Chanaka Bandarage The debate on abolishing the Executive Presidency  has come to light again. This is good. True we have a new President, elected by the majority vote. But this does not negate the long felt need of abolishing the Executive Presidency. Since 1978, incompetent, fraudulent, sometimes violent, visionless Presidents have come and gone. They […]

by Garvin Karunaratne I write in support of MP Mr Tilvin Silva’s, idea that Provincial Councils should be abolished(FTLK:4/12) I enclose  my opinion  as an administrator why the Provincial Councils imposed on us by an outsider, Rajiv Gandhi,  should be abolished. Why the 13 th Amendment is inimical for our development and how it will […]

Dilrook Kannangara NPP government received the largest percentage of votes in any parliamentary election in South Asia. What is more important is its mandate came from all ethnic and religious groups. It won all except one district. With 159 seats in parliament, it is the only party ever to rule Sri Lanka without a coalition. […]

Ibrahim Khalil Ahasan,  Dhaka, Bangladesh The average weather pattern in a place over the years is called climate. The change in that familiar weather pattern is called climate change. However, in the current world, climate change has become a global problem. As a result of climate change, the world is getting warmer, the weather is […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka has achieved another Staff-Level Agreement for the Third Review of the IMF program. The IMF delegation during its recent visit to Colombo praised the state of the economy and the success of their programme in Sri Lanka. The reality is far from its applause, where real output and incomes […]

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj/DailyFT Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 29: November 13 is a date of great significance as far as the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP) – known as the Makkal Viduthalai Munnani in Tamil and People’s Liberation Front in English-is concerned. It was on 13 November 1989 that the JVP’s charismatic founder-leader Rohana Wijeweera. Since 1994 the JVP […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dec 3 (AdaDerana) – Sri Lanka’s tourism sector is taking a bold step into the limelight as a leading destination for Indian film productions, with the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) taking centre stage at the 10th edition of the India International Film Tourism Conclave (IIFTC) in Mumbai, held from October 23 […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Saunday Observer-Feautres  Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Prof.Kurt F.Leidecker Colombo, Decembr 1: Buddhism and democracy are two sides of the same coin, if they are seen in the correct way, says the father of India’s democratic constitution and the modern-day apostle of Buddhism in India, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.  He saw Buddhism as a democratic religion and […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අයහපත් කාලගුණය හේතුවෙන් පූර්ණ හානි වූ වගා බිම් අක්කරයකට රුපියල් ලක්ෂයක වන්දි මුදලක් අවශ්‍ය බව අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික් මහා වාරිමාර්ග ඒකාබද්ධ ගොවි සංවිධානය සඳහන් කරයි. එහි සභාපති පුංචිරාළ රත්නායක මහතා පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ අක්කරයක් වගා කිරීම සඳහා ඊට වඩා මුදල් ප්‍රමාණයක් වැය වී ඇති බවයි. නව රජය කළ යුතුව ඇත්තේ පරණ චක්‍රලේඛ […]

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan  Today, December 4th, upon the request of the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, the Government of Japan has decided to provide emergency relief goods (tents, plastic sheets, sleeping pads) through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to Sri Lanka in response to the damages caused […]

by Dharshan Weerasekera Courtesy The Island Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the UNHRC in 2015.(Picture courtesy Sunanda Deshapriya) Ever since the victory of the Sri Lankan armed forces against the LTTE in May 2009, the international community has been calling on successive governments in this country to ensure ‘transitional justice.’ These governments, in turn, have […]

By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana The NPP government should probe the killings of its founder leader Rohana Wijeweera and actor turned politician Vijaya Kumaratunga in keeping with the pledges made by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during his policy statement, opposition MP Chamara Sampath Dassanayake told Parliament yesterday The President in his address to Parliament […]

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