Garvin Karunaratne Touring Normandy, I visited the Omaha Beach, the Juno Beach, the Gold Beach and Sword Beach where thousands of Allied Forces soldiers perished for the cause of peace in the World War II. It is estimated that at least 130,000 soldiers died for the cause of peace. My mind travels back to the […]

 ධර්මන් වික‍්‍රමරත්න මාතර කෝට්ටේගොඩදී 1943 ජුලි 14වැනිදා උපන් පටබැදිගේ දොන් නන්දසිරි විජේවීර 1965 මැයි 14වැනිදා ඇරඹූ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ(ජවිපෙ) නිර්මාතෘවරයාය. ඔහුගේ පියා කොමියුනිස්ට් ආධාරකරුවෙකු සහ සුළු ව්‍යාපාරිකයෙකු වූ දොන් නන්දසිරි විජේවිරය. පවුලේ සොයුරු සොහොයුරියන් තිදෙනෙකු සිටි අතර මව නැසිනෝනා වික්‍රම කළුතොටය. විජේවීරගේ නායකත්වයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සුවිශේෂි තත්ත්වයට ගළපන ලද මාක්ස් ලෙනින්වාදයක් හදුන්වාදුන් ජවිපෙ රැඩිකල් ගැමි […]

Courtesy Island Communist Party leader D. E. W. Gunasekera was one of the veteran politicians arbitrarily left out of the UPFA national list by president Maithripala Sirisena in order to accommodate defeated candidates of the SLFP loyal to him. In this interview, Gunasekera speaks to C. A. Chandraprema on the situation prevailing within the SLFP […]

ජනිත සෙනෙවිරත්න Courtesy Divaina රෝහණ විජේවීර මහතාගේ දරු පවුල පත්ව සිටින අසීරුතාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ‘දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්‍රහය විසින් සිදු කළ අනාවරණයත් සමඟ ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැවැන්ත මතවාදයක්‌ රට තුළ මතුව තිබේ. ඒ සමඟම මීට සම්බන්ධ විවිධ පාර්ශ්ව විසින් එකිනෙකට චෝදනා කරගන්න තත්ත්වයක්‌ ද ඇතිවී තිබේ. ඒ අතර ජනාධිපතිවරයා ද වහාම ක්‍රියාත්මකවී විජේවීර දරු පවුලට තවත් මාස හයක්‌ […]

කඩවත හයිවේ එක ඇමැතිට කළින් විවෘත කළ සුමනා ‘දිවයින’ට කියයි කඩුවෙල සිට කඩවත දක්‌වා අධිවේගය වැටුණේ අධිවේගයෙන් නම් නොවේ. ඉකුත් ජනපතිවරණයට පෙර මෙය විවෘත වනු ඇතැයි සිතුවද අවසානයේ එයින්ද මාස 9කට පසුය මාතර සිට කඩවතට එක හුස්‌මට යා හැකි මග විවර වන බව කියෑවුණේ. දිනය ඉකුත් 17 වැනිදාය. අධිවේගී මාර්ගයේ කඩවත – කඩුවෙල ‘දිගුව’ උත්සවාකාරයෙන් […]

Courtesy Island September 26, 2015, 7:48 pm The government should take great care with the American sponsored draft resolution that was tabled before the UNHRC on Thursday especially because they have decided to make it a consensus resolution. Dayan Jayatilleke recently said that his father Mervyn de Silva – a notable expert in international affairs […]

Courtesy Organization for Co-operation and Development (OECD) Russia is the most educated country in the world, according to the latest figures from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), followed by Canada and then Japan. The United States and United Kingdom do make it into the top ten, in fifth and seventh places respectively. Overall […]

By DR DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The  Nation Sri Lanka has decided to co-sponsor a resolution on Sri Lanka in Geneva,” the Prime Minister said. –Daily FT, September 25, 2015 While the penumbra of the US resolution on Sri Lanka has softened, the core, the essence, remains. The Sri Lankan side has succeeded only in watering down […]

Courtesy Editorial The Nation  ‘It could have been worse’ is not a victory claim. It is but the whimper of someone who believes he got a consolation prize. President Maithripala Sirisena says ‘it could have been hundreds of thousands of times worse had Mahinda Rajapaksa won on January 8.’ He was referring to the US-sponsored resolution […]

Courtesy  The Nation Don’t repeat MR’s mistakes – Champika | ‘Hybrid’ in another name – Dayan J. A decision to co-sponsor the US draft resolution on Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions in Geneva could be seriously detrimental to the Government of Sri Lanka, Minister of Megapolis and Western Province […]

    මෙන්න යතාර්ථයක පුලුවන්නම් අවසානය දක්වා අහන්නමෙන්න යතාර්ථයක පුලුවන්නම් අවසානය දක්වා අහන්නතවත් කෙනෙක්ට අසන්න සලස්වන්න එය මව්බිම වෙනුවෙන් කරන ලොකු සේවයක්…. Posted by Sri AV Tv network on Wednesday, September 23, 2015  

By Malinda Seneviratne  Courtesy The Nation Each time there’s a gruesome crime, especially if the victim is a child who is both raped and murdered, the natural public outrage is accompanied by shrill calls for the implementation of the death penalty.  We saw all of this when a five year old girl was abducted, raped […]

Courtesy The Nation Maybe that the likes of Ajith Perera can run away with the idea that the UNP is God’s gift to mankind, but do spare us the sanctimonious hectoring about how his party is going to course-correct Sri Lanka’s foreign policy. Appearing in a recent talk show, Perera said his government has begun […]

Courtesy The Nation The eventual outcome at the ongoing sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva will be critical for Sri Lanka in terms of international implications and for its image as a progressive democracy but there is also likely to be a domestic political fallout as a result. Colombo’s emissaries […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera yesterday said the fresh resolution on Sri Lanka sponsored by the US, which was tabled on Thursday, is a ‘path breaking success’ achieved at the 30th session of the UNHRC. In a media statement on the fresh UNHRC resolution on SL, Minister Samaraweera who is currently […]

RE: Computer Glitch. This Computer Glitch occurred in the Sri Lankan Air line computer system may be the Worlds first computer Glitch ever occurred, as it affects only one individual customer. I live in Australia and most Air lines including Qantas, Virgin and other Air Lines close the entire Air Line ticketing system when a […]