KAMALIKA PIERIS The Government of Sri Lanka defeated the LTTE in Eelam war IV on 18th May 2009. There was a spontaneous outpouring of joy at the crushing defeat of the ‘invincible army’. People showed their joy island wide. The entire island erupted in jubilation.  On 22nd May an estimated 150,000 people converged on Colombo […]

Sudath Gunasekara 10.7 2018. An open questionnaire for all those who are seriously concerned about the destiny of our motherland I have been repeatedly asking this question from October 2015. In fact I posed this question along with the following list to a public audience at Nugegoda in October 2015 where the following speakers were […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  කරාපිටිය ශික්‍ෂණ රෝහලේ ළමා රෝග විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය මහාචාර්‍ය සුජීව අමරසේන මහතා විසින් 2002 වසරේ ආරම්භ කරන ලද හෙදියන් සඳහා මවු කිරි දීමේ පාඨමාලාවට කරාපිටිය වෛද්‍ය පීඨයේ සමහර වෛද්‍ය සිසුන් විරෝධය පළ කරන ලදි. මෙම විරෝධතාව වෛද්‍ය පීඨයේ සීමිත සම්පත් යොදාගෙන මුදල් ගෙවන පාඨමාලවක් පැවැත්වීමේ සිට අධ්‍යාපනය පුද්ගලික කරණය කිරීමේ වෑයමක් ලෙසට […]

By Noor Nizam – Convener – “The Muslim Voice”, July 10th., 2018. It is reported in the National Newspapers of Sri Lanka that the Prime Minister of Thailand, General Prayut Chan-o-cha will undertake an official visit to Sri Lanka on 12 and 13 July 2018 at the invitation of President Maithripala Sirisena. This visit takes place against […]

by NIMAL TISSA WIJETUNGA. Whatever it is no homeland for Tamils here and no special problems for tamils in Sri Lanka and therefore, no separate state, federalism or elam in Sri Lanka for Tamils as it is the country belonging to Sri Lankans where Majority is Sinhalese as a race and the Majority is Buddhist […]

The All Ceylon Women’s Buddhist Congress Founder’s Day will be commemorated on 12th and 13th with a pirith ceremony on the 12th starting at 8 p.m. and alms giving the following morning. The ACWBC was founded by Mrs. B.S. Jayawardena in 1949 with 25 leading Buddhist women in the country.

 Roland Oliphant Helena Horton Courtesy Telegraph UK It is the most challenging underground rescue in history, and Thai authorities have drafted in more than 90 of the world’s finest special forces soldiers. But the spearhead of the Thai cave rescue operation has depended on seven British civilians who learnt their craft exploring the chilly waters of abandoned mines and […]

Courtesy BBC The rescuers who worked to save the group trapped in a Thai cave were a mix of international divers collaborating with Thai navy Seals. The 12 boys and their football coach were first found by British divers but the effort to get them out was a truly global operation. Several Thai navy divers took […]

By Kaitlyn Schallhorn | Courtesy Fox News   Coach Ekapol Chantawong trained with Buddhist monks for a decade after his family was killed by a disease. Friends say Ekapol, who became trapped in the Thailand cave along with 12 young members of the soccer team in June, loves the boys more than he loves himself.”  (AP […]

By Jake Fenton Courtesy  The Daily Telegraph (UK) As the man who placed his 12 young charges in mortal danger by taking them deep into a mountain cave system, the young coach of the Wild Boars football team could easily have been cast as the villain of one of the greatest rescue stories of recent times. But […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has revealed that India would adopt a broad approach to deal with China’s increasing influence in the neighbourhood by closely tracking China’s activities and advising neighbors including Sri Lanka on the consequences of engaging with China, the Hindustan Times reported on Sunday. External affairs minister […]

Courtesy RT Britain is headed for the status of “colony” to the European Union, Boris Johnson has warned, just hours after news broke of his resignation as foreign secretary. “We are truly headed for the status of a colony – and many will struggle to see the economic or political advantage of that particular arrangement,” Johnson […]