Courtesy Hiru News The total voter turnout in the island is recorded at 72.43% at the General Election 2020. Election Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya states that the turnout in the parliamentary election was 72.43 percent. Galle district was 70 percent, Matara 70 percent, Kalutara 65 percent, Kandy 72 percent, Matale 72 percent, Nuwara Eliya 75 percent, […]

Losing another election will not mean anything much to Ranil Wickremasinghe UNP’s leader since 1994, but the thought of departing from politics branded as a traitor to the Nation is nothing any UNP leader would like to take home & ponder in retirement. While all previous UNP leaders have their own records of achievements, there […]

By Camelia Nathaniel/Daily News The role of one who goes as “Maniarasan” based in France, has come to light Colombo, August 4: Since 2009 after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was militarily defeated, there have been several attempts to revamp the LTTE military outfit. From 2012 there have been 12 such attempts that […]

By Gitanjali Marcelline Courtesy NewsIn.Asia All baby boomers will reach 65 in 2030 and are predicted to live longer thanks to advances in medicine and technology. Colombo, August 4 (newsin.asia): Ageing is identified as one of the biggest challenges in the world. All baby boomers will reach 65 in 2030 and are predicted to live longer […]

Courtesy Adaderana Six new cases of novel coronavirus have been identified increasing the tally of confirmed cases reported in the country so far to 2,834. The Department of Government Information reported that 06 persons who returned from Saudi Arabia and are under quarantine, tested positive for Covid-19. Meanwhile the total number of recoveries in Sri […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Elect good, honest, educated, and morally upright people as MPs” is not a new slogan. It has been heard at least over the past half a century without any indication of its being heeded by the average voter. This is usually because the voters have no choice over […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන 1956 ආරම්භ කළ ස්වදේශිකයන්ගේ නිදහස් අරගලය විවිධ බාධක මැද ඉදිරියට ගමන් කළේය. එස්. ඩව්. ආර්. ඩී. බණ්ඩාරනායක එංගලන්තයේ ඔක්ස්ෆර්ඩ් හී අධ්‍යාපන ලැබුවද, සිංහල රාජ්‍ය භාෂාව කරමින් ස්වදේශිකයන් නිදහසේ නැගී සිටුවීමට ගත් ප්‍රයත්නය ශක්තිමත් වූයේ එදා බණ්ඩාරනායක සමග ගිරුවාපත්තුවේ ඩී.ඒ. රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය හැරදා පාර්ලිමේන්‍තුවේ විපක්ෂයේ අසුන් ගැනීමෙනි. අවාසනාවන්ත ලෙස […]

බි‍්‍රතාන්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී. හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩන් සිට ලියයි. මැතිවරණට ඇත්තේ තව දිනකටත් නොඅඩු කාලයකි. ප‍්‍රධාන පක්ෂ දෙකකට අමතරව මේ රටේ මීළඟ ජනාධිපතිවරයා වීමට අර අදින මුල් තුනේ අපේක්ෂකයා වන්නේ ජනබල පෙරමුණ යටතේ තරඟ කරන ජ.වි.පෙ නායක අනුර කුමාරය. සෑම වසරකම නොවැම්බර් මාසයේ අනුර කුමාර හා ජවිපය කරන ඇදහිය නොහැකි දෙයක් වන්නේ 87රැු88 කැරැුල්ලෙන් මිය […]

බි‍්‍රතාන්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පීී. හේවාවිදාන ලංඩන් නුවර සිට ලියයි මේ සතියේ මැතිවරණ වේදිකාවල වැඩියෙන්ම අපට අහන්නට ලැබෙන්නේ මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ රජය විසින් නියත වශයෙන්ම අවසන් කරන ලද තිස් වසරක ඊළාම් යුද්ධය ගැනයි. ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා ඡුන්ද සටන් බිමේ අලූතෙන්ම දකින්න ලැබෙන්නේ ඊලාම් යුධ ජයග‍්‍රහණයේ ගෞරවය තමන්ට පමණක් ලබා ගැනීමට විවිධ පක්‍ෂ දරණ ආත්මාර්ථකාමී ප‍්‍රයත්නයයිx ඕන ගොනෙකුට […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Ven Ellawala Medhananda has  explored the present day  Buddhist ruins of the Eastern Proivince.  He found  evidence in today’s Eastern   Province , to show  that the Eastern Province had a vibrant Buddhist civilization in the ancient and medieval period.  He has also shown that it had special features, such as hillside monastic complexes […]

