Dr. Daya Hewapathirane HISTORICAL CONTEXT The ‘Panadura Vadaya’, the historic debate of 1873, was a landmark in recent history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka owing primarily to the leadership, initiative and actions of one of the greatest sons of our motherland – Venerable Mohottiwatte or Migettuwaththe Gunananda Thera (1823-1890). He defeated our nation’s adversaries and […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE According to updated data on 24 June, there are 30 more matches to be played before semi-final.  The top four teams as at present viz. England, Australia, NZ and India have 13 games amongst themselves .  There are 17 more matches with all other teams. NZ and England have shown […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will start a three-nation tour from June 24 through New Delhi, Osaka and Seoul, to advance the shared goal of a free and open Indo-Pacific” which is but a euphemism for containing expansionist China. It may not be smooth sailing for Pompeo in New Delhi […]

lanka C news පාස්කු ඉරිදා ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාරයට සම්බන්ධ සියලු දෙනා අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇති බවත් එම අන්තවාදී ත්‍රස්තවාදී තර්ජනය දැන් අවසන් බවටත් අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා මෑතකදී පවසා ඇති බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ෆීල්ඩ් මාර්ෂල් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. මෙම ත්‍රස්තවාදී තර්ජනය මෙතනින් අවසන් යැයි කිසිවකු සිතන්නේ නම් ඔහු නොම්මර එකේ මෝඩයෙක් බවද ෆොන්සේකා මහතා කියා […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) threat has been effectively neutralised and all those who had links to NTJ leader Zahran have been arrested. He assures that the country is now safe. Curiously, he is striving to have the government’s controversial Counterterrorism Bill ratified in a bid […]

මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාව  ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ අද (24) පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවට සහභාගි වු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ඩලස් අලහප්පෙරුම මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ඩලස් අලහප්පෙරුම මහතා අද සිට ජනාධිපතිවරණයට තියෙන්නේ තවත් දින 148.අගෝස්තු එකොළොස් වැනිදා ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදු ජන පෙරමුණේ මහා සමුළුව පැවැත්වෙනවා. සියලු ප්‍රගතිශීලී බලවේග නියෝජනය කරන අපේ ජනාධිපතිවරණ  අපේක්ෂකයා එදින […]

Courtesy Reuters COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is likely to raise $2 billion through 5-year and 10-year sovereign bonds launched on Monday, two government officials told Reuters, as the Indian Ocean island nation tapped global capital markets for the second time in three months.A man walks past a board advertising U.S. dollars at a money […]

Courtesy NDTV Nine suicide bombers carried out a series of devastating blasts across three churches and three luxury hotels on Easter, killing more than 250 people. Sri Lanka is absolutely safe. I can give you that guarantee: John AmaratungaMUMBAI:  In an effort to restore the Sri Lankan tourism following the Easter attacks in April, the […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today Not only the ordinary British citizens, but also the Queen, the Prime Minister, and top leaders were also shocked when it was revealed that much trusted Chief of Intelligence, Sir Anthony Blunt was working as a spy for the Soviet Intelligence Service, the KGB. Blunt, a Cambridge don, was […]

Buddhika Samaraweera Courtesy Ceylon Today Attorney General Dappula de Livera has indicted three former LTTE members, in the Vavuniya High Court, over the killing of 26 prisoners of war. The accused, Irasathurai Thiruwarul, Madirasan Sulakshan and Ganeshan Darshan along with another person, who has not been identified by the prosecution, have been indicted under 2(1)(a) […]

Courtesy Adaderana

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney general has advised the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) to conduct a criminal investigation into the former Defense Secretary Hemasiri Fernando. Accordingly, the former Defense Secretary will be investigated over the failure to prevent or minimize the Easter Sunday bomb attacks. The Attorney General has given these instructions referring to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has ordered to consider the Fundamental Rights (FR) petition filed by Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara, challenging the President’s decision to send him on compulsory leave, on July 31st. The petition was taken up before the three-judge bench consisting of Supreme Court Justices Prasanna Jayawardene, L.T.B. Dehideniya and S. […]

Sri Lanka Together පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්‍රහාරයට මාස දෙකයි. එහි වගකීම පැවරෙන්නෙ කාටද? බුද්ධි අංශ සහ පොලීසිය සේනාධිනායකයා දැනුවත් කළාද? එම ප්‍රහාරය කළමණාකරණය කිරීමට අවකාශ තිබුණේද?සම්පූර්ණ විශ්ලේශණය බුද්ධි අංශයේ ව්‍යුහය, බුද්ධි අංශ ධුරාවලිය සහ එහි ව්‍යූහය පිළිබඳව විස්තරාත්මක විග්‍රහය ආචාර්ය අජිත් රෝහණ කොළොන්නේගෙන්…