Dilrook Kannangara Current regime has turned Sri Lanka into a complete dictatorship. Only those who agree with it can survive doing politics. All others are hunted down, imprisoned, harassed and even threatened. Even the formal Opposition is handpicked by it. TNA and JVP that make up the formal opposition supported Sirisena at the presidential election. […]

Sudath Gunasekara 19. 6. 2016. Stop playing same old tunes, Ranil tells media assist in achieving reconciliation, peace, development Ranil Wickramasingha) Island June 18, 2016, 8:23 pm http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=147171 Isn’t this a fatal threat and an open intimidation to the media by the de facto Head of the State to the media? This threat also has to be […]

Courtesy The Island Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday said that the government found itself in the current predicament owing to its irresponsible action. Prof. Peiris said: “They have solemnly committed themselves to binding agreements at the Human Rights Council in Geneva without giving any thought to the consequences. The sequence of […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි ඇමතිවරුන්ගේ සැප වාහන කතාව තවමත් අවසන්ව ඇති බවක් නොපෙනේ. තමාගේ මැතිවරණ බල ප්‍රදේශය ඉතා දුර බැහැර නිසා තමාට හොඳ වාහනයක් අවශ්‍ය බව ඇමති විජිත් විජිතමුනි සොයිසා පවසයි. මේ පිලිබඳව හුවමාරු වන විවිධ අදහස් අතර ඇමති රාජිත සේනාරත්න දක්වන අදහස්වලට හිනා වෙන්නද, අඬන්නද කියා ජනතාවට සිතා ගනු නොහැකි බව සිකුරුය. ‘ සමහරු යුරෝපයේ ඇමතිවරු […]

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ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  චරිත ස්වභාවය අනුව  මගේ දරුවන් වර්ග කරනවිට මම මොලින්ම හඳුන්වා දුන්නේ තද හිත්  ඇති,එතරම් නම්‍යශීලී නැති එහෙත් ලෞකික ශිල්ප ශාස්ත්රවලට දක්ෂ මට බෙහෙවින් ආදරේ කල ” යක්ෂයින්”’ වැනි කොටසය .අනෙක් අ යට වඩා බුදු දහමට අනුගත වීමට මොවුන්ට බොහෝ කල් ගතවුවත් එසේ බෞද්ධ වූ අ  ය  අතර ඉතා විශිෂ්ට ලෙස මනස දියුණු කරගත් […]

Sarath Wijesinghe – former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Justice is not only be done it must seem to be done Citizen is expected to be given their cherished Nation to the hands of honest leaders of integrity on trust for a limited period to administer the Nation on trust as Temporary Trustees”. Some trustees […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS From very early on, the word ‘Sihala’ was used to describe the island, its people and its language.  Historian G.C .Mendis suggested in 1948 that ‘Simhala’ was the name applied to the island by the people of India and it was the island which gave its name to the people and the language.  […]

ALI SUKHANVER Who was Major Ali Jawad Changaizi the officer of Pakistan Army who sacrificed his life at Pak-Afghan Torkham border a few days back; a very few people know. He was the son of Brigadier Khadim Hussain Changaizi, the first Commissioner for Afghan Refugees in 90s in Balochistan. Before becoming president, Hamid Karzai also […]

ACF press release A number of senior officials are attempting to repeal a tender given by Litro Gas Lanka Limited to import LP gas to Sri Lanka, Anti Corruption Front (ACF) states. ACF Adviser Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon says that the Chairman and a few members of the Director Board of Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation, that […]

lanka C news ඊයේ පස්වරු අගමැතිවරයා සහ පුරවැසියබලය ඇතුළු සිවිල් සංවිධාන සමඟ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකදී මෙසේ සඳහන් කල බවද ඔහු කියා සිටියේය. ඉහල දමන ලද වැට් බදු සංශෝධනය, දුෂිතයින්ට දඬුවම් දීම වැනි කරුණු ගැනත් එහිදී සාකච්චා වූ බවද ඔහු සඳහන් කලේය. මේ අතර මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා මෙම තිරණය විරෝධය පල කරමින් සිංගප්පුරුව බලා පිටත්ව යාමට සූදානම් […]

by Rajan Philips Courtesy The Island June 18, 2016, 8:08 pm The name in the title notwithstanding, this article is not so much about an individual as it is about the politics and propriety of public institutions and the promise of good governance. The controversy over re-appointing the current governor of the Central Bank to a […]

Courtesy adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa attributes his defeat at the 2015 election to resentment against him from Muslims, Sri Lankan and Indian Tamils, and to the Sinhalese harboring unrealistic expectations who took what he delivered for granted. The Kurunegala District MP also says that he will cut his own throat if evidence is found […]

By The Nation It is perfectly normal for ordinary people to defend their friends irrespective of whether they are right or wrong. But can the leaders of a country afford to do so? This is the question that often comes to one’s mind whenever top ministers of the government show that they are ready to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had agreed not to re-appoint Arjuna Mahendran as the Governor of the Central Bank until the investigation launched by the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) against him concluded. The Convener of Puravasi Balaya, Saman Ratnapriya said the decision was made during the meeting held yesterday between the […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Understanding the endless difficulties and financial limitations faced by the media persons, voices have been raised for a group life & health insurance coverage for the media employees including working & freelance journalists engaged with various media outlets of the city. The members of Guwahati Press Club emphasize on a participatory […]

දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය එල් පී ගෑස් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ආනයනය කිරිම සදහා ලිට්රෝ ගෑස් සමාගම විසින් ලබාදුන් ටෙන්ඩරය අහෝසි කිරීම සදහා ‘ශ්‍රී ලංකා රක්ෂණ සංස්ථාවේ‘ සභාපති සහ අධ්‍යක්ෂ මණ්ඩලයේ කිහිප දෙනෙකු සැලසුම් සහගත කුමන්ත්‍ර‍ණයක නිරතව ඇතැයි දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණු එහි උපදේශක කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා ගේ අත්සනින් නිකුත් කළ නිවේදනයකින් දැක්වේ. 2016 මැයි 27 වන […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island June 16, 2016, 9:28 pm The Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform headed by its Chairman Lal Wijenayake has recommended retaining the Province as the unit of Devolution. The Commission proposes 6 “alternate formulations” based on the Province as the peripheral unit. These formulations vary from retaining the existing 9 […]