Senaka Weeraratna The LLRC Report was tantamount to a Betrayal of the Victory achieved by the Security Forces on the battlefield after a huge sacrifice of life and limb by the heroic soldiers. About 30, 000 personnel from the security forces perished.   What was required and anticipated by the informed public from the LLRC were […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara The following map shows the graphic representation of the geomorphological structure of the Island determined by its geological foundation spreading from the center in all directions Morphological map of Sri Lanka Source Sudath Gunasekara 1991. You will see from this map that all the rivers in the Island starting from the […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara.  This is an article that should be seriously read, understood, chewed and digested and corrective measures taken immediately by the President, Prime Minister, the entire Cabinet first, and second by all the MPP in Parliament including those supporting burial of Muslim Covid 19 corpses. I think it is better for all […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The USA, we are told, has two governments, a visible government and an invisible one. The visible government is the one run by the US President and Congress.   But the real power which drives US policy is elsewhere, say analysts. USA’s politics is masterminded by a small financial elite, they added, a kind […]

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E No. Not THAT elephant nor the one which turned itself into a telephone. Neither are in the room. The compass is not in the room either and there’s palpable evidence that even the lotus bud has got displaced. That’s if ‘people’ constitute ‘the room.’ These days, the proverbial elephant in the room is […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The appointment of Mr Milinda Moragoda as High Commissioner for India met with strong reactions from certain sections of buddhist monks and majority Sinhalese.  Naturally, a person who has been looking for fortunes and power by switching his loyalty from UNP to SLFP  and then to Pohottuwa ought to face […]

ALI SUKHANVER Human rights abuses in the Indian Occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir have made the lives of the local people simply a hell. From mass killings to enforced disappearances and from torture and sexual abuse to political repression and from ban on freedom of speech to rape; the tale of miseries never comes […]

By Frances Bulathsinghala/Sunday Observer Professionals from diverse streams of specialisations in the country, seek an opportunity for traditional physicians to treat Covid-19 patients so that it could be ascertained if we need to spend billions of dollars to import a vaccine. These professionals argue that Sri Lankans should not underestimate the vast knowledge and skills […]

Courtesy Prensa Latina Colombo, Jan 3 (Prensa Latina) The foreign minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Dinesh Gunawardena, congratulated the Cuban Government and people on the 62nd anniversary of the Revolution, a diplomatic source said on Sunday.Cuban Ambassador Juana Elena Ramos met with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, who noted the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s death toll from the coronavirus pandemic went up with two more deaths caused by the virus being reported, the Department of Government Information stated. The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed that two females aged 57 and 76 years have succumbed to the virus in this manner. The 57-year-old woman had […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total count of Covid-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 44,774 as 188 more persons were tested positive for the virus.  The Department of Government Information said 403 fresh cases have been detected within the day. According to the Health Ministry’s data, 37,252 of the confirmed patients have made complete recoveries from […]