S. AKURUGODA According to the disclosure of Foreign Secretary Admiral Jayanath Colombage to the media, the government is to appoint one time Minister Milinda Moragoda, as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner of Cabinet rank to India and, once such status is afforded, Mr. Moragoda will be able to interact with the leaders of both the countries […]

The Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR) The Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR) has provided expatriate leadership to protect Sri Lanka’s unitary status, territorial integrity and sovereignty for over 25 years. It has fought many battles against Tamil diaspora led LTTE separatism and Muslim […]

Sinhala Net මිලින්ද හොර-ගොඩඅතින් අරන් අහවල් එකේ තබා ගැනීමේ කලාවේ පිකාසෝ නම් අපේ මහින්ද මහත්තයා ය. එතුමා ඒ වාගෙ වැඩ කරගන්නේ දකුණේ පුරුද්දට කළගුණ සළකන්නට යාමෙන් බව අපි හැමෝම දන්නවා ය. මහින්ද මහත්තයා එහෙම හොඳම එකෙන් ඇර ගැනීමේ කතා ගොඩක් ඇත. නමුත් ප්‍රස්තූතයට ගැලපෙනම එක කතාවක් ලියා තබන්නේ අතීතය අමතක වෙච්ච අපේම බයි රාළලාට එය […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana Sri Lanka recently had a nationwide blackout that cost millions and even compromised its security. A blackout may be compared to a sudden heart attack, leaving a debilitated individual. This was the fifth  heart attack” suffered by the grid since the end of the Eelam wars, with blackouts in  2009, 2015, twice […]

Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage Country weather the storm of Covid-19, for individuals, businesses, routines of lives; by developing resilience muscle is the tool to improve reality, make lives meaningful, and improvised. – Research On Resilience Our country is changing in many ways towards progress. It is happening everywhere for better. The country was in a crisis situation […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher and SLFP/SLPP Stalwart since 1969, 31.08.2020. Sabry asks MPs to abhor Machiavelli type behaviour Hon. Justice Minister Ali Sabry. The above news item about your presentation in parliament on the debate on vote on account, is woderfull though the full speech had not been published […]

– විමලසිරි ජයලත් mawratanews බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනිය කියල තියෙනවා කරත්ත රෝදෙ එක පැත්තකට කැරකෙනව වගේම අනෙක් පැත්තටත් කැරකෙනව කියල. එතුමිය කියල තියෙනව එතුමිය බලයට ආ විගසම මේ ව්‍යවස්ථාව වෙනස් කරල එතුමියටත් එතුමියගේ ඇමැතිවරුන්ටත් විරුද්ධව ජනාධිපති කොමිෂන් සභා තියල ප්‍රජා අයිතිය අහෝසි කළා වගේම යූ.ඇන්.පී. ආණ්ඩුවේ නායකයන්ටත් එරෙහිව කටයුතු කරනවා කියල. මම එතුමියට කියන්න කැමැතියි කරත්ත රෝදෙ […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A discussion between Education Minister Professor G. L. Peiris and Acting Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Hu Wei revealed that China was keen to extend their fullest support for Human Resource (HR) Development in relation to the industrial and investment zone planned for the Hambantota District, the Ministry of Education said. […]

Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that the Attorney General had no power to decide on Premalal Jayasekara attending Parliament sittings, Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara said today it should be decided by the Speaker and Parliament. He told a news conference that the AG can only appear in court on behalf of the plaintiff. […]

Courtesy Adaderana Thirty-one more foreign arrivals have tested positive for the COVID-19 infection jumping the total count of coronavirus cases recorded in the country to 3,049. All 31 cases are recent returnees from Qatar, Department of Government Information confirmed. Accordingly, a total of 36 new cases have been reported within the day. Among them, 32 […]

Courtesy Hiru News North – Western Governor A J M Muzammil sworn in as Governor of the Uva Province & Uva Governor Raja Kollure sworn in as North Western Governor before the President.

Courtesy Hiru News Negombo prisons SP Anuruddha Sampayo & three others granted bail by Negombo Magistrate’s Court.

H. L. D. Mahindapala Of all the oddities displayed at the opening of the new Parliament – and there were some exceptional ones like an MP arriving in a prison van and another landing in a boat etc. – the most significant one to my mind was the presence of two fathers-in-law sitting on opposite […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS First person accounts of the second JVP insurgency have been given in autobiographies of Drs B.J.C.  Perera, Sarath Weerasinghe and W.A. Wiswa Warnapala. They have spoken of their experiences with the JVP in their places of work.  B.J.C. Perera was Consultant Pediatrician in Kurunegala in 1988.  In Kurunegala there was a lot of […]

Dilrook Kannangara It is pointless responding to CV Wigneswaran who seems to find relief in false beliefs to comfort the sad realization that Tamils do not have a nation of their own. Craving for a nation of their own is just and fair. But it must not be on someone else’s land. His claims are […]

