By Shivanthi Ranasinghe

(Courtesy of Ceylon Today)

At a seminar organized by young professionals, “Geneva and You”, Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke observes that Sri Lanka is in a perpetual cyclical …

(Courtesy of – Asian Tribune)

By Major General (Retd.) Lalin Fernando

How is it that the SL Army that liberated the country from the fascist, terrorist LTTE after nearly 30 years of conflict during which about 100,000 died, is facing …

By Sandun Jayasekara 

Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Retired High Court Judge, Maxwel Paranagama, Chairman of the Presidential ‘Commission on Missing Persons’ discussed its mandate, final report, recommendations and other related issues with Dailymirror.

Following are the excerpts of the interview:…

“Let’s leave Wigneswaran out of it. He’s doing a bread and butter operation. Understandable. What does the UNP and the JVP have to say now? What do the bleeding heart liberals in academe and in the NGO business have to …

Shocking revelation of Army Commander agreeing with Minister that LTTE cannot be defeated

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Having perused retired Maj. Gen. Kamal Gunaratne’s (KG) memoirs ‘Ranamaga Osse Nanthikadal’ (Road to Nanthikadal), the writer felt that the period, from early 80s …

Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera assured expatriates in Los Angeles that Sri Lanka would remain territorially an undivided country while keeping the door open for federalism.

“A federal state is not a separate state. I assure you Sri Lanka will remain …

The Supreme Court yesterday refused leave to proceed with the fundamental rights violation petition filed by retired rear admiral Sarath Weerasekera, former MP and Professor Wimaladharma Abeywickrame, challenging that the present administration was not a national government and could not …

A book by Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekara

A COMMENT BY PROF. G.L. PEIRIS

Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekara’s work, ‘Towards a Civilization State’, is a very timely analysis of the multiple crises in which our society is at present embroiled. The central aim …

“On July 17, 2010, houses and cultivation of families living in Shasthrawela and Ragamwela villages were torched and the community was assaulted by a group of unidentifiable armed men and forcibly evicted from their lands. The local police initially prevented …

The Yahapalana appointed Chief Justice K. Sripavan, a Tamil over other Sinhala candidates yesterday declined to be a member of the Bench hearing the fundamental rights petition on the vandalisation of a Buddhist Shrine at Kanagarayankulam in Mankulam.

The Bench …