Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Defense has granted Kurunegala police permission to detain a translator at the parliament who was arrested over involvement with the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ). Accordingly, the suspect will be detained for a period of 90 days for purpose of interrogation, stated Police Media Spokesperson. Reportedly, the official has been arrested […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Leader of the Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the factors which led to the new terrorism in the country must be resolved immediately. The hunt on war heroes, weakening the intelligence are the major factors behind this terrorism, he said. If the government doesn’t accept these facts and finds solutions, the situation […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 17: There have been four very disturbing developments in Sri Lanka in the past few days, which, if not recognized and attended to immediately, could pave the way for more attacks by the local affiliates of the Islamic State (IS). In fact, the vitiated political and communal atmosphere […]

RIENZIE WIJETILLEKE Courtesy The Island May 19, 2019, 7:19 pm  It is very clear from the media reports that there have been attempts by two VIPs of the present government to obtain the release of suspects taken in by the CID on account of the 21st April Easter Sunday bombing. It was shocking to see […]

නාලක ගොඩහේවා nalaka godahewa FB එල් ටී ටී ඊ සංවිධානයට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රි ලංකා ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාවන් කල යුද්ධයේ තීරණාත්මක සංධිස්ථානයක් වූයේ කොටි සංවිධානයේ පාවෙන අවි ගබඩා ලෙස භාවිත වූ නෞකා ගනනාවක් ශ්‍රී ලංකා නාවුක හමුදාව විසින් 2006 – 2009 කාලය තුල විනාශ කරනු ලැබීමය. ඉන් මුල් නෞකා දෙක 2006 සැප්තැම්බර් හා 2007 පෙබරවාරි වල විනාශ කරනා […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, Geneva “Shilpa Sena”, a rolling exposition will be launched island wide in July, geared towards bringing technological skills, knowledge and products to the general public, at a time when the country embraces new and emerging technologies. The aim of the exposition is to bridge the technological divide […]

Dr. Chua Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson USLA. Thank you for affording me the privilege of being able to reinforce for the ninth consecutive year, my thanks and deep gratitude to the Ranaviru for their sacrifice of , life, limb, in their efforts at liberating Sri lanka from three decades of Tiger terror. It is because of […]

පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න සභාපති සමනල යෞවන සමාජය නාවලකන්ද ශ්‍රී බුද්ධ වර්ෂ 2563 ක් වූ වෙසක් පුර පසළොස්වක පොහෝ දිනය නිමිති කොට ගනිමින් කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයට අයත්  නාවලකන්ද ගම්මානයේ ගම්වාසීන්ගේ දායකත්වයෙන් නාවලකන්ද  සමනල යෞවන සමාජය හා රන්තරු ළමා සමාජයෙහි මූලිකත්වයෙන්  වෙසක් පිංකම් මාලාවක් සංවිධානය කරමින් බුදුන් වහන්සේගේ තෙමගුල උත්සවත්ශ්‍රීයෙන් සැමරීමට පියවර ගෙන තිබුණි. ඉදිවෙමින් […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island May 19, 2019, 10:04 pm  A person, whose arrest in connection with the Easter Sunday bombings prompted Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen to make inquiries about him from Army Commander Lt. Gen. Mahesh Senanayake, has been handed over to the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID). Army headquarters yesterday confirmed […]

Courtesy Mail OnLine Members of the 2.5-million-strong Tamil community mourned their war dead on Saturday Sri Lanka’s president marked the 10th anniversary of the end of a protracted war with Tamil rebels Sunday by vowing to crush Islamist militants responsible for Easter bombings that killed 258 people. Maithripala Sirisena said Sri Lankan security forces and […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today The Sri Lankan Government has announced the proscription of three Islamic State (IS) affiliates, namely, the National Towheed Jama’ath (NTJ),the Jamaathei MillathuIbrahimee Seylani (JIMS) and the Wilayath as Seylani (WAS). The first two were publically identified soon after the 21 April Easter Sunday suicide attacks which resulted in 253 deaths. […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today When Ranil Wickremesinghe rightly defines the Easter Sunday massacres as ‘global terrorism’ and vows to get help from the international community, Robert O Blake tells the Sri Lankan audience that Gotabaya Rajapaksa had the best model to defeat terrorism in Sri Lanka and to use it. He made these […]

Courtesy Adaderana Nearly 10 websites containing the domain names .com and .lk have come under a cyber attack, the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) said. The Embassy of Kuwait in Sri Lanka has also fallen victim to this cyber attacks, according to the SLCERT. Cyber Security Engineer of SLCERT Ravindu Meegasmulla added that […]

