Chairman, Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Our organisation, The Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement, is extremely alarmed by attempts even by sections of the Sri Lankan media and even patriotic organisations urging the Sri Lankan Government to accept secret defence reports written by our adversaries, the US, UK imperialists, which accuse our Sri Lankan Armed Forces of […]

translated by : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA This is the translation of an article by Theja Godakanda Aratchi published in the Lankaweb.com on 18th December, 2017.   Our elders used to predict about the emerging rain season from the croaks of the frogs that filled the ears.  This country’s political land was under a severe drought for […]

2018 පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණවේ ඡන්ද පූර්ව ප්‍රතිඵල  යහපාලනය පක්ෂග්‍රාහිකයින්ගේ බලාපොරොත්තුව එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය  UNP 39.7 ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ SLPP 38.4 ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය   SLFP 13.2 ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ  JVP 4.2 ඉලංකෙයි තමිල් අරසු කච්චි ITAK 3.1 වෙනත් Other 1.4   100 ලංකාවෙබ් අනාවැකිය එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය  UNP 37.1 ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ SLPP […]

ගාල්ලේගේ පුන්යවර්ධන ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මැතිතුමා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්‍යාලය, කොළඹ 1. ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, එදා මෙදා මහජන මුදල් හොරකම් කළ පාර්ලිමේන්තු හොරුන්ට දඬුවම් කර, හොරකම් කළ මුදල් අයකරගන්නා තුරු මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීම නතර කරන්න. පාර්ලිමේන්තුකාරයන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම් උද්ඝෝෂණ, නඩු කටයුතු ආදී වු විවිධාකාරයේ බලපෑම්වල එල්ලී ඉක්මණින් පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීමට ආණ්ඩුව සියලු කටයුතු සූදානම් කරමින් සිටී. ඒ අතර ඔවුන්ද […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera You may have read about Silredi  case where  a government high ranking officer was arrested and remanded for alleged  misusing public . Politicians always go scot free and public officers are subjected to persecution. It looks that there are two yard sticks to measure the violation of law and order . Last […]

Rainforest Protectors of Sri Lanka, Centre for Environmental Justice, Wildlife and Nature Protection Society, FEO Sri Lanka Environment Organizations in Sri Lanka have great concern about the proposal to build two new coal power plants in Sampur and Norochcholai despite their rejection by the PUCSL. We note inherent issues and contradictions in the recent joint […]

Courtesy  BBC Sri Lanka is making a special appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to remove a ban on Ceylon tea. Two ministers are leading a delegation to Moscow to request the suspension on Sri Lankan tea imports is lifted. Imports were halted last week after Russia found an insect known as the Khapra beetle […]

Editorial Courtesy The Daily Mirror Despite pledges being implemented, some dimensions of maintaining law and order and the rule of law, corruption and bribery are still known to be rampant specially in state sector institutions and even in public-private partnership companies. So much so that a law was passed recently to appoint three special three-Judge […]

 Amrit Muttukumaru Courtesy The Daily Mirror The country is awaiting with a mix of excitement and trepidation the Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the alleged Treasury Bond scam which will one way or another indicate whether there is hope for optimism for the future of the country. The report is crucial for […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror In its effort to secure a lift of the restriction on tea trade, the Sri Lanka embassy in Moscow initiated communication with the Russian authorities and await a response, an official here said yesterday. Russia said it would impose a temporary restriction on imports of all agricultural products from Sri Lanka, […]

Courtesy The Times (UK) David Cameron has been cleared to take on a role leading a billion-dollar investment initiative between Britain and China set up by a friend. The former prime minister played a key part in efforts to boost trade links with Beijing while he was in Downing Street and Philip Hammond, the chancellor, […]

Courtesy BBC A police force and council “repeatedly sided with the abusers” of a man murdered after being wrongly accused of being paedophile, a report has found. The Safer Bristol Partnership (SBP) found a “collective failure” by Avon and Somerset Police and Bristol City Council in the case of Bijan Ebrahimi. The disabled Iranian refugee […]

Dilrook Kannangara Amidst confusing political signals, there emerges a clear signal of who is the worst Indian agent in the island nation. It is Sirisena. Certainly not Ranil. In fact, Ranil may fall to the third place behind another national leader who is desperate to win Modi’s heart and mind. A careful look at his […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි ඉඩෝරයක් නිමවී, ලඟ එන වැසි සමය ගැන අපේ වැඩිහිටියන් අනාවැකි කියනුයේ සවස් යාමයට දෙසවන් පුරවන ගෙම්බන්ගේ හඬ අනුවය. මේ වන විට වසර තුනකට ආසන්න කාලයක් ඉඩෝරයට හසුව තිබූ මැතිවරණ භූමියට ඇදහැලෙන්නට නියමිතව ඇති පලාත් පාලන වර්ෂාවට පෙර, දැන් දැන් අපේ හෙවත් හුදී ජනතාවගේ දෙසවන්, දේශපාලක ගෙම්බන්ගේ බක බකයෙන් පිරෙමින් පවතී. නමුත් මේ දෙපා […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara 18.12.2017 Dear patriots Please look at the following news item UN damns Lanka 14,000 minors in childcare centres Calls for urgent reforms 1941 readers have read this article ! By 2017-12-16 By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan A delegation from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visiting Sri Lanka, yesterday (15), expressed […]

