Giada Girelli Courtesy Open Society Foundations This summer, Sri Lanka’s president, Maithripala Sirisena, defiantly announced that he could end the country’s 42-year moratorium on the death penalty and sign off on the execution of convicted drug traffickers alleged to be running illegal operations from their prison cells. More disturbing, a government spokesperson added that the country will try […]

Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Public Lecture Sinhala Theravada Buddhism in China’ by  Dr. Hema Goonatilake on  Monday 30thJuly 2018 at 5.00 p.m. at the  Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07   ALL ARE WELCOME

Richard Baker Nick McKenzie Iconic Australian engineering company, SMEC, has had five of its subsidiaries banned by the World Bank after its anti-corruption taskforce discovered evidence linking SMEC to suspected inappropriate payments” in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The World Bank action is a bitter blow for the company which started out as the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Dam and […]

ship-technology Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), China and India are investing over $700m for the development of three key ports in Sri Lanka over the next three years. India will invest $40m to upgrade the Kankesanthurai Port, which is currently in process and expected to be completed early next year. Sri Lankan Treasury has received […]

The Civil Aviation Ministry today said there is no proposal under consideration for the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to buy a controlling stake in Sri Lanka’s Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport. The ministry’s comments come less than a week after the Sri Lankan government said that it has asked the AAI to submit its business […]

ඉෂාරා සිල්වා උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව නව ව්‍යවස්ථාව හරහා වංචාව නීතිගත කිරීමට උත්සාහ කරන බවත් මෙම ව්‍යවස්ථාව සම්මත වුවහොත් අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහට 2020 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ සිහිනය සැබෑ කර ගැනීමට නැවතත් පසුබිම සකස් වන බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ පැවැසීය. මෙම බරපතළ සහ අවදානම් ව්‍යවස්ථාව පරාජය කිරීම සඳහා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ 2/3 බලය ලබා ගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය කටයුතු සිදු කරන බවද […]

කැලණිය – කුසුම් එස්. හැන්නදි උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම අපේ පෞරාණික ශාසනික දායාද පාලනය කිරීමේ වක්‍ර වෑයමකට සූදානම් වෙන වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව භික්ෂුන් වහන්සේ වෙනුවෙන් ගෙන ඒමට යෝජනා කර ඇති නීති රීති මාලා ගෙන ඒමට කිසිම විටක මහ සංඝ රත්නයෙන් ඉඩක් නොලැබෙන බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ පවසයි. අණ්ඩුව ගෙන එන ලද යෝජනාවකට අනුව භික්ෂුන් වහන්සේලා වෙනුවෙන් රාජ්‍ය අනුමැතිය […]

අනුරාධා හේරත් උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ආසියානු සංවර්ධන බැංකුවෙන් රුපියල් කෝටි 4,800ක ණයක් ලබා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් මත්තල ගුවන්තොටුපළ ඇතුළු රටේ ආර්ථික මර්මස්ථාන කිහිපයක් විදේශයට පවරමින් සිටින බවට ජ.වි.පෙ. ප්‍රචාරක ලේකම්, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි විජිත හේරත් ආණ්ඩුවට චෝදනා කළේය. එකී රුපියල් කෝටි 4,800න් කෝටි 2,000ක් 2019 වසරේ මෙරටට ලැබීමට නියමිත අතර රට හතර අත ණය කරමින් රාජ්‍ය දේපළ විකුණන වත්මන් […]

By Tharindi Pabasara Courtesy Adaderana The Hindu priest, who had been charged of aiding and abetting the assassination attempt on former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a suicide bombing at Piththala Junction in Kollupitiya in 2006, has been acquitted and released by the Colombo High Court. Colombo High Court Judge Sampath Abeykoon said that it has been […]

Courtesy Janabala.com ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා සහ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනි චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංග මහත්මිය අතර පැවති සුහදතාවය මේ වන විට විශාල ලෙස පළුදු වී ඇතැයි ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ අභ්‍යන්තර ආරංචි මාර්ග පවසයි. ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරිය කෙරෙහි දැක්වූ සුහදතාවය,විශ්වාසය සහ සැලකිල්ල මෙසේ වියැකී ගොස් තිබෙන්නේ ඇයගේ ක්‍රියාකලාපය හේතුවෙන් බව ද එම ආරංචි මාර්ග […]

 Federal constitutions exist in 26 countries including US, Canada, Russia, Australia, India, Brazil & federal features also prevail in China. What do these countries all have in common? Their size. It is because of the size & the difficulty in governing directly from the centre that federal constitutions were created to hand over some powers […]

Sugath Samarasinghe  When non-Buddhists and the Intellectual Buddhists who may have hardly stepped into a village temple lately, start quoting Buddha’s Teachings for polemic purposes, ordinary riffraff Buddhists become suspicious of their motives. For, if these ordinary Buddhists had taken the Buddha’s words literally, there would not have been a Buddhist Sri Lanka today. We […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS REVISED 25.7.18 This essay looks at the current relationship between Yahapalana government of Sri Lanka and the United States of America. From a triumphal, highly visible start in 2015, with prominent visits by Secretary of State John Kerry and other high ranking officials, the USA has now decided to go into low profile. […]

