Archive for July, 2016

තවත් එක් අමිහිරි කතාවක්

Friday, July 29th, 2016

මහගල්වැව රාහුල හිමි  කැළණිය ජාතික පිරිවෙන් දිනය 2016.07.27 වේලාව උදෑසන නවයයි මහනුවර ගැටඹේ කී්‍රඩාංගනයේ දීග උත්සවාකාරයෙන් සැමරීමට සියලූ කටයුතු සූදානමින් පවතී. ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේනගේ පැමිණීම බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන් හිමිවරැ සහ ආචාර්ය මහාචාර්ය ආණ්ඩු ගැති හිමිිපාණන් වහන්සේලා ඔහු පිළිගැනීමට ලක ලෑස්ති වෙමින් ඇත. මේ අතරතුර අන්තර් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය භික‍ෂු බලමණ්ඩලය අත්පත්‍රිකාවක් ඛෙදීමට සූදානම් වූයේ පිරිවෙන් දිනය යැයි කියා ගනිමින් […]

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Champika responsible for Coal fraud

Friday, July 29th, 2016

By Anuradha Herath Courtesy Ceylon Today ?: Do you have sufficient evidence to complain to the Anti-Corruption Secretariat with regard to the coal tender? A: We, as an anti-corruption organization, decided to complain based on the landmark judgment delivered by the Supreme Court on the report submitted by the Auditor General. With the evidence, it is very […]

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Majority of Sri Lankans consume boiled food than fried food because they are healthy.

Friday, July 29th, 2016

Dr Hector Perera London The food prepared by frying or grilling are not quite healthy than the food cooked by the method of boiling. Research has revealed that exposure to cooking oil used to fry chips can increase the risk of health more than cooking things by boiling such as cooking rice and curries. Scientists […]

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Say no to ETCA

Friday, July 29th, 2016

By Niranjala Ariyawansha Courtesy Ceylon Today President of the National Trade Unions Centre (NTUC) K.D. Lalkantha assured that every possible step would be taken to prevent the signing of the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) with India, as it is deemed highly unfavourable to Sri Lanka. He warned that in the event the agreement is […]

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Sri Lanka: Do we need racist Tamils like Wigneswaran and Sambanthan when Tamils don’t vote TNA?

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

Shenali D Waduge Anyone promoting reconciliation needs to understand that it is not a one-way street solution. You cannot have any peace when there are Tamil representatives who are racists and proud about it too. Moreover it is time that the world themselves realized that the TNA is not representative of the Tamils. Tamils have […]

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The Cruelest Portuguese

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

By Chandra Tilake Edirisuriya  Courtesy Ceylon Today Features Don Jeronimo de Azavedo, the cruelest of the Portuguese administrators in the East, was the Governor of Portuguese Ceylon from 1594 to 1612 and the Viceroy of Portuguese India from 1612 to 1617. De Azavedo was one of the officers who came with Captain of Colombo, Manoel de […]

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Moral Injury and Post-traumatic Growth Described in the Buddhist Jathaka Stories 

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.  Moral Injury The concept of Moral Injury was introduced by Jonathan Shay. The concept of moral injury emphasizes the psychological, cultural, and spiritual aspects of trauma. It refers to an injury to an individual’s moral conscience resulting from an act of moral transgression which produces profound emotional shame (Litz et […]

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පාද යාත්‍රාවට එරෙහි ඇම්බියුලන්ස් මඩ අතේ මාට්ටු, ආණ්ඩුව හත් පොළේ ගා ගත්ත හැටි මෙන්න.

