Archive for December, 2015
Monday, December 28th, 2015
Dr Hector Perera London I admire many different types of cooking done in many British TV shows. They just don’t cook Asian type food only but so many varieties of dishes from around the world. There are so many types of chefs appear in TV shows to cook food from African, America, Caribbean, Chinese, East […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2015
By Brigadier Hiran N. Halangode [Retd] [Gemunu Watch] Courtesy Island A personal account by the CO 1 GW of events in Batticaloa during the siege in 1990 and the courageous performance of duties by troops under his command, amidst unprecedented odds faced by them is recounted here for posterity. I dedicate this article to all those […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2015
සමන් උපුල් පිනිදිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ යන නායකයන් දෙදෙනාගේ අදහස් හා සිතුම් පැතුම් පරස්පර බවත් ඔවුන් දෙදෙනාටම අවශ්ය වී තිබුණේ තමාව පරාජය කිරීමට බවත් හිටපු ජනාධිපති කුරුණෑගල දිස්ත්රික් එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධාන පාර්ලිsමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවැසීය. පසුගිය 27 වැනිදා අකුරැස්ස ප්රදේශයේ ඇඟලුම් කම්හලක් විවෘත කිරීමේ උත්සවයකදී මේ බව සඳහන් කළ […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2015
BBC එවැනි කණ්ඩායම් එකතු වී ශක්තිමත් විපක්ෂයක් බිහි කිරීම හැම දෙනාගේම වගකීමක් වී ඇති බව හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා කියා සිටියි. ‘මේ යන රටාව අනුව අපට කියන්න බෑ අලුත් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ බිහි නොවේවි කියලා. පක්ෂවලින් මිනිස්සු එලෙව්වොත් ඒ මිනිස්සුන්ට යන්න තැනක් තියෙන්න ඕන. ශක්තිමත් විපක්ෂයක් හැදීමේ වගකීම හැමෝටම තියනවා’ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා අවධාරණය කරයි. ඌරුබොක්ක, හොරගස්මණ්ඩිය […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2015
By Charles.S.Perera Ranil, Chandrika and the West played a confidence trick on Sirisena. Chandrtika knew Sirisena as an easy bait who could be made to dance to her tune. She gave him few lessons on back stabbing and Sirisena fell to the proposed plan like a gullible sucker. Ranil, Chndrika, Rajitha, Mangala knew that Sirisena […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2015
Sarath Wijesinghe- former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel- Consumer Festive season has emerged and the citizen is testing the buying power in purchasing the consumer items for festive season. Consumer is any actual or potential user of any goods or services made available for a consideration by any trader or […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2015
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando On 19 December2015, Professor Lakshman S. Perera’s second daughter, Kanthi Rupasinhge conveyed to me in an email with unfathomable emotions the sad news about the passing away of her father in London on 17th December. She simply wrote: As you had written about him in so much depth and warmth, […]
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Sunday, December 27th, 2015
Courtesy Independent (UK) President Maithripala Sirisena said women running on stage to kiss the singer and throwing their underwear at him was ‘most uncivilised’ Sri Lanka’s president says the organisers of an Enrique Iglesias gig should be whipped, as punishment over the behaviour of some female fans. President Maithripala Sirisena said local women running on stage […]
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Sunday, December 27th, 2015
By Raziye Akkoc Courtesy Telegraph Women throwing their underwear at the Hero singer is “most uncivilised” behaviour, Maithripala Sirisena says The Sri Lankan president has called for the organisers of an Enrique Iglesias concert to be whipped after the “most uncivilised” behaviour from female fans. Maithripala Sirisena said the organisers should be punished after women threw […]
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Sunday, December 27th, 2015
Courtesy Asian Mirror The ‘Joint Opposition’ which supports former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has planned to launch a new political front to contest the upcoming Local Government Elections, political sources said. Accordingly, the ‘Joint Opposition’ has planned to launch a front named “Ape Sri Lanka Peramuna” or Our Sri Lanka Front, to contest the election. Several political […]
