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News Archive for Jul 2017
Constitutional Council defunct now – Get the federal constitution approved if possible – Wimal WeerawansaThe leader of the National Freedom Front Mr. Wimal Weerawansa said that the Constitutional Council became defunct with the withdrawal of the 05 National Freedom Front MPs including him and challenged the government to bring in a federal constitution and get it approved if possible. Mr. Weerawansa made this challenge addressing a media conference held at the headquarters of the National Freedom Front in Pitakotte. Speaking further Mr. Weerawansa said We informed the Speaker in writing that the 05 National Freedom Front MPs will dissociate from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/17)
Constitution making process: JO raises UN interference with Feltman
July 21, 2017, 10:23 pm Joint Opposition (JO) parliamentary group leader Dinesh Gunawardena has called for an end to UN interference in on-going constitutional making process in accordance with Geneva Resolution 30/1 adopted in Oct 2015. MP Gunawardena has said that the JO that represented a large segment of people strongly opposed to the current UN initiative that was inimical to Sri Lanka’s national interest. The veteran politician was responding to Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman currently here on a three-day visit to ascertain the current status of the constitution making process.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/17)
New Sri Lanka tax bill aims to widen tax net, cut indirect taxes
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's new tax bill, demanded by the IMF as a condition for a third tranche of aid disbursed this week, will seek to ensure that all citizens pay direct taxes and cut indirect taxes, top finance ministry officials said on Friday. The new Inland Revenue Act, the island nation's major tax reform since independence from Britain in 1948, will expand the tax net and seek to stamp out evasion, when implemented at the start of the next fiscal year on April 1, 2018. "The idea is everybody should pay taxes," Finance Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/17)
Sexism in Science
In the article written by Carol Goar (Toronto Star May 26, 2010- ‘No female scientists? No surprise’), she points out that females were not promoted as leading scientists. An invisible force prevented women from reaching top levels. The Industry Minister Tony Clement too expressed his concern following no female nominations having been made for the Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Is there unseen sexism among the professional communities? According to article 27-sub section 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/17)
බෙන් එමර්සන්ට දොර විවෘත කිරීමේ විපාකය
අශ්වයා පැනගිය පසු ඉස්‌තාලය වසා දැමීම යන කියමනක්‌ ඇත. දැන් මෙරට සිදුවන්නේ එයයි. එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ විශේෂ නියෝජිත ජුවන් මෙන්ඩස්‌ මෙරටට පැමිණි විට ඔහුට වැලිකඩ බන්ධනාගාරයට ගොස් හිටපු කොටි ත්‍රස්‌තයන් හමුවී සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට අවස්‌ථාව හිමිවිය. මෙන්ඩස්‌ මෙරටට පැමිණියේ වෝහාරික විශේෂඥයකු සමඟය. පසුගිය සතියේ තවත් නියෝජිතයකු මෙරටට පැමිණියේය. විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය ඔහුට දොර විවෘත කරමින් වව්නියාව බන්ධනාගාරයට ගොස් හිටපු කොටි ත්‍රස්‌තයන් හමුවීමට ඉඩදුන්නේය. මේ හිටපු කොටි සාමාන්‍ය සටන්කාමීන් නොවේ. ගුවන් යානාවලට මිසයිල ප්‍රහාර එල්ල කිරීම, බිම් බෝම්බ තබා සිවිල් වැසියන් ඝාතනය කිරීම සහ වෙනත් බිහිසුණු අපරාධ කළවුන් සමඟ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ නියෝජිතයා සාකච්ඡා කළේය. එම කොටි මිනීමරුවෝ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/17)
What was the mandate of Emmerson?
July 21, 2017, 12:00 pm The Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson’s haughty statement at a media briefing in Colombo on 14 July,with the UN Resident Representative at his side not contradicting the special rapporteur in any way, and his official communiqué in Geneva on 18 July, is arbitrary, judgmental, arrogant, accusatory, threatening, interventionist,and insulting. It reeks of the worst white supremacist holier than thou attitude with regard to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/17)
OUR SOCIETY HAS BECOME UNCIVILISED ??
That day I was being driven in my car on the back seat trying to do some work using my laptop and noted that a road in Colombo 15 from Tholatanga getting congested due to a trench being dug by a contractor ( by the way it is going on for months and no sign of completion ).A thee wheeler driver did a sudden U turn just before the blocked road and almost hit my car .He started abusing by driver in filth demanding that car should move to the left where there was drain .I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/17)
A bird's appeal. - Kirilliyage' Vilapaya/Pinsidu Wanne'
Priyantha Fernando sings his father's first recorded song. Pinsidu Wanne in this video. This is primarily for educational and personal enjoyment and not for commercial purpose. The meaning of this song is both deep and touching. A bird's appeal. Priyantha Fernando sings his father's first recorded song. Pinsidu Wanne in this video. The meaning of this song is both deep and touching. It is a bird's appeal through the mouth of a compassionate song writer and singer. This song has so much appeal in today’s scene in a country like Sri Lanka where stray animals including dogs and cats are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/17)
Decree of Mahanaayake Theroes ignored – New Constitution almost ready
Sri Lanka can be termed as a country of semi theocracy where the Kings and the rulers have always sought advice and guidance from Buddhist monks on all major issues confronted by the country and the ancient Kings and freedom fighters have received blessings from the monks before embarking on wars and rebellions and on auspicious occasions. As far as I know the country’s history does not have any record of a King or a Ruler gone against the admonitions of the Chief Monks of the country. It seems that it is going to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/17)
When Prof. Laksiri Fernando came marching in
I am impressed by Prof. Laksiri Fernando’s letter to the Governor of Jaffna highlighting the failure of his administration to issue summons in Tamil to a Tamil journalist of Jaffna. This journalist has a right to receive a communication from the government in his mother tongue. To issue summons in Sinhalese is a violation of his legal and human rights. I wish to congratulate Prof. Fernando for the bold stand he has taken to protect the rights of Tamils. Well done, Professor! And I mean it. I am with you all the way. Now we... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/17)
පන්විල සිංහල ඉස්කෝලෙක ගුරුවරියෝ කීපදෙනෙක් එදා රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුව පරද්දන්න සතාට කතිරිගහන්න කියා කියා චන්ද ව්‍යාපාරයක් කලාලු.
ඒදා ඒ ව්‍යාපාරය ගෙනගිය ඉස්කෝලේ හාමිනේලා අද ලංකාවට වෙලාතියෙන වින්නැහිය දැකලා දැන් මොනවා සිතනවා ඇද්දැයි දන්නේ නෑ. ඒ වගේ කාලකන්නියෝයි අද ලංකාව පාතාලයට ඇදදමන්ට යන මේ යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව පිහිටවන්ට සම්මාදන් උනේ. රාජපක්ස ජනාධිපති තුමා දුටුවා යම්හෙතුවකින් වෙන ජනාධිපතිවරයෙක් හෝ වෙන රජයක් බලයට පත් උනොත් ඊ ලඟට එන කොය්යම් ජනාධි පතිවරයෙක් හෝ රජයක්වත් තමා ගෙනයන සංවර්ධනය ඒ විධියට ගෙනයන්නට සමත්වන්නේ නැ කියලා. මේ නිගමනයට ඔහු පැමිණියේ 1948 ඉඳල 2004 දක්වා බලයට පැමිනි දේශපාලන පක්ෂ පිහිටෙව් ආණ්ඩු දිර්ගකාලයක් බලයේ සිටීම සඳහා රනිල්වගේ ත්‍රස්තවාදියොත් එක්ක ගිවිසුම් ගහගෙන කටයුතුකලා මිස ලංකාව නිදහස් රටක් වශයෙන් දියුණු කරන්නට උත්සහයක් නොගත්බවත් ලංකාව කොයි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/17)
Re-size cabinet to specified subjects in the national interest
Elections are fought over all kinds of issues. The winners typically secure the rights to interpret mandate. “This election was about A, B, C or D,” they would say and often give their own interpretation of A, B, C and D, amending the same as per prerogatives of the particular political moment. If you were to ask 10 random people what would be the key issue in 2020 would be, you would get more than a single answer, most likely. Give the same 10 people a list of ten key issues and ask them to pick three and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/17)
Prime Minister’s Office opens Public Relations Division………News Item
Need of the hour …….. Public is out of touch with governing politicians and only way they can meet top level politicians is when they go on demonstrations and HE and PM invite then for discussions. It is also good that well-dressed Ex Mrs World in her prime meet the public .Public, may forget why they came for when they are mesmerised during the encounter ? It is also good to know that the government wants to enhance public relations as the current relationship is not at the best .Bond scam .Garbage fiasco ,Salawa tragedy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංගේ ඕපාදූප
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මෑතක දී පළ කළ ලිපිවල වත්මන් ශී‍්‍ර ලාංකික සංඝ සමාජය පිළිබඳව කිසියම් අදහසක් පළ කිරීමට දරණ වෑයමක් පෙනෙන මුත්, ඒවා සාමාන්‍යයෙන් නිතර පළවන අදහස්වලින් එහා යන බවක් නොපෙනේ. ඒ කියන දේවල්වල කිසියම් සත්‍යයක් ඇති නමුත්, බහුතරය ඕපාදුප යයි මට හැෙඟ්. යුගයෙන් යුගය කවර සමාජයක වුව සුවිශේෂ පුද්ගලයන් පහළ වූ ආකාරයට ම ලාංකික සමාජයෙහි ද විවිධ දක්‍ෂතා ඇති භික්‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ කවදටත් වැඩ සිටිති. ශක්ති පමණින් ඥාන පමණින් යම් යම් සමාජයීය මෙහෙවරයන් ඉටුකර වියෝ වූ යතිවරුනට අතපසු වූ බරපතළ ම දෙය තමතමන් කළ කී හරියවත් කර කියාගත නොහැකි තමන්ගේ යයි කිවහැකි ශිෂ්‍ය පුත‍්‍රයන් තනා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
NEVILLE FERNANDO HOSPOTAL ,BANK LOANS JVP( GMOA) AND OPPOSITION
Some of us may agree that there have been irregularities in admission of students to Saitm medical faculty and we also know that many consultants have their children studying in Siatm .Dr Neville Fernando may have used his influence and goT the approval for both hospital and the college during the successive governments. He was intrepid enough to purchase a land in Malabe and negotiated with the banks to obtain funds to build this state of the art hospital. Obviously no lending bank will release a long term loan to any investor without asking for a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
SAITM and its solution in the face of the GMOA and the JVP.
I was a young student at Vidyodaya university in the hay day of the rise of the JVP, and I know how its activities polarized and ultimately pulverized many of the young lives of our times. It was my strong Buddhist upbringing that made me reject the culture of violence that was preached by these Marxists who believed that “the end justified the means, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs”. The JVP came from a seemingly less “gentlemanly” rural group than the Gramasci-quoting and ineffective left intellectuals of the English-elitist era. They... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
Cricket and religion
From Island It is creditable that Angelo resigned with dignity. However, what inspired me when listening to him was how he praised the Almighty with gratitude at the end of his speech. We see many Sri Lankan cricket players make frequent crosses when success happens on the field. This is true with Muslim players from their countries, beginning their speeches with gratitude to the Almighty as well as worship on the ground at times. In this scenario, it is worth considering how Buddhists should tread the path in the present context. Of course Buddhism being so liberal many a Buddhist... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
Major breakthrough in MiG deal investigation
=The Island Special Report precipitates reopening of probe in Ukraine = Key witness gives statement to Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office July 16, 2017, 8:42 pm Following The Island’s three part Special Report on ‘The Rajapaksa Govt.’s controversial MiG deal’ in mid-May this year, we reliably learn that the Ukrainian authorities have reopened their investigation into this transaction which took place in 2006 between the Sri Lanka Air Force and the Ukrainian state owned enterprise UKRINMASH. The Financial Crime Investigation Division (FCID) has said it contacted the Ukrainian Justice Ministry through the Sri Lankan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
බෙන්ගේ ඩෙන්න ඩෙනා
එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානයේ ඊනියා මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් වර්ධනය කිරීමටත් ත්රස්තවාදය නැතිකිරීමටත් කතාකරන, එකී සංවිධානයේ විශේෂ වාර්තාකරුවකු වූ බෙන් එමර්සන් ලංකාවට තර්ජනය කරලා. 2015 ඔක්තෝබරයේ දී ලංකාවේ ද සහායෙන් ලංකාවට විරුද්ධව එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් මණ්ඩලය සම්මත කර ගත් යෝජනාව පූර්ණ ව ක්රියාත්මක නොකළහොත් දරුණු විපාකවලට මුහුණ දීමට සිදුවනු ඇති බව එමර්සන් ප්රකාශ කරලා. ඔහු මේ ප්‍රකාශය කර ඇත්තේ කොළඹ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධාන පරිෂ්ඨයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවක දී. එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානය අද අප පාලනය කරනවා. හිටපු විදේශ ඇමති මංගල සමරවීර ද රනිල් ද මෛත්‍රිපාල ද දිගින් දිගට ම කියා සිටියේ මේ ඊනියා ජාතික ආණ්ඩුව හෙවත් විජාතික ආණ්ඩුව බලයට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
Lanka sledgehammered by UN
July 18, 2017, Ben Emmerson, QC, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, while countering terrorism, is fully cognizant of Sri Lanka’s long and complex history of ethnic tensions and the tremendous security challenges this has generated. For almost 26 years, Sri Lanka dealt with violent acts of terrorism, committed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), including suicide bombings and political assassinations, which culminated in a prolonged armed conflict that came to an end only in 2009. UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner Britisher Emmerson... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
කාලෝගේ හා වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරී සංගමයේ ටියුබ් ලයිට්
ඊයේ මහින්ද පැරදුණේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ ඡන්ද අහිමි වීමෙන් මිස මුස්ලිම් ඡන්ද අහිමි වීවෙන් නොවන බව මා කී විට එක් පඬියකු අසා තිබුණේ මහින්ද පැරදුණු විට ඔහු වටා ඩිටියේ සිංහල බෞද්ධයන් බව අමතක වී ද කියා. 2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ ප්‍රතිඵල අධ්‍යයනය කර විශ්ලේෂණය කළහොත් පෙනේවි මහින්දට සිංහල බෞද්ධ ඡන්ද අඩු වූ ආකාරය. එහෙත් පඬියන් විශ්ලේෂණවලට කැමති නැහැ. මහින්දගේ පරාජයෙන් පසුව ඔහු වටා ජනයා එකතු වූ බව පැහැදිලියි. අද ඒ පිරිස තවත් වැඩි වී ඇති. එහෙත් මා කියා සිටියේ ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් පැරදීම මිස ඉන්පසු ආණ්ඩුවේ වැඩ බැරිකම් හා වෙනත් හේතු නිසා ජනයා මහින්ද වටේ නැවතත් එකතු වීම ගැන නො වෙයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
එමර්සන්ට එරෙහිව විජයදාස
මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් හා ප්‍රතිත්‍රස්තවාදය පිළිබඳ එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ විශේෂ වාර්තාකාර එමර්සන්ට විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ ඉතා තදින් පිළිතුරු දී ඇති බවට දි අයිලන්ඩ් පුවත්පතේ ඊයේ වාර්තා වී තිබුණා. ජනමාධවේදීන් මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවක දී එමරසන්ගෙන් ඒ ගැන ඇසූ අවස්ථාවේ දී ඔහු කියා ඇත්තේ පෞද්ගලික සාකච්ඡාවල දී සිදු වූ දේ ඔහු ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ නොකියන බවයි. එමර්සන් සුද්දකුට සරිලන පිළිතුරක් දී තිබෙනවා. ඔහු ප්‍රශ්නයෙන් ගැළවෙලා. සුද්දන්ගේ හැටි ඔහොමයි. අද වන විට ආණ්ඩුවේ මැදිහත් වීමෙන් කොටින්ට විරුද්ධව වීරෝදාර ව සටන් කළ නාවික හමුදා නිලධාරියකු අත්අඩංගුවට අරගෙන. ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයටත් පුළුවන් මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡා පවත්වන්න විතරයි. දැන් දේශපාලනය මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවලට හා රැස්වීමකින් පසුව මාධ්‍යයට කරන ප්‍රකාශවලට (ඊනියා වොයිස්කට්)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
සයිටම් නැත්නම් වෙන අයිටම්
දොස්තරලා අගමැතිගේ යෝජනාවට කැමතිලු. අගමැති සයිටම් අහෝසි කරන්නේ නැහැ. රාජිත සයිටම් අහෝසි කරාවි ද? ජනාධිපති සයිටම් අහෝසි කරාවි ද? පුබුදු ජාගොඩ සයිටම් අහෝසි කරාවි ද? දයාසිරි ජයසේකර සයිටම් අහෝසි කරාවි ද? චම්පක සයිටම් අහෝසි කරාවි ද? ජනමාධ්‍යවේදීන් සයිටම් අහෝසි කරාවි ද? මා දන්නේ නැති නිසයි අහන්නේ. හෙට නෙවිල් ප්රනාන්දු රෝහල රජයට පවරා ගන්නවා. එය පැහැදිලි නැහැ. ඒ සම්පූර්ණ පවරා ගැනීමක් ද නැත්නම් ජයවර්ධනපුර නව රෝහල වගේ පෞද්ගලික රාජ්‍ය බද්ධ ව්‍යවසායක් ලෙස පවත්වා ගෙන යෑමක් ද? මටත් සතුටක් තියෙනවා මගේ එක් යෝජනාවක් ක්රියාත්මක වීම ගැන. ඒ යෝජනාව මා මුල් වරට ඉදිරිපත් කෙළේ කලකට පෙර. ඇතැම් වෛද්‍යවරුන් ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
යහපාලනය නිමයි… ආණ්ඩුවෙන් එළියට බහින ශ්‍රීලනිප ප්‍රබලයන් මෙන්න..
ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂය නියෝජනය කරන ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ ඇමැතිවරුන් හා නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමැතිවරුන් 18 දෙනකු සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේ ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ඉවත් වී විපක්ෂයේ අසුන් ගැනීමට ගෙන ඇති තීරණය වෙනස් කිරීම සලකා බැලීමට එම කණ්ඩායම ජනාධිපතිවරයා වෙත කොන්දේසි දෙකක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට යයි. ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ඉවත් වීමට යන එම කණ්ඩායමේ මුල්පෙළ සිටින පුත්තලම දිස්ත්‍රික් මන්ත්‍රි සංචාරක සංවර්ධන හා ක්‍රිස්තියානි ආගමික කටයුතු නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමැති අරුන්දික ප්රනාන්දු මහතාගෙන් මේ පිළිබඳව කළ විමසුමකට පිළිතුරු දෙමින් කීවේ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය තනතුරෙන් ඉවත් කළ යුතු බවත් එසේ නොකරන්නේ නම් තම කණ්ඩායමට විපක්ෂයේ අසුන් ගැනීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා අවසරය ලබාදිය යුතු බවයි. කොන්දේසි වශයෙන් ඉදිරිපත් කරන මේ ඉල්ලීම් දෙක ඉටු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
කොසවෝ සමූල ඝාතක 'රම්බෝ' බේරාගත් බෙන් එමර්සන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණෙයි
35 වැනි ජිනීවා මානව සැසිවාරය අවසන් වී ජුලි 10 වැනිදාට දින 17 කි. එහෙත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ගැලවීමක්‌ නැත. මානව හිමිකම් කොමසාරිස්‌ සෙයිද් රාද් හුසේන් ජුලි 10 වැනිදා මෙරටට තවත් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ විශේෂ නියෝජිතයකු එවනු ලැබීය. ඔහු බෙන් එමර්සන් නැමැත්තෙකි. එමර්සන් යනු එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් සහ ත්රස්තවාදය පිටුදැකීමේ ක්‍රියාවලියට සම්බන්ධ විශේෂ නියෝජිතයායි. මොහු ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණියේ කුමක් සඳහාද? ඒ ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය ත්‍රස්‌ත මර්දන ක්‍රියාදාමයක්‌ දියත්කළ ප්‍රදේශවල තත්ත්වය සහ මානව හිමිකම් ආරක්‍ෂා කිරීම සඳහා එකී ක්‍රියාදාමයක්‌ වෙතින් සිදුවූ හානිය ගැන සෙවීමටයි. දින පහක්‌ තිස්‌සේ මෙරට නතර වී සිටි බෙන් එමර්සන් ත්‍රස්‌තවාදී කටයුතුවලට සම්බන්ධව රැඳවුම් භාරයේ සිටින ත්‍රස්‌තයන් ත්‍රස්‌තවාදී ක්‍රියා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවේ මිග් යානා ගනුදෙනුව
වැඩි මුදලට ප්‍රහාරක යානා ලබාගැනීම හා ගෙවීම් හොර සමාගමකට බැර කිරීම... රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුව බලයට පැමිණි අලුත, ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගුවන් හමුදාවට තිබුණු මිග් ප්‍රහාරක යානා හතරක් අලුත්වැඩියා කිරීමේදී හා තවත් මිග් - 27 ගුවන්යානා හතරක් යුක්‌රේනයෙන් මිලදී ගැනීමේදී සිදුවූවා යෑයි කියන මහා වංචාවක්‌ ගැන මුලින්ම හෙළිදරව් වූයේ 2006 දී ඉංග්‍රීසි පුවත්පත් දෙකක පළ වූ වාර්තා වලිනි. 2015 ජනවාරියේදී සිදුවූ ආණ්ඩු වෙනසින් පසු මේ මිග් ගනුදෙනුව විමර්ශනය කිරීමට අලුත් ආණ්ඩුව උනන්දුවක්‌ දක්වා ඇත. එම විමර්ශනයේ ප්‍රගතිය ගැන ඉඳහිට මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා ද පළ වේ. වසර 2000 දී ගුවන් හමුදාව මුල්වරට මිග් - 27 යානා හතරක් මිලදීගත් අවස්‌ථාවේදී ඒවා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
Disease Outbreak News -Dengue fever – Sri Lanka
19 July 2017 From 1 January to 7 July 2017, the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health (MoH) Sri Lanka reported 80 732 dengue fever cases, including 215 deaths. This is a 4.3 fold higher than the average number of cases for the same period between 2010 and 2016, and the monthly number of cases exceeds the mean plus three standard deviations for each of the past six months. Based on sentinel site surveillance for the past seven years the expected peak months of May to July coincides with the south-western monsoon... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
Sri Lankan held in Bengaluru is Tamil Nadu's most-wanted bank card fraudster
BENGALURU: Sri Lankan national Divyan alias Dinesh alias Pulikesi, 30, who landed in Bengaluru police custody on Friday, happens to be Tamil Nadu's most-wanted bank card fraudster who had been on the run for five years. The then TN governor had issued an exclusive detention order in 2012 to nab the foreign national, suspected to have swindled over Rs 100 crore.Apparently, his blunder of revealing his original cellphone number after purchasing a TV set using a cloned card brought Bengaluru cops to his doorstep in Jalahalli. Along with Divyan, his accomplices Nawaz Shariff, 22, and Nadeem Shariff, 30, were taken into custody by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
As Vietnamese imports flood market, domestic pepper growers threaten to abandon cultivation
KOCHI, JULY 17: As cheaper pepper from Vietnam continues to flood the Indian market through Sri Lanka, taking advantage of the lower duty structure under SAFTA (South Asian Free Trade Area), growers here have threatened to abandon the cultivation of the spices crop. Growers and traders from the key producing States of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, who have formed a consortium, have demanded that the Centre impose a floor price for pepper imports at $8,000 per tonne to curb cheaper inflow of the spice. Kishor Shamji, coordinator of the Indian Pepper and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
Bring forth a federal constitution now if you can, Wimal challenges Govt.
