Dilrook Kannangara Credible accounts of the last stages of the war indicate the presence of Indian troops in Mulaitivu area. Did they eliminate the LTTE hierarchy to cover up their involvement with the terrorist outfit? Quoted from the Times of India A PIL filed in the Supreme Court has said Indian military personnel took direct […]

By Saman Indrajith The Island The Commission of Inquiry that probed Abductions and Disappearances (better known as the Maxwell Paranagama Commission) has found that it was the LTTE which killed majority of Tamil civilians during the last 12 hours of the final stage of the war, according to the commission report tabled in Parliament yesterday. […]

Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday said his government, at no time, contemplated the appointment of foreign experts as judges exercising judicial power in respect of the Sri Lankan armed forces and other Sri Lankan citizens. Stating this during his meeting with Motoo Noguchi of the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office of Japan at his […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement, Mahanuwara. 21.10.2015. Serious and immediate attention of all citizens in this country is drawn to the above important news item. While listening to a news briefing by MEP Leader Dinesh Gunawardhana yesterday I learnt about the withdrawal of this gazette by Minister Kiriella. The whole country should be […]

By Dasun Edirisinghe The joint opposition yesterday challenged President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to make public all documents related to the UNHRC report on Sri Lanka’s alleged war crimes. Addressing a well-attended rally at Viharamahadevi Park in Colombo, organised by the joint opposition, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna leader and Colombo District UPFA MP […]

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. The armed conflict in Sri Lanka lasted for nearly 30 years. The soldiers who participated in this war underwent extreme forms of battle stresses. Some of the combatants who were exposed to distressing battle events had dissociative reactions. According to Chu (1998) dissociation refers to a disruption of the normal integration […]

එස්. අකුරුගොඩ 1815න් පසුව, යලිත් වරක් විවිධ උපායන් මගින් රට සුදු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදින්ගේ යටත් විජිතයක් බවට පත්කර රටත් ජාතියත් ආගමත් විනාශ මුඛයට ලක්ව ඇති මොහොතක මල්වතු හා අස්ගිරි මහනාහිමිවරුන් කටයුතු කරන ආකාරය දෙස රටේ බෞද්ධයින් බලා සිටින්නේ මහත් සoවේගයෙනි. එහෙත් 1815 දී සුද්දන්ගේ බසට රැවටී තාන්න මාන්න බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන් රට ජාතිය හා ආගම ගිවුසුමකින් ව්දේශිකයිනට පවරාදුන් එදා […]

ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂය විසින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලබන ජන සමුළු මාලාවේ පළමුවැන්න අද(19) කොළඹ විහාර මහාදේවී එළිමහන් රංග පීඨයේදී පැවැත්විය

Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL), Monthly Public Lecture The Challenges in Protecting the Monuments of the Ancient Fortress of Kotte” by Mr. Ishan Wiratunga, Secretary, Kotte Heritage Foundation  will be held on Monday 26th October 2015 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07. Kotte is […]

http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/43600 A 43 year old lawyer Sri Lankan Tamil origin has been elected as a Canadian member of Parliament from the Liberal party at the 42nd Canadian general elections held on October 19th 2015. He is none other than the son of veteran Sri Lankan Tamil politician Veerasingham Anandasangaree leader of the Tamil United Liberation […]

By Moon Of Alabama Information Clearing House” October 19, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – The Aleppo power plant is a 1,000 megawatt thermal plant in five units build by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry in 1995-1998. It is situated some 25 kilometers east of Aleppo city center.  During the fighting around Aleppo various electricity distribution stations were […]

Yahapalana New Ports and Shipping Minister Arjuna Ranatunga has appointed his brother, former cricketer Dammika Ranatunga, as Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA). Mr. Ranatunga, a younger sibling of the Minister, assumed duties on Thursday, SLPA sources said. The move took many by surprise as the elder Ranatunga had been at the forefront of […]