Archive for May, 2018
Wednesday, May 30th, 2018
A Message from Middle East “I will not go into exile to any foreign country. I was born here in Libya, and I will die here”. “This country was a desert, and I turned it into a forest, where everything can grow. No one loves this land more, more than its citizens”. “If Europe or America tells you […]
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA, Attorney-at-Law Dear Mr. President: The newspapers report that the JVP has filed the 20A with the Speaker. Independently of this, there are reports that the Constitutional Steering Committee has requested its ‘experts’ to prepare a Final Report and Constitutional Proposal.[1] The Steering Committee filed its Interim Report in September 2017, and at least […]
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
KAMALIKA PIERIS The War Crimes” charge made against the government of Sri Lanka needed proof. It was necessary to show that war crimes had actually happened. The UN therefore sponsored two panels of inquiry, which, in turn, produced two reports, the Darusman Report, and the OISL report. These were used to support the resolutions at […]
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
Jay Deshabandu We are now getting more information on the central bank bond issue scam. Politicians are now saying they were paid by Arjun Aloysius, ex-central bank governor of Sri-Lanaka. This is most likely how Arjun Aloysius became the governor of the central bank, possibly favored by all politicians, who accepted money for their political […]
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
by Kalinga Seneviratne Buddhists across Asia are going to temples, bathing the baby Buddha, giving food to monks, lighting lamps and offering incense sticks accompanied by chanting paying homage to the Buddha on Vesak day, May 29 this year. While keeping with these traditions is important, Asia’s Buddhists are letting go a great opportunity to […]
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
Ramanie de Zoysa Dear editor, Today is Wesak full moon day; it is Wesak for the United Nations and it is Wesak for the other few Buddhist countries – namely Thailand, Myanmar and Laos- but not for Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Buddhists have been conned into removing Wesak from the full moon day of May- […]
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
lanka C news මීලග ජනාධිපතිවරණය 2019 ජනවාරි 9 වෙනිදායින් පසුව වර්තමාන ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ අභිමතය පරිදි ඕනෑම අවස්ථාවක පැවත්විමට ශ්රීලංකා ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව අනුව ප්රතිපාදන ඇත. එසේ නොවුවද 2019 නොවැම්බරයෙන් පසුව මැතිවරණ කොමිසම විසින් අනිවාර්යෙන්ම ඉදිරි ජනාධිපතිවරණයක් සඳහා අවශ්ය කටයුතු සුදානම් කල යුතු අතර කොමිසම විසින් 2020 ජනවාරි 8 වෙනිදාට පෙර නව ජනාධිපතිවරයා දිව්රුම් දීම සඳහාද අවශ්ය කටයුතු […]
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
PRIYA GUNS Courtesy gal-dem.com Adesh, Adesh?” shouted the first driver in the line-up of five cars beside me. As I walked on the sidewalk, drivers shouted, How much, how much?” It was only my second week in Beirut, and I had been told the slang for maid was Sri Lanki.” I wondered if the accosting had something […]
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Posted in Forum & Letters | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 28th, 2018
You are the majority in our Island. History is witness to your status as majority. History is also witness to how you came forward to defend your soil & protect fellow citizens as the majority should when confronted by invaders from South India and the 3 Christian European countries. History stands witness to the many […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Eelam War was not a local war. It only appeared to be a local war. It was initiated by the west and funded by the west. The LTTE and the Tamil separatist movement were mere tools in this operation. Sri Lanka is now beginning to realize this. How else was the LTTE […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
Kanthar Balanathan Democracy is defined as a set of principles and practices that protect human freedom. It is defined as the codification and management of freedom. It is also said as to rest upon basic, entrenched principles, not uniform practices. It is also known that Democratic societies are committed to the values of tolerance, cooperation, […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The major dream of Sri Lankans since the political independence from Western colonial rules is to become a developed nation which could deliver the prosperity to citizens of the country. The evidence in the past displayed that the economic policy of monarchical reigns of the country was able to accomplish the expectations […]
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Posted in Economy, EDWARD THEOPHILUS | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 28th, 2018
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS When Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948, the traditional feudalistic thinking pattern or attitudes were not changed by the influences of democratic philosophy. The experience indicated that how white people treated to aborigines in Australia and Canada and South Africa they attempted to treat similar way to Sri Lankans too. During the […]
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Posted in Economy, EDWARD THEOPHILUS | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 28th, 2018
Kamanthi Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror When the Meethotamulla garbage dump collapsed in April last year, President Maithripala Sirisena immediately banned the sale of plastic bags, cups, plates and burning of refuse containing plastic. A similar ban was imposed from January with regard to the use and production of polythene less than 20 microns. The ban was imposed without […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව ජනතාව පීඩාවට පත් කර මුදල් ලබා ගන්නවා
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
