Archive for November, 2018
Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Nothing happened during the honeymoon of 100 days and 3 and ½ years and they kept boasting about transparency and criticised unsolicited proposals entertained by previous regime is full of corruption Hambantota .Airport ,Highways and Oluvil were completed and Port Project Commenced during regime under MR If we are to learn from […]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Minister Udaya Gammanpila today wrote to the Editor of the Hansard over an alleged distortion of the Parliamentary Affairs on November 14. The Opposition MPs handed over a No-Confidence Motion to the Speaker on November 14 and Speaker announced that the motion was passed. In a letter to the Editor, the […]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne has been remanded unitl December 05 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court. The top-ranking military officer appeared before court Wednesday after weeks evading arrest for allegedly protecting the chief suspect in the high-profile murder of 11 youths in 2008 and 2009. In a dramatic […]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
Courtesy The Times UK India has set strict weight limits for children’s school bags as part of an initiative to prevent injury and reduce the stress created by the immense pressure to achieve good grades. The rules, which will be applied nationwide after successful trials in several Indian states, will impose a 1.5kg satchel weight […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2018
Guest Speaker : Asoka Weerasinghe, SLUNA – AGM, Saturday, 24 November 2018, at Advent Lutheran Church, 2800 Don Mills Road, Toronto, Ontario Mr. President of SLUNA, Members of the Executive Committee, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, the Daughters and Sons of my Mother Lanka and Friends of my Mother Lanka; This is the topic: ‘Current UNHRC […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2018
Senaka Weeraratna Abstract In the 1520s Machiavelli wrote: “When it is absolutely a question of the safety of one’s country, there must be no consideration of just or unjust, of merciful or cruel, of praiseworthy or disgraceful; instead, setting aside every scruple, one must follow to the utmost any plan that will save her life […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2018
පහන් විජේසේකර උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම මහ බැංකු බැඳුම්කර කොල්ලය ඇතුළුව රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා අගමැති ධුරයේ කටයුතු කළ කාල සීමාව තුළ ආණ්ඩුවේ සිදුවූ වංචා, දූෂණ සහ අක්රමිකතා පිළිබඳ සෙවීමට ජනාධිපති කොමිසමක් පත් කිරීමට කටයුතු කරන බවත්, ඒ හරහා ඔවුන්ගේ තවත් වංචා – දූෂණ සහ අක්රමිකතා රැසක් රටේ ජනතාවට අනාවරණය වනු ඇති බවත්, ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විදෙස් ජනමාධ්යවේදීන් […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2018
By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today I realized when what is termed civil society threw its weight behind Maithripala Sirisena at the end of 2014, that it was divided between those who hated the Rajapaksas and those who wanted good governance. Sadly, the last four years have shown that the former are dominant, and even […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2018
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka’s prevailing situation would have been comical if not for the serious implications. Ranil Wickremesinghe despite being terminated from premiership defiantly occupies the Premier’s official residence – Temple Trees. On 20 November, the Tamil National Alliance as the official Opposition met with a group of 15 diplomats to complain […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2018
Lanka Lead News ජාතික ඉතිරි කිරීමේ බැංකුවේ හිටපු සභාපති ප්රදීප් කාරියවසම් හට කොළඹ ප්රධාන මහේස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණය විසින් අද (26) වසර 05ක අත්හිටවූ සිර දඬුවම් නියම කරනු ලැබුවේය. ඒ නොවටිනා මිළකට සීමාසහිත ද ෆිනෑන්ස් සමාගමේ කොටස් මිලදී ගැනීමෙන් ජාතික ඉතිකිරීමේ බැංකුවට පාඩු සිදුකළ බවට ඔහුට එරෙහිව එල්ලවූ චෝදනාවට වැරදි කරමිනි. කොළඹ ප්රධාන මහේස්ත්රාත් රංග දිසානායක විසින් […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana Chief Justice has appointed a seven-member full judge bench to hear the petitions filed against the dissolution of the parliament. The justices appointed to the bench are, Nalin Perera Buwaneka Aluwihare Sisira de Abrew Priyantha Jayawardena Prasanna Jayawardena Vijith Malalgoda Murdu Fernando Thirteen fundamental rights petitions were filed at the Supreme Court asking […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2018
