Archive for June, 2015
Monday, June 15th, 2015
Adaderana The Colombo High Court on Monday (15) granted bail to former Minister Basil Rajapaksa. The Judge also granted bail to former Economic Development Ministry Secretary Dr. Nihal Jayatilaka, former Director General of the Divineguma Department, R.R.K. Ranawaka and Divi Neguma Regional Director Bandula Thilakasiri, Ada Derana reporter said. The suspects were enlarged on a […]
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Monday, June 15th, 2015
Courtesy The Island One of the main reasons why the people decided to topple the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime on Jan. 8 was its excessively authoritarian character. They expected the new administration to be democratic. What we understand by ‘democratic change’ may be problematic as democracy is, as Wendy Brown says, “among the most contested and […]
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Monday, June 15th, 2015
පරිකල්පනික අතික්රමණය- වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග වින්සන්ට් ලංකාතිලකගේ හුස්ම ගැනීමේ රිද්මය මඳක් අඩු විය. වෛද්යවරයා නොකඩවා රෝගියාට ඔක්සිජන් සැපයීය. ” ඩොක්ටර් ප්රෙශර් පොඩ්ඩක් ඩ්රොප් වෙනවා , මට ඉස්සෙල්ලා බලන කොට සිස්ෙටාලික් ප්රෙශර් එක එකසිය තිහයි. දැන් සීය වෙලා. හෙදිය පැවසුවාය. එහෙනම් ඩ්රිප් එකක් ස්ටාට් කරන්න වෛද්යවරයා විධානය කලේය. **************************************************** වින්සන්ට් ලංකාතිලක දාලියා විසින් එවන ලද උපන් දින සුභ […]
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Monday, June 15th, 2015
C.Fernando The dictionary defines the word reconciliation” as the restoration of friendly relations. It is assumed that initially, one party already had friendly relations with another in order to restore that relationship. So, my question is how can the Foreign Minister travel all the way to the UK to have reconciliation talks with the Pro-LTTE […]
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Monday, June 15th, 2015
UNP, SLFP disagree on electoral system under which General Election will be held by Zacki Jabbar- Island Despite a consensus forged between the UNP and SLFP in Cabinet on Friday to increase the number of seats in Parliament to 237, the dispute over the electoral system under which the next General Election should be held […]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2015
By Charles .S.Perera Ranil Wickramasinghe spells disaster, CFA, Milenium house, Batalanda torture camps, cruelty, revengefulness, ambitious for his personal aggrandisement, servility to the white west. Mahinda Rajapakse on the other hand spells patriotism, peace and security, elimination of terrorism, development without communal discrimination, real unity of the people of Sri Lanka with neither majority nor […]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2015
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Sunday, June 14th, 2015
Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday dismissed allegations that former first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa had got Siriliya Saviya funds transferred to her personal account and that she had bought a house with the money. Issuing a statement, Rajapaksa said, At a press conference last Friday former president Chandria Kumaratunga alleged that Mrs Shiranthi Rajapaksa […]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2015
lanka C news යහපාලන ටොෆිය’ සූප්පු කරමින් තවදුරටත් මේ රට ඉදිරියට ගියහොත් නැවත උතුර හා නැගෙනහිර පළාත් බෙදුම්වාදී කල්ලිවලට නතුවීම අනිවාර්ය යැයි ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. ඊයේ(12) මාතර සනත් ජයසූරිය ක්රීඩාංගණයේදී පැවැති ‘මහින්ද සමග නැගිටිමු!’ ජන රැලි මාලාවේ 05 වැන්න අමතමින් විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා මෙසේ පැවසීය. එහිදී දිර්ඝ […]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2015
MEDIA RELEASE SRI LANKA UNITED NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (SLUNA) Toronto, ON, Canada | sluna.press@gmail.com Under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373, Sri Lanka listed 16 entities and 424 individuals of the LTTE overseas network that engaged in terrorist propaganda, fund raising, procurement, shipping and other support activities. If they are delisted by the Maithripala Sirisena-Ranil Wickramasinghe […]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2015
