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News Archive for Apr 2017 Sudath Gunaekara 13.9.2016 Writing his forward to the booklet on the “Proposals under the first 6 year Plan 1954/55-1959/60, this is how Mr A. Ratnayaka then Minister of Home Affairs scribed his great expectations on the outcome of the Kandyan Peasantry Commission Report of 1951. “At last justice is being meted out to two Provinces of Ceylon-Central and Uva which enshrine some of the most glorious chapters of our Island history. In the fight for liberation from British these two Provinces were in the vanguard, and inevitably they paid the toll of the two rebellions of 1818 and 1848.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/04/17) වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ...මා ඇම්බුෂ් දෙකකින් අනූනවයෙන් බේරුනා, මගේ හමුදා සේවා කාලය තුළදී. පළමුවැන්න 1985 දී. එවකට මා සේවය කලේ පොළොන්නරුව – මඩකළපුව මාර්ගයේ පුනානි ප්රදේශයේ. මාස 4 කට පමණ පසුව මා ලද නිවාඩු දින පහ අවසන් වී, පාන්දරින්ම ආපසු පුනානි වෙත යන්න පිටත්වුනත්, බස් ප්රමාදය නිසා යන්නට නොහැකිවුනා. හවස්වනවිට මට පැහැදිළිව තේරුණා, ළඟම පිහිටි හමුදා කඳවුර වෙත යාම තමයි, වඩාත් ප්රඥාගෝචර වන්නේ කියා. ලොරි කබලක එල්ලුන මට, යන්තම් දිඹුලාගල මහා විහාරයේ පිහිටි කඳවුරට යාගත හැකිවුනා. එහි තිබුනේද මගේ රෙජිමේන්තුවේම කඳවුරක්. මා එහි සිට පුනානි අණදෙන නිලධාරි තුමාට ගුවන්විදුලි පණිවිඩයකින් දැන්වුවා, බස් නැති නිසා මා ප්රමාද වූ බවත්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/04/17)
suwanda.sugunasiri April 29, 2017, 5:47 pm Swarna, in Sanskrit, means ‘gold’. And so this is about the death of a ‘golden lady’, Swarna Sugunasiri, nee Bellana, my beloved wife of 53 plus years. She bid adieu to this life in the early hours of April 20, 2017, at Mt Sinai hospital, Toronto, following a couple of critical falls. She passed away peacefully in her sleep, surrounded by family, me holding her hand almost to the end. It was undoubtedly in serene peace that she received the personal Paritta blessings of Bhantes Udupihille Wimalabuddhi and Ahangama Ratanasiri of the Toronto... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/04/17)
KAMALIKA PIERIS After Independence, Sri Lanka continued to look to Britain for guidance, though USA had taken over world leadership. USA had first of all, make Sri Lanka aware of the USA, take its gaze away from Britain. The United States Information Service (USIS) set up cultural centers in Colombo, Kandy and Jaffna. These centers lent American fiction and records of American music and showed American films. There were live performances too. The Golden Gate quartet visited in the 1950s. Marian Anderson came in 1957. These performers sang in Colombo and Kandy to appreciative audiences. Duke Ellington performed at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/04/17)
By Kalinga Seneviratne, The Buddhist Channel, Sept 8, 2016 BANGKOK, Thailand -- Mindfulness, the meditative practice, which has its roots in Buddhism as Vipassana Bhavana, encourages people to focus on the present, rather than on the anxieties of the past or future. In the previous decade, however, it has become somewhat of a fad around the world. Particularly in the U.S., it is now everywhere: in schools, law firms, banks, governments, and even in the U.S. military. They are all offering mindfulness sessions to staff.But Buddhists are worried about 'secularisation' of the practice that pays little heed to its moral... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/04/17)
Garbage disaster –CM faults Prez,PM and minister …….News item “Appearing on Sirasa Pathikada anchored by Bandula Jayasekera yesterday morning Devapriya faulted the high powered ministerial committee that included both President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for the crisis. At the onset of yahapalana administration, Premier Wickremesinghe headed the committee. Subsequently, President Maithripala Sirisena joined the decision making outfit responsible for advising the cabinet of ministers. Devapriya alleged that the committee had handed over the management of the Meethotamulla garbage dump to Megapolis and Western Development Ministry headed by yahapalana heavyweight Patali Champika Ranawaka at the expense of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/04/17)
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando My friend Asoka Jayawardena in New Jersey who often despatches vital information on health matters sent me an interesting brief on 'Moringa' (Murunga) with a request to write an article on the subject and, if possible, to get it published in a Sinhala newspaper, as the advantages of a Sinhala publication would be far more beneficial to the average Sri Lankan reader. His advice made me dive into my archives where many moons ago I had written on Moringa, under the headline, "The ultimate answer to polluted water" and to revitalize the topic in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/04/17)
BY DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA While the Ramayana narrative makes clear that a land link between India and Lanka was of decisive and devastating strategic consequence for the island of Lanka, the Romans and the British made it clear that the building of roadways was an essential part of annexation and empire building. What is true of imperialismsgone by is true of contemporary regional sub-imperialisms. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe has discussed a highway linking India and Sri Lanka, and more accurately Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, in his meeting with Indian Minister of Highways Nitin Gadkari. The PM has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/04/17)
By Dr. Ranil Senanayake Courtesy The Island While the stench of the Meethotamulla tragedy is still in the air and while the politicians and their advisors are scurrying around pointing fingers, it is time for us to take to task those corrupt persons who issue EIA’s to facilitate any dirty business. A Government that voluntarily accepts to get environmental clearance for actions that will affect the populace, just to please ‘investors’ or to freethem from their obligations, is a government that is robbing our safety of its citizens for short-term gain. Now that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/04/17)
තිස්ස රවීන්ද්ර පෙරේරා යුද හමුදාවේ අසමසම සැඟවුණු වෙඩික්කරු ලෙස (ස්නයිපර්) කොටි ත්රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිව සුවිශේෂ සේවාවක් ඉටුකරමින් වන්නි අවසන් සටනේ පුදුමාතලන්හි දී දිවිපිදූ කෝප්රල් රංජිත් ප්රේමසිරි හෙවත් නීරෝ කළ සේවය අගයමින් නීරෝගේ මව වන රීටා ප්රනාන්දු මහත්මිය වෙත ආනමඩුව ගම්උදාව භූමියේ ඉඩමක නිවසක් ඉදිකර දීමට නිවාස අමාත්ය සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා කටයුතු යෙදුවේය. නිවාස සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය සතු ඉඩමක මෙම නිවස ඉදිකිරීම සඳහා රුපියල් ලක්ෂ පහක මුදලක් ඇස්තමේන්තු ගත කර ඇති අතර ඊට අදාළ ලියකියවිලි අමාත්ය සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා විසින් නීරෝගේ මව වෙත භාර දී ඇත. 2009 අප්රේල් 28 දා පුදුමාතලන් ආරක්ෂක වළල්ලේ දී දිවි පුදන විට නීරෝ යුද හමුදා ප්රහාරක සේනාංකවල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/04/17)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Mahanuwara Sinhala Bauddha Jestha Puravesiyange Sanvidhanaya and retired Perm Sec to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka. 27. 4. 2017. The President Sirisena should immediately take meaningful and effective steps on the following three disastrous and burning issues facing the country right now to liberate this land of the Sinhalese from minority terrorism and retain our Sri Lankan or Sinhala Identity of this Island nation. I would like to deal with three very crucial and urgent issues the country is facing today in this note, as a proud heir to a 2500 year unique, Sinhala Buddhist heritage ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
Ira de Silva London, Ontario The Editor National Post Toronto, Ontario Dear Sir: Your news item of Mr. Trudeau, with a "former" leader of a terror group is a damning indictment on the political leaders of Canada and of the Liberal Party in particular. Tamil terrorist supporters in Canada funded Tamil terrorism in Sri Lanka for thirty years with Canadian politicians openly assisting them to collect funds. The goals of supporters of the Tamil terrorists remain the same. They continue to use naive, unprincipled politicians to achieve their goals and Canadian politicians support anyone for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
Malin Abeyatunge Refers to a report in your 20th April Island by Shamindra Fenando. Where were these Aluth parapura dollar crows (dollar kakko) when LTTE committed worst crimes on earth against the innocent civilians of the civil society. May be that none of their kith & kilns, siblings have become victims of the brutal LTTE but thousands and thousands of innocent people became victims. With my due respect to writer Shamindra Ferdinando ( a versatile patriotic writer on human issues) shouldn’t have given undue prominence to these new NGO pack called Aluth Parpaura without verifying the veracity of their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
Wade Shepard , Contributor Courtesy Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/01/21/india-tells-sri-lanka-take-your-trincomalee-deep-sea-port-and-shove-it/58d40c5b5f88 Last Wednesday, January 18th, Sri Lanka's minister for regional development, Sarath Fonseka, told journalists at a conference in New Delhi that terms were being discussed to give Sri Lanka’s northeastern Trincomalee port to India. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe reportedly vouched for the veracity of the remarks on the sidelines of Davos. But by Friday India was denying them, stating that they had no interest in taking on a fledgling port that wouldn't be profitable for a very long time. Sri Lanka, an island nation at a strategic location... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17) ආරක්ෂක බලතල ෆොන්සේකාට දෙන්න ජනපති පැවසුවේ විහිළුවට - ඇමැති එස්. බී. දිසානායක SB says President was joking….. We have a King and a bunch of court Jesters? It is high time that such statements are only made by the President himself following consultations with the \prime minister If President is unwilling to go to history as a Hittorian Suppressor let someone takes over the reins of managing the anarchy Please read the article I wrote in 2015 http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/12/22/needed-a-benevolent-dictator/ Needed: A benevolent dictator Posted on December 22nd, 2015 Dr. Sarath Obeysekera Courtesy Island If one looks at history, many countries developed under... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
අරුණ රත්නායක දමිළ ප්රගතිශීලී සංධානයේ (TPA) මෙවර මැයි දිනය තලවාකැලේ මහජන ක්රීඩාංගනයේදී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතයි. ඒ අනුව දමිළ ප්රගතිශීලී සංධානයේ නායක අමාත්ය මනෝ ගනේෂන් මහතා, නියෝජ්ය නායක අමාත්ය පී තිගාම්බරම් මහතා සහ නියෝජ්ය නායක රාජ්ය අමාත්ය වී රාධ ක්රිෂ්ණන් මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් මෙවර මැයි දිනය පැවැත්වේ. එළැඹෙන මැයි 01 දා මැයි දින රැස්වීම ආරම්භ කිරීමට ප්රථම තලවකැලේ දමිළ මහා විද්යාලය අසල සිට තලවකැලේ මහජන ක්රීඩාංගනය දක්වා මැයි දින පෙළපාලියක්ද සංවිධානය කර තිබෙනවා. දමිළ ප්රගතිශීලී සංධානය, වැවිලිකරයේ ජීවත්වන ජනතාව උදෙසා විශාල මෙහෙවරක් ඉටුකරන අතර වතු කම්කරුවන්ගේ වැටුප් වැඩිකරගැනීමේ අරගලයෙහි ලා සුවිශේෂී සේවයක් ඉටුකරයි. කඳුරට නව ගම්මාන යටිතල පහසුකම් හා ප්රජා සංවර්ධන අමාත්ය පලනි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando During the last week's Sinhala and Tamil New Year 'Nonagathe' period I stopped all work, in conforming to the centuries old Sinhala traditions prevalent in our society where the majority still observes with deep respect and follow such customs with profound emotion. Next, I picked up a book from my home library titled ‘Cousins’ written by a Sri Lankan intellectual who was attached to the School of English, Linguistics and Media in Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. ‘Cousins’ is a fiction based on a female character (Amitha) spanning over four decades of her... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න 1952 පෙබරවාරි මස ''ටැමිල් කල්චර් '' නම් සඟරාවට ඥාන ප්රගාසර් පියතුමා ලියා ඇති '''ශ්රී ලංකාව පටන් ගත් දා සිටම දෙමලුන්ගේ රටකි ''ය සදහන් වේ එමෙන්ම'''' ශ්රිලංකාවේ ග්රාමනාම සිය ගණනක් ''ට පෙර සිටම පැ වතී බවත් ඒවා දෙමල බවත් පසුව පැමිණි සිංහලයන් විසින් ඒවා සිංහල බවට හරවා ඇති බවත් සඳහන් කර ඇත . 1878 දී පලවූ සැමුවෙල් ජෝන් නම් දෙමල ක්රිස්තියානි කතුවරයාගේ ''යාල් පාන චරිත්තිමේ '' ග්රන්ථය ඔහුගේ පුතා විසින් තවත් කොටසක්ද එකතු කර යලි පල කරන ලදී. යාල් නම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
This quarter we have added 10 additional countries to the BSRI, taking advantage of the increasing depth and quality of available data on emerging market economies. The new members are the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Panama, Romania, Serbia, Sri Lanka and Uruguay. The BSRI now spans 89% of the JP Morgan EMBI Global Core index and 82% of the JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified index, as well as major developed economies, providing a common framework of fundamental insights. Sri Lanka's weakest score comes in Fiscal Space. https://www.blackrockblog.com/blackrock-sovereign-risk-indicator/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
by Taylor Dibbert Courtesy The Washington Examiner The UN Human Rights Council's 34th session ended on March 24. Ostensibly, the session was an important moment for Sri Lanka's coalition government, which is led by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Sri Lanka's compliance with a previously passed Council resolution (designed to promote human rights and transitional justice) came under review. Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera addressed the body on Feb. 28 and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, provided a critical assessment of the government's performance during the session. On March 23, as expected,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE Any conflagration and especially one marked by the clash of arms that lasts over several decades can be defined in multiple ways. For some, the conflict in Sri Lanka, was a matter between the Sinhalese and Tamils. They call it ‘Ethnic Conflict’. Others could say that it was a battle between state entities and a terrorist outfit or one between democracy and insurgency. Portrayal is naturally informed by ideological bent and of course, since identity is involved, the play of communal angst often decides the issue of definition. Emotion typically bests reason in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා යුරෝපා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ලංකාවට ජී එස් පී + දෙන්න තීරණය කරලා. ආණ්ඩුව තොරතෝංචියක් නැතිව කියාවි ඒ ලැබුණේ කිසිම කොන්දේසියක් නැතිව බව. කිසිම කොන්දේසියක් නැතිව ජී එස් පී ලබා දීමට මේ ආණ්ඩුව ගැන යම් විශ්වාසයක් යුරෝපා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට හා යුරෝපා සංගමයට තිබිය යුතුයි. ඒ විශ්වාසය ලැබෙන්නේ කොහෙන් ද? රවි කරුණානායක ආසියා ශාන්තිකරයේ හොඳම මුදල් ඇමති නිසා ද? නැත්නම් මංගල සමරවීරගේ දක්ෂ රාජ්ය තාන්ත්රික භාවය නිසා ද? රනිල් කෘතහස්ත දේශපාලනඥයකු නිසා ද? මෛත්රිපාලට එලිසබෙත් වින්ඩ්සර් අත්වැසුම් නැතිව අතට අත දුන් නිසා ද? අපට ජී එස් පී නැති වුණේ ප්රභාකරන් ඝාතනය කිරීමෙන් පසුව 2010 දී. පහුගිය ආණ්ඩුවට සියලු ආකාරයේ මානව අයිතිවාසිකම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge During the Eelam War (1983 -2009) a significant numbers of the Sri Lankan military forces had committed suicide and some of the victims believed to have suffered from combat related stress. Psychological autopsies of some of the cases revealed that the victims had depression, posttraumatic stress, psychiatric illnesses, addiction issues, relationship problems and severe work related stresses. Most of these suicides could have been avoided with early interventions. From 1987 to 2009 the Sri Lankan Military had launched nearly 25 major military offensives against the LTTE. In these military missions the members of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
By: A.A.M.NIZAM - MATARA Sirisena-Ranil Junta which grabbed power in Sri Lanka after more than two years of continued conspiracy in Singapore and New Delhi now finds that they are unable to fulfil any of their promises such as abolition of the Executive presidency, getting massive foreign direct investments from western counties, provision of one million jobs, raising the standard of living and making the people rich etc. Similar to the fibs such as Rajapaksa family foreign deposits, golden horses, lambogini vehicles and so on they shamelessly and unflinchingly uttered during the election period, immediately after the election they... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE courtesy AllAsia Publications. The political culture of this country cannot be redeemed. The Meethotumulla tragedy is one of the proportions which called for the immediate resignation of the Prime Minister, or the President. However, what’s more sickening than the fact that they did nothing about removing the mountain of garbage is the fact that their reaction was absolutely gross, pathetic, and plunged the lowest depths of political crassness. For both these reasons the Prime Minister, if he has an iota of self respect, should resign with immediate effect. (Of course we do know the wholly incompetent/indifferent/aloof/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
Sarath Wijesinghe former Ambassador to UAE and Israel and former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority ’John Locke’s economic and political theory’ “John Locke 1632 English philosopher-father of liberalism- remarks a distinction between money and asserts in a Nation. Money is a steady movable friend travel about and gold silver and other assets must be solid and substantial part of the wealth of a nation and to multiply that metal ought, he thinks great objects of its potential economy”. This part of his philosophy has direct impact of on our country and economy with less money but enormous natural, historical, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා සරත් ෆොන්සේකාට දීමට යන තනතුර ගැන නිශ්චිත තීරණයක් නැති බව පේනවා. ඒත් ආණ්ඩුව දරුණු මර්දනයකට සූදානම් වන බව පැහැදිලියි. සරත් ෆොන්සේකා ඇමතිවරයකු ලෙස සිටිය දී තවත් ඇමති ධුරයක් ඔහූට පැවරීමට යනවා ද? ඒ ඇමති ධුරය උද්ඝෝෂණ මැඩලීමේ ඇමති ධුරය ද? ඒ යටතට ත්රිවිධ හමුදාවේ හා පොලීසියේ කොටස් ගෙනෙනවා ද? නැත්නම් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා දැනට දරණ ඇමති ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් වී උද්ඝෝෂණ මැඩලීමේ ඇමති ලෙස පත් කෙරෙනවා ද? එසේත් නැත්නම් ඇමති ධුරයක් නැතිව ත්රිවිධ හමුදාවේ හා පොලීසියේ ඉහළ ම අණ දෙන නිලධාරියා ලෙස පත් කෙරෙනවා ද? ඒසේත් නැත්නම් හමුදාවේ හා පොලීසියේ කොටසක් සරත් ෆොන්සේකාගේ අණට යටත් කරනවා ද? කලකට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B.,Ph.D. සමනලී ෆොන්සේකා නමැති තරුණිය හැඩරුව ඇති පංචකළ්යාණියක් නොවුනත් ප්රියංකර මුහුණක් හා නන්දා මාලිනීගේ හා මාලිනී බුලත්සිංහලගේ ගී ඉතා හොඳට ගයන්නට පවා හැකියාවක් ඇති පංචස්කන්දයකි. එසේ නැත්නම් තිස් දෙකක් කුණප ඇති පොලොවට පස් වන මස් හා ඇටකටු ගොඩකි. ඇගේ ළදරු පින්තූර වල පෙන්වූ තරබාරුකම අනුව සිතනවිට ඇය ඇත්තටම දළඹුවා සමනලයා වුනා වගේමය. ඇය කියන්නේ මේ ජිවිතය හැර නැවත ඉපදීමක්, ස්වර්ගයට යෑමක් නැති බවය. ඇය ඕමාර් කයියාම් කෙනෙකි. යම් පිස්සෙක් විසින් ජේතවනාරාමයට මීතොටමුල්ලේ කුණු දැමූ පින්තූරයක් මුහුණු පොතේ පලකර ඇත. මේ කවුරුත් නොදන්නා පිස්සාට සපෝට් එකට සමනලී ඉදිරිපත්ව එය ඇගේ මුහුණු පොතේද දමා ඇත. සමනලී යනු ගිය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
Professionals’ National Front පසුගියදා ජනමාධ්ය වාර්ථා කර තිබුන ආකාරයට අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා ඉන්දියාව බලා පිටත්ව යනුයේ ඉන්දීය අගමැති මෝදි මහතා හමුවී අපේ රටට තීරනාත්මකව බලපාන්නා වූ කාරනා කිහිපයකටම සිය අවසාන එකගතාවය පලකිරීමටය. ඒ අතර අපේ රටට තීරනාත්මකව බල පාන්නාවූ එට්කා ගිවිසුම ද වේ. රට තුල මහත් ආන්දෝලනයකට තුඩුදුන් එට්කා ගිවිසුම පිළිබදව රටේ පිළිගත් වෘත්තිකයන්ගේ ප්රබල සංවිධාන රැසක එකමුතුවෙන් ගොඩ නංවන ලද වෘත්තිකයන්ගේ ජාතික පෙරමුණ (PNF) ලෙස අප අපගේ බලවත් අවධානය පසුගිය කාලය පුරාම යොමු කළෙමු. එහි අහිතකර පලවිපාක පිළිබදව වරින් වර ජනතාව දැනුවත් කිරීමට ද පියවර ගත්තෙමු. පාලකයින්ගේ ද සෙසු බලධාරීන්ගේ ද ඇස් ඇරවීමට ද වරින් වර උත්සාහ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
Professional’s National Front According to the recent press reports, PM Ranil Wickremasinge visited India in order to meet his Indian counterpart, Modi, and to give the final consent on several issues of critical importance to Sri Lanka. Among such issues, one is the ETCA agreement. Throughout the recent past, Professionals National Front (PNF), a collection of leading professional bodies, has paid our close attention on this matter. Necessary steps were taken to acknowledge the general public, on its negative impacts. This was specially so in the absence of any national policy regarding the international trade and trade agreements, established... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
කේ. ඞී. ලාල්කාන්ත සභාපතිජාතික වෘත්තීය සමිති මධ්යස්ථානය. තමන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම් මුල්කරගනිමින් විවිධ සංවිධාන හා ජන කණ්ඩායම් විසින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලබන උද්ඝෝෂණ හා අරගල, මර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ඇමති සරත් ෆොන්සේකාගේ නායකත්වයෙන්, විශේෂ හමුදා බලඇණියක් ගොඩනැගීමට ආණ්ඩුවේ අනුමැතිය ලැබී ඇති බවට මාධ්ය විසින් වාර්තාකර තිබුණි. නොයෙකුත් කරුණු මත රට පුරා හතර දිග්භාගයෙන් ආණ්ඩුවට එරෙහි උද්ඝෝෂණ හා අරගල එක පිට එක නිර්මාණය වෙමින් පවතී. මේ කිසිදු ගැටළුවකට පිළිගත හැකි සාධාරණ විසඳුම් ලබා දීමට සූදානම් නැති රනිල්-මෛත්රී හවුල් ආණ්ඩුව, එම අරගල මර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා අඳබාල තීරණයක් ගෙන තිබේ. ‘‘අරගල හේතුවෙන් ජනතාව පීඩාවට පත්වේ’’ යැයි යන කරුණට මුවා වී සාධාරණය ඉල්ලා සටන් වදින ජනතාව මර්ධනය කිරීමට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
Courtesy Adaderana India has agreed to cooperate with Sri Lanka in developing world class road infrastructure in Jaffna region of Sri Lanka. The Indo-Sri Lanka Cooperation in road construction came up for discussion when India’s Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari called on visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. During the discussions, the Sri Lankan Prime Minister invited the Government of India to take up development of three stretches of major road stretches namely Jaffna to Mannar, Mannar to Vavuniya and Dambulla to Tricomalee. The Minister informed the Sri Lankan Prime Minister that India’s Ministry of Road Transport... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා ජනමාධ්ය කිහිපයක සහභාගීත්වයෙන් ජාතික රූපවාහිනිය විසින් සංවිධානය කෙරුණු නිදහස් අධ්යාපනය පිළිබඳ මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගි වීමට නොහැකිවීම ගැන කණගාටුවෙනවා. මට ඒ සඳහා ආරාධනය ලැබුණේ ඉරිදා. එහි දී පළමුව කියැවුණේ සාකච්ඡාව විසිපස්වැනි දා පැවැත්වෙන බව. ආරාධනය ලැබුණු විගස මා එය පිිළිගත්තේ නිදහස් අධ්යාපනය පිළිබඳ ඇති දුර්මත රාශියක් ඛණ්ඩනය කිරීමට ඉන් අවස්ථාව ලැබෙන බව මා දත් බැවින්. එහෙත් සාකච්ඡාව පැවැත්වෙන්නේ අඟහරුවාදා බව කී විට මට වෙනත් නාළිකාවක පටිගත කිරීමකට සහභාගි වීමට ඇති බව මතක් වුණා. එවිට මා ඒ බව පවසා අදාළ නාළිකාවට කතා කර හැකිනම් පටිගත කිරීම් දිනය වෙනස් කර ගැනීමට උත්සාහ කිරීමට එකඟ වුණා. එහෙත් අවාසනාවකට අදාළ වැඩ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය දෙකඩ කිරීම’ මැයෙන් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇති නිවේදනයකි මේ. 2017 අප්රේල් 27 මාධ්ය නිවේදනය ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය දෙකඩ කිරීම 2015 ජනවාරියේදී නව නායකයෙකු යටතට පත්වූයේ නොබෙදුණු ශ්රිලනිපයකි. පක්ෂ නායකත්වය මා සතුව තබා ගැනීමට මම ඒ අවස්ථාවේදී උත්සාහයක් නොගත්තේ අපි කාගෙත් දේශපාලන තෝතැන්න වූ ශ්රිලනිපය රැකගැනීමේ උවමනාව නිසාය. දශක හතරක් මුළුල්ලේ ශ්රිලනිපයේ සාමාජිකයෙකු මෙන්ම අවුරුදු 13ක් මුළුල්ලේ පක්ෂයේ මහලේකම්වරයෙකුද වූ අයෙකු පක්ෂයේ නායකයා වූ විට පක්ෂයට හානියක් නොවනු ඇතැයි මම මෙන්ම පක්ෂ සාමාජිකයනුත් බලාපොරොත්තු විය. 2015 අගෝස්තු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයේදී වෙනම ඡන්දය ඉල්ලිය යුතු යැයි අප අතර ප්රබල මතයක් තිබුණද, ශ්රිලනිපය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
උඋපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ හංස ගීතය ගැයෙමින් තිබේ. මේ ගෙවෙන්නේ එහි උච්චතම මොහොතයි. ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය ගෙඩිය පිටින්ම එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ සිරකරුවකු බවට පත් වී හමාරය. මේ වෙනකොට පක්ෂයේ අනන්යතාව නැතිවී ගොස් හමාරය. පක්ෂයට එරෙහිව එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයෙන් ඡන්දය ඉල්ලා, දිනා නැවත පක්ෂය අල්ලාගත් නායකත්වයකින් මීට වඩා දෙයක් බලාපොරොත්තු විය නොහැකිය. ඒ විතරක් නොවේ. පරාජයේ සදාකාලික ලේබලය නිල මුද්රාවක් සේ අලවන්නට වුවමනා පිඹුරුපත් සැකසී අවසන්ය. එහි උච්චතම මොහොම මේ වන විට සිදුවෙමින් පවතී. නායකයෝ දෙකොනින් හිනා යන සංවිධායකකම් බෙදා දෙමින් ''සිඟිති ආතල්'' ගනිමින් සිටිති. පාක්ෂිකයා අන්දමන්දව සිටී. මාතලේ දිස්ත්රික්කයේ අංක එකේ ශ්රී ලංකාකාරයා වූ ජනක බණ්ඩාර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
By Ananda Ariyarathne Courtesy Ceylon Today "It is needless to say a 'Constitution' is not just a set of rules for a game for amusement or passing time but a basis for a framework that would affect the people, capable of creating a hell for the very people for whom it is supposed to be meant. More it is thought about, more it becomes convincing that the Soulbury Constitution the British gave Sri Lanka had more honesty than in any other Constitution which came by including the one under which it has become more or less like an effort to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
By Paneetha Ameresekere reporting from New Delhi Courtesy Ceylon Today China ranked high in Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe's meeting with Indian Premier Narendra Modi, at Hyderabad House, New Delhi yesterday, official sources who didn't want to be named told this reporter. Reporters were not allowed to cover these meetings, with opportunities provided only for the taking of photographs and to be present when pleasantries were exchanged between Wickremesinghe and Indian officials, including Modi, before the beginning of talks, during the former's various engagements in Delhi. Wickremesinghe's official engagements concluded yesterday. The Hambantota Port project, in particular, which Colombo is planning to lease... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
ජනිත සෙනෙවිරත්න උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින අද රටේ සිදුවෙමින් පවතින්නේ කුමක්දැයි යන ප්රශ්නය බොහෝදෙනා අසති. ඒ ප්රශ්නයට නිසි පිළිතුරක් දිය නොහැකි තරමට රටේ ඇත්තේ සංකීර්ණ තත්ත්වයකි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා සහ අගමැතිවරයා හැරුණුවිට බොහෝ ඇමැතිවරුන් කිසිදු වැඩක් කරනු නොපෙනේ. රටක් දුවවන්නට ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ උත්සාහය පමණක් මදිය. ඒ සඳහා සමස්ත ඇමැති මණ්ඩලයේම පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේම සහයෝගය අවශ්යවේ. කුණු කන්ද නාය ගියද විශාල පිරිසක් එයින් මියගියද තවමත් ආණ්ඩුවට ඒ සඳහා නිසි විසඳුමක් ලබාදෙන්නට නොහැකි වී තිබේ. රටේ සෑම දෙසින් ම පෙනෙන්නේ වැඩ වර්ජන හා විරෝධතා ව්යාපාරයන්ය. මෙවර ඉන්ධන සේවක වැඩ වර්ජනයේදී එය පැහැදිලිවම දක්නට ලැබුණි. ඊට විසඳුම ලෙස ආණ්ඩුව ඇමැති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් විශේෂ ඒකකයක් ස්ථාපිත කරන්නට යන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
රනිල් ධර්මසේන උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින රටේ විනය රැකීමට ආරක්ෂක අංශවල බලතල ඇමැති ෆීල්ඩ් මාෂල් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතාට ලබා දිය යුතු බවට ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඇමැති මණ්ඩල රැස්වීමේදී ප්රකාශ කළේ විහිළුවට මෙන් බව සමාජ සවිබල ගැන්වීම හා සුබ සාධන ඇමැති එස්. බී. දිසානායක මහතා පැවසීය. මෙම ඇමැති මණ්ඩල රැස්වීමට තමාද සහභාගීවු බවත් ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා මේ ප්රකාශය කිරීමෙන් පසුව එහි සිටි ඇමැතිවරුන්ට සිනහ ගිය බවත් ඊයේ (27දා) ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේ පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී ඇමැතිවරයා කියා සිටියේය. ෆීල්ඩ් මාෂල් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතාට විනය රැකීමට භාරදීම පිළිබඳ ප්රකාශයෙහි විහිළුවකට එහා ගිය දෙයක් නොමැති බවද ඒ ගැන ගණන් ගත යුතු නොමැති බවද එස්.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
Editorial Courtesy The Island April 27, 2017, 12:00 pm The yahapalana administration has unwittingly admitted that there is only one person with a backbone within its ranks. Cabinet Spokesman Rajitha Senaratne told the media on Wednesday that the government had decided to prove that it had a backbone vis-a-vis what he called politically motivated protests. President Maithripala Sirisena would, he said, put Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka in charge of the armed forces and police to bring order out of chaos. The government has apparently got cold feet perhaps due to strong public criticism as evident from Minister S. B. Dissanayake’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
