The Editorial Courtesy The Island May 2, 2018, 12:00 pm Twenty seven State and Deputy Ministers were sworn in, yesterday, before President Maithripala Sirisena, who seems to think that he can usher in good governance by reshuffling the Cabinet. Nobody knows how many more ministers will be appointed in the coming weeks. It looks as […]

by Ajith Nivard Cabraal Former Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka Courtesy The Island May 2, 2018, 10:19 pm * Increase in the Total Debt Stock due to the Depreciation of the Rupee since the Yahapalanaya government came to power, reaches a staggering Rs. 836.0 billion, which is equivalent to over six times the amount borrowed to […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Newly appointed Minister of Higher Education and Cultural Affairs, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, says that the Ministry of Higher Education is responsible for the biggest injustice in his life. While expressing his contentment on receiving the ministerial portfolio, he said that it was seen that the new Cabinet appointments were done on a scientific […]

Courtesy Reuters COLOMBO, May 2 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee hit a fresh low on Wednesday on importer demand for the U.S. currency, dealers said, but recovered after the central bank intervened in the market. The local unit gained for the first time in seven sessions on Tuesday, after hitting a record low in […]

By MARIA ABI-HABIB Courtesy The New York Times COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — It was time to reclaim the holiday. To put the Buddha back into Vesak, so to speak. But as Sri Lankans prepared to celebrate Vesak, the holiday this week commemorating Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death, the government shook a stern finger. The celebrations had become too indulgent, […]

Dilrook Kannangara I was shocked to read Sarath De Alwis’ article titled ‘Despot Disrobed’ in Colombo Telegraph. It’s aimed at Gotabaya Rajapaksa. It prompted me to write this response to dispel many false allegations and shocking connotations in that article. This is my right to reply as a very concerned citizen. It starts with a […]

Noor Nizam. Convener – “The Muslim Voice”. May 1st., 2018. Hon. Wijeydasa Rajapaksa, Sir, Your appointment as a minister to the cabinet is much welcomed by The Muslim Voice”. We are happy to learn that you have been appointed as the Hon. Minister of Higher Education and Cultural Affairs in the new reshuffled cabinet today. […]

Kanthar Balanathan Quite frequently our Tamil youngsters in the North are critically frantic and hysterical with building memorabilia at odd places. Recently a media commented that the Jaffna University students started building memorabilia inside Jaffna Campus. Students of the University wanted to remember the people who died during the war, hence started the construction. The […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  දිවංගත ජනාධිපති රණසිංහ ප්‍රේමදාස  මේ වන විට ප්‍රබල දේව ආත්මයකට පත්ව සිටින බව මනාව තහවුරු කර ගැනීමට තමන්ට අවකාශ ලැබී ඇතැයි පේරාදෙණිය විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ සමාජ විද්‍යා අධ්‍යයන අංශයේ මහාචාර්‍ය දයා අමරසේකර මහතා පවසයි. මේ බව කියන්නේ දේවාලයක කපුවෙක් හෝ විඝටන ආබාධයකින් (Dissociative disorder ) හෝ භින්නෝන්මාදයෙන් (Schizophrenia) පෙලෙන රෝගියෙකු විසින් නොවේ. […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando I was deeply saddened to learn about the demise of Reggie Fernando, on 22 April 2018, in Sri Lanka, the veteran journalist and a worthy friend from London. He commenced journalism as a staff writer at the ‘Daily News’. Subsequently, in the UK, he continued with his writing to the […]

Dr Hector Perera            London As we know there are two types of diabetics, type 1 and type 2. Some people are totally unaware if they suffer from diabetics because they haven’t consulted a doctor for their conditions. In England there are millions of people who are unaware if they suffer from diabetic. After a certain […]

Thilanka Kanakarathna Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) today said that it had given two weeks to Attorney-at-Law Sugandhika Fernando to produce the evidence to prove her allegations against the Judiciary. BASL Chairman U. R. de Silva PC said BASL’s attention was directed to a statement made by Ms. Fernando last […]

කේ.එම්. වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර 20වැනි ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය යනු 2015 සිට රග දක්වන යහපාලන නාට්‍යයේ අවසන් ජවනිකාව ලෙස හැදින්වීම වරදක් නොවේ. මේ නාට්‍යයේ පිටපත ලියන්නේ ඉන්දියාවේ රෝ ඔත්තු සේවාව විසින් බව මේ වන විට ඉතා හොදින් ඔප්පු වී ඇත. ඔවුන් විසින් 2014 දී යහපාලන නාට්‍ය පිටපත ලියන්නේ ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයෙන් අවසන් කරන්නට බව ඉතා පැහැදිලියි. මේ නාට්‍යයේ විවිධ […]

අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ මෙරට ජනතාව පෙබරවාරි 10 වැනිදා වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවට පක්‍ෂ සහ විපක්‍ෂ ලෙස අඳිනු ලැබූ බෙදුම් රේඛාව මකා දමා ‘20 වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය’ නැමති ආණ්ඩුවට වාසිදායක බෙදුම් රේඛාවක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමට ජවිපෙ සැරසෙන බවත් එය පණ අදින ආණ්ඩුවට ඔක්සිජන් දෙන ව්‍යාපෘතියක් මිස අන් යමක් නොවන බවත් ජානිපෙ නායක විමල් […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island May 1, 2018, 9:25 pm Ministerial appointments are being made, in dribs and drabs. Eighteen Cabinet members were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena, yesterday, and some other ministers are expected to take oaths today. Reshuffling the Cabinet seems to be the President’s favourite pastime. Madness has been defined as doing the […]

N P W Courtesy The Island May 1, 2018, 9:30 pm I did not question nor ponder much on the fact that Vesak was decreed for us in Sri Lanka as on the Poya day on 29 April (by whoever, whatever authority) when we always celebrated Vesak in the month of May. This fifth month was […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති  ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨ ශ්‍රී ලංකීය පුත්‍රයෙකු වූ ආචාර්ය ලෙස්ටර් ජේම්ස් පීරිස්ගේ අභාවය ගැන අපගේ බලවත් ශෝකය ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටිමු. අපේ මේ කුඩා දිවයින ලෝකය තුළ ඔසවා තබන්නට හේතු වූ පුද්ගලයන් විරලය.ආචාර්ය ලෙස්ටර් ජේම්ස් පීරිස් ඒ විරලයන් අතර ප්‍රමුඛයෙකි.ඔහුගේ පළමු සිනමා නිර්මාණය වූ රේඛාව’ මෙරට බිහිවූපළමු එළිමහන් දර්ශණ ඇතුලත් චිත්‍රපටිය වන අතර, එතුළින් […]

Premaseri  Sinhala Avuruddha was observed on a modest scale on April 14, 2018 in the two Sri Lankan tradition Buddhist temples in Kuala Lumpur, namely the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) in Brickfields and the Sri Lanka Buddhist Temple, Sentul which was founded in 1894 and 1917 respectively.  The day commenced with the Avuruddha Puja at both temples at […]