BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The current constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka clearly indicates that the existing constitution has created an instability to the country.  The nature of this instability is that country cannot govern as the way people expect and cannot implement economic and social policies to gain prosperity to people.  In fact, current constitution is […]

Courtesy Adaderana Mahinda Rajapaksa says that they will file an appeal before the Supreme Court against the interim order issued today by the Appeals Court as they do not agree with it. The Court of Appeal today issued an interim order preventing Mahinda Rajapaksa and his cabinet from holding office. This was after the court […]

BY : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The TNA which was not concerned at all about the affairs of Sri Lanka however played a prominent role like the JEPPOs when there was an issue that could destabilize peace and harmony in the country.  It hailed the Sri Lankan government’s mobilisation of the military to suppress strike action […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Governor Generals, Presidents and Prime Ministers in Ceylon / Sri Lanka have come & gone. I was a youth, an under-age driver, at the Orient Club, Colombo 7, the morning when General Sir John Kotalawala lost the election to SWRD. Furious Sir John simply called Ananda Tissa-de Alwis and gave a thundering […]

By Charles S.Perera The young Minister of  President Francois Holland Emmanuel Macron at 39 contested the 2017 French Presidential election on his own without the backing of the recognised Socialist or Republican parties  to win  the Presidential election with the resounding majority of 62 percent. He has influenced at least two not so young persons […]

Courtesy Adaderana The second round of discussions between President Maithripala Sirisena and representatives of the United National Front (UNF) ended unsuccessfully, according to UNP MP Lakshman Kiriella. Speaking to reporters following the meeting held at Presidential Secretariat, he said that the President had insisted that the premiership will not be given to UNP leader Ranil […]

 සරත් කලුගමගේ සංවිධායක රටට හෙටක් – සමාජ සත්කාරක වැඩසටන රටට හෙටක් සංවිධානය විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. අභියාචනාධිකරණය විසින් නිකුත්කරන ලද අතුරු තහනම් නියෝගය නිසා සිංහල රජ කාලයෙන් පසු පළමු වතාවට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව රාජාණ්ඩුවක ස්වරූපයට පත්ව ඇත. මෙම තහනම් නියෝගය නිසා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය  ප්‍රමුඛ විපක්ෂයට සිදුව ඇත්තේ ගහෙන් වැටුණු මිනිහාට ගොනා […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය අත්හිට වූ බව ප්‍රකාශ කරමින් අද දින අභියාචනාධිකරණය විසින් ලබා දුන් අතරුතහනම් නියෝගයට  අපි එකඟ නොවන්නෙමු. එයට එරෙහිව හෙට දින ආරම්භක පැයේදීම ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය වෙත අභියාචනයක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට මේ මොහොතේදී අපි කටයුතු කරමින් සිටින්නෙමු. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව අර්ථ නිරූපනය කිරීමේ සහ ඊට අදාල අවසානාත්මක තීන්දු තීරණ ගැනීමේ පරම අයිතය ව්‍යවස්ථානුකූලව පැවරී ඇත්තේ […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court today issued notice on UNP MP Ranjan Ramanayake to appear before the court on December 07 over contempt of court charges. The court issued notice on the parliamentarian when the case was taken up before a judge bench chaired by Chief Justice Nalin Perera. This is in order to determine […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Court of Appeal today issued an interim injunction order restraining Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Cabinet from functioning until the hearing of the Writ of Quo Warranto filed against them holding office is concluded. The court fixed dates from December 12 to proceed with the hearing of the petition while notice […]