ALI SUKHANVER            Yes —-they push us into a blind alley with no way out when our desires and wishes are not supported by logic and wisdom. Most of us are misguided when we are ruled and governed by the gods of our wishes and desires. Same thing is happening there in the paradise like valley […]

Lasantha Wickramasinghe  SriLanka and Singapore signed FTA in Jan 2018 The Association of Information Technology Professionals of Sri Lanka has flayed the government over Free Trade Agreement with Singapore and planned economic agreement with India. The following is the full text of the statement issued by  Lasantha Wickramasinghe, secretary of the association: Recently, President Maithripala […]

Janaka Perera ‘Viyarana Vivarana’ වියරණ විවරණ a book covering some debates that took place from the 1920s to the 1930s on Sinhala Grammar will be launched at the National Archives Auditorium, 14, Nidahas Mawatha, Colombo 14 on July 18, 2018 at 2.30 p.m. The manuscript of the book, which the late Pracheena Pandith Bemthota Enulasiri […]

by Shyam Nuwan Ganewatte  Courtesy The Island Finance and Media Minister Mangala Samarawweera yesterday alleged the major heroin dealers were key members of the civil society. Addressing the media at his ministry, Samaraweera claimed that the narcotics menace couldn’t be eradicated by executing those already behind bars after being found guilty by courts as major dealers […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island A revelation that Perpetual Treasuries (Pvt.) Ltd. (PTL) sponsored an event conducted by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has made the legal fraternity squirm. We reported yesterday that the PTL was among the companies which sponsored the three-day Law Asia 2016 Golden Jubilee Conference in August, 2016. The second bond […]

 lanka C news එක්බද්ද විපක්‍ෂය නියෝජනය කරන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී කුමාර වෙල්ගම මහතා ආණ්ඩුව විසින් බ්ලැක්මේල් කර ඇති බව මවුබිම වෙනුවෙන් රණවිරුවෝ සංවිධානය පවසයි. එම සංවිධානයේ කැදවුම්කරු අජිත් ප‍්‍රසන්න මහතා පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ වෙල්ගම මහතාට ඇති නඩු කිහිපයක් පෙන්වා මෙම බ්ලැක්මේල් කිරීම සිදු කර ඇති බවත් එමගින් ඔහු හරහා ඒකාබද්ද විපක්‍ෂයේ සියළු තොරතුරු ආණ්ඩුව විසින් ලබා ගන්නා […]

ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය භේද කිරීමට ආණ්ඩුව වෙල්ගම යොදා ගන්නවා

Courtesy Adaderana A mass grave with 38 skeletons has been discovered in Sri Lanka’s former war zone, officials said today. Skeletal remains of around 38 people have been found during the ground digging to build a new construction at the old cooperative store site in the northeastern town of Mannar. Following the discovery in late […]

Politicians react to Vigneswaran’s statement (English)

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Lord Naseby from the British House of Lords calls upon the United Kingdom and United States of America to withdraw their human rights violations motion against Sri Lanka. He stated this joining in a discussion on human rights violation allegations on Sri Lanka ‘At Hyde Park’ program on Ada Derana 24×7. Lord […]

By Charles S.Perera How ignorant we are ? Do you  really know the white man or woman  who  knocked against you some where in  Colombo ? Was he or she just a tourist, an Economic Hit Man , a C.I.A sanctioned Jackal- a killer who would not hesitate to remove a politician dangerous to USA […]

A crucial election is forthcoming. Since 1948 Sri Lanka has been a vibrant democracy evidenced by the stream of elections held. We’ve had 1 referendum, 5 local government elections since 2002, 7 provincial council elections since 1999, 16 General Elections since 1947 & 7 Presidential Elections since 1982. Numbers play an important game in deciding […]

ජන්ද අයිතිය ලබා දෙනු – හොර ව්‍යවස්ථා අකුළා ගනු – සම්මන්ත්‍රණය

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති සති අටක කාලයක් ඇතුළත දෙවෙනි වරටත් ඉන්ධන මිලේ වැඩි වීමක් අපි අත්දකින පළමු අවස්ථාව මෙය විය හැක. අද පෙට්‍රල් ලීටරයක මිල රු.145ක් වන අතර ඩීසල් ලීටරයක මිල රු. 118 ක් වේ. බොරතෙල් බැරලයක අද දවසේ ලෝක මිල ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් 74 ක් පමණ වේ. මීට අවුරුදු 10 කට පෙර […]

Mahinda Rajapaksa Former President of Sri Lanka Fuel prices have been increased yet again within a period of about eight weeks – a situation we have never experienced earlier. Now the price of petrol is Rs. 145 and diesel Rs. 118 while today’s price of crude oil in the world market is around USD 74 per […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්.ජයතුංග වර්ගවාදීන් නොවූ ඇතැම් සිංහල නවතකාකරුවන්ගේ ප්‍රසිද්ධ නවකතාවලින් දුවිඩ මිනිසුන් කෙරෙහි සිංහල මිනිසුන් තුළ තිබූ නුරුස්සනාභාවය ප්‍රකට වී ඇත. නමුත් ඒවා වැඩි සැලකිල්ලට යොමු වී නැත. ඩබ්ලියු. ඒ සිල්වාගේ කැලෑහඳ” හා ගුණදාස ලියනගේ ලියූ දෝන කමලාවතී” නවකතාවලින් මෙසේ සිංහල මිනිසුන්ගේ සාමූහික අවිඥානය නිරූපණය වී ඇති ආකාරය විචාරකයින්ගේ අවධානයට යොමු නොවූයේ එය එදවස ඒ හැටි අපූරුවක් […]

