by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island August 18, 2017, 11:12 pm Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana, PC, yesterday said foreign judges couldn’t be accommodated in domestic judicial mechanisms in accordance with the Constitution. He said so when The Island asked him whether he, would as a former Attorney General, in addition to his newest responsibilities look into […]

Courtesy The Sunday Times The last few weeks have been a guessing game of whether Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake would throw in the towel or face the ignominy of being removed from office in the fallout from his alleged complicity with those in the epicentre of the storm that kicked up so much dust from […]

WITH RAVI LADDUWAHETTY Courtesy  Ceylon Today Convenor of the Ceylon Petroleum Joint Union Alliance and General Secretary of the Petroleum Common Workers’ Alliance, Dadellage Janaka Rajakaruna said yesterday their proposed countrywide strike in unison and combination with all the other unions of the essential services of the country, was to protect the essential services, the national […]

BY Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Why the sizeable percentage of Sinhala votes now swinging Rajapaksa way Country slipping into chaos and crisis at all fronts An organised crowd of around thousand men and women met in the shadow of the Buddha statue in the Vihara Maha Devi Park in the vicinity of the Town […]

By Uditha Devapriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror This Government has those leftover hurrah-boys who still think that what transpired on January 8, 2015 was a revolution The democratic process is premised on the idea that we don’t owe our representatives anything, except the gratitude” that we must pay through taxes and other levies to maintain public […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa said in the wake of the ‘yamapalana’ government’s fraud and corruption coming to light in dramatic and unexpected ways, the government is engaged in a desperate attempt to divert attention by hauling his family members to the CID and the FCID. In a statement issued today, he […]

By Ayshwarya Yapa Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the Yamapalanaya” is engaged in a desperate attempt to deflect public attention by hauling members of his family to the Criminal Invesatigation Department (CID) and the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID), as their corruption comes to light in dramatic and unexpected ways. Issuing a media release […]

Perpetual Treasuries CEO questioned over Rs 712 million dividend 

යහපාලනය ජනතාවට දැන් වහ පාලනයක් වෙලා… සමන්ත විද්‍යාරත්න

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana It has been uncovered that a portion of the profit made by Perpetual Treasuries Limited through the controversial bond transaction was distributed to another company as dividend. This was revealed during the questioning of Perpetual Treasuries CEO Kasun Palisena at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry investigating the issuance of Treasury Bonds on […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday said former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his family and the Joint Opposition wouldn’t run away in the face of politically motivated ‘judicial’ attempts to target them on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations. Former Law Prof. Peiris was responding to The Island query why […]

Rohit Pawar Courtesy  Cricket Age Dominating and interfering nature of Asanka Gurusinha, the cricket manager of Sri Lanka team, is well known. the man, responsible for the departure of Coach Graham Ford, is in another controversy, as this time he took players on his radar, that too in the middle of the third test match, […]

 KAMALIKA PIERIS China values its relationship with Sri Lanka and takes China-Sri Lanka activities very seriously. Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies had a seminar on ‘Contemporary China- Sri Lanka relations: current trends, future projections’ in May 2017. For this half day seminar, China sent the President of the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) and […]

Translated by : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA A seminar had been organzed by the Joint Opposition at the Sambuddha Jayanthi Mandiraya in Combo under the caption On whose shoulders will be the Treasury Bond Scam?” Dr. Nalaka Godahewa, the President of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Prof. G.L.Peiris, leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya MP […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ මිනිසාට අධිකරණයක් අවශ්‍යද? ඔව් සාධාරණව විනිශ්චය දෙන අධිකරණයක් අවශ්‍යයි. සාධාරණව විනිශ්චය දෙන්නේ කොහොමද? සාධාරණව විනිශ්චය දෙන්නේ කවුද? ගැටලුව ඇත්තේ එතනයි. සමාජයේ විවිධ ස්ථාන වලට ගැට ගැසී ඒවායින් ජීවත්වෙමින්, ඒවා සමගම ජීවත්වෙන මිනිසුන් සාධාරණ විනිශ්චයක් දෙන්නේ කෙලෙසද? ඔවුනට නම් ඔය කියන සාධාරණත්වය කිසිදාක ලබාදීමට නම් නොහැක. නමුත් රටක, රජයක් ස්ථාපනය කරන විට, ඒ රජය […]

S. Akurugoda A video was circulating on social media showing Police Chief Pujith Jayasundara manhandling two minor staffers of the Police Headquarters, who claimed to have disobeyed departmental rules of performing the morning meditation. The actual incident portrayed on the footage had reportedly taken place on April 11 this year, as mentioned by the gossip […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando If there was any member of the British Royal family who gained worldwide recognition and adoration, it had to be none other than Princess of Wales, who was lovingly known as  ‘Princess Diana (Di)’.  At the age of 19 she captivated the world as Lady Diana Spencer by falling in […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Quote It was important for the government to ensure that the young boys and girls were occupied with something useful such as education or employment. It was important because it needed to ensure that the youngsters do not get frustrated about their future and resort to violence. Unquote Dear Editor . This is […]

