Archive for July 9th, 2015
Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Dr Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) Former Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike and President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 8.July. 2015. He is the natural Leader ‘par-excellence’ of the SLFP therefore only he can protect it Maitripala Sirisena is not the Leader of the SLFP or even a member as he has already deserted the Party for […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
BY DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Who was it who narrowed the gap between President Sirisena and ex-President Rajapaksa? Whose efforts were strong and effective enough to override the wishes of the external consortium that backed the peaceful ‘regime change’ of January 8th? Was it the SLFP Establishment, i.e. its top bureaucrats and old warhorses? Was it […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Top Spin By Suni- 9th July 2015 If Sri Lanka did not imagine they could lose the match at lunch on day four, as expressed by skipper Angelo Mathews after Pakistan romped to a seven-wicket win in Pallekele, to complete a 2-1 series victory. It was wishful thinking on his part. When he talks about […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Kusal Perera Well, the reports that ex-LTTE” cadres would not be accommodated in TNA nomination lists for the upcoming elections is accepted as correct, with TNA leadership not denying the news carried in most media here in Colombo. This follows reports that some Jaffna based ex-LTTE cadres rehabilitated and released by the Rajapaksa government have […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Nimal Rajakaruna Melbourne ACCEPTING THE INVITATION OF THE MOST REV. THERA,’ THE BUDDHIST CONNECTIONS TO MAHAVAMSA TEXT WILL BE SERIALISED IN NARRATIVE FORM BY NONE OTHER THAN THE MOST ELIGIBLE ACTOR TURNED HISTORIAN JACKSON ANTHONY OVER ‘ THE BUDDHIST CHANNEL’ ON TV EVERY FRIDAY AT 9.00 PM SRI LANKAN TIME BEGINNING ON FRIDAY 10th July 2015. […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
By Wakula Gunapala (Former Head Science and Technological Education, Faculty of Education, University of Colombo), Ilford, Essex, UK. A new weekly tabloid has appeared on the London newsstands from a few weeks back.. Named CHINA DAILY’, It presents to readers in the EU a selection of news, articles and reading matter for discerning readers in […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
By Subhashini Abeysinghe Courtesy FT.lk The renewal of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) of the United States is indeed welcome news for exporters from developing countries, not only Sri Lanka. It is a scheme that provides non-reciprocal, duty free access to certain products imported from designated Beneficiary Developing Countries (BDCs). Some of the articles that […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
– අරවින්ද අතුකෝරල එන මැතිවණයෙන් සන්ධානය තුනෙන් දෙකකට ආසන්න ජයග්රහණයක් අත්පත් කරගන්නා බව බස්නාහිර පළාත් සභා මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා කොලඹ අභයාරාමයේදී පැවති ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්චාවකදී කියා සිටියේය. එහිදී ඒ මහතා මෙසේද අදහස් පල කලේය. පසුගිය සදුදා සිට ආරම්භ වුනේ යහපාලන නාඩගමේ අවසාන ජවනිකාව. මේ ජවනිකාවේ තමයි ජනතාවට පෙන්වන්නේ යහපාළනය නමින් රාජ්ය දේපල මැතිවරණයකදී අවභාවිතා කරන්නේ කොහොමද […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Courtesy The Nation Those who cannot the COPE need to go home, and that is almost axiomatic.Parliament was dissolved before the COPE Report on the Central Bank Governor’s bond dealings had a chance of seeing the light of day. It is patently obvious to the people that the abrupt dissolution of Parliament at this juncture […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Shenali D Waduge When colonial invaders landed in Sinhale with the intent to trade and spread Christianity they had just one obstacle and one enemy – the Sinhalese Buddhists. The nation of Sinhale to which these colonials arrived saw the culture, the heritage, the civilization that existed as a threat to them. That threat continues […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Well wisher The tragedy that seems to have befallen on President Mahinda Rajapaksa reminds me of the “Gladiator” from the film with Russel Crowe. In the film he is the favorite of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus becomes jealous of the Emperor’s love for his General Maximus. Commodus kills his father and […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Janaki Chandraratna – Perth, Western Australia Ethical values of Honesty and Integrity are fundamental to our existence in this complex modern world. In terms of governance these values are essential for politicians who are being elected to positions of trust and power to act on behalf of the voter and safeguard the rights and welfare […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Jamili Natasha Gooneratne Courtesy the University for Peace. Peace & Conflict The paper argues that strong US intervention in Sri Lanka after the end of the island’s armed conflict in 2009 is not based on altruistic efforts to protect human rights as presented in mainstream sources, but stems from deepening US geopolitical and ideological interests in the Indian […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Courtesy dailymirror.lk Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has signed nominations to contest the upcoming general election from the Kurunegala district today, former MP Wimal Weerawansa said. Meanwhile, he said himself, Udaya Gammanpila and Bandula Gunawardena will sign nominations for the Colombo district to contest from the UPFA today. He said Western Provincial Council Chief Minister Prasanna […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Dear All, We have established a new university teachers association in Sri Lanka. National University Teachers Association (NUTA) is the name (Logo is attached herewith). This is not a trade union or welfare association but a gathering of true nationalistic university academics in Sri Lanka. Any Sri Lankan PATRIOTIC-NATIONALISTIC university academic who is in active […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
The Annual Pirith ceremony and the Heel Dana in commemoration of the Foundation Day of the All Ceylon Women’s Buddhist Congress will be held on Saturday 11 July and 12th morning at 400 Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 07, All members and well-wishers are welcome.
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
J.C.Ahangama ගරු හිටපු ඇමතිතුමණි, එ.ජා.ප. ය මහ බැංකුවේ කොල්ල කෑමට දායක වුනා: කිසි කෙනෙක් ණයවල් තිබියදී ඒවායේ පොළිය අඩුකරවාගන්නේ නැතිව ඒවා එකතු කරලා වැඩි පොලියට වෙන ණයක් අරගෙන ඒවා ගෙවා දාන්නේ උන්මත්තකයෙක් නම් පමණයි. මෙහෙම දෙයක් කළේ උතුරේ ඡන්ද ගන්න කළ ගනුදෙනුවක් නිසා කියා පේනවා. බටහිර ඉන්න ත්රස්තවාදයට හවුල් වූවන් කවුරුන්ද කියා අමෙරිකාවේ FBI මධ්යම […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
by a Special Correspondent Sunday Island A large delegation of Bhikkhus and lay persons representing Buddhist organisations have lodged a strong and vehement protest with the Acting Chairman of Lake House, Kumar Abeysinghe, General Manager B. A. Jinadasa and Editors of the newspapers of the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon, at the anti-Buddhistic and anti-national crusade of […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මහාචාර්ය ජයදේව උයන්ගොඩ 1971 කැරළිකරුවන් අතරින් බිහිවූ විශිෂ්ඨතම බුද්ධිමතා යයි කිවහොත් සාවද්ය නොවේ. මට ඔහු හමු උනේ කොළඹ විශ්විද්යාලයේ දේශපාලන විද්යා පීඨයේදීය. සිනහවකින් මා පිළිගත් මහාචාර්ය උයන්ගොඩ තම අතීතය ස්මරණය කළේ මෙසේය. පේරාදෙනිය විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ පළමු වසරේ ඉගෙනුම ලබන කාලයේදී ලොකුඅතුල මාව විජේවීර හමුවීමට ගෙනයනු ලැබුවා. ඒ 1969 දී. විජේවීර අපට හමුඋනේ කතරගම […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා 2015 ජනවාරි 8 වැනි දා ඝාතනය කෙරුණු ශ්රී ල නි ප ජූලි 8 වැනි දා ආදාහනය කෙරිණි. 1959 දී බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතා ඝාතනය කෙරුණ ද ශ්රී ල නි ප ඝාතනය නො කෙරිණි. ඉන්පසුව ද ශ්රී ල නි ප ප්රමුඛ සංධාන බලයට පත්විණි. 1977 දී ජේ ආර් ජයවර්ධන බලයට පත් වී බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිණියගේ ප්රජා […]
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