Dr. Chula NA Rajapakse MNZM Panellist, At Webinar  On Countering  Allegations of Tamil Genocide In Sri Lanka To: Your Excellency Gotabaya Rajapakse,President,The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Your Excellency, Countering The Diabolical and Baseless Internationally Orchestrated Allegations of Excessive  Tamil Civilian Massacre Amounting to Genocide, During  the Last Stages of the War In May […]

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher and SLFP/SLPP Stalwart, August 29th., 2020. Your suggestions and proposals are appreciated. Those who sat with you, except for Hon. Basil Rajapaksa and your secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera do not have a far-sighted vision and proactive ideas to achieve what you have suggested/proposed. HE. […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Muthuswamy Master, who invested Sinhala film music with a new sound on par with Indian films, came to Sinhala films with Sri Lanka;’s first feature film Kadawanu Poronduwa (Broken Promise) as a member of Music director R.Naranaya Iyer’s orchestra and stayed on to make a mark. Colombo, August 30 (Facebook): Incomparable master composer […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Why the Indian National Congress and the United National Party are finding themselves in a bind The United National Party (UNP) in Sri Lanka and the Indian National Congress (INC) in India, are both Grand Old Parties. They were vanguards of the freedom struggle against the British and were the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුව පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයේ විමර්ශන නිසි අයුරින් සිදු නොකළ බවට කොළඹ අගරදගරු අති උතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් පවසනවා. උන්වහන්සේ රජයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින්නේ ආගම සහ භාෂාව පදනම් කරගත් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ තහනම් කරන ලෙසයි. රාගම – තේවත්ත – ශ්‍රී ලංකා අප ස්වාමිදූගේ ජාතික බැසිලිකා සිද්ධස්ථානයේ රෝගීන් ආසිරි ගැන්වීමේ වාර්ෂික දේව මෙහෙය කොළඹ […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today Former Norwegian peace negotiator Erik Solheim, who defended Tiger terrorists and their vision of the so-called ‘Tamil cause’ for over three decades, finally acknowledges that he knew Tiger Leader Velupillai Prabakaran had ordered the killing of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Solheim, in a twitter message, said that […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa says that one can work to develop the country even while in opposition. The Leader of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) expressed these views attending an event held today (30) to hand over medical equipment to the Wethara District Hospital in Polgasowita. He says that other parties try […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Ministry of Health states that the number of coronavirus infections in the country has increased to 3,012. This was with the identification of 02 new patients.  The number of corona patients discharged from hospitals after complete recovery is 2860 Earlier 10 more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases […]

Courtesy Hiru News A team of officers from the Geological Survey of Sri Lanka visited the Kandy area today to inquire into the unusual tremors that are reported to have occurred in several areas. The tremors have been felt in Kandy, Anuragama, Haragama, Gurudeniya, Thalathuoya and several other areas last night. The tremors were recorded at […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Minister of Power and Energy Dullas Alahapperuma states that the report of the committee appointed to investigate the recent power outage island wide will be uploaded on the internet. The Minister stated this while participating in a public meeting held in Hakmana, Matara yesterday. The Minister also expressed his views regarding […]

By Senior Lawyer Sri Lanka Study Circle [ srilankastudycircle@yahoo.com ] Parliament has enacted legislative framework for the e register [ e  LR ] modeled on the  Australian ‘Torrens System’ of title registration (Registration of Titles Act No. 21 of 1998, popularised as Bim Saviya / Title Registration ).  This has convulsive    changes to our land […]

Asoka (Weerasinghe) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 29 August 2020 Mr. Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, LL.B (London)Leader of the Tamil National Peoples’ Front (TNPF)Member Parliament for JaffnaParliament of Sri Lanka KotteSri Lanka Dear Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam: Permit me to introduce myself to you, as you might wonder who this guy is, who calls himself Weera-sinha […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කඩවත, මහර ප්‍රදේශයේ ජනතාවට අත්‍යවශ්‍ය සෞඛ්‍ය පහසුකම් සහිත රෝහලක් ලැබීම පිළිබඳව තමන් සතුටට පත් වන බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා 2020.08.29 දින පැවසීය. මහර රෝස්වුඩ් පෞද්ගලික රෝහලේ නව වාට්ටු සංකීර්ණය, ශෛල්‍යාගාරය සහ රසායනාගාරය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. පළාතේ අවශ්‍යතාවය තේරුම්ගෙන ජනතාවට සේවයක් වන සේ මෙම රෝහල […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මෙරට සිදුවන අඩු වයස් විවාහ වැළැක්වීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය පියවර ගැනීමට අවධානය යොමු වී ඇති බව අධිකරණ ඇමැති ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ අලි සබ්රි මහතා පවසයි. ඇමති ධුරය භාරගැනීමෙන් පසු අස්ගිරි-මල්වතු මහ නාහිමිවරු බැහැදැකීම සදහා එම විහාරස්ථාන වලට ගිය අවස්ථාවේ ඔහු මේ බව සදහන් කලේය. මුස්ලිම් ජාතික කාන්තාවන් සංගම් හැටියට පැමිණ මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් […]