Shenali D Waduge Not only is Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith the opening batsman in the C4 documentary, he has also decided to be the night watchman having prepared a 3 page letter in English and even going the mile to translate it into Sinhala. The letter is dated 6thSeptember. Channel 4 program was aired on 5th September […]

Dr. Maha Hilal In a June 2012 piece headlined Praying at the Church of St. Drone,” I wrote, Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the United States; you are also electing an assassin-in-chief.” At that time, President Barack Obama was overseeing what […]

Middle East Eye French edition. More than 40 years after the mysterious shooting down of an Italian plane that carried 81 passengers, former two-time premier Giuliano Amato claims France was behind it A former Italian head of government has accused France and the United States of being responsible for the deaths of 81 aircraft passengers […]

Shenali D Waduge Let us get to the bottom of this drama without engaging in any more sensational entertainment. The latest Channel 4 video opened with Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith talking about someone “above” Zaharan and Hamsa claiming to have met Maj. Gen. Suresh Salley in February 2018 & alleging discussing a plot to commit Easter […]

ආචාර්‍ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර  මහනුවර 7.9.2023 මේ ජාත්‍යන්තරය කියන්නේ කවුද.එක්සත් ජාතීන් කියන්නේ කව්ද. ලෝකබැන්කුව කියන්නේ.ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදල කියන්නෙ මොකක්ද. සරළම උත්තරය නම් 1505 සිට මුළු ලෝකයම අවිබලයෙන් කොල්ලකා, විනාශකොට, ලෝකයේම ධනයෙන් සහ දැණුමෙන් තම රටවල් සමුර්ධිමත් කරගත් හා උ හා ද අමෙරිකා මහාද්වීප, ඕස්ට්‍රලියාව නවසීලන්තය වැනි රටවල ස්වදේශිකයින් සමූල ඝාතනය කොට ඒ රටවල්ද අල්ලාගෙන දෙවන ලෝක යුද්ධයෙන් පසු එකතුවී […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay looks at Tamil colonization of Sinhala lands during British rule. (1815-1948).From the time they took control of the Udarata kingdom, the British wanted to bring the Sinhala population to heel, especially after the rebellions of 1818 and 1848. They decided to replace the Sinhalese with Tamils from South India. This   was […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamils in Trincomalee District rose, from 30% of the population in 1871 to a peak of 60% in 1901.  Trincomalee had become an urban center by 1879. Census reports indicate that from 1870 to 1900 Jaffna was the foremost source of migrants into Trincomalee town. The town itself was largely inhabited by […]

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Manusha Media Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said that a cultural centre will be provided to the Sri Lankans of African origin (Kaffirs) living in the Sirambiadi area of Puttalam.He said this will help this community to focus international attention on their culture.The Minister noted this after meeting the Kaffir community in Sirambiadi. […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මෙරට ධීවර ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ සිදුකළ හැකි ආයෝජන පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කිරීම සඳහා චීන කර්මාන්තකරුවන් පිරිසක් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා 2023.09.06 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී හමුවිය. චීනයට පමණක් නොව යුරෝපය සහ උතුරු ඇමරිකාව ඇතුළු විදේශ වෙළෙඳපොළ වෙත ද මත්ස්‍ය සැකසුම් සහ අපනයන ආයෝජන සඳහා විශාල විභවයක් පවතින බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙහිදී පැවසීය. නියෝජිත පිරිසට නායකත්වය දුන් Fujian ප්‍රාන්තයේ ජලජ නිෂ්පාදන තොග […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ප්‍රතිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභාව යටතේ පවතින විශ්වවිද්‍යාල 22 ක  කථිකාචාර්යවරුන් 135 දෙනෙකු 2023 වසරේ දී සේවයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වී ඇත. තවත් 63 දෙනෙකු සේවය අතහැර (vacation of post – VOP)  ගොස් ඇත. 2023 මුල් මාස 8 තුල විශ්වවිද්‍යාල සේවයෙන් ඉවත් වූ කථිකාර්යවරුන් සංඛ්‍යාව 198 ක් පමණි.   විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ආචාර්ය සංගමයේ හිටපු සභාපති ශ්‍යාම් බන්නහැක මහතා පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar It seems rather high handed  and irresponsible for Former SupremeCourt Judge and MP CV Wigneshwaran of no mean repute as a troublemaker relative to Sinhala Tamil matters to make what appears to be alatent threat to the Government of Sri Lanka based on the fullimplementation of the 13th  Amendment and needs […]

Vichara In December last year the Governor of the Central Bank appealed to exporters to repatriate export proceeds in full within the stipulated period. He does not want to bring in regulations to force them to do this on the argument that will deter foreign investment. A think tank of Peradeniya University has pointed out […]

Courtesy AdaDerana Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday (Sept. 07) vehemently denied the allegations made against him in British television network Channel 4’s new ‘Dispatches’ documentary on the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka. In a media release, Rajapaksa said this video is mostly an anti-Rajapaksa tirade aimed at blackening the Rajapaksa legacy from […]

Courtesy AdaDerana Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs & Constitutional Reforms Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has asserted that the government stands ready to conduct an international investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. Despite his emphasis that the relevant investigation would be an international probe and not a domestic one, the Minister opined skepticism pertaining to […]

Courtesy AdaDerana President Ranil Wickremesinghe is set to depart for Cuba to address the G77+China Leaders’ Summit next week. This summit, themed Current Development Challenges: Role of Science, Technology and Innovation,” is scheduled for September 15 and 16, 2023, in Havana, Cuba. President Wickremesinghe’s participation in the summit comes as a result of an official […]

Courtesy AdaDerana The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has told the Sectoral Oversight Committee (SOC) on International Relations that it is economically important for Sri Lanka to work with BRICS countries. Attending the SOC meeting chaired by MP Namal Rajapaksa on Tuesday (05), the Central Bank officials have pointed out that 41% of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that by drawing inspiration from the success of the Biyagama Free Trade Zone, a comprehensive strategy for modern commercial industrialization will be implemented throughout the country.  This initiative aims to propel the nation towards rapid development within the next 15-20 years, he said, participating in in the centenary celebration […]