The narrative needs to change and no one needs to feel shy to challenge it bogged down by chants of political correctness & reconciliation. Truth is truth – lies are lies – no slogan should silence that. Presently it is being written either purposely omitting or ignorantly omitting some crucial facts. By doing so, not […]

Courtesy RT President Donald Trump reportedly favored bombing Russian and Iranian targets in Syria, before Pentagon chief James Mattis talked the US leader out of it. Trump discussed three military options for Syria last week with his revamped national security team, led by Bush-era hawk John Bolton, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing sources familiar […]

Sarath Wijesinghe former Ambassador to UAE and Israel No confidence motion is now history The no confidence motion which is now history was won by the United National Party regime and the associated groups with ease after struggling and maneuvering day and night to get the members of the conflicting fractions to their sides with […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane In his book Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind”, Professor Harari states that Buddhists have studied systematically the causes of happiness and the essence of happiness, which is the reason for the growing interest in the scientific community, both in the philosophy and meditation practices in Buddhism. Yuval Noah Harari is a […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty April 9, 2018, 9:14 pm Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana opened his address to the UN Human Rights Council at the 37th Secession by referring to a section from President Sirisena’s 100 Day Programme; he stress, inter alia: “… the government’s firm commitment to the advancement of reconciliation, the rule of […]

Sarath wijesinghe – Former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority Groups of laws designed to ensure the rights of the consumer Principles of consumer affairs is applied locality and universally in different jurisdictions depending on circumstances worldwide for the citizens and the business community depending on the different kinds of trade practices. In open economy it is […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 17.3.19 The Darusman Report has been widely criticized in Sri Lanka.  The government of Sri Lanka said that the Report was characterized by fundamental deficiencies, inherent prejudices, and malicious intentions” and that it was legally, morally, and substantively flawed”. United National Party (UNP), then in opposition, also rejected the findings of the […]

By Charles .S.Perera He is gone……!!! President Maithripala Sirisena is gone after giving 683  acres of land back to Tamils  to honour  the reconciliation demands of the CHOGM leaders, who will now receive him as a real democrat who is prepared to sacrifice any thing to be received and hugged by Theresa May and other […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Three days after the   Eelam war IV ended in May 2009, United Nations Secretary-General  Ban Ki-Moon visited Sri Lanka     on the invitation of the President of Sri Lanka. A joint statement was issued which, inter alia, underlined the importance of an accountability process for addressing violations of international humanitarian and human rights law […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. The prime need of the Commonwealth countries, the home to a third of the World’s population, today is economic development in terms of alleviating poverty, creating employment, in short, to bring about development. According to the ILO, almost 43% of the global youth labour force is still either unemployed or working […]

 Samal Vimukthi Hemachandra Courtesy livemint.com The Sri Lankan government turned a blind eye to the anti-Muslim riot, possibly believing this would solve the ruling party’s internal problems  During the Black July” of 1983, thousands of Tamils were ruthlessly murdered by government-led mobs and Sinhala volunteers. Due to the backlash from the international community, the Sri Lankan government, […]

Mahinda.info  විශ්වාස භංගය ගෙන ඒමේදී ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ නායකයින් විසින් පැවසූ දෙයක් නම් මෙය දිනුවත් අපි දිනුම්, පැරදුනත් අපි දිනුම්” යන්නයි. එනම් විශ්වාස භංගය යනු ආණ්ඩුව Political Paradox” එකක හිර කිරීමකි. [උදාහරණ]. එය වන්නේ කෙසේදැයි අපි බලමු. විශ්වාස භංගයට අදාලව සිදුවීමට හැකිව තිබූ අනෝන්‍ය වශයෙන් ස්වායක්ත ප්‍රධානතම විකල්ප අවස්ථා මෙලෙසයි. case 1 : විශ්වාස භංග යෝජනාවක් ගෙන ඒමෙන් […]

Why is it that when Western states, majority of whom are avid Christianity following countries never mention or purposely omit mentioning the Christian aspect to a conflict though the same states & their media channels go overboard in attacking other countries tagging religion to it? News coverage on Sri Lanka is full throttle anti-Buddhist and […]

By Editor  Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Beirut April 14 (Reuters): The Syrian government and its allies have absorbed a U.S.-led attack on Saturday and the targeted sites were evacuated days ago thanks to a warning from Russia, a senior official in a regional alliance that backs Damascus said. We have absorbed the strike”, the official told Reuters.  We had […]

 lanka C news ඊළග පාර්ලිමේන්තු සැසිවාරයේදී ආණ්ඩුවේ මැති ඇමතිවරුන් ගණනාවක් ඒකාබද්ද විපක්‍ෂයට එක් වනු ඇති බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී ගාමිණි ලොකුගේ මහතා පවසයි. තවත් පිරිසක් විපක්‍ෂයට එක්වීම සදහා කකුලක් තියාගෙන සිටින බවද ඔහු සදහන් කරයි. ඒකාබද්ද විපක්‍ෂය විසින් එල්ල කරන ලද පොකුරු බෝම්බ ප‍්‍රහාරය දිගට හරහට පුපුරමින් ඇති බවත් තව ඉදිරියේදී තවත් පුපුරන බවත් මන්ත‍්‍රීවරයා තව […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera These amazing Moroccan goats climb up trees with no paws like cats and leopards .If the tree shakes due to strong winds they are bound to fall. When I saw these photos I got a wild idea that there is an analogue in Sri Lanka. The Tree which grows with free fertilizer […]

