Archive for October 13th, 2019
Sunday, October 13th, 2019
H. L. D. Mahindapala In the past the voters had repeatedly delivered one consistent message to the UNP: Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Party leader, is not fit to rule the nation. Last Friday in Elpitiya they repeated that message for the umpteenth time. It is a vote of no confidence in Ranil, the permanent loser. Once […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
by Rohana R. Wasala The following article of mine was published in The Island newspaper and in Lankaweb respectively on January 14 and 15, 2015. I thought the present circumstances warrant a reprint of the same. If you see any unimportant inconsistencies here in relation to the current ground reality in the political landscape, please remember that […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The first salvo of the Gotabhayavictory was fired by thepeopleofElpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha by capturing[A1] power in all the 17 wards and the rival UNP was able to get only 7 of the 12 seats from the preference list while ‘also ran JVP got 2 seats. In three wards UNP became […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS ECONOMY (1) GRAPHITE MINING. Sri Lanka is the only country in the world that produces super grade, lump and chippy dust graphite containing between 95 and 99 percent pure carbon. Global demand for graphite has risen sharply in recent years because of new industrial uses. For instance, graphite is a vital component in […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
By Garvin Karunaratne Many authorities in Sri Lanka are waiting with open arms to grab the MCC Grant of $ 480 million. They do not care that some 28% of the country will be sold off to the USA for two hundred years.. Two hundred years is well over the period that Sri Lanka was […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් මුහුදු මහා විහාරයට වන්දනාවේ යෑම මෑතක සිට ඉතා ජනප්රිය වී ඇත.පාණදුරේ විජය සෞගත පිරිවෙනේ ශිෂ්ය ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේ ලා 95 දෙනෙකු සහ ගිහි සිසුන් 15 දෙනෙකු ඇතුලු පිරිසක් පසුගියදා නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ අධ්යාපන චාරිකාවකට සාභාගි වූ අතර මුහුදු මහා විහාරය දැක බලාගෙන වන්දනාමාන කිරීමද ඔවුන් ගේ ප්රධාන අරමුණක් විය.එම ස්ථානයට ඔවුන් පැමිණෙන විට අවට […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada News reports (e.g., Island 12-Oct-2019) tell us how the Malaysian anti-terrorist unit is handling nascent Neo-LTTE groups when it arrested seven operatives including two members of parliament (Law makers). Malaysian news reports the arrests of seven LTTE operatives in Malaysia. Two Malaysian Tamil lawmakers are among the seven arrested. Bukit Aman […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
ALI SUKHANVER Our association with the Nursery Rhymes keeps our natural innocence alive even when we are old and mature enough to narrate these rhymes to our grand-children. I still remember a beautifully innocent poem, our class-teacher used to sing us about fifty years back; Twinkle twinkle little star-How I wonder what you are-Up above […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න අලුතින් ජනාධිපති කෙනෙකු පත් කරගැනීමට (තමන්ගේ සිහින ජනාධිපති ) නොයෙක් මඩගැසීම් සමාජ මාධ්යව මේ දිනවල ප්රසිද්ධ විගෙන අපි එය හොඳ හෝ නරක යැයි කියමි. නමුත් අනෙකාට අපහස කිරීමේන් මෙරෙන අකුසල් සිත් තුලින් එම අපහාස කරන්නා වෙතම පැමිණිය හැකි කර්ම වේගයන් තිබේ. ඒ ගැන හොදින් බුදුදහම අධ්යන කිරීම් තුලින් වුවද […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
ශ්රී ලංකා විද්යා සන්නිවේදකයින්ගේ සංගමය ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ විවිධ මාධ්යන් ඔස්සේ විද්යා සන්නිවේදනයෙහි නියැලෙන සන්නිවේදකයින්ගේ එකමුතුවක් ලෙස බිහිවුන ශ්රී ලංකා විද්යා සන්නිවේදකයින්ගේ සංගමයෙහි පළමු වාර්ශික මහා සැසිවාරය ඔක්තොබර් මස 10 වන දා ශ්රී ලංකා විද්යාභිවර්ධන සංගම් ශාලාවේදී පැවැත්විණි. මීට වසරකට පමණ පෙර මූලික අඩිතාලම දමමින් ආරම්භවුනු මෙම සංගමයේ මූලික පරමාර්ථය වන්නේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විද්යා ජනමාද්ය හා […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
Sri Lanka Association of Science Communicators The Sri Lanka Association of Science Communicators (SLASC) is an organization that represents journalists, academics, researchers, students and citizens who are engaged in science communication in various ways in the country. SLASC held its inaugural annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday, 10th October 2019 at the auditorium of the […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය අහෝසිකරගෙන ජනාධිපතිවරණය කැදවා ගැනීමේ රහස ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යාංශයේ අයිතියද?…! 