Leader of the National Freedom Front (NFF), Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa challenged the Government to now bring forth a federal Constitution, with the Constitutional Assembly being rendered invalid after he and four other parliamentarians left the Assembly yesterday (19). Weerawansa stated this upon attending a press conference of the NFF at the party headquarters in Pitakotte today (20). He stated that they had been made members of the Constitutional Assembly automatically, owing to their parliamentarian status. He proceeded to remind that the NFF had refrained from participating in activities of the operation committee and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
New Constitution Forces behind the scene
Feeling proud about one's own 'ethnicity' is a very normal human behaviour. It is applicable to any community. It is also natural for some to go to extremes. It becomes absurd only when such extremists become so self-centred and delve into their own dreams. When the military power of a community grows beyond its limits it becomes a cause for concern. The enthusiasm that sprang up in South India due to the social conflict that came into being as a movement of Tamils Against Brahmins who exerted their authority over the others who were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
CB Bond Probe Strangles Arjun Aloysius
Aruna Benedict Dias, Deputy General Manager of the Treasury Department (bond transactions) of the Pan Asia Bank, told the Presidential Commission probing controversial Treasury Bond issues at yesterday's hearings that Arjun Aloysius "begged me to help him when giving evidence before the Presidential Commission since the following fortnight would be risky and might be harmful to him and his firm Perpetual Treasuries," Dias revealed this before the Commission in response to being cross examined by Aloysius's lawyer President's Counsel Nihal Fernando,......with the Commissioner, Supreme Court Judge Prasanna S. Jayawardene, chairing the proceedings. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
YAHAPALANA VERSUS MAHA SANGHA
Yahapalana won the election in 2015, due partly to the enthusiastic support of the Maha sangha, notably Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha. Unlike in the 1956 election, where the sangha were making demands and actively pursuing those demands, in 2015, they were blindly supporting an externally introduced plan. The Maha Sangha were originally an important part of the ‘regime change’ strategy. The Mahanayakes of Malwatte and Asgiriya were regularly visited by ministers and members of Parliament, to state their positions on political issues. These visits were televised and we saw them on TV news. These visits were not confined... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
Few vital comments on “The Sri Lanka Kanda Udarata Urumaya Surekime Saha Savibalagenvime Adhikariya’ Panatha
I am making these few comments as a deeply concerned person on the pitiful plight of the Kandyan Peasants in particular and generally on the ongoing disastrous and treacherous programme of the present government for the serious attention of all citizens who love their country and the Sinhala nation. I also request and simultaneously demand all those MPP supposed to represent the Central, Uva and Sabaragamuwa Provinces in particular to agitate for the immediate scrapping of the Upcountry Village (mono-Tamil villages) and Infrastructure Development Ministry and to set up the Kandyan areas Development Authority... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
ශ්‍රි ලංකා කන්ද උඩරට උරුමය සුරැකීමේ සහ සවිබලගැන්විමේ අධිකාරිය පනත
යෝජිත මෙම පනත වු කලී 1505 සිට 1948 දක්වා වසර 443 ක් පුරා පෘතුගිසි, ඕලන්ද සහ බි්‍රතාන්‍ය විදේශිය ආක්‍රමනිකයින්ගෙන් තම රට ජාතිය හා සම්බුද්ධ ශාසනය ආරක්ෂාකොට ගැනීම සඳහා දිවිහිමියෙන් සටන් වැද දසදහස් ගණනින් ජිවිත පරිත්‍යාග කොට තම උරුමයන් සියල්ල අහිමි කොටගෙන තම උපන් බිමේම අනාථයින් බවට පත්ව සිටින මේ රටේ නියම භුමිපුත්‍රයන් වන උඩරට සිංහලයින්ගේ අහිමිවු උරුමයන් ලබාදීම. දැනට උඩරට වතුකරයේ් ක්රියාත්මක කෙරෙන සමස්ත කඳුකරයම දකුණු ඉන්දිය වතු කම්කරු ප්‍රාන්තයක් බවට පත් කිරීමේ භයානක මෙන්ම ජාතිද්‍රෝහි වැඩ පිළිවෙලින් මේ රට ගලවා ගැනීම සහ දිවයිනේ සමස්ත ජිවි පද්ධතියේ මෙන්ම ශිෂ්ඨාචාරයේ පදනම වන මධ්‍යම කඳුකරයේ භෞතික පදනම පුරුත්්ථාපනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
Animal Welfare Advisory Committee Expresses Dissent at Cruelty to Animals
We make this statement as the Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (AWAC) to Minister Faiszer Musthapha to publicly express our dissent at the continuing massacre of dogs in Sri Lanka, despite the No-Kill Policy on Dogs that is effective in Sri Lanka, as well as the Minister’s promise to the AWAC that such killings would not happen. We agreed to serve in the AWAC as Animal Welfare Activists at the Minister’s invitation in order to establish a realistically sustainable, practical and humane programme, mutually beneficial to the animals and the public in order to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
Serman by a Buddhist Monk from Bangladesh
I Was at a pre-alms giving function held at my brother’s place last night .Serman was delivered by a young monk who has come to Sri Lank from Bangladesh when he was small ( now he may be in late twenties) gave an insight of our society .His controversial serman was about some monks and laymen claiming that they have achieved “ Sothapaththa” (So’wan ) and what a farce it is .People have not clearly understood that most of the people in our society are full of hatred .ignorance and cravings ,That is why in Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
Judiciary should not succumb to political skulduggery
The current regime came to power promising to restore democracy, human rights, and rule of law while eradicating corruption, nepotism, and impunity. Thirty months later, the government appears to be struggling to escape after ensnaring itself. Rule of law was one of its foremost slogans it carried forth, and for this the Courts required to have an independent judiciary and a brilliant enforcement mechanism. However, to this date, no major arrests have been made, and all this is while a popular Attorney-at-law, Nagananda Kodituwakku, takes on the entire system, claiming that tampering of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/17)
NFF withdraws from constitutional assembly
A letter was handed over to the Speaker of Parliament stating that five members of the National Freedom front (NFF) representing the UPFA will withdraw from the constitutional assembly. The letter signed by MP’s Wimal Weerawansa, Weerakumara Dissnayake, Jayantha Smaraweera, Udayashantha Gunasekara and Niroshan Premarathna cited ten reasons for the decision. The parliamentarians said they bowed down to the Mahanayake Theros view that the country did not need a new constitution at the moment and questioned the legality of the process as they alleged the public was neither informed of the assembly’s decisions nor were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/17)
Dr. Neville Fernando to settle all loans in 10 years
The South-Asian Institute for Technology and Medicine (SAITM) today said that as per the Cabinet Memorandum approved by the Cabinet, the mortgage rights of the Dr. Neville Fernando Teaching Hospital (NFTH) will remain with the Bank of Ceylon (BoC) until such time all loans are repaid by SAITM within the next 10 years, after which all titles of ownership will be vested with the Government of Sri Lanka. Issuing a statement, the SAITM also stated that “This arrangement was materialized under the advocacy of attorneys of BoC, the government and SAITM in the best interest... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/17)
IMF only approved the third tranche, not a new loan - Bandula
Joint Opposition’s Parliamentarian Bandula Gunawardana stated that the third tranche of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) loan was granted to Sri Lanka as a result of the National Inland Revenue Act which was presented to the Parliament. He stated this at a press conference of the Joint Opposition today (19). Gunawardana further remarked that the media had blown the news about the third tranche out of proportion, and explained that it was merely a continuation of an existing loan scheme, and not a new loan altogether. The former minister added that the Government had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/17)
Emirates to operate one-off A380 flight to Colombo
DUBAI, Emirates’ iconic A380 aircraft will make a one-off landing at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Colombo on August 14 as the airline joins local authorities in the celebration of the airport’s resurfaced runway. The special flight, operating as EK654 from Dubai, will be the first A380 aircraft to disembark passengers in Sri Lanka after completing a commercial service. The one-off A380 aircraft will arrive at 16:10 hours and be on ground for more than six hours before it returns to Dubai as flight EK655 departing at 22:10 hours, enabling airport executives, VIPs, trade... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/17)
Sri Lanka to probe 2011 World Cup cricket defeat
Sri Lanka's sports minister gave his support Wednesday for an investigation into the country's controversial 2011 World Cup loss against India, amid fresh allegations of match fixing. The South Asian nation lost the World Cup decider by six wickets at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai, stunning the cricket-mad island. Then Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara resigned soon after the match. Pressure has since been mounting for an inquiry into the shock defeat, with a former cricket captain and a previous sports minister going public with their suspicions that Sri Lanka deliberately lost the match. © AFP/File / by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/17)
Amari enters Sri Lanka with the opening of a new beachfront resort in Galle
ONYX Hospitality Group, one of Asia’s leading hotel management companies, has launched a brand-new Amari property in Sri Lanka’s historic southwest coastal city of Galle. The 172-room Amari Galle, located a short distance from the UNESCO World Heritage Galle Fort, is ONYX Hospitality Group’s third hotel in Sri Lanka. This hotel is also the Group’s third Amari opening this year, following Amari Johor Bahru in Malaysia and Amari Yangshuo in China. This new beachfront hotel is prominently situated on the Colombo-Galle main road and offers easy access to nearby attractions including Galle Fort, the largest remaining fortress... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/17)
SOM designs "new skyline" for port area of Sri Lanka's largest city
SOM has won a competition to design a new district for Sri Lankan city Colombo, with a design featuring numerous skyscrapers, a marina, canals and a park, influenced by the country's tropical climate. The finance and marina district masterplan was designed by SOM for CHEC Port City Colombo, which is looking to transform 269 hectares of reclaimed land beside Colombo's central business district. Backed by the China Communication Construction Company, the Port City masterplan aims to create a new hub for commerce, tourism and culture in Sri Lanka's largest city, with connections to the main port and the historic Galle Face Green recreation ground. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/17)
SOM wins contest to design centre of Sri Lanka’s $15bn port city
Major US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has won a three-horse race to design the centre of Sri Lanka’s controversial, Chinese backed Port City of Colombo. The competition was held to gather design concepts for the financial district and the marina area of the port, which Sri Lanka’s government had previously suspended amid concern over undue influence from China and irregularities in the contract process. Now back on, the port is expected to have an initial... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/17)
Australia helps Sri Lanka as dengue toll hits 250
Australia will provide AUS$500,000 (US$400,000) to fund the World Health Organization's dengue prevention and control measures in Sri Lanka, where the virus has claimed 250 lives and infected nearly 100,000 people this year Australia will join Sri Lanka in its war on dengue fever, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Wednesday, as the virus has claimed a record 250 lives and infected nearly 100,000 people in the South Asian country this year. Sri Lanka has deployed hundreds of troops to destroy mosquito breeding grounds as it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/17)
Invoking Nuremberg in Colombo
July 18, 2017, 12:00 pm "They are commitments that Sri Lanka voluntarily undertook in the light of 70 years of experience of Transitional Justice since the Nuremberg trials…"-Ben Emmerson QC, UN Special Rapporteur One of the two resolutions adopted at the 5th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council on the 18th of June 2007 is Resolution A/HRC/RES/5/2 namely, the "Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council".This resolution was adopted without a vote. Article 12 of the text says that Special Procedure should "In implementing their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
AN EUOLOGY FOR DR BUDDHADASA HEWAVITAHRANA, PROFESSOR EMERITUS
Dr Buddhadasa Hewavithrana was my lecturer at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya and later I looked up to him as my guru and guide in the fields of social and economic development of Sri Lanka. I admired his wealth of knowledge and his sharp ability to stand proud by the ordinary people of Sri Lanka. After completing his secondary education at Ananda College from which he imbibed the vision to server the Mother Lanka he entered the University of Ceylon in 1951 and he was among the first set of students when the University was shifted to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Garbage and rotting country with overaged Politicians
Quote FEE FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION –It is high time …….. Photograph above shows three garbage bins kept in the car porch in front of a house in London .If the occupants place wet food left overs in blue or green bin other than in the gray bin,collectors will not touch it .People pay more than 25000 Rs per month for collection of Garbage and using the Green Bin meant for collection of green garbage such as leaves and tree cuttings, is also charged with an additional amount .Unless we adapt such a system in Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Disunity occurred in 2004 caused the great destruction in 2009
The great leaders of the Federal Party and the All Ceylon Tamil Congress Hon.S.J.V.Chelvanayagam Q.C and Hon.G.G.Ponnambalam Q.C respectively, merged their parties to form the Tamil United Front, later change its name as Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF). Of those who contested on the TULF ticket and won in 1977, M/s. Sampanthan,Soosaithasan and myself only are still alive. Till 2004 the Tamil United Liberation Front functioned like the sole representatives of the Tamil people. Due to the functioning of some armed groups the TULF lost its individuality. Because of some unpleasant incidents in politics... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
සයිටම් විරෝධයේ පරාජය
‘‘ඔබට වෛද්‍යවරයකුගේ බෙහෙත් තුණ්ඩුව කියවා ගැනීමට තරම් ඔහුගේ අත්අකුරු පැහැදිලි නොවන්නට පුළුවන. එහෙත් ඔහුගේ අය කිරීමේ තුණ්ඩුව ඔබට ඉතා පැහැදිලිව ලියා ලැබෙනු ඇත.’’ - (අර්ල් විල්සන්) සයිටම් ආයතනය වසා දමන තෙක් සටන අත්නොහරින බවට සපථ කළ වෛද්‍ය සංගමයේ ලොක්කෝ සතියකට පමණ ඉහතින් සටන පාවා දුන්හ. ඊට දින කිහිපයකට පෙර ඔවුන් සිතූයේ ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ කිහිප දෙනෙකු සමඟ ජ.වි.පෙ ද,පෙරටුගාමීන්ද, හරියාකාර සාමාජිකත්වයක් නැති විපක්ෂයේ වෘත්තීය සමිති නායකයන් කිහිප දෙනකුද වාඩි කරවාගෙන මාධ්‍ය අමතා ඔවුන්ගේ කොන්දේසි ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමෙන් ආණ්ඩුව බිය වැද්දිය හැකියැයි කියාය. අඛණ්ඩ වෛද්‍ය වැඩ වර්ජනයක්ද සයිටම් වැසීම නොවන්නේ නම් ආණ්ඩුව පෙරළීම සම්බන්ධ කොන්දේසිද පනවා දෙදිනක් යත්ම ඔවුන්ට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Lanka struggling to adapt as disasters become new ‘normal’
During Sri Lanka’s May floods, rescue crews in Kiriella, a small town in Rathnapura district, spotted a remarkable sight. A middle-aged woman, trudging through waist-deep floodwater, clutched a rooster carefully above the torrent, while a small girl struggled to hold onto the woman’s waist, at times barely able to keep her head above water.“Not just the public, but even policymakers are the same: They look at natural disasters as isolated events and the main aim is to save movable and immovable property, not lives,” charged Ranjith Punyawardena, the head of climatology in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Singapore and Sri Lanka committed to concluding FTA talks by end-2017
Both Singapore and Sri Lanka are committed to concluding negotiations on a free trade agreement before the end of the year, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said in Colombo yesterday. "It will be a modern, comprehensive, high-quality, ambitious free trade agreement. It will demonstrate to the world that both of us are open for business and we encourage all investments," he said at the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs after talks with his counterpart Ravi Karunanayake. Dr Balakrishnan described Sri Lanka and Singapore as complementary hubs, with Sri Lanka being a hub for transshipment and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Sri Lanka offers to purchase rice from Myanmar
Sri Lanka has offered to purchase 500,000 tonnes of high-quality rice from Myanmar through a government-to-government contract, said U Aung Soe , director general of Myanmar Trade Promotion Team under the Ministry of Commerce. The offer to buy 200,000 tonnes of parboiled rice and 300,000 tonnes of white rice was made last week. Parboiled rice, or converted rice, is rice that has been partially boiled in the husk. Each year, Myanmar exports between 1.5 million and 2 million tonnes of rice, according to the Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF). Currently, Sri Lankan Ambassador Mr K.W.N.D. Karunaratne led... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Who permitted UN Rapporteur meet LTTE detainees: MS
President Maithripala Sirisena is reported to have asked at today’s Cabinet meeting as to who gave permission for UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism Ben Emmerson to meet LTTE suspects in prison. Mr. Emmerson who concluded his mission in Sri Lanka accused it of using torture against people detained under the Anti-terror Act and that its progress on human rights, reforms and justice remained woefully slow. Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe criticized the UN official for with regard to the allegations he had levelled at the government. It had been revealed that the Foreign... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Sri Lankan shares fall for fifth session in six
COLOMBO, July 18 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares closed lower on Tuesday, marking their fifth session of decline in six, although foreign investors continued to buy stocks. Domestic investors were concerned about a possible increase in interest rate, analysts said, after the International Monetary Fund said further monetary policy tightening in Sri Lanka was desirable until there were clear signs that inflationary pressures were subsiding. Foreign investors were net buyers of shares worth 658.9 million rupees ($4.3 million) on Monday, extending the year-to-date net foreign inflow to 24.3 billion rupees worth of equities. The Colombo stock index... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Direct air links with China boosting Sri Lanka's tourism
Sri Lanka's Tourism Minister John Amaratunga Tuesday said direct air links with China have boosted the country's tourism market as more Chinese tourists are now choosing Sri Lanka as a holiday destination. Amaratunga said there are direct air links between Colombo and Chinese cities without transit and the country is expecting the tourism market from China to grow further. Due to the rapid growth of Chinese tourist arrivals, Sri Lanka's national airline carrier SriLankan Airlines has recently enhanced its services for customers in China with the launch of a local direct-dial number for the airline's customers throughout China.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Sri Lanka's inflation still high, more policy tightening "desirable":IMF
Further monetary tightening is desirable - IMF IMF completes delayed second review of $1.5 bln loan Sri Lanka awaits $167.2 mln third tranche of loan New Inland Revenue Act will support fiscal consolidation - IMF COLOMBO, July 18 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday that further monetary policy tightening in Sri Lanka "is desirable" until there are clear signs that inflationary pressures are subsiding, and called for more measures to curb strong credit growth. In a statement after completing its second review of a $1.5 billion loan approved in May last year, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Top 5 Things to Experience in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is a jewel of an island off the southeast coast of India, boasting breath-taking beaches and dense jungles. With its sprawling ancient cities, towering temples and thriving wildlife, the landscape, culture and people weave a beautiful and heady tapestry that captivates visitors from all over the world. Despite being just a quarter of the size of the United Kingdom, Sri Lanka is packed full of endless sights and experiences for the adventurous traveller. From the hot and unforgiving dry zone to lush and humid rainforests, here are five unmissable experiences: The Cultural Triangle Stretching... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
IMF Completes Second Review of the Extended Arrangement Under the EFF with Sri Lanka and Approves US$ 167.2 Million Disbursement
July 17, 2017 IMF Executive Board completed the second review of Sri Lanka’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement, which enables the disbursement of about US$ 167.2 million. The new Inland Revenue Act will support fiscal consolidation, make the tax system more efficient and equitable, and generate resources for social and development programs. Further accumulating international reserves and enhancing exchange rate flexibility will help reduce Sri Lanka’s external vulnerability. On July 17, 2017, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the second review of Sri Lanka’s economic performance under the program supported by a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Prof.Laksiri Fernando jumps into the anti-Sinhala-Buddhist garbage bin again
There are clear indications in Prof. Laksiri Fernando’s response to my comment that he suffers from the common disease that affects some academics in the professoriate : they can’t hold two thoughts together and balance both in their pinheads to either think straight or arrive at a rational / logical conclusion. So, I’m afraid,, it has come to a point where I have to educate him on what he wrote. Take, for instance, his claim that his concerns were with the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) and not the Mahanayakes emerging as a state within the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
YAHAPALANA AND THE PORTS OF SRI LANKA
Sri Lanka has a very valuable asset in its harbours and ports, due to its strategic geographic location. Only Colombo however, has been fully developed as a commercial port. The port of Colombo is a sheltered port with breakwaters. It undertakes oil handling, bunkering, cargo handling and container handling. Colombo port in 2016 has handled 5.7 million TEUs and has shown a 10 percent compound annual growth rate with a current capacity utilization of 80 percent of the port. The total revenue of the port was Rs.36 billion of which Rs.17 billion was earned from bulk cargo handling.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/17)
Allegations against ex-navy spokesman are false: Gammanpila
Allegations against ex-navy spokesman D.K.P. Dassanayake are baseless, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya General Secretary, Udaya Gammanpila said today. He told a news conference that Commodore Dassanayake was not involved in the abduction and disappearance of 11 youth and the statements made by Police Media Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara with regard to the allegations were false and baseless. "I challenge the police media spokesman to an open debate so that I could prove who should be arrested over the allegations made against Commodore Dassanayake," Mr. Gammanpila said. He said a war hero should not be held... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/17)
කොමදෝරු DKP දසනායක ගැන පොලිස් මාධ්‍ය ප්රකාශක කියූවේ ගල් පැලෙන බොරු බව හෙලි කරයි..
පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා එම පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. කොමදෝරු ඩී කේ පි දසනායක මහතා කප්පම් ගැනීම්, පැහැර ගැනීම් සහ අතුරුදහන් කිරීම් වලට සම්බන්ධ බව පෙන්වීමට පොලිස් මාධ්‍ය ප්රකාශක ඊයේ නිර්ලැජ්ජිත උත්සාහයක නිරත වුණා. ඒ වගේම පොලිස් මාධ්‍ය ප්රකාශක කියන විධියට කොමදෝරු දසනායක අපරාධකාරයෙකු බවට වාර්තා කරන්නේ හිටපු නාවික හමුදාපති වසන්ත කරන්නාගොඩ. මේක පට්ටපල් බොරුවක්. ලුතිනන් කමාන්ඩර් සම්පත් මුණසිංහ නාවික හමුදාවේ නිලය භාවිතා කරමින් කොළඹ අහිංසක දෙමළ ව්‍යාපාරිකයින්ගෙන් කප්පම් ගන්නා බවට එවකට නාවික හමුදාපති අද්මිරාල් කරන්නාගොඩට මහතාට තොරතුරු ලැබෙනවා. මේ පිළිබදව නාවික හමුදාව සිදු කරපු අභ්‍යන්තර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/17)
රාජපක්ෂවරු හොරුන් ද.. රාජිත, මංගලට දුන් උත්තරය
රාජපක්ෂවරුන් රට පාලනය කිරිමේදී කරපු හොරකම් ගැන මංගල සමරවීර මහතා එදා චෝදනා කරද්දි ඒ වෙනුවෙන් එවකට UNP මන්ත්රී ලෙස පැමිණ රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවට එකතුවී එම ආණ්ඩුවේ අමාත්‍යවරයෙකු වු වෛද්‍ය රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහතා පිලිතුරු දුන් විඩීයෝවක් මේ දිනවල ෆේස්බුක් අතර ඉතා ජනප්‍රියව ඇත. යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ සෞඛ්‍යය අමාත්‍යවරයා ලෙස ආණ්ඩුවේ සෑම කරුණක් ගැනම කටට එන උත්තරයක් දෙන රාජිත අමාත්‍යවරයා එදා රාජපක්ෂවරුන් ගැන ඇත්ත කිව්වද අද ඇත්ත කියනවද යන්න මේ ඔහු කල කාථාවෙන්ම අවබෝධ කර ගැනීමට පහසුය. මේ දෙදෙනාම අද යහපාලන කියා ගන්නා මේ ආණ්ඩුවේ අමාත්‍යවරුන් වන අතර අද ඒ දෙදෙනාම ගජ මිතුරන් ය. එමෙන්ම වෛද්‍ය රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහතා අද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/17)
UN: Stop sending envoys to Sri Lanka that violate Article 2.7 of UN Charter
UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights & fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism Ben Emmerson has overstepped his line. Not only is he presenting factually incorrect statements he is making demands that exceed his & the UN mandate and are a violation of the spirit of the principles in the UN Charter. Is Ben Emmerson suited to be a UN envoy – accused of sexual assault, representing consensual same sex, having a law firm that defends war criminals which raises questions regarding the demands for foreign tribunals, foreign judges and foreign lawyers!... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/17)
The Pot calling the kettle black. A political simile
The visiting United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter Terrorism - Ben Emmerson - is mightily aggrieved that Sri Lanka has been slack and legally incompetent in dealing with supposed cases of abuse arising out of the military action against the murderous Tamil Terrorists of Northern Sri Lanka. The issue which we wish to raise is one concerning morals – not the law. Let us begin with a tellingly apposite and wholly relevant quotation from the Bible – ‘Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/17)
ලිබරල් හණමිටිය
දීඝ නිකායේ මහා වර්ගය අවසන් වෙන්නේ පායාසි රාජඤ්ඤ සූත්‍රයෙන්. මේ සූත්‍රයෙන් විස්තර කෙරෙන කතාවත් ධර්ම කරුණුත් ඒ විදිහට ම සිංහල විමානවස්තු ප්‍රකරණයේ පායාසි වර්ගයේ අවසානයට තියෙන උත්තර විමාන වස්තුවේත් තියෙනවා. මරණයෙන් පස්සේ පරලොව යන සත්ත්වයෙක් ඉන්නවා ද කියලා හොයලා බලන්න පායාසි රාජඤ්ඤ කියන බමුණා මරණාසන්න මිනිස්සුන්ව කප කපා, පතුරු ගස ගසා, කල්දේරම්වල දාලා තම්බ තම්බා පර්යේෂණ කටයුත්තක නිරතවුනා. ඒ, ගැලීලියෝ ගැලිලි උපදින්න අවුරුදු දෙදාහකට විතර ඉස්සර. ඉතින් අපිට පර්යේෂණ ක්‍රම හඳුන්නලා දුන්නේ ගැලිලි කියලා කියන එක නිවැරැදි නෑ. කොහොම වුනත් ගැලිලිට පාඩුවේ ඉන්න ඉඩදීලා මේ කියන්න හදන දේ ගැන විතරක් කියන්නම්. මරණයෙන් පස්සේ පරලොව යන සත්ත්වයෙක් නැති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/17)
CONSTITUTION MAKING Should we repeal or amend 1978 Constitution
AT OPA Organization of Professional Associations 275/75 Professor Stanly Wijesundara Mawatha, Close to Law Faculty andRace Course, off Reid Avenue ON 4th August 2017 From 6.00 P.m. 9.00 P.m Organized by A Group of Lawyers and Professionals on behalf of West End Law Center, Manohara de Silva PC Lal Wijenayake ( Attorney - at Law ) (Chairman Public Representation Committee on constitutional Reforms) Rev. Professor Madagoda Abhayathissa Thero D. Laksiri Mendis( Attorney at Law / former ambassador/U.N.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/17)
How can Sri Lanka celebrate Tea Industry ignoring the lands confiscated by the British from the Kandyan peasantry?
The white man said Cecil Rhodes built Africa. However, Africans disagree and Africans are bringing down the statues of Cecil Rhodes. Ironically, in Sri Lanka the reign of the kalu suddas is such that we are celebrating the tea industry that came about by illegally confiscating lands belonging to the Kandyan peasantry! Those that are celebrating the tea industry conveniently forget the background on which the tea industry was established and it really is not anything to be at all proud about. We were known as the granary of the East. We were a proud agricultural... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
MANAGING THE ECONOMY, RAJAPAKSA VERSUS YAHAPALANA
We have inherited a heavy national debt, said Yahapalana. The country had a debt of SLR 9000 billion (USD 60 billion) when Yahapalana took over, said President Sirisena. Yahapalana had inherited a Rs. 482,940 million foreign debt burden which has to be settled before 2016 said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe. We are saddled with USD 1900 million in loans, he added on another occasion, and that excludes the loans obtained by state institutions during the Rajapakse administration. “When the new government came to power in 2015, many hidden details pertaining to those loans came to light, said... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
බලු කපුටු වන්නට කැමැත්තෝ දඹුල්ලට අත තබන්න
පසුගියදා අස්ගිරි මහා විහාරයේ දී රැස්වුණු ත්‍රෛයිනිකායික මහා සංඝ රත්නයේ මූලිකත්වයෙන් රජයට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද යෝජනා සංඝ ආඥාවක් බවට පත් විය.මහා සංඝ රත්නය විෂයෙහි එවැනි බලයක් නොමැති බව එන්.ජී.ඕ. බත් බැලයන් සහ දේශපාලන කුක්කන් ද මාක්ස් සරණ ගිය ඇතැම් හිමිවරුන්ද පවසති. සංඝ ආඥාවන් මෑත කාලයේ පමණක් නොව අතීතයේ රජුන්ටද නිකුත් කර තිබේ. මේ සංඝ ආඥාව වර්තමාන විධායකය ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය සහ අධිකරණය මගින් නිකුත් කරන ආඥාවක් මෙන් නොව ඊට වඩා බලවත්ව ඉහළින් තැබෙන බුද්ධ නීතියේ සම්ප්‍රදායයි. එය අද ප්‍රකාශයට පත් වනුයේ කන්ද උඩරට මහනුවර වැඩසිටින ලක් ජනතාවගේ මුදුන් මල්කඩවන් දළදා වහන්සේ ගේ ආනුභාවයෙනි.සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජනතාවත් මහා සංඝ රත්නයත් ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
Facing the wrath of weather gods
Could the continuous downpours of rain over the past few weeks and deluges hitting several areas in the country where people have perished, many have become helpless and marooned, thousands sustained injuries and hundreds lost their life-time possessions, whilst another part of the country experienced a severe drought affecting their lives in a different perspective, be simply put down to the wrath of weather gods due to the inability of finding a long-term forward planning programme to prevent such natural calamities by any government so far - previous or present? On a different perspective,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
Torture tree of the British Army?
In commemorating our national heroes it is fitting that we remember these simple village folk who were in the forefront of the Rebellion and were subject to eventual lynching at the 'Tree'. Perhaps it is time a monument is installed here so that the schoolchildren may remember their ancestors in solemn mediation particularly on Independence Day. The potholed road from Uva Paranagama winds its way through paddy and vegetable plots and after a distance of nine km - a half hour journey - reaches Uva Paranagama Maha Vidyalaya. It is rather puzzling to imagine how such a peaceful place could ever have been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
How a Soviet Student Is Leading the Buddhist Crusade Against Jihad
Religious clashes have become a characteristic feature not only in the Middle East and Europe. South Asia faces the same challenges: terrorism, international criminal networks and illegal migration. Sputnik was able to talk to the leader of Sri Lanka’s radical Buddhists, a former Soviet student, who is heading the crusade against "global jihad." © AP PHOTO/ ERANGA JAYAWARDENA Sri Lanka Accused of Raping Tamil Men Years After Civil War Has Ended Doctor Dilanthe Withanage speaks very good Russian as he studied engineering in the Soviet Union. After returning to his home country of Sri Lanka, he took... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
BENGALURU: SRI LANKAN AMONG 3 HELD FOR FAKE CREDIT CARD SCAM
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) police have arrested three people, including a Sri Lankan, in a fake credit card scam. Investigators recovered 144 fake credit cards from them. They would reportedly get the card details of users in the US, Japan and other foreign countries, create fake cards and use them to make online purchases. The three accused are Divyan, from Jaffna in Sri Lanka, Nawaz Sherrief, 22, of Kanakanagar, and Nadeem Sherrief, 30, of HBR Layout. The cops also seized 270 blank swiping cards... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
UN Special Rapporteur lacks calibre, diplomacy: Minister
Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe yesterday alleged that several UN Special Rapporteurs who visited Sri Lanka including Rapporteur Ben Emmerson lacked calibre and diplomacy and that he would inform the President and the Premier about these Rapporteurs. When contacted by the Daily Mirror to get a comment about the Rapporteur Emmerson’s visit, the Minister complained that Mr. Emmerson didn’t have any diplomatic qualities, basic courtesy and that he displayed an-army-commander-like approach. “Even during our meeting, he came up with false facts about those detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). When I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
Wimal condemns arrest of ex-Navy spokesman
National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader and MP Wimal Weerawansa yesterday condemned the remanding of former Navy Spokesman Commodore D.K.P. Dassanayake who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday over the alleged abduction and disappearance of several youth between 2008 and 2009. MP Weerasansa told a news conference that Commodore Dassanayake's arrest was a sensitive incident and added that he was a talented officer who had contributed immensely to the nation. “Commodore Dassanayake was one of the two officers who got the opportunity to get ‘Field Promotions’ twice... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
CB Bond scam largest daylight robbery - Mahinda Yapa
Matara District Joint Opposition (JO) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MP Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene yesterday charged that the United National Party (UNP) should be held directly accountable for the Central Bank (CB) bond issue, which he termed as Sri Lanka's largest daylight robbery in its recent history. He further alleged that it could also be identified as the biggest such scam that had taken place in the entire South Asian region in recent history. The SLFP MP stated that thanks to the work of the Special Presidential Commission (SPC) set up to probe the issue... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
Govt led by Rajapaksa will be established before year ends - Welgama
https://youtu.be/H-JoV-n22XA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
War Heroes or criminals?
July 15, 2017, 12:00 pm The former Navy Spokesman Commodore D.K.P.Dassanayake was arrested last week on charges of causing the disappearance of 11 persons in 2008. Dassanayake, a highly decorated Naval officer who played a major role in the war, is the latest high ranking armed forces officer to be arrested under the present government. After January 2015, a good cross section of the entire military high command that won the war against terrorism has either been investigated, questioned, arrested or remanded over some criminal investigation or the other. During the previous government, the then General... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
The vicious political triangle: Blatant Mahinda, Betraying Ranil, and Blame-master Maithri
July 15, 2017, 7:50 pm They are the three corners of Sri Lanka’s vicious political triangle. Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family are nothing if they are not blatant about everything. They defeated the LTTE, so they can do no wrong. They will return to power, they insist, and rule for ever, no matter what. If and when they do, the blame or credit for it must surely land on the present government – for its betrayal of the common opposition promises in the landmark election of January 2015. The handsome prince of betrayal is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
President battles to keep coalition, ultimatum backfires
July 15, 2017, 7:32 pm ECONOMYNEXT - President Maithripala Sirisena returned from a state visit to Bangladesh yesterday to grapple with a new threat of defections that could lead to a break-up of his shaky coalition government. A week after issuing an ultimatum to two ministers to deliver or depart, the President himself has been put on notice by his own Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) which wants him to dissolve the coalition or face a mass exodus. At a meeting just before leaving for Bangladesh on his three-day state visit, several seniors of the SLFP said they... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
රහස්‌ පොලීසියෙන් හිටිහැටියේ අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් කවුද මේ කොමදෝරු ඩී.කේ.පී.දිසානායක
මේ එළඹ තිබෙන්නේ වීරයා දංගෙඩියට දක්වන තරග ඉසව්ව යෑයි කිව්වාට වරදක්‌ නැත. වසර දෙකහමාරක්‌ තිස්‌සේ යහපාලනය විසින් කරන ලද කිසිම දෙයක්‌ නැතැයි රටම කීවද එල්ටීටීඊ ඩයස්‌පෝරාව නම් කියනු ඇත්තේ, මේ ටික කාලයට මාර දේවල්නේ කරගත්තේ..., කියලාය. ඒ තරමට වීරයන් පේළියක්‌ දඟ ගෙයට දක්‌කන්නට යහපාලනය බරටම වැඩ කර තිබේ. කොමදෝරු ඩී.කේ.පී. දසානායක පිළිබඳ කතාන්දරය ද අවාසනාවට, එවැනි වර්ගයේ තවත් කතාවකි. හිටපු නාවික හමුදා මාධ්‍ය ප්රකාශක කොමදෝරු ඩී.කේ.පී. දසනායක දැන් සිටින්නේ රහස්‌ පොලිස් අත්අඩංගුවේය. ඔහුට එල්ල වී ඇති චෝදනාව වනුයේ යුද සමයේ නිරායුද තරුණයන් පිරිසක් පැහැරගෙන ගොස් කප්පම් ගෙන ඝාතනය කිරීමේ සිද්ධියට අනුබල දීමය. එය පහසුවෙන් අහක... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
නාවක්‌කුළියට බුදු එළිය විහිදුවන්න දෙමළ නඩුකාරතුමිය දුන් ඓතිහාසික නඩු තීන්දුව... ඉදිකිරීම් කඩිනම් කරන්නැයි නියෝග කරයි
උතුරු පළාතේ යාපනය දිස්‌ත්‍රික්‌කයේ නාවක්‌කුලිය දඹවල ශාන්තිපුර, යාපනයේ ඇති එකම සිංහල ගම්මානයයි. පවුල් 57 ක් පදිංචි මෙම ගම්මානයේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජනයාගේ ආගමික කටයුතු සිදුකරන විහාරස්‌ථානය "සමිද්ධි සුමන විහාරයයි" සමිද්ධි සුමන විහාරය බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ බෞද්ධ කටයුතු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ලියාපදිංචි විහාරස්‌ථානයකි. පන්සලේ කුඩා විහාරයක්‌ද බෝධි ප්‍රාකාර සහිත බෝධීන් වහන්සේ නමක්‌ද, දෙතුන් සියයකට රැස්‌විය හැකි ශාලාවක්‌ද ශාලාවට යාබදව කාමර දෙකක් සහ කාමර දෙකට පිටුපසින් කුඩා දාන ශාලාවක්‌ද, මෙම ගොඩනැඟිල්ලට පිටුපසින් කාමර හතරක් හා නාන කාමරයක්‌ද ඇත. එමෙන්ම දාන ශාලාව අසල නාන කාමරයක්‌ සහිත අංග සම්පූර්ණ වැසිකිළියක්‌ද ඇත. 80ං 20 දෙමහල් ශාලාවක්‌ සඳහා අත්තිවාරම දමා ඇති අතර ගිහි පාර්ශ්වය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
YAHAPALANA AND ‘REGIME CHANGE’ Part 2
Because it was an externally managed ‘regime change’, the ‘changers’ decided that it was best to install Maithripala Sirisena as President quickly, before the island woke up to what had happened. The election results were announced on January 8, 2015 and the very next day, January 9th, in a hurriedly prepared ceremony at Independence Square, Maithripala Sirisena was sworn in as President. Within minutes of the swearing in, Ranil Wickremasinghe, leader of the United National Party (UNP) was sworn in as Prime Minister, though there was already a PM at the time, D.M. Jayaratne. The UNP was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
හීන තිබුනට කෝටියක්... අතේ නෑ එක රුපියලක්....
මෑතකදී පොළොන්නරුවේ පැවති උත්සවයකදී, ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන සුපුරුදු පරිදි අනාගත කාලයට වලංගුවන පරිදි කතාවක් කලේය. ඒ කුමන අභියෝග ආවත් මාතෘභූමිය සහ ආණ්ඩුව ඉදිරියට ගෙන යන බවයි. මාතෘ භූමිය කෙසේ වෙතත් ආණ්ඩුව නම් කෙසේ හෝ ඉදිරියට ගෙනයාම පිලිබඳ අප විචිකිච්ඡාවක් තබා නොගත යුතුය. රටේ මෙපමන ප්‍රශ්න තිබියදී යලිත් වරක් ඇමතිවරු, නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමතිවරු සහ වෙනත් නිළතල දරන අය වෙනුවෙන් වාහන කිහිපයක් ගැනීමටත්, නිවෙස් අලුත්වැඩියාවටත් තවත් රුපියල් කෝටි ගණනාවක මුදල් පරිපූරක ඇස්තමේන්තුවක් මගින් වෙන් කලේ ආණ්ඩුව ඉදිරියට ගෙනයාමේ ක්‍රියාවලියේ එක් අදියරක් වශයෙන් බව පැහැදිලිය. පසුගිය දිනවල, රජය පාර්ශ්වයෙන් 18 දෙනෙකු මහින්ද පාර්ශ්වයට එකතුවන බවත්, ඇමතිවරු 8 දෙනෙකු හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා සමග සාකච්ඡා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
"The Ben Emmerson affair".
I am NOT a sympathizer of the "YAHAPALANA" government, but I will not fail to commend the stand taken by our President Maithripala Sirisena and the Hon. Minister of Justice, Dr. Wijeydasa Rajapaksa. THESE ARE INTERNATIONAL BEGGARS UNDER THE DISGUISE OF CALLING THEMSELVES UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND COUNTER TERRORISM WHO HAVE NO RIGHT TO CHALLENGE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA WHOSE DECISION HAS ALREADY BEEN ANNOUNCED THAT SRI LANKA WILL NOT ALLOW FOREIGN JUDGES... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
The conundrum about organic and conventional food, and how to make it safe and affordable.
There are many toxic substances used in our food. Because every substance is toxic when exceeded beyond certain limits, and these limits are quite low for many substances. It is not just tobacco which is now well known as being dangerous, but the CEOs of tobacco companies have not been hauled into court. Perhaps equally important is the toxic effect of sugar, or meat eating, consuming "preserved foods" etc. But no labels are put on them. However, public fear of "preservatives" in conventional food seems disproportionately high, especially among the educated upper classes who may... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
වෛද්‍ය පීඨයට පා තැබූ නවකයෝ
1986 දී වෛද්‍ය පීඨයට අප පය තැබුවේ නවක වධය පිළිබඳ යම් චකිතයකිනි. ඒ වන විට දේශීය විශ්ව විද්‍යාල වල තිබෙන නවක වධ පිළිබඳ විවිධ තොරතුරු අප අසා තිබුණි. මේ කාලයේදී මොරටුව සරසවියට ගිය මා මිත්‍ර ප්‍රසන්න මීගම ඔහුට මුහුණ දීමට තිබූ අප්‍රසන්න නවද වධයන් ගැන මා සමග කීවේය. එසේම මැණික් මහවත්ත (කැලණිය විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය) ඇයගේ අප්‍රසන්න නවක වධ අත්දැකීම් කීවාය. මේ හැර අප සමග මහජන පුස්තකාලයේ පාඩම් කල කොලඹ වෛද්‍ය පීඨයේ බාලසූරිය තිබෙන්නාවූ නවක වධ ක්‍රම පිලිබඳ කීවේය. ඒ අතර පෑන් ගැසීම නම් නවක වධයට බිය වීම නිසා රාමනාදන් ශාලාවේ උඩු මහලින් බිමට පැන ආබාධිත වූ රූපා රත්නසීලීගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
භික්‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ රාජ්‍යයේ අංශයක්
කලකට ඉහත ටේ‍රවෝ ලිං පවසා තිබුණේ ථෙරවාද බෞද්ධ රාජ්‍යය රජු, භික්‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ හා ජනතාව යන ගල් තුන මත රැඳුණු බවයි. රජු භික්‍ෂූන් වහන්සේට සිවුපසය ලබාදුන් අතර ජනතාවගේ වුවමනා එපාකම් බලා කියා ගත්තා. භික්‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ රජුට හා ජනතාවට අවවාද අනුශාසනා කළා. ජනතාව භික්‍ෂූන් වහන්සේට සිවුපසයෙන් සංග්‍රහ කළා. ඒ අතර ඔවුන් යුද්ධයක දී රජු හා රට වෙනුවෙන් සටන් කළා. මෙහි ටේ‍රවෝ ලිං නොකියන කරුණක් තියෙනවා. රජු තීරණ ගත්තේ රාජසභාව විමසීමෙන්. එහෙත් අවසාන තීරණය රජුගේ. ජනතාව රාජ්‍ය පාලනයට මැදිහත් වුණේ නැහැ. රාජ්‍යය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගත් කල ගල් තුන එකම මට්ටමක වූයේ නැහැ. රාජ්‍යය සමන්විත වූයේ රජුගෙන් හා සංඝයා වහන්සේගෙන්. අප... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
Upul Jayasuriya resigns as BOI Chairman…….. News Item
I am not surprised! We change the pillow as a means to cure your headache ? I am sure that Upul is a honest person but he failed to deliver .We have been dealing with BOI since the inception and we have seen how the dynamism has deteriorated .There was a time during MR when BOI was run by a Tycoon owning Casinos .Then it was run by a chemical engineer who had no clue about industries in Sri Lanka.Even now there are DG’s .and plethora of directors who have no power to push any government... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/17)
BoI woes
July 14, 2017, 9:42 pm The so-called yahapalanaya has become another Rajapaksa palanaya. The holier-than-thou politicians currently at the levers of power stand accused of all wrongs they vehemently condemned while they were in the Opposition. The accuser has now become the accused and vice versa! Chairman of the Board of Investment (BoI) Upul Jayasuriya has resigned in a huff. We yesterday quoted sources close to him as having said his resignation was due to political interference, which prevented him from acting according to his conscience. As a very senior lawyer and twice-President of the Bar... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/17)
More on 'clash' between Justice Minister and UN official
July 14, 2017, 10:49 pm Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, had a heated argument with Ben Emmerson, QC, Special Rapporteur at the onset of a meeting over latter leveling unsubstantiated allegations at law enforcement authorities and the judiciary. Emmerson had a series of meetings over the past few days after his unexpected encounter with the Justice Minister early this week. At his meeting with the Justice Minister Emmerson accused the Sri Lanka police of torturing most of the suspects; he placed the number of terrorist suspects in custody at 200. Government sources told... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/17)
Implement Geneva resolution or face consequences – UN
flays security establishment and its allies in govt Geneva to review New Anti-Terrorism Act Alleging that ‘retrograde elements in the security establishment and their allies’ in the government were trying to undermine post-war reconciliation process, the UN yesterday warned Sri Lanka of dire consequences unless the government fully implemented Geneva Resolution 30/1 co-sponsored by the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration in Oct 2015. The warning was given by Ben Emmerson, QC, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. Addressing the media at UN compound in Colombo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/17)
Sri Lanka Must Shift its Growth Model to Sustain its Economy
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Sri Lanka’s performance in 2016 was broadly satisfactory and saw several highlights including the passing of a Right to Information Act. For Sri Lanka to sustain growth and create jobs in the medium term it will need to shift its growth model towards one more focused on private investment and tradable sectors. Attracting more foreign direct investment could help create jobs, especially for women. In June 2017, the World Bank launched the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/17)
2011 World Cup Final: India vs Sri Lanka match was fixed, says Ranatunga
"I was also in India giving commentaries at the time. When we lost, I was distressed and I had a doubt," Ranatunga said. "We must investigate what happened to Sri Lanka at the 2011 World Cup final." "I cannot reveal everything now, but one day I will. There must be an inquiry." Former Sri Lanka skipper Arjuna Ranatunga today demanded an investigation into the country's 2011 World Cup final defeat by India amid allegations of match fixing. Ranatunga, 53, in a video posted on his Facebook page, said he was shocked by Sri Lanka's six-wicket defeat in the final at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/17)
How political interference made SriLankan crashland!
