සංජීව බණ්ඩාර ඒකාබද්ද ගුරුසේවා සංගමය පාස්කු ඉරිදා ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාරයෙන් අනතුරුව මැයි 6 වන දින පාසල් විවෘත කිරීමට ආණ්ඩුව තීරණය කර ඇත. නමුත් පාසල්වල ආරක්ෂාව පිළිබඳව බරපතළ සැකයක් තවමත් පවතී. ආණ්ඩුව කළ යුත්තේ පාසල් විවෘත කිරීමට පෙර ප්‍රමාණවත් ආරක්ෂාවක් තහවුරු කරීමට කටයුතු කිරීම වුවත් කණගාටුදායක කරුණ නම් ආණ්ඩුව එහි වගකීම ගුරුවරුන්, විදුහල්පතිවරුන් හා දෙමාපියන්මත පැටවීමට චක්‍රලේඛන […]

S M Hali  Courtesy  Daily Times India has long been blamed for the intransigence of its intelligence agency RAW in Sri Lanka. Indian role in creating, training, financing and supporting the LTTE as a terrorist movement and India’s war crimes committed on Sri Lankan citizens by the IPKF are well documented. Prabhakaran, a RAW protégé, […]

සුදත් ගුනසේකර හිජාබ් සහ බුර්කා දෙකම අයින් කරන්ට මුස්ලිම් මිනිසුන්ගෙන් අහල ඉන්ට ඕනෑ වෙනි කථා කියන්නේ මොන බුරුවෝද. මුස්ලිම් ඡන්ද වලට කෑදරකම නිසා රට ජාතිය පාවාදෙන මෙවෑනි ජාති හා දේස ද්‍රෝහින්ට තවදුරතටත් ඔබේ ඡන්දය දෙනවාද එසේ නෑතුව ඒලග සෑරේ එසේ ආපුවාම නරිජ්ජ බෝලත්තෙන් ගහලා පන්නනවාද  මෙවෑනි ජාති හා දේස ද්‍රොහින් කකුල්දෙකෙන් අල්ලා පරසක්වල ගහට්ත ඕනෑ.

silumina වර්තමානයේ රටේ පවතින ආරක්ෂක තත්ත්වය හා ඉදිරියේදී ගනු ලබන ක්‍රියාමාර්ග සම්බන්ධව යුද හමුදාපති ලුතිනන් ජනරාල් මහේෂ් සේනානායක මහතා සමඟ පැවැති සාකච්ඡාවකි. පසුගියදා ඇති වූ අවාසනාවන්ත සිදුවීම් යළිත් ඇති නොවීමට රටේ ආරක්ෂාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඉදිරියේදී ගනු ලබන ක්‍රියාමාර්ග මොනවාද? පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්‍රහාරය සිදු වූ අවස්ථාවේ යුද හමුදාවට බලතල තිබුණේ නැහැ සෝදිසි මෙහෙයුම් සිදු කරන්නට. මහමඟට බසින්නට […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Mahanayake Theras of four chapters said in a joint statement today that people should refrain from conducting mega Vesak celebrations that involved large public gatherings owing to the security situation prevalent in the country. Instead, they requested people to focus more on religious programmes aimed at spiritual development. The statement […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Many analyses on the bloody Easter Sunday massacre had dealt with the incredible lapses of the incumbent Government. The attempt had been to pinpoint the party who might be directly responsible for the carnage and the present prevailing situation of fear and uncertainty. However, several entities including V enerable […]

LEON BERENGER Courtesy The Daily Mirror A suspected jihadist training camp was uncovered at a location in Mullikulam, on the Kaththankudi border, yesterday during a search and locate operation carried out by the Security Forces, a senior official said. He said the camp, located on some 15 acres of land, was sandwiched between a town […]

Courtesy Adaderana Over 140 million cash owned by the terrorist group responsible for the suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday has been identified during several raids carried out for the past two weeks, says the Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara. Addressing a press conference held in Colombo today (06), he stated that the Criminal […]

Courtesy Adaderana The 13 suspects arrested for vandalizing several Buddhist statues in Mawanella area have been further remanded until 20th of May. They were produced before Mawanella District Magistrate Upul Rajakaruna today (06). Interrogations into these suspects, who were arrested last December, had led to the seizure of 100kg of explosives in Wanathawilluwa area.

Courtesy Adaderana The University Grants Commission (UGC) issuing a press release states that there is no university named ‘Sharia University’ under the jurisdiction of the UGC. The UGC says that no such university has requested permission nor given authority by the UGC to conduct educational courses. The complete media release of the UGC: Attention of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Island-wide search operations conducted with the aim to ensure the security within the country was carried out today as well (06). During a raid at a house in Thalapitiya, Galle police have arrested a person along with over 1000 clothes similar to uniforms of the tri-forces and the Sri Lanka Civil Security Force. […]

A majority-Christian city in Sri Lanka known affectionately as “Little Rome” has been rocked by clashes between Christians and Muslims after the Easter Sunday suicide bombings claimed by ISIS that left 257 people dead. The Catholic Church has called for calm after Christians attacked Muslim-owned shops, homes and vehicles in Negombo. “I appeal to all […]

Simon Shen Courtesy ejinsight.com The recent carnage in Sri Lanka could be indicative of something even more profound and worrisome.  As the threshold for launching terrorist attacks is getting lower and lower, they could become increasingly frequent around the world in the days to come. In particular, the rapidly growing prevalence of drones has allowed […]

The Economic Times COLOMBO: Sri Lankan security forces should avoid the incidents that caused some people face social stigma during the search operations after the Easter Sunday blasts carried out by a “cult” within the community, as it may lead to radicalisation of moderate Muslims in the country, a Minister has warned.  Minister of City […]

