There are 2 scenarios connected to Swiss Embassy Colombo. First is the asylum given by the embassy to a senior police officer along with his family & secondly is the alleged ‘temporary kidnapping’ of a local staff. How interconnected are the two? While we know the first to be true the second raises 2 questions […]

By Charles.S.Perera On the 16 November 2019, the most disastrous, and the worst of all political regime Sri Lanka had ever seen, which every Sinhala should pray never to see again,  The Yahapalanaya led by Ranil Wickramasinghe as the Prime Minister, was at last driven away by an overwhelming majority of Sinhala votes. It was a triumph […]

By Garvin Karunaratne It is an opportune moment to highlight the fact that Sri Lanka can do better by having its own industries, instead of depending on imports. We have to create employment for our youth and also save foreign exchange by making things we import.  I have many a time, while offering flowers at […]

Symposium Theme: Cultural Knowledge for National Unity  A Symposium on Common Heritage, convened by the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, will be held at the Auditorium of the  Mahaweli Centre, 96. Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7, on Saturday, November 30, 2019 from 9.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. Symposium Theme: Cultural Knowledge for National Unity Programme […]

Laksiri Warnakula The election is over and the country’s helm is now in the hands of a new skipper. Therefore isn’t it time to forget the polling booths and look beyond them to see what else could be happening in this ‘Land like no other’? By the way anyone looking at the above title might […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement has charged that Eelam War IV was an act of genocide by the Sri Lanka government. This was yet another way of erasing the Eelam victory, by declaring that the Eelam war was not a clean war, it was genocide initiated by the government. The Tamil Separatist Movement started […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS From 2010 to 2014, Sri Lanka    held a celebration on May 18th to mark the end of the Eelam war. The celebrations were marked by a military parade, speeches and a moment of silence. This celebration was known as ‘Victory Day’ .One way of erasing the Eelam victory, was to get rid of […]

The National Movement for Web Journalists The National Movement for Web Journalists protests the attempt to suppress the media and journalists after the new government was elected who acted in opposition to the incumbent President Gotabhaya Rajapakse during the presidential election which ended shortly. With the victory of the new president on November 17, 2019, many […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO • Sri Lanka’s new government led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wants to undo the previous regime’s move to lease the southern port of Hambantota to a Chinese venture, citing national interest. Former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in 2017 changed the terms, saying it would be difficult to pay the loans […]

Courtesy India Today While an invitation has been extended, Government of India is yet to respond to the invite. Sources told India Today TV that both sides will first have to work out the dates. ndia and Sri Lanka held the first bilateral meeting after the new government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa took over. India was […]

Courtesy rthk Narendra Modi greets Sri Lanka’s new leader, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Photo: AP India, anxious to counter China’s influence in the region, on Friday offered hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Sri Lanka as the island’s new president made his maiden overseas trip in New Delhi. Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s visit to India just 12 […]

By Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Crime Branch OIC at the Narahenpita Police A. D. Sumith Chammika Perera yesterday alleged former CID Director Shani Abeysekara and several other officers coerced him to implicate Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Namal Rajapaksa in the Wasim Thajudeen investigation. Speaking at a news briefing organised by the Sathya Gaweshakayo […]

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. After two years of concentration, he has been able to share his knowledge, understanding and […]

Courtesy Adaderana All ministerial secretaries have been directed to call on current Chairpersons and the Boards of Directors of State institutions to tender their resignations. Secretary to the President Dr. P.B. Jayasundara has addressed a letter to all ministerial secretaries to request the relevant resignations in consultation with their respective ministers, the Prime Minister’s Office […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has commenced investigations into the incident regarding the local staffer of the Embassy of Switzerland in Sri Lanka, says Police Spokesperson SSP Ruwan Gunasekara. The CID will work together with the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) and CCTV Division in this regard, he said further. The Police Spokesman stressed […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, November 29 (newsin.asia): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the visiting Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa that India would extend a fresh credit line of US$ 400 million for infrastructural and other development projects and an additional US$ 50 million to fight terrorism. Modi also said that India trusts that the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Advisor to the Prime Minister on Economic Affairs Ajith Nivard Cabraal speaking to our news team said the government will make fresh engagements with the International Monetary Fund to implement a growth-oriented economic programme. Commenting on the possible impact of tax reductions on state coffers, he said the government would target a […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් පසුගිය රජය සමයේ නීතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ ආයතන කුමන ආකාරයෙන් නීතිය අවභාවිත කළාද යන්න එම ආයතනවල ප්‍රධානීන් සිදුකරන පාපොච්චාරණවලින් පැහැදිලිවන බව පූජ්‍ය මැඩිල්ලේ පඤ්ඤාලෝක හිමියන් පවසනවා. කොළඹදී අද පස්වරුවේ පැවති සිංහලේ ජාතික සංවිධානයේ ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවේදී උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළා.

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් මාවනැල්ල නගරය අවට පවතින කුඹුරු ඉඩම් ගොඩ ඉඩම්බවට පත් කර විකිණීමේ මහා පරිමාණ ජාවාරමක් හිරු සී.අයි.ඒ.අනාවරණ කර ගත්තා. පසුගිය රජයේ ප්‍රබල දේශපාලනඥයෙකුගේ ව්‍යාපාරික හිතවතුන් පිරිසක් සිදුකරන මෙම නීති විරෝධී ක්‍රියාවලියට රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන් ද සෘජු දායකත්වය ලබාදී තිබෙනවා. පසුගිය රජය සමයේ ආරම්භ කර ඇති කුඹුරු ඉඩම් ගොඩ ඉඩම් බවට පත් කර විකුණන […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් ස්විට්සර්ලන්ත තානාපති කාර්යාලයේ නිලධාරිනියකට බලපෑම් කළ බව කියන සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් කිසිවෙකුත් මෙතෙක් පොලිසියට පැමිණිල්ලක් ඉදිරිපත් නොකිරීම ගැටලු සහගත තත්ත්වයක් බව මව්බිම වෙනුවෙන් රණවිරුවෝ සංවිධානය පවසනවා. එම සංවිධානය කොළඹදී අද කැඳවා තිබූ ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදී මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් තවත් කරුණු අනාවරණ කළා.

උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් රජයට අයත් බත්තරමුල්ල – වෝටර්ස් එජ් හෝටලයේ සිදුව ඇති මූල්‍ය අක්‍රමිකතා සම්බන්ධයෙන්ක ඩිනමින් පරීක්ක්ෂණයක් සිදුකරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා එහි සේවකයින් පිරිසක් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ හා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ යන මහත්වරුන්ට ලිපියක් යොමුකර තිබෙනවා. මේ අතර අදාල අක්‍රමිකතාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් විගණන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විමර්ශනයක් ද ආරම්භ කර තිබෙනවා. පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක හා රාජිත සේනාරත්න යන […]