Translated by :A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Given below is a translation of a media release issued by the former President Mr. Mahinda Rajapakssa.  The forthcoming Local Government election will be the beginning of a chain of elections running up to the next Presidential Election Now nominations have been accepted for the local government elections which were […]

By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Island December 17, 2017, 10:02 pm Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe wants to appoint a Commission into the issuance of bonds by the Central Bank during the second Rajapaksa term, when Ajith Nivard Cabraal was the Chairman. Good. Excellent, in fact. I have a bigger matter into which I suggest he […]

BY GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today Old habits die hard and Minister of Tourism and Christian Religious Affairs John Amaratunga will attest to that. With heat of elections taking charge of the atmosphere, the senior minister of this ‘Yahapalana’ government of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe appeared to have forgotten that they came […]

Swati Mathur| TNN | Dec 11, 2017Courtesy: The Times of India NEW DELHI: Burma cannot be blamed for trying to protect itself from “outsiders”, Lama Lobzang, the outgoing secretary general of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) said on Sunday. Speaking to TOI on the sidelines of the third governing council meeting of the IBC, Lama Lobzang defended the Buddhist community and said the […]

By A. Abdul Aziz. (Given below is an excerpt of the Friday Sermons of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, delivered on 8 December 2017, at ‘Baithul Futhuh’, London, U.K. gave a discourse on seeking the pleasure of Allah. In this sermon, Ahmadiyyaq Khalifa quoted from the […]

From Azeman Ariffin Courtesy BERNAMA COLOMBO (SRI LANKA), Dec 16 (Bernama) — The framework for the Malaysia-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is one of the main issues to be discussed in Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s three-day official visit to the country, beginning tomorrow. The charge d’affaires at the Malaysian High Commission in Sri […]

Press Trust of India,Hong Kong, Dec 17 2017, 17:04 IST Leading multiplex operator PVR is scouting overseas destinations for expansion and plans to open its first project in Sri Lanka in next two years, a top company official has said. Besides Sri Lanka, the Gurgaon-based firm is also looking for other neighbouring countries like Myanmar […]

BY RAVI LADDUWAHETTY Courtesy Ceylon Today The Sri Lanka Tea Board will not take any punitive action against the exporter involved in a shipment of tea to Russia that contained a beetle which led to a temporary ban on imports to that country, a topmost official said yesterday. The Russian Federation has clamped a total ban […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan during a recent visit to India called on the British Government to apologize for the massacre in Amritsar by the British troops. Reportedly some 379 Sikhs were killed by the troops in a site known as Jallianwalla Bagh in Amritsar in 1919. It is wrong […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando  Courtesy The Island Chandrika Dassanayake, wife of Commodore D. K. P. Dassanayake, who has been remanded since July over his alleged involvement in eleven wartime disappearances, yesterday told The Island that she had handed over letters on behalf of her husband as well as Commander Sumith Ranasinghe, to UN Resident Representative in […]

 Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Navy Spokesperson Commander D.K.P Dassanayake’s daughter told the media yesterday that her request to meet and lodge a complaint about her father’s detention by the Sri Lankan law enforcement authority, to the visiting three-member UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, had been turned down, claiming it was not a case […]

By Manushi Silva Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena said that he will make an official request from Russian President Vladimir Putin to remove the temporary ban on Sri Lanka tea exports. The President made this statement at an event in Haputale, a short while ago. The Russian Federation temporarily banned tea imports from Sri Lanka on December […]

By Steve A. Morrell Courtesy The Island December 17, 2017, 8:21 pm International news agencies reported recently that Russian agricultural authorities had found an insect, known as the Khapra beetle, in the packaging of one consignment of tea from Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan authorities and the Tea Board have ramped up their attempts to effectively […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara 16.13.2017. A recent study on Sri Lanka has identified it as one of the six countries that share ½ of the .3 % drinkable water this planet has. What is even more important and surprising is that  ours has been identified as the only country in the world that will have drinking […]

Senaka Weeraratna “Ordering by the beat of the drum that no animals should be killed within a radius of seven gau from the city, he gave security to animals. He also gave security to the fish in the twelve great tanks, and bestowing on (the region’s people) gold and cloth andwhatever other kind of wealth they wished, he commanded them […]