Dr. M. W. N. Dharmawardene Courtesy The Island April 27, 2017, 9:41 pm Much has been written on the foreseen disaster which could have been averted easily and was a manmade disaster by the authorities of CMC, by their sheer neglect by piling tonnes & tonnes of rubbish of Colombo on the hapless Meethotamulla residents, in spite of their continuous protests not do so. What use is it of having the so called Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, UNHRC of the World body, and so called NGOs shedding crocodile tears on dogs’ rights and elephant rights, but not the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
By Charles Perera France which was attacked once again by the terrorists for the forth time this year, now lives in constant fear not knowing when and where would be the next attack and how many would be the innocent lives that would be taken away to satisfy the God of the faith blinded terrorists. There were 12 terrorists attacks since 2016 which left 89 lives lost and many wounded. In the face of the rise of nationalism France is gathering forces to burying their political differences to defeat nationalism at all cost. This should be an example to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada April 26, 2017 The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Dear Editor: Your news item bylined Stewart Bell - Trudeau in photo with former VP of terror group - Banned WTM affiliated with Tamil Tigers - says one thing about the Liberals, they are either inherently naive or that they have not given up supporting Tamil Tiger terrorism in Sri Lanka. It were he Liberals of the Chretien-Martin leaderships that let the Tamil Tiger sympathizers collect two million dollars a month for 13 long years to stuff... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara President (Mahanuwara Sinhala Bauddha Jesta Purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya and Ex Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka 24.4.2017 I want my readers to read the following harangue by an Indian man, one P. Nedumaran calling himself Leader, Tamil National Movement, issued to The Hindu from India to understand the mentality of an average Indian about Sri Lanka and its Government Every time I read a statement like this from any Indian, whether it is from a politician from India or this country or any man or woman like a journalist or an activist I get the impression... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
ලංකා සී නිවුස් අමාත්ය පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක මහතා නංගි පෙන්නා අක්කා දී ඇතැයි කොළඹ දිස්ත්රීක් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී එස්. එම්. මරික්කාර මහතා අද (25) ජනාධිපතිවරයාට පැමිණිලි කර තිබේ. ඒ, කොළඹ සහ තදාසන්න ප්රදේශවල කසළ කළමනාකරණය විධිමත් කිරීම පිළිබඳ අද (25) පෙරවරුවේ ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවෙන් අනතුරුවය. මීතොටමුල්ල ඛේදවාචකයෙන් නිවාස අහිමි වුවනට නාගරික සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය සතු මන්ඩාවිල නිවාස සංකීර්ණයෙන් නිවාස 98ක් මිලදී ගැනීම සඳහා මහ භාණ්ඩාගාරයෙන් එක නිවසකට රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 40 බැගින් රුපියල් මිලියන 392ක් ලබාදී තිබියදී, නාගරික සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය ලබාදී ඇත්තේ රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 20 ට ඇස්තමේන්තුකර තිබු නිවාස බවට මරිකාර් මන්ත්රීවරයා එහිදී චෝදනා කර තිබේ. මෙමගින් නාගරික සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය රුපියල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Foreign Exchange Bill which presented in Parliament by the government is similar to what former Norwegian peace envoy Erik Solheim envisaged, the joint opposition said today. It said the Bill would enable the Tamil Diaspora which was a repository of LTTE funds to invest in Sri Lanka without any control or monitoring by the Central Bank (CB). “Solheim mentioned this at an interview with ‘The Hindu’ soon after the election victory of President Maithripala Sirisena. He said the government should reach out to the Tamil Diaspora and get them to invest in Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/04/17)
Oil tank deal with India will be harmful to Sri Lanka - Sarath Weerasekara ඉන්දියාව සමඟ ඇති කරගත් තෙල් ටැංකි ගිවිසුම රටට හානි දායකයි https://youtu.be/t2kh0H6zbu4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/04/17)
Dilrook Kannangara Those who supported SLFP candidates in 1994 (Chandrika), 2005 (Mahinda) and 2015 (Sirisena) have no moral right to oppose the abolition of executive presidency. Abolishing was a key promise of all three presidents since 1994. However, morality is absent not just among politicians but also their voters. Deception and lying is accepted as right. Having tasted limitless powers, Sirisena too has fallen in the same honeypot his predecessors were in. It is not just the president, his/her entire family and relatives depend on executive powers. This is why it is always forgotten after winning power. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/04/17)
By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island The following was prompted by the news story, appropriately headlined “Punish perpetrators of war crimes, atrocities – NGO pack”, in The Island of April 20, 2017, according to which, Akalanka Hettiarachchi, representing an NGO called Aluth Parapura (New Generation), stressed that “all those who had perpetrated crimes during the war and post-conflict should be dealt forthwith”. The young NGO activist was addressing the media during an event conducted by the Collective of Civil Society Organizations (CCSO) at the Centre for Society and Religion, Maradana on Tuesday April 18, 2017. The CCSO called... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/04/17)
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි මම මගේ කාමරයේ කවුලුවෙන් පිටත බලා හිඳිමි. දෑස මානයේ පෙනෙන්නේ ගෙවල් යායකි. මේ රටේ, අප රටේ මෙන් පර්චස් වලින් ඉඩම් වපසරිය ගැන කතා කිරීමක් නොවන නමුත්, දැනට ගෙවූ ජීවිත කාලයෙන් 6/7 ක් ම වාගේ ගෙවා ඇත්තේ මා උපන් රටේ බැවින්, මේ ඉඩම් කැබැල්ලක ප්රමාණය පර්චස් 10 ක් හෝ වැඩිම වුනොත් 15 ක් බව නිවැරදිව අනුමාන කල හැකිය. නමුත් මෙහි ගෙයක් සැලසුම් කිරීමේදී තම සිතැඟි පරිදි නොව, පලාතේ පාලන අධිකාරිය විසින් සපයන උපදෙස් අනුව එය සිදුකල යුතු බැවින් ඒ කුඩා ඉඩකඩ තුල ඉදිරිපස හා පසුපස ගෙවතුද ඉතිරි කරමින්, පුද්ගලයෙකුට නිස්කලංක ජීවිතයක් ගෙවීම සඳහා අවශ්ය වන අංගෝපාංග සහිතව නිවෙස්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/04/17)
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ "රටේ පාලනය උගතුන් අතට බාරදිය යුතුය." මේ එක්තරා කොට්ටාශයක් පල කරන තමන්ගේ මතයයි. "නිදහස් අධ්යාපනය සුරැකිය යුතුය" තවත් කණ්ඩායමක් කියා සිටි. තවත් කට්ටියක් "අධ්යාපනය පෞද්ගලික කරණය නොකරනු" යයි ඉල්ලා සිටි. රට පුරාම උගතුන් ඉල්ලා මහා හඩක් ඉතිරි පැතිරී යන්නේ අද ඊයෙක සිට නොව. නිදහස ලැබීමට පෙර දවස සිටමය. රටට නිදහස ලැබීමට පෙර අපට නිදහස් අධ්යාපනය ලබිණ. ඒ කන්නන්ගර ශ්රීමතානන්ගේ බලවත් උවමනාව නිසාය. කන්නන්ගර මහතා, රටට වඩ වඩාත් උගතුන් බිහි කිරීමේ යාන්ත්රණයක් නිර්මාණය කරනවිට, කෘෂිකර්මයට බද්ධව සිටි පෞද්ගලික ඉඩම් හිමි වැවිලි කරුවෙකුවූ ඩී. එස්. සේනානායක මහතා, මේ කන්නන්ගර මහතා කරන වැඩෙන් පොල් ගහක ගෙඩියක්වත් කඩා ගන්න මිනිහෙක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/04/17)
ALI SUKHANVER “We are sold out to India----we are a slave nation---we are monkeys whose strings are in the hands of the Indian extremists,” an old factory worker in Dacca said talking to a reporter. He was asked to comment upon Hasina Wajid’s recent visit to India. Though from Hasina’s point of view this is a success story visit but for the people of Bangladesh, it is dawning of a new series of trials and tribulations. Hasina’s signing different pacts with India has given a rise to anger throughout Bangladesh. BNP senior joint secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said talking... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/04/17)
වෘත්තිකයන්ගේ ජාතික පෙරමුණ (PNF) පසුගියදා ජනමාධ්ය වාර්ථා කර තිබුන ආකාරයට අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා ඉන්දියාව බලා පිටත්ව යනුයේ ඉන්දීය අගමැති මෝදි මහතා හමුවී අපේ රටට තීරනාත්මකව බලපාන්නා වූ කාරනා කිහිපයකටම සිය අවසාන එකගතාවය පලකිරීමටය. ඒ අතර අපේ රටට තීරනාත්මකව බල පාන්නාවූ එට්කා ගිවිසුම ද වේ. රට තුල මහත් ආන්දෝලනයකට තුඩුදුන් එට්කා ගිවිසුම පිළිබදව රටේ පිළිගත් වෘත්තිකයන්ගේ ප්රබල සංවිධාන රැසක එකමුතුවෙන් ගොඩ නංවන ලද වෘත්තිකයන්ගේ ජාතික පෙරමුණ (PNF) ලෙස අප අපගේ බලවත් අවධානය පසුගිය කාලය පුරාම යොමු කළෙමු. එහි අහිතකර පලවිපාක පිළිබදව වරින් වර ජනතාව දැනුවත් කිරීමට ද පියවර ගත්තෙමු. පාලකයින්ගේ ද සෙසු බලධාරීන්ගේ ද ඇස් ඇරවීමට ද වරින් වර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/04/17)
R Chandrasoma Large and powerful countries live in fear of neighbours - not because the latter pose a serious threat to their stability and dominance in military terms but because of an atavistic fear that distant World Powers that do pose a challenge may enlist the support of the weak neighbours to overthrow the local Hegemon. Indeed, this fear has been the root cause of the global political turmoil that followed the defeat of Hitler in World War II. The fear of Communism led to the ravaging and destruction of large parts of the world that were mere bystanders... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Politicians in this country instigate people to carry on strikeS irrespective of the nature of the problem ,and without studying the proposal –may be… From the government- side there should be many public forums explaining the circumstances under which Indians have been entrusted the peacekeeping functions in the North and how Rajeev Gandhi blackmailed Sri Lankans to sign in to the Indian Pease agreement .Then Indians shrewdly included Trinco tank farm in to the agreement as a strategic move .That was the ulterior intention ,and JR had to givein ,JVP is also responsible for this because... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ ඇතැමුන් මෛත්රිපාලට විරුද්ධ වීම පුදුමයක් නො වෙයි. ඔහු ශ්රී ල නි ප හැර දමා ඊනියා පොදු අපේක්ෂකයා නමින් ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ දී එ ජා ප අපේක්ෂයා වීම ඉතාමත් පිළිකුල් සගතයි. ඔහුට ලැබුණේ ඊනියා පොදු ඡන්දයක් නොව එ ජා ප දෙමළ හා මුස්ලිම් ඡන්ද. ශ්රී ල නි ප ඡන්ද ලැබුණේ නැහැ. මෛත්රිපාල ඊනියා පොදු අපේක්ෂකයා වීම ගැන තවත් වරදකරුවන් ඉන්නවා. ඒ ඉන්දිය ඔත්තු සේවය රෝ පමණක් නො වෙයි. මෛත්රිපාල දක්ෂයකු නො වෙයි. එහෙත් ඔහුට පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුවේ අගමැතිකම නොලැබුණේ හුදෙක් ඔහුගේ අදක්ෂතාව නිසා නො වෙයි. ඔහුට ඇතැම් රාජපක්ෂලා අතින් කෙණහිළිකම් සිදු වුණා. මහින්දගේ හා ගෝඨාභයගේ නම් ඒ අතර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/04/17)
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 1) 2020 මහ මැතිවරණයෙන් අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක විශිෂ්ඨ ජයක් අත් කරගෙන තිබේ. ලංකාවේ ප්රථම වරට ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට චන්දයකින් බලයට ඒමට හැකි විය. අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ගේ ජයග්රහනය ලංකාවේ නව යුගයක් ඇති කරන බවට ලකුණු පහල වී තිබේ. මෙතෙක් ප්රධාන පක්ෂ දෙකේ හොරකම් , දූෂණය සහ නාස්තිය නිසා ප්රපාතයට වැටී සිටි ලංකාව බේරා ගැනීමට හැකි ගැලවුම්කරුවා ඔහු බව ජවිපෙ හිතවාදීන් පමණක් නොව මෙතෙක් කල් ප්රධාන පක්ෂ වලට චන්දය දුන් ජනයාද පවසති. 2) අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක සරල නායකයෙකි. ඔහු නව රජයේ බොහෝ වියදම් කපා ඒවා ජනතා සුබසෙත සඳහා යොදවා තිබේ. පාර්ලිමේන්තු නියෝජිතයන්ට අධික මිලැති සුපිරි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/04/17)
Mental health experts say President is -paranoid and delusional-Donald Trump has a -dangerous mental illness- and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists has warned during a conference at Yale University. Mental health experts claimed the President was “paranoid and delusionalâ€, and said it was their “ethical responsibility†to warn the American public about the “dangers†Mr Trump’s psychological state poses to the country.... -Full Story- (independent.co.uk - 26/04/17)
V.Anandasangaree Secretary General -TULF The birth anniversary of Thanthai Chelva falls on the 26th of this month. Everyone has a duty to commemorate it. The most unfortunate thing is that, even important Tamil personalities refer to him as the founder of the Federal Party. No one disputes it. But above everything he was the founder of the Tamil United Front, which name was changed as Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF).On the 14th of May 1972 the two great Tamil Political parties, the All Ceylon Tamil Congress(ACTC) led by Hon.G.G.Ponnambalam Q.C and the Federal Party (FP) led by Hon.S.J.V.Chelvanayagam, Q.C... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/04/17)
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සංවිධානය වසර තුනකට වැඩි කලක් එකම වසමක සේවය කළ සියළුම ග්රාම නිලධාරිවරුන්ට වහා ස්ථාන මාරුවීම් ලබාදීමට ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශය 2017 මාර්තු 7 දින ලබාදුන් නියෝගය, ඡන්ද හිමි නාමලේඛන ප්රතිශෝධනය අවසන් වන වසර අවසානය තෙක් අත්හිටුවන ලෙස කැෆේ සංවිධානය ඉල්ලයි. පසුගිය අප්රේල් 7 දින වන විට මෙම මාරුවීම් ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට නියමිතව තිබූ නමුත්, අලුත් අවුරුද්ද සහ වෙසක් සතිය අවසන්වන තෙක් මෙම ස්ථාන මාරුවීම් තාවකාලිකව අත්හිටවූ බව 2017 අප්රේල් 7 දින ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම් නීල් ද අල්විස් මහතා ලිපියක් මගින් දිස්ත්රික් ලේකම්වරුන් වෙත දන්වා තිබුණි. ඒ අනුව, වෙසක් සතිය අවසන්වීමෙන් පසුව ජනප්රිය පාසල් අයත්වන ග්රාම නිලධාරි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/04/17)
CaFFE requests secretary to the ministry of Home Affairs and Elections Commission Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) urges the ministry of home affairs to stay its order issued on 7 March 2017, to transfer all grama niladaris who have served in the same station for more than three years, until the voter registry revision is completed. Although the transfers were to be implemented by 7 April, Neil de Alwis, secretary to the ministry of home affairs, has sent a letter to district secretaries informing them that the transfers were halted till the end of the Vesak... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/04/17)
Sarath Wijesinghe- former Ambassador to UAE and Israel - former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority Waste is Gold – not a nuisance Waste is Gold in other parts of the world, managing to derive the power, fertilizer, chemicals, and many other subsidiaries for their development and prosperity, not considered a nuisance but an asset. Other parts of the Globe states have given priority on waste management including disposal, recycling, converting to consumer items and used in industry, with national and local plans linked to education and “good practices” adopted by the citizen compatible with the master plan of the state.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/04/17)
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Association Rt Hon Bill English, Prime Minister of New Zealand. Dear Mr. English I write to forward this article from the UK Daily Mail of 21/4/17 showing how Tamil Tiger Terrorist affiliates from Sri Lanka “self inflict by proxy” torture , to enable them to obtain “refugee status” to live in UK while at the same time wrongly discrediting Sri Lanka , by accusing their security forces of being responsible for torture. There is also an attachment from an account in 2015 describing the same, as it was going on in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/04/17)
Anjalika Silva USA Dual citizenship for Sri Lankan expatriates living overseas is assumed by successive Governments to be a status that will benefit the country through loyalty with financial and property ownership privileges provided for Dual Citizenship holders. As the two main reasons for Dual citizenship, not many go beyond personal reasons to provide benefits to the country in general except for investment returns. There is a side to dual citizenship that has taken a turn to become an aversion to those who do not opt for dual citizenship. Dual citizenship or not is of little consequence if any... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/04/17)
S. Talpahewa, Former Chairman/Managing Director, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation. Courtesy The Island April 24, 2017, 10:03 pm Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka in his article, "Ranil’s worst betrayal: Giving Trincomalee to India", implies that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has betrayed the country at least twice before, i. e. one a bad betrayal and two a worse betrayal. Whatever it may be, his betrayals have affected the country immensely. The country’s ills are the creations of politicians. The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has suffered the most at the hands of politicians. CPC, once a very well managed Government Institution was one time... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/04/17)
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka in his article, 'Meethotamulla and the Fate of the Executive Presidency', draws a parallel between the Meethotamulla tragedy and the dangers we face as a nation. More than 30 people were buried alive in garbage by the failure to address the dangers of a growing mountain of refuse. Even the warnings of His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith failed to register on the relevant bodies. This is, Dr. Jayatilleka writes, "....eerily symbolic of this government's policies and performance which taken together is a growing pile of dangerous neglect and toxicity". This government,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Karadiana will receive garbage till 28th April .Then What ? Fairway Inc has got a contract to recycle 500 tons from Dehiwela ,Mountlavinia ,Moratuwa etc in Kardiyana . It will take at least 2 year to commission the project ,They will ( hopefully get ) almost 36 Rs per Unit from CEB and 1500 Rs Per ton from Municipal Councils as tipping fee Korean Company has got 10 acres from Muthurajawela near Dutch Canal ( not Hamilton Canal) for Gampaha Garbage for 500 tons .When the stuff comes from Gampaha which include Jaela,Kandana ,Gampaha etc in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
Sanchita Bhattacharya Visiting Scholar, Institute for Conflict Management The practice of condemning an individual or a particular group for following 'certain religious practices' in the name of blasphemy has intensified acts of violence in Pakistan. In the latest blasphemy case, Mashal Khan, a student, was brutally lynched by his own hostel mates at Abdul Wali Khan University (AWKU) in the Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in broad daylight on April 13, 2017, after being accused of blasphemy. The deceased was a resident of Swabi and a student at AWKU's Journalism and Mass Communications department. A friend of the deceased... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
Sarath Obeysekera We have done some blood tests in two different leading hospitals known for accurate reports. One consultant looked at them and got confused when he read different values in both reports for same tests He advised us to go to Apollo Hospital ,where modern latest equipment are used ,claiming that this is the best place to re do the tests as they supposed to be using modern equipment We went to Apollo at 6.00 am and approached main reception .He did not even look at our face but glued to the computer .After few seconds looked at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් මීතොටමුල්ලේ කුණු කන්ද කඩා වැටීම නිසා මිය ගියේ 33ක් යයි මාධ්යවලින් වාර්තා කලද එම ප්රමාණය සත්ය වශයෙන්ම 200ක් පමණ විය හැකි යයි නියෝජ්ය ඇමති රන්ජන් රාමනායක මහතා පවසයි. මෙම සිදුවීම සමූල ඝාතනයක් යයිද පවසන ඔහු ඊට වගකිව යුතු සියල්ලන්ට මිනීමැරුම් චෝදනා එල්ලවන්නේ යයිද සදහන් කරයි. කුණු කන්දේ ව්යාපෘතිය කල් දමන ලද සියළු දෙනාට හෙන ගහන බවද ඔහු වැඩු දුරටත් පවසයි. වීඩියෝව මෙතනින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
ලංකා සී නිවුස් ත්රිකුණාමලය තෙල් ටැංකි සංකීර්ණය ඉන්දියාවට ලබා දීමේ විපාක හා එම ටැංකි සංකීරණයේ ඉතිහාස කතාව මීට පෙර ඛණිජ තෙල් ඇමති ධුරයද දැරු වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේද ඇමතිවරයෙක් වන සුසිල් පේ්රමජයන්ත් මහතා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
BY RIZA YEHIYA Courtesy Ceylon Today The actors were the so-called 'Environmentalists'. Their hyperbolic claim was the 'Rape of the Wilpattu forest'. The outcome was Mawillu being Gazetted as a Conservation Reserve Forest. Neither has a single alleged offender been apprehended nor have the 'environmentalists' substantiated their claims. Much to their embarrassment, President Maithripala Sirisena later confirmed to the nation that there is no deforestation taking place within the Wilpattu Forest Complex. So then what is the rationale behind all this, hullabaloo about Wilpattu? Couple of theories abound. One of which is to project power in a contested region to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
with Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today "A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy" – AMERICAN COMEDIAN, MUSICIAN, WRITER DEMETRI MARTIN The interview that Minister of Disaster Management Anura Priyadharshana Yapa had with this columnist in yesterday's Sunday edition of the Ceylon Today says not just a mouthful, but a bellyful! The Minister also disclosed that the underlying reasons for the incumbent crisis is the rapid urbanization of Colombo and more so of the suburbs which have almost become... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island April 23, 2017, 12:00 pm Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. Peiris yesterday told The Island that a recent British Court of Appeal ruling that a Sri Lankan asylum seeker had got a doctor to inflict grievous injuries in a bid to deceive British authorities should prompt a wider investigation into unsubstantiated allegations levelled those seeking asylum against the Sri Lankan military. The Court of Appeal has identified the 35-year-old claimant only by the initials KV. The British Court of Appeal rejected his appeal. The former law professor said that the British Court of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
ලංකා සී නිවුස් දිවයිනේ පලාත් පාලන ආයතනයන් සඳහා විදී ලාම්පු සවි කිරීමෙදි දැනට භාවිතා කරන අධික විදුලිය වැය වන වීදි ලාම්පු වෙනුවට LED විදුලි පිරිමැස්ම සහිත ව්යාපතියක් සඳහා අවශ්ය ඇනවුම් ලබාදීමට අවශ්ය ආණ්ඩුවේ අනුමැතිය ලබාදීමට ඩොලර් මිලියන 20 ක (රුපියල් මිලියන 3000ක්) අල්ලසක් එක්තරා සමාගමකින් ඉල්ලා ඇති බව එජාප හිතවාදී වෙබ් අඩවියකින් චෝදනා කරයි. ජනපති පුත් දහම් සිරිසේන හරහා ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට ලබා දිය යුතු යැයි කියා ජනාධිපතිගේ ලේකම්වරයෙකු වන මියුරු භාෂිත ලියනගේ විසින් ඩොලර් මිලියන 20 ක අල්ලසක් එක්තරා සමාගමකින් ඉල්ලා ඉන් අත්තිකාරම් ලෙස ඩොලර් මිලියනයක් ගත් බවත් වාර්තා කොට ඇත. පුවත මෙතනින් http://lankaenews.com/news/5629/si ඉසුරු සහ චම්පික... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17) Janaki Chandraratna I like to comment on the discussion featured in the Island Newspaper on the enemy of the Joint Opposition, in recent times. Needless to say I respect Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke and Dr. Mahinda Pathirana for raising this issue, as very often people are misguided by the contradictory statements in the media by the Prime Minister and the President on matters of national interest. I believe that the support of intellectuals like Dayan and Mahinda are important to save our country along with Gota, Mahinda and other patriotic leaders from the threat of division through the forthcoming constitution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා රනිල් තකහනියක් ඉන්දියාවට යන්නෙ ගිවිසුම් කිහිපයක් අත්සන් කිරීමට කියා කිසිවකු හිතනවා නම් එය දේශපාලනය ගැන වැටහීමක් නැති කමෙන් කෙරෙන්නක්. අපට විදුලිය ලබා දීම ගැන කතා කරන ඉන්දියාව රටෙන් කොපමණ ප්රමාණයකට විදුලිය දී තිබේ ද? මෝදී ඊනියා ජාත්යන්තර වෙසක් උත්සවයට සහභාගි වීමට තව සති දෙකකින් ලංකාවට පැමිණීමට නියමිතයි. ඒ තවත් ව්යාජයක්. ජාත්යන්තර වෙසක් දිනය (පූර්නිමා) ඉන්දියාවේ ජාතික නිවාඩු දිනයක් නො වෙයි. සිංහල බෞද්ධයන් රැවටීමට හැමෝම කටයුතු කරනවා. සිංහල බෞද්ධයන් ද රැවටෙන්නට දත කට මැදගෙන බලා සිටිනවා. සිංහල අවුරුද්දට රට පනින රනිල්ට සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතිය ගැන ඇති කැක්කුම කුමක් ද? රනිල්ට වෙසක් වැදගත් ද? රනිල්ට මෝදි ලවා වෙසක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
සංජය ලියනගේ– සත්හඬ April 23, 2017 | lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් දැනට දියාගෝ ගාර්ෂියා හි ස්ථානගතව සිටින ආසියා – ෆැසිපික් සාගර කලාපයේ ඇමරිකානු 5 වන නෞකා සේනාංකය ලංකාවේ ඩෙල්ෆ් දූපත් සමූහයේ ස්ථානගත කිරීමේ සූදානමක් පවතින බව දේශපාලන ආරංචි මාර්ග සඳහන් කරයි. ඊට අදාළ රාජ්යතාන්ත්රික මැදිහත්වීම නුදුරේදීම එක්සත් ජනපදය විසින් සිදු කරනු ඇති බව සඳහන් කරන එම ආරංචි මාර්ග වැඩිදුරටත් පවසා සිටින්නේ එක්සත් ජනපදය මෙරට සමඟ 2007 වසරේ අත්සන් කළ The Acquisition and Cross – Services Agreement (ACSA) ගිවිසුම මත පදනම්ව ඇමරිකානු 5 වන නෞකා සේනාංකය සඳහා ඩෙල්ෆ් දූපත ඉල්ලා සිටීම සිදුවනු ඇති බවය. මේ අයුරින් ඇමරිකා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
ප්රදීප් අනුර කුමාර lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් වසර තිහක යුද්ධයක් අවසන් කර රටට සාමය දිනා දීම වෙනුවෙන් ලැබෙන තෑග්ග තමන් ඇතුළු රණවිරුවන් දං ගෙඩියට දක්කාගෙන යාමදැයි හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ප්රශ්න කළේය. අතුරුදන් වූවන් පිළිබඳ කාර්යාලය ස්ථාපිත කිරීමේ පනත මඟින් කරන්නට යන්නේ රණවිරුවන් දංගෙඩියට දක්කාගෙන යාම බව පැවසූ රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මෙම පනතේ භයානකකම රටට ආදරය කරන සෑම අයකුම තේරුම් ගත යුතු බවත් පැවසීය. හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ දිවංගත රෙජී රණතුංග මහතාගේ 80 වැනි ඡන්ම දින සමරුවට මිනුවන්ගොඩ, උඩුගම්පොළ රෙජී රණතුංග සමරු සම්න්ත්රණ ශාලාවේ දී පැවැති ගුණ සමරු උත්සවයට සහභාගී වෙමිනි. රෙජී රණතුංග ගුණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
by Professor Mahinda Palihawadana I think I was asked to take part in this discussion1 because I am a vegetarian and a Buddhist as well. If that is so, the impression probably was that I am a vegetarian because I am Buddhist and that in my opinion I have to be vegetarian in order to observe the first precept. Well, I must say that this is not why I am vegetarian. So I must provide you with a little bit of autobiographical material. I never became vegetarian. My mother’s brother was a vegetarian – that was more than 70... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I wrote about it sometime back.Not only colour we need to do a full make over and change the name to “Rajapurusha” !!!!!! Read Below SRI LANKAN POLICE ( NEW NAME ) NEEDS NEW OUT LOOK AND TRAINING Posted on January 11th, 2017 Dr Sarath Obeysekera During my stay in UK ,I have noted that UK Police is trained to be polite to the people .When you drive the car erroneously and violate a regulation such as dropping a cigarette butt on the pavement ,or drink or eat while driving ,they stop you. Once... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
by Danister I. Fernando Buddhism is a way of life. What is mainly essential, according to the noble philosophy of Sakya Muni the Buddha is to follow the Eightfold Path leading to complete emancipation- Nibbana. But it is wrong to conclude that Buddhism is interested only in such lofty ideals and high philosophical thought ignoring the social, economic and political welfare of the people. Buddha was a marvellous repository of loving kindness (metta) and compassion (karuna) towards all beings and was greatly interested in the happiness of not only the mankind but of all other beings as well. To... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
Business Mattel, a multinational toy manufacturer that for decades inspired the wonder of childhood across the globe, has identified Sri Lanka as a key market for growth. In a recent presentation to Mattel’s local partners, at Cinnamon Lakeside, Ishmeet Singh, Country Manager – South Asia, outlined the toy company’s vision for Sri Lanka. Citing the burgeoning middle class, growth in GDP in recent years and the large population of children, which is currently pegged at approximately 5.5 million, he affirmed that the Sri Lankan toy industry, which is still in its nascent stages, is on the cusp of major... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා අවුරුදු විසිපහකට පමණ පෙර 1992 මැයි මස 29 වැනි දින මා මොරටුව විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ සිංහල සාහිත්ය සංගමය මගින් සංවිධානය කරන ලද රැස්වීමක ඉහත සඳහන් මාතෘකාවෙන් දේශනයක් කළා. එය පොත් පිංචක් ලෙස ඒ සංගමයෙන් මුද්රණය කෙරුණා. 1990 මැයි 29 වැනි දින ඒ මහතාගේ ජන්ම ශත සංවත්සරයේ දී මා විශේෂ දේශනයක් කළා. මට මතක හැටියට ඒ දේශනය කෙළේ නව රඟහලේ දී. එහි දී මා කීවේ කුමක් දැයි මතක නැහැ. එහෙත් මොරටුවේ දී මා කී දේ අර පොත් පිංචෙන් කියවා ගත්තා. මා ඔහුට එහි විශාල ගෞරවයක් කර තිබෙනවා. ඒ අතර ඔහු ගැන විවේචනයක් ද කර තිබෙනවා. මාර්ටින් වික්රමසිංහ සිංහල බෞද්ධ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
