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 […]

ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා අගමැති ලෙස දිවරුම් දීමෙන් පසු ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ඔවුන් ඉදිරියේදී දැඩි විවේචනාත්මක අදහස් දැක්වීමක් සිදු කලේය. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ 225ම පක්‍ෂ වුවත් රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතා අගමැති නොකරන බවට තමන් විසින් කරන ලද මුල් ප‍්‍රකාශයේ තව දුරටත් සිටින බවත් එය තම පුද්ගලික අදහස වුවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු සම්ප‍්‍රදායට හා ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදයට ගරු කරමින් රනිල් […]

H.L. D. Mahindapala Last Thursday, just before the courts closed for Christmas holidays, the Supreme Court, sticking strictly to a legalistic path, put an end to the controversial issue of defining the powers of President Maithripala Sirisena, leaving the nation to wrestle with the bigger problems still awaiting solutions to stabilise the nation.  In fact, […]

Sudath Gunasekara 16.12.2018 It was only  20 days ago on Nov 26, 2018. the patriotic Sinhala Buddhist  masses who love their motherland had some relief when Majhinda Rajapaks was sworn in as Prime Minister on the 26th of November as their Messiah (modern Dutugamunu of the Sinhala nation) and they  were jubilant and overjoyed as […]

By A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Religion based political history of North and East indicate that although Sumanthiran belongs to the  protestant Christian minority  it is believed  that  he    would  receive the overwhelming support of the predominantly Hindu electorate of Jaffna. The most famous of Protestant Christian being elected include the co-founder  and leader of the Federal […]

Courtesy Adaderana The United National Party members who had joined with Mahinda Rajapaksa will not return to the UNP, says former Minister Basil Rajapaksa. Addressing a public meeting held in Meegoda area, the former Minister said that he is making this comment as a respect to those members. Furthermore, the rumours which claim that certain […]

Courtesy Adaderana I have given Premiership to Ranil Wickremesinghe while honouring Parliamentary traditions and democracy,” President Maithripala Sirisena has stated. He stated this addressing the members of United National Front (UPF) following the swearing-in ceremony of Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister this morning (16). The President stated that his statement on refusing to give […]

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE There are several arm chair political pundits indirectly expressing happiness on the departure of Mahinda Rajapakse  after a very short period in office.  These are the same people who advocated that Mahinda was greedy to grab power to escape legal actions against him and his family.    If that is the […]

Daya Wijesinghe  Hony. General  Secretary De Dham Rakno Our organization, De Dham Rakno, is a movement of the people of Sri Lanka, that is committed to preserving the sovereignty and the integrity of our country, and the right of all its people to live in peace, equality and harmony across the length and breadth of the […]

John Laughland, Courtesy RT British Prime Minister Theresa May is a politician who holds on to power through defeats. Even though she survived a no-confidence vote held within her own Conservative Party this week, it was also a sort of defeat. She achieved high office (Home Secretary) thanks to David Cameron, who failed to gain […]

By Afshain Afzal Pakistan was once recognized as a unique nation spread over two strategically located Eastern and Western parts, separated by a distance of 1000 kilometers. The binding force that cemented unity and harmony between these two predominantly Muslim nations was ideology of Pakistan. The story of this love between Bengal as Eastern part […]

තුසිත බාලසූරිය ප්‍රධාන ලේකම්, සමාජ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී පක්ෂය           කංසා ශාකය නීතිගත කරන ලෙසට අප විසින් රාජ්‍යයෙන් ඉතා පැහැදිලි ඉල්ලීමක් කර ඇත. මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශය විසින් කරන ලද ඉල්ලීමකට අනුව අයවැය යෝජනාවක් ලෙස අප එම යෝජනාවලිය ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලදී. එහි අරමුණ කංසා ජාතික ධනය උපයන ශාකයක් බවට පත්කිරීමයි. රටේ ණය ගෙවා දැමීමට ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයෙක් යෝජනා කිරීම වෙනුවට රටට […]

