KAMALIKA PIERIS Two Sri Lanka obsessed NGOs, Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka” and International Truth and Justice Project, Sri Lanka” have taken an interest in Sri Lanka’s contribution to UN Peacekeeping. Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka” is a group of journalists, human rights workers and other activists exiled from Sri Lanka and now […]

Courtesy the carthaginian solution Who issued this scorched-earth policy in response to local resistance against a foreign invasion army?  ….”cut down every yielding tree, pull down every dwelling house, destroy all fields, canals and irrigation reservoirs, kill all males over the age of 14 years and slaughter all cattle leaving those which are needed for the use […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge   Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer who terrorized the Whitechapel district in London’s East End by committing a number of murders in 1888. According to the official figures Jack the Ripper had killed five female prostitutes between August 31 and November 9, 1888. However some experts believe that his […]

By Tharindi Pabasara Courtesy Adaderana The fuel pricing formula is not suitable for Sri Lanka, says the former Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake. He stated this responding to the queries raised by the media today (19). According to the former Minister Karunanayake, it is sufficient to formulate a method of determining the prices without being counterproductive to […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island October 20, 2018, 9:12 pm Although conditions today are not what they were during the time the LTTE was waging war against the state and assassinating political leaders at will, and the JVP was doing likewise during its second adventure in 1988-89, political leaders in Sri Lanka continue to be a tightly […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu Call alleged assassination plot ‘serious’ Sri Lanka’s investigation authorities must expedite their probe into the alleged assassination plot targeting President Maithripala Sirisena, his advisers have said, terming it a very serious matter”. Addressing media persons here, presidential adviser Shiral Lakthilaka said Mr. Sirisena’s security has been heightened, following reports of an […]

 Courtesy Mail Online The United Nations has asked Sri Lanka to immediately repatriate a commander serving in the peacekeeping force in Mali following allegations that he was linked to atrocities committed during Sri Lanka’s war with Tamil Tigers. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Friday that the request to send Lieutenant Colonel Kalana Priyankara Lankamithra Amunupure […]

Anirban Bhaumik, DH News Service, New Delhi,  Sri Lanka has stalled China’s bid to spread its tentacles into the island nation’s war-ravaged Tamil-majority Northern Province, where several reconstruction projects are being funded by India. Sri Lanka has this week reversed its earlier decision… Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/india-relieved-chinas-foray-698835.html

By Natasha Fernando Courtesy The Diplomat Strategizing how Colombo can use sorely needed military grants and donations in an evolving security landscape. Sri Lanka is a middle-income country that is strategically located in the Indian Ocean. It emerged from a three-decade civil war and is now in a post-conflict era, struggling to maintain internal political and […]

Courtesy Mail Online COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – Sri Lanka’s military said Saturday that it will recall its commander leading a UN peacekeeping contingent in Mali, a day after the world body asked him to be repatriated over his human rights background. Military spokesman Sumith Atapattu said that it will comply with the UN request […]

BENJAMIN BROWN, LORITTA CHAN, and KANCHANA N RUWANPURA  Courtesy opendemocracy.net As capital elbows its way in and remakes the world according to its own designs, the need to democratise this polity is more urgent than ever. Early in October 2018, the latest IPCC report issued a stark warning, urging ‘rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ within the next […]

By Bilal Hussain  Courtesy The Express Tribune KARACHI: The Pakistan Business Council (PBC) has drafted a report focused on the free trade agreement (FTA) with Sri Lanka and has found motorcycle and cement manufacturing as potential industries that Pakistan can increasingly rely on. According to the PBC – a business policy advocacy platform, the purpose of the study is […]

දෙනගම ධම්මික රණවීර උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ශ්‍රීලනිපය සහ එජාපය අතර පැවැති සංහිඳියාව එන්න එන්නම බිඳවැටෙමින් පැවතීම නිසා ජාතික ආණ්ඩුව ශීඝ්‍රයෙන් දේශපාලන වශයෙන් බිඳවැටීමකට පත් වෙමින් ඇත. ජාතික ආණ්ඩුව බලයට පත්වීමෙන් පසුව මහ බැංකු බැඳුම්කර ගනුදෙනු සම්බන්ධව විමර්ශනය කිරීමට ජනාධිපති විමර්ශන කොමිසමක් පත් කිරීම එහි ආරම්භක සන්ධිස්ථානය බව දේශපාලන විචාරකයන්ගේ අදහස වී තිබේ. එම කොමිසමේ නිර්දේශ අනුව එජාපයට […]

ඩබ්ලිව්. කේ. ප්‍රසාද් මංජු උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම රට දැඩි අරාජික තත්ත්වයකට පත්ව තිබෙන අවස්ථාවක ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ මූලික ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 3, 4 වගන්ති අනුව ජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්‍ය බලය හිමි ජනතාවට නව ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවීමේ අවස්ථාව උදාකිරීම සඳහා ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යයෙන් බලයට පත්වූ රාජ්‍ය නායකයා වන ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවා හැරීමට බලය තිබෙන බව හිටපු අගවිනිසුරු සරත් එන්. සිල්වා මහතා ‘ඉරිදා […]

By DR D. CHANDRARATNA Courtesy The Island October 19, 2018, 12:00 pm The title of the editorial yesterday, the Terminal fracas (18, October) referred to the heated debate in the Cabinet over the sale of another state asset, the profit making eastern terminal at the Colombo port, but it subliminally suggested the terminal illness that has […]

Courtesy The Island The Hindu newspaper yesterday stood by its report on President Maithripala Sirisena’s remark at the last Cabinet meeting on an alleged RAW’s plot to assassinate him. The Sri Lankan government has so far issued three denials of the story and President Sirisena, in a telephone conversation, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

