Archive for January, 2019
Saturday, January 26th, 2019
Tamara Kunanayakam Economist and International Relations Expert, Former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations at Geneva, Former Senior International Civil Servant at the United Nations, and Ex-Chairperson/Rapporteur of Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development INTRODUCTION A fundamental principle of international law, incorporated in a wide range of international and regional instruments, is permanent sovereignty […]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2019
Mahinda Gunasekera Federal vs Unitary: Broadly speaking, most are fully in favour of retaining a Unitary Structure of governance as opposed to a Federal, Quasi-Federal based on the Indian model, or other multi-level structure where powers need to be devolved to the semi-autonomous units that are to be set-up for various regions within the tiny […]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2019
ALI SUKHANVER The Washington Post recently published an article titled, ‘I am a journalist who fled Pakistan, but I no longer feel safe in exile’ written by Mr. Taha Siddiqui, a journalist from Pakistan. Mr. Siddiqui claims that last year in January he survived an abduction and possible assassination attempt by armed men when he was […]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2019
by C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island That Sri Lanka was unable to persuade the international credit markets to roll over the USD one billion sovereign bond that matured earlier this month was an ominous sign that no one should ignore. The last resort of the government was to order the three largest state owned banks […]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2019
by Rajeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island According to a recent media report, UK government (GoUK) has recently appointed a Resident Defense Advisor in Sri Lanka after an absence of ten years. The story was accompanied by a photograph of the newly appointed Colonel David Ashman with Chief of Defense Staff Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne taken during a […]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2019
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ (ජවිපෙ) නායක රෝහණ විජේවීර 1989 නොවැම්බර් 12 උලපනේදී ආරක්ෂක හමුදා අත්අඩංගුවට පත්ව පසුදින අලුයම කොළඹදී ඝාතනයට පත්විය. විජේවීර අත්අඩංගුවට පත්වන විටද ජවිපෙ අභියෝග ගණනාවකට මුහුණ දී තිබිණි. උතුරේ බෙදුම්වාදී කැරලිකරුවන්ට පවා ඉතිහාසයේ කිසිම දිනක නොතිබුණු මර්දනයක් ආරක්ෂක අංශ විසින් ජවිපෙ කැරලිකරුවන්ට එරෙහිව මුදාහැර තිබිණි. ආණ්ඩුවේ පොලිසිය සහ ආරක්ෂක අංශ […]
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Friday, January 25th, 2019
Kanthar Balanathan DipEE(UK), GradCert-Rel Eng(Monash), DipBus&Adm-Finance(Massey), CEng. MIEE Tamils both in SriLanka and Overseas are requested to read and digest this article, please. Tamil diaspora of the current generation, even their children are married to local mixed or half-caste race, are not prepared to give up their Tamil Eelam demand. People like Rudrakumaran and the […]
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Friday, January 25th, 2019
Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec. Canada The country has been invaded by the army-worm caterpillar local known as the Senaa Dalambuwa”. All kinds of conspiracy theories are being spun, and some of it was played out in Parliament itself. Claims that the caterpillar has been deliberately introduced”, or that it is the lack of attention at the […]
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Friday, January 25th, 2019
RANJITH SOYSA Spokesperson SPUR Victoria According to a recent report published , the Defence Secretary , Hemasiri Fernando has invited expatriate Tamils to contact the Defence Ministry to report about the credible atrocities committed by the security forces. This is indeed a strange attempt to offer sacrifices under the delusion that Mr Hemasiri Fernando is […]
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Friday, January 25th, 2019
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් දළදා වහන්සේ මුල්වරට වැඩම කලා යැයි ජන ප්රවාදගත නයාරු ලංකාතොට අසල ගුරුකන්ද රජමහ විහාරයට පසුගියදා ටී.එන්.ඒ. දේශපාලන අංශයෙන් බලහත්කාරකමක් සිදු විය. ගුරුකන්ද රජ මහ විහාරයේ වර්තමාන විහාරාධිපති කොළඹ මේධාලංකාර හිමියන් ගේ මූලිකත්වයෙන් එහි බුදු පිළිම වහන්සේ නමක් ප්රතිෂ්ඨාපනය වීම ඊට හේතුවයි.දුරුතු මස තෛයිපොංගල් දිනයේ දී පන්සලට කඩා වැදුණු හිටපු උතුරු පළාත් සභා […]
