Archive for December, 2019
Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
1. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon commissioned 3 members (Ban Ki Moon Panel of Experts) selected personally by him to submit a personal report on the ‘final months’ of Sri Lanka’s conflict. This report was not commissioned by the UNGA or UNSC. This report was never tabled at the UNGA, UNSC or even UNHRC. […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Sri Lanka’s conflict was TERRORIST & ETHNIC Sri Lanka’s conflict was TERRORIST not ‘CIVIL’ (GOSL must request all media releases to correct that Sri Lanka did not suffer an ethnic or civil war but a terrorist conflict) Sri Lanka’s military defeated LTTE TERRORISTS not TAMILS. Conflict was NOT BETWEEN Sinhalese & Tamils. Sri Lankan Army […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම Adad Derana හිටපු අමාත්ය රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහතා ඖෂධ මාෆියාවට අවශ්ය පරිදි රටේ සෞඛ්ය ක්ෂේත්රය පාලනය කළ බව රජයේ වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයේ ලේකම් වෛද්ය හරිත අලුත්ගේ මහතා පවසයි. රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහතා සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යවරයාව සිටි අවධියේ දී ඖෂධ මිලදී ගැනීමේ දී සිදුවූ බව පැවසෙන අක්රමිකතා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ප්රකාශයක් ලබාදීම සඳහා අල්ලස් හෝ දූෂණ විමර්ශන කොමිෂන් සභාවට […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Bipolar Affective Disorder (BPAD) is a chronic and disabling psychiatric disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of mania/hypomania and depression (Van Dijk et al., 2013). In BPAD psychosocial functioning and quality of life often remain impaired between mood episodes (Ball et al., 2006; Becerra et al., 2013). Bipolar Disorder presents in 1-4% of […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
By : A.A.M.,NIZAM – MATARA. May the New Year 2020 be peaceful, harmonious, happy and prosperous to all Lankaweb readers throughout the year.! It is a tradition and customary for any decent politician to even after suffering a defeat to thank the voters for supporting him/her in the election and wish them good luck. We […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන සමායෝජක 2020 පෙබරවාරි 21 මව් භාෂා දිනය අභිමානයෙන් සමරමු…!මව් භාෂා දිනය වෙනුවෙන් පවත්වන රචනා සහ නිබන්ධන තරගයට සහාභාගී වී ත්යාග දිනා ගැනීමට අවස්ථාව….. … ජාතික ගීය සිංහලයෙන් ගයන අපිහෙළයන් කියා උඩ පැන පැන නටන අපිසිංහල කමට පෙම් බැදලා ඉන්න අපිඋසාවියෙදි සිංහල අත හරින අපි සිංහලයන්ට නැහැ රටවල් හතර අතේසුද්දට ඉන්න ඇත රටවල් […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
මාධ්ය ඒකකය නාගරික සංවර්ධන, ජල සම්පාදන සහ නිවාස පහසුකම් අමාත්යාංශය පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුව මෙන් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව කිසිවිටක ජනතාව අතරට යාමට බිය නොවන බවත්, එළඹෙන 03 වැනිදා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව රැස්වීමේදී මහ මැතිවරණයක් පැවැත්වීමට යෝජනාවක් ගෙනවිත් තුනෙන් දෙකක සම්මතයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවන්නට කටයුතු කරන ලෙස සියලුම මන්ත්රීවරුන්ගෙන් තමන් ඉල්ලා සිටින බවත්, නිවාස පහසුකම් රාජ්ය අමාත්ය ඉන්දික අනුරුද්ධ මහතා පැවසීය. […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 31, 2019, 7:05 pm Lawmaker Dr. Rajitha Senaratne’s wife, Dr. Sujatha leaving the Colombo Magistrate court after her husband was granted bail, on Monday, Dec 30, pending further investigations. (Right) Swiss Embassy employee accompanying Garnier Banister Francis (face covered) in the wake of she, too, being given bail, […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
by Jolly Somasundram Courtesy The Island December 31, 2019, 7:08 pm “Oh! what a tangle we weave when we first practice to deceive!”- Sir Walter Scott That was the week that was! Built on an abduction, an exfiltration out of the country by air was planned through voluntary rendition. This sophisticated people smuggling effort was […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Switzerland yesterday said that it never intended to tarnish the image of the Sri Lankan Government and regretted that recent developments had led to the questioning of Sri Lanka’s commitment to due process. At no point during this time did Switzerland have the intention of tarnishing the image of the government of Sri Lanka. The […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Opposition should support a progressive budget that would fulfill the pledges made by the ruling party during the presidential election, UNF led alliance’s Presidential Candidate Sajith Premadasa said today. Speaking at a public meeting in Negombo, Mr Premadasa suggested that time and agenda for a budget should be set […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana Former Chairman of the State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) Rumy Mohamed, who was arrested in connection with the white van” press conference, has been remanded until January 06. He was produced before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court earlier today by the police while the court ordered that he be placed in remand custody. Rumy […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana Former Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, who was remanded over the controversial white van” press conference and granted bail yesterday (30), continues to receive medical treatment at the Lanka Hospitals in Narahenpita. Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne delivered the order to release the parliamentarian on bail. Ada Derana reporter said a group […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana In the recent history of the United National Party (UNP), it has never had a politician who is as unperceptive as Sajith Premadasa, says Minister Johnston Fernando. Speaking to media at Kurunegala, he said the UNP will suffer a massive defeat in the upcoming general election regardless of whoever becomes its leader. […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana There will be an issue of repatriation if MP Rajitha Senaratne leaves the country, says Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader MP Udaya Gammanpila. He expressed these views by joining the 360° political program on TV Derana last night (30). Considering how MP Senaratne hid away after the arrest warrant was issued and […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana Steps will be taken to look into and discuss the issue on the controversial Hathe Ape Potha”, a textbook on sexual and reproductive health for school children, stated Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe. Speaking at a press conference held in Colombo, he said that any future action on the matter […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් අකාර්යක්ෂම රාජ්ය සේවයට තම ධුර කාලයේදී තිත තබන බව ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ අවධාරණය කළා. ඒ අද පෙරවරුවේ මගී ප්රවාහන අමාත්යාංශයේ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නිලධාරින් සමග ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින්. රාජ්ය සේවයේ කාර්යක්ෂමතාවය සහතික කිරීමට නම්, අනවශ්ය අනපණත් සහ රෙගුලාසි කඩිනමින් සංශෝධනය විය යුතු බවයි ජනාධිපතිවරයා එහිදී පෙන්වා දී ඇත්තේ. රාජ්ය සේවයේ ඉහළ […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් ඇප හිමිවූ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහතා සම්බන්ධයෙන් විවිධ පාර්ශ්වයන් අදත් මෙලෙස අදහස් පළ කළා.
