KAMALIKA PIERIS Kurundi vihara’s troubles are not over. First it was the stupa, now it is the pilimage. Work on the stupa at Kurundi vihara is complete.  The relics have been deposited and Kurundi stupa is ready for worship. The next step is renovation of the pilimage.  The Archaeology Department said that they could reconstruct […]

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ආචාර්‍ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර *මේ රටේ නිදහස් දිනය විය යුත්තේ මැයි 22 දා මිස 1948 පෙබ 4 දා නොවේ. * ජාතික දිනය වියයුත්තේ සින්හල බෞද්ධ ජාතිය උපන් පොසොන් දෙපෝදා මිස1948 පෙබ 4 දා සුද්දාගේ මේසය පල්ලේ වැටුණු  මස්කට්ට නොවේ                          අද මැයි මස 22 දා සුද්දන්ගේ ග්‍රහණයෙන් රට නිදහස් වූ දාය. එහෙත් එම අඓතිහාසික දිනය, ජනතාව […]

Dr. Sarath Obeysekera Chief Executive Officer Walkers Colombo Shipyard (Pvt) Ltd. 30th December 2020Honourable Prime Minister Prime Minister’s Office No: 58, Sir Ernest De Silva Mawatha Colombo 07. Honourable Sir, High Handed Action by Ceylon Fishery Harbours Corporation Chairman.Walkers Colombo Shipyard (Pvt) Ltd. was established in early 2015 with an investment from the Mother Company […]

by Roger Harris Courtesy counterpunch.org For all the hullabaloo about free and fair elections” in Venezuela by the US government, its sycophantic corporate press deliberately ignores the elephant in the room – namely, the so-called sanctions designed to make life so miserable that the people will acquiesce to Washington’s plan for regime change. As Foreign […]

Palitha Ariyarathna Buddhism, founded by Siddhartha Gautama (known as the Buddha”) over 2,500 years ago in India, offers profound insights and practical wisdom. While some scholars view it as a philosophy or moral code rather than an organized religion, its impact spans across cultures and continents. Here’s why the world should consider embracing Buddhist principles: Understanding […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror There are allegations that monies sent by JICA to implement a survey and conduct workshops to combat bribery and corruption in the country have been misappropriated JICA acknowledges that it collaborated with the BASL to initiate a drive against bribery and corruption in Sri Lanka BASL maintains that it is erroneous to […]

පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සභානායක කාර්යාලය මෙරට 13,000කට අධික ග්‍රාම නිලධාරිවරුන්ට අනන්‍ය වැටුප් තලයක් ලබාදී වැටුප් සහ දීමනා ඉහළ නැංවීම සඳහා කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය ලැබී ඇති බවත්, ඒ අනුව ශ්‍රී ලංකා ග්‍රාම නිලධාරී සේවය ස්ථාපිත කිරීම සඳහා එම සේවා ව්‍යවස්ථා කෙටුම්පත රාජ්‍ය සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාවේ අනුමැතිය සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති බවත්, එය විශාල ජයග්‍රහණයක් බවත්, රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන, ස්වදේශ කටයුතු, […]

patriotic people’s front assam Guwahati: Expressing shock and dismay over the Dudhnoi incident, where two teenage girls were gang-raped and a youth was killed by a group of hooligans, a nationalist forum in northeast India demands a stringent punishment to those criminals. Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) also urges Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, […]

By Rohana R. Wasala The following is a tribute to the late Hon. Lakshman Kadirgamar, the then foreign affairs minister of Sri Lanka, who won UN recognition for an international Vesak Day holiday twenty-four years ago. Buddhists annually celebrate the Vesak Full Moon Poya Day as the day that the Birth, the Enlightenment and the […]

Matanat Nasibova Caliber.Az Macron’s France is once again reaping the fruits of its failed policy toward overseas territories, particularly in New Caledonia, where unrest has been raging since May 13 over a bill that envisions granting the right to participate in regional elections to people who have lived in the archipelago for more than 10 […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale During the war, leaders of the Allied countries—the Soviet Union, United States, and Great Britain—received reports of mass shootings of Jewish civilians, including women and children. In 1942, they learned of the Nazi plan to annihilate Europe’s Jews. While leaders occasionally publicly denounced violence towards Jews, they prioritized winning the war over […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Kurundi vihara is the first monastery to be conserved in Mullaitivu district, as far as I know. This alone makes Kurundi special. The other thing that makes Kurundi special is that it is right   in the middle of Eelam. So Kurundi is political as well. Ruins like Kurundi are reminders of an earlier […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay is a continuation of the previous essay which ended with the statement that Kurundi vihara had its own web site.  This website contains a booklet on Kurundi.  This booklet can be downloaded from the website. https://www.kurundi.lk/kurundi-booklet/. The text   is wide ranging, it explains what happened at Kurundi, and also comments on […]

