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News Archive for Oct 2017
Lanka lacked strategy to counter lies propagated by Western powersOctober 31, 2017, 8:34 pm Western powers and India humiliated Sri Lanka at the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) after the successful conclusion of the war in May 2009 before the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe in October 2015 co-sponsored a resolution inimical to the country. Sri Lanka co-sponsored the resolution soon after Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative there Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha strongly opposed the move. Sri Lanka lacked a strategy to counter lies, propagated by Western powers, bent on undermining the war effort. Successive governments, particularly the war-winning Rajapaksa administration, had been overwhelmed by high profile... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/17)
Albert Einstein in Colombo and Negombo: October 1922 and January 1923
October 31, 2017, 8:46 pm There is hardly anyone who hasn’t heard of Einstein - a synonym for extraordinary genius. Einstein popped up in the news recently. Three Americans won the 2017 Nobel Prize, for detecting gravitational waves - the only prediction of his theory which remained unverified. Einstein derived his famous theory of General Relativity as an imaginative idea. Yet, to the amazement of the whole world all his predictions have been precisely verified. You will be astonished to hear this incredibly remarkable man and his wife passed Pettah in rickshaws to see... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/17)
පලාත් සභා පනත සංශෝධනයේදි ආණ්ඩුව මා අපහසුතාවට පත් කලා.. ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය තීන්දුව දෙස බලා ඉන්නවා..- කථානායක
පසුගිය දා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දි සම්මත් කරගත් කාන්තා නියෝජනය 30% තිබිය යුතුය යයි ගැසට් කල කෙටුම්පතට සම්පූර්ණයෙන් ඉවත් කොට අලුත් මැතිවරණ ක්රමයක් ආදේශකරන කෙටුම්පතක් හරහා පලාත් සභා මැතිවරණ කල් දැමීමට ගෙනා යෝජනාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සම්මත කර ගැනිම නිසා ජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්‍යය බලය ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට අනුව උල්ලංඝනය වී ඇතැයි සරත් එන්. සිල්වා හිටපු අගවිනිසුරුවයා ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය හමුවේ මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් පෙත්සමක් ගොනු කොට ඇත. 1988 අංක 2 දරන පලාත් සභා පනත සංශෝධනය කිරීමට අදාළව පසුගිය ජූලි මස 26 වෙනිදා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කල අගෝස්තු 3 වෙනි දින ගැසට් පත්‍රයේ ඇතුලත් කොට පල මූලික කෙටුම්පතට අදාළව සංශෝධනය 2 කට අදාළ සංශෝධනයන් සඳහා පමණි. එහෙත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/17)
Will not sign new Constitution if harmful to nation -Speaker
I was embarrassed at the way amendments were brought to the PC Elections Act We cannot have legislations passed in this manner in the future I am hopeful that there won’t be repetition of it in the future Awaiting to see what the court ruling on the Act is Speaker’s job is a thankless job If there is a unity government, there must be principle agreements on policy matters Currently, there is unfounded fear on the new Constitution Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, speaks out his... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/17)
LTTE and Diaspora are involved in bringing a New Constitution: former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa
Those who are now in the forefront of bringing a New Constitution are those who maintained that terrorism can never be defeated and peace would never dawn in our country. The LTTE and the Diaspora are involved in bringing a New Constitution, said former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa addressing an intellectual forum of the Eliya organization held in Kandy at the OK-J conference hall. He said that the local and international groups which intimidated the former government are the ones who initiated in bringing a New Constitution. The attempt to bring in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/17)
Who is really behind the New Constitution-making process in Sri Lanka?
There is currently a debate about the drafting of a ‘New Constitution’ for the country among the academic community and the general public in Sri Lanka. This started with the appointment of a 19-member Committee headed by Lal Wijenayake called the Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reforms. Its report was released in May 2016. Meanwhile, a Constitutional Assembly was established by a parliamentary resolution on March 9, 2016 and a 21-member Steering Committee chaired by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed thereafter. The Steering Committee had its first sittings on April 5,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/17)
US AIRCRAFT CARRIERS IN SRI LANKA AND WHAT WE LOST
Quote from US embassy It is estimated that the carrier strike group will add approximately 1.54 billion rupees ($10 million USD) to the Sri Lankan economy as the ships purchase supplies and thousands of U.S. sailors come ashore and support local businesses. During the visit, sailors will have opportunities to explore the local community and meet with their counterparts in the Sri Lankan Navy. While in port, sailors will also work with local non-profit organizations to support community service events at a local hospital, an orphanage, and other sites The USS Nimitz is more than 23 stories high... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/17)
13a is implemented but a failure- 36 of the 37 subjects have been devolved!
Some birds like to chirp the same song. 13th amendment has come to be that song. The singers of course are many. They enjoy nagging about the non-implementation of the 13th amendment at every forum be it at UNHRC, UN delegations or even during the chit chats and handshakes when diplomats and foreign envoys arrive in Sri Lanka. The 13th amendment is quite a fashionable topic and just mentioning the word is meant to scare the day lights out of our politicians. The 13th amendment comes with the emphasis on devolution of powers and one wonders... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/17)
Saying it’s not the Constitution but an Interim report, Sirisena –Ranil want it passed with a two third majority in Parliament.
Friends, fellow Patriots, if the Constitution is to be ours, written by a free people, we must first resist this diabolical project! Tamara Kunanayakam. The Sirisena Ranil Yahapalanaya hoodwinks the Parliamentarians and the people to pass the so called interim report placed before Parliament by a two third majority to make it the document on which their New Constitution with a federal character will be written or has already been written, to be presented to the Parliament. Who wants a new Constitution to Sri Lanka ? The people of Sri Lanka do not want a new... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/17)
The Treacherous Conspiracy facing Sri Lanka – Part VIII
The Treacherous Conspiracy of formulating a new constitution to make Sri Lanka a federal and secular state, devolve powers to provinces and establish self rule in North and East did not emerge after this despicable government came into power in 2015. The plot was hatched in 2002 in Oslo. Norway during the Ranil Wickremasinghe government The tiger terrorist website TamilNet reported on 5th December, 2002 that LTTE and GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) reached an exploratory agreement. It said the government of Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/17)
ජනාධිපතිකම බාරගන්න ලෑස්තිදැයි ගෝටාභයගෙන් අසයි..
තමා විශ්වාස කරන රටට හිතකර ප්‍රතිපත්ති ඇති ඕනෑම නායකයෙකු යටතේ වැඩ කිරීම තමුන්ට ප්‍රශ්ණයක් නොවන හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාබය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මෙසේ ඇසුවේ මහනුවරදී පැවති විද්වතුන් හා වෘතිකයින්ගේ සමුලුවක් අමතමිනි. ඔහු එහිදී මෙසේද පැවසීය. ” අද ගෝල්ෆේස්වල ටාජ් හෝටලය හදල තියෙන ඉඩම ඉන්දියානු සමාගමකට දුන්නේ ජේ ආර් ජයවර්ධන ජනාධිපති තුමා, අද වර්ල්ඩ් ට්‍රේඩ් සෙන්ටර් එක හදල තියෙන ඇචිලන් ස්ක්වයාර් ඉඩම සිංගපූරු සමාගමකට දුන්නේ ආර්ප්‍රේමදාස ජනාධිපතිතුමා. ඒ රජයේ ඉඩම් නිකං වගෙ පෞද්ගලික ආයතන වලට දුන්නේ. 99 අවුරුද්දට දුන්නේ කියලා ඒ ඉඩම් කවදාවත් ආපහු ගන්න පුලුවන්ද ? නමුත් එ අසලම තියෙන ඉඩමක් ෂැංග්‍රිල්ලා හෝටලයට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/17)
ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදක මණ්ඩල ව්යවස්ථා විරෝධීයි.. අතුරු වාර්තා නිතී විරෝධීයි.. සියල්ලම බල ශූන්‍යයි.. නීති පොත මෙන්න..- මහා ව්යවස්ථා ප‍්‍රාඥයා පරමාණු බෝම්බය ගසයි..
ශ්රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ අද (30) සිට ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදන මණ්ඩලයක් ලෙස ආරම්භ වී දින 3 සාකච්ඡා කිරිමට සුදානම් කිරිම ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි නිති විරෝධී ක්‍රියාවක් බව මෙරටේ නීති විශාරදයකු වු ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ හිටපු අධිකරණය අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ප්රකාශ කර සිටි. අලුත් ව්යවස්ථාවක් සම්පාදනය කිරිම වෙනුවෙන් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදක මණ්ඩලයක් පත්කිරිමට 1978 ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව අනුව කිසිම බලයක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව වෙත ලබා දි නොමැති බවත් ඒ අනුව පසුගිය සැප්තැම්බර් 21 වෙනිදා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව වෙත අගමැතිවරයා විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කල මෙහෙයුම් කමිටුව විසින් සකස් කල අතුරු වාර්තාව බල ශූන්‍ය ලියවිල්ලක් බව ධර්ම නීති විශාරද, ශාෂන භූෂන, ජනාධිපති නීතීඥවරයා සදහන් කරයි. https://youtu.be/GHYds7NCukg ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/17)
THE JO WILL BETRAY THE SINHALAS AGAIN RE THE NEW CONSTITUTION
‘The softening of our stance concerning certain issues, and the compromise we show in other issues, are diplomatic strategies to ensure that we do not alienate the international community. They are not indications that we have abandoned our fundamental objectives....The current practices of the international community may give us an opportunity to achieve, without the loss of life, the soaring aspirations we were unable to achieve by armed struggle’-R.Sampanthan, 2012 Speech at 14th Annual Convention of ITAK in Batticaloa On 8th March 2016, on the eve of Parliament signing the Framework Resolution setting up the Constitutional... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/17)
ORGANISATION OF PROFESSIONALS, BAR ASSOCIATION, AND PROFESSIONALISM TOWARDS NATION BUILDING
“Professionalism and Historical Aspects” Profession is a vocation on specialized educational training and professionalism is any type of work that needs special training or practical skills after training a high level of education. OPA set up in 1974 is currently the most powerful professional body with 53 professional associations ever growing serving the community with professional up liftmen and development/prosperity in all sectors. Professionalism is deteriorating in Sri Lanka which has spread to all sectors of the community/nation at a rapid rate. Bar Association is a live wire at the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/17)
The Proposed Constitution To Divide The Country Must Be Stopped
The Sri Lankan people are today alarmed by the proposed constitution which they feel will only end up dividing the country. The proposed constitution includes all the elements of a federal system which is unacceptable to all patriotic Sri Lankans. We already have a constitution inclusive of a provincial council system. The present constitution is therefore more than sufficient to address the needs of the entire people of the country. There is no need to change the present constitution at all. If the Government wants to include enhanced fundamental rights of the citizen etc. in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/17)
Mind-Set of a Kalu-Suddha
In the Late Colonial Period, that cultural variant known popularly (and graphically) as a ‘Kalusuddha’ dominated society and was accepted as the ‘avatar’ of future cultural greatness. When Sir Oliver Gunatillaka spoke famously on the future Sri Lanka as ‘a little bit of England’ he was the archetypal Kalusuddha. It was widely believed that Kalusuddhas became extinct with the new wave of nationalism that that swept over our country with the great victory of SWRDB over those representing Western life-styles and neo-colonial norms of thinking. But history is perverse and we face the challenge today of a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/17)
Sri Lanka's New Constitution- a neo-colonial Project.
A radical overhaul is underway – of our political, economic, financial, social and cultural system. A new Constitution is being discussed, at the same time a plethora of radical reforms are being rushed through. The fact that many of these reforms are being challenged as unconstitutional indicates that the new Constitution is aimed at making what is un-Constitutional today, Constitutional tomorrow, making legal what is illegal by a simple trick of changing the Law! The issue is not whether a new Constitution is needed or not. It is the fundamental and inalienable right of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/17)
කිතුලට නො නැඟි ගැහැණිය!
මතක විදිහට ඒ 2010 අවුරුද්දේ දවසක්. අවිස්සාවේල්ලේ ඉඳලා මහරගමට ධාවනය වුනු ලංගම බස් රථයකට මේ ලේඛකයා ගොඩවුනේ කොස්ගමින්. වෙලාව උදේ 11 විතර වෙන්න ඇති. සතියේ දවසක් වුනත් බස් එකේ වැඩිය සෙනඟ හිටියේ නෑ. බස් එකත් ධාවනය වුනේ මිනී ගෙනියන වාහනයක් ධාවනයකරනවාට වඩා තරමක් වැඩි වේගයකින්. මේ ලේඛකයා වාඩිවුනේ බස් රථයේ මැද හරියට වෙන්න තිබුණු දකුණු පැත්තේ වීදුරුව අයිනේ ආසනයක. අතේ පොතක් පත්තරයක්වත් නො තිබුණු හින්දා නිකම් වටපිට බල බලා එනවා ඇරෙන්න වෙන කරන්න දෙයක් තිබුණෙත් නෑ. ඒත් හදිසියේ ම තමන් ඉඳගෙන හිටිය ආසනයට පිටුපස ආසනයේ ඉඳගෙන කතාකරන කාන්තාවන් දෙදෙනෙක් ගේ කතාවකට මේ ලේඛකයා ගේ කණ ඇදිලා ගියා.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/17)
The Sanhga are not despotic
Agitated over the decision by the Malwatta and Asgiriya chapters following a two hour meeting, some critics have expressed the Sangha as despotic. The Anunayake of the Malwatta Vihara has commented that the proposed constitution is not suitable as it leads to division of power including assigning of powers to the provincial councils, and Pradeshiya Sabhas, which were not even entertained in Parliament. Obviously some of the yahapalana backers try to deal with this decision with a barrage of criticism including disparagement of the Maha Sangha. They take umbrage on Sangha for opposing the effort of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/17)
මත්තල ඉන්දියාවට විකුණුවොත් රටේ ජනපතිටත් එහේ යන්න ඉන්දියාවෙන් අවසර ගන්න වෙයි - හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ
රටට මේ වෙලාවේ නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් අවශ්‍ය නොවන බව මල්වතු අස්ගිරි මහනාහිමිවරුන් ඇතුළු රටේ සමස්ත විද්වතුන්ම පවසද්දී එයට සවන් දීම රජයේ යුතුකමක්‌ බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ බව පැවසුවේ තිස්‌සමහාරාම බෙරළිහෙළ කුඩාගම්මාන තුන ශ්රී සුදර්ශනාරාම විහාරස්‌ථානයේ පසුගිය දින (24 දා) පැවති ආගමික උත්සවයක්‌ අමතමිනි. එහිදී හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙසේද පැවසීය. අද මේ ආණ්ඩුව කඩිමුඩියේ නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් ගේන්න කටයුතු කරමින් යනවා. ඒ අතරේ ආණ්‌ඩුවේම ඉන්න ඇමැතිවරු එක එක සැරේට එක එක ප්රකාශ නිකුත් කරනවා. වෙලාවකට ව්‍යස්‌ථාවක්‌ ගේන්නේ නෑ කියනවා. තව කෙනෙක්‌ කියනවා මේ කෙටුම්පතක් විතරයි කියනවා. පනතක්‌... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/10/17)
Niranjan de S Deva Aditya MEP receives GG2 Award
Senior Conservative MEP Nirj Deva has received the GG2 Editor's Award for his “Outstanding contribution to British and ethnic minority communities in his 25 years of public service.” Mr Deva was presented the award last night at the GG2 Leadership Asian Media Awards -a gala dinner annual event attended by 800 people drawn from the highest levels of British Society together with the Deputy Prime Minister, Damian Green, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan including several British billionaires’, Members of the House of Lords and Commons and the Diplomatic Corps -that aims to highlight and showcase ethnic talent and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/10/17)
Bangladesh eyes sterilisation to curb Rohingya population
The idea is particularly contentious given the sensitivity of the issue in Myanmar. The widespread perception that the Rohingya population is mushrooming is a key source of the tensions that have spiralled in recent months. PALONGKHALI, Bangladesh: Bangladesh is planning to introduce voluntary sterilisation in its overcrowded Rohingya camps, where nearly a million refugees are fighting for space, after efforts to encourage birth control failed. More than 600,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since a military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar in August triggered an exodus, straining resources in the impoverished country. The latest arrivals have joined... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/10/17)
Downgrading Politics
Politics appears to be a 'dirty game' throughout the world. In Sri Lanka, it has stooped to gutter level with corruption spearheading like a contagious disease. Many Sri Lankan politicians entered the political arena, in the past, out of sheer patriotism and the yearning to work for the people. Besides, many of them were icons of wealthy families, who died after spending all their fortunes in trying to serve the country. Contrary to such candid representatives, most present-day Parliamentarian tends to display a certain amount of vulgarity, where his 'commission' seems to take priority... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/10/17)
The preparation of constitution has concluded - Bellanwila Wimalaratana Thero
Chancellor of Sri Jayawardhanapura University,Professor Ven. Bellanwila Wimalaratana Thero said that the preparation of the constitution is already complete. “A responsible personnel of the government made me aware that the constitution is already prepared although that we; the clergy are opposing the constitution alleging that no bill was put forward, but only a list of proposals. I came to know even the names of two persons who are suspected to have prepared the constitution. I will reveal their names at the suitable time” The Thero alleged that the constitution will be presented to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/10/17)
The burial site of King Vijaya?
The ancestry of Sinhalese people dates back to the landing of Prince Vijaya in the then Lanka. Prince Vijaya, is the first recorded King of Sri Lanka, who established the Thambapanni Kingdom in the name of the Sinhala people. He subsequently founded the Kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara and Anuradhapura. As a country with a rich history dating back to his time, various archaeological sites bear testimony to the wars that have been fought in the name of the Sinhalese people. Although the whereabouts of Prince Vijaya are still uncertain, people strongly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/10/17)
Lord Naseby, the mythical 40,000 and the feel-good factor
"Engaging in arguments and debates in the international domain over the number of civilians who may have died at a particular time in the country will not help resolve any issues, in a meaningful manner, locally, except a feel good factor for a few individuals who may think that they have won a debate or scored points over someone or the other."--Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mahishini Colonne (The Island 27th October 2017) Debates in the international domain are exactly how the international community, which includes the UN and other international organizations, strive to reflect... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/10/17)
Tamil Diaspora behind Constitutional reforms - Hemakumara Nanayakkara
Governor of the Southern Province and Leader of the Mawbima Janatha Pakshaya, Hemakumara Nanayakkara, who severely criticizes the Interim Report of the Parliamentary Steering Committee for Constitutional Amendments, states that it may lead to separatism and may harm the sovereignty and the integrity of the country. He alleged that the true patriots of the Steering Committee are not properly consulted and given importance to, but those who are sponsored by the 'separatist Tamil Diaspora' and the International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) are attempting to manipulate the Constitution-making process to form a separate State. Nanayakkara added... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/10/17)
Without at least 40,000 dead bodies UN-US-UK-EU have no case for war crimes tribunal against Sri Lanka’s Army
When UN Secretary General arrived three days after the military victory over the LTTE ground force there was no allegation of any 40,000 dead. The timelines of those that quoted dead figure estimates is important and will help deducing the mischief at play. Leaving that aside, paramount to any allegation and a principle for any allegation is that to accuse a person(s) of murder there has to be a dead body. Whether the number is 40,000 or even 200,000 the onus is on those making the allegations to produce evidence – the dead bodies or skeletons,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/17)
The Treacherous Conspiracy facing Sri Lanka – Part VII
It has become very clear that the separatist Tamils who coud not manipulate the constitutions of Madam Sirivo Bandaranaike (1972) and J.R,Jayawaedene (1978) have got the best ever opportunity to manipulate the formulation of the proposed constitution through this Tamil slavish government with the backing and coercion of the western powers, hegemonic India and rhe Tamil diaspora. The government seems to be totally unmoved by the mounting opposition to the constitution by the Maha Sangha, religious leaders, professionals, academics, artistes and the patriotic masses.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/17)
Juda after the last “ hopper”, sold his leader and friend, to his enemies.
This is for those in Yahapalanaya who champion SLFP remaining with UNP. Some where in the month of November, 2014, Maithripala Sirisena shared the “last hopper” with his political leader and friend and broke away from the SLFP to the opposite camp led by UNP. It was exactly the opposite of what SWRD Bandaranaike did in 1951, when he broke away from the UNP and left to form his own political party the SLFP. Maithripala Sirisena had no one to accompany him when he left the SLFP to join the UNP, where as SWRD had a number... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/17)
Final hours for dividing country are now passing - Jayantha Samaraweera
https://youtu.be/zX_06sik-d0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/17)
රටට ආදරේ නම් ව්යවස්ථාවට ඡන්දය දෙන්න එපා - ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හිමි
රටට ආදරයක් තිබේනම් යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට විරුද්ධව ඡන්දය ප්රකාශ කරන ලෙසට ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින බව ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හිමියෝ පැවැසූහ. 'ලංකාව ඔරුමිත්තනාඩුවක්‌ නොකරනු - බෙදුම්වාදී ව්යවස්ථා එපා' යන තේමාව යටතේ තුම්මුල්ල සම්බුද්ධත්ව ජයන්ති මන්දිරයේ ඊයේ (27 වැනිදා) සංවිධානය කර තිබූ මාධ්ය හමුවකදී උන්වහන්සේ එසේ ප්රකාශ කළහ. රට වෙනුවෙන් කතා කරන චරිත ජාතිවාදීන් ලෙස නම් කර ඇතැයි පැවැසූ උන්වහන්සේ ජාතිවාදී වචනය ගෙනැත් තිබෙන්නේ කාලකන්නි දේශපාලනඥයන් යෑයි ද සඳහන් කළහ. වරදාන ලබා ගැනීමේ අරමුණින් රට පාවා නොදෙන ලෙසට ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ ඇමැතිවරුන්ගෙන් සහ ගමේ සුවඳ හඳුනන එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/17)
මහින්ද අද ඉන්දියාවේ සංචාරයක
හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජාත්යන්තර බෞද්ධ හා සංස්කෘතික සම්මේලනයක ප්රධාන ආරාධිත දේශනයකට සහභාගිවීමට අද (28 දා) ඉන්දියාවේ මහාරාෂ්ඨ ප්රාන්තය බලා පිටත්ව ගියේය. ඉන්දියාවේ මහාරෂ්ඨ ප්රාන්තයේ, අවුරංගබාත් නගරයේ බෞද්ධ හා සංස්කෘතිය පිළිබඳ ජාත්යන්තර බෞද්ධ සම්මේලනය මගින් මෙම ආරාධනය කර ඇත. අවුරංගබාත් නගරයද ඒ අවට මහාරාෂ්ඨ ප්රාන්තය ප්‍රදේශයද ඉන්දියාවේ බෞද්ධයින් වැඩි දෙනෙක් ජීවඉත්වන ප්‍රදෙශයකි. අවුරංගබාත් නගරයද ඒ අවට මහාරාෂ්ඨ ප්රාන්තය ප්‍රදේශයද ඉන්දියාවේ බෞද්ධයින් වැඩි දෙනෙක් ජීවඉත්වන ප්‍රදෙශයකි. මෙම නගරය ඉන්දියාවේ බෞද්ධ පුරාවස්තු කේන්ද්‍රයක් වන අජන්තා පුරාන විහාර පද්ධතියට නොදුරින් පිහිටා ඇත. තෙදින සංචාරයක් සඳහා මහාරාෂ්ඨ ප්රාන්තය බලා පිටත්ව යන හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා සමඟ මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/17)
The Treacherous Conspiracy facing Sri Lanka – Part VI
Double tongued Tamil slavish Sirisena who denies in the South what he says in the North and says in the North whatever that pleases the Tamls and denies to the Maha Sangha and the people of the South of steps being taken to bring a new constitution has told in Qatar that due to the freedom and democracy existing in Sri Lanka many people use the internet to project a wrong picture about the new constitution that is being formulated. In Sri Lanka. Having... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
Meatless Sri Lanka – A noble ideal worth pursuing as part of our ethical and moral advancement
An expanded version of the Opening Address of Welcome from Senaka Weeraratna, Chapter Leader, Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) Colombo, Sri Lanka Chapter delivered at the 2nd Asian Buddhist Animal Rights Conference held in Colombo on October 26, 2017. Most Venerable Aggamaha Pandita Kotugoda Dhammawasa Mahanayake Thera, and Venerable members of the Maha Sangha, Hon.Speaker, Mr. Bob Isaacson, President of Dharma Voices for Animals and Chapter Leaders of Dharma Voices for Animals, President of the Anagarika Dharmapala Humanitarian Foundation, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. On behalf of the Dharma Voices for Animals, Colombo Chapter, being a Jt.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
What Is Cholesterol?
To understand high blood cholesterol, it helps to learn about cholesterol. Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that’s found in all cells of the body. Your body needs some cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that help you digest foods. Your body makes all the cholesterol it needs. However, cholesterol also is found in some of the foods you eat. Butter, ghee, hard margarines, lard, dripping and goose fat, fatty meat and meat products such as sausages, Full fat cheese, milk, cream and yogurt, Coconut and palm oils and coconut cream. These food... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
Power of Plant Foods
Health aspects of vegetarianism or veganism and therefore a more healthy and more compassionate society, were the theme of the second Asian Buddhist animal rights conference held in Colombo yesterday, co-hosted by the Sri Lanka branch of the California based Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) and the Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala Foundation. Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, himself a total vegetarian as is his immediate family, was the chief guest, but he expressed concern that meat eating in Sri Lanka was on the increase though many western countries were turning to vegetarianism. The co-hosting... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
Help to Safeguard the Unity, Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and Buddhist Heritage of Sri Lanka
A new Constitution has been drafted and is being presented in parliament on October 30, 2017 for three days of debate and adoption which would lead to the formation of a federal state, and even the ultimate break-up of the country as sought by the Tamil separatists at an early date in the near future. The present Sri Lankan government came to power with a mandate to abolish the Executive Presidency and reform the electoral system, but had no mandate to introduce a new constitution or change the structure of governance from a unitary to a federal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
රනිල් නීතිපති එක්ක 225 ම සහ රටම අන්දපු හැටි
https://youtu.be/ny6v0iqvGFY... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
රට යන අත - 'ඔරුමිත්ත නාඩු' කරළියට
යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව, සයිටම් අර්බුදය , මහා බැංකු බැඳුම්කර වංචාව, ජීවන වියදම, වැඩවර්ජන හා උද්ඝෝෂණ ආදී ප්රශ්න නිසා දිගින් දිගටම රට තුළ නොසන්සුන්තාව පැතිර යද්දි මේ ප්රශ්න එකිනෙක විසඳා ගන්නවා වෙනුවට ආණ්ඩුවේ ඇතැම් ඇමතිවරු දැඩි මුරණ්‌ඩු ස්‌ථාවරයක සිටීම ආණ්ඩුවේ පැවැත්මට අහිතකර ලෙස බලපාන බව පෙනේ. මේ මුරණ්‌ඩු ඇමතිවරුන් දෙතුන්දෙනකු නිසා සමස්ත ආණ්ඩුවේ පැවැත්ම අනතුරේ පවතින බව ආණ්ඩුව මතකයේ තබාගත යුතුව තිබේ. විශේෂයෙන්ම මැතිවරණ කීපයක්‌ ඉදිරියේ තබාගෙන ඇතැම් ඇමතිවරු හැසිරෙන අන්දම පුදුම සහගතය. විශේෂයෙන්ම මේ වන විට යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා කෙටුම්පතට මහාසංඝරත්නය ඇතුළු රටේ දසදෙසින් විරෝධය එල්ලවී තිබේ. පවතින ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව වෙනස් නොකරන ලෙස... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
The federalization plot: The proof
October 27, 2017, 9:48 pm "Ranil used the term asymmetrical federalism, which is federalism [but] with more powers given to the Tamil Northeast…" (Solheim, in To End a Civil War,Salter, p96) "…the only viable solution was…a federal constitution…" (Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, SJV Chelvanayakam memorial lecture, April 2015) "…Which makes it clear that it is a federal state, but without the label". (Jayampathy Wickremaratne, Salter, Ibid p 59) When the Sri Lankan Government keeps saying that the proposed Constitution will be unitary in character, why should we suspect and mistrust it? One... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
Warnings of the Cost of Crooked Politics
Rising cost of living would make it difficult to face elections – President Does the government really want to face elections? The record of the past two years would show the government is, in fact, running away from elections, than wanting to face and contest them. This is true of both Local Government and Provincial Council polls. We will certainly have to wait and see if it wants to face another Presidential Poll and, more importantly, the next General Election. A Presidential Poll, may not be needed if the Executive Presidency is abolished; but... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
‘Low and odour’
October 27, 2017, 9:45 pm Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera, on Thursday, vehemently denied recent media reports that there had been political interference with the ongoing CID investigations into a complaint that a person, known to former Minister Ravi Karunanayake, threatened a key witness in the bond scam probe. He claimed the IGP had not come under any political pressure. Sri Lankans usually don’t believe anything until the government officially denies it! What this country lacks is only a Ministry of Truth in the Orwellian sense. The whole world saw on television last year how the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
Spurious war crime allegations against Sri Lanka
On the basis of the evidence available to this Commission and the prevailing law, the suggestion that the crime of genocide was or may have been committed during the final phase of the war is without foundation.-Paranagama Commission At the ongoing 36th session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) although there is no agenda item on Sri Lanka, a number of countries have already referred to Sri Lanka's human rights situation following the strong statement made by High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. High Commissioner's indirect warning during his opening statement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
මහින්ද එලවු කුමන්ත‍්‍රණය ටැමිල්නෙට් වෙබ් අඩවියේ.. ඩයස්පෝරාවේ ඉල්ලීම් 10 ව්යවස්ථා අතුරු කමිටු වාර්තාවේ..
මහින්ද ගේ ආණ්ඩුව පෙරලා දැමීම සඳහා සාකච්ඡාවක්, යුරෝපීය රටවල් දෙකක අනුග්‍රහයෙන්, 2013 වසරේදී සිංගප්පූරුවේදී සිදු වූ බව ටැමිල් නෙට් අඩවියේ වාර්තාවක සදහන්ය. මීට සහභාගි වී ඇත්තේ මංගල සමරවීර, සුමන්දිරන්, ජයම්පති වික්‍රමරත්න, තමිල්මාරන් (කොළඹ නීති පීඨයේ පීඨාධිපති ) ඇතුළු පිරිසකි. මහින්ද ආණ්ඩුව පෙරළා දැමීමට මෙහිදී මංගල සමරවීර ඉල්ලා සිටි අතර ඊට කොන්දේසි වශයෙන් දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදි පාර්ශවය කරුණු දහයක් පාදක කොට ගත් ව්යවස්ථා වෙනසක් ඉල්ලා ඇත. මේ වනවිට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කොට ඇති අතුරු කමිටු වාර්තාවේ ඇත්තේ මේ කාරණා 10 ඒ ආකාරයෙන්ම පාහේ ඇතුලත්ව තිබීම විශේෂය. එමෙන්ම මෙම සිංගප්පූරු මූලධර්ම එලෙසම මීට පෙර එල් ටි ටි කොටි සංවිධානය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
Bill flawed
Concerns have been expressed about the possibility that in consequence of the Government’s ratification of the Convention on Enforced Disappearances, Sri Lanka would appear to have submitted to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and is therefore legally bound by the Convention. Therefore it is vitally necessary to examine and be clear about the point at which Sri Lanka is legally bound by International Conventions it has ratified. The Bill on the subject of disappearances, which was to be presented to Parliament, is deeply flawed as explained by several writers. Crucially,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
Sinhalese should be allowed and encouraged to settle in the North
Introduction The Sinhalese are continuously being denied from settling in the North by Tamil politicians. This has been a systematic, very successful campaign by them for more than 60 years. The irony is that the Southern politicians do not want to acknowledge and rectify this racist policy. The recent rhetoric of some TNA MPs and the Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial Council is clear that they are hell bent on preventing the Sinhalese from relocating to the North and establishing homes there. The Elagu Tamil Movement was established under the patronage of the Northern Chief Minister,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
The Treacherous Conspiracy facing Sri Lanka – Part V
In the state of Sirisena and Ranil not heeding the objections being raised by the Maha Sangha and the people against the proposed constitution we must appreciate the former Prime Ministers S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike and Dudley Senanayake for bowing down to people’s demand and abrogating the agreements they reached with the father of Tamil separatists S.J.V.Chelvanayagam. We must also appreciate the former President J.R.Jayawardene for deliberately placing restrictions hindering the the full implementation of the despicable 13th Amendment forcibly imposed on the Sri Lankab constitutiin by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
To the kind attention of Lord Naseby
Lord Michael M Baron Naseby House of Lords Your Lordship, We, the Global Sri Lankan Forum, GSLF write to convey our grateful thanks to you on behalf of the threatened Sri Lanka for you excellent presentation of facts at the recent “All Party Group” debate on Sri Lanka. You have been contributing your unbiased views on Sri Lanka in the past without being pressurized by or caving into the lies and distortions spread by the separatists who supported the LTTE terrorism , so called NGO fronts and the politicians who are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
විශේෂඥ ශල්‍ය වෛද්‍ය එස් එස් ජයරත්න මහතා
විශේෂඥ ශල්‍ය වෛද්‍ය එස් එස් ජයරත්න මහතා සමග වැඩ කිරීමට ලැබීම භාග්‍යකි. එතුමා සමග මට වැඩ කිරීමට හැකි වූයේ කොලඹ යුද හමුදා රෝහලේදීය. විශේෂඥ ශල්‍ය වෛද්‍ය එස් එස් ජයරත්න මහතා මනෝ චිකිත්සනය සඳහා මවෙත බොහෝ රෝගීන් යොමු කොට තිබේ. මෙම රෝගීන් අතර අවිඥාණික මානසික ගැටුමක් නිසා උදර වේදනාවෙන් පෙළුණු රෝගියෙකු පිලිබඳව මුලින්ම සඳහන් කල යුතුය. මෙම රෝගියාට දිගින් දිගටම වේදනා නාශක වලටද අඩු නොවන උදර වේදනාවක් තිබුනේය. ඔහු සබැඳිව කරන ලද සියළු පරීක්‍ෂණ සාමාන්‍ය වූ අතර එන්ඩොස්කොපි සහ උදරයේ ස්කෑන් පරික්‍ෂාවද කිසිදු වෙනසක් පෙන්වූයේ නැත. මේ නිසා මනෝ විද්‍යාත්මක තක්සේරුවක් කිරීම සඳහා මෙම රෝගියාව විශේෂඥ ශල්‍ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
ABSOLUTELY BRAINLESS STATEMENT FROM A MINISTER
Quoting from The Island newspaper, “Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara, addressing the weekly Cabinet Press Briefing, at the Information Department, said that finding solutions to the problems faced by the Tamils did not mean dismembering the country into pieces or combining the Northern and Eastern Provincial Councils into one, as demanded by some Tamil parties. Then he went on to ask "Let me ask you’ll a question. The Tamils fought for autonomy for nearly 30 years. If you now tell them that devolution even within a united Sri Lanka is not possible, then you cannot rule out the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/17)
මැකො ගේ යට ඇදුමත් ගලවාගෙන දුවයි.. ඇසින් දුටු සාක්ෂි මෙන්න..
මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ සභාපති මහින්ද දේශප‍්‍රිය ඇද සිටි ඇදුම් මෙතෙක් කාලයක් තිස්සේ එක් එක් අය විසින් ගලවාගෙන ගිය බව පිවිතුරු හෙල උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. ඉතිරි වී තිබූ යටම ඇදුමද ඇමති මනෝ ගනේෂන් ගලවාගෙන යනවා තමන් දුටු බවද මන්ත‍්‍රීවරයා සදහන් කරයි. පළාත් පාලන මැතිවණය පවත්වන්නේ ජනවාරි මස 27 වැනිදායි ඇමති මනෝ ගනේෂන් විසින් ප්රකාශ කර ඇති නිසා දැන් මැතිවණ කොමිසමට කරන්න කිසිම දෙයක් ඉතිරි කර නැති බවද ඔහු කියා සිටියේය. මන්ත‍්‍රීවරය මෙම අදහස් පල කලේ පිවිතුරු හෙල උරුමය මූලස්ථානයේදී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවක් අමතමිනි. https://youtu.be/a3yZOxvGZis... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/17)
ජාතිවාදීන්ට උඩගෙඩි දෙන අනවශ්‍ය ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයක් ගෙන ඒම රට නැවතත් ආපස්‌සට තල්ලු කිරීමක් - අතුරලියේ රතන හිමි
ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයට වඩා රටේ ඇතිවෙලා තිබෙන ප්රශ්න එකින් එක සොයා බලා ඒවාට විසඳුම් සෙවිය යුතු බවත් ජාතිවාදීන්ට උඩගෙඩි දෙන අනවශ්‍ය ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයක් ගෙන ඒම රට නැවතත් ආපස්‌සට තල්ලු කිරීමක් බවත් ජාතික මහ සභාවේ සභාපති පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී පූජ්‍ය අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියෝ පැවැසූහ. යහපාලනයක් ඇතිකිරීම සඳහා පැවැති රජය පරාජය කර නව රජය බලයට පත්වූයේ රටට අහිතකර මෙවැනි සංශෝධන ගෙන ඒමට නොවන බවත් රටේ දැවෙන ප්රශ්න විස¹ සියලු ජනවර්ගයාට සාධාරණ අයිතිවාසිකම් ලැබෙන ජන සමාජයක්‌ ගොඩනැගීම සඳහා බවද උන්වහන්සේ පැවැසූහ. ඡායාරූපය - ජූඩ් ඩෙන්සිල් පතිරාජ යෝජිත නව ව්යවස්ථාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජාතික පුස්තකාල හා ප්‍රලේඛන සේවා මණ්‌ඩලයේ පැවැති මාධ්ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/17)
Port City rising, govt. rejoicing
October 26, 2017, 12:00 pm Megapolis and Western Development Minister Champika Ranawaka declared the other day that the first phase of the Chinese-funded Colombo Port City project was nearing completion. He was in seventh heaven! We thought he would weep or at least mewl in public when he made that announcement. Why did we expect him to cry? Ranawaka wraps himself in the flag. He wears his heart on his sleeve and keeps telling us that he will even risk his life to prevent anything bad from happening to the country. He is also surrounded by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/17)
A time of dwarfs: The return of ‘Sudu Nelum’ syndrome
October 26, 2017, 9:44 pm We live in a time of dwarfs, against whom we have to defend the achievements of giants.We have SWRD Bandaranaike’s historic rupture with the UNP to found a moderate nationalist anti-UNP formation and inaugurate a two-party system, reversed by Chandrika Bandaranaike’s realignment/reintegration of the SLFP with a markedly rightist UNP. We have the Sirimavo Bandaranaike-Felix Dias Bandaranaike-Colvin R. de Silva unitary Constitution assaulted by Chandrika Bandaranaike and Jayampathy Wickremaratne. We have the Gaullist executive presidential Constitution of JR Jayewardene besieged by Ranil Wickremesinghe, who failed twice to be elected... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/17)
Govt won’t act on Lord Naseby’s statement
The Foreign Ministry said yesterday that war crimes allegations would be dealt through national independent judicial mechanisms. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mahishini Colonne said so when The Island asked her whether the government would request UK and Geneva to review the allegation that 40,000 civilians had been killed during the Vanni campaign, in the light of Lord Naseby statement int he House of Lords disputing the figure on oct. 12. The following is the full text of SM spokesperson’s statement: "As you would recall, the 100 Day Programme ‘United for a Change. Dawn of Maithri Rule. A... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/17)
President orders renegotiation of talks with prospective int'l airlines
President Maithripala Sirisena has instructed the apex economic management body, the National Economic Commission (NEC) to renegotiate a dialogue with two international airlines in a bid to resuscitate the national carrier Sri Lankan Airlines (SLA) including the old partner Emirates and the latest rounds of talks have been satisfactory, a reliable senior government source said. ‘The issue of the future of the national carrier SLA was taken up by President Sirisena at the last NEC meeting held before his official visit to Qatar. It was pointed out by Public Enterprise Development Minister Kabir... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/17)
Learning from history
(Dr. Nalaka Godahewa is the former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Sri Lanka and the former Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism) Newspapers these days cover more or less the same subjects. Corruption allegations led by the infamous bond scam, opposition to the proposed Constitution, the cry for elections, the rising cost of living, student protests and Police violence, plans to sell national assets, and United Nations (UN) pressure on the government to deliver on commitments are frequently highlighted. The author of 'The Great Hand Book of Quotes,' Israel more Ayivor says:... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/17)
The Treacherous Conspiracy facing Sri Lanka – Part IV
Maithripala Sirisena has a chronic disease of telling flagrant lies, shamelessly denying anything and everything, conveniently pretending that he was not aware of certain things and has a forked tongue to speak differently to the people of the North and to the people of the Soouth. On 15th November, 2015 standing before the mortal remains of the venerable monk Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, minutes before they were consigned to the flames, and shedding crocodile tears the double tongued Sirisena swore to abolish the executive presidency.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
නැගෙනහිර වට වන්දනාව
මීට අවුරුදු එකසිය පනහකට දෙසියයකට පමණ පෙර අපේ සීයලා, ආච්චිලාගේ ජීවිතයේ සන්ධ්‍යා සමයේ තිබූ එකම ආශාව වට වන්දනාවේ යාමයි. මා අසා තිබූ අන්දමට ඔවුන් වට වන්දනාවේ ගියේ ඔවුන්ගේ වතුපිටි, ගෙවල් දොරවල් ආදිය තම දරුවන්ට පවරා දීමෙන් පසුව ය. මඟතොටවල් නොදියුණු, යාන වාහන දුලබ එකල එසේ කිරීම අරුමයක් නොවේ. තිස්ස සිට කතරගමට ගියේ ගොන් බැඳි කරත්තෙනි. දක්ෂිණ මහාමාර්ගය ඔස්සේ පැය 3 කින් කතරගමට දැන් ලගාවිය හැකිය. සේරුවිල රජමහා විහාරයට යා යුතු වූයේ පාරු පාලම් හතක් පසු කරමිනි. දැන් ඒ පාරු පාලම් එකක්වත් නැත. කැළණි විහාරයේ සිට සිරිමෙවන් කැළණියට යාමට තිබූ පාරුව ද දැන් අවශ්‍ය නැත. වට වන්දනාව වශයෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
FM trying to reduce tax on liquor: GMOA
The GMOA today accused the Finance “Ministry of attempting to reduce the tax on liquor through the 2018 budget and said this would encourage the liquor use.It said despite the national policy of the country which is to prevent the easy access to liquor, the Finance Ministry was attempting reduce tax with the intention of promoting the tourism sector. GMOA spokesman Samantha Ananda said the Finance Ministry’s move would destroy the values of the country as it would encourage alcoholism. Meanwhile, GMOA Secretary Haritha Aluthge said the GMOA was informed of an attempt to open liquor... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
Implications of UK's refusal to release evidence
October 24, 2017, 12:00 pm The British parliament was told, on Oct 12, 2017 that Velupillai Prabhakaran killed Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah in 1973. The statement was made by Michael Morris, Baron Naseby PC, during a debate on Sri Lanka. Having declared that he launched the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka, way back in 1975, the politician urged Theresa May's government to review its policy as regards post-war accountability process in relation to the Geneva Resolution 30/1 adopted on Oct 1, 2015. Very few foreign politicians could have declared that they had known... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
මහ බැංකු බැදුම්කර හොරු පැනලා යන්න ඉස්සෙල්ලා ..බඩුත් එක්ක හොරු අහු වෙලත් නඩු දාන්න බැරිනම් මොකක්ද මේ රටේ නීතියෙ ඇති වැඩේ...
https://www.facebook.com/RManojGamage/videos/383171732103566/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
Bombing Parliament?
October 26, 2017, 12:48 pm National Freedom Front leader and Joint Opposition firebrand, Wimal Weerawansa, MP, has, true to form, rattled the cage of many a government politician. He said, with his trademark grin, that a bomb should be dropped on Parliament unless at least 76 MPs opposed constitutional reforms, thereby, denying the government a two-thirds majority. The yahapalana leaders have thrown up their hands in horror, asking for protection. At least, that is what Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has told the media; he has threatened action against Weerawansa for issuing what is being described as a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
The Maha Sangha remains the nation’s savior
October 26, 2017, 12:58 pm The Most Ven. Maha Nayaka Theras, Kotugoda Dhammavasa, Ittapane Dhammalankara, Thirukunamale Ananda and Prof. Bellanwila Wimalaratne, having gone through the Report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly with fine tooth comb, has warned of the dangers of this Report as "it seems that not only the alteration of the meanings of the constitution is fraudulent, it is also an attempt to mislead the Sinhala masses." "Among the proposals put forward is the proposal to amalgamate the northern and eastern provinces with the objective of legalizing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
Bond scam probe: Why PM’s evidence important
October 26, 2017, 12:53 pm The investigation into the Central Bank Bond issue is proceeding before the COI appointed by the President. It was reported that the Attorney General’s department had submitted a further list of witnesses it wants summoned before the Commission. The list reportedly includes the Prime Minister. A few days back a statement coming from Temple Trees announced that PM was ready to come before the COI if summoned. It will be a most welcome move for the consolation of all concerned if this is done. The warrant issued by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
Govt yet to capitalise on Lord Naseby’s call to UK parliament Request to lower death toll from 40,000 to 8,000
October 26, 2017, 12:00 pm
Cabinet spokesman and Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera yesterday said that the government could act on Lord Naseby’s recent call to Theresa May’s government in the UK to review the much-touted UN allegation that 40,000 Tamil civilians perished on the Vanni front in 2009 in the final phase of the war. Minister Jayasekera said so when The Island asked whether the cabinet of ministers had discussed Naseby’s Oct 12, 2017 declaration in British parliament that as there couldn’t have been more than 8,000 deaths, the UK government... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් සම්මත වුවත් ජනමත විමසුමෙන් නව ව්යවස්ථාව පැරදවීමට සංඝරත්නය පෙරට එනවා - බෙල්ලන්විල විමලරතන නාහිමි
යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ තුනෙන් දෙකක ඡන්දයකින් සම්මත කරගත්ත ද එය ජනමත විචාරණයකට යැමේදී බහුතර ජන මතයකින් පරාජය කිරීමට මහා සංඝරත්නය පෙරටුව කටයුතු කරන බව ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ කුලපති මහාචාර්ය බෙල්ලන්විල විමලරතන නාහිමියෝ ඊයේ (24 දා) පැවසූහ. ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදක මණ්‌ඩලයේ මෙහෙයුම් කමිටු අතුරු වාර්තාව පිළිබඳව අදහස් දැක්‌වීම සඳහා ඊයේ සමස්ත ලංකා බෞද්ධ මහා සම්මේලන මූලස්‌ථානයේ පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවකට එක්‌වෙමින් උන්වහන්සේ එසේ ප්රකාශ කළහ. අගමැතිවරයා ඇතුළු විවිධ පාර්ශ්ව මේ වන විට නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් හෝ කෙටුම්පතක් සකස් කර නොමැති බවත් එම නිසා ඒ ගැන කතා කරන අය කරුණු හරිහැටි නොදැන කතා කරන බවත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
පොලිස්පතිට දේශපාලන බලපෑම්
පර්පචුවල් ටේරෂරීස් සමාගමේ අධ්යක්ෂ අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස් විසින් මිලදී ගෙන හිටපු මුදල් ඇමැති රවී කරුණානායක මහතාට දුන්නේ යැයි කියන ‘මොනෑක්’ නිවාස සංකීර්ණයේ හිමිකාරිය වු අනිකා විජේසුරිය මහත්මියට රවී කරුණානායක මහතාගේ සමීප ඥාතියකු බව කියන පුද්ගලයකුගෙන් එල්ල වු බව කියන ජීවිත තර්ජන පිළිබඳ පරීක්‍ෂණ රහස් පොලිසියෙන් ඉවත් කරන්නැයි පොලිස්පතිවරයාට දේශපාලන බලපෑම් එල්ල වී ඇතැයි වාර්තා වේ. අනිකා විජේසුරිය මහත්මියට සහ ඇගේ ඥාතීන්ට එල්ල වු බව කියන තර්ජන හේතුවෙන් බැඳුම්කර කොමිසම කළ නියෝග මත පොලිස්පතිවරයා විසින් අනිකා විජේසුරිය මහත්මියගේ සහ ඥාතීන්ගේ ආරක්‍ෂාව වෙනුවෙන් මීට පෙර අවස්ථාවක විශේෂ පොලිස් ආරක්‍ෂාවක් ද ලබාදී තිබිණි. මෙම තර්ජන වලින් පසු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
Interim report 'a foetus of a devil child': PHU
The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) today said the interim report compiled by the Constitutional Steering Committee was the ‘foetus’ of a future ‘devil child.’ PHU Leader MP Udaya Gammanpila said the government bigwigs continue to say that the opposition MPs had been scared for no reason and that not even a draft constitution had been prepared so far. “Though the government has forgotten, we remember the content of the proposal approved on March 9, 2016 which was about a new Constitution. If the interim report was approved, a draft constitution will be presented... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
The National Child Protection Authority launches special investigation into the expulsion of female student from school
The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has commenced a special investigation into the incident of a female student being expelled from school by the Principal and the school Disciplinary Committee for vomiting during school hours. A special team of police officers have been sent to the area and they are recording statements from the parties concerned, the NCPA said. The authority has also paid attention to confirm whether the student had been subjected to severe psychological trauma. Meanwhile, the victimized child had been directed to receive counseling assistance, according to NCPA. The female student... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
The Old Order Scuttled Giving Birth to New - Churchill Sells Out the British Empire to Midwife the Neoliberal Corporate-Empire
1939, British soldiers desperately defending Dunkirk, with friendly French forces on their flank, were terrified beyond description when the Germans launched a major assault on their lines; the faint-hearted British soldiers fled the battlefield and France in total disarray leaving in the lurch their French comrades who alas, now ergo utterly vulnerable, continued to defend the line bravely till the very end. In a scandalous display of cowardice, contrary to the many fables spun in song and story, the British soldiers infamously abandoned their French comrades and the armaments that had been inducted into France in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
The Treacherous Conspiracy facing Sri Lanka – Part III
The NGO Vulture Viyangoda further states that they do not encourage partisan politics or allow race or ethnicity based divisions and adds that ethnic identities are completely outdated and irrational divisions for a modern, progressive and forward looking Sri Lanka. The main demand of this accidentally born Sinhala and Foreign and Tamil slavish Viyangoda was that Sri Lanka should be made a Secular State despite 75% of the population being Sinhala and out of this percentage 72% being Buddhists. The prominence being given to the main religion in other countries nullify his argument. For... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/17)
Racist Devolution (Not Ordinary Devolution) Proposed for Sri Lanka by New Constitution
There are two informal types of devolution in the world – devolution of power to the periphery without regard to ethnicity, and, racist devolution. In racist devolution, power is devolved to states/republics/units/regions based on race or ethnicity and decisions are taken by wholly or mostly mono-ethnic provincial Cabinets. There are not many living examples of racist devolution for obvious reasons! India is the only surviving nation with racist devolution. Successful power devolution (e.g. Australia, USA, Canada) devolve power to multi-ethnic governing Councils. What is proposed for Sri Lanka is not the ordinary devolution as found in Australia,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
යූඑන්පී ව්යවස්ථා වාර්තාව ශ්රී ලංකා කාරයන්ට පිළිගන්න පුළුවන්ද
එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ නායක රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදක මන්ඩලයේ මෙහෙයුම් කමිටු වල අදහස් ඇතුලත් සංක්ෂිප්ත අතුරු වාර්තාවක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. එම වාර්තාවට අමතර වශයෙන් ශ්‍රීලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය හෙළ උරුමය දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය ඇතුළු පක්ෂ කීපයකම අදහස් ද ඊට අමුණා තිබේ.එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ අදහස් මෙම ඇමුණුමට ඇතුලත් කර නොමැති බැවින් අතුරු වාර්තාව මගින් පිළිබිඹු වන යෝජනා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ යෝජනා බව අපට පිළිගන්නට සිදුව තිබේ.ඒ අනුව බලන විට නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් සකස් කිරීම පිණිස උපයෝගී වන අවසාන වාර්තාවක් එළි දක්වා නොමැත. ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාද දීපවාලී උත්සව කතාවේදී පවසා තිබෙන්නේ තවමත් ව්යවස්ථා කෙටුම් පතක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
Greiff gives govt. grief
October 24, 2017, 12:00 pm Recalling the yahapalana leaders’ much-touted, pre-election claim that they had the backing of some rich, powerful members of the international community, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has asked where those friends are today. He has said the government is now left without anyone to turn to for aid. He is deriving some perverse pleasure from the government’s plight though he himself is a beneficiary of yahaalanaya. It is said that nothing is so freely given as advice. The yahapalana leaders have had to settle for a great deal of unsolicited advice... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
Leading monks condemn rush for new constitution
October 24, 2017, 11:27 pm A group of leading Buddhist monks yesterday vowed to take to the streets to defeat the government’s move to bring in a new constitution or to amend the existing one – a move which they alleged would pave the way for the division of the country. Ven. Prof. Bellanwila Wimalaratana Nayaka Thera, addressing a press conference, at All Ceylon Buddhist Congress auditorium in Colombo said: "We do not think the government will be able to get a two-thirds majority in parliament to bring in a new constitution or to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
Sri Lanka: Phony moves toward democratic constitutional change
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe presented a “constitutional assembly” steering committee report last month. Although he declared the aim of a new constitution was “reconciliation and development,” the accompanying debate shows that every faction of the ruling elite is thoroughly steeped in divisive Sinhala communalism. The report presented on September 21 will be debated for three days from October 30 to November 1, during which time the Sri Lankan parliament will meet as a constitutional assembly. In March last year, the parliament decided to act as a constitutional assembly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
Sri Lanka floats international tender for 200,000 MT of rice
Sri Lanka has launched an open international tender to import a fresh tranche of rice– a first call in recent times to be issued to suppliers worldwide. “We are making every effort to ensure that there will be no shortages for our consumers,” said Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen. “Under the directions of the government’s Cost of Living Committee (CoLC) we announced on October 13 that we will import 500,000 MT of rice. The aim of CoLC is to support our consumers with lowest prices and give steady supplies,” he added. The 500,000 MT announced previously on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
New Constitution - SL moving towards federal system: Wimalarathana Thera
The country will get stuck in a federal system if the new Constitution is implemented, Bellanwila Rajamaha Vihara Chief Incumbent the Ven. Prof. Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thera told a news briefing today. He said the Government could surreptitiously enact the new Constitution which would harm the entire country. “The attempts to reveal the true nature of the situation that would prevail if the new Constitution was passed, are not indications of attempting to go against the Government,” the prelate said. “It is an attempt to educate the public. Some elements say the Maha Sangha are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
The March of Folly A simplistic and confused Attorney General
A little learning is a dangerous thing. It is also sad when limited intellect leads to high appointments on the grounds that there will be unthinking support of the appointing authority. This seems to be the case with the current Attorney General (AG), who seems in a couple of weeks, to have completely destroyed the reputation of his department which had been considerably enhanced by the brilliant cross examination at the Bond Commission by senior officers. What seemed the silencing of the forceful Dappula de Livera, the absence for some time of the incisive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
President and PM contradicting one another over Constitution – Ananda Thero
Venerable Muruththettuwe Ananda Thero says that although they are not against the existing Constitution, they oppose the presenting of new amendments to the Constitution. He was speaking at a press briefing of the ‘National Movement to Protect the Motherland’ at the Abayaramaya Temple in Narahenpita today (24). The Thero said that although a Constitution is necessary for any government and shortcomings need to be resolved, they will never agree to it being amended at will in a manner that does not suit the country and race. He said that is the national policy of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
National unity should not be infringed upon – Ven. Bellanwila Wimalarathana thero
Professor Venerable Bellanwila Wimalarathana thero stated that the current government should in no way infringe upon the national unity that was established within Sri Lanka by implementing constitutional amendments that will be detrimental to national accord. Ven.Bellanwila Wimalarathana thero expressed these sentiments while speaking at the event held to announce the verdict of the Buddhist clergy on the steering committee report submitted on the constitution. https://youtu.be/XfnCIIydiUQ He pleaded with the current government not to mislead the public by beguiling private ambition behind technical terms. “During the tenure of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga, Prof. G.L.Peiris too... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
Former cricket umpire Darrell Hair sentenced for stealing
Ex-international cricket umpire Darrell Hair has been sentenced to an 18-month good behaviour bond over stealing money from his employer. Hair, who made headlines for calling a number of no-balls on Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan during the 1995 Boxing Day Test, pleaded guilty to a single charge of embezzlement and one charge of stealing in Orange Local Court yesterday. The 65-year-old was working at D'Aquino's Liquor in Orange and stole over $9,000 between February and April this year to fund a spiralling gambling addiction. He was given the sack shortly after when his bosses found CCTV... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
Forceful reconciliation is an issue: ex-President
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa questions as to how to build a reconciliation process through the forcible elaboration of an amendment to the country. The Former President made this statement after attending the funeral of Dr. Nagoda Amarawansa today (23). “If they expect to establish reconciliation through decentralization of power it would not be done through forceful attempts. It is an issue that is being challenged by all the main Sangha Sabhas.” the Former President said. However, the public has rights oppose such a constitution, he said. “The government delays elections due to fear. I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
මේ කියනදේවත් බුද්ධිමත්ව විග්‍රහ කිරීමට නොහැකි රට කරවන්නෝ දෙදෙනෙක්,
මේ කියනදේවත් බුද්ධිමත්ව විග්‍රහ කිරීමට නොහැකි රට කරවන්නෝ දෙදෙනෙක්, අපිට අවාසනාවකට උරැම වී ඇත. අපේ රට මේ ව්යවස්ථා උගුලින් බේරා ගැනිමට ජනතාව ඉදිරියට පැමිනිම රටේ අවශ්‍යතාවකි . https://www.facebook.com/mohan.wijewickrama.5/videos/1938353446180509/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/17)
The Treacherous Conspiracy facing Sri Lanka – Part II
In Part I of this article, it was highlighted the extensive measures being taken by this Tamil slavish government and the Tamil separatists to impose an unwanted constitution on the behest of the foreign scoundrels and the Tamil separatists. Let us examine in this part of the article the shameless and the despicable roles being played by the accidentally born Sinhalese to get this loathsome move realised. Father of Federalism and Secularism Ranil Wickremasinghe leads this band of pro constitution accidentally born Sinhalese gang and even on 19th October he has flayed the statement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
The Dharma Voices for Animals : Giving voice to the voiceless
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ The 2nd Asian Buddhist Animal Rights Conference is to be held on Thursday 26th October 2017 at the Sri Sambuddhatwa Jayanthi Hall. When humans are not humans to each other can we expect humans to be humane to animals? Sadly, not. However, we cannot go on like this and as compassionate advocates for rights of animals and peace in general we need to unite and be counted and increase everyone standing with us for Ahimsa... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Thirty-three year old ex-soldier missing in Horowpathana
Dear Friends, Mr. Lalsiri Sampath Sugathapala (33) of Meehonda Wewa, Horowpathana was a resident of Horowpathana Police Division. He went missing on 14 April 2017. He was a regular soldier attached to the Sri Lanka Army. After resigning from the military he joined a company in Colombo. He was happy in his job. On 11 April he phoned home saying that he is coming home for the New Year Celebrations on 14 April. Since then he has been missing. Later, relatives lodged a complaint with the Horowpathana Police Station, requesting an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Girl expelled from government school on unfounded allegations
Dear Friends, According to information received by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a 15-year-old girl in 10th Grade at A/Madatugama Sri Rewatha Navodya Vidyalaya, Madatugama, Kekirawa was arbitrarily expelled by the Principal. When she began vomiting during an outdoor celebration of International Children’s Day on 2 October 2017, a group of students misinformed the Principal that the girl was secretly pregnant. Without listening to the girl’s story or seeking medical evidence, the Principal expelled the girl. After her parents subsequently took her to the Dambulla Base Hospital, the medical officers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
SRI LANKA: අධිකරණයෙන් පිටත සිදුකරන ඝාතන සමග විනිර්මුක්තිය ඉහළට -මාස 10ට ජීවිත 10 ක්!
පහත දැක්වෙන වගුවෙන් දැක්වෙන්නේ 2017 ඔක්තෝබර් මාසය වන විට ගතවූ මාස 10කට ආසන්න කාලයක් මුළුල්ලේ අධිකරණයෙන් පිටත සිදුකළ ඝාතන 09 ක් සහ ඝාතන උත්සාහයන් 01 ක් පිළිබඳව ය. එම ඝාතන 09 සිදුවී තිබෙන්නේ පොලිස් ස්ථාන තුළ වන අතර, අනෙක් ඝාතන තැත වාර්තා වන්නේ බන්ධනාගාරයෙනි. මෙම සිද්ධි 10, හොංකොං පදනම් කරගෙන ක්රිකයාත්මක වන ආසියානු මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසම විසින් මේ වසර තුළ වාර්තාගත කරන ලද ඒවා ය. කෙසේ නමුත් මේ අවස්ථාව වන විට මෙවැනි තවත් ඝාතන කීයක් සිදුවී ඇත්දැයි සඳහන් කිරීමට අපට නොහැකිය. නිරීක්ෂණ කිහිපයක් මෙම ඝාතනවල සවිස්තරාත්මක තොරතුරුවලින් ඉතාම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
Unitary state and state protection for Buddhism
President’s Counsel Jayampathi Wickramaratne and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have stated that the new Constitution will be formulated with unitary status of Sri Lanka and the foremost place for Buddhism being retained. President Maithripala Sirisena is a leader, respected by the majority of the minorities and a good percentage of the Sinhala Buddhists. They, the President and Prime Minister have met the Prelate of the Malwatte Chapter and given the latter an assurance that the new constitution will not in any way lead to a separate or a federal state or abolish the foremost... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
BASL expresses grave concern over proposed constitutional changes
*... poses dozen queries to govt. seeking answers *... questions fate of unitary character of state *... frowns on apparent bid to introduce federalism October 23, 2017, 11:08 pm The Bar Council of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, at a special meeting, yesterday (23) resolved to express its grave concern about the proposed amendments to Articles 1 and 2 of the present Constitution. The Bar Council also noted that proposed amendments in the Interim of the Constitutional Assembly of Sri Lanka had the effect of converting the Unitary character of the State to a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
නිශ්ශංකමල්ල රජුගේ මහා නිධානය කඩද්දී ඇමති ජෝන්ගේ නෑයා එජාප බස්නාහිර මන්ත්රී පොලීසියෙන් අල්ලයි.. වෙඩි හුවමාරුවෙන් අයෙක් මරුට..
බස්නාහිර පළාත් සභාවේ එජාප මන්ත්රී රන්දීර් රොද‍්‍රිගු ඇතුළු පිරිසක් නිධානයක් කැඩීමට ගොස් සිටියදී පොලිස් විශේෂ කාර්ය බලකාය සමග සිදුව ඇති වෙඩි හුවමාරුවකින් පසු එක් පුද්ගලයකු මිය ගොස් ඇත. මෙම වෙඩි හුවමාරුව සිදුව ඇත්තේ දිවුලපිටිය, හේන්පිටගෙදර පාසල අාසන්නයේදී වන අතර යෙඩි හුවහාරුවෙන් තුවාල ලැබූ පුද්ගලයා රෝහල් ගත කිරීමෙන් පසු මිය ගොස් තිබේ. ඔහු හිටපු නාවුක හමුදා සෙබලෙක්ද වෙයි. පුද්ගලයින් 07 දෙනෙකු පොලීසිය විසින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත. මෙම පිරිස ප‍්‍රදේශයේ නිධානයක් කඩමින් සිටින්නේ යයි ලද තොරතුරුක් මත මෙම වැටලීම සිදුකර ඇති අතර පොලීසිය එම ස්ථාවයට යද්දී ඔවුන් විසින් වෙඩි තබා ඇති අතර පොලීසියද වෙඩි තබා ඔවුන් පිරිස අත්අඩංගුවට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
Divulapitiya shootout: UNP Provincial Councilor among arrested
A member of the Western Provincial Council representing the United National Party (UNP) is among the seven suspects arrested following today’s shootout in Divulapitiya, sources told Ada Derana. According to the source, the provincial councilor is also related to a prominent Cabinet Minister in the incumbent government. One person was killed while seven individuals were arrested following a shootout between Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel and a gang of suspected criminals in the Henpitagedara area in Divulapitiya this morning (23). Acting on information received that a gang of criminals were loitering near the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
ජනාධිපති පති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ පැනයට පිළිතුරක්.
