There is a reason why history is important. Everything has a history. Unless people know the true background not only is the solution impossible, but too often the solution may aggravate the problem. Our island was never invaded but ceded to foreign invader rule from 1505 to 1972 when the island’s sovereignty and governance fell […]

Courtesy The Gulf Today Colombo: SriLankan Airlines, the National Carrier of Sri Lanka and a member of the oneworld alliance, won the prestigious ‘World’s Leading Airline to the Indian Ocean’ title once again at the Grand Final Gala Ceremony of World Travel Awards, in Lisbon, Portugal recently. Congratulating SriLankan Airlines, World Travel Awards Founder, Graham […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Kumarikata, (Assam India), December 27 (AFP): Freshly-caught rat is at the top of the holiday menu for crowds flocking to a market in this northeastern state that specializes in rodents from local fields. Destined to be boiled, skinned and then cooked in a spicy gravy, rat is more popular than chicken and pork […]

By Laksiri Fernando Courtesy The Island “Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance.” – Machiavelli “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” Romans 12:19 “Jesus taught his disciples to turn the other cheek.” (Matthew 5:39) How Things Began? Maithripala Sirisena left Mahinda Rajapaksa […]

සමන් විජය බණ්ඩාර  lanka C news මාවනැල්ලේ මහ රාත‍්‍රියේ ප‍්‍රසිද්ධ ස්ථාන වල බුදු පිළිම කඩමින් ගිය සැකකරුවන් දෙනෙකු කඩුගන්නාව මාවනැල්ල සිමාවේ ඇති දිදුරුවත්ත මං සන්දියක බුදු පිළිමයක් කඩද්දි ප‍්‍රදේශවාසි තරුණයන් විසින් ඉන් එක් සැකකාර තරුණයකු අල්ලා ගම්වාසින්ගේ සහායෙන් මාවනැල්ල පොලිසිය භාර දි ඇති අතර එහි සිටි තවත් අයෙක් පැන දිව ගොස් ඇති බව අද 26 […]

Geethanjana Kudaligamage හාන්සිවෙයි කියා අපි සිතුවත්, හාන්සි නොවී අපිට ගහපු ජනාධිපති උතුමාණන් වහන්සේ Executive presidency has become a point for a robust debate once again. Those who supported the Executive Presidency then in 1978 and beyond, are against it now. Those who opposed it throughout, are supporting it now. What are the real undercurrents for […]

By Rohana R. Wasala History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. -Karl Marx ‘Dhatusena’(ISBN 978-955-0955-79-4/Visidunu Prakashakayo Pvt Ltd, Boralesgamuwa, Sri Lanka, 2017) is a short historical novel in Sinhala written by veteran novelist, poet, and socio-political thinker and activist Dr Gunadasa Amerasekera. It is a story related by a first person narrator who […]

විදේශ සේවයේ පොඩ්ඩන් පිරිසක් උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස්  (ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස් -2018.දෙසැ.25, ප.ව.10.45) ලංකාවේ ඇති රාජ්‍ය ආයතන අතුරින් පාරදෘශ්‍ය භාවයකින් තොර, රජයේ නීති–රීති තුට්ටුවකට මායිම් නොකරන, හොරුන් රකින, රටට යහපත් සේවයක් නොකරන හා කිසිදු මූල්‍ය විනයක් නැතිව ක්‍රියාත්මක වන එකම රාජ්‍ය ආයතනය වන්නේ විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යංශයයි. මෙය සැහැසි ප්‍රකාශයකැයි කිසිවෙකු කියන්නේ නම් අපට ඒ බව තහවුරු කළ […]

