Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, Solicitor in England and Wales, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel and President Ambassador’s forum UK/SL War is bitter dangerous and distractive. There is no dispute or argument that President Trump is the most powerful world leader who can create wars or settle with his good office, strategy, of bad intentions […]

Prof. Hudson McLean The President-elect Donald Trump has laid down the Rules to Stop the Russian-Ukraine War in One Day! Neither the Russians Nor the Ukrainians Or Europeans Or the Members of EU are Expected to Accept the Proposal. Furthermore Trump Expects the Europeans & the Members of the EU to Finance and Operate a […]

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Dilrook Kannangara The 2024 General Election is a watershed moment in Lankan history. Interestingly the total number of votes won by NPP still falls short of the number of votes Gotabaya won in 2019. It is not the quantity but the quality. NPP won around the country from all communities and creeds. No party has […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror Leading member of Ilankai Tamil Arachcu Katchchi (ITAK) M.A. Sumanthiran has not been elected to Parliament from the Jaffna district. The sole seat for the ITAK in the district has been won by Mr. S.Sritharan. The National People’s Power received three seats, having received 24.85% of the total valid votes.  Harin Fernando […]

Sri Lanka news The Election Commission of Sri Lanka has released the all-island final results in the 2024 General Election with the National People’s Power (NPP) securing a resounding victory in the Parliamentary Poll. NPP has won 159 seats including 18 bonus seats after polling a total of over 6.8 million votes, which is 61.56% […]

Dilrook Kannangara All ruling parties since 1947 have been coalitions. While there were instances where a single party could form the ruling party, they still opted for coalitions (e.g. 1977). This was to gain as much support from the grassroots levels which helps in Local Government and later Provincial Council elections. 2024 has been a […]

Sri Lanka News According to the results released so far, the National People’s Power secured a resounding victory, with 80-70% of the votes Hambantota District: NPP takes 5 out of 7 seats in Rajapakse stronghold. The National People’s Power (NPP) has emerged victorious in the Hambantota District in the 2024 General Election, receiving 234,083 votes, […]

Hiru News The National People’s Power (NPP) has won the Polonnaruwa District in the 2024 General Election, polling 159,010 votes, which accounts for over 68% of the total votes. National People’s Power (NPP) 159,010 (4 seats) Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) 43,822 (1 seat} With this overwhelming support, the NPP has secured 4 seats in the […]

By Palitha Ariyarathna Image by history: The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand On the eve of the assassination’s centennial, discover how a teenage Serbian nationalist ignited the flames of World War I. Sri Lanka recently hosted the Pathfinder Foundation’s fifth Dialogue with Diplomats at Cinnamon Grand Colombo, focusing on The Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific and […]

Chanaka Bandarage Sri Lankan Airlines in a 5-minute advertisement  is currently promoting ‘Ramayana Trail’ in India.  This video has gone viral on India’s social media. In the advertisement, a grandmother is seen narrating the Hindu epic to her grandson where she states that the Ramayana is real. Even  the Archaeological Survey of India through an […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.”         Serenity Prayer – Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971). [දෙවියනි, වෙනස් (චේන්ජ්) කල නොහැකි දේවල් එලෙස භාර ගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය උපශාන්ත භාවයත්, වෙනස්කල හැකිදේ වෙනස් කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය ධෛර්යයත්, ඒ දෙක […]

By Mohamed Nader Al-Omari Courtesy defend Democracy Protracted and unprecedented Arab resistance has depleted Israeli troop and reservist forces and forced Tel Aviv to seek out unconventional methods – including the recruitment of foreign mercenaries – to sustain Israel’s weary military and escalatory war goals. Editorial Comment: (Israeli bombing has injured Sri Lankan UN Peace […]

Michael Kwet Courtesy  Aljazeera It’s time to talk about Silicon Valley as an imperial force and what has to be done to resist its power. Silicon Valley corporations are taking over the digital economy in the Global South, and nobody is paying attention.  In South Africa, Google and Facebook dominate the online advertising industry, and […]

Courtesy VOA New Delhi —  Millions of Sri Lankans voted Thursday to choose a new parliament in a key election that will decide if the country’s new leftist president gets the mandate to push ahead with his agenda of improving lives for millions of people struggling with an economic downturn and stamping out corruption. President […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara.13th Novem 2024. Mahanuwara  In the light of the prevailing utterly confused and divided and completely lost electorate, I opine it  is a foregone conclusion that no party will get a clear majority to form a stable government at this election. The nation is stranded and dying in the midst of a vast […]

