Hot News Instigated by former President Chandrika Bandaranayake, a break away group of 21 member of SLFP central committee met today at Wijerama Road Colombo and appointed President Maitripala Sirisena as the party president and pledged support to President Maithripala Sirisena a short while ago. Among the MPs who pledged support the President are Dr. […]

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Prof. Hudson McLean Although I have remained silent for three years, I have followed the goings-on in Sri Lanka with interest. First of all, may I comment that the Sri Lankan politics could also be written as a Shakespearen play.  The latest event symbolises Julius Ceaser. “Et tu, Brute!” cried Julius Ceaser, as he spilt […]

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චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම දකුණේ සිංහල දේශපාලකයින්  සමග එක්ව වැඩකරන දෙමල ජාතිකයින්, දෙමල ද්‍රෝහීන් කියා හංවඩු ගැසීම 1930ස් ගණන්වල සිටම ක්‍රිස්තියානි දෙමල බෙදුම්වාදීන් අතලොස්සකගේ පහත් දේශපාලන උපක්‍රමයක් විය. ජේන් රසල් නම් ඇමෙරිකන් නෝනා ඩොනමෝර් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රමය ගැන ඇයකල ආචාර්ය උපාධි පර්යේෂණ පොතෙන් මේ පිළිඹද උදාහරණ කිහිපයක්ම ගත හැකිය. මට ඒ අයගේ නම් දැන් මතකයට නොේ.  එක නමක් නම් […]

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Chanaka Bandarage The writer had worked numerous times with the Great SL Gunasekera, and takes pride identifying himself as a close friend of SL. For over 30 years SL was engaged in the struggle against Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka. Many times he was the lone voice against Tamil terrorism, especially in the legal scene. […]

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 By Gomin Dayasri  Initials S.L surpassed surname Gunasekera. Branded to blend with the land of his birth – his name attracted shades of love and despair. Reciprocally, he loved those who made the country proud and despised those that discredited his cherished land. His countrymen to their inclinations called him a patriot or racist: he […]

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Hot News Confirming his mud-slinging website created story,  Mangala Samaraweera, the spokesman for new President Maithripala Sirisena, said Sunday that the Cabinet would investigate the alleged coup attempt by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to stay in power when results showed he was losing last week’s election. Samaraweera said: “People think it was a peaceful transition. […]

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By Dean Nelson, New Delhi Courtesy The Telegraph (UK) Tamil vote fuelled Maithripala Sirisena to victory despite his pledge to shield the Rajapaksa family from war crime investigations The noisiest celebrations for the defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa, were not in the capital Colombo but in the Tamil North and over Adam’s Bridge, the ancient causeway which […]

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