KAMALIKA PIERIS The Sinhala Only reforms of 1956 heralded a new phase in the social and economic development of the country.  Until that time, the small minority of English educated people, 2% of the population, had a monopoly over University education, employment opportunities, as well as the business world, which   worked in English, a language […]

Courtesy Off Guardian Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:12 UTC  We already know UK PM Theresa May misrepresented the Russian law on executing terrorists in foreign lands, in order to bolster her currently evidence-free claims of Russian culpability in the poisoning of ex-MI6 employee Sergey Skripal. Her narrative remains, as of March 15, bald and unconvincing. […]

16 remanded over Teldeniya incidents; 8 released While Persecution of the Innocent Over Rs. 8500 million has been paid as of today, in compensation to 130  Muslim victims of Kandy whose houses and businesses were destroyed by mob violence earlier this month. Secretary to the Minister for Rehabilitation and prison reform Shane Dullewe noted that […]

ප්‍රදීප් ප්‍රසන්න සමරකෝන් සහ චමින්ද සිල්වා උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින – මගේ මහත්තයාගේ කාර්යාලයේ තිබිලා පොලිසිය හොයාගත්තේ දහම් පාසල් දරුවන්ට දෙන්න තිබුණු රචනා පොත් වගයකුයි, තව රචනා තරගයකින් ජය ලබපු දරුවන්ට දෙන්න තිබූ පොත්පත් වගයක්‌. මෙන්න මේවාට තමයි පොලිසිය පෙට්‍රල් බෝම්බ හොයා ගත්තා කියලා මහලොකු ප්‍රචාරයක්‌ ඇරියේ දැන් මගේ මහත්තයා රිමාන්ඩ් කළා. මගේ මහත්තයාව බොරුවට අත්අඩංගුවට ගත්තු […]

 මොහොමඩ් මුසම්මිල්  දෙස්‌ විදෙස්‌ කාගෙත් සිත් ගත් මහනුවර කඳු වළල්ලකින් වට වූ දිගන නගරයේ මම උපත ලැබුවෙමි. එහි සිංහල, දමිළ, මුස්‌ලිම් ජන කොටස්‌ අතර පැවැති සබැඳියාව ද විස්‌මිතය. පන්සලේ සලාක දානය භාර ගත් දමිළ පවුල් ද සහ මුස්‌ලිම් පවුල් එහි වූහ අද එක්‌ එක්‌ අන්තවාදයන්ට උඩගෙඩි දෙමින් හදන්නට වලිකන ‘සංහිඳියාව’ වෙනුවට අපි කුඩා කල සිටම […]

 සමන්තී වීරසේකර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින විවිධ ජාතින් විවිධ ආගම් රැක ගනු වස්‌ විවිධ සංවිධාන බිහි වීම අරුමයක්‌ නොවේ. එය ලංකාවට පමණක්‌ නොව ලෝකයේ කුමන රටක වුවද සිදුවන සාමාන්‍ය සංසිද්ධියක්‌ද වන්නේය. එනමුත් ලංකාවේ යටගිය දවස සිට පැවැති අරගල සටන් විවිධ භිෂණයන් සිහි වන විට ලංකාවාසීන් නිතැතින්ම තැති ගන්නේය. එබැවින් ඉකුත් දා මහනුවර දිස්‌ත්‍රික්‌කයේ දිගන තෙල්දෙණිය ප්‍රදේශයන්හි ඇති […]

Neil Clark Courtesy RT It was seven years ago this week that the conflict in Syria began. How might it have developed without the negative role played by Western powers and their regional allies? Beware the Ides of March, the old saying goes. The 15th of March down the ages has seen not only the assassination […]

Courtesy RT Incumbent Russian leader Vladimir Putin is set to secure a resounding victory in the Russian presidential election, according to partial results made public by the electoral commission. Vladimir Putin is now leading with 75.50 percent of the vote, well above the simple majority needed to avoid a run-off. First-time Communist Party candidate Pavel […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  Eckhart Tolle’ s spiritually awaking book The Power of Now highlights the  importance of living in the present moment.  Ironically people avoid the present moment most of the time and dwelling in the depressive thoughts of the past or anxiety related thoughts connected with the future. A person who does not live in […]

පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍ය 1980 අංක 31 දරණ ස්වේච්ඡා සමාජ සේවා සංවිධාන පනත සංශෝධන කිරිම මුවාවෙන් රජය තමන් සමග කටයුතු නොකරන සිවිල් සංවිධාන මර්ධනය සදහා පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් හරහා උත්සහ දරමින් සිටින බව කැෆේ සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍ය ඒකාබද්ධ නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි.  පසුගිය දා හොර රහසේ කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය […]

Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon Executive Director – CaFFE and CHR     The government is attempting to suppress civil society organizations under the pretext of amending the Voluntary Social Service Organizations (registration and supervision) Act, Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and Centre for Human Rights (CHR) said issuing a joint press release. The draft bill to […]

By Manushi Silva Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena returned to the island last night (17) and signed the Gazette notification to lift state of emergency with immediate effect, the President Media Division said. The gazette lifting the State of Emergency was signed last night upon the return of President Sirisena from Japan. The Gazette notification has been […]