By Editor Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 14: The defection of nearly 39 % of his party’s MPs to the opposition on April 11, has forced Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena to attempt a re-structuring of relations with coalition partner United National Party (UNP) led by the controversial Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, writes P.K.Balachandran in BDNews24.com The first thing […]

After the United States, France, and the United Kingdom launched a total of 103 missiles against Syrian targets overnight on Saturday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the attack increases Damascus’ resolve to continue “fighting and crushing terrorism in every inch of the nation.” Syrian Air Defense Intercepted 71 Cruise Missiles Launched by West – Russian […]

  Dr Sudath Gunasekara 4.4.2018 2 Colonial tools of governance like a) The Constitution. b) The system of Government, c) Parliament. d) Political Parties e) legal systems, f) Administrative machinery and g) Interference by ex-colonial countries, individually and jointly in the internal matters of this count The 1948 Constitution, the political Pandoras box of British […]

D Sudath Guansekara  Forermer Secretary to Mrs Siirimavo Bandaranayaka PM Auditor General Dear Sir, I sent you a complain regarding the appointment of a Chairman to a non- existing Board of a Authority called  “The Sri Lanka Kanda  Udarata Urumaya Savibala genviime  Adhikariya” for immediate action. I regret very much to state that I have […]

බිනුරි දිසාසේකර දේශමාමක සිහලුන් කෙසෙල් කඳන් ලෙස හෙලා දමමින්, පෙරදා ඒ ඓතිහාසික විශ්වාස භංගය පැරදවූයේ, දමිල සහ මුස්ලිම් ජාතිකත්වයයි. එයට සමගාමීව, සියලු දේශප්ප්‍රේමී බලවේගයන් මුලුගන්වමින් ඉදිරියට පැමිණියේ, ඩොලර් කුට්ටියේ බල මහිමය සහ සමහර ආත්මාර්ථකාමී දේශපාලකයින්ට ඇති පෙරේත දෝශයයි. ඒ අතර බොර දියේ මාලු බාමින්, විශ්වාස භංගයට පක්ශව චන්දය දුන් නමුත්, තම පක්ශයේ අනෙක් අය චන්ද […]

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම තමන් පැවසූ, සටන් කළ, අනුමත කළ සියලු දේ විශ්වාසභංගය තුළ තිබූ නිසා ඒ සඳහා හෘද සාක්ෂියට අනුව පක්ෂව ඡන්දය දීමට කටයුතු කළ බව ශ්‍රී ලනිපයේ භාණ්ඩාගාරික පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි එස්. බී. දිසානායක පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ ඊයේ (12දා) ශ්‍රී ලනිප පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේ පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක් වෙමිනි. එහිදී මන්ත්‍රිවරයා මෙසේද පැවැසීය. රටේ […]

By Editor Courtesy NewsIn.Asia  Colombo, April 13 (Reuters): China Communication Construction Company (CCCC) will invest $800 million to build an underground road network to Sri Lanka’s Port City, a $1.4 billion project built on reclaimed land, a government minister said. The plan, for which an agreement has already been signed, is expected to reduce traffic congestion on […]

By Editor Courtesy NewsIn.Asia  Colombo, April 13 (newsin.asia): The 16 rebel Members of Parliament belonging to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) headed by President Maithripala Sirisena, are on the way to forming an alliance with the Joint Opposition and Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) leader, Mahinda Rajapaksa. Quitting the government and sitting with the opposition are […]

By Editor  Courtesy NewsIn.Asia  Colombo, April 13 (newsin.asia): The rebellion of 16 Members of Parliament belonging to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) headed by President Maithripala Sirisena, has forced him to try re-structuring the SLFP’s relations with its coalition partner, the United National Party (UNP) headed by the controversial Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Informed sources said […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  Homosexuality is defined as the orientation of sexual need, desire, or responsiveness towards other persons of the same gender (Masango, 2002).Although definitions of the term often focus mainly on sexual acts and attractions persons of the same biological sex , homosexuality also refers to patterns of same sex romantic and emotional […]

If the US & Allies get away to ruin yet another nation, it is time the Members of the UN take a firm stand to exit the UN, for there is little use in a world body that by virtue of its Charter exists to prevent wars & maintain peace, when obviously it cannot do […]

Sarath Wijesinghe former Chairman Consumer Affair’s authority Neglected consumer to be transferred to alert consumer Most powerful consumer worldwide is powerless in Sri Lanka as the most neglected group in the society, not conversant with the rights, laws, precautionary measures on consumer transections, and generally, knowledge on the important materials and availability on laws on […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Geneva Ambassador A.L.A. Azeez presented Credentials today, (12th April) to Mr. Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva, accrediting him as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva. Welcoming the new Permanent Representative, Director General Mr. Møller apprised him of the diverse […]

තුසිත බාලසූරිය, ලේකම්, සමාජ ප්‍ර‍ජාතන්ත්‍ර‍වාදී පක්ෂය ජාතික ආණ්ඩුව එක් අර්බුදයක් නිසා තවත් අර්බුද රැසක් නිර්මාණය කරගෙන ඇත. ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවෙහි අවසානය යහපාලනය උදෙසා කැප වු පුරවැසි බලාපොරොත්තුව නොවුවත් රට පත්ව ඇති අරාජකත්වයට ජාතික ආණ්ඩුව හෝ ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවෙහි හවුල්කාර සිවිල් සංවිධාන නිශ්චිත විසදුමක් ලබාදීමට අපොහොසත් වීම නිසා ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවෙහි අනාගතයද නිශ්චිත නැත. අද ජාතික ආණ්ඩුව යනු ජාතික […]