Yoshitha Perera Courtesy Adaderana There were issues related to sharing of information between the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) during the time of the previous administration and that led to several interruptions to the investigations on extremist activities, IP attached to TID Gayan Ratnayaka today informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday […]

AROHA BAHUGUNA Courtesy Worldbank blogs Think of the last time you went to the movies, a sporting venue, or any public place, and had to use a restroom. Did you notice that the queues for the women’s restroom were generally longer than the men’s? Most building codes provide for equal toilet areas for both men […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s coronavirus lockdown has helped reduce the death toll from clashes between elephants and humans, conservationists have said. A record 405 elephants were killed by humans in the country last year, up from about 360 in 2018. A total of 121 people were killed by elephants, up from 96 […]

Courtesy The Standard China’s civil aviation regulator said today it has suspended three Shanghai-bound international air routes due to passengers on recent flights being infected with the coronavirus. The Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement that it suspended an Etihad Airways route from Abu Dhabi and a China Eastern Airlines route from Manila […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia While the moderate TNA will have to do a lot of tight rope walking, the radical Tamil nationalist groups have to prove that it can do what TNA could not. And that’s going to be very hard and the consequence of failure will be total rejection in the next elections. Colombo, […]

by Shiran Illanperuma Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Economic development will take place within the framework of national sovereignty, the experts added. Colombo, August 7 (Xinhua): A new government in Sri Lanka has been endowed with a mandate from the new parliament to stabilize and revive the national economy while defending the country’s sovereignty, local experts said here […]

By Gitanjali Marcelline Courtesy newsin.asia Celebrated actresses and artistes have the capability to succeed in politics and prove the naysayers and sexists wrong, writes Gitanjali Marcelline Can female celebrities from various fields face the rough and tumble of politics and make a mark in it? That is the question that the masses in Sri Lanka […]

Courtesy Hiru News MP-elects Maithripala Sirisena, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, Susil Premajayanth, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, S.B. Dissanayake, Mahinda Samarasinghe and John Seneviratne did not receive cabinet or state ministerial portfolios at today’s (12) swearing-in. Dissanayake received his appointment letter as the Nuwara Eliya district coordination committee chairman. There was no oath-taking in the portfolio […]

Courtesy Hiru News Ex-president Maithripala Sirisena has told heads of the new government yesterday afternoon (11) to grant to someone else in the SLFP the ministerial position proposed to be given to him, say party sources. The proposal was to grant him the environment portfolio, according to the sources. The former president was present at […]

Darshana Sanjeewa Balasurirya and Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President and SLFP Leader Maithripala Sirisena did not receive any Cabinet portfolio at the swearing-in ceremony of the new Cabinet held in Kandy today. He was elected to Parliament from the Polonnaruwa District under the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) garnering 111,137 votes, which […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, former ministers Champika Ranawaka, Mangala Samaraweera and JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake have been summoned to appear before the PCoI on political victimization on August 21. 

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers and State Ministers of the new Government led by Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The swearing in ceremony was held at the MagulMaduwa (Audience Hall) of the historic Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic premises in Kandy this morning (12). The President […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice”, August 11th., 2020 The Rajapaksa family is Stronger than the Sigiriya Rock. Because they have not done wrong and no harm to others, they have come out of being pushed aside from governance by the conspiracies […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. 1948 දී නිදහස නොලැබූ සිංහල බෞද්‌ධයා රටේ දේශපාලකයින් (නිලධාරීන්, නඩුකාරයින්, ගුරුවරුන්, නීතීඥයින්, දොස්තරලා, ග්‍රාම සේවකලා, බස් කොන්‌දොස්තරලා යනාදී හැම දෙනාම) යනු බුදුදහමේ දක්‌වන, ලෝභ-ද්වේෂ-මෝහයෙන් පිරි පංචස්කන්‌ධම නොවේදැයි සිතීමට මා යොමුවුනේ 2012 මැයි මස පිහිටුවන ලද බොදුබල සේනාවේ ඥානසාර හිමිඳුන්ගේ කතා අසාය. කෝට්ටේ දොන් ජුවන් ධර්‌මපාල, 1551 දී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රථම හා එකම […]

Stanley Gunaratne  The People have voted overwhelmingly to support the President at the General Election. I stress – to support THE PRESIDENT – and not the cabal of usual faces in Parliament who may try to now hijack the administrative boat and take the nation on a pointless procrastinatory Indian jaunt again. The President must now […]

Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) yesterday finalised its national list nominees while arriving at a compromise with the minority parties, Harin Fernando said. Those included in the SJB national list are, SJB General Secretary Ranjith Madduma Bandara, National Organizer Tissa Attanayake, Harin Fernando, Eran Wickramaratne, Imtiyaz Bakeer Markar, Mayantha […]

Courtesy Adaderana Five new cases of COVID-19 have been identified hiking the number of virus-positive cases in the country to 2,880. The new cases have been identified as recent arrivals from Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates the Department of Government Information confirmed. Accordingly, a total of 9 new cases have been detected in […]

Courtesy Adaderana Russia has registered the world’s first coronavirus vaccine early Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin announced amid widespread concerns about the rapidly developed vaccine’s safety.  The state-run Gamaleya research institute last week launched Phase III trials of the Covid-19 vaccine involving thousands of volunteers. The Health Ministry has said it plans to begin mass production […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former parliamentarian Mervyn Silva’s son Malaka Silva has been arrested by the Thalangama Police, stated Police Media Division. The arrested has been made over demanding cash and issuing deaths against an individual.

