KAMALIKA PIERIS The government of Sri Lanka had received reports from intelligence that an armed insurrection was planned by a select group of youth. This information was ignored by the government.  A report submitted later to Criminal Justice Commission inquiry no 1 indicated that two years prior to April 1971, groups of young persons between […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The 1971 JVP Insurgency was totally a new experience for Sri Lanka. Once the government woke up to the fact that they had a full blown insurgency on its hands, it moved fast to squash it, said Gamini Gunawardene. The Opposition UNP got to a side, did not obstruct and engage in the […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් 3 ප්රයිම් සංඛ්යාවක්ය. 3 බෙදිය හැක්කේ 3 හා 1න් පමණක්ය. 3 ඉතිරි නැතිව බෙදන්නට බැරිය. මරුය. අති විශිෂ්ඨය. 2 3 5 7 11 … ප්රයිම් අංකයන්ය. කාලෙක සිට 3  කැරකෙන්නෙ JVPයටය එය ආරක්ෂා කර ගන්නටද ඔවුනට ඇති ශක්තිය පුදුමාකාරය. බටර් ලන්තයේදීත් ආරක්ශාය. අනිත් පක්ෂ ලැබූ සංඛ්යා එහෙ මෙහෙ වුනත් JVP  3 ගලේ කෙටුවාක් […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is a Fact, and that goes to show Military men are not Administrators with Practical Vision, Innovation & Creativity. The Rajapaksa family-run Sri Lanka was sitting on Yesterday’s Glory, letting the Island rot under mismanagement & corruption. The Seven-pronged strategy on paper looks great but will take 3-5 years […]

Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reaffirmed Sri Lanka’s commitment to upholding the rights of peaceful, non-violent assembly. The President expressed this stance to the Colombo based Diplomats at a meeting held on Friday. The meeting had been convened to brief the Diplomats on the removal of the protesters who had been illegally occupying […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A rights group documenting alleged abuses in Sri Lanka has filed a criminal complaint with Singapore’s attorney general, seeking the arrest of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for his role in the South Asian nation’s decades-long civil war, the Reuters reported. The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) said Rajapaksa committed grave […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Three persons who stormed into the President’s House at Fort on July 9 during protest, had been arrested with 40 gold-plated brass sockets that were fixed on the walls to hang window curtains. The Welikada Police arrested the suspects while attempting to sell the stolen items yesterday. Police launched investigations after […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) said that an airman who claimed that he did not want to be a slave to Sri Lanka Air Force, has left the SLAF on termination of his initial engagement of eight-years. An airman named Asanka Srimal, who served in the Sri Lanka Air Force […]

VOA COLOMBO, SRI LANKA —  Former Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as the country’s president and has promised to form an all-party government capable of securing a multibillion-dollar International Monetary Fund bailout. Wickremesinghe’s victory followed the resignation of President Gotobaya Rajapaksa, who fled to Singapore after hundreds of thousands of […]

Adaderana The police announced today that investigations are underway to identify all those who visited the Presidential Secretariat after it was occupied by the protesters on July 09, for the crime of trespassing. Convening a media briefing on Saturday (July 23), the police spokesperson SSP Nihal Thalduwa said measures will also be taken to arrest […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s besieged presidential office will reopen on Monday (Jul 25), police said, days after anti-government demonstrators were flushed out in a military crackdown that triggered international condemnation. Widespread public anger over the island’s unprecedented economic crisis saw protesters storm and occupy the colonial-era building earlier this month. Soldiers were forced to rescue […]

Newsin.Asia Colombo, July 24 (NewsWire) – Wikileaks has published a document pertaining to a conversation between the newly elected President of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremeinghe and the Japanese government in 2007. The document has been published hours after Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka in a secret ballot held in […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror – Diplomats were briefed by the President on the military operations conducted to clear the protestors from the Presidential Secretariat area, but the diplomats were requested to check with the authorities as well to clarify matters when making statements in the future – President Wickremesinghe in a light tone asked some of the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror More than 1,000 items with archaeological value are reportedly missing from the state premises such as President’s House and Temple Trees which were taken over by the protesters. Police sources said special investigations have been launched to recover those items. Investigating officers have received information that some people had stolen certain […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ගාලු මුවදොර විරෝධතාකරුවන්ට ඉන් ඉවත්වන ලෙස පූර්ව දැනුවත් කිරීම් කිහිපයක්ම සිදුකර තිබුණ ද, පෙරදින රාත්‍රිය වනතෙක්ම ඔවුන් ඉන් ඉවත් නොවීම හේතුවෙන් පොලිසිය සහ හමුදාව යොදා ඔවුන්ව ඉවත් කිරීමට කටයුතු කළ බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ විදෙස් තානාපතිවරුන් හමුවේ පවසා තිබෙනවා. ඒ විදෙස් තානාපතිවරු කිහිපදෙනෙකු ජනාධිපතිවරයා සමග සිදු කළ සාකච්ඡාවක් අතරතුරයි. මේ අතර ඊයේ […]

