Ratanapala 28 Aug 2018 Under Yahapalanaya, country has gone to dogs literally and metaphorically! All what has happened to our Motherland since the coming to power of this traitorous administration is all around us to see. After three and a half years they still keep promising new things, new projects all very ethereal and not […]

Sinhale as it was called when the European colonials landed was never invaded but the island was ceded as a result of weak leadership & unpatriotic rulers & selfish advisors. Not much different from the scenario of late. Having ceded parts of the island & the whole of the island in 1815 by the Kandyan […]

By Shenali D Waduge Western Province comprises 3 districts (Colombo, Gampaha & Kalutara) Kalutara comprises 8 electoral polling divisions. The analysis covers 3 main elections – Presidential, General & Provincial Councils. Keeping to the official census statistics of 2012 the island’s population stood at 20,359,439 (20m) 5,851,130 (5.8m) or 28.7% of the Islands 20m live […]

අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ lanka C news බෙදුම්වාදී කොටි ත‍්‍රස්තවාදීන්ගේ ඝාතන හේතුවෙන් අවසානයේ දෙමළ සමාජයේ ඉතිරි වූයේ බෙදුම්වාදී පරඬැල් වැනි දේශපාලනඥයන් පිරිසක් බවත් දැන් තමන්ට සහයෝගය දෙන බෙදුම්වාදී මුස්ලිම් දේශපාලනඥයන්ට අවි ආයුධ තොග පිටින් රැස්කර ගැනීමට ඉඩ දීමෙන් මුස්ලිම් සමාජයටත් එකී ඛේදනීය ඉරණම උරුම කර දීමට මේ ආණ්ඩුව කටයුතු කරන බවට […]

Sarath Wijesinghe former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Free Trade Agreements SLSFTA the free trade agreement entered into with Singapore – a world economic giant in a small patch of land with a small population is the talk of the town today, considering the controversial nature of the 1083 page document in terms of asymmetrical […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera වියට්නාම – ලංකා වෙළෙඳාම ඩොලර් බිලියනයක් දක්වා ඉහළ නැංවීමට අවධානය    27 08 2018  – 20:20  – 153 views  – රුවන් කාශ්‍යපශ්‍රී ලංකාව සහ වියට්නාමය අතර ද්විපාර්ශ්වික වෙළෙඳාම 2020 වන විට අමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියනයක් දක්වා ඉහළ නැංවීම සඳහා නිරන්තර සාකච්ඡා සහ සැලසුම් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවය පිළිබඳව දෙරටේ අවධානය යොමුව තිබේ.ශ්‍රී ලංකා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා සහ […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Former Army Commander General Rohan Daluwatte passed away yesterday at the age of 77 after a brief illness, while being treated at the Army Hospital.He was born on May 9, 1941 in Ambalangoda and is an old boy of Ananda College, Colombo. He joined the Sri Lanka Army as a Cadet Officer […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island The hot topic in town is whether former twice elected Presidents Chandrika Kumaratunga and Mahinda Rajapaksa are qualified to seek reelection under provisions of the 19th Amendment. Dr. Nihal Jayawickrama in a legally well analyzed article titled “Disqualifying Twice Elected Presidents – A Failed Endeavour” (Sunday Island, August 19, 2018) […]

EDWARD GUNAWARDENA Courtesy The Island August 28, 2018, 9:12 pm At a recent interview, Minister Field Marshall Fonseka stated that a group of people had gone to Wilpattu with him when he went there as Subject Minister. A media channel had accused him of keeping underworld figures as his bodyguards. The Police had since started going […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island A high profile case involving members of all political parties represented in parliament, except the JVP, abusing duty free vehicle permits will be taken up in the Supreme Court on Aug. 31. The recipients included UNP and its coalition partners, SLMC, ACMC et al, SLFP, Group of 16, Joint Opposition […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Aug 28 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s popular clothing store, Cotton Collection Private Limited divested its shares to ODEL PLC on Tuesday after the brand was bought over by the Softlogic Group. The much sought-after brand was bought by the Softlogic Group as it was the perfect fit for their well-established, diverse retail network […]

by Jamila Najmuddin Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Aug. 28 – Sri Lanka hoped to attract more Chinese investments under the Belt and Road Initiative and aimed to increase trade and investment ties with other global partners in order to emerge as a dynamic trading hub, a Sri Lankan minister said on Monday. State Minister of National Policies […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 27:  The port town of Trincomalee in Eastern Sri Lanka is known for its scenic beauty eminently  qualified to be featured in the National Geographic Channel. But historically, it has been noted for something very different – its strategic value as a naval base. Trincomalee’s  military value had been grasped […]

Voice of the voiceless Courtesy The Daily Mirror The world is upside down, utter confusion everywhere, everything around us in chaos, devastation and destruction!!! It honestly seems like the end of the world is near!!! There isn’t a day we don’t hear of some gigantic natural disaster, California fires that have hardly abated, Kerala floods leaving […]

Lanka Lead News හිටපු ජනධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඉන්දියාවට ආගන්තුකයෙක් නොවන බව ඉන්දීය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සුබ්‍රමනියම් ස්වාමි මහතා ඔහුගේ ට්විටර් ගිණුමේ සඳහන් කර ඇත. ඉදිරි සති කිහිපය තුළිදි හිටපු ජනධිපති මහිද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඉන්දියාවේ දිල්ලි නුවරට පැමිණිමට නියමිත බවද එහි සඳහන් වේ. හිටපු ජනධිපති මහිද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මඟ පෙන්වීම යටතේ එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ ත්‍රාස්තවාදයෙන් ශ්‍රි ලාංකේය ජනතාව […]

මතුගම – වසන්ත කුමාර බුලත්සිංහල – ප්‍රභාන් උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම මේරටේ හැම ආණ්ඩුවක්ම තමන්ගේ බලය රැකගන්න මිනිස්සු මැරුවා. එක ආණ්ඩුවකට විතරක් ඇඟිල්ල දිගු කරන්නේ නැහැ. මේ හැම ආණ්ඩුවක්ම තමන්ගේ බලය රැකගන්න මිනිස්සු මරලා දැම්මා’ යැයි කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික් ශ්‍රී ල.නි.ප. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි කුමාර වෙල්ගම පසුගියදා අගලවත්තේදී කීවේය. අගලවත්තේ පැවැති ජනහමුවක් අමතා කුමාර වෙල්ගම මේ අදහස් පළකළේය. හෙතෙම වැඩිදුරටත් […]

 Nimal Tissa Wijetunga  Fellow of Institute of Fire Engineers, UK (FIFireE) Recent fire disasters in the world have interestingly occurred primarily in developed countries that abide by Fire Engineering rules and regulations known as Codes, Standards, Data Sheets” or Engineering Standards”. These rules and regulations are statutory documents and offenders found in breach can be […]