Mohan K Tikku Courtesy The Asian Age The writer has reported from Sri Lanka as a foreign correspondent and is the author of After the Fall: Sri Lanka in Victory and War A surfeit of candidates may be seen as an indication of greater public enthusiasm for participation in the democratic process.  Gotabhaya Rajapaksa As […]

Ruth Pollard and Anusha Ondaatjie, Bloomberg News HOMAGAMA, SRI LANKA – NOVEMBER , Getty Images (Bloomberg) — A family of strongmen are eyeing a return to power in Sri Lanka’s presidential election on Saturday, an outcome that could also shift the island nation back toward China. The Rajapaksas, once a powerful force in the island nation’s […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror In an open letter, Shramantha Jude Jayamaha, who was convicted over the Royal Park murder and released on a presidential pardon recently, requested society to give him another chance. I ask for your understanding, because that is the kind of country we live in – where there is hope for even […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් පෞද්ගලික නාලිකා දෙකකට තර්ජනය කරමින් අදහස් දැක්වූ අමාත්‍ය රවුෆ් හකීම් මහතාට එරෙහිව සංවිධාන දෙකක් අද පොලිස් මූලස්ථානයට පැමිණිලි ගොනු කළා. ඊට අමතරව කබීර් හෂීම් සහ රාජිත සේනාරත්න යන අමාත්‍යවරුන්ට එරෙහිවද පොලිස් මූලස්ථානයට සහ අධිකරණයට පැමිණිලි දෙකක් ගොනු කෙරුණා. පෞද්ගලික නාලිකා දෙකකට හොඳ පාඩමක් උගන්වන බව පවසමින් අමාත්‍ය රවුෆ් හකීම් මහතා ඊයේ […]

TV Derana අදහස් ටික ගානට ගලපලා කතා කරනවා … සාම්ප්‍රදායික දේශපාලයෙකුට වඩා කතාව වෙනස්…..ආසයි අහන් ඉන්න

By Buddhika Samaraweera Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday (13) said his vision is to give priority to national security.  “We had a good security plan. But, this Cabinet of Ministers didn’t bother about national security and made plans to send war heroes to international Courts. He was […]

සංගීතය ශිල්පී ඉරාජ් වීරරත්න සංගීතය ශිල්පී ඉරාජ් වීරරත්න විසින් සිය නවතම නිර්මාණය වන ‘පුතානෝ’ නම් වීඩියෝව මේ වන විට අන්තර්ජාලයට මුදාහැර තිබේ. එක්සත් ජාතික පෙරමුණේ ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතා දැඩිව විවේචනය කරමින් මෙම වීඩියෝ නිර්මාණය කර ඇත. ගීතය ප‍්‍රසිද්ධ කර සුළු වේලාවක් ඇතුලත ලක්‍ෂ ගණනක පිරිසක් එය නරඹා ඇත.

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Sri Lanka Stock Market reached rock bottom in this year on 6 May, recording an All Share Index at 5198 with an unfavourable outlook. However, dismissing all forecasts, the Index improved to 5995 on 11 July. The luck was short-lived.  Since 30 July, it ran into downward territory reaching 5672 […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. In the inevitable humiliating the mud-masters of the Sajith camp would definitely resort to any form of election rigging this time.  The shameless American puppets Mangala, Rajitha et al are reported to have planned several misleading campaigns in the last two days and on the election deploying Nadesan’s MTV network […]

Courtesy ANI/BusinessWire India Sri Lanka’s executive presidency is the most lucrative in the constitutional context in the island nation simply because of its formulation, a fact that is widely attributed to its creator, the late JR Jayawardene. The country so far has experienced the dynamics of six executive presidents and the seventh will emerge after […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy Daily Mirror While saying that SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa would win the election by a majority more than 10 per cent, SLPP National Organizer Basil Rajapaksa said the son of Ranasinghe Premadasa would garner the lowest percentage of votes obtained by any second candidate in the presidential election history.  Addressing a […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The Embassy of the United States in Colombo said an individual is no longer considered a citizen of the US once he receives the certificate affirming the renunciation the citizenship while adding the such individual’s name to the federal list is a separate process. The media spokesperson of the US Embassy Nancy […]

Courtesy Ada Derana Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa says the incumbent government failed to resolve its internal issues owing to the lack of understanding between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The Opposition Leader had an audience with the members of the SLPP’s London branch at his official residence in the Wijerama Mawatha today. […]

Courtesy adaderana Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga may be attempting to grant what Velupillai Prabhakaran asked for through Sajith Premadasa, according to Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) expressed these views addressing a public meeting held in Minuwangoda. Rajapaksa said that a Tamil newspaper had reported that Chandrika Bandaranaike […]

Courtesy Adaderana Presidential hopeful of SLPP Gotabaya Rajapaksa says, under his administration, only local products will be used for the construction activities of the State. Even during the former administration under Mahinda Rajapaksa also made use of local bricks and tiles for the constructions carried out by the government, the former Defence Secretary said addressing […]

Hiru News ඇවන්ගාඩ් ආයතනය හරහා විදේශීය ත්‍රස්ත සංවිධානවලට ආයුධ ලබාදුන් බවට ප්‍රකාශ කර ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට විරුද්ධව ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසම වෙත පැමිණිලි කරන ලෙස දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී එම්.ඒ. සුමන්තිරන් මහතා ඇතුළු පිරිසක් තමන්ට බලපෑම් සිදුකළ බව විශ්‍රාමික කපිතාන් උදය දිසානායක මහතා පවසනවා. ඔහු මේ පිළිබද අද අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට ගොස් පැමිණිල්ලක් ද […]

Hiru News වත්මන් අර්බුධයෙන් රට ගොඩගතහැකි එකම නායකයා ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ බව හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී පුරාවිද්‍යා චක්‍රවර්තී පූජ්‍ය එල්ලාවල මේධානන්ද හිමියන් පවසනවා. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ මාධ්‍ය වෙත විශේෂ නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින්.

