Archive for August 3rd, 2015
Monday, August 3rd, 2015
H. L. D. Mahindapala The most noteworthy promise kept by President Maithripala Sirisena after he became president on January 8, 2015 was to appoint Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister. And, needless to say, the rot began from that moment onwards. Together they promised in their Manifesto to take the nation to an ideal society” […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
By Charles.S.Perera The Moors came to Sri Lanka as traders. When the Portuguese merchant vessels adventured into Indian Ocean the Moors were chased away. These vagrant traders chased by the Portuguese sought the protection of Sinhala Kings who settled them in a village in the East allowing them to marry Sinhala women. They have no […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
ඉසුරු ප්රසංග නමුත් ඉංග්රීසීන්ගේ නුවණින් සහ දක්ෂකමිනුත් කැරලිවලට මුල් කාරයෝව සිටියවුන්ගෙන් එක එකා අල්ලා ගත් බැවින් එඬේරෙක් නැති බැටලූ රැලවල් මෙන් කැරළිවලට බැඳී සිටි අයවල් මංමුලාව ගියාය. මින්පසු නැවතත් සෑර් රොබට්ස් බ්රවුන්රිග් උතුමාණන් වහන්සේ සහ සිංහල මනුෂ්යයන් අතරේ අලූත් ගිවිසුමක් ඇති කරගත් නිසා ප්රථම තිබි ලෙසටම සමාදානය පැතිරී ගියාය. මෙවක් පටන් අදවන තුරුම ඉංග්රීසිවරු යටතේ […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
By Dharman Wickremaratne It was the time when terror enveloped the whole of Sri Lanka. The JVP’s second insurgency was raging. Many were the sacrifices made to appease the demons in human form. They were celebrating and enjoying life while murder squads under their […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
චින්තන පර්’ෂදය රවි කරුණානායකගෙන් ප්රශ්න කිහිපයක් ඇසීමට බලාපොරොත්තු වෙමු. ඔබේ මවගේ පියා සී සී දිසානායක ද? ඔහු නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති ධුරය දැරී ද? පාසල් රජයට පවරා ගැනීමට සිරිමවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මහත්මිය ගත් තීරණයට ඔහු විරුද්ධ වි ද? ඒ තීරණය අදත් කාදිනල්ගේ දෝෂාරෝපනයට හසු නො වන්නේ ද? සී සී දිසානායක 1962 සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා චම්පක රණවකට හා රනිල් වික්රමසිංහට අනුව මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන සියල්ල විසඳා ඇත. මැතිවරණයෙන් පසුව මහින්ද අගමැති නොවනු ඇත. ඒ බව කියා ඇත්තේ අන් කිසිවකු නොව මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන ය. රනිල් වික්රමසිංහට හා ඔහුගේ ගෝලයා වූ චම්පක රණවකට අනුව දහනවවැනි සංශෝධනයෙන් පසුව ද අගමැති පත් කෙරෙන්නේ ජනාධිපති විසින් තම මතය පරිදි ය. ව්යවස්ථාවට අනුව ජනාධිපති […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
උපුටාගැණීම www.mahinda.info පහත දැක්වෙන්නේ වැටුප් වැඩි කිරීමේ ප්රතිපත්තිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාව විවේචනය කරමින් එජාප ඡන්ද රැස්වීමකදී රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා කරන ලද ප්රකාශයකුයි. එම වීඩියෝවේ කියවෙන ප්රධාන කාරනා 4 ක් ගැන බලමු. [1]. අගෝස්තු 17 වැනිදා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවක් ආවොත් රු 10000 දීමනාව රජයේ සේවකයන්ගේ වැටුපට එකතු කරන බවත් එවිට අවම වැටුප රු […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
සඳුන් ජීවන්ත Courtesy Mawbima මෙච්චර දවසක් මල්ල ඇතුළේ ඤාව්, ඤාව්, ඤාව් කියමින් හිටි දෙමළ සන්ධානයේ ෆෙඩරල් බළලා පහුගිය සතියේදී මල්ලෙන් එළියට පැන්නේය. යාපනයේ උඩුවිල් මරදනාර්තෝට්ටම් ක්රීඩාංගණයේ පැවැති දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානයේ මහ මැතිවරණ ප්රතිපත්ති ප්රකාශනය එළිදැක්වීමේ උත්සවයේදී මේ ෆෙඩරල් බළලා මල්ලෙන් එළියට පැන්නේය. දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානයේ සිය මැතිවරණ ප්රතිපත්ති ප්රකාශනය ඉදිරිපත් කරමින් කියන්නේ උතුර හා නැඟෙනහිර […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
CBK decides to bat for UNP-led UNFGG coalition August 2, 2015, Amidst claims of a rift between former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and some government bigwigs, Kumaratunga yesterday declared her support for the United National Party-led United Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) by visiting the campaign office of Gampaha District candidate Arjuna Ranatunga yesterday morning. […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
