Archive for June 7th, 2019
Friday, June 7th, 2019
By M D P DISSANAYAKE The Parliamentary Select Committee is hunting down the President in an unprecedented manner. If the witnesses are telling the truth, then any ordinary citizen could form an independent opinion. The President systematically dismantled the Security Council. He changed Prime Minister with a most trusted man, Mahinda Rajapakse. But even when […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS The term Non-governmental organization” (NGO) came into existence in 1945 when the United Nations was set up. The UN granted ‘observer status’ to approved ‘International non-state agencies’ (INGOs) and permitted them to attend UN assemblies and meetings. In July 2018, there were 5,081 NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC. These consisted of 134 […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS In Sri Lanka too, the GONGOs, QUANGOs and INGOs are engaged in meddling with political matters. This essay looks briefly at some of these NGOs. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit organization for promoting democracy abroad. It is funded by the US Congress. It is supposed to be a […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
බදියුදීන් විලච්චිකුලමේ තවත් සහරාන්ලා පිරිසක් රදවයි.. lankacnews.com/June 7, 2019 (Unsolicited verbatim translation by Rohana R. Wasala without any commitment to the veracity of its contents.) It has now been revealed that, in the recent past, there were safe houses that provided security for Wahhabist terrorists in the Muslim villages established by the person called Rishad […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
අද :07 දින පැවැති මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාව ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ අද :07 දින පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින් ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ශෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී දිලුම් අමුණුගම මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ප්රසන්න රණවීර මහතා ■ හිටපු බස්නාහිර පළාත් සභා මන්ත්රී සහන් ප්රදීප් මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ශෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දැනට ක්රියාත්මක වෙන පාස්කු […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
සමස්ත ලංකා වෛද්ය නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය. All Ceylon Medical Officers’ Association. Batticaloa campus යන නමින් හඳුන්වනු ලබන පෞද්ගලික උසස් අධ්යාපන ආයතනය නිසා රට තුළ ආන්දෝලනයක් හටගෙන තිබේ. මඩකළපු දිස්ත්රික්කයට අයත් වාලච්චේන පුනානි ප්රදේශයේ මහවැලි බී කලාපයට අයත් අක්කර 35 ක ඉඩමක් අවුරුදු තිහක දීර්ඝකාලීන බදු පදනමට ලබාගත් පෙර ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන නියෝජ්ය ඇමතිවරයකු ව සිටි වර්තමාන නැගෙනහිර […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera වඩු මඩුත් තහනම් කර ගස් කපන යන්ත්ර ආනයනයත් තහනම් කරන බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පැවසීය. ලී මෝල් හිමියන්ට වෙනත් ව්යාපාරවලට සූදානම් වීම සඳහා පස් වසරක කාලයක් ලබා දෙන බව ද හෙතෙම කීවේය. ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේ කොළඹ බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්යන්තර සම්මන්ත්රණ ශාලාවේ ඊයේ (06 වැනිදා* පැවති ජගත් පරිසර දින […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
by Whitney Webb Courtesy mintpressnews.com New evidence suggests that the government of Saudi Arabia not only had foreknowledge of the brutal bombings (and did nothing to stop them) but may have played a more active and direct role in the bloodshed COLOMBO, SRI LANKA — A leaked Saudi diplomatic memo obtained by Lebanese outlet Alahed News claims that […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
දකුණු පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර, කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් රටේ මුස්ලිම් ප්රජාව නොමැතිව විනිවිදභාවයෙන් යුත් පාලන තන්ත්රයක් පවත්වා ගෙන යාම අසීරු කරුණක් බවත්, මේ තත්ත්වය තුළ රටේ ජනතාවට සිය මතය ප්රකාශ කරන්නට මැතිවරණයක් පැවැත්වීමේ පරිසරය රට තුළ නිර්මාණය වී ඇති බවත් දකුණු පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා ප්රකාශ කර සිටී. ආණ්ඩුකාර කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා එසේ අදහස් දැක්වූයේ ගාල්ලේ මාධ්යවේදීන් […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
ABTA The Foreign Office has changed its advice for Sri Lanka and no longer advises against all but essential travel to the country. It is currently low season for Sri Lanka, meaning very few people will have had holidays booked for this time. Travel providers will now review the advice and make decisions as to when they […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
by Dilrukshi Handunnetti Courtesy Mongabay.com Microplastics and overfishing are the leading causes of extensive marine pollution in Sri Lanka, a new survey has found. The survey, the first of its kind carried out in 40 years, showed that the island’s fish stock had dropped drastically by about 80 percent, in part due to high levels of […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
