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Aloysius Hettiarachchi. Lack of signals for internet It has been announced today that by August this year Elon Musk’s company will be providing internet coverage to the whole world except the polar regions. Why not the Ministry of Education or the Digital Technology Minister talk to the relevant company and arrange to provide this facility […]

viraj kithsiri I happened to listen to a video interview recently of a popular artist in the film industry. Anyone can listen to this which in the public domain. A particular incident she describes vividly in the interview took my attention above all. She had met with a road traffic accident & a kind three-wheel […]

by A. Abdul Aziz. In appreciation of Sir Iftikhar Ayaz’s Humanitarian service he has been awarded the Queen’s medal for Humanitarian Service. This Medal was approved by Her Majesty in 2020 especially for her Realms. Sir Iftikhar Ayaz has been dedicatedly serving Humanity for decades. He received almost 40 awards. Dr. Iftikhar Ayaz O.B.E (Officer […]

By A. Abdul Aziz. The Gist of the Address by the Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community the Fifth Khalifah (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France on 8th October 2019. The event was attended by over 80 dignitaries and guests, including diplomats, politicians, academics and the representatives of […]

Laksiri Warnakula   One boasts; how well the nation-wide vaccination programme is going. And then we have another, who tried to get in the way of health officials at a vaccination centre, demanding that the chit-bearers coming from him be given priority over the rest of the ordinary people in waiting (The editorial of the Island […]

Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition Inc JOINT STATEMENT: June 03 2021   We are pleased to announce that the following Sri Lankan-Canadian organizations have joined as a united front to fight a Superior court case against the Ontario law on Tamil Genocide Education Week.    Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition (SLCAC) Canadian Sri Lankan Center […]

Asoka Yapa  As a resident of Canada for over 50 years I have seen perhaps more than my share of Ceylon/Sri Lanka diplomatic representation in Ottawa and Toronto. It is said that career officers make better envoys than political appointees but, in my experience, this is not always the case. Vernon Mendis, part of the […]

By Helen Regan and Sophie Jeong, Courtesy CNN (CNN)A huge cleanup operation was underway for a sixth day in Sri Lanka Tuesday after a container ship laden with chemicals caught fire 12 days ago, inundating the country’s western coastline with microplastic pollution and potentially hazardous waste.Sri Lankan environmentalists said it is one of the worst ecological disasters in […]

By RYUICHI KITANO/ Senior Staff Writer courtesy Asahi Shimbun  Wayomi Sandamali, right on the front row, and her sister Poornima, to her right, at a gathering to remember their sister, Wishma, at Tsukiji Hongwanji temple in Tokyo on May 29. (Rei Kishitsu) The sisters of a 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman who died while being held […]

By Vaisrawana I started writing the following as a casual comment on C. Wjeyawickrema’s බ්‍රදර් චාල්ස් තෝමස්ගේ <දහම් පහන> හා සිංහල බුද්ධාගම/May 24, 2021.But it became longer than originally intended. So here it is offered to my fellow readers as a separate column. Please see if you can agree with observations. This is just a […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A Sri Lankan student, detained by the Japanese immigration begged to be released to a hospital for medical care. But, the officials refused. They thought she pretended to be ill to avoid deportation. She died on March 6, 2021 alone in her cell. Protesters holding up pictures of Wishma during a […]

Karen McVeigh Courtesy The Guardian (UK) Children’s charity faces claims it failed vulnerable children and misled donors after shutting down activities in the country One of the world’s largest children’s rights charities has admitted it made a number of mistakes” when it left Sri Lanka abruptly last year, amid accusations it had misled the public and donors […]

Dr, Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson, USLA I am deeply grateful to have been offered this opportunity to contribute to this years USLA commemoration , as I have done in the previous 10 years since 2010. As before , we remember the Ranaviru, every single one of them that contributed to liberating Sri lanka from three […]

Senaka Samarasinghe Hemasiri Perera is among the few people with extraordinary qualities I have met in my life. He was a practising Buddhist and I would call him a true renunciant though a layman. I came to know Mr. Perera in Winnipeg, Canada where he migrated with his loving wife Prema to spend their retirement […]

By Vibeke Venema BBC News A documentary about a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy’s experience in school, In My Blood It Runs, has reignited a debate about Australia’s failure to give indigenous children a good education and a fair start in life. “Listen carefully,” the teacher tells the class. “This one isn’t a story, this is information, […]

By Dr harold Gunatillake-FRCS,FICS,FIACS,AM(Sing),MB,BS (Cey) –Health editor Hoppers described as the love-child of a crepe & crumpet. It has become a very popular street food in Sri Lanka, in big towns and rural areas. It is now considered as a special ‘super staple food’ When Australia opened doors for Southern Asians in the late fifties […]

Prof. Asoka Bandarage The recent UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution A/HRC/46/L.1/Rev.1 of March 16 has brought extensive charges against Sri Lanka over alleged human rights violations, but is arguably seriously flawed. Opportunistic and strategic use of human rights by the western powers to maintain hegemony continually ignore violations of the rights of nature and […]

