By Rathindra Kutuwita Courtesy The Island A large number of high- yielding milch cows, imported from Australia, in 2017, were suffering from Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD), hitherto not found in Sri Lanka, and officials had failed to stop the spread of the disease, the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing allegations of large scale corruption […]

Mario Perera,Kadawata Everything in Sri Lanka is at its worst. Sri Lankan cricket is just following that trend. They are of the same mold and model as the others. I agree with Shyamon Jayasinghe writing in the Colombo Telegraph, that after this world cup debacle the selection committee must resign. That demand is true for […]

එරන්ද කේ නවරත්න,බොදු බල සේනා මාධ්‍ය අංශය, පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයෙන් පසු නවතා දමා තිබු පකිස්තානු මක්තබ් කුරාණ අන්තවාදී ළමා අද්‍යාපනය ක්‍රමය නැවත ලබන 18 වැනිදා සිට යළි ආරම්භ කිරිමට සමස්ත ලංකා ජමයතුල් උලමා සංවිධානයේ නායක රිස්වි මුෆ්ති තීරණය කර ඇති බව අප වෙත තොරතුරු වාර්තා වේ. එමෙන්ම  මක්තබ් මද්‍රරාසා තුල මෙතුවක්කල් නියම කර තිබු අරාබි නිල […]

Courtesy  BISTHANBATCHA A common belief, bordering on paranoia, among many Sinhala Buddhists is that some time in the foreseeable future the Sri Lankan Muslims, driven by unfettered population growth, will emerge as the Majority Community in this Island Nation, thereby reducing the Sinhala Buddhists to a minority in what they often describe very emotionally as […]

මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාව  ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජි. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා අද අපේ රටේ තියෙන්නේ හරි පුදුම තත්වයක්. අනිවාර්යයෙන් පැවැත්විය යුතු මැතිවරණ පැවැත්වෙන්නේ නැහැ.නමුත් ආන්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව අනුව කිසිසේත් පවත්වන්නට බැරි මැතිවරණ පැවැත්වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් විශේෂ උනන්දුවක් දක්වන බව පෙනෙන්නට තිබෙනවා. ජනමත විචාරනයක් පැවැත්විය යුතු බවට රජය පැත්තෙන් යෝජනාවක් එනවා. මේ ජනමත විචාරනයෙන් […]

RANJITH SOYSA I wish to refer to the EditorialS of the Island and recent articles by Neville Laduawahetty and Dr Wasnatha Bandra  in the Island on the subject of international agreements signed in ‘secrecy’ by the  government in handing over  our assets and our people to the foreign governments especially to the USA and India. […]

Sri Dhammaratana Buddhist Training Centre, I am a Theravada Buddhist monk who lives and works among the poor and needy villagers of my area in Sri Lanka. I was ordained on November 5th. 1975. I received the higher ordination called ‘Upasampada’ in July 1981 and was admitted into the Amarapura Niyake Sasanodaya Maha Sangha Sabha […]

Laksiri Warnakula When hoisted with their own petards, May the pot-bellied lot at Dhiyawanna, Fall flat on their faces in convoy, Kissing the dirt with great affection, And gay abandon,  Which will surely warm the cockles my heart.

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Nadeeka Daya Bandara Courtesy Ceylon Today Chief Prelate of the Asgiriya Chapter, Most Venerable Warakagoda Sri Gnanarathana Thera said, the United National Party (UNP) Minister, who he recently met, stated that the country has been totally destroyed due to the irresponsible behavior of the UNP. Most Venerable Gnanarathana Thera said this when presiding at a […]

Courtesy Adaderana An investigation has been launched on a case of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen transferring state land to other parties through fake deeds. Ven. Theeniyawala Palitha Thero had lodged this complaint at the Presidential Commission probing fraud and corruption at state institutions. As per the complaint, the former Minister had acted to transfer 3000 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The number of complaints filed against Dr Mohamed Shafi over alleged illegal sterilizations has amounted to 1,003. The Kurunegala Police had arrested Dr Shafi on May 25th over alleged illegal accumulation of assets. He was later handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department for further investigations. However, accusations started piling up against Dr […]

Courtesy The New Indian Express Sources added that Ushama was picked up after it was found that he was part of a social media group consisting Hashim and the trio held from Coimbatore. By Express News Service MADURAI: Sleuths from the National Investigation Agency’s Kochi office conducted an inquiry with a youngster from Madurai on Saturday night for […]

Courtesy Xinhua,China.org.cn Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ishwar Pokhrel said on Sunday that the bombing attacks in Sri Lanka in April had sent a clear and strong message that a new type of terrorism threat has arrived in South Asia. The defence minister made the remarks while addressing a seminar titled “Dialogues on […]