Editorial The Island April 23, 2017, 8:46 pm Those who voted for the incumbent administration may not have expected others’ garbage to be shoved down their throats––so to speak––in this savage manner. They were promised the sun and the moon, but, today, they have their villages being turned into stinking rubbish dumps. Their protests are violently crushed. The much-touted yahapalanaya has become kunu (rubbish) palanaya! The Rajapaksa government had villagers who protested against a factory polluting their wells attacked by the army in Rathupaswala. The present government, which exploited such incidents to capture power, has taken a leaf out... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
by Neville Jayaweera April 22, 2017, 5:43 pm Nationalism is a paradox. It imparts new life to moribund societies and launches them into new orbits. Paradoxically however, once restored to a new life, the selfsame societies tend to deny to other societies the new life they had striven so hard to achieve for themselves. When I was the Government Agent (GA) of Jaffna in the early 1960s, it used to be the practice for me to lunch with N.Q.Dias, Perm Sec. Defence and External Affairs, ( hereafter NQ) whenever I came down to Colombo, which was at least once every two... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
By Tissa Ravindra Perera Courtesy The Nation Former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa lspoke to our sister paper Sunday Rivira about the macro plans launched by him during the previous regime to tackle Colombo’s garbage managemment issues and the interventions readied to tackle the problem scientifically. Q: Politicians allege that you and the previous government are responsible for the tragedy involving the deadly Meetotamulla garbage mountain. What do you have to say about this? Two years after forming a government, we ended the war completely. Yet these people even after two and a half years in governance are not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
Editorial The Sunday Island April 22, 2017, 7:42 pm Meetotamulla was a tragedy that was waiting to happen. With over 30 people, including children killed, millions of rupees worth of property damage caused, dozens whose houses were buried and at risk of further rubbish slides and methane gas explosions forced to evacuate their homes, the concerned authorities have been forced to open their eyes. The Rip Van Winkles who have now awakened are making what amends they can - not out of their own pockets or the millions made by selling their duty free vehicle permits, but out of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
by Selvam Canagaratna Courtesy The Island April 22, 2017, 5:45 pm "The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself, and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices."– John Fowles, Daniel Martin, 1977. For a man well known as much for his tenuous link with the truth – as for his own admitted life-long proclivity for ‘pussy-grabbing’ at will – Donald Trump’s response to Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly’s observation that Russian President Vladimir Putin was ‘a killer’ was so... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
Courtesy The Island April 22, 2017, 6:00 pm The decades long scream of agony of a poisoned people and a poisoned earth for accountability on the part of one of the most vicious and manipulative of Transnational Corporates (TNCs) has been vindicated. In October 2016, the Monsanto Tribunal (MT) set up in the Hague listened to the testimony, evidence and eyewitness reports of farmers, scientists, activists, intellectuals, thinkers and citizens hailing from many countries on the misery visited upon this peopled earth by Monsanto. On the 18th of April 2017 it delivered its advisory opinion, damning this company for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE The stench from Meethotamulla, metaphorically speaking, is being matched by the stench of political rivals lobbing chunks of political garbage at one another. The politically dispassionate pointing out that there are countries where such disasters resulted in the resignation of relevant subject ministers or officials, called for the resignation of those responsible. The most uncomfortable thing about all this is that people don’t have any position to resign from; they can’t give up their citizenship. Much has been written about waste management over the past few days. Hopefully outrage and cheap politicking will give way to sober... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා ලෝකයේ ලොකුම නගරය කොළඹ ද කියලා දැන් අහන්න වෙනවා. චම්පක රණවක ඔහුට සුපුරුදු විධියට මීතොටමුල්ලේ කුණු කන්දේ වට ප්රමාණය, උස ආදිය ගැන දශමයට ජනතාව දැනුවත් කළා. ඔහු සංඛ්යානයෙහි විශේෂඥයකු නොවූවත් සංඛ්යා ලේඛන ඉදිරිපත් කරන්න දක්ෂයෙක්. ජාතික හෙළ උරුමයෙන් හාමුදූරුවරුන් කී දෙනකු අස්වුණා ද කියලා ඇහුවොත් ඔහු උපසම්පදා භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ මෙපමණ ය සාමණේර භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ මෙපමණ ය ආදී වශයෙන් ගණන් හිලවු කියාවි. ඒකට රතන හාමුදුරුවන් ඇතුළත් කරනව ද නැද්ද කියන එක නම් ප්රශ්නයක් වේවි. චම්පක කියන අන්දමේ ලොකු කුණු කන්දක් ලන්ඩනයේවත් නිව්යෝක්හිවත්, තෝකියෝවෙවත්, සිංගප්පූරුවෙවත් නැතිව ඇති. මෙරට ජනයාත්, දේශපාලනඥයනුත්, උගතුනුත්, නිලධාරීනුත් හැම තිස්සෙ ම කතා කරන්නෙ බටහිර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
Politics is the last resort of scoundrels----still one cannot blame them, but I will most certainly blame those idiots who voted for them. The difficultynow is to find them is because NO ONE claims having voted for them ------so says even Bernard Shaw! A brilliant analysis by Dr Dayan Jayatileke-----exposing the lack of basic professionalism by a regime that can be best referred to as a group of utter misfits, in a rather charitable manner! This groups record of failed events keeps mounting and horrors of horrors it has ended the lives of at least 36 innocent human beings ,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
Courtesy The Island * Prominent yahapalana theoretician talks of ‘failed govt.’ * Protests over multiple issues to resume with a vengeance * Derana TV subject to good cop - bad cop routine April 22, 2017, 7:38 pm While the Meetotamulla tragedy drowned out all other news during and after the Sinhala and Tamil new year, one person who seemed to earn some credit even in the eyes of detractors during this period was Minister Sagala Ratnayake who went to the site of the tragedy at least three times braving all the hostility and hooting and jeering by enraged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
We worked according to a plan - Mahinda (English) https://youtu.be/06_zTKIU538... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/04/17)
Sheep are one of the most unfairly stereotyped animals on the planet. Almost everything we believe about them is wrong.They are one of the most unfairly stereotyped animals on the planet. Almost everything we believe about them is wrong.... -Full Story- (bbc.com - 23/04/17)
Some possible precipitating factors are already in place, and how the West reacts to them will determine the world’s future.... -Full Story- (bbc.com - 23/04/17)
Premajayantha opposes leasing of oil to India https://youtu.be/FUBGs8xFJ3g... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/04/17)
Champika is going to implement Gotabaya's plan - Mahinda https://youtu.be/FNNbgv2AU9s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/04/17)
Multiple protests by residents against dumping garbage from Colombo https://youtu.be/xZ0SsaO6u_0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/04/17)
Sudath Gunasekara 17.4.2017. The President said that the Government would ensure that no garbage would be dumped at the site in the future and the existing site will be shifted soon. - See more at: http://www.ft.lk/article/609541/Garbage-turns-gorysthash.Mz3Idvd3.dpuf I have two questions on the President decision. How many Presidents and politicians have said the same thing before. But why didn’t they solve this problem until 32 people died and so many displaced and victimized . Presidents decision. ‘existing site will be shifted soon’. First ‘Going by what has happened to many of his previous orders, I am very skeptical about... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17) Ranjith Soysa Media Spokesperson Global Sri Lankan Forum Mr Salil Shetty, Secretary General-Amnesty International Dear Mr. Salil Shetty, REQUEST TO PROBE INTO THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND WAR CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE INDIAN PEACE KEEPING FORCE IN SRI LANKA IN 1987-1990. At an interview with the Mr Shamindra Ferdinando the Deputy Editor of the ‘Island’ news paper of Sri Lanka on 4 April 2017 you have said that if credible evidence is available, AI will probe into the HR violations committed by the IPKF in Sri Lanka between 1987- 1990. We give below a few instances of HR... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
by, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha Long time ago, India consisted of many countries. Vanga was one of the countries in India at that time. The king of Vanga (present-day Bengal) married a princess named Mayavati of the Kalinga country (present-day Odisha). The couple had a daughter named Suppadevi. She was thought to be in the Hindu culture as an extremely beautiful goddess. As an adult at sixteen those-days, Princess Suppadevi left Vanga to seek an independent life. She joined a caravan headed for Magadha; but it was attacked by Sinha a beastly jungle outlaw as of Robin-hood of the Sherwood Forest. Sinha... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
ALI SUKHANVER ‘Facebook is diminishing the working capabilities of Youth’ and also ‘affecting the students’, said the cabinet of Bangladesh in a letter to the Telecom Ministry. The Cabinet has suggested putting a limited ban on Facebook, according to various Bangladeshi newspapers. If this ban imposed successfully, Bangladesh would be the first country in South-Asian region which took the misuse of social media seriously. God knows better how the Telecom Ministry would spare time to read this letter because this ministry is already too much preoccupied and overburdened. Bangladesh’s Ministry of Telecom recently introduced a video game with the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
Courtesy Statesman News Service Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez played the damsel in distress in the 2016 superhero film A Flying Jatt. “If I could be a superhero, I would love to be Captain Planet. He is one superhero I have grown up watching and always loved the fact that with everything he did, he was making the environment safer, greener and a cleaner space,” Fernandez told IANS. Jacqueline Fernandez (PHOTO: FACEBOOK) RAW Pressery, a cold pressed juice brand, announced her as an investor aka “Green Warrior”. “In a world flooded with highly processed and unhealthy junk, RAW... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
By Yang Yang Courtesy chinadaily.com.cn Anura Banda has been in China for over 20 years but he will never forget the fragrant aroma of his first sip of Chinese tea."Chinese tea is very famous in Sri Lanka. The first Chinese tea I ever had was green tea. The aroma was very pleasant. Although it was tea, it tasted like something totally different." After learning more about Chinese tea, Anura founded Beijing Heavenly Trade Co Ltd to do tea business between China and Sri Lanka in 2003. However, Anura faced great challenges due to different business environments and perspectives on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
Mica Rosenberg and Yeganeh Torbati, Reuters Courtesy Business Insider NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Raj, a Sri Lankan fisherman, sought refuge in the United States in 2005, he had precisely the kind of fear of returning home that U.S. asylum laws require. In 2004, he was kidnapped by the separatist rebel group the Tamil Tigers and had to pay $500 to secure his release, according to Raj, his lawyer and court records reviewed by Reuters. The group then demanded more money, which he could not pay after a tsunami destroyed his house and fishing boat. Raj, 42, who asked that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
Courtesy Sputnik Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to visit India from April 25 to April 29 to strengthen economic cooperation between the two neighbors. His visit will also set the agenda for the upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Sri Lanka in May. © PHOTO: DENETH17 Sri Lanka Plays Game of Ports With China and India in Indian Ocean New Delhi (Sputnik) — During the Sri Lankan Prime Minister's visit, the two countries will finalize the MoU for joint development of Trincomalee port to set up a petroleum refinery and a land lease agreement.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
Courtesy BBC An aid worker from Greater Manchester who was killed in Sri Lanka was shot and stabbed more than 40 times with broken bottles, an inquest has heard. Red Cross worker Khuram Shaikh, 32, from Rochdale, was attacked at a hotel while on holiday in Sri Lanka on Christmas Day in 2011. A witness, giving evidence for the first time, said when he was attacked it was as if he was being "targeted". The inquest in Heywood recorded a conclusion of unlawful killing. Sri Lankan politician Sampath Vidanapathirana was jailed for 20 years... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
Wade Shepard , CONTRIBUTOR Courtesy Forbes Hambantota Port is set to go to China with an impending deal that will see China Merchants take an 80% share for a specified amount of years. AFP PHOTO / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI As regional powers like China, Russia, Japan, and India vie for political and economic position throughout the eastern realms of Eurasia, many of the less powerful countries caught in the middle are employing what could be called a ‘multi-vector strategy’ as they engage openly with multiple suitors in an attempt to balance out their respective influences... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island A recent cartoon in the popular "Marmaduke" series, showed the dog Marmaduke look sadly at the trash cans emptied by urban sanitation workers. The friendly boy tried to make him feel better saying "Don’t be sad, Marmaduke. We can always make more trash." This must be how so many of those we now learn profited from the garbage dump at Meethotamulla may have felt - that there will be more garbage ahead – whenever there was a drop in urban garbage collections. Meethotamulla is the painful buzz just now. The death toll is more... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
By Tom de Castella Courtesy The Telegraph (UK) As space in Britain's landfills runs out, the race is on to find environmentally friendly alternatives. Image 4 of 5 The landfill site at Remo, north-east Belgium, which the firm Group Machiels wants to mine in order to reuse the waste I am standing on a manmade mountain, a 260ft monument to human detritus. Below, on terraces carved into the hillside, trucks rumble in and out, laden with fresh waste, and a squadron of diggers charges back and forth, spreading, crushing and covering. On it goes, layer upon... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Japanese coming all the way from Japan wearing masks coming to tell what I told six month back………… Read Below http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/10/12/we-need-state-of-emergency-or-martial-law-if-state-wants-to-solve-garbage-problem/ Quote We need “State Of Emergency “ or “Martial Law” if state wants to solve Garbage Problem ! Posted on October 12th, 2016 Dr Sarath Obeysekera By now you have seen a fire in Badulle -Garbage Dump and Airforce has to be mobilised ,We saw the mayhem to Jaela when the residents seized the road transportation by blocking Colombo Negombo Road ( luckily we have Airport Highway ,hence access to airport was not blocked .... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
By Prof. O. A. Illeperuma April 21, 2017, 8:54 pm Last year I wrote a piece (Island May 24, 2016) on the danger of disposing garbage in open dumps such as the one at Meethotamulla and the immediate need to go for a sanitary landfill. While people in the vicinity of Meethotamulla have been agitating, picketing and clashing with the police, the government adopted the easy wait-and-see approach. Now the worst has happened and the government should wake up from its deep slumber and as a matter of national priority should go ahead with the construction of a sanitary... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
By Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada. April 21, 2017, 8:57 pm The Buddha you never knew, and parts of the Tripitaka that never survived. Bhante Dhammika of Australia, writing in the Island Newspaper (21st April 2017) presents a valuable and timely reminder that what is often believed to be "core facts"of Buddhism cannot in fact be confirmed by linking them to credited original sources. This is of course a well-known problem with many ancient religions. We have to remind ourselves the great quest of Albert Schweitzer ("to find the historical Jesus") where he authored a set of highly erudite volumes to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
By: A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. The world population articulated a sigh of relief when the newly elected U.S.President Donald Trumph expressed that he would change the American foreign policy of war mongering and acting as the world Policeman, establish cordial relationship with Russia and China and give priority to national interests of the United States drifting away from Obama/Hillary Clinton policies. However the American weapons industry which dominates the Pentagon was waiting for the slightest opportunity to force Trumph to abandon his admirable foreign policies and dip America once again in its hegemonic policies and precipitate a confrontational attitude with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
Dr Sudath Ggunasekara 20.4.2017 The following article by ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න speaks volumes on the future of the Sinhala nation. It unfolds the long standing diabolical conspiracy of the British Colonial administration for the total destruction of the Sinhala Buddhist nation. Talking about Thesawalamei Law they said it is applicable only to the ‘Malabar Inhabitants of the Peninsula of Jaffna” at the beginning. But ever since it was introduced Tamils have been trying to make it a law applicable to Tamils living all over Sri Sri Lanka. At last it had been achieved as this article has pointed out in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
Sudath Gunasekara 20. 4.2017. “Commission to examine Kandyan, Muslim laws By The Nation - Apr 8, 2017 Lawyers are claiming that the legislation had reached a common understanding with regard to the repeal of Article 16 in that a commission would be appointed to hold discussions with those affected by the said Article and the local Personal laws. A period of three years would be granted for the process of bringing about amendments to the Personal laws, namely the Kandyan law, the Muslim law and the Thesawalamai law. The commission would be submitting a report in this regard. On... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
Courtesy Indian Express Sonu Nigam shaves off hair after azaan row, Muslim cleric asks why he is not wearing garland of shoes. Sonu Nigam shaved off his hair on Wednesday in response to a Muslim cleric who announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh to anyone who could tonsure the singer. The controversy started after Sonu's azaan Twitter rant. Sonu Nigam shaved off his head during a media interaction in Mumbai on Wednesday after a Muslim cleric announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh for anyone who will tonsure the singer. The call came after Sonu’s Monday tweets on being... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ රටම මලගෙයක්ව ඇත. ඒ මිනිස් හදවතක් ඇති සාමාන්ය ජනතාවට දැනෙන ආකාරයයි. නැකතට මුළු රටේම ජනතාව ගිනි මොලවා කිරිබත් පිස ආහාර අනුබව කරන රටේ, ඊට ස්වල්ප වෙලාවකට පසු ඒ ජනතාවගෙන් කොටසක් කුණු කන්දකට යටවී මියගොස් ඇති මේ අවස්ථාවේදී රටට අලුත් අවුරුදු ප්රීතිය යයි හදුන්වනදේ සැබවින්ම සැමරිය හැකියාවක් නැත. මහා හදිසි අවස්ථාවක් ඉස්මතුව, තම දු දරුවන් සොයමින් වැලපෙන් පටාචාරාවන් රාශියක් දකින ජාතියක් තුල හටගන්නේ, මහා නිසරු කාලකන්නි අවධියක් තුලින් අප ගමන් කරමින් සිටින බවයි. ප්රභාකරන්ගේ සමුහ ඝාතන ක්රියාවලින් සමග බැදුණු, සමුහ මිනීවළවල්, යලි යහපාලනය තුලදී ආරම්භව ඇති බවක් අපට දක්නට ඇත. ඒ ප්රභාකරන් මෙන් යහාපාලකයින්ද ඝාතන ක්රියාවලියක් ආරම්භ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/04/17)
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President Donald Trump does not see a US role in helping its European allies build a government in Libya. Instead, he told reporters, he wants to defeat Islamic State, after which the US can focus on domestic issues. Speaking to reporters in Washington, DC on Thursday, following a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Trump contradicted his guest-s assessment that the US role in stabilizing Libya would be critical, arguing the US has -enough roles… everywhere.- “I do not see a role in Libya,†Trump said. “I do see a role in getting rid of ISIS. We-re being very... -Full Story- (https:/rt.com/ - 21/04/17)
Loretta Napoleoni Courtesy RT In many ways terrorism works just like a business, and a costly one - the organization needs arms, supplies, and each recruit needs to be fed and equipped; it all costs money. But where do terrorists get their money? How are the atrocities financed? Is jihad even possible when you have no-one to back it with a hefty sum? And can a terror group become independent? We ask these questions to economist and expert of the terrorist financial world, Loretta Napoleoni, on Sophie&Co today. Full Report https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/214403-terrorism-business-money-jihad/ Follow SophieCo_RT Sophie Shevarnadze: Loretta Napoleoni, economist,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/04/17)
Harsha admitted that the landfill disaster was the fault of the present Govt. - Mahinda මීතොටමුල්ලට මුදල් වෙන්කළ බව මහින්ද කියයි මීතොටමුල්ල කසළ ගැටළුවට ස්ථීර විසඳුමක් ලබා දීම සඳහා 2015 වසරේ දී තම අවසන් අයවැයෙන් මුදල් වෙන් කළ බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. https://youtu.be/Gle54Uv1j_U... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/04/17)
ලංකා සී නිවුස් මීතොටමුල්ලේ කුණු කන්ද සමග බැදී ඇති දේශපාලකයන්ගේ කොමිස් කුට්ටි ගැන අලූත්ම වීඩියෝවක් SLvlog මාධ්යවේදී දර්ශණ හදුන්ගොඩ විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇත. ඇමති චම්පික රණවක මහ ඇමති ඉසුර දේවප්රිය ආදීන්ගේ සියළු සැගවුණු කොමිස් කතා ඔහු නම් ගම් සහිතව හෙලි කලේ මෙසේය. https://youtu.be/P-R0nB_i_MM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/04/17)
By Binoy Suriyaarachchi Courtesy Adaderana The failure to dump waste in a remote area and recycle it came due to the influence of politicians who make financial gains from the garbage mafia in Colombo, a leftist party parliamentarian said Thursday. Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Propaganda Secretary, Vijitha Herath, while speaking to reporters during a media gathering at Battaramulla said neither the United National Party (UNP) nor the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) wanted to come up with a solid solution to resolve the garbage issue. “When one place is full, they dumped waste in another location,” he said. Herath... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/04/17)
Samantha Kumarasinghe (The writer is an entrepreneur and an industrialist.) It is now an openly-discussed incident that the former Central Bank Governor had misused his authority to allow a company that his son-in-law is a director/major shareholder of to make billions of rupees in undue profits at the expense of Government and other public funds. The subject has been discussed at many forums and media platforms and now a Presidential Commission of Inquiry has been appointed and the investigations are ongoing. It is said that if found guilty, the former Central Bank Governor and his connected parties who made the undue... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/04/17)
Leaders couldn’t over power the real perpetrators behind Meethotamulla tragedy - vasu පාලකයින් කුණුවලට යට වු හැටි වාසු කියයි මීතොටමුල්ල ඛේදවාචකය කුණු ඡාවාරම්කරුවන්ගේ උවමනාව මත සිදු වුවක් බවත් ඡාවාරම්කරුවන්ට යට වීම නිසා එම අනතුර සිදුවු බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර මහතා පවසයි. අද (18) පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකට එක් වෙමින් මන්ත්රීවරයා මේ බව කියා සිටියේ ය. https://youtu.be/VTJ3-PU8AmI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/04/17)
MP Dinesh Gunawardena stated that the Rs.100000 compensation offered by the government to the victims is a value the government should be ashamed about. රජය ගැන ලැජ්ජයි - ඒකාබද්ධය කියයි මීතොටමුල්ල ඛේදවාචකයෙන් මිය ගිය පුද්ගලයින් සඳහා රජය විසින් රුපියල් ලක්ෂයක මුදලක් ලබා දෙන බව පැවසීම ලැජ්ජාවට කරුණක් බවත් එය ඉල්ලා අස්කර ගත යුතු යෝජනාවක් බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. https://youtu.be/jziNplAwfEM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/04/17)
Out of Time Im not a big fan of infowars and dont trust Alex Jones. This report they did however was spot on.A lot of the news you get on your on your television set is all Jewish Propaganda they create the news they don't report it. The topics are Iraq in the past and Syria of today and the involvement of White Helmets a humanitarian aid group first reponders which supported and financed by the UK and US government including Nato. That is no other than ISIS!!! https://youtu.be/MQim5pTG-Ik... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/04/17)
R Chandrasoma The concept of ‘race’ has had a troubled history since both ethnographers and geneticists have difficulty in giving an objective definition of the supposed basic divisions of mankind. Certain human groups have clear-cut physical features that make their separation objective and socially acceptable. Thus the ‘mongoloid facies’ is very distinctive with such things as the epicanthic fold in the eye, yellowish skin pigmentation, the sparsity of body-hair, the high cheek-bones and the lack of ‘curling’ in head-hair. This complex of features makes it easy for even the non-expert to identify someone of Chinese origin. The same is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/17)
By Robert Fisk Courtesy Information Clearing House April 18, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - "The Independent"- It was the Mother of all Hypocrisy. Some dead Syrian babies matter, I guess. Other dead Syrian babies don’t matter. One mass murder in Syria two weeks ago killed children and babies and stirred our leaders to righteous indignation. But the slaughter in Syria this weekend killed even more children and babies – yet brought forth nothing but silence from those who claim to guard our moral values. Now why should this be? When a gas attack in Syria killed more than 70 civilians on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/17)
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න රටේ ප්රධාන නීතියක් තිබියදී , බෙදා පාලනය කිරීමේ වාසිය තකා ඉංග්රීසින් විසින් යාපනේ දෙමල ජනයාට විශේෂ වරප්රසාදයක් වශයෙන්අමතරව ස්ථාපිත කරන ලද ''තෙසවලමෙය් '' නම් වූ මේ ප්රාදේශීය නීතියද ඉංග්රීසින් විසින් පවත්වාගෙන යන ලදී .' මෙය දෙමළුන්ට දුන් විශේෂ වරප්රසාදයක් නොවන බවත් එසේකලේ යාපනේ දෙමලුන්ගේ පාරම්පරික අයිතීන් රැකීමට බවත් මෙසේම මුස්ලිම් හා උඩරට විවාහ නීති ආදියත් පවත් වාගෙන යාමට ඉංග්රීසින් විසින් ඉඩදී ඇති බවත් පවසන සමහරු මෙහි ඇති භයානක කම වසන් කරන්නට තත් කරති . තෙසවලමෙය් නීතියට අනුව යාපනේ දෙමල මිනිසුන්ගේඉඩමක් වෙනත් ජාතිකයෙකුට විකිණීමට පෙර තම ඥාතීන් වෙතින් විමසිය යුතු බවත් ඔවුන් මිලට නොගන්නේනම් පමණක් වෙනත් ජාතිකයෙකුට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/17)
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග වෛද්ය ග්ලැඩිස් ජයවර්ධන ගැන නව පරපුර නොදන්නවා විය හැකිය. එසේම තරුණ වෛද්යවරුන් ද වෛද්ය ග්ලැඩිස් ජයවර්ධන ගැන නොදන්නවා විය හැකිය. ග්ලැඩිස් ජයවර්ධන යනු විශේෂඥ කායික වෛද්යවරියක් පමණක් නොව ලංකාව විසින් බිහි කරන ලද දුබල වර්ගයේ ශාස්ත්රාලයීය කතකි. ඇය අධ්යාපනය ලබන්නේ කොලඹ කාන්තා විද්යාලයෙනි. ඉන්පසු කොලඹ වෛද්ය පීඨයට තේරෙන ඇය සාර්ථව වෛද්ය උපාධිය නිම කරන්නීය. වෛද්යවරියක් වීමෙන් පසු වැඩිදුර අධ්යාපනයේ යෙදෙන ඇය ලන්ඩන් විශ්ව විද්යාලයෙන් Parasitology විෂය හදාරා එම විෂයට ආචාර්ය උපාධියක් ලබා ගත්තාය. Parasitology විෂයට ආචාර්ය උපාධියක් ලබාගත් ප්රථම ලාංකික කාන්තාව වූයේද වෛද්ය ග්ලැඩිස් ජයවර්ධනයි. ලන්ඩන් විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ අධ්යාපනය හදාරා ලංකාවට පැමිනීමෙන් පසු වෛද්ය ග්ලැඩිස් ජයවර්ධන වෛද්ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/17)