Hiru News වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව බලයට පත්වූ දින සිට භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේට මෙන්ම අන්‍යාගමික පූජකවරුන්ටද නින්දා අපහාස සිදුකළ බව පූජ්‍ය ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හිමියන් පවසනවා. යුතුකම සංවාද කවය විසින් කොළඹ අද කැඳවා තිබූ මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් කැඳවා තිබූ අතර, ඊට එක්වෙමිනුයි උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ. එම මාධ්‍ය හමුවට එහි නියෝජිතයෙකු වන ගෙවිඳු කුමාරතුංග සහ ප්‍රවීන සංගීතවේදී ජගත් වික්‍රමසිංහද […]

Hiru News ඉදිරි ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් අනතුරුව ජනාධිපති ධූර අපේක්ෂක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතා කුමක් පැවසුවද අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධූරය හිමවන්නේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ බහුතරයක් ලබාගත හැකි රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට බව අමාත්‍ය දයා ගමගේ මහතා පවසනවා. කොළඹදී මාධ්‍ය වෙත අදහස් දක්වමින් ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පලකළා.

RUWAN RAJAPAKSE Malabe.Courtesy The Island There are problems we must overcome if we are to accelerate Sri Lanka’s socioeconomic progress. As such, my well-intentioned provocations in the media have been about fundamental issues, such as intolerance, vengeance, and superstition. But I feel compelled to step out of this neutral frame of mind, to counter some […]

By Gandara John Steve Dobrilovic, the unwitting MCC whistleblower, must be out on a limb; in September 2018, he wrecked American plans of capturing Sri Lanka by surprise. Consequently, Dobrilovic’s actions have endangered the American Master Plan of militarily leapfrogging into the Indian Ocean, in line with their ‘Pivot-to-Asia’ geopolitical doctrine, heralded in 2012. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rmhfN6_NaTnz9IriymMxQrlpy6fL7rlV/view?usp=sharing […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. It is the wish of the majority of Sri Lankans that we should live as a people of one nation and make the maximum contribution possible to develop this nation as a multi-faceted development hub in Asia.  However this objective has some impediments not from all the Tamils but from […]

Kanthar Balanathan, Australia Sri Lankans are aware that late president Ranasinghe Premadasa (RP) and 17 others were assassinated by LTTE on May 1, Saturday, 1993. It was not clear whether LTE was responsible for the murder or they were used as a tool for the murder. It was crystal clear that JVP joined hands with LTTE […]

By Noor Nizam. Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice,  What WE AS SRI LANKA MUSLIMS HAS FORGOTTEN is about the aspirations and inspirations of the Sri Lanka Muslims and Muslim Vote bank. We/our votes are sold to either the UNP or SLFP (UNF/DNF or UPFA) for […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Today Sri Lanka is facing, arguably its worst survival crisis since independence, following the two armed JVP insurrections (1971 and 1986-90) and the long drawn out armed LTTE separatism (1976-2009), both terrorist movements. A considerable number of good but ill-informed or misinformed young Sri Lankans believe that the […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. නාගානන්ද, සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස සමඟ ගිවිසුමක් අත්සන් කරන්නට යනවා යන කතාව සත්‍ය බව දැන් අනාවරණය වී ඇත. අවසාන මොහොතේවත් ඔහු මේ දේශපාලන සියදිවි නසාගැනීම නොකරාවියයි මා සිතන්නේ, එන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයේදී ඔහුට බලවේගයක් වශයෙන් ඊට ඇතුළුවීමට ඇති ඉඩකඩ නිසාත්, ඒ මඟින් ඉදිරියේදී ඔහුට කල හැකි සේවයත් නිසාය. නාගානන්ද හා පල්ලෙවත්ත අතරින් නාගානන්ද වඩා […]

By Dr.Sripali Vaiamon WELL, OPINION DIFFERS! I am a Sinhalese who loves my country very much, but at present, I am a citizen in CANADA. In Canada President is appointed by the Governor-General. Their Constitution is different. But I like their SOCIALISM POLICY. It was introduced by the former Prime Minister. Present Prime Minister’s father, […]

Courtesy: The Guardian (UK) One of the Netherlands’ most venerated institutions, the Rijksmuseum, has described the country’s failure to return artefacts stolen from former colonies as a disgrace” as it opened talks with Sri Lanka and Indonesia. The museum in Amsterdam is discussing the return of around 10 objects to their place of origin but there […]

By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island The yahapalana government’s failed attempt to hurriedly sign the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact surely injected some life in to an otherwise lackadaisical presidential election contest, at least from the points of view of the UNP’s old guard, and the increasingly cynical voting public; the government’s attempt to […]

By Dr. UPUL WIJAYAWARDHANA Courtesy The Island It looks as if the last lap of the Presidential election campaign were turning out to be a mud-slinging match. Sorry, I should correct myself to say, a mud-slinging campaign; as one side seems to be doing it predominantly, perhaps, in a planned systematic manner, may be out […]