ALI SUKHANVER Misguided are those who blame the whole of Indian nation of being an extremist Hindu nation; neither all Indians are extremists nor they all follow the Hindutva philosophy. The best example of moderate India is of Abhay Kumar who is at present a doctoral scholar at Centre for Historical Studies, Jawahar Lal Nehru […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන මේ දිනවල සමාජයේ ප්රධාන කතිකාව වී ඇත්තේ විධායක ජනාධිපති ධූරය අහෝසි කිරීම සම්බන්ධව ඇති කතාවයි. විධායක ජනාධිපති ධූරය අහෝසි කිරීම සමග බද්ධවී ඇති නීතිමය පදනම ජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්යය ඇසුරෙන් සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට මේ ලිපිය මගින් අපේක්ෂා කරනු ලබයි. විධායක ජනාධිපතිධූරය අහෝසි කිරීම යනු ජනතාව විසින් සෘජුවම ජනාධිපතිවරණය මගින් තමන්ගේ රාජ්ය නායකයා කවුද? යන්න […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island The 16 Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MPs who left the government will file a Right To Information (RTI) application next week to obtain the full report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) on the bond scam which contains the names of 118 MPs who had taken money from […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
Dr. Dayan jayatilleka Courtesy The Island There are two reform proposals on the agenda, both of which are likely to be rejected and rightly so. The two proposals are the JVP’s 20th amendment and the government’s draft constitution. There are many reasons that rejection is likely. One is timing. The mass mood is for change, but […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island May 28, 2018, 12:00 pm The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) side-stepped The Island query whether documents that had been destroyed as reported in a section of the British and other media included diplomatic cables originating from the British High Commission in Colombo during eelam war IV. Asked whether the […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
විනීතා එම් ගමගේ උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප විසි වන සංශෝධනය කෙටුම්පත් කර ඇත්තේ වැස්සකටවත් නීති විද්යාලයකට ගොඩ නොවුණු කෙනෙක් විසින් යැයි බිය නැතිව කිව හැකියැයි පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයෙ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා ප්රකාශ කළේය. එකී කෙටුම්පත අඩුපාඩු පිරි එකක් බවත් තමන් හඳුනා ගත් අඩුපාඩු 9ක් තිබු බවත් කී ගම්මන්පිල මහතා එය පොඩි එකාගේ ලියුම වගේ යැයි […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that the 20th amendment to the constitution had been drafted in an immature manner and full of mistakes, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader and MP Udaya Gammanpila challenged Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Kumara for a public debate to point out the shortcomings of the draft. According […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today Though I am no longer a member of the National Human Resources Development Council (NHRDC), I am still working with the Organization of Professional Associations trying to promote reforms that will give us a more efficient public sector. I could not attend the last discussion they had, to fine […]
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 28 (newsin.asia): India is to help build the Most Venerable Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero Village (Elapathagama) in Anuradhapura District with a grant of LKR 300 million or US$ 1.9 million. The project envisages construction of 153 new houses, a multipurpose community building and alms hall, internal water supply system and renovation of […]
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Sunday, May 27th, 2018
Courtesy snopes.com Rsearchers didn’t discover that octopus DNA is “alien,” or that it originated anywhere but on Earth, although a few have suggested the possibilty. In June 2016, a number of web sites reported that, according to recent study, researchers had examined octopus DNA and discovered it was either alien” or from space”: The DNA […]
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Sunday, May 27th, 2018
චාර්ල්ස් ඒස් පෙරේරා විසින්, ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට හා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයට දෙන මහජන චන්ද දේශ විරෝධී චන්දයන්ය. ඊට හේතුව මේ දෙපක්ෂයම රටට ආදරයකින් කටුයුතු නොකරන බැවිනි. මේ දෙගොල්ලම දේශපාලනය කරන්නේ ඒ අයගේ පක්ෂයට රාජ්ය තන්ත්රය පවරාගැනීමේ අදහසිනුයි. ඊනියා ධනවාදී එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය බටහිර ධනවත් රාජ්යයන්ට කත් අදින ඔවුන්ගේ ඕනෑ එපාකම් අනුව කටයුතු කරන අතර, අද […]
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Sunday, May 27th, 2018
වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ පටන් ඇරගෙන මේ වෙද්දි අවුරුදු 53 ක් ගතවෙලා. මේ පක්ෂය පටන්ගන්න වෙලාවේ බලයේ හිටියේ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය. ඒ වෙද්දි, එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය අවුරුදු අටකුත් ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය අවුරුදු අටකුත් අපේ රට පාලනය කරලා තිබුණා. මාක්ස්වාදී අදහස් අනුගමනය කරපු පක්ෂවලින් වැඩි හරියකුත් ඒ වෙද්දි ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය එක්ක අත්වැල් […]
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Sunday, May 27th, 2018
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Simamalakya disaster was a hot subject in the parliament .Minister in charge replied to the query regarding collapsing of the newly built r by a private company and explained that government did not spend any money for it I was trying to find out who gave the permission to build this white […]
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Sunday, May 27th, 2018
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න සභාපති සමනල යෞවන සමාජය නාවලකන්ද, මීගහතැන්න වලල්ලාවිට ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයට අයත් මීගහතැන්න, මද්දෙගම ප්රදේශය හරහා ගලා යන්නා වූ උඩු දොළ” නමින් හඳුන්වන දොළ මාර්ගය, නාවලකන්ද කඳුපන්ති වල ඇති උල්පත් වලින් ආරම්භ වී ගම්වාසීන්ගේ එදිනෙදා ජල අවශ්යතා සපුරාලමින්, අවට පරිසර පද්ධතියට ජීවය දෙමින්, ආවේනික මසුන් ඇතුළුව විශාල ජීව ප්රජාවකට වාසස්ථාන හා ජීවය ලබා […]
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Sunday, May 27th, 2018
රියර් අද්මිරාල් (ආචාර්ය) සරත් වීරසේකර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින “මෙම ප්රතිඵලය ලබා ගැනීමට වෙහෙස නොබලා දායකවූ බුද්ධි අංශයේ නිලධාරීන්ට සහ ත්රස්ත ප්රහාරක වෘත්තිකයනට අපගේ ගෞරවය සහ ස්තුතිය පුදකර සිටිනවා. ඇමෙරිකානු ජනතාව ඔවුන්ගේ ක්රියාවන් හෝ ඔවුන්ගේ නාමයන් නොදන්නා වුවද අද රාත්රියේ ඒ ප්රතිඵලය දුටුවා. මෙම මෙහෙයුම ක්රියාත්මක කළ වීරයන්ගේ වෘත්තීමය දැනුම, දේශප්රේමීත්වය සහ ඇදහිය නොහැකි ධෛර්ය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අප […]
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