Shenali D Waduge Political opportunism and opportunist politics has been a curse to the country. Looking back we can only conclude that our politicians have failed the people and the nation with their opportunism and greed to remain in power at any cost. Sadly, another trait is that there are no lessons learnt and mistakes […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS China is, at the moment, leading in the Big Power war. It is keeping India, Japan and US at bay. India tried to have a confrontation with China over the Doklam plateau in Bhutan in August 2017. After ten weeks, the Indian army pulled back from Doklam border, but the Chinese army remained. […]

By G. H. Peiris Courtesy The Island Several articles by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke published in The Island during the past few days indicate that he is very definitely the most articulate and, arguably, the most “intermestic” exponent of the notion of the ’13th Amendment’ (implemented more comprehensively than at present with all powers and functions referred […]

ALI SUKHANVER Indian army’s unprovoked firing on innocent children, girls and old men and women living peacefully along the Line of Control seems a result of a feeling of loss, a sense of defeat or something like depression on the part of the Indian soldiers. On 6th of this October, as a result of unprovoked […]

ACGAMO Union.  ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය වයඹ පළාත් සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිතුමා විසින් තර්ජනය කිරීම සම්බන්ධව.             වයඹ පළාත් ආයුර්වේද දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ කුරුණෑගල ආයුර්වේද මහා රෝහලේ සේවයේ නියුතු සාමාන්‍ය කම්කරු සේවිකාවක් පළාත් සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිතුමාගේ රැස්වීමකට සහභාගී නොවීම හේතුවෙන් හදිසියේ වාරියපොළ ආයුර්වේද රෝහලට ස්ථාන මාරුවක් ලබාදීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මා විසින් එම සේවිකාව සමඟ ඊට අදාල කරුණු විමසා සිටින ලදි.             එම විමසීම […]

All Ceylon Transport Workers Union ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි. ගරු මුදල්  අමාත්‍ය, මංගල සමරවීර මැතිතුමා, මුදල් හා ක‍්‍රමසම්පාදන අමාත්‍යාංශය, කොළඹ 01. ගරු ඇමතිතුමනි, රාජ්‍ය ප‍්‍රවාහන සේවය ශක්තිමත් කර ශ‍්‍රී ලංගම සේවක අයිතීන් ලබාදීමට  2018 අයවැය තුළින් ශ‍්‍රී ලංගමයට රුපියල් මිලියන 31 000 ක් ලබාදෙන ලෙසත්  එ් සඳහා මුදල් උපයා ගැනීම සඳහා අප සංගමය කරනු ලබන යෝජනා ක‍්‍රියාත්මක […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION-URGENT APPEALS PROGRAM Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received information about Mr. Susantha Bandara Karunarathna, a journalist working for the ‘Sunday Apple’ newspaper. He was tortured by the Assistant Superintendent of Police of Tangalle, I. T. Daluwath. Susantha was engaged in his duties as a journalist, covering a peaceful […]

 lanka C news පොලිස් අපරාධ පරීක්‍ෂණ කොට්ඨාශය විසින් ලිට්රෝ ගෑස් සමාගමේ සභාපති ශලීල මුණසිංහ අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත. මොහු අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත්තේ විදෙස් රටක සිට මෙරට ලංකා බැංකු ශාඛාවකට විශාල මුදලක් ගෙන්වාගෙන එය මාරු කර ගැනීමේ සිදුවීමක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් මුල්‍ය විශුද්ධිකරණය යටතේය. අදාල මුදල් තොගය ලිත්‍රො සභාපතිවරයා හා අත්අඩංගුවේ සිටින තවත් සැකකරුවකු සමග පැමිණ විශාල මුදල ගෝනිවල […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION-URGENT APPEALS PROGRAM Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding Mr. Aandige Charuka Malinda Peiris, a resident of Kantale Police Division. Malinda was illegally arrested by Police Officers of the Kantale Police Division on 21 June 2017. He was not given any reason for his arrest. He […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera     Also read http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/10/08/hi-tech-number-plates-to-keep-tabs-on-vehicles/ You do not have to be a legal wizard to predict what I said in Lanka web. I predicted last year about the possibility of becoming a police state under the pretext of Democracy .USA and Europe are purportedly democratic have various ways of detecting the movement of […]

http://focustaiwan.tw Taipei, Oct. 9 (CNA) The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Monday that one Sri Lankan accused of helping hackers to steal about US$60 million from a Taiwanese bank has been arrested in the South Asian country. The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), Taiwan’s top financial regulator, said that day that while most of the lost […]

hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department, in collaboration with Taiwanese law enforcement, has apprehended two suspects in Colombo for allegedly aiding in the hacking of a bank in Taiwan that culminated in the theft of millions of dollars, writes AFP. The two allegedly hacked the bank’s computer systems and were arrested after trying to withdraw money from […]

livemint.com Sri Lanka’s opposition alliance spoke out against the proposed lease of an airport to an Indian firm, warning the government not to allow the country become a ‘pawn’ in international power politics. Colombo: Sri Lanka’s opposition alliance, led by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s son, on Monday opposed the proposed lease of an airport to an […]

Courtesy Taipei Times The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) yesterday said that two Sri Lankan citizens accused of helping hackers steal about US$60 million from Far Eastern International Bank (遠東商銀) have been arrested in the South Asian country. The Financial Supervisory Commission said that while most of the stolen funds were recovered, about US$500,000 remains unaccounted […]

Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Centre for Human Rights and Research (CHR) Executive Director Keerthi Tennakoon said yesterday State Enterprises Development Minister Kabir Hashim and Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama, who was said to have participated in the first discussion with regard to the issuance of Central Bank Bonds in 2015, […]

By Shaahidah Riza and Methmalie Dissanayake Courtesy  Ceylon Today The two main constituents of the United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG), the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), seem to be at loggerheads over the country’s foreign policy decision making. Commenting on the government’s decision to impose sanctions on the Democratic […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Vithya Sivaloganathan’s murder trial exposes the real national issue in Sri Lanka and the surrounding paradox between fact and fiction. The attempt was to pin the crime on the Sri Lankan Army and Navy, but it failed. The real culprits were the criminal elements living within Jaffna society. The involvement […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Monday that it was preparing to send investigators to Sri Lanka to seek further details on the reported arrest there of two suspects accused of helping hackers stealing millions of US dollars from a Taiwanese bank. However, due to the fact that Taiwan has no diplomatic ties […]

By Sanchith Karunaratna Courtesy Adaderana The CID arrested the Chairman of Litro Gas N.M.S Moonesinghe in connection with the transfer of 1.1 million USD from the far Eastern Bank of Taiwan to a Sri Lankan bank account. Taiwan law enforcement authorities launched an investigation into the incident after the Far Eastern Bank was hacked by means of a […]