Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Chennai, September 9 (PTI/newsin.asia): Following the Indian Supreme Court’s suggestion, the All India Anna Dravida Kazhagam government in  Tamil Nadu  on Sunday decided to recommend to the State Governor Banwarilal Purohit the release of all seven life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. A resolution to this effect was adopted at the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Sept 9 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s Port of Colombo ranked the world’s leading container growth port among the top 30 container ports for the first half of 2018, according to international rating agency, Alphaliner, the Ports and Shipping Ministry said in a statement Sunday. According to the rating, the Port of Colombo has recorded […]

By UDAYA P GAMMANPILA Courtesy Ceylon Today MP Vijitha Herath of the JVP presented the Bill, titled ‘20th Amendment to the Constitution (20A) in Parliament on 5 September. I filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking a determination that the Bill requires the approval of the people at a referendum, since it violates entrenched Articles […]

By Tissa Vitarana Courtesy Ceylon Today The ‘Jana Balaya Colambata’ (People Power to Colombo) procession, organized by the Joint Opposition on the 5 September, certainly shook the UNP-led Government, and was a success despite the need to alter the programme at the last moment, due to their disruptive actions. Given the cost of travel and all […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island September 8, 2018, 7:26 pm Those who have had the opportunity of visiting the luxury reception/banquet hall built at ‘Temple Trees,’ the prime minister’s official residence during the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime are well aware that it is an extravagance that a country in our economic situation could ill-afford. The building of […]

අබලක අප මහ බුදුරජාණන්වහන්සේ පිරිනිවී වසර දෙදහස් පන්සිය හැට දෙකක් ගෙවුණු ඒ වෙසක් පුර පසළොස්වක දිනෙන් පොහෝ දෙකක් ගතවුනු තැන උදාවුනු පොසොන් මස පුර පසළොස්වක් දිනයේ මිහින්තලාව වන්දනාවට ගිය මම; එහි කලුබුද්ධරක්ඛිත මහරහතන්වහන්සේ කාලකාරාම සූත්‍රයෙන් බණ කිව් කළුදිය පොකුණ අසබඩ වූ කළුවර ගස තිබුණු තැනට වී විඩාහරිමින් සිටියෙමි. එ කල්හි, අමුතු ලෙස ම දෙස බලමින් […]

 වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ හිටපු නායක රෝහණ විජේවීර මහතාගේ බිරිය වන චිත්‍රාංගනී විජේවීර  මහත්මියගේ සොහොයුරා වූ ‍දොස්තර සුභාෂ් චන්ද්‍ර ප්‍රනාන්දු මහතා  වනවාසල තෙලඟපාත දුම්රිය හරස් මාර්ගයේදී කොළඹ කොටුවේ සිට මහනුවර බලා ධාවනය වන ශීඝ්‍රගාමී දුම්රියට පැන සියදිවි හානි කරගෙන ඇත.   වෛද්‍ය සුභාෂ් චන්ද්‍රා ප්‍රනාන්දු 71 කැරැල්ලේදී හා ඉන් පසුව දීර්ඝ වදබන්ධන […]

By R.S. Karunaratne Courtesy Ceylon Today During the past 50 years, life for most of us has been transformed beyond recognition. Sometimes we wonder at how such change, took place, in a span of half a century. Poets and philosophers have often reminded us of the ever-changing pattern of life. The celebrated Greek philosopher Heraclitus (c. […]

BY METHMALIE DISSANAYAKE Courtesy Ceylon Today The Constitutional Council yesterday (7), gave the National Police Commission (NPC) and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara 14 days to solve all disputes between them. The Council met with Speaker Karu Jayasuriya presiding at the Parliament Complex to discuss the reports submitted by the independent commissions and […]

Courtesy Adaderana Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader Udaya Gammanpila says that an age had dawned where the people of the country are asking for a new political culture. He made this observation while addressing the gathering during the launch of a booth authored by SLPP Colombo Municipal Council member Milinda Rajapaksha on Friday (8). Gammanpila […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that the behavior of Sri Lanka’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) is completely unacceptable. He made these comments while addressing another seminar in the ‘Eliya’ series held at Godakawela in Ratnapura on Saturday (8). Rajapakksa said that the former President not only ended the country’s war, he […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena says there is unnecessary concern in the country regarding the Presidential election and that even though some have made statements that the presidential election will be early, he will not in any way hold a presidential election before it is due. President Sirisena also pointed out that he alone could […]

සුජිත් හේවාජුලිගේ සහ ආරියරත්න රණබාහු උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප ජනාධිපතිවරයා මොරගහකන්ද ව්‍යාපෘතිය සිව් වතාවක් විවෘත කිරීම ගැන විගණන විමර්ශනයක් පවත්වන්නැයි විගණකාධිපතිවරයාගෙන් විශේෂ ඉල්ලීමක් කරන බව පත් කළ මන්ත්‍රී බිමල් රත්නායක මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අද (7) පැවැසීය. රත්නායක මහතා මේ බව පැවැසුවේ විගණකාධිපති ගාමිණි විජේසිංහ මහතාගේ වැටුප් හා දීමනා වැඩි කිරීමේ යෝජනාව පිළිබඳ විවාදයේදීය. බිමල් රත්නායක මහතා මෙසේද කීය. […]

