Shenali D Waduge
Like Sri Lanka, Greece too declared default on €1.6 billion debt to IMF. It was the same year US-India sponsored regime change took place in Sri Lanka. Greece's default came exactly 15 years after joining the Eurozone. Both Greece & Sri Lanka had one thing in common – both guilty of systematic tax evasion which was a key component in their default. In 2015 the Greeks voted to reject debt restructuring. The Greeks were told its best to be bankrupt & start again with help of IMF of course, is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/24)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
Buddhists in Sri Lanka should be made aware of the stature of Buddhism in the Asian region when discussing the Kurundi issue. Buddhism enjoys a unique place in Asian history as the single shared experience among half the world's population. No other movement has equaled the degree to which Buddhism has affected nearly every corner of Asia, said Robert E Fisher. Buddhism influenced the cultures of all these countries. Buddhism did not convert by force or through inducements, only thorough conviction. Buddhists are very proud of this fact. Buddhism was a very accommodating religion,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/24)
ෆීන්ක්ස් නීති සාර සංග්රහය
නීති ග්රන්ථ ගණනාවක් ලියා ඇති, විද්යුත් සහ මුද්රිත මාධ්යයේ නීතිය පිළිබඳ ලිපි ලියන, නිතිය පිළිබඳ අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන්, වැඩමුළු පවත්වන කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ විද්යාවේදී උපාධියක් සහ උපදේශනය පිළිබඳ පශ්චාත් උපාධි ඩිප්ලෝමාවක් ලබා ඇති නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන විසින් සාධාරණ නඩු විභාගයක් පැවැත්ම සහ මූලධර්ම ආරක්ෂා කර ගැනීම සඳහා වන පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් අධිකරණ ඇමතිට, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන්ට, ජනාධිපතිවරයාට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට ක්රියා කර ඇත.එකී යෝජිත පනත් කෙටුම්පත අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේ පනත් කෙටුම්පත (A Bill to Protection of the Rights of Persons Presenting Submissions before Courts, Tribunals and Institutions.) යන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/24)
Ada Derana
https://youtu.be/Su2WyK3EZg4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/24)
Shenali Waduge
https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/4228-2/ Who are promoting LGBTQ among adults & children & influencing governments? https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/gender-dysphoria-sex-change-lgbtq-is-a-business-dont-fall-prey-victim-sri-lanka/ Gender Dysphoria-Sex Change-LGBTQ is a BUSINESS, don't fall prey/victim Sri Lanka https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/decriminalizing-lgbtq-impact-on-schools-children-in-uk/ Decriminalizing LGBTQ & impact on Schools & Children in UK https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/will-france-have-to-change-french-language-to-satisfy-lgbtq-gender-issue/ Will France have to change French language to satisfy LGBTQ “gender” issue? https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/sri-lanka-before-passing-gay-bill-wake-up-to-the-agenda-behind-lgbtq-transgenders/ Sri Lanka before passing GAY BILL – wake up to the AGENDA behind LGBTQ & Transgenders ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/24)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo Colombo, April 17 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka on Tuesday rejected international bondholders’ proposal to restructure more than $12 billion in debt, putting at risk critical International Monetary Fund support and delaying its efforts to resolve a two-year-long debt crisis. Some of the proposal’s “baseline” assessments and a lack of a contingency option in the case of continued economic weakness were the two main reasons the deal was not agreed, the government said in a statement. Colombo said it hoped to hold further talks... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/24)
