Archive for February, 2015
Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Prof. Hudson McLean Dear Contributors & Readers of LankaWeb A few of you have requested my details a couple of times, which I chose to ignore. Once again the interest arises! I have been a contributor to LankaWeb, almost since its inception, supporting always the Unified Sovereignty of Sri Lanka and the Rights of Sinhala […]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
PRESS RELEASE Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC Washington DC, February 19: Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake visited Washington D.C. from 17th to 18th February and met with senior officials of the Bretton Woods institutions, the US Treasury, the US Department of State and the White House. He met with Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund […]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
‘මහින්ද’ නමක් නොවෙයි ‘රටක්’ … විමල් නුගේගොඩ ජන ගඟ ඇමතු විඩියෝව මෙන්න.. හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට එන මැතිවරණයේදී අගමැති අපේක්ෂකත්වය බාරගන්නා ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් ඊයේ නුගේගොඩදී පැවති ජනරැුළියේදී පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා විසින් සිදු කරනු ලැබු කතාව 33,445 Viewers
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Prof. Hudson McLean As a journalist, I consider LankaWeb to be an Open, Independent, portrayal of genuine opinions of Sri Lankans. There are, over the past ten years, contributors have changed their opinions, political parties, and still succeeded to publish their content in LankaWeb. Since the recent Regime Change on 9th January 2015, the general […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා අද (2015 පෙබරවාරි 18) නුගේගොඩ පැවති රැස්වීම දශක දෙකකට පමණ පසුව එහි වැඩිම ජනකායක් සහභාගි වූ රැස්වීම විය. එ ජ නි සංධානයේ පක්ෂ කිහිපයක් එක්විමෙන් සංවිධානය කරන ලද එම රැස්වීමට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සැබෑ විපක්ෂවල රැස්වීමක් යැයි කිව හැකි ය. අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ආණ්ඩුවේ විපක්ෂය ද, සැබෑ විපක්ෂය ද යනුවෙන් විපක්ෂ දෙකක් වෙයි. ආණ්ඩුවේ විපක්ෂ […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
lanka C news හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එළැඹෙන මැතිවරණයේදී සන්ධානයේ අගමැති අපේක්ෂකයා කල යුතු බව පවසමින් ඊයේ දිනයේ නුගේගොඩ නගරයේ පැවති ජන රැළියේ ගුවන් ඡයාරූප හා වීඩියෝ…Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday vowed to return to politics following his stunning defeat in last month’s presidential election and said he may contest for […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Courtesy THE TIMES OF INDIA TIRUMALA: The authorities at the richest temple in the country nearly experienced a major embarrassment when the lock of the golden door leading to the sanctum sanctorum of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala got stuck minutes before Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and his wife reached for darshan early on Wednesday. However, […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Insight By Sunil Kumar, Feb.17th, 2015 The external report which suggests that Sri Lankan Tamils are dismayed over a delay in the UN probe report is a clear indication of ingratitude on their part towards being free of the vicious clutches of the Tamil Tigers and their megalomaniac leader Velupillai Prabhakaran who had little concern for their well […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
H. L. D. Mahindapala The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) Resolution passed a resolution on February 10, 2015 accusing successive governments (from 1948) of committing ‘genocide’ against Tamils and called for an international commission of inquiry. This resolution has dealt the first deadly blow to the reconciliation plans of the Chandrika Bandaranaike-Ranil Wickremesinghe-Maithripala Sirisena regime brought into […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Gomin Dayasri Think twice before agreeing to appear on the cover of a business magazine. A cautionary notice (need it be enlarged to the extent of a ghastly warning on a pack of cigarette) as the perilous rate of casualties of the introduced icons is phenomenal. Those who zoom to the maximum and strike cover […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
‘Sarana Gatha’ Under your very nose a regime change has taken place. Does this not shock you? Are you happy at the changes taking place? Do these changes not look too dramatic to you? Are you confident that the elected President can lead the nation and does he have the qualities and leadership will to […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා ඉතිහාසයේ කියැවෙන ආකාරයට ශ්රී වික්රම රාජසිංහ රජු ඉංගිරිසින්ට භාර දී අදට (2015 පෙබරවාරි 18) අවුරුදු දෙසියයක් පිරෙයි. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ඉංගිරිසින්ට භාරදීමට ඇතැමුන් සැරසෙන්නේ කවදා ද? කෙසේ වෙතත් අද නුගේගොඩ පැවැත්වෙන රැස්වීම එය වැළැක්වීම සඳහා පමණක් නො වේ. ඔහු නැවතත් රාජ්ය නායකයා බවට පත්කර ගැනීම සඳහාත් ය. එහෙත් එයට ශ්රී ල නි පක්ෂයේ […]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Dharshan Weerasekera The TNA-led Northern Provincial Council has adopted a resolution accusing successive Sri Lanka Governments of committing Genocide” against Tamils, and asking the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate these matters. In my view, this latest move by the NPC is designed to advance the Eelam agenda in a very specific way, […]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
Prof. Hudson McLean As a firm, unashamed supporter of Patriotic Sinhala Nationalists, I find the response of Mr. Bernard Wijeyesingha Totally Unacceptable, Unpatriotic, will be a fast-track to shed blood!. There is No Way, the majority of the Sri Lankan population, including some Tamil & Muslim would accept the creation of a grossly over-crowded Tamil […]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