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

 www.mahinda.info [1]. ජන සටන පාද යාත්‍රාව අතරට ගිලන් රථයක් දමා ආණ්ඩුව විසින් සිදුකළ නිර්ලජ්ජිත ක්‍රියාව ආණ්ඩුවේ මාධ්‍ය මගින් විකාශය කළේ මෙලෙසයි.   [2]. එහි දැක්වෙන්නේ රෝගීන් රැගෙන ඒමට යමින් සිටි ගිලන් රථයක්” ලෙසටය. (i). ශ්‍රී ලංකා සෞඛ්‍ය සේවාවේ නියාමනයන්ට අනුව රෝගීන් රැගෙන ඒමට යන ගිලන් රථයක නිල සාත්තු සේවකයෙක් හෝ හෙදියක් සිටීම අනිවාර්ය වේ. (ii). […]

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මහින්ද මැතිඳුන් පෙරටුකරගෙන ජන සටන පාද යාත්‍රාව ඇරඹෙයි. (පින්තූර)

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

www.mahinda.info  ආණ්ඩුවට එරෙහිව ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂය විසින් සංවිධානය කරන ‘ජන සටන’ පාද යාත්‍රාව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පේරාදෙණිය පාලම අසලින් ආරම්භ විය. මේ සඳහා ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු, පළාත් සභා, පළාත් පාලන මන්ත‍්‍රීවරුන් ගණනාවක් එක්ව සිටින අතර අති විශාල ජන සහභාගීත්වයක්ද තිබේ. පෙළපාලිය නිසා කොළඹ නුවර මාර්ගය පේරාදෙණියේදී දැඩි වාහන තදබදයක් ඇති වී ඇත. පාද […]

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Pada Yathra

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

Editorial Courtesy The Island July 28, 2016, 9:17 pm  The Joint Opposition’s claim that the aim of their Kandy-Colombo Pada Yathra, which commenced yesterday from Getambe, is not to topple the government, is not true. Minister Rajitha Senaratne got it right when he told the media on Wednesday that a protest march couldn’t bring down […]

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Foreign Judges: A bogey?

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

by Gunadasa Amarasekera July 28, 2016, 8:38 am It is becoming apparent by the day that the Foreign Judges Issue is a bogey planted to threaten us into submission to achieve a different purpose – namely to foist a Constitution on us which will allow the dismemberment of this country which is the sole concern […]

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Sri Lanka’s pact with IMF faces flak

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

T. RAMAKRISHNAN Courtesy Hindu ‘Alliance for Economic Democracy’ says despite the “dangers inherent” in the agreement, there has been no critical public scrutiny. A recently-formed coalition of trade unions, student unions, progressive intellectuals, social organisations and activists has criticised the Sri Lanka government for its agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The coalition, Alliance for Economic Democracy, has said the IMF’s Extended […]

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Bill to set up OMP A draconian law

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The name board, “Office of Missing Persons” (OMP) whose Bill that is now before Parliament, sounds innocuous. One might even assume, it is a government run office in collaboration with an organization like the International Committee of the Red Cross. An office, where those with missing relatives come and the […]

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වැට්‌ බදු ආදායමට සමාන මුදලක්‌ සමාගම් කිහිපයක්‌ අතට!

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

වෛද්‍ය කේ.එම්. වසන්ත බණ්‌ඩාර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින එක්‌සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂයට වැඩි බලයක්‌ සහිත පිටකොටුව වෙළෙඳ ප්‍රජාව ඉතිහාසයේ ප්‍රථම වතාවට එම පක්‍ෂයේ ආණ්‌ඩුවකට විරුද්ධව වීදි බැසීම විශේෂත්වයකි. ඔවුන් තම වෙළඳසල් වසා දමා වැට්‌ බදු විරෝධී පෙළපාලියට එක්‌වීම වැළැක්‌වීම සඳහා ආණ්‌ඩුවේ මැති ඇමතිවරුන් කිහිප දෙනකු Rජුව මැදිහත් වුවත් වෙළෙන්දෝ ඊට අවනත නොවූහ. වැට්‌ බදු ගහන්නේ වෙළෙඳුන්ට එරෙහිව නොව […]

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The Foreign Minister Samaraweera Must Go

