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News Archive for Jun 2020
Sri Lanka’s Millennium Challenge Corporation IMMUNITY Clause 6.8 & George Floyd murder puts lives of Sri Lankans at riskAmerica is in flames. The murder of a black man by 4 US policeman has resulted in mass protests, vandalism, looting across 25 states with the likelihood of the National Guards being called resulting in more deaths. The incident shows that the white-black divide is embedded in the US administration however much they will not admit. The anger of the less than 13% Blacks of America though comprising 42m out of 328million US population, is being heard across the world. Police brutality &system bias are all coming to light. That law enforcement have gotten away and have not been charged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/06/20)
Who are the real victims of ethno-religious extremism and bigotry?
One Shiffer Mohammed (SM) in an article published in a mainstream national paper on May 27, 2020 expressed his apprehensions about what he called ‘another ethno-religious war’ breaking out in Sri Lanka, blaming it on alleged racism, religious extremism and bigotry prevalent against Muslims in Sri Lanka. He may be genuinely concerned about his people’s and others’ right to be free from such threats. But it looks like he has been seriously misled by false propaganda targeting the peaceful, democratic, law abiding majority of the multiethnic multi-religious Sri Lankan people, who are at the receiving... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/06/20)
VEN. ELLAWALA MEDHANANDA Part 4
Medhananda did not hold back his archaeological findings, hoping some day to put it all into one magnificent book. He wanted to communicate his findings to the public as soon as possible. Therefore he wrote up his archaeological findings in newspapers and periodicals as soon as he could. For each exploration he gave directions of how to get there, described the geography and history of the place, and then listed the structures and objects found, such as the remains of Buddha statues, stupa, pilimage, siripatul, and displaced objects such as columns, bricks and of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/06/20)
DID ELECTIONS COMMISSION AND FORMER SPEAKER DISREGARD THE CONSTITUTION AND COURT DETERMINATIONS?
19 AMENDMENT: In regard to the passage of the 19 Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka there are still key questions lingering. The highest Court of the Island in its determinations made it abundantly clear that the proposed changes need to go before a Referendum. But the government of Ranil Wickremasinghe and TNA used back-door tactics to pass it on the floor of the House. The former Speaker Mr Karu Jayasuriya gave his stamp of approval to make it into law. Did speaker ignore the court determinations? From... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/06/20)
කෝවිඩ් 19 වසංගතයේ බලපෑම මත යැයි පවසමින් වසා දැමූ ඇගඵම් කර්මාන්ත ශාලාවල රැකියා සුරක්ෂිත කිරීම සඳහා රජයට පවරා ගන්නා මෙන් ඉල්ලීම
