Archive for January 14th, 2017
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Yahapalana government has no meaningful foreign policy, said one critic. Instead there is a clear tilt to the US. Mangala Samaraweera said, ‘Obama would come up to President Sirisena to say ‘Hello’ at whichever international forum they used to meet. This shows how far American relations have improved during the recent times.’ […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
සෝමපාල සෙනරත් පිටරටවල ඉන්නා අයට පෙනෙන්නේ ලංකවේ මහා කලබලයක් පවතින බවය. ඒත් ඕනෑම විසිටර් කෙනෙකුට පෙනෙන්නේ “බිස්නස් ඈස් යූශුවල්” ලෙසයි. කෙසේ වෙතත් වෙබ් අඩවිවල කියන කතන්දර අනුවත්, වික්රමසිංහගේ ඉතිහාසය අනුවත් ඊලාම් දීමට සූදානමක් ඇතිබව පෙනේ. එසේනම් එය නවැත්විය යුතුය. මෙය කරන්නේ කෙසේද ? අලුතෙන් දෙන්න දෙයක් නැති තරමට ෆෙඩරල් දැනටමත් දී හමාර බව පැහැදිලිය. හොඳම […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Shipyard Operator SLPA has been ignored when Hambantota was entrusted (to Chinese)…………. No wonder………. Sri Lanka Ports Authority have always been of Non Progressive thinking .In the past Serendib Flower Mill, Mahaweli Cement Bagging Factory, and later Tokyo Cement , Prima Flower Storage SGT container Terminal, CICT ,Colombo Dockyard are all private […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුවේ 34 වැනි සැසිවාරය මේ වසරේ මාර්තු මස ආරම්භ වේ. මෙහිදී ශ්රී ලංකාවට එරෙහිව 2015 ඔක්තෝබර් 1 දා සම්මත වූ ජිනීවා යෝජනාව පිළිබඳ ව රජය කටයුතු කර තිබේද යන්න ගැන විමර්ශනය කෙරෙනු ඇත. ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුව ආරම්භ වීමට මාස 2 ක් තිබියදී රජයේ සංහිඳියා කාර්ය සාධක බළකාය […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
ශ්යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින පළාත් සභාවලට බලය බෙදීම ඉඩම් ආඥා පනත සංශෝධනය මැතිවරණ ප්රතිසංස්කරණ ඇතිකිරීම අපරාධ නීතිය සංශෝධනය කිරීම යුරෝපා සංගමයේ ජී. එස්. පී. ප්ලස් (GSP+) බදු සහනය යළි ශ්රී ලංකාවට ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා රටට ඉතා අනතුරුදායක කොන්දේසි 58 කට රජය එකඟවී ඇතැයි රජයේ ඉහළ පෙළේ ආරංචි මාර්ගවලින් ‘දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්රහය’ ට වාර්තා වේ. […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
World Health Organization 2009 This document identifies knowledge gaps and recommends research priorities in order to build an evidence base to inform decisions on managing processed” drinking-water. This is important because of increasing consumption of water arising from advanced treatment processes such as desalination and uncertainty about the resulting heatlh implications. The World Health Organization […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Courtesy WaterFY1 (http://www.waterfyi.com/featured/w-h-o-ya-gonna-believe/)JANUARY 5, 2013 I can’t begin to tell you how much pleasure it gives me to write this article. I will never forget being severly chastized a few years ago by a senior executive of a company that sells thousands of RO systems per year for not knowing what I’m talking about” and […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Lankaweb Science Editor India and Sri Lanka today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to construct 3000 rain water harvesting systems at a cost of Rs 300 million in Jaffna District. According to Adaderana news report, the MoU was signed by Mr. Arindam Bagchi, Acting High Commissioner of India and Mr. V. Sivagnanasothy, Secretary, Ministry […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Sri Lankans faced a shocking and distressing spell during the LTTE conflict when the death smell was in the air persistently. A few decades ago, prior to such an abhorrent phase, the sound of the word ‘death’ or having to attend a ‘funeral’ managed to generate apprehension and fear among […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
By Anura Gunasekera Courtesy The Island The MP for Kurunegala, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has announced a wish, intent and threat, a three-in-one package for the New Year. Perhaps it is also a resolution; that is to topple the existing Sirisena/Wickramasinghe coalition and to establish a new government . Its composition and contours have not been defined but […]
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Posted in Politics, යහපාලන දුෂණ | 2 Comments »
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Courtesy The Island Even though it appeared as if the two partners in the government had closed ranks and resolved to carry on the unity government till 2020, new divergences of opinion appeared in the ruling coalition between the UNP and the SLFP (Sirisena faction) on the one hand and among Sirisena loyalists on the […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island January 14, 2017, 7:21 pm It is not for us to judge whether former Minister Wimal Weerawansa is guilty or not of flagrant abuse of public property, as alleged in charges filed against him by investigatory authorities of the State in ongoing court proceedings. He has been remanded on these charges and […]
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Posted in Economy, යහපාලන දුෂණ | 10 Comments »
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Courtesy The Island January 14, 2017, 7:42 pm The government has agreed to comply with 58 European Union (EU) conditions, which high-ranking sources in Colombo described as “adverse and detrimental to the interests of Sri Lanka” to regain the GSP+ facility. On deciding to accommodate the stipulated conditions, moves are now underway to officially inform […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
ලංකා සී නිවුස් හම්බන්තොට වරාය විකුණන්නේ නැතිව මේ මහා ණය කන්දරාව ගෙවන්නේ කෙසේදැයි ජනාධිපතිවරයා තමන් හා පැවසූ බව පූජ්ය මැදගොඩ අභයතිස්ස හිමියෝ පවසති. පසුගියදා ජනාධිපතිවරයා හමු වූ අවස්ථාවක තමන් වහන්සේ කල විමසීමකට ජනාධිපතිවරයා පිලිතුරක් ලෙස එසේ කී බවද උන් වහන්සේ කීහ. වරාය විකුණන්නේ ණය ගෙවන්නමදැයි විමසූ විට ‘ණය ගෙවන්නම නොවෙයි. අවශ්ය කරන පඩි නඩි ගෙවන්න. […]
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