BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS A recent statement of Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka has stated that the responsibility for the failure of the finance company must be taken by the central bank as the company has been under its administration.  I am fully agreed with the statement of the prime minister and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 7.6.20 Ven. Rambukwelle Siddhartha has played a significant role in the preservation of indigenous culture in Sri Lanka. But his contribution has not been recognized and not much is known about him. I searched the literature for references to Ven. Siddhartha, and also asked a friend in Kandy, to find out something […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B.,Ph.D. මැකියාවේලි ශාස්ත්‍රය අනුගමනය කල මුවර් නායකයින් ලෝනා ශ්‍රීමතී දේවරාජා විසින් 1994 දී ලියූ මුස්ලිම් ශාන්ත-දාන්ත තීන්ත කූඩු පිළිඹඳ සාම-සමාදාන පොතේ කතාව සසැඳිය යුත්තේ, ඊට පෙර 1987 දී වසුන්‌ධරා මෝහන් විසින් කල අචාර්ය උපාධි නිබන්ධනයේ පෙන්වන කරුණු සමඟය. <අයිඩන්ටිටි ක්‍රයිසිස් ඔෆ් ශ්‍රී ලංකා මුස්ලිම්> යන මෙය ඉන්දියාවේ රාජස්ථාන් සරසවියේදී කරණ ලද්දකි. මෙම පර්යේෂණයේදී […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart and Convener – “The Muslim Voice” – 8th., June, 2020. The above news item that appreared in the: http://www.adaderana.lk/news/64500/president-instructs-heads-of-govt-institutions-not-to-involve-in-politics-during-election dated June 8th., 2020, can be the most welcome “INSTRUCTIONS” given by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa since January 2020 todate. Being involved in the grass-root election […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. People of Sri Lanka experienced the worst period of its existence economically, socially, morally, and culturally from 2015 to end of 2019 under the Sirisena/Ranil/TNA/JVP (SRTJ) government in which parliament had no decorum with the worst ever Speaker presiding over it and this shameless utterly bias dude even allowing government […]

ආචාර්ය කොඩිසිංහ හේරත්. කොරෝනාවෙන් ආරක්ෂාවෙන්න නිවාස අඩස්සියෙ හිටපු කාලෙ පරණ පොත් ගොඩක තිබිලා හම්බවුන පොත් පිංචක් ‘මැලේරියාව ‘, මේක මගේ මතකය ඈත අතීතයට ගෙනි යන්න සමත්වුණා. අද වෙනකොට සිරි-ලංකාව මැලේරියාවෙන් නිදහස් වුනත් එදා මේ රෝගය මේ රටට විශාල තර්ජන්යක් වගේම විශාල බරක්වෙලා තිබුනා. එයින් රටේ ජනතාව බේරාගැනීම සදහා සිය -රට වෙනුවෙන් තම සේවා කාලය කැපකළ […]

Chuls Rajapakse MNZM The outstanding violence that Sri Lanka experienced in the last fifty years are: 1. The thirty-year terrorism of LTTE of a Tamil group supported by a national and international diaspora consisting of Tamil people supported by significant contributions from Christian & Catholic clergy. 2 The Easter Sunday carnage caused by a militant […]

Courtesy Adaderana BEIJING: China has suspended debt repayment for 77 developing countries as part of its efforts to help underprivileged nations in the fight against Covid-19. However, it did not reveal the nations that would be benefitting from this move. Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ma Zhaoxu, made the announcement at a press conference […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today At the recently concluded Ranawiru Day commemoration, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa vowed “not to allow anyone to exert undue pressure and harass our war heroes who have sacrificed so much for the country” to return to the status of peace and tranquility to the people and our country.  He then […]

Courtesy Adaderana In a backdrop where the COVID-19 outbreak has been controlled and a suitable environment for holding the election has been facilitated, the behavior of certain officials of the Election Commission is controversial, says Prof. Rohana Lakshman Piyadasa. The former General Secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) mentioned this during a press conference […]

Courtesy Adaderana Eight individuals have tested positive for the novel coronavirus hiking the count of infections in the country to 1,857 cases. With 18 more persons also being confirmed to have contracted the virus, a total of 26 COVID-19 positive patients have been reported within the day so far. This brings the total number of […]

Courtesy Adaderana An expert in geology produced a report to the Supreme Court that the burial of persons deceased from COVID-19 infection may cause adverse effects in the environment. Previously, 12 individuals, including the son of a COVID-19 victim, filed a Fundamental Rights petition claiming that the cremation of persons deceased from the virus is […]

Courtesy Adaderana The date for holding the General Election will be declared within this week, stated the Elections Commission a short while ago. The Elections Commission is currently holding a press conference regarding the General Election 2020, in Colombo. Earlier today (08), the members of the Elections Commission convened to decide on the date to […]

Courtesy Hiru News Chairman of the Avant Garde Company, Nissanka Senadhipathi states that the main reason for the loss of GSP plus for Sri Lanka is the illegal fishing business conducted by a private secretary of former Minister Rajitha Senaratne. This was while he was giving evidence before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to investigate […]