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Friday, January 25th, 2019
By ASOKA BANDARAGE Courtesy Asian Times The more than three-decade armed conflict between the Sinhala majority government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) came to an end with the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009. However, the international political struggle to establish an autonomous Tamil state in the Northern and Eastern Provinces […]
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Friday, January 25th, 2019
MATTHIEU RICARDWOLF SINGER Courtesy The Atlatic.com DEC 17, 2017A scientist and a monk compare notes on meditation, therapy, and their effects on the brain Can training the mind make us more attentive, altruistic, and serene? Can we learn to manage our disturbing emotions in an optimal way? What are the transformations that occur in the brain […]
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Friday, January 25th, 2019
හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ බාල පුතු වන ඊයේ දිනයේ විවිාහ දිවියට ඇතුළු වූ රෝහිත රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සිය විවාහය වෙනුවෙන් අලුත්ම ගිත වීඩියෝවක් නිකුත් කර තිබේ අගනුවර තරු හෝටලවල මෙතෙක් පැවති තරු මංගළ්යන් සියල්ලට සැමතින්ම අභියෝග කරමින් වීරකැටියේ වැවු තාවුල්ලක සිය මංගල උත්සවය ඉතා සරල චාම් නමුත් ගාමභීරව සංවිධානය කරන්නට රෝහිත රාජපක්ෂ කටයුතු කර තිබුනේ […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Sooriasegaram pointed out that In spite of many obstacles and obstructions by the Tamil ruling elites we have seen slow but definite progress among the oppressed caste community in education and in being able to receive healthcare facilities. This was made possible by the welfare state, introducing free education from primary school all […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The Muslim community in Sri Lanka prior to the formation of the people’s revolutionary government of late Prime Minister Mr. S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike in 1956 was more or less a community of serfdom depending entirely on the handouts from the rich traders/merchants, or from the landowners in the agricultural areas, or from […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. According to Freud meditation is a reaction formation of omnipotence to infantile helplessness. As described by Alexander (1931) meditation is a “libidinal, narcissistic turning of the urge for knowing inward, a sort of artificial schizophrenia with complete withdrawal of libidinal interest from the outside world. Kris (1963) viewed meditation as a […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Aape Aththo – Hela Family As we look to the future and focus on our sovereignty, peace and prosperity, we must not ignore the big picture of the world we live in. In the 21st century, the Indian Ocean will be the center stage for neocolonialists as they jostle to secure resources, trade deals and […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Public Lecture The Illustrated Mahāvaṃsa: Paintings from a 12th Century Myanmar Temple” by Dr. Hema Goonatilake On Monday 28th January 2019 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 ALL ARE WELCOME When Myanmar got her independence, the first country she wanted to have foreign […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Dr Sarah Obeysekera Meditator Whole Sri Lanka should start practicing meditation like Maithree and Ranil and develop Metta and Karuna. We see MAITHREE following principles of Buddha , foster compassion by taking opposition members to Thailand and try to show that he has no hatred and ill will. Today we saw him accompanying SB and DJ […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Somaweera Sirisinghe of Auckland, New Zealand The issue of dual citizenship held by politicians arose recently in Australia and in Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka an MP’s election was declared void due to the person being a citizen of another country as well. Then stories of others of same genre were coming out of the […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Lanka Lead News වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර