Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Los Angeles/Colombo, April 12 (DailyFT/Ada Derna/Newsin Asia): Former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has dismissed the two lawsuits filed against him as baseless” and insisted that the cases would only motivate him and his supporters to push for political change in Sri Lanka. On his arrival from the US on April 12, Gotabaya said […]

Sudath Guansekara Sivajilingam should be arrested immediately for obstructing public servants in their legitimate duties in the following incident and charge them for obstructing these officers and rioting against the State. All the land in the country belongs to the State. A such the government can acquire any land anywhere for a public purpose. It […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa    continues to be recognized by Asian governments. Rajapaksa had a private meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi when Modi visited Sri Lanka in May 2017. This was widely discussed in political and diplomatic circles. Many an eyebrow has been raised over former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s late night meeting […]

by John Pilger Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen manhandled a sick journalist, his eyes wincing against his first natural light in  almost seven years. […]

by ROB URIE Courtesy CounterPunch Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The American war against Iraq was among the more idiotic and gratuitous slaughters in human history. It was premised on lies, prosecuted by criminals and fools, outsourced to professional murderers and it isn’t over. In addition to those murdered directly and indirectly in the war, several […]

ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය සේවක අයිතීන් කොල්ලකන 2019/3 චක‍්‍රලේඛණය හකුලා ගන්නා මෙන් බල කරන අපේ‍්‍රල් 16 දින සමෘද්ධි බැංකු මගීන් අළුත් අවුරුදු ගණුදෙනු කිරීමේ චාරිත‍්‍රයෙන් ඉවත් වීමේ  වෘත්තීය ක‍්‍රියා මාර්ගයට අපගේ සහය. දිවිනැගුම පනත මගීන් සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සේවය කරන 25000 ආසන්න සේවකයින් හට සිදු කර ඇති බරපතල සේවක අසාධාරණයට විසදුම් ලබා දෙනවා […]

C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island In this interview, former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal speaks to C.A.Chandraprema about the tax policy of the UNP government since 2015 and the Budget for 2019. Q. You were a private sector person for the better part of your career. How is the Sri Lankan private sector taking the […]

PBS Hemachandra Lieutenant Commander (retired) Sri Lanka Navy Courtesy The Island Carbon dating of the bone samples collected from the Mannar Mass grave in Sri Lanka confirmed that bone samples belonged to the periods when Sri Lanka was ruled by European. Books written by Portuguese, Dutch and English historians recorded massacres of Singhalese people lived […]

by Sanjana Hattotuwa Courtesy The Island April 12, 2019, 3:39 pm  “The lie is revealed. There was no summons served. The photo depicts a lookalike of Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The FBI is engaged in an effort to ascertain who produced this false information”. The Facebook Page with this content originally in Sinhala also featured a screenshot […]

MEGAN WHITE Courtesy The Evening Standard Counter-terror police have arrested four men on suspicion of being members of a banned organisation hours after they flew into the country. The four Sri Lankan nationals arrived at Luton Airport on 10 April and were arrested by police the next day. The Metropolitan Police said the men were […]

Courtesy Air Transport World New SriLankan Airlines CEO Vipula Gunatilleka is hoping to reach breakeven within three years by renegotiating aircraft leases, substituting the airline’s Airbus A350 order for A330-900neos, growing the network, and reopening destinations. Former TAAG Angola Airlines and SriLankan Airlines CFO Gunatilleka rejoined the Sri Lanka flag carrier in summer 2018 and became […]

Aneesha Mannage Courtesy The Daily Mirror The failure to implement the power plants and projects launched by the previous government has plunged the country into a power crisis, former president and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa said in Hambantota yesterday. Norochcholai and Kerawalapitiya power plants have come to a standstill. If our government had not constructed […]

Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka is experiencing its highest temperature levels in 140 years, Professor Chandana Jayaratne from the Department of Physics, Colombo University said today. Professor Jayaratne said this could be confirmed by examining climate data statistics. He said the temperature levels have gone up by 2 to 3 degrees from […]

RANMINI GUNASEKARA Courtesy Ceylon Today The continuous power cuts carried out by the Ceylon Electricity Board has adversely affected exports and potential Foreign Direct Investments, claimed Executive Committee Member of the Federation of the Chambers of Commerce, Dr. Krishanth Wisenthige today (10). He was speaking at a ‘Professionals for a Better Future (Viyathmaga)’ press conference […]

Courtesy Adaderana German authorities have indicted a Sri Lankan man suspected of involvement in killing 15 captured government soldiers while fighting for the Tamil Tigers terrorist group. Federal prosecutors said Friday that 37-year-old Sivatheeban B. is accused of membership in a foreign terrorist organization, war crimes, two cases of manslaughter and 11 cases of attempted […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says all necessary steps have been successfully concluded to renounce his US citizenship. He made these comments upon his arrival in Sri Lanka this morning (12) following his personal visit to the United States. Reportedly, a huge crowd had gathered at the Bandaranaike International Airport to welcome the […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන්  එම් ජයතුංග අවාසනාවන්ත ගුවන් යානා අණතුරකින් ජෝන් ඩෙන්වර් මිය ගියේ නොමැති නම් ඔහු මේ වන විට තම ජීවිතයේ 70 සැතපුම් කණුව පසු කරන්නේය. එහෙත් 1997 වසරේදී ඔහු මිය ගියේය.  ජෝන් ඩෙන්වර් ගේ ගීත අප අසන්නේ 1970 දශකයේ මුල් කාලයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සංස්ථාවේ ඉංග්‍රීසි සේවය හරහාය. 1978 වසරේදී වරක් මමත් ප්‍රියදර්ශන අබේවීර […]

