ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ ජේ.සී. වැලිඅමුණ An interview with Mr. J. C. Weliamuna published by the Asian Human Rights Commission තරිඳු උඩුවරගෙදර අධිකරණයේ නඩු ප‍්‍රමාද වෙන බව සමාජයේ ජනප‍්‍රිය මතයක් පවතිනවා. ඒත් ඒ ප‍්‍රමාදයට හේතු ග ැන බොහෝ අය සොයන්නේ නැහැ නේද? බාහිරව බැලූවාම පෙනෙන්නේ උසාවියේ නඩු කල් යන එක විතරයි. සමහරු නීතිඥවරුන්ට බනිනවා. සමහරු විනිශ්චයකරුවන්ට බනිනවා. […]

By Compelo Staff Writer Courtesy Compelo Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has laid the foundation stone on a new $3.85bn oil refinery in Hambantota in the country’s Southern Province. The oil refinery, which will be built within the Mirijjawila Export Processing Zone, will be owned by Silver Park International, a Singapore company controlled by India-based […]

Courtesy Adaderana Five persons, including Geoffrey Aloysius, the Chairman of Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) and father of PTL owner Arjun Aloysius, who were arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) have been produced before the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court, stated Ada Derana reporter. Accordingly, the five suspects have been remanded until the 05th of April […]

The subject of race & racial prejudice in Sri Lanka will not be understood unless we have a clear idea of how race & racial prejudiced traveled through history & time to be embedded into society & the psyche of people. We continue to return to colonial rule where every ill the world suffers today […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS In terms of economics, investment considers as an essential requirement of an economy for its expansion and an effective variable for solving many macroeconomic problems in a country. Classical economic theory indirectly ruled that investment should be equal to savings but the dynamism and macroeconomic problems in countries have forced many governments […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today By Shivanthi Ranasinghe On 20 March, both Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Minister Naveen Dissanayaka were invited to a function at the Siri Gauthama Viharaya by Venerable Muruththettuwe Ananda Thera. Speaking at the function, Naveen Dissanayaka named Rajapaksa as the next presidential candidate. Thanking him, Rajapaksa also named both Naveen Dissanayaka […]

Kanika Datta |  New Delhi  Courtesy business-standard The former Managing Director of McKinsey who served a prison term for insider trading has written a memoir setting out why his conviction was a miscarriage of justice Rajat K Gupta. Photo: Reuters The cheekbones are more sharply defined, the hair tinged with grey. Those could be signs of […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Mahnuwara Jesta Purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya ( A revised article fist  Posted on December 24th, 2014) 24.3.2019 Who are Kandyans In this essay I refer to all those people who lived within the territory known as the Kandyan Kingdom at the time of signing the Kandyan Convention in 1815 and their descendants irrespective […]

ගුරු – විදුහල්පති සන්ධානය. Teacher – Principal Alliance ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි ගරු අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය, අකිල විරාජ් කාරියවසම් මහතා,අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය,ඉසුරුපාය,බත්තරමුල්ල. අමාත්‍යතුමණි, ගුරු – විදුහල්පති දැවැන්ත වැඩ වර්ජනය හමුවේ සිදුකළ වගකිම් විරහිත ප‍්‍රකාශ හා අපේ‍්‍රල් 22 ට පසු ගනු ලබන වෘත්තීය ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ග සමිබන්ධවයි. මාර්තු 13 දීප ව්‍යාප්තව අසනීප නිවාඩු වාර්තා කර අප සංගම් හා තවත් සංගම් ඒකාබද්ධව කැඳවනු […]

Kanthar Balanathan DipEE(UK), Grad cert(RelEng-Monash),DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey),CEng. MIEE We have seen so many leaders come and go in SL, however, no one was able to place a counterattack against LTTE, which was led by an 8th standard educated boy, Prabakaran for 30 years. Of the lot, Mahinda Rajapaksa was a capable leader who was able to wipe […]

A Concerned Citizen THE ETHOS AND CULTURE OF THE COUNTRY I propose that we absolutely devote ourselves to the ideal of fairness, justice and of being one people, one nation, with one destiny. We are in this together. Any suffering by one affects us all. I would advocate we follow the principles, honourable practices and […]

by Judy Twigg Courtesy The  National Interest These sanctions were supposed to punish Moscow’s elite, but instead they’ve spurred economic development and patriotism. The current conversation about Russia sanctions centers around targeting and scope. Are we punishing the people whose behavior we most want to change? Is there pain, well inflicted, on those individuals responsible […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nation Geneva Foreign Minister Hon. Tilak Marapana and delegation met with Madam Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Under- Secretary General in charge of the UN Office in Geneva Mr. Michael Moller this week, on the side-lines of the 40th Session of the […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera OPEN LETTER TO THE MAYORESS AND TO AZAD ZALLI  FROM  AN OPPRESSED MOTORIST Time 6 00 am Friday ,location near Galle face behind Taj hotel along road side parking area . Parked the car near the parking area along the road with no police sign for no parking or board showing chargeable […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera My advice is to pay royalty not only for songs but also for playing Baila”in TV and Radio . Our politicians like Mervin ,and some opposition and government MP’s play Baila to the people every day in the TV and Radio. We listen to those Baila and entertain and sometime we remind […]