Convener Anupa Pasquel Given the crisis that has arisen today, it is very clear that the sovereignty of the people should be given the opportunity to elect its representatives in accordance with the principles of democracy. However, it seems that various parties seem to be trying to suppress the sovereignty of the people, even with […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2018
අනුප පැස්කුවල් කැඳවුම්කරු 2018.11.26 වර්තමානයේ උද්ගත වී ඇති අර්බුදය හමුවේ, ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයේ මූලධර්මවලට අනුකූල ව පරමාධිපත්ය බලය හිමි ජනතාවට සිය නියෝජිතයන් තෝරා පත්කර ගැනීමට අවස්ථාවක් ලබා දිය යුතු බව ඉතා පැහැදිලි ය. එහෙත් විවිධ පාර්ශව අධිකරණ ක්රියාමාර්ගවලට පවා යොමුවෙමින් ජනතාව ගේ පරමාධිපත්ය බලය යටපත් කිරීමට උත්සාහ දරන බව පෙනේ. තානාපතිවරුන් කිහිප දෙනකු ද ජනතාවට මහ මැතිවරණයක් […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
By D. Laksiri Mendis,LLB (Cey), MPhil (Cantab) November 25, 2018, 8:39 pm After much consideration, I decided to write this article on the above subject as I have had long years of experience in Constitutional Law, Legislative Drafting and Statutory Interpretation in many parts of the world. At present, I conduct lectures on Legislative Drafting […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
President Sirisena in an emotional address to the nation & pouring out how he weathered 3 1/2 years until it came to a breaking point, President Sirisena addressed the Nation on 28 October 2018 & explained the reasons that prompted the removal of Ranil Wickremasinghe as Prime Minister. What is this new practice adopted by […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. The 20 odd nations of white skinned former imperialists, colonialists, slave traders and plunderers of international wealth and resources continue to fleece the countries of the world which consists 193 countries under various pretexts and abhorrent justifications forgetting that they are taken together only a minority in the world compared […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 25 (newsin.asia): A Presidential Commission is to be appointed to probe charges of corruption and fraud against ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said here on Sunday. Speaking to the Foreign Correspondents Association of Sri Lanka, the President said that there are at this point of […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Keerthi Godayaya රනිල්වික්රමසිංහ මහතා ලහි ලහියේරට කාගෙන කාගෙන ගියේ හරි හදිස්සියෙන්වාගේ ය. මේ තකහනියේ, ලහි ලහියේ, හදිස්සියෙන් වගේ, නිනව්වක් නැතුවකාගෙන කාගෙන යාමට හේතුව කුමක්දැයිසලකා බැලිය යුතු කරුණකි. බටහිරබලවතුන් මෙන්ම රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාදැන සිටි විශේෂතම කරුණවන්නේ රනිල්ගේ දේශපාලනබලය තමා සන්තකව පවත්වාගත හැකි කාලය දිනවල සිට පැය ගණන්වලට කෙටි වෙමින් තිබූබවය. වික්රමසිංහ මහතාටසුළු කාලයක් තුල ලොකු කාරනාගොඩක් […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
By M D P DISSANAYAKE Since the end of the War, the number Tamils returned to their original land India had dropped drastically. At the same time, the number of Tamils arriving in Sri Lanka and taking up residency from India, Australia, UK, Noway, Canada etc. had increased since Tamils Engineered Sinhala former Prime Minister […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
රනිල් බෝධි පූජා තියන්න කියලා. ඔහු රවටන්නෙ හදන්නෙ කාව ද? දෙවියන් ද? ජනතාව ද? නැත්නම් ජනතාව හා දෙවියන් ද? රනිල්ට ඇති සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියක් නැහැ. ඔහු මෙතෝදිස්ත සුමන්තිරන් එක්ක එකතුවෙලා ජයම්පති ලව්ව ව්යවස්ථා හදවල රනිල්ලාගේ අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ලව්ව විස්ස පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරල කරන්න හැදුවෙ සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතිය නංවාලීම නො වෙයි. රනිල් සිංහල බෞද්ධ විරෝධියකු […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
