Archive for January, 2016
Friday, January 29th, 2016
Susantha Wijesinghe The Level Crossing Gate Keeper had closed his gates and was expecting an Express train to come from a certain Direction, when he noticed that there was another train coming from the Opposite Direction, on the same tracks. He immediately took a decision to hail or gesture to the Engine Driver, not to proceed […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2016
By He Zhenhua (People’s Daily Online) Billionaire investor George Soros said at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos that China’s economy is heading for a hard landing, a slump that will exacerbate the global deflationary pressures. His talking down to the China’s market has led to widespread concerns and heated discussions. In fact, what […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The sand placed in the swimming pool at Sri Lanka Labour Party Leader and Businessman A.S.P. Liyanage’s residence in Rajagiriya was removed this morning under the supervision of Colombo Crime Division (CCD) Chief Vijith Gunaratne and the Rajagiriya Police. Mr. Liyanage had on an earlier occasion complained to the police about […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2016
Island Editorial January 29, 2016, 7:26 pm Politicians, intoxicated with power, vent their spleens on their critics the way tipplers heap abuse on the rocks they stumble over. The Rajapaksa government had many such elements, Mervyn Silva being one of them. They branded those who refused to toe their line ‘traitors’. The critics of the […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2016
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island January 28, 2016, 10:44 pm Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday, in Parliament, lashed out at the media, accusing them of promoting racism. “You don’t talk big because your hands are not clean. What are all doing with regard to racism? I mean all newspapers. I am asking the electronic and print […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge The two forces that come forward to protect the nation not surprisingly originate from the Deep South and represent the rural masses. Majority of the Sangha and the members of the armed forces are Sinhala literate, from poor homes and possess all the ingredients that the Kolambians, who did not play any […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා විසින් දෙරණ රූපවාහිනියේ චතුර අල්විස්ට හා දිවයින රූපවාහිනියේ කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසුරියට ඊයේ දිනයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව අමතමින් දැඩි ලෙස දෝෂාරෝපනය කලේය. ගෙම්බා රීරි යකා ආදී වචන අගමැතිවයාගේ කතාවේ ඇතුලත් විය. Delivering a strongly worded speech in Parliament today, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the conduct of electronic and print media when reporting certain […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
News from Sri Lanka How many of you know the producers of KILLING FIELDS IN SRilanka have been invited back to our country6 by Ranil . Instead of reporting about the peaceful country these buggers has taken advantage of Yahapalana hospitality to make more news videos to prove we are guilty අවුරුදු 5ක් තිස්සේ ශ්රිලංකාවේ […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
By Professor Shelton A. Gunaratne MOOREHEAD, Minn. American newspapers used to set the trends that the rest of the free world’s newsrooms followed to raise the quality of journalism in the world. Therefore, I was disappointed to see today’s (January 28, 2016) edition of my hometown newspaper, The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, splashing the banner headline […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Having realised that Sri Lanka couldn’t rely on Western funding for development projects, the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government was now seeking Chinese support, the Joint Opposition said yesterday. It alleged that the government had shunned the Chinese, having condemned all Chinese-funded projects, including the USD 1.4 bn Colombo port city development launched […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
