Senaka Weeraratna  The new Booker Prize winner appears to be a Empire Loyalist or one with multiple loyalties. Like Arundhati Rao, another Booker Prize winner, who is Anti Majoritarian to the core and whose pastime is repeatedly attacking Hinduism and other Sanatana Dharma religions. To the vast majority of Hindus Arundhati Rao is a traitor […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. (පුදන කොටම කාපි යකා කියන්නාක් මෙන්, ජනාධිපති රනිල් – හිටපු කතානායක කරු ජයසූරිය යන දෙදෙනා විසින් කඩිමුඩියේ දියත් කරන්නට යන ජන සභා වැඩසටහන පැහැදිලි පදනමක් රහිත ව්‍යපෘතියක්වීම නිසාම, එය වැරදිලෙස වටහාගත් සභානායක සුසිල් ප්‍රේමජයන්ත විසින් එය ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට එකඟ නැතැයි ප්‍රකාශ කලේය. ජන සභා සිස්ටම් එකක් මඟින් ලංකාවේ පක්ෂ දේශ-පාලකයින් විසින් […]

By John Perkins Why is Saudi Arabia suddenly defying the United States, after five decades of a strong alliance? It’s a question I’ve been asked frequently in recent days. Here’s the answer. I describe in my books the deal that I helped forge in the early 1970s that created this alliance. Known as the Saudi Arabian […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS USA has continued to invade, bomb and kill in foreign countries, undeterred by the Vietnam defeat in 1975. US methods are now  more sophisticated USA now uses smart bombs and drone-guided missiles instead of B-52s and napalm,  but US  is as brutal and ruthless  as ever, said critics.  US says it is waging […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS During the course of   its various wars, United States   has committed crimes that seriously violate international law,    announced China. They include war crimes, crimes against humanity, arbitrary detention, and torture of prisoners. American aggressiveness over the past decade has an absolutely criminal character, agreed other analysts. The US has the worst history of […]

සටහන :අසිරු වේදිත කරුණාරත්න. මුහුන පොතින් උපුටාගැනීමකි දෙවියකු සේ පූජනීයත්වයට පත්විය යුතු වුවත් 1956 දි විශ්‍රාම යාමත් සමඟ කන්නන්ගර මහතාට ලබන්නෙ අභාග්‍යවත් කාලයක්. දේශපාලනඥයකු ලෙස තම පැවැත්ම වෙනුවෙන් තනතුර භාවිත නොකළ බැවින් විසි වසරකට අධික කාලයක් ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය නියෝජනය කළත් ජිවිතයේ සැඳෑ කාලය ගෙවීමට තරම් හෝ ආර්ථිකයක් එතුමා සතු කරගෙන නොතිබූ නිසා 1961 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 26 […]

By Stephen Messenger Courtesy The dodo.com Earlier this week, after a sudden illness, 56-year-old Peetambaram Rajan passed away in the Batticaloa region of Sri Lanka. But though there appears to be few details about his life recorded online, the reaction of those Rajan left behind suggest his was one teeming with love. And not just for […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The report regarding the welfare arrangements of the underage children of women under 45 years of age is compulsory when leaving the country for foreign employment, the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB) said. Addressing the media, the number of Sri Lankans leaving the country for foreign employment has increased, with […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The newly-gazetted personal income tax will be implemented from November 1, after the approval by the Finance Committee of the Parliament and the signature of the Speaker. Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said this while speaking at a press conference in Ruwanwella. Earlier, a gazette notification was issued amending the Inland Revenue Act. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) has looked into maintaining a special rice reserve of 8,000 metric tons in accordance with the Colombo declaration of the SAARC Organization and the 16th Summit meeting. The committee also probed the rice reserves of 100,000 metric tons not being maintained in the warehouses owned by the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has requested the Auditor General to conduct a special investigation into the transfer of ownership of lands by the Land Reform Commission (LRC) for the past 20 years. The request was made by the COPE chairman, Prof. Ranjith Bandara during its meeting which looked into the irregularities […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Various reasons contributed to beginning the unsuccessful ARAGALAYA in 2022, which focused on either capturing the government or changing the government policy towards the people suffering from economic difficulties.  Capturing a government that was elected by a democratic election could be considered illegal in terms of law and gaining political power in […]

රජිත් කිර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් වත්මන් පළාත් පාලන ආයතන 2023 මාර්තු 20 දින විධිමත් හා නිත්‍යානුකූල ලෙස බලාත්මකය. ‘ඡන්දය කල් දමන බවට‘ රටේ මතයක් හදන්නට පක්ෂ කිහිපයක් උත්සහ කරති.   2021 සැප්තෑම්බර් සිට 2022 ජනවාරි දක්වා ඡන්දය කැඳවීමේ නිත්‍යානුකූල අවස්ථාව අතහැර දැමූ මැතිවරණ කොමිසම ද දැන් නැති බිල්ලෙක් මවන්න හදනවා‘  යැයි හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පවසයි.   […]

