By Walter Jayawardhana Los Angeles Correspondent Captain Harry Rathnapala Hatharasinghe (89), a patriarch of the Sri Lankan American community in Los Angeles has passed away according to his family. Ailing for a few weeks at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, the leader of many Sri Lankan and Buddhist activities in the area departed due to natural […]

 By Walter Jayawardhana in Los Angeles Scientist ChandraWickramasinghe told a United Nations sponsored symposium that a threat from outer space could wipe out  the very existence of human civilization if proper precautions are not taken At a UN-sponsored Symposium on the Space Science and the United Nations” held in Graz Austria  Chandra Wickramasinghe presented a […]

by Walter Jayawardhana The latest research done on the Red Rain cells collected in the North Central, Uva and Southern Provinces of Sri Lanka has concluded that the outer layers of the cells are unusually high in uranium. A research paper published in the Journal of Cosmology by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe ,Professor Takafumi Matsui, Nori […]

by Walter Jayawardhana ƒ”š‚ The lead op-ed piece published by the Hindu in its latest edition said the resignation of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from the United Progressive Alliance government is more likely that the party has used the Sri Lankan crisis to push for a separation from the UPA, because it is politically expedient for […]

by Walter Jayawardhana The younger brother of jailed hedge fund manager Sri Lankan born Raja Rajaratnam has been charged by US prosecutors with conspiring in an insider trading scheme to cheat on Wall Street to earn nearly $1.2 million illegally. It was also later alleged that Rajaratnams had been generous contributors to the terrorist group […]

ƒ”š‚ by Walter Jayawardhana If a resolution is passed by the Indian parliament accusing Sri Lanka army of war crimes or genocide on the lines proposed by DMK Supremo Karunanidhi because of his threat to leave government that could be considered black mail and a positive reaction to that could be a bad precedent to India’s […]

ƒ”š‚ by Walter Jayawardhana The Times of India in a hard hitting editorial written on the threat of walk out by the Indian Central government’s coalition ally the DMK on the issue of alleged human rights violations by Sri Lanka questioned where it was slumbering when the violations were actually committed. The editorial in the English […]

by Walter Jayawardhana In the main editorial that entitled, “The DMK can’t dictate the nation’s foreign policy”ƒ”š‚ the Pioneer newspaper of New Delhi in no uncertain terms said that the party’s leader instead of doing something constructive to help the Sri Lankan Tamils has taken to grandstanding, marching his party out of the UPA regime, […]

by Walter Jayawardhana The Hindu in an editorial protested extremist outfits without any popular base have started carrying out violent attacks on Sri Lankan students, offices and Buddhist monks . The editorial reiterated that the “the mindless violence of some of the fringe Tamil outfits is putting at risk India’s own moral authority to urge […]

by Walter Jayawardhana Pointing out Tamil Eelam Supportersƒ”š‚  Organization (TESO) founded in Chennai does not help at all to solve the problems of Sri Lanka Tamils India’s politically powerful the Hindu newspaper strongly advocated New Delhi in an editorial ƒ”š‚ to craft a Lanka policy free of the opportunistic imprint of Tamil Nadu’s competitive politics , […]

By Walter Jayawardhana In several research papers submitted Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and his team have revealed along with fossilised ancient diatoms as reported earlier several living diatoms or algae were also discovered in the sterile inside of a meteorite that fell in the village called Rakkinda near Mahiyangana in the Uva Province of Sri Lanka. […]

ƒ”š‚ By Walter Jayawardhana Professor Godfrey Louis Pro Vice Chancellor of the Cochin University of Science and Technology of Kerala, India hailed the discovery of life in the Polonnaruwa meteorite asƒ”š‚  a major development in the search for extraterrestrial life. Professor Louis is the pioneer scientist who drew the attention of the whole world to the […]

by Walter Jayawardhana ƒ”š‚ Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director of the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology in the United kingdom will fly to Sri Lanka for obtaining further information of ƒ”š‚ the Polonnaruwa Meteorite and meeting some Sri Lankan scientists for discussions over his team’s findings over this weekend. ƒ”š‚ He told this correspondent, “We are carrying out more tests […]

by Walter Jayawardhana ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ A meteorite that Landed recently, close to the ancient city of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka has been described as the most important scientific discovery in the last 500 years as it carried “compelling evidence of life”ƒ”š‚ from outer space. ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  The scientists who discovered the contents of the meteorite said, “we […]

by Walter Jayawardhana ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  The ancient city of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka has created history as the place where a meteorite that fell there was found with fossilized life coming from outer space “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” for the first time in the history.ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  The scientists who discovered the contents of the meteorite said,ƒ”š‚  “We report here […]