By Noor Nizam, Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener – “The Muslim Voice”. – December 15th., 2018. POLITICAL PARTIES BASED ON COMMUNITY, RELIGION AND COMMUNAL BASIS HAS TO BE BANNED IN SRI LANKA BY THE MAJORITY SINHALESE COMMUNITY AND NATIONALIST SINHALA FORCES IMMEDIATELY UNDER ANY NEW CONSTITUTION TO BE PRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT. […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada  15 December 2018 MIKE ADLER TORONTO. COM Dear Mike: Re: Tamil Heritage Month launch reflects pain of Sri Lanka’s war. With my ongoing interest in this 30 year long Tamil Eelam War in my Homeland, Sri Lanka, which ended with the last bullet […]

By A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The Canada based pro separatist scribe D.B.S.Jeyaraj who writes long articles to Daily Mirror run by Ranil Wickremasinghe’s family and who has gained much experience in promoting the Tamil separatist objectives on the  sly has said that Sammbamdan (the terrorist grandpa) and diaspora bank rolled Sumanthiran  have been accused of harming […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ලංකාව විසින් මෙතෙක් බිහි කර තිබෙන විශිෂ්ටතම මනෝ විද්‍යාඥයා පද්මාල් ද සිල්වා මහතාය. ඔහු මනෝ විද්‍යාඥ ස්ටැන්ලි රැක්මන් , මනෝ විද්‍යාඥ විලියම් යූල් වැනි පතාකයන් ගේ ගෞරවයට ලක් වූ පුද්ගලයෙකි. එහෙත් වරක් මා ඉදිරියේ එක් මනෝ වෛද්‍යවරියක් පද්මාල් ද සිල්වා මහතා උපහාසයට ලක් කලේ ඔහුගේ ප්‍රථම උපාධිය සිංහල සහ බෞද්ධ දර්ශනය […]

English translation of the text of a speech made by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at his Wijerama Mawatha residence on 15 December 2018. Most venerable members of the Maha Sangha, Clergymen of all religions, Members of Parliament, Ministers, and dear friends, The Supreme Court has delivered a judgement against the holding of the general election […]

2018 දෙසැම්බර් 15 වෙනිදා හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා විජේරාම මාවතේ නිල නිවසේ සිට කළ කතාවේ පිටපත අතිපූජනීය මහා සංඝරත්නයෙන් අවසරයි, සියලු ආගම්වල පූජකතුමනි, මැති ඇමතිවරුණි, මිත්‍රවරුනි, හිතවතුනි, අපි කැදවලා තිබුණු මහ මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීමට විරුද්ධව ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ  තීන්දුවක් දීලා තියෙනවා. ඒ නඩු තීන්දුව ඉතාමාත්ම දීර්ඝ හා සංකීර්ණ ලියවිල්ලක්  නිසා එය හදාරා බලා, ඒකෙන් ව්‍යවස්ථාමය වශයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු ආණ්ඩුක්‍රමයක් […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I do not agree with his theory .He talks about the  fact that ,we have to accept who we are and find indigenous development strategy ? and that we do not need Globalization I would like to ask him to name a country which has developed so far after world war 2 […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The dissolution of parliament by a gazette notification of the president was not in terms of the constitution, was determined by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka When carefully reading two judgements it is quite clear that judges decided purely based on the literal meaning the clauses of the constitution and they […]

By Charles S.Perera A Gamarala  and his family were locked up in their home surrounded by Alibaba and 40 thieves coming from the  cavern under temple trees and making impossible demands.  The Gamarala  sent a message to  Maha Danamutta asking for  a solution and  liberate him and his family. Maha Danamutta and his goloyo said […]

Geethanjana Kudaligamage The drama is over! At the end, the protagonist, Ms. Democracy is left in the middle of the stage stark naked. Now, the wolves who striped her, celebrate her ugly nudity in rejoice chanting a different variant of ‘MANGALA’ SUTHRA,’ the cunning sutra that is used to destroy the autonomy of the people […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The only lawmaker to vote against the 19th Amendment to the Constitution retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera, yesterday, said that those who hailed the new law as panacea owed an explanation to the country. Former Digamadulla District MP Weerasekera said so when The Island asked him as to why he […]

METHMALIE DISSANAYAKE Courtesy Ceylon Today The Illankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) made it clear yesterday (12) that they would not function as a part of a United National Front (UNF) Government and that they would continue to be seated in the Opposition. However, the Party extended its support to the restoration of a Government led by […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to resign from the Premiership in order to ensure stability of the country, according to MP Namal Rajapaksa. In a twitter message, he said that Rajapaksa will step down tomorrow following an address to the nation. The MP further said that the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) […]