විමල් පටබැඳිගේ(ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්) ජනපති තුමනි, මේ උත්සාහය උපදෙස් දීමට නො වේ. ඔබගේ අවධානය සඳහා කොරෝනා වසංගතය නිසා බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට අමතක, නො සිතන කරුණක් ගැන සටහනක් තැබීමට ය. එයට පෙර මේ කරුණ ද සටහන් කිරීම සුදුසු ය’යි සිතමි. දිවයිනේ අට දිසාවේ ම රට වැසියන් 69 ලක්‍ෂයක් තමන්ගේ කැමැත්ත ප‍්‍රකාශිතව ම පළ කොට රටේ, රටවැසියාගේ […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි “පුතේ මේ එන්නේ ඔබගේ පියායි. යන්න ඔහු ලඟට! ඔහුගෙන් ඔබට උරුම දායාදය ඉල්ලා ගන්න” ඒ යසෝධරා දේවිය රාහුල කුමරුන් අමතා, පිඬු සිඟා වදිනා බුදුරජානන්වහන්සේ පෙන්නා පැවසූ වදන් වැලයි බුදුරජුන් වෙතගිය රාහුල කුමරුන් තම මව පැවසූ ආකාරයෙන්ම තමන්ට උරුම දායාදය ඉල්ලුවිට සිදුවුයේ, යසෝදරාවන් අපේක්ෂාකළ දෙය නොවේ. බුදුරජානන්වහන්සේ රාහුල කුමරුන් සම්බන්ධව සිතු ආකාරයත්, යසෝදරා […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi. Perspective from a Civil and Structural Engineer The writer is a graduate of University of Peradeniya, which was constructed during the colonial period and opened by HRH prince Philip, the queen’s husband, ‘to be more open than usual’ in the early 50s. The Engineering Faculty that was established there was of the same […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලය හෝ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ සේවය කරනු ලබන කිසිඳු නිලධාරියෙකුට කොවිඩ්-19 රෝගය වැළඳී නොමැති බවට සහතික කරමි. කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගත තත්ත්වය හේතුවෙන් අරලියගහ මන්දිරය තාවකාලිකව වසා දමා ඇති බවට ජාතික පුවත්පතක පළ වී ඇති පුවත සාවද්‍ය මෙන්ම පදනම් විරහිත පුවතක් වන අතර එහි කිසිඳු සත්‍යතාවයක් නොමැත. කොවිඩ්-19 තත්ත්වය හමුවේ රජය හා සෞඛ්‍ය අංශවලින් […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. ලේකම් ව්‍යවස්ථා කෙටුම්පත් සම්පාදක විද්‌වත් කමිටුව කොළඹ ජනතාවට සතුට (හැපිනස්) ගෙන දීමට අසමත් ව්‍යවස්ථා කන්නද? අභියෝගය (Tragedy of the commons) ධනවාදී නියෝජිත ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී ආකෘතියට අනුව නීතිඥයින් විසින් සදාදී, අවුරුදු 73 ක් පුරාම ක්‍රියාත්මක‌වූ, ලංකා ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා වල ආනිසංශ මොනවාද? (1) රටේ පවුල් ලක්‍ෂ 54 න් 18 ක්ම, එනම් ජනගහණයෙන් තුනෙන් එකක්, […]

 lanka C news https://www.facebook.com/4b1da878-30ef-4769-bfc4-e57b6a3807a3 තමන් වහන්සේ වැඩ වෙසෙන විහාරස්ථානයට අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවෙන් පැමිණි බව සිංහලයේ සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය මැඩිල්ලේ පඤ්ඤාලෝක හිමියෝ පවසති. නීතිඥ සහාය නොමැතිව තමන් ගෙන් බලහත්කාරයෙන් ප්‍රකාශයක් ලබාගැනීමට උත්සාහ කළ බවද උන් වහන්සේ චෝදනා කරති. තමන් විසින් පවත්වන ලද මාධ්‍ය හමුවක දී එළි කරන ලද තොරතුරු හේතුවෙන් මෙම ප්‍රශ්න කිරීම සිදු කිරීමට […]