ජනාධිපති පති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ පැනයට පිළිතුරක්. "බලය බෙදීමට විරුද්ධ නම් ඊට විකල්ප යෝජනාව කුමක්ද?" ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා මේ ප්‍රශ්නය මුළු රටෙන්ම අසා තිබේ. ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමණි ඔබ ඇසු ප්‍රශ්නයට පිළිතුරු අපි සතුව තිබේ.නැසූ කනින් නොසිට ඇසුව මැනව. බලය බෙදීමට විරුද්ධනම් ඊට ඇති විකල්පයද වන්නේ බලය බෙදීමයි. ඒ ඔබ බෙදීමට යෝජනා කරන බලය නොව, ස්වභාවය යෝජනා කරන බලය බෙදාදීමයි. ස්වභාවය යෝජනා කරන බලය බෙදීම යනු කවරේදැයි විස්තර කරදීමේ කාර්යය අප සතුව පවතී. අප එය විස්තර කරන්නේ මෙසේය. ශ්රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී සමාජවාදී ජනරජය නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යාවස්තාව සදහා මෙරට ජනතාවගේ යෝජනාවන් මෙසේ විය යුතුය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
ජනාධිපති මහා සංඝයාට අපහාහාස කරයි
වවුනියාව සෛවප්‍රකාශ විද්‍යාලයේ පැවැති නිල මෙහෙවර ජනාධිපති ජනතා සහන සේවයේ සමාප්ති වැඩසටහනට සහභාගි වෙමිනි ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙසේ ප්රකාශ කළේය. "අද තියෙන ප්‍රශ්නය තමයි දීලා තියෙන මාධ්ය නිදහසත් එක්ක පිටු 25ක් තියෙනවා නම් විසිහතරක්ම ආණ්ඩුවට විරුද්ධව තමයි ලියන්නේ. ආණ්ඩුවට විරුද්ධව පිටු 25ක් ලිව්වට කමක් නෑ. ප්රශ්නයක් නෑ. ඇත්ත ලියනවා නම්. නමුත් මේ පිටු පුරෝල තියෙන්නේ බොරු අසත්‍ය ප්‍රචාරවලින්. මේ බොරුවලින් ගෞරවනීය මහා සංඝරත්නයට බොරු ප්‍රචාර දීලා උන්වහන්සේ නොමඟ යවනවා. මේ බොරු ලියන අයටත් විරෝධතා පවත්වන අයටත් රට ගැන ආදරයක් නෙවෙයි තියෙන්නේ. ඒ ගොල්ලන්ගේ දේශපාලන න්‍යාය පත්‍රයක්. මේවා මෙහෙයවන අය පිටුපස්සේ සිටින්නේ ආණ්ඩු විරෝධී දේශපාලනඥයන්. ජාතිවාදය අවුස්සලා දේශපාලන බලය ලබා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
ලංවිම තුල සිදුව ඇති රු. කෝටි 150ක මූල්ය වංචාව
මාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි2017.10.23ප්‍රවෘත්ති කතෘ, ප්‍රවෘත්ති අධ්යක්ෂ, ලංවිම තුල සිදුව ඇති රු. කෝටි 150ක මූල්ය වංචාවට කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය ලබාදීමට එරෙහිව ලංවිම සේවක වැඩවර්ජනය පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුවේ පාලකයන් හා ලංවිම පාලනාධිකාරිය එක්ව 2014.11.27 වන දින සිදුකළ රු.කෝටි 150ක් ඉක්මවන මූල්ය වංචාවට එරෙහිව, පියවර ගන්නා ලෙස, වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවට බලකරමින් ලංවිම ඒකාබද්ධ වෘත්තීය සමිති සන්ධානය විසින් දින 7.5ක වැඩවර්ජනයක් පසුගිය මස සිදුකරන ලදි. එහිදී වැඩවර්ජනය අවසන් කිරීම ස`දහා එක`ග වු කරුණුවලට මුවා වී ආණ්ඩුව විසින් කැබිනට් පත්‍රිකාවක් සකස්කර, මෙම මූල්ය වංචාව නීත්‍යාණුකූල කිරීම ස`දහා ඔක්. 24 වන දින කැබිනට් රැස්වීමේ දී අනුමැතිය ලබාගැනීමට නියමිත බව වාර්තා වී තිබේ. එසේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
මුදුන්කඩවල සියතට ම ගෙන මලින් හැඩ කළ ඕ
කොළඹ ප්රධාන පෙළේ පාසලක දරුවෝ පිරිසක් පසුගිය සතියේ රතිඤ්ඤා පුපුරවමින් පාසල ඉදිරිපිට දී ම මහත් කලබලයක්‌ ඇති කළහ. දරුවන්ට රතිඤ්ඤා ද ගෙනැවිත් දෙමින් මෙම විරෝධතාවට ඔවුන් පෙළඹවූවෝ එම පාසලේ ගුරුවරු පිරිසකි . වසර ගණනක් එම පාසලේ මුල් බැස සිටි ගුරුවරු පිරිසකි. මේ ඇතැම් ගුරුවරුන් එම පාසලේ ගත කර ඇති කාලය විසි වසරකට අධික ය. තවත් අය වසර පහළව ද ඉක්‌මවා සිටිති. පාසල පවතින්නේ දරුවන්ට විනා තමන්ට නොවන බව ඔවුහු නොදන්නේ නොවේ. එහෙත් තමන්ගේ වාසිය වෙනුවෙන් කිසිත් නොදන්නා සෙයියාවෙන් හැසිරෙති. එසේ හැසිරීම පිටුපස ඇත්තේ අතිශය පෞද්ගලික අරමුණු විනා අන් කවරක්‌ හෝ නොවේ. ඔවුන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතාව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
The need for a new patriotic Political Movement, to rescue this country, Sinhala Nation and the Buddha Sasana from the imminent disastrous end to which this Government is taking. -A Final call to all Patriots.
22.10.2017 Looking at the way how our political parties in this country have ruined the country during the past 69 years that was the richest in South East Asia by 1948, and are continuing to do so alternatively even now. As for me, therefore I have no faith or trust in any of the existing political parties as none of them have a clear cut national policy, other than their own enrichment. They all are only parasitic bunches of self-centered power crazy set of men and women who have no concern for the country or... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
The Treacherous Conspiracy facing Sri Lanka – Part I
It remains a quandary why the Mahanaayaka Thero of the Malwatte Chapter Ven. Thibbatuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thero changing his earlier stance has reposed blind trust on Tamil and foreign slavish Sirisena and Ranil and expressed opinion in favour of the constitutional process being intensively undertaken by the government despite the well known fact that this process is being undertaken to effect the secret agreement reached by Sirisena and Ranil with the separatist Sampandan and fulfil the promises made to the Tamil diaspora, western imperialists including the UN interventionists, Indian hegemonists, and the dollar... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
Prevention of Sinhala Black-whites’ plan to Balkanize Sri Lanka
Introduction Sri Lanka’s recent history could be examined from several new (not Euro-centric) perspectives. Previously, I tried to explain it as a clash between the white/black-white rulers versus the Buddhist temple. After observing the short history of a silent (behind the scene) Jayampathy in I997 to a boisterous Jayampathy in 2017, now I feel that Sri Lanka’s history could also be explored as a dance between the Tamilness movement started by Ponnambalam Arunachalam during 1918-23 and the Sinhala black-white politicians, intentionally and/or stupidly, providing it incentives to take the balkanization path. The original two-country path changed in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
මීමුරේට තවලමක්
තමන්ට, සතා සීපාවට, ගහ කොළට, ගොවිතැනට ඕනකරන වතුර හොයාගන්න ක්රමයක් අපේ ගම්වල මිනිස්සු දැනගෙන හිටියා. වැව් හැදුවේ, ඒ වැව් එකිනෙක යාවෙන විදිහට ඇල මාර්ග හදලා එල්ලංගාවල් හැදුවේ ඒ දැනුමෙන්. යටත්විජිත බලපෑම නිසාත් ගම්වල තිබුණු අධ්‍යාපනය බිඳවැටීම නිසාත් දැන් ඒ දැනුම අපෙන් ඈත්වෙලා. ඒ මදිවට දැන් අපි හැමෝ ම සල්ලි පස්සේ දුවන අය බවටත් පත්වෙලා. සල්ලි හොයන ක්රමයක් විදිහට දැන් අපේ බොහෝ අය තේරුම් ඇරගෙන ඉන්නේ ගම්වලින් පිටට ගිහිල්ලා කන්තෝරු රස්සාවක් හොයාගන්න එක. දැන් තියෙන අධ්‍යාපනය ලිපිකරුවන් හදන එකක් හින්දා ඊට වඩා දෙයක් කරන දැනුමක් අපිට ඇත්තෙත් නෑ. ඉතින් හැම දා ම හොඳින් මැදගත්ත ඇඳුමක් ඇඳගෙන, බත් මුලකුත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
Constitution making: Kotte Chapter says not at this juncture
Kalyani Karaka Sabha of the Kotte, Sri Kalyani Samagri Dharma Maha Sangha Sabha yesterday unanimously decided that the proposals put forward by the steering committee on the drafting of the new Constitution should be temporarily withdrawn stating that the drafting of a new Constitution was not suitable at this juncture, Anunayake of the Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagri Dharma Maha Sangha Sabha Prof. Ven. Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thera said today. Ven. Wimalarathana Thera said serious issues may arise if Parliament accepted the proposals submitted as alternatives regarding the unitary State, security of the country, and Buddhism.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/17)
අලුත් ව්යවස්ථාව ඉල්ලන්නේ කවුද..සංහිදියාව කුමක්ද.. වියත් මගේදී ගෝටා කල මනරම් දෙසුම මෙන්න..
යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩු ක‍්‍රම ව්‍යවස්තාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝටාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අදහස් පල කරයි. ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් හෝ බලය බෙදීමක් අවශ්‍ය වී ඇත්තේ දේශපාලඥයන්ට මිස සාමාන්‍ය දෙමල ජනතාවට නොවන බවයි. අද නව ව්‍යවස්තාවක් ගෙන ඒමට සූදානම් වන්නේ එදා ත‍්‍රස්තවාදය යුද්දයෙන් අවසන් කල නොහැකි බව කී අයම බවත් ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙයි. හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්වරයා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ වියත්මඟ විසින් ගම්පහ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ පවත්වන ලද සම්මන්ත්‍රණයට ගම්පහ, වෙට් වෝටර් හෝටලයේ දී ඊයේ (22) එක්වෙමිනි. හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් මෙසේ ද ප්රකාශ කළේය. වියත් මඟ සංවිධානය දේශපාලනිකව ජනතාව ඉදිරියට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
Gota says further devolution won’t solve northerners’ problems
Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has said further devolution of power won’t solve the problems faced by the Tamil community. Addressing a gathering organised by Viyathmaga (Gampaha organization) at Wet Water Resort on Ja-ela-Gampaha road, on Saturday, Rajapaksa said he wasn’t aware of any country where problems had been solved with the help of devolution of power. Those who had faulted the previous Rajapaksa administration for not addressing post-war issues had conveniently forgotten how practical measures were taken to provide relief to the people. The former Defence Secretary urged Viyathmaga activists to play an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
Media, politicians & misinformation
Monday 23rd October, 2017 October 22, 2017, 9:43 pm Yahapalana leaders are allergic to criticism. They seem to think independent journalists are a nuisance. The kept press tells them what they love to hear. They can depend on the government-appointed Opposition to leap to their defence whenever they get into trouble. The Joint Opposition (JO) flogs issues selectively and cautiously without provoking the government too much lest its leaders and their family members should be arrested. Most civil society organisations are offering their services as cheerleaders to the yahapalana worthies, defending as they do the indefensible.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
Hidden agenda behind push for changing Constitution?
When a pot of water heats up, small bubbles form, then bigger bubbles form, and convection currents begin to cause much agitation, increase of entropy and turbulence; the water is ready to undergo a dramatic "phase transition". Water becomes steam. Social systems too, when highly stressed show increasing social turmoil, disruption and corruption. The normal course of justice is thwarted and those who control the purse begin to loot it. If we go by the news reports, then Sri Lanka is in a state close to such a phase transition. President Maithripala Sirisena has enough executive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
Invoking intelligence in the foreign ministry Mission impossible:
October 22, 2017, 9:41 pm The details of the Sri Lankan triumph in the 2009 Geneva special session as described in Sanja de Silva Jayatilleka’s Mission Impossible Geneva, should be essential reading for all those concerned about Sri Lanka’s foreign relations. It is of particular importance that members of the Foreign Service – and those thrust upon it by different regimes, including envoys in vital positions now such as Ranil Wickremesinghe’s cousin Amari Wijewardena (Britain), and Athauda Seneviratne’s son Buddhi (France), and Maithripala Sirisena’s Polonnaruwa pal Karunasena Hettiarachchi (Germany) – should read the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
බෙදිය නොහැකි සහ නොබෙදුනු කියන විශේෂණයත් ෆෙඩරල්ම තමයි-මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස් කියයි
මේ වන විට නව ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් මතුව ඇති අර්බුදකාරී වටපිටාවත්, රටේ උද්ගතව ඇති ප්රශ්න කිහිපයක් ද මුල් කරගෙන පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස් සමඟ දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්‍රහය කළ සාකච්ඡාවක් මතු දැක්‌වේ. ප්‍රශ්නය - සති අන්තය වෙනකොට රටේ ප්‍රධානතම මාතෘකාව වුණේa ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය ගැන මහ නාහිමිවරු කළ ප්‍රකාශයයි. මේ ගැන ඔබේ අදහස මොකක්ද? පිළිතුර - එය ඉතාම පැහැදිලියි. උන්වහන්සේලා ඉදිරිපත් කළේ රටේ මතය. ඒ ගැන විවාදයක්‌ නෑ. ප්‍රශ්නය - ඒත් අපි දැක්‌කා මේ ප්‍රවෘත්තිය වැරදි බව අගමැතිවරයා කළ ප්රකාශයක්. පිළිතුර - ඒ ගැන බොහෝම පැහැදිලි පිළිතුරක් මැදගම ධම්මානන්ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
සෙරෙප්පු සුප්
2017 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 22 වැනිදා ඉරිදා පෘථග්ජන සමාජයේ කොටසක්‌ බැවින් ද, කර්ම ශක්‌තිය පිළිගන්නා ආසියානු රටවලින් එකක් බැවින් ද, ශ්රී ලංකාව හැමදාමත් මොකක්‌ හෝ සංසාරගත ප්රශ්නයක් නිසා දුකට පත්වෙයි. කලකට වැස්ස නැත. කලකට වැස්ස වැඩි ය. කලකට අස්‌වැන්න නැත. කලකට අස්‌වැන්න වැඩි ය. කලකට ප්‍රශ්නය පොල් මිලය. තව කලකට ප්‍රශ්නය තෙල් මිල ය. එහෙමත් නැත්නම් විධායක ජනාධිපති ක්‍රමය ය. ඒ මොනවත් නැත්නම් ව්යවස්ථාව ය. මේ සියලු ප්‍රශ්නවලට අමතර ප්රශ්නයක් මේ දිනවල මේ රටේ කර්මාන්ත සමාජය තුළ බුබුළු දමමින් පවතී. ඒ වූ කලී සෙරෙප්පු සහ සපත්තු ප්‍රශ්නයකි. ඒ මෙසේයá ඉන්දියානු සෙරෙප්පු කොම්පැණියක්‌ මේ දිනවල සිය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
අගමැතිට කේන්ති ගිය මල්වතු - අස්ගිරි ප්‍රකාශයේ ඇත්ත මොකක්ද ?
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව පිළිබඳ වන අතුරු වාර්තාවෙහි ඇතුළත් කරුණු සම්බන්ධයෙන් මල්වතු අස්ගිරි උභය මහා විහාරයන් ඇතුළු අමරපුර රාමඤ්ඤ නිකාය සහ කෝට්ටේ පාර්ශවය ඇතුළු සමස්ථ සංඝයා වහන්සේලා දැඩි අවධානයකින් පසුවන්නේ, මේ හරහා බෞද්ධාගමට රටෙහි ඒකීයත්වයට මෙන්ම සිංහල ජනතාවට කිසියම් අකටයුත්තක්‌ සිදුවේය යන කුකුස පැන නැඟී ඇති නිසාය. නව ව්යවස්ථාවට ඇතුළත් කිරීමට බලාපොරොත්තුවන්නේ කුමක්ද යන වග, අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේත් මල්වතු පාර්ශවයේත් මහානායක හිමිවරු ප්‍රමුඛ සංඝ සභාවේ ස්වාමින් වහන්සේලා ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගෙන් විමසා සිටියේ, දෙදහස්‌ දහහතේ මැයි මස සිටය. විවිධ මැති ඇමැතිවරු පාර්ලිමේන්තු සභා රැස්වීම් ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදක මණ්ඩලය විවිධ අදහස් දැක්‌වීම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
මහින්ද ටක්කෙටම නිලයෙන් අල්ලයි...රට බෙදන ව්යවස්ථාවට එරෙහිව විශිෂ්ඨ ප්‍රකාශනයක්....
2017 ඔක්තෝම්බර් 16 මාධ්ය නිවේදනය - මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂනව ව්යවස්ථාවක් සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති යෝජනාවලිය නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් සඳහා යෝජනාවලියක් ආණ්ඩුව විසින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සභාගත කර ඇත. පසුගිය ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී යහපාලන පාර්ශවය ජනතාවට දුන් ව්‍යවස්ථාමය පොරොන්දු වූයේ, 2015 අප්‍රේල් 20 වෙනිදාට පෙර මැතිවරණ ක්‍රමය වෙනස් කොට, විධායක ජනාධිපති ක්‍රමය අහෝසි කරන බව පමණි. මුලු ව්‍යවස්ථාවම වෙනස් කිරීමට ජනවරමක් මේ ආණ්ඩුවට ලැබුණේ නැත. මේ ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන යෝජනාවලියේ පහත දැක්වෙන යෝජනා වලට අපට කිසිසේත්ම එකඟ විය නොහැක. • සිංහලෙන් ‘ඒකීය’ යන වචනය තවදුරටත් භාවිතා කරන අතර, ‘යුනිටරි’ යන ඉංග්‍රීසි වචනය හා එම සංකල්පය නව ව්යවස්ථාවෙන් ඉවත් කිරීම. ඒ අනුව ලංකාවේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
සිංහලයෙනි අවදිවව්! ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන වලට විරුද්ධවව්!
මාගේ මේ ආමන්ත්‍රණය සියළු ලංකා වාසීන් වෙත යොමු කළ යුතු වූවක් වුව ද මේ අවස්ථාවේදී මෙය වඩාත් ම තදින් බලපාන්නේ ද, ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයකට විරුද්ධව ප්‍රබල මැදිහත් වීමක් සඳහා එකතු විය හැක්කේ ද සිංහලයන්ට ම වන බැවින් ද, සිංහලයන් මෙසේ අමතනු ලැබීම සඳහා සුදුසු තෝරා ගැනීමක් වනු ඇති බව මගේ විශ්වාසයයි. සිංහලයෙනි, හොඳින් සිතා බලන්න. පැවති රජය පරාජය කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය වූයේ කාටද? ඒ සඳහා මැදිහත් වූයේ කවුරුන්ද? ඒ සඳහා යොදා ගනු ලැබූවේ කවුරුන්ද? එයට නන් අයුරින් ආධාර දුන්නේ කවුරුන් ද? බුද්ධිමත් වූ ඔබට මෙය තව දුරටත් රහසක් විය නොහැක. දූෂණයෙන් තොර යහපාලනයක් අප සියළු දෙනාගේම ප්‍රාර්ථනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
121 days of Treasury Bond Commission
The days of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Treasury bond auction of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka are numbered. With the 27 October deadline on the horizon, officers of the Commission, the Attorney General's Department and the defence counsel are caught in a tight race against time to make their final leap in the case. However, the three commissioners are confident after interviewing and listening to over 50 witnesses, stock load of documents, text messages and extracted phone call recordings – a pioneering moment in Sri Lanka's judicial history –... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
Division of Sri Lanka for ethnic-autonomy ruled-out – What then are the ‘genuine concerns of the Tamils’
Leaders of a country must have pluck to categorically say what can and what will not be accommodated under whatever terminology it is dressed in. Thus, Sri Lanka’s leaders must say and all others must be made to understand that Sri Lanka will not be divided to be given ethnic self-autonomy under any form. Having said that, given that many claim that only the Tamils have grievances it is now opportune to list these out instead of simply saying they have grievances which are not being addressed. For too long we have wasted years compromising over... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
“Tragedy of the fall of once Great Sri Lanka - Can Sri Lanka be Great again?”
Fall of “Sinhala Rule” and the Consequences 2358 years of the Sri Lankan Kings rule fell on 2nd March 1815 due to the coup of the Chief tens headed by “Ehalapola “who signed the disputed historic and decisive Convention to hand over the country and powers of governance away to the colonial power despite the silent protest of the common man. Robert “Brownrig” and” Ehalapola” were the first signatures of the agreement/convention in which the main clause amongst others was to give foremost position to Buddhism and to protect... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
Stand Against Racism -ජාතිවාදයට විරුද්ද වෙමු
Can you think of any country with a sizeable population where industry and property are dominated by the minority communities? Colombo the commercial hub of Sri Lanka, its population is dominated by Tamils and Muslims leaving Sinhalese in the minority The largest supermarket chain – Cargills is owned by the Page Family who are Jaffna Tamils living in Colombo. The largest brewery – Carsons (brands Lion, Three Coins Beer) is owned by the Selvanathan family who are Tamils The largest media network... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
එස්ඩබ්ලිව්ආර්ඩී බණ්ඩාරනායක එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයෙන් ඉවත් වී පෙළගැසුනේ වාමාන්සික පක්ෂ සමගය.
සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති තුමා සමග සිටින ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස්පාක්ශිකයින් රෙදි ඇඳන් සිටිත් නම් පාරලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත්කර තිබෙන ව්යවස්ථා අතුරු වාර්තාවට චන්දය නොදිය යුතුය. එස්ඩබ්ලිව්ආර්ඩී බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිතුමා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයෙන් ඉවත් වී පෙළගැසුනේ ෆිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන මැතිතුමා ඇතුලූ වාමාන්සිකයින් සමග බව අමතක නොකලයුතුය. ප්රශ්න නැතිවාටද මේ බටහිරට දනගහන විකුර්ති යහපාලනය කියන වචනයටත් නිගා දෙන ආණ්ඩුව ව්‍යවස්තා අතුරු වාර්තාවක් කියලා එකක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත්කරලා තියෙන්නේ. කාගෙන්ද කවදද මුන්ට ව්යවස්ථාවක් හදන්න ජනවරමක් ලැබුනේ. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ මුන්ට චන්දය දුන්න වුන් බලපොරොත්තු උනේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ස ජනාධිපති තුමාගේ ආණ්ඩුව කළාටත් වැඩි යමක් මුන් රටට කරයි කියල. නමුත් අද වෙලාතියෙන්න කුමක්ද ? රටේ මහා බැංකුවත් සුරා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/10/17)
දිවයින කාටූන්
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Spotlight moves from bonds to constitution
October 21, 2017, 7:31 pm The front pages of the daily newspapers have become duller with the conclusion of the recording of evidence by the bond scam commission. The emergence of all manner of sensational information and disclosures during proceedings had become the order of the day and this provided lunu ambul to news pages and the evening bulletins of the various television stations. The commission is on record saying that it had served some interrogatories on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who volunteered to appear before it as his name had transpired during the evidence of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/10/17)
Bond scandal: Rs.10 bln loss for next thirty years: Fmr. DG
According to the personal computation of retired Deputy Governor, W.A. Wijeywardena, who testified at the Presidential Commission today, the government’s long term loss for the next thirty years would be Rs.10 billion due to the failure of not meeting the appropriate terms in the process of issuing Treasury Bonds which took place on February 27, 2015. His personal computation had also indicated that the immediate loss after the issuance of the bonds incurred Rs. 532 million to the government. It was explained, that the February 2015 bond auction was originally intended to sell 1 billion... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/10/17)
News Line TV1 20th October 2017
https://youtu.be/EAM4oXLa96U... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/10/17)
ROBBERY ON CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY
https://www.facebook.com/VoteMahinda/videos/10155151058193040/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/10/17)
Over Whelming Response HUMANITY AT ITS BEST
Last Saturday, this column highlighted how helpless Asirigama villagers in Habarana have been 'Deprived and Discarded'. The news went viral on the Internet to generate overwhelming responses from fellow Sri Lankans and the expatriate community living aboard. The main story revolved on the seven-day-old baby Kavishka Sandaruwan, who was killed by a dog, but the plight of the villagers too seems to have touched many a heart. All human behaviour is composed of basic emotions, and its range and the nature become universally shared by humanity as a whole. This is what made fellow Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/10/17)
Stance of Malwathu and Asgiri Joint Sangha Council on Constitution explained (English)
https://youtu.be/GQtW-q8iv_k... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/10/17)
Proposed New National Constitution
His Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Aekiya/Orumiththa Nadu State Colombo, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Copy to: Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, Prime Minister Aekiya/Orumiththa Nadu State of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Your Excellency, Honourable Prime Minister and Senior Members of the Cabinet, Proposed New National Constitution Unitary Form of Government: I am writing to point out several serious shortcomings in the proposed New National Constitution which are irrelevant and tending to drastically reduce the powers wielded by the Central Government, and the grave potential for the present unitary state to wither... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/10/17)
Karaka Sangha Sabha Decision: "With full 'approval' and 'knowledge' of Mahanayake Theras"
Asgiriya Chapter Lekakadikari the Ven. Madagama Shri Dammananda Thera said on Thursday the decision taken by the Karaka Maha Sangha Sabha of the Malwatte and Asgiriya Chapters that there was no need for a new constitution or for any amendments was with the full 'approval' and 'knowledge' of the Mahanayake Theras of the Malwatte and Asgiriya Chapters. He said the Maha Sangha of the three chapters would carry out a public awareness and resistance campaign if the Government continued with the proposed Constitution without paying heed to the decision taken by the Karaka Sangha... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/10/17)
Attorney General in the dock
Those supporters of the Yahapalana Regime whose apologies have diminished to the point they take refuge in what I call the ‘At Least Thesis’ in the now tired game of comparison, have rightfully found some fuel in the recent assertiveness of the Attorney General’s Department. The reference is of course to the uncompromising positions taken by Additional Solicitor General Dappula De Livera and Deputy Solicitor General Milinda Gunathilaka in questioning witnesses before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the Central Bank bond issue scam. What’s missing in the adoration is something, anything, on the highly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/10/17)
Sri Lanka should resist UNHCR pressure
An American, garbed in orange jumpsuit, ostensibly calculated to echo the garb of al Qaeda insurgents apprehended and imprisoned by the United States. He kneels down next to a man dressed in all black, his face covered, and a knife in hand. For many, this has become a lasting image of the terrorist and insurgent group known as the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria, ISIS or simply Islamic state as it now calls itself. In a video posted to the internet on August 19, 2014 and extensively distributed over social media, the American delivers a speech,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
Why Chicken Skin Is Good For You
When eat chicken curry along with other curries and rice, we hardly think of removing the skin before we eat, never thought about any healthy points either. Chicken up to twice or thrice a week is good for you. Chicken, along with fish and turkey, is white meat and often recommended for a healthy lifestyle. Your chicken intake in your daily meals can be in many different healthy ways such as baking or grilling chicken breast or serving it with a variety of sauces and vegetables. It is, however, important that this chicken be skinless... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Police attempt to extra-judicially kill an innocent man
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the extra-judicial attempt to kill Mr. Pathirana Champika Kumara Jayatunga (28), a resident of Biyagama Police division by SFT Officers. The victim went out with his friend to purchase a new vehicle. Their rented van was fired on by a group of STF Officers in camouflage uniforms. The Officers without giving any signal to stop, fired at the vehicle, seriously injuring Pathirana. Officers brought the victim to the North Colombo Teaching Hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds. The relatives... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Fourteen-year-old child tortured by Moratuwa Police
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding the case of 14-year-old Kahingala Waduge Kanidu Minsara Silva, who was illegally arrested, detained and tortured by the Moratuwa Police Station on 10 October 2017. Minsara is a student at Uyana Kanishta Vidyalaya. On October 8, he had a non-violent dispute with a senior student, after which, Minsara was called to the police station and tortured. After he was produced in court, the Magistrate ordered a medical report and the police to investigate. Until now however, no investigation has been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
Alleged Killing Of 18 Navy and 8 Army Prisoners by LTTE In Jan 2009
President Maithripala Sirisena held successive discussions with two Tamil delegations in Colombo on Thursday (19) on the issue of Tamils detained in various prisons under the Prevention of Terrorism Act(PTA) in general and the hunger strike undertaken by three such detainees at the Anuradhapura Prison in particular. The focus at both discussions was more on the situation regarding the three prisoners on hunger strike as much as concern expressed with regard to their physical condition. Three Tamil men, 30-year-old Mathiyarasan Sulakshan from Karanavaai, 40-yr-old Rasathurai Thiruvarul from Velanai and 28 year... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
A deep state of crookedness
What was enacted at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCI) on the controversial bond issuance is downright disgusting. Bankers, Politicians and Corporates are getting away by just saying "I don’t know". Unscrupulous lawyers set it up for them to lie through their cavities and plaque ridden teeth under oath. What has been revealed here is just the tip of the iceberg. Where are those four lines of "defense" against corporate malpractice: internal controls, independent third parties, supervision and law enforcement? Not only in dealing rooms must the searchlight be shone, but also in procurement.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
Bondage of the people by the crooked
October 20, 2017, 10:10 pm Bond, Bond - the Treasury Bond tragedy will not easily go away. We’ve heard so much about the dirty dealings involved in this highly manipulated Bond transaction, giving rise to major doubts about the entire financial management and related systems of government in the country. We will await the report of the Presidential Commission with great expectations of helping to clean up the financial stables, but, will that ever happen? Are the forces involved in this errant exercise in cheating the country in any mood to abandon their crooked... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
President’s wish and ours
October 20, 2017, 12:00 pm The yahapalana leaders specialise in tilting at windmills, nay, media outfits. Everything they touch turns into an unholy mess instantly. The whole government is in a shambles with its big guns chasing their own tails and making colossal blunders, which are legion. But, never do they own up to their mistakes. It is the media that has to take the blame for their bungling and snafu. Thomas Jefferson famously said that given a choice between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government he would just as soon have the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
International Convention on Enforced Disappearances Violates the Constitution
October 20, 2017, 10:09 pm The focus of the entire nation is currently on constitutional reforms. In the midst of it, this government has ratified an international convention by becoming a signatory to the "The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances", on December 10, 2015. The Convention that was ratified by the government on May 3, 2016 came into force in respect of Sri Lanka on June 24, 2016. The attempt herein is to address whether the government has the authority to ratify an international convention that violates provisions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
DEW explains why PM couldn’t be summoned after AM’s testimony First COPE inquiry
October 20, 2017, 10:31 pm Former Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) D. E. W. Gunasekera told The Island yesterday that the parliamentary watchdog committee lacked powers to summon ministers and, therefore, it had not been able to seek an explanation from Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe or the then Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake in respect of the probe into the first Central Bank-Perpetual Treasuries bond scam committed in February 2015. Gunasekera said the COPE as well as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) couldn’t summon ministers. Even if Prime Minister Wickremesinghe had volunteered... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
War crimes: GR highlights confusion over civilian death toll ‘Very basis of move to change Constitution disputed’
Wartime Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that the very basis of the controversial Geneva Resolution 30/1 had been strongly disputed by Michael Morris, Baron Naseby, PC, during a debate on Sri Lanka in the British parliament Thursday last week. Sri Lanka co-sponsored Resolution 30/1 in Oct 2015, in spite of the Foreign Ministry rejecting the same the month before. In accordance with that co-sponsored declaration, Sri Lanka had accepted foreign judges as well as other experts in the proposed war crimes courts, Rajapaksa said, adding that Baron Naseby’s statement was timely and couldn’t... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
ණය කන්ද උඩ ආණ්ඩුවේ කොන්ද
රටක ආර්ථිකයේ කොඳුනාරටිය වන්නේ මූල්ය වෙළෙඳපොළයි. නමුත් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ මූල්ය වෙළෙඳපොළ කෙතරම් දූෂණය වී ඇත්ද යන්න තේරුම් ගැනීමට පසුගියදා විභාගයට ගැනුණු බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමේ සාක්ෂි පමණක් කියෑවීම හොඳටම ප්‍රමාණවත්ය. මේ මූල්ය වෙළෙඳපොළ තුළ රටේ ආණ්ඩු ලාභ ලැබීම කෙසේ වෙතත් ජාමෙ බේරාගත් ඉතිහාසයක්‌ අප දැක නැත. සිදු වූ එකම දෙය ආණ්ඩු පත්කිරීමට මූල්‍යාධාර ලබාදුන් ව්‍යාපාරිකයන් ටි්‍රලියනපතියන් වී ඔවුන් රටේ පාලනය හසුරුවන රාජ්ය මාµsයාකරුවන් බවට පත්වීම පමණි. මෙය සෑම ආණ්‌ඩුවකටම පොදුවූ රටේ ජනතාවට පමණක් අපුල ගෙන දුන් කාරණාවකි. පසුගියදා මාධ්ය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතා පවසා තිබුණේ වත්මන් රජය පාලනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
Democracy ! Democracy!! Where art thou ?
