Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  Jose Naroskey once said In war, there are no unwounded soldiers” Undeniably war has a profound effect on soldiers. It has a catastrophic effect on their health and wellbeing. I have met a number of soldiers around the globe who belonged to different Armies and various military organizations. Many of them […]

ALI SUKHANVER This spring proved the beginning of a new tale of distress and grief for the low-caste Hindus of India. According to the details narrated by the Washington Post, Caste prejudice is endemic in Hindu-majority India, even though the constitution outlaws the practice and has made it a crime punishable by up to a […]

Courtesy RT Published time: 19 Apr, 2018 16:30 Get short URL The UK’s behavior after the Skripal incident suggests that the attack was organized by the British spy agencies or was at least beneficial for them, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. Soldiers wearing protective suits seal a bin in Salisbury, Britain on […]

Courtesy RT Published time: 19 Apr, 2018 10:47Edited time: 19 Apr, 2018 12:40 Hassan Diab (left) featured in the video of the alleged chemical attack in Douma -CAPTION / RT The boy portrayed as a ‘victim’ in a video of the alleged chemical attack in Douma has told a Russian TV crew that he was […]

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 […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay looks at four assessments of the Darusman Report, by Godfrey Gunatilleke,   John Holmes, Geoffrey Nice, Rodney Dixon, and the Paranagama Commission. Godfrey Gunatilleke wrote ‘An Analysis and Evaluation of the Report of the UN Secretary General’s (UNSG) Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka” for the Law and Society Review […]

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE Unseating Sambandan: This ploy could backfire on JO itself.  This will further alienate JO from the Tamil community.  The TNA will use such a move to obtain the local  and international attention in their favour, blowing out of proportion a rapid protest campaign justifying TNA’s long held view that Prez […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  සෝවියට් දේශය එක් කාලයක් විද්‍යාව සහ තාක්‍ෂණය අතින් ලෝකයේ  මුල් පෙලේ රටක් විය​. මේ කාලයේදී සෝවියට් දේශය වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යාව ජයග්‍රහණ රැසක් ලබා ගත්තේය​. උදාහරණයක් ලෙස අක්‍ෂි වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යාව සඳහා ෆියදෝරොෆ් සහ අස්ථි ශල්‍ය විද්‍යාව සඳහා එලිසාරොෆ් යන විශේෂඥයන් ලෝක පූජිත වූහ​. මෙම ජයග්‍රාහී සමයේදී සෝවියට් වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යාල ලෝක ශ්‍රේණි ගත කිරීමේදී […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න දේවමත කරෙන් බෙල්ලෙන් එල්ලාගෙන පල්ලි කෝවිල් තනන දේශ පාලකයන් කරගන්නා පවු! අද සිංහල බෞද්ධයා මරණින්දේය. හතු පිපෙන්නා සේ සැම තැනම පල්ලි කෝවිල් ඉදිවෙමින් පවතී. දේශපාලකයෝ විශාල පිරිසක් තම සිංහල බෞද්ධකම පසෙකලා අඩුම තරමින් වර්ෂයකට එක හරෙකු හෝ උරෙකු තම දෙවියන් උදේසා ඝාතනය වන ආගමික සත්ව ඝාතනාගාර රාජ්‍ය මට්ටමින් ඉදිකිරමින් යයි. (යම්කසි ආගමික තැනක […]

 lanka C news ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂයේ හා එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානයේ සිටින්නේ මහ ලේකම්වරු දෙදෙනෙකු නොව මහ ‘කේලම්වරු’ දෙදෙනෙක් යයි ශ‍්‍රීලනිප මාධ්‍ය ප‍්‍රකාශක හිටපු ඇමති ඩිලාන් පෙරේරා මහතා පවසයි. මහ කේලම්වරුන් කරමින් සිටින්නේ අගමැති රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහට ගතු කීම බවද ඔහු සදහන් කරයි. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ මහතාට අධිකරණය විසින් ඇප ලබා දීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් […]

lanka C news ආණ්ඩුවේ ගජමිතුරු කල්ලිය විසින් සිදු කරන අමුතු අතපෙවීම් සම්බන්දයෙන් හිටපු ඇමති පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී චන්දිම වීරක්කොඩි මහතා සදහන් කරයි. සිරස රූපවාහිනියේ පැතිකඩ වැඩසටහනට එක්වෙමින් මෙම අදහස් හිටපු ඇමතිවරයා පල කලේය. ඇමතිවරයෙක් ලෙස රාජකාරි කරද්දී ගජමිතුරු කල්ලියෙන් දැඩි බාධා එල්ල වූ බවත් ඔහු එහිදී සදහන් කලේය. කැබිනට් මන්ඩලයෙන් ඉවත් වූ හිටපු ඇමතිවරයෙකු විසින් සිදු […]

By Arjuna Ranawana Courtesy Ceylon Today A popular expression in North America is Who is driving the bus?”, it means who is in charge? Most of us travel by bus and they are the bane of our lives. The private buses competing with each other for passengers, stopping everywhere to pick up people, but refusing to […]

By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today Two months after the Local Government Elections, which made it clear that the country lacks confidence in the current Government, there has been no change in the course, or perhaps one should say the absence of any course, the government is embarked upon. Its only significant achievements thus far […]

Courtesy RT Edited time: 17 Apr, 2018 17:33 Get short URL Philip May, husband of the UK prime minister, works for a company that is the largest shareholder in arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, whose share price has soared since the recent airstrikes in Syria. The company, Capital Group, is also the second-largest shareholder in Lockheed […]

Courtesy RT Published time: 17 Apr, 2018 10:40Edited time: 17 Apr, 2018 11:42 Get short URL708 Veteran UK reporter Robert Fisk went to Syria’s Douma and heard that residents shown in notorious gas attack footage” actually suffered from oxygen loss due to hiding in trash-filled shelters, and not from chemicals. If you feel overwhelmed by […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island The prorogation of Parliament, which came as a bolt from the blue, has left many bewildered. Everybody seems to be wondering what is there up President Maithripala Sirisena’s sleeve. Our contention is that there is nothing up there. The prorogation of Parliament is only a desperate measure the President, stuck neck deep […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island April 17, 2018, 9:14 am “Ranil Wickremesinghe’s…attempt at dragging a third world country, albeit ‘kicking and protesting’ into the 21st century with a neoliberal paradigm of economic and political structural reform has been found wanting and rejected. Cohabitation…has proved unworkable.”–Bradman Weerakoon, ‘Rendering unto Caesar’, Epilogue, p 386, 2004 Just one […]

This article is being translated & commented from the Sinhala article appearing in the Lankadeepa newspaper by Pushpanath Jayasiri Mallikarachchi. Pushpanath Jayasiri Mallikarachchi brings out some previously unspoken facts which demands comparison of similarities with the present in Sri Lanka as well as similar sentiments presently emerging across UK, Europe, Australia and even throughout US […]

By ;  A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Sri Lanka has faced conspiracies against the populist political formulations since the formation of the People’s revolutionary government in 1956.  Most of these conspiracies had to be faced by Madam Sirimavo Baandaranaike during her reigns of 1960 – 1965 and from 1970 – 1977and these conspiracies were reactionary in nature […]