KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement says it is entitled to self determination and has the right to set up a separate state. The Tamil Separatist Movement cites the often repeated UN statement which says All peoples have the right to self-determination and by virtue of that right to freely determine their political status and […]

High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda explored avenues of further augmenting defence and security cooperation with India, when he met the Defence Minister of India Shri Rajnath Singh in New Delhi, today (30).  Minister Singh extended a warm welcome to High Commissioner Moragoda. The Defence Minister […]

MD Pathik Hasan Turkey is a real well-wisher and good friend of Bangladesh. It is Turkey that was, is, and will be with Bangladesh in the crisis moment. Only the sky is the limit of Turkey-Bangladesh ties.  According to recent reports of Bangladeshi media outlets, Bangladesh In recent times, Bangladesh and Turkey have become increasingly […]

MD Pathik Hasan South Asian neighbors Bangladesh and Bhutan have a harmonious relationship on the strength of their mutual interest, shared history and culture. On December 6, 1971, Bhutan and India became the first countries to recognize the independence of Bangladesh. Bangladesh-Bhutan ties started to deepen from this period. Bhutan and Bangladesh signed  ‘PTA’ on […]

MD Pathik Hasan Nepal and Bangladesh are two of South Asia’s closest friends and peace-loving neighbors, their ties made closer by recent high-level state visits. President of Bangladesh Abdul Hamid visited Nepal in 2019. Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari likewise visited Bangladesh in 2021 as a guest on the birth centenary of Father of the […]

දුම්රිය වෘත්තීය සමිති සන්ධානය. ලේකම්, එස්.ආර්.ආටිගල මැතිතුමා, මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශය, ආපදා ණය රුපියල් කෝටි 17 ක් නොගෙවීම නිසා දුම්රිය සේවකයින් දැඩි පීඩාවක. අවශ්‍ය මුදල් කඩිනමින් ලබා දෙන්න ආපදාවක් වූ විට හෝ වෙනත් ණය අවශ්‍යතාවයක් වූ විට, හදීසි හා අත්‍යාවශය වියදමක් දැරීම සඳහා  රාජ්‍ය සේවකයින්ට ගෙවනු ලබන ආපදා ණය මුදල් නොගෙවීම නිසා දුම්රිය සේවකයින් දැඩි පීඩාවකට පත්ව […]

Indian News Guwahati: The Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) rewards senior journalist Nava Thakuria, a resident of northeast India, for his relentless initiatives to safeguard the rights of media persons in the south Asian country and also defending the press freedom in the region with an exemplary commitment. The Assam-based working journalist has been awarded […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 30: The remnants of the Gandhara Buddhist civilization in Pakistan are a sight to behold, not just for Buddhist pilgrims but also for art lovers.  Imposing stupas with intricate and lifelike carvings depicting various events in the Buddha’s life and his past births abound in the Swat Valley […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has published new guidelines for public and work-related activities to be followed from the 01st to 15th of December. In a press release, Dr. Asela Gunawardena noted that there is still a risk for escalation in COVID-19 transmission due to cluster formation, although significant control of the epidemic […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a Committee to look into the recent incidents of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinder fires and explosions that have occurred at domestic, commercial and sales outlets in various parts of the country and to find possible causes of the problem in order to provide immediate solutions to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 722 today (November 30) as 195 more people were tested positive for the virus, the Epidemiology Unit said. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 563,989. As many as 540,387 recoveries and 14,346 […]

Lankaweb Editorial Nov. 30th 2021 There seems to be a frightening revelation of the Nation’s Health Defenses according to the latest information reports where due to lax testing at the National Airport Katunayake the country could be vulnerable to the latest Covid Variations. Quoting from the Island News .”Due to the lax testing at the […]

By Senaka Weeraratna BY SPUR WEB TEAM · MARCH 18, 2019 (This is an edited version of a paper read out at a Public Seminar on the ‘ Kandyan Convention of 1815’ held at the University of Peradeniya, Arts Theatre, on March 09, 2019) The Kandyan Convention (‘Ingrisy – Sinhale Givisuma’) must be examined in the context of […]

 චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම,  LL.B., Ph.D. නීතියේ ආධිපත්‍යය නමැති මිථ්‍යාව ‘The rich and the poor both have an equal right to sleep under the bridges in Paris.’- Source: Donald Black, The Behavior of Law, 1976 එක රටක් එක නීතියක් බලකාය යාපනේ පැවැත්වූ  රැස්වීමේදී  වයෝවෘධ කුරක්කල්තුමා  ගැයූ ලතා වල්පොලගේ ‘අමතක කරලමු පැරණි කතා’ යන සිංදු කොටස හා තරුණ  […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති මිනිස් සත්ත්වයා අනෙකුත් සත්ත්වයන්ගෙන් වෙන්කොට විශේෂිතව සැළැකීමට අදාළ ප්‍රමුඛතම කරුණක් වනුයේ ගින්දර නිපැදැවීමට, භාවිතයට සහ ගින්නෙහි උපකාරයෙන් ආහාර පිසීමට දක්වන සමත් බව ය. ගිනි නිපදවා (දල්වා), තම අවශ්‍යතා වෙනුවෙන් එය කළමනාකරණය සඳහා දක්වන මෙම හැකියාව තුළින් මිනිස් ශිෂ්ටාචාර වර්ධනය වී තිබේ. ගින්නෙහි විශේෂිත බව බුද්ධ දේශනාව තුළ ද වර්ණනා කෙරී තිබේ. අංගුත්තර […]

