Dr.Sarath Obeysekera https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/01/25/i-have-a-dreammartin-luthe-king/ Posted on January 25th, 2017 Lanka Web News Item Martin Luther King anniversary marked by events from Washington to Memphis Marches, speeches and reflection honour the civil rights leader killed 50 years ago: ‘It makes me cry when I think what they took from us’ I have a dream that one day […]

PRESS RELEASE. Abdul Aziz – Press Secretary E. David Mckinnon, the Canadian High commissioner of Sri Lanka called over at National Headquarters of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in Colombo today – 11thApril 2018. He was accompanied by Trevor Ludowyke, Senior Development Officer of Canada High Commission. A.H. Nasir Ahmad – National President, M. Anis Ahmad – National […]

by Editor Courtesy NewsIn.Asia April 12, 2018 Colombo, April 12 (newsin.asia): The looming political crisis in Sri Lanka, especially in parliament, has forced President Maithripala Sirisena to prorogue parliament till May 8. A gazette notification issued by the President on Thursday said: By virtue of the powers vested in me by Article 70 of the […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island April 12, 2018, 9:06 pm Rats are abandoning the yahapalana schooner, with tattered sails and broken masts. Sixteen rodents have already jumped off the vessel, adrift in a stormy sea, and speculation is rife that six more will follow suit, soon. Chances of their survival, however, are zero. Citizen Perera is […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island April 12, 2018, 8:41 pm The biggest loser in Sri Lankan politics simply has to be Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga. The daughter of two Prime Ministers and a former two-term President, she was on top of the world when she succeeded in ousting her arch rival Mahinda Rajapaksa in January […]

By Uditha Devapriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror Rathana Thera, Patali Champika parted ways in parliament JO saw the balance tilt in their favour over Maithri faction PM enjoys broad support from middle class, urban elite loyals I never thought I would say this, but thank God for party politics!  The UNP is in shambles. The SLFP is in a […]

The New Year’s celebration is all the more festive because it is observed by both Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus. The annual event is marked by religious ceremonies, family activities, traditional foods, colourful decorations and a general feeling of good will toward neighbours and friends. This important national festival, known as Avurudu in Sinhala and […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA There were reports that the joint opposition was now contemplating to bring a No Confidence Motion against the official (illegal) opposition leader Sambandan, which is a welcome move that should be undertaken without any further delay.  What the country expect from the joint opposition now is to carry forward unceasingly […]

By Noor Nizam, Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice – April 11th., 2018. POLITICAL PARTIES BASED ON COMMUNITY, RELIGION AND COMMUNAL BASIS HAS TO BE BANNED IN SRI LANKA BY THE MAJORITY SINHALESE COMMUNITY AND NATIONALIST SINHALA FORCES IMMEDIATELY UNDER ANY NEW CONSTITUTION TO BE PRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT. […]

Kumar Moses Western regimes (without evidence) have alleged Syrian government used chemical weapons and threatened military action. Russia and Syria at the emergency UN Security Council meeting demanded UN chemical weapons inspectors carry out an investigation immediately. USA, UK and France vehemently opposed any such investigation! Syria is facing Iraq’s WMDmoment. Unlike Iraq 2002, Syria 2018 is backed […]

When military interventions and R2P have taken place based on false flags, false rescues, fake videos/documentaries, false allegations & fake witness accounts, when media has been used to fool & lie to the general public, when actors/actresses are hired to pretend they are victims we have every right to wonder whether events have authenticity or […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS Revised 4.9.18 A Long Watch, War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka” (pub 2016) by Commodore Ajit Boyagoda,  as told to Sunila Galappatti, deals with Boyagoda’s  eight-years in captivity, 1994-2002, in Jaffna, under the LTTE. This is a beautifully written book. The narrative tone is retained throughout, the Sinhala nuances are preserved, and […]

By Palitha Ariyarathna Srilanka and history This island nation once called Ceylon. Srilanka- the name means splendid, brightly shining- is rich in religions celebration. each summer in the city of kandy. the temple of the tooth blazes with light for the festival honouring Buddha’s tooth. Elephants parade in jewels and satin. Dancer whirl through the […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane The Silk Road was well established centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ, providing opportunities for diverse groups of people to share not only goods but also their ideas and knowledge, including their spiritual faiths. In Jesus’ time, Buddhism was already five hundred years old and had spread from India in all directions within […]

