Nitin A. Gokhale Courtesy  Strategic News International NEW DELHI: As Gotabaya Rajapaksa prepares to take over as Sri Lanka’s seventh Executive President on Monday, SNI Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, who has known and interacted with the President-elect while reporting on Eelam War IV (2006-2009) and in subsequent years, brings out some fascinating and little known facts […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia November 17 (newsin.asia) – Ministers from Sri Lanka’s ruling United National Front (UNF) government began resigning from their portfolios on Sunday after the ruling presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa lost the presidential elections. Minister of Sports, Telecommunications and Foreign Employment, Harin Fernando, was one of the first Ministers to hand in his resignation saying […]

SPUR   (Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka Inc) Reg:  A 003 0777 MPO Box 4066, Mulgrave, VIC 3170, AustraliaTele/Fax: (03) 97957143  Email:   ranjiths@spur.asn.au Website: www.spur.asn.au Attn NEWS EDITOR-SBS .Dear Editor, Your following  news item re above -link is given- is completely baseless and overturns the code of conduct by fabrication and allowing only […]

James Lasantha Jayalath Melbourne, Australia Dear Mr. Gotabaya, Hope you are well. I am not sure whether you have time to read my message, but I hope you read it one day. I am one of the silent majority who wish and pray that you win with a majority tomorrow. I left my motherland when […]

Ada Derana Minister Sajith Premadasa, who contested at the forefront in the Presidential Election 2019 from New Democratic Front (NDF), has announced his decision to step down as Deputy Leader of the United National Party (UNP) with immediate effect. Minister Harin Fernando, taking to his official Facebook account today (17), published a special statement from […]

By C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island We are now awaiting the results of what will hopefully be Sri Lanka’s last presidential election. There are 35 candidates contesting this presidential election with a ballot paper over two feet long for a position that has no power at all. Today, Sri Lanka’s supposedly executive presidency has less power than […]

Dr.Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington New Zealand  Even as the Yahapalan government goes through their last gasps, it merits reflecting on the complex web of deceit and deception that they spun on Sri Lankans to grab power and stay in power, in a hope to prevent Sri Lanka’s history being so slurred, ever again. In January […]

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Former Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka and Ex- President of the Sri Lanka Administrative Services Association (1991-19194) 14. 11. 2019. After the 16th of Nov. 2019, this has been an often displayed slogan I have seen in many a SLPP political parleys. But at all these meetings they only focused […]

ඇම්. ඩී. පී. දිසානායක විසිනි 2019 ජනාධිපති මැතිවරනයේදී 82% සාමාන්‍ය වලංගු ඡන්ද ‍ලැබීමට බොහෝ අවකාශ තිබේ.  මෙම ‍ප‍‍ර්වණතාවය වවුනියාව, රත්නපුර, කුරුණෑගල, කිළිනොච්චි, කෑගල්ල, කලුතර, යාපනය, ගම්පහ, ගාල්ල, මාතර, අනුරාධපුරය. පොලොන්නරුව, මොනරාගල, මාතර දිස්තිරික්ක තුලින් පේනේ.  සමහරවිට මෙම රැල්ල 85-90% දක්වා යෑමට ඉඩකඩ තිබේ. අනුර කුමරුට 4.2% ක්ද,  සජිත්ට 31.3% ක්ද ලැබිය හැකි වේයයි ද, ජයගන්නා […]

Don Dissanayake The 2019 Presidential Election is expected to generate 82% of valid  votes as an average. This trend is likely to eventuate in Vavuniya, Ratnapura, Kurunegala, Kilinochchi, Kegalle, Kalutara,Jaffna, Gampaha, Galle, Matara, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Monaragala, and Matara.  In some districts in the above list  valid votes in the band of 85-90% could not be […]

Geethanjana Kudaligamage Rajapakses, Geopolitics, ‘Eurocentric Developmentalism,’ and the western hegemony  (Part 20-A) From time to time throughout history, if foreign powers recurrently have been hellbent on grabbing what is legitimately yours, at times by force and conspiracy, what options would you have in order to resolve that problem? If their land grab is targeting the […]

දයා විජේසිංහ  ගරු ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් අප දෑ දම් රක්නෝ සංවිධානය විසින් ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කරනු ලබන දැක්ම සඟරා‌වේ 11වන කලාප‌යේ පල වූ ලිපි පහත දැක්වේ. 

Lindsey Hilsum International Editor Courtesy Channel 4 News In Sri Lanka, voters will elect a new President this weekend and they look likely to bring back a familiar face. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the defence secretary who oversaw the end of a decades-long civil war. The UN says at least 40,000 Tamil civilians died during the […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today In this last moment to save the country, the responsibility of all people who love the country is to ensure Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s victory by voting for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) on 16 November, former President and current Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa said. The only way that the country and the […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Tamil people must act in collaboration against the expectations of the Southern Sinhala people regarding Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s victory and prevent Sinhala leaders from emerging victorious, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Spokesman and MP, M.A. Sumanthiran said. At the upcoming Presidential Election, all the Tamil people must unite to stifle the ‘Gotabaya menace,’ he […]