MEDIA RELEASE by Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaka (Translation of the text of a speech made by Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaka at his official residence on Wijerama Mawatha to mark the tenth anniversary of the defeat of the LTTE.) Venerable members of the Maha Sangha, clergymen of all other religions, citizens of Sri Lanka and friends, […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය විපක්‍ෂ නායක මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ (විපක්‍ෂ නායක මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා 2009 මැයි 19 වෙනිදා කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදය පරාජය කිරීමේ දස වෙනි සංවත්සරය නිමිත්තෙන් විජේරාම නිල නිවසේදී පැවැත් වූ විශේෂ දේශනයේ පිටපත) අතිපූජනීය මහා සංඝරත්නයෙන් අවසරයි, සියලු ආගම්වල පූජකතුමනි, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවාසී ජනතාවනි, හිතවතුනි, මේ රටේ දශක හතරකට ආසන්න කාලයක් තිස්සේ පැවතුනු බෙදුම්වාදී ත්‍රස්තවාදය තීරණාත්මකව පරාජය කිරීමේ […]

Ratanapala 17 May 19 Easter Sunday Bombings were over in a day. Mostly thanks to Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith’s foresight and in general the fortitude of the Catholics and the general populace revenge attacks on the Muslims did not take place. Thanks to the Security Forces quick arrests were made of individuals, organizations and arms caches […]

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy Daily Mirror Former Ambassador of the United Sates (US) to Sri Lanka Robert O. Blake, in an interview with Daily Mirror, shares his views on the Indo-Pacific strategy, the importance of Sri Lanka’s strategic positioning in the region and its benefits to the country as a whole. He served as the […]

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Prof. Hudson McLean Easter Sunday Massacre has almost totally destroyed the Tourism Industry and all the peripheral revenues generated by Tourism. Crying over this horrid tragic human disaster, is natural, specially for those who lost their beloved families, and suffered grief & pain. Not only Sri Lankans, but the entire civilised world shared the Pain […]

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සේනක වීරරත්න ත්‍රස්තවාදය අපරට වෙලාගත් අඳුරු යුගයකදී සිය උපන් බිම වෙනුවෙන් සටන් කර දිවි පිදූ ඔව්හු සැබෑ දේශප්‍රේමින් වූහ. ඒ මියගිය විරුවන් කෙරෙහි දක්වන ප්‍රණාමය සහ ඔවුන් වෙනුවෙන් නැගී සිටීමේ යුතුකමින් අපට කිසි ලෙසකින් වත් ඉවත්විය නොහැක. ඔවුන් පිලිබඳ මතකය අප තුල සදහටම තිබිය යුතුවා පමණක් නොව ඔවුන්ගේ ප්‍රතිරූපය විනාශ වීමටද ඉඩ තැබිය නොහැක. නුදුරු […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane May 16th 2009 – People’s Spontaneous Post-Terrorism Reaction                                                 The historic victory over Tamil terrorism, with the elimination of the savage terrorist leader Prabakaran on 16 May 2009, led to a spontaneous elated reaction on the part of all  patriotic citizens of Sri Lanka. There was countrywide lighting of fire-crackers and ringing of […]

Sunil Wimalawansa (Professor of Medicine)  Please find the following two URLs that leads to three connected articles:   1st  –  Hearing and Defective Hearing;” 2nd – Listening is an Art and a Skill that Should be Developed;” 3rd –  Mindful listening – A Key to Success;” https://www.facebook.com/sunil.jayalath.9    or via, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mindful-listening-key-success-wimalawansa-md-phd-dsc-executive-mba/?published=t Planning to upload the last one in […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM  Spokesperson United Sri Lanka Association To. Ms.Marama Davidson MP Leader, Green Party, NZ Parliament. Dear Ms Davidson, I write to respectfully request that, you withdraw your sponsorship of the above event and so prevent yourself and the New Zealand parliamentary premises being misused to disseminate misinformation that is detrimental to the […]

Dinesh Perera J M Keynes on IndiaThe available statistics appear to show that, whether the phenomena are connected or not, the rise of prices has nearly been proportional to the increase of currency”[1]Apart from the fluctuations of the seasons the Indian level of prices is most influenced at the present time by the extent to […]

Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA Today I listened to TV program where Intiaz B M ,Kabir Hashim and another Muslim person explaining to all of us about the fact that all the Muslims are not terrible and the importance of living together as Sri Lankan’s. When such a statement is made By a person like  Imtiaz ,it […]

by A. Patabendige Courtesy The Island Katuwapitiya Church by A. Patabendige ‘The Prince of Paris has lost his shirt and number two has it’. ‘No sir, not I Sir, number three has it” and so it goes on in SL. Sri Lanka is on auto pilot. It has been so for nearly four years. The […]

by Whitney Webb  Courtesy MPN News New evidence suggests that the government of Saudi Arabia not only had foreknowledge of the brutal bombings (and did nothing to stop them) but may have played a more active and direct role in the bloodshed COLOMBO, SRI LANKA — A leaked Saudi diplomatic memo obtained by Lebanese outlet […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The United States has offered to continue to expand counter-terrorism and maritime and border security cooperation with Sri Lanka. Issuing a joint statement with the government of Sri Lanka on the occasion of the third US-Sri Lanka Partnership Dialogue held on Thursday (16), the United States reiterated President Trump’s statement that America […]