The first Sri Lankan flag carrier Air Ceylon [1947-1979] terminated its operations to pave way for Air Lanka [1979-98]. Following its partial acquirement by Emirates in 1998, it was re-branded SriLankan Airlines. From 1998 it was dressed in the current livery. The Dubai-based Emirates Group invested in local flag carrier under an agreement signed by the Chandrika B Kumaranatunga government for a ten-year strategic joint venture.They initially invested US $ 70 million for a 40% stake, which later increased to 43.6%. The ground handling and airline catering at Colombo-Bandaranaike airport became... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/17)
Bangladesh, Lanka sign 14 instruments
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka yesterday signed 14 instruments beginning a ‘historic journey’ in their bilateral relations as the Sri Lankan president termed his visit to Bangladesh a ‘historic one. The instruments - one agreement and 13 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) - were signed to strengthen co-operation between the two countries in the areas of economy, agriculture, shipping, higher education, information and technology and media. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina witnessed the signing of the instruments at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) following a bilateral meeting between the two leaders. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/17)
Stranded elephant saved in dramatic sea rescue 8 miles from shore
For members of the Sri Lankan navy, a routine morning patrol took an unexpected turn on Tuesday when an elephant was spotted struggling to stay afloat after having been pulled miles off the coast by currents. When naval personnel said it spotted the elephant eight miles from the shore, the animal was struggling to keep just its trunk above the waves while the rest of its body was underwater. Navy divers then tied ropes to the elephant and called for two additional boats to help gently pull it back to shore in what became... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/17)
‘REGIME CHANGE’ BEFORE ‘YAHAPALANA’
Revised 13.7.17 ‘Regime change’ made its first appearance in Sri Lanka in September 1959 when S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike was assassinated by a Buddhist priest, Somarama, on the verandah of his home. The assassination was planned. That was obvious. But it was not difficult to execute. Bandaranaike had no security protection whatsoever. Anyone could kill him anywhere. The public agreed that the person responsible for the assassination was the High Priest of Kelaniya, Buddharakkhita. They readily accepted the ridiculous argument that Buddharakkhita got Bandaranaike killed because Bandaranaike had refused to give Buddharakkhita a contract to import rice and another... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
සංඝ දමනය
පන්සලේ විප්ලවය ක්‍රිස්තියානි-මාක්ස්වාදී හා රාවය කතෘවූ වික්ටර් අයිවන් මහතා විසින් 2002 දී පන්සලේ විප්ලවය නමින් පොතක් ලිව්වේය. කුලියට කල එන්ජිිෝ ඩොලර් නිෂ්පාදනයක් යයි සැකකල හැකි මේ පොතෙන් ලංකාවේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ සමාජය ශීලාචාර කිරීමට අනුශාසනාවක් සපයා ඇත. පොතේ මූලික ඉලක්කයක් වී ඇත්තේ ගංගොඩවිල සෝම හිමියන්ගේ කතාවය. උන්වහන්සේව අපවත්කරවීමේ කුමණ්ත්‍රනයක් නොතිබුණු බව තහවුරු කිරීමට වික්ටර් වෙර දරයි. සෝම හාමුදුරුවන් ස්ත්‍රී පෙම් පටලැවිල්ලකට හසුවී මානසික කරදරයක වැටී සිටි බවත්, පින්තූරවල තමන්ගේ මුහුණේ පෙනුම පිළිඹිබු වන ආකාරය ගැන විශේෂ අවධානයකින් සිටි බවත්, තමන්ටත් ආචාර්ය උපාධියක් නැතිකම ගැන උත්සුකව සිටි බවත් වික්ටර් වාර්තා කලේය. මේ පොත ලියා අවුරුදු දහයකට පසුව අහම්බෙන් එය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
DRONES SUPPORT TERRORISTS
At international level, the other name of friendship and love is ‘necessity’ and the basic ingredients which make the relationship between two countries everlasting are forgiveness, forbearance and tolerance. There is nothing like true-love in relationship between two countries because this relationship revolves only around interests and benefits and nothing else. The friends of today might be foes of tomorrow and enemies of yesterday might be friends of today. Do you remember the two darkest rather cruelest days in the modern history of mankind; August 6 and August 9, 1945 when at the order of American President... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
The POWs of the Eelam War
Abstract: This article discusses the psychosocial problems experienced by the POWs of the Eelam War. The Eelam War in Sri Lanka continued for nearly three decades. The rebel group that is known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam fought against the Sri Lankan armed forces. The LTTE captured a significant number of servicemen during the armed conflict and most of them were executed disregarding the Geneva Convention. The remaining POWs were handed over to the Sri Lankan Government by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Although the survived POWs are free men today a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
Upul Jayasuriya resigns as BOI Chairman
Attorney-at-law Upul Jayasuriya has resigned from his position as Chairman of the Board of Investment (BoI) of Sri Lanka. Jayasuriya, who is the former President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL), has reportedly resigned due to personal reasons and has already tendered his resignation to the Presidential Secretary. Speaking to Ada Derana, Jayasuriya said that he handed over his official vehicle along with the letter of resignation. He revealed that pressure had been exerted during certain decision-making and actions taken as well as hindrances to carrying out duties and that the difficulty... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
‘Govt. has robbed more in 2 years than MR’s 10 years’
President of the ‘Pevidi Handa’ Organization, Ven. Muruththettuwe Ananda Thero said that the present government had committed more corrupt acts in just two years than Mahinda Rajapaksa did across a period of ten years. Even though former President Mahinda Rajapaksa committed acts of corruption, he still rendered a service to the country, Ven. Muruththettuwe Ananda Thero pointed out. The Thero stated this upon attending a media briefing of the ‘Pevidi Handa’ Organization in the morning today (13). Ven. Muruththettuwe Ananda Thero also declared that the country had now fallen down a precipice. The Thero... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
WHY AND HOW MR LOST IN 2015! ANOTHER REGIME CHANGE...?
The UNP, written off as a party of the past, till the Badulla Provincial Council election showed it’s result; Mahinda Rajapakse (MR) rejoiced ruling the majority Sinhala voters, as he pleased. They standing firmly behind him. Results showed, in predominantly Sinhala electorates with a diminutive minority vote, where extreme Sinhala activists like Cyril Matthew and K.M.P. Rajaratne held sway: UNP was ahead and gaining ground. A singular crusade – unknown – was in motion - underground in the Sinhala electorates. Both major parties failed to crack the code. MR called for early... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
Govt. lying about convention on enforced disappearances: Joint Opposition
The government is lying when it says that the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances would not have a retrospective effect, the joint opposition said today. Former MP G.L. Peiris told the weekly news conference that the convention would not only permit action to be taken against personnel accused of future incidents of enforced disappearances but also on past incidents. “The convention can and will be used to take action against armed personnel who fought terrorists during the final phase of the war in 2009. This piece of legislation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
Robert O. Blake rejects plans on rescuing Prabhakaran
Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert O. Blake has said that it was a myth that he orchestrated a rescue of Tamil refugees from a northern beach to help LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran escape Sri Lankan armed forces, India Abroad news reported on Tuesday. Blake said it was also fiction that the US helped sink LTTE boats but acknowledged that US intelligence did provide information to the Sri Lankan navy about the boats’ location. Blake’s remarks came last month during a talk to the Serendipity Group, a nonpolitical group of Washington-based friends of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
New Constitution will compromise our soldiers
Joint Opposition and SLFP Member of Parliament Prasanna Ranatunga says that they have clearly set forth their stand that the Unitary State and the prominence accorded to Buddhism in the Constitution cannot be compromised in the new Constitution. Excerpts: Q: Why are you getting ready for a snap election? A: We are ready for elections at any moment but the government is afraid of them. Q: Why did you launch your campaign in Trincomalee? A: It is only one of our planned rallies. Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim people were urging us to hold a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
A Whitewash for Failed Politics
'Organized Chaos' is the most appropriate definition of the Sri Lankan Political Scene. Chaos is a condition that develops with the absence of objective oriented processes, be it cultural, economic, or political. Culturally, we see a future generation growing into a self centred and therefore selfish one, causing the destruction of the principle of mutual respect and that in turn creates a social creature craving only to grab things totally disregarding the age old ethics that discipline us. The wrong values instilled in the members of the generation make them feel overconfident about competence... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
Yahapalanaya unmasked
July 13, 2017, 9:57 pm Many organisations that rallied behind the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe coalition, enabling it to dislodge the Rajapaksa government more than two years ago, expected the new dispensation to bring about a radical change. But, what they have got by way of yahapalanaya or good governance is like the curate’s egg. They are in the same predicament as Mr. Jones in the famous Punch cartoon. They are reluctant to tell the truth; instead they claim that part of yahapalanaya is excellent! The Cabinet has decided against extending the term of the Anti-corruption Committee Secretariat... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
Justice Minister, UN official in heated argument Special Rapportuer Emmerson, QC to brief media today
Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, had a heated argument with visiting UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter Terrorism Ben Emmerson, QC, over UN intervention here as regards promotion and protection of human rights. Sri Lanka in December 2015 extended a standing invitation to the UN Special Procedures Mandate Holders. Wijeyadasa Emmerson Emmerson began a five-day official visit here on July 10 to gather first-hand information about what the UN described as post-war initiatives in the area of counter-terrorism and assess how they affect the people. Minister Rajapaksa strongly questioned the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/17)
Do not trust TNA: ITAK endorsed Vaddukoddai Resolution on ‘Separatism’ in 2008
The Maha Sangha has rejected the new constitution in toto. It is a blow to the TNA and the Government that has made assurances to bring a new constitution to those that brought them to power. The Sri Lankan populace inclusive of the Tamil polity need to be aware that so long as TNA/ITAK politically exist, they will never allow the 2 communities to live in peace. The reason for this is that the racism and alienation grafted into a psyche of political will in the form of the 1976 Vaddukoddai Resolution was endorsed by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
President's Mahinda phobia
President Maithripala Sirisena, as per a news item appeared in The Island dated 10 July 2017, while virtually declaring a three-month deadline for his UNP-led coalition government to prosecute those responsible for murders such as Lasantha Wickrematunga and Wasim Thajudeen murders and mega corruption cases, has told his cabinet that cases would have been completed in three months if he controlled the law and order ministry, as well as the attorney general’s department. He also alarmed the possible consequences he and his family will have to face, if the Rajapaksa regime is back, saying, "If the Rajapaksa... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
CAVE TEMPLES ,BUDDHIST MONKS ,CATHOLIC CHURCHES AND MOSQUES
I read with intrigue about the income generates in Damubulle Cave Temple by charging exorbitant amounts from Foreigners. It seems that temple care takers have been also running TV stations .Income generated by the temple should be used for betterment of Buddhist Temples and the poor people in the world .Unfortunately the monks in charge of these temples have been collecting and stashing the donations .When you go to the cave temple one or two caretakers loiter around and foreigners keep touching and some times leaning against statues ,posing for photos and nobody strictly follow the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
Railway Museum (Guarantee) Limited සමාගම අහෝසි කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලීම
ගරු ප‍්‍රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්‍ය,නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්වා මැතිතුමා, ප‍්‍රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්‍යාංශය. Railway Museum (Guarantee) Limited සමාගම අහෝසි කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලීම දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව තුල කෞතුකාගාරයක් ඉදිකිරීමේ මුවාවෙන් Railway Museum ( Guarantee ) Ltd. නමින් සමාගමක්, මේ වන විටත් ලියාපදිංචි කර ඇත. 2007 අංක 07 දරන සමාගම් ලියාපදිංචි කිරීමේ ආඥ පනත යටතේ මෙම සමාගම ලියා පදිංචි කර ඇති අතර, එහි ලියාපදිංචි අංකය: ඨඛ 2409 වේ. 09 දෙනෙකුගෙන් යුත් අධ්යක්ෂ මණ්ඩලයක් පත්කර ගෙන ඇති අතර, එහි ප‍්‍රධානියා මහජන බැංකුවේ වත්මන් සභාපති හේමසිරි ප්රනාන්දු මහතාය. මෙම සමාගම නමින් මහජන බැංකුවේ ගිණුමක් විවෘත කර ඇති අතර, රුපියල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
CABINET SHUTS DOWN THE ‘FRAUD’ COMMITTEE
The Cabinet of Ministers yesterday decided to close down the Anti-Corruption Committee Secretariat. At the meeting, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe presented to the Cabinet a summary of the activities carried out to date by the Anti-Corruption Committee Secretariat that was set up after the Presidential Election in January 2015 on a recommendation to the Cabinet by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe himself. It was intended to be a high-powered committee that met weekly to review progress in anti-corruption probes. Yesterday's decision comes in the wake of harsh criticism by President Maithripala Sirisena of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
Removing pants, the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) way
July 11, 2017, 8:47 pm It looks as though Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) were hell bent on promoting some other ball game by making the Sri Lankan public fed up with cricket. Else, by now, the SLC would have given itself a radical shake-up and gone hell for leather to arrest the rapid deterioration of the standards of cricket. National cricketers who resemble walking jewellery shops with glittering necks and wrists and indulge in a vulgar display of opulence should share the blame for this situation with the SLC panjandrums. As former World-Cup winning skipper Arjuna... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂය සංඝයා වහන්සේට විරුද්ධ ද?
ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයට තීරණයක් ගන්න බැරුව. වෙන මොකකටවත් නොවෙයි අර ව්‍යවස්ථා මණ්ඩලයේ මෙහෙයුම් කමිටුවෙන් අයින් වෙනව ද නැද්ද කියන එක ගැන. ඒ මෙහෙයුම් කමිටුවෙන් අයින් වෙන්න අකමැති පක්‍ෂත් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයෙ තියෙනවා. ඒ පක්ෂ මොනව ද කියල මා දන්නෙ නැහැ. ඒත් එසේ අකමැති වීම රටට කරන ද්‍රෝහිවීමක් ලෙසයි සලකන්න වෙන්නෙ. මෙහෙයුම් කමිටුවෙන් හා අනුකාරක කමිටු හයෙන් පමණක් නො වෙයි ව්‍යස්ථා සම්පාදන ක්‍රියාවලියෙන් ම ඉවත් විය යුතුය කියලා මා කියන්නෙ බොහෝ කලක ඉඳලා. අප ඒ ගැන සම්මන්ත්‍රණ මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡා පැවැත්තුවත් ඒ ගැන ප්‍රචාරයක් නොදීමට ජනමාධ්‍ය වගබලාගත්ත. ඊයේ බුද්ධාගමට ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානය දිය යුතු ය යන ලිපිය පළ වූවාට පසු එක් අයකු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
නෙවිල් ජයවීර සමග මා පැවැත්වූ ගුවන් විදුලි සම්මුඛ් සාකච්චාව 1987 දී
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ එකල ගුවන් විදුලි සංස්ථාවේ වැඩ සටහන්වල තත්වයන්ට හා වැඩ සටහන් නිලධාරීන්හට වුර්තිය තත්වයක් (Professionalism) ළඟා කර දුන් පුද්ගලයා ලෙස නෙවිල් ජයවීර මහතා අපට හොඳින් මතකයට නැගේ. වසර 42 කට ( 1925 - 1967 ) ආසන්න කාලයක් රජයේ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවක්ව පැවැතී ලංකාවේ ගුවන් විදුලි සේවය, 1967 දී සංස්ථාවක් බවට පත් කිරීමේ භාරදූර තීක්ෂණ මෙහෙවර ඉටු කෙරූනේ ඔහු අතිනි. එපමණක් නොව ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සංස්ථාවේ ප්‍රථම සභාපති හා අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල්වරයා වුයේද ජයවිර මහතාය. 1970 තෙක් සංස්ථා සභාපතිවරයා ලෙස සේවය කල හෙතෙම, 1970 දී බලයට පත්වූ රජය විසින් වව්නියාවේ දිසාපතිවරයා ලෙස මාරු කර යවනු ලැබිය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
බුද්ධාගමට ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානය දීම
බුද්ධාගමට නිසි තැන, හිමි තැන, ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානය දීම, ආරක්‍ෂා කිරීම ඊනියා උගත් සමාජයේ මේ දිනවල බෙහෙවින් කතා වෙනවා. එතරම් උගත් නැති අය ඒ ප්‍රශ්නය ගැන එතරම් කතා කරන්නේ නැහැ. ඊනියා උගතුන් සෑම ප්රශ්නයක් වගේ ම මේ ප්‍රශ්නයත් මුලින් අල්ල ගෙන නැහැ. මේ රටේ උගතුන්ගේ හැටි ඔහොමයි. මේ ප්‍රශ්නය 1815 සිට ම තියෙනවා. සිංහල බෞද්ධ රාජ්‍යයක මේ ප්‍රශ්නය තිබුණෙ නැහැ. එයින් කියන්නේ එකල මෙරට බුද්ධාගමට, බුද්ධ ශාසනයට ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානය නොතිබූ බව නො වෙයි. මේ රටේ රජවරුන් කිහිප වතාවක් ම රට බුදුන් වහන්සේට, බුදුසසුනට පූජා කර තිබෙනවා. රජු බෝසත්වරයකු විය යුතුය යන මතයක් මෙරට තිබුණා. අග්බෝ රජවරුන් කිහිප දෙනකු ම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
Emerging Buddhist-Muslim Rivalry in Sri Lanka? A reappraisal of evidence and claims
July 2, 2017, 9:07 pm This article consists of two parts the first of which is intended to contextualise, in the broader setting of recent political transformations witnessed in Sri Lanka, the proliferation of information on violence targeted allegedly by Sinhalese-Buddhists on the Muslims, which those responsible for disseminating such information often portray as a trend of intensifying rivalry between the two ethnic groups. The second part contains a critique of the thematic submissions in a similar portrayal presented by John Holt, Professor of Comparative Religion at a prestigious liberal arts college in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
GOVERNMENT HAS MISERABLY FAILED IN TRANSPORT SECTOR GO FOR HOT AIR BALOONS ???
Any country needs efficient transport system for development ,Countries like Singapore ,Hongkong ,Malasia and UAE have considered that moving people and goods need to be fast and efficient for a steady growth .We have failed miserably ,because Government have failed to recognize the need to improve this sector and Secretaries and ministers with advisors only talk and action plan Transport by Buses CTB has become inactive due to introduction of private buses and union of bus owners take minister and the people for a “ride “ by running an inefficient system. Bus stands have not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
FCIDයට බයේ ශ්‍රී ලන්කන් ක්‍රිකට් සේවකයින්ගේ කලිසම ගලවා යට ඇදුමෙන් ගෙදර යවයි… BBCය මුලු ලෝකයට කියයි…
ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හා සිබ්බාවේ අතර අවසන් එක්දින තරගය හම්බන්තොට සූරියවැව ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රිඩාංගනයෙදි පැවත්වුනු අතර එම තරගය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පරාජය වීමත් සමග ක්‍රිකට් ඉතිහාසයේ වසර 25 කට පසුව තරගාවලියක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සිම්බාබ්වේට පැරදුන අවස්ථාවක් ලෙස ක්‍රිකට් ඉතිහාසයට එක් විය. මෙම තරගාවලිය සඳහා ක්‍රිඩාංගනය සුදානම් කිරීමට තාවකාලික සේවකයින් 100 දෙනෙකුට ශ්‍රිලංකන් ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනයක විසින් සේවය සඳහා කැදවා තිබුණ අතර ඔහුනගේ එක් දින වැටුප (එක් සේවයකු සඳහා) රුපියල් දාහකි. එමෙන්ම තරගය පැවැති එම සතිය සඳහා රාජකාරි කිරීමට එම සේවකයින් සඳහා එම කටයුත්තට සුදුසු T-ෂර්ට් එකක් සහ දිගු කලිසමක් ලබා දි තිබු අතර තරග දින අවසානේදි ඔහුනගේ වැටුප් ගෙවීමට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
කිරිඇල්ලගේ අමාත්‍යංශයේ සියළු කොන්ත‍්‍රාත් දුවගේ සමාගමට.. එක පවුලේ සිවු දෙනෙකුට උපදේශක රස්සා..
