Yesterday, June 16 was a very important day, yes, it was father’s day, but it was also the International Day of Family Remittances. As UN says, this international day highlights the contributions that more than 200 million migrant workers make every day to improve the lives of their families andContinue Reading
අළු පාට අහසින්සුදු පාට වැහි ගුලිතද ම තද කොළ පාටවිසල් තුරු කැන්වසේනොකඩවා කැඩි ඉරි අඳියි අකුණු ගුලියක් පුපුරද්දිදිලිසෙන කොළ පාටලස්සන තරුණ ගිරවෙක්රිංගීය ගස තුළටඅතුපතර අතර තුරුඔහු මැකී ගියේ ය චිත්රයක් අඳිනවා ඇති ඌ නම්උණුසුම් කැදැල්ලකබලාගෙන නොදැනම පින්සල එබෙයිදුම් දමන කෝපි කෝප්පෙට දන්නෙ නැහැ මං වගේඌත් බඩගින්නෙ ද?ඉන්නවද වැසි තුරල් වෙනකල්ගස්Continue Reading
Today marks the World Day Against Child labour. This falls on June 12 on each year. This year’s theme is ‘Children should work on their dreams, not on fields’. Persons below the age of 18 years are regarded as children in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has introduced 13-year continuous educationContinue Reading
Upul Kumarapperuma (Read in Sinhala >>) Then I was either in grade three or four. Our sports master was Mr. Dhanapala. He was a very strict teacher. We were so afraid of him that we even did not beg permission to go to toilet. By that time, my father workedContinue Reading
Ajith Perakum Jayasinghe Sri Lanka appears to be a battleground of a cold war between US and China super powers. Political sources say two small-time political parties have been hired by China for a campaign against the defense treaties of Sri Lanka with the US. Acquisition and Cross-Service Agreement (ACSA)Continue Reading
Ajith Perakum Jayasinghe Gross human rights violations and an apparent anti-Muslim state terror seem to prevail in Sri Lanka in relation to a number of investigations. None of these investigations are complete yet. However, with past bad records of police investigations, specially due to bad records of manipulating the contextsContinue Reading
A person believed to be a member of the media staff of Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena came live on the President’s Facebook account last night. The staff member believed to be Sameera Ekanayake who conducts a programme called Auto Vision on Sirasa TV has misused President Maithripala Sirisena’s FacebookContinue Reading
Ajith Perakum Jayasinghe The repercussions of Easter Sunday IS attacks is Sri Lanka are taking a new turn beyond taking lives of over 250 civilians. Anti-Muslim sentiments are getting deep-rooted in the Sri Lankan society. One very good example is the headline news of Sinhala nationalist daily Divaina (sister paperContinue Reading
Photo of Eastern Provincial Council Governor M.L.A.M. Hizbulla is out in which he is shaking hands with Zahran Hashim, the ring leader of April 21 Easter Sunday terrorist attacks during elections in 2015. In the photo, Hizbulla is posing with NTJ leader Zahran who was one of the two suicideContinue Reading
