Archive for June 12th, 2019
Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Shenali D Waduge This article is based on 2 important articles by Mr. Neville Ladduwahetty and Ms. K S Gunasekera, a senior attorney at law. While Mr. Ladduwahetty highlights the need for Parliament to approve any agreement with Foreign States or Foreign Private Parties with a 2/3 majority while Mrs. Gunasekera highlights the dangers of […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS The British who ruled Sri Lanka from 1815-1948 invented three bogus races for Sri Lanka, when they were ruling in Sri Lanka. The three races were ‘Sinhala’, ‘Ceylon Tamil’ and ‘Ceylon Moor’ . The word Sinhala which indicated a nationality, and which included all the citizens of Sinhaladvipa was now reduced to the […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Dr Sarath obeysekera People were agitated by Ven Ratana who has some revolutionary thinking when he opted fasting unto death He created a impression that rulers cannot Implement rules if law and order in the country. Now you see that he is trying to agitate the public again by gate crashing the Bati Sharia University […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති ජනාධිපතිවරණය මේ අවුරුද්ද ඉවරවෙන්න කලින් පැවැත්වීමේ විශාල ඉඩක් තියෙනවා. ඒත් මේ ජනාධිපතිවරණයට 2020 කියලා කියන්න අපේ සමහර අය පුරුදුවෙලා. ඒ අය එහෙම කරන්නේ මෝස්තරේට වෙන්න ඇති. මේ කියන්න යන්නේ ඒ මෝස්තර ගැන නම් නෙවෙයි. මේ වතාවේ ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වෙනවා කියලා නානාප්රකාර අය ඉස්සරහට එනවා. මෙහෙම කියන අය පස්සෙන් යන පිරිසකුත් ඉන්නවා. ඉතින් […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාව ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ අද (12) පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවට සහභාගි වු මාධ්යවේදින් ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී අනුර ප්රියදර්ශන යාපා මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී නිමල් ලන්සා මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී අනුර ප්රියදර්ශන යාපා මහතා ජනාධිපති අගමැති විතරක් නෙවෙයි දැන් කතානායකවරයාත් අවිඅමෝරාගෙන ඉන්නේ. මේ තුන්පාර්ශ්වයට එකිනෙකාට දොස් පවරා ගන්නවා මිස රටේ පාලන බලය ගැන බලන්නේ නැහැ. රනිල් […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Amila Wijesinghe We are all painfully aware of how much tragedy this island has witnessed. And recent events have sparked a renewed public interest in the area of speech regulation. Sri Lanka already has some forms of hate speech regulation in the penal code and the ICCPR act – and much of the discussion has […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Journeyman Pictures From Genghis to God (2002): Instigated by missionaries and propagated by a Christian TV channel, Christianity is a growing religion in Mongolia where the traditional faith is Buddhism. Subscribe to Journeyman here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c… In the heart of the Mongolian grasslands, a nomadic tribeswoman gives thanks for the preservation of her flock. While she […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
බොදු බල සේනා නිවේදනය …2019 ජුනි 12 ඊයේ 2019 ජුනි මස 11 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තු කමිටුවේදී සාක්ෂි දුන් උලෙමා (ACJU) නායක වන රිස්වි මුෆ්ති විසින් බොදු බල සේනා ගැන බොරු ප්රකාශ කොට පාර්ලිමේන්තු කමිටුව නොමග යැවිමට කටයුතු කරන බව බොදු බල සේනා ප්රකාශ කර සිටින අතර උලෙමා නායකයාගේ මේ අල් -ටකියා පන්නයේ රැවටීම් පිලිබදව කනගාටුව […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island The US expected future Sri Lankan governments to respect the international obligations taken on by the current UNP-led administration, a senior US embassy officer told a group of journalists, yesterday. The Colombo-based senior official who wished to remain anonymous also said that the last three years had seen an […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP)/Joint Opposition (JO) yesterday told a media briefing at the Opposition Leader’s Office that political stability could be restored only by electing a strong leader at the forthcoming 2019 presidential election. Kandy District MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage emphasised that the presidential election would be the […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Courtesy The Daily Mirror All Ceylon Jammiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) head Mufthi Mohammed Rizwi who testified before the select committee looking into the Easter Sunday attacks yesterday said he had warned the defence authorities on the National Thawheed Jama’ath(NTJ) in November 2012. He also said he handed over some photographs to former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India raided seven locations in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore on Wednesday over a suspected link between an Islamic State (IS) module in the city and the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka that killed over 250 people, India Today reported. The NIA said that the officials are […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Minister of Highways Lakshman Kiriella has created new job category and appointed 45 United National Party (UNP) members as public liaison officers and 102 consultants to the Road Development Authority (RDA) in October 2015, it was revealed at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) to investigate corruption of the current […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ සතොස ආයතනයේ කීර්තිනාමයට හානි කළේ තමා ද එසේ නැතහොත් සතොස සිය පාලනය යටතේ තිබියදී එහි ගබඩා තුළින් කුඩු තොග හමුවන තත්වයකට පත් කළ රිෂාඞ් බදියුදීන් හිටපු ඇමතිවරයාදැයි ප්රශ්න කරන ජානිපෙ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා, තමාට පැවරූ නඩුවේදී රිෂාඞ්ගේ සියලු සතොස දූෂණ අක්රමිකතා පෙන්වා දෙන තෙක් එහි වාහන වහාබ්වාදී අන්තවාදීන් භාවිත කළ බව […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is protecting former Industry and Commerce Minister, Rishad Bathiudeen by not revealing information with regard to Sathosa vehicles being used for activities of the extremists, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa alleged today. Addressing a news briefing, he said the CID was deliberately […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
අජන්ත කුමාර අගලකඩ උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප මුස්ලිම් ඇමැතිවරුන්ගේ ඉල්ලා අස්වීමෙන් පුරප්පාඩු වූ අමාත්යාංශ තුනකට වැඩබලන ඇමැතිවරුන් තිදෙනෙකු පත්කිරීම ව්යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි බව අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා වෙත ලිපියක් යවමින් දැනුම් දී ඇතැයි රජයේ ආරංචි මාර්ග සඳහන් කරයි. අගමැතිවරයා එම ලිපිය ජනාධිපතිවරයා වෙත ඊයේ (11) යවා ඇති බවද එම ආරංචි මාර්ග වලින් පැවැසේ. රවුෆ් […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Courtesy Ceylon Today India has provided Sri Lanka phone numbers of five Sri Lankans who were suspected to be linked to Islamic State (IS). The Indian Express reported that India has also shared call logs and details of some phone calls which happened between some Indians and two Sri Lankan families who were linked to […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Northwestern Province doctors of the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) have decided to launch a protest campaign over several points including protesting Dr. Mohamed Shafi of the Kurunegala Hospital who is currently under arrest. The protest will be held before the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital this afternoon (12), stated GMOA Northwestern Province Coordinator Dr. […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The committee set up in the Police Head Quarters to receive complaints against Rishad Bathiudeen and M.L.A.M. Hizbullah and Azath Salley has received 21 complaints by 3 pm this evening (12). Reportedly, 11 of these complaints are against the former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen. On June 4th, a three-member committee comprising of three senior […]
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