Archive for December 7th, 2017
Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 2 December 2017 Garnett Genuis, MP Conservative MP for Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan Alberta Cc. Matt DeCourcey, Liberal MP Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs Dear Garnett Genuis: Re: Your Statement in Parliament on Sri Lanka’s Tamil Community In Canada, on Nov.20th, 2017. I […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Lankaweb Editorial Dec.10th 2017 Islamist fundamentalism is posing a growing threat to universal liberal society unquestionably. This seems quite apparent also in Sri Lanka in recent times. Considering the bloody ethnic strife involving religious as well as ethnic differences initiated by the Tamil Tigers now vanquished- hopefully never to resurge, it may be fortuitous for […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Top Spin by Suni 07th Dec. 2017 As the 4th day unfolded in the 3rd Test between India and Sri Lanka at Delhi there was a horror story which probably shocked the onlookers and reflected poorly on the ICC as well as the organizers and umpires at Delhi who failed to recognize the importance of the health […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් දරුවන්ගේ මෙන්ම අනාගත වැඩිහිටියන් ගේ ද ජීවනාලිය ලෙසට සැලකෙන අධ්යාපනය හෙවත් ඉගෙනුම අනාගත සංවර්ධනය මෙන්ම රටේ ස්වාධීනත්වය ශක්තිමත් කරන අත්තිවාරමක් ලෙසට සැලකේ.අධ්යාපනය මගින් වැරදි පණිවුඩයක් සංනිවේදනය කළහොත් එහි ප්රතිඵල භයානක විය හැකිය. මෙරට ජාතික අධ්යාපනය පිළිබඳ පෙළ පොත් සූදානම් කරන ජාතික අධ්යාපන ආයතනය වැඩ කරන්නේ සැබෑ අධ්යාපන අරමුණින් ද දේශපාලන අරමුණින්ද යන්න පැහැදිලි […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Dr. Sharfraz Azad Chairman Spectrum College Spectrum College recently signed a MOU with the Maldivian embassy to strengthen relationship between Sri Lanka and Maldives in terms of Education. Spectrum is a chain of International Schools providing International qualifications whilst preserving Asian values. Spectrum students population include Sri Lankan, Indian, Maldivian and Pakistani nationals. Spectrum College […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
President Muslim Council of Sri Lanka December 7, 2017 President Donald J Trump President of the United States of America The White House. Office of the President. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500. USA Through kind courtesy of Ambassador Atul Keshap United States Embassy in Sri Lanka 204, Galle Road, Colombo 3 Dear Mr. […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera The Colombo Additional Magistrate today imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on former MP Sajin Vass Gunawardena for failure to declare assets and liabilities from the year 2011 to 2012. Sarana Gunawardena fined Rs 2,000 after pleading guilty. The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 on former […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
New project in the phase of completion of external structures, in Japan, to relaunch this millennial Buddhist University.
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
By Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities – Voltaire The human history is full violence and atrocities. Some scholars have suggested that aggression should be regarded as a basic instinct. Freud considered aggression as a dynamic factor in mental life. Psychologist Eric Fromm in […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former MP Sajin de Vass Gunawardena was fined Rs.1,000 by the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today for not declaring his assets during the years 2011 and 2012. Additional Magistrate Aruni Attygala fined Mr. Gunawardena over the case filed by the Bribery Commission. The former MP pleaded guilty to the charges.
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island December 7, 2017, 9:53 pm Talks between the Joint Opposition (JO) and the SLFP have failed and the former has decided to go it alone under the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) banner at the next local government polls, we are told. Only the naïve expected the two groups to bury […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Courtesy The Island December 7, 2017, 9:54 pm In the wake of the recent ‘Maaveerar Naal’ celebrations in the north, The Island staffer C.A.Chandraprema spoke to Arun Tambimuttu about the direction that Tamil politics has taken in recent times and the implications for the future. Q. The 1.5 million or so Tamil people living in […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
By Shyam Nuwan Ganewatte Courtesy The Island The tenure of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the alleged bond scams has been extended by another 23-days and it was the fourth extension given. The Commission was established on January 27, 2017, by a special gazette notification no. 2003/41 as per article two of Commissions Act. Thereafter […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
කතෘ:යුතුකම -විශ්ව චින්තන- ලංකාවේ විශාලතම කෘෂි ව්යාපෘතිය ලෙස මොරගහකන්ද ගැන මුලින්ම කථා කරන්නේ 1955 වසරේදීය.නැවත 1977දී කඩිනම් මහවැලි ව්යාපෘතිය යටතේ මොරගහකන්ද නැවත කරලියට එයි.නමුත් මහින්ද යුගය එලැබෙන විටත් 60 වසරක් තිස්සේ එකඳු පස් පිඩැල්ලක් හෝ කැපීමට කිසිදු රජයකට හැකි වූයේ නැත. රට කෘෂිකර්මයෙන් ස්වයං පෝෂිත කිරීමේ මහින්ද චින්තන දැක්ම අනුව ආරම්භ කල වෙහෙරගල, වේලි ඔය, […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා – පසුගිය සතියේ කාගේත් අවධානයට ලක්වූ ප්රවෘතියක් වූයේ හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අත් අඩංගුවට ගෙන ප්රශ්ණ කිරීමට පොලිස් මුල්ය අපරාධ විමර්ශණයට නීතිපති අවසරය ලැබී ඇති බවයි. මෙම ප්රවෘතියත් සමග බොහෝ දෙනෙකු කැලබීමට පත්වූ අතර ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීමේ ප්රයත්නය හෙලා දකිමින් විවිධ දේශපාලනඥයින්, වෘතිකයින් හා පූජක තුමන්ලා අදහස් […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
සිදත් මෙන්ඩිස් උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ රාජකාරි කටයුතුද පවරාගැනීම හරහා අග්රාමාත්ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා සෘජුවම එම කොමිසමට බලපෑම් සිදුකරන බවට පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය චෝදනා කරයි. කොළඹ පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් එම පක්ෂයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි උදය ගම්මන්පිල මේ බව පැවැසූ අතර එහිදී හෙතෙම මෙසේද සඳහන් කළේය. අපි දැක්කා ඊයේ අගමැතිතුමා ප්රසිද්ධියේ ප්රකාශයක් කළ පුංචි ඡන්දය පවත්වන්නේ […]
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