KAMALIKA PIERIS The contested sites” issue at   Kurundi was created by the Tamil Separatist Movement. Tamil Separatist Movement announced, untruthfully, that there was an ancient kovil on the site of the Kurundi monastery.  Tamil Separatist Movement said that for generations Tamil people believed that an old Hindu temple, known as Aathi Sivan Kovil, was located […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Hinduism is not a   world religion. It is confined to India. Hinduism was introduced to East Asia but failed to take root there.  Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia retained the Ramayana but rejected the Hindu religion. Hinduism was not allowed to enjoy its position even in India.  In India, there is an ongoing tussle between […]

දිල්රූක් කන්නන්ගර “ගොවිතැන් බතක් කරගෙන ඉන්න පුළුවන් තාක්කල් සිංහලයෝ ආණ්ඩුවට විරුද්ධව නැගිටිනවා බොරු!” (ඇතැම් ප්‍රදේශ වල, “බත් ගෙඩියක් බාගෙන කාලා ඉන්න පුළුවන් තාක්කල් සිංහලයෝ ආණ්ඩුවට විරුද්ධව නැගිටිනවා බොරු!”) මෙය සුද්දාගේ කාලේ සිට එන කියමනක්. කෙතරම් කෙනෙහෙළිකම් කලත්, රජයට එරෙහිව බහුතර ජනතාව නැගිටියේ නැති දුකින් ගෙතුණු කියමනක්. එය නිර්මාණය වුනු කාලයේ කිසිම කෙනෙකු හිතන්න නැතුව ඇති […]

Written and Compiled by Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD (in progress) Reincarnation is the belief that when a person dies, he is reborn again.  Reincarnation is regarded as the mental continuum of an individual. Belief in reincarnation is an ancient phenomenon and exists in many cultures. The Egyptians believed in the soul’s immortality. In India, the concept […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Dark suits with a Long Red tie over a white shirt is the TradeMark of Donald Trump. As a prospective Sri Lankan Presidential candidate, is Dhammika Perera planning to use his Red-Shirt students to be his Front Guard? Red Shirts do have a bad image. These are only guesses, but hopefully, he […]

Senaka Weeraratna https://das-buddhistische-haus.de/pages/images/stories/videos/DBH-Interview-062019.mp4   On the occasion of the New Year (2024), the German Dharmaduta Society wishes to thank all its members, well-wishers, and supporters including the Dayakayas (Patrons) of Das Buddhistisches Haus ( Buddhist Vihara in Berlin – Frohnau) for their help in numerous ways in the past years and takes this opportunity to […]

Alworth Institute – UMD Presented on 10/10/23 by Dr. Walter L. Hixson, historian and commentator, and former distinguished professor, University of Akron. Dr. Hixson will provide an explanation of and historical analysis of the Israeli lobby in the US which he argues is the the largest, most well-funded and influential lobby acting on behalf of […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon while attending the customary New Year’s Day ceremony at the Defence Ministry this morning (Jan 1) stated ‘Defence Ministry staffers are entrusted with significant responsibilities and all must endeavour to strive to achieve national goals with utmost dedication’. ‘As we […]

Haidar Eid Haidar Eid is an associate Professor at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. Courtesy Al jazeera War by war, Israel has slowly but surely normalised genocidal violence against the Palestinian people. [T]he reality of concentration camps resembles nothing so much as medieval pictures of Hell.” – Hanna Arendt In February 2008, Matan Vilnai, then Israel’s […]

Prime Minister’s Media • We have already moved forward from the past. We have to step into the future from the present- Prime Minister The Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena  announced that the Pensioner’s Fund and made it independent.”We have already moved forward from the past and we have to step into the future from the present”, […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon along with the Chief Incumbent of Somawathiya Viharaya made an inspection visit the flood affected Somawathiya sacred area yesterday (Dec. 31) to inquire into the well-being of the monks and people living there. This area is experiencing floods after heavy rains […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 02 (Daily Mirror) – With effect from 1 January, persons who have not obtained a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) will be subjected to a penalty not exceeding Rs. 50,000, the Department of Inland Revenue cautioned. With effect from 1 January, persons who have not obtained a Taxpayer Identification Number […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Ananda Palitha Even after imposing 18 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on fuel with effect from January 1, the government continued to charge Rs 50 on a litre of both petrol and diesel purportedly to recover losses incurred by the highly corrupt state owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) over […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Navy is slated to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Nuclear Security Administration of the United States regarding the prevention of illegal transportation of nuclear and other radioactive materials. The proposal presented by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his capacity as the Minister of Defence, to sign the […]

Courtesy Hiru News State Minister for Finance, Shehan Semasinghe, emphasized that the sustained single-digit inflation has significantly contributed to fostering business confidence within the country. During a press conference at the Presidential Media Centre (PMC) themed “Collective Path to a Stable Country,” held today (01) the State Minister disclosed that the state revenue accounted for […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් කෘෂිකාර්මික ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ රැකියා සඳහා විදේශගත වන සියලුම ශ්‍රමිකයින් යළි දිවයිනට පැමිණි පසු කෘෂි ව්‍යවසාකයින් බවට පත්කිරීම සඳහා අක්කර දෙකක ඉඩමක් ලබාදීමට රජය පියවර ගන්නා බව කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනූෂ නානායක්කාර පවසා තිබෙනවා. අමාත්‍යවරයා වැඩිදුරටත් පැවසුවේ ඉඩම් අමාත්‍යාංශය සමඟ එක්ව මෙම තීරණය ගෙන ඇති බවයි. ඔහු මේ බව පවසා ඇත්තේ […]

Courtesy Hiru News  ගෙවුණු පැය 24 තුළ යුක්තිය මෙහෙයුමේදී තවත් සැකකරුවන් 822 දෙනෙකු අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන තිබෙනවා. ඉන් 60 දෙනෙකු රැදවුම් නියෝග මත ප්‍රශ්න කරන බවයි මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යංශය සදහන් කළේ. මත්ද්‍රව්‍යවලට ඇබ්බැහි වූ තවත් 72 දෙනෙකු පුනරුත්ථාපන මධ්‍යස්ථාන වෙත යොමුකර තිබෙනවා. මෙම මෙහෙයුමේදී හෙරොයින්, අයිස්, මත්පෙති සහ කේරළ ගංජා පොලිස් භාරයට ගෙන තිබෙනවා. එමෙන්ම බ්ලූමැන්ඩල් […]

Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka Police on Tuesday (02 Jan.) introduced a hotline for the public to provide information in relation to the ongoing massive anti-drug operation ‘Yukthiya’, which is being carried out across the island. The hotline was introduced under the directive of the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Deshabandu Tennakoon, while stickers […]