Chula Rajapakse Largely a good response against a case built on the foundations of the allegation of an uneacceptably large civilian casualty rate of 40000 or over in the last few weeks of the war, being led  & peddled by Uk and US against the reporting of their own embassies in Colombo at that time. […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම Colombotoday දෙහිවල ට්‍රොපිකල් ඉන් හෝටලයේ මරාගෙන මැරෙන ප්‍රහාරය එල්ල කල ජමීල් නැමැත්තාගේ සහෝදරියට තම පුත්‍රයා විවාහකර දුන් අහමඩ් මුනව්වර් නැමැත්තා ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සංස්ථාවේ මුස්ලිම් සේවයේ උපදේශක සභාවට අමාත්‍ය කෙහෙළිය රඹුක්වැල්ල විසින් මීට මාස කිහිපයකට පෙර පත්කර ඇත. පස් දෙනෙකුගෙන් යුත් උපදේශක මණ්ඩලයට මුස්ලිම් සලාහුදීන්, අහමඩ් මුනව්වර්, ෆස්ලුල් රහ්මාන්, ෆසාල් මරික්කාර් සහ […]

Gamini Seneviratne             That is a term that historians of colonization are familiar with as a descriptive of the duplicity, treachery and the breach of treaties that marked England’s relations with the peoples it sought to colonize / loot particularly in the 19th century.             What this note addresses are the manifestations of trickery and […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ(ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්) දෙමළ කථා කරන ජනයා දිනා ගැනීම දෙමළ භාෂාව කථා කරන ජනයා දිනා ගැනීම, ‘සංහිඳියාව’ සඳහා අධිකරණ ඇමතිට ඇති උනන්දුව අගය කළ යුතු ය. එයට හරස් වී ඇති බාධාව ඉවත් කිරීමට ඔහුගේ පිළියම අපූරු ය. ‘දෙමළ භාෂා විශේෂ සුදුසුකම’ සහිත නීතිඥයන්ගෙන් පොලිස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට ‘නීතිඥ සිඅයිපිලා’ බඳවා ගැනීමෙන් හෝ මහේස්ත‍්‍රාත් අධිකරණ ‘නීතිඥ […]

Concerned citizens of Sri Lanka To:              UNHRC member nations at the 46th Sessions in Geneva, to be shared with your representatives at the meeting. From:         Concerned citizens of the small and nonaligned nation of Sri Lanka dispersed around the world. (Author’s identity is withheld for personal safety.) Date:           March 2, 2021 We seek support […]

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්) අධිකරණ ක්‍ෂේත‍්‍රයෙන් මහජනතාවට ලබාදෙන සේවාව කාර්යක්‍ෂම කිරීමට දෝ අධිකරණ ඇමති අලි සබ්රි තම ප‍්‍රඥා මහිමයෙන් ලැබූ අදහසක් කි‍්‍රයාවට නැගීමට අවශ්‍ය යටිතල පහසුකම් සකස් කරමින් සිටියි. ඔහුගේ අපූරු අ`ඵත් ව්‍යාපෘතිය පොලිස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට ‘ප‍්‍රධාන පොලිස් පරීක්‍ෂකවරුන්’ (චීෆ් පොලිස් ඉන්ස්පෙක්ටර්ස් = සීඅයිපි* ලෙස නීතිඥයන් 150 දෙනෙකු බඳවා ගැනීම යි. පෙර කළ පිනකට […]

Janaki Chandraratna The UNHRC Resolution, 30/1 – Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka, was co-sponsored by the Sri Lankan Govt., after the regime change in January 2015. It is well known that the West, in particular, United States of America (USA), had a key role in backing the regime change. The new […]

By Palitha Senanayake Discussing the impending issues, Sri Lanka will be confronted with at the forthcoming UNHRC sessions, Minister Sarath Weerasekera, blurted,’ The arguments we present will not matter munch because they are determined to punish us”. This appears to be the thinking of the Government too, and in that mood it further confirms what […]

Courtesy The Times (UK) I am fond of pigs,” Winston Churchill once said. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” Maybe they are right to do so. A new study has discovered another intellectual skill the animals can master: playing video games. Scientists said the ability of […]

Writers Guild of the Sinhalese Cultural Forum of NSW In Publishing a collection of short stories written by people of Sri Lankan origin living in Australia Calling for Contributions The Writers Guild of Sinhalese Cultural Forum of NSW Inc has launched a project to publish a collection of short stories written by people of Sri […]

Palitha Mapatuna Among certain individuals, confusion seems to be evident with regard to disposal of dead bodies of Covid 19 victims and what they call ‘human rights’.   However, the issue here seems to be not a question of ‘human rights’, but the most prudent form of disposal of these dead bodies, given the uncertainties regarding the survival […]

Ashley de Vos Stemming from the advice given by Arahat Mahinda to King Devanampiya Tissa (3 C.BCE), that all beings including the animals in the forest and the birds in the air have a right to live, tradition dictated that all precious resources, are always protected. The thick forest covered hills and mountains, referred to, […]