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Multi-pronged development drive

(Daily News) The country has returned to normalcy after 30 years. The entire country is under one umbrella and there is no colour, creed, religious or provincial discrimination. All these were made possible by the excellent and bold leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and our brave Forces about 30,000 of [...]

New US satellite to monitor debris in Earth orbit

(The Island) A new U.S. Air Force satellite will provide the first full-time, space-based surveillance of hundreds of satellites and thousands of pieces of debris that could crash into American and allied assets circling the Earth.

If all goes as planned, the $500 million Space-Based Space [...]

Eelam War and the Long Arm of the Indian Rearguard across the Palk Straits

(Daily Mirror – By Dayapala Thiranagama)

Indo- Sri Lanka relations made a dramatic and unprecedented change with the beginning of the Eelam war. This change contributed to bringing about far reaching military and political consequences within Sri Lanka and its two destructive wars. The JVP led anti-devolutionary Sinhalese rebellion had been the [...]

Time to strengthen national economic base

(Daily News) President Mahinda Rajapaksa has set the stage for Sri Lankans to work towards making Sri Lanka the ‘Emerging Wonder of Asia’. His astute leadership over the past five years eliminated the LTTE and put Sri Lanka on a firm footing where we can now concentrate on nation building.

As [...]

A teardrop of paradise

Secluded beaches, lush jungles and a rich culture make Sri Lanka an island of bliss

(gn) I am woken in the middle of the night by the silence. A world away from the all-night bustle that is the bus stop outside our London flat, I have been disturbed by the absence of [...]

True questions asked on visa forms and how to respond

(The Island )  Today, boys and girls, we will help you with your visa applications. Asian children applying to go to school in Britain are now asked on a form if they have ever “committed genocide”. (Not a joke.) What should you reply? Impress the immigration officers. Write [...]

Dimensions of safeguarding sovereignty: Real and imagined

(Daily Mirror – by Malinda Seneviratne)  Sri Lanka defeated terrorism and simultaneously recovered a territorial integrity that had been compromised in many ways.  Some claim that one year after the defeat of terrorism the nation remains fissured (Dayan Jayatilleke, ‘Domestic dimension of safeguarding sovereignty’ in the Daily Mirror of June 30, [...]

Our vision to make Sri Lanka technologically advanced by 2020: Use research to win economic war

(Daily News – by Dinesh De Alwis)

Making Sri Lanka a scientifically and technologically advanced country in the region by year 2020 is the vision, Technology and Research Minister Prof Tissa Vitarana said in an interview with the Daily News. First part of this article was published on Saturday

Q: [...]

EDITORIAL: Rajpal’s Problem

EDITORIAL [ Sri Lanka Guardian] Rajpal Abeynayake’s column this time like most of the times, misses the whole point of the argument of Mr. J.C. Weliamuna’s article, which he tried to undermine. The point of Mr. Weliamuna’s article is to call for the freedom of association to operate without being [...]

The dividends of war and peace

(The Island – by Lucian Rajakarunanayake) The first budget presented after the war has brought no dividend to the people – UNP

The Peace Dividend is a much talked of topic today. There are many who expect this dividend to be in the form of reconciliation and restoration of mutual [...]

KP’s reported reformation on the sidelines of talks on reconciliation

(Daily Mirror – by M.S.M.Ayub) ) The following are some of the paragraphs of an exclusive news item in a state owned newspaper published on June 20.

“A group of nine Tamil intellectuals including former prominent militant sympathisers who had been operating internationally for the militant outfit along with Pathmanathan (Kumaran), the former [...]

Childhood is children’s privilege

(Daily News – by Dr. Thilak S. Fernando) During the recent torrential rains and road flooding I was struck by a single photograph how a young school girl was being escorted by her mother to school holding an umbrella to cover her from rain. This, to me was a living example of dedication from both [...]

The French connection and resolve of an ex cop

(Daily Mirror) Come December 26, 2010 it will be six years since that fateful day when the sun kissed shores of Moratuwa and its sleepy hamlet of Angulana were ravaged and mercilessly battered by the tsunami. The tsunami wrought havoc all along the coastal belt of Sri Lanka and wrecked the [...]

Expert panel on Sri Lanka: UNSG creating a precedent

(Daily News – by Wijitha Nakkawita and Lakshmi de Silva)

Question: What is your view about the reasons that prompted United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to appoint a Panel of Experts to advise him on alleged incidents said to have occurred during the final phase of the humanitarian operations against [...]

II – Representative Government and Universal Franchise

(RW) (This simplified version of the fifth chapter of Political Principles and their Practice in Sri Lanka, presents the constitutional history of Sri Lanka in light of the principles discussed in the earlier chapters).

The main complaint of Ceylonese politicians with regard to the Manning-Devonshire Constitution was that, [...]

Love for democracy or hatred towards MR?

(The Island) An attempt by the government to do away with Article 31 (2) of the Constitution to enable the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa to contest another term has triggered a howl of protest from some quarters. Among the opponents of the abolition of the so-called no-third-term provision [...]

When the king crumbles, the empire strikes back

(Daily Mirror) When Maradona’s men crashed, the pattern of the game became clearer.

With the Dutch beating Brazil the previous day, it was a European invasion of the South Americans. Then Spain’s victory over Paraguay only went to confirm the trend. For those who were expecting at least two South American teams [...]

Higher education reforms

(Daily News) A fortnight ago the Chairman of the National Education Commission presented to the President the ‘National Policy Framework on Higher Education and Technical and Vocational Education’. The report has outlined 102 policy proposals covering all areas of tertiary education including technical and vocational education and training.

It has [...]

Erectile dysfunction Manhood at stake

(Nation – By Usha Perera) Despite great strides achieved by women through the ages all over the world to be on par with men in every sphere of life, there is yet the universal unspoken agreement that the man is still the performer, breadwinner, head of the household etc., [...]

Speed devils take a toll of lives

(Sunday Observer – by Ranil Wijayapala)

Six bodies lie in a row in coffins in the compound of a tiny house in a village in Veherabenda, a small colony in the Kurunegala district as hundreds of people gathered for the mass burial on June 29.The rosy faced tiny bodies of Malsha [...]