Archive for January, 2020
Friday, January 31st, 2020
(A Paper Published by the Sri Lanka Geo-Political Study Circle) You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility”. Byron Dorgan. Given hereunder is just one of the many instances, in the draft MCC Agreement, which poses a major threat to the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka. In Annex 1, found on page 34 of […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Curriculum and Teaching reforms would be the most considerable area in the education reforms process of Sri Lanka and the quality of education will be dependent on the success of the curriculum and teaching process. This is the secrecy that the success of education in Western countries. Parents of Sri Lanka wish […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS UNESCO defined curriculum is an organized education plan and curriculum in education in Sri Lanka has not become an education plan that leads kids to achieve future success and the national curriculum documents have not organized as an education plan. The weakness in curriculum in schools in Sri Lanka is that educational […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
Ira de Silva Canada The Editor,Human Rights WatchNew York,N.Y.U.S.A. At the outset it is important to state that the so-called “war” in Sri Lanka was one that was waged by the terrorist group known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which had the dubious distinction of being classed as the most violent terrorist […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane Sinhala is the ethnic group native to Sri Lanka, forming the mainstream or the dominant indigenous community of the island for more than 2500 years. In fact, Sri Lanka is the only national sovereign motherland of the Sinhala people. Their culture, way of life and their Sinhala language originated and developed in […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The evil trio Sambandan/Sumanthiran/Wigneswaran who fervently desist the people’s victory in the presidential election and look at everything cynically and matters to defame and and discredit the government and thereby project Sri Lanka as a nation of discrimination, suppression and a despotic country have taken up National Anthem as their […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
W. Pathirana. I am referring to the above titled article in Daily Mirror, p A9 of 6/1/2020 (kksperera1@gmail.com) and the article titled ‘Tamils Want to Sing National Anthem in Their Mother Tongue” on Daily Mirror, p A9 of 11/1/2020 (dbsjeyaraj@yahoo.com). Material presented here without inhibitions is essentially directed at pathologically broad minded Sinhalese whose ideas […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera First, let me thank all of you for the tremendous support you have given me during the last few years to establish the National Security Think Tank of Sri Lanka, (INSSSL) under the Ministry of Defence. From the first email I sent to all of you from INSSSL in August 2016, it was […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
සිතුම් රාජකරුනා ඒ ඒ විෂයන්හි වියත්, ස්වචින්තනයකින් යුත් ගුණවත් විෂය භාර ඇමතිලා සපිරි ගින්දර ආණ්ඩුවක දේශ-පාලනය නොකර, දේශ-මෙහෙකාරකමේ යෙදෙන මහා සද්ධතිස්සලා නැවත රජ කරන පින්බර දවස කවදා උදා වේවිද? එතෙර නාකි ඇලඩින්ලාගේ ශුද්ධ වූ බුමුතුරුණු කඳුලින් දෝවනය කරන අපේම තැලුණු පිච්ච මව්වරු යළි මෙහි වඩම්මවා ඒ අයට එකලාව සමෘද්ධ වීමට සමෘධිය නොව, අත, හිත වගේම […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana Sri Lanka is well prepared to address any possible coronavirus outbreak, says World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative to Sri Lanka Dr Razia Pendse. She stated this speaking exclusively to ‘@HydePark’ on Ada Derana. Dr Pendse stated that WHO works closely with Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health, the Disaster Preparedness Unit and the […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana The Ambassador of China in Colombo Cheng Xueyuan called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa last evening (Jan. 30) at Temple Trees. Mr. Xueyuan has assured the safety of Sri Lankan students studying in Wuhan Province, China, following the novel coronavirus outbreak. The Ambassador has stated that the Government of China is taking […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana An individual, who is allegedly a member of the staff of United National Party (UNP)MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara, has been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over a case of printing counterfeit notes. Media reports stated that the suspect was arrested last night (30) at the Monaragala party office of MP […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් මාවනැල්ලේදී බුදු පිළිමවලට හානි කිරීමේ සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමර්ශනය කිරීම සඳහා අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව එම ප්රදේශයට පැමිණියද, නිල වශයෙන් එම විමර්ශන භාර ගැනීමක් සිදුනොකර එහි හිටපු අධ්යක්ෂ ශානි අබේසේකර එම ස්ථානයෙන් පිටව ගොස් ඇති බව අද අනාවරණ වුණා. ඒ, පාස්කු ඉරිදා ත්රස්ත ප්රහාරය පිළිබඳව විමර්ශනය කෙරෙන විශේෂ ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේදීයි. එම කොමිසම […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් මංගල සමරවීර මන්ත්රීවරයා මුදල් අමාත්යවරයාව සිටි කාලය තුළ සිදුකර තිබෙන වංචා දුෂණ සම්බන්ධත්යන් තමන් සතුව සාක්ෂි පවතින බව නව සිංහල රාවය සංවිධානයේ මහලේකම් පූජ්ය මාගල්කන්දේ සුදත්ත හිමියන් පවසනවා. පූජ්ය තිනියාවල පාලිත හිමියන් කළ ප්රකාශයක් උපුටා දක්වමින් සුදත්ත හිමියන් මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ ප්රකාශයක් ලබාදීම සඳහා අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අද පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේ […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් කොරෝනා වෛරසය ආසාධිත රෝගීන් සුව කිරීමට හැකි බටහිර හා දේශීය වෛද්ය ක්රම පිළිබඳව ක්ෂේත්රයේ ප්රවීණයන් කැඳවා තොරතුරු ලබාගන්නැයි ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ සෞඛ්ය බලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් ලබාදී තිබෙනවා. සෞඛ්ය, විදේශ සබඳතා, සංචාරක සහ උසස් අධ්යාපන අමාත්යවරුන් සහ නිලධාරීන් සමග අද පස්වරුවේ පැවති විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවකදීයි ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙම උපදෙස් ලබාදී ඇත්තේ. කොරෝනා වෛරසය ශරීරගත වූ […]
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Friday, January 31st, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් මුන්දලම ප්රදේශයේ ව්යාජ රියදුරු බලපත්ර සාදන ජාවාරම්කරුවකු පිළිබඳ හිරු සී.අයි.ඒ. ඊයේ අනාවරණ කළා. අප කළ එම අනාවරණයෙන් අනතුරුව එම සැකකරු පොලිසිය විසින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන තිබෙනවා. අදාළ ජාවාරම්කරු කූට ලෙස පවුල් පසුබිම් වාර්තා සකසා කාන්තාවන් විදෙස් ගත කිරීමේ ක්රියාවලියක ද නිරත වන බව එහිදී අනාවරණය වුණා. පුත්තලම – මුන්දලම බරණංකට්ටුව ප්රදේශයේ පදිංචි […]
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
A government with a will to defend the nation combined with the heroic efforts of Sri Lanka’s national army reunited every inch of land under one national flag on 19 May 2009. The LTTE held a shrinking area of 100 metrex 100 metres which was finally taken with the announcement of the killing of Prabakaran […]
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
By– Public Opinion Committee [POC] The most vital issue regarding the MCC: Should Sri Lanka privatise state lands under foreign laws?. Over the past 4 decades successive Government policy makers have moved towards introducing land policies and land laws promoted in western countries. They keep ignoring our own institutions, laws and practices, totally eroding them […]
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමය. ගරු රාජ්ය පරිපාලන හා ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්ය, ජනක බණ්ඩාර තෙන්නකෝන් මැතිතුමා, රාජ්ය පරිපාලන අමාත්යාංශය, නිදහස් චතුරස්රය, කොළඹ 07. ගරු ඇමතිතුමනි, අභ්යාසලාභී උපාධිධාරීන් ස්ථිර කිරීමේ දී උපාධිය ලබාගත් දින සිට 2017.09.08 දින දක්වා පෞද්ගලික/රාජ්ය/අර්ධ රාජ්ය අංශවල රැකියාවක් නොකළ බවට දිවුරුම් ප්රකාශ ලබාගැනීමේ කොන්දේසිය ඉවත්කරන මෙන් ඉල්ලමු 2018.08.20 දින සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී තනතුරට බඳවාගැනීමේ […]