හිරාන් කුරේ නඩත්තු නඩුවට ඇවිත් සැමියා දෙන රු10000/- න් ගෑණු මනුස්සයාගෙන් රු 2000/- ක් ගාස්තු ලෙස ගන්නත්,           පොලිසිය හරහා අර මහත්තයා අල්ලන්න..ඇප ගන්නනම් කියලා visiting card එක දීගන්නටත්,           දික්කසාද නඩුවේ නියත තීන්දුවේ සහතික පිටපත උසාවියෙන් අරන් දෙන්න රු 5000/- ක් ගැනීමටත්,           කුඩු නඩුවේ මිනිහගෙ නඩුවට පෙනී ඉඳලා ගාස්තුවට හරි යන්න ගෑණිගේ කරාඹු ජෝඩුව […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම නෙත් ජනාධිපතිවරයා තේරීමේ ඡන්දයට ඉදිරිපත්වූ ඩලස් අලහප්පෙරුම මහතාට  සහාය දුන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් කණ්ඩායම ඉදිරියේ දී වෙනම කණ්ඩායමක් ලෙස කටයුතු කරන බව වාර්තා වෙනවා. ඒ ඩලස්අලහප්පෙරුම මහතාගේ නායකත්වය යටතේයි . එම කණ්ඩායමට මහාචාර්ය ජී එල් පීරිස්, මහාචාර්ය චරිත හේරත්, මහාචාර්ය චන්න ජයසුමන,ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා යන මහත්වරුන්ට අමතරව,පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ” හෘද සාක්ෂියට එකග […]

Courtesy Neth News උපුටා ගැන්ම නෙත් ඊයෙ දිනයේදී ජනාධිපති මන්දිරය අත්පත් කර ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් ආරක්ෂක අංශ විසින් සිදුකල මෙහෙයුම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ඇමරිකානු තානාපතිනියට කරුණු පැහැදිලි කිරිමක් සිදුකර තිබෙනවා. එහිදී ඔහු පවසා ඇත්තේ ඇමරිකාවේ කැපිටල් ගොඩනැඟිල්ල සහ කොංග්‍රස් මණ්ඩල ගොඩනැඟිල්ල විරෝධතාකරුවන්ගෙන් මුදා ගැනීමට ඇමරිකානු ආරක්ෂක අංශ ක්‍රියා කලේද මේ ආකාරයෙන්ම බවයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ […]

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Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s Parliament consists of 225 Members of Parliament from which 196 are elected by the People and 29 are not-elected but nominated by the respective parties & enter depending on the allocation as per the votes obtained by each party. Therefore, the composition of the National List corresponds to the votes […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna   was created by Rohana Wijeweera, whose real name was Patabandige Don Nandasiri Wijeweera. He was a member of Sri Lanka’s Communist Party   (Moscow wing) led by S.A. Wickremasinghe and in 1962 was awarded a scholarship to Lumumba University in Moscow, to study medicine. Sunday Times carries biographical information on […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The subversive activities of the JVP had come to the attention of the intelligence services and  a special unit has been formed in the CID to watch them, said Indradasa Godahewa. The first police report of the existence of the JVP underground movement was presented to the Cabinet in 1968. In 1970 the […]

DR Arpita Hazarika The chief of army staff of India, General Manoj Pande completed his Bangladesh visit recently (from July 18 to July 20) as part of the “outstanding” bilateral defense relations between Bangladesh and India. General Manoj Pande was on his first trip abroad since taking over the post. First day of his visit, […]

Sri Lanka Political News European ambassadors gave President GR an “ultimatum”, a “last chance” to condemn Russia, but Sri Lanka had refused to condemn either side. A few days later the Aragalaya started. When things had cooled down somewhat, Gota arranged to talk to Putin. Within 24 hours of talking to Putin, two Russian oil […]

Ravi Buddhavarapu Courtesy CNBC KEY POINTS The IMF cannot… interact with the government when things are in a continuing crisis mode. So until the government stabilizes, until they have a minister of finance, there’s no one for the IMF to talk with,” professor Deborah Brautigam told CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia” on Friday. The IMF will […]

Courtesy Adaderana Chinese President Xi Jinping says he is hopeful that Sri Lanka and China will carry forward the traditional friendship, consolidate political mutual trust and push forward the strategi cooperative partnership of sincere assistance and ever-lasting friendship. He conveyed this in a letter to Sri Lanka’s new President Ranil Wickremesinghe to extend congratulations and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The nine protesters, who were arrested this morning near the Galle Face protest site for allegedly causing damages to properties at the Presidential Secretariat premises, have been granted bail. They were produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court earlier today. The arrestees, including Attorney-at-Law Nuwan Bopage, were released on cash bails Rs. 10,000 […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ambassador of the United States to Sri Lanka Julie Chung says she called on President Ranil Wickremesinghe to express her grave concern over the unnecessary and deeply troubling” escalation of violence against protesters overnight. Taking to her official Twitter handle, the US envoy noted that the President and the Cabinet of Ministers have an […]

Courtesy Adaderana The swearing-in of the new Cabinet of Ministers of the interim government under President Ranil Wickremesinghe took place at the Temple Trees. The ceremony was held after MP Dinesh Gunawardena took oaths as the new Prime Minister this morning. President Wickremesinghe has decided to continue the interim government with the cabinet ministers of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Member of Parliament Dinesh Gunawardena has taken oaths as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. He took oaths before President Ranil Wickremesinghe this morning (July 22). Gunawardena embarked on active politics in late 1970s and entered the parliament in 1983 representing the Maharagama electoral district. He has held cabinet ministerial portfolios under […]