KAMALIKA PIERIS Eventually, there was public outrage, worldwide, over the slaughter caused by the US army in Vietnam. Innocent civilians are dying every day in South Vietnam, observers reported.Pentagon set up a secret task force in 1970, the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group, using staff in the army Head office. For the next few years, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS In the 1950s, USA decided to be the protector of the Free World versus the Communist world. In this self appointed capacity, US invaded and fought wars in countries that have done nothing to USA or against USA. By doing so, US caused much misery to the populations in those countries. USA has […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka is in a NATO debt trap. Over 50% of Sri Lanka’s external debt was raised in the US and European NATO nations. Another 12% is held by another key US military ally in Asia. Altogether they hold over 62% of Sri Lanka’s external debt. Having trapped Sri Lanka into a perpetual […]

By Dr Tilak S. Fernando World Tourism Day falls on September 27. Tourism is a big business that benefits many globally. It does not only help hoteliers, but it aids those who are associated with the tourism industry culturally and religiously, with many natural attractions on offer. Tourism provided the oxygen required for the country […]

Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya At a time when all seems lost and gloom is engulfing the Sri Lankans financially, politically, and sportingly, a person of Sri Lankan descent winning the Booker prize recently is something worth celebrating. However, the euphoria was short-lived when a pirated version of the book started doing the rounds on many […]

Yoga Science ඍෂි ප්‍රවෘජාව යනු බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ පැවිදිවූ ස්වාධීන පැවිද්දයි. මෙය ලෝකයේ සදාකාලිකව ඇති පැවිද්දකි. බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ මෙන් නිදහසේ ශ්‍රමණ ධර්මය පිරීමට ඍෂි ප්‍රවෘජාව හොඳම තැනකි.ඍෂි ප්‍රවෘජාවෙන් පැවිදිවීමට කැමති අයට ඒ සඳහා මාර්ගය පෙන්වන පොතක් නිකුත්වී ඇත. මේ පොත අන්තර්ජාලයෙන් නොමිලේ download කරගත හැක. මෙගා බයිට් එකක PDF විද්‍යුත් පොතකි. මේ පොතේ නම: “ඍෂි ප්‍රවෘජාවෙන් […]

Senaka Weeraratna The World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) the premier international Buddhist organization must establish a Commission of Inquiry to investigate and report on the infringement of Human Rights of the Buddhist communities during the Western Colonial Rule of countries of Buddhist Asia. It is anticipated that there will be recommendations demanding an Apology and Reparations. The […]

Lanka Lead News මෙරට යුද විරුවන්ට ජාත්‍යන්තරය විසින් එල්ල කර තිබෙන යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා නිසා වෙනත් රටකදී නඩු පැවරීමට ඇති තර්ජනය පහව යන්නේ රුසියානු, යුක්‍රේන නේටෝ සටනින් රුසියාව ජයගතහොත් පමණක් බව ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සංසදයේ විධායක කමිටු ලේකම් යසස් ධර්මදාස මහතා පවසයි. පසුගිය කාලයේ සිදුවූ ඊනියා  අරගලයේ දී හමුදා නායකත්වය විධායකයේ අණ ක්‍රියාත්මක නොකර හිටියේ […]

Courtesy inews.co.uk The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida author talks about struggling to get published in the UK, Salman Rushdie and why his victory is a win for Sri Lanka. On Monday night, after he was presented with the Booker Prize by the Queen Consort Camilla Parker Bowles at London’s Roundhouse, a stunned Shehan Karunatilaka thanked his family, his […]

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ණය ප්‍රතිව්‍යුහගතකරණය සාර්ථක කරගෙන නිවැරදි ආර්ථික කළමනාකරණයක් ඇති කිරීමට රජය සූදානම් බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අවධාරණය කරයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයාමේ බව සඳහන් කළේ, බදු ප්‍රතිපත්තිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අද (ඔක්. 19) විශේෂ ප්‍රකාශයක් සිදු කරමිනි. රටේ ආදායම වැඩි නොකර ආර්ථිකය ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට හැකියාවක් නොමැති බව පෙන්වා දුන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා රට ගොඩගැනීමට නම් අකමැත්තෙන් වුව ද අසීරු තීන්දු තීරණවලට […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government is to commence operations at the chemical factory in Paranthan immediately, Plantation Industries and Industries Minister Ramesh Pathirana said. While paying an inspection visit to the factory area, he said the factory initiated its chemical manufacturing process in 1954 with the use of liquid chlorine, hydrochloric acid, zinc chloride, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror *The case under investigation has so far seen a scam of Rs.3Bn being unravelled *So far 11 complaints had been received against Thilini *Investigators are also probing if there were Parliamentarians on her list Colombo has seen many controversies. Especially among the rich and elite who at times enjoy their evening’s […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Moscow announced that a productive discussion was held with the Russian Government on the possibility of obtaining a long term credit line in order to procure fuel to Sri Lanka.  The Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation, Prof. Janitha A. Liyanage attended this discussion on […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government is ready to implement prudent economic management after successful debt restructuring, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says. He made this observation today (Oct. 19), delivering a special statement on the tax policy, restructuring Sri Lanka’s debt and the progress of the discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Speaking on the country’s debt […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has reportedly informed the President during a discussion held today (Oct 19) that It cannot support the proposed 22nd Constitutional Amendment Bill which is scheduled to be debated in parliament tomorrow (Oct 20). However, the president has requested to vote in favor of the 22nd amendment in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association has proposed that the Committee on Public Finance and the Committee on Public Enterprises be given the powers to recover the money lost to the government from the officials who misused the public funds and the politicians who decided to misuse the government funds and also to […]