By Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan Courtesy Eurasia Review The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) was formed in 2001. At its inception, it was an umbrella organization consisting of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC), the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), and the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF). The organization was […]

By Feizal Samath Courtesy TTG Asia The reopening of Sri Lanka’s Colombo International Airport has been delayed indefinitely, after repatriation flights were suspended due to a spike in Covid-19 infections last week. This marks the second postponement of the reopening of the country’s main international airport, after authorities announced last month that its initial August 1 reopening would […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS In the 1980s, I attempted to develop industry averages in Sri Lanka, and the purpose of my effort was to support credit policy development, which needed to successful credit management in a government bank, where I had been working. When I was talking about industry averages, bank executives, and the government authority […]

PROF.TISSA VITARANA President Gotabhaya Rajapakse had requested the Cabinet of Ministers to submit their opinions on the Prof.Lalithasiri Gunaruwan Report on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement with the USA. This has now been extended for a further two weeks. Though not a Cabinet Minister, but as the leader of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ජපන් නවකතාකරුවෙකු හා කෙටිකතා රචකයෙකු වන යසුනාරි  කවබත  නොබෙල් සාහිත්‍ය ත්‍යාගය දිනූ ප්‍රථම ජපන් ජාතික ලේඛකයා විය. ඔහු 20 වන සියවසේ ජපානයේ සාහිත්‍ය-නූතනවාදී ව්‍යාපාරයේ නායකයෙකි.  ඔහුගේ කෘති පැරණි ජපානයේ සුන්දරත්වය නූතනවාදී ප්‍රවණතා සමඟ ඒකාබද්ධ වූ අතර ඔහුගේ ගද්‍ය යථාර්ථවාදී දර්ශන සමඟ මුසු විය. ඔහු සිය ලේඛන ක්‍රමය ජපානයේ සාම්ප්‍රදායික කාව්‍යයන් වන […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ මෙරට චන්ද බලය උරුමව ඇත්තේ මෙරට ජනතාවටය. එය පුද්ගලයින් සතු ප්‍රබල ධන නිධානයකි. නමුත් මෙරට දේශපාලකයින් සිතාගෙන ඉන්නේ, ඒ ඒ චන්ද තමන්ට උරුම චන්ද ලෙසයි. මේ මිත්‍යාව මත පිහිටා බොහෝ නායකයින් ඒ  චන්ද පදනම පෙන්වා තමන්ට උරුම නැති වරදාන ලබා ගැනීම සෑම විටකදීම සිදුකරන පහත් දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාදාමයකි. ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයද මෙවර පොහොට්ටුවට […]

ජානක පෙරේරා විසිනි  කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදීන් හිටපු විරුද්ධ පක්ෂ නායකයකු මෙන්ම දෙමළ එක්සත් පෙරමුණේ නායක සහ  ජාතික ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරයකු වූ අප්පාපිල්ලේ අමිර්තලිංගම් ඇතුළු පිරිසක් ඝාතනය කර ජුලි 13 දාට තිස් එක් වසරක් සපිරුනි.   සිංහල පොලිස් නිලධාරියෙකුගේ වීරත්වය ලොවට පෙන්වූ එම සිද්ධියේ ඉතාමත්ම සවිස්තර වාර්තාව පළමු වරට සැපයුවේ  ප්‍රවීන ඉංග්‍රීසි මාධ්‍යවේදියෙකු වන ඩී. බී. එස්.  ජෙයරාජ්ය.  (ඉන්දියන් සාම […]

By Saroj Jayasinghe Consultant Physician and  a Professor in a University of Colombo A single incident in the US which was captured on a mobile phone by a teenager has triggered waves of protests against racism, globally. This has included bringing down of monuments that represented racists or slave owners in the UK and USA. […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman Professor G.L. Peiris yesterday said those who are afraid of facing the elections use the COVID-19 situation as a scapegoat to get the General Elections postponed. Speaking at the weekly SLPP news briefing, Professor Peiris said a proper plan was in place to mitigate the COVID-19 situation […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that 428 Covid 19 Positive cases had been reported from Kandakadu and Senapura Rehabilitation Centres, Director General of Health Services Dr Anil Jasinghe today said the spreading of the virus in the respective areas was not a wide-spread scenario. The spreading of the virus is only confined to the […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva stated that 429 of the 506 infected persons found at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Center are rehabilitated prisoners. Meanwhile 47 are staff members and 30 are close contacts.

