Sarath Wijesinghe – former Ambassador to UAE and Israel               ECTA and the background Information It appears that the government is determined to proceed with the ECTA- Economic and Technology Cooperation between India and Sri Lanka which consolidates all previous failed agreements on trade and industry. The professional national front (PNF) apparently out of desperation has […]

Massacre at Dachau and other Allied war crimes

C.A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island March 3, 2018, 8:41 pm On January 8, 2009, it was a diplomat in the Indian High Commission who phoned me and said that Lasantha Wickremetunga had been ‘shot dead’. I was out of Colombo at the time and was not able to go to the Kalubowila hospital where he had […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island The reported decision of the National Economic Council (NEC) to lift the ban on glyphosate, a weedicide that was widely used in this country previously, though not yet officially communicated to those concerned nor formally gazetted will no doubt be widely welcomed, mostly by the tea industry. Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake […]

For series two of Tiger Aspect’s India-set hospital drama, freshening things up without losing what made the show a hit is key for the producers. Olly Grant reports from the Sri Lanka set Unawatuna, Sri Lanka: It’s 30°C in the shade and Tiger Aspect’s Lucy Bedford has just taken a breather in the garden of the Good Karma […]

Dilrook Kannangara Desperate times call for desperate action. This is what is going inside the panicky heads of UNP desperados. They want SF to take over the law and order ministry and stop the SLPP steamroller that is racing to flatten the UNP. Little they realize, SF is not UNP leaders’ boytoy (pun intended). He […]

lanka C news බැඳුම්කර වංචාවට සමාන මූල්‍ය වංචාවක්‌ මහපොළ භාරකාර අරමුදලේත් සිදුව ඇතැයි පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්‍ෂයේ ලේකම් පුබුදු ජයගොඩ මහතා පැවසීය. ශිෂ්‍ය සුබසාධනය වෙනුවෙන් පිහිටුවා තිබෙන මහපොළ භාරකාර අරමුදලේ සිදුවී තිබෙන බරපතළ මූල්‍ය වංචාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් නෛතික ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ගත යුතු බවත් අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී පවුල්වල දරුවන්ගේ උසස්‌ අධ්‍යාපනය හදාරන සිසුන් සඳහා වෙන් වුණු මුදල් මෙසේ වංචා කිරීම […]

By Dr.Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today After listening to many TV discussions and analyses on the latest Cabinet reshuffle of the ‘Yahapalanaya’, following the well-defined message given to the Unity Government by the voters during the February local council elections, Udaya had gone to bed with weary sleepy eyes. He could hardly finish his bedtime […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Chairman Export Development Board DEVELOPMENT OF BOAT BUILDING INDUSTRY AND DELAYS BY TRC Dear Madam , Walkers Colombo Shipyard Ltd , has been successful in attracting boat building orders for local as well as foreign clients .Our operation in Galle and Trincomalee is also actively involved in building and repair fishing vessels […]

This is The Corbett Report. Now openly admitted, governments and militaries around the world employ armies of keyboard warriors to spread propaganda and disrupt their online opposition. Their goal? To shape public discourse around global events in a way favourable to their standing military and geopolitical objectives. Their method? The Weaponization of Social Media.

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි මහා සටනක් මේ රට තුල සිදුවෙමින් පවතී.  පරසතුරන්ට එරෙහිව මේ සිදුවෙන අරගලය. තුල අපිට නොපෙනෙන මහා බලවේගයක් පරසතුරන් වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටින අතර, අපිට පෙනෙන පරසතුරු කැල, ප්‍රබලත්වයෙන් චන්ද්‍රිකා කුමාරතුංග, රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ හා මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන යන ත්‍රිත්වයෙන් සමන්විතය. ඊට අමතරව පරසතුරන්ට ඉතා නින්දිත ආකාරයට රට විනාශ කිරීමේ කාර්යයට,  අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක  ප්‍රමුඛ  ජනතා […]