මාගම්පුත්‍ර උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම කොළඹ වටලා ආණ්ඩුවට දැනෙන හඬක් නැඟීමට තැත් කිරීමේ උත්සාහයට විවිධ අර්ථකථන තිබුණද එජාපයටවත්, ජවිපෙටවත් එක්රැස් කරගත නොහැකි ජන ගංගාවක් කොළඹට කැඳවන්නට ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණට හැකිවිය. හිස්ගෙඩිවලින් අසවල් ගණනක්ය කියා ගණන් බලන්නට ඕනෑ තරම් අය සිටියද ආණ්ඩුවට එරෙහිව ජනතාවගේ විරෝධය පෑම බලවත්ය යන්න ඒකාබද්ධය ලෝකයටම කියා පෑවේය. විදෙස් මාධ්‍ය කිහිපයක්ම මෙම උද්ඝෝෂණය පිළිබඳව […]

ඩබ්ලිව්.කේ. ප්‍රසාද් මංජු උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම නොවැම්බර් 08 වැනිදා ආරම්භ වන අය _ වැය විවාදයේදී ආණ්ඩුව වෙනස් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා සහ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සමඟ කණ්ඩායම් දෙකක් වෙන වෙනම සාකච්ඡා ආරම්භ කර තිබෙන බව ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී වාමාංශික පෙරමුණේ නායක ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ රත්නපුර දිස්ත්‍රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර මහතා ‘ඉරිදා මව්බිම’ට ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. එක්සත් […]

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම 2005 ආරම්භ වන විට ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලරයක් සඳහා ගෙවූ මිල රුපියල් 105කි. 2005 – 2014 කාලය තුළ ලෝක ඛනිජ තෙල් අර්බුදය, ලෝක ආහාර අර්බුදය, ලෝක මූල්‍ය අර්බුදය සහ එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ.යේ දරුණු යුද්ධය වැනි දැවැන්ත අභියෝග රාශියකට මුහුණ දෙමින් වුවද 2014 වන විට ඩොලරයට ගෙවූ මුදල රුපියල් 131කි. ඒ අනුව 2005-2014 දස වසර තුළ ඩොලරයට ගෙවූ […]

Courtesy The Economic Times It has been a long and arduous road for the LGBT community in India, as it has been for practically all of us who have lived under the yoke of colonial-era laws that have criminalised and marginalised us for over a century Waking up on the morning of September 6, I […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 8 (DDNews): An agreement to supply160 railway passenger coaches custom-made in India, was signed between RITES Limited of India and Sri Lankan government in Colombo on September 7. The US 82.64 million contract is part of a line of credit agreement for procurement of railway rolling stock and upgrading of rail […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 8 (newsin.asia): Is Chinese beginning to replace Tamil in promoting products or serving customers in the Sri Lankan market? Looking at the Anchor butter packet being sold in the Sri Lankan market one might begin to think so. Packets of Anchor butter, imported from Fonterra Brands in New Zealand, now carry  […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala One of the imperatives that drives the Tamil separatist lobby is the yearning to be on the side of history that makes them look and  sound great. They need this appearance of greatness most of all to sustain their claim for a separate state — their modern political  agenda.  Without this […]

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA It has happened as was to have been foreseen.  A morally, intellectually and financially bankrupt Government has played its last hand to try and stay in power beyond 2020.  I have argued in previous articles that, the JVP with 4 members in Parliament will not even dream of bringing a constitutional amendment if […]

ALI SUKHANVER When we talk of the present political change in Pakistan, it is not only the change of faces; it is the change of system, change of philosophy and change of traditions leading to an overall change in behaviour and attitude of the whole nation. Astonishingly this revolutionary transformation of the society is so […]

Courtesy The Island September 7, 2018, 9:51 pm Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders. – Albert Camus There is a new interest in the Death Penalty. It comes from President Sirisena himself. Speaking at the parliament premises this week, he said the Death Penalty should be the punishment to those who misused public […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island September 7, 2018, 12:00 pm On Wednesday, as I left my house at around 2.30 pm to see how the Joint Opposition’s protest was working out, the streets of Colombo had about the same amount of traffic as one would see on holidays. Yet Wednesday was a normal working […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island September 7, 2018, 11:01 pm Sustainable Development, Wildlife and Regional Development Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, yesterday, acknowledged that there hadn’t been any Cabinet discussion on how Sri Lanka should respond to Geneva allegations of war crimes against the country. Sri Lanka brought the war to a successful conclusion in […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island Saturday 8th September, 2018 The government has reportedly decided against hiring out the Temple Trees (TT) banquet hall hereafter following a controversy over MP Chathura Senaratne’s recent wedding there. This decision has left one baffled. The public, we believe, was not aware that the TT banquet hall could be hired as a […]

By Damitha Nipunajith and Sajitha Prematunge Courtesy The Island Based on the 1973 movie Westworld, written and directed by best selling author Michael Crichton, HBO’s Westworld is a thought-provoking modern science fiction TV series. The action-packed series with plot twists to boot, is way ahead of its time in how it tackles the yin and yang […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 7 (newsin.asia): The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with the USAID Development Credit Authority (DCA), Hatton National Bank PLC and Sampath Bank PLC have announced a new partnership for a program of up to US $9 million for local financing available to private, micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) throughout […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 7 (newsin.asia): The member States of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) met in Colombo on  September 4 and 5 and finalized the Terms of Reference (ToR) to set up a  Working Group on Maritime Safety and Security. At the 17th Council of Ministers held in Durban, South Africa in 2017, it […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A number of Sri Lankan Muslim groups have called on the government to medicalise female circumcision. In representations made to the Parliamentary Committee on Women and Gender, members of the All Ceylon Jamiyathul Ulama, All Ceylon YMMA Conference, Centre for Islamic Studies and United Religions Initiative urged the Health Ministry to […]