KAMALIKA PIERIS REVISED 9.9.19 Sri Lanka Police will be made the best in Asia, said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe in 2016. But that does not seem to be happening. Instead, the Sri Lanka police are going in the opposite direction. They might end up as the worst in Asia. Yahapalana government   appointed Pujitha Jayasundara as […]

By C. A. Chanadraprema (Island) In a recent article titled “Yahapalana government as a hyper-debt regime”, Professor Milton Rajaratne of the University of Peradeniya has pointed out that even though the yahapalana government accuses the Rajapaksa government of having imposed an immense debt burden on the country, the present government too has borrowed ‘surprising amounts’ of […]

Tracy Bowden Courtesy abc.net.au Updated 29 May 2017, 8:07pm PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin in the trailer for Oliver Stone’s The Putin Interviews. (Supplied) RELATED STORY: Democrats demand explanation over proposed ‘Russian communication channel’ RELATED STORY: Putin a bigger threat than Islamic State, McCain says Oliver Stone has been called a lightning rod for controversy, and his latest project about Russian […]

By Dominic Rushe Courtesy The Guardian The veteran director has been accused of pandering to Putin for his four-hour documentary on the Russian leader, but he remains unrepentant. Could it be the climax to his career?  Oliver Stone: ‘Everything I did was examined by a certain light. And as an artist it’s very limiting.’ Photograph: Suki Dhanda […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island March 21, 2018, 11:42 pm A no-confidence motion containing 14 allegations against Prime Minister Ranil Wickrem-esinghe was handed over to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya by a group of Joint Opposition (JO) MPs led by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa around 2.35 pm yesterday. The motion has been signed by 55 MPs including […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane Altered Traits – Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body                                                                                […]

Your Excellency The President of Sri Lanka,   In your capacity as Head of State, appointing the Commissioner of Elections on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council, this public letter is to bring to your kind attention a not-so-independent statement by the Elections Commissioner, published by Daily Mirror journalist M S M Ayub on 20 […]

According to M M Zuhair former ambassador & Secretary to the State Ministry of National Integration and Reconciliation the international community will not support a Buddhist majoritarian state and will only recognize states that are multi-linguistic, multi-cultural & multi-religious. If so, what is the position of over 50 majority-Muslim states where the constitution upholds only […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana The motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been handed over to the Speaker of Parliament by MPs representing the Joint Opposition. Joint Opposition leader Dinesh Gunawardena handed over the motion to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya at 2.30pm today (21). The motion has reportedly been signed by a total of 55 […]

Kanthar Balanathan  DipEE(UK), GradCert(Rel Eng-Monash), DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey), CEng., MIEE(Lond) Retired Director & Specialist Power Systems Engineer Rowville Australia Viewing the attached video will reveal more truths on the behavioral pattern as to who are the rowdies and who are the gentle people of SriLanka. Behavioral pattern inflicts upon leadership quality. The Sinhala military officer gently and politely emphasized and outlined […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa     issued a statement in January 2017 regarding his much maligned Hambantota project. Since the future of the Hambantota port is now under discussion, I wish to explain to the public, my position on this matter. The loans taken for the construction of this harbour were 450 million USD for […]

Sarath Wijesinghe a former Ambassador to UAE and Israel/ a former Chairman Consumer Affairs authority Water is precious Water is one of the most precious elements essential for the life of a being which is found throughout the world on unequal distribution of geographic considerations. One can live only three days without water which is […]

නෝමන් පලිහවඩන උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට එරෙහිව ගෙන එන විශ්වාසභංග යෝජනාව ජයග්‍රහණය කිරීම සඳහා එක්‌සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂයේ මෙන්ම ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස්‌ පක්‍ෂයේ මැති ඇමැතිවරුන් කණ්‌ඩායමක්‌ පොරොන්දු වී ඇතැයි හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා “දිවයින”ට ඊයේ (20 වැනිදා) කියා සිටියේය.    මෙම විශ්වාසභංග යෝජනාව ජයග්‍රහණය කිරීම සඳහා ඊට අත්සන් තැබීමට එක්‌සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂයේ තරුණ […]

සාකච්ඡා කළේ චතුර පමුණුව උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින වර්තමානයේ ශ්‍රී ලාංකිය සමාජය තුළ උද්ගතව ඇති භේදකාරී තත්ත්වය පිළිබඳව අපි දක්‌ෂිණ ලංකාවේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක ආචාර්ය ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත හිමියන්ගෙන් විමසුවෙමු. සියලු ප්‍රශ්න පැන නැගීමට හේතුව උන්වහන්සේ සැකවින් පැහැදිලි කළහ. පහත දැක්‌වෙන්නේ ඒ සාකච්ඡාවයි. ඇත්තටම අද සිදුවිය යුතු වැදගත්ම කාරණය වන්නේ රටේ නීතිය සැමට සාධාරණ ලෙස ක්‍රියාත්මක වීමයි. ජාතීන් අනුව […]

by Asanga Abeyagoonasekera One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” Simone de Beauvoir Only when fear and hatred is spread by extremists does serious reflection haunt a community. The teardrop-shaped island of Sri Lanka, a seeming paradise hanging off […]