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Sunday, December 27th, 2015
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Nava Sama Samaja Party Leader Vickramabahu Karunaratne yesterday raised doubts whether MP Hirunika Premachandra followed the footsteps of her father who he identified as a hoodlum in Kolonnawa, as she attempted to resolve disputes among mobs. He mentioned that late Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra was a reputed hoodlum who settled disputes among […]
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Sunday, December 27th, 2015
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග කක්කුස්සිකාරයෝ හෙවත් අන්ටචබල්ස්ලාද මිනිසුන් ය. ලංකාවේ රෝහල් වල මා දුටු දෙයක් නම් කක්කුස්සිකාරයෝ හෙවත් වැසිකිලි සුද්ධ කරන්නවුන් සහ දොස්තරලා අතර මහා පරතරයක් තිබෙන බවයි. සමහර දොස්තරලා වැසිකිලි සුද්ධ කරන්නවුන් වාට්ටු හරහා ගියද ඔවුන්ව නොදකිති. හෙදියන් සහ ඇටෙන්ඩන්වරුන් නිතරම ඔවුනට බැණ වදිති. ඔවුන්ද හිස් පහත් කරගෙන වැසිකිලි ශුද්ද කොට නිහඞව යති. කළුබෝවිල […]
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Sunday, December 27th, 2015
Nava Thakuria Bipanchika, Anubhawar Shabdajyoti released at press club By Our Correspondent Guwahati: The third annual issue of Bipanchika, published by Karmabir Nabin Chandra Bardoloi Puthibharal Paduoi Samaj, was released at Guwahati Press Club on Sunday. The same meeting also witnessed the release of Anubhawar Shabdajyoti, a collection of Assamese poems penned by Lambit Barua […]
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Sunday, December 27th, 2015
By John Bingham, Religious Affairs Editor Courtesy The Telegraph Jihadists driven by vision of ‘apocalypse’ warns Welby in stark Christmas message Britain’s two most senior clerics have drawn on the darker side of the nativity story in hard-hitting Christmas sermons warning of the possible elimination” of Christianity from the region of its birth. The Archbishop […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
H. L. D. Mahindapala The first shot in the North-South war , a.k.a. Eelam War, rang out on July 27, (Friday), 1975. Its vibrations shook the foundations of the sleepy villages and towns of Jaffna. It was never going to be the same again in Jaffna. The shock waves shook Jaffna not because the shot […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
By M D P DISSANAYAKE MAN WITH A MISSION: The President Mahinda Rajapakse is continuing to command the respect and administration of the Sri Lankans. His Report Card of nine years of performance showed the qualities of a rare politician who placed his love for the country above everything else. He did not blink a […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA A proposed Amendment to the Buddhist Temporalities Act was published in the Government Gazette on 4 December 2015. On 21st December 2015, the Government submitted a motion to Parliament outlining its plan to convert Parliament to a Constituent Assembly to oversee the enactment of a New Constitution. The said motion says that one […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
By Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy The Ceylon Today Pushpavalli Pradeepa in the photograph is missing up to now from April 1996, and her parents are not aware of what fate had become of her to date. She was just 18 years old when a LTTE squad, during their rule and monopoly in Mullaitivu, came and dragged […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විවිධාකාර රහස් ඔත්තු සේවාවන් වර්තමානයට වඩා අසූව දශකයේදී ක්රියාත්මක විය. ඒවා අතර මුල් තැනක් ගත්තේ ඉන්දියානු රෝ ආයතනය, ඇමරිකානු සී.අයි.ඒ, ඊශ්රාලයේ මොසාඩ් ඔත්තු සේවය, බ්රිතාන්යයේ එම්. අයි. 6 යන විදේශ රහස් ඔත්තු සේවාවන්ය. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිටින මෙම විදේශ ඔත්තු සේවාවන්හි නියෝජිතයෝ අනුයුක්තව සිටින්නේ මෙරට සිටින අදාල තානාපති කාර්යාල වල රාජ්ය තාන්ත්රික […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
