By Rohana R. Wasala A small country like Sri Lanka with no economic or military power has only two things to its credit – sovereignty and self respect. If we lose sovereignty and self respect, we lose everything.” The late Lakshman Kadirgamar, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994-2001), quoted in THE CAKE THAT WAS BAKED AT […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Once upon a time, said commentators, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)   was the most trusted broadcaster, to which the world turned for news without distortion or warped opinions. It was the world’s first national broadcaster.  BBC World Service kept listeners around the globe informed during the Second World War.   Even today BBC is […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS (Continued from Pt 23 Db) The Hard talk documentary next featured TNA leader Rajavarothiam Sampantham. This was   very different to the interview with Gotabaya Rajapaksa .The Sampanthan interview was not Hard Talk at all. It was nice and gentle. There was no interrogation. Sampantham was allowed to speak without interruption.  He is shown […]

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Ottawa, Canada (sumanithiran_m@parliament.lk) Dear M.A. Sumanithiran: What is this that I read in a The Island Online – news copy of 27 August 2021, that  ”Sumanithiran wants US as mediator here”    Sweet Mother of Jesus, Oh Great!  Are you Nuts or what, Sumanithiran?”. Shucks…I noticed that the photographer that took your […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය පර්යේෂණ ප්‍රතිඵල ලොව හමුවේ තබමින් දේශීය වෙදකම සහ ආයුර්වේදයේ ප්‍රමිතිය සකස් කරන්නැයි නිලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් දුන් බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද(04) දින පැවසීය. මොණරාගල, සිරිගල පිහිටි රාජපුර ආයුර්වේද රෝහල විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට  අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ සිට වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ශෂීන්ද්‍ර රාජපක්ෂ […]

Manusha Media ජාතික ඖෂධ නියාමන අධිකාරියේ දත්ත පද්ධතිය මැකී යාම සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන සැබෑ තත්වය අනාවරණය කරගැනීම වෙනුවට ආණ්ඩුවේ මන්ත‍්‍රීවරු පිරිසක් ඖෂධ ජාවාරම්කරුවන්ට සුදු හුණු ගෑමට උත්සාහ කරමින් සිටින බවත්, සුදු හුණු ගෑම පසෙකින් තබා  දත්ත පද්ධතිය මකා දැමුවේ කවුරුන්ද යන්න අනාවරණය කරගැනීමට උත්සාහ ගන්නැයි සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ මාධ්‍ය ප‍්‍රකාශක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී මනුෂ නානායක්කාර පැවසුවේය මෙම […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග වෙළබඩගේ සර් යන්නට ගොසිනි. එහෙත් වෙළබඩගේ සර් පිලිබඳ මතකය තවමත් මිළින වී නොමැත. නැුම් ගුරුවරයෙකු ලෙස වෙළබඩගේ සර් නාලන්දාවට එන්නේ 1967 දීය. සුදු ජාතික ඇඳුම ඇඳ  ,කැරළි සහිත කළු කොන්ඩයකින් යුත් වෙළබඩගේ සර් සිසු පරම්පරා කීපයකටම උගන්වා තිබේ.  ඒ කාලයේ ප්‍රාථමික අංශයේ රැස්වීම තිබුනේ වර්තමානයේ පිහිනුම් තටාකය තිබෙන ස්ථානයට ආසන්නවය. ධර්ම […]

Manusha Media වයස අවුරුදු තිහට අඩු පිරිස් සදහා එන්නත්කරණය කිරීම හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයෙන් ආරම්භ කිරීමට හේතුවු සෞඛ්‍ය සහ විද්‍යාත්මක පදනම කුමක්දැයි සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ මාධ්‍ය ප‍්‍රකාශක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී මනුෂ නානායක්කාර ප‍්‍රශ්ණ කළේය. රටේ ආර්ථිකයට වැඩිම දායකත්වයක් ලබාදෙන බස්නාහිර පළාතෙන් හෝ කොළඹ දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයෙන් එම වයස් කාණ්ඩයේ එන්නත්කරණය ආරම්භ නොකරන්නේ වැඩිම රෝගීන් සංඛ්‍යාවක් හමබන්තොටින් වාර්තාවන නිසාද, නැතිනම් රටේ […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA), while appreciating the Union Information and Broadcasting ministry for its initiative to review the guidelines for scribe’s welfare schemes, urged the mainstream media houses and seasoned journalists to display transparencies in their own financial transactions to qualify themselves for such benefits. The forum of scribes also opined that […]

Dr SARATH obeysekera  I have lost a closet friend this week Dr Ibrahim Yusuf Born in Rideegama and studied had primary education I Rideegama Temple and a contemporary of Asgiriya Chief Buddhist prelate . He was very much conversant with Buddhism though he payed everyday and recited Quaran several times a day.Amazingly he could recite […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM As a New Zealander , I join the Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, The NZ Police  and the rest of New Zealand in unreservedly condemning today’s (3/9/21) , terrorist attack in Auckland that injured several. As a New Zealander of Sri Lankan origin, I condemn this even more ,as  our two thousand […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO (AFP) – A Sri Lankan man who went on a knife rampage in a New Zealand mall was “brainwashed” by neighbours from the Middle East, his mother said on Saturday (Sept 4). Ismail Fareeda spoke to a local TV channel about her son as the Sri Lankan government promised to work with New […]

By: Sam Hurley and Jared Savage Courtesy NZ Herald THE SUPERMARKET TERRORIST* Aathil Samsudeen came to NZ in 2011, escaping a tortuous regime in Sri Lanka* He was granted refugee status in 2013 but within five years had become angry and isolated* He was the perfect candidate to be radicalised in his own living room, through Isis-inspired social […]

Courtesy inews The Sri Lankan national, 32, was known to police as an Isis-sympathiser and had been under surveillance for five years The terrorist who stabbed seven people in an Auckland supermarket before being shot dead by police has been named as Ahamed Samsudeen. The Sri Lankan man, 32, who launched his frenzied attack on Friday, was known […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror While condemning the recent terrorist attack on innocent civilians in New Zealand, Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera today threw a challenge to the 22 organizations to make a joint public statement that they reject Wahhabism and Salafism’. Ven. Gnanasara said the attack was carried out by […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has commenced questioning close contacts of the Sri Lankan who carried out the attack at a supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand, police said. Authorities revealed that the suspect, Ahmed Adil Mohamed Samsudeen, also known as Ahmed Adil Mohamed Samsudeen, a resident of Kaththankudy. It was reported […]

Courtesy Adaderana The amendments to the Consumer Affairs Authority Act will be tabled in the Parliament on Monday (Sep. 06), says State Minister of Co-operative Services, Marketing Development and Consumer Protection Lasantha Alagiyawanna. These amendments are expected to allow necessary action to be taken against individuals and companies who deliberately increase the prices of essential […]

Courtesy Adaderana The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka soared yet again as 145 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Friday (Sep. 03). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 9,951. According to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 693 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 3,333. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 459,459. As many as 382,476 recoveries and 9,951 deaths […]