Garvin Karunaratne, former Government Agent, Matara, 19/9/2022 The present Government has already embarked on a programme of privatization, despite the fact that it has no mandate from the people. In the Presidential Election where over sixty percent of people voted and elected Gotabhaya as the President, as well as in the General Election where the […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS The university rag” was carried out by the senior students who are instructed by the Student Unions, who in turn are led by the Inter University Federation of Students (IUFS)  which is controlled by the JVP. The leaders were elusive, observed critics.  The seniors who rag are invariably connected to the Students’ Union […]

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Prof. Hudson McLean God Save the King – which King?Senaka Weeraratna LankaWeb – God Save the King – which King? The Real Sinhala King of Sri Lanka Parakramabahu the Great Parākramabāhu I (Sinhala: මහා පරාක්‍රමබාහු, c. 1123–1186), or Parakramabahu the Great, was the king of Polonnaruwa from 1153 to 1186. Last King of Sri Lanka […]

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Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel former Ambassador to UAE and Israel President Ambassador’s Forum Memory and Imagination Israel – a friend of Sri Lanka – leader on innovations agriculture and a world Power though a tiny nuclear nation Sri Lanka is a friend of the State of Israel maintaining friendly relations since the birth of Israel […]

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Manusha Media ඊශ්‍රායල් රැකියා සදහා පිටත්ව යාමේදී කිසියම් පිරිසක් මුදල් එකතු කරන්නේ නම් ඔවුන්ට විරුද්ධව නීතිමය පියවර ගන්නා බවත්, මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් එල්ලවන චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජාත්‍යන්තරයේ සහාය ලබාගෙන පරීක්ෂණයක් පවත්වා තරාතිරම නොබලා දඩුවම් ලබාදෙන බවත්, කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් චෝදනා එල්ල කරමින් නොසිට අදාල සාක්ෂි සමග පැමිණිලි ඉදිරිපත් කරන […]

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Senaka Weeraratna Sri Lanka has a strong case for demanding and obtaining reparations from all three Western colonial powers i.e., the Portuguese, Dutch, and the British. We were victims under Colonial Rule. This is indisputable. This is the Message that the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission must convey to the World instead of appearing shamelessly […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS UGC conducted a study titled ‘Ragging, Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Sri Lankan University System’ in 2018.  The study was done in eight universities. Nearly 15000 students were interviewed and 1551 staff responses were obtained. The study had certain limitations, such as a short time given for the questionnaires, small number of […]

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Courtesy NewsIn.Asia   Colombo, September 19: In 1796, the British took over Ceylon from the Dutch after a brief military operation launched from Madras. The change in regime put the White Dutch and people of mixed Dutch-Ceylonese blood (called Dutch Burghers) in a quandary. They wondered what their position would be under the new dispensation. […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The seven Sri Lankans in Ukraine who were allegedly captured and tortured by Russian soldiers in the Kharkiv region are not medical students, State Minister of Foreign Affairs Tharaka Balasuriya confirmed. Earlier today (Sep. 19), a journalist from Kyiv and Kharkiv region’s police disclosed appalling details about the torture the seven victims had […]

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