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https://youtu.be/nEhQBtJDYv4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/24)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර්
අමෙරිකානු අධිරාජ්යය බිඳවැටෙන සෑම විටම ඔවුන් විසින් ලෝකයේ යුදමය තත්ත්වයක් නිර්මාණය කරන බවද, ඊශ්රායලය ත්රස්තවාදී රාජ්යක් ලෙස අමෙරිකාව භාවිත කළේ ඛනිජ තෙල් වෙනුවෙන් අරාබි මුහුද, රතු මුහුදේ ගැටලුවක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමට බවද වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව පැවසුවේ දෙරණ වාද පිටිය දේශපාලන සංවාදය හා එක් වෙමිනි. ලංකාව පිහිටා ඇත්තේ ලෝකයේ වැදගත් උපායමාර්ගික මරමස්ථානයක බවත්, ලෝකයේ ප්රධානතම නාවික මාර්ගයේ පිහිටා ඇති රටක් නිසාම බලපෑම් කිරීමට හා අත්පත් කරගැනීමේ උවමනාව ඉන්දියාව අමෙරිකාව ප්රමුඛ විදෙස් බලවේගවලට ඇති බවත් ඒ මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. සවිස්තරාත්මක වීඩියෝව නරඹන්න... ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/24)
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්
මෙරට ගැමි සමාජය හසුරුවන ප්රධානතම රැහැන නම් සාමූහිකත්වයයි.පැරණි ගැමියන් කිසි විටක සාමූහිකත්වයෙන් තොරව සංවිධාන ගත නොවූහ.ඔවුන්ගේ ප්රධානතම ආර්ථික ක්රියාවලිය වූ කුඹූරු ගොවිතැන සහ හේන් ගොවිතැන සාර්ථකත්වයට පත් කරනු ලැබූවේ එකට වැඩ කරගැනීමට තිබූ දක්ෂතාවයෙනි.මුල් කැටෑ හේන නම් වියළ් ගොවිතැනේ දී සියලුම දෙන එකතු වී මූකලානක් කොටා පුලුස්සා වටේ දඬුවැට සවි කර තමන්ගේ පංගු වෙන් කර ගත්තද හේනේ පැල් රැකීම කරන ලද්දේ සාමූහික හැඟිමකිනි. එසේම අස්වනු කපා පා ගා ගැනීම සහ බෙදා හදා ගැනීම සඳහා පුද්ගලිකත්වයට වඩා සාමූහිකත්වය ඉස්මතු විය.මේ නිසා මුලු රටේම වැඩ කිරීමේ හැකියාව ඉතා ඉහළ මට්ටමින් තිබුණි. පසු කාලීනව රාජකාරිය යනුවෙන් නම් කළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/24)
Manusha Media
Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said today (17) that the demands for systemic change voiced by the public on the streets have been achieved within the Ministry over the past two years, with necessary policy adjustments implemented. The minister made this statement today (17) when he participated in the special event organized by the Ministry of Labor and Foreign Employment to celebrate the Sinhala and Tamil New Year. The Minister noted that many positive changes have been made in Sri Lanka's labor sector and highlighted that steps were taken to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana
The owner of a street food eatery in Aluthkade, who was arrested for price-gouging a foreign tourist and behaving in a verbally aggressive manner, has been granted bail. When the accused was produced before the court earlier today (17), he was ordered to be released on a cash bail of Rs. 50,000 and surety bail of Rs. 1 million. https://youtu.be/eXcdMj81oSs On Tuesday (16), the police arrested the 51-year-old in question for trying to charge Rs. 1,900 from a foreigner for a Kottu Roti and verbally harassing him when... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/24)
e-Con e-News
ee wishes readers a Happy New Year! Last week, ee reproduced an Island report recalling how an attempted military coup, to overcome the so-called 2018 ‘constitutional coup’, was thwarted. Observers of such machinations of state & statecraft wonder if the latest tale about former President Maithripala Sirisena allegedly disclosing an ‘Indian Hand’ as being behind the April 2019 bombings, may indeed be true. ee also wonders if the dearly beloved ‘Cardinal’ too had inside information about this all along, ‘incensed’ because this handler was being censored? After all, the precious prelates of the Catholic Church must surely have hourly access via the Vatican... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