Sugath Smarasinghe I wish to respond as follows to Prof. A.N.I. Ekanayake to his letter to the Editor titled: What people say and what they really mean” that appeared in ‘The Island’ of May 24, 2019. Prof. E appears to have approached his subject from an existential perspective. I propose to address the issue he […]

by Chandre Dharmawardana While the country remains mesmerized and  paralysed by revelations of incredible security lapses, the failure to implement long-term plans for energy production, updating of agriculture and industry  to keep pace with climate change, population growth etc.,will cause irrevocable systemic collapse causing more prolonged misery than any sudden Jihadist shocks. Many of us  […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Our Team must be encouraged by the quality of cricket played by them against World Champion Australia.  We did not succumb to mighty Aussies. We did not fear their bowling attack.  All commentators Mark Nicholson, Michael Clark, Mathew Heyden  agreed on the signs of reincarnation of Sanath and Kalu days […]

Parakrama Niriella 238A, Rajagiriya Road, RaJagiriya. 16th June, 2019 To all media institutions and All political leaders of Sri Lanka Freedom Party, United National Party, Sri Lanka People’s Alliance, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, Tamil National Alliance, Sri Lanka Communist Party, Lanka Samasamaja Party Statement Against hounding journalist Kusal Perera We are reliably […]

India My family of 8 lived in a 40×12 feet house – it was small, but enough for us. Our days began early, around 5 AM when my mother would provide traditional forms of curing and healing to newborns and small children. Through the night my brother and I would take turns to keep the […]

Ada එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ පාලකයන් රටට හා ජනතාවට ආදරේ නැති බවත් එය ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ බයක් නැතිව නිර්භයව ප්‍රකාශ කරන බවත් තමන්ට නැතිවෙන්නට හා ඇතිවෙන්නට දෙයක් නැති මුත් රට ජාතිය වෙනුවෙන් කෙළින් කථා කිරිම අවශ්‍ය බවත් අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ මහ නායක අතිපූජ්‍ය වරකාගොඩ ඤාණරතන මහනාහිමියෝ පවසති. අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ මහ නායක හිමියන් මෙසේ පැවැසුයේ ඓතිහාසික දොඩම්වල දියකෙළිනාවල කිත්සිරිමෙවන් රජමහා […]

By Gamini Seneviratne Courtesy The Island Dr. P. G. Punchihewa’s essay on Sinhala Buddhagama comes at the end of his account of Arahant Mahinda’s legacy to the people of this country, – an island named Sinhale or Lanka. It was from here that the Buddha dhamma, as explained by the Arahant and his associate bhikkus, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Speaker of the Parliament Karu Jayasuriya says that he is willing to consider taking up presidential candidacy if he is invited by the United National Party (UNP). However, he is will not grab the candidacy from someone else, he said. He added that he has not discussed this with the Leader of UNP […]

උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප ආගමෙන් බෞද්ධ වූ සහ ජාතියෙන් සිංහල වූ බොහෝ දෙනා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සිංහල බෞද්ධ රටක් වග එකහෙළා පිළිගනිති. ව්‍යවස්ථාව යටතේ මෙසේ විය යුතු යයි නියම කර නැත. රාජ්‍යය බුද්ධාගම ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට හා ඊට අනුග්‍රහය දක්වන්නට ප්‍රතිඥා දී තිබුණ ද ව්‍යවස්ථානුකූලව මෙය එක් ආගමකට පමණක් අයත් නොවන රාජ්‍යයකි. ඒ අතර තමන්ට කැමැති ආගමක් ඇදහීමේ සහ […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Eyebrows have been raised as to why the five-member Ministerial Committee headed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, that was appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers to propose urgent remedial measure to avoid power cuts, took a decision on April 10, 2019 to announce an emergency situation in the country and gave […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Another important step that has to be taken is to introduce legislation to restrict the number of children in a family to a maximum of three The need of the hour to tackle this growing threat is a single law for all Sri Lankans, dismantle religious or language based schools, create […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Payment anomalies of over half a million pensioners would be removed from July 1, the Finance Ministry said today. The revised pension would be implemented effective from next month under a proposal made by Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera in his Budget 2019, the Ministry said. Accordingly, over 500,000 public servants who […]

by Zacki Jabbar Courtesy The Island The proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the US that had seen opposition from some Sri Lankan political parties, would also come up for discussion to plug the contentious clauses, during the upcoming visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Colombo, senior government sources said yesterday. […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka conducting investigations to find out wherther some Saudi nationals were involved in the Easter Sunday attacks may need Saudi Arabian help to verify the identities of three persons who were here at the time of the April 21 blasts but left the country the following day.  Authoritative […]

Editorial – Courtesy The Island Time was when the European Union (EU) was known for treading cautiously with measured steps anent sensitive issues. Its responses used to be balanced and buttressed with solid facts and figures. But the EU seems to have departed from tradition if the recent statement issued by the EU mission in […]