Shenali D Waduge There is no ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. There is however a problem wherein a handful of high caste/class Tamils find it convenient to flag the Sinhala discrimination banner to hide the real issue. That issue is how these high castes/class wish to reign supreme over their own people in a separate […]

By Garvin Karunaratne Firstly the Kidney Disease, then the Dengu and what I think is coming over the horizon- is Arsenic. No one upto now has stated that the third,  Arsenic is on its way. But signs are there and unless immediate action is taken it will take a major toll. Both the Kidney Disease […]

By Chandani Kirinde Courtesy Sunday Times Umpteen stories are written on how wars are fought and won and this is true of Sri Lanka, too, where since the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009, countless books have been authored giving different perspectives of how the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) defeated the Tamil Tigers. Major General […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy  Ceylon Today President Maithripala Sirisena recently said if former President Mahinda Rajapaksa won his third term or had the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam leader Prabakaran survived Eelam War IV, then achieving lasting peace is not possible. It is an interesting observation on three counts. One is that though the former President […]

වෛද්‍ය කේ. එම්. වසන්ත බණ්‌ඩාර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින බෙදුම්වාදී යුද්ධයේ තීරණාත්මක අවධියක්‌ වූ 2008 සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේදී “සිංහල හ`ඩ” සංවිධානය හරහා පේරාදෙණිය විද්‍යාර්ථීන් පිරිසක්‌ විසින් ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කළ “දෙමළ ඊළාම් නිජබිම ප්‍රශ්නය” නැමති පොත් පිංච ම`ගින් යුද්ධයේ දාර්ශනික පදනමට ප්‍රබල බුද්ධිමය ප්‍රහාරයක්‌ එල්ල කරන්නට යෙදුනි. එම කෘතිය ම`ගින් මහා වංශය සම`ග සැසඳීමේදී ඉතා දුප්පත් ඉතිහාස මූලාශ්‍රයක්‌ වූ […]

Senaka Weeraratna In the light of the proposed changes to the Constitution of Sri Lanka now under consideration and growing accusations of contrived attempts via the proposed new Article 33 to neutralize the applicability of Article 9 in the Constitution that imposes a mandatory duty on the State to give to Buddhism the foremost place […]

By Afshain Afzal The official statement coming from Colonel S.D. Goswami at Headquarters Army’s Northern Command, Udhampur claimed that “Four militants, who had entered the rear base camp of an infantry battalion in Uri town around 5:30 am on 18 September 2016, were killed and search operation was continuing inside the camp”. Interestingly the Police […]

by  Dr  Ruwan M Jayatunge and Dr Laurent Karila, of Paul Brousse University Hospital, Villejuif, France Problematic sexual behaviors have been identified for centuries and Nymphomania has become a controversial subject among the clinicians. Nymphomania is considered as an organic disease, psychological disorder and a legal construct (Groneman, 2001). The term nymphomania resonates with a […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today From the wig to the Veshti (the traditional, usually snow white Tamil attire, oft mispronounced as Vetti/Verti), Northern Province Governor Canagasabhapathy Viswalingam Wigneswaran (fondly Wiggy to newspaper Editors and journalists for reasons of brevity) these days, does not seem to know from which orifice he is shooting! Whether it is from his […]

ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් එරට මීලග ජනාධිපති වන්නේ ඩොනල්ඞ් ට‍්‍රම්ප් බව ජ්‍යෙතිර්වේදී විජිත් රෝහණ විජේමුණි මහතා පවසයි. 4,293 Viewers

Mahinda never siphoned off state money – Rangith රාජපක්ෂවරු මුදල් හොරකම් කර ඇති බවට ඔප්පු කළ හොත් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය විසුරුවා හරිනවා… පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී රංජිත් මද්දුමබණ්ඩාර පවසයි.

Adaderana September 18, 2016  02:40 pm The Government is eyeing to hold a referendum with respect of the proposed Constitution, National Freedom Front leader Wimal Weerawansa says. He pointed out that the Government is planing to hold the referendum in the beginning of next year, instead of holding the proposed Local Government polls. The observation was […]

Courtesy  Adaderana September 18, 2016  05:21 pm   Indian MDMK general secretary Vaiko has released a letter written by LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran to DMK leader M. Karunanidhi in 1989 in which he had asked the latter to bring to the attention of opposition parties the atrocities” committed by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), The Hindu […]

 Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror  In the wake of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga calling for a Federal and Quasi-Secular Constitution for Sri Lanka, the joint opposition (JO) said it was totally opposed to ‘Federalism’ as a means to resolving the national question. JO parliamentary group leader Dinesh Gunawardane said yesterday they met to discuss the […]

Editorial The Island – Sept 15, 2016 Many war criminals are reported to have avoided deportation from the UK thanks to some serious lapses on the part of the British authorities, who have taken no further action after blocking their bids for citizenship. A recent article in The Daily Mail tells us that some human […]