Courtesy Adaderana April 18, 2017 07:41 am Mahinda Rajapaksa was President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015. He is a human rights lawyer by profession, but has been the butt of widespread outrage and criticism for alleged human rights violations by the Sri Lankan armed forces during the final stages of the 30-year long civil war against the armed separatist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which invented the “suicide bomb”, forcibly recruited child soldiers and used civilians as human shields. In his first global television interview since his election defeat in 2015, Rajapaksa spoke to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/04/17)
By: A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The Tamil slavish government which has completely abandoned all its promises to the people is committed and determined to fulfil the diktats of the TNA, the Tamil diaspora, the pro-Tamil western powers and the pro-Tamil anti Sri Lankan NGO vultures, and is hell bent on adopting a federal structured new constitution, repealing of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, demilitarizatiom of the North and East, imposing punishment for our gallant war heroes in vengeance for vanquision terrorism from the soil of this country, granting land and Police powers to the provinces, and fulling the terms and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
Dr. Chandana Jayalath Corruption can be defined as the abuse of public power, resources and belongings for personal ends. It takes many forms and shapes. Perpetrators are skilled in developing new ways to be corrupt and cover their trickeries, frauds and scams. It has always existed in the world and now a global concern. The opportunity cost of anything is the highest valued alternative that must be forgone when a choice is made. It is actually a cost, like a loss. The ‘loss’ here means the loss of benefits derivable from the alternative missing or not chosen. Countries with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando 'Never say die' was the slogan adopted by Senaka Edirisinghe in Kandy, from the time his daughter Jeewanthi was in his wife's womb. At first, it was a hard fought battle with the gynecologist who monitored his wife's pregnancy from the beginning. The baby was due on 24th October 2009, but the birth did not take place on the date. Meanwhile, Mrs. Edirisinghe, through her maternal instincts, became apprehensive when she felt 'less movement' of the baby, which was conveyed to her husband. Senaka panicked and contacted the gynecologist, who paid no heed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
Sudath Gunasekara 18.4.2017. Brilliant response by Mahinda Rajapaksa. How much Padma has tried to trap MR in this interview. But he has cleverly avoided all her attempts. His answers clearly show how matured a politician he is by now. Particularly I admire his love for the country and the people. Even Padma has been more careful in choosing her words and posing tricky questions to MR than Ranil when she interviewed him on 2. 4. 2017 MR in this interview is leagues ahead of and much sharper than Ranil, who had throughout meekly given in to Padma often getting... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Read the news item below . නාගරික සංවර්ධන අධිකාරියේ ඉඩම්වලට කුණු දැමීම තහනම්... සිරිමන්ත රත්නසේකරනාගරික සංවර්ධන අධිකාරියට අයත් කිසිදු රජයේ ඉඩමකට මැයි පළමු වැනිදා සිට කසළ බැහැර කිරීම තහනම් කිරීමට එම අධිකාරිය තීරණය කර ඇත.මේ අතර යම් නගර සභාවකට, ප්රාදේශීය සභාවකට හෝ රජයේ ආයතනයකට කසළ බැහැර කිරීමට අවශ්ය වන්නේ නම් එම ආයතන සතු ප්රතිපාදනවලින් විසඳුම් සපයා ගැනීමට සිදුවන බව එම අධිකාරියේ සභාපති ආචාර්ය ජගත් මුණසිංහ මහතා ඊයේ (17 වැනිදා) "දිවයින" ට සඳහන් කළේය Don’t dump Colombo’s garbage in Kotikawatte Kotikawatta residents this evening staged a protest against... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I will be very open to name and praise one minister of the Yahaplalana government and the rest should be named and shamed . Hon Susil Premjayantha told me today during the morning walk that around 200 tons can be sent to Dompe where a state of the art garbage treatment facility is in operation where 25 tons are treated daily and the balance kept on holds to drain the leachate ,pump out treat it properly before discharging to ground.Another part should be sent to Karadiyna where collection center is already functioning where there are no... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
Forbidden Knowledge “No doubt, no doubt, no doubt,” that Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical attack “against his own people”, says the psyops machine known as the Mainstream Media. It’s déjà vu all over again. Instead of “Yellowcake” and “WMDs”, we have a “Sarin gas attack”. The ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ is at full throttle and Trump has evidently been replaced by an unrecognizable pod person. The Mainstream Media, whose only role is to further the agenda of the Deep State is suddenly goo-goo for the Replacement Robotoid in Chief. The reinstated fraud, “news” anchor, Brian Williams waxes... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
GRODNO, 18 April (BelTA) – The Grodno State Medical University in Belarus intends to open a branch in Sri Lanka, BelTA learned from the university's Rector Viktor Snezhitsky. A delegation of the Grodno State Medical University is now busy negotiating in Sri Lanka. “We intend to open a branch of the university's preparatory courses department. The idea will be implemented in 2018 if not in 2017. We are considering hiring local teaching staff. Specialists from Grodno will be sent to Sri Lanka for short-term business trips for the sake of control, performance review, and educational support,” said the rector. If... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The best solution for Colombo's garbage disposal quagmire was given by former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the government should implement it without being fixated on who will receive the credit, MP Udaya Gammanpila said today. He said dumping garbage at Karadiyana or somewhere else was not the best solution to this crisis. He said Mr. Rajapaksa had suggested that the garbage collected daily within the Colombo Municipal Council limits and those already piled up at Meethotamulla and Bloemendhal be transported by train to the Aruwakkalu limestone quarry in Puttalam. “Mr.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
By DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA April 18, 2017, 7:39 pm A few days after the Meethotamulla tragedy in Sri Lanka, a referendum was held in Turkey. The people of Turkey rejected Western liberal warnings and voted in favour of an executive presidency. The Meethotamulla tragedy, which occurred utterly inauspiciously as it were during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year holiday, was symbolic. Two years into the neoliberal Yahapalana government (and a perennially UNP Municipal Council), at least 30 people died horribly, buried under an avalanche of a visibly growing mountain of garbage, neglected and deprioritised despite warnings (including from Cardinal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
By Abdul Samad Courtesy Ceylon Today This article is with reference to Mr. Dayan Jayatilleka's write-up published on colombotelegraph.com dated 7 April 2017. It was titled, The Avurudu sale of Sri Lanka-Who will stop it? The writer makes a very valid point arguing the case for Sri Lanka to be with China as opposed to India. He also criticizes the Prime Minister's vision of the ETCA with India and rightly so. It simply does not make any economic and geo-political sense. This article is an attempt to compare both India and China in economic/geo-political terms, keeping Sri Lanka in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
By Shaahidah Riza Courtesy Ceylon Today Had the incumbent government followed through the plan to create a sanitary landfill, the Meethotamulla tragedy could have been prevented, said former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He added that the 2015 Budget had allocated funds for this plan. Within the last two years if this plan was implemented, the issue with regard to the Meethotamulla garbage dump would have been solved, he said. "They didn't do that. They will have to find another site and dump there. They will create the same situation there as well," Rajapaksa said. He added that the government has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
By Dayan Jayatilleka – Prime Minister Wickremesinghe is about to give Trincomalee to the Indians—and by this (upcoming) Vesak! According to the Political Column of a respected English-language Sunday paper, he rejected the mild concerns of two SLFP Ministers, derisively addressing the pair in Sinhala as “Oi!” at the last Cabinet meeting. The imminent ceding of strategic Trincomalee is summarized by Meera Srinivasan in The Hindu: “India and Sri Lanka have, in principle, agreed to jointly operate the World War-era oil storage facility in Trincomalee, the strategically advantaged port town located on the island’s east coast…Both the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/17)
Dr Sudath Gunasekaram Ex Secretary to PM. MRS Sirimavo Bandaranaike and President Mahanuwara Sinhala Bauddha Jesta Puravesiyange Sanvidhanaya. 17 4. 2017. Their’s is like the seven blind men describing the elephant Each one of these three persons is looking at Provincial Councils as the seven blind men describing the elephant after feeling different parts of the animal with their hands. You all know how they described the elephant. Similarly all these political henchmen calling themselves Governors or Ministers carefully use words to defend the system. Because, It is their bread and butter. What other better princely job could they... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
The Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka (INSSSL). Major General (Rtd.) Dipankar Banerjee was the speaker at a public lecture hosted by the Institute of National Security Studies on 5th April 2017. Given the speakers’ immense experience in the subject of defence and security, he focused on the very important topic of “National Security: Changing Times, Shifting Paradigms.” Director General of INSSSL, Asanga Abeyagoonasekera introduced the speaker as a retired officer of the Indian Army with over 27 years of involvement with strategic planning at the national level. He was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
ආචාර්ය සූරිය ගුණසේකර සමග රුවන් රත්නායක හෙළ බසින් වසර හා සංස්කෘතයෙන් වර්ෂ ලෙස හැඳින්වෙන්නේ දවස් 365 ක සූර්ය වර්ෂයක් අවසාන වී නව වර්ෂයක් ඇරඹීමයි. ලංකාව වැනි නිරක්ෂයට කිට්ටු රටවලට සූර්යයා ඇසුරින් එබඳු වසරක් හැඳිනගත හැක. නමුත් මධ්යම හා ඉහළ අක්ෂාංශවල නොහොත් සෞම්ය හෝ ශීත කලාපයේ රටවලට එම හැකියාව නැත. එබැවින් යම් සිද්ධියක් මුල්කර සම්මත වර්ෂයක්ව ඇති කරගත යුතුය. 2014 ජනවාරි පළමු වෙනිදා නව වසරක් ඇරඹින. මීට මුල් වූ සිදුවීම කුමක්ද ? බයිබලයට අනුව දෙසැම්බර් 24 දා මධ්යම රාත්රී 12 ට බෙත්ලෙහෙමේ ගවගාලකදී ජේසු බිළිඳා මෙලොව එළිය දිටී. බිළිඳෙකු ඉපදී දවස් 7 ක් අවසන්වීමට පළමුව එම බිළිඳා බෞතීස්ම කිරීම ක්රිස්තියානි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I was passing by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority and noted that a banner was hung with a very unusual and controversial content ,It carried a large photograph of Nasheed –the ousted ex president of Maldives and a heading which say “ The way Port Minister acts ( bearing in mind about the country ) when Hambantota Port is handed over to Chinese is excellent “ .-Nasheed !! I was wondering whether a powerful minister in the current government which is maintaining a cordial relationship with current Maldivian government headed by Gayoom ,who is on a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera If such a thing happened in any other country, prevailing law in the country will be applied and arrest the people responsible for the heinous crime . Arm of the law shall arrest following personnel Minister Chief Minister Mayor/Commissioner Chairmans ( all MP’s representing Kollonnawa !) They should be arrested as suspects of the multiple murders and issue charge sheets and keep them in remand indefinitely In Russia if such crime happened before perestroika state takes all the top brass into custody and keep them locked up until case is heard in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B.,Ph.D. කාඩිනල්තුමා හා පන්සල සෑම දෙයකම අනිත්යභාවය හා වෙනස්වන සුළු ස්වභාවය බුදු දහමින් අපට පෙන්වා දෙයි. පසේනදී කොසොල් රජතුමා දුටු සීන දාසැය ඇස්කණා පිට සැබෑවෙමින් ඇති මෙවැනි අවධියක ලංකාවේ පන්සල්වල මෑත ඉතිහාසය පිළිඹඳ විමසා බැලීම කාලෝචිත වන්නේ ඉන් අපට ඉගෙනගත හැකි පාඩම් නිසාය. බොහෝ සිද්ධි චක්රාකාර බවක්ද පෙන්වයි. උදාහරණයක් වශයෙන් ලංකා කතෝලික සභාවේ කාඩිනල්තුමා විසින් මෑතදී කල ප්රකාශ දෙක ගැන සිතන්න. මේ රට ගොඩනැඟී ඇත්තේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ පදනම මත බව රටේ අනිත් ජන කොටස් විසින් වටහා ගතයුතු බවත්, අයුතු හා අශීලාචාර ලෙස සිදුවන ක්රිස්තියානී මූලධර්මවාදී අන්යාගමීකරණය නතරකල යුතුබවත් එතුමා කියා සිටියේය (මෙවැනි එක් මූලධර්ම එවැන්ජලිකල් ව්යාපාරයක් මෙහෙයවන්නේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා මීතොටමුල්ල කුණු කන්දට යට වී ජනතාව මිය යෑම ගැන කණගාටුයි. ඒත් ඒ කණගාටුවෙන් ඒ ජනතාවට වැඩක් නැහැ. ඒ ජීවිත ලබා දෙන්න කිසිවකුට බැහැ. ඒ ජීවිත හානියට වග කිව යුත්තේ කවු ද? දේශපාලනඥයන්, නිලධාරීන් ආදීන් මෙන් ම ජනතාවත් එයට වග කිව යුතුයි. අප සියලු දෙනාම වග කිව යුතුයි. මේ තමයි ඊනියා දියුණුව. ශිල්ප දන්නා අයට වැදගත්කමක් නොදී ශාස්ත්ර නොදැන ශාස්ත්ර ගැන පුරසාරම් දොඩන අය මෙයට වග කිව යුතුයි. මේ ලෝකයේ මෙවැන්නක් සිදු වූ පළමු අවස්ථාව නො වෙයි. මෑතක දී ඊනියා තුන්වැනි ලෝකයේ තවත් රටක කුණු කන්දකට යට වී ජනතාව මිය ගියා. දැන් ඔවුන්ට එය අමතක වී ඇති.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
ShankhNaad The greatest Crime islam committed in its whole history was the destruction of Nalanda, the world's first University the seat of learning and wisdom, the birthplace of Wisdom and Philosophy the womb of Buddhism the fruit of culture and progressive thought and the pride of mankind east or west. Where great souls like Buddha, Mahavira, Kautilya and Paninni stayed and taught . Founded between 550 and 600 BC and imparted knowledge to thousands of students till AD 1193 where courses were drawn from every field of learning secular and sacred , native and foreign Science Mathematics, Metallurgy, Medicine,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
www.biographyonline.net Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism share the same core beliefs and devotion to the life and teaching of Buddha but they do have some differences. Mahayana Buddhists believe that enlightenment can be attained in a single lifetime, and that one can guide and teach the doctrine to others while still on the course for enlightenment. Theravada Buddhists believe that one may take several lifetimes to achieve enlightenment and has to achieve enlightenment first before guiding and teaching others. In a 2010 study, the Mahāyāna tradition was the largest Buddhist tradition with 53.2% practitioners, compared to 35.8% for Theravada... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
By Kasun Warakapitiya and Shaadya Ismail Courtesy The Sunday Times Sri Lanka’s construction industry is facing a shortage of manual labour, sources say, and Indians and Chinese workers are filling the gaps. The Board of Investment estimates that 60,000 manual workers are needed in the construction sector, but 20,000 are employed. Companies registered under the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce also report labour shortages. Some companies have sought BOI approval for visas to import labour. Indian workers at construction sites in Colombo. Pix by Nissanka Meegoda In 2016, the BOI granted visa recommendations for more... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා බටහිර විද්යාවට අනුව ඊයෙ පෙරේදා කියලා තිබුණා පිරිමින්ගෙ හා ගැහැණුන්ගෙ මොළවල වෙනස්කම් තියෙනවා කියලා. හැබැයි ඒ වන තුරු බටහිර විද්යාඥයන් එක හඬින් කියා සිටියෙ පිරිමින්ගෙ හා ගැහැණුන්ගෙ මොළවල වෙනස්කම් නැහැ කියලා. ඒ අර ඊනියා සමානත්වතාවෙන් මතුවෙච්ච අදහසක්. දැන් බටහිර විද්යාඥයන් මේ අලුත් නිගමනයට ඇවිත් තියෙන්නෙ මොළ දහස් ගණනක් නිරීක්ෂණය කිරීමෙන් පසුව කියලයි කියන්නෙ. මේ නිරීක්ෂණය පිරිමි විද්යාඥයන්ගෙ ද කියල අහන්න එපා. කොහොමටත් බටහිර විද්යාවෙ හැටි ඔහොම තමයි. අද කියපු දේ හෙට නැහැයි කියනවා. එසේ වීමට හේතුත් කියනවා! බටහිර විද්යාඥයන් තවමත් හිතන්නෙ මනස කියන්නෙ මොළයෙ ක්රියාකාරීත්වයකට කියලා. බටහිර විද්යාඥයන්ට මොළේ නැහැ කියලා මා කියන්නෙ නැහැ. ඔවුන් හිතන්නෙ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
සමන්තී වීරසේකර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින අපේ සිංහලයා ආදි කාලයේ පටන්ම තමන්ගේ සෞඛ්ය ගැන බොහොම කල්පනාවෙන් විමසිල්ලෙන් කටයුතු කළ බව නොරහසක්. හෙළ වෙදකම නැත්නම් දේශීය වෛද්ය ක්රම භාවිත කරමින් ආදිතම මිනිසා නීරෝගී සම්පත්තිය ලැබුවේ ඒ නිසයි. ඇතැම් රෝග තත්ත්වයන්ට එදා ඔසුවක් සේ හෙළයා තමන්ගේ බත්පතට ගත් ආහාර අද වැඩිදුර අධ්යයනයන් ඔස්සේ විවිධ රොගයන්ට ප්රතිකාර ලෙස ලබා ගන්නා අන්දම අප දැක ඇත්තෙමු. මෙයද ඊට සමාන අවස්ථාවකි. පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ පශු වෛද්ය පීඨයේ, ව්යාධිවේදී දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ මහාචාර්ය ජයන්ත රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මූලිකත්වයෙන් යුතු කණ්ඩායමක් පිළිකා සෛල නසන , පිළිකා සෛල වර්ධනය නොකරන ඖෂධයක් නිපදවීමට සමත්ව තිබේ. එය තවදුරටත් මහනුවර මහ රෝහලේ පිළිකා රෝගීන් අතර පර්යේෂණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
By The Nation - The Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the controversial Treasury bond issuance in February 2015 met this week too, continuing the recording of evidence from Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) S. Sepala Ratnayake. One of the most significant factors revealed before the Commission on Monday (April 3) was that the principle of offering the same rates to different investors for the same bond for the same volume when making private placements had been violated on certain occasions. Ratnayake said that offering the same... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
Courtesy Sunday Times The Cabinet Committee on Economic Management (CCEM) has asked the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) not to probe procurements after 2015. The move means that only procurements before 2015, which were under the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration, would be probed. They have been told to direct all such investigation to the National Procurement Commission. At a recent discussion, it was noted that the FCID summoned public officers for investigations on procurement issues. The CCEM has said it is of the view that procurement issues could be handled by the National Procurement Commission. How come the CCEM is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම 2014 වර්ෂයේ අවසන් කාලයේ තාර පාරේ ලිව්වේ රට පෙරට හාල් හැටට කියලයි. අද ඒක ලියන්න වෙන්නෙ රට ආපස්සට හාල් එකසිය විස්සට කියලයි. මේ ආණ්ඩුව පත් කරන්න ඡන්දය දීපූ අයටත් අද ජීවත් වෙන්න ක්රමයක් නැහැ. මිනිස්සු කබලෙන් ළිපට වැටිල තියෙනවා. හැබැයි ආණ්ඩුවේ අයට ප්රශ්නයක් නැහැ. මහ බැංකුව හොරා කාලා සල්ලි තියෙනවා. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා පරාද කර ගැනීමේ වරද දැන් රටේ ජනතාවට තේරිලා හමාරයි. වරද නිවැරැදි කර ගන්න මේ අවුරුද්දේදි හැකි වෙනවා. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙ ඔළුගෙඩි ගණනින් මේක කළත් ගමේ මිනිස්සුන්ගේ ඔළුගෙඩි වෙනස් වෙන්නෙ නැහැ. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිතුමාගෙ කාලේ උපදේශක කම් හැට හුටහමාරක් තියෙනවා කිව්වා. නමුත් දැන් පඳුරකට පයින් ගැහුවම ජනාධිපති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
by Jeremy Luedi , April 17, 2017 Courtesy Global Risk Insights Increased international interest in the Indian Ocean comes at a convenient time for Sri Lanka, as the country continues to recoup after the end of its decades-long civil war which ended in 2009. The island nation is being courted (and courting in turn) by various major powers, each seeking a stake in developing Sri Lanka’s strategic location midway between the Middle East and the Straits of Malacca. While opportunities present themselves, all this attention also comes with its own set of complications. International actors,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
S V Krishnamachari Courtesy International Business Times With a following of 6.08 million on Twitter and 12.7 million on Instagram, Jacqueline Fernandez is seen as an "influencer" by the juice maker. Sri Lankan model-actress and sexiest woman in the world Jacqueline Fernandez has invested $543,000 in Rakyan Beverages Private Limited, a company that makes the Raw Pressery brand of fruit juices. The latest investment values the three-year-old company at Rs 120 crore. With a following of 6.08 million on Twitter and 12.7 million on Instagram, Fernandez is seen as an "influencer" by the juice maker. "While professional investors take calculated risks,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
Courtesy Adaderana April 17, 2017 01:16 pm Authorities say the number of dead and missing has risen from the collapse of a massive garbage mound in Meetotamulla. At least 28 people have died and some 30 others are missing and are feared to be beneath the rubble. The Disaster Management Center said Monday that 11 people were injured and 79 homes were destroyed when the mound collapsed Friday as people celebrated the local new year. Military personnel were searching the site and were speaking to survivors to determine how many people were still missing. The site became a dumping... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror India had helped Sri Lanka fight the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) even without being asked to, says former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in an exclusive interview to www.wionews.com posted on Monday. “They (India) helped us! We didn’t have to ask! Because I was fighting your war, India’s war, not my war, actually,” Rajapaksa told the Indian interviewer, Padma Rao Sundarji. “The LTTE killed your prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi and so many other people in India and on your soil, not ours. So in that way, it was not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
Editorial The Island April 17, 2017, 8:38 pm It looks as if the US had exported too much of democracy to the rest of the world and were faced with a severe shortfall thereof at home as a result. The US has apparently been afflicted with the same ills as the not-so-democratic nations. President Donald Trump himself, in the run-up to last year’s presidential election, expressed fear of possible polls rigging. That gloomy prognosis did not come to pass, according to official reports, but there have been calls for ballot recounts, which are common only among half-baked democracies. Besides,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
ලංකා සී නිවුස් මීතොටමුල්ල කුණු කන්ද නාය ගියේ කොළඹ නගර සභාව කුණු කන්දට ඉසින ලද රසායන ද්රව්යයක් නිසා යෑයි අවට ප්රදේශවාසීහු චෝදනා කරති. දැන් මාසයකට කලින් ගිනි නිවන හමුදාවේ බවුසර්වලින් ඇවිත් රසායන ද්රව්යයක් කුණු කන්දට ඉසිනු ලැබුවා. අපි ඒ ගැන ඇසූ විට කිව්වේ කුණු ඉක්මනින් දිරන්න බැක්ටීරියාවක් ඉසිනවා කියලා. අපි කියන්නේ ඔය රසායන ද්රව්ය ඉසින්න එපා මේ කුණු කන්ද මෙතැනින් ඉවත් කරන ලෙසටයි. ඔය රසායන ද්රව්ය නිසා අපට මොන ලෙඩ බෝවෙයිද දන්නේ නැහැ යෑයි මීතොටමුල්ල කුණු කන්ද අවට ප්රදේශවාසීහු පැවසූහ. මෙම රසායන ද්රව්ය පිළිබඳව කොළඹ නගර සභාවේ නාගරික කොමසාරිස් වී. කේ. ඒ. අනුර මහතාගෙන් අපි විමසුවෙමු. මීතොටමුල්ල කුණු කන්ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
By Norman Palihawadana Courtesy The Island Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday recalled that his government had decided to take the Meethotamulla waste to Puttalam to fill deep pits there. But, his government had been defeated before that project was carried out, he said. "We had plans ready to solve the garbage issue in Colombo, but unfortunately the UPFA government was toppled and the new government didn’t implement what was planned by the previous government," he said. "Instead of trying to solve problems, the unity government is taking revenge from Opposition members, but when things go wrong the ruling party members... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
Shenali Waduge Here we discuss the African origin of the Dravidian speaking people.Find out more about Blacks in Asia by purchasing the book: The Ancient Black Civilizations of Asia, By Dr. Clyde Winters at Ancient Civilizations of Asia (Kindle), http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNXRFBE; Hardcopy Createspace e-Store https://www.createspace.com/4261215 https://youtu.be/f5jta98KRKY Dravidians and Africans One People In this video we discuss the linguistic, physical, anthropological and religious features shared by Africans and Dravidians.Find out more about Blacks in Asia by purchasing the book: The Ancient Black Civilizations of Asia, By Dr. Clyde Winters at Ancient Civilizations of Asia (Kindle), http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNXRFBE; Hardcopy Createspace e-Store https://www.createspace.com/4261215... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
By Gandara John It was in 1998 that the World Bank under the cover of digitalizing Sri Lanka’s Land records did, with the complicity of Kumaranatunge, insidiously introduce a Land Law relating to ‘Land Ownership’; this ‘Law’ was the bedrock for the Neocolonialists to re-colonize the country by encouraging the sale of our lands to foreigners. The law was passed at a time when the country’s attention was riveted to battling terrorism. The ‘Breton-Wood’ created Bank was successful in injecting this sinister law – the Torrens law – into 51 developing countries; in Sri Lanka it was called ‘Bim Saviya’... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
By Gomin Dayasri (reproduced from the 125th edition of Ananda College centenary magazine released two weeks ago) When I entered Ananda in 1952 it had earned a reputation of producing a list of students (then published in the Daily News) entering the different faculties of the Ceylon University that needed a foot ruler to measure. Ananda was known to send the largest contingent to the University and perennially won the Herman Loos shield for the best platoon. No more distance did Ananda travel in those days of rickshaws and trams. Ananda won fame bringing students from Burma and substantially from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
Malinda Seneviratne There’s saber-rattling in Washington. There’s saber-rattling in Moscow. Tit-for-tat talk. Rattle-for-rattle. Neither the USA nor Russia is under attack. Neither country can claim that there is a threat to its security. It's all about a country that is located almost 11,000km from the USA and about 5,500km from Russia. Syria. It all followed a chemical attack which Washington blamed on the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and then proceeded to launch some 60 Tomahawk missiles on the al Shayrat airbase. US Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson warned that Russia was at risk of becoming irrelevant in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/17)
Kanthar.P.Balanathan 16th April 2017 His Worship Mayor John Tory Office of the Mayor City Hall, 2nd Floor 100 Queen St. W Toronto, ON M5H 2N2 Dear Mr Mayor Tory, Wish you a happy Sinhala and Tamil New Year. I took the opportunity to read your narrative commentary in Toronto Star on your short trip to the Northern Province, which is domiciled by all communities, Tamils, Sinhalese, assimilated Malabar, Muslims, Burghers, and assimilated Burghers. It is with regret I note that most of the truth have been hidden, as the Tamil politicians will always be forceful to blame the opponent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/04/17)
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada Easter Sunday, 2017 Hon. Dr. Harsha de Silva Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs Colombo Sri Lanka. Dear Dr. Harsha de Silva: Just read your announcement, “Deputy Minister Harsha de Silva says that the Government will bear all funeral expenses of those who lost their lives.” This was about the deaths from the collapse of the garbage dump at Meethotamulla. “Woopeedoo!” What compensation for the callous sordid politics for nearly two decades, while you politicians couldn't care two barrels of jardi, but interested... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/04/17)