lanka C news ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා සහ හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඝාතනය කිරීමේ කුමන්ත්රණයට හිටපු ඇමැති රංජිත් මද්දුමබණ්ඩාර මහතා ද සම්බන්ධ බව දූෂණ විරෝධී බලකායේ කියාසිටි. එම සංවිධානයේ අධ්යක්ෂ නාමල් කුමාර මහතා මාධ්ය හමුවක් අමතමින් මේ බව කියා සිටියේ එය තහවුරු කළ හැකි හඬ පට කිහිපයක් ද මාධ්ය වෙත මුදා හරිමිනි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror On 15, the Speaker’s declaration was not consistent with the proposed motion It is practically impossible to summon parliament during prorogation the Speaker did not see or hear the seconding of Sumanthiran MP’s motion ere the No-Confidence Motions (NCMs) passed in Parliament? Was the Government of the Prime Minister dissolved on […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
K.K.S Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Betrayed his voters, who demoted him to 4th place in preference for ‘Pabha’ in Gampaha Dist MR and SLPP will attack previous government including Maithri in their campaign What will the executive do if the highest Court would declare that his action is unconstitutional? Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, who was parachuted, didn’t make […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana Former Minister Harin Fernando states that the country should be rebuilt under the leadership of Sajith Premadasa as Premadasa is the wish of the whole country. He mentioned this today (25) addressing a electoral board meeting in Badulla Postal complex. Stating that he respects UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, Fernando said that they should […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday (25) vowed to never to reappoint Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister again, reports foreign media. Mr Wickremesinghe’s party has a majority in parliament and Mr Sirisena’s bid to replace him with the country’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse has already failed. But Mr Sirisena choked back tears in a […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
By Garry Leech November 23, 2018 “Information Clearing House“ – For those who have been following Venezuela closely in recent years there is a distinct sense of déjà vu regarding US foreign policy towards that South American nation. This is because Washington’s strategy of regime change in Venezuela is almost identical to the approach it […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා 2018 නොවැම්බර් 25 වෙනි ඉරිදා අග්රාමාත්ය කාර්යාලයේ සිට කරන ලද දේශනයේ පිටපත මාධ්ය නිවේදනය අතිපූජ්ය මහා සංඝයා වහන්ස, සියලු ආගම්වල පූජකතුමනි, ශ්රී ලංකාවාසී සියලු ජනතාවනි, හිතවතුනි, මම පසුගිය 15 වෙනිදා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කරපු කතාවේ සියලුම දේශපාලන පක්ෂවලට යෝජනා කළා, ජනතා පරමාධිපත්යට ඉඩ දීලා මහ මැතිවරණයකට යමුයි කියලා. ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ එකඟ […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
The text of a speech delivered by the Hon. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday the 25th of Novermber 2018. MEDIA RELEASE Most venerable members of the Maha Sangha, Clergymen of all religions, People of Sri Lanka, and friends, In my speech in Parliament on the 15th of November, I […]
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Saturday, November 24th, 2018
After 443 years of western occupation Sri Lanka gained dominion status in 1948 & became a fully independent republic only in 1972. Sri Lanka has been forging diplomatic relations as per western standards & norms though from pre-colonial days our association with some countries extend centuries back & some of these we cannot forget or […]
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Saturday, November 24th, 2018
Keerthi Godayaya ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අද පවත්නා දේශපාලන අර්බුදය පිළිබඳව රටේ ජනමාධ්යය තුල සිදුවන සාකච්චා හා දේශපාලන සංවාද වලදී වැඩි අවදානයක් යොමු නොවූ කරුණක් පිළිබඳව පාඨක අවධානය යොමු කිරීම මෙම ලිපියේ අරමුනයි. සියලුම ප්රකාශිත හා අප්රකාශිත හේතුනට අමතරව අද පවත්නා දේශපාලන අරගලයේ ප්රධානතම, එහෙත් විව්ර්තව ප්රකාශ වී නොමැති හේතුවක් වන්නේ එය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිංහල කතා කරන […]
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