ලසන්ත වික්‍රමසිංහ ලේකම් තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ සංසදය තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ සංසදය විසින් අද දහවල් පැවැත්වූ මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාව සම්බන්ධ ප්‍රවෘත්තිය. අත්සන් කරන ලද සිංගප්පූරු-ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගිවිසුම මඟින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පාවාදීමකට ලක් කර ඇති බව තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ සංසදය පෙන්වා දෙයි. සංවර්ධන උපායමාර්ග සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර වෙළදාම අමාත්‍යවරයා දැනුවත්ව රට පාවා දීමක නිරත වන නිසා ඔහුව එම තනතුරුන් […]

Copy of a page of the Satana Supplement of the ‘ Mawbima’ paper ( Sunday – April 08, 2018), which provides a new perspective on the conspiracy surrounding the assassination of the late Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike The writer is Udeni Saman Kumara. විශ්‍රාමික අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්ෂවරයකු වූ ජයසිංහ විජයරත්න මීගමුවේ දාගොන්න ප්‍රදේශයේ වැසියෙකි. අපට ඒ මහතා […]

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror A section of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) backed the move to bring the no confidence motion in the hope of unseating Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The Prime Minister survived the motion with the support of his party men and the main opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA). Be […]

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Spells out what he would do in case he is picked as presidential candidate Explains what he would do regarding his US citizenship Emphasizes the need for strong leadership and political stability We should not get involved in super power rivalries. As a small country, if we get involved […]

by Editor  April 11, 2018 Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 11 (newsin.asia): The US 1.4 billion State of the Art Colombo Port City (CPC), built by the China Harbor Construction Company (CHCC) in association with the Singapore-based designers Surbana Jurong group and the business advisory group Atkins Acuity, is expected to be South Asia’s commercial and entertainment hub […]

by Editor  April 11, 2018 Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 11 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka will call for fresh bids for an oil exploration block off the island’s northwestern coast in May, where traces of natural gas was discovered in 2011, Cabinet Spokesperson Rajitha Senaratne said Wednesday. Senaratne said that following a proposal by Minister of Petroleum Resources, […]

by EditorApril 11, 2018 Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 11 (newsin.asia): The 16 MPs and ministers belonging to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) led by President Maithripala Sirisena, who had voted for the No Confidence Motion (NCM) against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on April 4, will be sitting in the opposition benches, but will support President […]

by Editor April 11, 2018 Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 11 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s health service is one of the best not only in Asia but in the world, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, quoted in a local media report said here Wednesday. Dr Tedros who visited the island country recently to celebrate […]

by EditorApril 11, 2018  Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 11 (newsin.asia) – China Harbour Engineering Company, which is constructing a mega 1.4 billion dollar Port City project close to the Colombo Harbour, on Tuesday evening presented the Colombo Port City’s Development Control Regulations (DCR) to the government which will now enable land to be sold to investors. […]

by Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island So now we know. We know the truth about the no-confidence motion and what happened behind the scenes. We know that the no-faith move could have succeeded. We know who decided to save Ranil. We know why. We know which foreign powers encouraged and backed that operation to rescue […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island April 11, 2018, 10:07 pm It looks as if the government were all out to put off the Provincial Council (PC) polls again owing to its seemingly intractable problems, both internal and external. The unfolding drama in the yahapalana camp is like the political version of the Night of the Long Knives. […]

By Saman Indrajith and Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island April 11, 2018, 11:58 pm  Sirisena to go abroad on April 15 SLFP CC will meet after his return President Maithripala Sirisena, yesterday, accepted the resignation letters tendered by 15 SLFP ministers, including six Cabinet members, and the Deputy Speaker, who voted for the no-confidence motion against […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island April 10, 2018, 9:28 pm The Joint Opposition (JO) is bragging that it has caused extensive damage to the yahapalana government with its no-faith motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Its ill-conceived move to oust the PM was born out of pure political adventurism. The abortive attempt has, however, yielded some results […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  There is a popular notion that states – As humans we live in our Minds.  Mind has been variously defined as that which is responsible for one’s thoughts and feelings, the seat of the faculty of reason or the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, […]

K. M. PANIKKAR “An influential school of history holds that the benefits, that India has received from the direct contact with Europe, are of such a nature that, in spite of all their faults, the Portuguese should be considered as the pioneers of civilisation and as the forerunners of the British Empire. It may be permitted however, to ques- tion […]

Kanthar Balanathan DipEE(UK), GradCert(RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey), CEng. MIEE  Australia Since 2015, people of SriLanka have perceived that the democracy that triumphed from 2004 to 2015 has weakened & shrunken as a result of a few politicians, taking the law into their own hand as if the country is their own, not being patriotic. This creates a […]