N.A de S. Amaratunga  Sri Lanka is badly in need of a friend. There are big powerful countries, some nearby and others far away, who say they are our friends, but going by what they are doing to us,  if they are our friends we don’t need enemies. We  know that these countries have their […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 12 (newsin.asia): The  Colombo International Container Terminals Limited (CICT), which is a joint venture of the China Merchants Port Holdings Company (CMPort) and the Sri Lanka Pots Authority (SLPA), has  said that the payment of Rs.19,410,000/-to the Pushpa Rajapaksa Foundation was a donation  for the construction of houses for the under-privileged […]

N.A. de S. Amaratunga Venerable Vendaruwe Upali Thera the Anunayaka of the Asgiriya Maha Viharaya had  at Gotabaya Rajapakse’s birthday ceremony commented that if some of Gota’s detractors call him a Hitler, so be it as the country needs a strong leader if it is to come out of the rut it has been dragged […]

Sarath Wijesinghe – former Ambassador to UAE and Israel A FUTURE HUB FOR TRADEAND LOGISTICS IN THE INDIAN SUB CONTINENT” It is now certain cemented and unstoppable that Sri Lanka Port City” is the future Hub of business activities and foundation of the success of new Sri Lanka in the new world and business order […]

N.A.de S. Amaratunga Kumar David (KD) in a virulent mood says Gotabaya Rajapakse must be defeated, has to be defeated and can be defeated (Sunday Island, 10.06.2018).  Title of his article is Stop Gotabaya-Rex” which is perhaps to suggest that Gotabaya Rajapakse in his activities resemble the dinosaur named Tyrannosaurus-Rex” or T-Rex for short who […]

R Chandrasoma It is a widespread belief entrenched both among political leaders and civil analysts that that the insurrectionist instincts in the North are matched by equally obnoxious attitudes of racial exclusiveness in the South. Indeed, it is openly stated by the Southern Political Leadership – that includes such luminaries as Ranil Wickramasinghe and Chandrika […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය CaFFE 2018 ජූලි 12 රු. 16-18 ට දෙන බවට ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කළ කෙරවලපිටිය වෙස්ට් කෝස් විදුලි ඒකකයට රු. 29.85 ක සාමාන්‍ය ගෙවීමක් කරලා. විදුලිබල මණ්ලයට සිදුවූ පාඩුව රු.බිලියන 18 ඉක්මවයි. කෙරවලපිටිය වෙස්ට් කෝස් ඩීසල් විදුලි බලාගාරයේ විදුලි ඒකකයක් සදහා ගෙවිය යුතු මිල යාවත් කාලීන නොකිරීම නිසා ගෙවී ගිය වසර 8 තුල රු. බිලියන 18 […]

ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය ඉදිරියේදී ඒකාබද්ධ පොදුජන පෙරමුණ වෙනවා

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Civil society is generally considered as an instrument that works as unions of civilians, which organized for the benefits of civilians in a country.  The meaning of civil is similar to the definition of the word civil” in law, for example, the law is basically divided into civil law and criminal law. […]

Palitha M Senanayake  The dust has still not settled on the recent controversial statement made by the UNP MP Ms Viyayakala Maheshwaran on ‘rekindling the LTTE’ and the chances are that it will reverberate for some time, given the legal and political overtones associated.  To add insult to injury, the Chief Minister of the Northern […]

Senaka Weeraratna  2018-07-11 06:56:28 Presidents Counsel Hemantha Warnakulasuriya passed away this morning at the age of 74 while receiving treatment at a private hospital in Colombo, Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce Buddhika Pathirana said. Speaking to the Daily Mirror he said Mr Warnakulasuriya’s final rites would be held at the Borella cemetery on Saturday […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්  දෙමළ කොටි සංවිධානය ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට සහ ත්‍රස්තවාදයට අනුබල දීමට උතුරේ සහ දකුණේ රජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන  මෙන්ම දේශපාලන සංවිධානයන්ද සහාය පළ කරන ලද ආකාරය පසු ගිය කාලයේදී මනා ලෙස හෙළි විය.විකල්ප මාධ්‍ය භාවිතාවේදී එම සහාය මැනවින් ලැබී තිබුණි.යුද්ධය අවසාන වීමෙන් පසු ඔවුනතරින් ඇතෙමෙක් රටින් පිටව පලා ගියහ. ඊනියා දෙමළ අයිතිවාසිකම් දෙමළ නිජ භූමිය ඇතුළු […]

Chandrasena Pandithage Nowadays Sri Lankan government need 250 billion rupees for its monthly operations. These 250 billion rupees monthly flow from people’s pocket to the government treasury. This is the Powerball and Its always give strength for ongoing government operations. The government and the people of Sri Lanka must understand their relationship to this Powerball […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera ECONOMYNEXT – Less than seven percent of Sri Lanka’s 1.1 million public sector workforce have university degrees in commerce, management or science related areas, while 35 percent passed their A Levels, the government census and statistics office said. The Department of Census and Statics on Tuesday released the final report on the […]