C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Note: Supreme Court judges are still not willing or not skilled to write their judgements in Sinhala. They have a mental blockade, a Eurocentric fever. So, they want their pupils to learn English. They ignored the 1956 Official Language Act for over 60 years. That is two generations of unfair privileged […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජාතික උරුම නිශ්චිතව තීරණය කිරීම හා හඳුනාගැනීමට සුදුසු ක්‍රමවේදයක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමේ අතරු වාර්තාව එම කමිටු සාමාජිකයන් විසින් විජේරාම පිහිටි නිල නිවසේ දී ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට ඊයේ 2021.02.03 පස්වරුවේ භාර දෙන ලදී. මෙම අතරු වාර්තාව අනුව ඉදිරිපත් කරන යෝජිත ක්‍රමවේදය මහජන අදහස් ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා ලබන 08 වැනිදා පුවත්පත්වල […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර. මා එසේ පවසනුයේ 1948 තබා අදවන තුරුත් මේ රටට හෝ ජාතියට කිසිදු නිදහසක් ලැබී නැති නිසාය.මට පෙනෙන ආකාරයට 1948 පෙබරවාරි 4 දා සිදුවුයේ  1947 දී ඉන්දියාව බ්‍රතාන්ය ග්‍රහනයෙන් ඉවත්වීමත් සමග කඩාවැටුණු ඉන්ග්‍රීසි බල අධිකාරීයට ලන්කාව හෝ හොදින් තබාගැනීම වාසිදායක බව සිතු බැවින් ඔවුන්ගේ ඔනෑ එපාකම් ඉටුකර ගතහැකි සුවච කීකරු ගෝලබාල පිරිසක් […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Note: The unreasonable, unfair, arbitrary, and undemocratic (anti-poor people) decision taken stealthily by the Council of Legal Education to take back law college to pre-1956 era, is nothing but one more step to try to give oxygen to the NGO supported black-white plan to harm the 2,600-year-old Sinhala Buddhist heritage of […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Before Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was selected as the nominee of Pohottuwa for the presidential election in 2019, there were many misconceptions, manipulations, and vicious engineering against him, and the malice engineering was focused on personal attacks against Mr. Rajapaksa as he had gained strong confidence of people than the performance of the […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The major issue during the next five years to Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be how to reconcile the technical dualism between the Port City and the rural economy. Port City is a good economic strategy for showing to the world, but the reality is the provincial economy which consists of more than […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මෙරටට පැමිණීමේ බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන් පසුවන විදේශීය ශ්‍රමිකයින් ගෙන්වීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ උපදෙස් අනුව කඩිනම් කිරීමට පියවර ගෙන ඇත. විදේශ රැකියා ප්‍රවර්ධන හා වෙළෙඳපළ විවිධාංගිකරණ රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ප්‍රියංකර ජයරත්න මහතා විසින් පත් කළ කොමිසමේ නිර්දේශ අනුව මෙම ශ්‍රමිකයින් මෙරටට ගෙන්වීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාගේ උපදෙස් අනුව ක්‍රියාත්මක වේ. විදෙස්ගත ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ශ්‍රමිකයන් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය • සිංහල හින්දු අලුත් අවුරුද්දට පෙර විදුලිය හා ජල සම්බන්ධතා දී අවසන් කිරීමේ තීන්දුවක් • පෙබරවාරි දෙවැනි සතියේ සිට බඩුමිල අඩුවෙයි • කොවිඩ්-19 එන්නතින් මුළු රටම ආවරණය කළ  පළමු රට වීමේ ඉලක්කයක් ගම සමඟ පිළිසඳර – වැඩ සමඟ යළි ගමට වැඩසටහන හා 2021 අය-වැය යෝජනා යථාර්ථයක්වන ජාතික සම්බන්ධීකරණ අනු කමිටු පිහිටුවීම ගරු […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ශ්‍රී ලාංකේය සියලු පුරවැසියන් 73 වන ජාතික නිදහස් දිනය සමරනු ලබන්නේ ඉමහත් අභිමානයෙනි. යටත් විජිතයක් බවට පත් වූ දින පටන් නිදහස දිනා ගැනීමට ලක්වැසියන් කළ කැපවීම හා සටන් ලෝක ඉතිහාසයේ නම් දරා තිබේ. යුද ශක්තිය මෙන්ම දේශපාලන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික මුහුණුවරින් ද උපක්‍රමික අරගලවල යෙදෙමින් නිදහස දිනාගත් […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය බංග්ලාදේශ මහ කොමසාරිස් තාරෙක් එම්ඩී අරිෆුල් ඉස්ලාම් (Tareq Md Ariful Islam ) සහ නියෝජ්‍ය මහ කොමසාරිස් මොහොමඩ් හස්රත් අලි ඛාන් (Mohammad Hazrat Ali Khan ) යන මහත්වරුන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, විජේරාම නිවසේදී ඊයේ  (02-02-2020) හමුවිය. හමුවීමට ලද අවස්ථාව පිළිබඳව අගමැති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට ස්තූතිය පුද කළ මහ කොමසාරිස්තුමා, දෙරට අතර ද්විපාර්ශ්වික […]