Sarath Wijesinge  – President’s Counsel, Solicitor in England and Wales, President Ambassador’s Forum (UK/Sri Lanka), former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority, and former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Rice and coconut are not directly and traditionally  price controlled items  Rice and coconut are not price controlled items in Sri Lanka as the traditional price control act […]

Prof. Hudson McLean The Wizard of WOZington!  –  Donald Trump! The reaction from the Kremlin to the Offer of President-elect Donald Trump is, The message is, if you want a deal, you’re going to crawl on your knees for it,” says Nina Khrushcheva, an authority on Russian politics and foreign affairs at the New School. Putin feels […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement continued the Settler Colonialism project after the British left.  Illegal Tamil settlements were established in the north and east, after Sri Lanka got its independence.   These Tamil settlements were set up silently and secretly, without the knowledge of the public. A small number knew about these illegal settlements, but […]

By Gitanjali Marcelline Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 10 (newsin.asia): It all started on Friday, September 6, 1946 at 5.00 p.m in ‘Palm Court’, Albert Crescent, Colombo. A Tamil member of the State Council, S. Natesan, proposed that a new political party be formed and that it be named United National Party (UNP). A Muslim member […]

Maroosha Muzaffar https://www.independent.co.uk/ Chanu Nimesha, 49, is determined to make politics more inclusive For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails SIGN UPI would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sri Lanka’s first openly transgender […]

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Courtesy AdaDerana The government has announced a new initiative to issue copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates to Sri Lankans living abroad through Sri Lankan embassies, aimed at providing greater convenience to the expatriate community. The program will be launched as a pilot project across seven selected foreign missions, including the embassies in Kuwait, […]

by Garvin Karunaratne E-Con-E-News 3-9 th November in Lanka Web writes: “• ‘Garvin Karunaratne writes again today. I have read his Dahanayaka & red-onion affair several times in the Island. His telephone handling at the Marketing Department’s Tripoli HQ resembles Mountbatten’s war operations room.’” We did use phones in a remarkable way to move veg […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්  482/4 රාජගිරිය පාර,  රාජගිරිය.  2024 නොවැම්බර් 12 ජාතික මැතිවරණ පැමිණිලි අංශය, මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව, රාජගිරිය. මහත්මාණෙනි, ජංගම දුරකතන වෙත අපේක්ෂක ප්‍රවර්ධන කෙටි පණිවුඩ යොමු කිරීම නිහඩ කාල සීමාව තුල ලංකාව පුර සෑම දිස්ත්‍රික්කයම ඡන්දදාකයින් වෙත ඡන්දය ආයාචනා කරමින් ජංගම දුරකත වෙත කෙටි පණිවුඩ ලැබෙමින් පවතී. මෙම කෙටි පණිවුඩ මැතිවරණ […]

Dilrook Kannangara The electorate is fractionalized as never before. SJB shares a disproportionately large chunk of the Muslim vote. It is so large comparatively that a large portion of SJB’s elected MPs will be Muslims. It is also supported by strong Muslim support for the SJB at the presidential election where Sajith won all Muslim […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Actions Speaks Louder than Words” MAGA To Make America Great Again! The Current Budget Deficit is- USD 1.83 Trillion! Trump says he can end the Russia-Ukraine war in one day. Russia’s UN ambassador says he can’t. What is the current budget deficit in the US? In FY 2024 total government spending was […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහා මැතිවරණ පනත සම්මත වන අවදියේ සමාජ මාධ්‍ය තිබුණේ නැත. මෙරට ක්‍රියාත්මක මැතිවරණ නීති එනම් ඡන්ද වැරදි (පනතේ 66 සිට 76දක්වා), දුෂණ ක්‍රියා (පනතේ 77 සිට 82 දක්වා) සහ නීති විරෝධී ක්‍රියා (පනතේ 83 සිට 90දක්වා) යටතට ද සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ගැනෙන්නේ නැත. සමාජ මාධ්‍ය නිදහස් ය. මෙටා අද දින දැන්වීම් සඳහා මුදල් […]