Archive for February 23rd, 2020
Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
By Garvin Karunaratne, PhD. Michigan State University Ideas of possible development, poverty alleviation for the people in Hambantota reign supreme in my mind as I watch the parade of our President and Prime Minister opening the Hambantota Section of our Southern Highway. I recall a Paper I have published earlier which deserves immediate action. It […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Mahinda Gunasekera Agincourt, Ontario Canada M1W 3L9 February 23, 2020 His Excellency, Gotabhaya Rajapakse President of Sri LankaCopy to: Hon. Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapakse Your Excellency, Fundamental Rights of Sri Lankan Citizens I am in receipt of the video sent herewith wherein an unnamed person is discussing the lack of rights for Sinhala people […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Shirley Pulle Tissera, President, Sri Lanka Situwarunge Sangamaya Courtesy The Sunday Times Front row the Ven Soma Maha Thera and Ven Kheminda Thera before ordination and (inset) the Ven Soma Maha Thera Soma Maha Thera was born on December 23, 1898 in Kotahena, Colombo. His father was Emmanuel Marian Pererapulle and his mother Theresa Rodrigo […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Dilrook Kannangara At long last Team Sri Lanka managed to win a short version of cricket in a stunning display of aggression amidst glorious uncertainties of cricket. Excellent start by the openers was quickly lost down the batting order until Wanindu Hasaranga steadied the ship. He joins the team as a bowler but his batting […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න මාධ්ය සම්බන්ධීකාරක වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නෝ සංවිධානය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වන ඝණත්වය ඉහල දැමීම සැමගේ පැතුම සැමගේ බලාපොරොත්තුව වන නමුත් දිනෙන් දිනම වටිනා වනාන්තර පද්ධති විනාශ වෙමින් පවතී. මෙරට සිදුවන වනාන්තර විනාශයන් බොහොමයකට හේතුව වන්නේ මිනිසා විසින්ම සිදුකරන විනාශකාරී ක්රියාවන්ය. මෙරට වනාන්තරයන්ට බරපතල හානි සිදුවන ප්රධානම අවස්ථාවක් වන්නේ වන ගිනි හෙවත් කැලෑ ගිනි ඇතිවීමය. සෑම […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
ASANGA ABEYAGOONASEKERA Governments should adopt certain processes and values to certify the critical infrastructure projects of the Chinese. While globalisation was seen as a path to bring prosperity in the Western Hemisphere, UK who was championing the idea of the globalisation has officially exit from the European Union and disappointed its closest ally US, on […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane About 9 million or an estimated 40% of the population of Sri Lanka consume alcohol and 99% of them are males. Those consuming alcohol daily amount to more than 4 million. The alcohol market includes pure alcohol such as hard liquor mainly arrack and beer and illicit liquor or kasippu. Illicit alcohol […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Defence Secretary Maj.Gen.Kamal Gunaratne said that the forces are not keeping a tab on these families. Colombo, February 23 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan Defence Ministry has vehemently” denied accusations by the Human Rights Watch (HRW), that families of persons who had disappeared and those of activists supporting them are under the microscope of […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The six-man task force, headed by Maj.Gen.Jagath Alwis, Chief of National Intelligence, will report on a weekly basis Colombo, February 23: The Sri Lankan Defence Ministry has established a Task Force (TF) to monitor the progress to speed up the on-going investigation by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) into last year’s Easter Sunday […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Courtesy The Hindu President Gotabaya Rajapaksa decided to hasten the probe into the April 21 attack which had proved crucial in his decisive electoral victory last November The Sri Lankan government on Sunday appointed a six-member team to help police collect authentic information and expedite an ongoing presidential probe into the devastating Easter Sunday terror attack […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, in a statement, in Sinhala read out at churches, on Sunday, Feb 23, called for a thorough investigation to find out why the political leadership and the security authorities had failed to act in spite of having specific intelligence on the Easter Sunday […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Having highlighted both local and external challenges faced by post-war Sri Lanka, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Kelaniya Prof. Raj Kumar Somadeva, on Saturday (22), warned there could not be a state without a country. Underscoring the importance of exploring ways and means of providing homegrown solutions […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Ada Derana The Matara-Hambantota section of the Southern Expressway was vested with the public a short while ago. The newly constructed extension was ceremoniously declared open by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. With the opening of this new section, the total length of the Southern Expressway becomes 222 kilometers and the longest […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Minority parties, as well as civil organizations, have come together to form a broad coalition to collectively deal with anti-democratic actions being carried out against minority parties, states the Leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) MP Rauff Hakeem. The MP made this statement addressing the 29th National Representatives Conference of SLMC. […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the government will start again the mega-development projects abandoned by the previous government. He made these remarks addressing the public rally held near the Barawakumbuka interchange at the opening of the Matara-Hambantota extension added to the Southern Expressway today (23). The Premier said that the national security will […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ සහ දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය සමඟ එක්ව ඉදිරියේදී සන්ධාගත වී මහමැතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වීමට මේ වන විටත් සාකච්ඡා ආරම්භ කර ඇති බව ශ්රී ලංකා මුස්ලිම් කොංග්රසයේ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රවුෆ් හකීම් ප්රකාශ කළා. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ එම පක්ෂයේ 29 වන ජාතික සමුළුවට මහනුවර දී අද එක්වෙමින්. ඉදිරි මහමැතිවරණයට […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් යුද හමුදාපති ලූතිනන් ජෙනරාල් ශවේන්ද්ර සිල්වාට ඇමරිකාව පැනවූ සංචාරක තහනමට හේතුවුයේ පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුව ජිනිවා මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමේදී එකඟ වූ යෝජනාවලිය බව පූජ්ය ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හිමියන් පවසනවා. කොළඹ අද පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් උන්වහන්සේ ප්රකාශ කළේ යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ විදේශ අමාත්යවරයා ජිනිවා මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමට මෙම යෝජනාවලිය ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලැබුවේ එවකට සිටි ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්රහාරයේ ප්රධාන විත්තිකරුවා හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා බව එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මුජිබර් රහුමාන් මහතා පවසනවා. කොළඹ අද පැවති ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු සඳහන් කළේ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පොදුජන සන්ධානයේ සභාපතීත්වය ලබාගත්තේද එම චෝදනාවෙන් ගැළවීම සඳහා බවයි. මේ අතර, එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ පවතින අර්බුදය සම්බන්ධයෙන්ද […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් වත්මන් දේශපාලන තත්ත්වය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ දේශපාලනඥයින් අද විවිධ අදහස් පළ කළා.
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් නුගේගොඩ අනුලා විද්යාලය ඉදිරිපිට පැවති විරෝධතාවයට එම විද්යාලයේ ආදි ශිෂ්යා සංගමයේ කිසිඳු සම්බන්ධයක් නැතැයි එම සංගමයේ සාමාජිකාවන් අද ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වමින් සඳහන් කළා. කෙසේ වෙතත් අදාළ ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාව පැවැත්වූ සාමාජිකාවන් තිදෙනාගෙන් දෙදෙනෙක්ම පාසල ඉදිරිපිට පැවති විරෝධතාවයේදී දක්නට ලැබුණා. විගණනකාධිපතිවරයාට හෝ එම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට කිසිදු පුද්ගලයෙක් චෝදනා නොකල බව ආදි ශිෂ්යා සංගමයේ ලේකම්වරිය පැවසුව […]
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