H. L. D. Mahindapala With a heavy overload of historical memories, some tragic, some triumphant, some futile, and some memorable and everlasting, we have arrived, on the backs of the long-suffering people, in the 70th year of independence – the Biblical watershed to sit back and consider how far we have advanced or regressed in […]

The University of Colombo Law students think they have done a job extraordinaire in the manner they have replaced the traditional Sinhala New Year festive game of placing the eye on the elephant to place the eye on the former President Mahinda Rajapakse. We do not know whose bright idea this was, but for university […]

by Ven. Aggamaha Pandita Dr. Walpola Piyananda Chief Sangha Nayake of America (Courtesy The Island) April 27, 2018, 9:01 pm Some scholars who have read very little of Buddhist literature have stated that Buddhism is a religion meant only for persons who have renounced household life. Others have tried to show it as a kind […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 4 (newsin.asia):  The relics of Lord Buddha brought from Pakistan are now being exhibited at Purana Vajirakoth Viharaya, in Kalutara District. The relics were received by Ven. Gonaduwe Gunananda Thero at the temple. The relics are from the Dharmarajika Vihara at Taxila in Pakistan. The 3 rd.Century BC vihara was built at […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 4 (newsin.asia) – Standard Chartered Bank, on Friday said it is setting up a ‘China Desk’ at its branch in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo to encourage more Chinese companies to invest in the island under the One Belt One Road initiative. Sam Xu, Head of Transaction Banking at Standard Chartered in […]

By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham/Courtesy Daily Express The much-maligned Indo-Lanka Peace Accord of 1987 is back in public focus, courtesy T. Ramakrishnan’s book Or Inapprachinaiyum Or Oppandhamum” (An Ethnic Conflict and An Accord), introduced at an event at the Colombo Tamil Sangam recently. Ramakrishnan, a senior Indian journalist and an Associate Editor of the The Hindu, had engagements in […]

By Lakshman I.Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Great leaders are not merely effective, they are ethical. Moral principles guide their purposes and practices.People follow them because they believe in them.Great leaders engender trust in their integrity, their competence and their intentions.”-Michael Josephson (American Professor of Law) In recent times there has been much discussion in social circles […]

By  Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today The general perception of the phrase, The left hand does not know what the right hand does” is associated with the biblical quotation by Jesus Christ, in Mathew 6:3. It generally means that all merciful deeds should be kept secret, and not be done for praise by others […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island May 4, 2018, 10:19 pm There were many advance statements about the latest Cabinet re-shuffle being done in scientifically. That was a boast of the President, and not questioned by the Prime Minister. For once they seemed to be in agreement, apart from knowing how to be defeated in local […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island May 4, 2018, 10:17 pm The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC), which is often accused of steering clear of sharks, has harpooned two whales! It arrested President Maithripala Sirisena’s Chief of Staff H. K. Mahanama and Chairman of the State Timber Corporation P. Dissanayake for allegedly accepting a […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty One of the pressing questions before the nation is whether Sri Lanka should be governed under an Executive Presidential system or a Parliamentary system of government. Sri Lanka was governed under a Parliamentary system from independence up to 1977. From 1978 until 2015 Sri Lanka was governed under an Executive Presidential system. […]

by Norman Palihawadane Courtesy The Island Former President Mahinda Rajapaka said yesterday the government had refused to grant the Joint Opposition (JO) permission to use the Galle Face Green for its May Day rally. Unbearable tax burden, heaped on the people by the government, would be one of the main themes of JO’s May Day rally, […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island May 5, 2018, 12:24 pm Two civil society organisations, yesterday, said the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration owed an explanation to the general public as to why Dr. T. H. K. Mahanama had been appointed the Chief of Staff of President Maithripala Sirisena, in spite of a serious allegation against him that he […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island It is reported that Sri Lanka is to ask Facebook to set up an office in Colombo to help monitor content posted in the Sinhalese language so that the medium is not used for nefarious purposes such as creating communal conflicts” (‘Lanka to ask Facebook to bar objectionable […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න මත්පැන්,මත් ද්‍රව්‍යය, මත් දුම්, පානය කරන්නන් අතර ඉතාමත් ප්‍රසිද්ධ වැකි කිහිපයක් ඇත. උදහරණ: කබරයා දැමීම- අධික ලෙස  වමනය යෑම (වමනය යෑම ඕනෑම පුද්ගලයෙකුට ශරීරයට අපහසු කර්යයක් හා ෙසෳඛක්‍යය සම්පන්න කාරණයක් නොවන බැවින් තමාගේම කැමැත්ටට බී වමනය යාමත් ලැජ්ජාවට කාරණයක් වන බැවින් එම කාරණය සමාජයෙන් ආවරණය කරගැනීමට මත් පැන් භාවිතයට හුරු වුවන්  මෙම විශේෂණ […]

THE PATHTHIRIPPUWA OF THE SRI DALADA MALIGAWA DESIGNED BY DEVENDRA MULACHARI ON THE OCCASION OF ITS CEREMONIAL OPENING BY  KING SRI WICKRAMA RAJASINGHA IN SENKADAGALAPURA IN 1802 The Paththirippuwa or Octagon of the Sri Dalada Maligawa, is widely regarded as the epitome or the most admired symbol and representation of Kandyan Sinhalese Architecture. It was […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island May 3, 2018, 10:39 pm Simple as the aforesaid question may seem, on the face of it, there has been no clear-cut answer thereto. It has provoked philosophical discourse for centuries. The general consensus, however, is that guards have to guard themselves, for want of a better alternative. According to some philosophers, […]

