By Ranga Jayasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror A media expose about a celebrated war hero who now makes ends meet by selling fish at the Matale Junction has struck a chord in the public conscience. Amurtha Hastha Navaratna Abeykone Mudiyanselage Sagara Nuwan Bandara, formerly of the Commando regiment once became the public face of military […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Com Colombo, August 21 (Xinhua): Every weekend, scores of young Sri Lankans gather at the Galle Face sea front in the Sri Lankan capital city to fly kits. Hundreds of others watch these colorful contraptions soar into sky and play about in the delightful sea breeze. But August 19 was special. It was the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.com Colombo, Aug 21 (newsin.asia) – The Sri Lankan government will renew its search for an investor for its national air carrier, Sri Lankan airlines within the next three months through public call for offers, Advisor to the Finance Ministry, Mano Tittawella said Tuesday. In a local media report, Tittawella said the public private […]

  Sri Lanka saw a major shift in policy at all levels with a Western-Indian backed regime change in 2015. A wave of promises, a string of election campaigns, a powerful island-wide campaign that artfully covered sentiments of the general populace to want to get rid of the former government transpired into an euphoric assurance […]

By Charles. S.Perera It is not to insult the President Maithripala Sirisena that we pose the question, whether  the President  of Sri Lanka is a fool ? It had been apparently so from the day he left SLFP some where in November, 2014, to become the common Presidential candidate  of the opposition led by the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Professionals have become alarmed over certain decisions taken by the Yahapalana government, which they feel are not in the national interest. This essay looks at the mobilization of professional organizations against Yahapalana decisions. An organization named Eliya”, consisting of professionals, was launched by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in September 2017   to draw attention to the […]

ප්‍රවෘත්ති නිවේදනය පසුගිය ජූලි 24 වැනි දා සිට ක්‍රියාත්මක වන ලෙස ප්‍රවාහන අමාත්‍යවරයා විසින් යහපාලන ස්ථාවරභාවය වෙනුවෙන්ම පනවන ලද අති විශේෂ ගැසට් නිවේදනය මගින් මගී ප්‍රවාහන ත්‍රීරෝද රථ රියදුරන්ට වයස් සීමාවක් නියම කොට ඇත. ඒ අනුව, වයස 35 ට අඩු 70 ට වැඩි ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයෙකු ත්‍රී රෝද රථයකින් මගීන් ප්‍රවාහනය කිරිම දඬුවම් ලැබිය හැකි වරදකි. […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera ECONOMYNEXT – SrI Lanka’s finance minister Mangala Samaraweera has slammed a shocking neo-feudal law barring unemployed youth from entering the service sector, which showed graphically how state intervention can rob economic freedoms and harm society in general less vocal and weaker sections in particular. Sri Lanka’s elected ruling class backed by a […]

by Xinhua writers Yang Dingdu, Zhu Ruiqing, Deng Xianlai Editor: Chengcheng  Source: Xinhua COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — In 1824, a British ship arrived at the island of Ceylon — now known as Sri Lanka — loaded with tea trees from southeast China’s Wuyi Mountains that were later hybridized with the Assam black […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Aug 20 (Daily FT) – China is confident of completing their multiple investments in southern Sri Lanka with the fourth phase of the highway from Mattala Airport to the Hambantota Port and the Matara-Beliatta railway extension likely to be completed by January 2019, top officials said. The railway project, funded by a […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy  The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa could file a Fundamental Rights (FR) petition in the Supreme Court to obtain its opinion whether he could contest or not at the Presidential Election, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader, MP Udaya Gammanpila said addressing a news briefing today. There is speculation in political circles […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror In a letter to President Maitripala Sirisena with regard to the imprisonment of Bodu Bala Sena general secretary Ven. Galagodaathte Gnanasara Thera, the Mahayanayake of the Kotte chapter of the Siyam Nikaya, the Most Ven. Ittapane Dhammalankara Thera has highlighted several points including the one that if monks who speak on […]

lanka C news හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට මීළඟ ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත්වීම සඳහා නීතිමය වශයෙන් කිසිදු බාධාවක් නැති බව සරත් නන්ද සිල්වා මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ 19 වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යස්ථා සංශෝධනය මගින් බිහි කර ඇති ජනාධිපතිවරයා නව ජනාධිපතිවරයෙක් බවයි. එබැවින් එම නව ජනාධිපතිවරයා වෙනුවෙන් පවත්වන මැතිවරණයකට තරග කිරීමට 78 ව්‍යවස්තාව යටතේ හා 18 වන සංශෝධනය […]

lanka C news හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනි චන්ද්‍රිකා කුමාරතුංග මහත්මිය කොළඹ පැවති උත්සවයකදී මාධ්‍යවේදීන්ට උත්තර නොදී මග හැර ගියේය. කොළඹදී පැවැති ලංකා මහිලා සමිතියේ ජාත්‍යන්තර සමුළුවේ ප්‍රධාන ආරාධිත අමුත්තිය ලෙස ඇය පැමිණ සිටියාය. උත්සවය නිමා වී ඇය පිටත් වූ මාධ්‍යවේදීන් ඇගෙන් ප්‍රශ්න කිහිපයක් විමසූ අතර ඊට ප්‍රතිචාර දැක්වූයේ කේන්ති ගිය ආකාරයෙනි. ඇය කියා සිටියේ තමන්ගෙන් ප්‍රශ්න ඇසීමට […]

Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), CEng. MIEE  This article discusses the issues/shortfalls, that will generate disharmony and create ethnic conflicts on a 25 to 50-year horizon in a multi-cultural society if migrants do not take integration and cohesion seriously. This is on the basis of different ethnic groups stay rigid with their […]