Mahinda Gunasekera By Email Tambrook Drive Agincourt, ON M1W 3L9 Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada Dear Prime Minister, Your Greeting and Good Wishes Extended to Tamils for the 2017 New Year I refer to the annexed message issued by you on April 12, 2017 to Tamils in Canada and around the world on the occasion of the New Year which falls on the 14th day of April, which is celebrated in Sri Lanka, India and many parts of South East Asia. I am deeply disappointed to note that your message of greetings and good wishes... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/04/17)
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි සුප්රකට බොලිවුඩ් නලුවෙකු වූ රිතික් රෝෂන් විසින් පසුගිය දා යෙදුනු තම උපන්දිනය වෙනුවෙන් තමාටම රොල්ස් රොයිස් මෝටර් රථයක් තෑගි කරගත් බව වරක් පුවත් පතක සඳහන් විය. එමෙන්ම බොලිවුඩ් නිලි කන්ගනා රනායුත් ද තම උපන්දින තෑග්ග ලෙස තට්ටු තුනක සුපිරි නිවහනක් තමාටම තෑගි කරගත් බව එලෙසින්ම සඳහන් වේ. මේ අලුත්ම නැඹුරුව විය යුතුය. යම් යම් දේවල් පුවත්පතින් දකින අප ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන ද මෙයින් යම් අදහසක් ගත්තාවත්ද? ඒ නිසාමදෝ ඔහුද අලුත් අවුරුද්දට තමාටම තෑග්ගක් දී ගැනීමට කටයුතු කර තිබිනි. ඒ රු. කෝටි 60 බැගින් වටිනා අධි සුඛෝපභෝගී මෝටර් රථ දෙකකි. මෙහි වෙනස නම් අර නලු නිලියන් තමන්ට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39607943 Sri Lanka rubbish dump deaths: 'Still they dump' BBC …………….. 15 April 2017 Last updated at 09:46 BST Five children are among 19 people killed after a huge rubbish dump collapsed on to their homes in Sri Lanka. The 300ft-high (91m) pile had shifted after floods and a fire, and subsequently collapsed on Friday. At least 40 homes on the edge of the dump were destroyed. There had been concerns over the safety of the site in Colombo, with residents demanding it be cleared. One man said his mother was thrown 30ft by the collapse. He... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා මීතොටමුල්ල කුණු කන්දට යට වී ජනතාව මිය යෑම ගැන කණගාටුයි. ඒත් ඒ කණගාටුවෙන් ඒ ජනතාවට වැඩක් නැහැ. ඒ ජීවිත ලබා දෙන්න කිසිවකුට බැහැ. ඒ ජීවිත හානියට වග කිව යුත්තේ කවු ද? දේශපාලනඥයන්, නිලධාරීන් ආදීන් මෙන් ම ජනතාවත් එයට වග කිව යුතුයි. අප සියලු දෙනාම වග කිව යුතුයි. මේ තමයි ඊනියා දියුණුව. ශිල්ප දන්නා අයට වැදගත්කමක් නොදී ශාස්ත්ර නොදැන ශාස්ත්ර ගැන පුරසාරම් දොඩන අය මෙයට වග කිව යුතුයි. මේ ලෝකයේ මෙවැන්නක් සිදු වූ පළමු අවස්ථාව නො වෙයි. මෑතක දී ඊනියා තුන්වැනි ලෝකයේ තවත් රටක කුණු කන්දකට යට වී ජනතාව මිය ගියා. දැන් ඔවුන්ට එය අමතක වී ඇති.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/04/17)
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම 'අවුරුද්ද කොහොමද? හොඳද? කියලා ජනතාවගෙන් ඇහුවොත් ඒකට උත්තරයක් නොදී මුහුණ බෙරි කරගෙන යනවා සිකුරුය. ඒ නිශ්ශබ්දතාවය හරිම හැඟුම්බරය. එය වේදනාවත්, පසුතැවිල්ලත්, කෝපයත් අතර දෝලනය වන්නකි. 'ඇයි යහපාලනයෙන් සෙතක් වුණේ නැද්ද? රට පුරා කම්හල් ඉදිවුණේ නැද්ද? ලක්ෂ ගණන් රස්සා ඇති වුණේ නැද්ද? පුංචි පවුලකට පුංචි කාර් එකක් ගන්න ලැබුණේ නැද්ද?' කවුරු හරි අවුරුද්ද ගැන ඔය විදියට කාගෙන් හරි ඇහුවෝතින් අහපු කෙනාට වෙන හරිය නම් හිතාගන්නට පුළුවන. ඒ තරමටම යහපාලනය මල් හතය. නැත්නම් ඊටත් වැඩිය. ඒ නිසා අවුරුද්ද ගැන ජනතාව හිතන පතන හැටි ජවිපෙ සමන්ත විද්යාරත්න පසුගියදා සති අන්ත ඉරිදා පුවත්පතකට සාකච්ඡාවක් දෙමින් පළ කළ අදහසක් දැක්වීම වටින්නේය. 'ජනතාව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/04/17)
ලංකා සී නිවුස් විශාල ජීවිත ගණනක් අහිම් කරමින් සිය ගණනකට උන්හිටි තැන් නැති කරමින් කඩා වැටුනු මීතොටමුල්ලේ කුණු කන්ද සම්බන්ධයෙන් පසුගිය රජය සමයේ නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යංශයේ හිටපු ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ක්රියාත්මක කරවීමට සියල්ල සූදානම් කර තිබූ සැලැස්ම සම්බන්ධයෙන් විනිමය හා සුරැකුම්පත් කොමිසමේ හිටපු සභාපති ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා විසින් සිය ෆේස්බුක් පිටුවේ මෙසේ සටහනක් තබා ඇත. වලක්වාගත හැකිව තිබූ මීතොටමුල්ලේ ඛේදවාචකය අලුත් අවුරුද්ද උදාවූයේ මීතොටමුල්ලේ කුණු කන්ද කඩා වැටී ජීවිත ගනනාවක් නැති වූ අසුබ ආරංචිය සමගය. ජීවිත අහිමි වූවන් අතර වියත්මග ක්රියාකාරීනියක ලෙස අප හඳුනාගෙන සිටි මේනකා සේනාරත්න, ඇගේ සැමියා හා , වැඩිමහල් දරුවා සිටීම වඩාත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/04/17)
Editorial The Island April 16, 2017, 9:07 pm The Meethotamulla garbage mountain collapsed on the New Year day, burying many people alive. About 26 bodies had been recovered at the time of going to press. According to initial reports the garbage-slide has destroyed around 200 houses. How civilized a nation is can be judged by the way it disposes of its garbage; if countries were to be ranked according to a scaling system based on municipal waste disposal, Sri Lanka is sure to be bracketed with the ten worst nations. The Meethotamulla disaster has occurred within one month of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/04/17)
By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka April 16, 2017, 8:46 pm Is the cat out of the bag or is there an elephant in the (Opposition) room? Mahinda Pathirana is a young academic and activist known to be one of a handful of academics close to Mr. Basil Rajapaksa. His reply (‘Who is the Real Enemy?’ April 13th 2017, The Island) to my article (‘May Day 2017- SLPP & SLPP: Enemies, Rivals or Allies?’ April 11th 2017, The Island) is an effective illustration of the conflicting perspectives in the Opposition camp: on the one hand, the line that his mastermind "political... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/04/17)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara 15.4.2017 I would like you to draw your attention to this news item and then read my observations below. The National Education Commission appointed to make policy proposals on education has proposed that the school education be truncated at Grade 12 and admit children to school at the age of 4+ as a move to minimise unruly behaviour among adult students. Commission Chairman Prof. Lakshman Jayathilake said in Grade 13, children were adults of 18 years which was not good for maintaining discipline in school. "We have made a suggestion that school should be truncated at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/17)
Kumar Moses Security forces personnel were warned by the hierarchy well in advance not to engage in any sexual activity including consensual sexual activity with Tamil women in Jaffna, Batticaloa and especially Vanni. This is because of feared very high prevalence of AIDS and other STIs among them. AIDS scare hit Sri Lanka in the mid 1980s. Until then it was unknown. As other STIs were not fatal, the government didn’t invest anything for their prevention until then. With AIDS awareness, government funded a spirited awareness and prevention campaign of AIDS and other STIs in late 1980s. However, these... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/17)
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 14 April 2017 Mayor John Tory City Hall, 2nd Floor 100 Queen Street W Toronto, On. M5H 2N2 Dear Mayor John Tory: I wish you a Happy Sinhala & Tamil New Year. Your personal observation piece on Sri Lanka in the Toronto Star, ‘The quest for healing and justice in the homeland of Toronto’s Tamil community’, came to my attention this morning. While I was reading my concentration was interrupted by voices at a distance with Tamil accents singing a modern version of the nursery rhyme - Let’s go... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/17)
Dr Upatissa Pethiyagoda. You may call it foresight, development, modernization, progress or whatever self-satisfying term that you like. I call it reckless profligacy, and I shall attempt to tell you why. But first, we are broke and possibly soon join the ranks of “defaulters”, our exports (Tea Rubber and Coconuts) are as habitual, in the doldrums, we are jolly close to losing GSP Plus, our behavior is such that any thinking person would see the compelling need for “Hybrid Courts”, wild cat schemes for inappropriate “metal houses”, a little needed Port City and “Megapolis” are promoted with stubborn... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Dear Sirs I have written about the garbage problem and a tangible solution many times and I predicted that this will happen I am writing again with a solution ……….. There is no solution unless we dump garbage into the Sea !!!!!! Quote http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/05/21/garbage-disposal-emergency-situation-and-action-plan/ GARBAGE DISPOSAL EMERGENCY SITUATION AND ACTION PLAN Posted on May 21st, 2016 Dr Sarath Obeysekera Due to heavy rains in Colombo and in areas upstream of Kelani River ,area where Garbage is dumped in Meethotamulle is flooded and inaccessible Daily garbage collections is stranded with no place to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා එක්සත් රාජ්ය ඇෆ්ගනිස්ථානයේ යම් ප්රදේශයකට මහා විශාල බෝම්බයක් අත් හැරලා. ඒක න්යෂ්ටික නොවන වඩාත් ම භයානක බෝම්බය ලෙස හැඳින්වෙනවා. බෝම්බවල මාතාව නමින් ද එය හඳුන්වනවා. මාතාව කියන එක අපේ සංස්කෘතියෙ නම් උපරිම කැප කිරීම, සෙනෙහස ආදී ගුණාංග සමග බැඳුනක්. අප ඒ සංකල්පය බෝම්බ සමග යොදා ගන්නේ නැහැ. එහෙත් බටහිරයන්ට ඒ ප්රශ්නයක් නො වෙයි. ඔවුන් මාතාව යන්න යොදා ගන්නේ වෙනත් අර්ථ සමග. සංස්කෘතික දෙකක වෙනස ඒ උදාහරණයෙනුත් පේන්න තියෙනවා. ඒ කොහොම වුණත් මේ බෝම්බ හෙළීම මගින් අයිසිස් ත්රස්තවාදීන් යම් පිරිසක් මිය ගොස් ඇතැයි කියනවා. බෝම්බ දමන්න ඇත්තේ ත්රස්තවාදීන් එල්ල කරගෙන. අද මුළු මහත් ලෝකයට ම ත්රස්තවාදීන් තර්ජනයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/17)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A massive mound of garbage collapsed in Sri Lanka, killing 19 people, injuring 13 and forcing more than 600 others to flee their homes during festivities to mark the local new year, officials said Saturday. Soldiers on Saturday were searching the site in Meetotamulla, a town near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. Four people were rescued from underneath the mound, but it was unclear whether any others were buried, said military spokesman Roshan Seneviratne, who said five children were among the dead. Police spokesman Priyantha Jayakody said police were investigating whether the collapse Friday... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/17)
Ram Madhvani Sadly the same story continues in many other parts of the world even today - in Libya, Afghanistan, Syria and many other smaller nations where locals are set up to kill each other so that the rich can make more riches and justifying those wars on the pretext of protecting democracy, human rights and freedom. We do not seem to learn from the tragedies of the past.... https://youtu.be/aIvQ2AyCCu4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/17)
Colombo Telegraph,News,STORIES | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH Chairman of Transparency International, Sri Lanka (TISL) Lakshan Dias and prominent TISL Board Member, J.C. Weliamuna have both stepped down from their positions in the organization in the wake of several Right to Information (RTI) petitions being filed by trade unionists under the RTI Act asking for reports relating to alleged corruption and internal mismanagement at the organization. JC Weliamuna The official website of TISL indicates that a new Chairman, SCC Elankoven, has been appointed to the organization while three new Directors have also been appointed. The new Chairman, SCC Elankovan is ‘presently a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/17)
Mahinda Gunasekera By Email 84 Tambrook Drive Agincourt, ON M1W 3L9 Tel. (416) 498-0783 April 14, 2017 The Editor Toronto Star Toronto, Ontario Copy to: His Worship the Mayor of Toronto Dear Editor, Mayor John Tory’s Opinion Column published on April 4, 2017 on ‘The quest for healing and Justice in Sri Lanka’ I find Mayor Tory’s opinion arrived at after a short visit to the country having spent just a day or two in the north is inaccurate, misleading and obviously based on whatever he heard from a few pre-selected individuals who were given the opportunity to meet... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/17)
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ඉතිහාසයේ කළු අකුරින් සටහන් වෙන දුෂිතම රජය බිහිව ගලායමින් පවතී. මේ රජය බිහි කිරීමට හා පවත්වා ගෙන යාමට අවැසි විවිධ ආකාරයේ ව්යාපෘතීන් රාශියක්, පරගැති දේශපාලන ප්රජාවගේ මුලිකත්වයෙන් නිර්මාණය කර පවත්වාගෙනයාම අප නිතරම දකින සිදුවීම් අතර ඇත. මේ ව්යාපෘතීන් ඉතාමත් සුක්ෂම ලෙස නිර්මාණය කරන ලද බැවින්, මෙරට ජනතාවට එකවර මේවායේ ඇති සැබෑ ස්වරුපය හදුනාගත නොහැක. මේ වනවිට මේ පාලනය සුරකින ප්රබලම මෙවලම බවට, "සෛටම් අර්බුදය" නම් වූ දේශපාලන නිර්මාණය ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. තවද එය ඉතා සාර්ථකව පවතින යහපාලන රජයට ඉදිරියට ගලායාමට ඇවැසි පසුබිම සකස්කරදී ඇත. මෙවන් තත්වයක් තුලදී, කල යුත්තේ කුමක්දැයි යන්න මෙරට ජනතාවට පහදාදීම එතරම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/17)
Courtesy breakingnews.ie At least six people were killed and 10 injured in Sri Lanka's capital after a massive rubbish dump buried an estimated 40 homes. A 12-year-old boy and two teenage girls died at the Colombo National hospital where 10 others were being treated after they were rescued, a hospital spokeswoman said. Three other people who were pulled from the wreckage of homes were already dead by the time they arrived at the hospital.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/17)
R Chandrasoma In this prodigious (and Buddhist) country the Minister of Health is in an unhealthy state of un-supressed agitation when lambasting those he sees as enemies of the anointed government of which he is part – a government that (supposedly) ushered in the Age of Decency and Righteous Governance. It is known to science that extreme agitation leads to hallucinatory story-telling about supposed murderous enemies gearing up for an attack on a person both lovable and innocent. In this instance the cruelly endangered victim is none other than our compassionate President and the potential killers are within the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා රාජිත සේනාරත්න කියලා තිබුණා යුද්ධය තාවකාලික විසඳුමක් පමණයි කියලා. ස්ථිර විසඳුම් ලෝකෙ තියෙනව ද කියලා රාජිතගෙන් අහන්න මට ඕන කමක් නැහැ. ඒත් මට දැනගන්න ඕන මේ යුද්ධය මොකක් ද තාවකාලික ව විසඳුපු ප්රශ්නය මොකක් ද කියලා. රාජිත දත් දොස්තර කෙනෙක්. මේ දිනවල ඔහු සයිටම් ගැන රජයේ වෛද්ය නිලධාරි සංගමය එක්ක වචන හුවමාරුවක යෙදිලා ඉන්නෙ. ඒ සංගමයෙ නිලධාරින් අතර විදේශීය රටවල උපාධිධාරී වෛද්යවරුනුත් ඉන්නවා. ඔවුන් හා සංගමය කියාවි ඒ අයට ඒ විදේශීය විශ්වවිද්යාලවල විධිමත් පුහුණුවක් ලැබුණා කියලා. මා ඒ ගැන තර්ක කරන්නෙ නැහැ. සහතික සමග තර්ක කරන්න බැහැ. ඒත් මේ රාජිත - වෛද්ය නිලධාරි සංගම් වචන හුවමාරුවෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/17)
By M D P DISSANAYAKE There are reports reaching Colombo that the current top man at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Rome is playing games with his countrymen. For the past several years, Sinhala Classes have been conducted for the Sinhala children living in Italy. A representative of the “HELADIVA THAKSALAWA” has gone to the Embassy Office to invite the Ambassador Daya Pelpola to attend an annual ceremony. Ambassador Daya Pelpola has questioned as to why “ Teach Sinhala to Children” and had refused to accept the invitation by throwing it back. An Ambassador is representing the Head of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/17)
Markandey katju Former Judge, Supreme Court of India The article was originally published on The Huffington Post. India is inevitably heading for a revolution. Why do I say so ? Let me explain India is potentially a highly developed country, but actually a poor and backward country. It is potentially a highly developed country because it has two of the basic requirements to be a highly developed country, viz. a huge pool of technical talent, and immense natural resources. This was not the position in 1947 when India became independent. The British policy was broadly to keep India backward, feudal and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera “Authorities have suspended all internet services in the three districts of Srinagar, Budgam and Gandarbal where voting started on Sunday for the parliamentary by-elections.Both mobile internet and fixed line broadband connectivity were suspended in the three poll-bound districts which constitute Srinagar-Budgam parliamentary constituency.” Though this election has been held in India Held Kashmir where voters expressed their rejection of the rule by India, it is clear indication that India needs to rethink about the strategy. This may be a good lesson learnt for Sri Lankan, all over the island .When you peruse daily new items and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/17)
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න දෙවන ලෝක සංග්රාම සමයේ ඉංග්රීසින් විසින් ඉදිකළ ත්රිකුණාමලයේ තෙල් ටැංකි 103 තිබුනේය .දැන් 99 ක් ඇත 1948 දී මේවා සිංහලයන්ට ලැබුනේ නැත .රන්පවුම් 2,50 000 ක් ගෙවා 1957 දී මේවා ලංකා රජය පවරා ගත්තේය .එහෙත් ඒවා යහපාලන රජයේ අගමැති විසින් ඉන්දියාවට නැවත බදු දීමට කස කවය් .2017 වෙසක් උත්සවයට පෙර ඔහු මෙම පාවාදීම කරන බවට සපත කරය් ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/17)
Elanko Ratnasabapathey - April 4th 2017, Toronto Star Dear Mayor Tory, I am writing in regards to your commentary of your trip to the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, published on the Toronto Star dated April 4th 2017. I was born and raised in Sri Lanka and lived in the country until I migrated to Canada with my family in 2008. Being a Tamil citizen myself, I had been exposed to hardships of the 30-year civil war. Since migrating to Canada, I have visited Sri Lanka several times and in turn have made multiple trips to Jaffna, amongst other cities... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/17)
ලංකා සී නිවුස් ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා වර්මානයේ විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස හිදිමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මන්ත්රීවරයෙකුට හිමි ඩියුටි ෆී වාහන බලපත්රයක් උපයෝගී කරගෙන ජපානයේ නිෂ්පාදිත ටොයොටා ලෑන්ඩ් කෲසර් ජීප් රථයයක් සිංගප්පූරුවේ ටොයොටා සමාගමන් ඇ.ඩොලර් 62500කට ලංකා බැංකුවේ ණයවර ලිපිගොනු අංක Branch 049- Ref No: NU/P/SIL/16/217 යටතේ ඇණවුම් කොට ගෙන්වා ගෙන ඇති බව කොලම්බු ටෙලිග්රාෆ් වෙබ් අඩවියේ දැක්වෙයි. මේ සඳහා ශ්රීලංකා රේගුව හරහා රුපියල් 33,457,500.00. පමණ බදු සහනයක් මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට ලබදී තිබෙන බවත් රුපියල් එක්දාස් හත්සීය පණහක් 1750/= පමණක් අයකර එම සුඛෝපභෝගි මෝටර් රථය 14/10/2016 වෙනි දින හම්බන්තොට වරාය නිදහස් කොට ගෙන ගොස් ඇතැයිද එහි සදහන්ය. වාහනය ගෙන්වූ බවට වන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/17) Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu Project developer hopes investments to the tune of $13 billion to start coming in from 2018; targets major investors from South Asia, particularly India It is hard to miss the blue-lettered boards lining the northern end of Galle Face, Colombo’s iconic seafront. “A new Central Park in Colombo”, “A new world class city in South Asia” — they declare in bold font. In the background, a few cranes spray sand into the sea in big arches, filling up narrow strips of sandy land — inroads that emerged after work on the port-city project commenced.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/17)
EDITH M. LEDERER AND PAISLEY DODDS ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday urged all countries that provide troops for U.N. peacekeeping missions to hold soldiers accountable for sexual abuse and exploitation, an appeal that came after she cited an Associated Press investigation into a child sex ring in Haiti involving Sri Lankan peacekeepers. She also warned that "countries that refuse to hold their soldiers accountable must recognize that this either stops or their troops will go home and their financial compensation will end." Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommended that U.N. peacekeepers accused of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/17)
by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong Leaders from China and Sri Lanka have voiced support for a proposed bilateral free trade agreement at a recent meeting. Yu Zhengsheng, Chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference (PPC), was holding talks with Sri Lanka's Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe. The state news agency, Xinhua, said Yu had called on the two countries to speed up bilateral negotiations towards the pact and expand economic cooperation. Wickremesinghe responded that he "looks forward to boosting cooperation with China in the fields of trade, finance, ports and transportation infrastructure." He reportedly noted that the Sri Lankan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/17)
By Panchamee Hewavissenti Courtesy Ceylon Today In an interview with Ceylon Today, General Secretary of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya and member of the Joint Opposition Udaya Gammanpila said, the economy of the country is on the verge of collapse as the inflation rates, interest rates as well as the rate of unemployment are rising sharply with the county's foreign reserves depleting rapidly. Member of Parliament Gammanpila arraigns the government, and says that it has fallen flat in restoring the economy and is embarked on a mud-slinging campaign against the former regime, to cover up their own incompetence. He went on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/17)
Sudath Gunasekara 11.4.2017. “President says spiritual leaders are the real messengers who connect the hearts of the people and strengthen reconciliation as wished by every religious philosophy. President noted that the guidance for reconciliation is witnessed in Thripitaka, Bible, Quran and Bhagavad-Gita. He highlighted that Buddhist monks and all other priests belonging to Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity are expected to make use of the norms of the great teachings. President Maithripala Sirisena was speaking at the cultural programme, “Erabadu Vasantham”, dedicated to enhance ethnic and religious reconciliation. The event was held at Singakkuliya, Dankotuwa this afternoon (09). A programme... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
ඇම් ඩී පී දිසානායක අපේ අතිගරැ ජනාධිපතිතුමා සරල දිවියක් ගෙවන ආදර්ශමත් පර්තිමූර්තියක් යන විරැදාවලියෙන් වර්ණවත් කලේ, හරියටම එතුමා ජනාධිපතිවී සතියක් ඇතුලත ලංකාවට ගෙන්වන ලද අතිඋත්තම ෆැන්සිස් පාප්වහන්සේ විසිනි. "මම ජනාධිපතිවූ පසු සැහැල්ලු අපිස් ජීවිතයක් ගතකරන බවත්, අරලියගහ මංදිරයේ නොව මගේ සාමාන්ය ගෙදර ඉන්නා බවත්, වියත් අවියත් හුදී ජනතාවගේ දැනගැනීම සඳහා මගේ හරකබාන වතුපිටි ඇත් අස් රිය පාබල පෙන්වන බවටත්” පරිත්ඥා දුන්නෝය. ජනාධිපති තුමා කෙහෙල් කොලයක තම සුරතින් පරිප්පු ලුණුමිරිස් සමග බත් කන අහිංසක විලාසය දැක මගේ දෙනෙත් තෙත්විය. මෙවන් අග්රගනයේ දුර්ලභ සුපේශීලී ශික්ෂාකාමි දැහැමි මිනිසෙකු විවේචනය කිරීම අධම නොවේදැයි මට සිතුනි. ඔභුට බත් කන්න බෙලෙක් පිඟානක්වත් නැත, කොච්චර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
By M D P DISSANAYAKE When the Holy Pope Francis visited Sri Lanka, he said the simple habits and unpretentious nature of President Maithripala Sirisena was similar to his life style. When the Holy Pope said ‘President Sirisena is just like me’ I said ‘no you are just like President Sirisena,” Archbishop said. Maithripala Sirisena says ” on elected as the president he would not move into official residence Temple Trees but would live in his own simple house. He has also declared his assets for everyone to see. He is keen on leading a simple life and serving... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න (මගේ '''ජාතිය පාවාදීම ''' පොතේ කොටසක් '')) 1832 දී රාජකාරිය තහනම කිරීමේදී එය වැඩවස ම් ක්රමයකට අයත් වහල් සේවයක් බව ඉංග්රීසීන් විසින් ප්රකාශ කරන ලදී මතු පිටින් මහා සාධාර නයක් කරන බවක් අඟවමින් මොවුන්ගෙන් සමහරෙකු කටයුතුකලේ වෙනෙකක් සිතතුළ සඟවා ගෙනය .. ඔවුන් සිතුවේ රාජකාරි ක්රමය තහනම් කර කුලී සේවකයන් ඇති කිරීමේ ක්රමයක් ඇති කලවිට ඔවුන්ගේ වතු වගාවන් සඳහා අවශ්ය තරම් කුලීකාරයන් සිංහලයන්ගෙන් ලබා ගත හැකිවනු ඇති බවය් .එහෙත් සිංහලයෝ කුලීයට අනුන්ගේ වැඩ කිරීමට කැමති වුයේ නැත . . රාජකාරි ක්රමය යටතේ ඔවුන් යෙදුනේ තම සමාජයේ පොදු වැඩ වලය . එය යුතුකම් ඉටුකිරීමක් ලෙස ඔවුහු සැලකුහ ..ඉංග්රීසින් යටතේ කුලීවදට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
Courtesy RT A professor who challenged the 2013 claims of a chemical attack in Syria is now questioning the Trump administration’s narrative blaming the Assad government for the April 4 attack in the Idlib province town of Khan Shaykhun. On Tuesday, the White House released a declassified intelligence brief accusing Syrian President Bashar Assad of ordering and organizing the attack, in which Syrian planes allegedly dropped chemical ordnance on civilians in the rebel-held town. The report “contains absolutely no evidence that this attack was the result of a munition being dropped from an aircraft,” wrote Massachusetts Institute of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Higher Education and Highways Minister Lakshman Kiriella, yesterday said that the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government wouldn’t give in to what he called a despicable political project undertaken by Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) on behalf of those who had been ousted at the January 2015 presidential poll. MP Kiriella, who is also the Leader of the House, in a brief interview with The Island emphasised that the ongoing GMOA spearheaded campaign against the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) was meant to undermine and humiliate the government."The GMOA leadership is working overtime for the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The CIA/M16/RAW-Tamil Diaspora installed Sirisena-Ranil government which has abandoned all development activities, and defied all its promises to the people are however committed and determined only to fulfil the unjust and unsubstantiated demands of the Tamils of the North and East which include enactment of a new constitution, providing land and police powers to the provinces, a federal form of governance, demilitarization of Northern and Eastern Provinces, and merge the two provinces. In addition to this, the government is also fully committed and resolute in preventing Sinhala and Muslim people resettling in the lands... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
SUSANTHA WIJESINGHE IT was in the news sometime back that the Parliament is to sanction Rs283 million to buy SIX cars for some SIX political suckers. Two of them wanted Rs40 million cars, while another wanted Rs20 million car, and Sambanthan was to be given Rs21 Million to extend his Eelaam Palace. Now The PRESIDENT imports the aforesaid Cars for his son and Daughter perhaps. Please watch this ITN news clip. PEOPLE ARE STARVING WITHOUT A MEAL FOR A DAY, and some are living on PLAIN TEA AND A BISCOTHU. THIS IS CERTAINLY YAHA PAALANAYA FOR PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
The European Parliament’s International Trade Committee In a letter to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe the the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee has said:”While we understand the complexity of the issues involved and the need to enter into wide consultations on the more sensitive aspects, it is critical that Sri Lanka delivers on its commitments within clearly established timelines. More specifically, we expect the Government to table legislation to replace the Prevention of Terrorism Act and amend the CCPA, ensuring their full compliance with international standards, prior to the decision on GSP Plus foreseen for mid-May” We publish below the letter... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera This reminds me of a Prison Chief of India –Dr Krina Bedi (Mrs) “In March 1993, a woman named Dr Kiran Bedi became Inspector General of the Tihar Jail in New Delhi, the largest prison in India holding nearly 10,000 inmates. In her search for a technique of rehabilitation which would not only prepare her inmates for a successful return to society but also render the prison environment more peaceful and harmonious, she learned about Vipassana and its prior use in prisons” It is a good and timely move by IGP to initiate such program which... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
Writes Ram Madhav Courtesy samvada.org "During this period, the majority Sinhalese had grown by 38 per cent (from 10,979,400 to 15,873,800); Sri Lankan Tamils by 20.3 per cent (from 1,886,900 to 2,270,900) and the Indian Origin Tamils by 2.8 per cent (from 812,700 to 842,300). But the Muslims grew by 78.6 per cent (from 1,046,900 to 1,869,800). This almost double growth rate of Muslims has naturally attracted the attention of even the ordinary citizens. It has triggered fears of the possibility of the minorities in general and Muslims in particular dominating the Sinhalese over time. BBS clearly represents that popular... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