by Zacki Jabbar Courtesy The Island January 28, 2016, 10:46 pm Foreign judges would not be used in the independent war crimes inquiry scheduled to commence prior to the next session of the United Nations Human Rights Council sessions scheduled for June, the government said yesterday. Cabinet Spokesman and Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne clarifying the comments […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island January 28, 2016, 10:11 pm Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday alleged that President Maithripala Sirisena hadn’t been properly briefed on the Geneva Resolution that dealt with the alleged accountability issues during the war. The Prof. was addressing the media at N.M. Perera Centre, Borella. Prof. Peiris said […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
NethFM රාජපක්ෂ පවුලට අයත් බව පැවසෙන ගිණුම්වල මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ නම සඳහන් නොවන බව අමාත්ය රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහතා පවසනවා. අමාත්යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ අද (28)පැවති කැබිනට් තීරණ දැනුම් දීමේ මාධ්ය හමුවට සහභාගී වෙමින්. අමාත්යවරයා මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් කියා සිටියේ ගිණුම් පිළිබඳව සෙවීම සඳහා අමෙරිකාවට බාර දී ඇත්තේ ගිණුමක එක් අංකයක් වරද්දා බවයි. – See more […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න අපේ මුතුමිත්තෝ හා මාපිය වැඩිහිටියෝ නිතර දෙවේලේ කියූ කියුම් කීපයක් මෙහිදී වැදගත්ය .”’මොනවටද ළමයෝ ඔය බොරු විච්චුරන ‘-මේ කුනු පන්ච්ස්කන්දෙට මොන සෝ බනද” වැනි වදන් වලින් ඔවුන් කියාපෑවේ අපේ චාම් සරල දිවිපෙවෙතට පටහැනි බටහිර ආටෝපයන් අපට නොගැලපෙන බවය .ඔවුහු මේවා වැඩියෙන්ම කියන්න පටන්ගත්තේ වසර 500 ක පමණ කාලයක් සිටයපෘතුගීසි කාරයා පැමිණි කාලයේ […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
The US Supreme Court has rejected a bid by three of the world’s biggest food producers to throw out a lawsuit holding them accountable in a landmark child slavery case. Nestlé, Archer-Daniels-Midland, and Cargill are being sued for using unpaid children to harvest cocoa in Cote d’Ivoire. Monday’s Supreme Court decision backs up a 2014 […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
‘මගේ ඔළුවට පිස්තෝලයක් තැබුවත් මම දුන් නියෝගයක් වෙනස් නොකරමි‘ යි හෝමාගම මහේස්ත්රාත් රංග දිසානායක මහතා අද (28) ප්රකාශ කළේය. බොදු බල සේනා ඥානසාර හිමිට ඇප ඉල්ලමින් ඉදිරිපත් කළ මෝසම ඉවත දමමින් මහේස්ත්රාත් එසේ ප්රකාශ කළේය. ඇප ඉල්ලීමේ මෝසමට ප්රමාණවත් කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කර නැති නිසා එය සලකා බැලිය නොහැකි බව මහේස්ත්රාත් පැවසීය. ‘මගේ වරදක් ඇත්නම් ඉහළ […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 1984 වසරේ ඇමරිකානු AFS USA student exchange වැඩසටහන යටතේ එක්සත් ජනපදයෙක් සිසුන් දෙදෙනෙකු නාලන්දාවට ඉගෙනුම සඳහා පැමිණියහ . ඊතන් සහ කැමරන් යන ඇමරිකානු සිසුන් දෙදෙනා ඉතා කෙටි කාලයක් තුලදී නාලන්දීයන් බවට පත් වූහ. ඊතන් පැමිණියේ මේරිලන්ඩ් වලිනි කැමරන් පැමිණියේ කැලිෆෝනියාවෙනි. වරක් ඊතන්, කැමරන් සහ මම පාසැල් කට් කර නිව් ඔලිම්පියා සිනමා […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග වෛද්ය පීඨයේ ගුරුවරු අතරින් මට මහාචාර්ය නතාලියා සෙර්කෝවා මතකයට නැගෙයි. ඇය අපට internal medicine ඉගැන්වීය. අවසාන වසරේ මාගේ විභාගය ගනු ලැබුවේ ඇය විසිනි. මගෙන් බොහෝ ප්රශ්න ඇසූ මහාචාර්ය නතාලියා සෙර්කෝවා අවසානයේදී මාව සමත් කළාය. කායික විද්යාව හෙවත් ෆිසියලොජි ඉගැන්වූ යෙල්තුකොව්ස්කි දක්ෂ පරියේශකයෙකි. පසු කාලයක් ඔහු මහාචාර්ය පදවියක් ද ලැබීය. හිස්ටොලොජි […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
Ira de Silva Canada According to news reports, there seems to be a difference of opinion on whether investigations into the final phase of the Eelam war in 2009 will be done by competent local investigators and judges or whether it will be outsourced to international personnel. The difference of opinion illustrates the differences between the UNP […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2016
අමුණා ඇති දැන්වීම ඔබේ දැනගැනීම සඳහා ය.