Yahapalanaya is a misnomer, it is a Sirisena-Ranil Dictatorship. The Present Government of Sri Lanka is a Sirisena, Ranil and UNP Dictatorship. It is really the UNP that governs under the label SLFP-UNP joint Yahapalanaya Government. It is not a popular government though they speak of a 62 percent of the population voting for them. But how was this 62 percent made up ? Let us see. For the 2015 Presidential election Maithripala Sirisena had the highest voting for him coming from the Tamils and the Muslims. Maithripala Sirisena got 78 percent of the Votes in Vanni,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/17)
No freedom of expression as bragged: SLPP
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) said today, Anika Wijesuriya, a key witness in the Bond investigation had left the country due to death threats though the government said it had enabled an environment where anyone could criticize anyone without being subjected to intimidation. SLPP Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris said if it was not for Ms. Wijesuriya, the leasing out of penthouse by Arjun Aloysius in which former finance minister’s family resided in would not have come to light. https://youtu.be/GGzafuxGxh4 “This was a significant part of the investigation into Bond scam. A close... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Innocent man abducted by Blue Police Van in the heart of Colombo
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mr. Nalaka Danushka Kumara (33) of Moragasmulla, Rajagiriya. He is a resident in the Rajagiriya Police Division. He was abducted by a group of powerfully-built men in a Blue Van at 7 p.m. on 15 October 2017. Relatives of the victim lodged a complaint with the Police who did not take the necessary steps to investigate the crime. A relative pointed out that the Blue Van had the symbol of ‘POLICE’ on it. Later, Police brought the victim back to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
උමාඔය සහන වැඩසටහන අවුලෙන් අවුලට ජනාධිපතිතුමා බදුල්ල දිසාපතිට පිටින් ‘ආපදා කළමනාකරණ යාන්ත්‍ර‍ණයක් පිහිටුවයි‘
ඉදිරියේ දී සක්‍රීය විය හැකි මෝසම් වැසි තත්වයට මුහුණදීම සදහා බදුල්ල දිසාපති නිමල් අබේසිරි ගෙන් බාහිර යාන්ත්‍ර‍ණයක් සකස් කිරීම සදහා ජනාධිපතිවරයා කටයුතු කර ඇත. එහි පළමු රැස්වීම් අද පැවැත්වේ. රු. මිලියන 600 ක මුදලක් සහන කටයුතු සදහා ලබාදීමෙන් පසුව ද, සහක කටයුතු සිදු නොවීම හේතුවෙන් මේ වන විට උමාඔය සහන ව්‍යාපෘතිය අවුලෙන් අවුලට පත්වී ඇත. ආපදා කළමනාකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශය, ජාතික ගොඩනැගිලි පර්යේෂණ සංවිධානය, ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම්වරුන්ගෙන් සමන්විත කාර්යාලයක් බණ්ඩාරවෙල නගරයේ නොවැම්බර් 1 දින සිට ආරම්භ කරනු ඇත. කොන්ත්‍රාත්කාර ෆරාබ් සමාගම සතු නිවාස කිහිපයක් ද, වාහන ද එයට අනියුක්ත කරනු ඇත. ඉදිරි මාස 4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Innocent man fired on by Police in broad daylight in Negombo
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the attempt to extra-judicially kill Mr. Ranhotigedara Vajira Kumara (41), at the Negombo Police Division in Gampaha District. At 5:30 p.m. 12 August 2017, Vajira was driving to his business with friends on Colombo-Puttalam Road towards Chilaw. Without warning, a group of Police Officers attached to the Special Task Force (STF) fired on his vehicle. Vajira was injured and later admitted to the National Hospital of Colombo for treatment. Relatives of the victim state that STF Officers attempted to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
PM should answer to commission for appointing Mahendran - Dinesh
https://youtu.be/_syjuItpE0Y... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
let us HOPE LATEST COMMISSION REPORT WON’T BE SHELVED
Sri Lanka has two conventional forms of inquiring into high stake criminal allegations: one is to conduct a mainstream Police investigation, which more or less would result in a lackadaisical inspection that might or might not result in justice being served. The second form is the Inquisitorial Commission which encompasses all aspects of law and order in the country, into a nice and cute goodie bag but would ultimately have only one purpose: reporting to the Head of State and give recommendations as to what should be done with regard to the matter. Unbeknownst the fact... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
Elephants and chameleons
October 19, 2017, 9:44 pm The JVP has fired the opening salvo in what seems to be a well organised campaign to prevent President Maithripala Sirisena from seeking a second term. Its Propaganda Secretary Vijitha Herath, MP, has vowed to defeat Sirisena if he contests again. SLFPers loyal to Sirisena want him to seek another term as their political survival is dependent on him; they have been busy sending trial balloons for the past several months. President Sirisena declared, on several occasions, that he wouldn’t contest again, as the JVP has rightly pointed out. He made... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
Implications of Provincial Police Departments
Law enforcement agencies are the most crucial element in maintaining law and order in any country, not just in Sri Lanka. In almost all countries, the primary force of law enforcement is the Police. Should the Police be mediocre, the nation fails and criminals will rule. So, it does matter to Sri Lanka how the Police enforce the law, and how any changes will affect the country. Sri Lanka always had a singular and united Police Department, which operated under a common banner. This continued up until 1987 when the Prime Minister of India... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
A new constitution: Promise, need or bluff?
October 19, 2017, 9:50 pm Buddhist monks objecting to the proposed constitution Your columns have attracted much discussion on whether a New Constitution was promised or necessary. Whether such has been promised or not is a matter of contention. Since electoral promises are not meant to be taken seriously, this is -rather like a blunt pencil – somewhat pointless. Regarding a requirement, many, including the Mahanayakes have dismissed the need. There was also Maithripala Sirisena’s promise that no change requiring a referendum will be made. To many, this debate is boring. To... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
අගමැතිගේ අන්තිම තුරුම්පුවට හැරෙන තැපෑලෙන් පිලිතුරු.. අස්ගිරි-මල්වතු මහ නාහිමිවරුන් නව ව්යවස්ථාවට විරුද්දයි.. තීන්දුයි.. තුන් ඈවරයි..[Video]
නව ව්‍යවස්ථාවකට මෙන්ම ව්‍යවස්තා සංශෝධයකටද විරුද්ද වන බවට අස්ගිරි හා මල්වතු නිකායන්හි කාරක සංඝ සභාවන් විසින් දිනයේ ගන්නා ලද තීරණය මල්වතු හා අස්ගිරි මහ නාහිමිවරුන්ගේ අනුදැනුම මත රැස් වී ගන්න ලද තීරණයක් යයි අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ මහ ලේකකාධිකාරී පූජ්‍ය මැදගම ධම්මානන්ද නාහිමියෝ පවසති. කොළඹදී පැවති සම්මන්ත‍්‍රණයක් අමතමින් උන් වහන්සේ මෙම අදහස් පල කලහ. ත්‍රෙනිකායික මහා සංඝයා වහන්සේලා ඒකාරාශි කරගෙන තවත් ඉදිරි පියවරයන් රාශියක් ගන්නා බවද උන් වහන්සේ එහිදී අවධාරණය කලහ. මහජන බලය කොල්ලකෑම සදහා සංවිධානය වී සිටින සිවිල් සංවිධාන කියාගන්නා පුද්ගලයන්ට ඉඩ නොතබන බවද උන් වහන්සේ එහිදී වැඩි දුරටත් කියා සිටියහ. https://youtu.be/A841mqVzJSw... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
Premier lashes out at editors for highlighting prelates’s opposition to proposed new Constitution
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday took exception to media coverage given to a joint statement issued by Malwatte and Asgiriya Chapters of the dominant Siyam Sect demanding an immediate halt to the ongoing constitution making process. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday said that some newspapers had misled the public by publishing reports that the Mahanayakes had opposed the new constitution. Mahanayake of the Malwatte chapter was out of the country but the newspapers published his picture with a story stating that Mahanayakes were against the new constitution, the Prime Minister said, addressing a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
Weedkiller scientist was paid £120,000 by cancer lawyers
A scientist who advised a United Nations agency to classify the world’s most widely used weedkiller as carcinogenic received $160,000 (£121,500) from law firms bringing claims by cancer victims against the manufacturer. Christopher Portier advised the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organisation, which concluded in March 2015 that glyphosate was a “probable human carcinogen”. He did not declare his links to the law firms in a letter to the European Commission urging it to accept the IARC classification. The commission is debating whether to continue to allow sales... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority
‘It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities - to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences. Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority’. This quotation – singularly apposite in the context of what is happening in Sri Lanka – is extracted from the writings of the Sociologist N N Taleb. He sees... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
Asgiri and Malwathu Joint Council says no to new Constitution
The Joint Sangha Council of the Malwathu and Asgiri Chapters of the Siam Sect have decided that there is no need for a new Constitution or any amendments to the existing Constitution. The council, which convened for a special meeting at the Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy this evening (18), also decided that the ongoing process of formulating a new constitution should be halted immediately. The Sangha Councils of both chapters gathered today to discuss the proposed new constitution, in the wake of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් අනවශ්‍ය බව අස්ගිරි - මල්වතු නාහිමිවරු කියති
නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් ශ්රී ලංකාවට අවශ්‍ය නොවන බව කියමින් අස්ගිරි හා මල්වතු මහ නාහිමිවරු අද(18) විශේෂ නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කළහ. නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් හෝ ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයක් අවශ්‍ය නොවන බව මහ නාහිමිවරු අවධාරණය කරති. යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය පිළිබඳ සාකච්ඡා කිරීම සඳහා මල්වතු හා අස්ගිරි පාර්ශ්වයන්ගේ අනුනායක හිමිවරුන් ප්‍රමුඛ දෙපාර්ශ්වයේ කාරක මහා සංඝ සභාවේ සභික හිමිවරුන් ඵෙතිහාසික ශ්රී දළඳා මාලිගා පරිශ්‍රයේ රන් ආයුද මණ්ඩපයේ දී අද රැස්වූහ. සාකච්ඡාව අවසන මාධ්ය වෙත විශේෂ ප්රකාශයක් කළ දිඹුල්කුඹුරේ විමලධම්ම මල්වතු පාර්ශ්වයේ අනුනායක හිමියෝ මෙසේ පැවසූහ. ‘නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම පිළිබඳ අප විශේෂයෙන් සාකච්ඡා කළේ මේ සම්බන්ධව විද්වත් මණ්ඩලයක් අපව දැනුවත් කළ නිසයි. මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
රට ෆෙඩරල් කර කෑලිවලට කඩන රනිල්ගේ ද්‍රෝහී ව්‍යස්ථා යෝජනා පරදවන්න පෙරට එන්න!! - ගෙවිඳු
වත්මන් රජයේ ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදන ක්‍රියාවලිය ආරම්භ වූයේ ලාල් විඡේනායක මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් මහජන අදහස් ලබාගැනීමට යෑයි කියා පත් කරන ලද කමිටුවේ නිර්දේශයන් සමඟ ය. ඒ කමිටු නිර්දේශ අතර ශ්රී ලංකාව අනාගමික රාජ්යයක් විය යුතු බවටත්, බුද්ධාගමට දී ඇති 'ප්රමුඛස්ථානය' ඊට අහිමි කොට සියලු ආගම්වලට සමාන තත්ත්වයක්‌ ලබාදිය යුතු බවටත් යෝජනා විය. ශ්රී ලංකාව ඒකීය රාජ්යයක් විය යුතු බව ව්යවස්ථාවේ සඳහන් දෙවැනි වගන්තිය සංශෝධනය කොට 'ඒකීය' පදය ව්යවස්ථාවෙන් ඉවත් කිරීමට ද මේ කමිටුව විසින් යෝජනා කෙරිණි. මේ විඡේනායක වාර්තාවේ නිර්දේශ සම්බන්ධයෙන් මහා සංඝයා වහන්සේලාගේ ද ගිහි බෞද්ධ ජනතාවගේ ද විරෝධයට ප්‍රතිචාර දැක්‌වූ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ රජය රට ණය කන්දක හිරකළැයි කියන අගමැතිගේ ප්‍රකාශය මහා බොරුවක්‌ - බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන (එජනිස)
ලංකාවේ දැවැන්තම රාජ්ය ණය අර්බුදයක්‌ හටගත්තේ 2001, 2002, 2003 හා 2004 වර්ෂවලදී කියා එවකට අගමැතිවරයා වශයෙන් රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා රට හමුවේ, ජාතිය අමතා ප්රකාශයක් කළේ ද නැද්ද? කියා පුළුවන්නම් ප්රකාශයක් කරන ලෙසට තමා අගමැතිවරයාට අභියෝග කරන බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැවසීය. එමෙන්ම 2016 අයවැය ලේඛනයෙන් හරියටම සියයට 20 ක් වියදම් කළේ නෑ. වියදම් නොකර 1/5 ක් ඉතිරි කළා කියා පිළිගන්නේ ද නැද්ද යන්නත් 2016 අයවැයෙන් අධ්‍යාපනයට වෙන්කළ මුදලින් සියයට 32 ක් පමණක් වියදම් කර වෙන්කළ මුදලින් 2/3... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
නව ව්යවස්ථාවෙන් විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරය අහෝසි විය යුතුයි... මෛත්‍රී නැවත ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ආවොත් අනිවාර්යෙන් පරාජය කරනවා..
මාධ්ය හමුව - 2017.10.18 ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ බත්තරමුල්ල, පැලවත්ත ජ.වි.පෙ. ප්රධාන කාර්යාලයේදී... දැනට තිඛෙන 78 ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව පැරණි එකක්. අද සමාජය අලූත් වෙලා. එම අලූත් සමාජයට ගැලපෙන විදිහේ අලූත් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවක අවශ්‍යතාවය මතුවෙලා තිබුණා. අපේ රටට අලූත් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් අවශ්‍යයයි කියන ස්ථාවරයේ අපි ඉන්නවා. 2015 ජනවාරි 08 ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වුණු එවකට ඇමතිවරයෙක් වුණු මෛතී්‍රපාල සිරිසේන මහත්තයා පොදු අපේක‍ෂකයෙක් බවට පත්වූයේ විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරය අහෝසි කිරීමේ මූලික එකඟතාවය මතයි. විධායක ජනාධිපතිධුරය අහෝසි කිරීම සඳහා නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් අවශ්‍යයයි. අලූත් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් සඳහා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ 2/3 බලයත් ඉන් අනතුරුව ජනමත විචාරණයකුත් අවශ්‍ය වෙනවා. විධායක ජනාධිපතිධුරය අහෝසි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/17)
ANOTHER TERRORIST OF RAW
Muhammad Shabbir was once an innocent common man. He unfortunately became a tool in the hands of the RAW and is now counting down his remaining days of life as he has been ‘awarded’ death penalty by the honorable Session Court and by the Qazi Court of Mirpur Azad Jammu Kashmir. He was not a criminal by birth but the RAW pushed him to a world of no-return. This RAW agent is an Indian national and belongs to Sakan Topo, Tehsil Maindar District Poonch of Indian Occupied Kashmir. Somewhere in 1987 he got an opportunity of sneaking... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Inmate extra-judicially murdered inside Polonnaruwa Remand Prison
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Pitawalagedara Chandrarathna (47), resident of Bakamuna Police Division. Chandrarathna was arrested on 4 May 2017 charged with participation in a murder. After being detained for 14 days, he was found dead on 18 September 2017--murdered inside the Polonnaruwa Remand Prison. Prison Authorities said that they handed over the dead body to the family on the same day. But they failed to explain the way in which the death occurred or name those responsible. Relatives of the victim demand an independent,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
රාජ්ය අමාත්‍ය එරාන් වික්‍රමරත්න මහතාගේ ප්‍රකාශය හෙළා දකිමු.
විදේශීය තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ වෘත්තිකයන් ශ්රී ලංකාවට පැමිŒම සඳහා වීසා ලබා දීමේ පූර්ණ බලතල ආගමන පාලක වරයා වෙත ලබා දීමට අවශ්‍ය නීතිමය කටයුතු රජය විසින් සම්පාදනය කරමින් සිටින බව මෑතකදී රාජ්ය අමාත්‍ය එරාන් වික්‍රමරත්න මහතා පැවසීය. අමාත්‍යවරයා පවසා සිටියේ දැනට පවතින ක්‍රමවේදයට අනුව අදාළ අවශ්‍යතාවය ඇති සමාගම මඟින් ඒ සඳහා අදාළ අමත්‍යාංශයෙන්, ෂක‍ඔA ඒජන්සියෙන් සහ ආගමන-විගමන දෙපාර්තුන්මේන්තුවෙන් අවසර ගත යුතු අතර, මේ සඳහා ගතවන කාලය අවම කරනු පි‚ස, තීරණය ගැනීමේ සම්පූර්ණ බලය ආගමන පාලකවරයා වෙත පමණක් පවරන බවයි. ඔහුගේ මෙම වගකීම් විරහිත, අනුවණ ප්‍රකාශය දැක අපි මවිතයට පත්වීමු. විෂයානුබද්ධ දැනුම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
CSSL Facilitates international Epihack project to fight Dengue
According to the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health, there were 80,732 cases of dengue fever reported between January 1st and July 7th 2017. This number includes 215 deaths as a result of the disease. And the worst hit was the Colombo District with 18,186 cases. Dengue has always been amongst the deadliest diseases we face in Sri Lanka. And epihack Sri Lanka aims to stop it. epihack is described as, “a 5-day hackathon bringing together public health professionals, IT developers, IT designers and government officials to create an open source digital solution to health... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
West must remove war crime threats on SL: Lord Naseby
The West, particularly the US and the UK, must remove the threat of war crimes and foreign judges that overhangs and overshadows all Sri Lankans, especially their leaders, a British Baron told the British Parliament on Thursday. Michael Morris, Baron Naseby PC, who started the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka in 1975, expressed these views during a debate on Sri Lanka. The debate focused on what assessment the UK Government has made of the progress made by Sri Lanka in meeting the requirements on reconciliation established by the United Nations Human Rights Council.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
AAG De Livera has ‘some other questions’ to ask the PM
Acting Attorney General Dappula De Livera at the conclusion of PCoI proceedings said yesterday he would also have some other questions to ask from the Prime Minister apart from the questions put forward by the Commission. Responding to the statement made by the PCoI, AAG Dappula De Livera also expressed his observations. AAG De Livera was of the view that his team of Counsel of the Attorney General’s Department assisted the Commission under Section 23 of the Commission of Inquiry Act and spearheaded the investigation pertaining to the bond inquiry with the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
Treasury Bonds scandal:PCoI sends questions to PM
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the Treasury Bonds scandal at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has sent a list of questions to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe seeking clarification regarding some matters that came up during a testimony. Commission Chairperson, Supreme Court Justice, K.T. Chitrasiri said, yesterday (17) that questions had been sent to the Premier and that he has been asked to send in the replies in an affidavit. Upon receiving the signed affidavit, the Commission will read it and, if necessary, request him to submit further clarifications in writing or... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
Even the PM should be in Prison for the frauds
Kandy District UPFA Member of Parliament Dilum Amunugama said the Local Government Election should have been held a year earlier, and went on to say "We have been prepared since then. We will contest through a separate Alliance. It is this Government that keeps postponing elections and is playing with the sovereignty of the people". Excerpts of the interview: Minister Lakshman Kiriella says that the Colombo-Kandy Expressway is being built? A: It was commenced by our Government. Then this Government came in. Even now, it has been delayed. These people struggled looking for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
පර්පෙචුවල් ට්‍රෙෂරීස්‌ සමාගම අපරාධ සංවිධානයක්‌ එය මා නැවත කියනවා - අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල් යසන්ත කෝදාගොඩ
අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස්‌ගේ පර්පෙචුවල් ට්‍රෙෂරීස්‌ සමාගම ව්‍යාපාරික ආයතනයක් නොව මේ රටට විශාල හානියක් කරමින් සාපරාධී ක්‍රියාවල යෙදුණ අපරාධ සංවිධානයක්‌ යෑයි අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල් ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ යසන්ත කෝදාගොඩ මහතා ඊයේ (17 දා) ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ පැවසුවේය. එම සමාගම කළ අපරාධ, සාපරාධී ක්‍රියා ක්‍රමයෙන් හෙළිවෙමින් පවතින විට මීට මාස 03 කට පමණ උඩදී මම මේ කොමිසම හමුවේ එම ප්‍රකාශයම කළා. නමුත් එදා එම සමාගම වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි නීතිඥවරු මට තදින් විරුද්ධ වුණා. මා ඒ ප්‍රකාශය කළේ සැර බාල කරලයි. නමුත් හොඳට ශබ්ද නඟල, උස්‌ හඬින් යුතුව අද මම ඒ ප්‍රකාශයම කරනවා. පර්පෙචුවල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
මෙන්න ඇත්ත! ජිනීවා හෙළිදරව්ව
අපේ රටේ විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශයක්‌ තිබේද? මේ බරපතළ ප්‍රශ්නය අසන්නේ විදේශ රටවල සිටින ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන්ය. පසුගියදා පැවති ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුවේදී තමිල්නාඩුවෙන් කුලියට ගෙන්වාගත් තක්‌කඩි පිරිසක් ලවා ජාත්යන්තර ප්‍රජාව මුලාකිරීමට කොටි ඩයස්‌පෝරාව ක්‍රියාකරද්දී ඊට ප්‍රතිචාර දැක්‌වීමට අපේ කිසිවෙක්‌ සිටියේ නැත. ගෝලීය ශ්රී ලංකා සංසදය නොතිබුණේ නම් කොටි ඩයස්‌පෝරාව ඔවුන්ගේ බෙදුම්වාදී නාටකය මැනවින් රඟදක්‌වනු නියතය. මේ කොටි ඩයස්‌පෝරාව මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය තුළ සමාන්තර රැස්වීම් 14 ක් පැවැත්වූහ. එසේම මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුව තුළ ශ්රී ලංකාවට එරෙහිව පට්‌ටපල් බොරු පවසනු ලැබීය. එහෙත් අපේ තානාපති නිලධාරීන් පැත්තකවත් නැත. හමුදාවෙන් සියලු පහසුකම් ලබාගත් තමිල් සෙල්වම්ගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
බෙදුම්වාදී ව්යවස්ථා එපා - ජාතික සමුළුව - ඔක් 19 - මහජන පුස්තකාල ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී
- ඔක් 19 - මහජන පුස්තකාල ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී සවස 3 ට මාතෘභූමියට හිතැති ඔබත් එන්න... ලංකාව ඔරුමිත්ත නාඩුවක් [ෆෙඩරල් රටක්] කිරීමේ යෝජනා ‘ශී‍්‍ර ලංකා ජනරජය එ්කීය රාජ්‍යයකි’ යන වර්තමාන ව්යවස්ථාවේ සරල නිරවුල් 2 වන වගන්තිය, ”ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාව නිදහස්, ස්වෛරී සහ ස්වාධීන ජනරජයක් වනු ඇති අතර ව්යවස්ථාවෙන් නියම කර ඇති බලතල කි‍්‍රයාත්මක කරන මධ්‍යම හා පළාත්බද ආයතනවලින් සමන්විත වන එ්කීය රාජ්යයක් / ඔරුමිත්ත නාඩු වනු ඇත.” යනුවෙන් වෙනස් කිරීමට යෝජනා කර ඇත. මේ ආකාරයට ව්යවස්ථාවේ සිංහල හා ඉංගී‍්‍රසි පිටපත්වලට පවා ෆෙඩරල් රට යන අරුත දෙන ‘ඔරුමිත්ත නාඩු’ යන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
International Schools are they really registered as schools under the ministry of education?
After Alethea International School situated at N0.15,Sri Mahabodhi Road, Dehiwala, Sri Lanka; it is reportedly understood that no other private teaching institute was given recognition under the ministry of education as a school registered under the norms of the ministry of education; to function in Sri Lanka. But there are many so called international schools operating in Sri Lanka who are registering their students to the local syllabus which is offered by the ministry of education, under their international tag. Allowing such procedures to take place makes room for error that these so called... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
MARTIAL LAW RIOTS IN 1915 IN CEYLON AS A RESULT OF A JUDGEMENT: Order in chaos
In 1915, the riots between the Sinhalese and the Coastal Moors broke out and spread to Kandy and other neighbouring areas. The British panicked. They thought that this was to oust them from Ceylon. The Governor Sir Robert Chalmers was determined to quell The Martial Law was declared in 1915 in Ceylon by Sir Robert Chalmers the then Governor. The British Government Agent of Kandy was directly responsible for the riots. The rioting was in consequence of the denial by the GA of the Central... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
“Federalism bad for Ceylon, worse for the Tamils” – G. G. Ponnambalam
One of the main reasons that exacerbated the North-South relations in the post-independent era has been the total distortion of historical realities by a sizeable segment of our intellectuals who believed that history was a train of events, somewhat like the Yal Devi, that ran up ONLY (emphasis mine) to the North from the South and stopped there without coming down. That is to say, it is the South that sent all the troubles to the North. The fact that Yal Devi also came down and interacted with the South has been ignored or denied.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
An Ode to RW – Discede RW Discede
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, As home his footsteps he hath turn’d From wandering on a foreign strand! Alas, there breathes such a man in Lanka fair. He struts at home and creeps abroad with cabbages and kings. Sadly he sells, as his wont, just like his cronies queer, unable to differentiate between country and self. He shames his school and his land, as he sells his Matha... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
Sri Lanka’s New Constitution is not going to be Unitary or Federal but Confederal
To understand the danger of what those drafting the new constitution is plotting to do, it is important to understand the features that make a Unitary, Federal & Confederal Constitutions. The countries that initially had confederacies abandoned them in view of its weaknesses and impending dangers. Why is Sri Lanka then walking into a future of chaos and instability and to satisfy whose wishes? Features of a Unitary Form of Government All powers centralized in Central Government. Local government system prevails where powers are delegated with strict central control/supervision Unitary systems does not have list... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
හරවා එල්ල කරන කණේ පහර
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වැස්ස හා නියඟය මාරුවෙන් මාරුවට රට කළඹවා දමන්නාක් මෙන්, විවිධාකාරයේ මිනිස් ලේ ධාතුව කුපිත කරවන වර්ගයේ පුවත් විසින් දේශපාලනික වායුගෝලයද කළඹවා ලයි. මේ දිනවල මෙසේ කතාබහට වඩාත්ම ලක්වූ කාරණා නම්, මත්තල ගුවන් තොටුපල ඉන්දියාවට පවරා දීමට එරෙහිව පැවති විරෝධතාවකදී සහකාර පොලිස් අධිකාරීවරයෙකු විසින් මාධ්‍යවේදියෙකුගේ කණට ගැසූ පුවතත්, පසුගිය ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ජයග්‍රහණයකල, හංසයා ලකුණ දරන පක්ෂයේ සභාපතිවරයාගේ පුරවැසිභාවය පිලිබඳ ප්‍රශ්නයත්ය. එක අතකට මේ මාධ්‍යවේදීන්ගේ කණට ගැසීම යනු, ප්රධාන ප්‍රශ්නය යටපත් කිරීම උදෙසා රජය සතු හොඳම විසඳුම්වලින් එකක් බව පැහැදිලිය. 2016 දෙසැම්බරයේදී හම්බන්තොට, මාගම්පුර වරාය චීනයට 99 අවුරුදු බද්දකට පවරන්නට කටයුතුකල මොහොතේදී ඇතිවූ විරෝධතා රැල්ල මැදට කඩා පාත්වුනු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/17)
US influences Lanka’s foreign policy, undermines China relations
October 17, 2017, 8:32 pm The US recently twice commented on Sri Lanka-China relations, in an extremely negative way. There hadn’t been such highly controversial and critical US statements regarding Sri Lanka-China relations during the war, or after the successful conclusion of the conflict, in May 2009. One statement was made in Washington and the other in Colombo, much to the embarrassment of Sri Lanka, a recipient of substantial Chinese investments and loans, military supplies during the war, as well as critical support at international forums, such as the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
Needed: Responsible govt. not federalism
October 17, 2017, 8:28 pm The fundamentally flawed nature of the draft constitution to be debated in parliament makes a clause by clause analysis an exercise in futility. The basic problem, in a nutshell, is that the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly (the committee) is asking the Sri Lankan nation to place its trust in a fully devolved political structure. The problem is that the idea of federalism the committee has adopted is founded on a model advocated by dishonest international forces with vested interests. A brief look into the committee’s version... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
Blues of the Blues
October 17, 2017, 9:04 pm The SLFP is apparently in the suicidal mode. What may be described as a bloodless version of the Night of the Long Knives has debilitated it as never before; several popular party organisers, in the dissident group, have been sacked. The mega purge is far from over. The next few weeks are likely to see many more senior party organisers being ousted. There has been a severe erosion of public faith in the two main parties which have been in the clutches of self-serving politicians and, therefore, one may not care... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Innocent man tortured to death by Police of Colombo North Division
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the extra-judicial killing of Mr. D P Premasiri (65) of Stace Road, Grandpass, Colombo 14 in the Colombo District. On 9 August 2017, Premasiri was illegally arrested, severely tortured at his house in front of his relatives and neighbors. Later, he was handcuffed and pushed against a parapet wall causing him to fall over on the ground and was fatally injured. He was brought to the National Hospital of Sri Lanka by relatives and pronounced dead on admission. Police... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
Anika Wijesuriya has fled country due to threats - AG’s Dept
Anika Wijesuriya, a key witness who had testified before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the treasury bond scam, has fled the country due to receiving threats to her life. This was revealed to the commission today (17) by President’s Counsel Yasantha Kodagoda, Additional Solicitor General at Attorney General’s Department, during the hearing held this morning. https://youtu.be/IISJSKVmeVQ Wijesuriya, a director of East - West Properties, had given evidence to the bond commission that the lease of the penthouse apartment used by former Minister Ravi Karunanayake was paid by Arjun Aloysius... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
New entry period for US Diversity Visa
The registration period for the US diversity visa (DV-2019) has been revised due to technical issues, the US Embassy said today. In a statement, it said the new entry period would be open for electronic entries on October 18 from 11:00 am to November 22 until 11:00 am. Due to the new entry period, all entries made prior to October 18, 2017 should be resubmitted for the entrant to be considered, it said. The technical issue was the failure to properly account for country of eligibility if the entrant was selecting a country of eligibility... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
PAKISTAN: Ruling party legislator spewed hate for Ahmadis in Parliament of Pakistan.
On October 10, Captain Safdar, the son-in-law of the former Prime Minister, who was ousted by the Supreme Court on corruption charges,made a fiery speech in the Pakistan National Assembly, Islamabad against the persecuted Ahmadiyya Community. He instigated the Judiciary, Armed Forces, Government and other Institutions to get rid of persons from the Ahmadiyya Community. He also urged the Pakistani Armed Forces not to recruit Ahmadis. Institutions must introduce an oath whereby every future official must declare that they are not an Ahmadi. And, they believe in the ending... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
Proposed constitutional reforms could lead to Catalonia-style split: MR
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today urged the government to abandon its ‘destructive’ proposal for a new constitution and to bring forward proposals to implement the original constitutional pledges they made. He said that the government has tabled in Parliament, proposals for a new constitution and that however the constitutional reform pledges made by the Yahapalana coalition at the last presidential election was restricted to changing the system of elections and abolishing the executive presidential system. “This government never received a mandate to repeal and replace the existing constitution.” He stated that they are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
Here are some evidence-based health benefits of turmeric or “Kaha”.
Turmeric contains bioactive compounds with powerful medicinal properties. Now we know that turmeric is the spice that gives curry its yellow colour. It has been used in India for thousands of years as a spice and medicinal herb. Recently, science has started to back up what the Indians have known for a long time. It really does contain compounds with medicinal properties. These compounds are called curcuminoids, the most important of which is curcumin. Curcumin is the main active ingredient in turmeric. It has powerful anti-inflammatory effects and is a very strong antioxidant. However, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
Closure of the modern day Arahant case?
16-10-2017 The media reported today (October 16, 2017) that Ven. Pitiduwe Siridhamma Thera (self-styled Arahant Siri Samanthabhadra) called on the Ven. Mahanayake Thera of the Malwatte Chapter and formally apologized to him over his recent offensive conduct, and insulting remarks attacking the Dalada and criticizing the Mahanayake Theras. He said he sincerely regretted it if he knowingly or unknowingly offended those Theras or others by his conduct. The controversial monk, it was revealed, had been written to by the Karaka Sangha Sabha of the Malwatte Chapter of the Siyam Maha Nikaya on October 1st warning... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍ය මෙහෙයවන ආර්ථික තරංග මාලාව
පසුගිය ලිපියේ අප මෙසේ සටහන් කළෙමු. රට පාලනය කරන්නේ, මාසිකව මේ රුපියල් බිලියන 250ක මුදල හසුරවන බලවේගයයි. මේ මුදල හැසිරවීමේ කාර්යය මෙරට පරමාධිපත්‍ය අතට ගත්විට රට පාලනය කරන්නේ ජනතාවයි. මේ මුදල් රජයට දෙන ජනතාවට එය දෙන ආකාරය හැසිරවිය හැක. 1.සෑම මසකම ඩොලර් මිලියන් 600ක් මෙරටට එවන ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යට එය එවන ආකාරය හැසිරවිය හැක. 2.තමන්ගේ මුදල් බැංකුවට දමන ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යට එය දමන ආකාරයද හැසිරවිය හැක. 3.තමන්ගේ මුදල් බැංකුවෙන් ගන්නා ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යට එය ගන්නා ආකාරයද හැසිරවිය හැකිය. 4.විදුලි බිල ගෙවන ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යට එය ගෙවන ආකාරයද හැසිරවිය හැකිය. 5.වතුර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
Conceivable Flaws & Drawbacks in The Interim Report of the Steering Committee
While being silent on the interim report of the steering committee, as a mark of respect the author gives to the members of the committee, it is a time dilated event, and request people of SL come forward to make comments, so that repeated slipups and bungles does not happen in the life of the republic called, SriLanka. First of all, in the 40s, the UNP was formed. Ie United National Party. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය. The meaning of race is ජාතියයි. Nation is ජාතිය. National is ජාතික. Nation is built into the words. So, who is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
SRI LANKAN CRICKET TEAM SHOULD NOT TRAVEL TO PAKISTAN UNLESS RANIL AND MAITHREE TOO TRAVEL TO LAHORE IN THE SAME FLIGHT, TRAVEL IN THE SAME BUS AND STAY AT THE SAME HOTEL WITH THE SRI LANKAN TEAM.
