By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy Ceylon Today The nomination period for the 2018 local government election drew to an end last week and campaigning will commence earnestly in the coming days. Ceylon Today spoke to MP Vasudeva Nanayakkara about the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) preparation and the setbacks the party received after a number of nomination […]

RANJITH SOYSA December 23, 2017, 7:26 pm The High Commissioner for the UK in Sri Lanka, James Dauirs advises Sri Lanka not get distracted by the questionable number killed during the Sri Lanka’s war against the Tiger Terrorists BUT to concentrate as to how we implement the UN resolution moved against Sri Lanka. He further […]

SLFP has collapsed into a state that they name Azath Salley as Colombo Mayoral candidate – JVP ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය බංකොලොත් වෙලා

Re-settlements in Wilpattu are illegal – Auditor General විල්පත්තු විලත්තුකුලම් රක්ෂිතය නීතිවිරෝධි ලෙස හෙළි කළ බව විශේෂ විගණන වාර්තාවෙන් හෙළිවෙයි

Chandre Dharmawardana. Please see:http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/12/20/the-khapra-beetle-and-using-that-russian-credit-line/ There are those who wish to kill the tea plantations arguing that it is an unprofitable, ecologically unsound, colonially imposed liability etc.  While  some aspects of those arguments are true, many observers have suggested  a hidden agenda  behind all this.  The tea industry is being channeled  to collapse by (i) banning […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today The latest chorus song by Sunil Perera, Desmond de Silva, Anesley Dias, and Rajiv Sebastian, dedicated to the theme, ‘The Sarong,’ is doing the normal rounds on the Internet and via emails. The song itself is humorously entertaining. I have written earlier too, on this subject, but the […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island December 23, 2017, 8:00 pm The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s woes with the nomination lists continued in the second round as well though at a lesser level than during the first round. The biggest blow to the fledgling political party during the second round was the rejection of the SLPP […]

Courtesy The Island President Maithripala Sirisena, who is at loggerheads with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s United National Party (UNP), has strongly hinted at a possible split of their coalition mid-way of its five-year term. The President told his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) loyalists that he has decided to carry out the “second stage” of […]

ඩබ්ලිව්. කේ. ප්‍රසාද් මංජු  උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම මෙවර පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයට තරග වදින ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ සියලුම අපේක්ෂකයන් රට හමුවේ විශේෂ ප්‍රතිඥාවක් ලබාදීමේ උත්සවයක් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද..රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් 2018 ජනවාරි 02 වැනිදා සුගතදාස ගෘහස්ථ ක්‍රීඩාංගණයේදී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත බව හිටපු ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍ය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා “ඉරිදා මව්බිම”ට පැවැසීය. රට වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටිමින් ගම් දියුණු කිරීමට […]

ඩබ්ලිව්. කේ. ප්‍රසාද් මංජු  උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයට පසු තනි ආණ්ඩුවක් හදන ලෙසට ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාටත් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාටත් එම පක්ෂ දෙකේ අභ්‍යන්තරයෙන් බලපෑම් එල්ල වී තිබෙන බව දේශපාලන ආරංචි මාර්ගවලින් වාර්තා වේ. ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ ජේ‍යෂ්ඨයන් පිරිසක් ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට පවසා තිබෙන්නේ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය සමඟ ජාතික ආණ්ඩු ගිවිසුම අහෝසි […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror When the case where former navy spokesman D.K.P. Dissanayake was an accused was taken up for hearing before the Fort Magistrate Court, a key witness the CID had changed several parts of his initial statement and requested that he be allowed to made a personal statement in Court. Mr. Dissanayake […]

Shenali D Waduge Even to dance the tango the two have to dance to not only the same tune but to the same steps. What is clear from the very statements by Tamil leaders and their representative parties over the years is that their demands remain fixated while they expect the other party to be […]

A Patriot Rathana thero!! Please stop making profit motivated agitations against commercial products. Read What you should know about chrysotile white asbestos. There are two types of asbestos in the world: amphibole and chrysotile. There is proof that some amphibole types cause lung cancer. But chrysotile is not dangerous because we can get rid of it […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Lack of physical fitness amongst the Sri Lankan cricketers is a major drawback.  In a Workshop held this week in Sydney for coaching under 15 cricketers several slides of Sri Lankan cricketers were shown ( with their eyes covered) to demonstrate the Sri Lankan  international players were  puffing and panting […]

දේශාල් පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අපනයන ආදායම් 2014න් පසුව ඇද වැටෙමින් පවතී. 2014 දී ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියන 11.12ක් වූ අපනයන ආදායම 2016 වන විට ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියන 10.31 දක්වා 7.3% ක අගයකින් පහත වැටී ඇත . දළ වශයෙන්, අපි 2016 දී තේ වලින් ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියන 1.20 පමණ උපයාගෙන ඇත . එය මුලු අපනයන ආදායමින් […]

