Press Release  Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka  Geneva  Responding to the ‘Oral Update’ on Sri Lanka by the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva today (25 September 2014), Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha  said the Government of Sri Lanka does […]

Shenali D Waduge  I have done many political campaigns all my life, but one thing I have still not worked out is, what goes on in the mind of the Sri Lankan voter before he votes” so said Esmond Wickremesinghe, the father of Ranil Wickremesinghe. With 30 successful election failures to his credit and still […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane In 1999 the Catholic Church publicly sought forgiveness for the errors, injustices and human rights offences it committed in the past. The Church asked pardon for the sins and weaknesses of Catholics down the ages. Among the Church’s past sins, was “the use of force in order to impose the truth” — […]

Janaka Perera  Friday, September 26th marks the 55th year since post-independence Sri Lanka experienced its first political assassination – the killing of Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike on September 26, 1959, three years after he came to power. To date it has been the island’s only major political assassination where the culprits were arrested and duly […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි ව්ජයවික්‍රම හැඳින්වීම     මෙම සංදේශය පිළියෙල කරන ලද්දේ මේ මස 28 දා පැවැත්වෙන බොදු බල සේනා මහා සංඝ සමුළුවේදී සංවාදයට ලක් කල හැකි යෝජනාවක් වශයෙනි. මෙහි දැක්වෙන මූලික අදහස නම් ගම් මටටමින් පුර වැසියන්ට බලය පවරා දෙන පක්‍ෂ දේශපාලනයෙන් තොර (නිදසුන: ගැමි දිරිය වැඩ සටහන) පරිසර නිර්‌ණායක අනුව මායිම් වෙන් කරනු ලබන ජන සභා […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar September 25th 2014 It seems somewhat high handed and disconcerting to those who know the true facts about events that transpired during the decades long Tamil Tiger insurrection on which basis foreign journalists continue to denigrate and falsely portray Sri Lanka where everything presented sounds plausible to some but the proof and […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Geneva Responding to the ‘Oral Update’ on Sri Lanka by the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva today (25 September 2014), Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha  said the Government of Sri Lanka does not wish […]

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva  Human Rights Council 27th Regular Session Agenda Item 2 Oral update of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka Statement by H.E. Mr. Ravinatha P. Aryasinha Ambassador / Permanent Representative […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing the 69th United Nations General Assembly last evening (Wednesday, 24 Sep) said that the current functioning system of the United Nations needs fresh examination in order to enhance its credibility. The UN role in advancing international peace, security and prosperity is crucial in the contemporary world. However, in […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is in New York City to attend 69th United Nations General Assembly which is being held in the UN Headquarters, held bilateral discussions with several state leaders on Tuesday afternoon. They included the Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, the Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón and the Secretary […]

 SUNDAY 12  OCTOBER  2014 AT THE LONDON BUDDHIST VIHARA, THE AVENUE, CHISWICK, W4 1UD SRI LANKA CENTRAL COLLEGES PAST PUPILS ASSOCIATION (UK Branch)                       Dr. C.W.W. KANNANGARA ANNUAL DANA Will be held on  SUNDAY 12  OCTOBER  2014 AT THE LONDON BUDDHIST VIHARA, THE AVENUE, CHISWICK, W4 1UD  COMMENCING […]

By Charles.S.Perera In the absence of the Lankaweb we had no way to give vent to our pent up feelings  against an incessant campaign of falsehood against the President Mahinda Rajapakse and his government without a word of appreciation for all that they have contributed to the progress of the country and the welfare of […]

Shenali D Waduge Does US care about violating international laws? Nope. Is there any entity that can take action against US and Allies if they violate international laws? Nope. So what is the use in an UN and its Secretary General or the UN Human Rights head? They simply take home lavish salaries, remunerations and […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Lower Hutt New Zealand Rt Hon John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand. Dear Mr Key, Thank you for your email below acknowledging the support I  rendered towards the convincing electoral endorsement your government and yourself receive yesterday from New Zealand. It was a privilege and pleasure to have done so […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න   එරික් මේයර්  තම ”’බිට්වීන් විලේජ් ඇන්ඩ්  ප්ලාන්ටේ ෂන්”  පොතේ වතු හිමියෙකු ගේ ප්‍රකාශයක් . මෙසේ දක්වය්  ”””මට හිටිය සිංහලයන් තිස් දෙනෙක් තමන් දෙමලු වශයෙන් හදුන්වා දුන්. ඔවුන් ප්‍රසිධියේ කතා කලේ දෙමලෙන්  හැබය් ඔවුනොවුන් අතර සිංහලෙන්.”” ඔවුන්ට තිබුනේ දෙමල නම්.”””” ඒ උඩරට වුන දේ ය. යා පනේ කොවියාර් වංශිකයන් වුයේ සිංහල  ”ගොවියා   ය.  […]

