Courtesy Firstpost Colombo: Sri Lanka’s president warned that Tamil extremists were regrouping abroad to revive their demand to divide the island nation nine years after the end of its decades-long ethnic war. Maithripala Sirisena said government forces had failed to quash the Tamil rebels’ separatism, although they were militarily conquered by May 2009 following a […]

By Palitha M Senanayake Joining the debate in Parliament against the recent Motion of No Confidence against the Prime Minister, Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, the Minister of finance and Media attempted to portray the current Prime Minister, as the most erudite political personality that held sway over the island’s politics during the last two decades.  Citing […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න සිංහලයන් මර නින්දේය. ආගමික ගුණ්ඩුව වෙනුවට සර්වාගමික ගුණ්ඩුව ද මෙරට රජයමින් තිබේ. යුද්ධයෙන් පසු සැබෑ සාමය ඇතිවුණි එහෙත් ඒ ජිවිත පුජාවෙන් දිනාගත් සාමය පසෙකලා සර්වාගමික සාම යුද්ධයක් ඇති කොට ‘සාමය මුවාවෙන්’ යන තේමාව යටතේ උඩුදුවන සාම පිස්සුව කවදා කොතනකින් ඉවරවෙදෝ යයි ද අපි නොදනිමු. යුරෝපා දේශයේ නටන බාල් එම ආකාරයෙන්ම නැටීමට අප සමත්ය […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ප්‍රභාකරන් ගේ එල්. ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධනය ලෝකයා භයානකම ත්‍රස්තවාදී සංවිධානය ලෙසින් වර්ධනය වෙමින් තිබුණි. බොහෝ හමුදා නිලධාරීන් , යුද විශ්ලේශකයන් , මෙන්ම දේශපාලකයන් ද එල්. ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධනය කිසි දිනෙක යුදමය වශයෙන් පරාජය කල නොහැකි සංවිධානයක් බව කීහ​. එහෙත්   ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාව විසින් ප්‍රභාකරන් නසා දමා එල්. ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධනය මිලිටරිමය වශයෙන් පරාජය කරන ලදි. මෙම […]

by Tami Luhby  Courtesy CNN The economy may be chugging along, but many Americans are still struggling to afford a basic middle class life. Nearly 51 million households don’t earn enough to afford a monthly budget that includes housing, food, child care, health care, transportation and a cell phone, according to a studyreleased Thursday by the United Way […]

Courtesy Mailonline Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena Sirisena came to power in January 2015 on the back of strong support from the minority Tamil community Sri Lanka’s president Saturday warned that Tamil extremists were regrouping abroad to revive their demand to divide the island nation nine years after the end of its decades-long ethnic war. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena today said that it is a shame that certain politicians and NGOs have failed to identify the difference between the soldier and the terrorist. It is shame that some government and opposition politicians and NGOs which are after money fails to identify the difference between the soldier and […]

Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror JVP MP Vijitha Herath yesterday rejected the statement made by Minister Rajitha Senaratne where he compared the the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) with the LTTE and said it was surprising for the minister, who had led a terrorist outfit known as Pra” to make such a statement. He told Daily […]

By Narada Courtesy Ceylon Today In our crucible of chaos, it now appears, that there is a simulated search for a strong man. Hoopla is a European carnival game where competitors throw hoops around pegs. On Sunday, 13 May 2018 Gotabaya Rajapaksa played ‘Hoopla’ at the Shangri-La. He put the hoop round the peg – the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 19 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena reiterated on Saturday that the Sri Lankan armed forces had not committed war crimes as alleged by sections of the media and extremist organizations. Addressing the annual War Heroes’ Day here, Sirisena also called upon Sri Lankans to fight extremism in the South as […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island May 19, 2018, 8:35 pm In January 2018, the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption filed case No: 87741/01/18 in the Colombo Magistrate’s Court against former Deputy Solicitor General (DSG) A.H.M.D.Nawaz (who is now an Appeal Court Judge), former Attorney General Mohan Peiris and former Secretary to the Ministry […]

Courtesy The Island US pastor Michael Curry fired up Britain’s royal wedding on Saturday with some passionate oratory about the importance of love that left Britons used to far more traditional royal ceremonies bemused. Curry, the first African-American leader of the US Episcopal Church, opened his sermon in front of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara 22.10.2017 Looking at the way how our political parties in this country have ruined the country during the past 69 years that was the richest in South East Asia by 1948, and are continuing to do so alternatively even now. As for me, therefore I have no faith or trust in any […]

ඇම්  ඩී පී දිසානායක විසිනි රජයෙන් ඉවත්වු   16 දෙනා තවමත් තෙපරබාමින් කල් මරති.  මේ   16 දෙනා රතුපළස විල්ළුද දමා ඉමහත් සතුටින්, දුර දිග නොබලා, කලබලවී,  මහින්ද බලකොටුවට ඇතුලත් කර නොගැනීම ගැන අපේ ඉමහත් සතුට පළකරමු මෛත‍්‍රී ළඟ වැදවැටී සිටින මේ සරණාගතයන් නැවත ඇමති කම් ලබා පව්සමා  කරගනු  ඇත.     මොවුන් සුර සැප විඳිද්දී විමල් සිරබත් […]