by Senaka Weeraratna Aubrey Collette was a well known cartoonist from the mid forties who was virtually a regular contributor to the Times of Ceylon and the Lake House press until the early 1960s when he emigrated to Australia. His cartoons comprised a sharp, visual comment on the social and political landscape of the time. Notable […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
Ratanapala 3 August 15 CAN YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE? Eelam Stamp 1980 Eelam as claimed today! The challenge before the Sri Lankans nation on 17 August is not whether we need to bring in ‘squeeky clean’ , educated and capable politicians into the parliament. This we must try to do as practically possible and not […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
Venerable Reverends, Ladies and Gentlemen, My Friends, I, the candidate from the district of Colombo for the General Election 2015 as the Group Leader of United People’s Freedom Alliance, humbly request you to give your support to the party and myself. Educated at St. John’s College, Nugegoda, having obtained the Bachelor of Laws in 1982 […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
Hot News Another person injured during the shooting incident at Bloemendal Road last Friday has succumbed to his injuries. The injured person was receiving treatment at the National hospital at the time of his demise. The deceased has been identified as B. Niroshan Sampath (30) Army Sampath the underworld leader who was a resident of […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
This cartoon sealed the fate of the UNP in 1956 It depicted Sir John Kotelawala riding an elephant (the symbol of the UNP) pointing a spear at the Buddha statue. Accompanying Sir John was people dressed in western garb drinking and dancing (Western Liberalism slowly attempting to remove the Buddhist cultural heritage of Sri Lanka) […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s geopolitical positioning has been both a blessing and a curse. Despite 17 invasions from South India, 3 Christian Western colonial occupations over 410 years at no time did Sri Lanka fall except to be handed over to the enemy by local traitors – Alas the same appears to be unfolding […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
JANAKI CHANDRARATNA – PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA Sri Lanka is once again at ‘crossroads’ that can have an impact on its future. Unlike in previous instances, the path that can be taken is seriously muddied by the political and social dynamics of the present environment. Although the stage is set for another election, the electorate is […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
By Garvin Karunaratne Ph.D.(Michigan State University) Greece, once a mighty country, is now in the dog house, with its economy in tatters, its rulers begging the Troica- the IMF, the EU and the ECB for funds to subsist. The writer about a decade and a half ago visited Greece, clocking some 5000 miles, wandering all […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
Dharshan Weerasekera The TNA Manifesto published on 26 July 2015 reiterates the demand for a Federal arrangement of Government in Sri Lanka. This is not surprising. The TNA’s main constituent, the Illangai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) has been demanding a ‘Federal’ system since the late 1940’s. The United States and India, meanwhile, have explicitly stated […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2015
Harvey Perera Brief history of India: India was just a collection of small kingdoms almost up to 1947. The Portuguese came to India in 1498 and then the East India Company took over from 1757-1857. The rebellion in India in 1857 was brutally put down by the British and the British crown took over the […]
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