Dr Hector Perera           London Aluminium is the most widely distributed metal on the planet and it’s used in the production of many every-day products. Cookware is made from aluminium, soda cans are aluminium, and aluminium foil is found in most kitchens. Aluminium is also found in antacids, aspirin, vaccines, and even flour. This overwhelming infestation […]

By Nalin de Silva All political parties that contested at the Uva Provincial Council elections have claimed victory. This includes Sarath Fonseka, who think that some forty thousand votes that they should have received had been cast to some other political party or parties due to some ‘jilmaat’. Fonseka may be a good soldier but […]

ALI SUKHANVER  Words have ever been very important either they are in written form or in spoken format. This importance of words gave birth to a very useful and influential type of ‘industry’ known as media. The experts and the specialists having an immaculate command and skillful authority on spoken or the written words became […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma President Mahinda Rajapaksa attended the Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative- 2014 (CGI- 2014) in New York last evening (23 Sep). President Rajapaksa, who is in New York to attend the 69th annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, also participated in the 10th Annual Meeting of the CGI which […]

By A. Abdul Aziz.  According to our Press Department, U.K., on 22 September 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived in the Republic of Ireland for his second visit to the country. His Holiness, has travelled to inaugurate the first Mosque of […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived at the UN Headquarters in New York this morning to participate the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 . UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is hosting this Climate Summit from September 23, 2014, to engage world leaders from government, finance, business and civil society to catalyse climate action. UN Secretary […]

Dilrook Kannangara History may repeat. Southern Provincial Council election of May 1993 was a turning point in political fortunes of the PA and political misfortunes of the UNP. It marked the collapse of the UNP government that was in power for 17 long years. Actually by 1994, the UNP secured the Southern Province marginally with coercion […]

Shenali D Waduge The question is simple but why is the answer being dragged? All we want to know is whether the Illankai Thamil Arasu Katchchi the party that calls itself the Federal Party in its aims and objectives stands for a Federal system or is it aiming at a confederacy in both the 1949 […]

By A. Abdul Aziz.  (Given below is an excerpt of the Friday Sermon delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, on 5th September, 2014, at ‘BaithulFuthuh’, London, U.K. gave a discourse on the recently concluded Jalsa Salana (Convention) U.K.  With the grace of Allah, the atmosphere […]

Bauddha Jathika Balavegaya The proposed canonization of Joseph Vaz on Sri Lankan soil by the Pope on his visit to Sri Lanka in January 2015 is tantamount to an insult to the memory of Anagarika Dharmapala whose 150th birth anniversary was commemorated a few days ago and in whose memory the unfolding year ( from […]

Akurugoda While speaking at the ‘Annual Hindi Day’ event held in the Indian consular office in Jaffna, the acting Indian High Commissioner (HC) S.T. Murthy has pointed out that at least 50% of the Indian population knows the Indian main language and similarly Sri Lankan Tamils also should learn Sinhala Language in order to grow […]

Shenali D Waduge  Politicians desire power. To gain power they need votes. For votes they need people. To win votes spending on lavish propaganda is not enough. People want action and people are also literate enough to know the dynamics of power politics which is why regime change tactics have all failed in Sri Lanka. […]

 Shenali D Waduge Butterfly is a film by Vishnu Vasu screened at the National Film Corporation in August 2014. Its characters were REAL and their stories were equally real. The question is why have these stories never once been taken up by officials of the UN, the foreign envoys and delegations present at the UNHRC […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana Kidney disease in the North Central Province (NCP)  was unheard of till about the mid 1970s. Dr. Ramachandran identified it in the 1990s and gathered evidence to show that  it cannot be due to the usual causes.  Hence it has been named Kidney-disease of unknown aetiology (CKDU)”. More recently it has been  […]

චන්ද්‍ර ධර්මවර්ධන විසිනි උතුරු-මැද පලාතේ දැනට පැතිරී ඇති වකු ගඩු රෝගය ගැන කිසි ඉඟයක්වත් 1975 කාලයේ දී තුබුනේ නැත. ප්‍රසිද්ධ වකුගඩු විශේෂඥ්යෙකු වූ රාමචන්ද්‍රන් මහතා 1995 දී පමන මෙය අලුත් මාදිලියක ගුප්ත-හේතුක චිරාපත් වකුගඩු රෝගයක් (ක්රොනික් කිඩ්නි ඩිසීස් ඔෆ් අන්නෝන් ඊටියොලොජි ) බව නිරීක්ෂනය කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය සාධක එකතු කොට වෛද්‍ය සඟරාවක ලිපි පල කලේය. මෙදා […]