Archive for January, 2019
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada Sri Lanka has now woken up to the fact that the armyworm caterpillar, known locally as the Senaa caterpillar, has arrived in Sri Lanka and begun its march of devastation. This is what is known as a Grey Rhino” event – that is, an event whose coming is obvious but totally ignored […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
අද (23) දින මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින් • පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී්ර මොහාන් සිල්වා මහතා • හිටපු මධ්යම පළාත්සභා මන්තී්ර ප්රමිත බණ්ඩාර තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී්ර විමලවීර දිසානායක මහතා අම්පාර දිස්තී්රක්කයේ කල්මුනේට මුලික රෝහල් හයක් තියෙනවා. මොනරාගලට තියෙන්නේ තුනයි. පහුගිය දවසක සෞඛ්ය ඇමැතිතුමා ගිලන් රථ ඛෙදාහැරීමක් කළා. එයින් ගිලන් රථ දෙකක් සෞඛ්ය සේවා අධ්යක්ෂවරයාගේ කොට්ඨාශය වුනු […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
We finally have an opposition that doesn’t support the government in power. However, this Opposition has a major role to play. Sadly, 10 years after the victory over terrorism, that too Sri Lanka being the only military to defeat an internationally banned terrorist movement, we are still struggling to sift the lies from […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
H. L. D. Mahindapala Ranil Wickremesinghe’s biggest ever deal in his entire political career, with which he hoped to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was his Cease-fire Agreement (CFA) with Velupillai Prabhakaran. Irrespective of the disastrous consequences of his delusional peace deal, he signed it guaranteeing the handing over of powers and institutions of the […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
By Camelia Nathaniel/Daily News On Monday(21), the Sri Lanka Army released 1,201.88 acres of Army-used state and private lands in the North with no impact for national security, in a ceremony in Mullaitivu presided over by Maithripala Sirisena. The release of this acreage of land includes 972 acres of state land in Kilinochchi, 120 acres […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Jan 23 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has reiterated his government’s decision to impose the death penalty on drug traffickers including those who are already facing the death sentence in prisons, a statement from his office said here Wednesday. President Sirisena said that although certain organizations had raised their voices […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
By Zhu Ruiqing, Tang Lu, Chen Jian Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 23 (Xinhua): For Sri Lankan engineer Sanjeewa Alwis, a veteran of the Colombo Port City project, the four state-of-the-art Chinese dredging vessels pumping yellow sea sand was an endearing spectacle. With the reclamation of land completed, the Chinese-funded Port City under construction near the Colombo […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
1971 වසරේදී තමන් පොලිසියෙන් වෙඩි තබා මරා දැමීමට නියම කරන ලද්දෙක් බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පවසයි. චේගුවේරා කල්ලියේ සාමාජිකයන් යයි තමන් අත්අඩංගුව ගෙන දැඩි ලෙස වද දුන් බවත් ජනාධිපතිවරයා කීය. පසුව පොලොන්නරුවේ කනත්තට ගෙන ගොස් වෙඩි තබා මරා දැමීමට ඔන්න මෙන්න තිබියදී ඉෂ්ඨ දේවතාවන් විසින් තමන් බේරාගත්තේ යයිද ජනාධිපතිවරයා සදහන් කලේය. කොළඹදී පැවති උත්සව […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS When I was talking to many Sri Lankan people who are living in overseas and in Sri Lanka, they clearly expressed that the country is in a dogmatic situation, that unable to identify the priorities. Politic in Sri Lanka has given priorities for talking rubbish points of Machiavellian practices of political parties […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
By Charles S.Perera The Maha Sangha Rathnaya of the three Nikaya, the Majority of the Sinhala Buddhists and according to Bishop Rev. Malcolm Ranjith the Catholics of Sri Lanka do not want a new Constitution. Then who is it who wants a Constitution for Sri Lanka ? Of all things that have to be done […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
