Bhante Mihita (writing from Havana, Cuba ) Bhante Mihita is the former Prof. Suwanda H J Sugunasiri, of Toronto, Canada April 28, 2018, 7:36 pm History was made on April 07, 2018 on Cuban soil when 25 or so Cubans, out of a head count of 75 or so attending, came to be initiated into Buddhism in […]

Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka’s economy grew at the slowest pace in 16 years to record a  worse than expected 3.1 percent GDP expansion last year, according to the central bank. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka had expected the economy to grow at about 5.0 percent in 2017, but a drought and floods affected […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island April 27, 2018, 9:03 pm It is bad enough that the Yahapalana 2015 ‘regime change’ project planted Mr. Sampanthan as a settler in the post of Opposition Leader, a post in which he continues to be a squatter, demanding ‘internal self-determination’ and the full implementation of the Geneva resolution. […]

Pre-independence Tamil leaders sought a Tamil nation, post-independence Tamil armed militancy also sought a separate Tamil nation, post-LTTE defeat Tamil political leadership are continuing the same calls coated in different politically correct terms that shroud & camouflage the ultimate objective. Can everyone now understand why we are against tweaking the constitution? Why is it difficult […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS   The OISL Report’ is a report on Sri Lanka  prepared by a special investigation team within the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The acronym OISL means ‘OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka.’ The purpose of the OISL report  was to pave the way for UN resolution 30/1 on […]

Dr. Chulanee Attanayake Research Director of the Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka (INSSSL). The media buzzed the past few days about the impending ‘informal meeting’ between China and India which was proposed to be held on April 27 and 28 in the central city of Wuhan in China. The ‘heart-to-heart chat’ between the two […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති. වෙසක් දිනය ලොවපුරා බෞද්ධ ජනතාවගේ උතුම්ම දිනයයි. ඒ, මිනිසා විඳින සසර දුකෙන් මිදෙන ඒකායන මාර්ගය පෙන්වා වදාළ අප මහා සම්මා සම්බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේගේ උප්පත්තිය,  සම්බුද්ධත්වය හා පරිනිර්වාණය යන තෙමගුල සිදුවූ දිනය වන හෙයිනි. අපගේ ඓතිහාසික මූලාශ්‍ර වල කියවෙන පරිදි, මේ පුංචි දිවයින උන්වහන්සේගේ පා පහසින් ආශීර්වාද ලබන්නට තෙවරක්ම වාසනාවන්ත වූ අතර, […]

By Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sughandika Fernando exposed the whole justice system Where the Courts of Law cannot deliver justice, no repairs or reforms were possible There are thus definite and serious doubts about the role of the Judiciary and its independence This unprincipled Unity Government cannot provide answers to issues the people need […]

By DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island April 26, 2018, 12:00 pm An explosion is not always a good thing. But it is not always preventable. Sometimes an explosion cannot be predicted but sometimes it can. Often an explosion is not inevitable but that does not mean it isn’t likely or even probable. In any country, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS REVISED 26.4.18 The   war crimes” charge against the Sri Lanka army is that the army killed hundreds and hundreds of   innocent” Tamil civilians instead of killing off the LTTE. This ‘war crimes’ charge is part of a calculated strategy carried out by the western countries that support Tamil Eelam. A bogus ‘body count’ […]

BY Edward Theophilus In 1971, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike efficiently acted to control JVP actions showing lessons learned from 1958 emergency.  With these excellent experiences in the past, Mr. JR Jayewardene and the UNP government strongly believed that the constitution introduced in 1972 must be reformed introducing a new constitution, which establishes an Executive Presidency in […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara 4. 2018 Please read the following two news items immediately Celebrating Vesak in April, a joke – prelate Posted on April 23rd, 2018 http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=183592 By Cyril Wimalasurendra Courtesy The Island April 23, 2018, 11:54 pm All other Buddhist nations, the world over, are making grand preperations to celebrate Vesak Poya Day, on […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE To win the election, wages have been increased by Rs10,000.  How these costs be absorbed, without increasing productivity.  The Central Bank robbery is directly impacting on Rupee depreciation.  Direct Foreign Investments are rapidly declining, export revenue deteriorating, to pay foreign debts Sri Lanka is faced to buy USD using its […]

by Garvin Karunaratne  I can remember the days when, on all my visits to Polonnaruwa, Hingurakgoda and Valachenai I was trailing behind lorry loads of straw. . Then the roads were narrow and a straw  loaded lorry  with bales jutting out could not be overtaken. That was in the Sixties. I was a frequent visitor […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න කොටියන් හා උන්හට අද වනතෙක් කත්අදිනන් විසින් ස්ථුප සැදීමට විරුද්ධ වන්නේ මන්ද එය බෞද්ධ විරෝධයක් නොවේද ? ටිකකකලකට පෙර කනගරායම් කුලමේ ඉදිවෙමින් තිබු මහා දාගැබකට විරුද්ධව ප්‍රකශයක් කෙරු මල කොටි අඩවිය දිනක් කියා සිටියේ ජනඝාතක ශ්‍රීලංකාව විසින් ඔවුන්ගේ අන්තර්ජාතික හවුල් කරුවන් සමග එක්වී සුවිශාල දාගැබ් තනන්නේ  (Eezham Tami) ඊසම් ටැමිල්(අලුත් දෙමල ජන වර්ගයක් […]