2019 ජනවාරි 05වන දින පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයක් පැවැත්වීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් 2018 නොවැම්බර් 09 දිනැති අංක 2096/70 දරන අතිවිශේෂ ගැසට් නිවේදනය මගින් නියම කර තිබූ බවත් එයට අභියෝග කර මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් නඩු පැවරීමෙන් පසු එම නඩු විභාග කළ ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරු 7දෙනෙකුගේ විනිශ්චය පීඨයක් […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government is in a move to issue a ten year US 500 billion (600 billion yen) Samurai Bond package to repay foreign loans under the provisions of the Responsible Management Liability Act passed in 2003. Mizuho Securities Company Ltd., SMBC Nikko Securities Inc., and Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The length of the name list of the 35 candidates, at the upcoming presidential election is two feet and two inches. One may argue that this is a testament of the democracy that now prevails in the country. This is only true if all these contenders have come forward […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
By Anuradha Herath Courtesy Ceylon Today JVP politburo member and Chairman of the party’s National Trade Union Center K.D. Lal Kantha said the JVP is capable of ruling the country with just 10 ministries.Excerpts from the Interview: This Presidential Election is decisive. What impact will it have on the JVP? A: The people are yearning […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC) has pledged their support to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) in the upcoming presidential election. The decision has been made at a meeting of the CWC leaders’ this morning (13). Accordingly, the CWC, led by Arumugam Thondaman will be supporting SLPP Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa at Presidential […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana A practical plan has been presented to move the country forward, states Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He mentioned this addressing a public meeting held in the Deraniyagala area. Rajapaksa further said that he has come forward as a person who has actually done something. He added that he […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s former defense secretary and a front-runner in next month’s presidential election, said Sunday that he would empower the state’s intelligence sector with necessary legal cover to help secure the country in the aftermath of the deadly Easter Sunday bomb blasts. Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared in his first election rally last […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
Courtesy BERNAMA LANGKAWI, Oct 13 — The detentions of 12 individuals including two State Assemblymen to help in investigations over links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist group were done in accordance with provisions under the existing law, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The prime minister said the police action were also […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
Courtesy BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 — Police today disclosed that financial transactions involving huge sum of money have been carried out, believed to activate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) group in the country. Bukit Aman’s Special Branch Counter Terrorism Division (E8) principal assistant director Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said the financial […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
Courtesy The Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysian counter-terrorism chief Datuk Ayob Khan said people should not confuse sympathy for the plight of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka with supporting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terror group. He said this on Sunday (Oct 13) as Malaysian police came under […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
Adam Abu Bakar Courtesy FMT News Bukit Aman’s anti-terrorism chief Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay says the arrests of those allegedly linked to LTTE are based on ‘solid evidence’. KUALA LUMPUR: Police today confirmed they arrested five more individuals last night for promoting” the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), bringing the total number of those […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
ඩලස්අලහප්පෙරුම මාධ්යප්රකාශක ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ මැතිවරණ ප්රචාරණඅංශය ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂක ගෝටාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මාධ්ය ප්රකාශක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ඩලස් අලහප්පෙරුම මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද මාධ්ය නිවේදනයක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. ඇතැම් පුද්ගලයන් විසින් ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ ජාතික අපේක්ෂකයා පිළිබ`ද සිදුකරනු ලබන ප්රකාශ පාදකකොට ගනිමින් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ අදීන පෞරුෂය සහ දේශජ ප්රතිපත්තීන් පිළිබ`ද වැරදි අර්ථකථන ලබා […]
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Sunday, October 13th, 2019
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