KAMALIKA PIERIS Tamil reached the position of a national language through an artificial route, not a natural one. Sri Lanka has not adopted the Tamil language spontaneously. Tamil became a national language overnight through the efforts of the Tamil Separatist Movement. From the 1940s onwards, the Tamil politicians wanted to get Tamil recognized on par […]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon commissioned 3 members (Ban Ki Moon Panel of Experts) selected personally by him to submit a personal report on the ‘final months’ of Sri Lanka’s conflict. This report was not commissioned by the UNGA or UNSC. This report was never tabled at the UNGA, UNSC or even UNHRC. This […]

Courtesy Buddhistdoor On the 9th of March, Fo Guang Shan Jin Guangming Temple held a lucky lecture on the eight-pass fasting and human Buddhism, and invited the Master of the Faculty of the Faculty of Buddhism and the Ministry of Education to teach “quantum mechanics and emptiness.” Despite the continuous rain and cold weather, the scene […]

Senaka Weeraratna This is a story of a child genius who shone brilliantly at Royal College, Colombo when the school was located at St. Sebastian Hill, Hulftsdorp. A Royal College Magazine of that period devotes 3-4 pages to his invention and heaps praise on him. Bertram Elibank Devepurarathna was the inventor of a mechanism that […]

ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුන අද දින පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී රන්ජිත් සොයිසා ජනාධිපති වැය ශීර්ෂය ඡන්දය ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමේදී මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් කියපු විදියට යමක් වෙයිද කියලා අපි බලන් හිටියා. ඒ වගේම පෙරේදා අයවැය දෙවෙනිවර කියැවීමේ  ඡන්ද විමසීමේදී අපි බලාපොරොත්තු වුනා යම් ආකාරයකින් තර්ජනයක් ආන්ඩුවට එල්ල කරන්න හැකිවෙයි කියලා.  නමුත් අයවැය සදහා ඡන්දය විමසීමේදී  ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් […]

කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ වැඩබලන විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ අහමඩ් මනාස් මකීන්   මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය විකුණා බලය ලබාගැනීම වෙනුවට මැතිවරණය පවත්වා නියම  ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට කටයුතු කරන්නැයි නිදහස් හා සාධාරණ මැතිවරණයක් සඳහා වන ජනතා ව්‍යාපාරය ඉල්ලයි. එහි වැඩබලන විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ අහමඩ් මනාස් මකීන් මහතා පසුගියදා කොළඹ පැවති වැඩ මුළුවකදී මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. වත්මන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා සහ අගමැතිවරයා ජනතාවගේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ආරක්ෂා […]

By C. A. Chandraprema  Courtesy The Island March 14, 2019, 8:56 pm We are living through an era when there is growing unease in the country due to the rise of anti-social gangs in the North. They may still be at an incipient stage, but networks are being built and a lifestyle is evolving. One never […]

By Saman Indrajith  Courtesy The Island March 14, 2019, 11:03 pm Women and children in the Northern Province were being exposed to a sinister racket of producing rape films sponsored by members of the same community who were resident abroad, JVP MP Bimal Rathnayake, yesterday, told parliament. Participating in the Committee Stage Debate of the […]

Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa today urged the government to withdraw from the proposed resolution co-sponsored by Sri Lanka to be presented at the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva. He told parliament that the government should consider the true information and […]

By Ananda Ariyarathne Courtesy Ceylon Today National Prosperity is the reflection of the ultimate capacity that is maintained by a Government providing the best possible environment for the sustenance of life. A Government is the power house that should generate the energy required in turning the environment to be sustaining life with ease. When a Government […]

By sumanasiri liyanage Courtesy Ceylon Today Presenting his first budget in November 2017, Mangala Samaraweera behaved like a bull in a china shop informing that he would amend the laws that were enacted by the previous governments in order to protect the lower rung of the society for the satisfaction of the greed and needs of […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 14 (newsin.asia) – The state owned Sri Lanka Ports Authority, on Thursday said that it would purchase three ship-to-shore gantry cranes from China for its deep water terminal at the Colombo Port in order to handle bigger container ships this year.  The Government Information Department said that the cabinet of ministers, […]