Shenali D Waduge  N Q Dias was referred to as Sri Lanka’s Clausewitz. He was the most powerful public servant serving as Permanent Secretary for Defense plus Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister in the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Government of 1960-65. Having read Panikkar Doctrine he was apprehensive of India’s designs on Sri Lanka. His anticipation of the […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The American novelist Ernest Hemingway is considered as the greatest writer of the 20th century. Hemingway explored universal themes such as life, love and death.  His name was a synonym for an approach to life characterized by action, courage, physical prowess, stamina, violence, independence, and above all “grace under pressure (Yalom & Yalom, 1971). Hemingway brought […]

මනෝප‍්‍රිය ගුණසේකර  උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකාදීප බැදුම්කර නිකුතුවට ඉදිරිපත් වු රුපියල් බිලියන 10 ක ලංසුවට අනුමැතිය දෙන ලෙස ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු අධිපති අර්ජුන් මහෙන්ද්‍රන් මහතා කළ නියෝගය හේතුවෙන් එම ලංසුවට අනුමැතිය දීමට සිදුවුණ බව ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ සංඛ්‍යා දත්ත දෙපාර්තමෙන්තුවේ හිටපු අධිකාරී දීපා කාන්ති සෙනෙවිරත්න මහත්මිය හෙළි කළාය. කරන්නට වෙන දෙයක් නොමැති හෙයින් […]

Dr Sarah Obeysekera Quote Concerned about public discontent over the delivery of services, the Government is undertaking an immediate review of public sector staff in government offices. Unquote I have a story to tell about this, It is also concerning the attitude and the performance of Private and Public Sector Employees and well as employers […]

Adaderana The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) Monday alleged Arjun Aloysius, the son-in-law of former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran, of attempting to siphon off money that he allegedly earned through illegal means. PHU leader Udaya Gammanpila made the observation at a press conference held in Colombo. We doubt whether he allegedly attempts to siphon off […]

By Binoy Suriyaarachchi Courtesy Adaderana March 6, 2017  04:27 pm The Secretary of Socialist People’s Front Monday charged that the government has failed to uphold law and order in the country. Raja Kollure, General Secretary of Socialist People’s Front made the observation while speaking to reporters at a press conference held in Colombo. Citing the recent incidents […]

And they ask why a tender procedure wasn’t followed to hire BNS – Gotabaya

Archaeological site in Madirigiriya in danger? මැදිරිගිරිය වටදාගෙය පිහිටි රක්ෂිතයේ පස් ජාවාරමක්… උකුසු ඇසට හසු වෙයි.

The National Freedom Front (NFF) accused the government of double standards on Sunday after the Foreign Minister sought more time to ‘meet the goals’ at the U.N. human rights session began in Geneva earlier this week. ජීනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය ආණ්ඩුවේ කණ අතගාන ගමන් කම්මුල් පාරකුත් ගහලා 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම බලාත්මක කිරීම සහ නව […]

Over 2000 officials have been questioned by FCID so far – MR රාජ්‍ය සේවකයා සද්භාවයෙන් කරන කිසි දෙයක් වැරදි නෑ

EDITORIAL Courtesy The Daily Mirror Officially Sri Lanka today is in a situation best described by the Sinhala idiom ‘Girayata ahuwechcha puwak gediya wage’ –a Catch-22 situation- a paradoxical situation from which there is hardly any chance of escape. The country faces an almost insurmountable foreign exchange and external debt repayment crisis; a problem of finding […]

Djsources breakingnewsgh.com Muslim parents demanded the abolition of pork in all the school canteens of a Montreal suburb. The mayor of the Montreal suburb of Dorval has refused, and the town-clerk sent a note to all parents to explain why. Here’s that note: Muslims must understand that they have to adapt to Canada and Quebec, its […]