යසස් ධර්මදාස, ලේකම්, ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සංසදය. යුද්ධය මානුශික මෙහෙයුමකින් අවසන්කර වසර 15 ක් සපිරෙන මේ මොහොතේ, එම බෙදුම්වාදීන්ගේ මනදොල සපුරාලන්නට පනතක් ගෙන ඒම පිළිබඳව බලවත් පිළිකුල ප්‍රකාශ කරන බවත්, සත්‍ය සෙවීමේ කොමිසමේ අරමුණ හුදු සත්‍ය සෙවීමක්ම නොවන බවත් ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සංසදයේ ලේකම් යසස් ධර්මදාස මහතා පවසයි. මේ පිළිබඳව වැඩිදුර තොරතුරු අනාවරණය කරන ඒ […]

Milinda Moragoda, Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation Milinda Moragoda, Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation, released a statement saying Sri Lanka’s present oppressive tax regime is undermining the country’s economic growth agenda. Moragoda says, furthermore, many local entrepreneurs and businesses that can afford it are relocating abroad, and new investments have decreased significantly. Full text of the […]

Dinesh Gunawardena Prime Minister Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka His Excellency Mohammed Mokhber Vice President of Islamic Republic of Iran Excellency, I am deeply saddened to learn about the demise of His Excellency President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-abdollahian in a tragic helicopter crash. The late President’s services for the people of Iran […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre It has been observed in many instances that the family members of heroic soldiers who fought and made supreme sacrifice for securing the territorial integrity of our motherland, as well as retired military personnel and their family members, are facing various difficulties in obtaining health facilities from government hospitals. […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre •           Disaster Risk Reduction is very important for building robust communities – Defence Secretary The National Disaster Management Coordinating Committee (NDMCC) serves as a crucial platform for policy formulation, strategic planning and effective coordination among stakeholders for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities. We facilitate communication between sub-national and national […]

Dimuthu Attanayake  Courtesy The South China Morning Post

Courtesy Adaderana The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested four ISIS terrorists, all of whom are Sri Lankan nationals, at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, Indian media reported today. The Gujarat ATS has taken the suspects to an undisclosed location for intensive questioning, reported TV9 Gujarati. The precise motive behind their presence at […]

Shenali D Waduge In 2011 AMNESTY accepted $50,000 from a Canadian based LTTE front, so naturally it is not a surprise when AMNESTY International’s Alan Keenan quoted 40,000 to 147,000 dead. Can Amnesty produce names of even 10,000 dead, we think not. Interesting that the photo of the commemoration with Agnes Callamard bowing & offering […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 12-18 May 2024 The US is escalating their war on Myanmar – via Thailand and India. This ee Focus glances at the US psyops (psychological operations) there, where they actively fund a terror campaign. All of this unfolds midst their attempts to implant parallel […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre •        Nation pays gratitude to its war heroes remembering their sacrifices Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena, the Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka paid a glowing tribute to war heroes of Tri-services, Police and Civil Security Department (CSD) on behalf of the Nation during the 15th National […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්            ලංකාවේ දේශපාලන නායකයන්ගේ අත කරකවා අත්සන් කළ ඉන්දු ලංකා ගිවිසුමේ එක් කොන්දේසියක් මත ඉන්දියන් සාම සාධක හමුදාවක් ලංකාවට පැමිණියහ.මේ හමුදාව ඉන්දියානු සෙබළුන් ගෙන් සහ දෙමළ සෙබළුන්ගෙන් සමන්විත විය. ලංකාවේ සිට ඉන්දියාවට පැන ගොස් එහි යුධ පුහුණුව ලැබූ වතුකරයේ දෙමල පිරිස් සහ වන්නියේ දෙමළ පිරිස් මෙයට අයත් විය. ඉන්දියන් සාම සාධක හමුදාව නිසා […]

Sasanka De Silva, Pannipitiya. The Editor, Lanka Web, Sri Lanka. Dear Sir, We have a 3 kW rooftop solar installation that supplies electricity directly to the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) grid. Recently, we’ve noticed some troubling issues. First, not all the energy generated by our unit is being absorbed by the grid. When we approached […]

By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers Leading Engineer of the World 2006, UK Authority Award Dear Mr. Velan Swamigal: I am not sure as to what studies you did and completed at Katubedde. However, one thing I am […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අපේ සමාජයේ සාමූහික අනන්‍යතාව බිඳවැට්ටවීමට අවශ්‍ය අණපනත් ගෙනඒමේ න්‍යාය පත්‍රය සහ ඉතාම සංවිධානාත්මකව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඉන්දියාවේ 29 වන ප්‍රාන්තය බවට පත් කිරීමේ න්‍යාය පත්‍රය යන න්‍යාය පත්‍ර දෙක, රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ හෙවත් නූතන විභීෂණ” අතෙහි තිබෙන බවත් එමගින් ස්වාධීන රාජ්‍යයක් ලෙස ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාජ්‍යයේ පැවැත්ම ඓතිහාසිකව අතුරුදහන් කිරීමේ අනතුර, රාම රාවණ […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has met with billionaire and investor Elon Musk on the sidelines of the 10th World Water Forum High-Level Meeting being held in Indonesia. During the meeting, Wickremesinghe and Musk have discussed the implementation of ‘Starlink’ in Sri Lanka. It was emphasized that Sri Lanka is committed to expediting the application […]

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