By Charles.S.Perera Now its two years since the greatest Bank Robbery in Sri Lanka –the Bond Scam was committed. Two COPE reports were out confirming the theft and showing where the  smell had taken them to. The thief  every one in Sri Lanka is quite aware of  is still unharmed living  a comfortable  respectable life […]

RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE Why did the Sri Lanka Army recently invite somebody who sold the entire country down the drain as the Chef Guest at the Kotelawala Defence University’s Graduate Studies Department’s Inauguration of Masters Programs for the year 2017? This invitee, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu also delivered the keynote address. Probable answers: 1. They want to make […]

by Suresh Perera Courtesy The Island April 1, 2017, 7:41 pm The proposed new Inland Revenue Act has run into stiff opposition from key industry players, who described the controversial move to replace the existing law, as a “retrograde step that’s bound to create confusion and impinge on the overall revenue collection mechanism”. Asserting that the […]

සී. ඒ. චන්ද්‍රප්‍රේම උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින අජිත් ඩොවාල් යනු ලංකාවේ ජනතාවට කොහෙත්ම හුරු නමක්‌ නොවේ. නමුත් 2014 ඉන්දියාවේ නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝඩි බලයට පත්වූදා සිට ඉන්දීය විදේශ ප්‍රතිපත්තියේ, විශේෂයෙන්ම ඉන්දියාවේ අසල්වාසි රටවල් සම්බන්ධ ප්‍රතිපත්තියේ ප්‍රධානම තීරකයා වන්නේ ඉන්දියාවේ විදේශ ඇමතිනී සුශ්මා ස්‌වරාඡ් නොව ජාතික ආරක්‌ෂක උපදේශකවරයා වන අජිත් ඩොවාල්ය. එසේ තිබියදී අජිත් ඩොවාල් නමැති පුද්ගලයකු ගැන බොහෝ ලාංකිකයන් […]

ඔස්‌මන් චන්ද්‍රවංශ හිටපු විනිමය පාලක සහ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ අර්ථශාස්‌ත්‍රඥ යහපාලන රජය විසින් සිදු කර ඇති වංචා, පාඩු සහ වන්දි ගෙවීම් මෑතක සිට, අගමැතිවරයා සහ මුදල් ඇමැතිවරයා ඇතුළු මැති ඇමැතිවරු කීප දෙනකුම පසුගිය රජයේ – හෙජින් ගනුදෙනුව ඔස්‌සේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට සිදුවූ පාඩුව රුපියල් බිලියන 500 ක්‌ පමණ වී යයි පවසා ඇත. ඒ නිසා ජනතාවට වර්තමානයේදී අලෙවි කරන […]

By A. Abdul Aziz  Rather than erecting walls that keep us apart, we should build bridges that bring us closer together” – Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad According to our international Press Desk, U.K., on 25 March 2017, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Charles Dickens scribed on something completely different from his prose in May 1850, when he portrayed the Nigerian 419 scam where 419 wealthy people were approached seeking financial assistance for orphaned children, emergency surgery and quoting numerous examples of begging letters he had received over the years from various individuals […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected allegations that the decision to sell the Hambantota Port was first made during his government in 2014 and asserted that while he was in power they only took back what was already sold. We never decided to sell anything during our time. I took back […]

by Rajeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island April 1, 2017, 6:44 pm Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has recently made a strongly worded statement related to Sri Lanka’s ‘national question’ in response to questions raised by a member of the Communist Party of India. Reiterating India’s commitment to the protection of the rights of the Tamils […]

by Dr A.C.Visvalingam Courtesy The Island April 1, 2017, 6:42 pm Towards the end of its war to establish an independent state, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) did not allow civilians to move out of those areas from which it was attacking the Sri Lanka Army. It has been accused of deploying these hapless […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island Courtesy The Island The controversy over appointing Ramanathan Kannan, a member of the private bar from Batticlaoa, as a High Court judge over the heads of many senior District Court judges and officials of the Attorney General’s Department, is now coming to a head with an emergency general meeting […]