By Surya Vishwa Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Any re-connection with our ancient village concept should primarily enable the creation of new ideas so that the soulless town becomes as holistically vibrant as the village. Colombo, November 21: How is our village relevant to us in the city? What can having a ‘village in the city’ mean to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The national security could not be still assured until the people who led Zahran Hashim to carry out the sudden terror attacks are identified, former SDIG of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Ravi Seneviratne yesterday informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks.     Testifying before the Commission former SDIG Seneviratne said […]

Courtesy Adaderana Four more Covid-19 related deaths are reported in Sri Lanka, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. One of the victims is reportedly a 70-year-old female from Colombo 15 area. She has died upon admission to the Colombo National Hospital on Saturday (21). The cause of death has been cited as Covid-19 pneumonia. A […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Easter Sunday terror attack was a conspiracy launched by a powerful nation to spread extremism in the country, says Samagi Jana Balawega MP Rishad Bathiudeen. The MP, who is currently under remand custody at the Welikada Prison, mentioned this yesterday (21), testifying before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the 2019 Easter […]

Courtesy Adaderana Fresh COVID-19 positive cases were identified in Sri Lanka as the total number of cases reported from the Minuwangoda and Peliyagoda clusters reached 16,427. The Department of Government Information said 175 more persons were tested positive for the virus.  All the new cases are close contacts of the Peliyagoda Fish Market cluster, reports […]

Courtesy Adaderana The committee of experts appointed to examine methods for disposal of Covid-19 victims has requested the authorities to continue with cremation until their final report is submitted. Director-General of Health Services Dr Asela Gunawardena said the committee had conveyed this to the Secretary of Health Ministry. A committee of experts was appointed by […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued an Extraordinary Gazette, establishing two new ministries – Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Technology. The gazette notification, dated November 20, elaborates the scope of functions and duties of the two new governmental agencies. Thereby, the Public Security Ministry is tasked with ensuring public safety while maintaining […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Donald Trump continues to keep America and the world guessing as to his next move which should be to concede victory to Joe Biden. But he has not done so formally, though he is sending signals indicating that he is willing to concede without, of course, taking any meaningful action to vacate […]

UK that occupied & ruled Sri Lanka from 1803 to 1972 (169 years) and unabashedly committed scores of human rights abuses, crimes against humanity, nowhere near to what the FCO will even dare put to paper, is annually issuing reports on human rights! Politically correct UK is today the home of all things the British, […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The main focus of the budget speech of the prime minister for 2021 has reported that the reduction of the budget deficit, and creating a production economy in the country.  The idea has been written in my articles during the past several years as I observed that macroeconomic issues have been less […]

බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පීී. හේවාවිදාන ලංඩන් නුවර සිට ලියයි. මා ගාලූ මහින්දයෙන් අස් වී ආනන්දයට ආ දිනය මට කිසිවිටක අමතක නොවේ. මගේ පියා ඞීගසී. හේවාවිදාන මහතා පරිපාලක වශයෙන් සේවය කළ ඉමදුව වව්ලගලවත්තේ නිලනිවාසයේ සිට අපි උදේ පාන්දර 4ට කොළඹ කරා ගමන් ඇරඹුවෙමු. මහින්දයේ පරණ යාළුවන් අත්හැර දමු සිදුවීම ගැන දුකක් සාංකාවක් තිබුණද අලූත් පාසැලේ […]