Thilanka Kanakarathna Courtesy The Daily Mirror There is no legal provision in the present Constitution of the country to implement a special court, former Minister of Justice MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said. Speaking to journalists outside a function on Friday Mr. Rajapakshe said he does not like to comment over the topic as the decision over the […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA March 18, 2018, 9:15 pm The Prime Minister is facing two motions of no-confidence, not just the one. One is formal the other informal but no less real. Each one deals with one of the two aspects that go to constitute the PM’s public life. The two motions of no-confidence, the […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The President Maithreepala Sirisena is personally indebted to the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe for elevating him to the rank of the President of the country.  Has he paid back his debt sufficiently? The UNP administrative machine is no more the power base of RW.  The grass root UNP support is no more […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Private Hospitals have been focusing of late, mainly on their charging system especially with regard to Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery (CABG). Many have written columns and articles in newspapers covering a whole gamut of incidents and experiences of people after visiting private hospitals in Sri Lanka. The […]

Prof. Asanga Abeyagoonasekera Prof. Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, the Director General of the Institute of national Security Studies Sri Lanka(INSSSL),visiting Professor at the Northern Kentucky University for Geopolitics was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, Quai d’Orsay on 6th March 2018. Prof.Abeyagoonasekera presented a paper on Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean – a […]

තරංග රත්නවීර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින සිංහල, මුස්‌ලිම් කෝලාහල මහනුවරට පමණක්‌ සීමා වූවක්‌ නොවේ. 1915 වර්ෂයේ මරක්‌කල කෝලාහලයේ සිට කාලෙන් කාලයට සිංහල, මුස්‌ලිම් ගැටුම් ඇති විය. එම ආරවුල් ගිනි ජාලාවන් බවට පත් කරනු ලැබුවේ සිංහල, මුස්‌ලිම් අන්තවාදී පිරිස්‌ සහ බඩගෝස්‌තරවාදී දේශපාලනඥයන් විසිනි.     ත්‍රස්‌තවාදී යුද්ධයේ අවසානයත් සමඟ මුස්‌ලිම් අන්තවාදය ප්‍රබලව ඉස්‌මතු වූයේ නැගෙනහිර පළාතෙනි. එහෙයින් මුස්‌ලිම් අන්තවාදයේ […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane Sufism or the Sufi Muslim Ideology In the past, political strife among Muslims in the world, resulted in their division into two major rival groups – Sunni and Shias. Sunnis who form the large majority are predominant in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Jordan, Turkey, Syria, Pakistan, Bangladesh. The Shias who form […]

Nan Courtesy The Island March 17, 2018, 12:00 pm The recent clashes in Digana and other places in the Kandy District brought back memories of what my mother narrated about the 1915 ‘Muslim riots’ as they called the disturbance in Kandy and surrounding areas. She was a child living in a village in Peradeniya when the […]

Sri Lanka News A news report by India’s World Is One News (WION) claims that while Sinhalese intolerance is on the rise in Sri Lanka, as apparent in the recent communal violence, the root cause for the distrust of Muslims in Sri Lanka lies in the alarming spread of Wahhabism among one of the most […]

By Charles.S.Perera It is good that a leader of a country meets with the leaders  of foreign countries and exchange pleasantries, if he has done his duty by his own people,  and the country is in good health politically ,economically, and  socially and there is security and peace provided for the people. But President Maithripala […]

The National University Teachers Association (NUTA) Issuing a media statement in response to an article, titled, “Sri Lankan academics abroad condemn violence against Muslim community” in The Island on 14th March, the NUTA has said: “National University Teachers Association (NUTA) of Sri Lanka is appalled by the statement issued by a group purported to be Sri Lankan academics in North […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 16 March 2018 The Editor (Letters) The Ottawa Citizen Dear Editor: On Friday, 16th morning, the Buddhist monks of the Hilda Jayewardenaramaya at 1481 Heron Road, woke up to a heartbreaking sight outside on the Monastery’s front lawn. The four-foot white Buddha […]

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Kurulu Koojana Kariyakarawana Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Bribery Commission is to give more teeth to the penal code soon by introducing a new law to ‘Disclose Conflict of Interests and Relationships’ which will filter the roles of all law enforcement agencies, the judiciary and politicians in a bid to curb corruption and nepotism. The Commission […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island March 17, 2018, 8:14 pm Even though there is supposed to be an ongoing police investigation into the 2009 murder of Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunga,  what we have been seeing for the most part is a series of investigations and arrests in relation to various matters on the sidelines of […]

Dr. Chu;la Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson, USLA The year under review was a quiet year by contemporary standards till on the 2nd of March Al Jazeera carried a news item sporting a man with lash marks on his upper back alleging that these along with other evidence of torture”, were inflicted by the security forces in Sri […]

Dr Hector Perera       London The scientists have discovered that there are two types of diabetes that is type 1 and type 2. Definition of Diabetes Carbohydrates are the nutrient that impact blood sugars the most. If you have diabetes, it’s important to monitor your carbohydrate intake so that you may discover which foods work best for […]

Courtesy RT The Russian Foreign Ministry said 23 UK diplomats must leave Russia in response to Britain’s provocative actions and groundless accusations” over ex-double agent Sergei Skripal’s poisoning. The British Council will also be shut. Britain’s ambassador to Russia, Laurie Bristow, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Saturday morning, where he was informed of […]