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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
By Garvin Karunaratne Selling the Motherland crept into our leaders only after the General Election of 1977. In my working life from 1955 to 1973 in Sri Lanka I have kept close association with ,many of our leaders- Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake, , Ministers P.C.Imbulana, Vimala Kannangara, Dr N.M. Perera, P.G.B Kalugalle, T.B. Subasinghe, NH […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
By Rohana R. Wasala The Ministry of Finance published an announcement on the treasury.gov.lk website on November 1, 2019 to the effect that the ‘MCC agreement drafted with the consent of AG will be presented in parliament’. The self-explanatory first paragraph mentions what the Millennium Challenge Corporation means and what projects it is going to […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA We now enter the last week of the election in which frauds, intimidation and other malpractices reign supreme. Before proceeding to comment about the current situation I think it is pertinent to remind the voters how Maithripala Sirisena, finding that United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has all the chances to […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
by Asoka Bandarage Courtesy CovertAction Magazine The Indian Ocean is one of the most contested regions in the world today. China, the United States, India, and also Japan, Saudi Arabia and other rich and powerful states are struggling for influence over Sri Lanka, located in the geographical heart of the Indian Ocean. Sea lanes of the Indian […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් නගර සහ ග්රාම නිර්මාණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව නමින් 1946 වසරේ පනතකින් අනුමත වූ ආයතනයක කාර්ය භාරය වූයේ ලංකාවේ නගර සහ දියුණු වන ගම් සඳහා සැලසුම් සකස් කිරීමයි. මෙම පනත වසර 2000 දී සංශෝධනය වී යටකී ආයතනය ජාතික භෞතික සැලසුම් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව වශයෙන් පුළුල් වුණි. ඉන්පසු ඔවුන් ගේ කාර්ය භාරය අනුව රටටම අවශ්ය භෞතික සැලැස්ම ගැන […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News A person who was distributing mudslinging posters against SLPP Presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapakse in Mirhana was arrested. SLPP members charge that this suspect is a representative of non cabinet Minister Harsha De Silva. A tense situation occurred at the time of the arrest
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
Mahinda Gunasekera Thanks to the report published in the Lankaweb on November 6, 2019, by the Indian investigative journalist Sarojini Dutt, we are now able to see the foolish and dangerous steps taken by the present government to sacrifice our independence and sovereignty to the USA for a mere handful of dollars ($480 million) promised […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ජනාධිපති ධුර අපේක්ෂක ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට අපහාස වන අයුරින් සැකසූ අත්පත්රිකාවක් බෙදාහරිමින් සිටි පුද්ගලයින් දෙදෙනෙකු එම අත්පත්රිකා සමග මිරිහාන ප්රදේශයේදී අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන තිබෙනවා. එම ප්රදේශය නියෝජනය කරන ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ප්රාදේශීය දේශපාලනඥයින් චෝදනා කළේ අදාළ සැකකරු එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ කැබිනට් නොවන අමාත්ය හර්ෂ ද සිල්වා මහතාගේ […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
ALI SUKHANVER Looking back to the history, during the 1947 partition of India, the region where the holy Dera Baba Nanak Sahib and Gurdwara Baba Guru Nanak situated was divided between India and Pakistan. The Radcliffe Line awarded the Shakargarh tehsil on the right bank of the Ravi River, including Kartarpur, to Pakistan, and the […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
[අමාදම් ගඟුල] විය යුතු දේ සිදු වෙමින් පවතී! [1] ඓතිහාසික වශයෙන් තහවුරු වී ඇති මේ රට සිංහලයාගේ එකම මාතෘ භූමිය බැවින් සිංහලයාටද අන්ය ජාතීන් සමග එකමුතුව වෙන් නොවී වාසය කිරිමට කටයුතු කල මැනව. [2] එසේම මේ සිංහල රටේ ජාතියක් හෝ ආගමක් හෝ දේශපාලන මතවාදයක් හෝ භූමිය හෝ මුල් කොට ගෙන කිසිදු ආකාරයක ත්රස්තවාදී තත්වයක් ඇතිවිමට ඉඩ […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
Rohan Abeygunawardena Nugegoda Courtesy: Sunday Times (November 10, 2019) Senaka Weeraratna the Sri Lankan Lawyer who came out with the suggestion to introduce a Decision Review System (DRS) to minimise umpiring errors in the middle, as far back as 1997, has been fighting for due recognition for his contribution to the game, for over 20 […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
By ; A.A.M.NIZAM- MATARA The veteran journalist H.L.D.Mahindapala, who was the Chief Editor of ‘Observer’ and now resides in Australia has said that watching the video of the launch of the UNP manifesto, one of the factors that surprised him most was the performance of Sajith Premadasa. He says that he had never seen him […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe yesterday claimed that Sri Lanka would not benefit from the Millennium Challenge Cooperation (MCC) pact and that not even a cent would be received by the Treasury. He told a news conference that the US$480 million would be received by the particular US company which would […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
