කැෆේ සංවිධානය  මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය – පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය 2020 සාමකාමී මැතිවරණයක්  උදෙසා ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවරණයේදී විශේෂ අවධානය යොමු විය යුතු ප්‍රදේශ රැසක් පිළිබද කැෆේ සංවිධානය පොලිසියට දන්වයි.  පූර්ව මැතිවරණ සමය තුල සහ පශ්චාත් මැතිවරන සමය තුල  ගැටුම්කාරී තත්වය වර්ධනය විය හැකි ප්‍රදේශ හඳුනා ගනිමින්ඒවායෙහි සාමකාමී මැතිවරනයක් පැවැත්වීමට අවශ්‍ය කටයුතු සම්පාදනය කිරීම සඳහා මෙම  ඉල්ලීම කළබව කැෆේ […]

By Sumanasiri Liyanage Courtesy Ceylon Today The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka states that the sovereignty rests in the people of the country and the legislative power of the People shall be exercised by Parliament through their elected representatives and directly by the people at a referendum. On 5 August, we […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The Yahapalana Government flunked in their management of international affairs. Mangala Samaraweera simply made Sri Lanka a co-signatory instead of challenging the UNHRC Resolution 30/1. By doing this, the Yahapalana Government overcame the confrontation that was brewing between the U.S. and Sri Lanka. However, Sri Lanka becoming a co-signatory […]

Goolbai Gunasekara Courtesy Island The fickle consciousness of the public is legendary and we realize that politicians depend greatly on yet another fact – namely, the very poor memory of voters. The sheer effrontery of leaders of the LAST Government who make criticisms on the economic policies of the PRESENT Government makes our adrenalin levels […]

Courtesy Adaderana Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva says that the repatriation of Sri Lankans abroad will be resumed within the next week. He stated this speaking to the media following a religious program held in Kaduwela. Responding to a question raised by a journalist regarding the escape of a COVID-19 patient from the Infectious […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two associates of notorious crime figures in the country have been arrested today (26), according to Police Media Division. The arrests have been made in Colombo this evening. One suspect has been identified to be a close associate of underworld gang leader and drug dealer ‘Kanjipani Imran’. The other is reported to be […]

Courtesy Hiru News Police Media Spokesman SSP Jaliya Senaratne stated that a survey has been launched on information books in police stations island wide.<br /><br />He stated at a media briefing held in Colombo today that the survey is being conducted on the instructions of the Acting IGP. Recently it was revealed that some officials […]

Courtesy Hiru News Five more inmates at the Senapura Rehabilitation Centre tested positive for COVID- 19, increasing total in Sri Lanka to 2,782.

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KAMALIKA PIERIS The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna was created by Rohana Wijeweera, whose real name was Patabandige Don Nandasiri Wijeweera. He was a member of Sri Lanka’s Communist Party   (Moscow wing) led by S.A. Wickremasinghe and in 1962 was awarded a scholarship to Lumumba University in Moscow, to study medicine.  In Moscow, Wijeweera had apparently changed […]

Press Release 2020.07.25 Milinda Moragoda, former Cabinet Minister and Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation spoke about the need for Sri Lanka to be fast and agile in order to face the economic, social and international challenges of the Post-Covid environment. He stated that:  ‘there is no disputing the fact that the country benefited from having […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Daily News While the spread of the Covid 19 virus continues globally, and the United States remains having the highest infections close to reaching 4 million, a significant political change has taken place in Europe arising from the Covid crisis, President Donald Trump has shifted his position on the pandemic, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS OBSERVATIONS OF SENATOR S. NADESAN Senator S. Nadesan (1904-1986) made a speech in the Ceylon Senate on 14 and 15 of May 1971 regarding the JVP insurrection of April 1971. This speech was published as a booklet in 1988, by the Nadesan Centre for Human Rights. Suriya Wickremasinghe in her introducitn to the […]

Dr. Rajkumar Singh Courtesy The Daily News Signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in Colombo The new Government formed on April 1, 1989 under the premiership of Vishwanath Pratap Singh inherited a tense Indo-Sri Lankan relations paradigm. The interventionist approach adopted by the previous Government of Rajiv Gandhi resulted in the Indo-Lanka Agreement of July 1987 […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග විසින් ලියන ලද විශ්ව සාහිත්‍යයේ පැතිකඩක් කෘතිය ඇසුරෙනි ගුස්ටාව් ෆ්ලෝබර්ට්  විසින්  1856 දී ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කරන ලද මදාම් බෝවරි  නවකතාව දහනව වන ශතවර්ෂයේ වඩාත්ම බලගතු ප්‍රංශ නවකතාව විය. මදාම් බෝවරි ලිවීමට ඔහුට වසර හයක් ගත විය. නවකතාව පිටවූ පසු එහි  කාමමිථ්‍යාචාරය නිරූපණය කිරීම මගින් ආගමික සංවේදීතාවන්ට හානියක් සිදු වූ බව පවසමින්  ෆ්ලෝබර්ට්ට […]

