By Wade Shepard 

(Source: www.forbes.com)

The story goes that in 2011 Sri Lanka’s then-president Mahinda Rajapaksa looked out from the land reclamation site of Colombo’s emerging South Container Terminal and had an epiphany: why not just keep going and build …

The Buddhist Groups are actively working to promote the supremacy of the country’s majority Sinhala Buddhist population and sentiments among the Buddhists who have been marginalized since the independent and noticeably following new Yahapalana government led by pro-minority mind set …

(Interview with Daily Mirror)

 Rear Admiral Sarath Weeraekera had been the Chief of Staff of the Sri lanka Navy and the first Director General of the Civil Defence Force. He was one of the five Heads felicitated by the nation …

The Joint Opposition, Patriotic Organizations, War Heroes and General Public held a protest campaign close to  Sri Lankan parliament premises where the monument for war heroes situated.

The widely unpopular Bill which is considered as anti-Sri Lankans and anti-War-heroes was …

Shouting coarse expressions in protest against the government seems to be the main task of the joint opposition led by former President, MP Mahinda Rajapaksa. A new constitution for the country was among the key promises of the Yahapalana government …

It is reported that pro-minority government is working to bring the most dangerous Act to parliament today to let down all our war heroes and patriots by ratifying the so called Missing Persons Office, MPO to satisfy their political partners, …

Courtesy of The Island

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Against the backdrop of President Maithripala Sirisena’s repeated declarations that the government of Sri Lanka hadn’t accepted foreign judges to inquire into accountability issues, it would be pertinent to examine the stand taken-up …

*Wants to partner military

Atul Keshap

by Zacki Jabbar

The United States of America says it wants to partner with the Sri Lankan military while assisting the government in drafting a new constitution and meeting commitments it had made to …

The Joint Opposition yesterday called for Maha Sangha’s intervention to thwart the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe project to form a Federal States in Sri Lanka under so called Constitution.

The Maha Sangha’s backing was sought when heavyweights of Joint Opposition Prof. GL Peiris …

Sinhalanet Note;

The writers of the below article; Academics from University of Jaffna are trying to paint a picture that the reason for the recent racially motivated attack on Sinhala students by the extremist Tamil students seems initiated by the …