H.W If we believe that we are a nation, then we must start behaving like a nation”. The question is whether we can mobilise it to a point where we create sufficient leverage so that the Sri Lankan State also takes us seriously. I think that is the key. I believe that they will have […]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
C. Wijeyawickrema Given below is an essay printed in the Lankaweb on July 10, 2009. It is a long essay, full of factual information, and it was written as a response to Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke when he was a supporter of 13-A plus. Now in 2015, when 13-A cats are all put on a rock […]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
Lankanewsweb Today වාහනයේ ඇති ගුවන් විදුලියෙන් පැරණි ගීතයක් වාදනය වේ. ඒ මා ළමා කාලයේ දී බෙහෙවින් ඇළුම් කළ නන්දා මාලනීගේ සුකිරි බටිල්ලන්ගේ ගීතයයි. එහි අපූරු පද වැලක් ඇත. ඒ කන්න දෙතොත් බොන්න දෙතොත් රට උකසට තියල්ලා යන්නයි. එකී ගීතය ගායනා කලේ 2015 දී බිහි වන ආණ්ඩුවේ දින සීයේ වැඩපිලිවෙල පිළිබඳ අවබෝධයකින් දැයි විටක මට සිතේ. […]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
by Lankanewsweb Today රට දෙකඩ වන අනතුරින් වහාම රට බෙරා ගැනිම් සදහා පෙළ ගැසේන මහා ජනතා බලවේගයට භියවු ශ්රිලනිපයේ,ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ සහ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ ඇතැම් බෙදුම්වාදී ජාත්යන්තර ඩොලර් කුට්ටි මත යැපෙන හෙංචයියන් විවිධ කටකතා පතුරවමින් සිටින බව LNW රටපුරා සිටින වාර්තාකරුන් වාර්තා කරයි.නමුත් කුමණ කටකතාවකටවත් හෙට නුගේගොඩ නගරයට එන ලක්ෂ සංඛ්යාත ජනතාව නතර කිරිමට […]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා මිනිසුන් අතින් විවිධාකාරයේ වැරදි සිදුවෙයි. බටහිර වෛද්යවරුන් අතින් සිදුවන වැරදි ගැන ජනමාධ්යවලින් දැනගන්නට ලැබෙයි. එහෙත් ඒ ගැන කතාකරන්නෝ විරළ වෙති. එසේ වුවත් සිංහල වෙදමහතකු අතින් වරදක් සිදුවුවහොත් ඒ ගැන කතාකිරීමට ඉදිරිපත්වන්නන් එමට ය. ඔවුහු ඊනියා විද්යාත්මක ක්රම අනුගමනය නොකිරීම ගැන බයිලා කියති. සතුන්ට වැරදි සිදුවන්නේ දැයි නො දනිමි. ඒ දැනගත හැක්කේ සතුන්ට […]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
By Charles.S.Perera You have said you do not like honorific references and would like to be called the President. Well I being much older to you, and taking advantage of your preference for non honorific address I have taken the privilege to address you as Maitripala without any disrespect to you. You may be a […]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් කොමිසම ලංකාණ්ඩුවට විරුද්ධව මාර්තු මාසයේ ජෙනීවාහි දී ගෙන ඒමට නියමිත ව තිබූ මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් කඩකිරීම් පිළිබඳ වාර්තාව අප කලින් කියා සිටි පරිදි ම කල්දමා ඇත. ජෙනීවා හි ආණ්ඩුවේ විශේෂ නියෝජිතයකු ලෙස ජයන්ත ධනපාලගේ ප්රධාන කාර්යය වූයේ මේ වාර්තාව ගෙන ඒම කල්දමා ගැනීම බව අපි සඳහන් කළෙමු. මේ කොමිසමට ගෙනෙන වාර්තා සකස් කිරීමේ දී ඇමරිකාවේ මතය වැදගත් […]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Moral Injury The concept of Moral Injury was introduced by Jonathan Shay. The concept of moral injury emphasizes the psychological, cultural, and spiritual aspects of trauma. It refers to an injury to an individual’s moral conscience resulting from an act of moral transgression which produces profound emotional shame (Litz et […]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
C. Wijeyawickrema Given below is an essay printed in the LankaWeb on January 9, 2010. The purpose of reprinting it and several others is to provide some background information for the new essay I am writing to demolish the Wigneswaran (W) trick. W, as a lawyer knows that genocide offence can be proved like any […]
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Monday, February 16th, 2015
Yahapalanaya News Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has yet fired another diabolic mud salvos claiming that he found a mega luxury hotel complex built in Arugam Bay by the previous regime which contained 58 chalets and which even surpassed the Buckingham Palace in the scale of luxury for the exclusive use of Mahinda Rajapakse. But Lankaweb […]
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Monday, February 16th, 2015
Prof. Hudson McLean Whats going-on currently in Sri Lanka, headed by My3 Sirisena, a Puppet-on-a-String, voodoo-danced by the proverbial loser Ranil Wickremesingha (RW), is frighteningly disturbing. When I met his dad some years back, the late Esmond Wickremesinghe in his wood-paneled library (his wife was not allowed there, I was told), although he got the […]
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Monday, February 16th, 2015
Dilrook Kannangara Based on my own calculations based on regression analysis, Mahinda received 58% of Sinhala votes confirming media reports to the effect. However, what those media reports fail to say is Mahinda received 68% of Sinhala votes in 2010 and 61% of Sinhala votes in 2005. It is clear that falling below the 60% […]
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Monday, February 16th, 2015
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Monday, February 16th, 2015
By LANKAPUTHRA Following are my Questions, Explanations and Answers: You have to start from the Election Commissioner. QUESTION 1. Why is no one talking about him or writing about him and publishing it except me? Who gave this Traitor Mahinda Dashapriya authority and funding to create a police force which he calls CERTIFIED SECURITY COMPANY”, […]
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Monday, February 16th, 2015
By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy The New Inadian Express COLOMBO: Indian as well as Sri Lankan officials here have denied that the Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement signed by Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Monday, envisages India’s setting up nuclear power plants in Lanka. Officials explained that the deal will […]
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