ආණ්ඩුවෙන් බලාපොරෙත්තු වුණේ වෙනසක් – ඒක පේනවා

Wimal claims fraudulent documents were used for FTA with Singapore

Wijedasa asked why he accepted ministerial post even after criticizing govt (English)

 lanka C news බෙදුම්වාදී උවමනාවන් ඉටු කරමින් විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරය අහෝසි කිරීම සදහා ගෙන එන 20 වන ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය වහා නවත්වන්නැයි ජාතික නියෝජිත මහ සග සමුළුව කියා සිටිති. කොළමදී පැවැත්වූ මෙම සග සමුළුව සදහා නිකායන් නියෝජනය කරමින් ඉහලම නායක හිමිවරුන් සහභාගී වී සිටියහ. අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මේ බෝම්බය ගෙන ආවත් පුපුරුවා හරින්නේ දෙමල සන්ධානයේ උවමනාව […]

Darshana Sanjeewa Courtesy The Daily Mirror The President’s Chief of Staff I. H. K. Mahanama and State Timber Corporation (STC) Chairman P. Dissanayaka were arrested by the Bribery Commission this evening in the act of accepting a bribe of Rs.20 million from an Indian businessman. A Bribery Commission official said the businessman, who had purchased a […]

by Sanath Nanayakkare Courtesy The Island May 3, 2018, 12:00 pm Analyzing the Central Bank’s Annual report 2017 on 77 points and ratios, former Governor of the Central Bank Ajith Nivard Cabraal said yesterday that the government; especially Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe who spearheads the economy, has failed the national economy lock, stock and barrel since […]

by Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday said the 20th Amendment to the constitution which the JVP had proposed to be presented to the parliament, was not the biggest issue of the country at the moment. The party urged President Miathripala Sirisena to dissolve the parliament to end the current economic […]

lanka C news ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍ර‍්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ කාර්ය මණ්ඩල ප‍්‍රධානී අයි. කේ. මහානාම හා රාජ්‍ය දැව සංස්ථාවේ සභාපති පියසේන දිසානායක අල්ලස් හෝ දූෂණ චෝදනා විමර්ශන කොමිසමේ නිලධාරීන් විසින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත. කොළඹ ගලධාරී හෝටලයේදී මෙම දෙදෙනා අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත්තේ කෝටි 10ක අල්ලස් මුදලකින් කොටි 02ක් අත්තිකාරම් ලෙස ලබා ගනිද්දීය. මුලින් මොවුන් විසින් ඉල්ලා ඇති අල්ලස් […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් මහා වංශය යනු අපගේ ලිඛිත ඉතිහාසයයි. එයට අමතරව දීප වංශය රාජාවලිය ආදී වංශ කතා තොරතුරු වලින්ද හෙළි කරන්නේ සිංහල ද්වීපය නොහොත් සිංහලේ හෙබ වූ රජෙක් රජ පරපුරක් සිටි බවයි. පූර්ව ඓතිහාසික යුගයේ රාවණා නමින් රජෙක්ද මෙරට ආණ්ඩු කල බව කියැවෙන බවද මෙහිදී සඳහන් කළ යුතුය. විල්පත්තු සෙල්ලිපි වල කනශ නම් රජෙක් ගැනද සඳහන්ය.  […]

Prof. Wasantha Gunathunga, Head, Department of Community Medicine, University of Colombo will deliver a lecture on ‘Physical and Psychological Health Benefits of Meditation’ on Friday 11th May at 4.00 p.m. at All Ceylon Women’s Buddhist Congress, 400, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 07. All are welcome.

Neil Clark Courtesy RT To have been in ‘democratic’ Britain for the past eight weeks has been quite an educational experience. We’ve seen how the NeoCon Establishment works, how dissent is policed, and how ‘gas-lighting’ techniques are used to try and make us think we’re going crazy for questioning the ‘official narrative’ — a narrative which we know just […]

පැතුම් වික්‍රමරත්න [Rivira] මේ වනවිට රට තුළ බරපතළ දේශපාලන අස්ථාවරත්වයක් මතුව තිබෙනවා. ඊට හේතුව ලෙස ඔබ දකින්නේ කුමක්ද? මෙය වත්මන් රජය බලයට ආ අවස්ථාවේ සිටම අපි දැන සිටි වැළැක්විය නොහැකි අර්බුදයක්. හේතුව වත්මන් රජයේ පාර්ශ්වකරුවන් එකිනෙකට නොගැළපීම. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය කවදත් ධනේශ්වර පක්ෂයක්. බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතා ආරම්භ කළ ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය වාමාංශික නැඹුරුවක් ඇති පක්ෂයක්. […]

 lanka C news හොරකම් වංචා කිරීම ඇමති ධුරයක් ගැනීමට සුදුසුකමක් වනු ඇතැයි තමනට මෙවර ඇමති සංශෝධනය අනුව සිතෙන නිසා තමනටද හොරකම් වංචා සිදු කිරීමට සිතෙන බව නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමති රන්ජන් රාමනායක මහතා පවසයි. ඇමති සංශෝධනයෙන් පසු මාධ්‍ය වෙත අදහස් පල කරමින් ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පල කලේය.