Garvin Karunaratne, PhD. Michigan Stae University,
Is it not sad that Sri Lanka, a country that had no foreign debt in 1977, is today having a foreign debt of $ 91 billion( Prof. Charitha Herath:Lankadeepa- 7/2/24) When President Gotabhaya left the debt was $ 56 billion. Sri Lanka is a country of ample resources, a fertile land, blessed with rain and ample manpower. As a development expert with experience of handling development I can recall Great Development Programmes that if copied, could provide a way out. The Comilla Programme of Rural Development.(1960-1969)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
දේශමාන්ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ලේකම් සහ ශ්රී ලන්කා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-1994)
සුභ අලුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා! ශ්රී ලන්කා ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී සමාජවාදි ජනරජයේ 2024 ක්වූ අප්රේල් 14. ගරු ජනාධිපති, රනිල් වික්රමසින්හ මැතිතුමා වෙතය. ගරු ජනාධිපති තුමනි, 1815 ආරම්භවූ බ්රිතාන්ය යටත් විජිත පාලනයෙන් මිදී, මේ රට ව්යවස්ථාදායක,විධායක සහ අධිකරණ බලය සහිත පූර්ණ නිදහස ළබාගත්තේ 1972 මැයි 22 දාය. එසේම 1948 සිට වසර 24 කට පසු සෝල්බරී ව්යවස්ථාවේ තිබුණු අධිරාජ්යවාධී යදම්වලින් මේ රට මිදුනේත් එදිනය. 1972 සිට 1977 දක්වාම හත් වසරක්, එවකට පැවති සිරිමා බණ්ඩාරනායක රජය විසින් ජනරජ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
ගෝලිය ඒකාබද්ධ ජාතික සංවිධාන
ශ්රී ලකාවේ යෝජිත අධ්යාපන ප්රතිපත්තිය තුළ මවු භාෂාභාවිතයේ වැදගත්කම පිළිබඳව සැලකිිමත් වී නැති බැවින් අපගේඅනාගත පරපුරේ දැනුම් උකහාගැනීමේ හැකියාව සහආත්මාභිමානය ප්රවර්ධනය පිළිබඳව සිදුවිය හැකි අඩාල වීම සහ,එ් ඔස්සේ සිංහල භාෂාව මළ භාෂාවක් බවට තල්ලු වී යාමේඇති දැඩි අවදානමශ්රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුව විසින් සැප්තැම්බර් 23 දාතමින් ඉදිරිපත් කරනුලැබ ඇති ජාතික අධ්යාපන ප්රතිපත්ති රාමුව හා ඒ සඳහා වූ ධවලපත්රිකාව තුළ පාසල් අධ්යාපන මාධ්යය ඉංගිරිසියට හැරවීම සඳහායෝජනා කරනු ලැබ ඇති අතර මාතෘ භාෂාවන්ගෙන් අධ්යාපනයලැබීමේ වැදගත්කම අමතක කර ඇති බව පෙනී යයි. මේ අතර,විපක්ෂ නායක සංජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා ද ප්රසිද්ධියේ ප්රකාශ කරඇත්තේ අධ්යාපනයේ මුල් වසරවලදී පටන් ඉංගිරිසි මාධ්යයෙන්සියලු පාසල්වල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
Sugath Kulatunga
A strident cry we hear now from goverment politicians and economic pundits is that State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) must be privatized to make them efficient and profitable and ease the burden of losses to the state. Majority of them think that a wave of the majic wand of privatization will turn the white elephants to cash cows. Historically in Sri Lanka, SOEs have made a significant contribution to industrial development, employment creation and providing essential services. Before 1977 many SOEs came into existence out of a nationalization wave born out of compulsions of state control or to fill a gap in the production of essential goods or services. Other than Corporations established under specific Acts, SOEs were formed under the Government Sponsored Corporations Act No.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
By David Hearst
Zionism wants large war to cover the Genocide, and the West needs World War 3 to stall the BRICS and Rise of the Global South in the Asian 21st Century
Staunch allies calling themselves friends of Israel are beginning to realise they are also friends of the murderers of western aid workers, friends of genocide and friends of fascism Six months on, the entire edifice that allowed Israeli forces to kill more than 33,000 Palestinians and wound another 75,000, displace a population of over 2.3 million and then starve them,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක - වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන.
අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේ පනත් කෙටුම්පත1.මෙම පනත 2024 අංක .... දරන අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේ පනත යනුවෙන් හදුන්වනු ලැබේ.2.අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ට මෙම පනතේ විධිවිධාන අදාල වේ.3. අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ට වෙනත් ලිඛිත නීති වලින් ආරක්ෂා කර ඇති සාධාරණ නඩු විභාගයකට අදාල නීතිමය ප්රතිපාදන, 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරීම පනතේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
YANIS VAROUFAKIS
Watch/read the speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style) before I could address the meeting. Today, because I dared publish this speech here, the Ministry of Interior issued a “Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not just a ban on visiting Germany but also from participation via Zoom. Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words:
Friends, Congratulations, and heartfelt thanks, for being here, despite... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
BY JENNIFER ANANDANAYAGAM Courtesy Health Digest
The seasons of fall and winter are usually associated with the flavor of cinnamon. Whether it's homemade cinnamon rolls or cinnamon crumble apple pie, the spicy, sweet, and comforting aroma of this popular spice is something we've come to love. Historically, cinnamon was considered sacred, with Romans burning the spice at funerals, until it eventually became an important traded commodity. From being used for medicinal purposes and as an embalming agent to flavoring food and being used as a preservative, it's safe to say that we've found many uses for this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/04/24)
දේශමාන්ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ලේකම්; ශ්රී ලන්කා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-94)
2024. 4.14. මහනුවර රටට,ජාතියට මෙන්ම මේ රටේ නියෝජිත ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයට හූනියමක් හා ශාපයක් වී ඇති, 35 වසරක් රට විනාශකළ1978 ව්යවස්ථාව සහ විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරය වහාම අහෝසිකොට 1972 ජනරජ ව්යවස්ථාව යළි බලගන්වා මේ රටත්, ජාතියත්, සාශනයත් වැටී ඇති අඝාධයෙන් ගොඩගැනීමට ජාතියක් වෂයෙන් ඔබ සූදානම්ද? මේ රටේ අද පවතින සියළුම ආර්ථික, සාමාජික, දේශපාලනික, ජන වාර්ගික, ආගමික, සන්ස්කෘතික, වාර්ගික, අයිතිහාසික, ආරක්ෂක, හා භූදේශපාලනික අර්බුධ වලට මූලික හේතුව, 1978 ජේ. ආර්. ගේ ඇමෙරිකන්-ප්රන්ශ දෙබිඩි විධායක ජනාධිපතිකම සහ ඒ හා බැඳුණු විවුර්ත ආර්ථිකය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/24)
Garvin Karunaratne
My We alleviate poverty that afflicts over half of us Mind you By the Sixties we had alleviated poverty We did control our economy then, made things. We imported only what we could not make In 1977 we embraced the IMF’s Structural Adjustment Sent all development workers to the barracks yet we pay them fat salaries! Once in the Fifties, I remember, we even grew cotton and the air was filled with pollen. Now we import. Once in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/24)
Sugath Kulatunga
It is gratifying to note our President and a leading politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) making emphatic and unequivocal statements on two vital policy issues. Present stated repeatedly that the country has to convert itself into an export economy to be a developed nation by 1948. He was in the JR government when the the Export Development was established in 1979, and a comprehensive export development drive was launched under the policy direction of an Export Development Council of Ministers under the Chairmanship of JR the President. The implementing agency of the national drive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/24)
Palitha Mapatuna
It is noted that a person, who describes himself as Kleppe Ariyamagga, has taken upon himself the task of ‘rectifying’ some alleged errors which, according to him (and some others like him) are found in the long accepted history of Sri Lanka, especially in its Buddhist history. Now, the fundamental question is whether this (presumptuous) person has a legal status, through delegation of authority by the government of Sri Lanka, to represent the country concerning matters of its history. If this person has no such authority, it seems that his conduct amounts... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/24)
Geopolitical Economy Report
https://youtu.be/1p1-Psc0Un8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/24)
SCOTT RITTER