By Garvin Karunaratne At the auspicious moment this morning on the ninth of August 2020, when our Prime Minister is being inaugurated it is my humble request that he considers the full development of the Hambantota District and a Youth Development Programme for special implementation. The Hambantota District has been a  district where I did […]

Mahinda Gunasekera By Email_*84, Tambrook Drive Agincourt, Ontario Canada M1W 3L9 August 9, 2020 His Excellency, Gotabhaya Rajapakse President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Your Excellency, Whither Sri Lanka under your Leadership  Let me firstly congratulate you on your principled campaign and winning the Presidential election in November 2019, and able […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka stated at the final rally of the election, held in Hambantota that the government of that he will form, has a plan to develop four Mega Commercial Cities, Colombo, Jaffna, Trincomalee, and Hambantota. This concept needs expanding to five cities including the North Western […]

By Ranga Jayasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror What happened on August 5 was an epic rout of the Opposition. No time since the proportional representation system was adopted under the 1978 Constitution, had the Opposition been relegated to oblivion as it was at the parliamentary election held last week. Not even before that. Many refer […]

By N. Sathiya Moorthy Courtesy Ceylon Today Elections-2020 will be remembered for very many reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic of course and the two-thirds majority that the SLPP obtained even under the inscrutable proportional representation (PR) system, for the first time ever since its introduction as far back as the 1978 Constitution. Arguments are since being […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Ven. Ellawala Medhananda has drawn attention to the damage done by ‘non-Buddhists’ (Hindus and Muslims), to the Buddhist monasteries, hermitages and ancient ruins in the north and east. Medhananda says that more than five hundred sites with ancient Buddhist ruins are either destroyed or are being destroyed in the north and east. Destroying […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Malinda Seneviratne, the respected journalist,   went to Budubava in 2020 and observed that the Buddhist ruins in Eastern Province were getting destroyed. The jungles around Panama are full of Buddhist shrines. There are remains of stupas and monastic complexes. There are hundreds of caves. [They are now being demolished]These were not destroyed by […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන 2020.08.10 දින නිකුත් ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය අංශය නිකුත් කර ඇති පහත නිවේදනය බලන්න ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ උල්ලංඝනය කරමින් කථානායකවරයාගේ සහතිකය වැරදියට යොදා ගෙන ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන 19ය නිවැරදි නොකර ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඊනියා 19 අනුව කටයුතු කළද, 19යේ වැරැද්ද  පැහැදිලි කරන ලිපි රැසක් විද්වතුන් විසින් මේ වනවිට ප්‍රසිද්ධ කර ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ලියන ලද […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The   Eastern Province was an integral part of the Rajarata of the Anuradhapura kingdom. The Raja rata was divided into uttara passa (north) dakkhina, (south) pacina, (east) and pajjima (west) and ruled by king nominees. The Eastern Province played a special role in the political life of ancient Sri Lanka. The Province    functioned […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ෆ්‍රාන්ස් කෆ්කා විසිවන සියවසේ   නූතනවාදී ලේඛකයන්ගෙන් කෙනෙකු ලෙස සලකනු ලැබේ.  ඔහුගේ සාහිත්‍යය නූතනවාදය විචක්‍ෂණ ලෙස ස්පර්ශ කරයි. මානව වේදනාව අවංකව හා ගැඹුරින් ග්‍රහණය කර ගැනීමට ඔහු සමත් විය. කෆ්කා තමාගේම අවකාශයක් තුල අද්විතීය කේතයන්ගෙන් යුත් සාහිත්‍ය ලෝකයක් නිර්මාණය කලේය. ඔහු  තම ලිවීමේ ශෛලිය තුලින් ඉන්ද්‍රජාලික-යථාර්ථවාදයක් නිර්මාණය කලේය.    කෆ්කා උපත ලැබුවේ 1883 […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Sri Lankans have once again endorsed the Rajapakse Regime, westerners notoriously defined as Rajapakse Family Dynasty. Bandaranaike Dynasty, Nehru Dynasty, Kennedy Dynasty did not last very long.  The  Rajapakses have laid eggs on a wide spectrum of the island, perpetual succession by these rulers are here to stay.  Many anti-Sri […]