Archive for July 15th, 2017
Saturday, July 15th, 2017
Shenali D Waduge The white man said Cecil Rhodes built Africa. However, Africans disagree and Africans are bringing down the statues of Cecil Rhodes. Ironically, in Sri Lanka the reign of the kalu suddas is such that we are celebrating the tea industry that came about by illegally confiscating lands belonging to the Kandyan peasantry! […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
KAMALIKA PIERIS We have inherited a heavy national debt, said Yahapalana. The country had a debt of SLR 9000 billion (USD 60 billion) when Yahapalana took over, said President Sirisena. Yahapalana had inherited a Rs. 482,940 million foreign debt burden which has to be settled before 2016 said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe. We are saddled […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් පසුගියදා අස්ගිරි මහා විහාරයේ දී රැස්වුණු ත්රෛයිනිකායික මහා සංඝ රත්නයේ මූලිකත්වයෙන් රජයට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද යෝජනා සංඝ ආඥාවක් බවට පත් විය.මහා සංඝ රත්නය විෂයෙහි එවැනි බලයක් නොමැති බව එන්.ජී.ඕ. බත් බැලයන් සහ දේශපාලන කුක්කන් ද මාක්ස් සරණ ගිය ඇතැම් හිමිවරුන්ද පවසති. සංඝ ආඥාවන් මෑත කාලයේ පමණක් නොව අතීතයේ රජුන්ටද නිකුත් කර තිබේ. […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Could the continuous downpours of rain over the past few weeks and deluges hitting several areas in the country where people have perished, many have become helpless and marooned, thousands sustained injuries and hundreds lost their life-time possessions, whilst another part of the country experienced a severe drought affecting their […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
By Vaduga Courtesy The Sunday Times In commemorating our national heroes it is fitting that we remember these simple village folk who were in the forefront of the Rebellion and were subject to eventual lynching at the ‘Tree’. Perhaps it is time a monument is installed here so that the schoolchildren may remember their ancestors in solemn mediation particularly […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
Courtesy Sputnik Religious clashes have become a characteristic feature not only in the Middle East and Europe. South Asia faces the same challenges: terrorism, international criminal networks and illegal migration. Sputnik was able to talk to the leader of Sri Lanka’s radical Buddhists, a former Soviet student, who is heading the crusade against “global jihad.” […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Updated: Jul 16, 2017, 01.00 AM IST The Central Crime Branch (CCB) police have arrested three people, including a Sri Lankan, in a fake credit card scam. Investigators recovered 144 fake credit cards from them. They would reportedly get the card details of users in the US, Japan and other foreign countries, create […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe yesterday alleged that several UN Special Rapporteurs who visited Sri Lanka including Rapporteur Ben Emmerson lacked calibre and diplomacy and that he would inform the President and the Premier about these Rapporteurs. When contacted by the Daily Mirror to get a comment about the Rapporteur […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
Kalathma Jayawardhane Courtesy The Daily Mirror National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader and MP Wimal Weerawansa yesterday condemned the remanding of former Navy Spokesman Commodore D.K.P. Dassanayake who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday over the alleged abduction and disappearance of several youth between 2008 and 2009. MP Weerasansa told a […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
Courtesy Ceylon Today Matara District Joint Opposition (JO) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MP Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene yesterday charged that the United National Party (UNP) should be held directly accountable for the Central Bank (CB) bond issue, which he termed as Sri Lanka’s largest daylight robbery in its recent history. He further alleged that […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
Govt led by Rajapaksa will be established before year ends – Welgama මේ වර්ෂයේ අවසානයට පෙර රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවනවා
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
Courtesy The Island July 15, 2017, 12:00 pm The former Navy Spokesman Commodore D.K.P.Dassanayake was arrested last week on charges of causing the disappearance of 11 persons in 2008. Dassanayake, a highly decorated Naval officer who played a major role in the war, is the latest high ranking armed forces officer to be arrested under […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
by Rajan Philips Courtesy The Island July 15, 2017, 7:50 pm They are the three corners of Sri Lanka’s vicious political triangle. Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family are nothing if they are not blatant about everything. They defeated the LTTE, so they can do no wrong. They will return to power, they insist, and rule for […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
Courtesy The Island July 15, 2017, 7:32 pm ECONOMYNEXT – President Maithripala Sirisena returned from a state visit to Bangladesh yesterday to grapple with a new threat of defections that could lead to a break-up of his shaky coalition government. A week after issuing an ultimatum to two ministers to deliver or depart, the President himself has […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
මනෝඡ් අබයදීර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මේ එළඹ තිබෙන්නේ වීරයා දංගෙඩියට දක්වන තරග ඉසව්ව යෑයි කිව්වාට වරදක් නැත. වසර දෙකහමාරක් තිස්සේ යහපාලනය විසින් කරන ලද කිසිම දෙයක් නැතැයි රටම කීවද එල්ටීටීඊ ඩයස්පෝරාව නම් කියනු ඇත්තේ, මේ ටික කාලයට මාර දේවල්නේ කරගත්තේ…, කියලාය. ඒ තරමට වීරයන් පේළියක් දඟ ගෙයට දක්කන්නට යහපාලනය බරටම වැඩ කර තිබේ. කොමදෝරු ඩී.කේ.පී. දසානායක […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින උතුරු පළාතේ යාපනය දිස්ත්රික්කයේ නාවක්කුලිය දඹවල ශාන්තිපුර, යාපනයේ ඇති එකම සිංහල ගම්මානයයි. පවුල් 57 ක් පදිංචි මෙම ගම්මානයේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජනයාගේ ආගමික කටයුතු සිදුකරන විහාරස්ථානය “සමිද්ධි සුමන විහාරයයි” සමිද්ධි සුමන විහාරය බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්යාංශය යටතේ බෞද්ධ කටයුතු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ලියාපදිංචි විහාරස්ථානයකි. පන්සලේ කුඩා විහාරයක්ද බෝධි ප්රාකාර සහිත බෝධීන් වහන්සේ නමක්ද, දෙතුන් සියයකට රැස්විය […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
KAMALIKA PIERIS REVISED 28.8.17 and 28.10.18 Because it was an externally managed ‘regime change’, the ‘changers’ decided that it was best to install Maithripala Sirisena as President quickly, before the island woke up to what had happened. The election results were announced on January 8, 2015 and the very next day, January 9th, in a […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි මෑතකදී පොළොන්නරුවේ පැවති උත්සවයකදී, ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන සුපුරුදු පරිදි අනාගත කාලයට වලංගුවන පරිදි කතාවක් කලේය. ඒ කුමන අභියෝග ආවත් මාතෘභූමිය සහ ආණ්ඩුව ඉදිරියට ගෙන යන බවයි. මාතෘ භූමිය කෙසේ වෙතත් ආණ්ඩුව නම් කෙසේ හෝ ඉදිරියට ගෙනයාම පිලිබඳ අප විචිකිච්ඡාවක් තබා නොගත යුතුය. රටේ මෙපමන ප්රශ්න තිබියදී යලිත් වරක් ඇමතිවරු, නියෝජ්ය ඇමතිවරු සහ වෙනත් […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
By Noor Nizam – Convener “The Muslim Voice” July 13th, 2017. I am NOT a sympathizer of the “YAHAPALANA” government, but I will not fail to commend the stand taken by our President Maithripala Sirisena and the Hon. Minister of Justice, Dr. Wijeydasa Rajapaksa. THESE ARE INTERNATIONAL BEGGARS UNDER THE DISGUISE OF CALLING THEMSELVES UN […]
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