Ranil is an insult to Prime Minister post – GL

Courtesy Adaderana The authorities must not hide the truth” about facts surrounding the reports on ammunition and explosives that found from a house in Chawakatchcheri, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stressed. The observation was made during an event held in Bulnewa area in Anuradhapura. The former President went on to say the silence of the Government […]

By Arthur Wamanan Courtesy The Nation Terrorism experts last week warned that the dismantling of the security installations in the North and the East sans proper prior security assessment, at a time when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was still active internationally, could help dormant cells of the organization to re-emerge. In response to […]

Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, launched Pawns of Peace: Evaluation of Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka, 1997-2009 in Nov. 2011. The team comprised Gunnar Sorbo, Prof. Jonathan Goodhand, Bart Klem, Ada Elisabeth Nissen, Hilde Selbervik. The Norad-funded report asserted that India […]

බලධාරිනි තොපිලගෙ ඇස් පොට්ටද රටක ජාතියක ආරක්ෂාව වෙනුවෙන් සියල්ල කැපකර සටන් වැදුනු රණකාමින් වෙනුවෙන් මේ විරුවා හඩක් නගන්නේ තොපිලට නොහැගෙන දේ තොපිලට නොපෙනෙන දේ තොපිලගෙ පපු කැවුත්‍තට හේත්තු ගන්වන්න මිසක් වෙන අහවල් එකකටද, තොපිලට ජීවිත දානය දුන් දැයේ මුර දේවතාවන් ආරක්ෂා කරනු, බුද්ධි අංශ නිළධාරින් වහාම නිදහස් කරනු, මේ සාපයම උබලට ඇති නැවත මිනිස් ආත්මයක් […]

By J.B. Müller The Sri Lankan Diaspora overseas (mainly in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the USA) eagerly and indiscriminately absorbs everything appearing about their Motherland in the international print and electronic media.  All what is done is done in the naïve belief that there isn’t a spin on the news and that it is […]

Courtesy Gradient Alliance Monthly Bulletin: March 2016 The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) is to issue sovereign bonds of about USD 3bn in the international capital markets, as the government attempts to bring a worsening fiscal situation under control. Sri Lanka is impacted by a widening fiscal deficit caused by spiraling public sector wages, discovery […]

BY: Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Dear President Sirisena, Written below are urgent concerns that Sri Lankans living overseas (as well as within Sri Lanka) would like you to implement with immediate effect for the greater benefit of Sri Lanka. A total rejection of the report of the OHCHR as presented by the UNHRC High Commissioner […]

By Afshain Afzal Prime Minister of Pakistan, who was scheduled to attend Nuclear Security Summit at Washington but he has decided to send his representative instead. The foreign sponsored terrorist attack outside a recreation park on 27 March, killing 72 people, was the basic reason. Western players, in order to pressurize Pakistan to scrap its […]

Swarna Hansa Reconstruction work of Dematagaha wewa in Nochiya, Galgamuwa began ceremonially under Swarna Hansa Wew programme last week. Picture shows Anton Perera, Governing council member of Swarna Hansa Foundation making an advance cheque payment for its dozer work.

Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement 31st March, 2016 Prince Said Raad Zeid Al-Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Palais Wilson, 52, rue des Pâquis, CH-1201, Geneva, Switzerland. Dear Sir, We Totally Reject The OHCHR Report And The US Sponsored Resolution Against Sri Lanka […]

Island Editorial Courtesy The Island March 31, 2016, 9:11 pm The chance detection of an explosive cache in the North and the arrest of a hardcore Tiger on Wednesday have caused quite a stir in defence and political circles. The government has, true to form, sought to put a bold face on it. No sooner had […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando March 31, 2016, 9:46 pm Governor Cooray Northern Province Governor Reginald Cooray yesterday said that the deadly cache detected at Meesalai, Chavakachcheri had been brought there to cause destruction. The armaments couldn’t have been brought in for a peaceful purpose, Governor Cooray said, asserting that moderates always attracted the wrath of extremists. […]

Suspect’s move facilitated by soldier’s bro Lethal haul moved to Chava on Sunday night LTTE combatant, others planning major attack March 31, 2016, 9:42 pm Lethal cache found on Wednesday By Shamindra Ferdinando An LTTE cadre now under interrogation had brought a suicide jacket, four claymore mines, three parcels containing about 12 kgs of TNT, […]

Kanthar Balanathan, Australia – Current Panorama It is an open drama by some of the politicians, particularly the TNA, demanding power sharing, federalism, equal rights, while most of them are approaching the 70s or more. It is distinct that those TNA and Tamil politicians are fully aware of the economic standing, and the economic stability […]

Dr. Padmani Mendis Advisor, Disability and Rehabilitation  Sri Lanka has a long tradition of sharing with our disabled citizens the state’s largesse when it comes to welfare. The state provides grants for medical expenses and self-employment, assistive devices free of cost, cash transfers to those who have low incomes and provides youth with vocational training in […]