Senaka Weeraratna The Buddhist World lacks an effective mechanism to help save a Buddhist Nation in Danger https://www.vifindia.org/article/2017/may/27/the-crisis-facing-the-buddhist-world Colombo, Sri Lanka — The crisis facing the Buddhist world is neither a decline in religious conviction nor an apprehension that truth underpinned by rational argument and new scientific discoveries will one day overtake and outstrip the core […]

MIKE WHITNEY  Courtesy The Unz Review Every dead Russian and Ukrainian in this war, every family anywhere in the world that suffers the consequences of this war, every business that shuts down because of the economic damage this war is causing and the increased risk of nuclear annihilation, it’s all US Govt made.” Twitter @KimDotcom […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් තවමත් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට අනුව මෙරට ජනාධිපතිවරයා ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බව ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ ටිරන්ත වලලියද්ද මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු පවසන්නේ ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ඉල්ලා අස්වීමේ ලිපිය මීට බලපා ඇති බවය. අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක් සමඟ සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් ඒ මහතා මෙම අදහස් පල කර ඇත. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් 225 දෙනාම මේ වන විට ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝනය […]

Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka Courtesy Stuff Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka is a Sri Lankan-born New Zealander based in Auckland, where she lives and works as a public relations consultant. OPINION: “Man wins top literary prize to convince parents he didn’t need to do medicine,” a Sri Lankan Aucklander tweeted in response to the announcement of this year’s Booker Prize winning author, Shehan Karunatilaka. […]

Courtesy The Hindustan Times Sri Lankan state minister of defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon met Union defence minister Rajnath Singh, minister of state for defence Ajay Bhatt, defence secretary Ajay Kumar, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan and the three service chiefs India has reiterated its readiness to continue supporting Sri Lanka in the defence […]

Courtesy The Hindustan Times The Indian Navy on Friday shot at a fisherman while trying to intercept a suspicious boat” in Palk Bay, near the maritime border with Sri Lanka, with the Tamil Nadu government identifying the injured man as resident of the state and writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue.The Indian […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that the Metropolitan Police have not deployed any officers in support of the Sri Lankan investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, Britain on Wednesday said that Metropolitan Police ‘will consider any request to support an overseas investigation where it is proportionate, necessary and legal.’ In […]

Courtesy Adaderana The third reading of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution has been passed in Parliament by a majority of 173 votes. Announcing the result of the vote on the third reading of the bill, the Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena informed the House that 174 had voted in favour of the bill […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera has informed the National Council that the report of the committee for the restructuring of the energy sector would be submitted within two weeks. At the same time, the minister stated that the National Council is also expected to be informed about the proposed measures to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Department of Census and Statistics (DSC) has released the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) and the inflation rate for the month of September 2022. The NCPI for all items for the month of September 2022 is 256.2 and it records an increase of 5.8 in index points compared to the month of […]

Courtesy Adaderana A discussion on the challenges faced by the construction sector and proposed plans to address these issues was held at the Presidential Secretariat under the patronage of President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday (Oct. 20). The problems faced by the construction sector under the current economic situation were discussed at length and special attention […]

D Rajaratnam News of Central Bank’s decision on refusal to link up with MIR clearing and settlement system was broadcasted in Lankan media in subdued tone and mediocre coverage. Restraint largely owing to a decade of hard work by United States to build partnership with local media than lack of importance. Nor that we hear […]

Shenali D Waduge Divide & Rule was a key component of colonial rule. Illegally taking over lands and territories, planting fictitious history, infesting minds with hate and violence is part of a legacy that continues unabated. Sadly, historians have failed to take these false claims and nullify them. They have been silenced by political correctness”. […]

Malinda Seneviratne Rehabilitation is a word that presumes a previous state of perceived acceptance or agreement. Its etymology is interesting and revealing, deriving from re– again” or to turn” and habitare– make fit” which in turn comes from the Latin habilis– easily managed, fit.” In other words, rehabilitation is about restoring someone or something to a previous state; […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The country’s economy started to collapse with wrong policy decisions, Industries Minister Ramesh Pathirana said addressing the panel discussion of the Sri Lanka Ceramics and Glass Council yesterday. The discussion was on the quality, affordability and self-reliance of the sanitaryware industry.We are a people who maintain a lifestyle that we cannot […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government has incurred a loss of Rs. 6,900 million by awarding the tender to a company that submitted the highest bid during the tender process for the import of urea under World Bank assistance, Sri Lanka Gulf Trade and Investment Board (SLGTIB) Chairman Mohan Perera said. Addressing the media, he […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Lodging a complaint with CID, Justice Minister Wijedasa Rajapksha has urged the CID Director to conduct an investigation into the false and malicious Facebook Post alleging that he as the Minister of Justice and Prison has given special treatment to remand prisoner Thilini Priyamali. The Justice Minister maintained that the dissemination […]