Courtesy Island Ven. Omalpe Sobitha, Leader of Sihala Urumaya,HAS recently proclaimed that if no action is taken to arrest and try the politicians and others responsible for stealing from the public purse within the 100 days, then, the Sihala Urumaya would have no alternative but to leave the government and campaign for such actions outside […]

Courtesy RT President Barack Obama has said the reality of American leadership” at times entails twisting the arms” of states which don’t do what we need them to do,” and that the US relied on its military strength and other leverage to achieve its goals. READ MORE: ‘US unilateral actions to protect its interests let […]

Shenali D Waduge  Democratic regime change took place on 8th January 2015 upstaging within just 5 years the leader that ended 30 years of terrorism and became the only leader to do so and Sri Lanka the only nation that succeeded to militarily defeat the world’s most ruthless terrorist organization. That US and India and […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මගෙත් ලංකා වෙබ් එකෙත් දැනගැනීම සඳහා  මෙන්ම හුදී ජනයා දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහාත් රනිල් රජයෙන් අඩුකලය් කියන  බඩුමිල දර්ශකයක්  දන්නා අයෙක් වෙබ් අඩවියේ පලකරත්වා දැනට ලංකාවෙන් පිට සිටින යට මේ ගැන හරි දැනුමක් නැත  ලංකාවේ ජනතාවගෙන් වැඩි කොටසකටද දැනුමක් නැති නිසා වෙළෙන්දන්ට යටවී  කරබාගෙන සිටීමට සිදුවී ඇත  වෙළෙන්දෝ කියන්නේ  කෙහෙල්මලක් වත් අඩුවී නතය් කියාය  […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග  “යුද්ධය හා ඊට ආනුශංගිකව සිදු වූ අවතැන් වීම් නිසා ළමුන්ගේ මානසික සෞඛ්‍යය ඛෙහෙවින් අසමබර තත්ත්වයකට පත්ව ඇත. එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ විවිධ සම්මුතීන්ට අනුකූලව ළමුන්ගේ මානසික සෞඛ්‍යයට යුදධයෙන් සිදුවන බලපෑම් අඩු කිරීම සඳහා පියවර ගැනීම සියළු ජාතින්ගේ යුතුකම වේ.” – මහාචාර්්‍යය විලියම් යූල් වත්මන් යුධ ගැටුම් නිසා විපතට පත්වූවන්ගෙන් 80% කටත් වඩා සංඛ්‍යාවක් කාන්තාවන් […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t! -Miranda to Prospero, her father, in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest We, Sri Lankans, have just survived a political tempest conjured by the powers that be, who/which, collectively, […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Needless to say, the misjudged trust placed on BBS by the former government worked totally against them and was a major factor in turning the majority Muslim votes against Mahinda. Hot debates are still going on whether Maithri has BBS to thank for his historical victory. Having said that the ethnic […]

Yahapalanaya News A group of Christian thugs led by another Christian Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake raided a Buddhist meditation centre owned by a well know Buddhist monk in Taiwan Ven Bodhagama Chandima at Imbulgoda, Kadawatha recently. Ven Bodhagama Chandima  is a well know Buddhist activist both in Sri Lanka and inTaiwan. He has also built […]

Sudath Gunasekara Kandy, Sri Lanka. When are we going to put an end to these Imperial Interferences in our internal matters? It appears to be a neo fashion on the part of the western Imperial nations like UK and Canada to fish in troubled waters to hatch conspiracies to destroy the Sinhala Nation and the Sinhala […]

By Charles.S.Perera How happy were the people of Sri Lanka before the 8th January, 2015.    Of course there are those who are never happy and for them nothing is good unless  the government brings down prices so that they can  satisfy their hungry stomachs  and the cost of living  is satisfactorily low.   The terrorists were […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Structurally it appears that  the President Maithreepala Sirisena is the Leader of the SLFP, at least on paper.  But who is maneuvering the steering wheel of the SLFP? Is it President MS, Madam Chandrika, Opposition Leader Nimal Siripala de Silva or former President Mahinda Rajapakse? So far the President MS […]

W.Senanayake Is it not fair to suspect that President Sirisena will be under enormous pressure and obligation when he meets the Indian counterpart at the forthcoming bilateral talks. These talks are coming on in the wake of controversy over the Indian spy agency RAW’s alleged role in the recent Sri Lankan presidential election. It was […]