R Chandrasoma In this prodigious (and Buddhist) country the Minister of Health is in an unhealthy state of un-supressed agitation when lambasting those he sees as enemies of the anointed government of which he is part – a government that (supposedly) ushered in the Age of Decency and Righteous Governance. It is known to science […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා රාජිත සේනාරත්න කියලා තිබුණා යුද්ධය තාවකාලික විසඳුමක් පමණයි කියලා. ස්ථිර විසඳුම් ලෝකෙ තියෙනව ද කියලා රාජිතගෙන් අහන්න මට ඕන කමක් නැහැ. ඒත් මට දැනගන්න ඕන මේ යුද්ධය මොකක් ද තාවකාලික ව විසඳුපු ප්‍රශ්නය මොකක් ද කියලා. රාජිත දත් දොස්තර කෙනෙක්. මේ දිනවල ඔහු සයිටම් ගැන රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරි සංගමය එක්ක වචන හුවමාරුවක […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE There are reports reaching  Colombo that the current top man at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Rome is playing games with his countrymen.  For the past several years, Sinhala Classes have been conducted for the Sinhala children living in Italy.  A representative of the HELADIVA THAKSALAWA”  has gone to the […]

Markandey katju Former Judge, Supreme Court of India The article was originally published on The Huffington Post. India is inevitably heading for a revolution. Why do I say so ? Let me explain India is potentially a highly developed country, but actually a poor and backward country. It is potentially a highly developed country because it has […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Authorities have suspended all internet services in the three districts of Srinagar, Budgam and Gandarbal where voting started on Sunday for the parliamentary by-elections.Both mobile internet and fixed line broadband connectivity were suspended in the three poll-bound districts which constitute Srinagar-Budgam parliamentary constituency.” Though this election has been held in India Held […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න    දෙවන ලෝක සංග්‍රාම සමයේ  ඉංග්‍රීසින් විසින් ඉදිකළ ත්‍රිකුණාමලයේ තෙල් ටැංකි 103 තිබුනේය .දැන් 99 ක් ඇත 1948 දී මේවා සිංහලයන්ට ලැබුනේ නැත .රන්පවුම් 2,50  000 ක් ගෙවා 1957 දී මේවා ලංකා රජය පවරා ගත්තේය .එහෙත් ඒවා යහපාලන රජයේ අගමැති විසින් ඉන්දියාවට  නැවත බදු දීමට කස කවය් .2017 වෙසක් උත්සවයට පෙර ඔහු මෙම […]

Elanko Ratnasabapathey – April 4th 2017, Toronto Star Dear Mayor Tory, I am writing in regards to your commentary of your trip to the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, published on the Toronto Star dated April 4th 2017. I was born and raised in Sri Lanka and lived in the country until I migrated to Canada with […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා වර්මානයේ විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස හිදිමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙකුට හිමි ඩියුටි ෆී වාහන බලපත්‍රයක් උපයෝගී කරගෙන ජපානයේ නිෂ්පාදිත ටොයොටා ලෑන්ඩ් කෲසර් ජීප් රථයයක් සිංගප්පූරුවේ ටොයොටා සමාගමන් ඇ.ඩොලර් 62500කට ලංකා බැංකුවේ ණයවර ලිපිගොනු අංක Branch 049- Ref No: NU/P/SIL/16/217 යටතේ ඇණවුම් කොට ගෙන්වා ගෙන ඇති බව කොලම්බු ටෙලිග‍්‍රාෆ් වෙබ් අඩවියේ දැක්වෙයි. […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy  The Hindu Project developer hopes investments to the tune of $13 billion to start coming in from 2018; targets major investors from South Asia, particularly India It is hard to miss the blue-lettered boards lining the northern end of Galle Face, Colombo’s iconic seafront. A new Central Park in Colombo”, A new world […]

EDITH M. LEDERER AND PAISLEY DODDS ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday urged all countries that provide troops for U.N. peacekeeping missions to hold soldiers accountable for sexual abuse and exploitation, an appeal that came after she cited an Associated Press investigation into a child sex ring in Haiti involving […]

by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong Leaders from China and Sri Lanka have voiced support for a proposed bilateral free trade agreement at a recent meeting. Yu Zhengsheng, Chairman of the People’s Political Consultative Conference (PPC), was holding talks with Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe. The state news agency, Xinhua, said Yu had called […]

By Panchamee Hewavissenti Courtesy  Ceylon Today In an interview with Ceylon Today, General Secretary of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya and member of the Joint Opposition Udaya Gammanpila said, the economy of the country is on the verge of collapse as the inflation rates, interest rates as well as the rate of unemployment are rising sharply with […]