H. L. D. Mahindapala Leaving aside the legalities, politicalities, Constitutionalities and the complexities of the current imbroglio in which the nation is grounded (temporarily), the underlying issues in the Constitutional crisis can be reduced to one single question: At a time when all three branches of the state are trapped in a deadlock without a […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS People of Sri Lanka have a serious doubt about the behaviour of the speaker as a rehearsal to pass the proposed new constitution using illegal and contradict techniques of modes operandi. Since the election of the Yahapalana government in 2015, the behaviour of the parliament speaker has been confused and reflected the […]

Nawagamu Deshabandu Any educated and developed person would agree that passing any proposal or motion based on the level of noise or sound is the lowest primitive method of applied democracy.  We have inherited this law in the constitution which was written during English colonial rule which at that time gave no room for public […]

By Charles.S.Perera In UK the English Judges give judgments which are human,  fair and just. They look beyond the law to render human and  people friendly judgements. Lord Denning’s judgments are classical and are often quoted to make legal opinions and even judgments more human. The law should be applied to  settle problems instead of […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි ප්‍රසන්න රණවීර ගම්පහ දිස්ත්‍රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී රට තුළ පවතින අර්බුදකාරී දේශපාලන වාතාවරණය හමුවේ මතුව ඇති සිය`ථ දෝශ සහගත තත්වයන් මාගේ කරපිටින් යවා, සිද්ධියට සම්බන්ධ අනෙකුත් පාර්ශවයන් නිදොස් වීමේ නිර්ලජජිත උත්සාහයක් පිළිබ`දව මාහට සැලවී ඇත. විශේෂයෙන්ම ජනමාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ වරින් වර මාගේ දර්ශන හා ඡායා රූප පෙන්වමින් ඒවාට විවිධ අර්ථ කථන දෙමින් කටයුතු කරන ආකාරයක් දැකිය […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Speaker has acknowledged that the composition of parliamentarians of United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) is higher than that of the United National Party (UNP), says Minister Dinesh Gunawardena. He stated this addressing a press conference held at the Parliament Complex this afternoon (19). Commenting further, he said that the Speaker was absent […]

Courtesy Adaderana The parliamentary session commenced at 1 pm today (19). However, the session was chaired by the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament in the absence of the Speaker, Karu Jayasuriya. Deputy Speaker moved that a select committee should be appointed and requested MP nominations for the relevant matter be urgently handed over to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana President states that he was not informed on the protest by the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) organization and he expresses his regrets regarding the inconveniences caused to the monks. A protest by BBS was held this afternoon (19) in front of the Presidential Secretariat. They had arrived at the Presidential Secretariat to handover […]

ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි !එච්.එම්.එස්.බී. මැදිවත්ත වැඩබලන සභාපති සමස්ත ලංකා හෙද සංගමය   ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික රෝහලේ ප‍්‍රධාන විකිරණ අංශයේ DSA යන්ත‍්‍රය 2016 වසරේ සිට අක‍්‍රීය වීම නිසා රෝගීන්ට බරපතල තත්ත්වයක්… ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික රෝහලේ ප‍්‍රධාන විකිරණ අංශයේ තිබූ DSA යන්ත‍්‍රය (Digital Substractive Angiogram – ලේ නහර ආශ‍්‍රිත පරීක්ෂණ හා ප‍්‍රතිකාර කිරීම – හෘදය හැර) 2016 වසරේ සිට අක‍්‍රීයව […]

Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka 20th November 2018 I wish to convey my warmest felicitations to all Muslims in Sri Lanka marking the birth anniversary of the Holy Prophet Mohamed. The followers of Islam in Sri Lanka commemorate this auspicious day with religious observances, charitable deeds and contemplation […]