(Courtesy by The Island)

The government has now placed before the Constitutional Assembly a Draft Constitution consisting of a preamble and 399 Articles arranged through 40 Chapters. The structure of the draft is similar to the present Constitution, although the …

(Courtesy of Asia Times)

The more than three-decade armed conflict between the Sinhala majority government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) came to an end with the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009. However, the …

Former Chancellor of University of Sri Jayawardenapura, the scholar monk who raised the institution to national and international fame, Bellanwila Wimalarathana Anunayake Thera (1942 – 2018) passed away on the 3rd day of February 2018. Ven. Anunayake Thera’s first remembrance …

DipEE(UK), GradCert-Rel Eng(Monash), DipBus&Adm-Finance(Massey), CEng. MIEE

Tamils both in Sri Lanka and Overseas are requested to read and digest this article, please.

Tamil diaspora of the current generation, even their children are married to local mixed or half-caste race, are …

by Rajeewa Jayaweera

(Courtesy of The Sunday Island)

According to a recent media report, UK government (GoUK) has recently appointed a Resident Defense Advisor in Sri Lanka after an absence of ten years. The story was accompanied by a photograph …

Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa has said in a statement on the constitutional reforms, said that the draft constitution seeks to weaken Parliament and immeasurably strengthen the provincial legislatures, and it will compromise the unitary character of the Constitution.

He said …

(by Courtesy of The Island)

The Economist’s “Intelligence unit Democracy Index” (www.eiu.com) which provides a snapshot of the state of democracy globally has ranked Norway in the top of the list as a “full democracy” while Sri Lanka …

Ranil Wickremesinghe’s biggest ever deal in his entire political career, with which he hoped to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was his Cease-fire Agreement (CFA) with Velupillai Prabhakaran. Irrespective of the disastrous consequences of his delusional peace deal, he signed …

COLOMBO (IDN) – For the past two months Sri Lanka’s deeply divided political community has been fighting to protect democracy in one of the oldest democracies in Asia. One side wants a general election to elect a new parliament claiming …

Some thoughts on the alleged bribe MR offered the LTTE to get them to force the Tamil population under their control in the North and East to boycott the 2005 Presidential Election to improve the chances of an MR victory……