Archive for February 4th, 2015
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
බ්රිතාන්යයේ ශ්රී ලාංකික සංසදය (British Sri Lankan Forum) 1815 මහනුවර මගුල් මඩුවේදී සිංහල නායකයින් රවටා අත්සන් කල ව්යාජ ගිවිසුමට වසර 200යි. බ්රිතාන්ය අධිරාජ්යවාදීන් විසින් අපගේ මාතෘ භුමිය ‘සිංහලේ’ යටත් කර ගනිමින් සිදුකල යුධ අපරාධ ඇතුළු සියලුම සාපරාධි ක්රියාවන් පිළිබඳව වර්තමාන රජය දැනුවත් කිරීමේ ජන හමුව. 2014 මාර්තු 02 සඳුදා සවස 4.00 සිට රාත්රී 7 දක්වා […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ජේ ආර් 13 ව්යවස්ථාව ගෙන එනතුරු මේ රට ”’ පිවිතුරු”” ඒකීය රාජ්ජයක් විය. පිවිතුරු හෙටක් ගැන කතාකරන ය මේ බව දනිති එහෙත් දැන් කතා නොකරති ,13 ට පෙර මුළු රටම පාලනය වුයේ ත් රටට නීති අනපනත් සම්පාදනය වුයේත් එකම ආන්ඩු වකිනි, එකම තැනිනි 13න් පසුව මහරජයේ බලතල හා පළාත් ආණ්ඩු බලතල යනුවෙන් දෙකට […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is let loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. And what rough beast, its hour come round […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
ALI SUKHANVER It is a difficult question to be answered whether we really enjoy being in a state of oblivion while making a list of our friends and foes? For the last many decades we, the Pakistanis, as a nation, have been trying our best to introduce us as a peace-loving rather cordial and friendly […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Yahapalanaya News The President, in his first address to the nation through a TV interview, revealed that in consultation with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, he cancelled an order placed by the previous government to acquire a special aircraft from the US for the exclusive use of his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa. The President claimed that Sri […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ආදියේ මේ රට හැදින්වුනේ ත්රිසින්හළේ නමිනි, ඒ එසේ වුයේ සිංහලයන්ගේ රට බැවිනි පරන්ගියාගේ කාලයෙන් පසුවඋඩරට රාජධානිය ට ගියඅ ය පවා නැගෙනහිර පදිංචි ගියේ ”’අපි සිංහලේ යනවා ;”’ කියමිනි ලන්දේසීන් හා ඉංග්රීසින් විසින් ලෙසින් මෙරටට ගෙන එන ලද ඉන්දියානුවන් දැන් ත්රිසින්හලයෙන් උතුරේ කොටසක් කඩාගෙන ය වෙළදාමට සිංහලේට පැමිණි මරක්කලයෝ පරංගින්ට බියෙන් ඉබාගාතේ දුවන විට […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Commenting on the controversial removal of Mohan Peiris from the post of Chief Justice and the reinstatement of Shirani Bandaranayake as CJ is null and void, former Chief Justice Sarath N Silva said yesterday. He said the proper procedure had not been followed even in the appointment of Ranil Wickremesinghe as […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Mrs Kumari Samarasinghe Dear Editor, Lankaweb I have been watching the 2015 Sri Lankan Presidential elections and how the previous President was defeated with a chain of lies and a coalition that never could work together. Now that the new man is in power, SL has become a comedy act. I think it is high […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
IS THIS THE YAHAPALANAYA PEOPLE VOTED FOR???? Sivanesan Memorial Hall declared open in Jaffna [TamilNet, Sunday, 01 February 2015, 18:40 GMT] A memorial hall has been declared open in Jaffna on Saturday in commemoration of Maamanithar K. Sivanesan, a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian who was assassinated in a targeted claymore explosion by the Deep […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
by Shenali D Waduge Slaughter every man, woman, and child (including babes suckling at the breast)” were the orders given by Governor Robert Brownrigg (3rd British Governor of Ceylon from 1813 – 1820) to Maj. Gen. Hay MacDowell in 1818. It is the edict that left the people in the agriculturally rich grain growing region […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Prof. Hudson McLean New York Times article – Humiliating Sri Lanka’s National Flag! This is an outrageous act by a nincompoop who should be taken to task according to American Law. President Sirisena should instruct the Sri Lankan Ambassador Washington to take appropriate action. As a predominantly Buddhist country, Sri Lanka will not act in […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
ඉහත සඳහන් චිත්රය පසුගිය ජනවාරි 20 වැනිදා ඇමරිකාවේ නිව්යෝක් ටයිම්ස් පුවත්පතෙහි රයන් ගුඩ්මන් නමැති මහාචාර්යවරයාගෙ ් ලපි ියක් සමග පළවූවකි. ලිපිය ශී ්ර ලංකාවේ නව ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයට උපකාර කිරීම සම්බන්ධවයි. මේ ඡායාරූපයෙන් ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය යනු කුමක් ද යන්න ද උපකාර කිරීම යන්නෙන් අදහස් කරන්නේ කුමක් ද යන්න ද ඉතා පැහැදිලිව නිරූපනය කෙරෙයි. අප බොහෝ අවස්ථාවල දී පෙන්වා […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. The most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture across the globe has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters, but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself. American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions, and the virus […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Janaka Perera Before 1939 the British were in no great hurry to grant self-rule to their colonies, despite all the heroic freedom struggles, notably in India, and the campaigns for constitutional reforms in countries like Sri Lanka. It fact British leaders like Winston Churchill wanted to keep forever the empire on which the sun would […]
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