Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The joint opposition (JO) today accepted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s challenge to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to explain how he would reduce taxes by 20 per cent if he comes to power. JO MP Bandula Gunawardana said they would accept the challenge on behalf of Mr. Rajapaksa. Prime Minister Ranil […]

Opinion Letters to Editor – SWARNA HANSA FOUNDATION 262, Denzil Kobbakaduwa Mawatha, Battaramulla  2018-06-12 When Ravi Karunanayaka was found jabbering and telling blatant lies at the Bond Scam investigation commission, his parliamentary colleagues were trying to safe guard him by requesting him to resign. Opposing the move the Swarna Hansa Foundation by a leaflet distributed throughout Colombo, […]

Keerthi Hewagoda Environmental Activist Introduction The Knuckles range or traditionally called the Dumbara Adaviya is a massif located in central hills in Sri Lanka.  The term range” encompasses not only the knuckles forest reserve but whole the ecological unit that geographically belongs to the Knuckles massif. The area above 1500 meters (approx. 4900 feet) in […]

දුම්රිය වෘත්තීය සමිති සන්ධානය. Railway Trade Unions Alliance.  06. 12 ගරු ප‍්‍රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්‍ය, නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්වා මැතිතුමා, ප‍්‍රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්‍යාංශය, සෙත්සිරිපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල.   Hon. Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Sethsiripaya, Battaramulla. ඛනිජ තෙල් සංස්ථාවෙන් දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය  බැදුම්කර වාර්තාවට අදාල ඇමුණුම් තමා වෙත ලබා දෙන්නේද නැද්ද යන්න පිළිබඳව ස්ථිර වශයෙන් ලිඛිතව පිළිතුරක් ලබාදෙන ලෙස  ඉල්ලා කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ හා ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විසින්  ගරු කථානායක වරයා හා ජනාධිපති ලේකම් වරයා වෙත ලිපියක් යොමු කළේය. අදාල ලිපිය පහතින් දැක්වේ. 2018 ජූනි 12  ගරු කථානායකතුමා, […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය කාමලිකා අබේරත්න HIV ආසාදිත වන්නේ රුධිර පාරවිළනයකදී සිදුවූ අතපසුවීමක් නිසාය. HIV ආසදිත වීමෙන් පසු ඇයගේ වෘත්තීය සගයෝ ඇයව වසංගතයක් සේ බැහැර කරති. වෛද්‍යවරියක වූ කාමලිකා අබේරත්න මිය තම සහෝදර වෛද්‍යවරු වෛද්‍යවරියන් අතින් වෙනස්කම් කිරීමට ලක් වීම ඒඩ්ස් සම්බන්ධව සෞඛ්‍යය වෘත්තිකයන් තුල තිබෙන මුග්ධතාව මෙන්ම ප්‍රාග්විනිශ්චයන් පෙන්වන්නකි. මේ සාවද්‍ය ආකල්ප […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island June 13, 2018, 12:05 pm Outgoing US Ambassador Atul Keshap has told former President Mahinda Rajapaksa that his brother, Gotabhaya was very unpopular. Indian American Keshap has based his assessment on information received by him, a spokesperson for the former President’s Office told The Island yesterday.Career diplomat Keshap succeeded Michele […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Ranil’s ambition now seems almost dead The current administration does not have anything to brag about Findings were extremely injurious to the Yahapalanaya concept It is a choice between existence and extinction Ignore the noise and follow your own choice.”~Anonymous When one looks back on the pros and cons of the decision taken […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror If anybody still needed proof that the representatives who claimed to be holding the  legislative, executive and judicial powers of the people have turned their backs on them and have pursued a path of individual well-being, the developments during the past two weeks would have furnished enough evidence. All three wings […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror When the officials of the Attorney General’s Department first revealed that a member of Parliament had received one million rupees from a subsidiary company of Perpetual Treasuries Ltd. (PTL) headed by Arjun Aloysius- who has been remanded after being implicated in the Central Bank bond scandal- they also revealed that a […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa could relinquish the US citizenship without facing any barriers if he wishes to contest the upcoming Presidential Election, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader and MP Udaya Gammanpila said yesterday. Addressing a news conference, he said Mr. Rajapaksa had requested him to explain the true legal […]

By Yusuf Ariff  Courtesy Adaderana Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Professor G.L. Peiris, says that they will not support the candidacy of President Maithripala Sirisena should he decide to seek a second term in office. I want to say on this occasion very explicitly, very emphatically that we will not directly or indirectly support […]

By Yusuf Ariff  Courtesy Adaderana The chief incumbent of the Kataragama Kiriwehera Rajamaha Viharaya Ven. Kobawaka Damminda Thera and another monk have been hospitalised after being shot at by an unidentified gunman, Police said. The shooting had reportedly occurred at around 11.00pm within the temple premises. The monks were rushed to the Kataragama Hospital with gunshot wounds […]