JEDDAH — The Kingdom’s embassy in Colombo dismissed a report published in a Sri Lankan newspaper insinuating Saudi responsibility for last month’s terrorist attacks in the country. “The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia to Sri Lanka closely followed the news item published in the local newspaper ‘Weekend Express’ on May 3, 2019, under the heading ‘Leaked […]

Courtesy The New Arab Sri Lanka‘s Roman Catholic Church appealed for calm and an alcohol ban Monday after clashes between Christians and Muslims in a town scarred by Easter Day’s suicide attacks. Hundreds of security forces entered Negombo to impose a curfew after dozens of Muslim-owned shops, homes and vehicles were attacked. St. Sebastian’s church in […]

Courtesy Euronews  with Reuters All suspected plotters and those directly linked to Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings have either been arrested or are dead, the country’s acting police chief said on Monday. In an audio statement circulated by the defence ministry, Chandana Wickramaratne, the acting Inspector General of Police, said security forces had also confiscated bomb-making material […]

by Zachary Halaschak  Courtesy  Washington Examiner Despite claiming responsibility for the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, the Islamic State did not directly organize the deadly terror attacks. It was a locally led attack. It uses the ideology of ISIS to get the credit for ISIS so it has a success story,” Lt. Gen. Mahesh Senanayake, commander […]

RT FILE PHOTO: Sri Lankan soldiers deploy outside a church in Negombo, following a string of deadly bombings © Reuters / Danish Siddiqui Sri Lanka’s acting police chief Chandana Wickramaratne has said that all of the suspects linked with the Easter Sunday bombings have been arrested or are dead. The announcement follows a nationwide manhunt […]

Courtesy Swissinfo.ch A 42-year-old Sri Lankan man died in a detention centre in Lucerne on Friday evening. He had to spend two days in custody because he was unable to pay a fine.   The police noticed that the man was in physical distress via surveillance cameras. He died on the spot despite an attempt at immediate resuscitation, Lucerne’s public […]

When LTTE was militarily defeated in May 2009 the mistake the then government made inspite of requests to do so, was not to denazify the LTTE & everything to do with Eelam ideology. As a result, LTTE political agents are continuing politically what LTTE strove with gun and some Ministers have the audacity to demand […]

ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී හේවාවිදාන ලංඩන් නුවර සිට ලියයි පාස්කු ඉරිදා මිනිස් සංහාරයෙන් ලොවම හ~ද්දී මාධ්‍ය ඉදිරියේ ෙනදෙවන අපේ දේශපාලකයෝ ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී¡ හේවාවිදාන ලංඩන් නුවර සිට ලියයි¡ පසුගිය මාර්තු 15 දා නවසීලන්තයේ ක‍යරසිඑජයමරජය නුවර පල්ලි දෙකකට කඩා වැදුණ ඕස්ටේ්‍රලියානු අන්තවාදියකු දේව මෙහෙයට සහභාගී වෙමින් සිටි අහිංසක මුස්ලිම් වන්දනාකරුවන් 49 දෙනෙකු බිහිසුණු ලෙස ඝාතනය කළේය¡ එයට […]

S. Akurugoda According to media reports, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith flayed the government for its lackadaisical attitude and not doing enough to bring those responsible for the Easter Sunday bombings to justice. He has expressed his dissatisfaction with the security measures that have been taken since the attack and doubt whether anything meaningful […]

Mahinda Rajapaksa  Leader of the Opposition MEDIA RELEASE One of the pledges given by the present government to their foreign masters through UN Human Rights Council Resolution No: 30/1 of October 2015 was to repeal and replace the Prevention of Terrorism Act of 1979. The draft counter terrorism law that has been presented to Parliament […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ විපක්‍ෂ නායක මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව 2015 ඔක්තෝබර් මාසයේදී අංක 30/1 දරණ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ යෝජනාවෙන් තම විදේශීය හාම්පුතුන්ට දුන් එක් ප්‍රධාන ප්‍රතිඥාවක් වූයේ 1979 ත්‍රස්තවාදය වැලැක්වීමේ පනත අහෝසි කොට ඒ වෙනුවට වෙනත් නීතියක් සම්මත කරන බවයි. මේ සඳහා ඔවුන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබෙන ඊනියා ප්‍රති-ත්‍රස්ත පනත් කෙටුම්පත දේශපාලන හා මාධ්‍ය […]

Dilrook Kannangara Another election and another betrayal. Presidential and parliamentary elections are just months away. All parties are gearing up to it. And that means venerating minorities and their leaders. UNP has a captive minority vote base and it very keen to keep it that way. As a result UNP will never allow a crackdown […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Even before the Easter bomb blast I have been talking about possibility of connection of drug trade with increased tourism and other crimes. When president started to wage the war against drug trade , remaining intelligent agents were concentrating on netting up Drug Masters  . I wrote an article about  Paolo Escobar […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Even before the Easter bomb blast I have been talking about possibility of connection of drug trade with increased tourism and other crimes. When president started to wage the war against drug trade , remaining intelligent agents were concentrating on netting up Drug Masters  . I wrote an article about  Paolo Escobar […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Embassy of Turkey in Sri Lanka issuing a statement to clarify certain news items published by the media stated that Turkey has been cooperating with Sri Lanka in her fight against Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETO). The Embassy states that Turkey has provided the Sri Lankan authorities with the details of the FETO […]

Courtesy Adaderana Underworld figure Makandure Madush has been deported from Dubai this morning (05), stated the Police Media Spokesperson. He was taken into the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) upon his arrival at the Bandaranaike International Airport. Drug kingpin Makandure Madush was under the custody of the Dubai authorities after being arrested at […]