Archive for June, 2016
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
H. L. D. Mahindapala The violence in Sri Lanka raged for 33 years, starting from the declaration of war on May 14, 1976 at Vadukoddai by the Tamil leadership and ending in Nandikadal on May 18, 2009 when Velupillai Prabhakaran’s body was found floating in the murky waters of the Lagoon. This war has been […]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island * Cabinet decision declared invalid * SC expresses shock at manner Rs. 60 billion tender was awarded *CJ says judiciary duty bound to pre vent abuse of power In this country, a court case rarely attracts much attention unless it has to do with something like murder or rape […]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island June 30, 2016, 9:08 pm Last year’s regime change was expected to bring about a radical change in Sri Lanka politics. In fact, the self-appointed champions of good governance or yahapalanaya made a solemn pledge before the last presidential election not only to fight bribery and corruption which had eaten into the […]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
lanka C news මෙහෙම ජනාධිපතිවරයෙක් ලෝකයේ වෙන කොහේවත් නැතැයි ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. එම පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී ඔහු මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. 29 දා දහවල් ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා අපූරු ප්රකාශයක් කළා චෝදනාවලට ලක්ව සිටින මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා වෙනුවට අලුත් මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයකු තව පැය කිහිපයක් ඇතුළත […]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
By The Nation Cricket matches sometimes end in thrilling finishes. At other times, they end in a tie, such as last Tuesday’s one day international with England, leaving both sides with some degree of satisfaction but deprived of victory. The recent controversy over Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran is somewhat similar. Mahendran completes his current […]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Courtesy Colombo Telegraph The net appears to be closing in on the outgoing Governor of Central Bank Arjuna Mahendran, with the Auditor General implicating Mahendran in the first bond issuance which has resulted in the country losing a staggering Rs. 1.6 billion rupees, the Colombo Telegraph learns. Arjuna Mahendran The highly anticipated Auditor General’s report […]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
ACF Media Unit The two Central Bank (CB) treasury bond scandals and the crisis that has occurred in appointing a new governor to CB have exposed the attempts to protect the corrupt by some elements of the ‘good governance’ government. The report of the Auditors General has stated that the activities of current CB administration […]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Press Release – Ananda College English Debating Society The English Debating Team of Ananda College (Team-B) emerged Champions at the 11th Sri Lanka Schools’ English Debating Championship, organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. The aforesaid tournament is considered to be the pinnacle of the local English debating scene, the most prestigious all-island inter-school debating championship and the tournament with […]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
මාධ්ය ඒකකය දූෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ කථානායකවරයා සහ කෝප් කමිටුව වෙත ඊයේ බාර දුන් විගණකාධිපති වාර්තාවේ සදහන් වන කරුණු නිවැරදි නොවන බව සදහන් කරමින් මහ බැංකුවේ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නිලධාරීන්ගෙන් දිව්රුම් ප්රකාශ ලබා ගැනීමේ ව්යාපාරයක් මේ වන විට ක්රියාත්මක වේ. අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්රන් සහ නියෝජ්ය අධිපති සමරසිරි විසින් මහ බැංකුවේ නිලධාරීන්ට ඒ සදහා බලපෑම් කරමින් සිටින බව ‘දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ‘ […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
(හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාපක්ෂ මහතා 2016 ජුනි 29 වෙනි බදාදා, ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ බත්තරමුල්ල කාර්යාලයේ දීයහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ බදු සහ ණය අර්බුදය” ගැන කල දේශනයේ පිටපත.) යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ බදු සහ ණය අර්බුදය අතිපූජනීය සංඝරත්නයෙන් අවසරයි, අන්ය ආගමික පූජකතුමනි, මන්ත්රීවරුනි, මිත්රවරුනි. අපිට අද පේනවා වැට් බද්දට රට පුරාම විශාල විරෝධයක් ඇතිවෙලා තියෙනවා කියන කාරණය. විශේෂයෙන්ම නගර ආශ්රිත වෙළඳ […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Adaderana We have never faced a crisis as acute as the one created by the reckless borrowing of the Yahapalana Government. The people of this country should be aware of the situation that is developing,” former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says. In a statement, he said Now the government is looking for […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Dilrook Kannangara The UNP government is on the verge of yet another economically disastrous decision. Obviously, UNP leadership feels the shame of defeat in the Brexit vote as it worked hard to convince as many people to vote remain”. However, its kneejerk reaction is stupidity. Now it wants to speed up signing ETCA to overcome […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
By Rohana R. Wasala (Courtesy The Island) And we shall play a game of chess, Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door. From ‘A Game of Chess’( the second canto of The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot) Meaning of the epigraph These lines from Eliot contain an allusion to the comedy A […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
