Garvin Karunaratne On 23 rd August 2018,  a relation of mine who was unconscious was discharged from a leading Private Hospital in Colombo., because the son and daughter  could no more pay hospital bills They had paid three million rupees to the Hospital  for 17 days stay and had no more funds. Until then they […]

 lanka C news නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති නාලක සිල්වා සමගින් දේශපාලනික වශයෙන් ලගම හිතවත්කමක් පවත්වන පුද්ගලයා ඇමති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා යයි තමන් අපරාධ පරීක්‍ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට ලබා දුන් මුල් කට උත්තරයේ සදහන් කරන ලද බව දුෂණ විරෝධී බලකායේ අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ නාමල් කුමාර මහතා සදහන් කරයි. අද වන විට සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතා කරන ප‍්‍රකාශයන්ගෙන් එම ප‍්‍රකාශයේ සත්‍යතාවය තහවුරු වෙමින් ඇතැයිද ඔහු […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa questions the whether it is justifiable to compensate LTTE terrorists. He mentioned this to the media following an event held in Colombo. The event was attended by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as well. Former Defense Secretary points out that when compensating missing persons, the government will have […]

 Courtesy Mail Online  Police said the victims, both from the Tamil minority group, were kidnapped by naval officers and later killed despite their families paying a ransom for their release Sri Lankan police arrested and charged a senior naval officer Wednesday for the abduction and murder of two Tamil businessmen during the final stages of […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy: The Daily Mirror The  Mahavamsa or The Great Chronicle of Ceylon (to use the title of the English translation by Wilhelm Geiger of the ancient classic) is a book of history in the form of a poem in the Pali language composed by a Bhikkhu named Mahanama at Anuradhapura around the […]

Kanthar Balanathan On independence, GG Ponnambalam became a minister in the Ceylon government. It is to be said that GGP earned his income through his excellent practice in criminal law. SJVC formed the Federal Party joined with several people. For SJVC funds flowed from Malaysia his mother country where he was born. Once they become […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය  ආණ්ඩුකාරවරුන්ගේ පාලනයට යටතට පත් කොට ඇති ලංකාවේ පළාත් සභා 9 න් 6 ක හැකි ඉක්මනින් පළාත් සභා ඡන්දය පවත්වන ලෙස ඉල්ලා යෝජනා සම්මත කොට ගන්නා ලෙස කැෆේ සංවිධානය අද සබරගමුව, උතුරු මැද, නැගෙනහිර, වයඹ, මධ්‍ය හා උතුරු පළාත් හි සියළුම පළාත් පාලන ආයතන නියෝජිතවරුන්ගෙන් විවෘත ඉල්ලීමක් සිදු කළේය.  ආණ්ඩුකාර පාලනය යටතේ […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island Thursday 25th October, 2018 The UNP-SLFP political marriage is on the rocks. They are bashing each other in public. What they are doing to each other may be likened to spousal battery, as it were. Internal problems of the yahapalana coalition have come to a head with the UNP and SLFP leaders […]

 By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island FM hides behind non-existing clause in the law  Udayanga’s case coming up in Dubai on Oct. 29 The Foreign Ministry, on Tuesday (Oct. 23), declined to disclose information pertaining to ongoing efforts to extradite the former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Arjuna Mahendran and former Ambassador […]

Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe chats with Indian premier Narendra Modi during a meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi . Wickremesinghe was on a three-day official visit to the Indian capital. It ought to be quite evident from the most recent controversies in Sri Lanka’s relations with India that the former is […]

Courtesy The Island Colombo, Sri Lanka | AFP | Tuesday: Sri Lanka on Tuesday called for a “coalition of the willing” to help stabilise free-falling emerging market currencies around the globe, as the beleaguered rupee slumped to fresh lows. The island’s currency bottomed out at a record-low 174.12 rupees to the dollar, resisting a slew […]

Courtesy NDTV Marceli Thomas appeared in court before the Colombo Fort magistrate on Tuesday. An Indian national arrested for possible links to an alleged plot to assassinate Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has told a court that he is innocent saying the police are trying to frame him in the case. Marceli Thomas appeared in […]

උදයන්ති මුණසිංහ ඡායාරූප – සරත් කුමාර උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය කෙරෙහි දැඩි විරසකයක් සහ විවේචනයක් පැවැතියද වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව දිගටම ගමන් කරන බවත් ඒ හේතුවෙන් වන්දි ගෙවීමට සිදුවන්නේ මේ රටේ ජනතාවට බවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජී.එල්. පීරිස් සඳහන් කළේය. පසුගියදා බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේදී පැවැති සේනානායක ගුණ සමරු […]