Editorial Courtesy The Island July 11, 2018, 10:28 pm President Maithripala Sirisena has had a sudden urge to hang drug dealers on death row. He seems unable to resist his impulses, which are legion. It was only the other day that he caused fuel price hikes to be put on hold. Then, the Cabinet implemented the […]

Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, addressing top diplomats posted in neighbouring countries (July 3, 2018), opined that India should not focus on competing with China on resources. That’s sensible considering resource-mismatch. She also said that India must closely watch all Chinese activities. That’s sensible too, considering India’s economic […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that the Government was attempting to find fault with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, former CB Governor said they would never find any wrong doing of the former President. He expressed these views at a news briefing held yesterday at the Western Province Aesthetic Resort where they launched a […]

 lanka C news අද වනවිට මෙරටේ රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරින් විශාල සංඛ්‍යාවක් අසරණ කොට තිබෙනවා, ඒ පසුගිය රජය සමයෙහි මහන්සියෙන් කැපවීමකින් වැඩකිරීම නිසා ඔහුන් එෆ් සී අයි ඩී ය මගින් අත් අඩංගුවට ගෙන ප්‍රශ්න කිරිම් නිසායි , වසර තුනහාමාරක් තිස්සේ රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරින් අසාධාරණයට ලක්ව ඇති බවත් අපිට චෝදනා කල සමහරු කෝටි ගනනාවක් වටිනා මහජන මුදල් රූපවාහිනි නාලීකා […]

 මතුගම – වසන්ත කුමාර  උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම මේ රටේ මිනිසුන්ට ජීවත් වෙන්න බැරි තරමට ප්‍රශ්න ගොඩගැසුනම ආණ්ඩුව ඒවා අමතක කරන්න දවසින් දවස සතියෙන් සතිය මොනවා හරි නිර්මාණය කර ගන්නවා යැයි කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි විදුර වික්‍රමනායක මහතා කීවේය. හොරණ පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතා විදුර වික්‍රමනායක මහතා මෙසේද කීවේය. රටේ ආර්ථිකයට මොනවා වෙලාද? සමාජයේ මතුව තිබෙන ප්‍රශ්න මොනවාද? […]

දෙනගම ධම්මික රණවීර  උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම රට පාලනය කරන්න අදක්ෂ වුවත් චෝදනා කරන්න මේ ආණ්ඩුව දක්ෂ බවත්, සත්‍ය වශයෙන්ම පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුව වැරැදි කරල තිබුණා නම් හැමදාම විමර්ශන කර කර නොසිටින බවත් හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් පැවැසීය. හෙතෙම එසේ ප්‍රකාශ කළේ ඊයේ (10දා) බස්නාහිර පළාත් සෞන්දර්ය ආයතනයේදී පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට සහභාගි වෙමින්ය. ‘යුක්තියට හඬක්’ සංවිධානය […]

නවමැදගම – ශාන්ත වෙලගෙදර දෙහිඅත්තකණ්ඩිය – කුමාර නවෝද්‍ය  උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම දහම් පාසලක් ආරම්භ කළ යුතුද නැද්ද කියලා හොයලා බලන්න සියලුම ආගමික නායකයන් එකතු කරලා කමිටුවක් පත් කරලා තියෙනවා. ඒ කමිටුව අවසර දුන්නොත් තමයි දහම් පාසල ආරම්භ කරන්න පුළුවන් වෙන්නේ. ගහක් කපන්න අවසර ගන්න කොච්චර කල් යනවාද? ඊටත් වඩා අමාරුයි අද දහම් පාසලක් ආරම්භ කරන්න. ලී පර්මිට් එක […]

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 […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror British Baron Lord Naseby said both the UK and the US were guilty of atrocities and that the two countries should inform the UN Human Rights Commission to withdraw the resolution against Sri Lanka. Lord Naseby, the President of the All Party British Sri Lanka Parliamentary Group, said this after reading the UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security […]

Sudath Gunasekara 9.7.2018 It was reported that Vijayakala Mahesvaran is planning to migrate to UK, the home of So-called diaspora, may be on the advice of Ranil as he did to Arjuna or Vignesvaran the Supreme Court tiger to avoid arrest or kept hidden until the Sinhalese forget the issue as usual. If she is […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Ranil – Maithree government is providing its blessings for the LTTE Diaspora to accelerate its propaganda work.  In this regard the latest strategy is to enhance the international support for the change of Constitution through a massive protest movement against Sinhalese. It is also a timely step in the right […]

By Noor Nizam – Convener – “The Muslim Voice”, July 9th., 2018. This is in response to an article written in the http://www.jaffnamuslims.com, a very popular web news forum/social media publication in the internet. The article had the below given heading. முஸ்லிம்களுக்கு இத்தனை அநியாயங்கள் என்றால்..? முஸ்லிம் எம்.பிக்கள் தமது ‘பிடியை’ இறுக்க வேண்டும். -எம். ஏ. எம். நிலாம்- Translation to English: […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග විමල් වීරවංශගේ මවත් සොහොයුරියත් මානසික රෝගීන් බවත් ඔවුන් දෙදෙනාම අංගොඩ මානසික රෝහලේ නේවාසිකව සිට ප්‍රතිකාර ගෙන තිබෙන බව අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු විවාදයකදී පවසා තිබේ.  මෙය කිසිසේත්ම  පිළිගතහැකි නොහැකි මානසික රෝගීන්ට අපහාස කරන්නා වූ ප්‍රකාශයකි. විමල් වීරවංශ පිලිබඳ  විවේචන තිබේ. එහෙත් මෙවැනි පිළිකුල් දනවන ප්‍රකාශයක් අනුර කුමාර දිසානායකගේ මුවින් පිටවීම නම් […]

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BusinessToday.In   New Delhi     Last Updated: July 9, 2018  | 17:01 ISTThe Indian Railways has decided to launch a train service that will cover all locations that are linked to the famous Hindu epic Ramayana – a journey that will start from a visit to Ayodhya, the birthplace of Hindu god Ram, and end at Colombo in Sri Lanka, […]

By Rear Admiral (Dr.) Sarath Weerasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran and the TNA are openly advocating federalism Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, has tremendous regard for Buddhism India intervened and saved Prabhakaran and LTTE in 1987 None of the SL Presidents allowed the police and land powers to the Provinces There was […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island July 9, 2018, 11:43 pm Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday alleged the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government had caused irreparable damage to Sri Lanka’s relations with China and Russia. Prof. Peiris, who is also the Chairman of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) said that now Russia had been accused of […]

by Janice Dickson The Canadian Press News Jul 05, 2018 OTTAWA — A Regina mother whose daughter went missing in 2007 is launching a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit against the federal government and the RCMP, alleging a “negligent” and “lackadaisical” approach to investigating missing and murdered Indigenous women. Danita Faith has been missing for more than […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Dr. Chamindra Weerawardhana, who describes herself as a political analyst in her website, has rushed to the defence of the former State Minister of the UNP who resigned after sounding a clarion call for the revival and return of the LTTE to protect Tamil women and girls. She has justified Ms. […]