An Iranian missile is launched. Scores of these missiles were used to attack Israel. Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century. I’ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the “ground truth” about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated into a book, Target Iran, laying out the US-Israeli collaboration to craft a justification for a military attack on Iran designed to bring down its theocratic government. I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/24)
By CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA
Colombo, April 12 (Daily Mirror) - Tim Tense, a Belgian traveller exploring Sri Lanka, recently shared a troubling encounter from his visit to Kalutara. According to Tim, he fell victim to a scam at a local restaurant, where he was charged an exorbitant Rs. 1,000 for a single Ulundu Vadai and a cup of plain tea. In his YouTube video titled "Avoid this man in Kalutara, Sri Lanka," Tim recounted his experience. He traversed Kalutara on his own three-wheeler, soaking in the sights. Upon parking, he was approached by a Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/24)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Colombo, April 12 - Sri Lanka's recovery could be stalled by abrupt policy changes after elections later this year even as the economy showed signs of stabilising, the Asian Development Bank warned Friday. The island nation weathered an unprecedented financial crisis in 2022 that forced a foreign debt default as well as food and fuel shortages that prompted months of unrest. It secured a $2.9 billion rescue loan from the International Monetary Fund last year, with President Ranil Wickremesinghe hiking taxes and cutting generous subsidies to restore the government's ruined... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/24)
Dr. Sarath Obeysekera
We proposed to establish an Offshore and Marine sector industry which would have been a Dollar Generating venture Instead same member of the committee sold it to another Chinese company God knows how our decision makers got Access to Chinese to take over this port Now they are killing our own Port Business by starting transshipment trade If we started the Offshore industry at that time we would be generating more income for our country Sri Lanka’s China-backed port starts container transshipment amid Red Sea... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/24)
Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake
Please find the attached regarding AI use by Israel in Gaza and OVER THE HORIZON (OTH) operations by foreign intelligence agencies in Sri Lanka for FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE including the Aragalaya Regime Change and Sovereign Default operation. There is a lot of AI and technology hype in Sri Lanka as if AI and drones can solve all our problems. The SL military is being downsized to enable drones to take over in a country where Data Security is non-existent, making the country even more vulnerable to external interventions than it is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/24)
By William J. Astore
When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very moment should indeed be sobering. What would it take for us humans to stop killing each other with such vigor and in such numbers? Song lyrics tell me to be proud to be an American, yet war and profligate preparations for more of the same are omnipresent here. My government spends more on its military than... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/24)
පාලිත ආරියරත්න
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Dr. Tilak S. Fernando
During Hartel ( the General strike) organanised by the Marxist parties in 1953 to express public dissatisfaction over the cost of rice of the GCSU ( General Clerical Services Union). Mr. Kanakasamy was shot by the police lead by LSSP stalwarts; Dr. N.M.Perera, Dr. Colvin de Silva and Lesley Gunawardena. The GCSU was powerful and acted as in the form of real power to demand a prominent powerful upsurge until 1985. It was stated by Nicky Karunaratne, who was based on the LSSP hierarchy. ‘The old left’ liked to look back with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/24)
By P. K. Balachandran/Factum
