Archive for May 31st, 2015
Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Dilrook Kannangara Use them and dump them is the doctrine used by the global policeman towards its non-European allies. It can be seen right throughout the history it has teamed up with a nation or a group, particularly after 1945. Interestingly, one of its first captives was Sri Lanka (Ceylon) which signed the Anglo-Ceylon Defence […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Courtesy Island The event that captured everyone’s imagination last week was former Chief Justice Sarath N.Silva’s broadside against the government. The CD of his full speech has started doing the rounds. One of the reasons why Silva’s speech is so significant is the range of issues he has dealt with – from the way Ranil […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Courtesy The Daily Mirror While rejecting allegations that his government had misappropriated some Rs. 28b at the Highway ministry, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today charged that the current government is engaging in a smear campaign against him and an attempt to belittle the solid achievements of his government in infrastructure development. Issuing a statement the […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
by Sanath Nanayakkare Courtesy Island With the parliamentary elections approaching, Sri Lanka is on the verge of entering another phase of its familiar ‘pledge cycle’, therefore, it’s high time the main political parties told the masses the absolute truth on the status of the country’s economy, and the masses demanded to know the truth and […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Shenali D. Waduge As the Buddhist public in Sri Lanka begin to close ranks to meet the challenges facing the continuity and preservation of the Buddhist ethos and heritage in the light of planned incursions, it is good to take stock of the admirable services rendered by Sinhala Buddhists who have carried the torch of […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
By Cecil Atukorale Sri Lanka today is not the country that was known to the world, some 30 years ago. In the past this island was known to the world as the Land of Dhamma. But today with the open economy, things have turned topsy-turvy. Hardly, a day passes without something being said in our […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
සඳුන් ජීවන්ත මව්බිම සාමාන්යයෙන් ගුළි දෙන්නේ වෙද මහත්තුරුන්ය. ඒ ලෙඩ හොඳ කරන්නය. වෙද මහත්තුරුන් ලෙඩ හොඳ කරන්න ගුළි දුන්නාට දේශපාලනඥයන් ගුළි දෙන්නේ ලෙඩ වැඩි කරන්නය. මේ දවස්වල දේශපාලන ලෝකයේ අන්න ඒ වාගේ ගුළියක් එහා මෙහා වෙමින් තිබේ. මේ ගුළිය තියෙන්නේ මෛත්රිපාලගේත්, රනිල්ගේත් සාක්කුවලය. ගුළිය දෙන්න හදන්නේ ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පාක්ෂිකයන්ටය. ‘රනිලුයි මෛත්රිපාලයි ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න තමන් කොහොමටවත්ම මහින්දට අගමැති අපේක්ෂකත්වය නොදෙන බව මයිත්ත්රී අවධාරණය කර කියා ඇත්තේ අනික්අ ය කියන දේවල් ”බබා පාට් ” එකේ අහගන ඉඳලා අන්තිමටය .අනික් ය තමන් කියන දේට පිටින් ගියොත් ”’ කරන දේත් මම දන්නවා ”’ යනුවෙන් මරුසිරා පාට එකකුත් දමා ඇත . මහින්ද මරාදමා හරි ඔහු බලයට පත් වීම වැලක් වීමට මයිත්ත්රී […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Statement issued by MPs Prof. G. L. Peiris and Bandula Gunawardena- Courtesy Island May 31, 2015, 9:29 pm The Finance Minister and the Governor have claimed that the 10 year International Sovereign Bond of USD 650 million issued on 29th May 2015 at an interest rate of 6.125%, is a great success. They have even gone […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ගරු අමාත්යතුමා නින්දෙන් පිබිදුනේ බයින් තැතිගෙනය. ඔහුගේ ගත දහඩියෙන් තෙත්වී තිබිණි. වායු සමීකරණ යන්ත්රයෙන් නිකුත් වූ සිහිල් සුලඟට ද ඔහුගේ දාහය අඩු කරනු නොහැකි විය. අමාත්යවරයා දුටුවේ බියකරු සිහිනයකි. තවමත් ව්යාකූල තත්ත්වයෙන් පසු වූ ඔහු තමා දුටුවේ සිහිනයක් ද නැතහොත් සැබැවින්ම සිදු වූවක්ද යන්න තෝරා බේරා ගැනීමට නොහැකිව අත් දෙකෙන්ම දැස් […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane Archeological and literary evidence indicate that during the Anuradhapura era from the 3rd century BCE to 10th CE, there were as many as 74 Buddhist shrines and Buddhist historic sites within the area presently demarcated as Trincomalee district. These include the Wilgamwehera Rajamaha Vihara and the famous Seruwawila Rajamaha viharaya, located in […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Courtesy RT Georgia’s former President Mikhail Saakashvili, wanted by his country’s prosecutors for embezzlement, abuse of power and politically-motivated attacks, has been appointed governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region. President Petro Poroshenko personally appointed Saakashvili to the post, saying the former Georgian leader is “a friend of Ukraine.” In a statement at Saakashvili’s nomination in Odessa, […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
By DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Were the scenes we saw on our TV screens this week a manifestation of a potentially dangerous, post-January 8th Radicalisation in the North? (Radicalization (or radicalisation) is a process by which an individual or group comes to adopt increasingly extreme political, social, or religious ideals and aspirations that (1) reject or […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Geneva. Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN in Geneva, Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha said Sri Lanka had taken a lead in multi-lingual Internet initiatives, by putting in place technical conditions to facilitate the presence of its local languages on the Internet and encouraging the development of relevant Sinhala and Tamil […]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය හරීන් ප්රනාන්දු ප්රධාන අමාත්ය ඌව පළාත් සභාව මහියංගන, රිදිමාලියද්ද, ප්රදේශය තුළ නව වැලි තොටවල් ලබා දීම පිළිබඳව මගේ අංක UP/CM/MHA/LAD/2015 හා 2015 -02-26 වන දින ඌව පළාත් ඉඩම් කොමසාරිස්වරයා වෙත ලබා දෙන ලද ලිපියක් උපයෝගි කර ගනිමින් දේශපාලන වශයෙන් ජනතාවගෙන් ප්රතික්ෂේප වී සිටින බංකොලොත් දේශපාලඥයන් විසින් දේශපාලන වාසියක් ලබා ගැනීමේ අරමුණින් අදාල ලිපිය […]
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