By M D P DISSANAYAKE The 15 Cabinet Ministers’ workload is quite challenging. Each Minister needs to have at least 2 State Ministers. Each State Minister needs to have qualified Professionals and Academics, consisting of at least one identified in each of the allocated Subjects.  In other words, the structure should provide a direct link […]

By Janaka Perera Throughout every Christmas season, customers at supermarkets in Sri Lanka can hear Christmas hymns being sung and the staff wearing red Santa Claus caps, though not all the staff may be Christians.  This no doubt is commercializing religion but why force-feed it on non-Christians too – both employees and customers?   During Buddhist […]

by C.A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island November 23, 2019, 7:46 pm * UNP’s Vibheeshana role* Communalism in minority politicsOpportunity for reset in majority-minority relations What we just experienced was undoubtedly the most eventful week since January 2015. The people of Sri Lanka have voted to end a five year long nightmare. Gota’s victory was not […]

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Former Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka and Ex- President of the Sri Lanka State Administrative Services Association (1991-19194) 22.11.2019. H.E. The President, Sir , Your decision to appoint 15 Cabinet Ministers only, is excellent and highly commendable. The whole country admires it as the beginning of a New Political Culture […]

Dr. Dietmar Doering -The writer is a German investor, tourism promoter and social scientist based in Sri Lanka Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka ushered a new era with the election of a typical ‘People’s President’ with a convincing mandate at a critical juncture to lead the country’s 21 million people towards economic prosperity. With 6.9 […]

J. M. Jinasena Courtesy The Island Dear Mr. Premadasa, I did not vote for you, nor am I aligned with a political party. My family are a colour pallet of green, blue, red and now the new pink. Nor am I a political pundit or have a degree in political science. I am writing to […]

.spa.gov.sa Riyadh, Nov 23, 2019, SPA — His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, sent a cable of congratulations to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on taking the oath of office as President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.The Crown Prince said: it […]

spa.gov.sa Riyadh, Nov 23, 2019, SPA — The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud sent a cable of congratulations to the His Excellency President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, on taking the oath of office.In his cable, the King said: It is our pleasure, […]

By Dr Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Daya Gamage worked at the American Embassy in Colombo, as the Sole Foreign Service National and a Political Specialist. He retired in 1994 and has been living in Las Vegas since retirement. After two years of concentration, he has been able to share his knowledge, understanding and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The election manifesto of United Kingdom’s Labour Party has featured Sri Lanka and promised the protection of human rights of Tamil and Muslim populations in the island nation. The Labour Party’s manifesto, aimed at securing the victory of UK’s general election in December, was launched two days ago. Many foreign media had tagged […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former general secretary of UNP Tissa Attanayake issued a statement today in response to the statement issued by UNP general secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam regarding the election campaign of Sajith Premadasa. The statement says that the party’s general secretary is deliberately hiding the truth and accusing the election operation office in Vauxhaull […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාසගේ මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ මහලේකම් අකිල විරාජ් කාරියවසම් පසුගියදා නිකුත් කළ මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයට ප්‍රතිචාර දක්වමින් එම පක්ෂයේ හිටපු මහලේකම්වරයෙකු වන තිස්ස අත්තනායක ද අද නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කළා. එහි දැක්වෙන්නේ පක්ෂ මහලේකම්වරයා සිතාමතාම සත්‍යය වසන් කරමින් වොක්ෂෝල් වීථියේ පිහිටි මැතිවරණ මෙහෙයුම් කාර්යාලයට චෝදනා කර ඇති බවයි. මේ අතර, […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් අපරාධ පරික්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ හිටපු අධ්‍යක්ෂ ශානි අබේසේකර මහතා පැවති යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවට පක්ෂග්‍රාහීව කටයුතු කිරීම හේතුවෙන් නිර්දෝශී පිරිස් සිර ගතව ඇති බවට ජාතික සංවිධාන චෝදනා කරනවා. එම සංවිධාන නියෝජනය කරන භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ සදහන් කරන්නේ 2015 සිට අපරාධ පරික්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව සිදුකළ විමර්ශන පිළිබදව නැවත පරික්ෂණ ආරම්භ කළ යුතු බවයි

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KAMALIKA PIERIS President Gotabaya hails from a political family with a proud political record. His father, D. A. Rajapaksa was one of the founder-members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).  D.A. was a Member of Parliament.  He served as the Deputy Speaker and Cabinet Minister of Agriculture and Lands when W. Dahanayake was Prime […]

වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නෝ සංවිධානය යුනෙස්කෝ ලෝක උරුම තෙත් කලාපීය වැසි වනාන්තරයක් වන සිංහරාජ රක්ෂිතය සංවර්ධන ක්‍රියාවලි නිසාවෙන් පසු ගිය කාලය තුලදී දැඩි තර්ජන වලට ලක් විය. තවත් එවැනිම සිදු වීමක්  සිංහාරජ රක්ෂිතයේ නැගෙනහිර බෑවුමට වන්නට පිහිටි සූරියකන්ද ප්‍රදේශයේ හිමිදිරි පෙදෙස(Morning Side) සංචාරක බංගලාවට පිවිසෙන මාර්ගයේ කිලෝමීටර 5කට ආසන්න දුරක් මාර්ගය දෙපස කොලොන්න ප්‍රාදේශීය සභව මගින් බැකෝ […]

orpheus perera Millennium  Challenge Corporation was set up as an alternate to providing American AID to the 3rd world. Around 2004, Americans must have thought, why they help any country, unless they have some control over them politically as well as economically.  If you inspect existing MCC corporation zones in most countries, it is different […]

