Courtesy Daily Mirror The passport of a British national who posted about the protests at Galle Face has been seized by the Immigration and Emigration officers yesterday. The officials visited the house of British national, Kayleigh Fraser and seized her passport reportedly over violation of visa conditions. Kayleigh Fraser had posted a video on social […]

Courtesy Adaderana Queen Elizabeth has sent a congratulatory message to President Ranil Wickremasinghe saying she is looking forward to continue the warm friendship between Britain and Sri Lanka. The British High Commission to Sri Lanka has conveyed the congratulatory message from Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II to the President of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe.  […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Fort Police has informed those occupying tents and temporary shelters at the Galle Face protest site to vacate the premises by 5.00 p.m. on August 05. The law enforcement authorities stressed that legal action would be sought against those who fail to comply with the instructions. In an announcement, the Galle […]

Courtesy Adaderana Joseph Stalin, the general-secretary of the Ceylon Teachers’ Union, has been arrested by the police today (August 03). He was taken into custody for violating a court order during a protest march at the Bank of Ceylon Mawatha on May 28, according to the police.

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 122 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 666,086.  Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed 08 new coronavirus-related deaths […]

Shenali D Waduge Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith is not only asking questions but making all sorts of wild allegations. Cardinal Malcolm also needs to answer some questions. Cardinal Malcolm – Are you aware that within the course of 3 years the AG’s dept is to file charges against 79. Did such happen to the victims of LTTE […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The 1987–89 JVP insurrection was the second unsuccessful armed revolt conducted by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna against the Government of Sri Lanka, then under President J. R. Jayewardene. Victor Ivan said that he had anticipated the rise of the JVP in its second insurrection. He was told that old JVPers who refused to […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Financial assistance for Sri Lanka from international financial institutions has been conditioned to have a macroeconomic framework for the country. Although the macroeconomy is a broader area like a jungle as stated by R.G.D.Allen in his famous title Macroeconomics, many countries have developed their macroeconomic framework,   considering the vital structural factors of […]

Shenali D Waduge On 21 April 2019 9 suicide bombers committed suicide in 3 Churches, 3 hotels and 1 motel killing over 270 innocent people. While all of the suicide bombers are dead, we are yet to know whether they committed suicide on their own free will or whether a bigger plot was involved. ISIS […]

Malinda Seneviratne “ස්වයං විවේශනය, දුෂ්ටත්වයේ හරය තෙක් දිවෙන දරුණු, නොමසුරු, අනුකම්පා විරහිත විවේචනය නිර්ධන පාන්තික ව්‍යාපාරයක ජීවය සහ හුස්ම පොද වේ” — රෝසා ලක්සන්බ(ර්)ග් අරගලය අවසන් වුනා කියල සමහරු කියනවා. අරගල ඉවර වෙන්නෙත් නෑ ඉවර කරන්නත් බෑ කියල තවත් අය කියනවා. කෙසේ වෙතත් ‘අරගලය’ නමින් හැඳින් වූ දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාවලිය එක්තරා ආකාරයක නිමාවකට ඇවිල්ලයි තියෙන්නේ. අරගලය […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara. However only the following proposals were included in the press release. 1.Establishment of a Crisis Management Cabinet and the 2.Inclusion of all Members of Parliament in the attached committees for Ministries, as well as the 3 Appointment of an Advisory Committee consisting of experts and intellectuals to each Ministry.  It the party […]

කොරෝනා ප්‍රෝඩාව, ලෝක ආර්ථිකය බිඳ දැමීමේ බටහිර අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී කුමන්ත්‍රණය සහ ලංකාවේ ඉරණම JULY 31, 2022 සංස්කාරක COMMENTS OFFON කොරෝනා ප්‍රෝඩාව, ලෝක ආර්ථිකය බිඳ දැමීමේ බටහිර අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී කුමන්ත්‍රණය සහ ලංකාවේ ඉරණම ලෝක ආර්ථිකය බිඳ දැමීමට බටහිර අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයට අවශ්‍ය ව ඇත්තේ මන්ද? අජිත් සී හේරත් මුළුමහත් ලෝකයම සියවස් පහක් තිස්සේ සුරාකමින් බටහිර අධිරාජ්‍යවාදින් විසින් හොබවනලද ආධිපත්‍යය බිඳ වැටෙමින් පවතී. […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror The application made by President Ranil Wickremesinghe that he be discharged from the proceedings in connection with the twelve Fundamental Rights petitions filed over Easter Sunday attacks should be dismissed by Supreme Court, Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith said. Tendering written submissions before Supreme Court, Colombo Archbishop today maintained that President Ranil […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror A person who illegally entered the President’s House in Fort on July 9 and took photographs while sitting on the President’s chair was arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division in Deraniyagala.  Police said the arrested suspect who is 28-years-old, was identified as a resident of Samanpuragama. The suspect is scheduled to be […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 07 coronavirus-related deaths for August 01, increasing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 16,566. The deaths reported today include 03 males and 04 female patients, according to the Government Information Department. Two of the Covid-19 victims were between the ages 30-59 […]

