DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA

A proposed Amendment to the Buddhist Temporalities Act was published in the Government Gazette on 4 December 2015.  On 21^st December 2015, the Government submitted a motion to Parliament outlining its plan to convert Parliament to a …

Kalutara District UPFA MP Jayantha Samaraweera (NFF)  warned the government of dire consequences unless it immediately stopped persecuting military officers on trumped-up charges.

Samaraweera was addressing the media at the Kottawa junction in the wake of a group of monks …

The government had omitted certain significant Articles of the 1978 Constitution, including those on upholding the Unitary State of the country and giving foremost place to Buddhism from the new Constitution, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) MP Dinesh Gunawardane charged …

Allaying misgivings about a request he had made to the army, pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran insist that army to clean the drainage system in Jaffna as Army has nothing to do in North as no more …

By Keerthi Waranakulasuriya – Defence Columnist, SundayDivaina (translated  by Ranjith Soysa)

By  Sugath Samarasinghe

Norwegians who negotiated the disastrous CFA between Prabhakaran and Ranil Wickremasinghe in 2002 are back in business. This time on Constitutional reforms according to r news report on ‘The Island’ of 9^th Dec.

Again, they have …

Ranil and Sirisena lead government preparing the ground to get released another group of LTTE Tamil terrorist prisoners’ under the pretext of humanitarian cause.  Widely believed pro-minority Ranil and Sirisena lead government has already released score of LTTE terrorists while …

Family members of Army intelligence officers who were arrested and detained by Ranil and Sirisena lead pro-minority government under the PTA in connection with the so called disappearance of journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda widely believe as an LTTE operative in Colombo, …

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) today objected to the amending of the Criminal Justice Procedure Code and the Penal Code.

BBS General Secretary Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera said it would be bad for the country and the people if …

Lawyers and civil society criticize the two Anti-hate Speech Draft Bills presented in Parliament recently which seek to criminalize the instigation of communal violence and disharmony.
Chief Government Whip, Minister of Mass Media Gayantha Karunatilake presented two bills titled the …