By Sena Thoradeniya (Continued from April 09, 2024) 1. Introduction- Economic, Political, Socio-cultural Factors Influencing Polls In our earlier essay posted on April 09, 2024, we invited our readers to forget arithmetical calculations and predictions based on absurd statistical computations and to pay attention to economic, political, socio-cultural factors influencing polls, in relation to Sri […]

Sugath Kulatunga The present divestiture drive is ostensibly aimed at minimizing govt. expenditure on loss-making state owned enterprises and meeting certain IMF conditions. The ex-President should be applaude for taking firm stand on this burning issue. It would have been more welcomed if the policy of the SLPP was declared much earlier before the SOE […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson USLA. Thank you for affording me the privilege of being able to reinforce for the 15th  consecutive year, as I have done in all of these past commemorations,  our  deep debt of gratitude to the Ranaviru for their sacrifices to secure peace for Sri Lanka and remember every one else who […]

Palitha Ariyarathna By Palitha Ariyarathna As the sun dipped below the horizon on that historic day—May 18, 2009—the world witnessed a momentous event.  Sri Lanka’s war against terror had reached its conclusion. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a ruthless terrorist organization, had plagued our land for far too long. Sleepless nights, fear, and uncertainty had gripped our nation. […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon received the Spiritual Leader Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the Global Peace Ambassador at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) today (May 18). Governor of Eastern Province Hon. Senthil Thondaman also joined State Minister on this occasion. Gurudev will stay in Sri Lanka […]

By Andre Damon 16 May 2024 In a major escalation of the US-NATO war with Russia in Ukraine, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q. Brown told the New York Times Thursday that the NATO military alliance will eventually” send significant numbers of active-duty NATO troops to Ukraine, which the newspaper said […]

Politics ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්‍යවේදී මොහාන් සමරනායක මහතා

Politics කැලණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ සංස්කෘත අධ්‍යයන අංශයේ අංශාධිපති මහාචාර්ය පූජ්‍ය ඉඳුරාගාරේ ධම්මරතන නාහිමි

Wimal Weerawansa

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Press Release: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights GENEVA (17 May 2024) – Sri Lanka’s Government must take meaningful action to determine and disclose the fates and whereabouts of tens of thousands of people who have been subjected to enforced disappearance over the decades and hold those responsible to account, a UN Human Rights Office report released today […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් දශක ගණනාවක් පුරාවට අතුරුදන් කිරීමට ලක්වූ දහස් ගණනකගේ ඉරණම පිළිබඳව සහ ඔවුන් සිටින ස්ථාන හෙළි කිරීමටත් එම අපරාධවලට වගකිව යුත්තන්ට දඬුවම් පැනවීමටත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය අර්ථාන්විත පියවර අනුගමනය කළ යුතු බවට එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසම ඊයේ (17) වාර්තාවක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසා තිබේ. එහි වැඩිදුරටත් දක්වා ඇත්තේ, එම අපරාධ සඳහා රාජ්‍ය […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් මෙරට යුද ගැටුම්වල තීරණාත්මක ස්ථානයක් වූ වෙල්ලමුල්ලිවයිකාල් සිහිකරමින් වැල්ලවත්ත වෙරළ තීරයේදී පිරිසක් විසින් අද (18) උදෑසන සැමරුමක් සංවිධානය කර තිබුණි. එම ස්ථානයට පැමිණි තවත් පිරිසක් එම සැමරුමට විරෝධය පළකර තිබේ. එහිදී විරෝධය පළකළ සිවිල් සංවිධාන ක්‍රියාකාරිකයෙකුව පොලීසිය විසින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගනු ලැබීය.

Courtesy Hiru News Former Russian Ambassador Udayanga Weeratunga has claimed that the Sri Lankan parliament will be dissolved on the 14th of next month, with parliamentary elections to follow before the presidential election. In an interview with Hiru News, Weeratunga stated that President Ranil Wickremesinghe has agreed to this timeline. Weeratunga suggested that the dissolution […]