The final decision of the Sri Lankan Cricket authorities to select an alternative team headed by Kusal Perera to travel to Pakistan to play a T20 match on 29 October, in Lahore is deplorable. It was in a location near Lahore the Sri Lankan cricketers were attacked on 3 March 2009 and since then there had been no concrete evidence of improvement in security in the Region. At a time when all other cricketing nations are still reluctant to travel to Pakistan, why should Sri Lankan team travel to the same country, in spite... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
MR urges Govt. to abandon 'destructive proposal'
Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa in a statement today, urged the government to abandon what he described as ‘the destructive proposal’ for a new constitution. He said the vast majority of Tamil and Muslim people lived outside the Northern and Eastern Provinces and therefore the carving out of federal units based on ethnicity or religion and the conferring of sweeping powers on such units should never take place in this country. “The government has tabled in Parliament, proposals for a new constitution. The constitutional reform pledges made by the yahapalana coalition at the last presidential election... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
PM should be made a respondent at the Bond Commission- MP Vasudeva
https://youtu.be/k43BZ7EGVg0 PM Ranil Wickramasinghe should not only testify, but should also appear before Presidential Commission of Inquiry investigating the Treasury bond as a respondent, MP Vasudeva Nanayakkara said. He made this statement addressing a media briefing at Socialist People’s ‘Front. The Commission should summon PM immediately in this regard, Nanayakkara said. However, the Prime Minister made a statement in Parliament which was contrary to the COPE report on the bond issue, thereby misleading the Parliament. The Prime Minister should make a clear statement regarding this matter, Nanayakkara added.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
මේ දුෂ්ඨ ආණ්ඩුවේ භික්ෂුව විනාශ කිරීමේ කුමන්ත්‍රණ හෙළිදරව්වක්
කරුණාකර මේ කාරණය කිසිම විපක්‍ෂයක හෝ දේසපාලුවෙකුට වාසි වෙනලෙස කටයුතු නොකරන ලෙසද ඉල්ලමි. මේ සඳහා මේ වීඩියෝවේ පෙරමුණ ගෙන ඇති ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේලාගේ උපදෙස් අනුවම කටයුතු කරනමෙන්ම ඉල්ලා සිටිමි. https://youtu.be/KBVuC-M4GIA?t=998 වන සංරක්ශන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව වනගත භික්‍ෂූන් වහන්සේලා නෙරපා දැමීමට කටයුතු දියත් කර ඇති බව කිසිදා බොරු නොකියන මේ ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේලාගේ කතාවෙන් පැහැදිලි වේ. දැනට අවුරුදු 50ක කාලයක් තිස්සේ පවත්වාගෙන යන මීතිරිගල නිස්සරණ වනයට නඩු දැමීමට තරම් මේ දුෂ්ථයින් නිර්භය වී ඇත. මේ අතර විල්පත්තුවේ මහවනය හෙලිකොට මුස්ලිම් වරුන්ට ( දේශීය හෝ විදේශීය) නිවාස සංකීර්ණ ඉදිකිරීමට පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුවෙන් දියත් කල 'ජස්සිම් සිටි' ව්‍යාකෘතිය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
“Economy heading for major crisis”-Dinesh Gunawardane
Will continue to engage Mahasanga on constitution making Parliamentary practices and the Constitution are abused by the Government JO awaits gazette note to make political announcements Will win a majority of councils JO is opposed to the report by the Steering Committee JO’s views were disregarded Govt.’s foreign policy a failure Key economic infrastructure shouldn’t be leased out Joint Opposition’s Parliamentary Group Leader Dinesh Gunawardane, in an interview with , spoke about the current status related to the constitution making process and how his side braces for the Local Government Elections,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
Where is Sri Lanka heading?
The new Constitution, currently being considered, is accused by many of being a project of Tamil separatists. It is not true. It is the project of 'regime destabilizers'. They have done it elsewhere in the world and Sri Lanka's past or present experiences are certainly not unique. Initially Project Destabilizing Sri Lanka was India's, but with time neo-colonialists of the West, Tamil diaspora and various vested interest NGOs came to be driving partners as well. None of these, however, explains the reasons for the incumbent Sri Lankan Government to kowtow to these adverse elements... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
‘බැඳුම්කර වංචාවට අගමැති වගකිව යුතුයි‘ - වාසු
බැඳුම්කර කොමිසම ඉදිරියට පැමිණ කරුණු පැහැදිලි කිරීමට කැමති බව අගමැතිවරයා පවසන්නේ එම කොමිසම ඉදිරියට ළඟදීම සාක්කි දීමට කැඳවන බවට හෝඩුවාවක් ලැබුණු නිසා විය හැකි යැයි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී‍්‍ර වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර මහතා ප්රකාශ කළේය. අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්රන් කිහිප අවස්ථාවක දීම නිර්දෝෂී බව පෙන්වන්නට අගමැතිවරයා උත්සාහ කළේ යැයි ද ඔහු කියා සිටියේ බොරැල්ල එන්. එම්. පෙරේරා මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ අද(16) පැවති සමාජවාදී ජනතා පෙරමුණේ මාධ්ය හමුව අමතමිනි. ‘‘මහ බැංකුවේ බැඳුම්කර වංචාවට අගමැතිගේ සම්බන්ධයක් තිබෙන බව මා විසින් දිගින් දිගටම කියා සිටීම දැන් අවධානයට යොමුවී තිබෙන බව පෙනෙනවා. මම 2015 අපේ‍්‍රල් මාසයේ පමණ බැඳුම්කර වංචාවේ දී අගමැතිත් විත්තිකාරයෙක් බව කියමින් පොලිස්පතිට ලිපියක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/17)
රවි සහ අර්ජුනගේ දිවුරුම් ප්රකාශ පට්ට බොරු බව කොමිසමට හෙළිවෙයි
Saturday, October 14, 2017 වර්ෂ 2015 මාර්තු මාසයේ 28 වැනිදා අපේ රටේ ඇති රාජ්ය බැංකු තුනෙහිම ප්‍රධානීන් මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයට කැඳවූ එවකට මුදල් ඇමැති රවි කරුණානායක අපූරු නියෝගයක් දුන්නේය. එම නියෝගයෙන් ඔවුන්ට නියම කොට ඇත්තේ ඊට පසුදින මහ බැංකුවේ පැවැත්වෙන භාණ්ඩාගාර වෙන්දේසියේදී රාජ්ය බැංකු තුන විසින් ලංසු තැබිය යුත්තේ තමන් විසින් ලබාදෙන ඉතා පහළ අගයන් සඳහා ඉතාමත්ම ඉහළ පොලී අනුපාතයන් යටතේ වූ මිල ගණන් පත් (ඡඪඤඵ) හරහා බවය. අපේ රටේ රාජ්ය බැංකු තුනවන ලංකා බැංකුව, මහජන බැංකුව හා ජාතික ඉතිරිකිරීමේ බැංකුවද නියෝජනය කරමින් එකී රැස්වීමට සහභාගිවූ සභාපතිවරු තිදෙනාම බැඳුම්කර විමර්ශන කොමිසම හමුවේ පසුගිය සතියේදී මේ බව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/17)
“බදුල්ල දිසාපති ජනාධිපතිතුමා නැවතත් අන්දයි‘‘ රු. මිලියන 100 ක් ගිණුමේ තිබිය දී තවත් මිලියන100 ක් මුදල් නෑ කියා ගෙන්වලා. බවුසර් 11 ක් රියදුරන් නැතිව නවතී. බවුසර් වතුර මුදලට පමණයි.
උමාඔය සහන අරමුදලේ මුදල් අවසන් බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා වෙත දන්වා යවා, අතිරේක ප්‍ර‍තිපාදන රු. මිලියන 100 ක් තම ගිණුමට ගෙන්වා ගත් බදුල්ල දිසාපති නිමල් අබේසිරි මහතා රු. මිලියන 600 කින් වැය කොට ඇත්තේ රු. මිලියන 400 ක් බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍ය හෙළිදරව් කරයි. ඔක්තෝබර් 09 දින සහන කටයුතු සදහා මුදල් නැති බව රාජ්ය නිලධාරීන්ට පවසා ඇතත් ඒ වන විට රුපියල් මිලියන 100 ක් ගිණුම් ගත නොකර, අතිරේක ප්‍ර‍තිපාදන ජනාධිපතිවරයා වෙතින් ඉල්ලා එම මුදල් ලබාගෙන ඇත. පසුගිය සැප්තෑම්බර් 11 දින ගිණුමේ මුදල් අවසන් බැවින් සහන කටයුතු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/17)
Monuments Over Mortality?
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."Michelangelo At the time of Renaissance, a not-so-tall statue of a brave young underdog warrior David, standing just over 5m tall and weighing 6 tons, mesmerised the world. This masterpiece was set into stone with a hammer and chisel by Michelangelo. On 8 September 1504, when Michelangelo unveiled his masterpiece in the city square in Florence, Italy, the crowd looked on in amusement since they had not seen something of this nature before. The takeaway from this anecdote is that sometimes it does not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/17)
BRAVO !Mr. Prime Minister. Ball is now in the court of PCoI
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe must be applauded for volunteering to appear before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the alleged Central Bank Bond scam to “clarify any matters with regard to the references made to him at the sittings”. Whatever the reasons the PCoI had for not summoning him in the first place, it now has a golden opportunity to seek clarification from the PM if indeed he appears before the PCoI. It must be said that the “references made to him at the sittings” were relatively marginal. I am confident that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/17)
Roadmap to a frightening future for Sri Lanka & its citizens
The scenarios that are being projected is to draw the attention of citizens to the possible dangers and implications of the shortsighted & selfish decisions and actions of leaders and their inability to comprehend and learn lessons from history and the international crisis & conflicts taking place globally. These scenarios afford an opportunity for people to take a step back and imagine if the scenarios can happen in Sri Lanka and if they do, what would be the consequences. It also enables people to think of ways to counter or devise alternative solutions and remedies that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/17)
Can a British Citizen be a leader of a Political Party in Sri Lanka?
What is the validity of the election process of the nominated candidate by a political party led by a foreigner? Citizen and the constitution Under the Constitution any citizen who is qualified to be elected to the office of President may be nominated by a recognized political party (article 31) elected by the people (Art (30-2) and hold office for a period of six years. Citizenship is described in Article 26 who has exclusive rights to be a member of the legislature and the Executive. Voter is defined in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/17)
ඇත්තටම මෙරට ජනතාවට මේ ආණ්ඩුව පෙරලා දැමීමට උවමනාවක් තිබේද?
වර්තමානයේදී, රටපුරාම සිදුකරන යල් පැනගිය සටන් කලාව දකින අපිට ඇතිවන සිතුවිල්ල එයයි. සටන් කලයුත්තේ කෙසේද? කුමකටද? එයට පැහැදිලි අරමුණක් තිබිය යුතුය. වර්තමානයේ සිදුකරන "මට ඌ ගැහුවා, ඌ මට ගැහුවා" සටන් කලාවෙන් හැම විටම ගුටි කන්නේ මෙරට උත්තරීතර පරමාධිපත්‍යවන ජනතාවම මිස පවතින දුෂිත රජය නම් නොවේ. මේ දැන් ගුටිකන්නේ, කදුළු ගෑස් ප්‍රහාරයන්ට ගොදුරු වන්නේත්, සිරගත වන්නේත් මෙරට පරමාධිපත්‍ය වන අතර, උත්තරීතර පරමාධිපත්‍යට මෙවන් ඉරණමක් ලබාදී ඇත්තේ මෙරට පරමාධිපත්‍ය සුරැකීමට දිවුරා පොරොන්දුවී වැඩ ආරම්භ කරන, මෙරට විධායකය, ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය, හා අධිකරණය විසින්ම බව මෙරට පරමාධිපත්‍ය වන ජනතාව වටහා ගත යුතුය. විධායකය, ව්‍යාවස්ථාදායකය හා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/17)
විශ‍්‍රාම වැටුප සුරැකීමේ සේවක මධ්‍යස්ථානය
විශ‍්‍රාම වැටුප සුරැකීමේ සේවක මධ්‍යස්ථානය විසින් 2017.10.15 වැනිදා ප.ව. 2.00ට කොළඹ මහජන පුස්තකාලයේ ප‍්‍රවේශාගාරයේදී මාධ්ය හමුවක් පවත්වනු ලැබීය. එහිදී ඊට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයෝ පහත පරිදි අදහස් පළ කළහ. ජනක තුෂාර, ජාතික සංවිධායක, විශ‍්‍රාම වැටුප සුරැකීමේ සේවක මධ්‍යස්ථානය ‘‘2016 වර්ෂයට අදාළ අයවැය මගින් රජයේ සේවකයන්ට හිමි පූර්ණ විශ‍්‍රාම වැටුප් අයිතිය අහිමි කිරීමට අදාළ තීරණය රජය ප‍්‍රකාශයට පත් කළා. ඒ වැරදි තීරණය මෙවර අයවැයේදී ඉවත් කර ගන්නා ලෙස විශ‍්‍රාම වැටුප සුරැුකීමේ සේවක මධ්‍යස්ථානය රජයට බල කර සිටිනවා. ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට නියමිත අයවැය සඳහා යෝජනා ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලෙස ආණ්ඩුව ප‍්‍රකාශයට පත් කර තිබුණා. ඒ අනුවයි මේ ඉල්ලීම, බලකිරීම සිදු කරන්නේ. පහුගිය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/17)
මහත්තයා ගේ ඒ කතාව
මීට මාස දෙකකට විතර කලින් ඥාතියකු ගේ මළගෙදරට මේ ලේඛකයා ගියා. දැන් කාලේ බොහෝ වෙලාවට නෑදෑයෝ මුණගැහෙන්නේ මළගෙවල්වල දී. නෑදෑගමන් යනවා කියන චාරිත්‍රය දැන් නැත්තට ම නැතිවෙලා වගේ. මොකද ළමයි ටියුෂන් යවන්න තියෙන හින්දා කාටවත් ගමන් බිමන් යන්න ඉස්පාසුවක් නෑ. ඉතින් මේ කියපු මළගෙදරත් නෑදෑයෝ එකතුවෙන තැනක් බවට පත්වුනා. කාලකෙට පස්සේ එකතුවෙච්ච තමන් ගේ නෑදෑයෝ එක්ක මේ ලේඛකයාත් සෑහෙන්න විස්තර කතාකළා. අපි කතාකරන්න ගියාම අහසේ පොළොවේ තියෙන හැම දෙයක් ගැන ම ඉවරයක් නැතුව කියවනවානේ. ඉතින් ඒ මළගෙදර දී විවිධ කාරණා ගැන දවස් දෙකක් විතර අදහස් හුවමාරු කරගන්න මේ ලේඛකයාට පුළුවන් වුනා. වලපනේ පැත්තේ ඉඳලා ආපු ඥාති සහෝදරයෝ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/17)
Proposed new constitution and diabolical lies
October 15, 2017, 9:05 pm The government and the foreign funded NGOs and some individuals backing moves to introduce a new constitution, maintain that the voters at the last presidential and parliamentary elections gave the government a mandate for this exercise. They propagate this lie in a bid to legitimise their project, whereas the truth is otherwise. The citizens of this country have not given a mandate to the present government to introduce a new constitution. At the last Presidential election, the Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena gave an undertaking to abolish the executive presidency... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/10/17)
Devil talk
Monday 16th October, 2017 October 15, 2017, 8:58 pm It may be said, with apologies to the Bard, that politicians see more devils than vast hell can hold when they get into trouble and want to justify the vilification of their political enemies. This is the name of the game in politics where the devil looks after its own. President Maithripala Sirisena, over the weekend, gave the people of the Northern Province, crippled by a hartal, a choice between him and the devil, so to speak. He got off his presidential limo, in Jaffna, and met... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/10/17)
Fear of the words, ‘UNITARY’ and ‘FEDERAL’
October 12, 2017, 12:00 pm The (Draft) Report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly cites a statement made by President Sirisena during the Resolution to set up the Constitutional Assembly regarding Article 1 and 2 of the present Constitution which states: "… that whilst people in the south are fearful of the word "federal", the people in the north are fearful of the word "unitary". The report then attempts to define the English term "Unitary State" and concludes that it is not appropriate for Sri Lanka. What it considers appropriate is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
DEPRIVED AND DISCARDED
On the 19 September 2017, the writer started on a journey from Colombo to Habarana, following a tragedy that was highlighted by Sirasa News First programme on a heartbreaking new flash about Kavishka Sandaruwan, a seven-day-old baby who died due to an "unprecedented dogguzzling." She had been wrapped up with some "rags" (the only sheets parents could afford) and placed the baby on the clay floor and covered with a mesh inside the family's "shanty. " The gruesome news item touched so many compassionate hearts globally, including the writer's wife, who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
ව්යවස්ථා සර්පයා එළියට පනී- ඒකාබද්ධය නයි නටවයි
නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් සෑදීම සම්බන්ධව මහජන අදහස් විමසීමේදී එයට සාක්ෂි ලබා දී තිබෙන්නේ හාරදහසකටත් අඩු සංඛ්‍යාවකි.එයිනුත් උතුරේ සහ නැගෙනහිර රාජ්ය නොවන සංවිධාන වලින් ලබා ගත් නියෝජනය අති මහත්ය. ඔවුහු සංවිධානාත්මකව තමන් දරන ජාතිවාදී අදහස් එම කමිටුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. නමුත් මේ රටේ බහුතරයක් වන සිංහල ජනතාව නියෝජනය කරන සංවිධාන වලින් හෝ අස්ගිරි මල්වතු සංඝ සභාවෙන් හෝ අදහස් ලබා ගැනීමට මෙම කමිටුව අසමත්ව තිබුණි. ඉන්පසු මෙම කමිටු වාර්තාවත් ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක මණ්ඩලයන්හි අතුරු වාර්තාවනුත් සැලකිල්ලට ගෙන අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේදී අවසාන අතුරු වාර්තාවක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නට යෙදුණි .එම කෙටුම්පත ට අමුණා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නියෝජනය කරන ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය දෙමළ ජාතික... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
රට, ජාතිය සහ ශාසනය වලස්ගිරිය බමුණාගේ බූදලයක් නොවේ
1999 චන්ද්‍රිකා-GL-තිරුචෙල්වම් පැකේජය ප්‍රවර්ධනය සඳහා මහනායක හිමිවරුන්ට අළුත්ම Mercedes-Benz රථ පූජාකළ බව වාර්තා වුනි. මහනායක හිමිවරුන් ඒවා පිළිකුලෙන් ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කල අතර එයින් විහිළුවට ලක්වූ GL, පැකේජය ගෙන ඒම වසරක් පමා කෙළේය. තිරුචෙල්වම් දෙමළ කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදීන්ට පින් සිද්ධ වෙන්න අපාගත වීම රටේ උන්නතියටත් ජන සමාජයේ සාමයටත් හේතු වුයේ පැකේජය එතරම් බරපතළ නිසාය. කොටි නායකයා දෙමළ ඊළම ඉල්ලුවත්, එයට සරිලන යමක් දීමට එකඟ වූ සෑම විටම (1987, 1999/2000, 2003) එය ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කෙළේය. 2009 යුද්ධයෙන් පණ බේරා ගත් කොටි පැටවුන් අද මහා කොටි ය. උන් සමග එකතුවී ලියූ ව්යවස්ථාව වටින්නේ කොටි හැත්තට පමණි. නමුත් ව්යවස්ථාවක් සම්මත කිරීම කොටි නෑයින්ට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
Wimal Weerawansa explains the dangers of the New Constitution to the Integrity and Sovereignty of Sri Lanka!
https://youtu.be/joblldNMMWs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
Bureaucracy hinders businesses several permits for one export
Ceylon Today “ Sri Lanka's bureaucratic approval processes, which impinge on the competitiveness of businesses, were highlighted by Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) Chief Economist Anushka Wijesinha, at a seminar in Colombo on Thursday. “ There are many complains from investors an exporters regarding same issue where Sri Lankan government Officers are a hindrance to any export. I wrote about this when EDB held a promotional drive in Galle where everyone admitted the Indonesia and Vietnam are ahead of Sri Lanka ion export growth . Read http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/09/25/sad-state-of-affairs-of-sri-lankan-exports/ We started a shipyard to build boats and now... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
විරෝධතා කර මාව දුර්වල කරන්න එපා.. එතකොට යක්‍ෂයා බලවත් වෙනවා..- ජනපති දරුණු කතාවක් කියයි..
යම් යම් විරෝධතා කරලා උද්ඝෝෂණ කලොත් ශක්තිමත් වෙන්නේ යක්‍ෂයා බව අමතක නොකරන්නැයි ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ අදහස් පල කලේ යාපනයේදී පැවති දෙමල භාෂා දින සැමරුම් උත්සවය අමතමිනි. ජනාධිපතිවරයාට විරෝධය පල කරමින් යාපනයේ ස්ථාන කිහිපයකම පැවති විරෝධතා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා එම අදහස් පල කලේය. එක් විරෝධතාවයක් පැවති ස්ථානයට ජනාධිපතිවරයා වාහනයෙන් බැස ගිය අතර එහිදී විරෝධතාවරුවන් සිය ගැටළු පවසා සිටිහය. එම ස්ථානයේ දෙමල ජාතික සන්ධානයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රීවරුන් කිහිප දෙනෙකුද විය. ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ සංචාරය සිදුවන කාල සීමාවේදී යාපනයේ උද්ඝෝෂණ විරෝධතා පැවැත්වීම තහන්ම කරමින් අධිකරණය විසින් තහනම් නියෝගයක්ද නිකුත් කර තිබින. https://youtu.be/QNp8kvWfHSA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
'Millions kept on Palisena’s chair after encashing cheques'
Senior Dealer of PTL Kaushitha Rathnaveera yesterday told the PCoI that he had encashed cheques received by PTL from its related companies on several times amounting millions and left the money on PTL CEO Kasun Palisena’s chair but does not know what happened to the money thereafter. At the onset of the yesterday’s proceedings, President’s Counsel Kalinga Indatissa appearing on behalf of Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) cross-examined the PTL Chief Dealer Nuwan Salgado on the ‘document’ he is said to have maintained on the instructions of PTL CEO Kasun Palisena. Earlier, Nuwan Salgado... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
This berry can kill cancer in few minutes - Watch!
Researchers claim a compound in the rainforest berry could kill head and neck tumours as well as melanomas within minutes. New Delhi: Scientists claimed to have discovered a berry which holds cancer-fighting ingredients. As per a study led by Dr Glen Boyle from the QIMR Berghofer medical research institute in Brisbane, a compound in the rainforest berry could kill head and neck tumours as well as melanomas within minutes. In the pre-clinical trials, an experimental drug produced from the seeds of the rainforest... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
A cancer-fighting berry has been found on a tree that ONLY grows in far North Queensland...and human trials have already been approved
PUBLISHED: 06:16, 9 October 2014 | UPDATED: 22:25, 11 October 2014 Australian scientists on verge of cancer cure with cancer fighting berry QIMR have used an experimental drug from the seeds of the rainforest plant, Blushwood tree, which only grows in far north Queensland EBC-46 has found to lead to rapid breakdown of cancer tumors The experimental drug has been used to successfully shrink or destroy tumors in pets Human trials to use the drug are imminent A team of medical researchers are on their way to finding a cure for cancer after the discovery... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
We have to stop Yahapalanaya Government writing a New Constitution to Sri Lanka to please the “four evils”.
The so called Yahapalanaya government which had been deceiving the people of this country ever since Maithripala Sirisena was elected President of Sri Lanka on the 8th January,2015, has no right what so ever to present a note, a paper or a draft to the Parliament as a preliminary to the writing of a new Constitution for Sri Lanka. Today the people of Sri Lanka are divided as they had never been before. The Tamil terrorists have been eliminated but they have reappeared in another form-“Wigneswaran, TNA and the Tamil Diaspora, and the Western Governments assisting them”-the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK
The historical conviction, followed by the rigid sentence of rigourous imprisonment for three years by the High Courts, on the former Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunge and Anusha Pelpita, under Section 386 of the Penal Code for ‘dishonestly misappropriating’ a sum of Rs. 600 million belonging to the TRC created a façade by a certain section of politicos. Both were convicted for procuring ‘Sil clothes’ illegally from the TRC and distributing just prior to the last Presidential elections in the Kurunegala District. It developed into more complicated issue when the former President, Mahinda Rajapaksa declared that,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
Constitutional reform committee report at a glance
(This was first published on June 24, 2016 as part of a longer article under the title “A glance at PRCR report in the context of drive for federalism”, which was featured in The Island on June 22 & 24, 2016. That article was posted on June 23, 2016 in toto on Lankaweb under the different title “Apropos of Constitutional reforms”. The text here comprises the latter portion of the same. It is now being republished, slightly updated, in view of its topical relevance. The current obfuscations and prevarications of the obtrusive NGO influenced constitution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
The parable of Lute and devolution
A very thought provoking pragmatic debate ended today(11th Sept.) between Dr. Dayan Jayatillake(DJ) and Emeritus Professor Dr. G.H.Peiris (GP) in the Colombo Telegraph and in The Island newspaper, concerning the devolution of political power in Sri Lanka. There appears to be two contrasting views between the two who are known as backers of the Joint Opposition (JO). They have recently come out openly challenging the government’s attempt to carry out constitutional reforms enabling implementation of the 13th amendment. I believe that some realities which did not surface in this debate and significant facts about their intellectual thinking... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
නීති විරෝධී හංසයා පක්ෂයේ ජනාධිපතිවරණ ප‍්‍රතිඵලය අවලංගුයි??.. ජාත්යන්තර පූර්වාදර්ශය එයයි.. ව්යවස්ථාව මෙන්න.. .
ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 26 ව්යවස්ථාවේ ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ පුරවැසියකු විම හා ඔහුගේ නිත්‍යානුකූල භාවය ඉතා පැහැදිලිව සඳහන් කොට ඇත. ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 3 වෙනි ව්යවස්ථාව අනුව ශ්‍රීලංකා ජනරජයේ පරමාධිපත්‍යය ජනතාව කෙරෙහි පිහිටා ඇත. එනම් ජනතාව මෙරටේ නිත්‍යානුකූල පුරවැසියන්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් වනුය, ඒ අනුව ජනතාව පරමාධිපත්‍යය රටේ උත්තරිතර වනු ඇත. එමෙන්ම මෙරටේ විධායකය ව්‍යවස්තාදායකය හා අධිකරණය ජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්‍යය මත පිහිටුවා ඇත. එනම් රටේ සියලු කාර්යයන් සිදු වන්නේ මෙරටේ නිත්‍යානුකූල පුරවැසියන්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් ජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්‍යය බලය මගින් ඔහුන් විසින් ඔහුන්ගෙන් පත් කර ගන්නා නියෝජිතයින් හරහා ය. ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 31 (1) ව්යවස්ථාවේ අ. යටතේ ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ පිලිගත් දේශපාලන පක්ෂයකින් ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ පුරවැසියකු ජනාධිපති ධූරය සඳහා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/17)
කැනඩාවේ ප්රධාන සංඝනායක පදවියෙන් පිදුම් ලබන බ්‍රහ්මණගම මුදිත නාහිමිපාණන් වහන්සේ සමඟ පිළිසඳරක්.
(කැනඩාවේ බෞද්ධ කොන්ග්‍රසයේ හිටපු සභාපති) කැනඩාවේ, ඔටාවා අගනුවර හිල්ඩා ජයවර්ධනාරමධිපති සහ සිද්ධමුල්ල ශ්රී සංඝාරාම පුරාණ විහාරය, දීපංගොඩ වර්ධනාරාමය කුඩමාදුව සංඝිකාරාමය යන විහාරස්ථානයන්හි ද ආධිපත්‍යය හොබවන බ්‍රාහ්මණගම මුදිත ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ වෙත පසුගියදා කෝට්ටේ ශ්රී කල්‍යාණි සාමග්‍රී ධර්ම මහා සංඝ සභාව විසින් කැනඩාවේ ප්රධාන සංඝනායක පදවිය මහත් හරසරින් පිරිනමනු ලැබිණි. ප්‍ර: පසුගියදා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කෝට්ටේ සංඝ සභාව විසින් ඔබ වහන්සේට කැනඩාවේ ප්රධාන සංඝ නායක පදවිය පිරිනමනු ලැබූ බව අපට අදනගන්නට ලැබුණා. පළමුවෙන් ම, මේ උතුම් පදවි ලාභය ගැන කැනඩාවේ වෙසෙන ඔබ වහන්සේගේ දායක දායිකා පිරිස් වෙනුවෙනුත්, පෞද්ගලිකවත්, අපේ බැති බර සුබ පැතුම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/17)
U.K. - Archbishop of Canterbury visits Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
Caliph and Archbishop speak of need for worldwide religious freedom According to our Press Department U.K., On 10 October 2017, the Most Reverend, the Archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace, Justin Welby visited London’s oldest Mosque, the Fazl Mosque where he met with the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. Earlier, the Archbishop also visited the largest Mosque in Western Europe, the BaitulFutuh Mosque in Morden. During the meeting, the Caliph and the Archbishop discussed the continued persecution of religious minorities in various parts of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/17)
EPF – Employees’ Pickpocket Fund?
October 13, 2017, 10:09 pm From its outset, the Treasury Bond Scam was seen as a massive fraud carried on public funds or people’s assets managed by the Central Bank. As the probe on the Bond Scams that took place shortly after the election of the present government in 2015, what the public saw was the crooked manipulation of the Central Bank, the repository of the liquid national assets, made possible by the appointment of a Governor whose interests were more that of Green Politics, than of the people and the country. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/17)
The best for rejects: Rejects for the best
October 13, 2017, 10:08 pm We thought Parliament was the only place where rejects were accommodated. We thought wrong. True, quite a few candidates, mostly from the UPFA, rejected by people at the last general election (2015), were brought in as National List MPs. It was a slap on the Sri Lankan voter across the face. Adding insult to injury, the yahapalana government elevated those rejects to Cabinet ranks. But, now, we are told that rejects from Parliament have been donated to the Dalada Maligawa! No, we don’t mean the political rejects in the garb of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/17)
'Way ahead of the curve': UK hosts first summit on mindful politics
Ministers to meditate with politicians from Israel, Sri Lanka and Sweden as part of event exploring benefits of mindfulness British and Sri Lankan government ministers and an MP for Israel’s Likud party are among politicians from 15 countries due to meditate together at the House of Commons next week in an event to explore whether mindfulness can help reset the conduct of national and international politics. The group will meet at parliament on Tuesday to be led in a series of secular meditations intended to focus... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/17)
Home > Economics Two out of five suspects arrested in bank hacking case
Taipei, Oct. 13 (CNA) Sri Lankan police have apprehended two of the five suspects allegedly involved in the hacking of US$60 million from Taiwan's Far Eastern International Bank earlier this month, according to an update from the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Friday. CIB section chief Chiu Shao-chou (邱紹洲) told reporters that two individuals of dual British and Sri Lankan citizenship have been apprehended by Sri Lankan police. One of the suspects, identified as Janaka Chaminda Nammuni, was arrested on Oct. 6 while trying to withdraw the equivalent of NT$15.7 million (about US$520.000) from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/17)
Time to identify our enemies
As stated in recent editorial of a printed media titled 'Crooked and fleas', our country today, has earned notoriety as a rogues' paradise. The basic question we have is 'who is responsible for creating this situation?'. The eradication of terrorism militarily under the Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR) leadership was of ‘grave concern’ to some countries (including those who trained and armed the racial groups at the very beginning), who are interested in maintaining their ‘superiority’ over the others. On the other hand, the eradication of terrorism also caused tremendous hardship to the political wings of the militarily eliminated... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/17)
The Cabinet in Sri Lanka. Is it a Cabinet or a Cabimutt?
12.10.2017. I remember reading “Cabinet Government’ by Sir Ivor Jennings' the classic account on Cabinet government in England as a student in college and also as an undergraduate at the University. We were made to believe that it was a sacrosanct mechanism in modern democratic systems of Government. A cabinet by way of definition in political science is a committee of senior ministers responsible for controlling Government policy. It is influenced by the French word cabin-et. In sum overall it has the meaning small in it. So irrespective of whether it is a room, shelter,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/17)
Eloquent silence
October 12, 2017, 9:49 pm Today is Friday the 13th. Not all of us are troubled by triskaidekaphobia, but its association with Satan reminds us of the proverbial man who sold his soul to the devil. The day is of significance to Sri Lankans owing to the conclusion of the proceedings of the presidential commission of inquiry probing bond scams. The evil forces behind the biggest ever financial fraud in the country will heave a sigh of relief today. Ministers Malik Samarawickrema and Kabir Hashim testified before the presidential commission on Wednesday. Interestingly, while Hashim,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
Britisher as Leader of political party: Wimal demands explanation from Polls Chief
The Joint Opposition (JO) yesterday sought an explanation from the National Election Commission (NEC) regarding the registration of the New Democratic Front (NDF) as a political party in spite of its leader Shalila Moonasinge being a British national. National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa, MP posed the question to the NEC at a media briefing called by the JO at Dr N.M. Perera Centre. Weerawansa said the NEC certainly owed an explanation to the public in the wake of Moonasinghe being arrested over his alleged involvement in stealing money from Taiwan’s Far Eastern... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමේ සත්‍ය සෙවීම...
ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් පත්කළ ජනාධිපති බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමේ සාක්ෂි විභාගය හරහා එම ප්‍රශ්නගත බැඳුම්කර නිකුතුවලට අදාළ මෙතෙක් හෙළිදරව් නොවූ අලුත් කරුණ රැසක්‌ ද හෙළිදරව් විය. ඒ සියල්ල ජනමාධ්‍ය හරහා මහජනතාවටද සන්නිවේදනය වුයේය. ජනමාධ්‍ය නොවන්නට ඒ තොරතුරු, සමාජගත වී මෙතරම් අවධානයක්‌ මේ බැඳුම්කර ජනාධිපති කොමිසම වෙත යොමු වන්නේ ද නැත. එසේම ජනමාධ්‍ය නොවන්න මේ ජනාධිපති කොමිසම පත් කිරීම තබා අඩුතරමේ මේ බැඳුම්කර මගඩිය හෙළිදරව් නොවන්නට ද ඉඩ තිබිණි. ඒ නිසා මේ සිද්ධිය මුලින්ම මහජනතාවට හෙළිදරව් වූයේ ජනමාධ්‍ය හරහාය. එහෙත් මෙය යට ගසා මීට වගකිව යුත්තන් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට පැවැති සියලු උත්සාහයන් ගැනද මහජනතාව දනී. ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
හංසයා සභාපති ලංකාවේ පුරවැසියකු නොවේ.. ජාතික හැඳුනුම්පත ව්‍යාජ එකක්.. හංසයා යටතේ ජනාධිපතිවරණයට තරග වැදීම ගැන නීතී අවුලක්..
හංසයා ලකුණ පක්ෂයේ සභාපති ශලිල මුණසිංහ බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ පුරවැසියකු වන බවත් ඔහුගේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විසා තව නොබෝ දිනයකින් නිමවන බවත් ලෝකයේ බැංකු අතර වංචා සිදු කොට බන්ධනාගාර ගත කිරිමට යාමේදි මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණයේදි හෙලිදරව් වි ඇත. රාජ්ය ආයතනයක් වන ලිට්ත්‍රො ගෑස් සමාගමේ සභාපති ලෙස බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ පුරවැසියකු පත් කලේ කෙසේද යන්නත් එසේ පත්කලේ කවුරුන් ද යන්න සොයා බැලිය යුතු කරුණකි. එහෙත් ඊටත් වඩා වැදගත් වනුයේ මෙවෙනි වංචාකාර පුද්ගලයකු කෙසේ ද ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ 6 වෙනි විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකු බිහිකළ පක්ෂයක නායකයකු ලෙස මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්වරයා පිලිගත්තේද යන වගයි. https://youtu.be/v5OvDnkHotI lanka C news එමෙන්ම මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්වරයා වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කල ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ පුරවැසියන්ට පමණක් හිමි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
රාජ්ය සේවකයින් 05 දෙනෙකුගෙන් එක් අයෙකුට මානසික ආතතිය… (One out of five of State Employees suffer from Mental Stress)-Rajitha Senratne
October 12, 2017 at 8:02 am | lanka C news සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයේ මානසික සෞඛ්‍ය සදහා වෙනම ඒකකයක් ද ස්ථාපිත කර තිබෙනවා. එහි දැනට ඇති සංඛ්‍යා ලේඛණ වලට අනුව රජයේ සේවකයින් 05 දෙනෙකුගෙන් එක් අයෙකුට මානසික ආතතිය ඇති බව සොයාගෙන තිබෙනවා. රැකියා ස්ථානයේ ගැටලු, නිවසේ ගැටලු ඒ සදහා හේතු වී තිබෙනවා. All the law makers ( Member of Parliament) are also state employees getting a salary and a pension.They are also considered as Employees of the People ( selected by the people ) It will not be incorrect to mention that 40 or more ( 5 out... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Innocent man tortured to death by Divulapitiya Police
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the extra-judicial killing of Mr. Naiwala Appuhamilage Gamini Edwad (50) resident of Divulapitiya Police Division. On 2 October 2017, he was illegally arrested by Crime Branch Officers of the Police Station. Later, during his interrogation, he was tortured and pressured to admit committing a crime of theft. The victim continuously and vehemently refuted the accusations and did not accept them. He was produced before the Magistrate on the next day and remanded. Though he was treated at the Negombo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Innocent man illegally arrested and charged by Kantale Police
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding Mr. Andige Lakshitha Piyumal Peiris (26), a permanent resident of the Trincomalee District. On 6 July 2017, Piyumal was illegally arrested by Police Officers attached to the Kantale Police Station. He was accused of assaulting two Police Officers which he vehemently denied. He was detained and produced before the Magistrate on a fabricated charge of obstructing Police duties. The victim successfully explained to the Magistrate that there is no evidence to prove his involvement in committing such a crime. The Police... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
Sri Lanka Makes Arrests in $60 Million Taiwanese Bank Cyberheist
Sri Lankan police have arrested two people after a Taiwanese bank said hackers stole about $60 million and wired the cash to accounts in Asia and the U.S., the latest cyberheist to afflict the global financial system. Far Eastern International Bank’s computer systems were attacked by malware that affected several transactions and has since been removed, the Taipei-based lender said in a statement. The money was sent via the Swift network to accounts in Cambodia, Sri Lanka and the U.S., and about $46 million has been recovered, Chief Executive Vice President Lin Jiann-jong said by phone... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
Subversion of judicial review diminishes sovereignty
In 1988, not too long before the United National Party was to lose the five-sixths Parliamentary majority it enjoyed (and therefore more than the two-thirds required to amend the constitution, barring of course those which required in addition a referendum) courtesy the anti-democratic referendum of 1982 which too was marred by massive fraud, J.R. Jayewardene indulged in a classic piece of constitutional skullduggery: the 14th Amendment In that instance, established procedure such as publishing in the gazette the draft amendment and placing it on the order paper were subverted. The draft... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
Alleged Bond Scam: Will mandate of PCoI be allowed to lapse without key witnesses?
Will the mandate of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the Alleged Central Bank Bond scam be allowed to lapse without key witnesses being called? This is arguably one of the largest financial scams to have taken place in the post-independence history of Sri Lanka. For sheer impunity and involvement of powerful politicians in collusion with a section of the corporate sector and regulatory authorities it is hard to beat. (Whether the muted response of the opposition has anything to do with former Central Bank Governor, Arjuna Mahendran’s stint as Chief Investment... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
UNHRC Resolution 30/1 Implications for Sri Lanka
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted the resolution entitled 'Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka' on 1 October 2015, Resolution 30/1. (After a resolution promoted by the European Union (EU) was defeated in 2009 and a resolution tabled by Sri Lanka was adopted by an overwhelming majority. An attempt to table a resolution critical of Sri Lanka in 2010 was aborted). Resolution 30/1 has been described by some critics as a Constitution amendment project for Sri Lanka. Interestingly, it was co-sponsored by Sri Lanka. In 2017, Sri Lanka obtained... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
Don’t fool people on a new constitution
October 11, 2017, 10:33 pm What we are witnessing today is what the government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe could not achieve in 2002/2004. Signing of the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) with LTTE’s Prabhakaran, without even the knowledge of either President Chandrika Kumaratunga (CBK) or parliament! PM RW even took over the Defence Ministry with or without the consent of the Commander in Chief, President (CBK). President Kumaratunga agreed to give the North to Prabhakaran for ten years to rule without an election, which Prabhakaran refused, probably because he had bigger ideas! ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
Constitution making and yahapalana tricks
Dr. Jayampathy Wickremaratne has been trying to allay anxieties of concerned citizens about the new constitution that he is involved in drafting. He claims that there will be a special constitutional provision against secession. What he is referring to is the following provision in the recently released interim report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly: "The President may, on the advice of the Prime Minister, where a situation has arisen in which a provincial administration is promoting armed rebellion or insurrection or engaging in an intentional violation of the Constitution which... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/17)
AG’s Dept counsel goes surprisingly mum
The team of counsel of the Attorney General’s Department, who were led by Senior Additional Solicitor General Dappula De Livera today in an uncharacteristic manner said that they have no questions to ask from the three witnesses (Minister Kabir Hashim, Minister Malik Samarawickrama and former EPF dealer Saman Kumara) when the Commission invited to question them if necessary. The Commission stated that Minister Minister of Public Enterprises development Kabir Hashim and Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama had been summoned by them and were not listed by the Attorney General’s Department.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/17)
An open appeal to all patriotic citizens. The Final Warning!
11.10.2017. Prevention of the presentation of the draft new Constitution on the 30th of this month to Parliament is the only way open to defeat this treachery and save this country and the Sinhala Buddhist Nation. In the first place this Government has no mandate to go for a new Constitution. Therefore any move to present a draft new Constitution to Parliament on the 30th Oct with the expressed intention of getting it passed is illegal, unconstitutional and treacherous. Secondly it is crystal clear that this government is scheming to divide the country on ethnic... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/17)
Sinhalese are told that we don’t understand the demands of the Tamils, can someone please explain
We are being repeatedly told by some ‘smart patriots’ that we don’t understand the demands of the Tamils. Who are these Tamils that ‘smart patriots’ are referring to – Tamil politicians, Tamil political parties, Tamil terrorists, Tamil Terrorist Diaspora groups, Tamil Nadu politicians, Tamil Nadu political parties, Tamil high castes, Tamil low castes or just ordinary Tamils. At the other end, who are the ‘smart Sinhalese’ who do understand the concern of the Tamils – are they dollar earning NGO heads, foreign government moles, politicians, academics & political analysts, businessmen thinking only of profit or the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/17)
SRI LANKA: ජාතික පොලිස් කොමිසමේ සභාපතිවරයා විසින් නිකුත් කොට ඇති පොදු පැමිණිලි විභාග කිරීම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් රීති හා ක්‍රියාපටිපාටිය, 2017- The Rules and Procedure (Public Complains Investigations, 2017)- පිළිබඳ කරුණු දැක්වීමක්
ඉහතකී කෙටුම්පත සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිදුකරණු ලබන කරුනු දැක්වීමකි. ඉහත සඳහන් කෙටුම්පතේ රීතීන්ට අනුව ඕනෑම අගතියටපත් පුද්ගලයෙකුට හෝ එම පුද්ගලයෙකු විසින් බලය පැවරූ තැනැත්තෙකුට පොලිස් නිලධාරියෙකු හෝ පොලිස් සේවය විසින් ඔවුන්ගේ නිල කටයුතු වලදී සිදුවු කිරaනියාවක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් පොදු පැමිණිලි පරීක්ෂේණ අංශය වෙත පැමිණිල්ලක් ඉදිරිපත් කොට ඒ සඳහා සහන ඉල්ලා සිටිය හැකිය. මෙම අංශය පී සී අයි ඞී යනු වෙන් කෙටියෙන් හදුන්වනුු ලබයි. අපරාධ පිළිබඳව හා අපරාධ නොවන වැරදි පිළිබඳ පරීක්ෂදණ වෙන් වෙන්ව නොසැළකීම මගින් පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් විසින් කරණු ලබන අපරාධ වෙනත් රටවැසියන් විසින් කරන අපරාධ වලට වඩා අඩු මට්ටමකින් සැළකීම ඉහත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/17)
A Message for our Higher Education Institutes
When my first book exposing the sinister actions of the IMF: Micro enterprise Development: A Strategy for Employment Creation and Poverty Alleviation in the Third World: The Way out of the IMF Stranglehold was published in 1997, a full half a decade before the Argentina Crisis of 2002, very few believed that the IMF was at fault. It was everyone's contention that it was the corruption and the ineptitude of the leaders of the countries that had caused the disaster that befelled their economies. Then the IMF and the World Bank were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/17)
The Devolution Debate: Facts that should not be forgotten
Several articles by Dr Dayan Jayatilleke published in The Island during the past few days indicate that he is very definitely the most articulate and, arguably, the most "intermestic" exponent of the notion of the '13th Amendment' (implemented more comprehensively than at present with all powers and functions referred to in its Ninth Schedule vested on Provincial Councils – PCs) being the constitutional via media that would ensure stability, good governance and interethnic harmony. Dr DJ is no doubt aware that, following the misguided curtailment of Presidential powers through the 19th Amendment of the Constitution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/17)
Illicit Drugs a National Security Threat
The Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka (INSSSL) held its Threat Lens on “The Illicit Flow of Drugs and its Impact on Sri Lankan Youth” on October 3rd to coincide with World Temperance Day. The event was held at the Ministry of Defence in Colombo with the presence of key stakeholders including the clergy who are involved in the control of narcotics, experts from the medical profession and members of the armed forces of Sri Lanka. Addressing the gathering, Director General of INSSSL Mr Asanga Abeyagoonasekera quoted from His Excellency the President Maithripala... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/17)
Litro Gas Chairman arrested News Item ….
Litro Gas Chairman Shalila Moonasinghe was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today in connection with the alleged transferring of USD 1.1 million from Far Eastern International Bank of Taiwan to his personal account in Sri Lanka, CID sources said. 2017-10-09 20:03:08 Can you imagine such people heading a prime GOBU which supplies an essential commodity to the people of Sri Lanka being appointed by the Minister in charge who was also shamed for Bond issue .And yet people may be thinking “ What can we do? Opposition also cannot throw stones from glass... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/17)
Ex-CJ faults AG of misleading Parliament
Former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva today told the Supreme Court that the Attorney General was guilty of misleading Parliament through his opinion on the amendments introduced to the Provincial Councils Amendment Bill during the committee stage of its passage. Making submissions as a citizen of the country in support of his fundamental rights application in the Supreme Court, he said he was not challenging the Speaker's endorsement but that of the Attorney General's opinion. He claimed that it had been done in secrecy and that the AG was guilty of misleading Parliament. Mr. Silva... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/17)
නන්දා මාලිනී ගේ දෙබිඩි බව
සමාජ පරිවර්තනයකට අත ගැසිය යුත්තේ එහි වගකීම් හිස දරාගෙනය , නන්දා / සුනිල් ආරියරත්න මේ වගකීම් දැරුවේ නැත. ධනාත්මක සමාජ පරිවර්තකයන් ලෙස බොබ් ඩිලන් , වික්ටර් හාරා , බොබ් මාලි , ව්ලැදිමීර් විසෝස්කි යන ගායකයන් ගේ සහ ලංකාවේ නන්දා මාලිනී ගේ දෙබිඩි පිළිවෙත ගැන මීට වසර 5 කට පමණ පෙර මා විසින් Sunday Leader පුවත් පතට ලියූ ලිපියක් මේ ලින්කුවෙන් කියවන්න. http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2010/03/14/music-and-mission-%E2%80%93-bob-dylan-to-nanda-malani/
By Dr. Ruwan M. Jayatunge Bob Dylan and Nanda Malini Music is a social force and unquestionably a powerful form of expression.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
Arjun Aloysius: The James Bond of bond business
Just three days after last year’s presidential election, someone predicted the Perpetual Treasuries Ltd (PTL) bond issue on an online website for stock market investors. The man wrote on Sri Lanka Equity Forum:“Perpetual Treasuries owned by Free Lanka Capital Holdings owners will mostly get a large amount of business volumes of Treasury Bills and Treasury Bonds business in new ‘Yahapalana Government’ of Maithripala-Ranil Regime since new Governor of Central Bank is tipped to be Free Lanka Capital’s driving force Arjun Aloysius’s father-in-law Arjuna Mahendran who is also the top Economic Advisor of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
Decision on constitution will change the fate of SL – Weerawansa
Leader of the National Freedom Front Wimal Weerawansa stated that the decision made by the people on the proposed constitutional amendments will change the fate of Sri Lanka. Speaking to the media at Mattegoda, Wimal Weerawansa stated that the current government is in the process of formulating a constitution that is detrimental to the people of the country. Meanwhile MP Dullas Alahapperuma stated that 20% of Sri Lankan parliamentarians were not able to secure their seats through public votes. He further stated that Sri Lanka is the only country that appoints such individuals as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
Care needed to foolproof devolution
October 10, 2017, 8:58 pm Since breaking the yoke of colonialism, Sri Lanka has shown an undue interest in ‘playing around’ with constitutions. With the exception of the 16 May 1972 constitution that officially proclaimed independence as a republic, such manoeuvres have been motivated by cynical political objectives portrayed as burning national need. It is widely agreed that the objective of the much despised 1978 edition was to help the personal need of J. R. Jayewardene to entrench himself as an autocratic executive president, making up for lost time in gaining political leadership.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
Yahapalanaya govt has neither valid mandate nor credibility to draft a new constitution
October 10, 2017, 9:12 pm Although there are more burning issues that deserve to be discussed in the public forum at the moment (such as the Bond Scam, the undemocratic postponement of the local and provincial Council elections,…etc.) local media as well as the local political arena seem to be dominated at the moment by the present government’s declared intention to draft a new Constitution. In almost all the discussions on this subject, however, the two crucial issues in this regard – whether the present Yahapalanaya government has a valid mandate... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
Is govt. serious about constitutional change?
October 10, 2017, 9:10 pm A couple of weeks ago Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, tabled in Parliament the recommendations of the steering committee on constitutional reforms. Prior to that six committee reports had been tabled. It is good that all these documents in all three languages are now available on the web so that people who are interested in the subject can read them. This article is not intended to be a comprehensive analysis of these reports though such an effort would be extremely important as they would be the basis of the future... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
Crooks and fleas
October 10, 2017, 8:57 pm Time was when this country was known the world over as ‘the Pearl of the Indian Ocean’ and ‘the Granary of the East’. No longer are such monikers used. Today, it has earned notoriety as a rogues’ paradise. Many thought the 2015 regime change would pave the way for a meritocracy. How mistaken they were! What we see at present is a mere extension of the same rotten kleptocracy which people were fed up with. The yahapalana grandees have apparently graduated from local bond rackets to international financial scams over two... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
Sri Lanka attracts over 200,000 Chinese tourists this year
COLOMBO — Over 200,000 Chinese tourists had arrived in Sri Lanka till September this year with over 18,000 arriving last month alone, statistics released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Ministry showed here Monday. Over 1.5 million tourists have arrived in the country so far this year with the government recently announcing they were expecting to achieve a 2.5 million arrival target by the end of 2017. India was the leading market with the largest number of tourist arrivals in September, followed by China and Britain. However with September falling under the off-peak season, total arrivals fell 2.3... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
Trade facilitation reform in Sri Lanka can drive a change in culture
Two years ago, we started counting how many Sri Lankan agencies were involved in trade facilitation processes such as issuing permits and managing the movement of goods in and out of the country. We counted at least 22 agencies in this assessment, and today, the Department of Commerce estimates that number at least 34 agencies are involved in issuing permits or publishing regulations that affect trade. We know trade is critical to Sri Lanka’s future and that there are strong links between trade, economic growth and poverty reduction. However, the trading community reports a lack of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
“I am ready to answer the Auditor General” Kiriella
Minister of Higher Education and Highways, Lakshman Kiriella says, "Tamil parties did not get involved in preparing the '71 Constitution. They did not join in '78 either. It is now that they are joining in. In '71 and '78, the Constitution was prepared in secret. This is not how we are doing it now. We have allowed every party to join. Each party is submitting their ideas from Clause to Clause." Excerpts from the interview given to our sister paper Mawbima: You have no regrets that you crossed over some time ago? A:... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
The March of Folly The dance of deceit
Amongst the more endearing explanations offered by Ranil's friends for his involvement in the Bond Scam is that he was taken for a ride. The response then to the question why he defended Mahendran so vociferously is that Mahendran also was taken for a ride. Then the answer to the question why Mahendran went down to bully the Public Debt Department was that he was following instructions. I presume the same answer would have been given to the question why he insisted on appointments within the Bank that facilitated Arjun Aloysius having his wicked... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
Will inform IMF, WB that Rs.792 bn unused: Bandula
The joint opposition said today it would inform the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) next week about funds amounting to Rs.792 billion remaining unused from the 2016 Budgetary allocations. JO MP Bandula Gunawardena said Rs.3,898 billion was allocated through the 2016 Appropriation Bill, but only Rs.3106 billion had been spent during that year. “A staggering Rs.792 billion has been left untouched. This is 20 per cent of the total amount allocated for 2016. When such a huge amount is left untouched, it means the amount... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
Namal, five others remanded till Oct.16
Parliamentarians Namal Rajapaksa, D.V. Chanaka, Prassanna Ranaweera and three others who were arrested this evening were remanded till October 16, police said. They were arrested this evening by the Hambantota Police in connection with the recent protest in Hambantota, Police said. They were summoned by the Hambantota Police to record a statement in connection with the incident this afternoon. Western Provincial Councillor Upali Kodikara, Southern Provincial Councillors Sampath Athukorala and Major (Rtd.) Ajith Prasanna were among those arrested. The protest was held last Friday against the leasing out of Mattala International Airport to India.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
Banda-Chelva Pact: JR’s Kandy march for Sinhalese & a New Constitution
Political opportunism and opportunist politics has been a curse to the country. Looking back we can only conclude that our politicians have failed the people and the nation with their opportunism and greed to remain in power at any cost. Sadly, another trait is that there are no lessons learnt and mistakes not repeated. We are entering another major misadventure and faux pas if we allow the passing of this new constitution. Leaving matters to the politicians alone has proved a futile and dangerous adventure. The people need to now rise and not allow the destruction... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
YAHAPALANA AND THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA Part 5
China is, at the moment, leading in the Big Power war. It is keeping India, Japan and US at bay. India tried to have a confrontation with China over the Doklam plateau in Bhutan in August 2017. After ten weeks, the Indian army pulled back from Doklam border, but the Chinese army remained. Chinese border troops will continue to be stationed in Doklam said China, firmly. Analysts observed that USA kept quiet about the matter and said nothing in support of India. US warship USS John S McCain deliberately sailed close to the disputed Spratly Islands, claimed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
The Devolution Debate: Facts that should not be forgotten
Several articles by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke published in The Island during the past few days indicate that he is very definitely the most articulate and, arguably, the most "intermestic" exponent of the notion of the '13th Amendment' (implemented more comprehensively than at present with all powers and functions referred to in its Ninth Schedule vested on Provincial Councils– PCs) being the constitutional via media that would ensure stability, good governance and interethnic harmony. Dr DJ is no doubt aware that, following the misguided curtailment of Presidential powers through the 19th Amendment of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/17)
DISAPPOINTMENT ALONG LOC
Indian army’s unprovoked firing on innocent children, girls and old men and women living peacefully along the Line of Control seems a result of a feeling of loss, a sense of defeat or something like depression on the part of the Indian soldiers. On 6th of this October, as a result of unprovoked firing of the Indian forces, a civilian named Muhammad Raziq was martyred in village Balakot of Nikial Sector. He was just 22 years old. In the same incident 07 other civilians were seriously injured. A few days back, in another incident of the same... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
වයඹ පළාත් සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිතුමා විසින් තර්ජනය කිරීම
ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය වයඹ පළාත් සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිතුමා විසින් තර්ජනය කිරීම සම්බන්ධව. වයඹ පළාත් ආයුර්වේද දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ කුරුණෑගල ආයුර්වේද මහා රෝහලේ සේවයේ නියුතු සාමාන්‍ය කම්කරු සේවිකාවක් පළාත් සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිතුමාගේ රැස්වීමකට සහභාගී නොවීම හේතුවෙන් හදිසියේ වාරියපොළ ආයුර්වේද රෝහලට ස්ථාන මාරුවක් ලබාදීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මා විසින් එම සේවිකාව සමඟ ඊට අදාල කරුණු විමසා සිටින ලදි. එම විමසීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් උරණ වූ වයඹ පළාත් සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිවරයා 2017.10.03 දින ප.ව. 2.15 ට පමණ මාගේ දුරකථනයට කථා කොට බැණවැදී තර්ජනය කිරීම අප තරයේ පිළිතුල් සහගත ලෙස හෙළා දකින අතර එය මාණ්ඩලික ශ්‍රේණියේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධරයෙක් වන මා හට කරන ලද අවමන් සහගත සැළකිල්ලකි. වයඹ පළාත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
රාජ්ය ප්රවාහන සේවය ශක්තිමත් කර ශ්රී ලංගම සේවක අයිතීන් ලබාදීමට 2018 අයවැය තුළින් ශ්රී ලංගමයට රුපියල් මිලියන 31 000 ක් ලබාදෙන ලෙසත් එ් සඳහා මුදල් උපයා ගැනීම සඳහා අප සංගමය කරනු ලබන යෝජනා ක්රියාත්මක කරන ලෙසත් ඉල්ලා සිටීම
ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි. ගරු මුදල් අමාත්‍ය, මංගල සමරවීර මැතිතුමා, මුදල් හා ක‍්‍රමසම්පාදන අමාත්‍යාංශය, කොළඹ 01. ගරු ඇමතිතුමනි, රාජ්ය ප්රවාහන සේවය ශක්තිමත් කර ශ්රී ලංගම සේවක අයිතීන් ලබාදීමට 2018 අයවැය තුළින් ශ්රී ලංගමයට රුපියල් මිලියන 31 000 ක් ලබාදෙන ලෙසත් එ් සඳහා මුදල් උපයා ගැනීම සඳහා අප සංගමය කරනු ලබන යෝජනා ක්රියාත්මක කරන ලෙසත් ඉල්ලා සිටීම x රජයේ සේවකයන්ගේ මූලික වැටුපට එකතු කර ඇති රු. 5000/= මුදල ශ්රී ලංගම සේවකයින්ගේ මුලික වැටුපට එකතුකිරීමට, x පාරිතෝෂික මුදල් ගෙවීමට, x අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල් ගෙවීමට, x සේවක වැටුප් වැඩි කිරීමට, x පාසල් ළමයි ඇතුළු වැඩකරන ජනතාවට සහන සැලසීමට, x ශ්රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Journalist of ‘Sunday Apple’ newspaper tortured by Assistant Superintendent of Police of Tangalle
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received information about Mr. Susantha Bandara Karunarathna, a journalist working for the ‘Sunday Apple’ newspaper. He was tortured by the Assistant Superintendent of Police of Tangalle, I. T. Daluwath. Susantha was engaged in his duties as a journalist, covering a peaceful protest at Hambantota Town on 6 October 2017. He was illegally arrested, detained, tortured and denied urgently needed medical treatment. The senior Consultant Surgeon examined the patient at the Debarawewa District Hospital, directing the Police to take the patient for immediate treatment at the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
කළු සල්ලි ගෝනිවල දාගෙන ලංකා බැංකුවෙන් පැන්නූ ජනාධිපතිවරණ ‘හංසයා’ පක්ෂයේ සභාපති අත්අඩංගුවේ..
