On October 11, protesters in Portland, Oregon tore down a statue of Abraham Lincoln, leaving the phrase “Dakota 38” spray painted at its base. The attack took place during a protest called the Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage Against Colonialism, …

The Prime Minister and the Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Minister Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa laid the foundation stone for the inaugural ‘Deegawapiya Stupa’ restoration project auspiciously at the Deegawapiya premises in Ampara today (11 Nov).

‘Deegawapiya Stupa’ restoration process will …

Dayan claims, “Like most island-nations, Sri Lanka is given to a democratic civic culture” Really? Are only mainland nations given then to uncivilized despotism?

Imagine we are gawping at the dying tail-ends of a tawdry English teledrama called The Scavengers …

Investigative Note from Daya Gamage

As Joe Biden becomes the U.S. 46^th president of the United States, Kamala Devi Harris will be sown in as the vice president on January 20 next year.

She is of South India’s Tamil …

Thus Thamilselvan’s death in an air strike by the SLAF caused shock  waves at that time. It was regarded as a great blow to the LTTE in  general and tiger leader Prabahkaran in particular

The LTTE accused the Mahinda Rajapaksa …

ඇමරිකානු ඉතිහාසයේ අලුත් වාර්තාවක් තියමින් කමලා හැරිස්, ඉන්දියානු – කළු සම්භවයක් සහිත කාන්තාවක්, උප ජනාධිපතිවරයා බවට පත්වුනා. බැරක් ඔබාමා ඇමරිකාවේ පළමු කළු ජනාධිපතිවරයා බවට පත්වුනාම කීවා, මගේ මේ කතාව ලෝකයේ අන් කිසිම තැනක සැබෑ කරගත හැකි සිහිනයක් නෙමෙයි කියල. කළු …

(Courtesy of Diwaina)

කොරෝනා ආසාදනය වූවන් බස්නාහිර පළාත තුළ වර්ධනය වී තිබියදී ද්‍රවිඩ සන්ධාන නායක ආර්. සම්බන්ධයන් මෙරට ඉන්දීය මහ කොමසාරිස් ගෝපාල් බැග්ලේ වෙත දිව ගියේ උතුරේ කොරෝනා රෝගීන් වෙනුවෙන් පී. සී. ආර්. යන්ත‍්‍ර හෝ රසායනාගාර පහසුකම් ලබා ගැනීමට නොවේ.…

Adani Group is the front-runner to develop Sri Lanka’s stalled East Container Terminal in Colombo port, people with knowledge of the matter said, helping billionaire Gautam Adani expand his port business overseas.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd and …

PM Modi was wrong to reiterate his call for the 13th Amendment’s implementation – especially when President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had already articulated his position on the matter. In the past, this has been a bait for the Tamils in the …

(Courtesy of Sri Lanka Guardian)

 The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, should establish a commission to investigate the tens of thousands of Muslim civilians killed by US and UK forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, all the indications are …