Daya Reporting from Toronto, Canada The following is a success story in Bangladesh in water purification, which may have a promising application in Sri Lanka. The filter is made from readily available local materials, the apparatus is affordable, and the cost free installation, demand a serious study of the adaptability and suitability to fit the […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම මිනිස් හට සොඳුරු ගුණ සහ නුගුණ  ඇත     නිදොස් කෙනෙකු මෙදියතැ උපදනේ   නැත     වෙසෙස් සිනිඳු මුවරද බර      සහස්පත     කොරොස් නළින් යුතුවෙයි කටු පෙළිණි යුත         කුරිරු ගොර සපුන්ගේ දළ’ගෙහි    විසය     මදුරු මැසි කැලන්ගේ තුඩ’ගෙහි    විසය     රුදුරු නුහුසුවන්ගේ වල’ගෙහි       විසය     නපුරු දුදනන් ගෙ සිය’ලඟෙහි මැ    විසය         […]

Shenali D Waduge The topic was ‘India under Modi: Relevance for the Region and the World’, organized by the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies and held at the BMICH moderated by former foreign secretary HMGS Palihakkara. Introducing the panelists was Mr. Sunimal Fernando, Advisor to H.E. the President of Sri Lanka and Chairman/Board of Studies […]

Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe  Courtesy The Daily News The US embassy in Colombo has been uncharacteristically quiet the last week, especially for a foreign mission preoccupied with issuing media statements, press releases and tweets on intensely domestic Sri Lankan issues – who can forget outright falsehoods like the tweet of January 9, 2014 that declared St […]

By A. Abdul Aziz.  (Given below is an excerpt of one of the recent Friday Sermons of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, delivered on 18th July, 2014, at ‘BaithulFuthuh’, London, U.K. gave a discourse on the Merciful and Forgiving God )  Ahmadiyya Khalifa started the sermon […]

S. Akurugoda According to a news paper report the opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe has told Organisation for Good Governance, another NGO, that it was high time for all political parties and other civil society organisations to get together from grassroots level to overthrow the government through a well- organised struggle since the lawlessness in this […]

by Senaka Weeraratna A Panel Discussion under the title ‘India under Modi: Relevance for the Region and the World’ scheduled to be held on July 21, 2014 at the BMICH, Colombo and addressed by five prominent Indians led by Dr. Subramanian Swamy, Chairman, BJP Committee on Strategic Action, is intended to be a forum for […]

Shenali D Waduge  Mega millions has been disbursed to the bank accounts of organizations set up to deliver ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’ to ‘undemocratic’ nations. These NGOs set up have an explicit object and it has nothing to do with human rights to democracy and everything to do with preparing the groundwork for agendas of […]

 Shenali D Waduge The Middle East is home to many faiths beside Islam. Yet strict laws govern how people behave. From public displays of holding hands to other forms of behavior are clearly identified as being unacceptable and taboo. In many of these Islamic countries a strict dress code prevails. Whatever laws declared have to […]

by:DENNIS SHANAHAN and Jared Owens- Courtesy The Australian July 12, 2014   Angus Campbell praised ‘the policy settings of both the current and former governments’ for stemming the flow of boats. Source: News Corp Australia   SCOTT Morrison has lashed out at increasingly shrill’’ critics of Sri Lanka, accusing asylum-seeker advocates of using boatpeople to pursue […]