අතින් භාරදීම. 2020 ජුනිි මස 02 වන දින. දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මැතිතුමා නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, රැකී රක‍ෂා හා කම්කරු සබඳතා අමාත්‍ය, නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, රැකී රක‍ෂා හා කම්කරු සබඳතා අමාත්‍යංශය, zzමෙහෙවර පියසZZ, 06 වන මහල, නාරාහේන්පිට, කොළඹ 05. ගරු අමාත්‍යතුමනි, කෝවිඩ් 19 වසංගතයේ බලපෑම මත යැයි පවසමින් වසා දැමූ ඇගඵම් කර්මාන්ත ශාලාවල රැකියා සුරක්ෂිත කිරීම සඳහා රජයට පවරා ගන්නා මෙන් ඉල්ලීම කෝවිඩ් 19 වසංගතයේ බලපෑම හේතුවෙන් තව දුරටත් පවත්වා නොගත හැකි යැයි කර්මාන්තශාලා වසා දමා සේවකයින්ගේ රැකියා අහිමි කිරීම වැලැක්වීම සඳහා ඔබගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පිහිටුවන ලද ත්‍රෛපාර්ශවික කාර්ය සාධක බලකාය විසින් එකගවන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/06/20)
බොහෝ පාර්ශව දේශපාලනයේ කාන්තා නියෝජනය පිලිබඳ මුනිවත රැකීම කණගාටුවට කරුණක් - කැෆේ කියයි
ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය වෙනුවෙන් හඩ නඟන බොහෝ පාර් ශව දේශපාලනයේ කාන්තා නියෝජනය පිලිබඳ මුනිවත රැකීම කණගාටුවට කරුණක් බව කැෆේ සංවිධානය පෙන්වා දෙයි. එම සංවිධානයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂිකා සුරංගි ආරියවංශ මහත්මිය සඳහන් කළේ මෙවර ඡන්ද හිමියන්ගේ දිනය සමරන මේ මොහොත මෙරට දේශපාලනය තුළ කාන්තාවට ඇති අවකාශය පිලිබඳ කථා කිරීම වඩා සුදුසු බවයි. මෙරට ඡන්ද හිමියන්ගෙන් වැඩිම ප්‍රතිශතය කාන්තාවන් වන නමුත් කාන්තා නියෝජනයට ලැබී ඇත්තේ අවම ඉඩ පරාසයක් බවත් ඇය සඳහන් කරයි. ඉකුත් පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයේදී කාන්තා නියෝජනය සඳහා වන සම්මතයන් ගොඩනගා තිබූ බවත් සියලු දේශපාලන පක්ෂ ඊට අනුගතව කටයුතු කළ බවත් පෙන්වා දෙන සුරංගි ආරියවංශ මහත්මිය කියා සිටියේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/06/20)
ඔස්කා වයිඩ් ,ඩෝරියන් ග්‍රේ සහ සමලිංගික දිශානතිය
අයර්ලන්ත කවියෙකු නාට්‍ය රචකයෙකු , හා විශිෂ්ට සම්භාව්‍යවාදියෙකු වූ ඔස්කාර් වයිල්ඩ් 19 වන සියවසේ අගභාගයේදී එංගලන්තයේ සෞන්දර්යාත්මක ව්‍යාපාරයේ ප්‍රකාශකයෙකු විය. ඔහු වික්ටෝරියානු ලන්ඩනයේ වඩාත්ම සාර්ථක නාට්‍ය රචකයාය. ඔහු ජීවත් වූ සමාජයට ඔහුව තේරුම් ගැනීමට නොහැකි වූවද ඔස්කාර් වයිල්ඩ් බැරෑරුම් චින්තකයෙකු විය.ඔස්කාර් වයිල්ඩ් හට ජාත්‍යන්තර සංස්කෘතික බලපෑමක් තිබූ අතර ඔහු දහනව වන ශතවර්ෂයේ අගභාගයේදී බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය අධිරාජ්‍යයේ ගෝලීයකරණයේ නිෂ්පාදනයක් ලෙස සැලකිය හැකිය. පසුගිය ශතවර්‍ෂය තුළ ඔස්කාර් වයිල්ඩ් සුවිසල් පෞරුෂයක් මෙන්ම කලා කෘති නිර්මාපකයෙකු හා විචාරකයෙකු ලෙස විචාරකයන් විසින් හඳුන්වා දෙන ලදි. ඇතැමෙකු ඔස්කා වයිල්ඩ් මනෝරාජිකයෙකු බව කියති. ෆේබියානු සමාජවාදියා වූ ජෝර්ජ් බර්නාඩ් ෂෝ පවා යම් ආකාරයකින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/06/20)
ගේ හඬපට ප‍්‍රසිද්ද කරන්න එපා.. මං කපෝතියි.. ගත්ත කප්පමෙන් කොටසක් රැගෙන හිටපු අලියෙක් සේනාධිපතිට වැද වැටේ…
තමන්ගේ හඩ පට ප්‍රසිද්ධ නොකරන ලෙස එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ හිටපු ප්‍රබල ඇමතිවරයෙක් ඇවන්ගාඩ් සමාගමේ සභාපති නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපති මහතාගේ ඉල්ලා ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි. නිස්සංක සේනාධිපති මහතා මේ දිනවල ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ තමන් සතුව ඇති හඬපට ප්‍රසිද්ධ කිරීම හේතුවෙන් මෙම ඉල්ලීම කර ඇත. මෙම හඬ පට ඉදිරි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයේදී තමන්ට දැඩි සේ අවාසි වනු ඇති බව පවසා ඇති හිටපු එජාප ප්‍රබලයා තවදුරටත් පවසා තමන් විසින් ලබාගන්නා ලද මිලියන තුන්සියයකට අධික මුදලින් කොටසක් ඉදිරි පැය 48ක කාලය තුල ලබාදෙන බවයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/06/20)
Cruelty of COVID: A loving daughter’s lament about her inability to be at father’s funeral.