By KEERTHI WARNAKULASURIYA- Defence correspondent- Sunday Diviana (translated by Ranjith Soysa) Even though six years have elapsed after the defeat of the LTTE , still the interested overseas based parties continue to package and sell the issues in the North and the East. The latest is the 37 page report issued by Okland Institute stating that the […]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2015
Dr Hector Perera London We just assume what is meant by cooking without any proper definition. When we say cooking, it means applying some form of heat to the food so that it transforms into edible, safe or more palatable form due to chemical changes. Only due intermolecular, intramolecular and similar reactions with food and […]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2015
Shenali D Waduge Fools rush in where angels fear to tread aptly describes the current predicament. On 18th May 2009 LTTE was comprehensively defeated and its leader and key ground leaders were militarily eliminated having refused to lay down arms and surrender despite 3 appeals made by the then Sri Lankan President. Over 11,000 LTTE […]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2015
Courtesy Sunday Island The crowd at the pro-Mahinda rally held in Matara last Friday was even larger than the crowd in Nugegoda. The number of parliamentarians on the stage was variously mentioned as 76, 77 and 78. As far as the pro-Mahinda camp is concerned, there is nothing more to be said, no more points […]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2015
By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Indian National Human Rights Commission recently recommended that Manipur government in northeast India to pay Rs.5 lakh as monetary relief to the next of kin of Sorokhiabam Jibon Singh, who was killed in an encounter at Chandanadi Lamkhai of Imphal west district of Manipur on 1st July 2009. The Commission, while […]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2015
lanka C news රට පුරා වීර ජනතාව තමන්ට අවසන් සටනට කල ආරාධනය බාරගන්නා බවත් ඊළග සටන් බිමෙදී අප සහතික වශයෙන්ම මුණ ගැසෙන බවත් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. පෙරේදා මාතරදී පැවති ජනරැළිය වෙත සුභ පැතුම් පණිවිඩයක් එක්කරමින් ඒ මහතා පවසන්නේ සතුරු උණ්ඩයකට තමන් ගොදුරු වුවද සටන්කාමි ධජය මවුබිමේ නාමයෙන් අත්නොහරින ලෙස ජනතාවගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින […]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2015
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ක්රිස්ටෝෆර් ලී අපට මුණ ගැසෙන්නේ ඩ්රැකියුලා චිත්රපට මාලාවෙනි. 70 ගනන් වලදී එම්පයර් එකේ, පැරණි මැජෙස්ටික් එකේ , රීගල් එකේ අප බියෙන් ගැහෙමින් ක්රිස්ටෝෆර් ලී ගේ චිත්රපට නැරඹුවෙමු. අප දැන් DVD You Tube යුගයට පැමිණ සිටියත් ක්රිස්ටෝෆර් ලී හට අපව බිය ගැන් වීමට හැකි විය. ක්රිස්ටෝෆර් ලී ,බෙලා ලුගෝසි , ෆ්රෑන්ක් ලැංගිලා […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Dasun Edirisinghe reporting from Matara Courtesy Island Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that he would accept the people’s invitation to contest the next general election as the prime ministerial candidate. In a message read out at yesterday’s mammoth rally held by UPFA rebels at the Sanath Jayasuriya grounds in Matara the former President said that […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
By Rukshana Rizwie Courtesy The Nation Over 140 000 Sri Lankan citizens in Canada could face the risk of losing their Canadian citizenship or return to Sri Lanka after a new immigration law enacted by the Canadian Government dictates that these ‘second class’ citizens may have their citizenship status stripped at any point. The new immigration […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
R Chandrasoma Courtesy Island No less a person than the President of Sri Lanka has spoken of the urgent need to bring back the Hangman to counter the growing tide of heinous crimes that seems unstoppable except by such horrific countermeasures. The demand for a kind of punitive vengeance that matches the enormity of the threat […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
