන විදිහට ඒ ගුරුතුමා එහෙම උපක්‍රමයක් […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, අබුද්දස්ස කාලය උසාවිය නිහඬයි යන වාර්‌තා චිත්‍රපටියෙන් පෙන්වන්නේ මහව උසාවියේ නිතීඥයින්, පොලිසිය, නීතිපති දෙපාර්‍තමේන්තුව, අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාව, ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය හා රටේ අධිකරණ ඇමති යන පාර්‌ශව සියල්ලම වෙන වෙනම හා එකතුව, මහව මහේස්ත්‍රාත්‌වරයා විසින් ක්‍රමාණුකූලව සිදුකල ස්ත්‍රී දූෂණ දෙකක් යට ගැසූ අන්දමය. එසේනම් උසාවිය තුල හයියෙන් ඈනුමක් ඇරියත් දඬුවම් කරනවා නේද යයි කියමින්, ඥානසාර […]

FINAL REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COMMISSION ON RAKHINE STATE After one year of consultations held across Rakhine State and in other parts of the country and the region, the Advisory Commission submitted its final report to national authorities on 23 August. The report recommends urgent and sustained action on a number of fronts to prevent […]

ALI SUKHANVER The US president Donald Trump is really a wonderful orator, an excellent speaker and no doubt a master of words. He has an ability of mesmerizing the audience with his magical style of speech and with his outstanding body language. It is also very much true that he is a man with extra […]

BY GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today King Dutugemunu, according to the legend, after an all-defining victory in the battle against King Elara and the Chola troops, was believed to have had an encounter with Lord Kataragama and asked for the strength to overpower his enemies. With his boon being granted, the Kataragama Devalaya was subsequently built […]

අජිත් අලහකෝන් උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීමේ චෝදනාව යටතේ සමාජ සේවා හා සමාජ සුබසාධන ඇමැති රන්ජන් රාමනායක මහතාට එරෙහිව මෙම සතිය තුළ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය හමුවේ නඩු පැවරීමට ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීතිඥ සංගමයේ මාසික මහ සභා රැස්‌වීමේදී සියලු නීතිඥවරුන් ඒකමතිකව තීරණය කළ බව එම සංගමයේ සභාපති ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ යූ. ආර්. ද සිල්වා මහතා ඊයේ (27 දා) ‘දිවයින’ ට […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island August 27, 2017, 8:41 pm The government may have expected to postpone already delayed mini polls further by smuggling in some amendments into the Local Government (Amendment) Bill and provoking its enemies who usually throw Parliament into turmoil. But, its plan went awry because the Joint Opposition acted with restraint. The Bill […]

TILAKARATNE RANAWEERA August 27, 2017, 8:48 pm According to a news Item in the print media, former President Rajapaksa has advised all SLFP MPs not to vote for the Income Tax Bill. My humble thinking is that he is more than correct! Not only his Party, the JO emphatically, and no MP should vote for […]

Translated by : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The leader of the National Freedom Front Parliamentarian Mr. Winal Weerawansa pointed out that Janatha Vinukthi Peramuna which had in the past a history of fighting for the voting rights of the people agreeing to deny the rights of a section of public servants to contest in elections is […]

By Rohana R. Wasala (The Island published in two installments an essay by Bhante S. Dhammika of Australia under the title ‘Did Jesus live in India?’ on Saturday 2nd  and Wednesday 6th January, 2016. He dismissed the idea as baseless fiction. Though his arguments were unconvincing to me, I felt his intentions were laudable. The […]

By Dr.Tilak S. Fernando The writer was privileged to meet his school days’ idol G.S.B. Rani Perera in London, an icon in the Sinhala Radio at the age of 74 on her final stages of life and during her maiden trip to the UK. Her very first words before we sat down to discuss her life […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera In china monks learn Shaolin Kungfu      ,in Tibet it is Lama Pai .in Japan it is Ki-aikido, in Sri Lanka let us give a name after the Ven monks master the Yoga .I would call it Ratanayoga ,as it is initiated by Ven Ratana Thero .After  learning  how to control your mind […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island August 26, 2017, 7:15 pm The Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe affaire is now done and dusted with the former Justice and Buddha Sasana Minister ejected from the cabinet. He did not agree to resign, as demanded by the UNP, and has been removed by the president. A section of the Buddhist clergy backed Rajapakshe […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, former CAS . The decision of the Hon President of Sri Lanka to concentrate on developing the economy of Sri Lanka is very timely and it is hoped that this will usher hope for the very large majority of people who are today eking a hand to mouth existence. Our Hon. President […]

Lankaweb Editorial Aug.24th, 2017 It has been asked by some with a certain degree of naivette perhaps  “will corruption go away after Ravi?” but they can’t be serious as the corruption Sri Lanka has been subjected to goes back many generations as the discerning observer with a good memory is bound to attest to and […]

ඡායාරූප හා වීඩියෝ – ජයමාල් චන්ද්‍රසිරි) හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතා අද(23) අල්ලස් කොමිසමට කැඳවා තිබූ අතර පැය 7කට අධික කාලයක් එහි රැඳී සිටිමින් ඔහු එහිදී ප්‍රකාශ ලබාදුන්නේය. ඔහු මහ බැංකු අධිපති සමයේ සිදුවූ බව කියන සිද්ධියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් එසේ ප්‍රකාශ ලබාගැනිණි.

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Quote  Ceylon Today …………. Religious rites were delayed at the Ruhunu Maha Kataragama Devalaya yesterday (22) morning as…… tension prevailed due to an altercation between two Kapumahaththayas (shamans) and the Basnayake Nilame, Police said.  Speaking to Ceylon Today, the Police said an altercation arose over the Temple keys and the opening of […]