මන්ත්රීවරයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සිදු කළ කතාවක් දැඩි අවදානයට ලක්ව තිබේ. පසුගිය 22 පැවැති පාර්ලිමේන්තු සැසියේදි වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර මන්ත්රීවරයා බටලන්ද කොමිෂන් සභාව සහ බැඳුම්කර කොමිෂන් සභාව පිළිබඳ අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහගෙන් ප්රශ්න කිරීම මෙලෙසින් කතාබහට ලක්ව තිබේ. එහිදි මන්ත්රීවරයා අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අගමැතිවරයාට ප්රකාශ කළේ දැන් ඔබට ඉතිරිව ඇත්තේ මෙරටින් පැන යාම පමණක් […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana A motion has been filed with the Colombo Magistrate’s Court today requesting the court to name Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank Nandalal Weerasinghe and former Deputy Governor Ananda Silva as suspects in the bond scam case. The motion was filed by the attorney representing the owner of Perpetual Treasuries Limited, Mr […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 24 (newsin.asia): In July 2017 the Sri Lankan government renewed, for another ten years, the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) with the United States Department of Defense. ACSA allows the exchange of supply and services, training of staff and humanitarian aid in disaster situations between the two countries. In a proposal to […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
lanka C news හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ බාල පුත් රෝහිත රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද දිනයේ විවාහ දිවියට එළැඹුනේය. වීරකැටියේදී පැවත්වෙන මෙම මංගල උත්සවය සදහා දේශපාලන නායකයන්, ව්යාපාරිකයන් ඇතුළු බොහෝ දෙනෙකු සහභාගී වී සිටිති. මේ විවාහය සදහා කිසිදු ආකාරයක මත්පැන් සැපයීමක් සිදු නොකෙරෙන රණවරා, බෙලිමල්, දිවුල් යුෂ අමුත්තන්ට බීම සහා ලබා දෙයි. ආහාර සදහා ලබා දෙන්නේ […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS The essay is not a comprehensive study on caste in Jaffna. It is a cluster of observations on caste in Jaffna collected while researching on the Tamil Separatist Movement. Those who write on Jaffna’s greatness, it’s wonderful culture, its need for a separate state have remained silent on the subject of caste in […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
පරිවර්තනය කළේ ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති චං ත්සුවෝ කියලා කියන්නේ කුං ගුරුතුමා ගේ ගුරුකුලයට අයිති පඬිවරයෙක්. පරිපාලන කටයුතුවලට නිලධාරීන් බඳවාගන්න අධිරාජ්යය විභාගයත් ඔහු සමත්වුනා. විභාගයේ ප්රතිඵල ලබාගත්තට පස්සේ දවසක ඔහු අගනුවරට දකුණින් තිබුණු පළාතක පාරක් දිගේ අශ්වයෙක් පිටින් යමින් හිටියා. එහෙම යන අතරමග දී ඔහු වයස්ගත පුද්ගලයෙක්ව දැක්කා. ඒ පුද්ගලයා හිටියේ සුදු කකුල් තියෙන අළු පාට බූරුවෙක්ගේ […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ විපක්ෂ නායක පසුගියදා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදක සභාව ඉදිරියේ ව්යවස්ථාවක කෙටුම්පතක් හැටියට සකස් කර තිබූ පිටු 187ක වර්ථාවක් අගමැතිවරයා සභාගත කළේය. ඉන් පසු ‘ව්යවස්ථාවකුත් නෑ ව්යවස්ථා කෙටුම්පතකුත් නෑ’ කියමින් ඔහු රට වටේ යන ආකාරය අපි දුටුවෙමු. එවැන්නක් කියන අතරම අලුත් ව්යවස්ථාවක් යටතේ ලංකාව බෙදිය නොහැකි එක්සත් රටක් හැටියට පවතින බවත්, බුදු දහමට තිබුණු […]
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Posted in Mahinda Rajapaksa, Politics | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
MEDIA RELEASE Mahinda Rajapaksa Leader of the Opposition At the recent meeting of the Constitutional Assembly, the Prime Minister tabled a 187 page report prepared in the form of a draft constitution. Thereafter the PM has been going around the country claiming that there is no constitution or even the draft of a constitution. At the same […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
සමන් ගමගේ බල්ලගේ වැඬේ බූරුවා කරනවා යැයි ලෙසින් වූ වටිනා උපමා කතාවක් අපේ ජනවහරේ තිබේ. යමෙකු කළ යුතු සහ එසේ කරන්නට හැකියාව ඇති කාර්යයක් කිසිදු වගකීමක් සහ හැකියාවක් නැති තවෙකකු ඉදිරිපත්වී කරන්නට යන කල සහ වගකීම් විරහිතව වහසිබස් ප්රකාශ කරනවිට අපේ ජනතාව අතීතයේ මෙන්ම අදත් මේ කතාව සිහිපත් කළේ උපහාසය මුසු පිළිකුලෙන් යුතුවය. ශී්ර […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Seven students from South Eastern University have been arrested for posting photographs of themselves standing on the ruins if ancient Kiralagala stupa, the Police Spokesperson stated. A group of youths had recently taken photographs of themselves while standing on the ruins of Kiralagala stupa in Horowpathana and posted them on social media. The […]
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