Dilrook Kannangara As predicted by the senior Indian diplomat Badrakumar, in the long term, Sirisena’s policies are closer to Mahinda than the UNP. What lies underneath the popular budget is not Royal College thinking but Maxim Gorky thinking of Sirisena. The Port City Chinese project was resolved the way Sirisena wanted, not the UNP way. […]

Yahapalanaya News Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected the statements made about him by the present government and said these statements were ‘false’ and diabolical lies. At a recent TV interview, President Maithripala Sirisena said that over Rs. 100,000 million had been allocated to the Presidential Secretariat for the year 2015 and that it had now […]

Janaki Chandraratna, Perth Western Australia My recent visit to Sri Lanka on 13 January 2015, 5 days after the Presidential election, has left me appalled to the core. It was the annihilation of the vanquished that left me flabbergasted.  I had to pinch myself to ensure I am in the right country as the post […]

Yahapalanaya News In reply to Prime Minister’s threat that Parliament would be dissolved straightaway if the government failed to defeat the no-confidence, Chief Opposition Whip John Seneviratne said only the executive president had the power to dissolve parliament, and therefore Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s threat was meaningless and just empty hot air. Mr. Wickremesinghe had […]

February 9, 2015 at 12:26 pm | lanka C news වත්මන් පාලනය විසින් එල්ල කරමින් ඇති චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇති විශේෂ මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මෙහි දැක්වේ. 83,660 Viewers

‘Sri Lankan Patriot’ This Hudson MaClean (whatever his real name is) it seems is spreading lies and propaganda on behalf of the RW/Ravi K/ Mangala/ CBK/ MS/ JVP/ TNA/ LTTE / SF /Champika/ Rathana Ashuddha Hawula. During the previous election time, the entire private media in the country, which is owned by UNP or LTTE […]

MEERA SRINIVASAN Courtesy The Hindu Earli.er, Sri Lankan Navy acted promptly, but now they are reluctant to arrest the poaching Indian fishermen, Jaffna-based fisher leaders say More Indian trawlers have been allegedly fishing near the northern coastline of Sri Lanka over the past two weeks, Jaffna-based fisher leaders say. The fishermen from both sides got into […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න කලම්බු  ටෙලිග්‍රාෆ්  හි 2015 ජනවාරි  27  දින  ශාමිනී සේරසිංහ  නම්  බහු  ආගමික  ලේඛිකාවක්  මයිත්ත්රී ගස්ගල් වඳින  හෙවත් බෝධි පූජා කරන  නුගතෙකය්  දොස් කියා ඇත. ජේ ආර්   රනිල් හා චන්ද්‍රිකාගෙන්  මයිත්ත්රී  පාඩම් උගත යුතු  බවත්  බහුජාතික බහු ආගමික ලංකාවේ  එක ආගමකට අදාළ පුදසිරිත් ජනාධිපති විසින් නොකළ යුතුබවත් ඇය කියය්. රටක් බහු ජාතිකයය් නීත්‍යානු කුලව […]

Nitin A Gokhale, for Rediff.com in New Delhi Courtesy Rediff.com ‘India’s friendship and support is very important to Sri Lanka. It is a matter of regret that India appears to have thought otherwise.’ ‘Sri Lanka’s relationship with China has always been of an economic nature.’ ‘The docking of Chinese submarines in the Colombo harbour was only for […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala To reassure that My-3” – CBK-Wickremesinghe-Sirisena — meant business and should be taken seriously before casting the vote of January 8, 2015 a time-table was set to impress the voters that the Manifesto comes with a day-to-day schedule guaranteeing progress leading to the promised ideal country”. We have now arrived on […]