Chandrasena Pandithage ” මාතෘ භූමියේ ඒකීය භාවය උදෙසා කටයුතු කල, හිටපු ජනාධිපති, ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්, හමුදා ප්රධාණීන් හා රණ විරුවන්ට එරෙහිව සිදුකරන සියලූම කටයුතු වහාම නවතා දමව්! අත් අඩංගුවට ගත් සියලූම හමුදා නිලධාරීන් නිදහස් කරව්! මේ සටන ජනතාව ජයගතයුතුම සටනක් බවට පත්ව ඇත. ලැජ්ජාවට කරුණ වන්නේ හමුදාවභාර අයම හමුදාව විනාශ කිරීමයි සටන් උපක්කරමය වශයෙන් මෙරට 58 […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි මේ රටේ බලය දරණ, කොටි ත්රස්තවාදී රජය, පලවා හැරීමේ සටන, ආරම්භ කරන්නේ, කවුද? කවදාද? කොහොමද? මේ රටේ ඉතිහාසයේ කිසිදා කිසිවෙක් අපේක්ෂා නොකල දෙයක් සිදුව ඇත. ඒ වේලුපිල්ලේ පිරිබාහරන් රටෙන් 1/3ක් නොව මුලු රටම අල්ලා ගෙන පාලනය කරමින් සිටීමයි. ජීවත්වූ පිරිබාහරන්ට වඩා මියගිය ප්රභාකරන් බලවත්ව මුලු රටම පාලනයට නතු කරගෙන සිටින මේ මොහොතේ; […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
Courtesy ColomboTelegraph Public anger on social media has skyrocketed towards President Maithripala Sirisena – Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe led yahapalanaya government as the Head of State’s daughter Chathurika Sirisena isscheduled to be the chief guest at a Ministry of Defense led Civil Security Departmental function to be held on the 28th of December 2015 at […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
Susantha Wijesinghe. A lonesome lissome lass, languish In solemn silence, on the Sea Shore, awaiting for Loved Ones in anguish, refusing to believe, they are no more. Twas 26th dreary doomsday December, TSUNAMI rose high, frothing foaming fury, Its verdict was for WORLD to remember, How mercilessly, it can be Judge and Jury. […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
MISSAKA A What is curious about Malcolm Ranjith’s notice prohibiting Christmas trees inside Churches is the clause that says certain customs are connected to Sinhala & Tamils. Let us remind Malcolm Ranjith that every Sinhalese and every Tamil including his own family are Christian/Catholic because Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus were FORCIBLY CONVERTED by the […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
Sent by: Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, The news item that Rs. 2 million worth books are going waste just because the picture of the former Chairman’s picture has been printed on the front cover begs the question Are we all such fools?” First of all who authorized such printing? If it is against the law then […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2015
N. A. de S.Amaratunga Courtesy Island The government seems to have got into the habit of covering up its sins by saying that the previous government did worse things but nobody protested as they were afraid of the so-called white van. However, when Black Defenders are used for abductions it claims the law is enforced against […]
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Friday, December 25th, 2015
Dr. Hema Goonatilake Unique relief from Kurunagala depicting the seven weeks after the enlightenment of the Buddha” by Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi, Emeritus Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris will be held on Monday 28th December at 5,00 p.m. at the Royal Asiatic Society Auditorium. The talk presents a a […]
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Friday, December 25th, 2015
ඉසුරු ප්රසංග ජවිපෙ තුළ සිටියදී මා ළඟින් ඇසුරු කළ සගයකු වූ චමීර කොස්වත්ත සහෝදරයා රනිල්ට එරෙහිව දරුණු ඝෝෂාවක් නගන දසුනක් රූපවාහිනියේ දුටුවෙමි. ඒ අයවැයට එරෙහිව මහරගම පැවති ජන රැළියකදීය. සියලු වාමාංශිකයන් හා වෘත්තීය සමිති අද තමන්ගේ සාක්කුවේ බව රනිල් සිතා සිටියද ඔහුට වැරදී ඇති බවට චමීර සහෝදරයා ගුගුලේ තමන් ඒ සාක්කුවට නොවැටුණු වාම පක්ෂයක් බව […]
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Friday, December 25th, 2015
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න කෙතරම් ජනප්රිය වුවද මොලේ ගන්නට බැරිය. සමහරුන්ට මොලය තිබෙන විට බලය නැතිය. බලය තිබෙන විට මොලේ නැතය. වෙනස එයයි. එදා ගමේ බණ්ඩයියාගේ එළදෙන අල්ලපු වත්තේ පොල් පැලයක් කෑවද බැන්නේ සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩුවටය. මෙදා යසපාලනය යටතේ මහ දවල් හිරු කිරණ විකසිත වෙද්දී ඩිපෙන්ඩරයෙන් මිනිහෙක් ඉස්සුවද අමුතු බණක් කියන රටක්ය. හැරගිය සැමියා හෝ පෙම්වතා සැනෙකින් හුලවාලි […]
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Friday, December 25th, 2015
No good in open economy as well: Hettiarachchi
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