Courtesy BBC News The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected its prosecutor’s request to investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. Court judges highlighted instability and the lack of co-operation with investigators in the country. The ruling was hailed by US President Donald Trump as a “major international victory” but human rights group Amnesty International criticised […]

“ඊමේල් ශ්‍රීලංකා” group පිංවත් ඔබ උදෑසන, එසේත් නැතිනම් රාත්‍රියට, කායික පිරිසිදුභාවය ඇතිකරගෙන, තෙරුවන් සරණ පිහිටලා, උතුම් පංචසීලය සමාදන්වන අවස්‌ථාවේදි, පිංවත් ඔබ ජීවිතයට එකතුකොට ගන්නේ,සද්ධාවත් දානයත් ශීලයත් කියන අර්ථයන් තුන පමණක්‌මයි. මේ තත්ත්වය හරිම අවාසනාවක්‌. අතීතයේ වැඩසිටි රහතන්වහන්සේලා පහන් දැල්ලක්‌, පිරිසිදු රෙදිකඩක්‌, පරවීයන ලස්‌සන මලක්‌, බිඳී ගිය සිල්පදයක්‌ කමටහන් කොටගෙන ආර්ය ශ්‍රද්ධාවත්, ආර්ය ශීලයත්, ආර්ය සමාධියත්, […]

World News Synergy Files Sri Lankan graphite is considered to be the best sauce material for the production of Graphane, which has many uses in advanced electronic and solar panel industries. As always, we’ve been so generous that we wanted foreign countries to benefit from it.  So we sold our mines.   In this video […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Rajapaksa period saw several advances in the university sector. The Ocean University was established by Act No 31 of 2014 to provide graduate and diploma level training in fisheries, marine and nautical engineering.  It is located in Mattakuliya, Colombo. It offers degrees in Fisheries, Marine Science, Marine Engineering, and Transportation Management & […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera 10 April 2019 09:46 Daily Mirror A number of supermarkets within the Colombo Municipality were raided by the Colombo Municipal Council’s (CMC) Health Department officials today to check the hygienic conditions and food safety regulations.During these raids, many outlets were found to have violated food safety regulations, especially in terms of storage […]

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ශී‍්‍ර ලාංකීය සංස්කෘතිය හා බැදී පවතින සිංහල හා දෙමළ අලුත් අවුරුද්ද අතීතයේ සිට උත්සවාකාරයෙන් සැමරීමට අපි පුරුදුව සිටිමු. නමුත් වර්තමාන පාලනයේ අදක්‍ෂ අකාර්‍යක්ෂම කළමණාකරණය හේතුවෙන් රටතුළ සිදුව ඇති ආර්ථික කඩා වැටීම හමුවේ වෙනදා දකින අවුරුදු උත්සවශී‍්‍රය, මෙවර දක්නට නැත. රුපියලේ අගය ඉහළ යාම, ආයෝජකයින් රට හැරයාම ආදී හේතු නිසා මේ වන […]

Courtesy Adaderana MP Bandula Gunawardena says that a no-confidence motion will be brought against Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera. The Parliamentarian mentioned this at a press conference held in Colombo, today (11). The no-confidence motion would be brought against presenting a Budget proposal with false facts, further stated Gunawardena.

US President Donald Trump and Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina last year. © Reuters / Kevin Lamarque The arrest of Julian Assange in London after an extradition request from the US, and the way the WikiLeaks founder was treated by a British judge, made Thursday a shameful […]

Courtesy RT  FILE PHOTO. Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno. © Pool via REUTERS / Fred DufourFILE PHOTO. Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno. © Pool via REUTERS / Fred Dufour Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa explained to RT why he calls his successor Lenin Moreno the “worst traitor” in the country’s history for handing over WikiLeaks founder Julian […]

Courtesy RT Leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has publicly opposed UK’s possible extradition of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to the US, saying he exposed evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. FOLLOW LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON JULIAN ASSANGE’S ARREST Hours following Assange’s arrest in London on Thursday, Corbyn tweeted a video statement of […]

By Sumanasiri Liyanage Courtesy Ceylon Today Compared to Sri Lanka (25,330 sqkms.), Bolivia (1,098, 581 sqkms) is relatively a large country. However, Sri Lanka with around 22 million is more populous than Bolivia, the population of which is estimated at 11 million. Since 2005, a sea change has been taking place in Bolivia covering every […]

W.K. PRASAD MANJU Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka’s political landscape is set to change with the dawn of the Sinhala-Tamil New Year with decisive political changes that could cause a serious impact on the current regime, sources said. According to Informed political sources, President Maithripala Sirisena is slated to kick off these political changes by […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two parliamentarians have informed the Speaker that parliamentary privileges have been violated through a letter sent to the Sri Lankan missions abroad by the then Secretary of the Foreign Ministry during the crisis period of regime change in November. The two parliamentarians presenting the issue, MP Mujibur Rahman and MP Prof. Ashu Marasinghe, […]