MEDIA RELEASE Mahinda Rajapaksa Leader of the Opposition Unprecedented floods have affected the Northern Province and several other parts of the country disrupting the lives of many thousands of people living in those areas. Houses have gone under water and roads have been rendered impassable. It is reported that the President has already issued instructions to the […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ විපක්‍ෂ නායක 2018 දෙසැම්බර්  25 අධික වර්ෂාපතනය නිසා උතුරු පළාත ඇතුලු දිවයිනේ තවත් ප්‍රදේශ ගණනාවක ගං වතුර ආපදා තත්වයක් ඇති වී තිබේ. මේ නිසා ඒ ප්‍රදේශවල ජීවත් වෙන ජනතාව දහස් ගණනින් අවතැන් වී ඇත. නිවාස වතුරට යටවී ඇත්තා සේම, ප්‍රධාන මහාමාර්ග පවා භාවිතා කළ නොහැකි තත්වයක් ඇතිවී තිබේ. ආපදාවට ලක් වී ඇති ප්‍රදේශ […]

Geethanjana Kudaligamage Anura Kumara Dissanayaka is Still Screaming from the ‘Kithul’ Tree Top About Democracy, While Robber Barons Looting the Country Through our Parliament. When we take important political decisions, we always anticipate about the socio-political repercussions and overall end-results of such decisions we make. We foresee the impacts, short-term and long-term consequences of such […]

Senaka Weeraratna Not a single Annual Christmas Day passes without an appeal by the heads of the Christian Churches to the good Lord for his benevolent intervention to establish peace on earth. That appeal is also joined by the current political establishment of Sri Lanka both from the Government and the Opposition. That is a nice […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna  Courtesy Adaderana Namal Kumara, the Director Operations of the Anti Corruption Force, says that the investigations regarding the information he revealed on the VIP assassination plot are at a weak status. According to him, information on the relevant investigations has been released to the media by some individual. He mentioned these addressing a media […]

Ranjan Kasthuri Courtesy The Daily Mirror Making a firm statement yesterday, President Maithripala Sirisena said the SLFP has decided to contest the forthcoming election jointly with the Sri Lanka Podujana Permuna (SLPP) and warned that district and electoral organizers who obstructed this process would be removed from their positions. Addressing an electoral organisers meeting at the […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති රෝසි සේනානායක මහත්මිය ඉදිරිපත් කරපු අයවැය විස්තරය අහගෙන ඉන්න එක ලේසි නෑ. අපේ හැමෝ ම වගේ මේ ලේඛකයාත් ඒක අහන ගමන් හිනාවෙන්න පටන්ගත්තා. ඒ අමාරුවෙන් හරි ඒ හිනාව පාලනය කරගත්තා. තව කාලයක් ජීවත්වෙන්න හිතාගෙන ඉන්න හින්දා පපුවට වැඩිය වදදෙන්න හොඳ නෑ. ඒ කොහොම වුනත්, මේ නෝනා කියපු සංඛ්‍යා ගැන හිතලා බලන එක […]

ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි ! සමස්ත ලංකා හෙද සංගමය පසුගිය ඔක්තෝබර් මාසයේදී බරපතල තර්ජනයක් ලෙස ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික රෝහල තුළ මතුව ආ සායනික අපද්‍රව්‍ය බැහැරලීමේ ක‍්‍රියාවලිය නැවතත් රෝගීන්ට, කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයට හා පරිසරයට බරපතල ගැටලූ ඇති කරවමින් තිබේ. මේ වනවිට ඉතා විශාල අපද්‍රව්‍ය ප‍්‍රමාණයක් ජාතික රෝහලේ අපස්මාර ගොඩනැගිල්ල පිටුපස ගොඩගසා තිබේ. මේවා මාස එකහමාරක පමණ කාලයක සිට එකතු වූ […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Maithripala Sirisena’s speech, made after re-appointing Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister, on 16 December and thereby ending the 51-day impasse, was hailed as great by many of the Rajapaksa supporters. The reason being, the severe dressing down of the newly re-appointed premier received. However, those with a keener hearing were […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The most significant political and social issue in Sri Lanka is building the national integration for the prosperity of Sri Lanka.  What is national integration? Shona Khurana (2010) has defined as National integration is the awareness of a common identity amongst the citizens of a country.  It means that though we belong […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara 20. 12.2018 Minorities in Sri Lanka Demographically there are two groups of major minorities, as they are called, in this country at present, though we never had any before 1815 or even up to 1948,when the concept of minority was created by the British and entered it in the Soulbury Constitution, we […]

