LTTE declared him anti-Tamil and anti-Hindu…. Sri Lankan’s question him on his bias and lack of integrity. What can we comprehend of his actions? Let’s go back a bit to understand. Amnesty International on 12 April 2006 issued a release regarding Ratnajeevan Hoole. It was issued immediately after his appointment as Vice Chancellor of Jaffna […]

LANKAWEB EDITORIAL. The tremendous asset that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has proved to be both in the past, as well as today, is portrayed visibly through his actions and words which resonate to a great extent and permeate the minds of his respectful subjects – the citizens of Sri Lanka irrespective of their backgrounds or origins. […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Continuing with his opinions the diaspora proxy Sumanthiran said that the COVID-19 threat could last for several months, if not a year or two. In such a context, it is absolutely essential that all arms of government function effectively to meet this threat. Parliament must immediately deal with the question […]

නීති පරීක්ෂණ කණ්ඩායම අප රටේ 1. ඉඩම් ප‍්‍රතිපත්තිය 2. ඉඩම් නීති 3*. ඉඩම් ආයතන සියල්ල වෙනස් කිරීමට දැඩි උත්සාහයක් දරති. මෙසේ කිරීමට ආධාර ලබා ගැනීමට අත්සන් තබන අන්තර්ජාතික ගිවිසුම් වල කැපීපෙනෙන කොන්දේසියක් වන්නේ ඉඩම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් අධිකරණයට ඇති බලය අහෝසි කර ඉඩම් හිමියන්ට උසාවියට පිවිසීමට ඇති මූල්‍යමය අයිතිය අවම කිරීමය. මෙය ගෝලීකරණ වැඩසටහනේ කොටසකි. ශේ‍්‍රෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරයෙකු […]

ඒ.ජේ.එම්.මුසම්මිල් පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයෙන් විපතට පත්වූවන්ගේ ජීවනෝපයන් ගොඩ නැංවීම සඳහා ලෝක මුස්ලිම් ලීගයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදුන් රුපියල් කෝටි 90ක මුදලකට සිදුවූයේ කුමක්ද යන්න ආචාර්ය ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත හිමියෝ විසින් මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී කරන ලද ප්‍රකාශයකට පිළිතුරු වශයෙන් වයඹ පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර ඒ.ජේ.එම්.මුසම්මිල් මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශයක ඒ මහතා මෙසේ සඳහන් කර ඇත. ආචාර්ය ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත හිමියන් […]

Dilrook Kannangara President Sirisena was the president, commander in chief, defence minister and the head of the national security council when the Easter Sunday terrorist attack happened. That is a very long list of highly responsible positions concerned with national security. He must take responsibility for the lapse in security provided to the people and […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern over the infection to a large number of media persons while they went on reporting about novel corona virus outbreak across India. It terms the news of over 50 journalists turning Covid-19 positive in a single city as horrible and requests every scribe on the ground […]

Dr.Sarath Obeysekera The current and future prosperity of Sri Lanka is intrinsically linked to its marine and coastal assets, with fisheries and tourism being the two main pillars of its economy, gross domestic product (GDP) and source of employment    Implementation of the Blue Economy, hitherto to be named as” Fisheries and Ocean Development Movement […]

ගෙවිඳු කුමාරතුංග සභාපති – යුතුකම ජාතික සංවිධානය පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප‍්‍රහාරය සිදු කෙරුණේ ඇයි, ඒ සඳහා පාස්කු ඉරිදා ම තෝරාගැනුණේ ඇයි, ඒ සඳහා මූලික ව ම කතෝලික දේවස්ථාන තෝරාගැනුණේ ඇයි යන ප‍්‍රශ්නවලට නිශ්චිත පිළිතුරු ඒ ප‍්‍රහාරයන්ට වසරක් පිරෙන මේ අවස්ථාවේ දී ද අපි නොදනිමු. එහෙත් ප‍්‍රහාරකයන් යම් අවස්ථාවක දී බෞද්ධ මුහුණුවරක් ගැනීම පිණිස සිවුරු හා සිල්රෙදි […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia US offers to help fight terrorism and the Catholic church reiterates commitment to religious harmony Colombo, April 21 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said in his message to make the first anniversary of the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in the island nation that he will identify and bring before the law […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Peliyagoda fish market will be closed for three days from tomorrow, Business Association of the Peliyagoda Central Fish Market said. The decision was taken after a fish vendor, who had visited the Peliyagoda fish market, contracted Covid-19. President of the association said that health authorities has informed them that all […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Health authorities had taken step to quarantine 66 individuals from eleven families in Piliyandala MOH area after a patient infected with COVID-19 was identified today.   Dr. Indika Ellawala said the individuals placed under self quarantine were those suspected to have associated the patient. He said the patient was fish seller […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror More than 1,000 people belonging to 242 families from Bandaranayake Mawatha in Colombo 12, have been sent to quarantine centres, the Army said. Accordingly, a total of 1,010 people would be sent to quarantine. Army said the decision was taken after 57 Covid-19 patients were reported from the Bandaranayake Mawatha.

Courtesy Adaderana Another person has tested positive for COVID-19 bringing the total count of positive cases to 310, the Director General of Health Services, Dr. Anil Jasinghe confirmed this evening. This patient has been reported from Warakapola and according to reports he has had close contacts with another COVID-19 case. In the meantime, five other […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government would bring all culprits who planned, financed and supported the Easter bombing carnage that killed over 270 and wounded over 500 innocent people on last year’s Easter Sunday, to book soon, Defence Secretary Major General (Retired) Kamal Gunaratne has said. Issuing a statement yesterday that marked one-year of the coordinated bomb […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka today commemorates the one-year anniversary of the coordinated terror attacks that left the country devastated on the 21st of April 2019. A two-minute silence was observed at 8.45 am in remembrance of the victims of the tragic carnage which killed over 250 including foreigners and injured at least 500 people. On […]