By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA When the despotic J.R.Jayawardene completed his 12 year term in 1989, and became unable to contest for a third term, he sponsored R.Premadasa who was the Prime Minister at that time to contest as UNP’s presidential candidate in the 1989 election. The JVP which was carrying out a terror campaign […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala When two distinguished authorities on the history of Jaffna  —  Bishop S. Jebanesan of the Jaffna Diocese of  the Church of South India, and Richard Fox Young who holds a Chair in the Princeton Theological Seminary, USA., – collaborated to translate the novel Mirage (Kanal in Tamil), depicting the plight of […]

 Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Mahanuwara Sinhala Jesta purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya 24. 3 2017 I am Copying here few extremist News Headlines a trend that has to be arrested immediately 1 Wigneswaran tells Malik to withdraw Army from North 2 Canadian Toronto mayor has discussions with NPC Chief Minister  Wigneswaran  3 Wrong to give Sri Lanka more […]

R Chandrasoma It is a weakness of the system of memory-recall in humans that the good things that happened to us remain vivid in our memory while the misfortunes and travail that dogged our life tend to be pushed into oblivion. Nobody gets any joy in recalling an unpleasant past. Historians show the same weakness […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera JVP and Tamil  failed insurrection …….. When I keep remembering the experiences I had in Moscow, it may give some light to all of us about this country .We were taught political economy based on Socialist Doctrine and History of Soviet Union ( after 1917 only –nothing much about Tzar’s regime except […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando A Burger boy arrived, about 25 years ago, at David Jansze’s doorstep looking out for any type of work, showing signs of malnutrition and prominent burn scars on his face and body. Tyrone Bottoni hailed from a middle class family. His father was an engine driver at the CGR, married […]

Bodhi Dhanapala Quebec, Canada March 24, 2017, 8:07 pm Kamal Wickremasinghe (KW), writing to The Island Newspaper, March 22nd begins by the claim that “Glyphosate of course is the active ingredient of the world’s most widely used herbicide Roundup, known to cause cancer and kidney disease in humans”. This presumptuous statement about cancer and kidney […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි රූපවාහිනී නාලිකාවලින් දිනපතා ප්‍රවෘත්ති නරඹන අපේ ඇස ගැටෙන දේ අතර මැති ඇමතිලා සහභාගි වන උත්සවවලින් නම් අඩුවක් නැත. 2017 මාර්තු 17 වනදා හම්බන්තොට පැවති එවැනි උත්සවයක් නැරඹූවිට එහි ප්‍රධාන අමුත්තා වූ ධීවර හා ජලජ සම්පත් අමාත්‍ය මහින්ද අමරවීර කල කතාව නිසා යම් විශේෂත්වයක් දක්නට ලැබිනි. ඒ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල වෙනසක් ගැනද ඒ කතාව තුල […]

Courtesy The Island March 25, 2017, 8:02 pm The UNHRC resolution which was co-sponsored by Sri Lanka and passed without a vote last Thursday has given the government two years to deliver on the commitments made in UNHRC Resolution No: 30/1 of October 2015. Unlike in previous years, this year’s UNHRC resolution did not generate much […]

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE There are two wicked politicians still prevailing in Sri Lanka.  One is Badrakali Chandrika and the other The Wicked Ranil.   Their long term objective will be to eliminate all Sinhala National Leaders. If any danger takes place for the life of Mr Weerawangsa as a result of ongoing Fasting, the […]

Ira de Silva Canada It is incredible that the Australian High Commission has either denied or claims a visa for Maj. General C. Gallage is “under assessment” – diplomatic jargon to cover the denial of a visa.  Australia considers the Major General as a  “Potential Controversial Visitor” citing war crimes  and crimes against humanity as reason […]

සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින නව රජය බලයට ආ දිනයේ සිට රටට යළි “මිලේනියම් සිටි” පාවා දීම සිහිගන්වමින් බුද්ධි අංශ රණවිරුවන්ට එරෙහි විමර්ශන ආරම්භ කළ රහස්‌ පොලිසිය ඉකුත් සතියේ ඇමැති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා පැවසූ බව කියමින් ආන්දොaලනාත්මක කතාවක්‌ ගල්කිස්‌ස අධිකරණයට වාර්තා කළේය. සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මෙසේ සීඅයිඩීයට කී කතාව වන්නේ කුමක්‌ද? ඉකුත් 2008 – 2009 වර්ෂයන්හිදී සිදුවූ […]

සාකච්ඡා කළේ – මනෝඡ් අබයදීර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින දිනෙන් දින ඉහළ යන ආරක්‌ෂක බුද්ධි අංශ සාමාජිකයන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම සම්බන්ධව සමාජයේ ඇතිවී තිබෙන කතාබහ පිළිබඳ සංවාදය සඳහා හිටපු ආරක්‌ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‌ෂ මහතා සමග ‘දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්‍රහය’ කරන සාකච්ඡාවයි මේ. ප්‍රශ්නය – ත්‍රස්‌තවාදය ජයගැනීම සදහා ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාවට නායකත්වය දුන් ප්‍රධානියා ඔබ. ඔබ යටතේ සේවය කළ නිලධාරීන් බොහෝ […]

Joint Opposition holds anti-govt rally in Galle ආණ්ඩුවට එරෙහිව පෙරළියක පෙරමග ගාල්ලෙන්

By Yusuf Ariff  Courtesy Adaderana March 25, 2017  07:54 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the reason for soaring rice prices and cost of living is due to the ‘stupid’ decisions and carelessness of the government. Do you get rice for Rs 45 – 60 now? How much is it now? It is Rs 110 […]

රට වෙනුවෙන් යුධ බිමේ මෙන්ම පිටරටදීද සටන් වැදීමට සූදානම් රියර් අද්මිරාල් සරත් වීරසේකර කොටි ඩයස් පෝරාවට සහ පාට කණ්නාඩි දමාගත් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ට නිවරදිව ප්‍රතිඋත්තර ලබාදුන් නමුත් ඒ පිළිබඳව නිවරදිව අවබෝධයක් නොමැතිව එතුමන්ව විවේචනය කිරීමට සිරිසේන ජනපතිවරයාගේ හම්බන්තොට ගෝලයා වන මහින්ද අමරවීර කටයුතු කළේය. රට වෙනුවෙන් යුධ බිමේ මෙන්ම පිටරටදීද සටන් වැදීමට සූදානම් රියර් අද්මිරාල් සරත් […]

By The Nation The saga over the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) continues. It has already seen the good and the bad. Now it is seeing the ugly. This week police alleged that the reported shooting of the Chief Executive Officer of SAITM was apparently stage managed. A Pradeshiya Sabha member, police […]

By Waruna Abeysekera – Courtesy The Nation Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara is a high level naval officer who played a major role during the civil war. The former Deputy Minister and former MP recently became a much talked about figure because he went to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland to counter […]

The govt. requested for international intervention – G.L. Peiris

අමරවීර ඇමතිතුමා වැරදියට තේරුම් අරන්

Courtesy  Daily Mirror The government today sought Parliament’s approval for spending a total sum of Rs.288.2 million in order to purchase vehicles for several ministers, deputy ministers and state ministers. Accordingly, the approval was sought for the spending of Rs.42 million to purchase a vehicle for deputy chairman of committees, Rs.82 million on a new […]

Courtesy Adaderana Five years ago, Sri Lanka’s government imposed stricter rules on visa requirements. This happened as part of an on-going process to improve administrative procedures following the end of the war in 2009. Since the new visa laws were proposed, a new government has come into power. What impact do the new visa requirements […]