BY GAMINI SENEVIRATNE Courtesy The Island The Island editorial today (7th November, 2019) points out that “there should be sufficient time for independent legal experts and other knowledgeable persons to go through such agreements with a fine tooth comb and challenge them in court if necessary.” What is being touted here is a serial violation of […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
Courtesy The Hindistan Times Convicted killer Jude Jayamaha, from a wealthy, high-profile family, walked out of Welikada prison Saturday following the highly unusual amnesty granted by President Maithripala Sirisena. Sri Lanka’s president has pardoned a death-row prisoner who murdered a Swedish teenager just a week before he leaves office, officials said Sunday, in a move […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
Courtesy Straitstimes COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s president has pardoned a death-row prisoner who murdered a Swedish teenager just a week before he leaves office, officials said on Sunday (Nov 10), in a move that sparked national outrage. Convicted killer Jude Jayamaha, from a wealthy, high-profile family, walked out of Welikada prison last Saturday following […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
Courtesy RT In his final week in office, Sri Lanka’s outgoing president has pardoned a death row killer who murdered a Swedish teenager in 2005. The girl’s skull was smashed into 64 pieces during the horrific attack. Yvonne Jonsson, who had dual Sri Lankan and Swedish nationality, was killed in the stairwell of the Colombo apartment […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Lo! The main contenders with gusto swing into full stride With today begins the election week. Unless another Zaharan-style attack befalls us between now and the 16 November, our entire focus would be dominated on the upcoming Presidential Election. The key question we as a nation would be trying […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today The Presidential election campaign that was focused on promises on subsidies, salary hikes, free fertiliser, cost of living and similar issues during the last four weeks has suddenly deviated this week to the issue of the proposed system of Government. The current focus is whether Sri Lanka would continue […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
By Rohana Aryaratna Courtesy Ceylon Today Why is number 13 considered unlucky? Some believe number 13 is unlucky and it could bring bad luck. Some people avoid inviting 13 guests for a dinner or a party or any other gathering, as 13 is often associated with the term ‘unlucky.’ Many buildings don’t have a 13th […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් තමා පැමිණියේ පවතින වැරදි දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතිය වෙනස් කිරීමට බව ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂක ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ප්රකාශ කළා. ඒ, කලාවැව ප්රදේශයේ අද පැවති ජන හමුවකට එක්වෙමින්.
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් තිස් වසරක් පුරා මෙරට පැවති යුදමය වාතාවරණය සහ පාස්කු ඉරිදා එල්ලවූ ත්රස්ත ප්රහාරය පිළිබඳව අද වනවිට ජනතාවට අමතක වී ඇති බව පූජ්ය කිරිබත්ගොඩ ඥානානන්ද හිමියන් පවසනවා. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ කඩුවෙල අද පැවති උත්වයකට එක්වෙමින් පූජ්ය කිරිබත්ගොඩ ඥානානන්ද හිමියන් විසින් රචිත මහාවංශයේ තුන්වන කොටසග්රන්ථය එළිදැක්වීමේ උත්සවය අද පැවැත්වුණේ ශ්රී ලංකා […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුව රැක ගැනීමට කටයුතු කිරීම හැර උතුරේ ජීවත් වන ජනතාවගේ ගැටලු විසඳීමට කිසිදා උනන්දු නොවූ බව විපක්ෂ නායක මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසනවා. අද පෙරවරුවේ මුලිතිව් නගරයේ පැවති ජන හමුවක් අමතමින් විපක්ෂ නායකවරයා මේ බව සදහන් කළා. ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ජනාධිපති ධුර අපේක්ෂක ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් වයිබර් සහ වට්ස්ඇප් සමාජ මාධ්ය ඔස්සේ 14 සහ 15 යන දෙදින විපක්ෂයේ ජනපති අපේක්ෂකයාට එරෙහිව මඩ ප්රචාර ගෙන යෑම සඳහා ආණ්ඩුව විශාල මුදලක් යොදවා ඇති බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා චෝදනා කරනවා. කොළඹ අද පැවති ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදී ඔහු පැවසුවේ ආණ්ඩුව ගෙන යන මඩ ප්රචාර සම්බන්ධව තමන් කළ හෙළිදරව් මේ වනවිට […]
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් මෙවර ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී රට, ජාතිය ගැන සිතා ඡන්දය භාවිත කළ යුතු බව පූජ්ය ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හිමියන් පවසනවා. < උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ කළුතර ප්රදේශයේ පැවති යුතුකම සංවිධානයේ සම්මන්ත්රණයකට එක්වෙමින්.
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News His Lawyer, President’s Counsel Ali Sabri said that the Presidential Candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has renounced his American Citizenship legally and that reports being published further that he is yet an American Citizen are totally untrue. He said at a special media briefing held in Colombo today […]
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