Michael Roberts The ethnographic ‘nugget’ from Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama recorded by Professor Chandre Dharma-wardana in 2013 has set off a hornet’s nest.[1] In pursuing further inquiries, I have reached the tentative conclusion that Bogollagama has not presented a total fib.[2] He is probably referring to the entry of an US recce team rather than […]

 Dilrook Kannangara Rajitha made another joke recently saying dead Tamil terrorists were also children of Mother Lanka. It is not true. They were never sons and daughters of this nation. In fact, they did their very best to murder Mother Lanka and thankfully failed. They were self-admitted children of a mythical nation called Tamil Eelam. […]

By Noor Nizam.  Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice”, 18th., May, 2018. An open letter to Former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa”.  Since 2014,”The Muslim Voice” spoke in favour of the Sri Lanka Muslims supporting the “MAHINDA PELA” or now JO which has reborn as a political […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  මීගමුව රෝහලේදී මා හඳුනා ගත් එක් වෛද්‍යවරයෙක් සිටියේය​. ඔහු සේවය කලේ ළමා රෝග විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය ශාන්ති මාලා මහත්මියගේ වාට්ටුවේය​. වෛද්‍ය ශාන්ති මාලා මහත්මිය සහ ඇයගේ ජේෂ්ඨ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරිනිය වාට්ටුවේ පොඩි පොඩි සාද තිබෙන විට මටද ආරාධනා කරති. වෛද්‍ය ශාන්ති මාලා මියට ප්‍රථම සිටි ළමා රෝග විශේෂඥ  වින්සන්ට් පෙරේරා මහතාද මා සමග […]

by W. A. Abeysinghe Courtesy:  Sunday Observer The life of Venerable Udakendawala Siri Saranankara is inseparable from the history of the world peace movement. His service to mankind as a peace champion, disciple of the Buddha and an internationalist is remarkable. My humble attempt in this essay, therefore, is only to dwell upon a few noteworthy […]

lanka C news එදා කහ බළල්ලු, කොළ බළල්ලු නමින් ඝාතන රැසක්‌ කළ ප්‍රා කල්ලියේ නායකයාව සිටි රාජිත සේනාරත්න නමැත්තා අද ජවිපෙ සහ එල්. ටී. ටී. ඊ. ය සමාන කිරීම ජුගුප්සාජනක බව ජනතා විමුක්‌ති පෙරමුණේ ප්‍රචාරක ලේකම් විජිත හේරත් මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. කැබිනට්‌ මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශක ඇමැති රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහතා පෙරේදා (16දා) ඇමැති මණ්‌ඩල මාධ්‍ය හමුවේදී කළ […]

By Yusuf Ariff  Courtesy Adaderana We should never forget the sacrifices made by Sri Lanka’s war heroes during the country’s 30 years of war against terrorism, says former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. But due to international pressure and the malicious accusations being made against the war heroes, today they are facing severe hardships, he claimed. We […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 18 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan Tamils should observe May 18 every year as Tamil Genocide Day”, said the Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran on Friday. He was speaking on the fourth annual remembrance day at Mullivaikkal, the scene of killings in the last stages of the war against Tamil Tiger separatists in […]

Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island May 18, 2018, 10:22 pm This is the Day of Peace – when the LTTE was finally defeated, at Mullivaikkal in the Mullaithivu District. The path of peace is that, or should be that, of reconciliation. It is a word we have heard so often, especially in the past three years. […]

Dr Palitha Kohona Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations; Former Foreign Secretary.Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka’s foreign relations must reflect the country’s priorities. Sitting in the middle of the Indian Ocean at the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka occupies an enviable strategic position. A blessing that, with careful and […]

by Tissa Devendra Courtesy The Island Today’s news media are flooded with an endless ha-ho by home grown “professionals” against infiltration by unwanted Indians encroaching into their employment niches. This controversy takes my memory back to my boyhood in a Ceylon which was yet a British Colony. Our neighbour India too was British ruled . As […]

Courtesy Mail on Line Hundreds of Sri Lanka’s wild elephants now scavage at rubbish dumps, risking their health due to plastic scraps mixed with rotting food At a garbage dump in central Sri Lanka a herd of wild elephants forage among a mountain of rubbish, swallowing dangerous scraps of plastic mixed with rotting food in […]

By Eurasia Review Since the number of financial crimes have been increased with the expansion of technology, better coordination among Government institutions is essential to face this situation successfully. Accordingly the proposal submitted by Sri Lanka’s Mangala Samaraweera Minister of Finance and Mass Media to widen the composition of National Coordinating Committee for Preventing Money Laundering […]

Source: Xinhua   2018-05-17 15:50:54 COLOMBO, May 17 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s health officials on Thursday warned that a new virus affecting children was spreading in the island’s south and five deaths had already been reported. The Government Information Department quoting medical officials said the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital in Galle had been experiencing an increase in […]

Source: Xinhua   2018-05-16 17:03:13 COLOMBO, May 16 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka has recorded a rise in asthma patients with at least 1 million affected by the respiratory disease and over 1,000 deaths reported per year, the government media information department quoting medical experts said here on Wednesday. Respiratory Physician Dr. Keerthi Gunasekera from the Sri […]

EDITORIAL Courtesy The Hindu The anniversary of the civil war’s end reveals the persisting ethnic division in Sri Lanka Nine years is perhaps too short a time for deep wounds to heal, but it is enough time to begin to introspect. However, going by the polarised views around the anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s […]