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 […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් මාධ්‍යයට එරෙහිව අමාත්‍ය රවුෆ් හකීම් මහතා සිදුකළ තර්ජනය කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදත් පොලිස් මූලස්ථානයට පැමිණිලි ගොනු කෙරුණා. බෞද්ධ තොරතුරු කේන්ද්‍රයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ අඟුල්ගල්ලේ සිරි ජිනානන්ද හිමියන් පොලිස් මූලස්ථානයට අද පෙරවරුවේ මෙලෙස පැමිණිල්ලක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට පැමිණියේ අමාත්‍ය රවුෆ් හකීම් මහතා මාධ්‍යයට එරෙහිව සිදු කළ තර්ජනය කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන්. මේ අතර ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ ද […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් දෙමළ ජාතික සංධානය සහ ඊට සහය පළ කරන දේශපාලන පක්ෂ රට දෙකඩ කිරීමට උත්සාහ දරන්නේ යැයි සඳහන් කරමින් ඔවුන් තහනම් සංවිධාන ලෙස ප්‍රකාශ කරන්නැයි සත්‍ය ගවේෂකයෝ සංවිධානය අද ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට පෙත්සමක් ගොනු කළා. ඉදිරි ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී තම සහය ලබාදීම සඳහා දෙමළ ජාතික සංවිධානය පසුගියදා කරුණු 13කින් යුත් යෝජනාවලියක් ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලැබුවා. එහි නිජබිම් […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 15 (Ada Derana): The Embassy of the United States in Colombo says the widely circulated dubbed video statement of the US State Department’s spokeswoman regarding the citizenship of SLPP’s presidential hopeful Gotabaya Rajapaksa is fake. The spokeswoman of the US Embassy, Nancy VanHorn told Ada Derana that this video, which is […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් පුරවැසිභාවය පිළිබඳව ඇමරිකානු රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ප්‍රකාශිකාවකගේ යැයි පවසමින් අන්තර්ජාලයේ සැරිසරන වීඩියෝව ව්‍යාජ වීඩියෝවක් බව කොළඹ ඇමරිකානු තානාපති කාර්යාලය පවසනවා. එහි මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශිකා නැන්සි වෑන්හෝන් මහත්මිය පැවසුවේ එය තම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අදාළ නොවන හඬ කැවූ ව්‍යාජ වීඩියෝවක් බවට තහවුරු කළ හැකි බවයි. ඇමරිකානු රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ප්‍රකාශිකාවකගේ යැයි පවසමින් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ඇමරිකානු පුරවැසිභාවය […]

Courtesy Hiru News The US embassy in Colombo has announced that the video clip on the internet claiming to be a US State Department spokesperson detailing US Citizenship is a fake video. Media spokeswoman Nancy Van Vonhorn said that it can be verified as a fake video that has been dubbed which is not linked […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island November 14, 2019, 12:00 pm The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact is temporarily down but is not out. Despite this set-back, it is bound to resurface after the Presidential Election when it would be submitted to Parliament as required by the provisions of the Compact. However, a fact that […]

By Dr.  C. S. Weeraratna(csweera@sltnet.lk) Former Professor at Ruhuna and Rajarata universities Courtesy The Island November 14, 2019, 6:35 pm Agricultural sector is the cornerstone in the economic and social development of the country and hence, a number of presidential candidates in their manifestoes highlighted the need to improve this sector.. Around 1.6 million ha […]

By Noor Nizam – Convener The Muslim Voice” –  November 14th., 2019. The present presidential elections should have the freethinking participation of all Sri Lankans, by the Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Burghers and others The Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gotabaya Rajapaksa (the SLPP Presidential candidate) and Basil Rajapaksa have stated that they want the minority votes added to […]

 lanka C news ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතාගේ ප්‍රචාරක ව්‍යාපෘතිය ඇමති රාජිත සේනාරත්න විසින් අවසාන මොහොතේ මුළුමනින්ම කඩාකප්පල් කළේ යැයි ඒ පාර්ශවයේම බලවත් තැනැත්තියක විසින් දැඩි විවේචනය කර ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි. ජනාධිපතිවරණ ප‍්‍රචාරක කටයුතු අවසානයේ මෙම තැනැත්තිය අධික ලෙස බීමතින් මෙසේ විවේචනය කර ඇත. හරක් වැඩ සිදු කළ මෝඩ ඇමතිවරයා නිසා තම පරාශ්වය අන්ත […]

by A. Patabendige Courtesy The Island This is the season for lying. With a few days left for the Presidential election panic and distortion, lies and damned lies have overtaken supporters of one side as they fight tooth and nail to survive an impending change of leadership. One minister on TV (11 Nov 19) produces […]

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Janaka Perera More than any other past Presidential Election the one that is to be held tomorrow (November 16) poses the most difficult challenge to intelligent voters. Considering over two decades of unwelcome experiences and a continuing corrupt system will it be a Hobson’s choice for them?  Will they have to vote for the best […]

FB Royal Park murder convict Jude Shramantha Jayamaha has appealed for a second chance saying he never intended to harm anyone and that he was ashamed for what has happened. Jayamaha was serving life in prison over the 2005 murder of Swedish national Yvonne Johnson at the Royal Park condominium. President Maithripala Sirisena last week granted a […]

Asoka Weerasinghe. Kings Grove Crescent . Ottawa. Ontario  . K1J 6G1 . Canada 14 November 2019 Rt. Hon. Maithripala SirisenaPresident of Sri LankaPresident’s SecretariatGalle FaceColombo 1Sri Lanka. Mr. President: Re: Granting Presidential pardon to 34-year-old Shramantha Jude Anthony Jayamaha who was serving a life sentence for murdering 19-year old Yvonne Johnsson at Rajagiriya’s Royal Park […]