කතු වැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින දළ පූට්‌ටුවා අවසන් ගමන් ගියේ ශෝකජනක ලෙස ය. ගල්ගමුවේ වන ගහනයක්‌ මැද මෙයට දශක කිහිපයකට පෙර උපන් දළ පූට්‌ටුවාගේ දිරාගිය මළ සිරුර පසුගියදා පල්ලෙකැලේදී හමුවිය. ලංකාවේ වනගහනවල ඉතිරිව සිටි සද්දන්ත කුලයට අයත් ඇතුන් කිහිපදෙනාගෙන් එකකු වූ මේ සතා පසුගිය අවුරුදු කිහිපය පුරාත් ජීවිතයට වඩා මරණයේ සෙවනැල්ල යට කල්ගත කළේය. මෙහිදී […]

බුලිත ප්‍රදීප් කුමාර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ඡායාරූප – මහගල්කඩවල සේනක ඉලංගකොන්, නිෂාන් ජිනේන්ද්‍ර හා ශෂිකලන රත්වත්ත ගල්ගමුව දළ පූට්‌ටුවාගේ අවාසනාවන්ත ඉරණම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පසුගිය දිනවල අපට තිබූ සියලු සැක සංකා මේ වන විට පහව ගොස්‌ අවසන්ය.   වලාන පොලිස්‌ දූෂණ මර්දන ඒකකය විසින් පොල්පිතිගම නිකවැව පන්සල තුළදී පසුගිය 23 වනදා කෙරුණු ගනුදෙනුවක්‌ මත අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනණු මිල කළ නොහැකි.. ගජමුතු […]

By Charles S.Perera The ordinary people of Sri Lanka have gathered from evident facts  that there is sufficient circumstantial evidence to show that the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe is directly or indirectly  involved in  the  planned Central Bank Bond robbery. And  it is being confirmed  from the way his UNP followers are trying to make  […]

 Sudath Gunasekara.  B.A. PhD.  (S.L. A. S). 12.12. 2017 Abstract The Central Hill Country of Sri Lanka is defined as the land above the 300 m (msl) contour that covers roughly about 20% of the total land area of the Island. It constitutes a heavily dissected terrain with spectacular scenic beauty providing the home for […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS (Revised) The   Yahapalana image is starting to crumble.  It is now known that both  Sarath Fonseka and Maithripala Sirisena had contested on the New Democratic Front  ticket, headed   by Shalila Moonasinghe, who  was arrested for receiving foreign currency stolen from Taiwan’s Far Eastern International Bank recently. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has come in […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando. Dilshani Palugaswewa highlighted in the Ceylon Today (Sunday Edition), the discourse made by Ajitha Wickremesinghe, the Financial Legal Equality Advisor and Director of iProbono, and the Founding Trustee of Think Equal, at a function held at  the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies, on 21 November, to mark The International Day […]

Champa Fernando Secretary,Kandy Association for Community Protection through Animal Welfare (KACPAW) To complement the National Dog Sterilization Programme, Animal Welfare Organizations like KACPAW (Kandy Association for Community Protection through Animal Welfare), together with state institutions like the Municipal Councils carry out mass sterilization of dogs using their own money and get these animals mass vaccinated […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge  Meditation is a mental exercise and it enhances the state of awareness. Awareness is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events (Wikipedia). The meditative awareness is often called blissful awareness which is a higher state of consciousness. Higher consciousness involves the ability to be conscious of […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island December 2, 2017, 7:13 pm Bad weather, such as what Sri Lanka and the region have been experiencing recently, is undoubtedly a so-called “Act of God.” There is very little that mankind can do about it other that be prepared for weather-related disasters. In his regular column this week, commentator Sanjana Hattotuwa […]

Sanjana Hattotuwa Courtesy The Island At the time of writing this column, 11 have died because of a storm that hit Sri Lanka. Five are missing. Over 61,000 people across the island are affected by the disaster. Images of the devastation are all over the news, including over updates on social media pushed out from the […]

SUNIL G WIJESINHA Colombo 5.Courtesy The Island Heavy rains and strong winds Wednesday night and Thursday caused substantial damages to private and public property. Staff photographer Ranjith Wimalasiri captured this scene at Borella Most international weather sites warned of downpours in Sri Lanka and South India this week. Some said it may lead to flooding. […]

C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island Options available for Sirisena as LG elections loom Elections Commission at last justifies its existence RW heading for another bond fiasco December 2, 2017, 7:57 pm With the Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government Faizer Mustapha being forced to engineer the withdrawal of the six petitions against the delimitation gazette, the […]

විශේෂ ලියුම්කරු කීර්ති රත්නායක රතු මුහුද තරණය කරමින් පොරොන්දු දේශය කරා මෝසස් මෙහෙයවූ ක්‍රියාන්විතය අප කියවා ඇත. මෙම ක්‍රියාදාමය එදා මෙදා තුර ඉතිහාසය උඩු යටිකුරු කල කල බව නොරහසකි. එදා ඊස්ශ්‍රායෙලියන්ගේ රතු මුහුදු තරනයට හේතු වූයේ පාරාවුන්ගේ වහල් භාවයෙන් මිදී පලා යාමය. එයින් වසර 3000 ක් ගතවෙත්ම ඊශ්‍රායෙලියන් යලිත් වරක් රතුමුහුද තරණයට සැරසී ඇත. නමුත් […]