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

By Dr Mathias Keitel, Tubingen, Germany.– Asian Tribune – My recent visit to Sri Lanka, the country that I love most, fills me with dark foreboding as its vital interests are being systematically compromised by its buccaneering Foreign . Minister Mangala Samaraweera Dr Dayan Jayatilleka pointedly observed in a recent article, that Foreign Minister Samaraweera […]

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RACISM caused collapse of League of Nations – same will happen to UN

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Shenali D Waduge When Japan proposed the world’s first racial equality clause to be included into the Charter of the League of Nations in 1919, Anglo Saxon countries immediately opposed it. America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the British Empire were against including a clause against racial discrimination. Why would these nations not wish to […]

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සංහිඳියා හොරු ගොතන පට්ටපල් බොරු ජිනීවාවලට මරු

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්                 රටේ දේශපාලනය බොහෝ සෙයින් ව්‍යාකූලය. පාර්ලිමේන්තුව කෝලම් මඩුවක් වැන්න. ජනතාවට හොරෙන් ජනතා ද්‍රෝහී බොහෝ දේ සම්මත කර ගැනීමට කැස කවමින් ඇත. නව ව්‍යවස්ථාව පිළිබඳව අවසාන විග්‍රහය අගමැතිවරයා සහ ව්‍යවස්ථා සම්පාදක මණ්ඩලය  සතුය. අනාගමික රාජ්‍යයක් කෙසේ වෙතත් කෑලි කීපයකට කඩා දමන රටක් සඳහා හොර ලියවිලි තැන තැන […]

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Political children

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

By: C. Wijeyawickrama It is a silly drama. Two sides claiming the fatherhood for the Moragahakanda and Kalu Ganaga canal project. MS says MR prevented it and removed him from the ministry to delay it. MR says MS also worked hard to get the project going. They even show a video clip where MS was […]

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ඉන්දු-ලංකා ගිවිසුම වසර 29කට පෙර බිහිවූ හැටි

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න වසර 1987 ජුනි 2 රාත්‍රී ටෙලෙක්ස් පණිවුඩ යන්ත්‍රයෙන් ලැබුණ රොයිටර් පුවතින් කියවුණේ තමිල්නාඩු රජය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ උතුරේ ජනයා සඳහා සහල්, පරිප්පු ඇතුළු ධන්‍ය වර්ග ඇතුළත් බෝට්ටු 25ක් විදේශීය මාධ්‍යවේදීන් සහ රතු කුරුස නිරීක්ෂකයින් 94 දෙනෙකු සමඟ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට එවන බවය. රාමේෂ්වරම් තොටුපලේ සිට 1987 ජුනි 3 වැනිදා පැමිණි බෝට්ටු 19ක් පස්වරු 6 උතුරේ […]

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විරෝධතා පැවැත්වීමේ අයිතියට ගරු කරන්න පාගමනට අවහිර එපා.  කැෆේ සංවිධානය කියයි.

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සංවිධානය ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය විසින් මහනුවර සිට කොළඹ දක්වා පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත පාගමනට අවහිර එපා මහනුවර සිට කොළඹ දක්වා ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය විසින් සංවිධානය කොට ඇති පාගමන සඳහා අවහිර කිරීමෙන් වළකින ලෙසත්, සංවිධානාත්මක ලෙස බලය පේන්වීමෙන් වළකින ලෙසත් කැෆේ සංවිධානය ‘යහපාලන රජයේ ප්‍ර‍ධාන හවුල්කාර පක්ෂ‘ වෙතින් ඉල්ලීමක් කරයි. මහනුරව සිට කොළඹ දක්වා වන විරෝධතා පාගමන […]

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Evidence of ‘torture’ of children held in Don Dale detention centre uncovered by Four Corners

