Shenali D Waduge The Indo-Lanka Accord was signed to end the ethnic conflict”. The 13th amendment was to constitutionally end the ethnic conflict”. Both were failures because the solutions became the problem. The solutions had vested interests & agendas in mind & became political footballs that were never meant to be solved. It is for this […]

Dilrook Kannangara In 1971 there were more than 20,000 ethnic Sinhalas were living in the Jaffna District alone. None of them lived on rent. They had their own properties as with everyone else in Jaffna. However, after the TULF election win in July 1977, Tamils attacked Sinhala people in the north during Black August 1977, […]

Shenali D Waduge first published in 2019A Framework for the Constitution of the Union of Ceylon” prepared in 1994 by a firm of British solicitors (Bates, Wells and Braithwaite) for the Sri Lanka Peace Support Group an entity within the Centre of Policy Alternatives. Constitution. Illustration: Ratna Sagar Shrestha.THT What is interesting about this proposal is […]

By  Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson Courtesy Geopolitical Economy   RADHIKA DESAI: Hi everyone, and welcome to this Geopolitical Economy Hour. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: Every fortnight we are going to meet for an hour to discuss major development in the fast-changing geopolitical economy of our 21st-century world. We’ll discuss […]

මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ නව ප්‍රංශ තානාපති ජොංෆ්‍රැන්සුවා පැක්තෙ මහතා අද(1දා)දින සුහද හමුවක්  සඳහා  මහජන  ආරක්ෂක ඇමති ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා හමුවීමට මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයට පැමිණියේය. ප්‍රංශ – ශ්‍රි ලංකා රාජතාන්ත්‍රික සබඳතා පිළිබඳව මෙම හමුවේදී සාකච්ඡා වූ අතර තවදුරටත් එම සම්බන්ධතා ශක්තිමත් කරගැනීම සඳහා සිය පූර්ණ සහය ලබා දෙන බව ප්‍රංශ තානාපති ජොංෆ්‍රැන්සුවා පැක්තෙ මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. එහිදී ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් නීති විරෝධී සංක්‍රමණිකයන් […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. හිට්ලර් කෙනෙක්වී හෝ රට නොකඩන්න ජනවාරි 27 දා පක්ෂ නායක රැස්වීමේදී රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ජනාධිපතිතුමා  විසින් ගෙවිඳු කුමාරතුංග මන්ත්‍රීවරයා ඔහුට කල තියුණු අභියෝගයට (confrontation not challenge) දැක්වූ ප්‍රතිචාරය, ලංකාවේ නූතන මැකියාවේලි කෙනෙකුගේ දේශණයක් (lecture) නොව යමෙකු ඔල්මාදයෙන් (delusion) කල හැසිරීමක් වැනිය කියා මට සිතුනි.  13-A මර උඟුල (death trap) ගැන දශක දෙකක […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය “බෞද්ධ කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තා  සහ උඩරට ගැමි පුනරුත්ථාපන කොමිෂන් සභාවේ වාර්තාවල, අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන්  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට කළ හානිය ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති අතර මෙතෙක් සිදුවී නොමැති නමුත් ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන්  කටයුතු කිරීම විය යුතු වගකීමක්” බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. මහාචාර්ය සී. එම්. මද්දුමබණ්ඩාර මහතා රචිත,  FREEDOM STRUGGLES OF SRI LANKA – Lessons Learned and […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Feb 1 (AdaDerana) – Sri Lanka has been listed amongst the ‘50 Most Instagrammable Places in the World 2023’ on travel website ‘Big 7 Travel’. The island nation made it to the Top 10 of the list, ranking ninth, amongst Italy, England, France and USA. The list is developed via a comprehensive scoring […]

By: Mohnish Singh Courtesy Eastern Eye US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who arrived on a one-day visit to Sri Lanka last night, called on Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and also met the representatives of Tamil political parties on Wednesday. The US is keen to see the ongoing talks between the Sri Lankan […]

Courtesy The Telegraph Online The minority Tamil leaders have been in talks with the new government over their long standing demand of political autonomy under the 13th Amendment to the Constitution The US is keen to see the ongoing talks between the Sri Lankan government and the minority Tamil leaders produce “real results”, a top […]

Courtesy Star (Kenya) Sri Lankan investors have employed over 20, 000 Kenyans at Export Processing Zone in Athi River Kananathan said Sri Lanka, a country in South Asia, was committed to supporting the Kenyan government in its quest of creating jobs for citizens in a bid of solving the challenge of unemployment in the country. […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island One-time Surveyor General Michael de Silva, who served as Sri Lanka High Commissioner in Australia (2004-2007) says in spite of begging for medicine and medical equipment, the health ministry sabotaged ongoing Australian Medical Aid Programme meant to assist state-run hospitals. Declaring that under the programme launched 15 years ago, […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The National Freedom Front (NFF), a constituent member of Nidahas Janatha Sandhanaya (NJS), has declared that it would oppose President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s bid to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The patriotic people were ready to defeat such plans, even at the expense of their lives, the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Some 46 people die of cancer every day in Sri Lanka out of the 105 cancer patients who are detected daily, the National Cancer Control Unit (NCCU) Director Dr. Ishani Fernando said today. She told a news conference at the Health Promotion Bureau in line with the World Cancer Day which […]

Courtesy Adaderana US Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, has stated that the United States would also like to see an agreement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Sri Lanka as quickly as possible.  Speaking on the matter, however, the visiting US official noted that China’s offer pertaining to their financial assurances thus far […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has seen a significant increase in the number of tourist arrivals for the month of January 2023, compared to the numbers seen in January 2022. A summary report issued by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) showed an increase of over 20,000 tourist arrivals, with a total of 102,545 arrivals […]