Courtesy RT Published time: 20 Mar, 2018 08:37Edited time: 20 Mar, 2018 20:27 Get short URL Recent actions by the United States in the Middle East suggest it hasn’t learned anything from its monumental debacle 15 years ago by invading Iraq, under a preemptive policy of regime change. The strategy, led by the neocons in […]

Insight by Sunil Kumar March 20th. 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 […]

Gearóid Ó Colmáin  Recent inter-communal riots in Sri Lanka have highlighted the problem of religious extremism, particularly among Asia’s Buddhist population. However, the Buddhist nationalist point of view has been largely ignored in favour of a discourse which demonises Buddhists as aggressors and Muslims as innocent victims. The reality is far more complex. A state […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍ය කොන්ත්‍රාත් පදනම මත ජාතික පොලිස් කොමිෂන් සභාවේ ලේකම් ධූරය දැරූ ආරියදාස කුරේ මහතා එම තනතුරෙන් ඉවත් කොට ඇත්තේ පසුගිය දා තෙල්දෙණිය හා දිගන ඇති වු ගැටුම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් පොලීසියේ ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වය පිළිබද පොලිස්පතිගෙන් වාර්තාවක් ඉල්ලු නිසා බව කැෆේ සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රයේ අවධාරණය කරයි.   ජාතික පොලිස් කොමිෂන් […]

ගොසිප් සී ලංකා වෙබ් අඩවිය වෙළද පොළේ පාරිභෝගික භාණ්ඩවල මිල ගණන් ඉතාමත් ඉහළ මට්ටමක වතින අතර ජනතාවට මෙවර සිංහල හා හින්දු අලුත් අවුරුද්ද සමරන්න වී තිබෙන්නේ ඉතාමත් දුෂ්කර විදිහටය. එම නිසා සිංහල හා හිංදු අලුත් අවරුද්ද වෙනුවෙන් පාරිභෝගික කටයුතු පිළිබද අධිකාරිය ජනතාවට අවුරුදු සැමරීම සදහා කිසියම් සහන වැඩ පිළිවළක් සකස් කර ඇත්දැයි අප ගොසිප් සී ලංකා වෙබ් […]

Following the victory of incumbent President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation at last Sunday’s election, the Russian Ambassador in Colombo HE Yury. B Materiy met former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at his official residence in Colombo on Monday. President Mahinda Rajapaksa took this opportunity to convey his felicitations to President Putin on his landslide victory. […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island March 19, 2018, 9:37 pm I have to say that I am very happy indeed about the resounding victory scored by President Putin. If not for him, there would be no multi-polarity in the world; no chance of a global equilibrium; no ally for the rising economic power of […]

REGGIE PONNAMPALAM Courtesy The Island March 18, 2018, 9:51 pm There was much talk, announcements, speculation and predictions on the Ministry of Law & Order, and now we have a Madduma Bandara. Reminds me of an old Sinhala Baila, “Sinhala Ithihasa Pothe Ran Akuren Liyawuna. . .” – written in letters of gold in the annals […]

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and CAROLE CADWALLADRMARCH 17, 2018–NEW YORK TIMES Christopher Wylie, who helped found the data firm Cambridge Analytica and worked there until 2014, has described the company as an “arsenal of weapons” in a culture war.CreditAndrew Testa for The New York Times (After this story was published, Facebook came under harsh criticism from lawmakers in […]

COLOMBO, March 19 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan shares fell to their lowest close in nearly seven weeks on Monday, as investors sold diversified and manufacturing stocks on worries over slower economic growth, brokers said. The statistics department withdrew its 2017 full-year and fourth-quarter GDP data on Friday, a day after saying the economy expanded 3.1 […]

Courtesy tobaccoreporter.com The government of Sri Lanka has been urged to withdraw a proposed ban on tobacco cultivation in the country, according to a story in The Colombo Gazette. The All Ceylon Cigarette Tobacco Barn Owners’ Association said that since 2015, the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Drug Prevention had recommended ‘unreasonable restrictions’ on tobacco […]

Editorial The Guardian (UK) The standards by which the internet is controlled need to be open and subject to impartial judiciaries – not left to advertisers The revelations we publish about how Facebook’s data was used by Cambridge Analytica to subvert the openness of democracy are only the latest examples of a global phenomenon. All over the […]

By APRIL GLASER   Courtesy slate.com MARCH 19, 20184:58 PM Cambridge Analytica, the political-data firm hired by the Trump campaign that’s been implicated in a scandal involving the illegitimate harvesting of more than 50 million Facebook user profiles, did not improve its public standing Monday. That’s because Britain’s Channel 4 posted a video showing Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix describing a series of […]

Source: PMD President Maithripala Sirisena says some are working according to their personal agendas to gain political power and they are not interested in strengthening the peace and reconciliation or in solving the issues of the country. The President further said that the people should recognize these people who only consider their political power without […]

Courtesy Sputnik Over the weekend, video footage surfaced showing a 70-year-old man getting kicked off a Binter Canarias flight for yelling racial slurs at a flight attendant on a flight from Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands, to the Spanish island of La Palma. Recorded by a fellow passenger, footage of the Wednesday incident shows the moments after the […]