Courtesy AdaDerana Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday (Sept. 07) vehemently denied the allegations made against him in British television network Channel 4’s new ‘Dispatches’ documentary on the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka. In a media release, Rajapaksa said this video is mostly an anti-Rajapaksa tirade aimed at blackening the Rajapaksa legacy from […]

Courtesy AdaDerana Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs & Constitutional Reforms Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has asserted that the government stands ready to conduct an international investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. Despite his emphasis that the relevant investigation would be an international probe and not a domestic one, the Minister opined skepticism pertaining to […]

Courtesy AdaDerana President Ranil Wickremesinghe is set to depart for Cuba to address the G77+China Leaders’ Summit next week. This summit, themed Current Development Challenges: Role of Science, Technology and Innovation,” is scheduled for September 15 and 16, 2023, in Havana, Cuba. President Wickremesinghe’s participation in the summit comes as a result of an official […]

Courtesy AdaDerana The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has told the Sectoral Oversight Committee (SOC) on International Relations that it is economically important for Sri Lanka to work with BRICS countries. Attending the SOC meeting chaired by MP Namal Rajapaksa on Tuesday (05), the Central Bank officials have pointed out that 41% of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that by drawing inspiration from the success of the Biyagama Free Trade Zone, a comprehensive strategy for modern commercial industrialization will be implemented throughout the country.  This initiative aims to propel the nation towards rapid development within the next 15-20 years, he said, participating in in the centenary celebration […]

Shenali D Waduge On Easter Sunday 21 April 2019 – 8 bombs went off in churches & hotels in Colombo & Batticoloa. Why churches – who decided ? Why Batticoloa, why 3 particular hotels & why have 2 bombers target 1 hotel? 269 innocent people died, for whose objective? Why a jihadi attack, when LTTE […]

by Garvin Karunaratne In view of the fact that our foreign debt has increased from $ 56 billion, when President Gotabhaya ceded power to President Ranil Wickremasinghe, to as much as $96.5 billion by 30 the June 2023- a staggering increase  of some 70% in fifteen months, it is necessary to step back to see […]

By  Peter Van Buren * The Biden doctrine is a cynical effort to cash in on the blood of another nation. Joe Biden created for the U.S. a war like no other, one where others die and the U.S. simply sits back and pays the bills on a gargantuan scale. No attempts are made at […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි අලුත් නාඩගමක් කරලියට පැමිණ තිබේ. ඒ නාඩගමේ නිෂ්පාදනය හා අධ්‍යක්ෂණය ලෝකයේ ත්‍රස්තවාදී සංවිධානවල මැර  ක්‍රියාවන්ට අහිංසක හැඩතල ගන්වන චැනල් 4 නාලිකාව විසින් සිදුකර ඇත. මේ නාඩගම සුපුරුදු ලෙසම හඹා යන්නේ කොටි සංවිධානය විනාශ කල රාජපක්ෂලාම ඉලක්ක කරගෙන වීම තුලින් මේ නාඩගම නිරුවත්බවයට පත්ව ඇත.පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයට සමාන ක්‍රියාවලියක් මෙරට තුල සිදුවෙන බව අප […]

Ruwan Jayatunga Presentation on PTSD and Combat trauma in the 30-year war in Sri Lanka by Professor Daya Somasundaram and Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge

මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශය ශ්‍රි ලංකා පොලීසියේ නිලධරයන්ගේ වෘත්තීමය දැනුම සහ කුසලතා වැඩිදියුණු කිරීම සඳහා ජාතික පොලිස් අභ්‍යාස ආයතනය සහ ශ්‍රි ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය ඒකාබද්ධව ආරම්භ කරන ලද ව්‍යවහාරික පොලිස් අධ්‍යාපන උපාධි පාඨමාලාව” (BA in Applied Police Studies) සමාරම්භක උත්සවය 2023.09.04 (ඊයේ) වන දින උදෑසන 10.00 ට ගරු මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මැති තුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් […]

by A. Abdul Aziz U.K. based International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has reported that, in the latest in a string of attacks on religious freedom in Pakistan, the police in Lahore have sided with a wild mob to arrest 6 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at their place of business on the basis of […]

by A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary – AMJSL. It is indeed the Holy Qur’an that will serve as a source of true guidance, and it is this very means that will enable us to give precedence to faith over the world.”– Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad The Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya. Hedging and boosting are two strategies commonly used in academic writing to convey certainty or uncertainty about information, support claims, and maintain a balanced and persuasive tone. They are important because they help writers engage with their readers by providing a nuanced understanding of the research and arguments presented. Here’s a […]