පොලිස් අපරාධ පරීක්‍ෂණ කොට්ඨාශය විසින් ලිට්රෝ ගෑස් සමාගමේ සභාපති ශලීල මුණසිංහ අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත. මොහු අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත්තේ විදෙස් රටක සිට මෙරට ලංකා බැංකු ශාඛාවකට විශාල මුදලක් ගෙන්වාගෙන එය මාරු කර ගැනීමේ සිදුවීමක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් මුල්‍ය විශුද්ධිකරණය යටතේය. අදාල මුදල් තොගය ලිත්‍රො සභාපතිවරයා හා අත්අඩංගුවේ සිටින තවත් සැකකරුවකු සමග පැමිණ විශාල මුදල ගෝනිවල දමා රැගෙන යන ආකාරය ලංකා බැංකුවේ කැමරාවල සටහන්ව තිබී ඇත. ශලීල මුණසිංහ හිටපු මුදල් අමාත්‍ය රවි කරුණානායකගේ ලගම හිතවතකු වන අතර මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට ජනාධිපතිවරණය සඳහා ලබාදුන් හංසයා පක්ෂයේ සභාපතිවරයාද වෙයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Innocent man illegally arrested under fabricated charges
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding Mr. Aandige Charuka Malinda Peiris, a resident of Kantale Police Division. Malinda was illegally arrested by Police Officers of the Kantale Police Division on 21 June 2017. He was not given any reason for his arrest. He was detained in a cell, accused of supporting the escape of his village friend from Police arrest. The victim does not know where his friend is. He reiterated the fact that he has not been involved in any illegal activity. The victim stated that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
වාහන යන එන තැන දැනගන්න අලුත්ම ක්රමයක් - මෙය මානව හිමිකම් උල්ලංඝනය කිරීමක් - ආචාර්ය ප්‍රතිභා මහානාමහේවා Divaina 09 10 17
Also read http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/10/08/hi-tech-number-plates-to-keep-tabs-on-vehicles/ You do not have to be a legal wizard to predict what I said in Lanka web. I predicted last year about the possibility of becoming a police state under the pretext of Democracy .USA and Europe are purportedly democratic have various ways of detecting the movement of people and even vehicles in their own country and in countries infested with terrorism .USA finds the movement of terrorist leaders using satellite technology to detect them whereabout of the leaders before they annihilate them. Methods such as planting a chip in car... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
The Criminal Investigation Bureau CIB confirms suspect nabbed for hacking; US$500,000 unaccountable
Taipei, Oct. 9 (CNA) The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Monday that one Sri Lankan accused of helping hackers to steal about US$60 million from a Taiwanese bank has been arrested in the South Asian country. The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), Taiwan's top financial regulator, said that day that while most of the lost funds have been recovered, about US$500,000 remains unaccounted for. Chiu Shao-chou (邱紹洲), a CIB section chief, told the press that the suspect was captured by Sri Lankan police when he tried to withdraw about US$26,000 after the money was wired to his... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
2 arrested in Sri Lanka in Taiwan bank hack
Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department, in collaboration with Taiwanese law enforcement, has apprehended two suspects in Colombo for allegedly aiding in the hacking of a bank in Taiwan that culminated in the theft of millions of dollars, writes AFP. The two allegedly hacked the bank’s computer systems and were arrested after trying to withdraw money from their accounts. A third suspect is at large. “We are looking at some $1.3 million that had come into three accounts in Sri Lanka,” said an official who requested to stay anonymous. “We have taken two people into custody and we are looking for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
Sri Lanka’s opposition warns against proposed airport deal with India
Sri Lanka’s opposition alliance spoke out against the proposed lease of an airport to an Indian firm, warning the government not to allow the country become a ‘pawn’ in international power politics. Colombo: Sri Lanka’s opposition alliance, led by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s son, on Monday opposed the proposed lease of an airport to an Indian company, warning the government not to allow the country become a “pawn” in international power politics. An Indian company had made a bid to develop the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA), which was built by the Rajapaksa government under massive borrowings from China.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
Sri Lanka nabs suspects in bank hacking attack
The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) yesterday said that two Sri Lankan citizens accused of helping hackers steal about US$60 million from Far Eastern International Bank (遠東商銀) have been arrested in the South Asian country. The Financial Supervisory Commission said that while most of the stolen funds were recovered, about US$500,000 remains unaccounted for. CIB section chief Chiu Shao-chou (邱紹洲) said one suspect was captured by Sri Lankan police when he tried to withdraw about US$26,000 after the money was wired to his account from Taiwan on Friday. Sri Lankan police have found some other people, but... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
Kabir, Malik should be brought before PCoI: CHR
Centre for Human Rights and Research (CHR) Executive Director Keerthi Tennakoon said yesterday State Enterprises Development Minister Kabir Hashim and Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama, who was said to have participated in the first discussion with regard to the issuance of Central Bank Bonds in 2015, should be summoned before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI). He told a news conference that there was an attempt to suppress the investigation of bond scam by passing the buck to Ravi Karunanayake, who was Finance Minister for the name sake, while Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
Govt PARTIES split over Foreign Policy
The two main constituents of the United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG), the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), seem to be at loggerheads over the country's foreign policy decision making. Commenting on the government's decision to impose sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK) State Minister of Highways and SLFP stalwart Dilan Perera maintained that he doesn't see any difference between some of the actions of the USA and that of North Korea. "As you know North Korea has been one country... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
Sri Lanka: Facts and Fiction
Vithya Sivaloganathan's murder trial exposes the real national issue in Sri Lanka and the surrounding paradox between fact and fiction. The attempt was to pin the crime on the Sri Lankan Army and Navy, but it failed. The real culprits were the criminal elements living within Jaffna society. The involvement of the State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran in attempting to release the mastermind is clear evidence of corruption at the highest levels of power. The motive behind this grisly murder was to pander to the perverted and sadistic fantasies of the European pornographic market. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
Bond Commission investigates EPF, ETF dealings (English)
https://youtu.be/lWKMx4_jU4s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
Taiwan to send team to Sri Lanka for probe into bank hacking
Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Monday that it was preparing to send investigators to Sri Lanka to seek further details on the reported arrest there of two suspects accused of helping hackers stealing millions of US dollars from a Taiwanese bank. However, due to the fact that Taiwan has no diplomatic ties with Sri Lanka or any government representatives stationed there, the CIB told CNA, it would take some time to get everything in order for the investigators to go there. According to local and regional news reports, Far Eastern International Bank was hacked by means... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
Litro Gas Chairman arrested over Taiwan money transfer scandal
The CID arrested the Chairman of Litro Gas N.M.S Moonesinghe in connection with the transfer of 1.1 million USD from the far Eastern Bank of Taiwan to a Sri Lankan bank account. Taiwan law enforcement authorities launched an investigation into the incident after the Far Eastern Bank was hacked by means of a computer virus where over US$ 60 million was siphoned to an account in Sri Lanka. Two suspects were arrested last week in Sri Lanka when they tried to withdraw the money, and police there were look for a third person, according to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
YAHAPALANA ELECTIONS AND ‘REGIME CHANGE’ Part 5
President Maithripala Sirisena is firmly ensconced in his seat as President. It is will not be easy to tip him out, whatever his opponents think. But the media is not always admiring towards President Sirisena. Colombo Telegraph under the headline “Entire Sirisena Family At The UN” said, “Colombo Telegraph reliably learns that President Maithripala Sirisena, who is currently in New York for the 72nd Regular Session of the UN General Assembly has been accompanied by his wife Jayanthi, son Daham and daughters Chathurika and Dharani . Two years ago Daham Sirisena was spotted attending the UNGA sessions and seated with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
‘This (13-A) war is not winnable’
Buddhist war - I “This war is not winnable” black-whites’ theory lasted for over 30 years. Supporters of it marched in Colombo streets, with lotus flowers in hand, demoralizing soldiers will. According to Erick Solheim, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was the only top-level person in the government to say, “this war is winnable.” Yes, there was contribution from some Tamils, Muslims and Christians, but It was the poor Sinhala Buddhist village boys and girls who finished the 33-year war, with Gotabhaya at the helm. Credit goes to Mahinda R for appointing him for the mission, who in turn utilized Sarath... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
GMR of India and we need to be careful ………. Making Mattala Airport viable lessons from RGIA Hydrabad
India's largest airport developer and operator GMR Group is willing to convert Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) into a profitable venture, if a request comes from the Sri Lankan Government. It was reported in the local media in August that an Indian company has made a proposal to the Civil Aviation Minister to take over MRIA, indicating that it would pump US$ 205 million into the airport for a 70 per cent share for 40 years. The proposal was approved by the Cabinet. However, the name of the company that was keen to invest in MRIA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
UNITARY OR NOT? “Contradictions regarding the interim report on the Constitution”
The interim report of the new Constitution presented by the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly has been the subject of much controversy in the last few days. Whilst President Sirisena has insisted that there is nothing in the draft that would diminish the unitary status of the country, there has been an outcry from several parties that were concerned by parts of the report that seem inimical to this unitary status. The controversy that this report has attracted was demonstrated at the Central Provisional... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
බැදුම්කර වංචාවේ ‘සුපිං විමර්ශන‘ මුලාවක්. පළමු රැස්වීමට සහභාගි වූවේ යැයි කියන කබීර්, මලික් අමාත්‍යවරුන්ගෙන් සත්‍ය සොයා ගත යුතුයි
බැදුම්කර වංචාවට සම්බන්ධ තැනැත්තන් හදුණාගැනීමට පත් කළ ‘බැදුම්කර කොමිසම‘ රාජ්ය බැංකු බාර කබීර් හෂීම් අමාත්‍යවරයාත්, එදා කිසිම රාජ්ය තනතුරක් නොතිබුණු මලික් සමරවික්‍ර‍මත් අතහැර ‘අක්‍ර‍මිකතා පිළිබද වගකිව යුතු තැනැත්තා හෝ තැනැත්තන් හදුණාගන්නට උත්සහ දැරීම ‘ඇරලා බලන්න ලයිෂන් තිබිය දී ඔබලා බලන කොමිෂන් වැඩක්‘ යැයි ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පවසයි. අද රාජගිරියේ පැවති පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවක් අමතමින් තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා ප්රකාශ කළේ ගැසට් නිවේදනයට අනුව ‘ රාජ්ය බැංකු විෂය භාර අමාත්‍යවරයා කබීර් හෂීම් මහතා යි. මහ බැංකුව තියෙන්නේ අග්‍රාමත්‍ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා යටතේ යි. එසේ තිබිය දී,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
SIL-REDI and TREACHERY
Public administration has a rich history that dates back to the Greeks. Public administration is putting laws in action to better serve a civilization and the public. While the idea of public administration dates back thousands of years, it played a significant role throughout history as countries developed and new technology changed the way we live and interact. 400 B.C. Plato recognizes the separation between management and developed the concept of democracy. At this time, the Greek people began electing their leaders and became educated on social services. It is also at this time that politician's begin... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
සෙක්කුවෙන් උනන සල්ලි
එල්ලංගාවක් කියලා කියන්නේ ඇල මාර්ගවලින් එකිනෙකට සම්බන්ධ වෙන වැව් පද්ධතියකට. අපේ මුතුන් මිත්තෝ ඇල මාර්ග හදලා තිබුණේ වැව් එකිනෙකට සම්බන්ධ කරලා ජල පද්ධතියක් පවත්වාගෙන යන්න මිසක් වැවකින් කුඹුරුවලට ජලය බෙදන්න නෙවෙයි. ඉතින් බොහෝ වෙලාවට මේ ඇල මාර්ග හදලා තිබුණේ පොළොවේ සමෝච්ච මට්ටම්වල. හැතැප්මකට අඟලක් කියන ආනතියට යෝධ ඇල හදලා තිබුණා කියන කතාවේ තේරුමත් ඒකයි. කලාවැවේ ඉඳලා තිසාවැවට ජලය ගලාගෙන ගියේ මග දිගට තිබුණු එල්ලංගා ගණනාවක් ම පෝෂණය කරමින්. එල්ලංගාව හින්දා පොළොවේ තෙතමනය ආරක්ෂා වුනා. ගස් වැල් හොඳින් හැදිලා සතා සිව්පාවන්ට හොඳින් ජීවත්වෙන්න පුළුවන් ඒ වගේ පොළොවක තමයි. ඉතින් ඒ පොළොවේ මිනිස්සුත් තමන් ගේ ගොවිතැන් බත් කරගෙන බොහොම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
Remembering Vivien Gunawardena
Vivian Gunawardena has gone down in Sri Lankan politics as a dynamic woman who embraced politics long before 'Women's lib' was heard of in the West. Being fearless and outspoken, a quality that she inherited from his uncle, the late Phillip Gunawardena (Boralugoda Lion), she pioneered and set up Sri Lanka's first Socialist Women's Organisation – The United Women's Trust. Vivian Gunewardena's 101st birthday or the 31st death commemoration falls on 3 October 2017. As a tribute to this outspoken, fearless female politician, the writer wishes to reminisce about a personal interview he... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
යුද හමුදාවේ පවත්නා පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාවය (PTSD) පිලිබඳව අධ්‍යනය
යුද හමුදාවේ පවත්නා පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාවය (PTSD) පිලිබඳව විශේෂඥ මනෝ වෛද්‍ය නීල් ප්‍රනාන්දු මහතාත් මමත් 2002 - 2006 කාලයේදී අධ්‍යනය කරන ලද අතර අප වෙත යොමු කරන ලද සොල්දාදුවන් 824 අතරින් සොල්දාදුවන් 56 දෙනෙකු පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාවයේ පූර්ණ ලක්‍ෂණ පෙන්වූ බව සොයා ගත්තෙමු. මෙම අධ්‍යනය සංග්‍රාමික පශ්චාත් ව්‍යසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාව (Combat Related PTSD) පිළිබඳව ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කරන ලද ප්‍රථම අධ්‍යනයයි. Combat Related PTSD Among The Sri Lankan Army Servicemen Dr Neil Fernando and Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Abstract The study investigated combat related PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/17)
Expressways,corruption and flipside of development
October 8, 2017, 10:16 pm We, Sri Lankans, never learn from our past mistakes. After all, it is popularly said that Sri Lankans don’t remember "anything" for more than one week. Not many moons ago the Southern Expressway wreaked havoc by worsening the flood situation in the South. It not only got inundated in several places, between Kaduwela and Matara, but also caused areas, on either side of it, to be submerged. The locations, the expressway, and its immediate environs, went under water last May, include the 32 km post area in Galenigama... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/17)
Hi-tech number plates to keep tabs on vehicles.
A Radio Frequency Identification system to be introduced to new number plates will help police to keep close tabs on vehicle movements. The new number plates will be introduced next year, Motor Traffic Commissioner General Jagath Chandrasiri told the Sunday Times. By Damith Wickremasekara Is this Infringement of fundamental rights?? Sri Lankan Human rights lawyers will have a field day? Government is in the process of issuing E-National Identity Cards ( NIC) soon, where all the information such as driving licence .blood group ,driving licence number ,next of kin , address .tax files ,( income )... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/17)
සියළුම හෙද නිළධාරීන් සඳහා 1 ශ්‍රේණියේ උසස් වීම්
ජනක සුගතදාස මහතා ලේකම් සෞඛ්‍යෙ හා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය කොළඔ 10 මහත්මයානනි, මුල් පත්වීමේ දින සිට සේවා කාලය වසර 12ක් සම්පූර්ණ කළ සියළුම හෙද නිළධාරීන් සඳහා 1 ශ්‍රේණියේ උසස් වීම් ලබා ගැනීම මෙරට 33000 පමණ වන සමස්ථ හෙද කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය සැලකූ විට ඔවුන්ගේ විවිධ හෙද කණ්ඩායම් අතර වැටුප් විෂමතා ගණනාවක් නිර්මාණය වී තිබේ. ඒ තුල ඔවුන්ට ශ්‍රේණිගත උසස්වීම් සඳහා ගතකළ යුතු කාළය පිලිබඳව කර ඇති වෙනස්කම් නිසා සිදුව ඇති වැටුප් විෂමතා මෙන්ම, නව හෙද ව්යවස්ථාව ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමේදී ශ්‍රේණිගත උසස් වීම් සඳහා කාළය වැඩිකිරීම මගින්ද වැටුප් විෂමතා ගණනාවක් නිර්මාණය කර ඇත. මේතුල හෙද හෙදියන් අතර වැටුප්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/17)
Enriching the political class
October 7, 2017, 7:02 pm Last week’s celebration of 70 years of parliamentary democracy in Sri Lanka triggered debates and discussions at different levels countrywide. Several Speakers from the Parliaments of country’s belonging to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation were here for the event commemorated with a special session of the incumbent Parliament when the predictable hosannas were sung praising the achievement. Churchill once famously said that "democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." The quote itself, experts say, was not minted by the famous British prime minister/orator though... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/17)
Video shows police officer attacking protester
A video footage captured following the joint opposition-led protest held at Hambantota today, showed a senior police officer assaulting an arrested protester. Meanwhile, posting the video on his Twitter page, MP Namal Rajapaksa asked, “A.S.P. Daluwaththa, is this Yahapalanaya?” When contacted, Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said he was yet to see the video. https://youtu.be/M1B-97tWzhs
The National Police Commission (NPC) has launched an investigation into an alleged assault on a protester by an Assistant Superintendent of Police during the Joint Opposition’s protest march in Hambantota on Friday. A... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/17)
Presidential Commission on Treasury Bond scam Text messages take centre stage
Following a week-long intermission, former Governor of Central Bank of Sri Lanka Arjuna Mahendran, this week faced the next round in the cross-examination ring with acting Solicitor General Dappula de Livera. Thus began another eventful week at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the Treasury Bond issuance by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), which churned out new and shocking information. Monday: AM 22 and Conflict of Interest On Monday (2) ASG de Livera suggested that the witness had contradicted his own testimony late last month regarding the request made by former... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/17)
12,000-year-old hidden village in Vavuniya
Historical evidence of the human history of our country is traced only as far back as the arrival of the Buddha and later the arrival of Prince Vijaya. Most historical facts are drawn from stone inscriptions that are dated back to ancient times. However, most of these inscriptions don't go beyond 2,500 years. Hence, the discovery of evidence that tells of human activities that go beyond the recorded history of the country is of paramount importance. It is in such a context it was reported that a group of Buddhist monks are engaging in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/17)
FOREMOST PLACE GIVEN TO BUDDHISM IN DANGER
President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have repeatedly said they would not touch the unitary State and the foremost place given to Buddhism. However, Buddha Sasana Karya Sadhaka Mandalaya which includes several Maha Nayake Theras emphatically states that the interim report of the steering committee had caused a severe damage to the status of Buddhism guaranteed by the Constitution. In response, Jayampathi Wickremaratne, Parliamentarian and the architect of the new Constitution, vehemently rejected the allegation. Hence, let us examine how the interim report surreptitiously attempted to destroy the status of Buddhism.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/17)
Political feasibility of a referendum for the constitution
October 7, 2017, 7:52 pm The interim report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly is now on the table and there seems to be a stand off developing between the UNP and the pro-Sirisena SLFP over its contents. President Sirisena is being furiously assailed in pro-UNP websites like Lanka e News. Simultaneously we see the noose tightening around the UNP in relation to the bond scam. This is not to suggest that anybody is stage managing the events taking place in the Bond Commission – such a thing is not possible... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/17)
America: The Dictatress of the World
October 03, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - On July 21, 1821, John Quincy Adams, who would go on to become the sixth president of the United States, warned that if America were ever to abandon its founding principle of non-interventionism in foreign affairs, she might well become the dictatress of the world. Adams issued his warning in a speech he delivered to Congress, a speech that has gone down in history with the title “In Search of Monsters to Destroy.” Adams was referring to the fact that the United States was founded as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/17)
The Rising of Britain's 'New Politics'
October 06, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance. The world's third biggest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, supplier to Saudi Arabia, was promoting its guns, bombs, missiles, naval ships and fighter aircraft. It seemed a perfidious symbol of a party in which millions of Britons now invest their political hopes. Once the preserve of Tony Blair, it is now led by Jeremy Corbyn, whose career has been very different and is rare... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/17)
YAHAPALANA AND THE ECONOMY Part 5
REVISED ESSAY. Yahapalana has an ambitious economic plan for Sri Lanka. Here is the plan taken from Vision 2025, published in 2017. “Our vision is to make Sri Lanka a rich country by 2025. We will do so by transforming Sri Lanka into the hub of the Indian Ocean, with a knowledge-based, highly competitive, social-market economy. We will position Sri Lanka as an export-oriented economic hub at the centre of the Indian Ocean”. “A new development strategy will come into effect. The budget deficit will be reduced from 1.5 % in 2014 to 0.2 % in 2016... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
මෛත්රීට ලෝක බැංකුවෙන් එල්ල වී ඇති දූෂණ චෝදනාව ගැන පැහැදිලි කිරිමක් ඕස්ට්රේලියානු මාධ්ය වෙත කරන්නැයි ඉල්ලයි.. මහ කොමසිරිස් නිහඬයි..
ලෝක බැංකුවේ ආධාර මත 2009 වර්ෂයේ මෙරටේ ඉදිකල වේල්ලක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයා යුගයේ වාරිමාර්ග හා මහවැලි සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍යවරයා සිටි මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් ඇ.ඩොලර් මිලියන 1.8 ක් ව්‍යපතියක් එම සමාගමට දීමේදී විශාල කොමිස් මුදලක් ලබා ගත් බවට හෙලු වු කරුණු අනුව ලෝක බැංකුව World Bank සිදු කල දීර්ඝ පරික්ෂණයකින් පසුව එම දූෂණය අදාළ සමගම විසින් ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ එවකට සිටි අමාත්‍යවරයා සමග සිදු කොට ඇති බව තහවරු වීමෙන් පසුව එම ඕස්ට්රේලියානු සමාගම අසාදු ලේඛන ගත කොට ඇති බැව් ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ සියලම මාධ්ය පසුගිය සති අන්තයේ වාර්තා කොට තිබුනි. ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ සියලු ප්රධාන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
පළාත් සභා මැතිවරණය 4 ඉ ව්යවස්ථාව තුළට ගැනීමෙන් බෙදුම්වාදයට සුජාතබව ලැබෙයිද?
(20 වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයට අදාල ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ මතයට අදාල 2017.09.19 දින හැන්සාර්ඩ් වාර්තාව ඇසුරෙන් නීතිය ගලපා ඇත) සෝල්බරි සාමිවරයාගේ මූලිකත්වයෙන් සහ පේරාදෙනිය සරසවියේ නිර්මාතෘ ජෙනිංග්ස් පෙරදැරිව 1947 දී ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව කෙටුම්පත්කර දී බ්‍රිතාන්‍යය කිරීටයට වගකියන ලංකාවේ පුරවැසියෙකුට රටේ අගමැතිධුරය ලබාදී 1948 පෙබරවාරි 04 වැනි දින ඩොමීනියන් නිදහස ලබා දෙන ලදී. 1815 දී උඩරට ගිවිසුමෙන් දෙපාර්ශවයේ එකගත්වයෙන් ලංකාවේ ජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්‍යය බලය බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයන් ලබා ගත් අතර එදින සිට මුළු රටටම බලපාන පරිදි විධායක, ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සහ අධිකරණ බලය එංගලන්තයේ මහරජුන් සහ මහ රැජිණියන් විසින් ලංකාවේ එවකට “සිලෝන්” පාලනය කිරීම සදහා යොදා ගනු ලැබී ය. දෙවන ලෝක යුද්ධයෙන් පසු බ්‍රිතාන්‍යය කිරීටයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
SRI LANKA: Human Rights Defender illegally arrested for allegedly participating in Protest against Police
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding Mrs. Kariyawasam Aarachchilage Ramani Kusumalatha (46), a resident of the Kantale Police Division. She was well reputed as a human rights defender in the area. On 13 June, Kusumalatha assisted three torture victims at the Kantale Base Hospital. Then she asked the Police Officers not to beat those who were protesting against Police who tortured victims. She was able to point out that human rights were being violated by the Police who used force and beat the protestors in public. Finally,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
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New PC Election Law not passed on general merits and principles
Parliament should be mindful of the fact that it exercises legislative power of the people It’s the Constitution that is supreme Parliament is subordinate to the Constitution I’m trying to get a court ruling to have elections to PCs as soon as possible In the absence of elected representatives, PC functions will become chaotic The Speaker has no judicial power The Government’s constitution making process is unconstitutional What the President does is the exact opposite of what he promised before the elections Former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva, who petitioned the Supreme Court against the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
Govt. may lose referendum on new Constitution
Possibility of a drastically-altered final report Strategists count ethno-religious factors in referendum-voting estimates Overwhelming support of minorities might augment shortfall in Sinhala-Buddhist votes Making political calculations on the basis of 2015 could prove dangerously-wrong in 2017 and years to follow The coalition government of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has - as one of its primary objectives - the political project of enacting and passing a new Constitution. This requires a two-thirds majority in Parliament and endorsement by the people in an islandwide referendum. More importantly, the government has been trying to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
AM – PM – RK
October 6, 2017, 9:50 pm Why did the Central Bank move from direct placements to public auctions for Treasury bonds? Because the Prime Minister - PM, who else, wanted it that way. We have the word of guess who, Arjuna Mahendran, on that. He is the AM guy. So did it help to expand the local –T-bond market, boost investor confidence, and drive down government borrowing costs, as they said it would? Come one, you don’t have to talk bond shit, about all that has happened. The Crooked action that moved to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
Bond scam probe: Political interference and public-private sector complicity frightening-Dew
One-time Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (CoPE) Dew Gunasekera yesterday declined to comment on state banks, Bank of Ceylon, the People’s Bank and the National Savings Bank receiving instructions twice in 2016 to make bids at the treasury bond auctions at lower interest (yield) rates as that particular matter hadn’t been investigated by his committee. General Secretary of the Communist Party Gunasekera said so when The Island asked him how his committee had failed to unravel state banks receiving instructions inimical to them from the then Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake. "My committee... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
Lacille De Silva says Ranil is not reliable
Former Secretary of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC) and Attorney-at-Law Lacille De Silva says Ministers Hakeem and Ravi Karunanayake had clearly been subject to accusations. "They influenced the President, directly, to remove me from the PRECIFAC", he noted. Excerpts of the interview: On 8 January there was a political transformation in this country, how do you view the period that followed? A: Promises were made, to combat corruption, make Government Service more efficient, and ensure... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
Lalith the fall man
I felt saddened by the sentence and heavy fines imposed on Lalith Weeratunga. It is very unfortunate that in our endeavours to arrest, remand and imprison those responsible for stealing the coffers of the Treasury, the first victim of that attempt happened to be Lalith Weeratunga. To my mind and to those of many others who worked with Lalith Weeratunga, I am yet to find a person who claims to know him as being a dishonest predator of public money. Instead of which I have found, that if there is a flaw in Lalith's... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
Sri Lanka's Parliament accused of perpetuating majority rule
As lawmakers in Sri Lanka celebrate the 70th anniversary of one of the oldest parliamentary democracies in Asia, minorities including Tamils, Christians and Muslims remain on the fringes of society. They have some representation in Parliament but say they are sidelined by Buddhist Sinhalese, who are the majority in the country and control the legislature. It has done little to heal the wounds from a quarter-century civil war that ended in 2009 and still refuses to acknowledge or investigate allegations of wartime atrocities. The legislature has been accused of perpetuating rule by the Sinhalese, who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
Moving towards contentious constitutional reform
Constitutional reforms, if not a full blown new constitution, were always on the cards after the reformist Maithripala Sirisena was elected president in 2015. This was reinforced after the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) formed a coalition government in the same year, providing them with a large parliamentary majority. However, as reflected in the interim report on the new constitution, differences between the two parties over some of the proposed changes remain. The Economist Intelligence Unit expects negotiations over the content of the new constitution to heat up in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
India always stood for united, sovereign Sri Lanka: Lok Sabha Speaker
India has always stood for a united and sovereign Sri Lanka, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said on Friday, as her counterpart from the island nation’s parliament assured her that the proposed new constitution would take care of all ethnic groups. After the conclusion of the 8th Conference of the Association of SAARC Speakers and Parliamentarians, the Indian Parliamentary Delegation led by Mahajan met the Sri Lankan delegation led by Speaker Karu Jayasuriya and told him of India’s stand, an official statement said. In response, Jayasuriya informed Mahajan that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
Sri Lanka’s Parliament accused of perpetuating majority rule
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — As lawmakers in Sri Lanka celebrate the 70th anniversary of one of the oldest parliamentary democracies in Asia, minorities including Tamils, Christians and Muslims remain on the fringes of society. They have some representation in Parliament but say they are sidelined by Buddhist Sinhalese, who are the majority in the country and control the legislature. It has done little to heal the wounds from a quarter-century civil war that ended in 2009 and still refuses to acknowledge or investigate allegations of wartime atrocities. The legislature has been accused of perpetuating... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
The UNHRC Resolution And Implications For Sri Lanka – Analysis
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted the resolution entitled “Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka” on October 1, 2015, Resolution 30/1. This has been described by some critics as a constitution amendment project for Sri Lanka. Interestingly, it was cosponsored by Sri Lanka. In 2017, Sri Lanka obtained a two-year grace period to implement the resolution, further confirming the country’s acquiescence with Resolution 30/1. Ominously, this year, the High Commissioner commented that in the absence of progress on the implementation of Res. 30/1, other countries could invoke the “universal jurisdiction” principle to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
Mr. President why don’t you sack them and order them to be arrested immediately pending legal action, at least now, that the cat has jumped out of the bag.
4.10.2017. Mr. President why don’t you sack Ranil Wickramasinha and Ravi Karunanayaka at least now and order them to be arrested along with Arjuna Mahendram and Arjuna Alosyas pending legal action going by the latest glaring revelations of serious crimes committed by them in the bank sector and the country in general collectively, as disclosed before the CB scam Commission appointed by you. CB was directly under Ranil at the time of these crimes were committed. It had been taken over by him from the Finance Ministry for the first time in history. You should have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
The Broken World - Buddhism and Existentialism.
The renowned existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel used the memorable phrase ‘The Broken World’ to denote what he believed to be the cause of the ‘existential parlousness’ of mankind – the unremitting denial (or defeat) of the ‘ontological exigencies’ that irrevocably characterize his condition. Let us unpack the thinking behind this unsettling general proposition. Life – in its myriad forms – is a continuous struggle to beat off the forces that conspire to defeat it. Being alive is an ‘attainment’ wherein a continuously assailed organization struggles to keep going – even, briefly, to prosper – before... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/17)
Constitutional game plan of yahapalana govt.
October 5, 2017, 9:39 pm When looking at the interim report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly, the game plan of the yahapalana coalition becomes immediately apparent. For over one and a half years, we have been intermittently receiving various documents from the Steering Committee which made it only too clear what the yahapalana government has in mind in terms of constitutional reform. The most immediate thing that becomes apparent in this interim report is the strategy they seem to have adopted to see that they get the Constitutional reforms they... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/17)
Army provides relief to Jaffna residents
Army provides relief to Jaffna .[October 04 2017] “A project to provide relief to people facing water shortages in the Jaffna Peninsula has been mooted by the Sri Lanka Army in Jaffna. According to Army media, the project initiated by the troops of Security Force Headquarters -Jaffna (SFHQ-J) got off the ground last month (26th September) covering the Navatkuli and Kovilkandi areas. The prevailing dry weather has resulted in people living in several parts of the Peninsula facing drinking water shortages. In order to provide much needed water, troops have placed water storage tanks in several... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/17)
People’s Bank, BoC, NSB heads reveal: Ravi asked state banks to bid at lower interest rates-Bond Scam Probe
October 4, 2017, 10:53 pm Phone recording of Aloysius mentioning FM’s instructions played before commission Paskaralingam, Samaratunga, Samarasinghe attend meetings Chairmen and senior officials of three major state banks––the Bank of Ceylon, the People’s Bank and the National Savings Bank–– testifying before the presidential commission of inquiry probing the bond scams yesterday said that on two occasions in 2016, the then Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake had instructed them to make bids at the treasury bond auctions at lower interest (yield) rates and their institutions had therefore been deprived of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/17)
PTL’s files referring to ‘AM’ and ‘RK’ feature in Aloysius’ text messages
Several text messages extracted from PTL owner Arjun Aloysius’ phone, referring to files maintained at PTL titled as “to do list to AM and RK” were submitted before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) yesterday by Additional Solicitor General Dappula De Livera who continued to cross examine former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran. Continuing the cross-examination of former CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran, Additional Solicitor General Dappula de Livera yesterday questioned the witness over the relationship he had with his son-in-law’s company (Perpetual Treasuries Ltd) after he resigned from the post of Governor... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/17)
රවි ගස් යන ලකුණු.. බැදුම්කර කොමිසමේදී රාජ්ය බැංකු තුන සාක්ෂි දෙයි..
ප‍්‍රශ්ණගත බැඳුම්කර නිකුතුව සිදුවෙද්දී ඒ සදහා අඩු ලංසු ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නැයි එවකට මුදල් ඇමති රවී කරුණානායක විසින් රාජ්ය බැංකුවලට උපදෙස් දුන්නේ යයි ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් සොයා බලන ජනාධිපති විශේෂ විමර්ෂණ කොමිසමේදී අද හෙලි විය. මහජන බැංකුව, ලංකා බැංකුව, ජාතික ඉතිරි කිරීමේ බැංකුව යන රාජ්ය බැංකුවල සභාපතිවරුන් අද දිනයේ කොමිසම හමුවට කැදවා ප‍්‍රශ්ණ කරනු ලැබීය. මෙම බැංකුවල සභාපතිවරැන් කොමිසම හමුවට අද කැදවූ නිසා හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්‍රන්ගෙන් හරස් ප්රශ්න ඇසීම වෙනත් දිනකට කල් දමා ඇත.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
බැදුම්කර මගඩියේ සියල්ල හෙලිවෙයි… ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වන්නැයි අගමැති රනිල්ට දන්වයි..
බැදුම්කර මගඩිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පරීක්‍ෂණ සිදු කරන ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ හෙලිදරවු වී ඇති කරුණු අනුව එල්ල වන චෝදනා නිසා අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාට ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වන ලෙසට ඒකාබද්ද විපක්ෂය යෝජනා කරයි. මාධ්ය හමුවක් අමතමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ මහතා කියා සිටියේ බැදුම්කර නිකුත් කරන ක‍්‍රමවේදය වෙනස් කරන්නැයි අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා උපදෙස් දුන් බව හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්රන් කොමිසම හමුවේ හෙලි කර ඇති බවයි. 2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙවන් පසුව ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා අගමැති ධුරයට පත් කරනු ලැබුවේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු ආසන 54ක් පමණක් තිබියදී බවත් එය සහමුලින්ම ව්යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝනය කිරීමක් බවත් මන්ත‍්‍රීවරයා කියා සිටියේය. https://youtu.be/seE1TieyW1g... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Three branches of govt. should coexist to achieve prosperity – Prez - By Saman Indrajith The Island
October 3, 2017, 11:11 pm Quote President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday said that in order to achieve prosperity and development there should be no conflicts among the three main branches of governance the executive, legislature and judiciary. Unquote Statement made above by HE The President needs an amendment ,Thre tree of government should surely have three branches with leaves representing the Lawmakers representing Ligsilature ,President and his team representing Executive. And Judges and State Law enforcement representing Judiciary . Government to last long sustainable years require a good foundation .representing the roots of democracy by Good... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
FROM SOUTH ASIAN INTELLIGENCE REVIEW- OCT 2017
Militants using secured messaging apps to dodge cops, say Anti-Terrorism Unit officials: Police's Anti-Terrorism Unit officials said that militant outfits have apparently smartened up and become tech-savvy as they are now using encrypted communications applications or apps more and more to maintain communications online, making it harder for the law enforcement agencies to trace them. They said the militants initially used popular apps like Facebook and its Messenger, and Google Hangouts to communicate. Dhaka Tribune, October 2, 2017. 440 people accused in 331 militancy related cases have fled country after getting bail, say security agencies: At the National... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
ශ්රී ලංකා විදේශ දූත මණ්ඩලවල රාජ්ය කළමනාකරණ සහකාර සේවයේ පුරප්පාඩු පිරවීමේ දී සිදුව ඇති අක‍්‍රමිකතාව සම්බන්ධවයි.
