By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 25: The United States and Japan have both cast their eyes on the Eastern Sri Lankan port of Trincomalee to counterbalance the presence of the Chinese in Hambantota in the South and Colombo in the West and its growing clout around the Bay of Bengal. The Trincomalee harbor was meant […]

By P.K.Balachandran/DailyFT Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The visit of Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera to Sri Lanka, the very first in the history of Sri Lanka and Japan, is of great significance to the Indian Ocean region. Onodera’s itinerary, which included a trip to Hambantota, Trincomalee and Colombo ports, assumes importance in the light of China’s bid to […]

අරුණි මල්ලවආරච්චි උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම 2017 වසරේ එක්තරා දිනයකි. වෙලාව මධ්‍යම රාත්‍රියත් ඉක්මවා තිබිණි. නිවෙසක කාමරයක් තුළට වී තරුණ කාන්තාවක් නිදිවර්ජිතව සුසුම් හෙළමින් සිටියාය. තම සැමියා ඒ වන විටත් නිවෙසට නොපැමිණීම ඇගේ වියවුලට හේතු වී තිබිණි. ඇයගේ මනසේ මැවෙමින් තිබූ සැකය හා බියමුසු සිතිවිලි සිතේ සැනසීම නැති කොට තිබිණි. ඇය වරෙක කාමරයේ ඒ මේ අත ඇවිද්දාය. තවත් […]

එරික්‌ ගාමිණී ජිනප්‍රිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින එක්‌නැලිගොඩගේ පස්‌සෙන් ගිය බව පිළිගන්නා ලෙස තම සැමියා වූ කෝප්‍රල් වසන්ත උළුගෙදරට සීඅයිඩී නිලධාරීන් බලපෑම්කරන බව කෝප්‍රල් වසන්තගේ බිරිඳ වූ මහේෂි උළුගෙදර මහත්මිය ඊයේ (22 දා) පිටකෝට්‌ටේ පිහිටි පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය මූලස්‌ථානයේදී පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවේදී පැවැසීය. සිය සැමියාට අත්වී ඇති ඉරණම පිළිබඳව කරුණු පැහැදිලි කරමින් උළුගෙදර මහත්මිය වැඩිදුරටත් මෙසේද පැවැසීය. […]

By Jonathan Power Courtesy Tha Daily Mirror Two mistakes, committed on President Barack Obama’s watch, were the triggers for the end of the long post-Cold War period of good relations with Russia. They were the attack on Libya by the US, France and the UK and the subsequent killing of its long-time dictator, Muammar Gadhafi. […]

By Arjuna Ranawana Courtesy Ceylon Today It is not surprising that we have dozens of mass graves, full of undocumented human remains in many parts of the country,because, in the short span of 38 years we have had multiple armed civil conflicts which were put down with overwhelming brutality by the State.In each case, of […]

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Military strength should be maintained above 150,000 Country’s military needed to face not only internal threat but also external threat PM should be next candidate There are corrupt Police officers harassing my people No point in complaining to Law and Order Minister Just because these people are doing political […]

By Pushpa Weerasekara Courtesy : Sunday Lankadeepa The untold suffering and dedication of the war heroes, who were engaged in a thirty-year-armed-conflict, are indescribable. They were once treated as the saviours of this nation. However, this is the tragic story of a war hero, who waged war on behalf of territorial integrity and peace. Parts […]

Courtesy India Today  Twenty seven Indian fishermen have been taken into custody and their boats seized by the Sri Lankan Navy. On August 10, while Sri Lankan forces were patrolling near Neduntheevu, they noticed Indian fishermen from Rameswaram fishing along the Sri Lankan border. Indian fishermen taken into custody by Sri Lankan navy. Apart from […]

චාමර අමරසූරිය උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ඒ 1992… හරියටම කිව්වොත් දිනය අගෝස්තු අටවැනිදායි…… ෆයිනල් කවුන්ට් ඩවුන් මෙහෙයුමට පැය 38ක් තිබියදී යාපනය කයිට්ස්හි අරාලි තුඩුවේදී පුපුරා ගිය පීඩන බෝම්බයත් සමඟ මෙරට යුද හමුදාව සලිත වී යන පුවතක් අසන්නට ලැබෙන්නේය. ඒ යුද හමුදාවේ සිටි විශිෂ්ට සෙන්පතියකු වූ ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් ඩෙන්සිල් කොබ්බෑකඩුව මහතා ඇතුළු රණවිරුවන්ගේ මරණයයි. එම සිදුවීමෙන් යුද හමුදාව පමණක් […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  Lanka Lead News ඊළාම් යුද්ධයේදී කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිව සුවිශේෂි බුද්ධි මෙහෙයුම් රැසක් සිදුකළ යුද හමුදා සන්නද්ධ බුද්ධි බලකායේ මේජර් ඩික්සන් රාජමන්ත්‍රී හා එහි කෝප්‍රල් රාජකරුණා යන අයට ත්‍රිකුණාමලයේ මහාධිකරණයේ දී අද (08) මරණ දණ්ඩනය නියම කර තිබේ. 1998 දී යාපනයේ තිරුනල්වේලිහිදී කොටි බුද්ධි අංශබලකායේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ සාමාජිකයකු අත්අඩංගුයට ගෙන ප්‍රශ්න කිරීමේදී ඔහු අසනීප තත්වකට පත්වීමේන් […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two former Army officers have been sentenced to death by the Trincomalee High Court for assaulting and murdering an individual from Gurunagar area in Jaffna after taking him in for interrogations, says Ada Derana reporter. Following a lengthy trial, the verdict was delivered by the High Court Judge Manikkavasagar Illancheliyan. Accordingly, former Army […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 7 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lanka army, which in May 2009 did what was thought to be impossible”, namely,  annihilate the dreaded separatist militant group, the Tamil Tigers, is today in the process of transforming itself into a multi-faceted and capacity-based force capable of tackling multifarious threats to national security from a […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island July 31, 2018, 11:53 pm Criminal liability couldn’t be avoided by ‘private arrangement’ under any circumstances, top constitutional lawyer Manohara de Silva PC said yesterday. There was inordinate delay on the part of the Attorney General in dealing with Jaffna District UNP MP and former State Minister for Child Affairs […]