P.A.Samaraweera During the Presidents trip to Korea this week, he had paid respect to the Korean martyrs who made the supreme sacrifice during 3 wars with invading forces. At a ceremony, he had placed a wreath and put incense at the Altar. Back at home, our disabled war heroes are protesting on the streets about […]

Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada. Just recently, construction workers doing a work site in Hamburg, Germany came across a buried giant Swastika from the Hitler era. Some antiquarians” called for its reservation as an object of history. No way”, said the the Mayor of Hamburg and other civic leaders concerned. This is a despicable sign that […]

 lanka C news ප‍්‍රාදේශීය සංවර්ධන ඇමති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා සහ ඒකාබද්ද විඵක්‍ෂය නියෝජනය කරන සන්ධාන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී ගාමිණි ලොකුගේ අතර ඉතා උණුසුම් විවාදයක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී ඊයේ දිනයේ ඇති විය. මහා නගර හා බස්නාහිර සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍යංශයේ වැය ශීර්ෂය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පැවති කාරක සභා අවස්ථා විවාදයේදී මෙම සංවාදවය ඇති විය. ඇමති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා විසින් දිගින් දිගටම ලොකුගේ මන්ත‍්‍රීවයරාගේ අදහස් […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE When we were chatting about newly appointed ODI captain of Sri Lanka, there was a general consensus that Thisara had more failures than successes.  Then a colleague of mine said failures are the Pillars of Success”.   Another friend promptly replied, Yes, he had more Pillars, but not a single building”. […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera These doctors who have received free education would have  spent money to go for private tuition .Their parents could afford to pay for the tuition . If they want to pressurize the government to abolish private education they should also pressurize to  stop private tuition . All specialist doctors do private practice […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane In the name of revival of Hinduism in India, between 830 CE and 966 CE (or mid 9th to late 10th centuries) the ancestors of the present Hindus of India were ruthless against Buddhists and brutally killed Buddhist monks and followers of Buddhism and wantonly destroyed many thousands of Buddha statues, stupes […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island December 1, 2017, 10:13 pm The National Election Commission (NEC) has said it is confident of holding the much-delayed local government elections, at last, on a single day early next year. This announcement couldn’t have come at a worse time for the government, which did its damnedest to postpone the mini polls […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island December 1, 2017, 10:14 pm * Bond…Bond…here we come. There is nothing as good as Bondage…which seems to be the new thinking of the UNP. The Prime Minister wants to have a special probe into the Treasury Bond sales from 2008 to 2014 – that involves many billions of rupees. […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 1, 2017, 11:07 pm The Global Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF) has been assured by Lord Naseby of his continued support for its efforts to counter unsubstantiated war crimes allegations against the armed forces as well as the previous political leadership. The assurance was given when a GSLF delegation met […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Working Group on Arbitrary Detention due, followed by Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion Close on the heels of UN expert on transitional justice Pablo de Greiff warning the government of dire consequences unless the administration addressed accountability issues in accordance with […]

කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ දේශපාලන විද්‍යා සහ රාජ්‍ය ප‍්‍රතිපත්ති අධ්‍යයනාංශයේ – ධම්ම දිසානායක උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප ‘ජනවාරි වසන්තය’ ලංකාවට අත්පත් කරදී ඇත්තේ ‘අරාබි වසන්තය’ විසින් ඊජිප්තුවට, ඉරාකයට, ලිබියාවට සහ සිරියාවට අත්කර දෙන ලද ඉරණම ම ය. ලේ වැකි ‘අරාබි වසන්තය’ නිසා අද ඒ රටවල රාජ්‍යයක් සතුව පැවතිය යුතු කිසිදු අංගයකට නිරුපද්‍රිත පැවැත්මක් නැත. භුමිය අනතුරේය. ජනතාව මාරාන්තික අනතුරකය. ඔවුන්ගේ පරම […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS REVISED 31.10.18 This essay looks at the Yahapalana government‘s attitude to the armed forces of Sri Lanka.    It does not deal with the Geneva resolution on Eelam War IV. Perhaps no other country has ill treated its disabled service and police personnel in a more shameful and despicable manner than Sri Lanka, said […]

The unprecedented rain and cyclone has pushed the southern part of Kerala into disarray as at least four people have lost their lives in three different incidents. Late night the slight depression over Sri Lanka gained strength making favourable conditions for a cyclone. By early morning on Thursday weather departments officially declared the depression as Ockhi cyclone […]

NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Shortly after Tropical Cyclone Ockhi formed in the Northern Indian Ocean to the west of Sri Lanka, NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the storm and saw powerful bands of thunderstorms wrapping into its center from the northern quadrant. On Nov. 30 at 3:24 a.m. EST (0824 UTC) NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP […]

Courtesy wionews.com A tropical storm has killed at least seven people and left five fishermen missing in Sri Lanka, bringing down trees across main roads and on houses, officials said on Thursday, warning of landslides and flooding in severely hit areas. Heavy winds hit the island’s southern, western and south-central areas. At the moment, there […]

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal in an interview with the Daily Mirror spoke about the Government’s Budget and its implications. The interview done with Cabraal follows.   Q As the former Governor of Central Bank how do you view the Budget which the Government claims is futuristic and is […]

Ranjith Soysa Spokesperson – GSLF Australia Global Sri Lankan Forum Australia His Excellency The President,  Maithiripala Sirisena Your Excellency, Planned arrest of Mr. Gotabaya Rajapakse We request your urgent intervention to advise all concerned that Mr. Gotabaya Rajapakse should not be arrested purely on account of political reasons.  The alleged charges about the expenses incurred […]