By: Dharshan Weerasekera, 29th January 2019 Author’s note: I am publishing the present paper exercising my fundamental rights to freedom of thought and conscience under Article 10 of the Constitution and also the right to freedom of speech and expression under Article 14(1) (a) of the Constitution, and in the public interest, cognizant also of […]

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සාකච්ඡා කලේ වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ශ්‍රී ලංකා සෞඛ්‍ය සේවය තුලදී සමරිසියන්  පීඩාවට පත් වන බව නොරහසකි. මේ නිසා  සෞඛ්‍ය සේවය තුල සිටින සමරිසි ප්‍රජාවද , සේවාලාභීන් ද නිරන්තරයෙන්ම  වෙනස්කම් වලට භාජනය වෙති. 1994 වසරේදී මා  දකුණු කොළඹ ශික්‍ෂණ රෝහල හෙවත් කළුබෝවිල රෝහලේ සේවය කල කාලයේදී එම රෝහලේ කම්කරුවෙකු ලෙස සේවය කල සමරිසි පුද්ගලයෙකුගේ චර්‍යාව […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Customs officers attached to the Colombo Harbour have decided to refrain from work in protest over the alleged decision to appoint a retired navy officer as the new Director General of Sri Lanka Customs. Ad Derana reporter said that all customs officers at the Colombo Harbour excluding those in the Export Division are […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The leader of the Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa says that what the Chairman of the Elections Commission should do now is not resign from his post, but hold the Provincial Council Elections under the previous election system. He mentioned this to the media, attending a function held to open a private restaurant in the […]

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Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena says the Department of National Archives has provided copies of valuable documents to foreign countries without any knowledge of the state. The President made these remarks at the Matara district convention of drug prevention program held at Sanath Jayasuriya Stadium in Matara today (30th), stated President’s Media Division. President Sirisena […]

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by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Part I of this article appeared last Wednesday (Jan. 23) January 29, 2019, 9:09 pm Sri Lanka’s pathetic failure to exploit Lord Naseby’s disclosure in the House of Commons must be examined against the backdrop of an assurance given by the government of Sri Lanka to the US in late […]

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Mohan Samaranayke Courtesy The Island Since Friday 11th January on which date Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe presented in Parliament, the report of the ‘Panel of Experts’ (PoE) working under the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly, as an ordinary citizen with very little knowledge in constitutional matters, I became curious to know who these experts are. […]

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