Shehan Chamika Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror The indictments against ten suspects including Central Bank’s former governor Arjuna Mahendran, Perpetual Treasuries Ltd., owner Arjun Aloysius and its CEO Kasun Palisena have been prepared and will be filed in the High Court by the Attorney General in connection with Treasury bond scam. The Attorney General’s Co-ordinating […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 7 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena told an urgently convened cabinet here on Friday, that he does not want intelligence officials to testify before the Parliamentary Select Committee on the April 21 suicide bombings as it would expose vital information to the detriment of the nation. He said that […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
Editorial Courtesy The Island IGP Pujith Jayasundera, currently on compulsory leave, dropped a bombshell, on Thursday, while testifying before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), which is probing the Easter bombings and allied issues. He revealed an abortive attempt by President Maithripala Sirisena to make him the fall guy. He said the President had asked him […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Shehan Joint Opposition (JO) MP Shehan Semasinghe says sufficient attention hadn’t been paid to the now proscribed National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) targeting the Tamil community in Easter attacks. Well over a month after the Easter Sunday carnage the government was yet to give a breakdown of the victims as […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
Courtesy The Island Wijeyadasa President Maithripala Sirisena, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, yesterday, declared that he wouldn’t allow any serving intelligence officer to appear before Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) probing Easter Sunday attacks. The assurance was given to a group of senior policemen at the Presidential Secretariat. A Presidential Secretariat official […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Jihadi ideology needs to be isolated and eliminated, as it is a threat to regional security and global peace, the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Taranjit Singh Sandhu said. Addressing an event held at the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute (BIDTI) in Colombo today (07), the Indian High Commissioner spoke about […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa today requested to reconsider the decision taken to close down the carpentry sheds and sawmills in Sri Lanka. He made these comments while attending a press briefing organized by the Joint Opposition in Colombo today (7). Rajapaksa stated that the decision to close down all carpentry sheds and sawmills […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena says he disapproves bringing in state intelligence officers before the Special Parliamentary Select Committee looking into the Easter attacks and revealing state intelligence information via media. The president stated this during the monthly assembly of the senior officers of the Department of Police held at the Presidential Secretariat today (07). […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
lanka C news නැවත කිසිදු ඇමතිවරයෙක් දිවුරුම් දීම් කිසිවක් සිදු නොවන බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා අද පැවති විශේෂ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල හමුව අවසානයේ සදහන් කර තිබේ. කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල හමුවෙන් පසුව ඇමතිවරුන් සිවු දෙනෙකු දිවුරුම් දීම ගැන එජාපය විසින් සිහිපත් කල අවස්ථාවේදී ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ බව සදහන් කර ඇත. පාස්කු ඉරිදා බෝම්බ ප්රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අධිකරණයේ නඩු 05ක් […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
lanka C news පාස්කු ඉරිදා එල්ල වූ බෝම්බ ප්රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අධිකරණයේ නඩු පහක් පවතිද්දී සහ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස තමන් ද ඉන් තුනක වගඋත්තරකාරැවකු කර තිබියදී ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු තේරීම් කාරක සභාවක් හරහා කරුණු විමසීම, සාක්ෂි කැඳවීම නීති විරෝධී බව නීතිපතිවරයා විසින් දැනුම්දී ඇතැයි ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පවසා ඇත. ඔහු එසේ සඳහන් කර ඇත්තේ අද පස්වරුවේ […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
Dr Sudath Gunasekara (All Muslim Ministers resign (June 4, 2019 06:02 pm Island) 5. 6. 2019. (With copy to HE President) At first sight it appears to be excellent news for those who agitated for the resignation of Badurdeen. It also demonstrates the unity of the Muslims politicians and solidarity with their own people, which […]
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