By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The 1970 UF government carried out a tremendous volume of work to make Sri Lanka a sovereign State, towards making the country self sufficient in food items and establishment of industries and State institutions covering major fields of activities.  When many countries in the East African region called the Sahel […]

චාල්ස් එස් පෙරේරා විසින් ලංකාවෙ  යුක්තියක් හා සාධාරණයක් තියෙනවද? යහපාලනය කරනවුන්ට මනුස්සකමක් තියෙනවද ? නීතිය ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට බැඳීසිටින නඩු කාරයෝ උන්ගේ හිතට එකඟවද නැත්නම් යහපාලකයන්ට බයේද නීතිය පනවන්නේ ? පුංචි දරුවෙකුත් දන්නවා මහදවල් හොරකමක් කරපු මහබැංකුවේ ලොක්කවසිටි අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන් හොරෙක් කියලා. ඔහු  ලංකාවට රුපියල් බිලියන ගානක වංචාවක් කරලත් ඔහු නිදහස් මහන්තත්ත ජීවිතයක්   රනිල් වික්රමසිංහගේ විශ්වාසකයකු […]

ඇම්  ඩී පී  දිසානායක සිරිලක් දේශපාලන භූමිකාවේ සැරිසරන දුෂ්ඨයන් දෙදෙනෙක් වෙති. එකියක් බද‍්‍රකාලී චන්ද‍රිකාය  අනිකා මේආත්මයේදි දරුසැපක් නැති රනිල්‍  ය . සිංහල නායකයින් එක එකා නැතිකරදැමීම මුන්ගේ අරමුණය. කිසියම් හේතුවකින් උපවාසය නිසා වීරවංශ මහතා ගේ ජීවිතයට හානියක් සිදුවුවහොත් රනිල් චන්ද‍රිකාවන් කොක්භඬළා සතුටු වෙනු ඇත . ඔබ තුමා අවශ‍්‍ය අපටය. ඔබතුමා නිභඬ වීම සිංහලයාගේ මළගමේ ආරම්භයය. […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Media keeps our mind boggling about an impending change of the ministers ,who have failed miserably . Tell me about any ,minister except the one in charge of health who has done something and yet the Saitm issue has suppressed his popularity .Minister of finance during night raids in customs has been […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  බෝධිනී සමරතුංග ගේ අනිත් කොන කෘතිය වෛද්‍ය වෘත්තිය පිලිබඳ සාක්‍ෂාත්කරයකි. එය කතුවරියගේ ආත්මකථනයකි. වෛද්‍ය උපාධිය ලබා ඇය මුලින්ම සේවය සඳහා යන්නේ යුද ගැටුම් වලින් පීඩා ලැබූ උතුරුකරයේ රෝහලකටය​. සිංහල වෛද්‍යවරියක ලෙස ඇයට මෙම ප්‍රදේශය නුහුරුය​. ඇය දෙමල බස නොදන්නීය​. දමිල රෝගීන් බහුතරය වන රෝහලක කෙලෙස තම රැකියාව කිරීමට හැකි වෙත්ද යන දෙගිඩියාවෙන් […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokesperson,United Sri Lanka Association, Wellington, New Zealand To. Rt. Hon. Bill English MP, Prime Minister of New Zealand. Dear Mr.English, We write  to convey the congratulations and delight of the Sri Lankan community in NZ,  at your announcing your decision to establish a High Commission in Sri Lanka. We have no […]

ALI SUKHANVER ‘Mr. Modi cannot wash his hands off. This is a Fascist ideology, supported by the BJP and Narendra Modi. He is carrying forward the agenda of RSS. The political agenda of the RSS is to divide the nation and to remain in power and to seek power and I think he is badly […]

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C. March 24, 2017 In the month of February, two congressional delegations of U.S. House of Representatives visited Sri Lanka.  The first was a bipartisan four-member delegation of the House Democracy Partnership (HDP) Committee led by Chairman Peter Roskam and Ranking Member David Price.  An eight-member bipartisan delegation led by […]

Dr Hector Perera       London I was living in a room only boarding house near Punchi Borella, not too from The All Saints Church when I had to study for Science Advanced Level. Then I had to depend on hotel takeaways than cooking. At the start I had to cycle or walk all the way to […]

By A. Abdul Aziz.  Saturday 23rd March 1889 was the momentous day when Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, accepted the hands of forty faithful servants in allegiance to the 10 conditions of Bai’at (initiation) and founded the community which he called ‘The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at’. The Promised Messiah, peace […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses happiness and gratefulness over the recent Gauhati High Court directive to the management of Janasadharan, an Assamese daily newspaper  to clear all the unpaid wages of the employees till January and also make an endeavour to pay the current wages accordingly. The court also asked the […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary.  According to media reports, Algerian Government has continued to crackdown on members of the Ahmadi Muslims in the country. The Ahmadiyya Community in the country has expressed concern over the religiously motivated arrests. From June 2016, onwards, the authorities in Algeria targeted members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, arresting at […]

No point telling Parliament, must go to Geneva – Rajapaksa

The Street Walk By Bandula Jayasekara Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka is the best country in the world. It is a land like no other. Incredible! That is why there is a song and people always say ‘Loken Uthum Rata Sri Lankawai’ (Sri Lanka is the best country in the world). We have the best Finance […]

by PROFESSOR G.L. PEIRIS March 23, 2017, 9:31 pm What is evident for all to see is that Yahapalanaya has deteriorated today into the expression of a totally autocratic culture, in Parliament as well as in the country at large. Across the country vital elections at grassroots level are postponed indefinitely on the flimsiest of […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera When I see the TV and the photos in the paper where President Putin who is in an immaculate Physical and mental state witting with President Maithriplala Sirisena ,I felt nostalgic about the time I spent in Soviet Union which was then a socialists country .It was a country with moral values […]

Sputnik A deputy chief of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation said that Russia has proposed to set up a service center for Russian-made helicopters in Sri Lanka. © SPUTNIK/ MAKSIM BOGOVID Russia, Sri Lanka Discuss Delivery Contract of Gepard 3.9 Frigates LANGKAWI (Sputnik) – Russia has proposed to set up a service center for Russian-made helicopters in Sri […]

Courtesy nasdaq.com COLOMBO, March 24 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee traded weaker on Friday on importer dollar demand despite the central bank’s decision to raise key rates by 25 basis points in a move to ease the pressure on the currency. The central bank raised its benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points before […]