By J.B. Müller The Sri Lankan Diaspora overseas (mainly in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the USA) eagerly and indiscriminately absorbs everything appearing about their Motherland in the international print and electronic media.  All what is done is done in the naïve belief that there isn’t a spin on the news and that it is […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Since grabbing power through unconstitutional methods,  Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe  government tried to find out corrupt deals between Chinese Government and the former government of President Mahinda Rajapakse.  Headlines after headlines were given front page banner lines attacking Chinese Projects in Sri Lanka.  Since coming into power Ranil and his government […]

By Charles S. Perera Every one who voted this disastrous government calling itself  the Yahapalanaya into power may now be regretting,  except  of course the Tamils, Muslims the Civil Society  Organisations bought over by the government and those who exist as ministers , administrators  in some way connected in supporting  this ambiguous Yahapalanaya Government. Its […]

By  A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA A few years ago our beloved motherland was a country more dangerous to live in than the contemporary Syria or Iraq due to terrorist threats that loomed all over the country from Kebbitigollawa in the North Central to Moneragala in the Uva and Godapitiya in the South. Five leaders of this […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි චාවාකච්චේරි ප්‍රදේශයෙන් පසුගිය දා හමුවූ මරාගෙන මැරෙන ඇඳුම් කට්ටලය සහ පැති බෝම්බ ආදිය පිලිබඳව මේ දිනවල රට තුල පැතිර පවත්නේ මහත් ආන්දෝලනයකි. රජය පාර්ශ්වයෙන් මුලදී පැවසුවේ යම් බඩු මුට්ටු වගයක් හමුවූ බවත්, මෙය සාමාන්‍ය දෙයක් බවත්, මෙවැනි දේ පසුගිය කාලය පුරාම ඕනෑ තරම් හමුවී ඇති නිසා එමගින් ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට කිසිදු බලපෑමක් සිදු නොවන […]

Courtesy Gradient Alliance Monthly Bulletin: March 2016 The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) is to issue sovereign bonds of about USD 3bn in the international capital markets, as the government attempts to bring a worsening fiscal situation under control. Sri Lanka is impacted by a widening fiscal deficit caused by spiraling public sector wages, discovery […]

Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada. Mark Salter is a person who has come forward to write a book entitled “To End a War”,dealing with the “failed Norwegian Peace process” and related matters. In his second comment (March 30, 2016) on Ferdinando’s column, Salter writes that : “First, Ferdinando asserts that the ‘Norwegians believed decision making process […]

BY: Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Dear President Sirisena, Written below are urgent concerns that Sri Lankans living overseas (as well as within Sri Lanka) would like you to implement with immediate effect for the greater benefit of Sri Lanka. A total rejection of the report of the OHCHR as presented by the UNHRC High Commissioner […]

ආචාර්ය ලීල් ගුණසේකර 71 කැරැල්ලේ පුනරුත්ථාපනය පිළිබඳ අතිරේක ලේකම්   වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග  විසින්  71 කැරැල්ල පිළිබඳව අධ්‍යයනයක් කොට කැරළිකරුවන් සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවලට ලක් කරමින් ඉතිහාසයේ සැඟව පැවති සාධකයන් ඉස්මතු කරමින් ඉතා අගනා සමාජ විද්‍යාත්මක හා ඓතිහාසික වශයෙන් වටිනා කෘතියක් පාඨකයාට ලබා දීම ප්‍රශස්ත කරුණක් ලෙස මම දකිමි.   වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග මට මුලින්ම හමු […]

By Afshain Afzal Prime Minister of Pakistan, who was scheduled to attend Nuclear Security Summit at Washington but he has decided to send his representative instead. The foreign sponsored terrorist attack outside a recreation park on 27 March, killing 72 people, was the basic reason. Western players, in order to pressurize Pakistan to scrap its […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam [PPFA] welcomed the verdict of Gauhati High Court in clearing all hurdles to complete the proposed war [martyr’s] memorial on the north bank of historic Dighalipukhuri in the heart of the city. The Gauhati high court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation [PIL] to permanently halt […]

Ben Silva Many ethnic groups around the world have been wiped out by technically superior groups as a result of lack of innovation and failure to adapt and progress and failure to recognise external threats. I have given below some food for thought, regarding arresting the decline. Understand the nature of the world and Understand […]