S. S. Selvanayagam Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Attorney General today (30) furnished a draft Rule before the Supreme Court against Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake complaining of him for having committed an alleged offence of Contempt of Court. The Bench comprised Chief Justice Priyasath Dep, Justices Vijith K. Malalgoda and Lalith Dehideniya, who will peruse it […]

Tony Karunanayake Courtesy The Daily Mirror Negombo Magistrate Sajindra Jayasuriya today banned the Kuwaiti couple, who allegedly assaulted Customs officials at the BIA on Friday, from leaving the country. The Magistrate also ordered the couple to appear in the Court on August 10. Five officials of the Customs Department, including a woman, were allegedly assaulted by […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express The anti-Tamil riots in Colombo and several other towns in Sri Lanka which raged for nearly a week in July 1983, were unprecedented in the annals of ethno-communal rioting in the island. But the most disturbing aspect is that the riots’ impact is still being felt. The issues which triggered them are still […]

  Giada Girelli Courtesy Open Society Foundations This summer, Sri Lanka’s president, Maithripala Sirisena, defiantly announced that he could end the country’s 42-year moratorium on the death penalty and sign off on the execution of convicted drug traffickers alleged to be running illegal operations from their prison cells. More disturbing, a government spokesperson added that the country will try […]

By Tharindi Pabasara Courtesy Adaderana The Hindu priest, who had been charged of aiding and abetting the assassination attempt on former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a suicide bombing at Piththala Junction in Kollupitiya in 2006, has been acquitted and released by the Colombo High Court. Colombo High Court Judge Sampath Abeykoon said that it has been […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 25 (Daily Mirror): China will gift a frigate to the Sri Lanka Navy, a top Chinese military official said here on Monday. Addressing a reception held in Colombo on Monday night to commemorate the 91st anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Senior Colonel Xu Jianwei said […]

By Udaya P Gammanpila Courtesy Ceylon Today The debate about imposing the death penalty has bounced back.  It was triggered by President Maithripala Sirisena’s announcement that he would grant approval to hang prisoners with pending capital punishment and engaged in the drugs trade, while facing a prison term. Buddhist priests vehemently opposed imposing death penalty in […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The British Government this week acknowledged that wartime dispatches from its diplomatic mission in Colombo hadn’t been considered in the preparation of its Annual Human Rights Report 2017. A British High Commission Spokesperson said that the Annual Human Rights Report published on 16 July covered incidents that took place between […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 16 (newsin.asia) – The European Union, Canada and Norway, on Monday expressed concerns over the Sri Lankan government’s intention to resume implementing the death penalty after more than 40 years, a statement from the EU mission in Colombo said. The Delegation of the European Union, the missions of the EU Member […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Joint Opposition today accused Wildlife Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka of harbouring underworld figures. Addressing a news briefing, MP Padma Udhayashantha Gunasekera said two persons named Aruna Attanayake alias Police and Gihan Sandaruwan, who had links with the underworld, were seen at functions attended by Minister Fonseka. Aruna Attanayake […]

Kalathma Jayawardhane Courtesy The Daily Mirror While rejecting media reports that some underworld figures were protected by a Senior Minister, Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka today said those reports were targeted to defame and cause inconvenience to him. Minister Fonseka told a news conference that some media reports had stated that five underworld leaders, whom the […]

Wildlife Minister addresses accusations against him (English)

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Lord Naseby from the British House of Lords calls upon the United Kingdom and United States of America to withdraw their human rights violations motion against Sri Lanka. He stated this joining in a discussion on human rights violation allegations on Sri Lanka ‘At Hyde Park’ program on Ada Derana 24×7. Lord […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror British Baron Lord Naseby said both the UK and the US were guilty of atrocities and that the two countries should inform the UN Human Rights Commission to withdraw the resolution against Sri Lanka. Lord Naseby, the President of the All Party British Sri Lanka Parliamentary Group, said this after reading the UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island In May this year, the government gazetted sweeping amendments to the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, No. 25 of 2002. The original Act applied only to specified Commonwealth countries and non-Commonwealth countries which have signed the relevant agreements with Sri Lanka but the amendments now before parliament seek […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Vijayakala Maheswaran says that she has decided to resign from her post as the State Minster of Child Affairs, in the wake of her recent controversial statement regarding the LTTE. Speaking during a state event held in Jaffna on June 2, she had said that the LTTE should be resurrected for the […]