Courtesy Ada Derana The person, who was arrested on suspicion of being the first to forcibly enter the Presidential Secretariat when the protesters took over the premises on July 09, has been remanded until August 05. He was produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court today (Aug 02). Further, Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage ordered the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Several political parties including the main opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) have agreed to attend future talks on forming an all-party government, the President’s Media Division says. Several rounds of discussions were held today with the members of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna […]

Shenali Waduge During ancient times in Sri Lanka, the kings went and sought advice as well as blessings from the Sangha. The kings went to the Sangha – the Sangha did not come to the King. The role of the Maha Sangha was advisory. The reverse is happening now. In the western hemisphere, the Church […]

Malinda Seneviratne ජනතා නැගිටීමක්, උද්ඝෝෂණයක්, රටක දේශපාලන නායකත්වයට අභියෝග කරන දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාවලියක්, දේශපාලන පෙරළියක් — මේ හැම එකක්ම අරගලයක් කියල කියන්න පුළුවන්. විප්ලවයක් කියල කියන්න බෑ. සමහර අරගල විප්ලව බවට පරිවර්තනය වෙන්න පුළුවන්. කොන්දේසි තියෙනවා. පහුගිය මාස කිහිපය හරහා ලංකාවේ සිදුවුණා නැත්තම් සිදු කරන ලද අරගලය විප්ලවයක් බවට පෙරලුනේ නැහැ. ඒක ‘අරගලයක්’ නෙවෙයි, ඇත්තටම. එතන […]

Senaka Weeraratna 1. Animal Welfare Bill – Lobby strongly for the enactment of the Animal Welfare Bill which is long overdue since its release by the Law Commission in 2006 2. Animal Protection Education in Schools – Promote animal protection education and see it take root in Sri Lanka’s system of school education beginning from […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The April 1971 JVP insurrection took the country by surprise because it was against a popular, SLFP government which had just one year before, won 91 seats out of 151 in the 1970 general election. The JVP insurrection of 1971 was met with stunned disbelief, said Suriya Wickremasinghe. It was marked with confusion, […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy Newsin.Asia Colombo, August 1 (newsin.asia): On July 9, it looked as if Sri Lanka was undergoing a revolution through raw peoples’ power. Massive crowds had converged on Colombo to force the incompetent President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to quit. The Presidential palace, the Presidential Secretariat and the Prime Minister’s office were stormed, vandalized, and […]

Courtesy Ajjazeera Debate within the protest movement on wrapping up the seafront camp was triggered by a violent crackdown by security forces 10 days ago. Colombo, Sri Lanka – The mainly youth-led protest movement in crisis-hit Sri Lanka is divided on whether to withdraw from a sea-facing camp they set up months ago near the presidential […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) on Monday announced that it will support President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s efforts to form an all-party national government to help the country to recover from the worst economic crisis. TNA leader and veteran Tamil political leader R Sampanthan told reporters that the move to form an all-party government is […]

Courtesy Adaderana Social activist and YouTuber Rathindu Senaratne, popularly known as ‘Ratta’, has been arrested by officers of the Colombo Crimes Division – Colombo Central. He has been arrested for allegedly violating a court order during a protest at Bank of Ceylon Mawatha in Colombo on 21 May. Senaratne had arrived at the CCD, earlier […]

Courtesy Adaderana Police have arrested the first person to allegedly forcibly enter the premises of the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo during the protests on July 09. Police said that the suspect, a 38-year-old male from Pannipitiya, was arrested by a special police investigation unit today.  The premises, which had been blocked by protesters for more […]

Courtesy Adaderana The draft of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers, the Justice Ministry said. The draft constitutional amendment was presented to the Cabinet by Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms, Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe and subsequently approved by the Cabinet. The amendment, which had been […]