Chaminda Perera- Courtesy TheDaily News A pawn in the hands of NGOs Patriotic National Movement president and prominent writer Dr Gunadasa Amarasekera said Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake has played a political role in deciding to sit in judgment over the Divi Neguma Bill. He said this was in defiance of a ruling by Justice Mark […]

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Rajpal Abeynayake- Courtesy The Daily News J. R. Jayewardene threw the book at eight judges of the Supreme Court of this country. No, not the law books that he swore by and studied from in those Pushcannon days. He threw his own little green book at them — the thoughts of President Jayewardene. According to […]

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Nalin de Silva.ƒ”š‚  The economists usually say that on one hand this is the situation explaining some phenomenon related to economics, and then continue to tell us in the same breath that on the other hand the situation is exactly the opposite. The lawyers usually present their case listening to the other side only if […]

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Janaka Perera Following the tensions between Jaffna university students and security personnel resulting in some students being assaulted several pundits have been condemning the incident as a denial of freedom of speech, obstruction to reconciliation and a violation of the rights of Tamils to commemorate their dead “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” meaning no doubt those who died in […]

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Kanthar P Balanathan, Melbourne, Australia- Retired Directorƒ”š‚  & Specialist Power Systems Engineer Since LTTE emerged as aƒ”š‚  group in 1972, LTTE carried out assassinations and cold blooded killings of innocent Tamil civilians, Sinhalese civilians, Tamil politicians, GOSL Ministers, President, Prime Minister, failed attempts of assassination of the Army Commander; Mr Sarath Fonseka &ƒ”š‚  former President […]

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Dr. Tilak Fernando The first Christmas in London was something to look forward to from what I had read about in books but not seen. The traditional Christmas preparation and celebration that I had seen at home as an adolescent was quite different to what I saw in England. Christmas in Moratuwa (Koralawella) was quite […]

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Chamikara WEEWRASINGHE and Jayantha De SILVA- Daily News * Against the constitution * Trying to rouse int’l interest Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake yesterday filed a writ application in the Court of Appeal asking court to issue a writ of certiorari to invalidate the three charges she (CJ) was found guilty of recently by the Parliamentary […]

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