Senaka Weeraratna Life is the most precious possession of all living beings. No religion can deny this simple fact.  Reverence for life is the epitome of ethics. To confine the reverence for life to only one species and discard the claims to live unharassed of the other eight million species that share the planet with […]

lanka C news — මෙම ලිපිය Mahinda.Info / thetruth.lk අඩවිවලින් උපුටා ගන්නා ලද අතර අන්තර්ගතයේ සියළු වගකීම්ව ඔවුන් විසින් දරනු ලබයි — දිනෙන් දින ජනප්‍රිය වෙන ඒකාබද්ධ පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ මැතිවරණ යාන්ත්‍රණය විනාශ කිරීම සඳහා වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව විවිධ උපායන් ගනු ලැබුණි. දුර්වල මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ව මුදලට බිලි බා ගැනීම, නාමයෝජනා අවලංගු කිරීම, සැක පිට අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීම, බොරු […]

Mahinda.info ඉදිරි පළාත් පාලන මතිවරණයෙන් ජය ගැනීමටනම් මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන නායකත්වය දරන ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය සමග එකතු වී ඒකාබද්ධ පොදුජන පෙරමුණ තරග කළ යුතු බවට සුළු පිරිසක් පවසයි. එහෙත් අති බහුතරයගේ මතය වන්නේ ඒකාබද්ධ පොදුජන පෙරමුණ වෙන්ව තරග කළ යුතු බවය. සුළුතර මතය වූ පමණින් එය ප්‍රතික්ෂේප නොකර ඔවුන්ගේ තර්කය mahinda.info වෙතින් විශ්ලේෂණාත්මකව විමසා බලමු. […]

බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට එරෙහිව ආණ්ඩුවෙන් සිදුකරන ලද විවේචන ඇතුළුව ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණට අදාල සියලුම ප්‍රශ්න වලට එතුමා ඊයේ එනම් 18/12/2017 දින හිරු සලකුණේදී පිළිතුරු දීම් සිදුකළේ ය. එම වීඩියෝව පහතින්.

මහින්ද පතිරණ ආණ්ඩුවේ එකට ඉන්න එකට තීරණ ගන්න රනිල් හා සිරිසේන වෙන වෙනම ඡන්දය ඉල්ලා රටට කියන්නේ මොකක් ද? උදේ කැබිනට් එකේ එකට බඩු මිළ ඉහළ දාලා හවස වේදිකාවට ඇව්ත් දෙන්න දෙන්නට චෝදනා කර ගන්නව ද? සිරිසේන කියනව ද රනිල් හොරා කියල? රනිල් කියනව ද සිරිසේන හොරා කියල? දෙන්න දෙන්නට ම කියා ගන්නව ද මම නෙමෙයි […]

by Goolbai Gunasekara Courtesy The Island December 21, 2017, 10:06 pm I have a theory (totally un-researched except by me) that frustration is the first emotional human experiences. Think about it. That first wail of protest from a new born is one of frustration at having been ejected from a warm, comfortable womb into an area […]

By Charles.S.Perera It appears that this so called Yahapalanaya  government cannot be removed until 2020, but we can perhaps force it to change by showing its unpopularity amoung the people, by electing Provincial Council candidates from the Podujana Peramuna. Podujana Peramuna represents the original SLFP of SWRD Bandaranayake. Podujana Peramuna also has the parliamentarians from […]

ALI SUKHANVER Will Mr. Modi succeed in winning the hearts of the Muslims in India? Will it be possible for the Muslims to forget the days when the streets of Gujarat were flooding with their blood during the reign of Mr. Modi? Will they forget the horrible nights when the Hindu extremists were pulling them […]

By F. William Engdahl  Courtesy Global Research,  The Russian government has recently announced it will issue nearly $1 billion equivalent in state bonds, but denominated not in US dollars as is mostly the case. Rather it will be the first sale of Russian bonds in China’s yuan. While $1 billion may not sound like much when compared with […]

Chris Baynes Courtesy The Independent•December 21, 2017  The United Nations human rights chief is to step down, suggesting that his re-election would involve ”lessening the independence and integrity of my voice” after his outspoken criticism of world powers – including the US. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said he would not seek a second four-year term as the High Commissioner for Human […]

by P.G.Punchihewa Ph.D. November 4, 2017, 6:18 pm Nearly two million people in at least 22 districts out of 25 are reported to be affected by the continuing drought. Among the districts are Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee, Kurunegala, Puttalam , Jaffna ,Kilinochchi, Mullativu ,Matale and Moneragala. Most of the large, medium and small tanks […]

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C The Board of Directors of the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) reselected Sri Lanka for its grant programme at its meeting on December 19. This will enable MCC to continue developing its compact programme with the government of Sri Lanka for which Sri Lanka was selected a year ago, […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Russians make Asbestos and used in many industries .I am sure that the warship we plan to buy has asbestors in lagging of their boilers ?? Quote ASBEST, Russia — This city of about 70,000 people on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains is a pleasant enough place to live except […]

  YANGON (Reuters) – Hundreds of Buddhists took to the streets in western Myanmar on Sunday to protest against aid organizations they accuse of giving support to Muslim Rohingya militants, police and a protest leader said. Buddhist monks and members of the Rakhine ethnic group held demonstrations in 15 towns, including the Rakhine state capital […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island December 21, 2017, 10:02 pm There has been much brouhaha, for the past few days, over the rejection of some local government polls nominations lists. This is a common occurrence prior to every election. Politicians never learn and elections officials don’t relent. Therefore, the problem remains with no effort being made to […]