Udaya P Gammanpila Courtesy The Ceylon Today The UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka dated 01.10.2015 and bearing No. 23/1 was brought by the USA. It is now public knowledge that Sri Lanka is the only nation in the world which co-sponsored a resolution against itself. We had been under tremendous pressure for the last three […]

By Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror How the war-affected Tamils are being used by extremely opportunist Western power bloc to manipulate Governments for their geopolitical agenda A big joke made rounds about Sri Lanka sending out two opposing but official teams for the ongoing Fortieth UNHRC Session in Geneva; one by President and another […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island Even though the UNP opened up the economy in 1977 and eschewed the protectionist, closed economic model followed by the preceding Sirima Bandaranaike government, the UNP at least when it was under J.R.Jayewardene, never took leave of their senses. Despite their stated ideology of an open economy, when common sense […]

Sudath Gunasekara March 21, 2019   04:46 pm Ada Derana Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has caused the severest damage to Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), says SLFP General Secretary MP Dayasiri Jayasekara. He stated this addressing a public meeting held in Kegalle. The SLPP has destroyed the SLFP while it has also helped the victory […]

අද දින (22) මාධ්‍ය හමුවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතා නලීන් බණ්ඩාර නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරයා ලංකාවේ සිද්ධ වෙන්න යන විශාලම ආයෝජනයක් ගැන හෙළිදරව් කළා. නලීන් බණ්ඩාර නියෝජ්‍ය අමැත්‍යවරයා කියන විදියට මේක තමයි ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ විශාලතම ආයෝජනය. ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියන 3.85 ආයෝජනයක් මගින් තෙල් පිරිපහදුවක් ඉදිකිරීමට මුල් ගල් තැබිමක් ගැනයි ඒ් අනාවරණය වුනේ. පුවත්පත්වලට […]

ALI SUKHANVER His name was Rizwan Asad, age 28. He worked at a private school in Awantipora area of the Pulwama district, south Kashmir. The National Investigative Agency of India arrested this young teacher in the second week of March during a so-called crackdown on socio-political and religious organizations. According to media reports, Rizwan was […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM 4/18 to 3/19 Since it’s inception over three decades ago USLA has fervently furthered  it’s main founding objective viz. doing what it takes to support Sri Lanka in preserving it’s independent and unitary status. Through USLA’s  existence , the main threat to this came from the violent terrorism of the Tamil […]

Courtesy The Standard Fourteen Chinese construction workers who were in Sri Lanka without a valid employment visa have been sentenced to jail for a year and fined Rs 50,000 (1,881 yuan) each by a Magistrates’ Court in the southern coastal city of Galle. The Chinese had arrived Colombo on one-month tourist visas. They were arrested […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 22 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s Finance Ministry, on Friday signed a concessional loan agreement with China’s EXIM Bank to construct section one of a mega Central Expressway which will ease the island’s traffic congestion and boost tourism. The concessional loan agreement, valued at 989 million dollars was signed between China’s Ambassador […]

 lanka C news අමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියන 3.85 ක ආයෝජනයක් ලෙස යෝජනාවී ඇති මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය සඳහා ඉදිරිපත්ව සිටින්නේ සිංගප්පූරුවේ ලියාපදිංචි සිල්වර් පාර්ක් ඉන්ටනැෂනල් නමැති සමාගමකි. ඔවුන් ව්‍යාපෘතියේ වටිනාකමින් 30% කට ඕමාන තෙල් හා ගෑස් අමාත්‍යාංශය සම්බන්ධ වන බව සඳහන් කළත් ඊයේ අප කළ අනාවරණය අනුව ඕමානය මෙවැනි ව්‍යාපෘතියකට ආයෝජනය කර නැතැයි පවසා ඇත. මෙතරම් විශාල ආයෝජනයක් […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 22 (newsin.asia) – The Sri Lankan government, on Friday, for the first time, successfully tested artificial rain in a drought hit area to provide clean water to hundreds of families.The Power and Energy Ministry, in a statement said the Ceylon Electricity Board together with the Sri Lanka Air Force conducted the […]

Courtesy Adaderana A Singapore-based company in which stakes are held by the family members of former Indian Minister of State S. Jagathrakshakan of the DMK has been linked to a record foreign direct investment of $3.85 billion in an oil refinery in Sri Lanka. However, the recent announcement by Sri Lanka’s Board of Investment (BOI) […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has successfully tested artificial rain for the first time in the country with moderate rainfall experienced over the Maussakele Reservoir for around 45 minutes. The pilot project to induce artificial rain at the catchments areas of the Maussakele Reservoir was carried out by the CEB on Friday (22). An aircraft (Y12) […]

Courtesy Adaderana The petition filed against Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, seeking the prohibition of deforestation at Vilaththukulam forest reserve in Wilpattu National Park, has been scheduled to be heard on June 28th. The petition was taken up before Court of Appeal Judge Arjuna Obeysekara today (22). The fourth respondent of the petition Minister Rishad Bathiudeen is […]

In early March the Daily Mirror reported the arrest of a blind man by the Railway Security Service – his crime begging on the train. That arrest resulted in a sensational story that has to enter any management case study and he should be invited by some of Sri Lanka’s management institutes to share with […]