උසස් අධ්‍යාපන හා මහාමාර්ග ඇමති ලක්‍ෂමන් කිරිඇල්ල මහතාගේ දියණිය මෙන්ම ඔහුගේ පුද්ගලික ලේකම්වරියද වන චාමි කිරිඇල්ල විසින් අමාත්‍යංශයේ සියළු කොන්ත‍්‍රාත් ඇයට අයත් සමාගමක් වෙත ලබා ගන්නා බව සති අන්ත ලංකා පුවත්පත වාර්තා කර ඇත. මෙම සමාගම ‘කැන්ඩි කන්ට‍්‍රක්ෂන්’ වන බවත් ඔවුන් ලබා ගන්නා කොන්ත‍්‍රාත් පසුව ඒවා උප කොන්ත‍්‍රාත් ලෙස තවත් සමාගම්වලටද ලබා දෙන බවද එහි දැක්වෙයි. මේ අතර එකම පවුලේ සිවු දෙනෙකුට එම අමාත්‍යංශයේ උපදේශක තනතුරු තුනක් සහිතව තනතුරු හතරක් ලබා දී ඇති බවටද වාර්තා පලවෙයි. එක් උපදෙශකයෙකුට රුපියල් 65000 බැගින් මාසිකව ලබා දෙන අතර ඔවුන් සිවු දෙනාම පදිංචි වී සිටින්නේ එක ලිපිනයක වීම විශේෂය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
THE SECRET THAT THE TNA DOESN’T WANT EXPOSED
It is reported that R. Sampanthan is to lead a TNA delegation to meet the Mahanayakes (‘TNA Delegation to meet Mahanayakes,’ Sunday Times, 9th July 2017.) On 4th July 2017, the Mahanayakes issued a formal statement where they totally rejected the idea of a new Constitution. No doubt Sampanthan and his cohorts are trying to get the monks to soften their stance. Sampanthan and his cohorts cannot deny that they were once the political arm of the LTTE. However, after the defeat of the LTTE, their story has been that they have given up separatism – the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/17)
Arjuna Reveals Cricket Mafia Responsible for Cricket Calamity
All world beaters in the nation are bold, unconventional and at times controversial. They don’t mince words though at times they make no sense. But when they talk sense, it is best to listen to them. Field Marshal Fonseka, Arjuna, Malinga and Susanthika are no one’s friend but they achieved the unachievable. Arjuna’s recent revelations must be considered by the President, the Sport Minister and all those who love cricket. Cricket Mafia According to Arjuna, there is a cricket mafia in the country parasiting on players and at times even influencing selection. With a near monopoly, these... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
අමරවීරගේ මාරක ගිනි සිළුව
මේ වන විට මේ රට හා මෙරට ජන මනස පවතින්නේ, ගිනි පෑගීමේ උත්සවයක් සදහා සුදානම් කොට තබා ඇති ගිනිමැලයක් සේය. මේ ගිනියම්ව ඇති සමාජය තුල ජීවත්වීමේදී ඉතා පරිස්සමින් සැම සියලුම කටයුත්තක්ම සිදුකල යුතුවේ. විශේෂයෙන්ම වචන බාවිතයේදී ඉතා පරිස්සම් විය යුතුය. වැරදි වචන බාවිතා කිරීම, ගිනියම්ව පවතින සමාජය තුලට පෙට්‍රල් ඉසිමකට සමාන වන අතර, ඒ පෙට්‍රල් අතැති මිනිසා ඒ පෙට්‍රල් වලින්ම දවා හැලුකර දැමීමට තරම් හැකියාවක් ඒ ගිනියම්වූ සමාජයට හැක. අප මේ සමාජය හා එහි ජනතාව අතර ජීවත්වෙන මිනිසුන් වශයෙන් මේ සමාජය මනාව අවබෝධ කරගත යුතුය. අප ගිනියම්වූ සමාජයෙන් සුරුට්ටු පත්තු නොකරන්නෝ විය යුතු අතර, මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
ARANKELE: An Incredible Ancient Forest Hermitage in an Amazing Natural Setting
July 10, 2017 Arankele, can be reached via the Kurunegala-Dambulla main road and turning off to the Ibbagamuwa-Moragolla road. Arankele is one of the oldest and premier forest hermitages of Sri Lanka, highly reputed since historic times, as an austere abode of an exclusive group of reclusive Bhikkhus, who were deeply devoted to meditation and spiritual advancement. Inevitably, they were attracted to this enchanting, forested, remote hill-slope site because of its seclusion and serene atmosphere. The Arankale site is within in the intermediate climate zone of the country, with a thick natural forest cover, an ideal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
DAMBULLA CAVE TEMPLE TO BE CLOSED TEMPORARILY
The Archeological Advisory Council, which met yesterday, decided to temporarily close the Dambulla Cave Temple complex to local and foreign tourists, until further notice. "The Council held an in-depth discussion on the necessity to conserve the paintings and wooden statues of the Dambula Cave Temple. The Council also decided to seek the assistance of local and international experts. Thus, in a bid to conserve the five caves of the temple, it was decided to close these off to local and foreign tourists, until further notice," the Ministry of Education said in a press release. During this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
When paper tigers meet serious people
Last week the Mahanayake Theras of three sects declared that they are opposed to the drafting of a new Constitution. And this is seen as a serious setback for the government and the more liberal sections of government supporters seem to think that this was a serious blow to the government's attempts to 'fix serious structural issues of the country'. Now, I will admit that this was a political setback for the government, but I will also state that I was not surprised when this happened. Sections of the Buddhist clergy had been increasingly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
Has Prof. Laksiri Fernando a leg to stand on?
Lenin once said that Bernard Shaw was a good man fallen among the Fabians – a group of wishy-washy left-wingers whose airy-fairy politics was neither in capitalism nor in any kind of scientific socialism. It was, at best, a shade of state welfarism within the capitalist framework. Prof. Laksiri Fernando (LF) is of the same ilk. I am not referring to his Trotskyite past when he was at Peradeniya university. I am referring to his current anti-Sinhala-Buddhist politics. He, of course, says that his intellectual affinities are with Buddhist philosophy. His objections, as I understand... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
Sri Lankan President strikes an attitude.
Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Sirsena really assumed a theatrical role when he became a critic of the Police Department and the Attorney General’s Department for ‘wasting’ time” in nabbing the political opponents. One wonders whether he is interested in increasing his power base by this populist remarks when he is the constitutional head of the executive arm of the country and the head of a major political party, a constituent of the present government. When Sri Lankan government has become almost non-functional in many aspects, the President and the other elected representatives including the Prime Minister have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
Don’t Cry for Me
Citizens in our country hear conflicting facts about the new constitution that will be in the parliament or before the people for a referendum in the near future. There is strong belief and doubt among many of us about the intent of the need for a new constitution. If in fact a new constitution is needed, we need to know first why the present constitution is not good enough in terms of reconciliation that is demanded by state actors. What exactly is weak in the present constitution? As a rabbit that comes out of a hat... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
GMOA forms new alliance
The Frontline Socialist Party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Hela Urumaya, Joint Opposition and several trade unions today pledged their support to the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) to form a new alliance to abolish the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM). In a press briefing where four political parties, trade union representatives and student unions participated, the GMOA announced the means of defeating Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne’s alleged move to violate the Medical Ordinance and establish the SAITM by forming the new alliance, called ‘SAITM Virodi Jana Pawra’. Representatives of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
GMOA forms new alliance ……..(With Devil?)
I have written about the alliance between these two faction earlier during previous JVP terror .JVP instigated terror in the country and connived with GMOA and brought the country to standstill.Premadasa called a Lieutenant who is now retired and asked him to get Wijeweera dead or alive He went to Navalapitya and caught the terrorist by his neck and brought him to Colombo and faced the same fate as Prabhakaran President should hand over health service to a Field Marshal who can go to “Field” and arrest the situation .Everyday GMOA is trying to topple the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
YAHAPALANA AND THE ECONOMY Part 4
Yahapalana government does not seem interested in developing the stock market. The stock market is in decline. The Securities and Exchange Commission (CSE) All Share Price Index (ASPI) which significantly outperformed major global indices such as the MSCI World, Dow Jones, FTSE100 and DAX during 2010-2013, dismissed however, as mostly pump and dump thanks to the stock market mafia, has seen a 10 per cent drop from 2015 to 2016. Stock brokers are directed to maintain a minimum shareholder’s fund requirement of Rs. 100 million or 50 per cent of the firm’s stated capital, whichever is higher.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
Carlo rejects GMOA requests
Turning down requests by the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) to be reappointed as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC), Prof. Carlo Fonseka cited his medical condition as the reason to do so. Referring to the GMOA strikes, Prof. Fonseka said he would not approve of strikes which demanded the extension of his term as the SLMC Chairman. “Please do not resort to a strike because of me,” he said to GMOA executive committee members who met him at his residence this morning. However, Prof. Fonseka pledged to support the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
Carlo tells GMOA not to strike over his extension
Prof. Carlo Fonseka requested the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday not to strike over issues pertaining to his extension in service as President of the Sri Lanka Medical Council. Prof. Fonseka made this request when a GMOA delegation led by its President Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya and Secretary Dr Haritha Aluthge met him at his Nawala residence with a memorandum requesting him to remain in the post of SLMC Chairman and that the GMOA would resort to a countrywide strike if he was removed by the government. "Please don’t strike on behalf of me. That would... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/17)
YAHAPALANA AND THE ECONOMY Part 3
Yahapalana has put in place many measures to impoverish the public. This is a planned move to break the spirit of the nation. Welfare benefits have been removed. Yahapalana has stopped the fertilizer subsidy, free school uniforms, elders and disabled benefits, observed Chandraprema. Construction projects started by the earlier government have been stopped resulting in loss of jobs. Due to the stoppage of the Port city 5000 jobs were affected in 2016. In 2016, it was decided to extract rural people’s savings by amalgamating cooperative and rural banks. There is now a move to tax EPF at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/17)
Free Trade and Open Markets have worsened the plight of the poor.
As part of the prevailing capitalist philosophy, the notion of nations trading freely in goods and services is seen as the panacea for all the economic ills that beset mankind. If we look around the world, do we not see a marked increase in material prosperity at all social levels in most countries of the world? This is the argument trotted out by the defenders of the so-called ‘Free World’. That there have been vast social changes worldwide following the expansion of global trade is not contested. This expansion has made life potentially richer but at a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/17)
වඩුවා දුටුවා ද?
අටේ පන්තියෙන් නවය පන්තියට සමත්වුනා ම ශිල්පීය විෂයයක් ඉගෙනගන්න මේ ලේඛකයාට සිද්දවුනා. ඒ, අවුරුදු බර ගණනාවකට ඉස්සර. දැනුත් එහෙම වෙන්න ඇති. පොතේ පතේ දේවල් විතරක් ගිරව් වගේ කියවා කියවා ඉන්නවාට වඩා මොකක් හරි ශිල්පයක් ඉගෙනගන්න එක වටිනවානේ. ඉතින් අපේ අධ්‍යාපන ක්‍රමයෙන් දීලා තිබුණු ඒ මහඟු ඉඩකඩ ප්‍රයෝජනයට ඇරගෙන මේ ලේඛකයා තෝරගත්තේ වඩුවැඩ. මේ වගේ වැඩක් ඉගෙනගත්තා ම ගෙදර දොරේ තියෙන පුංචි පහේ වැඩක් හරි කරගන්න බැරිකමක් නැහැනේ. කොහොම හරි සතියකට පැය කිහිපයක් වඩුවැඩ ඉගෙනගැනීමේ වරම මේ ලේඛකයාට ලැබුණා. වඩුවැඩ ගුරුතුමා බොහොම පිළිවෙලට වැඩ කළ කෙනෙක්. පාසල් ගුරුවරයෙක් වුනා ම හොඳින් මැදපු ඇඳුමක් ඇඳගෙන පිළිවෙළට වැඩට යන්න එපායෑ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/17)
Political revenge under the guise of corruption probes - Gotabaya
Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that ruling party politicians who are only limited to talking and are unable to do any work are now talking about corruption in order to hide their inabilities. “The Rajapaksas were responsible for creating the atmosphere for them to be able to speak like that today,” he said. He made these comments while responding to questions from journalists after meeting with Most Ven. Keppetiyagoda Siri Wimala Thera, the Chief Incumbent of Gatambe Sri Rajopawanaramaya in Peradeniya. He stated that now these politicians have the opportunity to travel to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/17)
What is the role of the Federal Party in Sri Lankan politics?
Party system was unheard of in Sri Lankan politics till the Labour Government announced its decision for Electoral Reforms in Ceylon. The country gained its independence from the British rule on the 4th Feb 1948. The All Ceylon Tamil Congress was founded in 1944 by Hon.G.G.Ponnambalam Q.C and Hon.S.J.V.Chelvanayagam Q.C, to give evidence before the Soulbury Commission on constitutional reforms. Both of them got elected to Parliament at the General Election held in 1947. Due to some difference of opinion Hon.S.J.V.Chelvanayagam broke away from the ACTC and founded the Federal Party in December 1949. Till... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/17)
උමා ඔය හේතුවෙන් විනාශ වු බණ්ඩාරවෙල වසම් 16 ක හානිය පිළිබද වාර්තාව වසන්ත නගරය ‘විසාලා නුවරක්‘ කළ උමා ඔය බණ්ඩාරවෙල විනාශයේ තරම මෙන්න
බණ්ඩාරවෙල ට හදුන්වන සුරතල් නාමය ‘වසන්ත නගරය‘ යි. මහ පොළොව පුපුරා යන, නිවාඩ කඩා වැටෙන, වතුර නැති, ගස් කොළං මියැදෙන, පාසල් වැසෙන, ලිං හිදෙන, සරණාගතයින්ගේ පුරය ‘විසාලාවක්‘ මිස වසන්තයක් නොවේ. මේ උමා ඔය විසින් විසාලාවක් කළ නගරයේ කථාව යි. බණ්ඩාරවෙල ග්‍රාම සේවා වසම් 16 කට හිස මත උමා ඔය ඛෙදවාචකය දැන් පතිත වී හමාර ය. තවත් ග්‍රාම නිලධාරි වසම් 3 කට එහි පීඩනය දැනෙමින් තිබේ. වෙහෙරගලතැන්න, මකුල්ඇල්ල, එගොඩගම, උඩපේරුව, බඹරගම, තන්තිරිය, වටගමුව, ඇත්තලපිටිය, බණ්ඩාරවෙල නැගෙනහිර, බිදුණුවැව, මහඋල්පත, උතුරු කැබිල්ලේවෙල, ගොඩියාරෙද, කිරිඹරුව සහ කොන්තේහෙල ග්‍රාම නිලධාරි කොට්ඨාශය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/07/17)
SB wants govt to takeover Perpetual Treasuries media network
https://youtu.be/vep30t7jLfM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/07/17)
Sabotaging Putin-Trump Diplomacy Serves U.S. War Interests and Democrats’ Electoral Strategy
Some leading Democrats in Congress are eager to turn the summit meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin away from avenues for improvements in U.S.-Russian relations, even if that means deflecting it toward World War III. On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that “the White House announced that the meeting with Mr. Putin would be a formal bilateral discussion, rather than a quick pull-aside at the economic summit meeting that some had expected.” Meanwhile, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer criticized the lack of a “specific agenda” for the Trump-Putin discussion and tweeted “the first few things... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/07/17)
How legal is the UNSG personally commissioned report to warrant War Crimes Tribunals against Sri Lanka?
At some point in time this question needs to be answered before agreeing to any form of war crimes tribunal. It is a miscarriage of justice if the initial & foundation of the process to deliver justice is legally flawed. Justice should not only be done, but also seen to be done and has to be seen to be believed. However, the case of Sri Lanka and the manner that the UN system has functioned during and in the aftermath of the conclusion of a 3-decade conflict raises some serious legal questions. International legal luminaries and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
YAHAPALANA AND THE ECONOMY Part 2
Yahapalana came to power because it promised the voters that they would reduce the cost of living. After Yahapalana came to power, the cost of living went up and up. The public complained about the skyrocketing cost of living. Food prices have gone into the stratosphere with more and more people going to sleep on empty stomachs said Island in January 2017. Family of four needs Rs 61,000 monthly for food, said Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna in February 2017. The world price of milk food, wheat, sugar, crude oil, steel, cement had gone down but the local... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
Local Indian Sponsored Hitmen Gone Bonkers Following Sangha Statement
Local Indian sponsored hitmen have launched a vicious attack on the Maha Sangha claiming that 6.2 million voters outnumber the Sangha. This was stated by Citizens’ Movement (“Puravesi Peramuna”) – a Yamapalanaya suckling. In doing so, they have shown acute disregard and disrespect to the Sangha. That is sufficient for most of the 6.2 million voters to reject them. However, it is not their fault alone they go to any lengths to bash anyone opposed to the Indian agenda they implement. They know very well what India will do to their god father if they fail. And... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
Putting misconceptions into perspective.
2017-07-08 A particular planter appeared to have been disturbed for calling the Ceylon Tea Traders Association (CTTA) as the "Apex body of the Industry" in my article on 1 July 2017 on the Sesquicentennial of the Ceylon Tea Industry. He wrote to me enquiring the reason for using such a phrase, stating that the CTTA was created long after the tea industry. Responding to his query, I replied stating that the CTTA was formed 27 years after the commercial cultivation of tea commenced, for the specific purpose of regulating and monitoring the tea trade,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
කොටි පරාජය කළ රාජපක්‍ෂලා සිංහල බෞද්ධකම නිසා බොදු බල සේනා කුමන්ත්‍රණයට පරාජය වූ හැටි...
සිංහලයා දුර්වල කර මුස්ලිම් පාර්ශවය ශක්‌තිමත් කළ බොදු බල උපාය මා ඉකුත් ජුනි 25 වැනිදා ඉරිදා දිවයිනේ "බොදුබල සේනාව ගැන අත්‍යවශ්‍ය සටහනක්‌" යන මැයෙන් ලියූ ලිපියට විශාල ප්‍රතිචාරයක්‌ ලැබුණි. එම ලිපිය ලංකා සී නිවුස් වෙබ් අඩවිය විසින්ද දිවයින උපුටා දක්‌වමින් පළකර තිබූ අතර එහි පාඨකයෙක්‌ "සශීමා" යන නම යටතේ පළකර තිබූ කමෙන්ටුවක්‌ පහත දැක්‌වෙන පරිදි විය. "මහින්ද ගෝඨා පවු අයියෝ බලාගෙන ගියාම පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුවේ බලය තිබිල තියෙන්නෙ චම්පික ගාවනේ. කොටි පරාජය කළ මහින්ද මහත්තයට චම්පිකට උඩින් යන්න බැරි වෙච්ච හැටි." උපහාසාත්මකව ලියා තිබුණද මේ කමෙන්ටුවේ අන්තර්ගතය සහතික ඇත්තය. කොටියා හමුවේ සිංහයන් වූ රාජපක්ෂවරුන් බොදුබල සේනාව යොදවා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
කොටින්ගෙන් බේරාගත් නැගෙනහිර පුදබිම් අන්තවාදී වගවළසුන්ගේ ආක්‍රමණයට හසු වෙයි උපන් බිමෙහිම අසරණ ජාතියක් ගැන නැගෙනහිරින් ඇසෙන කතාව
ඡායාරූප නිමල් දයාරත්න අන්තවාදී ආක්‍රමණය ප්‍රචණ්‌ඩ වී අරිසිමලේ පුදබිමේ මුඩුක්‌කු නැගෙයි... ආණ්ඩුවට අවුරුදු දෙකක් පිරෙන ජනවාරි 08 ත් බුදුපිළිම කඩා දැමේ... බොරලු කපන්න කියලා පුරාණ ගල් කණු, සෙල් ලිපි, සඳකඩ පහන ඩෝසර් කරයි... උතුර, නැගෙනහිර දෙපළාතේ සහ තමන්කඩුව දිසාවේ ප්රධාන සංඝ නායක පනාමුරේ තිලකවංශ හිමි. කතාව ඇසෙන විට අපට අපි ගැන දුක සිතිණි. ඒ වැඩි කාලයක් නොගොස්‌ අපිට උරුම රටේ කල්ලතෝනි ලෙස ජීවත්වීමට සිදු වන බව හැඟෙන නිසාය. නැගෙනහිර පළාතට ගිය විට මන්දබුද්ධික නොවන ඕනෑම කෙනෙකුට එය හොඳින් වැටහේ. එහෙත් සර්ව ආගමික පිරුවටය පොරවාගත් බලධාරීන් ඒ බව තේරුම් නොගැනීම ජාතියේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
Ven. Gnanasara, Jesus Christ and JFK RESPONSE TO PROF GH PEIRIS
July 7, 2017, 10:09 pm In his lengthy presentation on Islamophobia and allegations thereof, entitled ‘A reappraisal of evidence and claims: Emerging Buddhist-Muslim Rivalry in Sri Lanka?’ (The Island, July 4th, 5th, 6th, 2017) Prof GH Peiris has chosen to conclude with a three paragraph reference to an idea I had advanced. I would have thought this gratuitous but it is dwarfed in that department by his range of references with relation to Ven. Gnanasara’s rhetoric, which include Jesus Christ, Mark Antony and JFK. I had recommended that instead of a flailing about at all forms of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
Of that Kandy powwow
July 7, 2017, 10:03 pm The outcome of Thursday’s talks between Mahanayake Theras and President Maithripala Sirisena in Kandy on the former’s campaign against the government’s proposed constitutional reforms etc has been described as fruitful in some quarters. The President has, by rushing to Kandy, demonstrated his concern for the opinion of Buddhist monks. The powwow was cordial. But, as for the new Constitution, we believe, the Nayake Theras have got a typical yanne-koheda-malle-pol—irrelevant—response. They have made their position very clear that there is no need for a new Constitution at all, but the President says... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
Is there any government today?
