By Yusuf Ariff  Courtesy Adaderana The chief incumbent of the Kataragama Kiriwehera Rajamaha Viharaya Ven. Kobawaka Damminda Thera and another monk have been hospitalised after being shot at by an unidentified gunman, Police said. The shooting had reportedly occurred at around 11.00pm within the temple premises. The monks were rushed to the Kataragama Hospital with gunshot wounds […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 7 (newsin.asia): The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, had suggested to the government that the Lankan armed forces be divided into nine equal parts and evenly distributed over the nine provinces in the country. But the government had turned a deaf ear to that suggestion, the Chief […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today During the 30 years of terrorism, though we lived with the constant threat of bombs, we never fully grasped that we were a country at war. Therefore, even when we celebrated our victory against terrorism, it is difficult for us to understand the great dedication and the sacrifice of our […]

Courtesy Asiantribune.com Jaffna, 29 May, The hotel where Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasighre and his entourage were having dinner yesterday was pelted with stones.Prime Minister – Ranil Wickremasinghe Sri Lankan Prime Minister arrived in Jaffna on Sunday evening – 27th May and stayed at the Jetwing hotel, located on the Clock tower Rroad, Jaffna. Yesterday, he attended […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island May 28, 2018, 12:00 pm The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) side-stepped The Island query whether documents that had been destroyed as reported in a section of the British and other media included diplomatic cables originating from the British High Commission in Colombo during eelam war IV. Asked whether the […]

Courtesy scroll.in The British Foreign Office confirmed that it destroyed 195 files on the island country, dating from 1978 to 1980. The United Kingdom’s Foreign Office destroyed almost 200 files on the rise of the separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the role of the British spy agency MI5 and Secret Air Service in […]

Thilanka Kanakarathna Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa questioned the country’s law and order stating that there is no purpose if it doesn’t protect the people. While expressing his condolence on Saturday over the tragic assassination of cricketer Dhananjaya de Silva’s father – Ranjan de Silva, MP Rajapaksa said authorities should take the matter […]

Darshana Sanjeewa Courtesy The Daily Mirror A dispenser of the Anuradhapura Prisons Hospital had allegedly attacked the leader of the Mahasohon Balakaya, Amith Weerasinghe, while at the Prisons Hospital. Amith Weerasinghe was arrested and remanded in connection with riots in Digana, Kandy. Prisons Spokesman T.N. Upuldeniya said that a dispenser of the Prison Hospital had allegedly […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Global Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF) celebrated Sri Lanka’s triumph over terrorism in May, 2009 with a public gathering in Dubai. Former Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohina addressed the gathering. On the invitation of the GSLF, Mrs S.G Juliet, mother of Corporal Gamini Kularatne of the Sixth Battalion of the Sinha Regiment […]

Prof Channa Jayasumana Secretary, National University Teachers’ Association 22nd May 2018, Prof. Ratnam Vigneswaran, Vice chancellor, University of Jaffna, Thirunelvely, Jaffna. Dear Prof Vigneswaran, Jaffna University-do not let racist politicians to destroy the future of Jaffna youth and the University. We, as responsible university academics in Sri Lanka have noted with dismay the involvement of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The National University Teachers’ Association (NUTA) today registered their protest with the Jaffna university authorities over the involvement of undergraduates in the so-called ‘Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day” observances. NUTA Secretary Prof. Channa Jayasumana asked Jaffna University Vice Chancellor Ratnam Vigneswaran not to allow racist politicians to exploit the university students for their […]

උතුරේ මහ ඇමති කළ ප්‍රකාශය ගැන CID එක ගන්න ක්‍රියාමාර්ගය මොකද්ද?

By Nirmala Kannangara Courtesy Sunday Leader Shocking revelations have come to the fore on how hundreds of bodies of Sri Lanka’s migrant workers in Middle East countries had been brought back to the country each year, although the numbers had been kept as a ‘top’ secret by the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) and […]

ගාල්ල දෙව්සිරි පී. හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩන් නුවර සිට  උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම සිංහලයන්ට හැම දෙයක්ම මතක තියෙන්නේ සුමාන දෙකකට පමණයි කියා කිව්වේ ලෝකයේ දරුණුතම ම්ලේච්ඡ මිනීමරුවා වූ ප්‍රභාකරන්ය. ඒ කෘෘර මිනිසා මියගොස් වසර නවයක් ගත වුවද ඒකා කියූ දේ කොතරම් සත්‍යයක් දැයි මට හිතෙන්නේ අපේ මිනිසුන් දැන් හැසිරෙන විදිය දෙස බලන විටයි. මෙයට වසර දහයකට විස්සකට පෙර ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේත් විශේෂයෙන් […]