සුජිත් අක්කරවත්ත සම්ප්‍රදාය සම්පන්න සිංහල ධූම මත්ලෝලත‍වය ලෙස චිරන්තනව පැවතියේ ත්‍රෛයිලෝක හෙවත් කංසාය. අර්ක ශාස්ත්‍රය තුළින් දියරමය මධුපැන් සූත්‍ර කර ගත් අතර ධූම ශාස්ත්‍රයට අනුව ධූම නාලිකා බිහිකර ගෙන ඇත. ත්‍රෛයිලෝක ගැන කතා විවරණයන් පැන නගින විට නිරායාසයෙන්ම මතුවන මතයක් වේ. එනම් ත්‍රෛයිලෝක හෙවත් කංසා සිංහල වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යාවේ මූල ඖෂධය බවය. එබැවින් කංසා මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ගණයට […]

By Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Everyone must have adored her, he thought. Every man who saw her must certainly have coveted her. This made her the lovelier in his mind; and he conceived a furious desire for her that never stopped; it fed the flames of his despair, and it grew stronger and stronger because […]

COLOMBO, April 26 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan shares edged down in dull trade on Thursday and settled near their lowest close in more than one week hit earlier in the week as continued political uncertainty dampened sentiment, stockbrokers said. The market has been awaiting signs of political stability after President Maithripala Sirisena suspended parliament until […]

 Max Planck Society Working closely with Wanniyalaeto (Vedda) elders in Sri Lanka during the repatriation of skeletal remains, a team of researchers have demonstrated that while some Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Sri Lanka made use of agricultural resources and trade connections with farmers and colonial power structures, others continued to subsist primarily on tropical forest resources […]

Evening Times Online A TOURIST from Glasgow who was raped by an electrician at a luxury hotel in Sri Lanka had to get checked after realising she was pregnant. The woman, in her 30s, discovered she was pregnant on her return and had to be tested to make sure the baby was her husband’s. She was on […]

by Ethan Lou  Courtesy macleans.ca The prime minister issued a ‘clearly out of step’ statement sidelining country’s majority ethnic group, warned Daniel Jean Apr 26, 2018  A spokesperson for the Sri Lankan government tells Maclean’s the country is concerned that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau repeatedly sidelined the South Asian nation’s majority ethnic group in his festive statements—one of which was […]

එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂ ප‍්‍රතිසංවිධානයෙන් පසු එම පක්‍ෂ ඉදිරිපෙල හා පසුපෙල සියළු මන්ත‍්‍රිවරුන් සියළු දෙනා ඉන්නේ ඇටිකෙහෙල් කෑ උගුඩුවන් වගේයයි එක්සත් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ පවසයි. රට පුරාම පාක්‍ෂිකයන් කියන්නේ රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට නායකත්වයෙන් ඉවත් වන ලෙස යයි එම පක්‍ෂයේ ප‍්‍රධාන ලේකම් මෛත‍්‍රී ගුණරත්න මහතා කියා සිටී. රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ රෙදි ගලවන ෆයිල් කිහිපයක් අතේ තියාගෙන සිටිනා […]

 lanka C news 1987 දී 13 වැනි ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සම්පූර්ණයෙන් බලාත්මක වූ පූර්ණ සන්ධීය රාජ්‍යයක් බිහිවීම වැළැක්වීමට එවකට ජනාධිපති ජේ. ආර්. ජයවර්ධන මහතාට ව්‍යවස්ථා බාධක හෙවත් ‘අඩ කොට’ තැබීමට සිදු වූයේ ඒකීයභාවය වෙනුවෙන් දිවි පිදූ ජවිපෙ සාමාජිකයන් 60,000කගේ පරිත්‍යාගයන් හේතුවෙන් බවත් වත්මන් ජවිපෙ නායක අනුර දිසානායක විධායක ජනපති ක්‍රමය අහෝසි කිරීමේ යෝජනාව හරහා එම ව්‍යවස්ථා […]

Courtesy RT Published time: 26 Apr, 2018 16:21Edited time: 26 Apr, 2018 18:28 Get short URL Witnesses of the alleged chemical attack in Douma, including 11-year-old Hassan Diab and hospital staff, told reporters at The Hague that the White Helmets video used as a pretext for a US-led strike on Syria was, in fact, staged. […]

By Charles S.Perera All  Sinhala whether of UNP, SLFP,JVP,SLPP of JHU unite as one against Sirisena and Ranil Yahapalanaya Government selling the Culture, Religion, Land  and all the Sinhala Buddhist values in the name of reconciliation with Tamils, which they do to honour their allegiance to USA and the West, which they  undertook to do […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA.  . The current Million rupees/U.S.Dollar voracious leadership of the JVP (Janatha Vikurthi Peramuna), who are alleged tohave been bankrolled by India’s RAW Agency to get its objectives of destabilizing Sri Lanka effectively achieved, has shamelessly shed the ideological stands of its leaders Rohana Wijeweera and Somawansa Amaeasinghe and has become […]

ALI SUKHANVER It is the height of hostility or the climax of enmity with Pakistan that the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina succeeded in getting approval of a draconian law, the DSA, by her cabinet. The Digital Security Act is in fact a set of punishments which would be used to bring the opposition […]

Mahinda Gunasekera By E-mail 84 Tambrook Drive Agincourt, ON M1W 3L9 April 24, 2018 Mr. Jack MacLaren MPP, Carleton-Mississippi Mills, Queens Park Ontario Dear Mr. Jack Maclaren, MPP, Re: Your proposal to Remove the Tamil Tiger Terrorists from the Banned List I was taken aback to read of your proposal to lift the ban on […]

BY Edward Theophilus Sri Lanka has been relegated to a sharp debate on the constitutional reforms since the political independence in 1948 as the constitution, which was given to the country by the Solebury Commission in 1947 was subject to many criticisms in regard to various matters. The constitution established to the country was not […]