By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy Eurasia Review New Delhi to issue statement on the Lankan cabinet’s decision to back out on the East Terminal deal and offer the West Terminal instead as a sop. Colombo, February 3: India-Sri Lanka relations have come under strain following Sri Lanka’s withdrawal from its written commitment to give Colombo port’s […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government of Sri Lanka has decided to reject the report compiled by the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka, says Minister Udaya Gammanpila. He said Sri Lanka’s response to the report, which has already been submitted in writing, will be made public when […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services as confirmed four more COVID-19 related deaths in Sri Lanka. The new fatalities have pushed the death toll to 332, the Government Information Department said. According to reports, one of the victims is an 89-year-old woman from Walgammulla area. She has fallen victim to the virus at her […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s confirmed COVID-19 infections count saw another uptick today (February 03) as 357 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information said the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. The country has registered 711 positive cases of novel coronavirus within the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) has sent the purchase order for 18 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccines manufactured by India, says State Minister of Production, Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Channa Jayasumana. Speaking on the matter earlier today, State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control Sudarshini Fernandopulle said […]

Courtesy Adaderana Attorney General Dappula de Livera has forwarded the indictment against the former directors of Swarnamahal Jewellers Pvt. Ltd. for running a financial business without a licence. Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General, State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne said the indictment was forwarded to the Colombo High Court under the Finance Business Act.

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Labour Nimal Siripala de Silva says the government is taking necessary steps to grant an allowance of Rs 100,000 to returning Sri Lankan expatriates who have lost their jobs. Speaking further, he said the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment has been directed to provide such returnees, who plan to stay […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Introduction This essay was written 20 years ago. It was a reply to an essay which had strange ideas such as JVP was wicked because its members did not know English. There were several such odd points covered in the essay. But strangely, the point on JVP and English does so […]

Prime Minister’s Media Unit Outgoing Ambassador of Vietnam, H. E. Mrs. Pham Thi Bich Ngoc accompanied by Mr. Tran Trong Thanh, Counselor and Deputy Head of the Embassy met the Prime Minister at his residence in Wijerama this morning. The Ambassador voiced her appreciation regarding the uninhibited support she received from the Government throughout her […]

RANJITH SOYSA. Dear Hon Ali Sabry, the Minister of Justice. I am addressing this note to you as I believe that you are man of the world with a road map for the Nation. I have listened to your pre-election speeches delivered in Australia and read your orations in Sri Lanka which outlined your vision […]

Dr. Newton Jayawardane  MBBS MS FRCS(Eng) – Consultant Surgeon It is a great privilege to read Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunga’s book-වෛද්‍යවරයෙකුගේ සිහි සටහන්. It gave me enormous pleasure on reading this. There is no doubt he has been very honest in writing the facts. The simple straightforward language he used increases the appetite for reading. […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu In a flurry of meetings a day after Sri Lanka backed out of an agreement with India and Japan, to develop the East Container Terminal (ECT) at the Colombo Port, Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay met President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on Tuesday, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka rehabilitated all 594 of child soldiers recruited by the LTTE without prosecuting them, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN, Mohan Peiris said. He expressed this in his speech at the United Nations Security Council’s Arria Formula Meeting on Children and Armed Conflict held in New York on […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to develop the West Terminal of the Colombo Port as a Public-Private Partnership with Japan and India. Minister of Ports and Shipping had tabled a Cabinet paper with proposals as per the recommendations furnished by the negotiating committee appointed to evaluate the investment proposal by […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Labour, Nimal Siripala De Silva, today offered a possible ray of hope for Sri Lanka’s expatriate workers, who have been stranded overseas without the means to return home. The minister announced that directives have been issued to the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, to dip into the significant funds it […]

Courtesy Adaderana The U.S. Government committed a $40 million loan to Sri Lanka’s SDB bank to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and women entrepreneurs. The loan from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the U.S. Government’s development bank, aims to support private sector investment and economic growth in Sri Lanka. DFC partners with […]

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 23,217 frontline health workers have been vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination within the day (February 02). Accordingly, the total number of individuals who have received the first dose of the vaccine against the COVID-19 pandemic so far now stands at 118,767, the Ministry of Health stated. Sri Lanka launched […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has witnessed 07 more COVID-19 related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (February 02). Thereby, total lives claimed by the novel coronavirus pandemic in Sri Lanka climbed to 330. According to the Department of Government Information, an 18-month-old baby from Colombo 02 is also among the victims. He had […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s confirmed COVID-19 infections count saw another uptick today (January 28) as 354 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information said the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. The country has registered 715 positive cases of novel coronavirus within the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Minister Wimal Weerawansa states that a Cabinet paper was presented yesterday stating that the operations of the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port should be carried out by the Ports Authority in accordance with the President’s vision for ‘Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour’ as per the policy statement. He told a news […]