Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada. Samalankulam or Smalang weva has been a place name that we had included in our list of place-names in the North and East (scroll to Samalankulam at the website: https://dh-web.org/place.names/index.html ).  This was made available to the public since approximately 2002 to 2006. Samalankulam had been listed in the 1982 Annual Report […]

Keerthi Godayaya Once again, a myriad of explanations has been emanating from all directions regarding the constitutional quagmire that has engulfed Sri Lankan politics at present. Many of these explanations are based on western democratic norms and traditions as to how important that can be to safeguard the Westminster parliamentary etiquettes. Many are worried about […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  The term mindfulness” has been used to refer to a psychological state of awareness, a practice that promotes this awareness, a mode of processing information, and a characterological trait (Brown et al., 2007; Davis & Hayes, 2011).  According to Bodhi (2000) the word mindfulness originally comes from the Pali word sati, […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි  අපි ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ මුල් යුගයේ සාමාජිකයින් වෙමු. මේ පොළොවේ නොතිබුන දෙයක් ගොඩනැංවීමට දායකවූ ඒ පරපුරේ සියලුම සහෝදර සයෝදරියන් ඉතා ගෞරවයෙන් සිහිපත් කරමින් මේ ලිපිය ලිවිම ආරම්භ කරනුයේ, මගේ ජිවිත කාලයටම එවන්වූ උත්තරීතර ගුනගරුකවූ මිනිසුන් මට හමුනොවි ඇති බව සිහිපත් කරමිනි. ගැටවර අවධියේ පසුවූ අපි සියලු දෙනාම එකට එකතුවී කල මහා මෙහෙවර […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The People’s Action for Free and Fair Election (PAFFREL) Executive Director Rohana Hettiarachchi told The Island that a single parliamentary session cost Sri Lankan taxpayer a whopping Rs 25,721,413 mn and not Rs 4.6 mn to Rs 5mn as previously estimated. The civil society activist said that the PAFFREL had […]

by Shyam Nuwan Ganewatte Courtesy The Island The government was working on a vote on account to be presented at the next Cabinet meeting, Minister of International Trade and Investment Promotion, Bandula Gunawardena yesterday told the media at the Prime Minister’s Office. If the Supreme Court decided that the dissolution of Parliament was legal, the President […]

Courtesy Adaderana National Organizer of the United National Party (UNP) Navin Dissanayake says that UNP will contest through a common candidate at the next Presidential Election. A group of UNP parliamentarians called on the Mahanayake of the Malwathu Chapter, Most Venerable Thibbatuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thero today (20). They informed the Thero on the current […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Three suspects, who were remanded in connection with the shooting incident in Nallur targeting Jaffna District Court Judge M. Illanchelian, have been granted bail. They were granted bail by Jaffna High Court Judge Annalingam Premachandran yesterday (19) under strict bail conditions. Police Sergeant Sarath Hemachandra who was a personal protection officer to […]

Darshana Sanjeewa Courtesy The Daily Mirror The National Police Commission (NPC) said yesterday it had not directed the IGP to cancel the transfer of the CID’s Organised Crimes Investigation Unit OIC, IP Nishantha Silva. Several reports claimed that the NPC had directed the IGP to cancel the transfer of IP Nishantha Silva. NPC Secretary Saman Dissanayaka […]

RANMINI GUNASEKARA Courtesy Ceylon Today Speaker Karu Jayasuriya’s actions against the President reveal his personal agenda to run for the Presidential Election in 2020, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Professor G. L. Peiris said today (19). He said this at a Media briefing held at the Party headquarters in Colombo. The Speaker is […]

නුවන් හෙට්ටිආරච්චි උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම කථානායක කරු ජයසූරිය පොදු අපේක්‍ෂක සිහිනයෙන් අන්ධ වී ඇති බව සත්‍ය ගවේෂකයෝ සංවිධානයේ කැඳවුම්කරු ප්‍රේම්නාත් සී. ‍ෙදාලවත්ත පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ කොළඹ මහජන පුස්තකාලයේදී ඊයේ (19දා) පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදීය. එහිදී ඒ මහතා මෙසේද පැවැසීය. රටේ ඇතිවෙලා තියෙන ගැටලුකාරී තත්ත්වයට කථානායක වගකිව යුතුයි. මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ නව අගමැති කළ ගැසට් එකට […]

දෙනගම ධම්මික රණවීර උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම අගමැති තනතුර හිමිවන බවට ඇතැම් පිරිසක් විසින් කථානායක කරු ජයසූරිය මහතාව ‘අන්දවා’ තිබූ නිසා ඔහු ස්ථාවර නියෝග නොතකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ අත්තනෝමතිකව කටයුතු කළ බව සම කැබිනට් ප්‍රකාශක නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන හා වෘත්තීය පුහුණු ඇමැති නීතිඥ දයාසිරි ජයසේකර මහතා පැවැසීය. ඔහු එසේ කීවේ ඊයේ (19දා) රජයේ ප්‍රවෘත්ති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදීය. ඔහු වැඩිදුරටත් මෙසේද […]

