KAMALIKA PIERIS ATTACK ON KENT AND DOLLAR FARMS 1984 Revised 10.3.25 The Kent and Dollar farms were located near Manal Aru.  Kent and dollar farms are 11 minutes drive from  Kurundi vihara and  8  minutes drive from  Tannimuruppu kulam. The farms were bought on a 99-year lease from the state by a wealthy Tamil in […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS    LTTE MASSACRES AT KOKILAI AND NAYARU   1984, 1985 Revised 10.3.25 On 1 December, 1984 LTTE cadres, including women fighters, attacked two Sinhala Catholic fishing villages, Nayaru and Kokkilai, killing 59 fishermen. [1]  Kokkilai lagoon is an estuarine lagoon on    north-east Sri Lanka .The town of Kokkilai is located on a sand bar […]

Walden Bello I think that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been misinformed. I don’t disagree with their shutting down USAID, but I think it’s rather small fry.  There are much, much bigger fish to fry if you want to really save U.S. government money that is being wasted in programs […]

by, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha Firstly I should start off by saying that “people are with many grievances”; but they are walking through the passages of political and media, popular propaganda. To my knowledge, these are all-time-related fake visuals.  For example on the 21st of February 2025, at Samanthurai during this paddy harvest season; hundreds […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් විස්තීරණ ණය පහසුකම් වැඩසටහන යටතේ පස්වැනි වාරිකය ලබාදීමට පෙර රුපියල් බිලියන 900 ක ආදායම් ඉලක්කයක් සම්පූර්ණ කිරීමට මෙරට රජය කටයුතු කළයුතු බවත්, රජය ආයෝජන වැඩිකර ගැනීමට කටයුතු කළයුතු බවත් ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල විසින් මෙරට රජයට දැනුම්දී ඇතැයි අනාවරණය වේ. ආර්ථිකය කෙරෙහි අවදානම තවමත් පවතින බැවින් ආර්ථිකය යථා තත්ත්වයට පත්වීම දීර්ඝ […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Shanakiyan The credibility of a government that claimed to be fighting corruption was at stake when individuals involved in financial misappropriation held Cabinet positions, Batticaloa District ITAK MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam told the House yesterday. Speaking during the committee-stage debate on expenditure heads of the Ministry of Energy in Budget 2025 […]

Courtesy The Island Dr. Sugathadasa The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday (03) warned the government of a countrywide strike unless it restored holiday allowances to the previous level for doctors. GMOA Secretary Dr. Prabath Sugathadasa emphasised that as the cuts imposed through Budget 2025 weren’t acceptable to the GMOA, the government should take immediate […]

By Shane Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 03 (Daily Mirror) – A man was arrested this morning by Kadugannawa police for riding a motorcycle from Colombo to Kandy while naked. Police said the 23-year-old man was arrested after a great effort by law enforcement. Several police officers observed the man riding the motorcycle […]

Courtesy Adaderana The nominations for the 2025 Local Government Elections will be accepted from March 17, 2025, the Elections Commission announced. The commission said that the relevant nominations will be accepted until 12 noon on March 20, 2025. Accordingly, the notices regarding the acceptance of nominations for the election of Mayors, Deputy Mayors, Chairpersons, Deputy […]

Courtesy Adaderana Discussions have been held at the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation, regarding Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) bus drivers who operate services while bypassing schoolchildren and citizens with season tickets. During the meeting, the Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation, Bimal Rathnayake, stated that any citizen […]

Courtesy Adaderana Property in Sri Lanka’s Colombo had risen 7.7 per cent in the second half of 2024 from a year earlier, according to a Land Valuation Indicator. According to the report, industrial land had risen 3.9 per cent in the first six months compared to a year earlier. Residential land had risen 9.9 per […]