Shenali D Waduge Some people’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter”. What good is a justice system when the law & lawyers also twist the facts & try to manipulate clauses to the advantage of agendas. Fiorito has mixed heritage. His father is an Italian Canadian whose family migrated to Canada in late 1880s while his […]

By Garvin Karunaratne  My craze for motoring in the forsaken neglected Sinhala areas where poor unequipped buddhist monks struggle to guide  the people  following the dictat of Lord Buddha: Charita Bhikkae Charikan Mahajana Hitaya, Sukhaya” took me this time to Sandamal Eliya, five miles before one reaches Tanmtirimale.   Tantirimale is a rock temple where there is a […]

Courtesy ShiaTV IMF and World Bank policies are opening national markets to US-dominated \”multinational corporations\” effectively destroying the homegrown economy of poor countries all over the world from Latin America to Africa to Asia. The program was essentially about enriching a few ruling. Money Trail | IMF & World Bank: Two major levers of US […]

Malinda Seneviratne There are some uncomfortable truths about the 13th Amendment, devolution of power and of course provincial councils. Let’s begin with the here-and-now. Provincial Council elections haven’t been held in years. It is more than 10 years since the Eastern Provincial Council elections were held and more than nine since they were held for […]

Dilrook Kannangara JVP was the last of the Sinhala political parties to accept 13A and provincial councils in 1999. By then UNP, SLMP, SLMC, EPRLF, SLFP and PA had succumbed to the 13A honeypot. It was a wise decision of the JVP to at last embrace the inevitable. 13A has no benefits for the nation; […]

Courtesy Teheran Times At times of natural disasters, countries actually set aside differences with the foes and extend a helping humanitarian hand.  But the United States and its Western allies have refused to assist the Syrian government even as it faces one of the worst natural disasters in more than a century. Syria has already […]

Manusha Media ඕමානයේ සුරක්ෂා නිවාසයන්හි රැඳී සිටින කාන්තාවන් 59 දෙනා මෙරටට ගෙන්වා ගැනීමේ නෛතික ගැටලු කිහිපයක් ඇති බවත්, කාර්ය මණ්ඩල අඩුපාඩු ඇතත් එකී ගැටලු විසඳාගත් සැනෙන් ඔවුන්ව ලංකාවට එවීමට කටයුතු කරන බවත්, ඒ සඳහා ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ ද අනුමැතිය ලැබී ඇති බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවැසීය. දැනට ක්‍රියාත්මක මිනිස් ජාවාරම මැඩලීමට ගත හැකි […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa through a lawyer today claimed for sum of Rs. 17.85 million recovered from the President’s House on 9th July. However, Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage rejected the application citing police are yet to conclude the investigations.(Lakmal Sooriyagoda) 

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Minister and Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna National Organizer Basil Rajapaksa said that he is ready to give up his US citizenship if the dual citizenship was an obstacle to his future political activities. He told a television political program that not only the dual citizenship, but he is also ready […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Claiming that the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has granted special electricity tariff reduction to Housing Apartment Complexes than normal domestic units, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said today that electricity could be provided to normal domestic units at concessionary rates if the special relief granted to Housing […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe has taken a torch which is burning from both side by trying to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, Former President Maithripala Sirisena said today. He said he wondered why Ranil Wickremesinghe was trying to implement this controversial 13A when the country was facing serious issues. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has urged all persons to be vigilant of the security of the details of their bank cards, owing to the recent rise in financial scams. Accordingly, CBSL warned all persons to refrain from sharing their usernames, passwords, PIN numbers, One Time Passwords (OTP), Card Verification Values […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Country Representative for Sri Lanka, Dr. Nadeem Ul Haque says that the Sri Lankan government needs to take steps to ensure efficiency when it plots the way forward for the country and cut down on the number of subsidies given to the public as well. He made […]