A Senior Lawyer –E MAIL  srilankastudycircle@yahoo.com Congratulation to  Ms Shenali Waduge, she has studied the Act 21 of 1998 and explained the legal implications of Title Registration [also called Bim Saviya].  Yes many learned   members of our society  argue that  foreign funding,   foreign laws and technology  should be accepted with gratitude. They believe that once […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Northern 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). Uttara passa consisted of today’s Vavuniya, Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi, Mannar, and Jaffna. Each division was ruled by officer appointed by king.  Jambukolapatana in Jaffna […]

Newsfirst Sri Lanka   Black Leopard Death Court case held on July 29, 2020 A short report As you would be interested to know, the case relating to the death of the Black Leopard was taken up at the Hatton Magistrate’s Court on July 29, 2020. The Justice for Animals and Nature organisation ( now in […]

By Noor Nizam, Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice”, August 3rd, 2020. POLITICAL PARTIES BASED ON COMMUNITY, RELIGION AND COMMUNAL BASIS HAS TO BE BANNED IN SRI LANKA BY THE MAJORITY SINHALESE COMMUNITY AND NATIONALIST SINHALA FORCES IMMEDIATELY UNDER ANY NEW CONSTITUTION TO BE PRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT. FOR THIS – […]

Sriyanjanaka කොවිඩ් 19 වසංගතය නිසා නිවසට කොටුවූ “ලොව පුරාම බිලියන 1.2ක්පමණ පාසැල්යන දරුවන්  ඉදැන් ගෙනගන්නේ වෙනස්ම ලෙසකටය.  ඒ නිසා කලින්  තිබුනු අධ්‍යාපන රටාව වෙනස් වී ඇත. ඔන්ලයින් ක්‍රමය නිසා ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණය උපයෝගී කරගෙන තමන් කැමති තැනක සිට දැන් දරුවන්ට ඉගෙනගත හැකි බව ලෝක ආර්ථික සංසදය World Economic Forum) පෙන්වා දෙයි.   පාසැල හා උපකාරක පන්ති වටා බැඳුණු සම්ප්‍රදායික අධ්‍යාපනික රටාවක් තිබුණු ශ්‍රී ලංකාවෙත් අධ්‍යාපනය ඒ අනුව බොහෝ දුරට වෙනස් හෝ […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන  19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය පවත්වාගෙන යා යුතුද? එය අහෝසි කළ යුතුද? යන්න සම්බන්ධයෙන් සමාජයේ කතිකාවක් පවතී. 2020 අගෝස්තු 05වන දින පවත්වන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයෙන් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සහාය ලැබෙන ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදු ජන පෙරමුණ 19 අහෝසි කිරීම සදහා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ 2/3 මන්ත්‍රී ආසන සංඛ්‍යාවක් බලා පොරොත්තු වේ. ජනාධිපතිවරයාට සහාය දෙන 2/3 බලයක් […]

Courtesy UNILAD No prison can hold this heroin-smuggling cat. After a short stint behind bars, the feline has escaped.  On Saturday, August 1, an unnamed cat was caught by jail officials and detained in the high-security Welikada Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This wasn’t an innocent house pet out exploring its surroundings – wrapped around […]