C.Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Introduction [six lawyers= AG/DSG+2 AC judges +Magistrate+ Senior St. Co.+ private attorney monk= Ven. Galabodaatte Gnanasaara] Inspire public trust and confidence” Nobody disputes the motto of the Supreme Court (SC) and the Court of Appeal (CA) copied above, which is applicable universally to any court of law in the world. The question, […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Ref. ‘Saving Sri Lanka!’/The Island/January 17, 2019 by Fr J.C. Pieris. It is a response to certain critical comments that I made in The Island of January 9 on a previous article published in the same paper on January 2 by T.M. Premawardana (translated by Fr Pieris). The […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
Sinharaja Protect Community Dear Friends Demonstration for Sinharaja in London. . we will stand for a peaceful demonstration on 24 th January 2019 at Old Palace yard at British Parliament square from 11.00 to 1.30 pm to make aware of ongoing destruction in the Sinharaja forest. The objectives of the demonstration, 1- Stop the construction of abusive roads […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA Boat Builder It is almost a year since National Export Strategy ( NES) was formulated by the incumbent government Boat Buiding and Nautical Tourism was one of the main items in the agenda in order to reach 4 billion $ target in foreign earnings by 2022. Ministry of Industries and Ministry of Development Strategies and […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම මරණ තුනක් මැද පැණි කන තත්ත්වයට වැටී සිටින එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය මුහුණපා සිටින අර්බුද හමුවේ ඉදිරියේදී පැවැත්වෙන ඕනෑම මැතිවරණයකදී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ අතිවිශිෂ්ට ජයග්රහණයක් ලැබීම කිසිවකුටත් වැළැක්විය නොහැකි බව රත්නපුර දිස්ත්රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රිනි පවිත්රා වන්නිආරච්චි පැවසුවාය. පවිත්රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය එසේ කියාසිටියේ, ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ මිනුවන්ගොඩ ආසන […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල (IMF) විසින් ලබා දීමට නියමිතව තිබූ ණය පසුගිය කාලයේ රටේ ඇති වූ දේශපාලන අස්ථාවරත්වය නිසා තාවකාලිකව අත්හිටුවා ඇති බවත් ඒ නිසා මේ වසරේ රජය විසින් ගෙවිය යුතු ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 5,900ක ණය ගෙවීම ගැටලුවක් වී ඇති බවත් පසුගිය සතියේ පැවැති ආර්ථික විශේෂඥයන්ගේ සමුළුවකදී මහ බැංකු අධිපති ආචාර්ය ඉන්ද්රජිත් කුමාරස්වාමි […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island January 22, 2019, 9:20 pm Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana, PC, recently urged Sri Lanka Foreign Service (SLFS) to enhance the country’s image overseas through efficient and effective execution of public diplomacy, utilizing its intrinsic brands such as Buddhism, gems, tea, spices, high-end export products and the warmth of traditional Sri […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Financial Crimes investigations Division (FCID) has informed the courts that they are currently investigating into an alleged financial fraud when purchasing Central Bank bonds in 2016. The investigations are being led regarding an alleged Rs 80 million financial fraud when purchasing Central Bank bonds using funds from Employees’ Provident Fund in 2016.
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
Lanka Lead News ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කාබනික කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය විනාශ කරමින් දිවයින පුරා වසංගතයක් බවට පත්ව ඇති ‘සේනා දළඹුවා’ ශී්ර ලංකාවට පැමිණ ඇත්තේ ඉකුත් 2018 වසරේ මෙරටට ගෙන්වූ බඩඉරිඟු බීජත් සමඟ යැයි කෘෂිකර්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තු අභ්යන්තර ආරංචි මාර්ග උපුටා දක්වමින් මුද්රිත සහ විද්යුත් මාධ්ය වාර්තා කර තිබේ. බහු ජාතික සමාගම් තුනක් හරහා මෙරටට බඩඉරිඟු බීජ ගෙන්වනු ලබන අතර […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka Inc (SPUR) MEDIA RELEASE – January 2019 The Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR) joins other nationalist organisations in strongly rejecting the constitutional changes proposed in the report recently tabled at the Constitutional Assembly by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe. Under […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
Kanthar Balanathan Psychological Profiling of Muslims Just in a few words, would like to draw attention to the psychological profiling of Muslims and its impact on other people. Muslims are religious fanatics and have a belief that Allah is the greatest of all and time, however, they have their own grave differences, e.g. Sunnies, Shiites […]
