H. L. D. Mahindapala The violence in Sri Lanka raged for 33 years, starting from the declaration of war on May 14, 1976 at Vadukoddai by the Tamil leadership and ending  in Nandikadal on May 18, 2009 when Velupillai Prabhakaran’s body was found floating in the  murky waters of the Lagoon. This war has been […]

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By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island * Cabinet decision declared invalid * SC expresses shock at manner Rs. 60 billion tender was awarded *CJ says judiciary duty bound to pre vent abuse of power In this country, a court case rarely attracts much attention unless it has to do with something like murder or rape […]

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Editorial Courtesy The Island June 30, 2016, 9:08 pm Last year’s regime change was expected to bring about a radical change in Sri Lanka politics. In fact, the self-appointed champions of good governance or yahapalanaya made a solemn pledge before the last presidential election not only to fight bribery and corruption which had eaten into the […]

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lanka C news මෙහෙම ජනාධිපතිවරයෙක් ලෝකයේ වෙන කොහේවත් නැතැයි ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. එම පක්‍ෂ මූලස්ථානයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී ඔහු මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. 29 දා දහවල් ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා අපූරු ප්‍රකාශයක් කළා චෝදනාවලට ලක්ව සිටින මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා වෙනුවට අලුත් මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයකු තව පැය කිහිපයක් ඇතුළත […]

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By The Nation  Cricket matches sometimes end in thrilling finishes. At other times, they end in a tie, such as last Tuesday’s one day international with England, leaving both sides with some degree of satisfaction but deprived of victory. The recent controversy over Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran is somewhat similar. Mahendran completes his current […]

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Courtesy Colombo Telegraph The net appears to be closing in on the outgoing Governor of Central Bank Arjuna Mahendran, with the Auditor General implicating Mahendran in the first bond issuance which has resulted in the country losing a staggering Rs. 1.6 billion rupees, the Colombo Telegraph learns. Arjuna Mahendran The highly anticipated Auditor General’s report […]

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ACF  Media Unit The two Central Bank (CB) treasury bond scandals and the crisis that has occurred in appointing a new governor to CB have exposed the attempts to protect the corrupt by some elements of the ‘good governance’ government. The report of the Auditors General has stated that the activities of current CB administration  […]

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Press Release – Ananda College English Debating Society The English Debating Team of Ananda College (Team-B) emerged Champions at the 11th Sri Lanka Schools’ English Debating Championship, organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. The aforesaid tournament is considered to be the pinnacle of the local English debating scene, the most prestigious all-island inter-school debating championship and the tournament with […]

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මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය දූෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ කථානායකවරයා සහ කෝප් කමිටුව වෙත ඊයේ බාර දුන් විගණකාධිපති වාර්තාවේ සදහන් වන කරුණු නිවැරදි නොවන බව සදහන් කරමින් මහ බැංකුවේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නිලධාරීන්ගෙන් දිව්රුම් ප්‍ර‍කාශ ලබා ගැනීමේ ව්‍යාපාරයක් මේ වන විට ක්‍රියාත්මක වේ.  අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්‍ර‍න් සහ නියෝජ්‍ය අධිපති සමරසිරි විසින් මහ බැංකුවේ නිලධාරීන්ට ඒ සදහා බලපෑම් කරමින් සිටින බව ‘දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ‘ […]

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