July 7, 2017, 10:05 pm
Does one have to watch TV to feel this? The President says the media reveals the opposite of what is really happening in the country. Development activities, people’s welfare, the peaceful situation in the country are all turned upside down to attract people’s attention, says the President. Let’s begin with just one matter – the building to house the Ministry of Agriculture. The advance paid for it in 2016 was Rs 504... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
Sagala counters President’s tirade against police
July 7, 2017, 10:23 pm Law and Order and Southern Development Minister Sagala Ratnayake, MP, has stoutly defended the police in the wake of President Maithripala Sirisena’s onslaught against them at the last Cabinet meeting. Addressing the media at the Temple Trees on Thursday (June 6), Minister Ratnayake emphasised that he had fulfilled his responsibilities 100 per cent and was satisfied with the performance of the institutions under him. The UNPer said so in response to questions regarding President Maithripala Sirisena’s claim that the police had failed in their duty. Minister Ratnayake addressing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
Attorney General instructed to look into Arjuna Aloysious’ phone call to witness
The Presidential Commission probing the Central Bank treasury bond scam today instructed the Attorney General to look into legal provisions in relation to Arjuna Aloysious of Perpetual Treasuries Ltd giving a phone call to one of the witnesses in the case. In was recently revealed at the commission that the Pan Asia Bank had acted as an intermediate for Perpetual Treasuries Ltd and the Employees’ Provident Front (EPF) for bond transaction in the market. Richard Benedict Dias, a deputy general manager at the bank, testifying before the commission today (7), stated that Mr Aloysious... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
Buddhist diplomacy must be enshrined in Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy whatever government is in power
In one part of the world military interventions are taking place. In another part of the world the soft power of Buddhism is being tapped and not just by the Asian giants but even the West is pivoting to Asia on the back of Buddhism. Notice Western military personnel suddenly taking to Buddhist meditation! In such a scenario when the golden eggs are in Sri Lanka’s basket, our leaders are adopting a conflicting and counter-productive anti-Buddhist foreign policy. The reason is clearly that the descendants of the lascoreens & sepoys are now at the helm and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
Patting the backs of pseudo-Buddhists & trapping them to abdicate place of Buddhism in Sri Lanka
In 1815 the Chieftans, angry with the King, without thinking beyond their noses conspired and handed the sovereignty of the nation to foreigners who assured them that the Chieftans would continue to secure their perks and privileges and clause 5 maintaining the state patronage to Buddhism would remain. Both promises were short lived but with power transferred and abdicated there was little that could be done to reclaim that power. This is the underlying message of abdicating power – once given up, it cannot be taken back. Both Chieftans and the island nation was now occupied... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/17)
The clash of two histories in one nation
The two critical streams of thought that flowed down the 20th century and bloodied the political landscape came from the North. These two streams swept aside all other Left-wing currents which were struggling to dominate the mainstream. Both streams of thought were identified and articulated by two Tamil leaders of the North. And both were Ponnambalams. The two Ponnambalams wrote two different histories. The politics of the 20th century turned out to be a bitter battle between these two histories. In my previous articles I have discussed to some extent the role played by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/17)
මොසාඩ්ගේ හාම්පුතා
දෙවන ලෝක යුද්ධයේ නිමාව සියලු රටවල ප්රමෝදයට හේතුවිය. නමුත් එය ලෝකයේ ප්රධාන අවිඅයුධ නිෂ්පාදකයන්ගේ සතුටට හේතු නොවින. ඔවුන් නව මංපෙත් වල සිය ආයෝජන දියත් කලේය. ඒ අතර ප්රධාන වූයේ 1950-70 අතර කාලයේ හරිත විප්ලවය නමින් ගෙන ආ ව්යයාපෘතියයි. හරිත විප්ලවය මේහෙයවූයේ මොන්සැන්ටෝ නම් බහුජාතික සමාගම විසිනි. මෙහිදී පාරම්පරික බීජ වෙනුවට නව දෙමුහුන් බීජ වර්ග හදුන්වා දීම සිදුවිය. එම වගාවන් නඩත්තු කිරීමට පොහොර සහ කෘෂිරසායන හදුන්වා දුන්නේය. අස්වැන්නේ කිලෝ ග්රෑම් ගණිතයට අනුව ගොවියාට යම් වාසියක් අත්ව තිබුනි .ඒ අනුව දෙමුහුන් බීජ , පොහොර සහ කෘෂිරසායන ගොවිබිම ආක්රමනය කලේය 80 දශකයට පැමිනෙන විට ඊනියා හරිත විප්ලවයේ නිරුවත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/17)
YAHAPALANA AND THE ECONOMY Part 1
Yahapalana said that when it took power in 2015, Sri Lanka was facing an extremely precarious economic situation. We have inherited a heavy national debt, said Yahapalana. The figures vary. Here is a selection. The country had a debt of SLR 9000 billion [60 billion USD] when Yahapalana took over, said President Sirisena. We are saddled with USD 1900 million in loans, said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe. That excludes the loans obtained by state institutions during the Rajapakse administration. Wickremasinghe said the national debt stood at Rs. 8503.2 billion as at December 31, 2015. Of that amount,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/17)
No one can change the destiny of the Tamil people
This is an urgent invitation, coming from one who is one of the most senior Tamil politicians, of 84 years, still active in politics, to all the Sri Lankan Tamils living in Sri Lanka and elsewhere spread all over the world. The invitation is to know the truth, without being moved by sentiments and false reports. This is a desperate call to all young and old, students, teachers, undergraduates, professors, lecturers, doctors, engineers and above all every Tamil citizen. This need arose, due to the indifferent attitude many of us showed in the past to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/17)
Royal College 175th Anniversary: A forgotten incident
As Sri Lanka’s Royal College celebrates the 175th anniversary of its founding this year on a grand scale of pomp and pageantry that perhaps no other school in the country can match, it is a moot question to ask whether there are alternate voices from within or outside Royal College, that have different views on how the grand old school should celebrate its anniversaries and success with the virtually unlimited resources it commands. Parties on the streets may not be every student’s cup of tea in so far as celebration of school anniversaries or use of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/17)
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man –Redemption in Confession
To steal millions, you need a top team of armed robbers. But to steal billions, you need PhD’s with color charts and economic projections made of fairy dust and eye of newt Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a best seller written by John Perkins based on his undercover experiences. According to the book John Perkins him self was an Economic hit man. Who are these Economic hit men? Are they a special kind of breed? John Perkins gives a simple definition of Economic hit men thus. Economic hit men or (EHMs) are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/17)
Water Transport Project in “Troubled Water”
Much awaited canal transport project details are out recently.SLLRDC under Megapoils has issued a EOI ( Expression of Interest ) to call interested parties to bid. .Conditions stipulated in the EOI is prepared with the help of Dutch Assistance ( Grant) ,seems quite stringent .Prospective bidders should submit a 75 million Rupee bond ,which is never heard in EOI bid submission process .Then EOI stipulates that bidders should have experience in Water Transportation Projects . ( Ebert Silva cannot bid !) The way whole project is structured so that after evaluation of the EOI submission five... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/17)
The blessings of the Maha Sangha is a must for communal amity
The Maha Sangha had been right through out agitating for a reasonable solution for the ethnic problem. The sudden change in the attitude of the four Mahanayakas is very surprising. What made the Mahanayakas to come to this decision all of a sudden, will have to be considered seriously. I hope they will soon reconsider their decision in accordance with the high principles of Buddhism. I will only blame the Federal Party and not the TNA for the latest developments. As far as I am concerned the TNA has lost its credibility because most decisions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/17)
Anyone watching TV feels there is no Government in the country: President
Finally HE has understood the status of affairs in the country .We have three TV channels owned by stooges of the previous regime going hell bent to topple the government .Whenever we watch not only TV news but listen to Radio we get the signal that almost all the news are about how miserable situation is .Yesterday one of the TV station was interviewing the North Western MP who met the as ambassador of Russia in Japan with the Ex Chief .He was also implicated in an ethanol affair ?Same MP once said the Eknaligoda is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/17)
Report of the Buddha Sasana Presidential Commission -2002, Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations
Posted on May 1st, 2012 Buddha Sasana (Chapter 1) The Commission recommends the following definition to the term “Buddha Sasana”. 12.1 “Buddha Sasana is defined as the Buddha, the nine super-mundane (navalokuttara) Dhamma, the Sangha, the Buddhist temples (viharas) with their ancillary structures, forest hermitages (aranya senasana) and meditation centres, Bo trees, stupas, image houses, relic chambers, dhamma books and libraries, designated buildings for performance of vinaya acts by the sangha (uposathagara), fields, gardens and properties belonging to the Buddhist temples, Buddhist education, devalas, nuns and nunneries, the laity who had taken refuge in the Triple Gem, Buddhist literature, culture... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/17)
"He is just really a super man"
The caption of this piece was taken from a video clip of President Donald Trump's (DT)return from a visit to Saudi Arabia. This axiom is very appropriate to DT because of his unrelenting stand on terrorism. Having returned from the trip,he called it a "monumental and epic trip". Continuing , he further stated that "these incredibly rich nations cannot any longer continue to fund terrorism of any kind".DT is being called an eccentric, specially by his own country men. He is also being called a "one time President".As far as countries like Sri Lanka where terrorism persisted over 30... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/17)
BURHAN WANI-AN ICON OF LIBERTY
Every year the Annual ISNA Convention brings together thousands of Muslims and people of other faiths from all over the world. This year the 55th Convention took place from June 30 to July 3, 2017 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Chicago, IL, USA. ISNA stands for Islamic Society of North America. The convention featured more than 200 speakers, sessions, round table discussions, bazaar with 550 booths, entertainment, banquets, carnival, and much more but the most remarkable thing of the convention was a speech delivered by President World Kashmir Awareness Forum Dr. Ghulam N. Mir.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/17)
Polish Man killed by African migrants causes Riot in Poland
A Kebab Restaurant owned by Migrants is attacked by Poles in broad daylight. UN, UNHRC and the Mass Media are silent on these incidents. These incidents including huge demonstrations against immigrants from Muslim countries are worse than incidents reported locally. But there is a deafening silence on the part of those who want to lynch the locals in Sri Lanka using the power of the UN and bogus Human Rights organisations like the Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, with the full co - operations of certain sections of the Mass Media in Sri Lanka. https://youtu.be/lAtXehS2PU8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/17)
අධ්‍යයන වැඩ මුළුව (සිංහල මාධ්‍ය) 2017.08.05 දින ජාතික පුස්තකාල හා ප්‍රලේඛන සේවා මණ්ඩලයේදී පෙ.ව.9.00 සිට ප.ව.1.00 දක්වා
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How Peacefully Coexisting are Muslims?
I thought of raising this topic and ask everyone to answer some basic questions. Muslims and Non-Muslims can answer * Why are Muslims suddenly wearing an attire that they never wore 30 years ago? * Where does it say that women must be in black and men in white while children wear white and as adult women wear black? * Which book insists that these women wear black silk - a colour and material that is totally clashing with the weather and looks ridiculous. Now it has become 'fashionable' with companies advertising all types of these 'designer' attire with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/17)
The world is marching towards destruction, the only weapon we have is to focus on prayers – Ahmadiyya Khalifa.
(Given below is an excerpt of the Friday Sermons of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, delivered on 30TH June 2017, at ‘Baithul Futhuh’, London, U.K. gave a discourse on preserve in mindful prayers. Ahmadiyya Supreme Head said: The month of Ramzan was filled with blessings. Many people have written to me stating how much they have benefited from this special month. These people were able to focus on prayers, and remembrance of Allah. They have also prayed that this striving and effort remain throughout the year.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/17)
Central Bank suspends activities of Perpetual Treasuries for six months
The Monetary Board had suspended Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) from carrying on business and other activities as a Primary Dealer for six months with effect from today, the Central Bank said in a statement. It said that the SLCB had decided to suspend the activities of the said firm acting in terms of the Regulations made under the Registered Stocks and Securities Ordinance and the Local Treasury Bills Ordinance. “The Central Bank will take necessary measures to ensure that this regulatory action does not have a disruptive impact on the market,” the statement said. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/17)
Asia must support Myanmar in rejecting UN & Western neo-colonial agenda using hired jihadists
The decision of the Myanmar Government must be applauded and supported by the entire Asian continent inclusive of the Muslim populace. Following colonial rule territories that belonged to indigenous people were taken over, plundered and divided and rechristened as ‘nations’ by the white Christian West. Now using slogans of ‘humanitarian’ ‘righteous’ democracy they are redrawing those nations to create another new set of borders benefitting their ability to plunder again. Anyone used and trained in terror has no ethnic, no religious allegiance and all Asians must keep this in mind at all times and not empathize... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/17)
Ideas to resuscitate the Sri Lankan Economy
The Sri Lankan economy is truly in the doldrums. The BBC has recently in a spate of news broadcasts, derogatorily questioned: “Is Sri Lanka Up for Sale.”(28/5/2017). This was preceded on 26 th June 2017, by another news item, “A Country Trapped in Debt”. Their “Is Sri Lanka Up for sale” quotes the Chinese taking over key assets and the foray of Chinese banks to finance the Hambantota Port ( $ 1.3 billion), Norochicolai Power Plant ( $1.35 billion) and the Mattala Airport($ 200 million). It is true that in recent years... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/17)
Asgiriya Statement: Harbinger of a force for genuine reconciliation
Sri Lankans call the coconut tree a kapruka (kalpavriksha) – wish fulfilling divine tree- because every part of this tropical palm is so very useful to human life. The process of latent Maha Sangha unity becoming manifest can be likened to a coconut (seed-nut) germinating slowly as it normally does. The seedling, however, becomes a sapling in a short time. A coconut sapling needs to be protected from foraging animals. Some dishonest politicians in positions of power or influence, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist, are already nosing around the steadily growing coconut sapling of Maha Sangha... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/17)
සයිටම් වර්ජනය
රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධරි සංගමය පස්වැනි දා සිට අඛණ්ඩ වර්ජනයක් කිරීමට තීරණය කරලා. පැහැදිලිව ම ඔවුන්ට ඔවුන්ගේ විසඳුම අවශ්‍යයි. ඔවුන් සාකච්ඡා කියන්නේ ඔවුන්ගේ විසඳුම, එනම් සයිටම් අහෝසි කිරීම, ජනසතු කිරීම ඉටුකර ගැනීමට කරන ඊනියා සාකච්ඡාවලට පමණයි. ඔවුන්ගේ යෝජනාවල පදනම එයයි. වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන් අඛණ්ඩ වර්ජනයක යෙදෙන්නේ සයිටම් අහෝසි කිරීමට. එහෙත් අමතක නොකළ යුතු වැදගත් ම කාරණය නම් සටන පටන් ගන්න කොට සයිටම් අහෝසියක් වෛද්‍යවරුන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම්වල නොතිබූ බවයි. දේශපාලනඥයන් ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් කතා කරනවා වගේ වෛද්‍යවරුන් රෝගීන් වෙනුවෙන් කතා කරනවා. ඔවුන් ඇත්තට ම කතා කරන්නේ තම තමන් වෙනුවෙන්. වෛද්‍යවරුන් ද නිරත වී සිටින්නේ දේශපාලනයක. සයිටම් පිළිබඳ නඩු විභාගය පස්වැනිදාට හා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/17)
ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ - අභියාචනාධිකරණයේ සහ සිවිල් අභියාචනා මහාධිකරණයේ නඩු පැවරීම සම්බන්ධ අධ්‍යයන වැඩමුළුව - සිංහල මාධ්‍ය -
(මෙම වැඩමුළුව කොළඹ නගර සීමාව තුළ පැවැත්වෙන අතරස්ථානය සහ වේලාව පසුව දැනුම් දෙනු ලැබේ.) ලංකාවේ නීතිය අනුව පිහිටුවා ඇති අධිකරණ ලෙස ප්‍රාථමික අධිකරණ, මහේස්ත්‍රත් අධිකරණ, දිසා අධිකරණ, මහාධිකරණ, වාණිජ මහාධිකරණ, පළාත්බද මහාධිකරණ, පළාත්බද සිවිල් අභියාචනා මහාධිකරණ, අභියාචනාධිකරණය සහ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය සැළකේ. එමෙන්ම “නීතිය නොදැනීම සමාවට කරුණක් නොවේ” යන්නත් පිළිගත් නීති සිද්ධාන්තයකි. ලංකාවේ නඩුවලින් වැඩි ප්‍රමාණයක් පහළ අධිකරණවල එනම් මහේස්ත්‍රත් අධිකරණ, දිසා අධිකරණ, මහාධිකරණ, වාණිජ මහාධිකරණ වටා ගොනු වී තීබුණද රටට, ජනතාවට, නීතියට, බලපාන තීරණාත්මක නඩු විභාග වන්නේ එම අධිකරණවල නොව උපරිමාධිකරණ ලෙස සැළකෙන අභියාචනාධිකරණය සහ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය යන අධිකරණ වලයි. නඩු තීන්දු වල ඉහළ අධිකාරීබව ඇත්තේද එම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/17)
Uva-Wellassa Sugar and MOLNAR.
I usually read the articles on "environment and society" written By Dr. Prasana Cooray (Dr. PC) for the Island and usually find that they are reasonably well researched and informative. However, I found Dr. PC's write up (July 3rd 2017) in the Island regarding the "Bibile sugarcane cultivation project" quite one-sided, and in fact questionable from what I gleaned out by making some very simple inquiries. In fact, what made me suspicious was Dr. PC's mention of MOLNAR, the so-called "Movement for Land and Agricultural Reforms". Clearly, Dr. PC has simply taken what MOLNAR had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/17)
Disappointed ASP requests President to accept resignation News Item..
I am not surprised . I have come across ASP when I was in SLLRDC .He was filling a land in Wattala despite our protest .I was influenced by a politician to stop it ,but in vain .Then we were offered to dredge a lake and make drains by the corporation for which ASP had to pay .When the project was commenced I went to the site and ASP himself garlanded me and one of the papers published it to my dismay . Then Athulathmudali and Gamini departed from UNP under protest in disagreement with Premadasa... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/17)
උමාඔය පරිසර ඇගයීම් වාර්තාව හැදුවේ කොහොමද? - කැෆේ අසයි
2017 ජුලි 5 වනදා උපකුලපතිතුමා, ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය, නුගේගොඩ. මහත්මාණෙනි, උමා ඔය පරිසර ඇගයීම් වාර්තාව - 2010 නොවැම්බර් වාරිමාර්ග හා ජල කළමනාකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශය වෙනුවෙන් ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය විසින් මහාචාර්ය ස්වර්ණා පියසිරි මහත්මිය ගේ කණ්ඩායම් නායකත්වයෙන් සිදු කළ පරිසර ඇගයීම් වාර්තාව සම්බන්ධයෙනි. උමා ඔය ව්‍යාපෘතිය ඌව පරණගම, වැලිමඩ, බණ්ඩාරවෙල, ඇල්ල, හාලි ඇළ හා වැල්ලවාය ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාල බල ප්‍රදේශයන් 6 ක ජනතාවගේ හිස මත කඩා වැටුණු ඛෙදවාචකයක් බව ට පත්වී ඇතැයි ඔබ ද දන්නේ යැයි සිතමි. එම ව්‍යාපෘතියේ පරිසර ඇගයීම් වාර්තාව සකස් කරනු ලැබ ඇත්තේ ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාල මගින් යැයි කියනු ලැබේ. අදාළ පරිසර ඇගයීම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/17)
New map records massacres of Aboriginal people in Frontier Wars
Map of massacres - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Map of massacres After years of painstaking research, an online map marking the massacres of Aboriginal clans across Australia's colonial frontier has launched. More than 150 sites have been recorded along the east coast, where violent attacks on Aboriginal people took place for decades after the First Fleet arrived. Historian and conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle Lyndall Ryan believes it will be one of the most comprehensive maps of the Frontier Wars ever produced. "I think this project wanted to provide people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/17)
Supreme Court unanimously dismisses FR application with costs
The Supreme Court has dismissed a Fundamental Rights (FR) application by a mosque president and a principal of a madrassa in Panadura, arguing their right to proceed with building a religious school–which residents and Buddhist monks vehemently demonstrated against–was violated. President of the Board of Trustees of the Wekada Jumma Mosque, M.J.M. Faril and Principal of Anas Ibnu Malik Hiflul Quran Madrassa, Moulavi M.B.M. Haris had not obtained the Religious Affairs Ministry’s approval to build the proposed educational institution, Justice Anil Gooneratne held, with Justices Sisira J. de Abrew and Vijith K. Malalgoda, P.C.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/17)
PRESIDENT SHOULD FIGHT WAR ON INEFFIENCY LIKE DUTUGAMUNU (OR PREMADASA)?
We have noted that top bureaucrats in the government and ministers heading leading Institutions which are directly involved in development of this country are failing miserably .We have also noted that HE has replaced the top bureaucrat ,top officer of national defence and a local governor. Everyone assume that it is done for the betterment of the country. Country is having problems and the public opinion about the governance is rapidly declining. We have Health Sector failing Dengue and solving SAITM issue, we have Megapolis failing in Transport sector and Garbage disposal, we have CMC failing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/17)
Sri Lankans listens to Vatican more than Mahnayakas ?
GMOA postpones strike following Cardinal’s request !! · Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith denounces dumping of garbage in Muthurajawela ! · Take urgent steps to help Salawa victims: Malcolm Ranjith !! · Does Vatican disapprove of Cardinal's nod to give Buddhism 'foremost place' in Sri Lanka? Various headings of news items listed above puzzles me a little .Are we part of the Vatcican state ?Doctors were asked not to resort to strike action by politicians ,public figures,Mahnayaka’s and even Imams .They finally listened only to his Eminence Cardinal .... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/17)
Presidency: All the Mahinda’s men
Country needs a new face with a new team – keeping to the developing trends internationally Discontent is a word weak in intensity to describe a Government fast losing support it held in 2015. The climate is not conducive for holding any election - fear of exposing an eroding vote base for the Government. Many of the present coalitions enlightened voters may refuse to show face at polling booths at a Local Government elections - to teach a lesson to the ruling regime not to trifle with promised standards. The Government has to bluff in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/17)
A realistic approach to the SAITM deadlock
The SAITM dispute has become a Pandora’s Box. When one disputant agrees to a certain position, another party contests it. One day it appears as if the matter is getting solved at last, only to hear the next day that the controversy has returned to square one. This problem is best solved by going into first principles and firmly deciding who had the last say on the points in dispute. 1. Free education The main point involved is the right to free education. It was granted by the Legislature. The GMOA and other TUs may... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/17)
ඇති අනේ සංවර්ධනේ !!!
