කතු වැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින වගාවට මුල්තැන දෙන සංස්‌කෘතියක්‌ හදන්නට, ගොවියා රජ කරවන්නට, රට සහලින් ස්‌වයංපෝෂිත කරවන්නට පැමිණි යහපාලන ආණ්‌ඩුව හාල්, පොල්, පිටරටින් ගෙන්වන්නට සැරසෙන බව කියෑවේ. ඉස්‌සර නම් කීවේ ‘හඳෙන් ගෙනැවිත්’ හෝ හාල් දෙන බවය. එහෙව් එකේ පිටරටින් හෝ හාල් පොල් ගෙන්වීමට තීරණය කිරීම ගැන අපේ අහිතක්‌ නැත. එහෙත් දුකට කාරණාවක්‌ තිබේ. එනම් තේ, […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island December 10, 2017, 12:00 pm US President Donald Trump has demonstrated that he is capable of doing with his restless tongue what his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un, or ‘Rocket Man’, is threatening to do with nukes—wreaking destruction. His decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has plunged the entire […]

MOHAN SAMARANAYAKE Courtesy The Island “It is true; there was always corruption and fraud. But the extent of corruption in Sri Lanka in the last few years is utterly unprecedented” Thus lamented President Sirisena in the segment ‘My Vision’ in his presidential election manifesto 2015 titled ‘Compassionate Government, Maithri: A Stable Country”. In the same manifesto […]

Courtesy  Shanghai Daily CHINA has accounted for 35 percent of foreign direct investments into Sri Lanka up to September this year, with FDI for 2017 expected to total US$1.36 billion, local media said on Saturday. According to a statement from the Ministry of Development Strategies and International Trade, there has been a strong uptick” in […]

Shenali D Waduge  How many are aware that Prabakaran was cornered in Vadamarachchi in June 1987? How many are aware that India actually threatened Sri Lankan Government to order its troops to set him free? How many are aware that India helicoptered Prabakaran out of Sri Lanka to India? The order came from the very […]

චාර්ල්ස් එස් පෙරේරා විසින් 2015  ජනවාරි 16 වනදා  ජනාධිපති  මහින්ද රාජපක්ස මැතිතුමා,  ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස්පක්ෂයේ සභාපතිත්වය,  එස් ඩබ්ලියු ආර් ඩී බණ්ඩාරනායක  මැතිතුමන් විසින් ප්‍රගතිසීලි නොවන  දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක් හැටියට සලකනලද  එක්සත් ජාතිකපක්ෂයෙන්  හා ඊට සම්බන්ධවූ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ විසින් තෝරාගත්  ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මැතිතුමාට පැවරීමෙන්, ලංකාවේ පංච මහා බලවේගයන්ට තමන්ගේ දේශපාලන පක්ෂය අහිමිවූයේය. ඒ වෙනුවට නව දෙශපාලන […]

Mahinda Gunasekera SHOCKING !  His Excellency Atul Keshap, Ambassador for the USA in Sri Lanka, and Acting Asst. Secretary of State, Ms. Alice Wells are seen participating in a Protest Rally in Colombo, organized by the Tamil National Alliance representing the political opposition to draw attention to those Tamils alleged to be missing in Sri […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane  Source: Ceylon Today  The Gangodawila Magistrate’s Court on 7 December ordered the Police to speed up their investigations into the sexual assault cum abuse of children at the Darun Nusra orphanage in Dehiwala and refer their findings to the Attorney General’s Department. This Muslim orphanage Darun Nusra is run by Al-Muslimaath, of which […]

Courtesy corporatecrimereporter.com Editor  Filed in News September 28th, 2017 @ 7:09 am Fifty-five years after Rachel Carson in Silent Spring warned about the dangers of DDT and unchecked pesticide use, a former Reuters reporter is raising the red flag about the pesticide treadmill we can’t get off of. In Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE “සකල දේශවාසී ගෝතයිනි මතකය අවදි කරව්; තොපිලට නැතිවීමට ඇත්තේ තොපිලගේ දීනකම් පමණයි”  — කාලකන්ණි මාර්ක්ස් (කාල් මාක්ස් ගේ මුනුපුරු) 1988 වර්ෂයේ අග භාගයේ මුළු රටම එක්තරා පොස්ටරයකින් වැහුන.  ‘මේ කව්ද? මොනවාද කරන්නේ?’ යන ප්‍රශ්න දෙකෙන් හදපු පෝස්ටරයක්. පාට තැඹිලි.  කිතුහලය ප්‍රචාරණය වෙනුවෙන් දේශපාලනයේ යොදාගත් පළමු අවස්ථා ව මෙයයි.  ලංකාවේ.  අදහස වික්ටර් හෙට්ටිගොඩ සහ […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando  Courtesy Ceylon Today The term ‘Dutch Burgher’ is used to identify the ethnic group involving the descendants of Dutch Origin, who settled down in Ceylon after the British took over the Southern and Western coastal areas. In the early 17th century, Portuguese and Ceylonese Kingdoms ruled the country constantly, by battling […]

By C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island December 9, 2017, 7:13 pm With nominations set to open on Monday for the first 93 local government institutions, frantic last minute moves are being made to form an alliance between the Joint Opposition and the SLFP faction in the government. The initiative in these moves is from the latter rather […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island December 9, 2017, 6:25 pm No credible explanation of why enormous sums of money belonging to members of the Employees Provident Fund had been invested in Treasury Bonds purchased in the secondary market when the EPF, which is an authorized dealer could have bought them cheaper in the primary market, has yet […]

By SAJITHA PREMATUNGE Courtesy The Nation It’s a very carefully crafted movie.  From script, casting, locations, music score and colour pallet, everything was designed to complement the theme of mental illness. Cinematographer Jaan Shenberger is mostly responsible for setting the mood. ‘Every frame has a mood ‘ Premaya Nam was forced to do the festival rounds before […]