 Dr. Sooriya Gunasekara  As there is no English word to express Jathiya, they simply called Sinhalese a Nation. Nation is a group of people with similarities in cultures and lifestyle. Jathiya is also a group of people having their deep roots in the earth and sky of that particular country. Jathiya is birth. That is […]

lanka C news යාපනය චාවාකච්චේරි ප‍්‍රදේශයේදී ආරක්‍ෂක අංශ විසින් පරීක්‍ෂා කරනු ලැබූ පුද්ගලයෙකුගේ නිවසක තිබී මරාගෙන මැරෙන බෝම්බ ඇඳුම් කට්ටල දෙකක්, C-4 පුපුරණ ද්‍රව්‍ය කිලෝ 20ක්, පැති බෝම්බ දෙකක්, පිස්තෝල උණ්ඩ 100ක් සොයාගෙන තිබේ. තව දුරටත් ප‍්‍රශ්න කිරීමේදී හෙළිව ඇත්තේ මේවා වැල්ලවත්ත ප‍්‍රදේශයට ගෙන යාමට නියමිතව තිබූ ඒවා බවයි. ගංජා ප‍්‍රවාහනය කරන්නේ යයි සැක පිට පරීක්‍ෂා කිරීමේදී මේවා […]

Source: Helabima (translated from Sinhalese) Courtesy: Buddhist Channel http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=43,12744,0,0,1,0#.Vv1nMpx96Ul Colombo, Sri Lanka — Since a new government came to power last year, Sinhalese communities and Buddhist temples in the north-east of the island are facing  increasing threats of eviction from Tamil politicians and their henchmen, Venerable Tissapura Sri Gunaratana, Chief Priest of the Sri Sambodhi temple in […]

Courtesy theguardian.com Joseph Kim revered the Great Leader as a child, but on arriving in China he realised that if he embraced Jesus missionaries would help him escape http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/18/christianity-defectors-escape-route-north-korea The first time Joseph Kim heard the words Christian” and church”, he had no idea what they meant. He had never seen a church and Christianity was […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න                           කැනඩාවේ රසායන විද්‍යා ගුරුවරයෙකු වූ  බෝධි ධනපාල මහතා  ට අනුව අපේ බුද්ධදාස රජතුමා වෙදකම් කලේ  පළමුවෙන් තම බෙහෙත් සතුන්ට දී පරීක්ෂා කිරීමෙන් පසුවය .ධනපාල මහතා දන්නේ බටහිර ක්‍රමය පමණි .  බටහිර බෙහෙත් වල නොයෙකුත් රසායනික ද්‍රව්‍ය අඩංගු නිසා ඒවා මිනිසු න්ට […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that his government did not take negotiations with India on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) forward due to the misgivings” expressed by wide sections of society. In a statement issued today, he said that incumbent President Maithripala Sirisena recently publicly endorsed the proposed Economic and Technological Cooperation […]

Mulative – Kokilai Sri Sambodhi viharaya has been constructed for last five years under many supports from all people of all religion in the Kokilai Village. different parties such as armed forces, Villagers, Devotes and other civil organizations also contributed to it. This is a land mark for memory of disable, lost or dead all the solders in […]

Courtesy RT Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he is a Master’s graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in newspaper journalism. For over 20 years […]

By Rick Moran Courtesy www.americanthinker.com Clashes between militias trained by the CIA and the Pentagon are intensifying as bitter fighting has broken out near Aleppo and the Turkish border. Chicago Tribune: The fighting has intensified over the past two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other as they have maneuvered through contested territory […]

Courtesy RT American soldiers never used to shoot at our CIA agents, and vice-versa, but that’s what’s reportedly happening in the northern part of Syria, former CIA officer Ray McGovern told RT from Washington, DC. In February, the CIA-armed group ‘Fursan al Haq’, or Knights of Righteousness, were apparently forced out of their positions by […]

බෝධි ධනපාල, කිබෙක්, කැනඩාව අලුතෙන් යම් බෙහෙතක් සොයා ගැනීමේදී ලෙඩුන්ගේ යහපත සලකන, වග කීමක් ඇති වෛද්‍යවරු තමන්ට භාර වී ඇති ලෙඩුන් අත්හදා බැලීම් වලට ලක්  කිරීම වැනි අවදානම් තත්වයන්ට යට කරන්නේ නැත. ඕනෑම ලෙඩෙක් වෛද්‍යවරයෙකුට භාර වෙන්නේ තමාට ලැබෙන්නේ ප්‍රත්‍යක්ෂ ප්‍රතිකාර මිස තවම අත් හදා බැලීමක් ලෙස තිබෙන උදු හිතලුවන් මත රැඳී තිබෙන “බෙහෙතක්” ලබා […]

The Jayewardene family is initially of Chetty descent. The source is a Government Gazette itself issued on May 15, 1830, three months after the death of Don Adrian Jayawardena, a powerful progenitor of the Jayawardena family. The government not only publicised the death but went on to give a full account of the family history. […]

Ananda thero predicts power change

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  ඔන්න ඉතින් යහපාලනේ චන්ද දායකයාගේ නිදහසට අන්තිම ඇ නයත් ගැහුවාඉතින් කාල වරෙල්ලකෝ .මිස්ටර් ක්ලීන්  ගේ සියලු අන්ක්ලීන්  වැඩ වහගන්න හොඳම ක්‍රමය  ”’තොරතුරු දැනගැනීමේ  පනත ””’ අනුමත කර ගනීමය් තමන් පත් කරගන්න  නියෝජි තයෝ මින් පස්සේ කරන වැඩ ගැන හාර අවුස්සා බැලීම චන්ද දායකයාට තහනම්මහබැංකුවේ හොරමගදිය වැනි දේ  අවිස්සුවොත් පනස්දාහක් දඩ  හෝ වසර දෙකක් […]