Sudath Gunasekara 17.4.2017. The President said that the Government would ensure that no garbage would be dumped at the site in the future and the existing site will be shifted soon.  – See more at: http://www.ft.lk/article/609541/Garbage-turns-gory#sthash.Mz3Idvd3.dpuf I have two questions on the President decision. How many Presidents and politicians have said the same thing before. […]

Ranjith Soysa Media Spokesperson Global Sri Lankan Forum Mr Salil Shetty, Secretary General-Amnesty International Dear Mr. Salil Shetty, REQUEST TO PROBE INTO THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND WAR CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE INDIAN PEACE KEEPING FORCE IN SRI LANKA IN 1987-1990. At an interview with the Mr Shamindra Ferdinando the   Deputy Editor of the […]

by, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha Long time ago, India consisted of many countries. Vanga was one of the countries in India at that time. The king of Vanga (present-day Bengal) married a princess named Mayavati of the Kalinga country (present-day Odisha). The couple had a daughter named Suppadevi. She was thought to be in the Hindu culture […]

ALI SUKHANVER ‘Facebook is diminishing the working capabilities of Youth’ and also ‘affecting the students’, said the cabinet of Bangladesh in a letter to the Telecom Ministry. The Cabinet has suggested putting a limited ban on Facebook, according to various Bangladeshi newspapers. If this ban imposed successfully, Bangladesh would be the first country in South-Asian […]

Courtesy Statesman News Service Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez played the damsel in distress in the 2016 superhero film A Flying Jatt. If I could be a superhero, I would love to be Captain Planet. He is one superhero I have grown up watching and always loved the fact that with everything he did, he was […]

By Yang Yang Courtesy chinadaily.com.cn  Anura Banda has been in China for over 20 years but he will never forget the fragrant aroma of his first sip of Chinese tea.”Chinese tea is very famous in Sri Lanka. The first Chinese tea I ever had was green tea. The aroma was very pleasant. Although it was […]

Mica Rosenberg and Yeganeh Torbati, Reuters Courtesy  Business Insider NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Raj, a Sri Lankan fisherman, sought refuge in the United States in 2005, he had precisely the kind of fear of returning home that U.S. asylum laws require. In 2004, he was kidnapped by the separatist rebel group the Tamil Tigers and […]

Courtesy Sputnik Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to visit India from April 25 to April 29 to strengthen economic cooperation between the two neighbors. His visit will also set the agenda for the upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Sri Lanka in May. © PHOTO: DENETH17 Sri Lanka Plays […]

Courtesy BBC An aid worker from Greater Manchester who was killed in Sri Lanka was shot and stabbed more than 40 times with broken bottles, an inquest has heard. Red Cross worker Khuram Shaikh, 32, from Rochdale, was attacked at a hotel while on holiday in Sri Lanka on Christmas Day in 2011. A witness, […]

Wade Shepard ,  CONTRIBUTOR Courtesy  Forbes  Hambantota Port is set to go to China with an impending deal that will see China Merchants take an 80% share for a specified amount of years.  AFP PHOTO / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI As regional powers like China, Russia, Japan, and India vie for political and economic position throughout the eastern […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island A recent cartoon in the popular “Marmaduke” series, showed the dog Marmaduke look sadly at the trash cans emptied by urban sanitation workers. The friendly boy tried to make him feel better saying “Don’t be sad, Marmaduke. We can always make more trash.” This must be how so many of […]

By Tom de Castella Courtesy The  Telegraph (UK) As space in Britain’s landfills runs out, the race is on to find environmentally friendly alternatives. Image 4 of 5 The landfill site at Remo, north-east Belgium, which the firm Group Machiels wants to mine in order to reuse the waste I am standing on a manmade mountain, a 260ft […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Japanese coming all the way from Japan wearing masks coming to tell what I told six month back………… Read Below We need State Of Emergency or Martial Law” if state wants to solve Garbage Problem ! Quote We need State Of Emergency or Martial Law” if state wants to solve Garbage […]

By Prof. O. A. Illeperuma April 21, 2017, 8:54 pm Last year I wrote a piece (Island May 24, 2016) on the danger of disposing garbage in open dumps such as the one at Meethotamulla and the immediate need to go for a sanitary landfill. While people in the vicinity of Meethotamulla have been agitating, […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada. April 21, 2017, 8:57 pm The Buddha you never knew, and parts of the Tripitaka that never survived. Bhante Dhammika of Australia, writing in the Island Newspaper (21st April 2017) presents a valuable and timely reminder that what is often believed to be “core facts”of Buddhism cannot in fact be confirmed […]