By Charles.S.Perera Because Sumanthiran says, We are Sri Lankans, our dignity, our equality has bee reassured in this documentthe interim report debated in the Parliament, and says  this is our document”, it is why we should all oppose this diabolic Interim report and stop it from being passed in the Parliament. Despite all the opposition […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS At one time, relations between India and the United States were not good. In 2011 former Indian President Abdul Kalam was   searched twice at US airports. On one occasion airport officials had boarded the plane he was in and taken away the shoes and jacket he was wearing to screen for explosives. When […]

DR. WIJEYADASA RAJAPAKSHE, President’s Counsel What could be comprehended by the Word Constitution? Constitution is recognised as a document made by law makers inserting a set of rules which are needed for the governance of the relevant territory, and it is considered supreme and unchallengeable. Inclusion of the following mandatory features could be seen in a […]

දූෂණ විරෝධී හඬ මහ බැංකු බැඳුම්කර ගනුදෙනුවට අදාළ බැඳුම්කර නිකුත් කිරීමේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව, රාජ්‍ය ණය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, ප්‍රධාන පෙළේ රාජ්‍ය බැංකුවක් හා පර්පචුවල් ට්‍රෙෂරීස් සමාගමේ ඉහළ නිලධාරීන් කිහිපදෙනකු අතර සිදුවූ දුරකතන සංවාද ඇතුළත් හඬ පටයක් දූෂණ විරෝධී හඬ සංවිධානය විසින් ඊයේ (01දා) මාධ්‍යයට නිකුත් කළේය. විදෙස්ගත පුද්ගලයකු මාර්ගයෙන් ලද මෙම හඬ පටයට අනුව ඉහළ […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE Going by the rhetoric and the text pertaining to constitutional reform currently being debated in Parliament, it is all about two things.  1) expunging of the clause supposedly privileging Buddhism, and 2) devolution of power.  Tamil National Alliance MP, M. Sumanthiran, has stated the stand of his party and by and large the […]

Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara. 4.11.2017. MS Themis silently died last year unsung an unheard and his mortal remains were interred at Kanatta attended by his only daughter, granddaughter, a small group of family members and friends. The usual votes of condolence and flatteries sung in Parliament in respect of those who have not done a scent […]

Ah….just listen to this speech! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FOgeZgVY0EMp7GKqOgbDBI7PAdrJofbl/view?usp=sharing

News Line: ‘Out comes the TAPES the PM must be CROSS EXAMINED’ – Wasantha Samarasinghe (02.11.2017) PM required to testify before Bond Commission Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the controversial Issuance of Bonds today said it requires the testimony of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in order to “obtain a […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera 1n 1965 election campaign there was a speaker who made his crowd -pulling speech where he used names of Sinhala Films  .His speech was the last after Meetiyagoda ,Dawamottawe Hamuduruwo etc  So I thought of writing this to honour Geetha Geetha loses her seat as she has no Wasana” and also because […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island November 3, 2017, 10:07 pm The Joint Opposition (JO) has sought to bargain from a position of strength with the SLFP, which has invited it to contest the next Local Government (LG) polls together. It has put forth some pre-conditions, the main being that the SLFP pull out of the ruling yahapalana […]

DR. WIJEYADASA RAJAPAKSHE, President’s Counsel November 3, 2017, 12:00 pm (Continued From yesterday) People’s Lack of confidence in Parliament The media and the public always express their displeasure at Parliament and its members. They allege incompetence, corruption and immorality of the members of parliament. This loss of confidence reached its climax on 21st September 2017, […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island November 3, 2017, 10:07 pm The Minister for Poll Delays has given the country a Ball Game. At a time when the country is trying to forget about cricket amidst all the records of whitewash defeats, he has thrown the Poll Ball to the field for us to play the […]

Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardane Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President and Parliamentarian Mahinda Rajapaksa, who participated in the debate on the constitutional reforms proposals, said the creation of ethnic or religion based federal units with powers akin to sovereign states will place the minorities living in those federal units at a disadvantage. He said, in India, […]

By Shehan Chamika Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror While reserving a date to place details with regard to communications of Arjun Aloysius and other concerned parties, Additional Solicitor General Yasantha Kodagoda yesterday told that the content of the extracted ‘Whatsapp’ messages of Aloysius’ phone was ‘very revealing’. Using Aloysius’ mobile phone data extracted at the forensic […]