Lt Col. Anil Amarasekera (Retd.)Mr. K. M. B. Kotakadeniya (Retd. Senior DIG) Co-Presidents National Joint Commission The National Joint Committee wish to salute the principled stand taken by Honourable Sarath Weerasekera Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Authorities, that he is against the Provincial Council system and would endeavor its abolition. We hail the Honourable […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ වර්ෂ 2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණයට, එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය, ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ, දෙමල ජාතික සන්ධානය, මුස්ලිම් කොන්ග්‍රසය යන සියලුම පක්ෂ වෙනුවෙන් තරඟ කල අපේක්ෂකයා වුයේ, මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතායි.අවසන් මොහොතේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂයන්ගෙන් වෙන්ව, ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත්වූ එතුමාට ඒ වෙනවිට දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක් නොතිබුන තත්වයක් තුල ඒ මහා මැතිවරණයට මුළු රටම ආවරණය වන පරිදි වියදම්වෙන මහා ධනස්කන්දය වියදම් කලේ කවුද? […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  THIS ESSAY INCLUDES MATERIAL WHICH COULD NOT BE USED IN THE PREVIOUS ESSAY. BOMBS In 1970 JVP had experimented with making  safety bombs and Molotov cocktails. JVP conducted training classes in bombs at Kandy, Matale, Nuwara  Eliya, Moneragala, Ampara, Polonnaruwa, Trincomalee, Kalutara. In  1970 3000 bombs were sent  to Badulla, Anuradhapura, Trincomalee and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The JVP did not fade away after April 1971 as it would have done, had it been a purely local affair. Instead, JVP met secretly and reorganized.  JVP first retreated into their hideouts in the jungles of the North Central Province. They moved the camps from place to place.  They did not stay […]

Chandre Dharmawardana. Tamil Nationalists are making their myths, extending their history to ancient times and claiming that they were in Sri Lanka (and even in Africa, Babylon and Egypt) since the beginning of time, and that Tamil language is the source of the ancient Sumarian language. Wigneswaran, the ex-Chief Minster of the Northern province, has […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය විවිධ ආර්ථික අර්බුධයන්ට ලක්ව සිටින ජනතාව ඉන් මුදා ගැනීම සඳහා ණය ලබාදීමේදී ලිහිල් ප්‍රතිපත්තියක් අනුගමනය කරන්නැයි විෂය භාර අමාත්‍ය, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.09 දින රාජ්‍ය බැංකු ප්‍රධානීන්ට උපදෙස් ලබා දුන්නේය. මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශයේ  ප්‍රගති සමාලෝචන රැස්වීම මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශයේ පැවති අවස්ථාවේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. ණය ගෙවා ගැනීමට අපහසු හා අලුතින් […]

Courtesy Sputnik Rising Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka has prompted the government to revisit plans for a cow slaughter ban, with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa reportedly floating the proposal in a parliamentary meeting. The proposal has brought together Buddhists and Tamils who see such as law as in line with their religious sentiments. Fresh from […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The US$ 1.4 billion Colombo Port City project is to bring in US$ 13 billion worth of investments and generate over 80,000 jobs. COLOMBO, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan State Minister of Regional Cooperation Tharaka Balasuriya said during a tour of Chinese-built projects in capital Colombo on Tuesday that Chinese investment will […]

Courtesy Hiru News 05 more arrivals from Saudi Arabia tested positive for Covid-19, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,147.

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Finance has instructed the heads of state banks to adopt a lenient policy in granting loans to the people who are facing various crises. He was participating in the progress review meeting of the ministry.

Courtesy Hiru News Former Chief of National Intelligence Sisira Mendis has admitted that it was a mistake to prioritize reconciliation without prioritizing national security during the previous good governance government in which he served as the Chief of National Intelligence. This was when he testified for the first time before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Supreme Court Judge Upali Abeyratne has stated that the suspended former Kaduwela Magistrate Dhammika Hemapala will be charged by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Political Revenge, if he does not appear before it on the 11th. This was when a complaint lodged by former Secretary to the Ministry of Economic […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa directed relevant authorities to rehabilitate 5,000 tanks scattered across the island following a mechanism combining ancient technology and modern scientific methods. In parallel to this initiative, the National Food Production Contribution Programme” covering 120,000 abandoned paddy lands will also be launched. Tanks will be rehabilitated under Wari Saubhagya” programme. […]