By Nishthar Idroos Courtesy FT.lk It has now transpired that 142 out of the 225 members in the current Parliament have not passed the GCE Advanced Level examination while 94 of the 142 MPs have not even passed the GCE Ordinary Level examination ‘Democracy is the counting of heads, not what’s in them’ – Padraig Deignan No GCE Ordinary Level certificate for a good portion of our high-flying Members of Parliament. This is no ordinary issue, neither is it a laughing one. It’s serious, very serious. Parliament is the supreme legislative body of Sri Lanka and if elected members lack... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
Editorial Island April 11, 2017, 8:26 pm We quoted National Unity Alliance Leader Azath Salley, in yesterday’s main news item, as saying President Maithripala Sirisena had assured him that the established procedures would be followed in appointing judges. The President is only making a virtue of necessity! Having promised to usher in good governance, the government cannot act in contravention of time-honoured procedures. Similarly, Salley ought to give a pledge to the public that established procedures will also be followed in removing judges. For, in 2015, his efforts to make the then Chief Justice Mohan Peiris resign left a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
Leo Fernando Pitipana Courtesy The Island April 11, 2017, 8:37 pm This is the sad and angry cry reverberating from the hapless poor patients who spent their meagre means to visit the hospitals on Friday the 7th April seeking treatment and solace, and being denied such by the doctors manning the government and some private hospitals who, they say, had their medical education financed from the taxes paid by these poor members of society. Closing SAITM alleging substandard medical education in this only private medical school is not a valid reason to deny health care to the poor, and some... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
WITH RAVI LADDUWAHETTY Courtesy Ceylon Today "In the face of such heinous war crimes, all civilized people must speak with one voice. That is why Canada fully supports the United States' limited, focused action to degrade the Assad regime's ability to launch such attacks." – Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada United States President Donald J. Trump has had no choice but to bomb Syria. He was set up and pushed into doing it. If it was a set up job, it cannot be Russia. Trump was going soft on Russia and Russia was backing Syrian President Bashar al- Assad... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
BY RUSSELL A. WHITEHOUS Courtesy Ceylon Today The past few days have been full of so-called coincidences in the Middle East that can't help, but to raise eyebrows in the post-Iraq War era. On Tuesday, 'a suspected chemical attack by government forces' took place in Idlib, one of the few major cities still under rebel control in President Assad's Syrian Arab Republic. Two days later, the US launched 59 Tomahawk missiles at a government air base near Homs, right as President Trump was in the middle of a delicate dinner conversation with his nemesis (and Assad ally) Chinese Premier Xi. All... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
Courtesy The Telegraph (UK) Boris Johnson had arrived in Italy insisting he was a man with a plan. The Foreign Secretary would use his powers of diplomacy to win the G7’s backing for threatening sanctions against Russia and Syria, which would in turn persuade Vladimir Putin that supporting Bashar al-Assad was no longer worth it. Less than 24 hours later, the most important summit of his career appeared to have blown up in Mr Johnson’s face thanks to the intransigence of Germany and Italy, which critics say he should have seen coming. By the time he left the Renaissance... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
MOSCOW (Sputnik) It turns out that Ivanka Trump, a mother of three, played a role in her father's decision to launch a cruise missile strike at a sovereign state, which resulted in the death of several people, according to The Telegraph. — US President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump confirmed on Tuesday that his sister Ivanka Trump, who has recently agreed to take an unpaid job as a White House adviser, influenced the decision to launch missile strikes against a military airfield in Syria. "Ivanka is a mother of three kids and she has influence. I’m sure she said: ‘Listen, this is horrible stuff," Trump's... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/04/17)
Shenali D Waduge Ever since western colonial invaders arrived on our island the policy of the western administrators was to eliminate Buddhism and indoctrinate the Sinhala Buddhists. Buddhism stood in the way of totally controlling the people & the island. They divided the Sinhalese by religion creating Catholics/Christians upon whom was tasked the objective of diluting the place of Buddhism and promote Christianity. Ever since independence sinister attempts have been made using ministries, government policies and society groups to dilute the place of Buddhism. The present ‘shared values’ program is one such insidious wolf in sheeps clothing attempt riding... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/17)
Sputnik.com Russia has intelligence from "trusted sources" that chemical weapons provocations are currently being prepared in more regions in Syria, including Damascus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella Tuesday. "We have information from various sources that such provocations — and I cannot call them anything else — are being prepared in other regions of Syria, including in the southern suburbs of Damascus, where they intend to plant some substance and blame the official Syrian authorities for its use," Putin told a briefing. Russian President Putin announced that Russia will officially turn to the UN in the Hague for an investigation of the chemical weapons' use... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/17)
RT Russia has information of a potential incident similar to the alleged chemical attack in Idlib province, possibly targeting a Damascus suburb, President Vladimir Putin said. The goal is to discredit the government of Syrian President Assad, he added. “We have reports from multiple sources that false flags like this one – and I cannot call it otherwise – are being prepared in other parts of Syria, including the southern suburbs of Damascus. They plan to plant some chemical there and accuse the Syrian government of an attack,” he said at a joint press conference with Italian President... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/17)
Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA April 10, 2017, 8:09 pm "The correctness or incorrectness of the ideological and political line decides everything."(Mao) UNP leader and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is mightily helped by the confusion in the ranks of the SLFP and Oppositional forces in general. The SLFP voters and the broader constituency of non-UNP (or non-hardcore UNP) voters are being sent three messages, all of which are wrong. The three messages come, NOT from Mahinda Rajapaksa but from President Sirisena, ex-president Kumaratunga and architect-strategist of the breakaway Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (Sri Lanka People’s Front SLPF), Basil Rajapaksa. Chandrika Kumaratunga... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/17)
MEDIA RELEASE , Ranjith Soysa, Media Co-ordinator, Global Sri Lankan Forum Mr Sampanthan, the leader of the TNA and the Leader of the official opposition of Sri Lankan Parliament, should be brought before the courts for spreading ABSOLUTE FALSE INFORMATION about the Sri Lankan defence forces. At a conference held on Counter Terrorism in India, Sampanthan came out with a figure of 150,000 Tamils being killed by the armed forces. While the figures vary from person to person or from the NGO to NGO as to the civilians killed during the Sri Lanka’s war against the Tamil separatist Tigers, Sampanthan’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/17)
සුරිය වංශය යලි ගොඩ නැගීමේ සංවිධානය උතුරු පළාත් සභා ප්රධාන අමාත්ය සි විග්නේශ්වාරන් මහතා විසින් 19.02. 2017 දින දැඩි මත ධාරි සිංහල ජාතිවදියකු හා තමා වාදයකට සුදානම් බව පවසමින් Ceylon Today පුවත් පතට සම්මුක සාකච්චාවක් ලබා දෙමින් පවසා ඇත . එම සාකච්චාවේ පුවත් පත් දිඟුව ceylontoday.lk/print20170101CT20170331.php?id=15580. එයට පිළිතුරු වශයෙන් ආචාරය සුරිය ගුණසේකර මහතා විසින් ඔහු වෙත ප්රශ්න 6 යොමු කරන ලද අතර, 23.03.2017 සහ 24.03.2017 දින ඔහු පිළිතුරු ලබා ඩි ඇත. දිගුව http://www.ceylontoday.lk/print20170101CT20170331.php?id=17714 සහ http://www.ceylontoday.lk/print20170101CT20170331.php?id=17786. විග්නේශ්වරන් මහතා පවසා සිටින්නේ සිංහලයන්ට පෙර මෙරටේ දෙමල ජනයා විසු බව සහ සිංහලයන් ඇති වුයේ දෙමළ ජනයාගෙන් බවය. විග්නේශ්වරන් මහතා පිළිතුරු සැපයීමේදී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/17)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara 7.4.2017. Protection of the country from outside invasion, maintaining law and order and providing the welfare of the people, we have learned, as the three fundamental functions of any state. Protection of Sambuddha Sasana has been considered even more important in this country by our ancient Kings. Since the Government of this country today has miserably failed to uphold all these basic functions of a state, I call it a classic example of a failed State in world history. I put the blame for this crime squarely on the President as the legal Head of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/17)
One estimate provided by GlobalFirePower.com indicates that the Syrian armed forces maintain 461 total aircraft. Thus, on Mattis’ account, the strike resulted in the elimination of about 92 aircraft.... -Full Story- (https:/sputniknews.com/ - 11/04/17)
John Wight Courtesy Sputnik.com "A cloud no bigger than a man's hand can be a harbinger of great storms to come." So goes the biblical injunction and so are the potential ramifications of one "proportionate" and "limited" US airstrike carried out against a Syrian airbase, which in of itself was the military equivalent of a slap rather than a punch. However the symbolism, breach of trust, and return to a world in which Washington asserts the right to act as the judge, jury, and executioner of international law instead of being bound by it has been mesmerizing in its imperial and colonial arrogance, not to mention contempt for a world... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/04/17)
By Rathindra Kuruwita and Umesh Moramudali Courtesy Ceylon Today Indika Perera, attorney at law and the former Director – Programme for Initiative for Political and Conflict Transformation (INPACT) spoke to Ceylon Today about Martin McGuinness, the legendary Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader, who passed away a few weeks ago, and his involvement in the Sri Lankan peace process. In the first months of Mahinda Rajapaksa's tenure as President of Sri Lanka, Perera who played a key role in introducing the two men (McGuinness and Rajapaksa) spoke of attempts made by McGuinness to share the lessons learnt, from their successful peace... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/04/17)
with Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today "I will not agree with what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it. I do not agree with what you write, but I will leave every room for you to write". – VOLTAIRE Hot on the heels of the government messing up with the United Nations by agreeing to co-sponsor the UN resolution with the United States which was extensively debated in this column just last Monday , then comes another a piece of dangerous legislation which is already tabled in the House of Parliament. That is a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/04/17)
Dr. Sooriya Gunasekara Courtesy Ceylon Today Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran responded to Dr. Sooriya Gunasekara, Chairman of a registered political party called Sinhaladipa Jathika Peramuna, who called the CM for a debate, based on the CM's interview that appeared in Ceylon Today of 19 February 2017. Dr. Gunasekara's questions touching on the various claims on Tamil Homeland were responded by the Chief Minister again on Ceylon Today, 23 and 24 March 2017. Below is the response by Dr. Gunasekara to the Chief Minister's reply. Ceylon Today agreed to publish Dr. Gunasekara's response.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/04/17)
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said the Syrian crisis can only be solved through a political process, claiming it-s not regime change but the defeat of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group that Washington is seeking in Syria.... -Full Story- (https:/rt.com/ - 10/04/17)
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ගෝකණ්ණ හෙවත් ත්රිකුණාමල වරාය පිළිබඳ ඉතිහාසය ක්රි.පූ. හයවැනි සියවස දක්වා අතීතයට ඇදීයති. පුරාතනයේ සිට වර්තමානය දක්වාම ශ්රී ලංකාවට සුවිශාල මෙහෙයක් ඉටු කළ වරායක් වන්නේ ත්රිකුණාමල වරායයි. බුදුරදුන්ගේ ශාක්යවංශය නෑකම් කියන භද්දකච්චායනා කුමාරි ඇතුළු පරිවාර ස්ත්රීන් ද මෙරටට ගොඩ බැස ඇත්තේ ත්රිකුණාමල වරායෙනි. අතීතයේ දී බොහෝ ඉන්දියානුවෝ මේ වරාය හරහා ලංකාවට පැමිණ ඇත. භද්දකච්චායනා කුමාරියත් එවැනි එක් අයෙකි. නමුත් මේ සුවිශේෂි වරාය ඉන්දියාවට පවරා දීමට ආණ්ඩුව සූදානම් වීම අනුමත කළ හැකිද? මෙය සැබැවින්ම මවුබිම පාවා දීමක් නොවේද? ලොව හොඳම ස්වාභාවික වරායන් අතරින් දෙවන ස්ථානය හිමිවන මේ වරාය කොළඹ වරාය මෙන් දසගුණයක මුහුදු හා ගොඩ බිම් ප්රදේශයක් පුරා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/17)
Editorial Island April 9, 2017, 9:46 pm US President Donald Trump has, in a desperate bid to overcome domestic problems and rally support, emulated his predecessors such as Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He has taken to military action overseas. He had a Syrian airfield bombed last week, claiming that President Bashar al-Assad had to face the consequences of chemical attacks on rebel forces. But, the whole world is aware that Trump is no friend of Syrians going through hell. His anti-Muslim travel ban has amply demonstrated that he does not care a damn about... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/17)
Senaka Weeraratna Throughout Sri Lanka’s Buddhist History lasting for over 2300 years Vesak has been an exclusive Buddhist Festival with only Buddhist symbols and decorations been displayed to mark the most important occasion in the Buddhist calendar. Even at worst of times during colonial rule under three Christian powers, this festive day for Buddhists was never adulterated with symbols of other religions. However this year ( 2017) this long established tradition of Vesak being an exclusive Buddhist festival appears to be under threat if we are to take cue from an Advertisement placed in the ‘Sunday Times’ newspaper... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/17)
By Colonel W. Patrick Lang http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ April 08, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Donald Trump's decision to launch cruise missile strikes on a Syrian Air Force Base was based on a lie. In the coming days the American people will learn that the Intelligence Community knew that Syria did not drop a military chemical weapon on innocent civilians in Idlib. Here is what happened: The Russians briefed the United States on the proposed target. This is a process that started more than two months ago. There is a dedicated phone line that is being used to coordinate and deconflict (i.e.,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/17)
By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Courtesy Ceylon Today Sixty-five-year-old Rtd. Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara, also a former UPFA MP says he is against the UN resolution cosponsored by the government. "As the Chief Coordinator of the Federation of National Organizations, consisting of experts such as Shenali Waduge, Dharshan Weerasekara, Shamindra Ferdinando, Kalyana Thiranagama and Dr. Wasantha Bandara, I have compiled a dossier with facts, statistics and letters obtained from various diplomats and reports from international NGOs and vetted by former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva to prove that there were no war crimes committed by the security forces. Another organization, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/17)
Dharma Voices for Animals Colombo Sri Lanka Chapter This work in progress painting by Ms. Avanti Karunaratna is expected to be finished in early May, 2017 and will be displayed to the public in time for the celebration of Vesak and holding of the UN Day of 2017 Conference in Colombo. The Paththirippuwa, which is regarded as the epitome or the most admired symbol and representation of Kandyan Architecture was built in 1802 A.D. by the Master Craftsman and Royal Architect, Devendra Moolacharya on the instructions of King Sri Wickrama Rajasinhe, who was the last King of the Nayakkar... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/17)
KALEE BROWN Courtesy collective-evolution.com When I first watched the trailer for the Oscar-winning documentary The White Helmets, I cried. It paints a beautiful picture of saintlike, peaceful soldiers saving innocent civilians from the terror in Syria, with the song “When The Saints Go Marching In” playing in the background. It ignited a fire of compassion and empathy within me for the Syrians plagued by war. I knew that I needed to watch the documentary and, more specifically, learn more about this heroic group. Yet to my surprise, I learned that this group isn’t quite as “heroic” as the documentary and North American... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/17)
හොඳම මුදල් ඇමතිට උපහාරයක් https://youtu.be/EqWTfPKSyck... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/17)
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Gamini Gunawardane This is a letter to the Editor of 'The Island' newspaper in response to the above mentioned nomenclature used by Prof. Hoole. Island editor did not publish it. Dr. Sivasegaram, at the end of his response to the review of Prof. Rajan Hoole on Prof. Gananath Obeysekera’s book “Doomed King’, in The Island of 11th Maech has stated: “I would like a Sinhala scholar to explain the etymology of "devanampiya" which to me seems vastly different from what "deva-nambiya" means in Tamil. I would rather leave such matters to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/17)
J. A. L. Jayasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror On the advice and instructions of Mahanayake Theras of the Malwatta and Asgiri Chapters, Lekakadhikari Theras, Ven Dr. Medagama Sri Dhammananda Thera (Asgiri) and Ven Dr. Pahamune Sri Sumangala Thera (acting Lekakadhikari Thera of the Malwatu Chapter) had presented a letter containing 21 points, in which the two chapters request for response. This document was presented to the President at his official residence in Kandy during a visit made by him today. The President thereafter met both the Lekakadhikaris and the Monks of the senior Sangha Saba. Don't open road... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/17)
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Only when something comes up in print or exposed on television, people who have been affected by the highlighted topic(s) will emerge out of their shells to either join public protests or respond with their type of experiences (as feedbacks). The Saturday Column on 11 March, in Ceylon Today, on "Bogus Pharmacists galore" managed to bring out mind-blowing responses from various members of the public with their own personal experiences; some even with good advice to improve the pathetic situation of bogus pharmacies where the health of innocent and naïve people has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/17)
Courtesy RT Washington has presented “no evidence whatsoever” yet that the Shayrat airfield in Syria’s Homs Province targeted by the US after an alleged chemical attack in Idlib had any such weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry said. “Twenty-four hours have passed since the US Navy warships launched a massive missile strike at the Shayrat airfield, and neither the Pentagon nor the State Department have provided any evidence of presence of chemical weapons at this airbase,” the ministry spokesman, Major-General Igor Konashenkov, said in a statement on Saturday. Dozens of representatives of the media, local authorities, fire departments, police,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/04/17)
Courtesy Pravda After the United States struck a missile blow on Shayrat airfield in Syria's Homs, many wondered why Russian sophisticated air defence systems, such as Pantsir, S-300, S-400, Buk-M2 and Tor complexes, have not protected Syria from 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched by Ross and Porter destroyers. Predictably, Russian liberals and Ukrainian activists rejoiced at the US cruise missile attack by claiming that the US has thus showed its superiority over Russia. However, military experts explained that Russian air defences were deployed in Syria in agreement with the legitimate Syrian government to protect Russian facilities... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera We as voters are quite happy that parliament attendance details of MP’s ( including ministers ) will be placed in the web. Secretary to the Parliament who takes such initiative should also create folders for each MP in the web to show following , School qualifications Higher education Qualifications ( if any) Profession (other than being and MP) Parents name ,qualification and professions Properties owned by MP before and after becoming and MP Children’s attending school ( private or public) Any relatives employees by him or her Any court cases and allegation in court of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා මා සිංහල අවුරුද්ද ගැන බොහෝ දේ ලියා තිබුණත් තවමත් ඒ කරුණු ඇත්තේ පොත්පත්වල පමණයි. මේ ලිපියටත් ඒ ඉරණම අත්වීමට ඇති ඉඩකඩ අධිකයි. එයට මූලික හේතුව විද්යුත් ජනමාධ්ය අවශ්ය ප්රචාරය නොදීමයි. ජනමාධ්යවේදීන්ගෙන් අති විශාල බහුතරය පඬියන් වීම සිංහලයන්ගේ කරුමයක් වී ඇත. අපි අවුරුද්ද ගැන කරුණු කිහිපයක් නැවත කියමු. ඒ අතර අලුත් කරුණක් දෙකක් ද පළමු වරට මෙහි සඳහන් කරමු. පළමුවෙන් ම කිව යුත්තේ ඊනියා විද්යාඥයන් කුමක් කීවත් ඉර පොළොව වටා ගමන් කරන්නේ යැයි කීමෙහි කිසිම වරදක් නැති බව ය. පොළොවේ සිට බැලූ විට පෙනෙන්නේ, නිරීක්ෂණය කෙරෙන්නේ ඉර යන බවයි. කිසිම චලිතයක් නිරපේක්ෂ නැත. සෑම චලිතයක් ම සාපේක්ෂ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/04/17)
ලංකාවේ වෙනදේ ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ සැසිවාරය සඳහා රියර් අද්මිරාල් සරත් වීරසේකර මහතාගේ ආගමනය පසුගිය සතියේ දේශපාලන පිටියේ මහත් ආන්දොaලනයකට ලක්ව තිබුණි. ඒ පිළිබඳව විවිධ පාර්ශ්වයන් විසින් එල්ල කරන ලද චෝදනා පිළිබඳව 'දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්රහය' සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා සමග කළ සාකච්ඡාවක් මතුදැක්වෙයි. * ඔබ ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සලේට ගොස් නැවත පැමිණියා. බොහෝ අය ඔබ කළ කාර්යයට ප්රශංසා කළා. නමුත් සමහරෙක් ඔබ විවේචනය කරනවා. පළමුවෙන් කියන්න ඇයි ඔබ ජිනීවා ගියේ? මම ජිනීවා ගිය හේතුව මීට පෙර මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවලදී කියා තිබෙනවා. ඔබ දන්නවා මෙවර මානව හිමිකම් සැසිවාරයේදී අපට විරුද්ධව තිබෙන 30/1 යෝජනාව සහ එහි ප්රගතිය පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කළ බව. එම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/04/17)
Sri Lanka News Opening a new restaurant is a challenging and risky venture in Sri Lanka But for EU MP Niranjan Deva Aditiya , spent one year researching the menu and his chefs have obtained traditional recipes from every part of the island and from all communities. "At Ceylon Café, conveniently located on Horton Place within the premises of Grande Gourmet, we aim to provide you with traditional Sri Lankan food and specialty crab says Ceylon Café Chairman Niranjan Deva Aditiya !. "Our crab dishes include the world famous traditional Jaffna Crabs Curry, Chilaw Curry Crab, Singapore Chilli Crab, Butter Crab and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/04/17)
Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Joint opposition MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage yesterday rejected the allegation made by Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake that he had bought a house in England saying the Bribery Commission (BC) had proved him innocent. He said that the Bribery Commission and the CID had conducted an investigation which showed that he was in no way connected. The MP said he had disclosed these matters in his 2009 Assets and Liabilities declaration. "My brother Vijayananda Aluthgamage, who is in Japan purchased that house to help his two children studying in England. After this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/04/17)
by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island April 8, 2017, 8:28 pm An interview with Prof. G.L.Peiris regarding the situation arising from the decisions made by the Judicial Services Association at their Special General meeting held on 1 April 2017 in relation to the appointment of Mr Ramanathan Kannan as a High Court judge. Q. You were one of the first to hold a press conference on the appointment of Mr Ramanathan Kannan to the High Court and you are familiar with the letter of 23 February 2017 written by the Judicial Services Commission to the President. If a High Court... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/04/17)
BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE There was a time when victory over enemies was about bashing heads in, seizing their women and enslaving their children. It still happens of course. The cost-effective way is for the powerful to dictate, the weak to submit, hands to be shaken with the key representatives of the respective parties facing the camera, a show of bonhomie and crisp statements about long-standing historical friendships. Heads don’t get bashed in, but enslavement is what it is all about. Well, ‘enslavement’ might be too harsh a word actually. But let’s say “privileged access to resources,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/04/17)
By The Nation - The strike launched by the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) on Friday (7) against the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) came under severe criticism where academics said that the action was against the fundamentals of the people. Academics strongly criticized the move of the GMOA and student unions who had left the patients stranded. “The doctors are taking the patients to ransom,” Senior Counsel Udaya Rohan De Silva pointed out. He emphasized that students who had passed exams at the SAITM were waiting to become doctors, adding that therefore the main issue... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/04/17)
Dr. Neville Fernando Courtesy The Island April 7, 2017, 9:28 pm It is commendable that the general public is showing a keen interest on the current SAITM issue which has been blown out of proportion by various fractions. It is our duty therefore to place on record the true facts regarding this issue to clarify the misconceptions among the public which has been disseminated by GMOA, IUSF and. various other parties with vested interest. It is the policy of the prevailing and previous regimes to establish private education, specifically private medical education in the country which has been a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/04/17)
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න සිංහලේ රාජකාරි ක්රමය යොදා ගත්තේ උත්තරීතර සමුපකාරික ක්රමයක් පවත්වා ගැනීම සඳහාය ..එම සමුපකාරික සමාජ ක්රමයේ පොදුවැඩ වලින් ඈත්විය හැකිවන්නේ ආත්මාර්ථය පමණක් තකන කෙනෙකුට පමණි .තමන්ගේ කාම බීම සොයා ගැනීමට වැදගත් වන වැව නඩත්තු කිරීම ඔහුගේම යහපත පිණිස බව ගොවියාට ඇන ඇන කියාදීම අවශ්ය නොවීය .. සිංහල සමාජයේ අර්ථ සංවිධානයට කේන්ද්ර වුයේ ඉඩම් හා ඒවා භුක්ති විදීමේ ක්රමයය් .පෞද්ගලික ඉඩම් ලෙස නින්දගම් හා පරවේණි ඉඩම් හැර අනෙක් ඉඩම් රජුගේ භාරකාරත්වය යටතේ පැවතුනි .කිසිම ඉඩමක් නොවිකුණන ලදී .මද ඉඩම් භුක්ති විදින්නෝ රාජකාරිය කලයුතුවිය .ඉඩම් හා ඒවාට අයත් රාජකාරියද පියාගෙන් පුතාට අයිතිවිය රජුගෙන් ගම්වර ලද්දෙකුට ඉඩමක ගොවීන් වෙනස් කිරීමට හෝ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera TV crews and journalists are always seen near Kandy Mahnayake Thero’s residence/ temple We see many politicians ( some overgrown) sitting in front of the prelate and trying to get blessings from Mahnayake Thero .One good thing is that Mahanayke is always polite ,accommodating and kind in giving advises to all the politicians .Lately this action has become a fashion . I heard one powerful minister was asked to consider opinions from the Public regarding handing over of a port to Chinese and the Minister replied that they will seek approval from Parliament before implementing. Of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera GMOA members have finally decided to create awareness among the public about SAITM? ( is it before the pending strike? ) Do you think the office workers among public of middle class background have any idea about the SAITM except what they hear in the TV news and what they read in the papers. They have no clue what qualification these students had and what clinical experience they have received during the studies. They only know that whoever passes out from Sri Lanka Medical School and also foreign schools have to undergo Internship to get more... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/17)
