උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින විශ්වාසභංග යෝජනාවේදී අගමැතිවරයාට පක්‌ෂව ඡන්දය පාවිච්චි කිරීම සඳහා දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය ඉදිරිපත් කළ යෝජනා දහයකට අගමැතිවරයා එකඟතාව පළ කළ බව එම සන්ධානයේ වන්නි දිස්‌ත්‍රික්‌ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සෙල්වම් අඩෛකලනාදන් මහතා පැවසීය.  එම යෝජනා ඉදිරිපත් කළ විට අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ඇතැම් යෝජනා පිළිගැනීමට අකැමැති වූ අවස්‌ථාවේදී එම සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගි වී සිටි දෙමළ ජාතික […]

ඇම්  ඩී  පී   දිසානායක අගමැති කම ලැබුනු නැතැයි අපි ළග නැහැ වළි             ජල්ලී ලැබුනු තරම් හරි ලස්සන බරට බරේ   රට                   සල්ලී සාටකයේ ගොන් වැඩකින් පින පෑදුනු   මන                 කල්හී රනිල් මොකද? නිමල් මොකද?  රට යනවා රැගෙන        සල්ලී

Sri Lanka News අග්‍රමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට එරෙහිව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත්ව ඇති විශ්වාසභංග යෝජනාවට එරෙහිව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී ඡන්දය භාවිත කිරිම සඳහා දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය කරුණු 10න් යුත් කොන්දේසියක් ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබෙනවා. එම කොන්දේසි 10 සම්බන්ධයෙන් එකඟ වනවා නම් තමන් අග්‍රමාත්‍යවරයාට එරෙහිව අද (04) පැවැත්වෙන විශ්වාසභංග යෝජනාවට අදාළ ඡන්ද විමසීමේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාට පක්ෂව ඡන්දය භාවිත කිරිමට දෙමළ ජාතික […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි අපි මේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව තුල සිදුවෙන කිසිදු ක්‍රියාකාරී දෙයක් දෙස ශුභවාදීව බලන්නෝ නොවෙමු. මෙයට අපි කියන්නේ පා-රිලමේන්තුව කියාය. ඒ මෙය තුලට යන්නවුන් අහිකුන්ටකයාගේ ආහාර කැබැල්ල වෙනුවෙන් නටන රිලවුන් බවට පත්ව, පාලිත රංගනයන් දක්වනවුන් බවට පත්වෙන බැවිනි. රිලවුන් පෙන්නා උන් නටවා මුදල් උපයන උන්මත යැපෙන රිලාවුන්ට කළහැකි කිසිදු දෙයක් නැත. නමුත් මුළු රටම උන්දෙසම […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Even before the vote was taken, those who listened to Mr Wimal Weerawansa’s speech  undoubtedly came to the conclusion that the Prime Minister will win the battle.  Anura Kumara’s speech was totally confusing, whilst supporting the motion, as a face saving strategy, he was reading JVP’s own list of complaints against Mr Nandasena […]

By Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror As Rajapaksa said, they did strengthen their hold in politics, further weakening President Sirisena, who now remains pushed to the wall.  There is a strong demand within the UNP Parliamentary group, to remove all SLFP Ministers, who voted for the NCM and against the PM The Constitution now says […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island Who won the battle of the no-confidence motion? There were a two winners, not one. One of them won tactically and the other strategically. There were also many losers. At the most obvious level, Prime Minister Wickremesinghe won. His party, or at least its parliamentary group and working committee […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island April 5, 2018, 12:00 pm The Joint Opposition (JO) suffered a painful pratfall on Wednesday night, when Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe defeated its no-confidence motion. The UNP, however, in spite of its rhetoric and braggadocio, did not expect a comfortable win with a majority of 46. Its desperation knew no bounds. Else, […]

Courtesy Sputnick Victoria Skripal, the niece of the former Russian intelligence officer poisoned in Salisbury, England, has given her thoughts on the incident during an interview with Russia’s Channel One TV network. The niece of Sergei Skripal referred to the Salisbury pizzeria after visiting which her uncle and his daughter had been found by policemen after the March 4 incident. […]

Courtesy RT The UK is exploiting European solidarity and behaving like a ‘mafia state’ by pushing forward warmongering accusations and excluding Russia from the Skripal poisoning probe, the former vice-president of OSCE assembly told RT. Britain’s behavior in the Skripal poisoning scandal is a major danger to international peace,” believes Willy Wimmer, who held the vp position […]

By Tamara Kunanayakam former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva April 3, 2018, 10:39 pm ” It is not Washington, but our own Yahapalana Government that brought this disaster upon the Sri Lankan people. The resolution is binding only because Yahapalana wants it to be binding. Two resolutions abdicating sovereignty, eternal […]

Sarath Wijesinghe – former Secretary of the Bar Association and former Administer of the Legal Aid Commission Litigation is expensive anywhere in the world Litigation is expensive anywhere in the world due to complexity and want of definitions, targets, and to be within rules not familiar with the citizen expected to know the law with […]

By Saman Indrajith, Rathindra Kuruwita and Revata S Silva * UNP musters 122 and majority of 46 * JO, 15 SLFP MPs loyal to Prez back motion * JVP votes against Ranil, flays Rajapaksas * TNA, SLMC support PM en bloc * Wijeyadasa, Ranga, Wasantha fall in line * 25 of Maithri loyalists, Rathana Thera […]

