Insight By Sunil Kumar Dec,14th 2016 Given the reality that there is indeed a degree of unrest amongst the Muslims in Sri Lanka it seems hardly acceptable that State Minister of Resettlement and Rehabilitation Mr. M. L. A. M. Hizbullah, who represents the Eastern Province should suggest that if the government fails to settle the […]

Sudath Gunasekara Dear All, Look at the  following statement by Hisbulla, a Minister of this Government Why not him be told that he will end up the same way Prabhakararn did, if they take to arms. Let him also be reminded that this is not Arabia. This was the land of the Sinhala Buddhists for […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි අලුතින් බඳවා ගන්නා ලද රේගු අධිකාරීවරුන්ට පත්වීම් ලිපි ලබාදීම සඳහා පැවති උත්සවයකදී, අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ විසින් ප්‍රථම වතාවට යුද්ධයේ අවසන් අදියර සඳහා ගිය වියදම හා රට සංවර්ධනය කරන්නට ගිය වියදම් සමග විදේශ ණය ප්‍රමානය සැසඳීමට කටයුතු කලේය. වෙනදා නම් මෙවන් අවස්ථාවලදී ඔහු, පසුගිය රජය රට ණය කලේ යයි පවසමින් රාජපක්ෂ රජයට චෝදනා නගන්නේය. […]

By Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Prof. G.L. Peiris, in an interview with the Ceylon Today said, the government has not yet declared its official stance on the Executive Presidency The government must tell us what stand it has adopted on the Executive Presidency; whether it will abolish it […]

Source: PTI December 14, 2016  11:46 am The International Federation of Journalists today demanded immediate action” against Sri Lankan Navy chief who allegedly assaulted a journalist who was covering a strike by port workers in the country’s southern Hambantota port. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is seriously concerned by the assault of a journalist by […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island December 14, 2016, 7:50 pm A large number of Hambantota residents took to the streets yesterday against a government move to lease out a vast extent of land in the area to some Chinese companies. These protests and the Hambantota Port workers’ agitation are likely to snowball if the government resorts to […]

වංශපුර දේවගේ ජානක-යුතුකම සංවාද කවය එජාප රජයක් බලයට ආපු හැම අවස්ථාවකම රටේ සම්පත් විකුණුවා, ප්‍රාග්ධනය හොයන්ඩ. නමුත් එහෙම විකුනල හොයපු ප්‍රාග්ධනයෙන් වැඩක් ගන්ඩ සමත් කමක් එජාපෙට කවදාවත් තිබිල නැහැ. ආණ්ඩුවේ ධූර කාලය ඇතුලෙම ඔවුන් ඒ සල්ලි කබාසීනියා කරලා දැම්මා. ඒකට මූලික හේතුව නායකයින්ගේ අසමත්කම. සාමාන්‍යයෙන් එජාප ආණ්ඩුවක තීරණ ගැනීමේ බලය තියෙන දෙතුන් දෙනා කොළඹ නගරයේ […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera When I read above new item where UDA chairman exchanging MOU in the presence of the Megapolis Minister and the Sports Minister to establish Leisure Sports Island in the lake next to Waters Edge. Few week back during a presentation , Megapolis  Minister clearly  indicated that the starting point of the Canal […]

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Joseph Stalin was one of the main architects of creating a collective trauma in the Soviet Union. His actions and policies brought immense suffering to the people. The aftermath of Stalin’s repression still impacts the post Soviet Society. However despite all the negative consequences Stalin is still remembered in Russia as […]

Former Defence Secretary in Japan

Courtesy The Island December 11, 2016, 11:01 pm Peacetime heroics Navy Commander Vice Admiral Ravi Wijayagunaratne and his men manhandling The Island correspondent Roshan Gunasekera at the Hambantota Port. Pic by Dilip N Jayasekera Image from a video footage of Navy commander attacking journalist held by naval ratings As a Sathyagraha launched by the Hambantota port […]

ALI SUKHANVER Standing along the Line of Control looking across the border into the land belonging to India, we the Pakistanis wish that we were alone and companionless as the company of our closest neighbour India is simply like a pain in the neck. From the war imposed on us in 1965 to the tragic […]

By  Hosoya Kiyoshi ” UNHRC Committee members have little motivation to do the right thing and, as I mentioned earlier, no one monitors them. Perhaps that is why they accept invitations to all-expense-paid junkets, and in return, side with anti-Japanese nations and issue recommendations designed to emasculate and demolish Japan. The UN Human Rights Committee should […]

Sunil Thenabadu Brisbane Australia

Dr Sarath Obeysekera We have nowhere to go >>>>>>>>>> Today I am about to leave home to Road Development Authority to meet the legal division which I counted (it may be the 10th time)( to expedite the eviction of some encroachers along the road reservation in Galle next to Maglle bridge .The reservation is to […]

PRESS RELEASE. A. Abdul Aziz  Press Secretary. AHMADIYYA  MUSLIM  JAMA’AT – SRI LANKA In the name of Allah, most Gracious and ever Merciful It is with devastating shock that we wish to bring to your attention the report that we have received regarding the police raid on Ahamadiyya Head Quarters campus Rabwah, Pakistan and their […]