lanka C news හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එන මහ මැතිවරණයේදී අගමැති අපේක්සකයා කල යුතු බවට බල කරමින් පැවැත්වෙන රැළි මාලාවේ අද මාතර ජන රැළිය පැවැත්වෙයි. හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මාතරදී පැවැත්වෙන ජන රැළියේ ජන ගංගාව අතරින් මතුවිය. මහ ජනතාව එක දිගට අත්පොලසන් දෙන්නට වූහ.එහෙත් මහින්ද මහතා වේදිකාවට ගොඩවූයේ නැත. ජනතා ජයගෝෂා මැද්දේ ඔහු […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Our Correspondent Dhaka/Guwahati, 13 June 2015: Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) welcomed the new executive committee of Bangladesh’s national press club and expressed hope that it would engage more and more mainstream journalists based in the south Asian country in highlighting major environmental issues. The Asia Pacific media forum took it as a pride […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
lanka C news පසුගිය රජය පවතිද්දී ‘කුඩු අගමැති’ යයි බරපතල ලෙස චෝදනා එල්ල වූ හිටපු අගමැති දි.මු. ජයරත්න මහතාට ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් ජනාධිපති උපදේශක ධුරයක් ලබා දීම සම්බණ්දයෙන් හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනි චන්ද්රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක මහත්මියගෙන් මාධ්යවේදීන් ප්රශ්ණ කලහ. මුදල් අමාත්යශයේ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී අසන ලද මේ ප්රශ්ණයට තමන් ළඟ උත්තර නැතැයි හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනිය කියා සිටියාය. […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lankan rupee fell to a record low of 134 on Friday as a state-run bank, through which the central bank directs the markets, lowered the dollar selling rate by 20 cents, dealers said. Currency dealers said hopes that the rupee would strengthen on rising inflows was fading as the currency has […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Cabinet today approved the 20th Amendment to the Constitution with the proposed number of parliamentary seats increased to 237 from the current 225. Accordingly, 145 MPs will be elected under the first-past-the-post (FPP) system and 55 under the district proportional representation (PR) system. The Cabinet has directed the […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න යුතුකම ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න ලියන මුරගල තීරු ලිපිය – 108 2015 ජුනි 12 සිකුරාදාසිරිලක සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජන මනස බුද්ධාලම්භන ප්රීතියෙන් සනහාලන්නට පානදුරේ අරියධම්ම හිමියන්ගේ බෝධී පූජා 70 දශකයේ අග භාගයේ සහ 80 දශකය මුල්භාගයේදී සමත් වූහ. වික්ටර් රත්නායකගේ ‘ස‘ සංගීත ප්රසංගයද එකළ ජනප්රිය හෙයින් මිනිසුන් විසින් අතිශයින් ජනප්රිය අරියධම්ම හිමිගේ බෝධි පූජාව හැදින්වූයේ ‘බ‘ […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Adaderana The government plans to obtain a syndicated loan of up to USD 01 billion and proposals are to be called for within a few days, said Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake while meeting representatives of the Foreign Journalists’ Association in Colombo. The interest rates on this loan would reportedly be between 3.25 and 3.75 per […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
Courtesy Adaderana A huge operation has begun to remove the highly experienced professional with long experience in the insurance sector, Attorney-at-Law Deepthi Lokuarachchi from his post as Chief Executive Officer at Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation (SLIC) and currently this operation has reached its climax, revealed well informed and reliable sources. A politically appointed individual to […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
තිස්ස ගුණතිලක, සිඞ්නි නුවර සිට රට අයාලේය, සංවර්ධනය ඇනහිටය, ආර්ථිකය නන්නත්තාරය, සතොසේ දුකසේය, රැපියල කඞා වැටේ, රනිල් නොයිවසිල්ලෙනි, ජනතාව පශ්චාත්තාපයෙනි, ජනපති ඇදවී ඇත, යුඇම්පි ය සමග ගිවිසුම් නැතැයි බේගල් ඇද බාමින් ප්රසිද්ධ කථාවක එන උපදේශිත බලලෙකුගේ (proverbial cat) තැනට පත්වී ඇත. සෙසු ලෝකය අභ්යවකාශයේ වාණිජ සංචාරයට සැරසෙනකල අපි බයිසිකලේ යමු. කොටස් වෙළදපොල පිස්සු බූතයෙක් පදවන […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2015
by Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada. The tendency to present total falsehoods as half truths is all too common in many journalistic write ups. Another ploy is to lever in a valid and topical piece of news within a popular set of misconceptions. A recent Divaina article entitled A biofilm technology brought to light by a […]
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