Dilrook Kannangara A wrong view is circulated by some claiming that China, BRICS or the New Development Bank of BRICS would help Sri Lanka. They don’t and they shouldn’t. For very good reasons. Over 81% of Sri Lanka’s loan creditors are in NATO-QUAD military alliance countries or those countries themselves! NATO includes USA, UK, France, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara has revealed that a new inquiry will be conducted into the recent allegations made by UK’s ‘Channel 4’ pertaining to the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. Addressing Parliament this morning (05 Sep.), Nanayakkara stated that a special Parliamentary Committee will be appointed for this purpose, […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් 2019 වසරේ සිදුවූ පාස්කු ඉරිදා ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාරය අළලා බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ චැනල් ෆෝ නාලිකාව විසින් විකාශය කිරීමට නියමිත විඩීයෝව මේ වනවිට පාර්ශව රැසක දැඩි අවධානයට ලක්ව තිබෙනවා. බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය වේලාවෙන් අද (05) රාත්‍රී 11 ට මෙම වීඩියෝව විකාශය කිරීමට සූදානම් කර ඇති අතර මෙම මතභේදාත්මක වාර්තාමය වැඩසටහනේ පූර්ව ප්‍රචාරක පටයක්ද මේ වන විට නිකුත් […]

Shenali D Waduge Every year when it gets closer to Geneva Sessions, expect a blockbuster thriller to become breaking news”. Keep this in mind for 2024 Sept/Oct too. As expected, 2023 breaking news” is by UK’s private funded broadcaster Channel4.  An article by Catherine Philip ” Rajapaksa officials ‘linked to Easter Sunday Sri Lanka bombs’ […]

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Courtesy Adaderana UK’s ‘Channel 4’ has announced that it will broadcast a new documentary, which will allegedly uncover shocking revelations on Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attacks, on Tuesday (Sep 05). Channel 4 claims that the new documentary titled Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings – Dispatches,” contains shocking new revelations about Sri Lanka’s deadly Easter bombings of […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. (ඥානසාර හිමියන්ගේ මස් රාත්තල හා ලාල් කාන්තගේ පිරිත් නූල) (528) ” ඩලස්ලා එක්ක අපි ඊයේ කතා කළා…” – YouTube හැඳින්වීම මෙම මාතෘකාව ප්‍රතිවිරුද්ධ සමාජ-ආර්ථික-දේශපාලන ප්‍රවාහ දෙකක් පිළිඹඳ විමර්ශනයකි. *(1) මුර දේවතා සංකල්පය – බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානය ලංකාවේ 1802 න් පසු ඉතිහාසය  සුද්දන්/කළුසුද්දන් හා පන්සල යන දෙකොටස අතර ඇතිවූ නොනවතින ගැටුමක් […]

by Garvin Karunaratne My mind runs in nostaglia to three of my attempts at economic development in three countries, where in two where I failed and finally in the third I did succeed. The first was in Edinburgh where in 1980 I worked as a Senior Community Education Worker in Wester Hailes. One of my […]

Vichara CEB has requested the public to refrain from flying kites in the vicinity of electric pylons. But it is noted that there is some kite flying on the candidates in the 2024 presidential election. Of course, although no official announcement is made it is very clear that the incumbent President will be the prime […]

Senaka Weeraratna Whenever the Europeans entered a non-European country it spelled doom for the indigenous people. This is the history of the world beginning with Christopher Columbus.  On June 7, 1494, Pope Alexander VI published a Bull ‘ inter caetera’ to divide the New World between Spain and Portugal. Tordesillas – How the Pope divided the […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel ‘Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre’ authored by Prof. Rohan Gunaratna stands as a remarkable and unparalleled masterpiece that distinguishes itself on numerous counts. Foremost among its merits is the author’s profound erudition and exhaustive research on the subject, an expertise honed since the composition of his preceding work, ‘Lost Revolution.’ This […]

e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News September 2023 Part 1 * ee decided to have some fun this week, and ask the US government’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) program ChatGPT to write us a ‘poem about the IMF robbing Sri Lanka’. It sure did! Here it is: * In island’s embrace, where oceans sigh, Sri […]

දේශමාන්‍ය පාලිත ආරියරත්න, ජාතික බෞද්ධ බලවේගය. Anyone who funds fraudulent activities of individuals and groups conducting media warfare operations against the Sri Lanka army is liable to get prosecuted under prevailing laws in Sri Lanka. 

Ethalaya News – ඊතලය පුවත්

මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශය 2023.09.03 (අද) වන දිනට යෙදෙන 157 වන පොලිස් දින සැමරුම නිමිති කරගනිමින් සර්ව ආගමික වැඩසටහන් රැසක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කර තිබූ අතර ඊට සමගාමීව 2023.09.02 වන දින රාත්‍රී 07.30 සිට පැවැත්වූ පරිත්‍රාන ධර්ම දේශනාව හා 2023.09.03 වන දින හීල් දානමය පින්කම කොළඹ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති කාර්යාලයේ 04 වන මහලේ පිහිටි සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේදී පැවැත්විණි. එහි හින්දු ආගමික වතාවත් පැවැත්වීම 2023.09.03 (අද) දින පෙරවරු 8.30ට බම්බලපිටිය නව කදිරේෂන් හින්දු […]

By P.K. Balachandran/Sunday Observer Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 3: Speaking at the prize distribution ceremony at Anula Vidyalaya in Nugegoda on August 16, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that in the future, Sri Lankan children will have to learn Hindi and Chinese to fit into the changing world. The underlying theory is that the world is […]