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E It was obvious not a year that made for pomp and pageantry, even if that was the desire. All issues have been either framed or impacted by Covid19. In any case, he’s not, for example, a Mahinda Rajapaksa. Covid19 of course was so sobering that the contrast was lost.No-frills is good but presidents […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Central Intelligence Agency of the USA, the CIA has several front organizations, said critics. National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was one of them. NED is a grant-making foundation, distributing funds to private non-governmental organizations for promoting democracy abroad in around 90 countries, said Wikipedia.  NED played a role in supporting the Arab […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  Here are some activities of the US before and after the Yahapalana puppet government came to power. American Bar Association American Bar Association (ABA) made repeated attempts to register a Branch Association of the ABA in Sri Lanka. The first request was in January 2018.  The Bar Association of Sri Lanka strongly objected. […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS EASTER SUNDAY BOMB BLASTS There is speculation that Western intelligence agencies had a hand in the well-coordinated, precision-timed Easter suicide bombings in Sri Lanka, said Lasanda Kurukulasuriya.  How otherwise could a little-known group, ‘National Thawheed Jamaath’    have orchestrated such a feat. The Easter bomb attacks in Sri Lanka  are a part of  a […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මහනුවර, හුරීකඩුව ශ්‍රී  විද්‍යාසාගර මහා පිරිවෙනේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ හා විහාරාධිපති, ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාමඤ්ඤ මහා නිකායේ මහානායක, අග්‍ගමහාපණ්ඩිත, අතිගෞරවාර්හ, නාපාන පේමසිරි අභිධාන මහා ස්වාමීන්ද්‍රයන් වහන්සේ ගේ ශෝක යෝජනාව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා විසින් අද 2020.11.21 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලදී. එම ශෝක යෝජනාව මෙසේය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාමඤ්ඤ මහා නිකායේ මහා නායක අග්‍ගමහාපණ්ඩිත, අතිගෞරවාර්හ […]

By Gitanjali Marcelline Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Undoubtedly, increasing the retirement age has its merits, but one also wonders if, under the present trying economic circumstances, the Sri Lankan private can manage to keep employees for five extra years. Colombo, November 21(newsin.asia) : When presenting the budget for 2021 a few days ago, the Sri Lankan government […]

Yuthika Bhargava Courtesy The Hindu Consolidation is inevitable, says Booking.com’s Mehrotra Even though some demand has started coming back, the travel industry may take years to get back to pre-pandemic business level, said Ritu Mehrotra, country manager — India, Sri Lanka, Maldives at Booking.com. Travel industry was one of the first industries to be hit […]

Rahul Singh and Sunetra Choudhury courtesy Hindustan Times, New Delhi The two pilot officers were commissioned as military pilots in Sri Lanka earlier this week, a year after they completed a crucial part of their flying training at the Dundigal-based Air Force Academy near Hyderabad in 2018-19. Rangana Weerawardhana and Pavithra Gunaratne, the first women pilots […]

Courtesy ANI Chennai, Nov 21 (ANI): After inaugurating various development projects in Tamil Nadu, Home Minister Amit Shah said, When PM Modi visited Sri Lanka, he didn’t forget Jaffna. He visited Tamil colonies there & met with Tamil brothers & sisters. He laid foundation stone for providing them houses. Over 50,000 Tamils will get houses […]

Courtesy Adaderana Department of Government Information says that another 230 individuals have tested positive for novel coronavirus in the country. All new cases are close contacts of previously identified positive patients from the Peliyagoda cluster.  A total of 487 new cases of Covid-19 have been identified so far today (21). This brings the total number […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale In respect to the considerable research done on the quotation noted above, Roger Pearse, in his blog (https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2015/10/31/is-those-whom-the-gods-wish-to-destroy-they-first-make-mad-a-classical-quotation/comment-page-1/), says I learn that in fact it is a note on Sophocles Antigone, l.620, by a scholiast.  The idea itself is present in Homer, Odyssey, IX, 492-3. In the tragedy Antigone, of Sophocles, in verses 620-623, it said something similar: […]

N.A.de S. Amaratunga National integration would mean that in a country which is inhabited by several ethnic communities everyone would harbour similar feelings and thinking about matters of national interest like independence, territorial integrity, sovereignty etc. Development of such sentiments cannot be forced on a people. In this regard what the Indian philosopher S. Radhakrishna […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS After the 2015 election, the US got into several critical sectors, the Sri Lanka‘s economy, Sri Lanka‘s Parliament and Sri Lanka‘s armed forces. ‘We want to see Sri Lanka as a truly democratic, prosperous, happy and reconciled country in the future,’ US said. . The House Democracy Partnership of the US House of […]