S. Akurugoda We remember how the government elected in 1977 under the leadership of J.R Jayewardene (J.R.J) removed the security forces from the coastal areas of the Northern and Eastern provinces in order to please the Tamil politicians, disregarding the  importance of national security. J.R.J led government underestimated  and turned a blind eye on the […]

Submitted by the Mahanuwara Sinhala Bauddha Jesta Purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya Dr Sudath Gunasekara  President 20th July 2015. Introduction For Kandyan Sinhalese who lived on this land for millennia from the dawn of history the Kandyan Kingdom was their beloved land inherited from their ancestors. It was taken over by force by the British in 1815.This was […]

Lankanews (R.M.B Senanayake is a retired administration officer and not an expert on international airports. But he has made a scathing attack on selection of Mattala International Airport in his article published recently on Colombo Telegraph. This technical note provides you with the proper information that the retired administrative officer would never be able to understand with […]

Courtesy Mahinda.info මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට රජයෙන් සපයා ඇති ආරක්ෂාව අඩු බවත්, පසුගිය දින කිහිපයේම විශාල ආරක්ෂක ගැටළු ඇතිවුණ බවත් අප දිගින් දිගටම පෙන්වා දුන්නා. ඉදිරි පරාජයක් ගැන බියෙන් සහ දෙගිඩියාවෙන් සිටින ජාතිද්‍රෝහී බලවේග බෙදුම්වාදී බලවේග විවිධ ප‍්‍රකෝපකාරී ක‍්‍රියා භාවිතා කර රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට ඇති ජනතා පිළිගැනීම දිය කර දැමීමට උත්සහ ගනිමින් සිටින අතර එහිදී මහින්ද මහතාට […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government is attempting to gain political mileage from the incident which transpired after Mahinda Rajapaksa was caught in the grasp of a supporter while traversing through a gathering of supporters at a rally in Akuressa, says the former President’s Media Coordinator, Rohan Weliwita. He charged that the government is preparing to gain […]

Courtesy  Lankanewsweb LNW SPY ඊයේ රාත‍්‍රියේ මිරිහාන පොලීසිය විසින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් අංක තහඩු වෙනස් කරන ලද සුදු වෑන් රිය තුල සිට අත් අඩංගුවට සිවිල් ඇඳුමින් සැරසුනු සෙබළුන් වත්මන් යහපාලන අමාත්‍ය එවාගෙම යහපාලන සදහා වු එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික් අපේක්ෂක ලෙස තරගවදින ප්‍රා”නායකයෙකු  සම්බන්ධයෙන් තොරතුරු රැසක් අනාවරණය කර තිබේන බව ආරක්ෂක තොරතුරු වාර්තාකරණයේ යෙදේන අප විශේෂ […]

ALI SUKHANVER This Eid again proved a hard day of trials and tribulations for the helpless Kashmiris in the Indian Held Kashmir. At most of the places the Muslims were not allowed to offer their Eid prayers by the Indian forces. Thousands of Kashmiris gathered on roads and raised slogans against this injustice of the […]

Chanaka Bandarage Sri Lanka Support Group deeply regrets the sudden passing away of Don Randall, Australian MP. Don died of a massive heart attack on Tuesday 21 July2015,while driving his car in his electorate of Canning.  He was driving to attend a duty as an MP. The whole of Australia is shocked about the sudden […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා ජ වි පෙ වත්මන් නායක අනුර කුමාරට එ ජා පක්‍ෂයෙන් විශාල මුදලක් ලැබුණු බව කියන්නේ ජ වි පෙ හිටපු නායක සෝමවංස අමරසිංහ ය. එය සත්‍ය ද නැද්ද යන්න ගැන මට කිසිවක් කිව නොහැකි ය. එහෙත් අනුර කුමාර හැසිරෙන ආකරයෙන් නම් හැඟී යන්නේ ඒ ප්‍රකාශය සත්‍යයක් බව ය. අනුර ජ වි පෙ නායකයා […]

The Nation The Colombo District Court has issued an enjoining order preventing the publication or circulation of the COPE sub-committee report on the Central Bank bond issue until July 23.  This order is sequent to a petition filed by Sujeewa Senasinghe (UNP). We can still talk of ‘bonds’.  There’s still a word called ‘cope’.  There […]

By Gomin Dayasri Here is an election result…UPFA led by Mahinda Rajapakse (MR) singularly as a party, has secured the largest number of members of parliament: yet is unable to form a government, as it cannot muster a majority. Here is another election result… Alliance led by Ranil Wickremasinghe (RW) lags behind the UPFA in the […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Never seen such a mess and an Inept, Incompetent, Unprofessional conduct to boot, from a elected President and his Team of Ministers, as in Sri Lanka today! For the past few weeks, I have read the Sri Lanka Media, spoken with a dozen or so balanced, well educated, objective minds, in and […]

Chandrapala Hitihamillage Some politicians claim that the defeat of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and the appointment of a minority government under Ranil Wickremasinghe on January 8th was a revolution. The pledges that they made to fulfill within 100 days prior to the dissolving of the parliament to obtain a mandate for good governance were aimed […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge.   With Black July, dawned the era of gun culture, disappearances, child soldiers, collapse of rule of law and erosion of democracy. Within the first ten years of UNP rule from 1977, the draconian Constitution was further strengthened with 16 further constitutional amendments – with the two notorious 4th and 6th.”  Dew […]

Kanthar P (Nathan) Balanathan, On Monday 20th ex LTTE close associate of Prabakaran and secretary to LTTE leader was arrested by the Q” branch, when he travelled from Trichy to Ramanathapuram. He was caught with the following: Possession of Krishna Kumar was 75 Cyanide capsules, 300 grams Cyanide, 4 GPS, 8 Mobile phones. 42,200 Indian […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා  මෙරට පැවැත්වෙන තීරණාත්මක ම මැතිවරණය ආරම්භ වී ඇත. රටේ ස්වෛරිභාවය ඒකීයත්වය ආදිය අගොස්තු 17 වැනි දා තීරණය වනු ඇත.සියළු දේශීය හා විදේශීය විජාතික බලවේග මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාට විරුද්ධ ව පෙළ ගැසී ඇත. බටහිර හා ඉන්දීය ඔත්තුසේවා නිලධාරීහු සිය අමන කාර්යයන්හි යෙදී සිටිති. චම්පක රණවක වැන්නන්ගේ රෙදි පිළි ගැළවී අහසේ පාවී යයි. රතන […]

Adaderana The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) claims that the recent arrest of three army personnel in a white-coloured van in Mirihana, can be considered as a threat to the security of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Former Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris stated that Mirihana Police last night arrested […]

Adaderana One of the two Sri Lankan Tamils arrested last night along with communication gadgets and cyanide in the district of Ramanathapuram has been identified as Krishnakumar, a close associate of slain LTTE supremo V Prabhakaran, Tamil Nadu police said today. Sleuths from Intelligence Bureau, Tamil Nadu ‘Q Branch’ Police, and Special Intelligence Unit were […]

Adaderana Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the country’s security is the foundation for development and reconciliation and that unfortunately the current leaders of Sri Lanka have given a low priority for security. Addressing an event on Tuesday (21) supporting UPFA candidate Udaya Gammanpila, he also claimed that the white-coloured van recently arrested with three […]

By Dharman Wickremaratne  July 15 marked 35 years since the great general strike of 1980 when 40,356 public and private sector employees lost their jobs for the first time in the history of Sri Lanka. The United National Party which contested the general election of July 22, 1977 under the slogan Let’s Create a Righteous […]