Courtesy Deccan Herald Sri Lanka’s underworld gangster Angoda Lokka, who was hiding in Coimbatore under the name of Pradeep Singh for the past two years, died on July 3 under mysterious circumstances. Three people, who claimed to be the kingpin’s relative and cremated his body in Madurai after taking it from Coimbatore by road, have […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror FETO members residing in Sri Lanka have left the country Schools operated by them sold to a Sri Lankan businessman  Turkish ambassador Rakibe Demet Şekercioğlu, in an interview with Daily Mirror, speaks about Fetullahist Terrorist Organization, commonly known as FETO and its operations in Sri Lanka in the past.  The interview:   Q   How do […]

Courtesy Daily Record David Swindle, who linked serial killer Peter Tobin to the murder of schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton, will meet with Diane to see if he can help get some of her assets back. The retired police officer who linked serial killer Peter Tobin to the murder of schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton is to try to help a […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror In August 2016, the State Intelligence Service (SIS) had informed former Minister of Law and Order Sagala Ratnayaka with regard to number of issues pertaining to Sri Lankan’s who hold the Islamic State (IS) ideology, the possible impact of the IS ideology on Sri Lanka, Sri Lankans who had […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror We estimated the election would cost over Rs. 7.5 billion. But now we saw it is close to Rs.10 billion. We hope we can limit it to that. That is a colossal amount. We need to try and reduce costs. But we needed face masks and sanitizers. We need to sanitize […]

Courtesy Adaderana Four arrivals from Saudi Arabia have tested positive for COVID-19 virus, stated the Department of Government Information. The count of total coronavirus cases reported in the country is now at 2,828. As per the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 300 active cases are under medical care at selected hospitals. The recovery tally […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Constitutional Council is set to convene today (03) presided by the Speaker of the Eighth Parliament Karu Jayasuriya. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, former Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa and other members of the Constitutional Council are scheduled to join the discussion at the Speaker’s official residence. The vacancies in the office […]

Courtesy Adaderana The assignment and training of election officials with regard to the General Election 2020 is reportedly in its final stages. District Returning Officers stated that the issuance of ballot boxes will commence tomorrow (04). Colombo District Returning Officer Pradeep Yasaratne stated that four polling stations have been set up to count the votes […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa today took action to provide a library to Sirimavo Bandaranaike Primary School following a request made by a student during his recent visit to Medirigiriya.<br /><br />A special feature of this library is that an old double decker bus has been repaired and made use for the library.

Courtesy  Hiru News Dr. Deepika Udagama has tendered her resignation from the post as chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka. Dr. Deepika Udagama has informed the Constitutional Council that she will resign from the post of Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka with effect from September 01. Chairman of the […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර  2020. 8. 2. මහනුවරදීය බටහිර අච්චුවේ නිර්මානයන්වු කොලඹ සන්ස්කෘතියේ හැදුනු දේශප්රේමය අභිභවා චන්දප්රේමයෙන් මුසපත්වූ  රට ජාතිය නසන දේශද්රෝහී ජාති ද්රෝහී  දේශපාලන ඥයින් සියල්ල පන්නාඅදමා  රටට, ජාතියට හා සාශනයට ආදරය කරණ උගත්, බුධිමත් චරිතවත් දේශප්‍රේමී ගැමි නායකයින් පමණක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට තෝරා යැවීමට ඇති හොන්දම  අවස්ථාවයි මේ. මේ රතේ ඉතිහාශයේ ආරම්භයේ සිට 1815 දක්වාම  සින්හල […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, former G.A. Matara  Let us try to get away from the rhetoric- the art of effective or persuasive speaking, often with an implication of insincerity or exaggeration”(Oxford Dictionary). Promises are many but it is quite evident that most promises cannot be easily fulfilled. President Gotabhaya’s promises are few but he has vowed […]

Sarath Bulathsinghala 2 Aug 2020 THE VOTERS OF SRI LANKA WILL GO TO POLLS ON 5 AUGUST. SIMPLY PUT THE TASK IS TO DECIDE WHOM TO BRING TO POWER TO BRING PROSPERITY TO SRI LANKA IN A COVID-19 SITUATION NOW AND A  POST COVID-19 SITUATION AFTER? After a disastrous 5 years of gross governmental mismanagement […]