Lt Col (Retd.) A.S.Amarasekera 2nd March 2016. A country is governed by convention or by adhering to a Constitution. When our colonial masters namely the British granted independence to Ceylon they introduced a Constitution better known as the Soulbury Constitution to govern independent Ceylon. Though a Constitution was formulated and introduced by the British to […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think’st him wronged and mak’st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts. – Othello , the eponymous hero of the Shakespeare play of the same name The political stability that Sri Lanka enjoyed for a brief five years after the conclusion […]

Shenali D Waduge We are watching a miscarriage of justice unfold if we remain silent to the irregularities, illegalities, irreversible and irreparable damage likely to take place. Sri Lanka must not agree to any Tribunal that only covers 3 months or the last phase and ignores the whole period of the conflict. This is an […]

By : A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA When in the opposition the ruffians who self-proclaimed as great economists of the UNP cabal and the western puppet Ranil Wickremasinghe blamed that the former President Mahinda Rjapakse’s government was ruining the economy of the country, pawning the country to China and found China as a ghost devouring every development […]

By Gandara John When reputed and responsible main stream media started flailing the Government for its shameless betrayal of the country on 01 Oct 15, not many realised that the modern day Pharisees had driven a hard bargain with Sri Lanka’s Judas; the ‘30 pieces of Silver’ did not change hands for nothing and the transaction, […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka has become the new money laundering capital. Hackers around the world deposit money in Sri Lanka, launder it and transfer it as good money. Recently $20 million was laundered in Sri Lanka. Today Sri Lanka is truly the Plunder of Asia! Sri Lanka also welcomes well known financial crooks, unnamed dubious […]

Sarath Wijesinghe Former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority, Former Ambassador to Israel and United Arab Emeritus World population heading for a disaster World population is heading for a disaster due to excessive use of antibiotics. Unless preventive measures – though difficult – steps are taken immediately to contain the worldwide man made epidemic world is facing […]

By Afshain Afzal  Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) decided to include Hezbollah on the GCC’s list of terrorist organizations on 3 March 2016. This was followed by Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the Arab League at Cairo, which on 11 March 2016, formally declared Hezbollah group a terrorist organization. In addition, during the meeting, Saudi Arabia also […]

 නලින්ද සිල්වා  ඩී එස් සී උපාධිධාරී සේවාර්ජිත (සම්මානිත) මහාචාර්ය අශෝක අමරතුංග මහතා පසුගිය මාර්තු 03 වැනි දා ලිපියෙන් කාල නීර්ණය ගැන කතාවකට ද මග පාදා ගෙන ඇත. අප ඒ මහතාගේ සුදුසුකම් සෑම ලිපියක ම මුල සඳහන් කරන්නේ ඒ මහතා ඇගයීම සඳහා ය. ඒ මහතා තම ලිපි අවසානයේ දී තම සුදුසුකම් අපට නිතර නිතර මතක්කර දෙන්නේ […]

Guwahati: The 45th National Safety Week, observed at Nagaon Paper Mill (NPM), Kagajnagar  on 4-11 March witnessed a series of activities including administering of safety pledges, wearing of safety badges by the employees, safety essay writing competitions, display of safety banner & posters with discussions over various industrial safety related issues. The celebration kicked off […]

By Dr. Chandana Jayalath Professionalism, like so many other leader traits, is one that we can easily learn by being aware of our actions and how they make impacts and influences others. What differentiates a true professional from the rest of the pack? Professionals help us learn how to improve for our customers, how to […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න අසූව දශකයේ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ(ජවිපෙ) වර්ධනය වූයේ පවතින සමාජ ක්‍රමය විසින් බිහිකරන සහ උත්සන්න කරන ලද සමාජ අසාධාරණයට එරෙහිව වේගවත් ප්‍රකාශනයක් ලෙස එය මතුවූ නිසාය. සාම්ප්‍රදායික වම අ‍භාවයට යද්දී සහ ජවිපෙ ශක්තිමත් වෙමින්  ජාතික ගැටළුව පිළිබඳව පක්ෂය තුළවූ අපැහැදිලි මතවාදයන් අහෝසි කරමින් මතවාදී හා න්‍යායික ඒකමතියක් ස්ථාපිත කරමින් සිටියදී ජනතා ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයක් සඳහා වන […]

ධර්මන් වික‍්‍රමරත්න උසස් අධ්‍යාපන සහ මහාමාර්ග ඇමති ලක්ෂ්මන් කිරිඇල්ල මාර්තු 3වැනිදා කියා සිටියේ සරසවියේ කථිකාචාර්ය තනතුරක් එජාපයට වැඩකල අයෙක් වෙනුවෙන් ලබාදෙන  ලෙසට කරන ලද ඉල්ලීම ‘යහපාලනය’ කඩාකප්පල් කිරීමක් නොවන බවය. අධ්‍යාපන ඇමති අකිල කාරියවසම් මාර්තු 5වැනිදා කියා සිටියේ මවට ඒඩ්ස් වෛරසය ශරීර ගතවී ඇත්නම් දරුවා නිදාගන්නේ මවගේ ඇකයේ නිසා දරුවා පරිවාසයට ගතයුතු බවය. විදේශ කටයුතු […]