by Shenali D. Waduge There is an issue that has been overlooked. Firstly, it is the manner that Maithripala was parachuted to the role of Opposition Candidate ignoring the line-up UNP contenders including Ranil Wickremesinghe. Next, is the factor that emerges from numerous UNP crossovers to the possibilities of the UNP party diminishing into oblivion […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න හින්දු ඉන්දියාව විසින්  හිමාල  අඩවියෙන් සොයා  සපයන  ලද”” ‘ බෞද්ධ දේශ භංග ””’ ශාඛයේ පස්පංගුව  වනේ දමා කොටා  එංගලන්ත සභාවේ ආශීර්වාදය ලැබූ  ශුද්ධවූ ජලයෙන්  වසර තිහක් තිස්සේ කකාරා  ජීවන්කර ”’සර්වභේද වාදී කල්කය  ”’ ද  මුසු කර   නිපදවූ  ”’ ද්වේශාරිෂ්ටය ””  චන්ද්‍රිකා  තාක්ෂනය  උපයෝගී කරගෙන  රහසේ සිංහල දේශය  වෙත කන්ටේනර්  පිටින් නොමිලේ  ලබාදී  ඇති […]

P.Ariyasinghe, Melbourne TNA leader Sambandan, in an interview with the Daily Mirror had said that, ‘the LTTE has now been destroyed and in such a scenario how can the TNA be its proxy. The TNA has never been an LTTE proxy..’ But during the hey days of the LTTE, TNA had openly declared that the […]

By Charles.S.Perera At the meetings of  the President Mahinda Rajapakse, the speakers make very moving speeches  attacking the Opposition for its most unfounded accusations against the President and his government. The Opposition  accuses  the government  for the  absence of  good governance, corruption, and  nepotism.  But  they have forgotten that when  UNP, JR Jayawardhana, R.Premadasa, Ranil […]

Nalliah Thayabharan  Since the 1950s Western imperialists have been in the business of regime change, assassinations and propping up client states to pillage the wealth of nations. In 1953, England and America overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran. The coup was orchestrated by the intelligence apparatus of both countries after Mr. […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  බටහිර රටවල් හා  ඉන්දියාවත්   බුදුදහමට විරුද්ධය. ආගමිකයන් වශයෙන් කිතුනුවොත් හින්දුනුත් බුදුදහමට විරුධය. අනෙක් පැත්තෙන් ඉස්ලාමිකයෝ  තමන්ගේ ආගම හැර අනෙක් සියලුම ආගම් වලට විරුද්ධය, ඉස්ලාමිකයෝ ලංකාවේදී වැඩියෙන් ම විරුද්ධ බෞධ්ධයන්ටය. ඒ මෙරට බෞද්ධ රටක් නිසා  තමන්ට රජවෙන්නට බැරි නිසාය . ප්රානඝාතයේ යෙදෙන හැම ජාතිකයෙක්ම  හැම ආගමිකයෙක්ම බුදුදහමට  විරුද්ධය.  සොලියෝ  වසර දහස් ගණනක් තිස්සේ අප […]

ඊයේ (1) දිනයේ අමාත්‍ය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමුවූ සුදත් අප්පුහාමි මහතා ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ දෑත් සවිමත් කිරීමට පූර්ණ වශයෙන් කැපවීමට ප්‍රතිඥා දී ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔහු අද දින ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්චාවක් පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතව ඇත. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ යහ පාලන කණ්ඩායමේ සාමාජිකයකු වන හොර ආචාර්ය හර්ෂ ද සිල්වා මහතා මැරයින් 50ක් පමණ සමග සුදත් අප්පුහාමි මහතා පැහැරගෙන ගොස් ඇති […]

ALI SUKHANVER The Boston Review published an article of C. Christine Fair on 16th of last October with the title, Is Pakistan in ISIS’ Crosshairs? C. Christine Fair is a well known American analyst on South Asian political and military affairs and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies as well as of […]

By. R.W. Ranjith Pemasiri Multilateral and bilateral convention donors offer around US$ 200 m to US$300 m per annum for the highways sector in compliance with its eligibility and procurement guidelines. However, the funding provisions are not sufficient to carry out a large scale accelerated development program. The predicament is whether we should open up […]

University of Politics Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has been asked to keep away from the New Democratic Front Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena’s campaign after her controversial statement, pampering the late LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, severely affected the joint Opposition’s campaign. Chandrika called the megalomaniac Tiger leader as Mr. Prabhakaran and apoligised to the Tamils […]

by Uditha Kumarasinghe UPFA Colombo District Parliamentarian Thilanga Sumathipala said that New Democratic Front (NDF) Presidential Candidate Maithripala Sirisena’s 100 day program is totally an eyewash. It is just to get the focus on the media as well as the so called people who are clamouring for reforms in the administrative set up. The MP […]

by K.M.H.C.B. Kulatunga The traitor will finally meet his waterloo by Friday after the masses verdict at the 2015 Presidential election would be announced. He has packed all his baggage and even obtained air tickets to a Western destination. He has already obtained Schengen visa, along with that if the British and the US, keeping […]

The member of parliament Achala Jagoda has joined with common candidate Maithripala Sirisena.He is a member of parliament who came from the JVP had jumped to the national freedom front and had been in the UPFA government but had acted independently.He had failed in his attempts to become a UPFA seat organiser in the next […]

Lucien Rajakarunanayake As we consider the historical importance of the Year 2015 in the politics and governance of this country, it is interesting to note that beginning with 1505, when the Portuguese first came to this country and began the colonization process, in the fifth year of the 16th Century, the triple quinary year in […]

Shenali D Waduge  The right to religious freedom does not and should not include the right to convert. Thus, those that are sent on missions to convert understandably cannot be expected to be treated as heroes particularly by a nation that is heir to an unique Sinhala Buddhist civilization lasting for over 2300 years, still […]

Compiled by Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. “His complete dedication, in unbroken military service of over six decades, has inspired untold thousands of Canadian youth. His tireless and unselfish contributions to his community, his country and his fellow man, in war and in peace, have been of outstanding benefit to Canada and Canadians.”  (Canada’s Aviation Hall […]