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Gunadasa Amarasekara. Ranjith Soysa asked ‘Can the Prime Minister square a circle’ (6/5/Island). My friend Ranjith should have no illusions about the capabilities of our Prime Minister. He may not be a statesmen or a visionary, but he is certainly..

By Upul Nishantha Ministers of the ‘Yahapaalana’ government has given approval to cabinet paper MDE/AD/03/CAB-PA/2017 to hand over 62,500 acres from Uva-Wellassa to the Gazelle Ventures of Singapore, through its parent company, the New York-based multinational company CDVCA, to cultivate..

Though many of us are joking about the appointment – I view this as a very strategic and dangerous appointment given the push for constiutional amendments. With Mangala an ace in media manipulations – he is going to have the..

LTTE was an India-created militant organization that was militarily defeated in May 2009. Its rule of terror ran for 30 years amidst failed negotiations, peace talks and peace agreements. After refusing the 3 offers given to lay down arms and..

Janaka Perera The nine point Mahanuwara Declaration on the United Nations Day of Vesak 2017 may have ended up as an empty vacuous and vague document not worth a second look but for three distinctive commitments which have saved this..

Nowhere in the world do we hear of countries scrapping their Victory Day celebrations just because the feelings of the vanquished is hurt. The Allies still celebrate victory not bothered whether it upsets Germany or Japan. No country will ever..

Dimuthu Premaratne captured Indian leader Narandra Modi arriving in the BMICH on Friday (May 12) to participate in the International Vesak Day celebrations. Among those captured with Modi is Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Vanni District MP Dharmalingham Siddarthan(standing next to..

By Rajeewa Jayaweera Nine years ago to this day, guns in the north fell silent. LTTE terrorists who had ravaged the country for almost thirty years were defeated by members of armed forces and police. Over 25,000 officers and men..

H. L. D. Mahindapala The stark contrast in the approach to the long-running North-South crisis, plagued with political and military confrontations, is seen clearly in the “S.J.V. Chelvanayakam Memorial lecture” delivered by Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, Minister of Health, on 26th..

By Dayan Jayatilleka   Prime Minister Modi’s two day visit to Sri Lanka was supposed to be non-political. Yet, in his address to the International Vesak Conference at the BMICH, he laid out the Modi doctrine for Indo-Lankan relations and more especially for Sri..