වරක් මම රසවත් කතාවක් ඇසීමි. රුසියාවෙන් අභ්‍යාවකාශයට යානාවක් යැවූ බවත්, ඇමෙරිකාවෙන් චන්ද්‍රයා මතට යානාවක් යැවූ බවත්, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දේශපාලකයෙකු ඉදිරියේ මාධ්‍යවේදියෙකු පවසයි. ඊට දේශපාලකයාගේ ප්‍රතිචාරය වන්නේ 'අපේ ඉලක්කය සූර්යයා මතට යානාවක් ගොඩ බස්සන්න' යන්නය. 'සූර්යයා මත ඇති අධික උෂ්ණත්වය නිසා ඒ මතට යානයක් ගොඩබස්සවන්න පුලුවන් වේවිද? ' කියා මාධ්‍යවේදියා ප්‍රශ්න කරයි. එවිට දේශපාලකයා ආඩම්බරයෙන් පිලිතුරු දෙයි. 'අපි ගණනය කරන්නෙ රෑට ගොඩ බස්වන විදියට'. වත්මන් ශ්‍රී ලාංකික දේශපාලකයන්ගේ කතා අසන කල්හි මෙවන් දේ සිහියට නැගීම නොවැලැක්විය හැකිය. ඌව පලාතේ සිදුකරගෙන යන උමා ඔය වාරි සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘතියේ භයානක පලවිපාකවලට මුහුණ දී සිටින ජනතාව පසුගිය සතියේ දහස් ගණනින් බණ්ඩාරවෙල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
MAHA SANGA PLACED LAST NAIL IN THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION COFFIN- GOOD-BYE DR JAYAMPATHY WICKREMARATHNE
Sri Lankans celebrated 18 May 2009, with the news that the Tamil Terrorist Velupillai Prabhakaran had been killed. That was a day we have waited for many years. The Westerners and the Tamils did not keep quiet, they used local stooges to defeat Prez Mahinda Rajapakse to take the revenge for the killing. During last Presidential and General Elections, the local stooges managed to hood-wink even Maha Sanga, led by Ven Sobitha Thero, the Malawatte, Asgiri and Rammanya Nikaya leaders providing blessings to promote the current regime of Sri Lanka. Since 18 May 2009,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
Aussie Buddhists: They have to go without, but are they missing out?
https://youtu.be/meJb-l5Txtw... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
SRI LANKA: Prisoner protests against continuous ill treatment by prison officials
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Mr. Thilanga Roshan Perera who is a prisoner in New Dumbara (Bogambara) Prison, Kandy. According to Roshan, he is continuously tortured and treated inhumanly by the prison officials. Although he has complained on several occasions regarding the violations of his fundamental rights, the complaints were suppressed by senior prison authorities. Roshan is thus appealing for intervention to protect his human rights. CASE NARRATIVE: Mr. Thilanga Roshan Perera (37) of Urban Council Quarters, Dambulla, Matale District, is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
උමා ඔය ගැන පරිසර වාර්තා ලියූ කණ්ඩායම මෙන්න.
ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍ය උමා ඔය ගැන උනන්දුවන මැදිහත්වන කණ්ඩායමක් බව ඔබ දනී. උමා ඔය පරිසර බලපෑම් වාර්තාව සකස් කළ නිලධාරීන් ගේ නම් සහ ඔවුන් සේවය කරන ස්ථාන මේ සමග වේ. උමා ඔය පරිසරය ගැන සිහින වාර්තා ලියූ මේ විශේෂඥයින්ගෙන් අද ඔවුන්ට කියන්නට ඇති දේ ගැන අසන්න. මේ අපරාධයට වගකිව යුතු පුද්ගලයින් ගෙන් කොටසක් වන්නේ මේ අයයි. මේ අය මේ විනාශයට උත්තරය ද දනී. එසේ නැතිව, උමා ඔය විනාශය ගැන දේශපාලනඥයින්ගේ (විශේෂයෙන්ම චමින්ද විජේසිරි, ප්රධාන අමාත්‍යවරයා, හරීන් ප්රනාන්දු වැනි අය) සමග කථා කිරීමෙන් පළක් නැත. දිය ඇලි සිදී, නිවාස හිස... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
Homeopathy, “Cerberus” and others true believers.
In my article on homeopathy I have given details of experiments conducted by reputed scientists and the results that were published in the prestigious journal “Lancet”. But instead a person who hides under the name “Cerberus” seems to think that the way to determine if some medical method works or not is to see if the Royal Family uses it! The Royal family has even used astrologers, soothsayers and, if you go back to three generations, they have used all kinds of crackpots as their health advisers. Every double-blind test has shown that homeopathic treatments... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
The Constitution requires those who hold office in the Judiciary to perform the office for public good only
Attached is a document filed in the Supreme Court to support case (due on 10th July 2017) against the APPOINTMENT OF DEFEATED/REJECTED CANDIDATES AS MPs BY THE PARTY SECRETARIES under the National list provision in the Constitution. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA In the matter of an application under Article 125, 140 read with Article 104H(1) of the Constitution of Republic of Sri Lanka for Mandates in the nature of Writ of Certiorari and Mandamus Nagananda Kodituwakku 99, Subadrarama Road Nugegoda Petitioner Vs SC/WRITS/05/2015 Commissioner of Elections... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
Govt. lacks the power to manage waste - G. L. Peries
https://youtu.be/2HAVwbVyHs4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
Country is going to be separated - Mahinda
https://youtu.be/pMi7xhSJAeI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
Joint opposition rally hosted in Trincomalee today (English)
https://youtu.be/hZOoSWauMFk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
පන්සල් සල්ලි රජයෙන් පිල්ලි ගැහීම
පන්සල් හැදුවේ බෞද්ධයෝ .බෞද්ධයෝ පන්සල් වලට සල්ලි දෙන්නේ ශ්‍රද්ධාවෙන් ,පන්සලේ දියුණුවට ,පොදුවේ සාශනේ දියුණුවට ,වසර හාර පන්දාහක සිටම ,එනම් මහින්දාගමනයටත් පෙර සිටම මෙරටේ මිනිස්සු ලෙන් විහාර ආරාම ආදිය පුජාකලා සාෂනෙට පුරාවිද්‍යා කැනීම් වලින් එබව තහවුරු වෙලා තියෙනවා .යහපාලන රජය බලයට පත් වෙනතුරු කිසිම සිංහල පාලකයෙක් හරි පරංගි ලන්දේසි හෝ ඉංග්‍රීසි පාලකයෙක් හරි මේ පන්සල් සල්ලි ගසාකන්න නීති පැනෙව්වේ නැහැ .පරන්ගියෝ නම් සමහරවිට මංකොල්ල කෑ වා .රනිල් පරංගින්ට හරි ආදරේ ඒ නිසා වෙන්න ඇති . බෞද්ධයෝ පන්සලට සල්ලි දෙන්නේ ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ඒවා ගැන හොයල බලන්න කියල ඉල්ලලා නොවෙය් ,මහජන මුදල් පන්සලේ කවුරුහරි අවභාවිත කරනවද බලන්න රජයට ඕනේ නම් ඒ ජනතාව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
අස්ගිරියෙන් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයට පාඩමක්
අස්ගිරියෙ හාමුදුරුවන් වහන්සේ (කාරක සභාව) ඉතා පැහැදිලි ප්‍රකාශයක් කරලා. උන්වහන්සේගේ ප්‍රකාශයෙන් කියැවෙන්නේ නව ව්‍යස්ථාවක් අවශ්‍ය නැහැ කියන එකයි. කොහොමටත් ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙදි පොදු අපේක්‍ෂක මෛත්‍රිපාල කිව්වෙ ජනමත විචාරණයකට තුඩු නොදෙන ව්‍යවස්ථා වගන්ති පමණක් සංශෝධනය කරන බව. මහින්ද නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් ගැන කිසිවක් කිව්වෙ නැහැ. එයින් කියැවෙන්නේ ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදීත් ඡන්දදායකයන් නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් සඳහා ඡන්දය දී නැති බවයි. අස්ගිරියෙ හාමුදුරුවන් වහන්සේ හා ජනතාව අතර නව ව්‍යවස්ථාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් පරස්පරයක් නැහැ. පැහැදිලිව ම මෛත්‍රිපාලටත් නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් අවශ්‍ය නැහැ. ඔහු කියා තියෙන්නෙ ජනමත විචාරණයකට තුඩු නොදෙන සංශෝධන පමණක් කරන බවයි. රටේ ඡන්දදායකයන් සියයට සියයකට ම වගේ නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් අවශ්‍ය නැහැ. මෛත්‍රිපාලවත් මහින්දවත් නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් සම්පාදනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
මංගලගේ පෝය සිරිත්
මංගල සමරවීර කියන කතාව ඇත්ත. මිනිසුන් යම් පිරිසක් පෝයදාට කලින් ද මත්පැන් මිළ දී ගන්නවා. ඒ පෝයදාට බොන්න කියන එකත් කවුරුත් දන්නවා. ඒත් මංගල එන්නෙ මොකාට ද කියලා කාටත් පාහේ තේරෙනවා. ගොනා හැරෙන්නෙ පොල් පැලය කන්න විත්තිය අමුතුවෙන් කියන්න ඕන නැහැ. මංගලගෙ ගෙදර මත්පැන් තියෙනව ද කියලා මා දන්නෙ නැහැ. බොහෝ මන්ත්‍රීවරු මත්පැන් පානය කරනවා. සමහරුන්ගෙ ගෙවල්වල චූල අවන්හල් තියෙනවා. ඒවාට මිනි බාර් කියලා ආඩම්බරෙන් කියනවා. ඔවුන් පෝයදාට බොනව ද නැද්ද කියන්න මා දන්නෙ නැහැ. සමහරවිට විදග්ධයන් වගේ මධුවිත තොල ගානවා ඇති. මංගලට හා වෙනත් එවැනි අයට තියෙන ප්‍රශ්නය මෙරට සිංහල බෞද්ධ රටක් වීම. එය වෙනස්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
Houseflies couldn’t have it any better
On 28 June, Maithripala Sirisena as the President of our country, visited the Negombo District Hospital. His photo, looking helpless as perhaps as much as he felt, standing next to a bed with two young dengue patients around five-six years old, made front page news. Subsequently it was reported that following his directives, the staff, and facilities to treat dengue patients in this hospital were increased within 48 hours by using the strength of the Sri Lankan Army. The Army had not only constructed a temporary ward complex, providing with all necessary amenities including... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
New constitution not needed - Maha Nayake Theros
The Chief Incumbents of the three main Nikayas, who met this evening for a special discussion, unanimously decided that there is no need for a new Constitution. Maha Nayaka Theros and Anu Nayaka Theros of the Siyam Nikaya, Amarapura Nikaya and Ramanna Nikaya convened a special gathering today in order to discuss several key issues currently prevailing in the country. They unanimously decided that it is most suitable to keep the existing constitution and that if need be only the election system should be amended, the Anunayake of Asgiri Chapter, Ven. Anamaduwe Dhammadassi Thero... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
When governments fear elections
July 4, 2017, 8:42 pm The country had polls diarrhoea, as it were, for ten long years under the Rajapaksa government, which staggered provincial council and local government elections, unnecessarily, to exaggerate its strength and the UNP’s weakness. Finally, the worm turned and an unexpected regime change occurred. The rest is history. Under the present yahapalana dispensation, the country has suffered from polls constipation for nearly two years. The yahapalana government exhausted all its excuses for postponing local government elections. It has now been so bold as to put them off by three more months, through... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
The lonely patriot In defence of Wijedasa Rajapakshe:
"A single spark can start a prairie fire." (Mao) "I am alone with the people." (Mao) Minister Wijedasa Rajapakshe is the target of a fire-hose of criticism. What I find most interesting is where this criticism is coming from and the larger truth it obscures. The criticism comes from a network of lobbies and caucuses comprised for the most part of those who never stood up for the country and its protection during the greatest test it faced in its contemporary history: the onslaught of the separatist, terrorist and fascist LTTE. It comes... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් එපා ත්රස්තවාදය අහෝසි කිරීමේ පනතත් අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ගේන්න එපා!
සයිටම් ගැටලුවත් වහා විසඳන්න ෙත්‍රෙනිකායික මහ නාහිමිවරු රජයට දැනුම් දෙති නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් කිසිසේත්ම රටට අවශ්‍ය නොවන බව ෙත්‍රෙනිකායික මහ නාහිමිවරු ප්‍රමුඛ මහා සංඝ රත්නය ඊයේ (4 දා) ප්රකාශ කළහ. අවශ්‍යම නම් පවතින ජන්ද ක්‍රමය සංශෝධනය කර ජනතා අවශ්‍යතා මත මැතිවරණ ක්‍රමය වෙනස් කිරීමට පමණක් කටයුතු කරන ලෙස ෙත්‍රෙනිකායික මහනාහිමිවරු ප්‍රමුඛ සංඝරත්නය රජයට අවධාරණය කර සිටියහ. අස්ගිරි මහා විහාරයට අයත් ඡන්දානන්ද විදුහල් ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී ඊයේ (4 දා) ෙත්‍රෙනිකායික මහ නාහිමිවරු ප්‍රමුඛ සංඝ රත්නය රැස්‌වීමෙන් අනතුරුව ඉහත කරුණු හෙළිකර සිටියහ. ත්රස්තවාදය වැළැක්‌වීමේ පනත අහෝසි කිරීම සඳහා වන නව පනත් කෙටුම්පත අද (5 දා) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
අලුත් ව්‍යව්ස්ථානු නවතනු.. එක හඩුන් අප විරුද්දයි..- ත්‍රෛනිකායේ මහ නාහිමිවරුන් ආණ්ඩුව දණ ගැස්වූ සේක…
නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් හෝ ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයක් අනවශ්‍ය බව ත්‍රෛනිකායික මහනාහිමිවරු ඒකමතිකව තීරණය කරති. අස්ගිරි මහා විහාරයට රැස්වුණු මහනාහිමිවරුන් මේ මොහොතේ පවත්නා ගැටළු සහගත තත්ත්වයන් පිළිබඳ සාකච්ඡා කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව මෙම තීරණයට පැමිණි බව අස්ගිර් පාර්ශහිර් මහා ලෙඛකාධිකාරි ආචාර්යව පූජා මැදගම ධම්මානන්ද හිමියන් ප්රකාශ කලහ. මෙම විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාව සදහා සියම් නිකායේ අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ මහා නායක අතිපූජ්‍ය වරකාගොඩ ඥාණරතන මහා නාහිමියන්, සහ වෙඩරුවේ උපාලි අනුනාහිමියන්, මල්වතු පාර්ශවය වෙනුවෙන් අනුනායක අතිපූජ්‍ය නියංගොඩ විජිතසිරි අනුනාහිමියන් සහ අතිපූජ්‍ය දිඹුල්කුඹුරේ විමලධම්ම අනුනාහිමියන්, රාමාඥ්ඥ මහා නිකායේ මහා නායක අතිපූජ්‍ය නාපාන පේමසිරි මහා නාහිමියන්, අමරපුර මහා නිකායේ උත්තරීතර මහා නායක අතිපූජ්‍ය කොටුගොඩ ධම්මාවාස නාහිමියන් මෙන්ම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
යලි රාජපක්ෂ අණ්ඩුවක් ආවොත් මගේ ජීවිතය අනතුරේ.. තුන් මාසයක් තුල රාජපක්‍ෂලාට දඬුවම් කරන්න මං සූදානම්..- ජනපති
පොලීසිය, FCID හා නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව තමනට තුන් මසක කාලයට ලබා දෙන්නේ නම් රාජපක්ෂ යුගයේ දුෂිතයිනට දඬුවම් කර පෙන්වන බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සරිසේන මහතා කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය හමුවේ පවසා ඇත. අලුත් ආණ්ඩව යටතේ ගත වූ කාලය මුළුල්ලේම රාජපක්ෂ යුගයේ සුපිරි හොරුන් අල්ලා නැතැයිද පවසා ඇති ජනාධිපතිවරයා පොලීසියට, FCID නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට ඉහල බලපෑම් එල්ල වන බවද සදහන් කර තිබේ. දුෂිතයන්ට දඬුවම් නොදීම නිසා තම ජීවිතයට තර්ජනයක් ඇති බවත් තමන් ජනාදිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වූයේ ජීවිතයම පරදුවට තබමින් බවත් යලිත් රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවක් පැමිණියහොත් අගමැති රනිල්ට හෝ එජාපයට ප්රශ්නයක් නොවනු ඇති බවත් ජනාධිපතිවරයා වැඩි දුරටත් පෙන්වා දී ඇත. මේ ආකාරයෙන් අද පැවති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
Asgiriya Chapter totally rejects new constitution
July 3, 2017, 10:49 pm The Asgiriya Chapter of the Siyam sect on Saturday vehemently protested against the proposed new Constitution at a meeting the Mahanayake of the Chapter Most Ven. Warakagoda Sri Gnanaratne and other senior monks had with a group of Buddhasasana Task Force representatives at the Asgiriya temple. The Asgiriya senior monks led by the Mahanayake declared that one of the objectives of the proposed new constitution was to make way for separatism and remove the foremost place given to Buddhism in the existing Constitution. They said they would not hesitate to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
Wickramasinghe Collaborates with the US Neoliberals to Try Resurrect a Discredited R2P Doctrine
‘During slavery you had two Negroes, the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negro usually lived close to his master. He dressed like his master. He wore his master's second-hand clothes. He ate food that his master left on the table. And he lived in his master's house--probably in the basement or the attic--but he still lived in the master's house. The house Negro identified himself, in the same sense that his master identified himself. When his master said, "We have good food," the house Negro would say, "We have plenty of good food”. When... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
H.L. Seneviratne repeats Ponnambalam’s apocalyptic racism blaming Bandaranaike
Rising communal tensions and clashes in the thirties of the last century, shattering the pre-colonial and colonial communal harmony, debunk the myths of H. L. Seneviratne, (HLS), the one-eyed theoretician, blaming S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike for the worsening of inter-ethnic relations and everything else that happened since he became Prime Minister in 1956. The evidence printed in black and white in the newspapers of 1939 – a time when history was not politicised by Tamil Vellala supremacists – points the finger directly at G. G. Ponnambalam, the rising proponent of Tamil racism in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
Bhikkhus on the brink of desperation
(This article was written on December 25, 2016, but remained unpublished. I am offering it to the Lankaweb community in view of its topicality in the current context.) What’s wrong with Ven Gnanasara being among the religious leaders who met with the president? Latheef Farook’s opinion piece under the title ‘Pampering racist hooliganism: Recipe for disaster’ (The Island/December 14, 2016) begins with the utterly false claim that “there is deep disbelief and disappointment” among members of all communities about president Sirisena having invited Bodu Bala Sena General Secretary Ven. Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara Thera for the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
රිලවා බෙනේ ගිරවා ගහේ පාර්ට් 2 - සාල වනේ අලි රිලා සම්මුතිය
දයාසිරි යනු සිය පාසැල් සමයේදී හරියට ජිල් බෝලයක්වත් නොගැසූ අයෙකි. පූරුවේ පිනකින් ඔහු මැතිසබයට ආවේය. මුල මතක නැති දයාසිරි ඉන්පසු හැසිරුනේ හර්කියුලීස් මෙනි . සුසන්තිකා සමග ගැටී සතියක් යාමටත් මත්තෙන් මාලිංග සමග ගැ‍ටුනේය . රිලවා බෙනේ ගිරවා ගහේ යයි මුලින්ම කියුවේ මාලිංගය. ඉන් අනතුරුව රටටත් වෙලා තියෙන්නේ ඕකම තමා යයි මහින්ද කියුවේය. උපමාව වචන 4ක් වුවද කතාව ටක්කෙටම පැහැදිලිය. ආය ඒ පිලිබද පැහැදිලි කල යුතු නැත. හලාල් සහතිකයෙන් පටන්ගෙන ඥාණසාර හිමි ආණ්ඩුවක් වැට්ටූ හැටි‘ නමින් ‘ඉරිදා දිවයින‘ පුවත්පතට සී.ඒ. චන්ද්‍රප්‍රේම ලියුමක් ලියුවේය.බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ සී.ඊ.ඕ (ප්රධාන විධායක නිලධාරී) ඩිලන්ත විතානගේ ඊට මාගලක් මෙන් දිග පිලිතුරක් ලියුවේය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
TWO MINISTERS I RESPECT
When we watch TV news ,Minister Sajith is trotting around the country and opens new housing schemes in the rural areas.He does not make any meaningless statements about the state of affairs in the country .He may talk about Mahinda Rajapakse or GMOA and talks to the point .My wife keeps telling me that he is seem to be only minister who does something. Last week I saw a housing complex near the Premadasa Stadium being opened by the president ,but sadly he was not invited as the Housing Minister .His team of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/17)
සිංහල වෙදකමට චීන බෙහෙත්!