Quarantined Dr.Nachiar Thondaman pens a touching letter to her dead father, the noted Sri Lankan political leader Arumugan Thondaman Colombo, June 2 (DBSJeyaraj.com): Dr. Nachiar Thondaman working in a middle-eastern country is the eldest daughter of Ceylon Workers; Congress (CWC) Leader and Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister Arumugan Thondaman who passed away on May 26, 2020. She arrived in Colombo days ago but is undergoing quarantine in accordance with anti-COVID health procedures. Unable to participate in her father’s funeral, Dr. Nachiar took to the pen and wrote down her random thoughts as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/06/20)
Four new Covid-19 cases brings total to 1,653
Four new cases of Coronavirus have been identified increasing the total number of confirmed cases reported in the country to 1,653. Meanwhile the number of new cases reported within today (02) has reached 10. This includes a total of 07 navy personnel from Iranamadu, Kalpitiya and Mulankavil quarantine centres. The other three include a close associate of a navy sailor who is also from the Kalpitiya quarantine centre, a returnee from Dubai who is in Giragama quarantine centre and a returnee from Russia who is currently in Pitipana quarantine centre.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/06/20)
Ballot paper printing commences; EC to meet tomorrow
Printing of ballot papers for the General Election 2020 was commenced from today (02), the Government Printer, Gangani Kalpana Liyanage said. Over 17 million ballot papers are due to be printed for the upcoming election. The printing of ballot papers is expected to be completed as soon as possible despite issues of employee attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government Printer said. Meanwhile, the Elections Commission is to hold a special meeting tomorrow (03) to discuss the preliminary matters related to holding the general election. However, Chairman... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/06/20)
Supreme Court dismisses Fundamental Rights petitions challenging election date
The Supreme Court has refused to grant leave to proceed with the Fundamental Rights petitions filed challenging the date set by the Elections Commission for the General Election. The consideration of the petitions which lasted over a period of 10 days came to a conclusion last evening (01) and the court’s decision was set to be announced today (02). https://youtu.be/X-lUqGi96YI Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya stated that the initial objections raised by the respondent party regarding the petitions have been rejected by the majority of the five-member judge bench.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/06/20)
COULD CHINA HELP SRI LANKA TO BE A DEVELOPED NATION? (PART B)
International news of CNN published that China is becoming to replace the USA in international aid, the total Chinese aid from the year 2000 to 2014 was US $ 354 billion of which a quantum of aid has gone to African nations where combinedly received the US $ 32 billion for 704 projects. Many African countries with rich mining resources were under the rule of European countries, which indiscriminately exploited them but never provided such huge economic supports. An assistant professor of Politics at the University of British Columbia University found in research that Chinese... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
COULD CHINA HELP SRI LANKA TO BECOME A DEVELOPED NATION? (PART C)
When the country was in a difficult time after ending the civil war, the Rajapaksa regime was given strong support by China and Russia, if a situation to let down Sri Lanka arose, both countries promised to exercise their power, most probably veto power against the international attempts to condemn Sri Lanka. India was also concerned about the international developments against Sri Lanka which might later direct to India too. However, the election campaign in 2015 was manipulated to a hidden motivation of international forces against China, but the frustrated domestic politicians got caught to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
චම්පික සිදු කල ඝාතනයක්, හිටපු නාවුක හමුදාපති ඝාතන උත්සායක් වීඩියෝ හඬපට සහිතව සේනාධිපති හෙලි කරයි.. [Video]
හිටපු නාවික හමුදාපති රවීන්ද්‍ර විජේගුණවර්ධන මහතා තමන් ඝාතනය කිරීමට සූදානම් වූ බව ඇවන්ගාඩ සමාගමේ සභාපති නිස්සංක සේනාධිපති මහතා චෝදනා කරයි. තමන් ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් නුගේගොඩ පොලිසියට ද පැමිණිලි කර ඇති බව ද ඔහු පැවසීය. ඇවන්ගාඩ් සමාගමෙන් කප්පම් මුදල් තමන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලූ බවත් ඔහු පැවසුවේ ජනාධිපති කොමිසමේ සාක්ෂි දීමෙන් පසු මාධ්‍ය වෙත අදහස් පළ කරමිනි. https://youtu.be/bD1NERXwqWs තමන් ඝාතනය ගෙදර කිරීමට නිවසට එවු ඝාතකයන්ගේ වීඩියෝ පට සහ හඬ පට තමන් සතුව ඇති බවත් ඒවා කොමිසම හමුවට භාරදුන් බවත් ඔහු සඳහන් කළේය. හිටපු අමාත්‍ය චම්පික රණවක... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
රවීන්ද්‍ර විජේගුණවර්ධන සහ රාජිත, තමා ඝාතනය කිරීමට කුමන්ත්‍රණය කළ බවට නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපතිගෙන් චෝදනා (වීඩියෝ)
හිටපු නාවික හමුදාපතිවරයෙකු වන රවීන්ද්‍ර විජේගුණවර්ධන හා හිටපු අමාත්‍ය රාජිත සේනාරත්න යන මහත්වරුන් තමා ඝාතනය කිරීමේ කුමන්ත්‍රණය දියත් කළ බව ඇවන්ට්ගාඩ් සමාගමේ සභාපති නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපති මහතා පවසනවා. ඔහු ඒ බව සඳහන් කළේ දේශපාලන පලිගැනීම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් සොයාබැලීම ස්ථාපනය කළ ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ සාක්ෂි ලබාදෙමින්. />2015.01.15 සිට 2019.11.16 දක්වා සිදුවූ බව කියන දේශපාලන පලිගැනිම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් සෙවීමට පත් කළ ජනාධිපති කොමිෂන් සභාව හමුවේ ඇවන්ට්ගාඩ් සමාගමේ සභාපති නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපති මහතා සාක්ෂි දුන්නේ දෙවන දිනටයි. එහිදී නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපති මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කළේ, හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සිරගත කිරීමට උපකාර කරන්නේ නම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
