Editorial Courtesy The Island The Tilak Marapana committee, appointed by the UNP to study the presidential bond probe commission report, has claimed there are no findings against UNP members including former Minister Ravi Karunanayake, UNP General Secretary and Minister Kabir Hashim tells us. No one with a modicum of intelligence expected a different outcome! Minister Hashim, […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando  Courtesy  The Island Chairman of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday said that the UNP was engaged in last minute face-saving measures ahead of the Feb. 10 countrywide local government polls to avert defeat. The former External Affairs Minister, who is also a top spokesman for the Joint Opposition (JO) […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy  The Daily Mirror Ports and Shipping Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe is day-dreaming of abolishing the civic rights of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, General Secretary of the Ravana Balaya, Ven. Iththekande Saddatissa Thera said. Speaking to media he said if some one tried to interfere with the civic rights and political future of Mr. Rajapaksa, […]

By Faizer Shaheid Courtesy Ceylon Today Elections are only a few days away and the politicians are at it again trying to tear each other apart. The political rivalries have stood the challenge of time, continuing to appeal to summon the inner hopes of the people despite their anticlimactic approach. Two weeks ago, a fresh saga […]

Courtesy  The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) today said there was an attempt to arrest MP Ravi Karunanayake prior to the parliamentary debate on the Bond Commission report and then release him after the Local Government (LG) elections were over. Former provincial councillor Ajith Prasanna claimed at a news conference that the […]

එක්සේසත් කරපු රට කඩන්න දෙන්න බෑ – මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ

President and PM should act responsibly (English)

Punsara Amarasinghe In his classic work Franz Fanon has stated the most deplorable agony of colonialism is not the despicable ways used by colonial rulers to expand power in colonies through ruthless manners, but the real tragedy of colonialism is the people who have been subjected to colonial occupation are mentally reluctant to detach their […]

Champa Fernando Secretary, KACPAW (Kandy Association for Community Protection through Animal Welfare) Increasingly we see in Sri Lanka celebratory events that send up thousands of sky lanterns, which MUST fall down back to the earth, some burning, some burnt out, endangering human and animals life and causing air travel and fire hazards and power failures. […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara 31.1 2018 This is an urgent appeal to all patriots to read the small booklet Kauda Hora” compiled by Shyam Nuwan Ganewatta  of Irida Divayina immediately. Your special attention is drawn to the last two Chapters, 1 based on a presentation by Ajith Nivad Cabral (former Governor CB) and Dr Nalaka Godahewa, […]

By Sanchith Karunaratna Courtesy  The Daily Mirror   The committee headed by Minister Tilak Marapana made a recommendation today (31), that former Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake should not exercise his duties as the Deputy leader of the UNP until further notice. UNP General Secretary Minister Kabir Hashim stated that the UNO committee headed by Minister Marapana […]

Sheain Fernandopulle  Courtesy  The Daily Mirror Referring to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s statement that it was only proper for MP Ravi Karunanayake to step down from his post as the UNP’s assistant leader, Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) Executive Director Keerthi Tennakoon today said the major bond scam miscreants had used Mr. Karunanayake as […]

Kelum Bandara Courtesy  The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe reportedly told his Cabinet Ministers that he would implement the recommendations of the Tilak Marapana committee on the bond scam. It is learnt that the Committee has recommended that MP Ravi Karunanayake should step down from his post as the Assistant Leader of the party and […]

Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon Executive Director/CaFFE  බැදුම්කර වංචාවේ මහ මොළය හා සැලසුම්කරුවන් සියලු දෙනා එකතු වී තිලක් මාරපන කමිටුව හරහා රවී කරුණානායක බිල්ලට දී, තමන් බේරී ඇතැයි කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පවසයි.  රවී කරුණානායක මහතා අර්ජුන ඇලෝසියස් සමග සබදතා පැවැත්වූ බව කොමිෂන් වාර්තාවේ දැක්වෙනවා.  ඔහුට යම් ප්‍ර‍තිලාභයක් ඒ මගින් ලැබෙන්නට ඇති බව අනුමාන කරන්නට පුළුවන්.  නමුත්, […]

චාල්ස්  එස් පෙරේරා විසින් ජනතා වීමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ දේශපාලන උපාය මාර්ගය මාක්ස් වාදී න්‍යාමයන් අනුවත් කාලෝචිත නොවේ. ඔවුන්ගේ උපාය  එක්සත් ජතික පක්ශයත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයත්, මහින්ද  රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපති තුමා ඇතුලු ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනත් රට විනාශය කරාගෙන ගිය, ගෙන යන,  මහා පරිමාන හොරු ඔවුන් රටට කරපු දේකුත් නැ ඉදිරියෙ දී කරන දේකුත් නැ කියන ප්‍රචාරයක් […]

හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා සහභාගී වූ ‘සලකුණ’ වැඩසටහන හිරු නාලිකාවේ ඊයේ රත‍්‍රියේ විකාශණය විය. දෙපැයකට ආසන්න කාලයක් තිස්සේ සිදු කරන ලද සාකච්චාවේදී රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා විසින් කිසිදු දේශපාලඥයෙකුට මඩ ගැසීම් අවලාද කිසිත් නොනැගූ අතර මනා සංයමයකින් සිය අදහ් නිරවුල්ව ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමටද කටයුතු කලේය. හිරු නාලිකාව විසින් එය යූ ටියුබය යෙත මුදා හැර දිනක් ගතවන්නටත් පෙර […]