By Charles.S.Perera Democracy permits any peaceful manifestation of the people against a government to show their dissatisfaction  of the way the country is being ruled. It is of course outside democracy for the people or groups of people or individuals to take up arms of any sort to manifest their dissatisfaction of the way they […]

 Courtesy The Daily Mirror Though the government had assured that the findings of the Office of the Missing Persons (OMP) would not give rise to civil or criminal liability, the joint opposition said today the findings could be used as evidence when the judicial mechanism is set up to hear accountability issues. Former MP G.L. […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න දිනය : 1953 අගෝසතු 12වැනිදාය.ඇය නමින් ඇසි අක්කාය. මොරටුව පදිංචිකාරියකි. රතුකොඩියක් අතින් ගත් ඇසි අක්කා ධාවනය වෙමින් තිබෙන දුම්රියට රතුකොඩියක් අල්ලා නැවතුන පසු රියදුරු සහ සේවකයින් බිමට බස්සවන ලදී. අනතුරුව එහි රැස්වූ කාන්තාවන් සමඟ දුම්රිය ඇන්ජිමේ ගිනිගනිමින් තිබූ ගල්අගුරු සියල්ල ඉවතට ඇද දමා දුම්රිය ක්‍රියා විරහිත කළේය. ඉන් නොනැවතී කිසිදු දුම්රියක් ඉන් ඔබ්බට […]

Courtesy Adaderana August 15, 2016  03:40 pm  A lawsuit will be filed against former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga for allegedly making defamatory statements on former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, MP Udaya Gammanpila says. The observation was made while speaking at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (15). Gammanpila also went on to say he […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Large State Owned Organizations are calling RFP’s with a view of privatization of loss making   sometimes profit making Institutions. PPP (Public Private Partnership) is also an alternative to fully privatization. Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has called many RFP‘s for their ports and port related Industries. So far nothing happened and […]

Courtesy Adaderana August 15, 2016  04:04 pm  An LTTE leader who was once a deputy to its supreme leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was a RAW agent, recruited as early as 1989, a new book says. LTTE supreme leader Velupillai PrabhakaranJournalist Neena Gopal, who interviewed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi moments before he was assassinated in 1991, says […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said today said it would request the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) to investigate the abduction and killing of party’s founder leader Rohana Wijeweera, senior member Upatissa Gamanayake and the mass grave in Matale. JVP MP Bimal Ratnayake told a media briefing that his party would […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island August 14, 2016, 9:24 pm The government claims the Office on Missing Persons Bill (OMPB) has been passed with amendments, though it does not know how many MPs voted for or against it according to Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe. The Joint Opposition (JO) insists that the Bill was not duly passed as many […]

Courtesy The Island August 13, 2016, 6:53 pm The passage of the Office of Missing Persons Bill in parliament once again saw the worst characteristics of the so-called yahapalana government on display last Thursday. All the decisions concerning the Bill was made by the yahapalana partners who dominate both the government and the opposition in […]

By Daya Gamage – Former Political Specialist at U.S. Mission in Colombo Washington, D.C. 14 August (Asiantribune.com): Since the advent of the Sirisena-Wickremasinghe administration in January 2015, the American Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka has adopted an extremely partisan diplomatic / political line never seen – in public – since the July 1960 parliamentary election in […]

www.mahinda.info මොරගහකන්ද ජලාශයේ නිදන් වස්තු තැන්පත් කිරීමේ උත්සවයේදී විධායක ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහත පැවැත්වූ කථාව පහත දැක්වේ. එම කථාවේදී හිටපු විධායක ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් ගැනද සඳහන් කරමින් වත්මන් විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් බොරු ගණනාවක් ප්‍රකාශ කර තිබේ. එනිසා ජනතාව නොමග යැවීම වැළැක්වීමට ඒ ගැන අන්තර්ජාලය භාවිතා කරන ජනතාව වෙත මූලාශ්‍ර සහිතව පැහැදිළි කිරීමක් ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නෙමු. […]