 lanka C news ආන්දෝලනයකට ලක්ව ඇති කුරුණෑගල නගරය මධ්‍යයේදී ගොඩනැගිල්ල බුවනෙකබා රාජ සභාවක් නොවන බව වයඹ පලාත් ප්‍රධාන අධිකරණ සංඝ නායක පූජ්‍ය රැකව ජිනරතන හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. උන්වහන්සේ පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ මෙම සිදුවීම පාදක කරගෙන දේශපාලන ව්‍යාපාරයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන බවයි. කුරුණෑගල ඇති සියළුම ගොඩනැගිලි පාහේ ඉංග්‍රීසි ආණ්ඩු කළේ නිර්මාණය වූ ඒවා බවත් මෙම ගොඩනැගිල්ලද එවන් එකක් […]

By Shashi Tharoor New Delhi, July 25 (The Indian Express)Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The disgraceful political shenanigans the nation has witnessed, most recently in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, and the horse-trading of MLAs to switch allegiances for power and pelf, are not merely an occasion for breast-beating about morality in politics or the opportunism of the […]

by C.A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island The chapter on constitutional reform in Sajith Premadasa’s presidential election manifesto should have got even more attention than it did, but at the time it was released about two weeks before the presidential poll, rival candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s citizenship issue and Ven. Ududumbara Kashyapa Thera’s fast unto death over […]

By Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday a future Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) government would make Colombo free of shanties. At a forum held at the Foundation Institute in Colombo, he said the yahapalana government showed no interest in going ahead with the project to resettle low-income dwellers […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror A senior officer attached to the State Intelligence Service (SIS), after his retirement, had connections with an Islamic organisation that wanted to establish an Islamic state, a senior SIS official investigating Islamic extremism on Thursday night informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks. The witness made the above statement […]

Courtesy Adaderana Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and the Minister for International Trade of the UK Ranil Jayawardena have discussed stepping up bilateral trade and investment and expanding the areas of cooperation during a recent teleconference. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this was the first official interaction between the two Ministers. Both Ministers welcomed […]

Courtesy Ada Derana Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka reached 2,769 as another person tested positive for the virus today (25). The Department of Government Information said the latest positive case is an arrival from Belarus. Thereby, a total of 05 fresh cases have been confirmed so far within the day. The other 04 […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says pre-schools will be brought under a government ministry to resolve their problems. He remarked so in response to the representations that were made to him during recent public meetings with regard to issues of pre-school teachers, says the President’s Media Division. At one meeting at the beach park […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Attorney General has informed the Health Ministry Secretary that the draft circular instructions for Public Health Inspectors to control the Covid-19 during elections are contrary to the law, says the AG’s coordinating officer. According to the AG, powers of the PHIs to enter premises of meetings, polling stations, to detain and […]

On 29 July 1987 India forced Sri Lanka to sign what became known as the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord that led to the deployment of Indian Peace Keepers. Part of that Accord also required Sri Lanka to tweak its constitution and create an artificial demarcation of land dividing Sri Lanka into 9 provinces under the 13thamendment. […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Social scientists and the commentariat have either failed, or deliberately ignored, to take note of the changes in the surface and subterranean foundations of the political landscape in the post-Nandikadal period. Our pundits are still cackling as if we are in the post-1956 period in which the mono-causal theme of blaming […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම දොස්තර රුවන් ජයතුංග විසින් ලංකාවෙබ් අඩවියට සිංහලෙන් ලියන ලිපි මා අගය කරන්නේ, සමහර විට, එම අඩවියට මුලින්ම සිංහලෙන් ලිපි ලිවීම ආරම්භකලේ මාද කියා මට සිතෙන නිසාය. ඔහු විසින් ජේවීපී කාරයින් සම්බන්‌ධව වරින් වර ලියන ලිපි මා කියවන්නේ, 1971 දෙසැම්බර් කාලයේදී, ඒවන විට අත්‌අඩංගුවට ගෙන සිටි ජේවීපී කැරළිකරුවන්ගේ ප්‍රකාශණ සටහන් කර ගැනීම පිණිස රජයෙන් […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The election to be held on 5 August 2020 on all counts appear to be a lack lustre event.  The Sri Lankans are generally used to massive media campaigns, bill boards, cut-outs and public rallies accommodating hundreds of thousands of supporters.  These campaigns have energised the political parties and its […]

Sarath Bulathsinghala The 2020 General Election is upon us. It is time the success at the Presidential Election in Nov 2019 is carried to its logical conclusion. We thank the patriotic forces of Sri Lanka for electing Gotabhaya Rajapakse the 7th President of Sri Lanka with a handsome majority. This victory has cast into disarray […]

Courtesy DNA The development comes as a relief to Sri Lanka amidst COVID-19 and will help in its post-pandemic economic recovery. A currency swap is a transaction in which two parties exchange principal and interest in different currencies. India and Sri Lanka on Friday agreed for US $400 million currency swap agreement. The agreement signed […]