Courtesy Hiru News Two (02) more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection from Rajanganaya. The country total has increased to 2,644 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology unit of the Ministry of Health. Covid-19 Situation Report as at 2020-July-13| compiled according to the Health promotion Bureau and the Epidemiology Unit […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Member of Parliament Palitha Range Bandara stated that 56 persons who were with Sajith Premadasa had discussed with him to re-join the UNP . He further stated that he has recorded the telephone conversations of 23 of them and he has the recordings. Former parliamentarian Ranjith Maddumabandara stated that although Palitha […]

US tops the world list on coronavirus cases and deaths with 3.2million cases and 137,000 deaths in a world with over 12million cases and over 560,000 deaths. Sri Lanka has had 11 deaths with over 2000 confirmed cases and close to 2000 recoveries. Sri Lanka has done remarkably well in not only containing but quickly […]

By Sri Lanka Study Circle We, the members of the Sri Lanka Study Circle in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, a founding member of the Non Aligned Movement – the largest organised grouping of Nations after the UN –  that initiated a UN General Assembly Resolution in 1971 which was unanimously adopted by […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Sri Lanka is now in approaching its fourth round of western rule, this time under the United States of America. When the British left Ceylon in 1948, USA was ready to take over, but in the euphoria of independence, this went unnoticed. Britain had anticipated that its empire would end some day.   It […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. හැඳින්‌වීම සිතියමක් වචන දාහකට වඩා වටී මෙහි පෙන්වන සිතියම දැනට වර්‌ෂ ගණනාවකට පෙර ලංකාවේ මුස්ලිම් සංවිධානයක වෙබ් අඩවියකින් කොපිකර ගත් එකකි. එය පිළියෙල කර තිබෙන්නේ සමස්ත ලංකා මුස්ලිම් ලේඛනාගාර මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක, එම්. එල්, එම්. මොහිදීන් නම් මිනින්දෝරු තැන විසිනි. පිළියෙල කල වර්‌ෂය සඳහන් කර නැත. පාට යොදාගැනීමේදී කොල-කහ යන <ඉස්ලාම් […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒ්කකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය මහ මැතිවරණයට අදාල සෞඛ්‍ය නිර්දේශ  ගැසට් කිරීම ප්‍රමාද කිරීම මඟින් බරපතල තත්වයක් ඇතිවිය හැකි බව කැෆේ සංවිධානය කියයි. එම සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ අහමඩ් මනාස් මකීන් මහතා අවධාරනය කලේ පවතින අවධානම්කාරී සෞඛ්‍ය වාතාවරණය මත මහමැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීම සදහා වන සෞඛ්‍ය නිර්දේශ වහා ගැසට් කළ යුතු බවයි. එසේ නොකළ හොත් එක් අතකින්  යළි රට […]

Courtesy Adaderana Five arrivals from Belarus have tested positive for COVID-19 raising the total number of cases reported in the country. Thereby the tally of virus-positive cases in Sri Lanka is now at 2,612, stated the Department of Government Information. A total of 620 patients infected with the virus are currently under medical care, as […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called upon the farming community to increase the supply of finished agricultural products for export, so that they can earn higher profits. The re-export of pepper has been completely stopped. Therefore, the President advised the farmers to export the pepper in the form of seeds, powder or any other […]

Courtesy Hiru News Three (03)more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection. The country total has increased to 2,615 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health. Covid-19 Situation Report as at 2020-July-11| compiled according to the Health Promotion Bureau and the Epidemiology Unit data Total confirmed […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ මැතිවරණ උණුසුමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා භූමි තලය , උණුසුම්ව ඇත. වර්ෂ 1815 න් අවුරුදු 200 කට පසුව,එනම් 2015දීද සතුරා යලිත් මේ බිම ජයගත්හ. එදා උන් ලද ජයග්රහණයද, වර්ෂ 1815 යටත්විමට සමානවූ ක්‍රියාවලියකි.ඔවුන් ජයපැන් බොමින් මුළු රටම අගාධයකට තල්ලු කර දැමුහ. ඒ යුගයට අපි “යහපාලනය”.යයි කියමු. යහපාලනය ගොඩනැංවීමට දායකවූ සියල්ලන්ම ජාතික සතුරන්ය, අපි එදා සිට […]

Review by Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island The title of this book comes from a line in an epic poem by John Milton on England’s Civil War. Although the book is a narrative of the many contributions by the Author to further the interests of Sri Lanka, it is more about the armed conflict and […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu With the campaign for Sri Lanka’s August general election heating up, India and its role in resolving the lingering national question have begun figuring prominently in the election discourse, especially in the Tamil-majority north and east. Addressing a recent public meeting, the Tamil National Alliance’s (TNA) former parliamentarian S. Shritharan said: India […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island Yahapalana domination of CC may continue till October 2021 -CC member Javed Yusuf openly engages in politics -SLPP on a roll as opposition flounders Last Thursday’s headline story in The Island should set the alarm bells ringing within the SLPP government. This report said that one of the three persons […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror I will take action to put an end to underworld activities and the drug menace which had intensified during the tenure of the previous government, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Leader, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said today. He told a SLPP rally held in Horana that the people in […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Russian authorities have made up a list of 13 countries including Sri Lanka that Russia can resume flights to at the first stage of the resumption of international flights. The list of countries that meet epidemiological safety requirements include the UK, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Finland, […]

Courtesy Adaderana

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has confirmed 43 more fresh cases of COVID-19 as at 11.50 pm on Saturday (11), increasing the total number of patients to 2,511. Thirteen patients have been detected from the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre – East in Kandakadu and the rest of the 30 cases are close associates of the former, […]

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa alleges that although his government took loans and carried out development activities, none of the loans obtained by the previous government have been used for development work. The Prime Minister was addressing a rally in Nupe, Matara today in connection with a series of public meetings to confirm […]