Sudath Gunasekara 25.7 2018. It is reported in the press that the Canadian Prime Minister Trudo is coming to Sri Lanka to commemorate the So-called Black July 1983 in support of the LTTE Tamil cause and share the grievances of the Tamil community. Is he aware that the LTTE was the deadliest terrorist organization ever […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ඊලාම් යුද්ධයේ දුර්විපාක සමාජය හඳුනාගන්නා කාලය තෙක් මනෝ විද්‍යාත්මක රෝගාබාධයක් වූ පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාවය (Post-traumatic stress disorder -PTSD)  ශ්‍රී ලාංකාවට ආගන්තුක රෝග තත්වයක් විය​. වියට්නාම් යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව ඇමරිකානු සමාජය වියට්නාම් සින්ඩ්‍රෝමය හඳුනාගත්තාක් සේ ඊලාම් යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සමාජය පලාලි සින්ඩ්‍රෝමය හෙවත් සංග්‍රාමික පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාවය හඳුනා ගන්නා ලදි.  එහෙත් […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the then Minister of Public Enterprise Kabir Hashim had instructed the Board of Directors of SriLankan Airlines to confirm Capt. Suren Ratwatte in service as the airline’s CEO prior to his performance appraisal, which was mandatory for his confirmation, the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) […]

Lahiru Pothmulla  Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Joint Opposition (JO) yesterday said the government should take into consideration the mounting opposition to the Free Trade Agreements (FTA) without acting in an authoritarian manner. Addressing a news briefing, Professor G.L. Peiris said that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa considered the grievances of and complaints made by local business […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Introducing a new Constitution is only a dream because the government has run out of time already, National Integration Minister Mano Ganesan said. He said this at the National Inter-religious Symposium held yesterday at the BMICH. The event was organised by the National Peace Council. I personally feel there is […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana President has decided to temporarily halt appointments and promotions to employees in education sector who said to have been politically victimized. Earlier today (25), the planned trade union action of education sector employees was temporarily called off, after the discussion with the President. Representatives of the trade unions stated that all parties […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the removal of his name from the Galle stadium is not an issue. He said this at a media conference held in Homagama, today (25). Former President paid his last respects to the remains of the Homagama Purana Vihara Chief Prelate Ven. Madowita Pannakitti Thero. Answering […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 24 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister, Mangala Samaraweera, on Tuesday said the island would soon have ‘tourist friendly tuk-tuk’s’ as three-wheeler’s would now not only be a mode of transportation, but the tuk tuk drivers would also serve as local tourist-guides. With more than 1 million three-wheeler drivers in Sri Lanka, Samaraweera […]

P.K.Balachandran/South Asian Monitor Colombo, July 25: Over the past year, as India kept making a bid to acquire the Mattala airport in South Sri Lanka, which is universally derided as the World’s Emptiest Airport” with little or no traffic, many have wondered why New Delhi wants to buy into a failed enterprise with little or […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 25 (newsin.asia): India is likely to replace China as the contractor to build 40,000 houses for the war-affected people of North Lanka in view of objections to the current scheme voiced by Tamil political leaders and a section of the Lankan government. Following a heated discussion in the cabinet on Tuesday, […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 25 (Daily Mirror): China will gift a frigate to the Sri Lanka Navy, a top Chinese military official said here on Monday. Addressing a reception held in Colombo on Monday night to commemorate the 91st anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Senior Colonel Xu Jianwei said […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 25 (newsin.asia) – The sensational feel-good musical MAMMA MIA! will come to the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapakse Theater for an eight-day run from December 22 to 30 as part of the international tour. MAMMA MIA! is Judy Craymer’s ingenious vision of staging the story-telling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs with an […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 25 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka will get a 100 million US dollar concessionary loan from the World Bank to diversify and upgrade the general education system in the country to global standards, the Finance Ministry said in a statement Wednesday. The General Education Modernization Project (GEM) will modernize and diversify the […]

We have had 2 Chief Justices removed in the recent past. There was much fanfare over the removal of the first on the premise of unfair removal while the removal of the second was met with virtually complete silence. Let us take both these examples to highlight some of the hypocrisies that prevail. A country’s […]

Prof. N.A. de S. Amaratunga    Sri Lankans and people in other Buddhist countries may be interested in understanding the essential difference between Early Buddhism, Theravada and other Buddhist schools. The best way to compare these Buddhist schools is to see how far they tally with  Buddha’s preaching and also how they originated. Soon after Buddha’s […]

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 20 July 2018 OPEN LETTER TO R. SAMPANTHAN MP Hon. R. Sampanthan, MP representing TNA Leader of the Opposition of the Government of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Parliament Colombo, Sri Lanka., Dear Mr. Sampanthan: What is this dishonest garbage that you […]

 නදීරා යුමාලි (BSc. in Agriculture) බෝග අධ්‍යයන අංශය, කෘෂිකර්ම පීඨය,  රුහුණ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය. උපදේශනය – ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මහාචාර්ය රංජිත් සේනාරත්න, හිටපු උප කුලපති, රුහුණ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය සෞඛ්‍ය සම්පන්න, සමබල, පෝෂ්‍යදායී හා ගුණදායී ආහාර වේලක්‌ යනු සියලූ ම ජීවීන්ට තම පැවැත්ම සඳහා වූ අතිශය වැදගත් තීරණාත්මක සාධකයකි. ආහාරයක්‌ යනු මිනිසා හෝ සතුන් මගින් තම පැවැත්ම උදෙසා ආහාරයට ගනු ලබන ඕනෑම […]