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Four Corners By Caro Meldrum-Hanna and Elise Worthington Updated Mon at 9:00pm Media player: “Space” to play, “M” to mute, “left” and “right” to seek. VIDEO: LANGUAGE WARNING: Watch the video obtained by Four Corners (ABC News) RELATED STORY: Detention centre probed amid claims teens forced to fight, eat animal poo RELATED STORY: NT detention centre’s […]

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INDIA’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM AT RISK

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

ALI SUKHANVER The whole of Pakistani nation observed 20th of this July as a Black Day in showing solidarity with the helpless people of the Indian Held Kashmir who have been facing all kind of atrocities at the hands of the cruel Indian army for the last many decades. The history of these cruelties is […]

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PROMOTING ETHICAL TOURISM IN SRI LANKA Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice vs Canada’s Asoka Weerasinghe’s Tourism Communiqué

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Editor  ‘Canada’s Asoka Weerasinghe’s Tourism Communique PROMOTING ETHICAL TOURISM IN SRI LANKA Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice (https://www.srilankacampaign.org/ethical-tourism/thinkagain/) vs Canada’s Asoka Weerasinghe’s Tourism Communiqué Ethical-Tourism is a new trend which simply means budget-tourism which benefits people and the environment in different destinations.  It can offer a better income to families by sourcing products and […]

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Canada’s Duplicity Regarding Sri Lanka

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Ira de Silva Canada I refer to the statement made by the Canadian Prime Minister on July 25,2016, titled “Canada Renews calls for Sri Lanka’s Reconciliation”.  It states that the war and the devastation it wrought “reminds us to heal the wounds of those who have suffered and promote unity over division and inclusion over prejudice.” […]

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The Rise and Fall of Raj Rajaratnam – Part III-Exemplary individual destroyed by the drive to succeed?

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

By A Special Correspondent Courtesy The Island July 26, 2016, 7:53 pm On May 11, 2011, following a seven-week trial and twelve days of deliberations, the jury returned a verdict finding Mr. Rajaratnam guilty of the fourteen counts charged. The District Court of the Southern District of New York observed that ‘ government and media unfairly […]

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Who monitors the monitors?

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island July 26, 2016, 7:50 pm The United Nations system that operated during the genocide in Rwanda was the Human Rights Commission. The UN system that operated in 2009 when the LTTE took Civilians hostage was the Human Rights Council. In 2009 the Human Rights Council did not realize that the […]

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30 years of LTTE Terror Killings: Do Sinhalese lives matter to UNHRC

Tuesday, July 26th, 2016

Shenali D Waduge Why is no one counting the Sinhalese dead? There are no books, no documentaries, no panel discussions, no media coverage, no UNHRC head wants to even come and meet the families of these victims, no global tears or candles, no vigils, no commemorations. Are Sinhalese not human beings too? Do their deaths […]

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Mahinda’s support will be a great help – Dinesh

Tuesday, July 26th, 2016

Courtesy Adaderana The support extended by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to take part in the scheduled protest march adds some additional strength, MP Dinesh Gunawardena says. The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (26). Mahindananda, Weerawansa, Namal Rajapaksa, Johnston Fernando, Rohitha Abeygunawardena and Kanchana Wijesekera are behind the organization […]

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Protect our language, protect our nation, asks Gevindu

Tuesday, July 26th, 2016

Courtesy Adaderana The first priorities should be to safeguard the language and to protect our nation, Gevindu Kumaratunga says. The observation was made at an event held to celebrate the 129th birthday anniversary of one of Sri Lanka’s greatest scholars, Munidasa Kumaratunga last evening. This country needs more writers like Munidasa Kumaratunga who can address […]

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Sri Lanka belongs to Sinhala.

Tuesday, July 26th, 2016

By Charles.S.Perera France belongs to French, Germany belongs to Germans, Italy belongs to Italians,England belongs to English, India belongs to Indians. (America there is a problems because America belongs to native Americans). However, America belongs to Americans. Sri Lanka belongs to Sinhala.  In France there are many minorities  Algerians , Polonaise, Africans etc. But they […]

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