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Dr. Mervyn D. De Silva Former Director, Plan Implementation Ministry and Ex SLFP National List MP A few weeks ago a select group of opposition academics sought a frank, analytical, constructively critical, discussion with the author on the prevailing threats to democracy and its tradition, the creaking edifices of our hallowed institutions, and the rapid […]
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
D Sank Sri Lanka Military Band At Russia Spasskaya Tower Military Music Festival 2018 held in Moscow on Red Square. This International Music Festival Held from the 24th August to the 2nd Of September. This year festival participants came from over 40 Countries. The Band was Combination of Army , Navy , Air-Force . And […]
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Courtesy The New Indian Express After his official engagement in Delhi, Rajapaksa will travel to Varanasi, Sarnath, Bodh Gaya and Tirupati, the External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday. NEW DELHI: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will visit India from February 7-11 during which he will hold talks with the top leadership here to strengthen […]
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
By Swati Bhat Courtesy Reuters SDFR, SLFR cut by 50 bps eachSRR left unchanged at 5%Inflation seen below 5% in 2020 (Updates with analyst comment, details) MUMBAI, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s central bank cut both its key interest rates by 50 basis points in an unexpected move on Thursday, citing the need to […]
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Jan. 30 – Sri Lanka has decided not to issue a formal travel advisory against visiting China as yet, however, Sri Lankan citizens have been encouraged to halt all non-essential trips to the Hubei Province, whose capital is Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus, a top government source told Daily Mirror […]
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana Sri Lanka Podujana Eksath Peramuna has come into a decision to change its name to ‘Sri Lanka Podujana Sandhanaya’. The Sri Lanka Podujana Eksath Peramuna –the alliance between the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) – has agreed to change its party constitution in this manner, […]
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana The United National Party’s Working Committee has decided to name Sajith Premadasa as the Leader of the UNP-led alliance and the Prime Ministerial candidate, MP Lakshman Kiriella said. Meanwhile former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been elected to continue as the Leader of the UNP, he said. Accordingly MP Sajith Premadasa will […]
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
චාල්ස් පෙරේරා විසින් ජනාධිපති තේරීමේ චන්දය ඉවරවෙලා දැන් මාස දෙකකුත් වෙනවා . ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ස මහත්මා ලක්ෂ 70කට කිට්ටු චන්ද ගනනාවකින් ජනාධිපති ධුරයට පත්වෙලා ඉතාමත් වගකීමකින් යුතුව යහපාලනය විසින් කඩා බිඳ දැමු පාලනශේත්රය ක්රමක්රමයකින් නගාසිටුවීමටත් ඉන් ජනතාවගේ බිඳී තිබෙන ජීවනරටාව ගොඩනැංවීමටත් මහත් උත්සාහයක් ගනිද්දී සජිත් සහ යහපාලනයේ භූතයින් කියනවා එළවලු ගණන්, ගොවියන්ට සහන දීල නෑ, දුන් […]
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
Dr Sudath Gunasekara 23.1.2020. The Hadabima Authority of Sri Lanka (Haritha Danav Bim Sanvardhana Madyama Adhikariya) was founded by me in 1991 to implement a major national development Project within the three badly neglected Provinces of Central, Uva and Sabaragamuwa, covering the entire three Provinces, as an extension of the former NADSA concept started in […]
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
By Asoka Bandarage Courtesy Asia Times Sri Lanka’s historical narrative has been defined by geopolitical rivalry, external aggression and internal resistance to that aggression. The early historical era experienced successive waves of invasion from South Indian kingdoms. These were followed by European conquest and consecutive rule of the coastal lowlands by the Portuguese (1505-1666), the […]
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