Chanaka Bandarage Impressions It is good that the government has decided to conduct a study on Edward Henry Pedris, moreover about his tragic death in 1915.  The significance is that this will be done more than 108 years after his death. Even belatedly, the gruesome and heinous atrocity committed by the British must be exposed. […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement tried to use the laws of the country, to stop Kurundi from blossoming forth as a new venue for   Buddhist pilgrims.  Tamil Separatist Movement filed cases in the Magistrate court and Supreme Court against the archaeological work at Kurundi Vihara.    TNA MP M. A. Sumanthiran filed a petition in […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The West passed its first regulation on religious sites in 1935. World War I was over and World War II was looming. The Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments, known as the Roerich Pact, was signed by the states of the Pan-American Union in 1935. Article 1 […]

Stephen Gardner Colonel Douglas MacGregor and Stephen Gardner update on the Russia Ukraine war news as well as the Israel Gaza situation. They discussed various geopolitical issues in the current global landscape. Ukrainian President Zelensky’s claims that Putin and Russia could be behind attacks on Israel raise questions about the motivation behind these statements—whether to […]

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Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The relics unearthed from the Deegawapiya site during the excavations and the Crest-Gem, which are in exposition around the island to provide the devotees with an opportunity to pay their homage will be brought to ‘Sri Sumana Saman Dewalaya’, Rathnapura on Sunday (Dec 24). The devotees have the opportunity […]

Manusha Media කම්කරු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට වසර සියයක් සම්පූර්ණවීම නිමිත්තෙන් නිකුත් කරන ලද සියවස් සමරු මුද්දරය ඊයේ (21) එළි දක්වනු ලැබූ අතර එහි පළමු මුද්දරය හා මුල් දින කවරය කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා විසින් 1994 වසරේ සිය 2000 වසර දක්වා කම්කරු ඇමැතිවරයා වශයෙන් කටයුතු කළ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත ප්‍රදානය කරනු […]

Courtesy APO Group Africa News Room The UN Under-Secretary-General recognized the commitment of Sri Lanka to contribute significantly to global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, December 22, 2023/APO Group/ —  On 19 December 2023, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Federal […]

Anna Bjerde  World Bank Managing Director of Operations Courtesy World Bank Blogs Last month, I visited Sri Lanka for the first time and saw a nation at a crossroads, emerging from a deep crisis and determined to make a real effort to implement changes. What struck me the most was the resilience of the Sri […]

By Toby Antony Courtesy The New Indian Express In recent months, NIA has launched probes into multiple human trafficking incidents in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.  Express News Service KOCHI:  Suspecting links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has launched a probe into two cases relating to the attempted human trafficking of […]

By AAKAR PATEL Courtesy Rediff.com We should reassess what India’s role in the world is and whether we are doing the right thing for ourselves, notes Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi addresses the Meri Maati Mera Desh-Amrit Kalash Yatra in New Delhi, October 31, 2023. Photograph: ANI Photo India abstained from calling for an end to violence in […]

BY Daya Gamage Foreign Service National Political Specialist (rtd) US Department of State Courtesy The Island During the summer of 2020, protests against police violence and racial injustice erupted throughout the United States. May 25, 2020-death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody, renewed the people’s outrage regarding police treatment of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec 22 (Daily Mirror) – A total of 10,456 suspects have been arrested as of today in the island-wide special operation ‘Yukthiya,’ launched last Sunday to curb drug-related and underworld activities. The Public Security Ministry said that 517 of these suspects are under further investigation with detention orders in place. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec 22 (Daily Mirror) –  Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong said that his country will continue to provide firm support to the China-Sri Lanka Joint Water Technology Research and Demonstration Center. Making his remarks at the signing ceremony of the tri-partite agreement among the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Water Supply […]

Karma මොහු බේරාගැනීමට ආ මේ භික්ෂුව කව්ද? මානසික විකෘතිතාව කුමක් ද? මෙහු ගැන සියළු පැටිකිරිය ගැන උසාවියේදී හෙළි වූ කරුණු මෙවන් එකකට සමාජය කලබන්න තරම් බෞද්ධයා දුර්වල ද —– සිංහල දෙමළ මුස්ලිම් ඇතුළු සියලු ජාති වර්ග එකට ඒකීයත්වයෙන් කටයුතු කළ ද මේ වන විට සිංහල බෞද්ධයන්යාට විරුද්ධව බොහෝ බලවේ බලවේග කරලියට පැමිණ ඇත. එසේ කරලියට […]

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