Dr. Daya Hewapathirane    Muslim Hostility Since Ancient Times                                                             Those professing Islam have been the biggest enemies of Buddhists and Buddhism throughout history. Buddhists have suffered extreme forms of violence, untold persecution and discrimination from Muslims since the 12th century, with the ruthless Muslim incursions of ancient Buddhist nations in the Central Asian and Himalayan regions. […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy  The Hindu Investigations throw up troubling hints of how readily rage can court terror At first, they were nameless. Nine suicide bombers,” is all authorities would reveal. In a little over a week, the police identified each of them and their stories began coming out. Now, a month after Sri Lanka’s savage Easter […]

අද (30) දින පැවැති ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදු ජන පෙරමුනේ මාධ්‍ය හමුව අද (30) දින පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින් ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය ■ හිටපු බස්නාහිර පළාත් සභා මන්ත්‍රීනි කෝකිලා හර්ෂණී ගුණවර්ධන මහත්මිය ■ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන කාන්තා පෙරමුනේ සහ නිතීඥ පෙරමුනේ උප ලේකම් සාගලා අබේවික්‍රම මහත්මිය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය මහින්ද […]

අද (30) දින පැවැති ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදු ජන පෙරමුනේ මාධ්‍ය හමුව අද (30) දින පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින් ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි රමේෂ් පතිරණ මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ජානක වක්කුඹුර මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ශෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතා පාස්කු සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් සොයන්න පත්කරපු තේරීම් කාරක සභාවේ සභාපතිවරයා සහ තවත් මන්ත්‍රීවරු ඇවිත් […]

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අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ lanka C news පාස්කු ඉරිදා දින ප්‍රහාරයේ ‘පාපය’ මේ වන විට යහපාලකයන්ගේ ගිණුමට බැර වී අවසන් බවත් ඒ නිසා ඉන් ගැලවීමට ‘තේරීම් කාරක සභා – රියැලිටි ෂෝ’ පෙන්වීමෙන් වැඩක් නොවන බවත් ඉන් සිදු වන්නේ මේ රටේ ජාතික ආරක්‍ෂාව තවදුරටත් අනතුරට පත්වීම පමණක් බවත් ජානිපෙ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා […]

FR J.C. PIERIS Courtesy The Island A trident is a spear with three prongs (Trishulaya), a weapon of war, and America has a submarine missile aptly named Trident. This is what came to my mind when thinking of the three agreements with America, either already surreptitiously signed or to be signed. 1. The ACSA, Acquisition […]

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy The Island Dental Doctor Rajitha has broken his vow of silence and we are being bombarded with his vocal barrage. Watching his press conference, my new-gained little faith in Yahapalanaya, as expressed in the article “Yahapalanaya, the curse? May be changing!” (The Island, 28 May), started evaporating, even before the […]

Courtesy The Island National Front for Good Governance (NFGG) leader and entrepreneur Abdul Rahuman hits back at critics, who accuse him of having had links with the National Thowheed Jamath while Najah Mohamed, General Secretary of the outfit looks on. They vowed to pursue political objectives regardless of challenges in the wake of April 21 […]

Sandun A Jayasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The exposure of certain national security and intelligence information during the Parliamentary select committee inquiry on Wednesday (29) came under heavy criticism by the UPFA today and termed it as a betrayal of the intelligence services of the country after the Millennium City fiasco in January 2002. The […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today The transfers given to Muslim teachers to Tamil schools by the Eastern Province Governor M.L.A.M. Hizbullah have been cancelled by the Provincial Education Department according to the instructions of President Maithripala Sirisena.

SUNIL S. PALLENDENIYA (KURUNEGALA), WIJESINGHA WELIKANDA AND CHAMARA AMARASURIYA Courtesy Ceylon Today Fifty two Sinhala Buddhist mothers have lodged complaints with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital charging that Dr. Shafi Shiha Abdeen had performed non-consensual sterilisation. At the same time, 45 women, who had allegedly been sterilised by the doctor, […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General’s Department today informed the Colombo Magistrate’s Court that charges will be filed against Minister Ravi Karunanayake for providing false information to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the Central Bank treasury bond scam. The complaint pertaining to the investigations being carried out by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena has denied media reports claiming that he was informed of a possible terror plot during a meeting with senior police officers on April 08. Media reports have publish the statements made by the Head of the National Intelligence Service,, while testifying before the Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to look into […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 30 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka targets at least 2.5 million tourists this year after several countries eased their travel advisories which were issued after deadly terror attacks killed over 250 people on the island last month, a minister said. Sri Lanka’s Minister of Tourism Development, Wildlife and Christian Religious Affairs John […]