By Manekshaw Courtesy Ceylon Today I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than two hundred rats of my own species Voltaire Turbulent weather prevailed in the Northern and Eastern Provinces in the past two weeks with the Department of Meteorology alerting the people in the two Provinces of a stormy atmosphere. Special meetings were […]

BY GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today The Meteorological Department of Sri Lanka earlier last week predicted that a low pressure area in the South-East Bay of Bengal will turn into a depression with Sri Lanka witnessing side effects in the form of strong winds and showers. Though there were no adverse weather conditions experienced by citizens […]

Sudath Gunasekara 8. 12. 2017. The need for all SLFP voters to stand with the Mahinda Rajapaksa Camp at the forthcoming Local Government elections as wining local bodies will lay a solid foundation for a strong SLFP Government in 2020, if not earlier. That is the only way open to all patriotic people to save […]

By Rohana R. Wasala This refers to a minor but significant verbal inaccuracy in the feature article by senior economist Usvatte-aratchi under the elaborate title State and govt. not interchangeable: Same goes for revenue and income hoax of free education and free health services” posted in the Lankaweb of December 5, 2017. My focus here […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada. The blazing banner  of a media release (14-Nov-2017)  by the Swiss-based  Research Institute of Organic agriculture”  caught  headlines all over the world as it made the claim that organic farming can feed the world after all” (see also the scientific paper in Nature communications”).  In Strategies for feeding the world more […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE Way back in the year 1988 an island-wide poster stamped in the public conscious the notion of political teaser advertisements.  It was a simple question: මේ කව්ද? මොනවාද කරන්නේ (Who is this [and] what is he doing? It did not come in colors associated with any of the major parties.  It was in orange.  It […]

Top Russian Journalist Kiselyov Warns About Monsanto pesticide. It’s a colossal corruption scandal, which the European Union prefers to hush up. Probably, for corruption reasons as well. On Monday, an EU ad hoc appeal committee voted to extend the license allowing farmers to use a fertilizer called glyphosate. https://youtu.be/cItuOUp15Yw

Editorial Courtesy The Island December 8, 2017, 9:56 pm Never do government politicians who find themselves up the creek without a paddle scruple to scapegoat the police to save their own skin. They defend only their khaki-clad, blue-eyed boys who get into trouble by carrying out their illegal orders. Stooges in uniform stick their necks out […]

Courtesy The Island Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thera said, on Thursday, that those who meddled with Sri Lanka’s affairs remained silent on the Treasury bond scams, exposing their stark hypocrisy. Addressing a gathering at the National Library and Documentation Services Board, Ven. Gunawansa Thera said if the Western powers and civil society groups really meant what […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 8, 2017, 10:34 pm Leader of the Joint Opposition parliamentary group Dinesh Gunawardena, MP, has questioned the rationale behind the British government’s rejection of its own Colombo-based wartime Defence Attaché Lt. Colonel Anton Gash’s confidential reports sent to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Gash’s cables originating from Colombo […]

වසන්තපි‍්‍රය රාමනායක උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප මේ වනවිට පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය ප‍්‍රකාශයට පත් වී අවසානය. එය වත්මන් යහපාලන රජය මුහුණ දෙන ප‍්‍රථම මැතිවරණය ද වනු ඇත. කුමන විධියේ විග‍්‍රහ ඉදිරිපත් වුවද ජනතාවට වත්මන් රජය යටතේ මැතිවරණයක් ලැබෙන්නේ වසර තුනකට පසුවය. පූර්ව මැතිවරණ සමයේ ආකර්ෂණීය දේශපාලන කතිකාව වී තිබෙන්නේ ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය හා ශී‍්‍ර ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය අතර පවතින සාකච්ඡාවයි. […]

Courtesy RT America’s richest one percent own a whopping 40 percent of the country’s wealth, a new study has revealed. The finding marks a widening gap between rich and poor in the United States. The paper, written by economist Edward N. Wolff, used data from the federal Survey of Consumer Finances. The data showed that the wealth owned […]

ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් -උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප නීලහරිත අයවැය, රටේ ණය ආර්ථිකයේ තත්ත්වය, මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ කොන්දේසි අනුව අයවැය ඉදිරිපත් කළා යැයි චෝදනා කරන්නේ ඇයි යන කාරණා සම්බන්ධයෙන් කළ විමසුමකි මේ. ප‍්‍රශ්නය:- යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ නීලහරිත අයවැය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔබේ අදහස් කෙබඳුද?පිළිතුර:- ඉතාමත් අර්බුදකාරී පැහැදිලි දැක්මක් නොමැති අයවැයක් හැටියට මේ අයවැය හඳුන්වන්න පුළුවන්. එහෙම කියන්න කාරණා […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 2 December 2017 Garnett Genuis, MP Conservative MP for Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan Alberta Cc. Matt DeCourcey, Liberal MP Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs Dear Garnett Genuis: Re: Your Statement in Parliament  on Sri Lanka’s Tamil Community In Canada, on Nov.20th, 2017. I […]

Lankaweb Editorial Dec.10th 2017 Islamist fundamentalism is posing a growing threat to universal liberal society unquestionably. This seems quite apparent also in Sri Lanka in recent times. Considering the bloody ethnic strife involving religious as well as ethnic differences initiated by the Tamil Tigers now vanquished- hopefully never to resurge, it may be fortuitous for […]

Top Spin by Suni  07th Dec. 2017 As the 4th day unfolded in the 3rd Test between India and Sri Lanka at Delhi there was a horror story which probably shocked the onlookers and reflected poorly on the ICC as well as the organizers and umpires at Delhi who failed to recognize the importance of the health […]