Ever since a regime change was choreographed in 2015 January, the US has been using its lackeys in government to exert tremendous influence in 3 areas – Sri Lanka‘s economy, Sri Lanka‘s Parliament and Sri Lanka‘s armed forces. Based on media articles, press releases and whatever other information has been made available to the public, […]

Mahinda Karunaratne First the Hakeem lead SLMC joined with Sajith the Swan candidate to ensure his victory, however, the former is the kingpins of Jihad and I.S. in the country are now in a dilemma knowing Gota is winning. Now they are depicting a different picture by defecting some members to support Gota, Why? The […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Former Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranayaka and President Sri Lanka Administrative Services Association (1991-1994) 29th. Oct. 2019. My assessment of the Presidential Candidates 2019 I have selected only three candidates out of the list of 35 Presidential aspirants contesting for this assessment as I feel they are the only […]

RT Russia still cannot verify Washington’s claims about the elimination of the Islamic State leader, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that the US facilitated the rise of the group in the first place. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the (now former) leader of the notorious terrorist group Islamic State  (IS, formerly ISIS) is or was if he […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. As regards move by a foreign servile and shameless UNP government to sign the reprehensive MCC agreement before the presidential election a fundamental rights violation case has been filed in the Supreme Cou Court demanding to issue an interim order to prevent the signing of this agreement of pawning Sri […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy  Asian Tribune Both presidential candidates Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sajith Premadasa had pledged to protect the unitary status of the country. With both making the same promise, the challenge is before the voter as to which candidate to vote for, when both are pledging the same.Gotabaya Rajapaksa – had actually taken the […]

C. Wijeyawickrema Everybody knew about RP’s affinity for Malayalam witchcraft, black magic oils, etc. but who could have guessed that he was also an admirer of Hitler. Ex-CCS officer cum minister Sarath Amunugama had known this since 1968 according to a short note that I accidentally came across when surfing the Internet.  Appended below is […]

C. Wijeyawickrema In the west, pre-marital and sex with multiple partners before or within marriage is the norm for women. In Sri Lanka and other non-western societies, girls are expected not to have sex before marriage. The situation is so bad in the USA ( I have no knowledge to say this about Canada, Europe […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror ‘The Rajapaksas are the most closest to the Muslims among the present lot of political leaders in the country and Muslims are equally with Gotabaya Rajapaksa today, Ali Sabry PC said. Speaking at the event ‘The Turning Point’ organised by the National Muslim Collective in Colombo on Thursday, he […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa said if elected president, he would hold himself responsible for all the communities in the country and not just a single community. He said this at the event titled, ‘The Turning Point’ which was organised by the National Muslim Collective held in Colombo Thursday […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The parliament will have ample opportunity to review the MCC grant assistance agreement once it is signed, the US Embassy today said. Issuing a statement, the Embassy said once the grant assistance agreement is signed, the Government of Sri Lanka will send it to parliament for approval.   Consistent with the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Daya Gamage worked at the American Embassy in Colombo, as the Sole Foreign Service National and a Political Specialist.  He retired in 1994 and has been living in Las Vegas since retirement. He has been able to share his knowledge, understanding and his intimate professional association with […]

By Faadhila Thassim Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential candidate, Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that it is his primary responsibility to build a secure nation while ensuring communal harmony. He claimed that the only concern of all citizens is national security even though the country is amidst an economic crisis and that this […]

By Saundarya Wellaboda Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Chief Organiser Thusitha Kularathne claimed that they have verifiable information to believe that Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa will receive more than 70 per cent of the Government workers’ votes. Speaking at a Press conference yesterday (1), Kularathne claimed that […]

Courtesy Adaderana SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that he believes the people want to change the political culture of this country.  Speaking during the conference ‘The Turning Point’ organised by the National Muslim Collective, he said that towards the latter stage of the previous government a certain fear was created within the Muslim people […]

Courtesy Adaderana The presidential candidate of the National People’s Power (NPP) Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that NDF presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa cannot talk about catching thieves” when the whole team” is on his stage. He stated that if Sri Lanka is to be developed an administration devoid of stealing and wastage is required and that […]