අනුර සෙනවිරත්න පටබැඳී ලංකා රට හා ජාතිය මූලික අවුලය සින්හෙලයේ හෙලදිව් දෙරනේ ආක්රමනයට ඉන් මහමග පෑදියේ නැත ලොව ජාතික රටකට මේවන් විනාසයේ අප කිසිවෙකුටත් නැත මේ වග ඔලුගෙඩියට දැනිලායේ නැත ලැබුනේ නිදහස අපහට 48 වසරේ දුන්නේ බාරෙට රට බොරු සිංහල කල්ලි හොරේ ඩැහැ ගෙන ඉන්නේ හෙල රට තවමත් උන්ගේ මුන්ගේ බාරේ නිදහස සඳහා […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-073-2016 27 June 2016 —————————————————— SRI LANKA: Teacher asks students to beat up 10-year-old classmate ISSUES: Child rights; torture; impartial investigation; impunity; rule of law; justice —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 10-year-old girl has been […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-072-2016 29 June 2016 —————————————————— SRI LANKA: An innocent man tortured by Katugastota police ISSUES: torture ; illegal arrest; detention; impunity; rule of law; justice —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Niroshan Chamara Rupasinghe of the […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Sri Lankans need a new story-line every day to talk in the buses ,trains and in three wheelers .We have ample stories to talk and we keep forgetting one episode after the other in time to time . People in the country do not notice that the price of food and infrastructure […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha (Professor of Paramedics and Law and Divinity and Holistic Science) Ethul Kotte, Kotte. SRI-LANKA Firstly I want to thank the government of China, for helping our nation at the time of the war and also its re-building through highways and other projects coordinated with our nations beloved son; the former President Mahinda Rajapakse. […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග කෙටි කතා ලිවීම මා සිදු කරන ලද්දේ කාංසිය මකා ගැනීම සඳහාත් සිතේ තෙරපෙන අදහසක් කෙටි කතා මාධ්ය මගින් කීම සඳහාත් ය. නමුත් කෙටි කතා ලිවීමට දශක ගනනාවකට පෙර සිට මා බොහෝ කෙටි කතා කියවූයෙමි. දේශීය මෙන්ම විදේශීය ලේඛකයන් ගේ කෙටි කතා මා විසින් කියවා තිබේ. මේ වන විට මම කෙටි කතා […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
KAMALIKA PIERIS Research into the subject of ‘Hinduism in ancient Ceylon’ started early in the British period. Simon Casie Chetty’s contribution on the origin and history of the ‘Trincomalee temple,’ was published in Ceylon Government Gazette, 1831. (H.A.I. Goonetileke Bibliography of Ceylon item no 6873). There was much discussion on the subject at the meetings […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
By Gagani Weerakoon Courtesy Ceylon Today President Maithripala Sirisena was the Chief Guest at an event, marking the 74th Birth Anniversary of the Ven. Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera, organized by the All-Island Youth Abstinence Organization at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute on 21 June. Individuals who have contributed significantly to the effort to eradicate the narcotics menace […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
By Shaahidah Riza Courtesy Ceylon Today Joint Opposition and United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Leader MP Dinesh Gunawardena shares his thoughts on the RTI, Audit Bill, BREXIT and Provincial Councils…. He feels the government will not be able to handle the economic repercussions of the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union (EU) adding that […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
lanka C news පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුම ප්රධාන කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැති මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවේදී පක්ෂයේ ජාතික සංවිධායක මධු මාධව අරවින්ද මහතා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. ජාතික හෙළ උරුමයේ සිටිනා පූස් පැටවෙකු ගැන මධුගෙන් හෙළි දරව්වක් උදය ගම්මන්පිල මන්ත්රිවරයා දේශපාලන පළිගැනීමකට අභූත චෝදනා නඟා සිරගත කිරීම සම්බන්ධ නාට්ය ඉදිරියට විකාශනය වෙනවා. ඒතුමන් සිරගත කිරීම කුඩා දරුවෙක් උනත් දන්නවා දේශපාලණ […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
lanka C news ර ටේ ආර්ථිකය සහ සමාජීය පැවැත්ම සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම වනසා දමන පනත් කෙටුම්පත් 15ක් මේ වසර අවසන්වීමට පෙර සම්මතකර ගැනීමට රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ පාලනය සැරසෙන බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. පිටකෝට්ටේ පිහිටි එම පක්ෂයේ ප්රධාන කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවක් අමතමින් ඒ මහතා මෙසේ පවසීය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ විමල් වීරවංශ […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Daily Mirror The Government not only needs to remove the Central Bank Governor Arujuna Mahendran from his post but also should claim damages from him and the company owned by his son-in-law, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said today. JVP Leader and Chief Opposition Whip Anura Kumara Dissanayake told a media briefing that the government […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
මහින්දට හොද ආත්ම ශක්තියක් තියෙනවා පසුගිය රජය ලබාගත් ණය පිළිබඳ දැන්වීම් ප්රචාරය කිරීම සඳහා රජය වැය කරන අති විශාල මුදල ඉතිරි කර ගැනීමෙන් ජනතාවට යම් සහනයක් ලබාදිය හැකි බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි.
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena has also committed a wrong by allowing Arjuna Mahendran to continue in the position of Central Bank governor for such a long period despite knowing that he is a fraud, claims JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The Governor’s term of service should not be extended because he is a fraud” and […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island The British vote in favour of leaving the European Union (EU) -Brexit-has been called by some commentators as the biggest uprising against the people who have run the UK since the Peasants Revolt of 1381. Fortunately for the ruling elite, Brexit did not replicate the killings of the King’s […]
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge The UNHRC head has released his report. It is now the ONLY official document that has been tabled in the UNHRC. This is following the unofficial & purposely leaked report Panel of Expert report commissioned for the personal review of the United Nations Secretary General only and the UNHRC investigation namely the […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2016
Dr. Wasantha Bandara Secretary Patriotic National Movement (PNM) Nawala, Sri Lanka 26th June 2016 Hon. Ronny Abraham President of the International Court of Justice International Court of Justice Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2 2517 KJ, The Hague, The Netherlands Dear Sir, We are an Organization of Sri Lankans dedicated to protecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our […]
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