Archive for April, 2015
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Dr Hector Perera London Sinhalese New Year also known as Aluth Avurudda in Sri Lanka. This is the New Year for the Sinhalese and Tamil people in Sri Lanka. It is a major anniversary celebrated by not only the Sinhalese people but by most Sri Lankans. The month of April dawns with the enthusiastic singing of the Koel birds signifying the […]
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Friday, April 3rd, 2015
By A. Abdul Aziz. Bible confirms the survival of Jesus from Crucifixion! In this Forum, the events of crucifixion not yet presented in detail by our Muslim and Christian readers as it is so important to highlight what really happened for the seekers after truth. The crucifixion of Jesus was an attempt made on his […]
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Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Abdul Aziz. Muslims in general think that Jesus, Son of Mary, (Nabi Isa) peace be on him, was not put on the cross, instead some one was put in his place and raised him bodily into sky. This is absolutely incorrect in accordance with the verse of the Holy Quran repeatedly quoted on this issue. […]
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Chinese embassy in Colombo today denied claims by Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne that the estimated cost of the Colombo Outer Circular Road was reduced by Rs.30 billion. An embassy spokesperson told Daily Mirror that the news report on the Colombo Outer Circular Road cost reduction was not in […]
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
C. Chandraprema ඇයගේ සමයේ වැඩිම ගණනක් අපේ රණවිරුවන් මිය ගියා. මුලතිව් කදවුරේ එක දිනයක 1200ක් මිය ගියා. කටේ පනුවෝ දැමිය යුතු බේගල් කෙලින මෙවැනි අය අංගොඩ යැවිය යුතුය. Video Player http://www.apeyrata.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/chandraprema.mp4?_=1
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Ranga Jayasuriya Courtesy Daily Mirror…… Rajapaksa is right; the government holding back development Ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa in a message read in a political rally held in Ratnapura, last week alleged that the current administration has stalled development in the country. I cannot help, but agree, though grudgingly. This government has held back the country’s development. That […]
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy The New Indian Express KILINOCHCHI: Successive Sri Lankan governments have dubbed Sivagnanam Sritharan, the outspoken Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP from Jaffna district, an LTTE agent. The fact that he is the brother-in-law of the dreaded LTTE military commander Colonel” Theepan, only reinforced this view. Sritharan was also a bitter critic of […]
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Economic Times BEIJING: China today said it will make joint efforts with India and Sri Lanka to promote a trilateral relationship to address New Delhi’s security concerns in Indian Ocean region, as Beijing grapples to salvage its big ticket investments in Sri Lanka. “The good interactions and mutual reinforcement among the three pairs of relationship […]
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න සියලු ජාතික වාදීන්ට සැමදා මඩ ගැසූ ලීඩර් පත්තර කාරයාමෑතදී ගෝඨාභය ගෙන් සමාව ගත්තේ සිය අලජ්ජී ප්රතිපදාව මෙන්ම සිය අවලම් සෙළුව විදහා පෙන්වමිනි . ගෝඨාභය කල යුතුව තිබුනේ කෝටි ගණනක් ගෙන ඒ මුදල් අනාත මඩමකට දීමය් ඒ මිස මුන්ට සමාව දීම නොවේ මෑතදී ඇමෙරිකාවේ සංඝනායක පූජ්ය ආචාර්ය වල්පොල පියනන්ද හිමියන්ටද ලීදෙර් කාරයා මද ප්රහාර […]
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා ඩී එස් සී උපාධිධාරී සේවාර්ජිත (සම්මානිත) මහාචාර්ය අශෝක අමරතුංග මහතාට සහායට පැමිණි කැනඩාවේ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ ද්විතීයික (උතුරු ඇමරිකානු වර්ගීකරණයට අනුව උසස්) පාසලක රසායන විද්යාව උගන්වන බවට වාර්තා වී ඇති බෝධි ධනපාල මහතාට අවභ්ය වූයේ මගේ ඊනියා නොදැනුවත්කම ප්රදර්ශනය කිරීම ය. ඔහු ඒ සඳහා යොදාගත් එක් උදාහරණයක් වූයේ මා ෆෝටෝනයකට ස්කන්ධයක් පැණවීම ය. මා […]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
By Gomin Dayasri Happenings around are unenviable: zany events unfold in rapid succession; voters are bewildered, skeptical, disoriented. Worse- democracy is not standing tall, as desired. Corrupt practices remain alive and made sophisticated. Are we drifting aimlessly without a leadership? Loosing moorings is sailing towards a sunset unknown. Time is insufficient to ponder. Corruption is […]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා සාමාන්යයෙන් රටක නායකයෝ ප්රසිද්ධියේ තවත් රටක් විවේචනය නො කරති. බොහෝ විට රාජ්ය නායක ප්රකාශ අවමගුල්වල දී කරන කතා මෙනි. කියැවෙන්නේ හොඳ ය. නරකක් නො කියැවෙයි. එහෙත් අප්රසිද්ධියේ, එසේත් නැත්නම් ජනමාධ්යවේදීන් නැතිව පැවැත්වෙන සාකච්ඡාවල දී වෙනත් දෑ ද කියැවෙයි. ඒ අතර ප්රසිද්ධ ප්රකාශවල ව්යංගයෙන් කියැවෙන දේ ද වෙයි. මෛත්රිපාලට චීනයේ දී එහි නායකයන් […]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
Metteyya Brahmana Ranil is indeed moving the country backward, and the basic problem is ‘lack’ of good governance and democracy. It is simply unbelievable in a ‘democracy’ that Ranil Wickramasinghe is essentially running Sri Lanka without his name ever being on the ballot. Far too many voters who typically do not vote for the Western […]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
Courtesy The Straits Times China has pledged over US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) in new grant money to Sri Lanka after a Chinese luxury real estate project in the capital Colombo was suspended, a Sri Lankan government spokesman said on Wednesday. Chinese companies building a road in a Colombo suburb have also agreed to cut the […]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
Courtesy Island A group of UPFA MPs, Ranjith Soyza, Uditha Lokubandara, Manusha Nanayakkara, Janaka Wakkumbura and their supporters lodged a complaint with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) yesterday against its incumbent Director General Dilrukshi Dias Wickremesinghe. The MPs said she had drawn two salaries while serving at two state institutions […]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
By Rohana R. Wasala One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once […]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා පසුගිය දා රණවිරුවන්ගේ මෑණිවරුන්ගේ හා භාර්යාවන්ගේ රැස්විමක දී චන්ද්රිකා කුමාරතුංග ඇගේ වෛරය දෝරේ යෑමට සලස්වා ඇත. අද අම්මලා ගැන කතාකිරීම ජනප්රිය වී ඇත. සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියෙහි අම්මලා ගෙදර බුදුහු වෙති. එහෙත් ඉඳහිට දේවදත්ත පුතුන් ද සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියෙහි දැකිය හැකි ය. මේ දේවදත්ත පුත්තු ඇතැම් අවස්ථාවල බෝධිසත්ව චරිත රඟ දක්වති. චන්ද්රිකා සිරිමාවෝ […]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
Courtesy CeylonToday Q: What could be the ramifications of the US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka being adopted by the UNHRC? A: We need to consider the contents of the resolution. It clearly confers powers on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate, without mentioning an ‘international’ investigation. But, the Office of the […]
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