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
By Charles.S.Perera The President Sirisena and Prime Minster Ranil Wickramasinghe are overwhelmingly happy they have brought democracy back to Sri Lanka and opened the country to the friendly Nations of the West. The USA and the West reciprocate with gratitude the part played by the duo along with their sleeping pawn Chandrika who awakens at […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
නලින් ද සිල්වා ඩී එස් සී උපාධිධාරි සේවාර්ජිත (සම්මානිත) මහාචාර්ය අශෝක අමරතුංග මහතා ජීවිතයේ අරුත කෙසේ වෙතත් තම ලිපිවල අරුතවත් පැහැදිලි කර දෙන බවක් පෙනෙන්නට නැත. කෙසේ වෙතත් පසුගිය ජනවාරි 20 වැනි දින ඒ මහතාගේ ලිපිය වෙනුවට කැනඩාවේ ක්විබෙක් ප්රදේශයේ තාක්ෂණික පාසලක උගන්වන බෝධි ධනපාල මහතා මා සමච්චලයට පත්කරමින් ලියූ ලිපියක් පළවිණි. මම ධනපාල මහතාට […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
Buddhist Sinhale (Sri Lanka) has been defended, protected and preserved by benevolent, noble, superior, courageous patriots for over two thousand five hundred years. Millions of lives were sacrificed to preserve the territorial integrity , unitary state and sovereignty of this country, our great traditional homeland continuing custodianship of our great Buddhist cultural heritage by the […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
http://www.savethesinhalese.org/ 1973 was a dark year for Sri Lanka as the nation bid farewell to the great Sinhalese Buddhist leader Dudley Senanayake. 1977 was the darkest as the anti Sinhala Buddhist UNP won the elections with a two third majority. The foundation was laid to the disintegration of the Buddhist cultural heritage in 1977 and […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The residents of northeast India, whom the mainstream agencies often misunderstand as sympathizers to various separatist militant outfits, have joined in 67th Republic Day celebrations one and all to pay heartfelt tributes to the martyrs. For the first time in recent decades, the auspicious Day on 26 January 2016 was observed […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
by Ashley de Vos Courtesy The Island January 25, 2016, 7:30 pm At the present, India is being used by the forces that be, with the different carrots offered and held up in its direction. However, with the new government suddenly becoming overly ambitious to expand in the neighbourhood, and Delhi’s inborn tendencies coming from […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
Courtesy The Island January 27, 2016, 12:00 pm Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday said that the government hadn’t ruled out foreign involvement in the proposed war crimes investigation. The PM said so in answer to a Channel 4 News query. Asked whether there wouldn’t be any foreign involvement as declared by President Maithripala Sirisena last […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
22 ජනවාරි 2016 අවසාන වරට යාවත්කාලීන කළේ 18:03 GMT ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී රටක ප්රබල විපක්ෂයක් තිබිය යුතු නමුත් අද එවැනි තත්වයක් නැති හෙයින් නව දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක් බිහි විය යුතුව ඇති බව හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ පවසයි. ‘ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය දෙකඩ වුනත් කරන්න දෙයක් නැහැ. ඉතිහාසය කියන්නෙ ඒකයි. ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය කියන්නේ නමක් පමණයි. රටක […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන් බන්ධනාගාර ගතවී සිටියත් උන් වහන්සේ ඇතැම් විට කටයුතු කළේ අක්රමිකතා දුෂණ ආදියට විරුද්ධව බව ගලගම අත්ථදස්සි අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ මහා නායක හිමියෝ පැවසූහ. ජාතික ඒකාබද්ධතා හා ප්රතිසංධාන රාජ්ය අමාත්ය ඒ.එච්.එම්.ෆවුසි මහතා අද (27) පෙරවරුවේ අස්ගිරි මහනාහිමියන් බැහැ දැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගැනීමට පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේ දී උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව පැවැසුහ. අපේ රටට යම් ව්යසනයක් විපතක් […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge While foreign envoys and even clueless Sinhala politicians and Government officials are chirping reconciliation and drawing up reconciliation plans and proposals, the organizations that the GOSL recently de-proscribed have issued a joint statement commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Vaddukoddai Resolution passed on 14th May 1976 aiming to seek a separate homeland, […]
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