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Monday, January 21st, 2019
Kosovo was cut up from a balkanised Yugoslavia & given independence in 2008. Kosovo’s status is governed by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 which envisages self-government for Kosovo, but acknowledges the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.” Kosovo’s status was ONLY INDEPENDENCE. This meets the new ‘indivisible, undivided’ mantra that the […]
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Monday, January 21st, 2019
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 20 January 2019 Hon. Tilak Marapana Minister of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sir Baron Jayathilaka Mawatha Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Dear Honourable Minister: I was intrigued to read the news item Marapana instructs Lankan diplomats to boost image of […]
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Monday, January 21st, 2019
lanka C news අද කාලයේ භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා හමුවට ගිය විට කියන්නේ බොන්න එපා, සිගරට් බොන්න එපා පුළුවන් තරම් දාන දෙන්න ආදී වශයෙන් බව හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනි චන්ද්රිකා කුමාරතුංග මහත්මිය පවසයි. එනිසා තමන් බණට වැඩිය යන්නෙත් නැතැයිද ඇය කියා සිටියේ උක්සව සභාවක් අමතමිනි. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මන්ත්රීවරුන්ගේ හැසිරීම ගැනද ඇය එහිදී දැඩි විවේචන එල්ල කලාය.
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Monday, January 21st, 2019
ප්රවීණ මාධ්යවේදී උපාලි සමරසිංහ විසින් රචිත ‘‘මහ රජ ගැමුණු ජයමග ඔස්සේ’’ කෘතිය පසුගිය 10 වන දින කොළඹ 07 නිදහස් මාවතේ ජාතික පුස්තකාල හා ප්රලේඛන සේවා මණ්ඩලයේ දී ජන ගත කෙරිණ. මැටරඹ හේමරතන නාහිමිපාණන් මෙම උත්සවයේ මුලසුන හෙබවූ අතර පුරාවිද්යා චක්රවර්තී එල්ලාවල මේධානන්ද හිමි සහ මහාචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව, ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය අත්තනායක එම්. හේරත් යන මහත්වරු දෙසුම් […]
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Monday, January 21st, 2019
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Initially all the above three parties were talking very much about what they called the injustices that had been done to the Tamil people in the North and East and added that a new constitution will be introduced to devolve land, Police, administrative, fiscal and other powers to the provinces […]
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Monday, January 21st, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Mullaitivu, January 21 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday announced a toll free telephone number 1984” which people can call to lodge complaints about the drug menace in their area. The President made this announcement at an event held at the Vidyananda Maha Vidyalaya, Mulliyawalai, Mullaitivu, to inaugurate the National Drug […]
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Sunday, January 20th, 2019
සාකච්ඡා කළේ: රුවන් ජයවර්ධන ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති යනු පසුගිය කාලය මුළුල්ලේ ම අපේ රටේ ජාතික මතවාදය නියෝජනය කරමින් තමන්ගේ අදහස් නවතම ආකාරයකින් ඉදිරිපත් කළ අයෙකි. ඔහුගේ අදහස් බොහෝ ලෙසින් ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් හට ලියා දැක්වූයේ දිවයින” පුවත්පත ඔස්සේ ය. එම අදහස්වලින් යම් ප්රමාණයක් ගොනුකර ඔහු විසින් ලියාපළ කර ඇති කාවන්තිස්ස වැඩපිළිවෙළ” ග්රන්ථය ජනගතකිරීමේ අවස්ථාවක් මෙම අඟහරුවාදා […]
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Sunday, January 20th, 2019
SENA MAHAWATTE Colombo 5 Courtesy The Island President Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR) made it possible for all Sri Lankans to live in safety and peace by totally defeating a ruthless terrorist organization by our valiant security forces a decade ago, in spite of these mighty powers who warned that these ruthless terrorists cannot be defeated, but banned […]
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Sunday, January 20th, 2019
By Vishwamithra Courtesy The Daily News People’s perception matters and it’s not only critical, it’s indispensable If you’re not branding yourself, you can be sure others do it for you.”~Unknown The United National Party (UNP) had a problem with its branding since its earliest days. Being directly and closely identified with the Colombo-based elite usually clad […]
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