ලේකම් විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය, කොළඹ 01 ලේකම්තුමනිි, ශ්රී ලංකා විදේශ දූත මණ්ඩලවල රාජ්ය කළමනාකරණ සහකාර සේවයේ පුරප්පාඩු පිරවීමේ දී සිදුව ඇති අක‍්‍රමිකතාව සම්බන්ධවයි. ඉහත මාතෘකාවට අදාළව 2017.08.21 දින ජනාධිපති ලේකම්ට යොමුකළ ලිපියේ පිටපත් ඔබට හා රාජ්ය පරිපාලන හා කළමනාකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් වෙත ද යොමුකළෙමු. මේ වන විට රාජ්ය පරිපාලන හා කළමනාකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම්වරයා ඒ පිළිබඳව ඔබගෙන් වාර්තාවක් කැඳවා ඇති බව දන්වන ලිපියේ පිටපතක් අප වෙත එවා ඇත. අප විසින් ඔබට ද පිටපත් සහිතව ජනාධිපති ලේකම් වෙත යොමුකළ එකී ලිපියෙන් උක්ත විභාගයට පෙනී සිට මූලික වටයෙන් සමත් වූ නිලධාරීන් පිරිසකට සිදුව ඇති අසාධාරණය සම්බන්ධව කරුණු ඉදිරිපත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
ආණ්ඩුකාර පාලනය යටතට පත් කළ පළාත් සභාවන් හි මහජන දේපළ අයථා පරිහණය වැලැක්වීමට ආණ්ඩුකාර හා පළාත් ප්රධාන ලේකම්වරුගේ වගකීමකි
ආණ්ඩුකාර පාලනය යටතට පත් කොට ඇති පළාත් සභාවන් සතු වාහන හා වෙනත් සම්පත් තම භාරයට ගැනීමට ආණ්ඩුකාරවරුන් හා ලේකම්වරුන් කටයුතු කළ යුතුය. උතුරු මැද, සබරගමුව හා නැගෙනහිර පළාත් සභා සතු වාහන 32 ක් එයට වැඩි ප්‍ර‍මාණයක් හිටපු ප්රධාන අමාත්‍යවරුන්, අමාත්‍යවරුන්, විපක්ෂ නායකවරුන් හා ඔවුන්ගේ කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය විසින් රැගෙන ගොස් ඇත. පළාත් සභා සතු තවත් භාණ්ඩ විශාල ප්‍ර‍මාණයක් නැවත බාරදීමට ඔවුන් කටයුතු කර නැත. දේශපාලන කටයුතු සදහා අඛණ්ඩව මෙම සම්පත් යොදා ගනිමින් සිටින බව පසුගිය දින කිහිපයේ දී නිරීක්ෂණය විය. උතුරු මැද පළාත් සභාව සතු වාහන ගණනාවක් ඔක්තෝබර් මස 2 දින අනුරාධපුර පැවති රුස්වීම් මාලාවකට උපයෝගී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Constitution Law expert Manohara R. De Silva, PC says One Govt in ‘Unitary’ several Govts in ‘United’
Although, Sri Lanka's Constitution declares that the country is a 'Unitary State' some are of the view that the country should be a 'United State'. Legal experts say that 13th Amendment would affect the sovereign power of the people and it annuls and destroys the unitary nature of Sri Lanka by devolving authority such as Land and Police to regional governments (provinces) and abating the authority of the Central Government, paving way to a Federal State. At a time when arguments and debates over 'Unitary State' and 'United State' concepts are being spoken of,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Auditor General and empty wallet
October 4, 2017, 9:51 pm Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe has recently been adjudged ‘Ada Derana Public Servant of the Year’. Public officials of his calibre and integrity with an unfaltering resolution and courage to carry out their duties and functions without fear or favour in the face of political pressure and other such evil influences deserve to be honoured. Let Wijesinghe be congratulated and Derana thanked. Derana should thank the incumbent government for making the task of selecting the Public Servant of the Year easy albeit unwittingly. If the yahapalana leaders hadn’t arbitrarily put off... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
CIABOC moved against PM, Speaker, AG et al over putting off PC polls
Close on the heels of former Chief Justice Sarath Nanda Silva moving Supreme Court against yahapalana government causing the postponement of Provincial Council elections by the recent passage of the Provincial Councils Elections (Amendment) Act, attorney-at-law Nagananda Kodituwakku has complained to the Bribery and Corruption Commission against the Attorney General, Speaker, Prime Minister, Provincial Councils and Local Government Minister and those who had voted for that particular Bill. Kodituwakku has handed over the complaint to the Secretary to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) yesterday. The public litigation activist said that in accordance... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Sri Lanka opposition party to protest airport deal to Indian company
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's main opposition party, mostly comprising loyalists of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, said today it will stage a protest against the proposed lease of an airport to an Indian company. The Joint Opposition, a political alliance formed by a right-wing faction of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and several left-wing parties, said they will protest on Friday against the proposed 40-year lease to an Indian company of the Mattala Mahinda Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA), located in the Mattala town, 18 km from Hambantota. "We will go to Mattala on October 6 to protest against the deal.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Camping and Caravanning Club confirms Sri Lanka motorhome tour
Worldwide Motorhoming Holidays by the Camping and Caravanning Club has announced a new escorted motorhome tour of Sri Lanka that kicks off in March 2018 Earlier this year, escorted tours of Japan and western Australia were introduced, adding to an already established list of worldwide motorhoming destinations. The new tours proved very popular, with the first Japan tour selling out almost immediately. Jason Purkiss from the Camping and Caravanning Club said of the new Sri Lanka tour: “This small yet vibrant nation has a dramatic and varied landscape, from sweeping central highlands to lowland rainforests, and Worldwide Motorhoming... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Most profitable Asia cigarette maker faces competition from beedis
British American Tobacco Plc’s unit in Sri Lanka says it’s poised to lose its dominant position in the market to leaf-rolled cigars made by small local rivals. The gap between the price of cigarettes and beedis, cheap tobacco wrapped in a coarse leaf, has widened after the government raised excise duties and slapped a 15 percent value-added tax last year. (Reuters) British American Tobacco Plc’s unit in Sri Lanka says it’s poised to lose its dominant position in the market to leaf-rolled cigars made by small local rivals. Ceylon Tobacco Co.’s profit margin will continue to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Emirates SkyCargo reports boom in flying fish from Sri Lanka
Emirates SkyCargo has reported a boom in fish volumes from Sri Lanka to Europe after a ban on their export was lifted by Brussels last year. The airline said it is currently transporting about 100 tons of edible fish a week from Colombo to markets in Europe and the US. In the second half of 2016, Emirates SkyCargo transported more than 2,400 tons of edible fish from Sri Lanka, double the volume it had transported in the corresponding six months of the previous year. The cargo consisted of tuna in fresh, chilled and frozen forms,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
U.S. 2019 Diversity Visa Lottery Begins
The U.S. Embassy in Colombo is pleased to announce the start of the 2019 Diversity Visa Lottery Program, also known as the “Green Card” Lottery. The program will be open for online registration from October 3, 2017 to November 7, 2017. The Diversity Visa Lottery allows randomly selected applicants the opportunity to interview for an immigrant visa and become legal permanent residents of the United States. The program is the “2019” lottery because applicants enter in 2017, interview in 2018, and—if selected and approved—receive Green Cards in 2019. A few items to keep in mind: * The lottery application entry... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Six reasons why Sri Lanka needs to boost its ailing private sector
Sri Lanka experienced strong growth at the end of its 26-year conflict. This was to be expected as post-war reconstruction tends to bring new hope and energy to a country. And Sri Lanka has done well—5 percent growth is nothing to scoff at. A view of the business district in Colombo. Credit: Joe Qian / World Bank However, Sri Lanka needs to create an environment that fosters private-sector growth and creates more and better jobs. To that end, the country should address these 6 pressing challenges: 1. The easy economic wins are almost exhausted For... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Volunteers help children in remote Sri Lankan schools to learn coding
A young tech expert is helping children in rural areas to get valuable skills that will be crucial for their future. Winning an award for creating a digital dictionary while he was still in school has inspired Prabhath Mannapperuma to foster a legion of budding young programmers in remote corners of Sri Lanka. Mannapperuma, 24, heads a team of volunteers who fan out all over the country - firing up students with the Micro:bit, a tiny programmable device, and the message that writing computer code is no arcane art but within... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Daya Gamage Analyzes Washington’s Foreign Policy on Sri Lanka in Book
A desire to achieve a common objective is a force that motivates a strong leadership. Success is the outcome of a well-organized plan. Author Daya Gamage, who was a public affairs assistant and political specialist of United States Department of State, shares his own insights on Washington’s overt and covert foreign policy with the aim of reviving Sri Lanka’s military organization “Tamil Tigers” back in the global arena. The book “Tamil Tigers’ Debt to America: US Foreign Policy Adventurism and Sri Lanka’s Dilemma” describes how Washington’s foreign policy is carefully... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Students strip-searched in school in the Muscat capital area
October 04, 2017 Muscat - The horrified parents of Class 11 students of Sri Lankan School Muscat have called for the strictest possible action against a teacher at the school after she strip-searched a student who was “accused of stealing money”. The teacher, who is said to be responsible for handling disciplinary matters at the school, decided to cross all limits after a student of Class 11 complained that money which had been kept in her bag for paying school fees was missing and that she suspected a classmate of having... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Provinces, Provincial Councils, political lackeys of the West, Indian expansionism and the proposed new Constitution.
10.2. 2017 Provinces, Provincial Councils, political lackeys of the West, Indian expansionism and the proposed new Constitution; all these hang together in one bunch as a cluster of a mega conspiracy to destabilize and dismantle the Sinhala Buddhist State of Sri Lanka. This has become more than obvious and clearly revealed after the Interim Report of the Constitutional Council was tabled in Parliament by its architect Ranil Wickramasinha last week followed by the ongoing public debate on its content. It appears as if the cat has finally come out of the bag now. Provinces we... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
දේශපාලන වේදිකාවේ නැටවෙන සරණාගත සහ ත්‍රස්තවාදී රූකඩ
ශ්රී ලංකාවට ඇතුලුවී සිටින රොහින්ග්‍යා සරණාගතයින් පිරිස පිලිබඳ ප්‍රශ්නය මේ වන විට රට තුල දැඩි කතාබහට ලක්ව ඇත. රට තුල පමනක් නොව ජාත්‍යන්තරය තුල පවා මෙය මහත් ආන්දෝලනයකට තුඩු දී තිබුනේ රොහින්ග්‍යාවරුන් ජීවත්වන රට වන මියන්මාරයේ නායිකාව වූ අවුන් සාං සුකී එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ 72 වන සැසිවාරයට සහභාගී නොවන බවට පලවූ පුවතත් සමගය. ඉතින් සියල්ලටම පෙර මේ රොහින්ග්‍යාවරුන් යනු කවුද කියා විමසා බැලීම වටී. ලක්ෂ 8 - 10 ක් පමන වූ මෙම ජනතාව පරම්පරා බොහෝ ගණනක් තිස්සේ ජීවත් වනුයේ මියන්මාරයේ රාඛීන් දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේය. 'රොහින්ග්‍යා' යන නම මේ ජනවර්ගයට මියන්මාරයේ සිටින සහ හිටපු බලධාරීන් ලබා දී ඇති නමයි. ඒ මොවුන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Nation should salute members of the Global Forum who fought for Sri Lanka at the UNHRC
It is shame that this Tamil slavish government which maintains a Permanent representative and a staff in Geneva allowed separatist Tamils and the tiger terrorist rump throughout the world to shred Sri Lanka at the 36th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council which ended on 29th September. When all other States which had accusations of violations of human rights used their ‘Right of Reply’ to answer those allegation and to clarify any confusion Sri Lanka has failed to present an official response to these blatant allegations as if that this government accepts those... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
Sri Lankan lawyer calls Asia to unite in claiming compensation for colonial crimes
At a seminar on Foreign Policy and International Law held at the Organisation of Professional Associations (OPA) auditorium, Colombo yesterday (October 2, 2017) a member of the audience, Attorney Senaka Weeraratna, called for unity among Asian countries in claiming compensation from Western colonial powers which ravaged Third World nations including Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), during question time. Weeraratna said: “The biggest proponents of Human Rights today are the very same countries that had decimated ancient civilizations in the two Americas (Aztec, Inca, Mayan and other Native American – the so-called Red Indian), Australia ( 40,000 year old... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/17)
A “Tenth province” or Coastal authority to deal with climate change. A must for a 21st century constitution of Sri Lanka.
The proposed constitution has provoked much debate, but mainly within the framework of traditional thinking with emphasis on the usual issues, i.e., “Unitary and Devolved power, the place of Buddhism, or the executive presidency. Whether devolution should be district-based or province-based has been debated for at least 50 years, with the same arguments being brought out. While the demand for devolution originally came from the Tamil Nationalist politicians, the majority ethnic group has not supported this, as has been the case all over the world. The ensuing violence between the government and the Tamil... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/17)
දේශපාලන වාසි ලබා ගැනීම නවතා මැතිවරණයට පෙර දිවිනැගුම සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී III ශ්‍රේණියට බදවා ගැනීමට ආණ්ඩුව වහා පියවර ගත යුතුයි.
සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව වෙත දිවිනැගුම සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී III ශ්‍රේණිය සදහා බදවා ගැනීම සදහා පවත්වන ලද සම්මුඛ පරීක්ෂණයට අනුව අදාල බදවා ගැනීම් සිිදු නොකර ප‍්‍රමාද කිරීමෙන් ආණ්ඩුව පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත මැතිවරණ වෙනුවෙන් දේශපාලන වාසි ලබා ගැනීමට කටයුතු කරන බව අප මෙයින් අවධාරණය කරන්නෙමු. 2016.01.14 දිනැති සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද ගැසට් නිවේදනයට ප‍්‍රකාරව 2016.09.18 දින පවත්වන ලද දීප ව්‍යාප්ත තරග විභාගයක් පැවති අතර ඒ සදහා 250000(දෙලක්ෂ පනස් දහසකට* ආසන්න අපේක්ෂකයින් පිරිසක් මෙම විභාගය සදහා පෙනී සිට ඇත. මෙම තරග විභාගයට පෙනී සිටි අය අතුරින් 9316 විභාගය සමත්ව ඇති අතර එයින් 7542 වෙත පසුගිය ජුලි 11... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/17)
Ailing parliament and moribund democracy
October 3, 2017, 8:34 pm Sri Lankan Parliament, housed in a palatial building complex constructed with Japanese funds and equipped with computers from China, has celebrated its 70th Anniversary on a grand scale. One wonders whether the celebrations were also sponsored by a foreign government. As parliament turns 70, the need, we believe, is for sober reflection and not scenes of jubilation. What we are witnessing is like celebrating a terminally ill person’s birthday. Democracy has faced a double whammy at the hands of the very politicians who organised yesterday’s grand event. First, they manipulated the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/17)
Mahendran questioned on conflict of interest as Son-in-law was a primary dealer
Additional Solicitor General Dappula De Livera yesterday questioned former CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran on whether he had conveyed information relating to the Government’s immediate fund requirement of Rs. 15 billion to Aloysius, since PTL’s total bid at the February 27, 2015 auction was a ‘magical figure’ similar to the Government’s requirement. Continuing the cross-examination of Former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran, Additional Solicitor General Dappula De Livera yesterday questioned the witness for the second day after a break of on week of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) proceedings. At the very beginning,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/17)
The present Constitution Is it Federal or not?
At the moment when proposals for drafting a new Constitution or amending the present Constitution are underway, it would be extremely relevant to understand the true face (nature) of the present Constitution, since it is from this premise that we will have to proceed either to abolish or amend it. Further the confusion created to obfuscate the issues demand clearance of the ground on which we stand presently. For such an understanding the observations made by Raja Wanasundara the senior most Judge who sat on the panel to adjudicate the Constitutionality of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/17)
1,333 refugees, asylum seekers in the country: Minister
While claiming that the group of 35 Myanmar refugees would be sent to third country, the Government today revealed that a total of 1,333 asylum seekers and refugees were residing in the country under the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Addressing the media at the weekly media briefing today at the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Head Quarters the Minister said according to an MoU signed between the UNHCR and the Government, the Myanmar refugees should be sent to a third country as soon as possible. The Minister pointed out... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/17)
Abandoning the Foremost place given to Buddhism
The Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly of Sri Lanka submitted its interim report to the Constitutional Assembly on 21 September 2017. When the report was presented, the Prime Minister and the Members of Parliament representing the Government stated that their constitutional proposals have not deviated from the foremost place given to Buddhism. This interim report however proposes two alternative provisions to the existing Article 9 of the Constitution. The proposed alternative provisions are reproduced below: n Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place and accordingly it shall be the duty of the State... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/17)
බුදු දහමේ ප්රමුඛස්ථානය අහිමියි.. ව්‍යවස්තා කමිටු වාර්තාවේ වගන්ති මෙන්න..
පිවිතුරු හෙල උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රි උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා එම පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේදී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය.බුදු දහමට ලබා දී ඇති ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානයට සහ ඒකීයභාවයට අත නොතබන බවට ජනාධිපතිතුමාත් අගමැතිතුමාත් නැවත නැවතත් ප්රකාශ කරනවා. නමුත් මහ නායක හිමිවරු ඇතුළු බුද්ධ ශාසන කාර්ය සාධක මණ්ඩලය කියන්නේ ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානයට හානි කර ඇති බවයි. ඊට පිලිතුරු දෙමින් ඊයේ ජයම්පති වික්‍රමරත්න මන්ත්‍රිතුමා කියන්නේ හානියක් නොකර ඇති බවයි. මම මාධ්‍යවේදී ඔබට ආරාධනා කරනවා ජයම්පති වික්‍රමරත්න මන්ත්‍රිතුමන් සහ එතුමන් සමග මාධ්ය හමුවට පැමිණි සුරෙන් ප්‍රනාන්දු නීතිඥතුමත් එක් පාර්ශවයක් ලෙසත් ජනධිපති නීතිඥ මනෝහරද සිල්වා මැතිතුමන් සහ මා අනෙත් පාර්ශවය ලෙස ගෙන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/17)
Case of a modern day Arahant - II
September 16, 2017 (What was published in The Island of September 18, 2017 under same title was an edited version of the concluding part of my article. The following re-revised text is closer to the original.) Continued Incidentally, disparagement or what appears to be attempted desacralization of the Tooth Relic by various individuals is not new. The famous Colonel Olcott (1832-1907), who greatly contributed to the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and who initiated a school system for the education of the children of Sinhalese Buddhists (something denied them under the British), showed little... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
Eating Out? These restaurant deals give you the most bang for your buck & dishes that are essentially a heart attack on a plate
Eat as much as you like for one price in Sri Lanka If you travel along Kandy Colombo road, turn off to Kirindiwela road. A few miles from there you would be surprised to see a restaurant that offers meals for just one price. You can eat as much as you like for just one price. Sounds not bad at all. There are plenty of choices as well. One morning we went there then there were milk rice, appa, pittu, string hoppers and pol roti and many more. I am sure Sri Lankans know exactly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
NITC/SEARCC Conference and IFIP Meetings Wrap up Successfully in Colombo
Wednesday 20 September 2017 – Colombo, Sri Lanka – Nearly 1,000 people took part in last week’s highly successful NITC/SEARCC Conference and preceding IFIP/SEARCC meetings in Colombo. IFIP, the global federation of national computer societies, and SEARCC, its SE Asian regional counterpart, both held annual general meetings for their key executives and decision-makers in the lead-up to the Computer Society of Sri Lanka’s (CSSL) National IT Conference (NITC), which was held in cooperation with the SEARCC Conference. The six-day event attracted 100 international delegates from almost 50 different countries around the world, including 20 overseas... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
Tea Talk with Dr Ajith Colonne on 12th October
Dr Collonne is a military and business studies lecturer, with significant experience. Dr Ajith Colonne is also a Security Analyst and a former Deputy Director (research) attached to Sri Lankan Military Intelligence. He devotes a considerable amount of his time doing a national service by conducting lectures on Decision Making, Intelligence Analysis and Economics among many other areas. At this evening talk, which is held free... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
දහදිය සිත්තම - කෙටිනාට්‍ය උළෙල ඔක් 03 සවස 2.00ට මරදාන ටවර්හිදී
දහදිය සිත්තම - කෙටිනාට්‍ය උළෙල ඔක් 03 සවස 2.00ට මරදාන ටවර්හිදී ජාතික වෘත්තීය සමිති මධ්‍යස්ථානය, සාහිත්‍ය අනුකමිටුව විසින් 11 වන වරටත් සංවිධානය කරන දහදිය සිත්තම කෙටි නාට්‍ය උළෙල ඔක් 03 (අඟහරුවාදා) සවස 2.00 ට මරදාන ටවර් රඟහලේදී පැවැත්වීමට කටයුතු යොදා ඇත. සෞන්දර්යාත්මක විනිවිඳීමක් තුළින් බුද්ධිමය අස්වැන්නක් ඵලදැරීමට සමත් නාට්‍ය කලාවකට අවැසි පරපුරක් වෙනුවෙන් මෙම උළෙල වාර්ෂිකව අප විසින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලැබේ. 2017 වර්ෂය සඳහා ඉදිරිපත්වූ කෙටි නාට්‍ය පිටපත් අතරින් නිෂ්පාදනය සඳහා සුදුසුකම් ලැබූ. කෙටි නාට්‍යවල දෙවන වටයේ විනිශ්චය පසුගිය සැපැතැම්බර් 10 සහ 11 දිනවලදී කොළඹ දී පවත්වන ලදි. එම වටයෙන් අවසන් වටය සඳහා සුදුසුකම් ලැබූ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
ඊගෝ යුද්දය සහ රෝගීන් ගේ ජීවිත
මහනුවර මහ රෝහලේ දෙවන හදවත් බද්ධයට ලක්වූ සචිනි සෙව්වන්දි (19) තරුණිය එම සැත්කම අසාර්ථක වීමෙන් පසු ඊයේ (30දා) දහවල් ජීවිතක්ෂයට පත්ව තිබේ. සැත්කමෙන් දින තුනකට පසු හෘද රෝග ඒකකයේ දැඩි සත්කාර ඒකකයේ ප්‍රතිකාර ලබමින් සිටියදී ඇය මෙලෙස මියගොස් ඇත. මුලින්ම ලැබුනු හදවත ඇයට 100 % එකඟ වූවා නමුත් ඇනස්තටිස්ට් වෛද්‍යවරිය තමන් ගේ නම ප්‍රථම හදවත් ඔපරේශන් එකේදී මාධ්ය මගින් කියවූනේ නෑ කියා එම ඔපරේශන් එක කඩාකප්පල් කරා. පසුව මාධ්ය මගින් මෙය හෙලි කරනු ලැබුවා ( මුල් සැත්කමේ සාර්ථකත්වය ඊට සම්බන්ධවූ සැමට හිමිවන නමුත් එහිදී කිහිපදෙනකු පමණක් විශේෂයෙන් මතුවී සෙසු අය‍ගේ සේවය නිසි ඇගයීමකට ලක් නොවුණු බවත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
Govt. circumvented Referendum in enacting law to delay PC Polls -GL
JVP’s six seats made the difference in ensuring two-thirds for the Govt. What was presented isn’t what was enacted Adoption of this technique means the abandoning of all constitutional safeguards in relation to legislative process That is completely against the Standing Orders and the Constitution It’s likely that a similar exercise will be done related to the constitutional process What will happen to the fundamental rights in the Constitution then? JVP, TNA are integral parts of Govt. We are now exploring appropriate modalities to take this matter again to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT POSITIVES AND PARADOXES
So, the Provincial Council Elections (Amendment) Act has been passed. The manner in which the Act was passed has a lot of positives but, what leaves much to be desired, is the manner in which the Bill was passed in the House. The only amendment to the Act was that which made it mandatory for women to have 25% of the representation in these local bodies and there was also this 60-40 rule which was meant for 60% of the votes and the candidates to come from the First-Past-the-Post System and the remaining 40%... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
How referee India joined the fray
On 2 October 1987, the Sri Lanka Navy received a tip off about a boat seen in the Palk Strait and that it may be carrying a large stock of arms. The follow up action by the Navy resulted in the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), that came to Sri Lanka as peace keepers, to monitor the truce between Sri Lankan Forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ending up fighting the LTTE. The incident - later named 'Cyanide Drama' - not only ended the truce, but also changed Indian policy towards... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
Danger of ICPAPED
Confronting us is the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance Bill (ICPAPED). If the provision of this bill is incorporated into local law, we give foreign governments jurisdiction over our own citizens - namely the agents of the State, which may be political or military. Some take comfort in the false belief that it will ensnare not only those in the Rajapaksa administration, but also the United National Party (UNP) Government during the late '80s responsible for the many disappearances of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurgents. The fact... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
Mahendran says he did not take oath of office as CB Governor
October 2, 2017, 11:33 pm Arjuna Mahendran yesterday told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry investigating the Treasury bond scams that he had not taken the oath of public servants when he assumed duties as the Governor of the Central Bank. Giving evidence before the commission, Mahendran said that he had not been aware of such a protocol. Nor those who appointed him to the post had informed him of it. Mahendran said so in response to questions raised by Senior Additional Solicitor General Dappula de Livera PC. Senior Additional Solicitor... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
Bond scams probe Mahendran admits PM ordered auction method
Former Governor of the Central Bank Arjuna Mahendran, testifying before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the bond scams, yesterday, said it was Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe who had instructed him to issue Treasury bonds only through public auctions. Mehendran was answering a query raised by Commission member Justice Prasanna S. Jayawardena. He said Prime Minister Wickremesinghe had instructed him to stop direct placement and he (Mahendran) had, on Feb. 27, 2015, instructed the Public Debt Department to do so. Answering questions from the Commission members, Mahendran said the Prime... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
Sri Lankan troops did not commit war crimes - Basil
Sri Lankan troops did not commit war crimes but the individuals within the forces may have done the atrocities during the three-decade-long war against the LTTE, former minister Basil Rajapaksa said. Rajapaksa’s remarks came while addressing reporters in Jaffna to launch Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the new party formed by Rajapaksa loyalists and a breakaway faction of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He also accused the current Maithripala Sirisena government of duping the Tamil community after getting their help to win elections in 2015. “Our troops did not do war crimes. There may have been individuals... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
Prof. Colvin Gunaratne assumes duties as SLMC Chairman
Professor Colvin Gunaratne assumed duties as the Chairman of Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC), a short while ago. He was appointed by Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine Dr. Rajitha Senaratne. His predecessor Professor Carlo Fonseka’s tenure as SLMC Chairman came to an end on June 30. Professor Fonseka had held office since 2012. Professor Fonseka’s official tenure was supposed to end on December 31, 2016, as the SLMC President’s tenure is generally valid for a period of 5 years. However, the Ministry of Health took steps to extend his tenure by 6 more... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
Former Chief Justice accuses Chairman of Elections Commission (English)
https://youtu.be/cTWrm4pPW48... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/17)
FGM raises its ugly head in Sri Lanka with Kerala Support
FGM also kindly referred to as female circumcision is being promoted among Sri Lanka’s Muslim women with the support from Islamic clerics based in Kerala.. The ACJU, Sri lanka’s top organization of religious scholars has endorsed the practice as an obligatory Islamic duty and many Muslim religious scholars are supporting it. They are even preaching from the pulpits saying it is obligatory and that women who are not circumcised are unclean and giving their husbands diseases like AIDS, cancer and other STDs. What is most disturbing is the procedure is now being openly promoted by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
Statement of the Buddha Sasana Karya Sadaka Mandalaya on the interim report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly of Sri Lanka
Abandoning the Foremost place given to Buddhism The Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly of Sri Lanka submitted its interim report to the Constitution Assembly on 21st September 2017. When the report was presented, the Prime Minister's and the members of parliament representing the government stated that their constitutional proposals have not deviated from the foremost place given to Buddhism. This interim report however proposes two alternatives provisions to the existing Article 9 of the Constitution. The proposed alternative provisions are reproduced below. Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
තේ කාලේ කතාවක්!
පෙරදිග රටවල් මංකොල්ලකන්න පටන්ගත්තාට පස්සේ තමයි සුද්දෝ තේ ගැන දැනගත්තේ. ඒ, චීනයෙන්. චීන මිනිස්සු තේ වවන්නේ අවුරුදු දහස් ගණනක ඉඳලා. කොහොම හරි සුද්දොත් තේ බොන්න පටන්ගත්තා. චීන වෙළෙන්දෝ සුද්දන්ට තේ වික්කා. සුද්දෝ තමන් ගේ නිෂ්පාදන චීනයට වික්කා. පෙරදිග ඉන්දියානු වෙළෙඳ සමාගම කියන කොම්පැනිය තමයි මේ වැඩේට සුද්දෝ යොදාගත්තේ. සුද්දෝ තේවලට වහවැටිලා හිටියේ. ඒකට ඇතිවෙච්ච ඉල්ලුමට ගැලපෙන තරමින් දෙයක් චීන්නුන්ට දෙන්න පුළුවන්කමක් මේ කොම්පැනියට තිබුණේ නෑ. ඉතින් 1793 අවුරුද්ද වෙද්දී මේ කොම්පැණිය පවුම් දස ලක්ෂ 28 ක් ණයවෙලා හිටියේ. මේ විදිහට ඇතිවෙච්ච වෙළෙඳ හිඟය පියවගන්න කියලා හිතාගෙන තමයි සුද්දෝ අබිං බිස්නස් එකට අතගැහුවේ. අපේ රටේ වගේ ම චීනයේත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
The ‘10th Province’, a must in the Constitution
September 29, 2017, 10:04 pm The proposed constitution has provoked much debate, but mainly within the framework of traditional thinking with emphasis on a few issues like "Unitary and Devolved power, the place of Buddhism, or the executive presidency. In my view, these ignore the most urgent issues that Sri Lanka will face in the next decade, due to climate change as well as the on-going technological tsunami. I discussed how we may harness the digital revolution to our advantage in a previous article (Island, September 2017) entitled "Unit of Devolution – look in cyberspace".... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
PORTCITY AND ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT
Everyday I pass thtough Galle Face along the Port City Development and note that work is steadily streaming ahead .I wonder whether we will not alive long to see the entire devlopment after completion as such development will take at least 10-15 years to achieve. As a marine engineer and a investment promoter I would like to suggest following to the decision makers of the port city development . Along the southern boundary of the development a Marina is envisaged for yachts and leisure boat owners to patronize Colombo .These owners and tourists are cuurntly using... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
Foreign ministry’s shocking silence in Geneva
The 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council closed just a few days back, on the 29th of September. At that session, there were allegations of genocide, systematic discrimination, rape and torture in custody, extrajudicial killings and militarization leveled at Sri Lanka besides a call by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid al Hussein, for the second time in two sessions, for Universal Jurisdiction to be exercised. Universal Jurisdiction allows the courts of another country to prosecute a Sri Lankan citizen for alleged violations of crimes against humanity normally... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
Why is everyone silent about 443 years discrimination against the Sinhalese?
Sri Lanka: by 1956, 30% Ceylon administrative service, 50%clerical service, 60% engineers & doctors, 40%armed force were held by ONLY Tamils who were less than 10% of the population. There are some facts stubborn to accept but need to now be brought to the table. Everything cannot revolve around one community. Every change and every solution cannot be determined on what that one community only demands completely ignoring the other communities. No solution or option can omit some ground realities ignoring how and who created the issues the currently prevails. Are people aware of the actual... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
Discrimination in Sri Lanka – A Reality?
I want to start my speech with reference to an incident that took place in Jaffna on the 16th of December 2016. Where a bus-van collision led to the deaths of 11 Sinhalese travelling to Chavakachcheri, in the North of Sri Lanka. The Tamils who arrived at the scene did everything to help the wounded Sinhalese. The touching scenes were relayed by media. It takes a brave few like those who helped the victims and those who held candlelit vigils for the deceased, to awaken the rest of the community to the true status quo. Only 7... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
MASSACRE OF HINDUS BY THE ROHINGAYAS
https://youtu.be/x-gq6kMjbco... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
Illegality of Rohingya asylum seekers smuggled to Sri Lanka: UNHCR can hire an island in Maldives and keep them!
There are several issues that need to be dealt with within the legal framework and devoid emotional ties. Firstly, no person can enter a country illegally. Anyone entering a country must have valid identity, valid passport and valid visa approvals. Sri Lanka is not a party to the 1951 Refugee. Convention or the 1967 Protocol. Therefore, Sri Lanka is not bound or cannot be forced to accept any refugee or asylum seekers. The danger in this Convention is that over a period of time signatories are bound to give citizenship to these refugees. Human smuggling/illegal people transportation... -Full Story- (lankaweb.com - 01/10/17)
Case of a modern day Arahant - I
September 14, 2017 There is no doubt that Buddhists were shocked and pained and gravely upset by what Ven. Samanthabhadra Thera recently said about two of the most venerated objects of Buddhist worship in the country: the Dantha Dhatu or the Sacred Tooth Relic and the Lalata Dhatu or the Sacred Frontal Bone Relic, both believed by them to be those of the Buddha. During acts of worship, these sacred relics make the devout Buddhist worshippers feel as if the Buddha were before them in flesh and blood. But Ven. Samanthabhadra Thera remarked that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
ඇමති සිරිසේනගේ හොර ගණුදෙනුව නිසා ඕස්ට්රේලියානු සමාගමට ජාත්යන්තර තහණමක්
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයා යුගයේ වාරිමාර්ග හා මහවැලි සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍යවරයා සිටි මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් ලෝක බැංකුවේ ආධාර මත 2007 වර්ෂයේ මෙරට වේල්ලක් ඉදිකිරීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතියක් ඇ.ඩොලර් මිලියන 1.8 ක් ව්‍යපතියක් ඔස්ට්‍රේලියා සමාගමට දීමේදී විශාල මුදලක් ලබා ගත් බවට චෝදනා එල්ල කරමින් ඔ්ස්ටේ‍්‍රලියානු මාධ්ය ගණනාවක් වාර්තා පල කර ඇත. එම කරුණු අනුව ලෝක බැංකුව World Bank සිදු කල දීර්ඝ පරික්ෂණයකින් පසුව එම දූෂණය අදාළ සමගම විසින් ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ එවකට සිටි අමාත්‍යවරයා සමග මෙම ගනුදෙනුව සිදු කොට ඇති බව තහවරු වීමෙන් පසුව අදාළ ඕස්ට්රේලියානු සමාගම අසාදු ලේඛන ගත කොට ඇති බැව් ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ සියලම මාධ්ය මේ සති අන්තයේ වාර්තා කොට තිබුනි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
World Bank bans iconic Australian firm over 'inappropriate payments
Iconic Australian engineering company, SMEC, has had five of its subsidiaries banned by the World Bank after the discovery of "inappropriate payments" linked to projects in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The World Bank action is a bitter blow for the company which started out as the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation. Dam and water storage for the hydro scheme in the Snowy Mountains. Photo: Supplied The scandal adds SMEC to the list of well-known Australian companies to have been mired in foreign bribery allegations including BHP Billiton, Tabcorp, Tenix and CIMIC, formerly known... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
‘TIGER CANNOT CHANGE ITS STRIPES’
A bird may fly up and up in the sky, with a free feeling and unaffected, but there comes a time, during his journey, when it decides to go in search of a branch to perch on! Likewise, could it be interpreted to say that Rev. Father S. J. Emmanuel, the leader of the UK based Tamil Forum, has finally decided to re-visit Sri Lanka 'on a low profile', after engaging in a vicious propaganda campaign against Sri Lanka by defending the terrorist activities of the LTTE by calling it a liberation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
The Weeratunga-Pelpita ‘sil redi’ saga
September 30, 2017, 8:01 pm The ‘sil redi’ judgment against former presidential secretary Lalith Weeratunga and former Telecommunications Regulatory Commission Director General Anusha Pelpita continues to make waves. Indeed the discussion of this judgment is fully justified. This writer cannot think of another judgment at the High Court level which is fraught with such serious implications for the way the most important institutions and the public service in this country functions. The sil redi judgement itself says that no part of the money involved was taken by Lalith Weeratunga and Anusha Pelpita for their personal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/17)
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