“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's possible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
The fringe elements causing needless furore might think they enjoy the monopoly of the Sinhalese Buddhists’ range and scope of thinking. They might have been lured into the illusion that a great majority of our Sinhalese Buddhists are as warped and deranged in

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has recently warned, at a Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB) function, that unless the country produces skilled workers, it will have to look for foreigners. He has stressed the need for equipping local workers with modern skills in keeping with the country’s developmental needs. One cannot but agree with him. However, his government, too, instead of training unskilled workers, keeps sending them to West Asia, where they have been reduced to semi-slavery.

Sri Lanka is ranked third among Asian countries on the democracy index for 2012 below India and Bangladesh.

The Democracy Index 2012 report compiled by the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit has declared Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal as “hybrid regimes” saying that elections in these countries have substantial irregularities that often prevent them from being both free and fair, according to the report.

The top five democratic countries in the world are Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denma

The government is to acquire a large area of land in Vavuniya to permanently build a military camp.

According to the Lands Ministry, the owners of the land located in close proximity to the A9 highway have already been informed of this move.

The Lands Ministry says the land acquisition is being carried out legally and the owners will be compensated accordingly.

President of the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) and General Secretary of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC) Gajen Ponnambalam, who is currently in Denmark, has briefed Danish parliamentarians on the situation in Sri Lanka.

Speaking at a conference in the Danish Parliament, Ponnambalam said that there was a systematic dismantling of the Tamils living as a distinct nation in Sri Lanka.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has assured diplomats from Muslim countries that the Government will not tolerate anyone perpetrating acts to create communal or religious disharmony in Sri Lanka, the President’s office said.

He had given the assurance when he met a delegation comprising 15 diplomatic heads of Islamic countries based in Sri Lanka.

The President’s office said that the meeting took place to discuss various matters of mutual interest in the domestic and international arenas.

First and the most important of all, the KKNPP has been constructed with substandard equipment and parts supplied by ZiO-Podolsk, an engineering subsidiary of the Russian company Rosatom. The company’s official website has declared unequivocally: “Over the past few years ZiO produced and implemented a set of equipment for foreign nuclear power plants with VVER-1000: Tianwan (China), Busher (Iran), Kudankulam (India)” (http://aozio.ru/production/ob-atom/). ZiO-Podolsk began shipping shoddy equipment in 2007 or perhaps ev

The strike action launched by the public health inspectors of the North Central Province will continue into its third day today.

The strike commenced last Tuesday and is based on three demands.

Chairman of the Public Health Inspectors Union Upul Rohana said that they will refrain from carrying out their duties in the North Central Province unless their demands are met.

Three Legal Associations have called for Sri Lanka's suspension from the Commonwealth and have included a resolution in this regard in the agenda of the meeting that will be convened in Cape Town, South Africa.

 

The BBC Reports that The Commonwealth Lawyers Association , The Commonwealth Legal Education Association and the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association are expected to pass this resolution when they convene in Cape Town.

“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear” - Bertrand Russell (Unpopular Essays)

The malignant police response to the peaceful vigil organised by the Facebook group, ‘Buddhists Questioning Bodu Bala Sena’ proved one fact beyond doubt – the BBS is a protected species, protected by the Rajapaksas. According to video footage, the police acted as if they were the private army of the BBS, threatening and harassing