BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Current political crisis in Sri Lanka clearly indicates that although Sinhala community is the majority citizens in Sri Lanka, minority groups are playing politics with them in the parliament. Although the Sinhala community is the majority of Population (Nearly 80%), they cannot discriminate the minority, who have equal human rights. The operation […]

ගීතාංජන ජනාධිපතිතුමා එජාප ප්‍රධානීන් අමතා  කල කතාව නැරඹුවෙමි. එවැනි ත්‍රිලක් මට ලබන්නට හැකි වුයේ හුඟ කලෙකිනි. එම කතාව ඇසූ විට මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති තුමා කෙරෙහි මාතුල මෙතෙක් නොතිබූ ගරුත්වයක් ඇති විය. සැබවින්ම එය අතිශය  ධෛර්‍යය  සම්පන්න කතාවකි. රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා දිව විකාගෙන ඉතා අපහසුවෙන් මෙන්, Mr. Bean ගේ මූණ දාගෙන එම සම්පුර්ණ කතාව  අසා ගෙන […]

Shenali Waduge‎ to Saving Sri Lanka Who are these jokers drafting a new constitution that is NOT FEDERAL BUT CONFEDERAL where the Centre is basically PERMANENTLY ceding powers to the provinces. What kind of sick arrangement is this … all to satisfy some murderers who killed for 30 years & now putting their political wing to finally […]

 ශ්‍යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත යහපාලන රජයේ බැඳුම්කර මගඩිය නිසා මේ වනවිට භාණ්‌ඩාගාර බිල්පත් සහ බැඳුම්කර පොලී අනුපාත විශාල ලෙස ඉහළ ගොස්‌ ඇතැයි හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතා zදිවයිනZ ට කීවේය. 2015 පෙබරවාරි මාසයේදී උද්ධමනය අඩුවෙමින් තිබුණත් මේ බැඳුම්කර මගඩිය නිසා පොලී අනුපාත ඉහළ ගිය බව ද ඔහු කීවේය. මේ අනුව රජයට දේශීය ණය […]

Courtesy BBC Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a motion of no confidence in Theresa May, after she said MPs would not vote on her Brexit deal until the week of 14 January. The PM had delayed the vote from last week, admitting she was set to lose. Labour leader Mr Corbyn said on Monday it was […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 17: The re-instated Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the man he replaced, Mahinda Rajapaksa, are set to clash over two major issues facing Sri Lanka, namely, the continuation of the Executive Presidency and devolution of power to the Tamil-speaking Northern and Eastern provinces. Soon after being sworn-in as Prime […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 17 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said that it will be very difficult to undertake a collective journey” with the United National Party (UNP) led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe because of the presence of corrupt MPs in parliament where Wickremesinghe has a majority. Speaking to MPs of Wickremesinghe’s […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 17 (newsin.asia): The interest on 61.5% of China’s loans to Sri Lanka is far below the international market rate, according to Prof. Huang Yunsong, Associate Dean at the China Center for South Asian Studies in Sichuan University. Huang told the Colombo Shangri-La Colloquium 2018 held here on Sunday, that as of […]

lanka C news එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය විසින් අද දිනයේ කොලඹ ගාළු මුවදොරදී ‘යුක්තියේ ජයග‍්‍රහණය’ ජනරැළිය පවත්වන ලදී. විශාල ජන සහභාගීත්වයකින් යුතුව පවත්වන ලද එම ජනරැළියේ ගුවන් ඡයාරූප හෝ වීඩියෝ දර්ශණ සොයා ගැනීම ඉතා අපහසු තත්වයේ පවතී. මේ වන විට සමාජ ජලායන්හි පලව ඇති පින්තූර හා වීඩියෝ දර්ශණ පිහිලයක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. එජාප කථිකයන් කියා සිටියේ අද […]

Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Most of the UNPers had insisted that the new Cabinet should be confined to 30 Ministers, UNP MP Eran Wickrmaratne said yesterday. Mr Wickramaratne told journalists that many UNPers had insisted that new Cabinet should be confined only to 30 members to be in line with the wish of the […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former SLFP Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara today said the President had requested the 21 SLFP Parliamentarians to sit in the opposition bench when they attend the parliament session. He said the President had made this request from all SLFP MPs during a meeting with the President last evening. Meanwhile, Parliamentarian Nishantha […]

By Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion – Frederick Douglass -American Author Around two centuries ago our ancestors launched a heroic struggle against the mighty British Empire in an uprising in order to gain freedom from British colonial rule. Reminiscences of that struggle still haunt […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today Last week’s political developments revealed the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde syndrome of two leading minor parties in the country, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). These two parties have mastered the art of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. After extending […]