KAMALIKA PIERIS Several external agencies were supporting the LTTE during the Eelam wars. UNICEF had links with LTTE. UNICEF staffers in Sri Lanka were found to be working with the LTTE.   UNICEF in     2007 had imported 6000 ready to eat meal packs and it was suspected that this was for the LTTE. Head of the […]

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චන්‍ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. අප සිතන විදිය හා පතන විදිය, බලපාන්නේ අපට පමණක්ම නොවේ. අප මිනිස් සමාජයේ ඒකකයක් බැවින් එය පොදුවේ සමස්ත සමාජයටම විශාල බලපෑමක් සිදු කරන කරුණක් බවට පත්වෙනවා. මේ වනවිට මේ රට, ඉන්දියන් සාගර කලාපය තුල නවතම ආකාරයේ ගමනකට සූදානම් වෙමින් සිටින බැවින්, මේ විෂය සම්බන්ධව පුලුල්ව කථා කරන්න අප සැමට සිදුව තිබෙනවා. මෙම […]

RANJITH SOYSA It is reported that the DMK, Tamil Nadu’s major Opposition Party and it’s BJP alley, THE PMK have expressed their opposition to Sri Lankan government’s opinion that it is not necessary to sing the Sri Lankan national anthem in Tamil at the forthcoming Independence Day celebrations. While we reject the view point of […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The 21st Amendment Draft Bill and the 22nd Amendment Draft Bill have been gazetted by Parliament. The 21st Amendment Draft proposes to change certain provisions of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution while the 22nd Amendment Draft proposes to abolish the 15th Amendment to the Constitution. The two draft Bills have been […]

Courtesy Ada Derana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in his message to remark the dawn of 2020, says New Year dawns at a time when the entire Sri Lankan nation is beaming with hopes for a new era in economic, political, social, cultural and technological spheres of life. The new government welcomes the New Year with determination […]

Courtesy Ada Derana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says Sri Lanka enters the new decade in a context where a new President was elected to power by the people with an overwhelming mandate. In his message for the New Year 2020, the Premier said a new Parliamentary government has also been formed and it is in […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් උදා වූ 2020 නව වසර මැතිවරණ වසරක් බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසනවා. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ අදහස් පළ කළේ අද පෙරවරුවේ තංගල්ලේ පැවැති උත්සවයකට එක්වෙමින්. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ රාත්‍රී කතරගම – කිරිවෙහෙර චෛත්‍ය රාජාණන් වහන්සේ වැඳ පුදාගෙන ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තා. එහිදී මහා සංඝ රත්නය සෙත් පිරිත් සජ්ජායනා කර අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාට ආශිර්වාද […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් පසුගිය රජය සහ වත්මන් රජය අතර ඩීල් දේශපාලනයකට ඇතැම් පිරිස් කටයුතු කරමින් සිටින බව රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය චෝදනා කරනවා. < කොළඹ අද පැවැති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් එහි නියෝජිතයින් මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කළා.

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් එළඹෙන මහ මැතිවරණයේදී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ තුනෙන් දෙකක බහුතරයක් දිනා ගැනීම මෙම වසරේ තම පක්ෂයේ ප්‍රධාන අපේක්ෂාව බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ පවසනවා. එම පක්ෂයේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජී.එල් පීරිස් මහතා මේ අදහස් පළ කළේ නෙළුම් මාවත පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේ අද පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදී. ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවට ආරම්භ වීමට ප්‍රථම ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් රටේ සහල් හිඟයට හේතුව තමන් බව පවසන්නේ නම් සිය හිමිකාරීත්වය සහිත සහල්මෝල් රජයට පවරාදීමට සූදානම් බව ව්‍යාපාරික ඩඩ්ලි සිරිසේන මහතා පවසනවා.  ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ පොළොන්නරුවේ පැවැති උත්සවයකට එක්වෙමින්.

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් MP Wijedasa Rajapaksa says that the constitutional Council has acted in a biased manner during the previous regime . He noted that for the past four years, the constitutional council has not been independent and has acted in a bias manner. He made this statement while, addressing a media conference at […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily News The Government suspended the import of ethanol for liquor manufacturing with immediate effect, the Ministry of Finance, economic and policy development Ministry said today. They said the decision was taken following the instructions given by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is also the Finance Minister. He also said required […]

Courtesy Ada Derana Parliamentarian Rajitha Senaratne, who was receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of the Lanka Hospitals in Narahenpita, has been transferred to a general medical unit. Former Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, who was remanded over the controversial white van” press conference, was released on bail on December 30 as per an […]

Courtesy Ada Deara The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has permitted two Indian private banks Axis Bank and ICICI Bank to close down their operations in the country.  The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has said that it intends to take appropriate action against the banks that have not complied with the order to reduce […]

By ANI Courtesy The Indain Express  CAA grants Indian citizenship to Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi refugees from three neighbouring countries who entered India on or before December 2014. CHENNAI: Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) founder Vaiko on Wednesday condemned the arrest of two journalists for interviewing Sri Lankan Tamil refugees on the Citizenship Amendment […]

By Rohana R. Wasala (The title is a line from the concluding passage of  Sir Edwin Arnold’s ‘Light of Asia’. The Spanish title and name Don Quixote used below is pronounced dong khee khothe”) ANNO FELIX, HAPPY NEW YEAR, TO YOU! Rejoice my beloved Mother Lanka! With us your dear children just debunking The entrenched […]

S. Akurugoda Foreign-funded NGOs had influenced our education system in subtle ways and an expeditious investigation will be carried out into the ideas being put into the minds of schoolchildren through school text books, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said at the National Dhamma School Convention and Awards Ceremony held at Irattaperiyakulam in Vavuniya few days ago. […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 1.1.2020 Many land mines were laid by the LTTE in their treasonable war against the Government of Sri Lanka. Landmines were one of ways the LTTE tried to ‘win’ the war. After the war, it fell to the army to clear these land mines. The mines had to be cleared before the […]

Dilrook Kannangara Chief Minister of the Northern Province is at it again – Mahawamsa bashing. Lengthy replies have been written to him by others. Having read the comments and replies, I’m compelled to make these short and sharp points to him and his unfortunate followers. 1.       If Sri Lankan (Ceylon) Tamils were an established ethnic […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS How to sing the national anthem of Sri Lanka in Tamil is a question to me as the current National Anthem is in Sinhala language and originally it was authored by the lyricist in the Sinhala language.  If anyone suggests or requests to sing in Tamil it will not be a national […]