ƒ”š‚ by Walter Jayawardhana Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe ofƒ”š‚  the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology in the United Kingdom said the microbes present in the red rain water that had been collected in the Sevanagala area in Sri Lanka when seen through the optical microscope are still alive and are with tails movingƒ”š‚  like sperm and high in […]

by Walter Jayawardhana Explaining the recent Polonnaruwa showers of yellow rain Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe said it is part of the growth cycle of red rain. ƒ”š‚ In an interview the scientist of the Buckingham Center of Astrobiology in UK said, “The Kerala rain also had the same changes of colour from red to yellow. In the […]

by Walter Jayawardhana Dr.Chandra Wickramasinghe of the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology in the Buckingham University , UK said the cells found in the Red Rain collected in Sri Lanka according to preliminary investigations contain high concentrations of arsenic and silver and “that makes them extremely unlikely of any earth origin.”ƒ”š‚ Wickramasinghe who had just returned […]

by Walter Jayawardhana Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director of the Astrobiological Center at the Buckingham University, England said the recent phenomenon of red rain in Sri Lanka is reportedly similar to the red rain in Kerala in 2011 and 2009 which definitely had some cosmic connection In an email interview with this correspondent he said, “from […]

by Walter Jaywardhana The Times of India in a lead story revealedƒ”š‚  that several umpires,three from Sri Lanka, were allegedly involved in match fixing. The three involved in Sri Lanka were named as Gamini Dissanayaka, Maurice Winston,and Sagara Gallage. The Times of India said the revealation was made possible under a sting operation conducted in […]

by Walter Jayawardhana Under relaxed conditions announced recently Sri Lanka will be able to export eight million pieces at zero duty to India very soon. ƒ”š‚ The new opportunity arose as India decided to relax fabric sourcing requirements for ready made garment exports to India at the request of Sri Lanka. ƒ”š‚ Once the notification by the […]

by Walter Jayawardhana Members of Viduthalai Chiruthakal Katchi (VCK) an ally of Vaiko violently attackedƒ”š‚  a motorist, according to photos and videos published, near the Sri Lanka Deputy High Commission in Chennai . Media reports said the bullish thugs were outraged when a motorist asked them why their demonstration was delaying the traffic so much. […]

by Walter Jayawardhana Thamim Ansari a citizen of India and a resident of Tamil Nadu who was alleged to have spied for |Pakistan with the help of Colombo’s Pakistani High Commission was remanded by a Tiruchi magistrate when he was produced before him by the Q Branch of the Tamil Nadu Criminal Investigation Department. The […]

A Hindu report Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday called for tolerance in a world where enmity and hatred towards other faiths had a “tragic”ƒ”š‚ fallout in violence even as MDMK chief Vaiko protesting his visit was arrested. The visit of Mr. Rajapaksa amid tight security was marked by protests by Mr. Vaiko and […]

by Walter Jayawardhana Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazagam outfit’s leader Vaiko and 750 odd party workers were arrested by Madhya |Pradesh police as the South Indian rabble rouser’s followers were burning effigies of Mahinda Rajapaksa and waving black flags outside a Dharmasala a guest house where they were detained for two dates for trying to disrupt […]

by Walter Jayawardhana Over 1,000 Marumalarcha Drvida Munnetra Kazagam (MDMK) workers led by the outfit’s General Secretary Vaiko ƒ”š‚ who were ƒ”š‚ on their way to Sanchi to in a convoy of 41 buses to protest against the visiting Sri Lanka Presidentƒ”š‚  Mahinda Rajapaksa were stopped by the Madhya Pradesh police. The stopped Vaiko followers sympathetic to […]

ƒ”š‚ by Walter Jayawardhana The Madhya Pradesh police took unprecedented security measures in view of President Rajapaksa’s visitƒ”š‚  to Sanchi to lay a foundation stone for a new university for Buddhist and Indic studies when it closed all roads to Sanchi to prevent MDMK party followers from reaching there to hold a black flag protest against […]

by Walter Jayawardhana The Provincial Council election results scream for the unity of the opposition political parties of the country to deliver the nation from rulers rotten with corruption as an absolute necessacity said former army commander Sarath Fonseka addressing a meeting in Kurunegala. Addressing a group of intellectuals in the North Western city Fonseka […]

Walter Jayawardhana In another apparent headline and vote catching attempt for her AIADMK in the coming elections Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister Jayalalitha said she will soon go the Supreme Court seeking that the 1974 and 1976 accords under which Katchateevu islet that was ceded to Sri Lanka by the Central government of India was illegal. […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The racist Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jayalalitha went into frenzy when she learned that Sri Lankan school kids are scheduled to play friendly soccer games with Tamil Nadu school kids and in a rage has ordered suspension of the stadium officer of the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor stadium in Chennai for allowing […]