Courtesy RT The minister president of Germany’s most populous state has lambasted the UK for prematurely pinning the blame for the Skripal poisoning case on Russia, writing that you need sound evidence” before asking allies for solidarity. Armin Laschet, the leader of North Rhine-Westphalia and a deputy chairman of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), […]

Courtesy RT OPCW said it can provide Moscow with data on the Skripal case only if the UK shows goodwill,” says Russia’s permanent representative to the chemical weapons watchdog. London, however, is not expected to do so, the official said The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has refused to provide Russia with […]

Courtesy Newsin.Asia Colombo, April 4: With the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) split  on the No Confidence Motion (NCM) against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe,  the Joint Opposition’s bid to oust Wickremesinghe seems to be doomed. The Sri Lankan parliament is currently debating the NCM moved by the Joint Opposition (JO) led by former President Mahnida […]

  An isolated incident was given communal flavor & ignited to create mayhem that resulted in destruction of property & even the loss of lives. The inaction of the police, the false dissemination of news by Sri Lanka’s media and the biased & politically motivated statements of the Sri Lankan politicians must take full responsibility […]

  Until & unless people realize that there is a bigger picture to the present rise in communal disharmony we are not going to find answers to its solution. The present coalition government is a result of a successful regime change. Note the personalities placed in various positions are all part of & linked to […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Within the ambit of the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka,  the entire thrust of the change over from previous Constitution was the centre piece of Executive Prime Minister vis-a-vis Executive President. PUBLIC MANDATE: Just prior to 1978 elections, the UNP sought mandate from the People for the transfer of power from […]

Dilrook Kannangara Tamils never came to terms with democracy. It is such an alien concept to the Tamil society which was always ruled by caste discrimination, tribalism and other outdated concepts. It is no surprise the Opposition Leader (also the TNA leader) always comes to the rescue of the regime! TNA has become the laughing […]

By Charles.S.Perera Sirisena-Ranil’s Yahapalanaya is a misnomer. It is a palanaya without Yaha. It is Bad Governance . It is utter mismanagement of  Governance.  It was so from the day one – 8th January,2015 of their coming into political power when Maithripala Sirisena was elected President of Sri Lanka. Of course there were those who […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න දැන් දැන් නැවතත් අමුතුම තලේ එකමුතුවක් (උදාහරණ : අපි ඔක්කොම රජවරු, අපි මිනිස්සු, ජාතිවාදී නොවෙමු, ඔක්කොටම මේ රට අයිතියි,කොයි ආගමත් එකයි, හැට දෙලක්ෂය සහ අපි) ජාතික ඒකා බද්ධතා සතියක් යනුයි අලුත් සංකල්පයක් රට පුරා දිවයයි (දිවගියේය ) මේ එකමුතු තාවය දිහා විපරම් කර බලන විට බුද්ධිමතුන් හට වැටහෙන එකම කාරණයනම් මෙම කුඨ උපක්ක්‍රමය විවධ බලපෑම් කිරීමෙන් […]

Press Release SWARNA HANSA FOUNDATION 262, Denzil Kobbakaduwa Mawatha, Battaramulla Tel 2861981 Fax 2869901 E-mail-: shf@slt.lk The news appearing in the Island News of Tuesday 3rd April under the heading ‘OIC pledges support for boosting racial amity in Sri Lanka’, again reveals the hidden agenda of Muslims. In it an organization called the Organization of Islamic […]

Sarath Wijesinghe a former Secretary Bar Association and a former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Worldwide issue Laws delays is a worldwide issue currently resolved in many jurisdictions including Commonwealth and United Kingdom we have been inherited with the current adversarial system from. The main players in the system are lawyers, Judges, where the state […]

 Dr. Daya Hewapathirane  The Rohingya Muslim community in Myanmar are not indigenous to Myanmar. Most of these Rohingya Muslims are illicit immigrants who have illegally migrated to Myanmar starting in the British colonial period, from Muslim neighborhood regions of Bengal India. Later they continued to migrate from East Pakistan (present Bangladesh). Being illicit immigrants, the […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island It is a simple matter of ethics. If Prime Minister Wickremesinghe hasn’t resigned, it is quite simply because, firstly, he doesn’t know right from wrong and secondly, he doesn’t know how to conduct himself in public affairs in accordance with international norms, including those in Asia and the global […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island What started off as an ill-conceived no-confidence motion, initiated by a bunch of cocky Joint Opposition (JO) MPs following their impressive win at the Feb. 10 mini polls, has led to a right royal battle between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The showdown is right Royal because the […]

The Supreme Court has informed Speaker Karu Jayasuriya that several sections of the Judicature Bill were inconsistent with the Constitution and therefore, it should be passed by a two-thirds majority in Parliament, if not amended as recommended by the Judiciary. Speaker Kayasuriya conveyed the Supreme Court opinion to Parliament today.

CSIS Briefs Courtesy Center for Strategic and International Studies The Issue Unable to repay its debt, Sri Lanka gave China a controlling equity stake and a 99-year lease for Hambantota port, which it handed over in December 2017. The economic rationale for Hambantota is weak, given existing capacity and expansion plans at Colombo port, fueling concerns that it […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe faces a no- confidence motion on Wednesday that could go down to the wire and lead to political instability in the island nation, even if the government manages to scrape a win. Wickremesinghe leads a national unity government in alliance with President Maithripala Sirisena’s party, which […]