Courtesy Tamil Guardian The Sri Lankan government has continued to build Buddhist statues in non-Buddhist areas in the North-East, despite objections from locals and leaving civil society with the perception of Buddhist Sinhalese religious and cultural imperialism,” said the US State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report for 2016. Non-Buddhist religious groups reported an increase in discriminatory […]

Translated by : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The whole nation should be mustered together to fight against the federal constitution instead of launching bogus battles and in order to wage this battle as the initial step the white covering named the ‘Constitution Council’ enveloping the constitution formulation process should be removed and it was what his […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS REVISED 28.8.17 USA emerged as a super power after World War II, with the Marshal Plan which created NATO in 1949 and the Korea war of 1950. American power is based on alliances not colonies. US has some 60 treaty allies. It tops the list in number of embassies, consulates and missions as […]

Top Spin By Suni Aug.9, 2017 It seems as though the Sri Lanka Cricket Administration and whoever is behind the decision to send a team to Pakistan has  made a poor judgement as it could imperil the players and endanger  them as Pakistan today is a hotbed of terrorist activity of both ISIS and The […]

Public Service Management Assistant Union  ලේකම් පළාත්පාලන හා පළාත්සභා අමාත්‍යාංශය, යුනියන් පෙදෙස, කොළඹ 02. ලේකම්තුමණි, සංවර්ධන නිලධාරි අධීක්ෂණයට අඩු සුදුසුකම් සහිත නිලධාරීන් යෙදවීමෙන් ගැටළු රැසක්. උක්ත මැයෙන් සමස්ත ලංකා රජයේ සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන්ගේ ඒකාබද්ධ වෘත්තීය සංගමයේ ප‍්‍රධාන ලේකම් අශෝක රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් පළාත්සභා ආණ්ඩුකාරවරුන් සහ ප‍්‍රධාන ලේකම්වරුන් වෙත යොමුකරන ලද ලිපිය හා සම්බන්ධවයි. එක් පැත්තකින් එකී […]

ප‍්‍රධාන ලේකම් Samurdhi Development Officers Union සමෘද්ධිලාභීන්ගේ දැඩි විරෝධය මත අද දින (16) ආණ්ඩුව විසින් අත්හිටුවන ලද සමෘද්ධි සහනාධාර සමීක්ෂණයෙහි වියදම සමීක්ෂණය සිදු කිරීමට තීරණය කරන ලද අමාත්‍ය එස්.බී. දිසානායක මහතාගෙන් අය කර ගැනීමට කටයුතු බව අප සංගමය මෙයින් අවධාරණය කරන්නෙමු. මෙම අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී සමීක්ෂණය සදහා පිටු 17 කින් සමන්විත අයදුම් පත‍්‍ර ලක්ෂ 35 ක් […]

Dr sarath Obeysekara Let us start with the sudden decision made by Maithreepala , M K D S Gunwardane .Rajitha Senaratne Patali Champaka  Ranwaka and Duminda Dissanayake breaking away from Rajapakse regime in end 2014 ,This was the very first episode like the one Doo Daruwo which was a popular tele drama some time back […]

By MUNZA MUSHTAQ Courtesy Asia Times Marred by serious allegations of corruption and mismanagement, Sri Lanka’s much-hyped coalition government appears to have very little to celebrate as it completes two years in power. The coalition government under President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe appears to be slowly losing its grip as public confidence dwindles over […]

dailymail.co.uk Sri Lanka police chief Pujith Jayasundara, who has claimed prayer and Buddhist rituals helped elevate him to the top police job, raised eyebrows in February when he made daily meditation mandatory for the 85,000 officers and staff under his command A video showing Sri Lanka’s top police officer angrily assaulting an employee who refused […]

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels 16 August 2017 Sri Lanka is planning to revamp its tax system to reverse a steady erosion of its tax base over the past two decades, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. The country is planning to submit a new Inland Revenue Act to parliament, which would broaden the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Asgiri Sangha Sabawa is opposed to any move by some politicians to bring a no-faith motion against a minister actively engaged in Buddhist activities, the Asgiriya Maha Lekakhadikari the Ven. Dr. Medagama Dhammananda Thera said in a special statement to the media. He said Minister Rajapakshe has already done a […]

(Translated by : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA) Given below is a speech delivered by the leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya Parliamentaeian Mr. Udaya Gammanpila at his Party Headquarters. Why a No Confidence Motion is being brought against Minister Wijedasa Rajapaksa if the Attorney General is inefficient and Minister Wijedasa Rajapaksa is not responsible for that? […]