KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay in the Darusman report series  features the  review of the Darusamn Report by Geoffrey Nice QC & Rodney Dixon QC   at the request of the Paranagama Commission. It is taken from the Parangama Commjission report. March 24, 2015, 12:00 pm Review of “Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability […]

By Kalinga Seneviratne April 14th marked the dawn of a New Year to most communities in South and Southeast Asia, especially those along the two great Gangas (rivers) of Asia, the Ganges and the Mekong. It is based not on any religious scriptures but on astrology and the harvesting cycle. So we could say it […]

Courtesy RT The looming end of the Castro era in Cuba coincides this week with the 57th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion – a failed attack by the CIA that greatly catalyzed the Castro approach to resisting American encroachment. On Thursday, Raul Castro, the 86-year-old brother of the late Fidel, will step down […]

තුසිත බාලසූරිය ලේකම් ශ්‍රී ලංකා සමාජ ප්‍ර‍ජාතන්ත්‍ර‍වාදී පක්ෂය පොහොර සහනාධාරයකින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කෘෂි කර්මාන්තය නගා සිටුවිය නොහැකි නිසා කෘෂි ආර්ථිකය නගා සිටුවීමට වානිජමය වටිනාකමක් සහිත නව වානිජ බෝග ගොවීන් වෙත හදුන්වා දිය යුතුය. කංසා යනු එවැනි විශාල වානිජමය වටිනාකමක් සහිත ශාකයකි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වගා කෙරෙන සෙසු වානිජ බෝගවලට වඩා වැඩි ලාභයක් කංසා වගාවෙන් උපයා ගත […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්        යහපාලන රජය පත් වූ අලුත ජනාධිපති තුමාගේ විශේෂිත සංකල්පයක් බවට පත් වූයේ වස විස නැති ගොවිතැනයි. වකුගඩු රෝගයෙන් පිළිකා සහ වෙනත් බෝ නොවන රෝග වලින් හෙම්බත්ව සිටි රජරට ජනතාව ඉන් මුදවා ගැනීමේ සද් චේතනාවෙන් ඇරඹි මේ වැඩ සටහන නිසා  උග්‍ර පිළිකා කාරකයක් ලෙසට නම් දරා ඇති ග්ලයිෆොසොට් හෙවත් වානිජ වශයෙන් සර්පාර්ස් රවුන්ඩ් […]

By  H.L.D Mahindapala Part 1 When two distinguished authorities on the history of Jaffna — Bishop S. Jebanesan of the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India, and Richard Fox Young who holds a Chair in the Princeton Theological Seminary, USA., – collaborated to translate the novel Mirage (Kanal in Tamil), depicting the plight of the despised […]

Sarath Wijesinghe former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority and former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Consumer and consumerism in exploitation process Consumer is always exploited and at the receiving end every minute. This process aggravates during the festive seasons due to excessive demand on consumer items and services. Consumer is cheated and misguided by bogus year […]

Robert Fisk Douma, Syria Courtesy  independent Exclusive: Robert Fisk visits the Syria clinic at the centre of a global crisis This is the story of a town called Douma, a ravaged, stinking place of smashed apartment blocks – and of an underground clinic whose images of suffering allowed three of the Western world’s most powerful nations to bomb Syria last […]

Finian Cunningham Courtesy RT Published time: 17 Apr, 2018 15:51Edited time: 18 Apr, 2018 08:03 Get short URL With astounding double-think, the US and Britain accuse Russia of “tampering” with the alleged chemical-weapon attack site in Syria’s Douma – just days after the US, UK and France barraged the county with over 100 missiles. If anyone […]

Courtesy Sputnik Earlier the White Helmets, a Western-backed NGO known for its ties with terrorist groups, released a video showing alleged victims of the false-flag chemical attack in Douma. The US and its allies used the video as a pre-text to conduct a missile strike on Syria. The Russia 24 TV channel released an exclusive […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island April 17, 2018, 12:00 pm Donald Trump’s Twitter message announcing success of the missile attack on Syria by the US, the UK and France last Saturday (April 14) has revived memories of a similar message by former president George W Bush, at the height of the war against Iraq, which […]

BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent Courtesy The Island April 17, 2018, 12:00 pm NEW DELHI, April 16: The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) was wiped out 4,350 years ago by a 900-year-long drought, scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) have found. Evidence gathered during their study also put to rest the widely accepted theory that […]