Archive for January 18th, 2016
Monday, January 18th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge We need to put into context some key factors. When John Kerry openly admits to being proud of regime change in Sri Lanka, it is a clear indication that the January/August 2015 elections had all the hallmarks of foreign intervention. When UN Secretary General showers praises on the new government inspite of […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
Dr Sudarh Gunasekara, President Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Momement 18.1.2016. The age old British ‘pregnancy craving’ to own Sri Lanka as a permanent Colony of their own and the conspiracies to disintegrate and destabilize Sri Lanka and destroy this Sinhala Buddhist Nation is still not over. Ever since the British took over this Island from the […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
By M D P DISSANAYAKE The members of SLFP are concerned about losing their seats in the Parliament if they shift to a new political alliance of the opposition. This fear is clearly the main reason for the delay in the formation of a new Alliance. The President Mahinda Rajapakse was intentionally mislead again by […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
* ත්රස්තවාදය වැළැක්වීමේ පනත ඉදිරි මාස කිහිපය තුළ අහෝසි කරන්නයි සූදානම * ‘යන යකා කොරහත් බිදගෙන යනවා‘ වගේදැන් මේ ආණ්ඩුව මහා සංඝරත්නය භේද කිරීමටත් අත ගහලා * පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය වහාම පවත්වන්න. නව පෙරමුණක් යටතේ තරග වදින්න අපි සූදානම් * ගැටුමක් නිර්මාණය කරලා ලේ වැකි මර්දනයකට ආණ්ඩුව සූදානම් වෙනවා
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
by Fr J.C. Pieris Courtesy The Island January 16, 2016, 12:00 pm Samantha Power, Soros, Blair and others like them have come and gone and will come again. World powers have begun to show a great interest in our country, especially about our political issues more than about our economic issues. We must be wary when […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
By Raj Gonsalkorale Asian Tribune Sri Lanka seems destined to engage in yet another mix up of priorities. Since independence in 1948, the country has been grappling with constitutions or major changes to administrative regulations and not economic priorities. The result has been that a country that was more economically advanced at one time than subsequent […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
Courtesy The Nation Debate on constitution is in public domain again. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has presented a resolution in parliament to set up a Constitutional Assembly of all members for enacting a new constitution for Sri Lanka. Constitution is the supreme law of a country from which all other laws derive their authority. Therefore […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
Courtesy The Nation Though over 20 SLFP MPs in the Joint Opposition in parliament have had discussions with the top rung in the Maithri-Ranil Government to cross over and support the government, President Maithripala Sirisena and Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe had told them that the numbers in the Cabinet of Ministers would not be expanded at […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
උපුටා ගැන්ම හෙළබිම සිංහල පුවත් ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ මන්ත්රීවරුන් කොටසක්, ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ, පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය, ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී වාමාංශික පෙරමුණ, ලංකා සමසමාජ පක්ෂය, ශ්රී ලංකා කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂය ඇතුළු ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය නියෝජනය කරන දේශපාලන පක්ෂ එක්ව නිර්මාණය කිරීමට සැරසෙන ‘‘නව ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පෙරමුණ’’ යන නම් නව දේශපාලන බලවේගයට නායකත්වය ලබාදීම සදහා හිටපු ජනපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මෙන්න හිටපු මේජර් ජෙනරාල්ගේ පාවාදීම ගැන සාක්කි ලොව වෙනත් රටවල් නම් එවැනි හමුදා නිලධාරීන්ට රාජද්රෝහීත්වය මත නඩු පැවරේ. එහෙත් මෙරට එවැන්නක් සිදු වී නැත. මෙම හිටපු හමුදා මේජර් ජෙනරාල්වරයා ඇමරිකානු රාජ්ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව හමුවේ සාක්කි දී දේශපාලන රැකවරණ පතා තිබුණි. ඔහුගේ දිවුරුම් ප්රකාශය නිසා ශ්රී ලංකාවට එරෙහිව ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය වෙත […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
සාකච්ඡා කළේ – දයා ලංකාපුර -යුතුකම සංවාද කවය “රට ෆෙඩරල් කරන්නයි මේ හදන්නේ ” – දිනේෂ් කියයි නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් සකස් කිරීම සඳහා ව්යවස්ථාදායක මණ්ඩලයක් පත් කිරීමට යැම ව්යවස්ථාව මගින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ලබාදී තිබෙන බලය නැතිකර දැමීමක් බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවක් නොවන ආයතනයකින් ව්යවස්ථාවක් සකස් කිරීම ඉතා භයානක බවත් මහජන එක්සත් පෙරමුණේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැවසීය. ‘දිවයින […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
Australian Alert Service, The new movie The Big Short, presently in cinemas, tells the story of the financial fraud and gambling mania that led to the meltdown of the global financial system in 2008. Even the heroes in the movie are gamblers—fund managers who were just smarter than the other gamblers and bet correctly that […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said changes to the constitution should not be mixed up with the two key issues of abolishing the executive presidential system and electoral reforms, over which widespread consensus has built up over a period of time. He said the constitutional reform should proceed in stages, taking up […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
Courtesy Adaderana As many as 125 entrepreneurs from Tamil Nadu will be among 400 from the world over, attending the Second International Investor Forum on Eastern Sri Lanka to be held here on January 28 and 29. Naseer Ahamed, the dynamic Chief Minister of the multi-ethnic Eastern Province, where Tamils form a third of the […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
Courtesy Lanka Business Online Jan 18, 2016 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is targeting five billion US dollars worth of foreign direct investments (FDI) in the next three years, Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade said. We are targeting 5-6 billion US dollars in FDI the next three and I am quite optimistic that we […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
Courtesy The Island January 18, 2016, 7:18 am ‘Divide constitution making process into segments’ Once the new Constitution is passed into law, it may be appropriate to hold parliamentary polls to elect a new government under the new Constitution, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said in a special statement on the constitution making process. The […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: A mega cycle rally with the message of cycling for health & environment was organized on Sunday morning in various parts of Assam including the central function held at historic Latasil playground in then heart of the city. About 250 participants took part in the rally that marched through the pre-historic […]
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