Dr Hector Perera London Mainly in Western countries, in baking fish, roasting vegetables or preparing a piece of meat for dinner or even for baking cakes, they use aluminium foil. What you may not realise is that some of the foil will leach into your meal - and this could be bad for your health. “Gamae Kadae” Back home in Sri Lanka as well they use aluminium but not as much as in other countries. In Sri Lanka they make delicacies like “haelapa, wandu appa, pol roti” with vegetable leaves such as plantain leaves and with “kenda kola”. Those... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/17)
Top Spin by Suni It certainly appears as though the Sri Lanka Cricket Board needs a complete cleanup and res-shuffle.. There definitely is a felt need for good honest and dedicated people to run it not self centered egotistic deadbeats out to reap the benefits available, line their pockets surreptitiously and go on ego and other trips while settling personal, vendettas and carrying grudges shamelessly and playing shuffleboard with the selection process while the good name of the country and past reputation suffers. This is being done while deserving players and bright stars for the future are sidelined at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/17)
WINSTON DE VALLIERE Courtesy Ceylon Today Though things were torrid for a while for the Unity Government, the President and Premier, as the perceived key players in the exercise, seem able to keep the ship above water and moving forward at least on the economic front, if not in the social and political spheres. Not even the Special Presidential Commission appointed to probe allegations relating to fraud in at least two Central Bank Bond issues seems to have done anything to deepen that crack that's more like one appearing on the plaster of the wall and not in the structure of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/17)
by Sarath Dharmasena and Shyam Nuwan Ganewatte Courtesy The Island April 7, 2017, 11:03 pm The Inland Operations Director of the Central Bank P.W.D.Rodrigo testifying before the Special Presidential Commission to investigate the alleged bond scam yesterday said Chairman of the Tender Board P. Samarasiri had on February 27,2015 told of the tender board that the decision taken by the then Governor of the Central Bank to accept bids upto Rs. 10 billion at the treasury bond Auction had to be carried out. Director of the Public Debt Department Deepa Seneviratne had informed the Tender Board that the then Governor... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/17)
කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මෙරට ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට විදේශිකයන් ඉතා බරපතළ ලෙසින් මැදිහත් වී ඇත. හිටපු එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ නිලධාරිනී යස්මින් සුකා ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයට පැමිණිල්ලක් කරමින් මේජර් ජෙනරාල් ශවේන්ද්ර සිල්වා ශ්රී ලංකා හමුදාවේ ඇජුටන්ට් ජෙනරාල් ලෙස පත්කර ඇති බවට පැමිණිල්ලක් කර ඇත. මේ අන්දමට ඇය ඇමරිකාව, බ්රිතාන්ය සහ ඉන්දියාව යන රටවල ආරක්ෂක කටයුතුවලට මැදිහත් වන්නේද? යස්මින් සුකාගේ මෙම ඉල්ලීම පිළිබඳව විමර්ශනය කරන විට හෙළිවන්නේ ඇයට තොරතුරු සපයන ද්රෝහියකු සිටින බවයි. මේ ද්රෝහියා ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ දී සුකා සමග එක්ව කටයුතු කළේය. එහෙත් රජය මේ සතුරා හඳුනාගෙන නැත. ප්රභාකරන් වෙනුවෙන් හඬ නැගූ පාර්ශ්ව දැන් යළි එළියට පැමිණ ඇත. ඔවුහු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/17)
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම "අපි ආණ්ඩුව මේ වසරේ පෙරළනවා. බැරි වුණොත් ලබන වසරේ අනිවාර්යයෙන් පෙරළනවා. ඡන්දය එන්න ඕනෑනේ. කොහොම වුණත් තව වෙසක් පෝය දෙකයි. දැනටමත් වසර තුනක් ඉවරයිනේ. මේ අය ආණ්ඩුව ගත්තාම කාලයත් ඉක්මනට යනවා. මම හිතන්නේ නෝනා ඔරලෝසුව කරකවනවාද කොහෙද? " හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද එහෙම කීවේ සතියකට විතර පෙරය. එහෙම බැලුවොත් ආණ්ඩුව තියෙන්නේ තව ටික දවසක් විතරය. හැබැයි එහෙම කියා දවස් දෙකක් යන්න කලින් රනිල් මහින්දට උත්තර දුන්නේය. "දැන් කියනවා පෝය දෙකක් යන්න කලින් ආණ්ඩුව ගන්නවලු. පෝය දෙකක් යන්න කලින් රජයේ සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහනේ මූලික ප්රතිඵල ලැබෙන විට මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට සිදු වෙන්නේ අඬන්න" රනිල් උත්තර දුන්නේ එහෙමය. "රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ බලයට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/17)
S, Akurugoda In an article titled "War crimes: Lanka overwhelmed by Sampanthan's unsubstantiated allegations" appeared in The Island dated March 28, 2017 , its writer described what the leader of the TNA, Sampanthan, has claimed against the Sri Lankan security forces and its implications against the backdrop of different figures quoted by the UN, and various other parties wanting to haul Sri Lanka up before the proposed hybrid war crimes court, in accordance with the Geneva Resolution 30/1 adopted on Oct 1, 2015, co-sponsored by Sri- Lanka Ranil-Sirisena Administration. As per the article, Sampanthan, while justifying the LTTE terrorism, declared... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/17)
Ranjith Soysa Media Coordinator For Global Sri Lankan Forum The Global Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF) applauds the remarkable effort by Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera to defend the good name of Sri Lanka and its security forces at the recently concluded sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva. His determined initiative was supported by the Global Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF), the Federation of National Organisations (FNO) as well as several other patriotic organisations and individuals in and outside Sri Lanka. Rear Admiral Weerasekera, a former Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Navy and a decorated war hero... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/17)
By M D P DISSANAYAKE Both Rangana and Upul were victims of circumstances of Sri Lankan cricket. Rangana failed to secure a permanent place in the team as the selectors opted to play one spinner. Muralitharan dominated the spot for quite a long time whilst Rangana was rested on the bench. Suddenly the selectors have realised the importance of Rangana, not only as a regular bowler but even to lead the team as a stand-in skipper for test team. He has thus far delivered the goods, under extremely difficult cisumtances. Upul Tharanga was also sidelined for several years and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera When you read the news daily you note following, Handing over Trinco Oil Tank Farm to India :Petroleum Ministry Oppose move . · Hambantota project: Stinging protest by Ports Minister -Ranatunga alleges draft deal gives unilateral powers to Chinese company. Three Ministers oppose SAITM . Co-sponsoring of Resolution at UNHRC – Cabinet Minister Slams Government decision.. · Sri Lanka's President opposes planned VAT hike. · Education budget: Ministers throw the book at each other Education Minister.. Akila Viraj Kariyawasam yesterday hit back at Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, who had charged that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/04/17)
ආචාර්ය රොල්ෆ් ගේයිනර් මනෝ විද්යාඥ ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය වෛද්ය රුවන් ජයතුංග විසින් රචිත නවතම කෘතිය වන, ‘බෞද්ධ ජාතක කථා වල මනෝවිද්යාත්මක දැක්ම’ නමැති කෘතිය, මම මහත් අභිරුචියකින් කියවූයෙමි. බෞද්ධ දර්ශනය පිළිබඳව දීර්ඝ කාලයක් තිස්සේ උනන්දුවන පුද්ගලයකු මෙන්ම, මනෝවිද්යාඥයකු වශයෙන්ද, මා හට පෙනීයන්නේ, ජාතක කථා මගින්, මානව විඥ්ඥාණයේ විවිධ ගතිලක්ෂණ පිළිබඳව, සලකා බලෙන අතරම, පුද්ගල මනෝභාවයන්, හැඟීම් සහ චිත්තාවේගයන්, අභිප්රායයන් සහ චර්යා ලක්ෂණ, චින්තනය සහ ක්රියාවලීන් ආදිය පිළිබඳව පුළුල් පරාසයක් ආවරණය කෙරෙන ආකාරයෙන් නිර්මාණයවී තිබෙන බවයි. වෛද්ය ජයතුංග විසින් මෙම ග්රන්ථයේදී පාඨකයා වෙත දක්වන අනුග්රාහකත්වය තුළ, මෙම ජාතක කථා, ක්රි.පූ.3 වැනි සියවස සහ ක්රි.ව. 5 වැනි සියවස අතර කාලයේදී ලියැවී ඇති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා දැනට තිබෙන තත්වය අනුව මේ ආණ්ඩුව පෙරළා දැමීමට පුළුවන් වන්නේ රනිල් අගමැති කමෙන් ඉවත් කිරීමෙන්. විප්ලව, හර්තාල්, වැඩ වර්ජන ආදිය බොරු කයිවාරු පමණයි. මෙරට විප්ලවයකින් පසු ඇති කෙරෙන්නේ අනුර කුමාරගේ ආණ්ඩුවක් ද? නැත්නම් කුමාර් ගුණරත්නම්ගේ ආණ්ඩුවක් ද? එයට කලින් විජේවීරගේ මරණය ගැන යුද්ධාපරාධ චෝදනාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට ඒ පක්ෂවලට පුළුවන් ද? රනිල් ඉවත් කරන්නේ කෙසේ ද? අද දේශපාලනයේ ඇති ප්රධාන ම ප්රශ්නය එයයි. නව ව්යවස්ථාව, බැඳුම්කර මගඩිය, පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණ ආදිය කැරකැවෙන්නේ මේ ඊනියා මිස්ට ක්ලීන් වටා. ඔහු ඉවත් කිරීමට ව්යවස්ථාව යොදා ගන්නේ කෙසේ ද? පැහැදිලි ව ම ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ බොහෝ නායකයන් මෛත්රිපාල කණ්ඩායම සමග එක් වී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/04/17)
විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ හම්බන්තොට වරාය බදුදීම පිළිබඳව මහා විශාල ප්රශ්න තියෙනවා... රටේ ජනතාව අවදියෙන් ඉන්නේ.. අපි දන්නවා හම්බන්තොටින් මහා අවුලක් ඇති වුණා.. හම්බන්තොටින් පාලනයක් ඇති වුනා වගේම හම්බන්තොටින් රට අවුල් වුණා .. එදා හම්බන්තොටින් චීන රජයත් එක්ක වරායක් ගන්න සාකච්ජා කළා.. හම්බන්තොටට වරායක් ඕනයි කියන කතාවක් මේ රටේ තිබුනා සෑම ආණ්ඩුවක් කාලෙකම.. ඒකට සැලසුමකුත් හැදුවා.. ඇ.ඩො. මි. 300 කින් හම්බන්තොටට ධිවර වරායක් හා බංකරින් පහසුකම් ලබා දීමේ වරායක්.. හැබැයි, පස්සේ කාලෙක මේක මහා පරිමාණ වරායක් කරලා.. මහපොලවත් ගොඩ කරලා මෙතන වරායක් හැදුවා.. දැන් මේ වරාය පවත්වාගෙන යන්න බැරි වුනාම බදු ගිවිසුමක් ගැන අපේ ආණ්ඩුව සාකච්ජා කරනවා... පහුගිය ආණ්ඩුවේ හිටපු අය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා මෙරට දෙමළ ජාතිවාදය ඇති කෙළේ ලන්දේසීන් බව අප පුන පුනා කියනවා. ඒ දුම්කොළ වගාව සඳහා වෙල්ලාලයන් කෝරමණ්ඩල වෙරළෙන් යාපනයට ගෙන ඒමෙන්. එය සිදුවූයේ එක්දහස් හයසිය පනහෙන් පසු. යාපනයේ වෙල්ලාලයන්ගේ ඉතිහාසය අවුරුදු තුන්සිය පනහකට වැඩි නැහැ. අනාදිමත් කාලයක සිට මෙරට දෙමළ ජනයා සිටියේ යැයි කියන විග්නේස්වරන්ගේ ඉතිහාසයත් අවුරුදු තුන්සිය පනහක් නැහැ. විශ්වවිද්යාලවල ඉන්න ඉතිහාසඥයන් යැයි කියන ඉතිහාස අඥානයන්ට යාපනයට ගොස් තෝම්බු පරීක්ෂා කර මේ බව දැනගත හැකියි. විග්නේස්වරන් විතරක් නොවෙයි ඔහුගේ ඥාතීන් වූ අරුණාශලම්, රාමනාදන් ආදීන්ගේ ඉතිහාසයත් එබඳුයි. එහෙත් සිංහලයන්ටත් කොපමණ කිවුවත් ඒ ගැන හැඟීමක් නැහැ. ඔවුන් සිතන්නේත් වෙල්ලාලයන් සේන ගුත්තික එළාර කාලවල සිට මෙරට සිටින බවයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/04/17)
ලංකා සී නිවුස් පසුගිය 4 වැනිදා පැවැති කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයේදී අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා විසින් ඇමතිවරුන් වන දයාසිරි ජයසේකරට චන්දිම වීරක්කොඩිට බැණ වැදී තිබේ. ඉන්දීය සමාගමකට ත්රිකුණාමල වරායේ තෙල් ටැංකි ලබා දීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අගමැතිවරයා විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබූ කැබිනට් පත්රිකාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් පල කරමින් ඇමතිවරුන් පවසා ඇත්තේ රාජ්ය දේපල මේ ආකාරයෙන් විකුණා දැමුවහොත් ජනතා නැගිටීමක් සිදුවිය හැකි බවයි. ඊට ප්රතිචාර දෙමින් අගමැතිවරයා ‘අයිසෙ මිනිස්සු ගැන අපි බලාගන්නම්. ඒ ගැන ඔයාල මහන්සිවෙන්න එපා’ යයි දැඩිව පවසා ඇත. මහින්ද සමග ඞීල් දමාගෙන සිටින අයගෙන් කොතරම් බාධා පැමිණියත් අදාල ව්යාපෘතිය අනිවාර්යයෙන්ම සිදු කරන බවද අගමැතිවරයා වැඩි දුරටත් සදහන් කර අතැ. ඇමතිදයාසිරිද වාදයට මැදිහක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/04/17)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Joint Opposition said yesterday the Bill to give legal effect to the International Convention to Protect All Persons from Enforced Disappearances was a dangerous piece of legislation with provisions enabling a foreign government or an institution on behalf of it to appeal for the extradition of a Sri Lankan political leader or military leader on the ground of command responsibility. Addressing a press briefing, former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris said the Bill had been presented to Parliament on March 7 by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. “This is not for something... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/04/17)
Courtesy Daily Mirror The Genetech Institute has informed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that the body parts taken into custody from the laboratory of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) last October were not a match for late ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen. Twenty six body parts were seized from the SAITM laboratory by the CID on suspicion that they belonged to Thajudeen. The CID yesterday informed Colombo Additional Magistrate Prasad Silva that Senior Scientist Ruwan Ileperuma of Genetech Institute, Borella had submitted the DNA results. Highlights of the investigation launched into the missing body parts had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/04/17)
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්රථම විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා වූ ජේ. ආර්. ජයවර්ධනගේ එකම දරුවා වූ රවි ජයවර්ධන අභාවප්රාප්ත විය. වරක් එයාර් ලංකාහි ගුවන් නියමුවෙකු ලෙස සේවය කල ඔහු ඉතා දක්ෂ ඉලක්කයට වෙඩි තබන්නෙකු බව ප්රකටය. ඔහුට පුතුන් තිදෙනෙකු සිටිති. ඒ ප්රදීප්, රුක්ෂාන් සහ අම්රිත් ය. ඒ අතරින් රුක්ෂාන් ජයවර්ධන ප්රසිද්ධ වනුයේ අවංක හා විශිෂ්ඨ පරිසරවේදියෙකු ලෙසය. ප්රදීප්ගේ නම මෑතකදී කියැවුනේ, ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ ගම්පහ දිස්ත්රික් සංවිධායකවරයකු ලෙස ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන අතින් පත්වීම් ලබාගත් නිසාය. අම්රිත් ගැන නම් ඔහුගේ නම පමනක් මිස වෙන තොරතුරක් අවංකවම වැඩි දෙනෙක් නොදනිති. කෙසේ වුවද රවි ජයවර්ධන නාමය සමග මතකයට ඇදී එන බොහෝ දේ තුල ඔහු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
SPEECH AT RORATY CLUB OF COLOMBO WEST – 15th March 2017 This speech was made by Dr Nalaka Godahewa-Former MD-Sri Lanka Insurance/Former Chirman-Sri Lanka Tourism Board/Director-Lanka Hospital-AP Very good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for inviting me to share some thoughts at this distinguished gathering. I my self was a Rotarian for about 15 years from 1992 up until 2007 and I was the president of the Rotary club of Colombo Down Town in 2005. Your club member, Mr Nihal Bogalanda was the Rotary Governor then. So obviously we have some thing in common. When I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
Senaka Weeraratna (Chapter Leader, Dharma Voices for Animals, Colombo, Sri Lanka Chapter) April 05, 2017 Mr. U.R.L. de Silva President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka No. 153, Mihindu Mawatha, Colombo 12 CO 01200, Dear Mr. U.R.L. de Silva Let me begin by congratulating you on your election last month as the new President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka. It represents a fulfillment of a life long career dedicated to the advancement of the Bar Association (BASL). I take this opportunity to wish you continuing success in your new role to elevate the standards of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
All Ceylon Railway Employees' General Union අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ 01. රුපියල් මිලියන 460 වංචාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ප්රවාහන අමාත්යාංශය නිහඬයි දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අයත් වෛයිස්රෝයි විශේෂ සුඛෝපභෝගි දුම්රිය හා රාජධානි එක්ස්ප්රස් හා එක්ස්පෝ ලංකා විශේෂ දුම්රිය මැදිරි ධාවනයෙන් දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට රුපියල් මිලියන 460 කට අධික මූල්යමය අලාභයක් සිදුවී ඇති බව, සිදුකරන ලද විගණන පරීක්ෂණයක් මගින් හෙළි වී තිබිය දීත්, එ් පිළිබඳව ගතයුතු නිසි කි්රයාමාර්ගයක් නොගෙන ප්රවාහන අමාත්යාංශය නිහඬ පිළිවෙතක් අනුගමනය කිරීමෙන් ප්රවාහන අමාත්යවරයා හා අමාත්යාංශ ලේකම් වරයා අනිසි ආකාරයකින් හෝ මෙම වංචාසහගත මූල්ය ගනුදෙනුවට සම්බන්ධ වී ඇද්දැයි සැකයක් පවතින බව ඒ පිළිබඳව සොයා බැලිය යුතු බව අවධාරණය කර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I read above news with amazement .I am sure that these People may be observing “Attasil” and not breaking the oath taken by them. Content of the new items is unbelievable. I am sure that GA and the Minister have received duty free import facility to bring down a car for personal use .Even though the minister and the GA is not using his personal car at least to go home after leaving the job ,I am sure that they should have been using the official car for personal use during their time... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
Foundation for Innovative Social Development Foundation for Innovative Social Development (FISD) is launching the ‘Girl’s Change the World’ Campaign on April 7th 2017 at the Western Province Cultural Centre Auditorium, Colombo 07 from 3.00-5.00pm. The campaign launch is aimed at kick starting a workshop series led by girls to reduce the glamour and attractiveness associated with alcohol. The event will comprise of dramas, video films and seek to nominate 10 popular personalities as ambassadors for the campaign. The initiative is designed at empowering girls to become change makers in their society and empower them to create an environment where... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
By A. Abdul Aziz. Source: The Muslim Times. The Quran stresses that righteousness is not in precise observance of the rituals but in acts of compassion and kindness. It says that the litmus test for true belief and genuine worship is that it leads to compassionate living: 1. It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the Prophets, and spends his money for love of Him, on the kindred and the orphans... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
Courtesy portstrategy.com Sri Lanka’s government is seeking to reduce China Merchant Port Holdings’ stake in a strategic port project by up to a quarter as part of a renegotiation aimed at addressing public and political opposition to the deal, Reuters has reported. China Merchants Port Holdings had been expected to pay $1.12bn for a 99-year lease on an 80% stake in Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota port, after signing an agreement in December. However, the deal has been delayed by legal and political obstacles on the development of a nearby 15,000-acre industrial zone. In a draft agreement seen by Reuters,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu The former Union Minister was speaking at the launch of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s political biography, authored by Dinesh Weerakody, in Colombo. Congress MP and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor flagged India’s concerns over China’s presence in Sri Lanka, pointing to “military intervention in the guise of trade” even in the earlier avatar of China’s Silk Road initiative. He was speaking at the launch of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s political biography, authored by Dinesh Weerakody, in Colombo on Tuesday. Referring to Chinese admiral Zheng He’s explorations in 15th century, Mr. Tharoor said, they were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Navy with assistance from India are battling a major fire on board a huge Panama- registered container carrier off the coast of Colombo. The fire broke out last night on the merchant ship MV MSC-Daniela, when the 14,000-container carrier was about 120 nautical miles away from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's Naval spokesman Chaminda Walakuluge said the Navy responded to a distress call by a local agent of the container vessel, which was travelling from Singapo .. Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/58026116.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
සපුමල් ජයසේන උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම පෞද්ගලික ආයතන මඟින් සිදුකරනු ලබන ප්රචාරක කටයුතු සහ සන්දර්ශන සඳහා ජාතික කෞතුකාගාර පරිශ්රය ලබා නොදෙන ලෙස ජනාධිපතිවරයා කර ඇති නියෝගයට එරෙහිව යමින් කෞතුකාගාරයේ සන්දර්ශනවලට අවසර ලබාදෙන ලෙස අග්රාමාත්ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා උපදෙස් ලබාදී තිබේ. රාජ්ය නොවන සංවිධාන හා පෞද්ගලික අංශය සඳහා කෞතුකාගාර පරිශ්රයේ ප්රචාරක කටයුතු සහ සන්දර්ශනවලට අවසර ලබාදීම සඳහා ක්රමවේදයක් සකස් කරන ලෙස අග්රාමාත්යවරයා අදාළ අංශ වෙත ලිඛිත දැනුම්දීමක් කර ඇත. එමෙන්ම එම ක්රමවේදය සැකසීම පිණිස කමිටුවක් පත්කර ඇති අතර එයට අභ්යන්තර කටයුතු, වයඹ සංවර්ධන හා සංස්කෘතික අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම්, අධ්යාපන අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම්, ජාතික කෞතුකාගාර දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අධ්යක්ෂ සහ අගමැතිවරයා විසින් නම් කරන ලද අයකුගෙන් සමන්විත කමිටුවක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
Editorial Courtesy The Island April 5, 2017, 9:28 pm Speculation is rife in political circles that the internal crisis of the government will come to a head if President Maithripala Sirisena attempts a Cabinet reshuffle without the UNP’s concurrence. The SLFP faction of the government is pressing for drastic changes in the Cabinet. Government leaders are busy papering over the cracks in a bid to prevent the morale of its supporters sagging. Even the shadow of a doomed marriage is crooked, as a popular local saying goes. The same is true of the political marriage of convenience between the UNP... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island It was on the basis of the findings of the CID and Presidential Commission of Inquiry investigations into the alleged bond scams that the government would have to decide whether to institute against Perpetual Treasuries, Justice Minister Wijayadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament yesterday. Minister Rajapakshe said so in response to a question raised by UPFA MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage, who demanded to know whether the minister was aware that the COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises) had revealed that there had been irregularities in the purchase of treasury bonds by the Perpetual Treasuries and whether the CID had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island April 5, 2017, 10:13 pm The Amnesty International (AI) yesterday admitted that a credible investigation was required to ascertain the number of civilians killed as well as enforced disappearances during the conflict in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan military brought the war against the LTTE to a successful conclusion in May 2009. A credible inquiry was necessary due to varying unsubstantiated estimates in respect of dead and the disappeared, the London headquartered AI acknowledged. Having met Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and toured the northern region, the AI briefed the media... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය තුළ පැවැති සමාන්තර රැස්වීමකදී මන්නාරමේ සබමලෙයි පියනම හමුදාවට දොස්නගමින් ජිනීවා නුවර මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය තුළ සිදු වුයේ ඒකපාර්ශික නාඩගමකි. එහෙත් මේ නාඩගමේ තොරතුරු මෙරට ඩොලර් අරමුදල් ලබන්නන්ට ජනතාවගෙන් වසන් කිරීමට අවශ්ය විය. 147000 සිට 3 ලක්ෂය දක්වා ද්රවිඩ ජනතාවක් සමූලඝාතනය වූ බව ඊළම් වාදීන් පැවසුවේ ජිනිවා නුවරදීය. තමිල්නාඩුවෙන් පැමිණි රාම්දාස් නැමැති ඊළම්වාදියා ශ්රී ලංකා නාවික හමුදාව තමිල්නාඩු ධීවරයන් 600 ක් මැරූ බව පැවසීය. මන්නාරමෙන් පැමිණි සබාමලෙයි පියනම මුළු මන්නාරමම හමුදාකරණය වී ඇති බව කීවේය. එහෙත් රාජ්ය නොවන සංවිධාන ක්රියාකාරීහු ඒ කිසිදු ප්රකාශයක් ජනතාවට හෙළි කළේ නැත. ස්විස් ජනතාවගෙන් පිං... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
Shenali D Waduge No one seems to have asked Chief Minister Wigneswaran how he came to study at the most prestigious school in Colombo, then went on to become a Supreme Court judge if there was discrimination against Tamils. Most people don’t ask pertinent questions when racist leaders beat their chests with lies. No one has put the NPC Chief Minister on the spot with questions that could easily silence him. Had he been to the North when LTTE was on a killing spree, had he risen against the LTTE when they were kidnapping children and turning them into... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
By Charles.S.Perera Reconciliation with Tamils is a never ending exercise. It is the story of the Arab and the Camel, at least the Camel would have been satisfied occupying the whole tent. But the Tamils are worse than the Camel, give them all and they will still want more. They will invent things they would like to have, when they have been given everything. They refused to accept the Mahavansa, they invented their own history. The old wizened ungrateful Tamil man, who lived with the Sinhala, studied with the Sinhala, played with the Sinhala, ate the same ration of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW I read with interest an article in The Island of 1st April 2017 titled, ‘Full Implementation of Geneva Resolution 2015 reaffirmed – GTF.’ The article quotes the GTF as saying inter alia: ‘The GTF cautiously welcomes the unanimous adoption of the resolution ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ (34/L.1) at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). This resolution in effect reaffirms the full implementation of the resolution 30/1 of 2015. The fact that the resolution was sponsored by forty seven countries and twenty seven countries spoke at the Interactive Dialogue on Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA (Former Vice President of the Matara Electorate Central Committee of the SLFP) J.R.Jayawardene earned the condemnation and the wrath of the people as the ‘Ton Pachaya’ due to the blatant lies he uttered and the enormous blank promises he made to the people. Eunuch Sirisena came to power uttering loads of lies and giving amazing promises to the people and continue to say unashamed lies which no one can believe or even imagine of. Accordingly he becomes the biggest liar in the history of this country and hence it is quite appropriate to call... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
Apropos the following article by Padma Rao Sundarji, I would like to draw the serious and immediate attention of all who love this country and rally round a patriotic leader to save it from Indian imperial invasion 4.4. 2017. Dr Sudath Gunasekara To me it looks an unethical cross examination of a defense witness in the box by a prosecution lawyer who has already come to the conclusion that RW is guilty and wants the judge to pronounce that he is guilty. She also reminds me a RAW agent trying to get RW committed. . It explains the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/17)
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි මීට වසර 46 කට පෙර මතකද ඒ අපුරු දිනය. අප ආදරයෙන් පතාගෙන ආ සුන්දර දවස. විප්ලවය! විප්ලවය!! විප්ලවය !!! අධිරදවාදය පරදවන විප්ලවය ! වියට්නාම සටනට පන පොවන විප්ලවය! කාම්බෝජ, ලවොස සටනට උර දෙන විප්ලවය! රතු ආසියාවක් බිහි කිරීමට උපකාරීවන විප්ලවය ! කිරීමට සැරසී, දුව පැන ඇවිදිමින් කල කාර්ය සමුහය. ඒ අපි හැමෝම එක අරමුණකින් එකට හිටිය අවසන් දවස බව, කවුරුත් දැනගෙන හිටියේ නම් නැහැ. මවුබිම නැත්නම් -මරණය පැතු අපට විජයග්රාහී මවුබිමත් ගොඩනැංවීම ජයග්රහණයක් වුවා සේම, පරාජය සමග ලබන මරණයද ජයග්රහණයක් ලෙස සැලකුවෙමු.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Eminent Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage will attend the ‘Guest of the Month’ program of Guwahati Press Club on Tuesday (11 April 2017). The interactive session will start at 11 am and continue till 12.30 pm. Born at Panadura, an outskirt locality of Colombo in 1962, Vithanage emerged as an acclaimed visual translator of inner conflicts carried by ordinary people along with their journey for individual freedom. He has received international acclaim for ‘Sisila Gini Gani’ (Ice of Fire), ‘Anantha Rathriya’ (The Dark Night of Soul), ‘Akasa Kusum’ (Flowers of the Sky), ‘Pura Handa Kaluwara’... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
BY STEFAN D’SILVA Courtesy Asian Art Located in Uva Province of Sri Lanka, at an elevation of just over 1,200 metres, the Kurullangala rock art stands unique in Sri Lanka. Access to the site is via an extremely dangerous, steep climb or ‘rock hop’ where one has to literally walk on tree branches near the top to gain access to the site and the area is certainly not accessible in wet weather. There is a small rock ‘viewing platform’ approximately 5 metres long and 2-3 metres wide where one can stand to view the art work at eye level... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
