By Charles.S.Perera The  so called Yahapalanaya government which had been deceiving the people of this country ever since Maithripala Sirisena was elected President of Sri Lanka on the 8th January,2015, has no right what so ever to present a note, a paper or  a draft to the Parliament as a preliminary to the writing of  […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The historical conviction, followed by the rigid sentence of rigourous imprisonment for three years by the High Courts, on the former Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunge and Anusha Pelpita, under Section 386 of the Penal Code for ‘dishonestly misappropriating’ a sum of Rs. 600 million belonging to the TRC created a façade […]

By Rohana R. Wasala (This was first published on June 24, 2016 as part of a longer article under the title A glance at PRCR report in the context of drive for federalism”, which was featured in The Island on June 22 & 24, 2016. That article was posted on June 23, 2016 in toto […]

Upali Cooray A very thought provoking pragmatic debate ended today(11th Sept.) between Dr. Dayan Jayatillake(DJ) and Emeritus Professor Dr. G.H.Peiris (GP)  in the Colombo Telegraph and in The Island newspaper, concerning the devolution of political power in Sri Lanka. There appears to be two contrasting views between the two who are known as backers of […]

 lanka C news ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 26 ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ පුරවැසියකු විම හා ඔහුගේ නිත්‍යානුකූල භාවය ඉතා පැහැදිලිව සඳහන් කොට ඇත. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 3 වෙනි ව්‍යවස්ථාව අනුව ශ්‍රීලංකා ජනරජයේ පරමාධිපත්‍යය ජනතාව කෙරෙහි පිහිටා ඇත. එනම් ජනතාව මෙරටේ නිත්‍යානුකූල පුරවැසියන්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් වනුය, ඒ අනුව ජනතාව පරමාධිපත්‍යය රටේ උත්තරිතර වනු ඇත. එමෙන්ම මෙරටේ විධායකය ව්‍යවස්තාදායකය හා අධිකරණය ජනතාවගේ […]

රාජේන්ද්‍ර අල්විස් (කැනඩාවේ බෞද්ධ කොන්ග්‍රසයේ හිටපු සභාපති) කැනඩාවේ, ඔටාවා අගනුවර හිල්ඩා ජයවර්ධනාරමධිපති සහ සිද්ධමුල්ල ශ්‍රී සංඝාරාම පුරාණ විහාරය, දීපංගොඩ වර්ධනාරාමය කුඩමාදුව  සංඝිකාරාමය යන විහාරස්ථානයන්හි ද ආධිපත්‍යය හොබවන බ්‍රාහ්මණගම මුදිත ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ වෙත පසුගියදා කෝට්ටේ ශ්‍රී කල්‍යාණි සාමග්‍රී ධර්ම මහා සංඝ සභාව විසින් කැනඩාවේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක පදවිය මහත් හරසරින් පිරිනමනු ලැබිණි. ප්‍ර:       පසුගියදා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ […]

By A. Abdul Aziz  Caliph and Archbishop speak of need for worldwide religious freedom According to our Press Department U.K., On 10 October 2017, the Most Reverend, the Archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace, Justin Welby visited London’s oldest Mosque, the Fazl Mosque where he met with the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island October 13, 2017, 10:09 pm From its outset, the Treasury Bond Scam was seen as a massive fraud carried on public funds or people’s assets managed by the Central Bank. As the probe on the Bond Scams that took place shortly after the election of the present government in […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island October 13, 2017, 10:08 pm We thought Parliament was the only place where rejects were accommodated. We thought wrong. True, quite a few candidates, mostly from the UPFA, rejected by people at the last general election (2015), were brought in as National List MPs. It was a slap on the Sri Lankan […]

Courtesy The Guardian (UK) Ministers to meditate with politicians from Israel, Sri Lanka and Sweden as part of event exploring benefits of mindfulness British and Sri Lankan government ministers and an MP for Israel’s Likud party are among politicians from 15 countries due to meditate together at the House of Commons next week in an […]

Courtesy Focus Taiwan News Channel Taipei, Oct. 13 (CNA) Sri Lankan police have apprehended two of the five suspects allegedly involved in the hacking of US$60 million from Taiwan’s Far Eastern International Bank earlier this month, according to an update from the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Friday. CIB section chief Chiu Shao-chou (邱紹洲) told […]