2013 අවුරුද්දේ ඔක්තෝබර් මාසයේ තම මව ගේ අවමංගල්‍ය කටයුතුවලටත් හත් දවසේ පින්කමටත් සහභාගීවෙලා ආපහු චීනයට ගිය මේ ලේඛකයාට ඇය ගේ තුන් මාසයේ පින්කම වෙනුවෙන් නැවතත් ලංකාවට එන්න පුළුවන්කමක් තිබුණේ නෑ. ඉතින් ඇය වෙනුවෙන් පිනක් කරන්නම් කියලා හිතාගෙන මේ ලේඛකයා ගියේ චීනයේ පූථුඕ කන්දට. මේ කන්ද චීනයේ තියෙන බෝධිසත්ව මණ්ඩල හතරින් එකක්. මහ මුහුදේ පිහිටලා තියෙන මේ කන්ද කැපකරලා තියෙන්නේ අවලෝකිතේශ්වර බෝධිසත්වයන්වහන්සේ වෙනුවෙන්. මේ කන්දේ විහාරස්ථාන විශාල ප්‍රමාණයක් ඉදිකරලා තියෙනවා. ඉතින් පූථුඕ කන්ද කියන්නේ හිතේ හැටියට පිනක් දහමක් කරගන්න පුළුවන් තැනක්. හැබැයි මේ ලිපිය ලියන්නේ ඒක ගැන විස්තර කියන්න නම් නෙවෙයි. පූථුඕ කන්දට කරපු වන්දනාවෙන් පස්සේ ආපහු පෙයි-චිං... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
Three-wheel taxi drivers in Sri Lanka protest against U.S. travel warning
COLOMBO, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Three-wheel taxi drivers in Sri Lanka on Monday protested against a U.S. travel warning for tourists using three-wheelers in Colombo.Representatives of three-wheel taxi associations protested outside the U.S. embassy in Colombo and submitted a petition calling for the withdrawal of the travel warning. I am actually amazed and dumbfounded when I read above news .Three wheeler drivers are the most arrogant .dishonest drug pedalling ,whore house running youngsters with no manners .We have read many news items about their nefarious activities and government was even contemplating to prohibit them coming within... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
The wonder that is Bhutan
There will be many answers to the question: which is the country where the happiest people live? In response many famous, developed nations will come to our mind. But you will be surprised that the name of a little-known country is right the answer to the question. It is Bhutan, the wonderful and amazing country which beats all others in the happiness index. Bhutan has been so identified following a worldwide survey done under the theme Gross National Happiness (GNH) – not Gross National Product (GDP). Her Capital is Thimpu which reminds us... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
Xi Jinping to meet Putin in Moscow for 3rd time this year to strike $10bn worth of deals
Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in Russia on Monday, making a two-day stop on his way to Germany, where a G20 summit is set to take place later this week. A tête-à-tête with Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to be a central part of Xi’s trip to Moscow. Read more Unfazed ‘lone warrior’ Xi Jinping faces entire Team Putin (VIDEO) Ahead of his visit, the Chinese leader gave an interview to Russia’s TASS news agency, in which he particularly focused on the issue of deployment of the US THAAD missile defense systems to South Korea.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
”වෙනස සැපද?” සම්මන්ත්‍රණය බදාදා සවස කොළඹදී
මෙම සම්මන්ත්‍රණයේ මුලසුන හොඹවන්නේ දක්ෂිණ ලංකාවේ ප්රධාන සංඝ නායක පූජ්‍ය කිරම විමලජෝති නාහිමිපාණන් වහන්සේ විසිනි. මෙම සම්මන්ත්‍රණය තුළදී නව ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන නිසා රටට ඇති අභියෝග, රටේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය නැති වීම, ආර්ථික මර්මස්ථාන විදේශිකයන් සතු කිරීම වැනි වර්තමානයේ ලංකාව මුහුණපාන ප්රධාන අභියෝගයන් පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කෙරේ. මෙම සම්මන්ත්‍රණයට දේශකයන් ලෙස ප්‍රවීණ මාධ්‍යවේදී මොහාන් සමරනායක, ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ මනෝහර ද සිල්වා, ප්‍රවීණ දේශපාලන විශ්ලේෂක ගෙවිඳු කුමාරතුංග යන මහත්වරුන් සහභාගී වේ. සම්මන්ත්‍රණය නම් කර ඇත්තේ ”වෙනස සැපද?” යන තේමාවෙනි. යුතුකම සංවාද කවය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
SRI LANKA: Teacher transferred on charges of writing poems on FaceBook
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mr. Kushan Shalika Herath (30), a teacher at the Kuliyapitiya Central College. Mr. Kushan has been transferred to Narammala Central College, effective 11 June 2017, on charges of writing poems on Facebook (FB). The teacher, who taught advanced level Technology at the Kuliyapitiya Central College, has habitually been writing poems on his FB page. This unlawful transfer been dictated by the Ministry of Education. This is not the first time such an unfair decision has been taken by Authorities in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
ඩෙංගු මර්ධනය කිරීමට වැඩපිළිවෙනක් සකස් කරනවා වෙනුවට හෙද හෙදියන් පීඩාව පත් කිරීම වැරදිය
මේ වන විට රටපුරා දිස්ත‍්‍රික්ක 14කට වැඩි ගණනකට ඩෙංගු රෝගය සීඝ‍්‍රයෙන් පැතිර යමින් පවතී. එහි ප‍්‍රතිඵලයක් වශයෙන් ඩෙංගු රෝගීන් වසර තුල 70000 ක් ප‍්‍රතිකාර ලබාගෙන ඇති අතර 200කට වැඩි පිරිසක් මිය ගොස් ඇත. එසේම ඩෙංගු රෝගය මේ වන විට අධිවසංගත තත්වය දක්වා වර්ධනය වෙමින් පවතී. වසර 20ක කාලයක් තුල තවමත් රට තුළ ඩෙංගු මර්ධනය කිරීමට ජාතික සැලැස්මක් ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට පැවති සෑම ආණ්ඩුවක්ම අපොහොසත් වී ඇත. එනිසා රටට වටිනා ජීවිත ගණනාවක්ම අහිමි වී ඇති අතර එම අනතුර තව දුරටත් ඉදිරියට පවත්නා බව අවධාරණය කර ගත යුතුව ඇත. තත්වය මෙසේ තිබියදී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
Looks like Admiral Sarath Weerasekera has upset the UNHRC Head
In April 2017 Amnesty International admitted that the very basis of the Geneva Resolution 30/1 adopted in Oct 1, 2015 is questionable. Then in June 2017, defending Sri Lanka & its armed forces through a NGO, admiral Sarath Weerasekera asked why the UNHRC is going after the Sri Lanka Army who defeated terrorists when the crimes of the West are ignored. The impact of the question and the questions of illegality by UNHRC plus the fact that Britain’s PM recently declared they would shred human rights laws to defend their troops has resulted in a hurried... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
A Fairyland and Hellhole in the same country.
First of all it has become pertinent to ask this inept visionless government whether it has two yardsticks to treat the people of this country – a separate benchmark to gauge people in the North and East and a different criteria to apply for the people in the South. We find that when Sirisena and Ranil address the people in the North and East (the Tamils) they address them very politely, kindly, compassionately and in a very friendly manner. On the contrary when they address the people in the South their tone and the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
President blinded by hatred threatens Sri Lanka, a Sinhala Buddhist Country for over 2500years, of its culture, unitary status and its Communal unity.
Sri Lanka which was a Sinhala Buddhist Country from three centuries before the present era which later accepted and accommodated Tamil, Muslim and other Communities is today facing disintegration as a united country with a nation of mixed communities. Instead of making an effort to unite the three main communities into one nation of Sri Lankans the country today under a pseudo Yahapalanaya, is facing disappearance as a United country with one nation under a separatist shadow cast by the Tamil Community, supported by the West, and giving into separatism through reconciliation, by a yahapalanaya government with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
In Sri Lanka, Reconciliation means 'Buddhists should bloody well shut up"
Having observed happenings in Sri Lanka from afar living as an expat I am compelled to put my thoughts to demand from the crooks in parliament some answers. Having entered parliament from the majority vote they have shamelessly become pawns of minorities and foreign agendas simply because they have put themselves up for sale have a 'agent of india' 'agent of US' 'agent of Muslims' 'agent of LTTE' 'agent of LTTE diaspora' against their names. What these scoundrels do for money to remain in power, we ordinary people cannot understand. These MPs are a species in themselves.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
UNIQUE GLOBAL CEYLON TEA PARTIES
Year 2017 becomes the quasquicentennial anniversary of the Ceylon Tea industry. The Colombo Tea Traders' Association, the apex body of the industry, in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Tea Board, the state regulatory agency for the industry, will conduct a comprehensive programme to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Ceylon Tea with several celebratory events throughout the year. The celebrations commenced in January from the head office at the Tea Board, with the unveiling of a sculptured bust of James Taylor, the Scotsman who arrived in Ceylon in 1847 mainly to grow coffee. Taylor experimented with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
Negligence led to the Death of Young Romali?
- Jun 26, 2017 On April 7 th 2017 young Romali De Silva from Dehiwela died of Dengue Fever at the posh Central Hospital Colombo 8 after being in Hospital for over seven days. It was a tragic case of mismanagement of a patient that led to the death of Young Romali, who was employed as an executive by Brandix. She was only 25 years at the time of her untimely death. Romali had obtained a degree in Applied Psychology and Management Studies from the prestigious Nottingham University and was in the final stage of her... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
බත් පතට වැලි දැමූ හෙනහුරා
පිගන් කැඩෙනුයේ ඒවා සෝදන පුද්ගලයා අතිනි. වැඩක් කරන පුද්ගලයෙකු අතින් වැරදි සිදුවීම ස්වාභාවිකය . නමුත් ඔහු එය පිලිගැනීමට නිහතමානී විය යුතුවා මෙන්ම එය නිවරදි කරගැනීමට උත්සුක විය යුතුය. මහින්දගේ පාලනය ඉතිහාසයේ රන් අකුරින් ලියවුනු ජයග්රහන මෙන්ම අමිහිරි කලු පැල්ලම්ද එකතු කල යුගයකි. මූල්ය විනිවිදභාවය,අතුරු සන්නද්ධ ඒකක සහ ආගමික ත්රස්තවාදය ඉදිරියේ ඔහු දැක්වූ දියාරු ප්‍රතිපත්තිය ප්‍රශ්නකාරී විය . එය ප්‍රතිවාදියාට තුරුම්පුක් විය. 2015 මැතිවරණයේදී රනිල්-සිරිසේන හවුල ජයග්රහනය කලද රට ගොඩ නැගීමට වැඩපිලිවෙලක් නොතිබිනි. දින 100 යේ වැඩ පිලිවෙල නරේන්ද්ර මෝඩිගේ තනි කොපියකි. එය පුස්සක් වූ හැටි රටම දු‍ටුවේය. මහින්ද පතුරු ගැසූ පුරවැසි බලය ඇතුලු එන්.ජී.ඕ නඩය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
සයිටම් හා ව්‍යවස්ථාව
සයිටම් වෛද්‍ය උපාධියට දක්වන විරෝධය ව්‍යවස්ථාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් නැත්තේ ඇයි? පෙළපාලි උද්ඝෝෂණ උපවාස අට්ටාල කිසිවක් ව්‍යවස්ථාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් නැහැ. රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය කියන්නේ ව්‍යවස්ථාව තම වපසරියෙන් ඉවත තියෙන එකක් කියල ද? ව්‍යවස්ථාව සියල්ලට ම ප්‍රධානයි. සයිටම් එට්කා එ හැම එකක් ම ක්රියාත්මක විය යුත්තේ ව්‍යවස්ථාවට එකඟවයි. වෛද්‍යවරුන්ගේ සේවා කොන්දේසි මාරුකිරීම් පමණක් නොව වෘත්තීය සමිති ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වයත් ව්‍යවස්ථාව අනුව වෙනස් විය හැකියි. වෛද්‍යවරුන්ට නොවෙයි කිසිවකුට කියන්න බැහැ ව්‍යවස්ථාව තම වෘත්තියට අදාළ නැහැ කියලා. පෙරටුගාමින් ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් ඊනියා සිංහල බෞද්ධ අධිපතිවාදය (ක්‍රිස්තියානි ව්‍යවහාරයට අනුව ස්වොත්තමවාදය) අයින් කරන්න කියනවා ද? විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ශිෂ්‍ය ශිෂ්‍යාවන්ටත් එසේ කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය ද? රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ට අවශ්‍ය කුමක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
මේ අන්තිම ලිපිය නො වේ
මේ මා සයිටම් ගැන හෝ වෙනත් කරුණක් ගැන හෝ ලියන අන්තිම ලිපිය නො වෙයි. එහෙත් අන්තිම ලිපිය ලිවීමට එතරම් කලක් ඉතිරි වී ඇතැයි කියන්න බැහැ. ඒ මා වැඩි කල් යෑමට පෙර මිය යෑම නිසා නො වෙයි. ලිපි කියවීමට ජාතියක් ඉතිරි නොවීම නිසයි. අප ඉතාමත් අඳුරු යුගයකට, භීෂණයකට පිය නගිමින් ඉන්නවා. එයට ප්රධාන වරදකරුවන් වනුයේ බටහිර වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය, වෛද්‍ය සභාව, ඊනියා පෙරටුගාමීන්, ව්‍යාජ සමාජවාදීන් ද වූ සිවල් සාමාජිකයන්, ආණ්ඩු විරෝධී ජනමාධ්‍ය ප්‍රධානීන්, පඬි ජනමාධ්‍යවේදීන්, වෙනත් පඬියන්, පඬි පෝතකයන්, ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂය හා ආණ්ඩුව. මේ භීෂණය බටහිරයන්ගේ ලංකා වසන්තය වේවි. අප එදා සිට ම කී කරුණ වූයේ මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
යහපාලනයේ පළමු පොරොන්දුව දුෂණ මර්ධන කමිටු ලේකම් කාර්යාලය වසයි. විශේඥයින් ගෙදර. විමර්ශන අතර මග. යහපාලන ඇමති-ලේකම් පැමිණිලි 30 ක් කුණු කුඩයට!
වංචා හා දුෂණ සොයා බැලීම සදහා යහපාලන රජය බලයට පත්වීමෙන් දින කිහිපයකට පසුව ස්ථාපනය කරනු ලැබූ ‘දුෂණ මර්ධන කමිටු ලේකම් කාර්යාලය‘ ඊයේ (ජුනි 30) දින සිට වසා දමා ඇත. දුෂණ සම්බන්ධයෙන් තමන් වෙත ලැබෙන පැමිණිලි විමර්ශනය කොට වාර්තා සකස් කොට පොලිස් මුල්‍ය අපරාධ කොට්ඨාශය සහ වෙනත් ආයතන වෙත යොමු කිරීම සදහා ‘දුෂණ මර්ධන කමිටු ලේකම් කාර්යාලය‘ පිහිටවනු ලැබීය. දුෂණ මර්ධන කමිටු ලේකම් කාර්යාලය ස්ථාපනය කිරීමෙන් පසුව එයට පැමිණිලි මිණිලි 800 ක් පමණ ලැබී තිබුණි. එයින් පැමිණිලි 250ක් විමර්ශන අවසන් කොට පොලිස් මුල්‍ය අපරාධ කොට්ඨාශය වෙත යොමු කරනු ලැබ ඇත. මේ වන විට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/17)
ඥාණසාර හිමි කාන්තාවන් සිවු දෙනෙකු විවාහ කරගෙන… විශේෂ හෙළිදරවුව මෙන්න..
බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර හිමියන් කාන්තාවක් තුක් හතර දෙනෙක් විවාහ කරගත් අයෙකු බව කොළඹදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමින් භික්‍ෂුන් වහන්සේලා පිරිසක් චෝදනා කර සිටියහ. ඥාණසාර හිමියන්ගේ හැසිරීම පිලිනොගත්තද මතවාදය පිලන්නා බවට අස්ගිරි මහ නායක හිමියන් විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද නිවේදනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් දැක්වීම සදහා මෙම මාධ්‍ය හමුව කැදවා තිබන. 8,286 Viewers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/17)
ඇමති තුමනි හැකි නම් කූරගල පල්ලිය ඉවත් කරන්න
ලෝක උරුමයක් ලෙසින් සැලකෙන දඹුලූ විහාරය තුළ සිදු වන කටයුතු සහ සංචාරකයන් ගෙන් මුදල් අයකිරීමේ කටයුතු රජයට පවරා ගන එහි පවතින වංචා සහ දූෂණ මැඩීමට ක්‍රියා කරන බව අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය අකිල විරාජ් කාරියවසම් මහතා පසුගිය දා ප්රකාශ කොට තිබු‚.දඹුලූ රන්ගිරි රජමහා විහාරය අවසාන වශයෙන් කීර්ති ශ්‍රී රාජසිංහ රජතුමා විසින් සන්නසකින් පවරා දෙමින් රාජකාරි නියම කරමින් පුදසත්කාර පවත්වා ගෙන යා යුතු බවට දක්වා ඇති සිංහල බෞද්ධයන්ගේ වන්දනීය සිද්ධස්ථානයකි. මෙම විහාරය පණහේ දශකයේ දී ආරක්ෂිත ස්මාරකයක් බවට පුරා විද්‍යා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් පත් කරන ලද්දේ එහි පවතින අගනා බිතු සිතුවම් වල පවතින කලාත්මක වටිනාකම් ඉදිරි පරපුරට දායාද කරනු සඳහාය. පසුව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/17)
UN Refugee Agency Makes special observation about persecution of Ahmadis and need for international protection.
“UNHCR considers that members of the Ahmadi religious minority are likely to be in need of international protection." In establishing eligibility guidelines for assessing the international protection needs of members of religious minorities from Pakistan, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) not only called for a "particularly careful examination" of risks faced by individuals seeking refugee status from this out of control nation, but also made a special note about the plight of Ahmadis in Pakistan. According to media report, in a series of observations made in the UNHCR report, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/17)
ඇමති ෆයිසර් මුස්තාෆා පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණ සිතියම තවත් මාස 3 කට අකුළයි. 2017 ජූලි 1 ගැසට් පත්‍ර‍ය ඔක්තෝබර් 1 කට කල් දමයි.
ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍ය උල්ලංඝණය කිරීමක් - කැෆේ සංවිධානය කියයි. මැතිවරණ සිතියම අකුළන උදවියට ජනාධිපතිවරණය 2019 නොවැම්බර් බව අමතක වෙලා! පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීම සදහා අනිවාර්ය කොන්දේසියක් වන පළාත් පාලන ආයතන ඡන්ද විමසීම බලාත්මක කිරීමේ ගැසට් නිවේදනය අති විශේෂ ගැසට් පත්‍ර‍යක් මගින් තවත් මාස 3 ක කාලයක් සදහා කල් දමා ඇත. අමාත්‍ය ෆයිසර් මුස්තාෆා විසින් මෙම කල් දැමීමට අදාළ ගැසට් පත්‍ර‍යට අත්සන් තබා ඇත. පලාත් පාලන ඡන්ද විමසීමේ පනතට අනුව අමාත්‍යවරයා ට අත්තනෝමතික ලෙස මැතිවරණ කල්දැමීමේ කිසිදු බලයක් නොමැති අතර මෙය ලැජ්ජා සහගත ලෙස මැතිවරණ සිතියම අකුලා දැමීමක් බව මෙය හෙළා දකින කැෆේ සංවිධානය ප්රකාශ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/17)
CARDINAL JOINS PROTESTORS AGAINST GARBAGE DUMPING IN MUTHUIRAJAWELA GOD SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM GARBAGE
Previous opinions EXPRESSEDby me proposed few viable solutions and nobody wanted to listen WE NEEED TO ISOLATE STENCH AND UNPLEASEANT SIGHT BY BALING THE GARBAGE AT THE SOURCE Government should import baling machines ,following the same procedure used doi g war time .No tenders for emergency weapon supply .We are fighting a war in different way .We need to be firm and decisive . Pls see the attached video https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ifwmn8spk93icv6/AADC7101NdPEidWK_ZYL3Amha?dl=0&preview=aMSW+AirLaVille+CH+05_16.mov My proposal has been to obtain above baling technology and assemble the units in our local workshops and propose to install few in many... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/17)
Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Viahara Poya Day July - Los Angeles
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GMOA is going international!!!!!! Hiru News .
“GMOA stated that it will take measures to make the international community aware about the government’s conduct pertaining to patients’ rights with regard to SAITM Issue “ Citizens in this country are stupid and naïve .We watch these educated people with poor man’s money while they playing with their lives .We are just watching the drama played by the GMOA Now they want to go international. !! International community has been watching the doctors going on strikes and making the poor suffer.My colleagues from many countries keep asking me about the stupidity of the doctors... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/17)
Myanmar says it will refuse entry to U.N. investigators probing Rohingya abuses
Myanmar will refuse entry to members of a United Nations probe focusing on allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims, an official said on Friday. The government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi had already said it would not cooperate with a mission set up after a Human Rights Council resolution was adopted in March. "If they are going to send someone with regards to the fact-finding mission, then there's no reason for us to let them come," said Kyaw Zeya, permanent secretary at the Ministry of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/17)
COLOMBO CANAL TRANSPORT AND CROCODILES
Photograph taken today show a slight profile of a moving a 6 meter long crocodile in Parliaments Lake.SLLRDC has put up a fence around the lake prevent the Croc’s coming on to walking path .One of the morning walker jokingly said that one of these days , Croc’s ( I hear almost 20 in numbers) may creep into committee rooms and consume the law makers ! and he was so unkind and showed crocodile tears to express his sorrow ! The oint is these Croc have infested all the canals including and bey9nd the Diyatha... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/17)
Dambulla’s Golden Temple Faces Global Disgrace
A fresh tug of war has erupted between State authorities and Bhikkhu hierarchies over the ownership of Golden Temple in Dambulla which is recognized as the largest, best-preserved cave-temple complex in Sri Lanka with Buddhist mural paintings (covering an area of 2,100 m2) and 157 statues, being dropped off the list of World Heritages by the UNESCO. The administration of Dambulla Temple has apparently not allowed the officials of the Central Cultural Fund (CCF) who had been deployed for maintenance at the world heritage site to enter the premises. The paintings of the Dambulla... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/17)
Elites have no Place Now
I refer to the article "The Elite We Destroyed" by Ajit Kanagasundaram (AK) which appeared in your issue of June 25. He has described an arcane elitist world of the Ceylon Civil Service (CCS), and has meandered in to a neo-Arcadia run by these civil servants some time back in Gal Oya. What must be remembered is that the CCS, just like its senior partner in India, the ICS, was an institution of the British Empire. When the British Empire folded up, the ICS and CCS also had to go. Asking for such... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/17)
What a Constitution cannot change
It is a futile exercise to claim to change a country’s constitution to meet the aspirations of each and every citizen of Sri Lanka. There are some sine quo non areas and other factors that cannot change just to please some or because its existence displeases others. The unitary status of the country cannot be changed. Sri Lanka should not be made secular-we have a proud heritage that many of the countries promoting secularism do not have. Multicultural phenomena is a new concept for countries that were created and developed because of immigrants. Sri Lanka has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/17)
FRESH PORK IN SRI LANKA - RAUF HAKEEM AND INDONESIAN TRADITIONAL MARKETS- WHY 9.7% MUSLIMS IN SRI LANKA CONTROL EATING HABITS OF 90.3% POPULATION
Whether you wish to be a vegetarian or not, is entirely upto the individual. Muslims close their shops on Fridays during mid day, to attend Mosques. Muslims open their shops on Poya Days to grab market share of non-muslim businesses. On the question of Fresh Pork, some Muslims were annoyed with me after reading my previous article on 25 June on “CARGILLS FOOD CITY- SCARED TO DISPLAY AND SELL PORK: “After passing Wadduwa, you cannot buy fresh pork in down south Sri Lanka. Even frozen pork are not displayed at Cargills at Hikkaduwa, Weligama,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/17)
INSULT TO PREMADASA AND GOTABAYA
Attached photograph was taken right in front of Premadasa Kettarama Stadium in Wanathamulle .I was passing by yesterday and noted the garbage heap ,and watched a worker from Abans ( Care klean –which does not “care ?) Throwing the garbage which has collected in a trolley into the heap ,and next to the heap there was a sign by the Municipal Mayor that “Garbage throwing is Prohibited “. Behind the heap CMC collection lorry sans a driver was waiting ,presumably allowing the collector to throw it on the ground rather than in to the lorry .Whole... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/17)
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