ටී. මුදලි සිසිර වේරගොඩ නමින් එවූ පණිවිඩය  සබැඳේ. (ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් එවූ දෙයට සිංහලෙන් ලියන්නේ එය මටත් වැඩි දෙනෙකුටත් පහසු නිසයි) කෙටියෙන් නම්, එතුමා කියනවා රණවක ඇමතිතුමා බියගුල්ලෙකුයි. ඉතින්, මොවුන් තමන්ට පිටුපෑවා ආදී දෙයයි. ඉන් පසු කියනවා අලුතින් සංවිධානයක් හැදීගෙන එනවා කියා. බලය ඇත්තන් හෝ ඔවුන්ගේ නෑ-මිතුරන් හෝ ඔවුන්ගෙන් වාසි නොලැබී ගියවුන්ගෙන් හෝ මේ කිසිවෙකුගෙන්වත් රටට හෝ […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Leaving aside the legalities, politicalities, Constitutionalities and the complexities of the current imbroglio in which the nation is grounded (temporarily), the underlying issues in the Constitutional crisis can be reduced to one single question: At a time when all three branches of the state are trapped in a deadlock without a […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS People of Sri Lanka have a serious doubt about the behaviour of the speaker as a rehearsal to pass the proposed new constitution using illegal and contradict techniques of modes operandi. Since the election of the Yahapalana government in 2015, the behaviour of the parliament speaker has been confused and reflected the […]

Nawagamu Deshabandu Any educated and developed person would agree that passing any proposal or motion based on the level of noise or sound is the lowest primitive method of applied democracy.  We have inherited this law in the constitution which was written during English colonial rule which at that time gave no room for public […]

By Charles.S.Perera In UK the English Judges give judgments which are human,  fair and just. They look beyond the law to render human and  people friendly judgements. Lord Denning’s judgments are classical and are often quoted to make legal opinions and even judgments more human. The law should be applied to  settle problems instead of […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි ප්‍රසන්න රණවීර ගම්පහ දිස්ත්‍රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී රට තුළ පවතින අර්බුදකාරී දේශපාලන වාතාවරණය හමුවේ මතුව ඇති සිය`ථ දෝශ සහගත තත්වයන් මාගේ කරපිටින් යවා, සිද්ධියට සම්බන්ධ අනෙකුත් පාර්ශවයන් නිදොස් වීමේ නිර්ලජජිත උත්සාහයක් පිළිබ`දව මාහට සැලවී ඇත. විශේෂයෙන්ම ජනමාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ වරින් වර මාගේ දර්ශන හා ඡායා රූප පෙන්වමින් ඒවාට විවිධ අර්ථ කථන දෙමින් කටයුතු කරන ආකාරයක් දැකිය […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Speaker has acknowledged that the composition of parliamentarians of United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) is higher than that of the United National Party (UNP), says Minister Dinesh Gunawardena. He stated this addressing a press conference held at the Parliament Complex this afternoon (19). Commenting further, he said that the Speaker was absent […]

Courtesy Adaderana The parliamentary session commenced at 1 pm today (19). However, the session was chaired by the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament in the absence of the Speaker, Karu Jayasuriya. Deputy Speaker moved that a select committee should be appointed and requested MP nominations for the relevant matter be urgently handed over to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana President states that he was not informed on the protest by the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) organization and he expresses his regrets regarding the inconveniences caused to the monks. A protest by BBS was held this afternoon (19) in front of the Presidential Secretariat. They had arrived at the Presidential Secretariat to handover […]

ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි !එච්.එම්.එස්.බී. මැදිවත්ත වැඩබලන සභාපති සමස්ත ලංකා හෙද සංගමය   ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික රෝහලේ ප‍්‍රධාන විකිරණ අංශයේ DSA යන්ත‍්‍රය 2016 වසරේ සිට අක‍්‍රීය වීම නිසා රෝගීන්ට බරපතල තත්ත්වයක්… ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික රෝහලේ ප‍්‍රධාන විකිරණ අංශයේ තිබූ DSA යන්ත‍්‍රය (Digital Substractive Angiogram – ලේ නහර ආශ‍්‍රිත පරීක්ෂණ හා ප‍්‍රතිකාර කිරීම – හෘදය හැර) 2016 වසරේ සිට අක‍්‍රීයව […]

Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka 20th November 2018 I wish to convey my warmest felicitations to all Muslims in Sri Lanka marking the birth anniversary of the Holy Prophet Mohamed. The followers of Islam in Sri Lanka commemorate this auspicious day with religious observances, charitable deeds and contemplation […]

Dr D.Chandraratna I believe that when the Parliament is recalled in a weeks time monies have to be voted to carry on the task of government in this interim period till a finality is reached. A money bill of some sort has to be approved by the Parliament and this gives the caretaker Prime Minister […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Minority governments can exist for a short period in a democratic system. Minority governments for a short period were in USA, UK, Australia, Canada, India, Japan and many other countries. In many instances, there were minority governments as caretakers in the history. In Sri Lanka, Mr Dudley Senanayake’s government in March, 1960 […]

Governments come & governments go – that is clear evidence of a vibrant democracy. People go for elections – they bring governments to power & they can bring down governments too. We have seen that happening too. But all this becomes a little complicated when groups of external players enter the scene to mess with […]

   Dr Sudath Gunasekara RW mourns fate of democracy – Warns public confidence in parliamentarians at an all-time low –  Insists world is watching, damage to Sri Lanka’s democratic reputation on the line  By Chathuri Dissanayake  17.11.2018. Financial Times A deeply moved MP Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday lamented over what he termed as the ‘destruction of […]

Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA  Six hundred million rupees to buy a MP can be used to build boatyards When I heard that opposition MP’s price tag is as same as the price tag of a race horse with a pedigree. These horses like Green Monkey which is a Thorough Bred was 16 million rupees Our green […]

DR DASARATH JAYASURIYA President, SPUR Australia November 15, 2018, 9:27 pm The Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR), encourages all parties embroiled in the struggle for political supremacy in Sri Lanka to respect the authority of the Executive President, Maithripala Sirisena and abide by the rulings given by Sri Lanka’s […]