Colombo, April 10: There is hullabaloo in India over the tiny and uninhabited Kachchativu island in the Palk Strait. It was triggered earlier this month by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is also the supremo of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). To everyone’s surprise, Modi accused the opposition Congress party of giving the island away to Sri Lanka “callously” in 1974. This was followed by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s utterances blaming India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), an ally of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) says its annual flagship economic publication – the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) April 2024 – has projected Sri Lanka’s economy to record moderate growth of 1.9% in 2024 and 2.5% in 2025 following two consecutive years of contractions. According to the publication, Sri Lanka is showing signs of recovery, with green shoots emerging in the second half of 2023. Inflation has decelerated to single digits, foreign exchange reserves continue to be built up, and the exchange rate has appreciated. Meanwhile, tourist arrivals and remittance inflows continue to show a commendable recovery... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/24)
Dilrook Kannangara
The next presidential election will be decided by religious minorities – Christians, Hindus and Muslims. This is because the majority creed is seriously divided between various political parties. There is no leader capable of uniting Buddhists or at least 60% of them. At the same time there are no strong minority leaders either to call for election boycotts or split minority votes by each community. As a result, minorities are likely to vote as a bloc to one candidate while the majority will be divided between two, three or even four political parties. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/24)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
Eelamists maintain that Koneswaram kovil in Trincomalee is a very ancient kovil. The British accepted that statement without question. Pridham in his book ‘Historical, political and statistical account of Ceylon’ (1849) wrote about Koneswaram temple in Trincomalee, saying it was regarded with great reverence by its devotees. The temple is said to have had 1000 pillars, 3 Rajagopurams, two on either side facing the sea and one in the center. However, there is no evidence that an ancient kovil ever existed at Koneswaram. Two contradictory reasons are given by Eelamists, for this total lack... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/24)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The Tamil settlers brought in by the British administration in the early 20th century, to colonize the north and east, entrenched the Hindu religion in those two areas. Then they started to say that Hinduism had been in the north and east from ancient times. They said that according to legend there were five ancient temples dedicated to Lord Shiva in the littoral regions of Sri Lanka. They are called ‘Pancha Easwaram’, the five abodes of Siva as Easwaran. The temples are Naguleswaram at Keerimalai, Koneswaram in Trincomalee, Munneswaram near Chilaw, Thirukitheswaram at Mantota and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/24)
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන
2024.04.09 අගවිනිසුරු ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය මැතිතුමා (ජ.නී) සභාපති, අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාව, කොළඹ 12. ගරු සභාපතිතුමනි, අධිකරණ අමාත්යවරයාගේ දේශපාලන අරමුණු වෙනුවෙන් ඇතුලුව පවත්වන ලද උත්සවයකට අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සභාපතිතුමා වන ගරු අගවිනිසුරුතුමාව සහභාගී කර ගැනීම සම්බන්ධවයි. 1. අධිකරණ අමාත්යවරයාගේ දේශපාලන අරමුණු වෙනුවෙන් ඇතුලුව පවත්වන ලද උත්සවයකට අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සභාපතිතුමා වන ගරු අගවිනිසුරුතුමාව පසුගිය දිනයකදී සහභාගී කර ගෙන ඇති බව සහ තවද ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයා ලෙසද අධිකරණ අමාත්යවරයා ඉදිරිපත් කරවීමේ ඉල්ලීම් https://www.lankadeepa.lk/news/වජයදාස-ජනපතවරණයට/101-649965 සම්බන්ධව මාධ්යයේ පුවත් පළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/24)
දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන(පා.ම),අග්රාමාත්ය,ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජය
සිංහල හා හින්දු අලූත් අවුරුද්ද හෙවත් සූර්ය මංගල්යය හෙළයේ මහා සංස්කෘතික මංගල්යයයි. මෙලෙස නැකත් චාරිත්රයන්ට හා ආගමික කටයුතුවලට මූලිකත්වය දෙමින්, පාරම්පරික සම්ප්රදායන් හා සිරිත් සුරකිමින් එකම අරමුණකින් යුතුව, එකම මොහොතක එකම නැකතකට එක්ව කටයුතු කිරීම ලොව කිසිදු රටක සංස්කෘතියක දක්නට නොලැබේ.ස්වභාවධර්මයා සමග ගනුදෙනු කළ අපේ මුතුන් මිත්තෝ අලුත් අවුරුද්දේ එය තව තවත් යථාවත් කළෝය. ඔවුන්ගේ දරු මුණුපුරන් වූ අපට ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතාවය, සකසුරුවම, අපේකම, සමගිය පිළිබඳව යළි යළි අකුරු කරන්නට අවශ්ය නොවේ. අවශ්ය ක්රියත්මකභාවයයි.ආහාර හා ආර්ථික අර්බුදයකට මුහුණ දී, රට බත බුලතින් සරි කරන්නට අභියෝගාත්මකව ගොවි ජනතාව කළ මෙහෙය මේ අලුත් අවුරුද්දේ කෘතවේදීව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/24)