Courtesy Adaderana UPFA MP Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena says that the election manifesto unveiled by NDF presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa is a dream shop” while also comparing it to a small novel”. Speaking at a press conference today (1), he alleged that they had somewhat delayed the released on their manifesto as it would be emulated by […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Magistrate’s Court today (01) reminded the Attorney General to brief the bench on legal action that would be taken against State Minister of Education Vijayakala Maheswaran over her statement concerning the now-defunct LTTE. When the case was taken up before the Colombo Magistrate this morning, the officers of the Criminal Investigation […]

Courtesy Adaderana A Fundamental Rights (FR) petition has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking an interim injunction against the signing of certain agreement with the U.S.  including the MCC, ACSA and SOFA by the government of Sri Lanka.  The FR petition has been filed by Attorney-at-Law Darshana Weraduwage while the Attorney General, President Maithripala […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ආබාධිත රණවිරුවන්ගේ ගැටලුවලට විසඳුම් ලබාදීමටනම් අමාත්‍ය සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතාට සහය පලකරමින් ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වන ලෙසට බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ සිට තමන්ට දුරකථන ඇමතුම්ලැ බුණු බවට රණවිරු අයිතිවාසිකම් ජාතික බලවේගය අද හෙළිදරව්වක් කළා. මේ අතර 2016 වසරේ ආබාධිත රණවිරුවන් සිදුකළ උද්ගෝෂණයකට සහය පළ කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පැවරූ නඩුවකට සහභාගිවීම සඳහා අද දස වන වතාවටත් භික්ෂූන්වහන්සේ කොටුව […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් නව ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී පෙරමුණේ ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතාගේ ප්‍රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශය සිහින මාලිගාවක් බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ලක්ෂ්මන් යාපා අබේවර්ධන මහතා පවසනවා. ඔහු මේ අදහස් පළ කළේ නෙළුම් මාවතේ පිහිටි ශ්‍රි ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණු පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේ අද පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදී. මේ අතර ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශකවරයාගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් කොළඹදී තවත්ප්‍ රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවක් පැවැත්වුණා.

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් කිසිදු අවස්ථාවක යළි මෙරට තුළ ත්‍රස්තවාදය ඇති වීමට ඉඩ නොතබන බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ජනාධිපති ධුර අපේක්ෂක ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ පවසනවා. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ මුස්ලිම් නියෝජිතයින් පිරිසක් සමඟ කොළඹ ඊයේ පැවති වැඩසටහනකට එක්වෙමින්. මේ අතර ජනාධිපති ධුර අපේක්ෂක ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂගේ ජයග්‍රහණය වෙනුවෙන් සංවිධානය කළ තවත් ජන රැළියක් ඊයේ මොරටුව […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ස්වාධීන මාධ්‍යයට බලපෑම් එල්ල කරමින් හිරු මාධ්‍ය ජාලයට එරෙහිව දියත් කර තිබූ මඩ පෝස්ටර් ව්‍යාපාරය පිළිබඳ හිරු මාධ්‍ය ජාලය පොලිස් මූලස්ථානයට ඉදිරිපත් කළ පැමිණිල්ලට අදාළ විමර්ශන සිදුකිරීම සඳහා පොලිස් නීති කොට්ඨාශයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂවරයාගෙන් උපදෙස් ලබාගන්නා බව පොලිස් මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශක ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ පොලිස් අධිකාරී රුවන් ගුණසේකර පවසනවා. හිරු මාධ්‍ය ජාලයට එරෙහිව ඊයේ කොළඹ නගරය […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ඇමරිකානු එක්සත් ජනපදය සමඟ ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය අත්සන් කිරීමට සූදානම් වන මිලේනියම් චැලේන්ජ් කෝපරේෂන් හෙවත් එම්.සී.සී.ඇක්සා සහ සෝෆා ගිවිසුම්වලට අත්සන් තැබීම වළක්වන අතුරු තහනම් නියෝගයක් නිකුත් කරන්නැයි ඉල්ලා ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට අද මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් පෙත්සමක් ගොනු කෙරුණා. නීතිඥ දර්ශන වේරදූවගේ විසින් ගොනුකළ පෙත්සමෙන් සඳහන් කර ඇත්තේ මෙම ගිවිසුම් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ අනුමැතියකින් තොරව අත්සන් කිරීමෙන් […]