RANJITH SOYSA We are moved and encouraged to hear that a high powered meeting had been held headed by the President with the officials including the Attorney General , CID and the Central Bank – Island report 22nd Dec- to pursue the master minds of the biggest bank robbery. We have already wasted nearly 20 […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 18.1.19. 7.4.19 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) gets much attention in Parliament and on television today, because Its leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake keeps speaking and speaking  , holding audience attention,  using  long sentences,  in  slow measured tones. He ends up uttering empty statements. JVP is not a popular party. At the 2015 general […]

2008 was significant for several reasons. LTTE was defeated in the East. Sri Lankan Military was moving to liberate the North. TNA that had been virtually functioning as LTTE’s political wing realized that its military arm would soon be permanently clipped. The next strategic & tactical maneuver was to internationalize what LTTE sought with gun […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා නිව්ස් වෙබ් ජනපති ෆීල්ඩ් මාර්ෂල්ට කපද්දී අගමැති රංගේ බණ්ඩාරට කපලා..! බහුතරයේ විරෝධයට හිස නමා තීරණ ගන්නවා නම් අගමැති මුලින්ම කළ යුත්තේ එජාප නායකත්වයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වීමයි..! තමාට කැපුවේ ජනපති නොව එජාපය බව රවී කරුණානායක කියයි..! සියල්ලන් පාවා දී රනිල් මලික්-සාගල”රැක ගනියි..! (උපුල් බණ්ඩාර) පුත්තලම් දිස්ත්‍රික් එක්සත් ජාතික පෙරමුණු  පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී පාලිත රංගේ බණ්ඩාර,බදුල්ල […]

Laksiri Warnakula Journeying into the past, riding on a fading and fleeting memory is one of my favourite pastimes. And the ride I enjoy most is; ‘Letting myself lose in those reveries and then be at that starting line once again, waiting for the Mother Nature’s whistle for the ‘go’, the line being the boundary […]

Sports The Korean Ambassador’s and Kukkiwon Cup Taekwondo Championships 2018 were held from 15th to 20th December 2018 at the indoor Gym of Ministry of Sports and the Royal Mas arena, Royal college. It was the biggest scale Taekwondo Competition in Sri Lanka, along with around 2,000 Taekwondo competitors and officials. His Excellency Heon Lee, […]

R Chandrasoma It is now well-known that many ‘stirring’ news items highlighted in major news channels are fake – bogus ‘plants’ designed to advance a barely hidden political agenda. On a larger scale there is such a thing as ‘Fake Politics’ where a situation of crisis – threats of diverse kinds – are artificially foisted […]

Chanaka Bandarage It is Sinhala infighting that will bringforth the country’s downfall and creation of the Eelam Denying the Sinhalese the right to live in most parts of the north and the east and other acts of discrimination against them in those areas is the biggest problem that Sri Lanka faces today Sri Lanka is […]

Courtesy The Island Forensic Audit not launched yet Courts not moved against those who lied before PCoI The Presidential Secretariat yesterday alleged that a parliamentary Sectoral Committee had deliberately undermined the process to amend laws required to handle Treasury bond scams in 2015 and 2016. The alleged scams involved the Central Bank and the Perpetual […]

Courtesy RT Volume of non-resource shipments from Russia is going to set a new record by the end of the current year, hitting $147 billion, Andrey Slepnev, Chief Executive of the Russian Export Center said on Friday. The figure is compared to the previous record that was fixed in 2013, when the country’s non-energy exports […]

Courtesy SBS News The Federal Court on Friday rejected an appeal from a Tamil family, who had settled in the small Queensland town of Biloela, to stay in Australia. A Tamil asylum seeker family who made their home in a small Queensland town will be deported to Sri Lanka, after the Federal Court on Friday […]