The LTTE Diaspora are very much in action of late. This is nothing to be surprised. Every Geneva session their adrenalin gets pumped and LTTE kitty is put to use. Several videos are being relayed of girls and boys speaking with heavy foreign accents off a prepared script about Tamil Eelam. How do they propose […]

Janaki Chandraratna The UNHRC Resolution, 30/1 – Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka, was co-sponsored by the Sri Lankan Govt., after the regime change in January 2015. It is well known that the West, in particular, United States of America (USA), had a key role in backing the regime change. The new […]

C. Wijeyawikcrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Introduction Lemkin who lost 49 family members to the Holocaust coined the term Genocide in 1943/4. Applying his definition to past events, the first genocide took place in USA when, white man distributed blankets soaked with smallpox germs to native Americans (Red Indians). Perhaps, even before that in 1818 and 1848 […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය තිස්සමහාරාම, පොල්ගහවැලෑන, පන්නෙගමුව පාරේ පිහිටි හොඳ හිත සිතිවිලි මන්දිර පරිශ්‍රයේ ඉදිකළ අඩි 127ක් උස හොඳ හිත නෙළුම් බුදු කුලුන” ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් අද 2021.02.18 දින විවෘත විය. හොඳ හිත නෙළුම් බුදු කුලුන” මස්තකයෙහි උසින් අඩි 16ක්, දිගින් අඩි 18ක් හා පළලින් අඩි 09ක් වූ ධර්මචක්‍ර මුද්‍රාවේ සමාධි බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමාවකි. […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන මුස්ලිම් අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරු සහ සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්‍යාපන සභාවේ සිංහල භාෂා විරෝධී නීති ප්‍රතිපත්ති නිසා අධිකරණ භාෂාවෙන් සිංහල භාෂාව ඉවතට යන ආකාරය, සාධාරණ නඩු විභාගයක් ජනතාවට අහිමිවන ආකාරය, ජනතාවගේ නෛතික සාක්ෂරතාවය අහිමි කරවන අකාරය, සමාජ සංස්කෘතිය බිදවට්ටන ආකාරය සහ වාර්ගික වෛරය ඇති කරන ආකාරය…., https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=882630369168817&id=100022655856594 මුස්ලිම් අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරු සහ සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්‍යාපන […]

By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, February 18: The Indian High Commission said here on Thursday, that the Sri Lankan Minister for Energy, Udaya Gammanpila, had not said that the 2017 MoU on the oil tanks in Trincomalee would  be  scrapped,  and that in the Indo-Lankan Joint Venture (JV) to be formed to develop and run the tanks, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed 08 more Covid-19 related deaths bringing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 430. 01. A 67-year-old woman from Dematagoda who had passed away at home on February 16. The cause of death is cited as Covid-19 pneumonia and high blood […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 243 persons have tested positive for novel coronavirus increasing today’s tally of new cases to 501.  All new cases are close contacts of infected patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases from Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda and prisons clusters to 74,371.

Courtesy Adaderana Attorney at Law Hejaaz Hezbullah and principal of the controversial Madrasa school Mohamed Shakeel have been placed under remand custody until March 03. The duo was brought before the Fort Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage earlier today (February 18). Deputy Solicitor General Dileep Peiris told the court that the suspect Hejaaz Hizbullah was involved in […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Chief Justice has appointed two Trial-at Bars for the hearing of the Bond Scam cases involving the two Treasury Bond Auctions in March 2016. The Attorney General requested for a Trial at Bar for the case on February 11, 2021, to try former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, former Governor of Central Bank […]

Courtesy Adaderana The writ application filed by His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith seeking an impartial investigation into a consignment of swords allegedly imported to the country following the Easter Sunday terror attacks has been fixed for support. The order was issued by Appeals Court President, Justice Arjuna Obeysekara and Justice Mayadunne Corea. Accordingly, the Cardinal’s […]