Professor Tatyana Titarenko  Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine  Head of the Laboratory of Social Psychology of the Person Institute of Social and Political Psychology Dr.  Ruwan M . Jayatunge’s   PTSD in the USSR” amazes the reader primarily with its original design. The author, step by step, reveals the underlying psychological causes […]

නිරන්ජලා ආරියවංශ,ක්‍රිස්ටීන් ඇන්තනි උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ත්‍රස්ත විමර්ශන ඒකකයේ හිටපු ප්‍රධානි නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති නාලක සිල්වා විසින් ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ඝාතනය කිරීමට කුමන්ත්‍රණය කළා යැයි නැඟෙන චෝදනාව යටපත් කිරීමට, රට තුළ දේශපාලනික කුමන්ත්‍රණයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන බව…ජනාධිපති ජේ‍යෂ්ඨ උපදේශක නීතිඥ ශිරාල් ලක්තිලක මහතා ඊයේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් පවත්වමින් අවධාරණය කළේය. එය දේශපාලනික අවශ්‍යතා මත යටපත් කිරීමට ඉඩ දිය නොහැකි […]

lanka C news ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මුළු විදේශ ණයවලින් චීනය වෙත ගෙවීමට ඇත්තේ 10%ක ප්‍රමාණයක් පමණක් බව චීනය අවධාරණය කරයි. චීන විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශක ‘ලු කන්ග්’ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ එරට දී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමිනි. චීන රජය විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ණය උගුලක සිර කර ඇතැයි පැවසෙන ප්‍රකාශ සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම අසත්‍ය බව ද කොළඹ […]

by Zacki Jabbar Courtesy The Island Kurunegala District UPFA MP Johnston Fernando said yesterday that he would sue the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID), for getting him remanded on what he termed a false allegation. Johnston Fernando along with his private secretary Sakeer Mohamed and former SATHOSA Chairman Nalin Fernando, were acquitted by the Kurunegala High […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Ports and Shipping Minister and SLFP spokesman Mahinda Samarasinghe yesterday alleged a deliberate attempt by a member or some members of the Cabinet to cause unprecedented rift between President Maithripala Sirisena and India. Samarasinghe said there was absolutely no basis for reports which quoted unidentified sources as having said that President […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි   විෂ්ණු කතරගම සුරිදුනි මෙසිරිලකට සුව සදනා හනික බලනු මැනැ මැති අගමැතිදුන් මේ රට කරනා යහපාලනයක් ගෙනවිත් ජනතාවට විනකරනා පියඹා යන උන් සැමදෙන යලි මේ මත නොඑනු මැනා   මේ සැමදෙන හනි හනිකට ඇයි මේ පියඹන්නේ රට රකිනා සුරිදුන් සැම පමණයි එය දන්නේ රට වනසන බව දැන දැන ඇයි උන් සුරකින්නේ රට […]

All these years the fabrications & humiliations targeted against the armed forces of Sri Lanka has been many. Even the UN system has blatantly misused their status and have based on hearsay chided the armed forces & ridiculed them going so far as to quote these unproven allegations on their reports thus tarnishing the image […]

RANJITH SOYSA The Island editorial on Learn from History (13 Oct) touched on an important issue concerning the use of children and teachers in the North to canvass the release of LTTE suspects now in custody. As mentioned in the editorial the irony of the effort on the part of the organizers of the movement […]

Courtesy BI INDIA BUREAU IRCTC to launch special train to attract international tourists from Buddhist countries like Japan, China, Thailand and Sri Lanka. The first rake of the train will roll out by the end of October although the train will be functional from December. The train’s route will include important Buddhist destinations like Bodh Gaya, […]

Courtesy  lanka C news ඉන්දීය රෝ ඔත්තු සේවය විසින් තමන් ඝාතනය කිරීමට කුමන්ත‍්‍රණය කරන්නේ යයි ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට ප‍්‍රකාශ කල බව තමනට පැවසුයේ කැබිනට් ඇමතිවරුන් සිවු දෙනෙකු විසින්ම බව ‘ද හින්දු’ මාධ්‍යවේදිනී මීරා ශ‍්‍රීනිවාසන් පැවසීය. ඇය මේ බව සදහන් කලේ කැබිනට් මාධ්‍ය හමුවේදී ඇමති රාජිත සේනාරත්න විසින් කරන ලද ප‍්‍රකාශයකට විරෝදය පල […]

COLOMBO, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka has reversed a decision to award a $300-million housing deal to China in favour of a joint venture with an Indian company, the government said, ahead of a visit by the prime minister to its South Asian neighbour. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will meet his counterpart Narendra Modi […]

Courtesy Mail Online (UK) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – An official says security has been tightened for Sri Lanka’s president as police investigate an alleged plot to assassinate him. Presidential adviser Sarath Kongahage told reporters on Thursday that precautionary measures have been taken to protect President Maithripala Sirisena. He declined to give further details. A […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 18 (newsin.asia): Realpolitik has made Sri Lanka and India paper over the rift that came about as a result of President Maithripala Sirisena’s  remark hinting that the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) may be  behind an alleged plot to assassinate him. Both President Sirisena and Indian Prime Minister […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s much-talked about Fuel Pricing Formula was revealed in detail to the media by Minister of Finance and Mass Media Mangala Samaraweera, at a press conference in Colombo today (18). The Cabinet of Minister had granted approval for the implementation of a cost reflective formula based pricing system of auto fuels effective […]