By A Traveller Our son, his wife and two children (14 and 10) spent a week, including July 4th, Independence Day, on holiday in Manhattan. July 4th week is when most tourists come to Manhattan, mainly to see spectacular fireworks on the East River, to see the Statue of Liberty and to visit museums and […]

Tehran, Aug 17, IRNA – For the first time in the world, Iranian researchers from Sharif University of Technology have designed, built and commissioned Uma Oya power plant in Sri Lanka. The robotic complex of this project, which is one of the key and the most effective part of it, was completely designed and built […]

 by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy: Island August 18, 2018, 12:00 pm The Permanent High Court Trial at Bar which was set up recently, is to commence hearings with a case involving former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Chief of Staff Gamini Senarath. The first B report in this case bearing No. 788/15 was filed before the Colombo Fort Magistrate […]

By Norman Palihawadana Courtesy: Island Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says he had to give the CID officials who questioned him over the abduction of journalist Keith Noyahr in 2008, only yes or no answers as they themselves provided answers. “I was not questioned. I was asked questions which were followed by statements that were akin […]

By Jonathan Power Courtesy Tha Daily Mirror Two mistakes, committed on President Barack Obama’s watch, were the triggers for the end of the long post-Cold War period of good relations with Russia. They were the attack on Libya by the US, France and the UK and the subsequent killing of its long-time dictator, Muammar Gadhafi. […]

What Sri Lanka can learn from the Australian legal system? Delivering the keynote address at the ‘Lawbiz Symposium’, Supreme Court Justice Prasanna Jayawardena – President’s Counsel shared an impressive method to improve Sri Lankan economy. He contemplated establishing ‘an effective and reliable legal system’ which could attract investors and traders to our economy. However, he […]

By Udaya P Gammanpila What has the Government done so far? When we pose this question to the Ministers they are speechless. After being in a thinking mode for a while, they come out with a common answer. That is enacting the 19th Amendment . Hence, it is the ideal time to review the much-flaunted […]

By Arjuna Ranawana Courtesy Ceylon Today It is not surprising that we have dozens of mass graves, full of undocumented human remains in many parts of the country,because, in the short span of 38 years we have had multiple armed civil conflicts which were put down with overwhelming brutality by the State.In each case, of […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Many of the scribes, local and foreign including N.Satyamoorthy, P.K.Balachandran, Meera Sri Nivasan et al who write to English newspapers in Sri Lanka hold the opinion that Sri Lankans are damp squibs who still hold a white skin glotifying amglophile mindset.  This vicious phenomenon has been erased to a great […]

සාකච්ඡා කලේ   වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මේජර් ජාලිය ඈපා ශ්‍රී ලංකා යුද හමුදාවේ සිටි නිලධාරියෙකි. ඔහු 1988-89 භීෂණ කාලයේදී  ඇඹිලිපිටිය ප්‍රදෙශයේ සේවය කලේය. ඔහු ලොව පුරා ආන්දෝලනයට ලක්වූ ඇඹිලිපිටිය  පාසල් සිසුන් පැහැරගෙන ගොස් අතුරුදහන් කිරීම පිලිබඳ  සිද්ධියේ එක් චූදිතයෙකු වූ අතර  ඒ සඳහා අධිකරණයෙන් වරදකරුවෙකු වී සිරදඞුවම් ද ලැබීය. වර්තමානයේ  සිරෙන් නිදහස්ව නිහඞ ජීවිතයක් ගත […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada I am glad that Grusha Andrews (GA) has given me another opportunity to discuss agrochemicals and the scientific approach to the elucidation of causative factors of ill health and disease. The readers may  note Grusha Andrews’  tone of the holy Inquisitor, nay of the Nazi Sturmabteilung in dealing with  myself, Dr. […]

Just about six months into its operations, and the Hambantota port is gearing up to become the No. 1 port in the region. A combination of factors, carefully designed and put together is set to propel this port to the top slot in the maritime world map; a place well deserved considering the port’s unique […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Walkers Colombo Shipyard using 1200 ton Shiplift and 60 ton Boat lift Sri Lanka recently declared that by 2022, export earnings should reach staggering 22 billion US dollars .Out of six main areas to be developed, boat building is taking priority. Sri Lanka will lose the chance of becoming a boat/ship-building hub in […]

Lankadeepa 2018 ජුලි 14 වන සෙනසුරාදා ඇසිපිය හෙළන වේගයෙන් ක්‍රියා කරන පිහියෙන් තෙප්පිලියාගේ සිරුරේ කොටස් පිළිවෙළකට කැපී යයි. මුලින්ම වරල්ය. පසුව කරමල්ය. ඉනික්බිතිව කොරල, බඩවැල්, නහරය ඒවා පිළිවෙළින් ඉවත් කර දමා අවසන වල්ගය කපා තෙප්පිලියා මස් කිරීමට උක්කුටිකයෙන් හිඳ සිටින සාගරට ගත වන්නේ විනාඩියකටත් අඩු කාලයකි. දිනකට තෙප්පිලි කිලෝ දහ දාහක් හෝ කැපීම තමන්ට කජ්ජක් […]

Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy: Island August 17, 2018, 10:23 pm There was a big party at the Yahapalana Medura, –Home of the Disunited Coalition at Maga Petalunu Mawatha. Everyone was happy at this Third Anniversary of the Coalition of So-called Good Governance. Cabinet Ministers, State and Deputy Ministers and MPs – elected or pushed crookedly into […]