By Binoy Suriyaarachchi Courtesy Adaderana The Joint Opposition Tuesday urged the Prime Minister to prove allegations he made against the former President about the country of being stuck in a debt trap due to loans that were obtained during the previous regime. JO member Parliamentarian Bandula Gunawardena made the observation at a press conference held in Colombo. “As a responsible person, PM Ranil Wickremesinghe is obliged to provide statistics to prove his statement,” he said. Gunawardena also went on to say with the decision on salary hike for state employees, the authorities would have to allocate a sum of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ 2017 ජනවාරි 15 සිට මාර්තු 31 දක්වා කාලය තුල දුෂිත ස්විස් සිංගප්පූර් ගල් අගුරු ටෙන්ඩරය මගින් සිදු කල මිලදී ගැනීම් හේතුවෙන් රටට රුපියල් මිලියන 1953 ක අලාභයක්/පාඩුවක් සිදුව ඇතැයි දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. ලංකාවට ස්පොට් ටෙන්ඩර් ක්රමය යටතේ ගල් අගුරු සපයන සමාගම් හි මිල හා සැසදීමේ දී මෙට්රික් ටොන් 1 ක් සදහා වැඩිපුර ඩොලර් 13.75 ක මුදලක් ගෙවා ඇත. අද වන විට විවෘත වෙළෙදපොළේ මිල ට ගල් අගුරු මිලදී ගැනීම විදුලිබල අමාත්යාංශය මගින් සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම නවතා දමා ඇත. විදුලිබල අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම් සුරේන් බටගොඩ මහතා ගේ උපදෙස් පරිදි ලංකා ගල් අගුරු සමාගම සිදු කළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
ආචාර්ය ලීල් ගුණසේකර 71 කැරැල්ලේ පුනරුත්ථාපනය පිළිබඳ අතිරේක ලේකම් වෛද්ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග විසින් 71 කැරැල්ල පිළිබඳව අධ්යයනයක් කොට කැරළිකරුවන් සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවලට ලක් කරමින් ඉතිහාසයේ සැඟව පැවති සාධකයන් ඉස්මතු කරමින් ඉතා අගනා සමාජ විද්යාත්මක හා ඓතිහාසික වශයෙන් වටිනා කෘතියක් පාඨකයාට ලබා දීම ප්රශස්ත කරුණක් ලෙස මම දකිමි. වෛද්ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග මට මුලින්ම හමු වූයේ 1986 වැනි ඈත කාලයේදීය. කොළඹ නාලන්දා මහා විද්යාලයේ උසස් පෙළ නිම කළ සිසුවෙකුව සිටියදී ඔහු අර්ධකාලීනව ශ්රී ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සංස්ථාවේ ඉංග්රීසි අංශයේ බාහිර නිෂ්පාදකයෙකු ලෙස සේවය කළේය. එහිදී වැඩසටහන් වලදී අප මුණගැසී තිබේ. 71 කැරැල්ල මතුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී මම එවකට පැවති රජයේ කැබිනට්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග බඩට ගැසීම යනු අසා පුරුදු වැකියකි. මිනිසුන් ගේ බඩට ගසන්නෝ දේශපාලකයෝ ය. එහෙත් අධ්යාපනයට ගැසීම හෙවත් කෙනෙකුගේ අධ්යාපනයට අකුල් හෙලීමද අපගේ සමාජයේ තිබෙන එක් කුහක පිලිවෙතකි. අධ්යාපනයට ගසන්නෝ උගතුන් වීමද විශේෂත්වයකි. ප්රතිපත්තියක් ලෙස මම කිසිවෙකුගේ අධ්යාපනයට නොගසමි. ඒ මා තුල තිබෙන සුවිසේෂී ගුනාංගයක් නිසා නිසා නොව කෙනෙකුගේ අධ්යාපනයට ගැසීම ඉතා තුච්ච ක්රියාවක් ලෙස මා සලකන බැවිනි. ලංකාවේ ජීවත් වූ කාලයේදී මම බොහෝ විශ්ව විද්යාල සිසු සිසුවියන්ට ඔවුන් ගේ නිබන්ධන සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගුරු හරුකම් දීමෙන් උදව් කලෙමි. එසේම කොතලාවල සහ බටලන්ද මිලිටරි ඇකැඩමි වල එම් එස් සී අධ්යනයේ නියැළුනු හමුදා නිලධාරීන්ටද අධ්යාපන කටයුතු වලදී උපකාර කලෙමි. මගෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today Dayan Jayatilleka's current forceful advocacy of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the best possible future leader of this country has raised many hackles, but I believe he has answered the criticisms raised effectively. What he has not explored is the irony of there being two contradictory approaches adopted, one accusing him of inconsistency in that he was critical of Gotabaya in the past, the other accusing him of having failed to be so critical. What is even more strange is that it is somehow assumed that those critical of the current government cannot be allowed to change their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා දෙමළ ජාතික සංධානයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී එම් ඒබ්රහම් සුමන්තිරන් ඊයේ ඩේලි මිරර් පුවත්පතට කළ ප්රකාශයකින් කියැවෙන්නේ ඊනියා ව්යවස්ථා මණ්ඩලයේ මෙහෙයුම් කමිටුව බලය බෙදීමට එකඟ වී ඇති බවයි. මේ අමූලික අසත්යයක් බව දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන නිකුත් කර ඇති පණිවුඩයකින් කියැවෙනවා. පසුව ඒබූහම් සුමන්තිරන් තම ප්රකාශය නවමින් කියා ඇත්තේ තමා ප්රකාශ කෙළේ ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ නායකයන් ඒ ගැන ජනාධිපති සමග සාකච්ඡා කළ බවයි. එහෙත් මේ ප්රකාශයෙන් පැහැදිලිවන්නේ සුමන්තිරන්ලා අනුගමනය කරන වංක ප්රතිපත්තියයි. ඔහු ඩේලි මිරර් පත්රයට කරන ලද ප්රකාශය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන ප්රතික්ෂෙප කිරීමත් සමග තම ස්ථාවරය වෙනස් කර ගෙන. ඔහු ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ නායකයන් ගැන කරන ප්රකාශය පැහැදිලි නැහැ. සුමන්තිරන් සඳහන් කරන්නේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
නලින් ද සිල්වා මෙරට පඬියන් බොරු මධ්යස්ථභාවයකට කැමතියි. ඔවුන් තම මධ්යස්ථභාවය පෙන්වීමට උත්සාහ කරනවා. බුදුන් වහන්සේගේ මැදි පිළිවෙතත් ඔවුන් තම වාසියට යොදා ගන්නවා. ඔවුන් ඇතැම් විට කියන්නේ තමන් බුදුන් වහන්සේගේ මැදි පිළිවෙත අනුව කටයුතු කරන බවයි. ඒත් ඔවුන්ට නිවන බොහෝ ඈතයි. ඒ සංසාර ගමන අතින්. මැදි පිළිවෙතක දී කෙරෙන්නේ අන්ත මග හැරීමයි. නිවන චතුස්කෝටිකයෙන් විනිර්මුක්ත වුණත්, ඒ් අන්ත අත් හැරීම තීරණය වන්නේ චතුස්කෝටික න්යායට අනුව. ඒත් පඬියන් ඉන්නේ ද්විකෝටිකයේ. එහි අන්ත අත්හරින්න බැහැ. හේතුව ද්විකෝටිකයේ අන්ත දෙකෙන් එකක් තෝරා ගැනීමට සිදු වීමයි. එහි එක් අන්තයක් සත්යයි. අනෙක් අන්තය අසත්යයයි. ඒත් සත්යය කියන්නේ මොකක් ද කියලා දන්නෙ නැහැ. මේ නිසා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
By Garvin Karunaratne Ph.D. Michigan State University Former SLAS, Government Agent, Matara In the Seventies, the IMF took on the new role of prescribing the path to be taken by the Third World countries to run their economies. This was the Structural Adjustment Program the IMF foised on every country that sought financial help. In the Early Seventies the Oil Sheiks increased the price of oil threefold and many countries had to flock to the IMF for help. The IMF was the institution established by the United Nations to help and guide all countries in financial matters. Since gaining independence ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
By Binoy Suriyaarachchi Courtesy Adaderana After the 19th amendment to the Constitution, the President is not permitted to reshuffle the Cabinet, the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) stresses. PHU leader Udaya Gammanpila made the observation while speaking to reporters at a press conference held in Colombo on Monday. “The SLFPers do not know that President is no longer capable of reshuffling the Cabinet,” he added. Gammanpila pointed out the President will have to appoint ministers for ministries in future only after considering the recommendation of the Prime Minister. Gammanpila also went on to say several key SLFP ministers and even... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
Dr D.Chandraratna Sri Lankan military and intelligence services happen to be on the front pages recently, and by general reckoning such public brawling is not good news. These are the very essential services in any country for the fulfilment of international obligations and for national security and peace. It is not that the public should be in the dark, but news about these essential services can be about legislation, oversight, operations, culture and other processes, which enhance public knowledge because these are directed towards the effective functioning of the service. But what seems to be in the news is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
Mahinda Gunasekera Moves by western powers and their subservient UNHRC to harass Sri Lanka for defeating the Indian trained Tamil Tiger Terrorists whom they nourished by permitting the Tiger front organizations to raise funds within their jurisdictions, to arm and sustain the terror group and maintain them as a constant threat to tearing the island apart. It fitted in with the western objectives of destabilizing smaller countries leading to their division or break up, preparing the ground for exploiting available resources or strategic locations. It is the same western powers that have a long history of violating human rights... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
ලංකා සී නිවුස් ගැටඹේ ක්රීඩාංගණයේ පැවැත්වීමට සූදානම් කරමින් ඇති ශ්රිලනිප මැයි රැළිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අස්ගිරි-මල්වතු මහ නාහිමිවරුන් දැනුවත් කිරීම සදහා ගිය සන්ධාන මහ ලේකම් ඇමති මහින්ද අමරවීරට හා මධ්ය මහ ඇමති සරත් ඒකනායකට බලාපොරොත්තු නොවූ තරමේ රළු විවේචනයක් එල් කිරීමට උන් වහන්සේලා කටයුතු කලහ. මුලින්ම අතිපූජ්ය වරකාගොඩ ඤාණරතන අස්ගිරි මහ නාහිමියන් මුණ ගැසී ශ්රීලනිප මැයි රැළියට ගෙන ඒමට බලාපොරොත්තු වන සෙනග ගැන කියද්දී මහ නාහිමියන්ගේ පාර්ශවය එය කණකටවත් නොගෙන කියා සිටියේ අලූත් අවුරුදු සමය පැමිණ ඇති නිසා ඔය වන් වැඩ නොව බඩු මිල අඩු කර ජනතාවට සහන සලසන ලෙසයි. හම්බන්තොට වරාය හා ඉඩම් නොරටුන්ට විකුණා දැමීම ගැන වන කතාබහ ගැනද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
ලංකා සී නිවුස් ඊයේ පැවති කළුතර ප්රාදේශීය කමිටු රැස්වීමේදී ඇති වූ උණුසුම් තත්වයක් හේතුවෙන් රැුස්වීම අතරමග නවතා දැමීය. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ලක්ෂමන් විජේමාන්න හා එජාප පළාත් සභා මන්ත්රි ජගත් විතාන අතර ඇති වූ උණුසුම් වචන හුවමාරුව මීට හේතු විය. https://youtu.be/UbLcFsgW3AM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
Shenali D Waduge India has strained relations with virtually all of its neighbors. India functions as the modern Asian imperialist. All of India’s neighbors will have dossiers of issues related to incursions, interventions, interferences and covert operations to relate about India. Raising concerns about India’s security issues, India deems it can dictate how its neighbors should function and India makes use of its powerful status to prevail over countries less powerful than itself. The economic, cultural, military engagements by India has no other purpose than to create ‘protectorates’ out of India’s neighbors to function according to India’s dictates. Having... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/17)
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Sudath Gunasekara 1.4.2017. We need a strong patriotic Sinhala Buddhist leader who has the charisma and national acceptance who, in the first place could rally all Sinhala voters and Buddhist monks to save the Sinhala Nation. In the past this was done by Buddhist monks on their own initiative. But today as the fraternity also has unfortunately got blindly and badly politicized and since monkhood has got radically changed falling in line with the broad degeneration of the society today. It is not the same as what was in the olden days. Politicians on the other hand have got... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/04/17)
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් ලංකාවේ ජාතික වන උයන් අතර මුල් තැනක් හිමිවන විල්පත්තු අභය භූමි සීමාවේ තිබෙන මරිච්චකට්ටු කල්ලාරු වනන්තරයෙන් අක්කර 1080 ක ප්රමාණයක් හෙළි පෙහෙලි කර නැවත පදිංචි කිරීම් වලට දුන් පුවත වාර්තාවන්නේ 2014 වසරේදීය.මෙම ඉඩම් ලබාදීම කරනු ලැබ ඇත්තේ මරිච්චකට්ටුව සිලාවතුර ආදී තැන් වලින් අවතැන් වූ මුස්ලිම් ජනතාව නැවත පදිංචි කිරීමේ අරමුණින් යැයි කියැවේ. දැන ගන්නට තිබෙන පරිදි උතුරු වසන්තය තේමා කොට ජනාධිපති කාර්ය සාධක බලකායේ මැදිහත්වීම මත ගිය රජයේ ප්රබල අමාත්යවරයෙකුව සිටි රිෂාඩ් බද්යුදීන් මහතා මෙම මුස්ලිම් ජනතාව පදිංචි කොට තිබේ. මරිච්චකට්ටුව වනාහි බෙහෙවින් සංවේදී පරිසර කලාපයකි. එසේම පැරණි ඓතිහාසික හා පුරවිද්යාත්මක නටබුන් පැතිර පවත්නා විල්ලුවලින් ගහන තෙත්බිම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/04/17)
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න කොතලාවලත් ඉඳහිට සුද්දන්ට පයිනුත් ගැහුවා ඒ ජාතිකත්වය රකින්න නොවෙය් ,තමන් සින්හලවෙලා ඉපදුන හින්ද සුද්දෝ ගහනකොට තමන්ටත් වදින හන්ද ,ඇතිවෙන තරහට විතරය් . ඒවගේ තමය්හුන්ගක් ජාතික චින්තන වාදීනුත් .මමත් දැක්කා දේශනය ගැන දැන්වීම එය share කළා කාටත් දන ගන්න .හැබය් මේවා අගය කරන සමහරුන්ටත් සමහර වෙලාවට අමතකවීම් වෙනවා ඇති එහෙම වෙලාවට වෙන ක්රමයකින් හරි නැවත මේවා මතක් කරන්න ඕනේ මතක තියා ගම්මු නලින් ද සිල්වා කියන පුද්ගලයා නැත්නම් මෙරටේ ඇති එකම චින්තනය විදේශීය චින්තනය පමණක් බව . කාමසුඛල්ලිකානු යෝගීන්ට එකය් ජාතික වාදයය් දෙකම ගෙනයන්න බැ හ .ඉතින් සමහරු ජාතිකවාදය චුට්ටක් විතර ජාත්ත්යන්තර කරණය වුනාට කමක් නැහැ කියනවා. එහෙම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/04/17)
Chandre Dharmawardana. All of us, even those living in remote parts of Sri Lanka or India have been eating Genetically Modified (GM) foods for decades. Most US or Canadian flour is from GM wheat. The bread, buns, etc., consumed by everyone is made of GM flour. Similarly, most Soya products are from GM soya. Many types of legumes including Dahl ("parippu") are also increasingly based on GM strains. Sri Lanka's Dahl comes mostly from Canada, albeit often via India. Canola ("Canada-oil") was developed using traditional plant breeding techniques, and not GM. However, about 80% of the canola grown in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Lanka-India finalise MOU for mega development projects Joint investments to develop Trinco port, set up oil refinery, LNG plant and piped-gas projects Hambantota deal to be signed soon; AG’s Dept. says Ranatunga’s objections not valid Massive SLFP youth convention today as Sirisena prepares to give mid-term report at May Day rally Cabinet changes soon after National New Year; test of popularity at three PC elections this year Sunday times news item………… We have been listening to such promises for the last two years . We heard about 1 million jibs to youth and the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Right to Reply ……. The LTTE, ISIS and the GMOA Posted on April 1st, 2017 by by Dr A.C.Visvalingam Courtesy The Island I whole heartedly agree with Dr Visva who is an eminent structural engineer who never abandoned his motherland to join diaspora to discredit our country . Doctors under GMOA is behaving like ISIS and LTTE playing terrorist tactics to overthrow a democratically elected government.We engineers who are also playing similar roles in the country do not behave like GMOA members I wrote a similar article few months citing the same facts Quote GMOA doctors to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
Courtesy heretication.info The principle of the Inquisition was murderous ... The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition for salvation. Lord Acton (1834-1902) http://www.heretication.info/_inquisition.html The name Inquisition is somewhat misleading in that over the centuries there have been a number of Inquisitions. They have been directed against all of the groups we have looked at - pagans and supposed witches, dissenting sects, Cathars, Moslems, Jews and members of other religions. They have also been directed against freethinkers, apostates, atheists, and blasphemers. In... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe COURTESY : THE ISLAND March 28, 2017, 7:34 pm The 34th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have just ended, and another resolution on Sri Lanka adopted Resolution A/HRC/34/L.1 requests the Commissioner and his special procedure mandate holders to strengthen their technical assistance to Sri Lanka on the promotion and protection of human rights, truth, justice, reconciliation and accountability. More importantly perhaps, the resolution calls for a written update on the implementation of resolution 30/1 (of 2015) at the 37th session of the UNHRC, and a comprehensive report at its 40th session. These... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
ඉංජිනේරු ඩිප්ලෝමාධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය කාර්මික නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය ජල සම්පාදන මණ්ඩලයේ පාලනාධිකාරීගේ අත්තනෝමතික ක්රියා සහ නීති විරෝධීව ඉංජිනේරුවන් බඳවා ගැනීමට යෑම සම්බන්ධව ජල සම්පාදන මණ්ඩලයේ ඉංජිනේරු ඩිප්ලෝමාධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයත්, කාර්මික නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයත් පසුගිය පෙබරවාරි 9 වනදා සිට ආරම්භ කළ වෘත්තීය ක්රියා මාර්ගය අඛණ්ඩව ඉදිරියට යයි. දැන් මාස දෙකකට ආසන්න වෙමින් තිබේ. සිදුවන ජල නාස්තිය අනුව මේ වන විට රුපියල් මිලියන 300කට වැඩි පාඩුවක් සිදුවී ඇත. එසේම අක්රිය ජල මනු මාරු නොකිරීම, බිල්පත් නොගෙවන්නන්ගේ ජල විසන්ධි වැඩසටහන් ක්රියාත්මක නොවීම, නව ජල සම්බන්ධතා ලබානොදීම් ආදිය නිසාද රුපියල් මිලියන 200කට වඩා වැඩි පාඩුවක් මණ්ඩලයට සිදුවී ඇත. ඒ අනුව මේ වන විට රුපියල් මිලියන 500කට වැඩි පාඩුවක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් උපදේශක/දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ ජනතා බදු මුදල් රු. බිලියන 7 ක් වැය කරමින් ලංකා විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලය කෙරවලපිටියේ සංයුක්ත චක්ර විදුලි බලාගාරයක් ඉදිකිරීම සදහා වන යෝජනාව දුෂිත විදුලි මාෆියාවේ මංකොල්ලකාරී වැඩපිළිවළේ තවත් පියවරක් බව දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණයේ උපදේශක කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. කිලෝ වෝට් 30 ඩීසල් විදුලි බලගාරයක් ලෙස ඉදිකිරීම් ආරම්භ කොට වසර තුනකින් ස්වභාවික ද්රව්ය වායු බලාගාරයක් බවට පත් කිරීම සදහා වන ව්යාපෘතියකට විදුලිබල හා පුණර්ජනීය බලශක්ති අමත්යාංශයේ ලේකම් ආචාර්ය සුරේන් බටගොඩ විසින් උපදෙස් ලබා දී ඇත. ඒ සදහා ශ්රී ලංකා රජය රුපියල් බිලියන 6.7 ක් හෝ එයට වැඩි මුදලක් වැය කළ යුතුය. ණය වාරික ගෙවා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
ලංකා සී නිවුස් යතුරුපැදිකරුවෙකුට දොඩංඩගොඩ පොලීසියේ රථ වාමන ආශයේ නිලධාරීන් දෙනෙකු විසින් මහ මග බිම පෙරලාගෙන පහර දෙන අයුරු වීඩියෝවක් සිරස රූපවාහිනිය විකාශණය කරනු ලැබීය. පොලීසිය පවසන්නේ අණ තොතකා ධාවනය වූ යතුරු පැදිය පොලීසිය විසින් ලූහු බැන්ද බවත් යතුරු පැදි කරුට රියදුරු බලපත්රයක්ද නොතිබූ බවයි. පොලිස් පහර දීම හේතුවෙන් යතුරුපැදිකරු රෝහල්ගත කර තිබේ. https://youtu.be/o0W6QsW_9r4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
උපුටා ගැන්ම මව්බිම මෛත්රිට හේත්තු වී යහපාලනයට උදවු කරන්න කටයුතු කරමින් ඉන්න ශ්රී ලනිප මන්ත්රිවරුන්ට හිතේ හැටියට කටයුතු කරන්න ඉඩක් නැති බව රටම දක්නා කරුණක්ය. මේ බැරිකම මෛත්රි ළඟට ගියත් විසඳගන්නට බැරි තරමට නරක අතටය. මෛත්රි වැනෙන උත්තර දෙද්දී අන්ද මන්ද වන ශ්රී ලනිප මන්ත්රිවරුන්ට කර කියා ගන්නට දෙයක් නැති ගාණට වැටිලාය. ඒ බැරියාවට වැට බැඳ තියෙන්නේ අගමැති ප්රමුඛ යූඑන්පී බලය ශක්තිමත් නිසා බව මෛත්රි නොදන්නා ගාණට හැසිරෙන බව තැන තැන කතා වෙන්නේය. "ශ්රී ලනිප මැති ඇමැතිවරු හා අගමැතිගේ වැඩ අතර බරපතළ අර්බුදයක් මතුවෙලා". මෙහෙම කියන්නේ මහ පොළොවේ යථාර්ථය කියාපාන දේශපාලන විචාරකයෝය. ඒ වුණාට තවත් පිරිසක් කියන්නේ "ශ්රී ලංකා එකේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
BY GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today President Maithipala Sirisena clearly states that he, as the Head of the State, does not want foreign judges or would not allow the setting up of a Hybrid Court in the accountability process where Sri Lanka is under international scrutiny for alleged war crimes committed by government's very own military forces in the final stages of 4th Eelam War. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, irrespective of his longstanding image of being a 'non-patriot' or a 'non-nationalist' made it clear that setting up a Hybrid Court or the involvement of foreign Judges – except experts on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
By Ravi Ladduwahetty - Courtesy Ceylon Today Veteran Sri Lankan diplomat, Sri Lanka's former Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs Dr. Palitha Kohona said the UN Human Rights Resolution which Sri Lanka cosponsored in March 2017, was a folly compounded. "The onerous nature of Resolution 30/1 and the likely negative reaction to it by the majority of the population, and the need for constitutional amendment to implement some of its provisions so enthusiastically endorsed by us, would have been pretty obvious in 2015, he told Ceylon Today in an interview. ?:... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
By Norman Palihawadana Courtesy The Island April 2, 2017, 10:48 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered conditional support to a mega Chinese investment project in the Hambantota District. Former President Rajapaksa yesterday told The Island that his support would depend on the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government and China agreeing to adopt the original investment plan finalised during his administration. Dismissing allegations that he had planned to sell land in Hambantota to the Chinese, the former President said that during a visit to Beijing last year he had explained the situation. "The extent of land we planned to hand over in Hambantota... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
Courtesy The Island April 2, 2017, 10:47 pm Four gazettes reportedly impacting the Northern Muslim resettlement process in Wilpattu proximity are to be rescinded. "I informed the officials that I will present a Cabinet Paper to do way with the gazettes affecting resettlement of Northern Muslim IDPs." said Minister of Industry and Commerce and Vanni District MP Rishad Bathiudeen on 31 March in Colombo. Minister Bathiudeen was speaking to some members of the press shortly after meeting a team of government officials led by Secretary to the President P. B. Abeykoon at the Presidential Secretariat. Minister Bathiudeen, who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
Over USD 3,700 mn worth foreign investment on hold while costly diesel plants in operation April 2, 2017, 10:41 pm By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Accusing the Power and Renewable Energy Ministry of favoring costly diesel power generation, the Anti Corruption Front (ACF) has urged the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government to immediately review a series of investment proposals to establish liquified natural gas (LNG) plants. The ACF has called for reappraisal of the entire power generation plan to prevent an influential few from making a killing at the expense of the national economy. ACF’s Executive Director Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon yesterday... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
By Charles.S.Perera Now its two years since the greatest Bank Robbery in Sri Lanka –the Bond Scam was committed. Two COPE reports were out confirming the theft and showing where the smell had taken them to. The thief every one in Sri Lanka is quite aware of is still unharmed living a comfortable respectable life working as the adviser to the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, proving without doubt that they are bound to each other more than ever before by the robbery they committed together. When the facts are so evident, if the Prime Minister has any respect to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE Why did the Sri Lanka Army recently invite somebody who sold the entire country down the drain as the Chef Guest at the Kotelawala Defence University’s Graduate Studies Department’s Inauguration of Masters Programs for the year 2017? This invitee, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu also delivered the keynote address. Probable answers: 1. They want to make sure that no person with even a modicum of integrity or self respect would join the army anymore, and that all future armed campaigns/wars if any, would be lost as a result. 2. They want to completely destroy the army’s reputation for an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
by Suresh Perera Courtesy The Island April 1, 2017, 7:41 pm The proposed new Inland Revenue Act has run into stiff opposition from key industry players, who described the controversial move to replace the existing law, as a "retrograde step that’s bound to create confusion and impinge on the overall revenue collection mechanism". Asserting that the proposed law departs from the very foundation and fabric of the existing Act, financial sector experts warned that if the new proposals are adopted and implemented in their current form, hardly any judicial precedence, interpretations, practices and principles could be applied in the imposition,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
සී. ඒ. චන්ද්රප්රේම උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින අජිත් ඩොවාල් යනු ලංකාවේ ජනතාවට කොහෙත්ම හුරු නමක් නොවේ. නමුත් 2014 ඉන්දියාවේ නරේන්ද්ර මෝඩි බලයට පත්වූදා සිට ඉන්දීය විදේශ ප්රතිපත්තියේ, විශේෂයෙන්ම ඉන්දියාවේ අසල්වාසි රටවල් සම්බන්ධ ප්රතිපත්තියේ ප්රධානම තීරකයා වන්නේ ඉන්දියාවේ විදේශ ඇමතිනී සුශ්මා ස්වරාඡ් නොව ජාතික ආරක්ෂක උපදේශකවරයා වන අජිත් ඩොවාල්ය. එසේ තිබියදී අජිත් ඩොවාල් නමැති පුද්ගලයකු ගැන බොහෝ ලාංකිකයන් අසාවත් නොතිබීමට ප්රධානම හේතුව ඩොවාල් යනු රාජතාන්ත්රිකයකු හෝ පරිපාලකයකු නොව චරපුරුෂයකු වන නිසා විය හැක. එවන් අයගේ සාමාන්ය ක්රියා කලාපය වන්නේ විශේෂයෙන්ම වැඩක නියෑළී සිටින විට හැකිනම් "ගේමක් දෙමින්" සිටින විට අප්රසිද්ධියේ කිසිවකුගේත් අවධානයට යොමු නොවී ඒ රාජකාරිය කිරීමේ පුරුද්ද නිසා විය හැක. තමන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/17)
ඔස්මන් චන්ද්රවංශ හිටපු විනිමය පාලක සහ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ අර්ථශාස්ත්රඥ යහපාලන රජය විසින් සිදු කර ඇති වංචා, පාඩු සහ වන්දි ගෙවීම් මෑතක සිට, අගමැතිවරයා සහ මුදල් ඇමැතිවරයා ඇතුළු මැති ඇමැතිවරු කීප දෙනකුම පසුගිය රජයේ - හෙජින් ගනුදෙනුව ඔස්සේ ශ්රී ලංකාවට සිදුවූ පාඩුව රුපියල් බිලියන 500 ක් පමණ වී යයි පවසා ඇත. ඒ නිසා ජනතාවට වර්තමානයේදී අලෙවි කරන ඉන්ධන මිල අඩුකරන්නට රජය අපොහොසත් වන්නේ යෑයි ද ඔවුහු කියති. එහෙයින්, එම හෙජින් ගනුදෙනුව පිළිබඳව යථාර්ථය සහ සත්යයද, වර්තමාන යහපාලන රජයේ නිල කාලයේදී සිදුවී ඇති වංචා, පාඩු සහ වන්දි ගෙවීම් පිළිබඳ කෙටි විග්රහයක්ද, ජනතාවගේ අධ්යයනය පිණිස මෙම කෙටි ලිපියෙන් උපුටා දක්වා ඇත. අවදානම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/17)
By A. Abdul Aziz “Rather than erecting walls that keep us apart, we should build bridges that bring us closer together” – Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad According to our international Press Desk, U.K., on 25 March 2017, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote address at the 14th National Peace Symposium hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK. The theme of the Peace Symposium 2017 was, ‘Global Conflicts and the Need for Justice’. The event was held at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in London with an audience of more... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/17)
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Charles Dickens scribed on something completely different from his prose in May 1850, when he portrayed the Nigerian 419 scam where 419 wealthy people were approached seeking financial assistance for orphaned children, emergency surgery and quoting numerous examples of begging letters he had received over the years from various individuals beseeching and supplicating for money. This goes to illustrate the fact that panhandling or begging, adopting various ploys, is equally an old profession, akin to the world famous profession of prostitution. Last week TV news exposed how people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/17)
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected allegations that the decision to sell the Hambantota Port was first made during his government in 2014 and asserted that while he was in power they only took back what was already sold. “We never decided to sell anything during our time. I took back what had been sold. I can list all that we got back,” he told reporters after attending the Avurudu celebrations of the Carlton Preschool in Maligawatta. He stated that what his government wanted was establishing a company for the port and split the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/17)
by Rajeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island April 1, 2017, 6:44 pm Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has recently made a strongly worded statement related to Sri Lanka’s ‘national question’ in response to questions raised by a member of the Communist Party of India. Reiterating India’s commitment to the protection of the rights of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, Swaraj has been quoted in the Indian media stating "The anguish with which the members have raised the issue (of crimes committed during the war of 2009), the government associates itself with the same pain." She has further stated "Our aim... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/17)
by Dr A.C.Visvalingam Courtesy The Island April 1, 2017, 6:42 pm Towards the end of its war to establish an independent state, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) did not allow civilians to move out of those areas from which it was attacking the Sri Lanka Army. It has been accused of deploying these hapless fellow citizens as human shields so as to discourage the security forces from firing in their direction or dropping bombs in their vicinity. The LTTE took advantage of the fact that the government was bound by its inherent obligations to its own people and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/17)
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island Courtesy The Island The controversy over appointing Ramanathan Kannan, a member of the private bar from Batticlaoa, as a High Court judge over the heads of many senior District Court judges and officials of the Attorney General’s Department, is now coming to a head with an emergency general meeting of the Judicial Services Association being called for tomorrow. According to members of the legal fraternity, this is the first time the JSA is holding a meeting of this nature. The main subject to be discussed at this meeting will be the appointment of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/17)
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