Sri Lanka confirms 11th COVID-19 death
Sri Lanka has reported the 11th death from the COVID-19 infection, the Ministry of Health confirmed a short while ago. The deceased is said to be a 45-year-old male who had arrived in the country from Kuwait. He had been treated for the virus at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Homagama Hospital where he succumbed to the disease. Meanwhile, the total count of coronavirus cases reported in the country is at 1,633. Currently, 822 active cases are under medical care at selected hospitals across the country,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
Coronavirus: Four more cases move tally to 1,643
Another four individuals have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the Ministry of Health confirmed a short while ago. The latest cases have been found among those who had returned from Bangladesh, according to the Department of Government Information. Ten cases have been identified from the country so far today (01). Among them are 06 foreign returnees, 02 Navy personnel, and 02 close associates of Army personnel. Accordingly, the total count of coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka is now at 1,643 cases with 821 of them still under medical care.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
Foreign returnee adds to COVID-19 case count; total at 1,634
A foreign returnee who has tested positive for the novel coronavirus had moved the COVID-19 case count in Sri Lanka to 1,634. According to the Epidemiology Unit if the Health Ministry, 812 active cases of the coronavirus infection are currently under medical care at selected hospitals across the country. Meanwhile, with 10 patients marking their recoveries today (01), the total tally of recoveries reported in the country has come to stand at 811 cases. Sri Lanka witnessed its 11th death from the coronavirus this morning (01) as a 45-year-old male... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
AG orders arrest of former Welikada OIC over Champika’s accident case
The Attorney General has instructed the Director of the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) to obtain a warrant and arrest the former OIC of the Welikada Police Station. The Attorney General has instructed the CCD to obtain a warrant from a court to arrest the former Welikada OIC on charges of fabricating false evidence in the case filed over the accident involving former minister Patali Champika Ranawaka in Rajagiriya.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
COULD CHINA HELP SRI LANKA TO BECOME A DEVELOPED NATION? (PART A)
The major dream of Sri Lankans since the political independence from Western colonial rules has been to become a developed nation, which could deliver the prosperity to citizens of the country. The evidence in the past indicates that the economic policy of monarchical reigns of the country was able to accomplish the expectations of people to a reasonable extent, as in history, the wants of people were limited to an arm’s length. Sri Lankan society was aligned to a seclusion status, in which the expectations of people were bounded to basic needs. The idea may... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
VEN. RAMBUKWELLE SIDDARTHA
Ven. Rambukwelle Siddhartha has played a significant role in the preservation of indigenous culture in Sri Lanka. But his contribution has not been recognized and not much is known about him. I searched the literature for references to Ven. Siddhartha, and also asked a friend in Kandy, to find out something about Ven. Siddhartha. My friend, who has a distant kinship connection to this family, had gone to Rambukwelle temple, situated in the old Teldeniya area. She was shown the grave of Ven. Siddhartha containing his ashes and giving his years of birth and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
ELECTION COMMISSION AND ITS ROLE – TO HOLD ELECTIONS OR NOT TO HOLD ELECTIONS
As Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse said holding of the elections is the duty of the Elections Commission. Has it discharged its constitutional obligations? For the past four and half years, it failed to conduct several elections at lower level of democratic governance structure. It had various reasons, some of the reasons were due to so called delimitation issues. But previous government and the TNA successfully combined together to somehow influence the EC to succumb to postponing elections. The President dissolved the Parliament on 2nd March, 2020. The 2nd of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
Comparing Sri Lanka’s July83 riots to US 2020riots following murder of George Floyd
Sri Lanka’s 1983 July “riots” cannot omit to mention the killing of 13 Sri Lankan soldiers that presumably precipitated and justified the attack that came to be termed a ‘racial’ ‘ethnic riot’. No one thought to question how killing of 13 soldiers on 23 July by LTTE terrorists and an attack organized by the ruling government could end up getting classified as a racial/ethnic riot. Fast forward to 2020 - riots are taking place across US precipitated as a result of 4 US policemen killing 1 black American. These riots cannot be termed racial/ethnic either. There are many similarities to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/06/20)
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