In a drama never seen in the Westminster tradition, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had brazenly escorted his closest partner in cut-throat politics, Ravi Karunanayake, to the front benches of the House on the day the latter was forced to announce his resignation because of his involvement in the biggest financial...
ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සංසදය නියෝජනය කරමින් නිමලා ලියනපටබැඳි මහත්මිය විසින් මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේදී 12-09-2017 දින කරන ලද ප්‍රකාශය…
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by M.L.Wickramasinghe There is a continuing and interesting dialogue on the Constitution. The majority of Sri Lankans is strongly apprehensive of federalism and believes that maintaining the status quo with regard to the current limits on devolution of power to the provincial councils and maintaining a strong central government...
By Neville Ladduwahetty Dr. Dayan Jayetilleka (Dr. DJ), in his article titled “Unit of devolution: District or Province?”(The Island, Sept. 20, 2017), has missed the essence of the difference between what I stated and what he claims as the “Sinhala nationalist’s preference for Districts to Provinces” as the primary unit...
කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය – ජිනීවා සිට ජිනීවා යෝජනාව අභියෝගයට ලක්‌කරමින් රියර් අද්මිරාල් සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා ප්‍රමුඛ 6 දෙනකුගෙන් යුත් කණ්‌ඩායමක්‌ ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුව අමතති. ජිනීවා යෝජනාවට එරෙහිව අභියෝගයක්‌ එල්ල කරන මුල් අවස්‌ථාව මෙයයි. සැප්තැම්බර් 27 වැනිදා මානව හිමිකම් කොමිෂන් ශාලාවකදී මේ අභියෝගය එල්ල කරන්නේ මානව හිමිකම් කොමසාරිස්‌ සෙහිද් රාද් හුසේන්...
By Shenali D Waduge We are not surprised to hear about the crisis in Myanmar. When the US declared its pivot to Asia, we knew that a problem or problems would suddenly erupt in Asian countries. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, Myanmar has become a victim. The foot soldiers are the...
by SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA At the on-going September 2017 sessions of the UN Human Rights Council, the UK has written to the President of the Council to assert that a long standing dispute it has with the Mauritius cannot be referred to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...
