By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA                      Double tongued Tamil slavish Sirisena who denies in the South what he says in the North and says in the North whatever that pleases the Tamls and denies to the Maha Sangha and the people of the South of steps […]

Senaka Weeraratna An expanded version of the Opening Address of Welcome from Senaka Weeraratna, Chapter Leader, Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) Colombo, Sri Lanka Chapter delivered at the 2nd Asian Buddhist Animal Rights Conference held in Colombo on October 26, 2017. Most Venerable Aggamaha Pandita Kotugoda Dhammawasa Mahanayake Thera, and Venerable members of the Maha […]

Dr Hector Perera. London To understand high blood cholesterol, it helps to learn about cholesterol. Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that’s found in all cells of the body. Your body needs some cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that help you digest foods. Your body makes all the cholesterol it needs. However, […]

Courtesy: Daily Mirror ( Editorial) October 27, 2017 Health aspects of vegetarianism or veganism and therefore a more healthy and more compassionate society, were the theme of the second Asian Buddhist animal rights conference held in Colombo yesterday, co-hosted by the Sri Lanka branch of the California based Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) and the […]

Mahinda Gunasekera A new Constitution has been drafted and is being presented in parliament on October 30, 2017 for three days of debate and adoption which would lead to the formation of a federal state, and even the ultimate break-up of the country as sought by the Tamil separatists at an early date in the […]

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ජනිත සෙනෙවිරත්න උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින යෝජිත නව ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාව, සයිටම් අර්බුදය , මහා බැංකු බැඳුම්කර වංචාව, ජීවන වියදම, වැඩවර්ජන හා උද්ඝෝෂණ ආදී ප්‍රශ්න නිසා දිගින් දිගටම රට තුළ නොසන්සුන්තාව පැතිර යද්දි මේ ප්‍රශ්න එකිනෙක විසඳා ගන්නවා වෙනුවට ආණ්‌ඩුවේ ඇතැම් ඇමතිවරු දැඩි මුරණ්‌ඩු ස්‌ථාවරයක සිටීම ආණ්‌ඩුවේ පැවැත්මට අහිතකර ලෙස බලපාන බව පෙනේ. මේ මුරණ්‌ඩු ඇමතිවරුන් දෙතුන්දෙනකු නිසා […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island October 27, 2017, 9:48 pm “Ranil used the term asymmetrical federalism, which is federalism [but] with more powers given to the Tamil Northeast…” (Solheim, in To End a Civil War,Salter, p96) “…the only viable solution was…a federal constitution…”  (Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, SJV Chelvanayakam memorial lecture, April 2015) “…Which makes […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island Rising cost of living would make it difficult to face elections – President Does the government really want to face elections? The record of the past two years would show the government is, in fact, running away from elections, than wanting to face and contest them. This is true of […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island October 27, 2017, 9:45 pm Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera, on Thursday, vehemently denied recent media reports that there had been political interference with the ongoing CID investigations into a complaint that a person, known to former Minister Ravi Karunanayake, threatened a key witness in the bond scam probe. He claimed the […]

by Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today On the basis of the evidence available to this Commission and the prevailing law, the suggestion that the crime of genocide was or may have been committed during the final phase of the war is without foundation.-Paranagama Commission At the ongoing 36th session of the United Nations Human Rights […]

 lanka C news මහින්ද ගේ ආණ්ඩුව පෙරලා දැමීම සඳහා සාකච්ඡාවක්, යුරෝපීය රටවල් දෙකක අනුග්‍රහයෙන්, 2013 වසරේදී සිංගප්පූරුවේදී සිදු වූ බව ටැමිල් නෙට් අඩවියේ වාර්තාවක සදහන්ය. මීට සහභාගි වී ඇත්තේ මංගල සමරවීර, සුමන්දිරන්, ජයම්පති වික්‍රමරත්න, තමිල්මාරන් (කොළඹ නීති පීඨයේ පීඨාධිපති ) ඇතුළු පිරිසකි. මහින්ද ආණ්ඩුව පෙරළා දැමීමට මෙහිදී මංගල සමරවීර ඉල්ලා සිටි අතර ඊට කොන්දේසි වශයෙන් […]

By Srian De Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror Concerns have been expressed about the possibility that in consequence of the Government’s ratification of the Convention on Enforced Disappearances, Sri Lanka would appear to have submitted to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and is therefore legally bound by the Convention. Therefore it is vitally necessary […]