Shenali D Waduge We must first understand the premise that the same ethnic group cannot evolve in 2 different countries and both cannot seek self-determination separately in the two different countries. If we agree to this fundamental theory, we can move forward to see which country Tamils first birthed in for it is that country […]

Ranjith Soysa Justin Trudeau did not sign the TPP, the trade agreement  which was the central issue of the recent APEC meeting held  in Vietnam. He stated ” Let me remind everyone  Canada will not be rushed into a deal that is not in the best interest of Canada and Canadians. I have always been […]

By :A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The lingerie designer Mangala Samaraweera who in his  eagerness to demonstrate his American and western slavishness signed without any hesitation the U.S sponsored UNHRC resolution No, 30/2015 against Sri Lanka betraying the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the country and subjecting the country obligatory to implement malicious allegations against the […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera SUPPLY OF  MOTHER VESSELS  TO COLLECT AND STORE THE FISH  CAUGHT BY THE MULTI DAY LONG LINE BOATS AND TRANSPORT TO SHORE IN SRI LANKA Purpose In the light of GSP concessions granted to Sri Lanka by European Union,Sri Lanka expects a boom in Fishing Industry .Therefore the country needs to improve […]

Sarath Wijesinghe (Solicitor, Attorney-at-law, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel) Restrictions on Dual Citizenship It appears GK has given up” the fight having exhausted all possible remedies after the nomination of PG the next in line in the list to the Parliament, despite unforeseen and unfortunate personal tragedies. An energetic and committed MR supporter was […]

High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Canada 11th November 2017 The Editor Toronto Star 1 Yonge Street Toronto, ON M5E 1E6 Dear Editor, Article titled ‘Sri Lanka’s military aren’t ready to be peacekeepers’ published by the Toronto Star on 3 November 2017 I write with reference to the article titled Sri Lanka’s military aren’t ready to be […]

Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror MP Wijedasa Rajapakshe today has in a letter dated November 11 requested Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to abolish the Constitutional Assembly and take steps to rectify the error made by Parliament to postpone the provincial council elections by violating the Supreme Court verdict. The former minister in his […]

අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ පළාත් පාලන ඡන්දයත් සමඟ ආණ්ඩුවේ මහින්දවාදීන්ට එරෙහි පරණ අවලාදවලට පණ එමින් ඇති බවත් ඒ අතර අලුත් අවලාදකාරයන් ටිකක් මහින්ද පිලෙන්ම දැන් කුලියට හොයා ගෙන ඇති බවත් පෙන්වා දෙන ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා ඒ ජවනිකා බලමින් ඡන්දය දිනයේ දී ආණ්ඩුවට නිසි පිළිතුරක් ලබා දෙන ලෙස […]

Courtesy The Budapest Beacon Police were called in the Pest County town of Perbál on Friday after local residents spotted three students from Sri Lanka and mistook them for illegal migrants, mno.hu reports. The three young Sri Lankans had come to work as volunteers in a home for injured and mentally disabled people in Perbál, and […]

By N. Sathiya Moorthy  Courtesy eurasiareview.com With the three-day Constitutional Assembly session recently ending without any breakthrough, Sri Lanka seems heading for yet another era of ‘ethnic chill’ leading to a possible frost. The ‘long-ago exit’ of the LTTE may be a saving grace as the much-delayed, nation-wide local government (LG) polls, set for January, can […]

Courtesy MailOnline  Sri Lanka Monday detained a senior aide to former strongman president Mahinda Rajapakse on allegations of fraud, the second official close to the ex-leader swept up in a blitz on corruption. Gamini Senarath turned himself in to authorities on Monday and will face court over allegations of fraud involving the construction of the […]

Courtesy The Economic Times The Supreme Court today granted six weeks to the Centre to clarify its stand on the mythical Ram Sethu, a chain of limestone shoals between Indian and Sri Lankan coasts. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud asked the Centre to file […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu Hambantota, a theatre for India-China geopolitical conflict, is also a battleground for the political aspirations of scions from two families Home to about six lakh people and investments worth billions of dollars, the district of Hambantota, along Sri Lanka’s southeastern coast, is currently witness to at least three clashes. At the […]

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  Dr Sarath Obeysekera Budget 2017 has given a meagre amount of rupees to build boats of 55 feet or more length ,for which government intends to cover 50 % of the cost and to install ice making plants in multiday fishing boats  I raised this matter at the forum organized by Ernest and Young […]