KAMALIKA PIERIS Yahapalana government decided in 2016 to use the Swiss Challenge procedure for government tenders. A Swiss Challenge is a method of bidding, used in public projects, in which an interested party initiates a proposal for a contract or the bid for a project. The government then puts the details of the project out […]

Courtesy The Island January 10, 2019, 10:54 pm Representatives of political parties yesterday condemned a protest campaign by a group of persons clad in black and calling themselves civil activists outside the Capital Maharaja Organization, Hiru and Derana to intimidate those organisations. A senior spokesman for the Maharaja Organization told The Island that they couldn’t be intimidated by such protests. […]

By Jolly Somasundram Courtesy The Island Two days would be considered black in modern Sri Lanka, one, the horrible events which took place on 25th Friday, July 1983 and the second, a declared election not taking place on 5th January, Saturday, 2019, despite all proper conditions for the conduct of free and fair elections having been […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. Haile Selassie (Emperor of Ethiopia 1930-74) The admirable feature article ‘Who can save Sri […]

By ; A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. Tamils who are champions to mislead the world with bogus ancestry, history and origins do not hesitate to conveniently claim anyone as people belonging to their community and work against the same people after getting their sinister aims achieved.   The claim being made by these Tamil cists about Muslims of […]

ශී‍්‍ර ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ අද වන විට ශී්‍ර ලංකාව කුඩු ඛෙÞ හැරීමේ මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් බවට පත්ව ඇති බවත් මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ජාවාරම්කරුවන් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට දේශපාලන මැදිහත්වීම මෙම ශෝචනීය තත්ත්වය තවතවත් වැඩිවීමට හේතුවන බවත් පෙන්වා දෙන මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා රජය දෙස බලා නොසිට රටේ සමස්ත දරුපරපුර මත් උවඳුරින් බේරා ගැනීම සඳහා දෙමව්පියන් පෙරට පැමිනිය යුතු කාලය එළැඹ ඇතැයිද අවධාරණය […]

Dr Hector Perera        London I THINK most discoveries are made by sheer accident and my scientific energy saving cooking is another discovery made similar way. Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity when he was sitting under an apple tree when an apple feel on his head then he discovered gravity. That is a sheer accident. “Eureka!” […]

by Jason Hickel  Courtesy Al Jazeera 19 Dec 2018 Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, and his wife, Lady Edwina Mountbatten, ride in the state carriage towards the Viceregal lodge in New Delhi, on March 22, 1947 [File: AP] There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India – as horrible […]

Laksiri Warnakula The other day a minister was heard saying ‘Begging is going to be made illegal’! I beg leave to add a few comments on the above. Let’s begin by defining ‘begging’ and I chose the Oxford Dictionaries for the purpose. Now even though there are quite a few different usages of the word […]

සාකච්ඡා කලේ වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  එරාජ් කොහොමද ?  හොඳින් ඉන්නවා මාව මතකද  ? මම නාලන්දේ රුවන්  මොකද මතක නැත්තේ මොනවද මං ගැන මතක ? අපේ කෙඩෙටිං ප්ලැටූන් එකේ හිටියනේ. ප්ලැටූන් එකේ කතා කරලා නිතරම සාජන් නානායක්කාර ගෙන් ආර් එස් එම් රුවන් කුලතුංග ගෙන් පනිෂ්මන්ට් කාපු එක්කෙනානේ. මට මතකයි ඔයාව. හරි හරි අපි එහෙනම් පස්සේ ඒවා […]

Mr. Namal Udara Piyasiri ගොවි පුතුන්ට ඇයි සලකන්නේ නැත්තේ…

Viewpoint by Kalinga Seneviratne This article is the 26th in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate. YANGON, Myanmar (IDN) – When I checked into a hotel at 10.00 pm in Central Yangon near the iconic Sule Pagoda, seeing a lot of South Asian Muslims around […]