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් නීතියේ පවතින දුර්වලතා හේතුවෙන් වංචා දූෂණවලට සම්බන්ධ පුද්ගලයින්ට නිසි ලෙස දඬුවම් ලබාදීමට නොහැකි තත්ත්වයක් උදාවී ඇතැයි භික්ෂු සංවිධාන පවසනවා. උන්වහන්සේ මේ අදහස් පළකළේ අද කැඳවා තිබූ ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡා කිහිපයකදී
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News Former Chairman of State Pharmaceutical Corporation Rumi Mohamed has been remanded until January 06 He was arrested for allegedly paying a sum of Rs. two million for the two people who appeared in the white van media conference with MP Rajitha Senaratne .
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stated today that he would bring an end to the inefficient public service during his tenure. He was addressing a group of senior officials of the Passenger Transport Ministry at the Presidential Secretariat this morning. President Rajapaksa has pointed out that certain Acts and Regulations that are blocking the […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2019
Prof. Chandre Dharmawardana A floating solar array system installed recently in France. According to an Islan d news report (http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=216282), His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith says no to coal, and environment-friendly power projects which utilize renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power must be prioritized.The Cardinal is said to have made this remark […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Rehabilitation and resettlement would help to ‘erase’ the Eelam victory. Keerawella observed in 2013 that despite the practical constraints the government was able to send most of the IDPs back to their villages within a period of one and a half years. In 2013 the media reported that 1299 families in Valikaman North […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2019
චන්දුසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි දේශපාලනය ඉතා ගැඹුරු විෂයකි. මෙහි බැරෑරුම්ම කටයුත්ත වනුයේ, රටේ ජනමනස නිසි ලෙස අවබෝධකරගෙන, එය කළමනාකරණය කිරීමයි. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජනාධිපති බවට පත්වී මේ වන විට දින 40ක කාලයක් ගතවී ඇත. එතුමාව බලයට පත් කිරීමට චන්දය දුන් ලක්ෂ 69ක්වූ ජනතාව තුල ඇත්තේ, අපේක්ෂාවන් 69 ලක්ෂයකි. මේ අපේක්ෂාවන් 69 ලක්ෂය අතර ඒ ඒ පුද්ගලයාට […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2019
By, Professor Nishan Wijesinha With the P-TOMS (Post Tsunami Relief Operations), and Prof. G. L. Peiris’s Proposed Constitutional Reforms which was to supersede the 13th Amendment, with an unique network of politicizing within the concept of one Sri Lanka; drew vast attention and the highest applaud and favor by the International community and the expatriates […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2019
ප්රවෘත්ති නිවේදනය -රාජ්ය අමාත්ය තිලංග සුමතිපාල- ශ්රී ලංකා උසස් තාක්ෂණ අධ්යාපන ආයතන සඳහා වාර්ෂිකව බඳවාගන්නා සිසුන් සංඛ්යාව ඉදිරියේදී තිස් දහසක් දක්වා වැඩි කිරීමට පියවර ගන්නා බව රාජ්ය අමාත්ය තිලංග සුමතිපාල මහතා පැවසීය. අමාත්යවරයා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේ අමාත්යාංශය යටතේ ක්රියාත්මක වන ශ්රී ලංකා උසස් තාක්ෂණ අධ්යාපන ආයතනයේ යාපනය උසස් තාක්ෂණ ආයතනයේ නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවකට පසුගියදා එක්වෙමිනි. […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana Acting Inspector General of Police C. D. Wickremaratne has informed the National Police Commission that the arrest of former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka is legal. Secretary of the NPC Nishantha Weerasinghe stated that the Acting IGP orally informed this to the Commission when it convened on December 27. On December 20, a […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana Former Sri Lanka Cricket Captain Tilakaratne Dilshan has decided to contest at the forthcoming general election. Speaking to the media in Kalutara, Dilshan stated that he will enter under Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). He said: Both President and Prime Minister gave me their blessings to contest at the election. I’m preparing […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana The Police have arrested six middlemen near the Werahera branch of the Department of Motor Traffic (RMV) today (30). Reportedly, the suspects had been arrested while accepting bribes. The arrests have been made based on a tip-off received by intelligence personnel.
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