By Noor Nizam – Convener “The Muslim Voice”, November 22, 2019. Governor A.J.M. Muzammil,I am flabbergasted to read your above statement and wish to inform you that I cannot agree to some of the things what you have stated. How dare you tell that the Muslims voted then General Fonseka in large numbers at the […]

Courtesy The Economic Times Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has allowed a Russian Navy ship to visit the Hambantota Port. India hopes that the new dispensation in Colombo will disallow any foreign military assets and submarines in its territorial waters that are detrimental to India’s interests. New Delhi: Ahead of his trip to India on […]

Courtesy Scroll.in The populist mandate in the recent elections calls into question post-civil war efforts at reconciliation. In the aftermath of the 2019 Presidential elections which concluded another era of the Sri Lankan political journey, it is necessary to delve into the fragility of the Sri Lankan state. The results of this election depict that […]

By Ashutosh Nagda Courtesy The Diplomat Rather than a reactionary response to the election of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, India appeared prepared for the political developments in Sri Lanka. On November 18, Gotabaya Rajapaksa took the oath to become the eighth president of Sri Lanka. Well-known as the brother of former Sri Lankan President (and newly appointed Prime […]

By THOMAS W. HODGKINSON FOR THE DAILY MAIL Sri Lanka’s visitor numbers have plummeted since April due to series of terror attacks on hotels and churches  The tenth of the population of the country that relies on tourism has suffered its worst year in memory Seven months on from the attacks, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office […]

Courtesy BBC The skulls of nine members of a Sri Lankan tribe have been returned to their descendents by the University of Edinburgh. Experts say the bones are the ancestral remains of the Vedda people and may be more than 200 years old. They have been part of the university’s anatomical collection since being acquired […]

Courtesy Adaderana The skulls of nine members of a Sri Lankan tribe have been returned to their descendents by the University of Edinburgh. Experts say the bones are the ancestral remains of the Vedda people and may be more than 200 years old. They have been part of the university’s anatomical collection since being acquired […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 22 (newsin.asia): Sri Lanka’s new Foreign Minister, Dinesh Gunawardena (70), is a hardcore left-wing nationalist belonging to the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), an ally of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) led by Mahinda Rajapaksa. The soft-spoken Dinesh Chandra Rupasinghe Gunawardena, born in 1949, has a background which should help him […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that a general election will be held at the first opportunity granted by the constitution.<br /><br />He was addressing his first Cabinet that was sworn in before him at his office this morning. The swearing in of the 16 member cabinet of the caretaker government was held this […]

Courtesy Hiru News UNP leader and former Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe says that he rejects the allegations which claim that he weakens the victory of Sajith Premadasa. He was addressing a media conference held at Sirikotha today. Meanwhile, the retired disabled soldier who staged a sit-in protest in front of Sirikotha is still continuing his […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස ජයග්‍රහණය අඩපණ කළ බවට එල්ල වන චෝදනා තමන් ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරන බව එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ නායක හිටපු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ පවසනවා. සිරිකොත පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේදී අද පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමිනුයි ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ. පැවති ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී නව ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී පෙරමුණට සහය දැක්වූ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ සාමාජිකයන්ට ස්තූතිය පළ කිරීම සඳහා හිටපු […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් රට තුළ සිදුවන වංචා දූෂණ වැළැක්වීමට කටයුතු කරන ලෙස ශ්‍රී ලංකා අමරපුර නිකායේ උත්තරීතර මහනායක අතිපූජ්‍ය කොටුගොඩ ශ්‍රී ධම්මාවාස නාහිමියන් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේ අද පස්වරුවේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා තමන් වහන්සේ බැහැදුටු අවස්ථාවේදී. අභිනව ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද පස්වරුවේ ගල්කිස්ස ධර්මපාලාරාම විහාරස්ථානය වෙත ගොස් අමරපුර […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් මෙරට සංඝ සමාජය කහ සිවුරක් දවටාගත් පමණින් ගෞරවය බලාපොරොත්තු නොවිය යුතු බව හිටපු අමාත්‍ය මංගල සමරවීර මහතා ට්විටර් පණිවුඩයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසනවා. ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ ගෞරවය ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා සංඝයාවහන්සේ බුදුන් වහන්සේගේ ධර්මයෙහි හැසිරිය යුතු බවයි. මීට පෙර අවස්ථා ගණනාවකදී භික්ෂුන් වහන්සේට අගෞරව වන අයුරින් ප්‍රකාශ නිකුත් කළ හිටපු අමාත්‍ය මංගල […]