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Courtesy Firstpost Colombo: Sri Lanka’s president warned that Tamil extremists were regrouping abroad to revive their demand to divide the island nation nine years after the end of its decades-long ethnic war. Maithripala Sirisena said government forces had failed to quash the Tamil rebels’ separatism, although they were militarily conquered by May 2009 following a […]

Courtesy Mailonline Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena Sirisena came to power in January 2015 on the back of strong support from the minority Tamil community Sri Lanka’s president Saturday warned that Tamil extremists were regrouping abroad to revive their demand to divide the island nation nine years after the end of its decades-long ethnic war. […]

Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island May 18, 2018, 10:22 pm This is the Day of Peace – when the LTTE was finally defeated, at Mullivaikkal in the Mullaithivu District. The path of peace is that, or should be that, of reconciliation. It is a word we have heard so often, especially in the past three years. […]

Dr Palitha Kohona Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations; Former Foreign Secretary.Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka’s foreign relations must reflect the country’s priorities. Sitting in the middle of the Indian Ocean at the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka occupies an enviable strategic position. A blessing that, with careful and […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu The Sri Lankan Army Chief on the army’s role and challenges in the post-war context, efforts towards resettlement, and on international scrutiny Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake took over as the 22nd Commander of the Sri Lankan Army in June 2017. The conduct of the army in the past, during the island’s […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror State Counsel Udara Karunatilake appearing on behalf of the Attorney General (AG) today informed Mount Lavinia Magistrate’s Court that the CID had started an investigation on whether, Sustainable Development, Wildlife and Regional Development Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka was involved in the abduction and assault of Journalist Keith Noyahr in […]

Courtesy The Island AFP: The Sri Lankan army has formed a special unit to defend itself against allegations of grave human rights abuses at the end of the island’s decades-long ethnic war. Army chief Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake said the group would collate local and international reports, and establish the truth to clear the military’s […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 11 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lanka army has set up a Directorate of Overseas Operations” dedicated to preparing material to defend itself against war crimes charges made in the international arena. This was stated by the Army Commander, Lt.Gen.Mahesh Senanayake, at a meeting with the Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Sri Lanka here on […]

by Rajeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island President Sirisena met with British Peer Lord Naseby during his recent visit to attend CHOGM in the UK. In October 2017, Naseby, after appealing to the British Information Commissioner, obtain 39 pages of highly redacted confidential dispatches from the British High Commission in Colombo during the last stages of the […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy adaderana The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara has instructed the DIG of North Central province to take disciplinary action against the police personnel who assaulted females at a temple in Eppawala. The police spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara stated this yesterday (29). Recently, several female protesters at a temple in Nallamaduwa, Eppawala […]

Police Brutality These women protest against a known predator who was not taken into custody but transferred and he comes back to the same temple! And the response is to be beaten brutally by the police & arrested??? While the monk goes free?! President, Prime Minister, IGP are you aware??? Do you care?! https://youtu.be/dtnDBvwijgQ

Dr. Chulanee Attanayake Research Director of the Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka (INSSSL). The media buzzed the past few days about the impending ‘informal meeting’ between China and India which was proposed to be held on April 27 and 28 in the central city of Wuhan in China. The ‘heart-to-heart chat’ between the two […]

RAJEEWA JAYAWEERA Courtesy The Island According to media reports, President Sirisena met with British Peer Lord Naseby during his visit to the UK to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). A long-standing friend of Sri Lanka with an involvement of over 50 years, he started the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka in 1975 […]

By Editor  Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 23 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has strongly denied reports of Chinese militarization of the Chinese funded Hambantota Port, in southern Sri Lanka, and stressed the Sri Lankan Navy was the sole military force responsible for the security of the Port. During discussions with China’s Ambassador to Sri […]

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy The Island April 20, 2018, 10:25 pm Warped logic seems to be the order of the day; be it local, to justify errant politicians; or international, to teach lessons to ‘non-compliant’ states, where the dictum seems to be ‘Punish first and then investigate’. Lynn Ockersz, in his well-reasoned ‘World Scan’ calls […]