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර  අපිට ආණ්ඩුවෙන් බැහැලා යන්න වුවමනාවක් නෑ, අපි හදාගත්ත ආණ්ඩුව, අපි හදාගත්ත ජනාධිපතිතුමා, ඇයි අපි දාලා යන්නේ?  මැතිවරණයට කලින්, ආණ්ඩු හදන්න කලින් දීපු පොරොන්දු වෙනුවෙන් ආණ්ඩුව මෙහෙය වීම තමයි අපේ බලාපොරොත්තුව යැයි ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ ජාතික සංවිධායක රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතා පැවසීය. ඒ මහතා මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටියේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ‘‘දේශපාලනයේ සැඟවුණු කතා කියන කතා’’ එහි කර්තෘ ගුණපාල තිස්සකුට්ටිආරච්චි මහතා විසින් අද (29) දින පෙරවරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත පිළිගන්වනු ලැබීය. රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිවරයෙක්, මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙක් ලෙස මෙන්ම රාජ්‍ය සහ අර්ධ රාජ්‍ය සේවයේ විවිධ තනතුරු දරමින් සේවයේ නිරතව සිටියදී ඇසූ පිරූ ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය දේශපාලනයේ සැඟවී ගිය ත්‍රාසජනක, රසබර  හා විවිධ […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Ceylon Today Colombo, November 29: There is no doubt as to where certain Muslim communities in Sri Lanka, such as the Malays, Bohras, Memons and Pathans, came from. But theories on the origin of Sri Lankan or Ceylon Moors, who are the majority among Muslims in the island, are both varied and controversial. Today, […]

Courtesy MailOnline Sri Lanka is investigating a sharp rise in kitchen explosions caused by cooking gas that have reportedly killed at least one person and wounded dozens of others, parliament heard Monday. The island is in the grip of an economic crisis with serious shortages of fossil fuels and other essential goods because of depleted […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prices of rice are seen displayed With the CAA announcement of the extraordinary gazette, the price of rice hiked to 130 rupees Former Director of the Department of Agriculture Department K. B. Goonarathne underscores the possibility of selling Nadu at 90 rupees a kilo If the Government can grant concessions to the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The ferry tragedy in Kinniya on November 23 and the current fertilizer crisis are two cases in point that are sufficient to explain how authorities in Sri Lanka view issues affecting the ordinary people and how they save their skin putting the blame on the people themselves, when things end up […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 206 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 pushing the daily count on fresh cases detected to 747. The new cases include two returnees from overseas while the rest are associated with the New Year Covid-19 cluster.  This brings the total number of coronavirus cases registered in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Sagara Kariyawasam says that any allied party of the government which cannot work as an alliance and according to the President’s policy statement, should leave the ruling alliance. Speaking at a media briefing held today (29), he said that criticizing the government when […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Political parties emanated with a variety of policies for transforming political administration from dominion or totalitarianism to a parliament rule as a symbol of democracy. A parliament rule comprises representatives of people who may be elected by the votes of the people. Democracy is a complicated word with different applications.   Party […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement said that the north and east of Sri Lanka was the homeland of the Ceylon Tamil. The historical reasons for this were examined and dismissed by KM de Silva and GH Pieris in two writings dated 1995 and 1991 respectively.   These two writings completely demolished the homeland argument […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Language became an important element in the formation of new states in Europe in the 19th century. The emphasis was to be on the mother tongue, the language spoken in the home. The first International Statistical Congress of 1853 raised the question of including language in the    Census and the 1873 Congress recommended […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය, සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා අධීක්ෂණ අමාත්‍යාංශය, ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය ආමාත්‍යාංශය. ජාතික තරුණ සේවා සභාව සංවිධානය කළ 42වැනි ජාතික යෞවන සම්මාන ප්‍රදාන උළෙල අති උත්කර්ෂවත් අයුරින් කොළඹ නෙළුම් පොකුණ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ රඟහලේ දී ඊයේ (26) දින තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වෙයන් පැවැත්විණි. යෞවන සම්මාන උළෙල තවත් වර්ණවත් […]

by Dr Parakrama Waidyanatha Courtesy The Island When the potato crop, the staple diet then in Ireland, began to totally fail with a fungal infestation that lead to the historic Irish famine (1845-1852), the Irish leaders in Dublin turned to Queen Victoria and the British Parliament for redress. However, the British government under which Ireland […]

by Anura Gunasekera Courtesy The Island A few days ago President Gotabaya Rajapaksa(GR), the first military man and, unarguably, the most ignorant in the ways of governance to occupy the presidential seat, celebrated the completion of two years as the eighth president of the Republic of Sri Lanka. The salutation coincided with the formal vesting […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reported that another 210 persons have tested positive for coronavirus, pushing the daily count of new cases to 742. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thus far to 562,520 while over 18,500 infected patients are currently undergoing treatment island-wide.  The Director General of Health Services […]